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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90167	Orders and rules appointed by the last will and testament of Sir Thomas Holt, knight and baronet to be observed in the electing, and after the election, of the ten poore persons inhabiting in his almshouse at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the county of Warwick, with the assent and assistance of Dame Anne Holt, the relict of the said Sir Thomas Holt, and of Sir Robert Holt baronet, his grand-son, and his heires males.	Holt, Thomas, Sir, 1570 or 71-1654.; Holt, Robert, Sir.; Holt, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing O396aA; ESTC R42531	10,608	24

Dutie What a wearinesse it is Even to Will well hath not been present with us and how then to perform that which is good O Lord we know not being only wise to do evill and doing that with both hands earnestly Thus have we provoked Thee to anger most bitterly therefore maist thou justly leave our blood upon us for who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry though we know not the Power of thy Wrath Thou maist justly make us feel it But remember O Lord thy tender Mercies and thy Loving kindnesses for they have been ever of Did and hath the Lord forgotten to be Gracious hath He in anger shut up his tender Mercies For thy Names sake O Lord pardon our iniquities though they are great Is any thing too hard for the Lord and the Power of his Goodnesse Oh let thy Mercy then so rejoyce against Iudgement that our Soules may ever rejoyce in thy Mercy Hast thou not said O Lord that where Sinne aboundeth Grace may much more abound Magnifie then Thine own abounding Grace in being Gracious to us of Sinners chiefe as we know more in Our selves then we do or can know of Others And if our own Hearts condemne us Thou art greater then our hearts and knowest all things Yea thou hast set our iniquities before thee and our secret sins in the light of Thy Countenance But remember thy words unto thy Servants wherein thou hast made us to hope that Thou wilt forgive our Iniquitie and remember our Sinne no more And hath the Lord said and shall he not do it or hath he spoken and shall He not make it good Remember Him also and His precious Merits in whom thou sayst thou art well pleased that for this End was he born and for this cause came He into the World that He might bear our Griefes and carry our Sorrows that He might make his Soul an offering for Sinne and did not thy Wisdome provide satisfaction to thy Iustice therein didst not Thou lay help upon One that was Mightie and able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him Yea was not he made unto us Wisdome and Righteousnesse and Sanctification as well as Redemption Oh then as thou madest Him to be Sinne for us who knew no Sinne so let us be made the Righteousnesse of God in Him And as thou sparedst not thine own Sonne but deliverest Him up for us all how shalt thou not with Him also freely give us all things How shall not our God also supply all our Needs according to his Riches We were cast upon thee from the Wombe and have ever since lived only on thy Goodnesse and thy good things as the Earth is full of thy Riches Now therefore when we are Old and Gray-headed O God forsake us not but as thou art good and dost good so be not thou thy self weary in well-doing remember thou hast said the goodnesse of God endureth continually And do Good in thy good pleasure unto Sion our Hearts desire and Prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved But be more peculiarly gracious unto this Nation this Land of our Nativitie And for his sake whom thou gavest to be a healing of the Nations heal our breaches let all those that rule over Men be just ruling in the feare of God And be so with thine owne immediate servants that do thy worke in thy House that it may prosper in their hands And shew Lord that thou art a God of the Valleyes as well as of the Mountains that though the Lord be high yet He hath respect unto the Lowly and Lowest in Condition Right the Wronged comfort the Sadded supply the Impoverished support the Weakned heal the Diseased Thus Lord be thou All to All that thou mayest be faithfully owned and thankfull acknowledged to be All in All. And being thou Lord condemnest all unthankfulnesse placing the unthankfull amongst the most unholy We give thee thanks for the Founder of this Place the nourisher of our persons Sir Thomas Holt Knt. and Baronet Blessed be the Lord God who did put such a thing as this into his noble Heart and did turn it as a river of water to refresh us Blessed be the Lord who remembred us in our low estate who as thou workest in all both to will and to doe of thy good pleasure didst work in him to Will so Charitably and to Doe so bountifully And blesse we pray thee all his surviving and succeeding Relations those especially whose Pietie hath so imployed his Charitie and improved his good Intentions into great Actions for our good As thy Mercy is from everlasting to everlasting and thy Righteousnesse unto Childrens Children so Lord whilst the name of the Wicked doth rott let His name live in Them and let their Names stand written in the Book of life for ever after him And now we praise thy Name O Lord for the refreshment and ensafement of us the night past and for the enlargement of thy goodnesse towards us so far of this present day Remember still thine own good word that the Lord will command his loving kindnesse in the day time as thou art graciously pleased to adde another day unto our lives so adde other mercies unto our dayes especially putting such Grace into our hearts that we may seek first the Kingdome of God and his Righteousnesse that so all other things may be added unto us And then put thy fear in our hearts that we may never depart from from thee but rather be so in the feare of the Lord all the day long that by it we may depart from all evill And that we may not fall from thee by any impatience under thy just Hand by any unbeliefe in thy Mercy or by any temptation from the enemie of our soules to any evill or from any Duty uphold us Lord with thy free Spirit And being we know not what to pray for as we ought let the same Holy Spirit help our infirmities in praying for all as thy deer Sonne our Saviour in whom thou art a God that hearest Prayer hath himself taught us to pray saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evill for Thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Evening Prayer Give ear unto our Prayers O God and hide not thy Self from our Supplications Hear thou in Heaven thy Dwelling Place and when Thou hearest forgive Let our Prayers be set before thee as Incense and the lifting up of our hands as the Evening Sacrifice MOst Holy and most Dreadfull Lord God with whom is terrible Majesty so that even the purest of the Heavenly Angels tremble before it and cover their faces as even them thou

hast charged with folly With what Countenances with what confidences can we then sinfull and impure Creatures lift up so much as our eyes unto Heaven having so much and so long sinned against Heaven and in thy sight to provoke the eyes of thy Glory Rather therefore standing a far off may we smite upon our brests and the joynts of our Loynes being loosed and our Knees also smiting one against another may we here trembling and sorrowing say God be mercifull unto us sinners who have not been only alienated but even enemies in our mindes by wicked works as it were to augment yet more the fierce Anger of the Lord against us And yet seeing it hath pleased Thee O Father by thine own Sonne to reconcile all things unto thy self we have holdnesse and accesse with confidence by the faith of Him unto thy Throne of Grace Hoping and believing that in by Him we shall obtaine mercie and finde Grace to help in time of need And such O Lord is all our time even as to temporall things when could we truly say that we had need of nothing but as to Spirituall things when could we not truly say that we have need of every thing being by nature All of us wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked And yet O Lord there is hope in Israel concerning this thing even such have looked unto thee and were lightned and their faces were not ashamed the poor man cryed and the Lord heard him And thou art the Father of Lights with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of turning And Iesus Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever more Why then should we be cast down poor souls or why should we be disquieted within us We hope still in God that we shall yet praise Him for the help of His Countenance Though thou art the High and Lofty One that inhabitest Eternitie yet hast thou regard of poore Mortals yea thou hast promised saying to this man will I look even to him that is Poor and of a contrite spirit that trembleth at thy Word to revive the spirit of the Humble and to revive the hearts of the Contrite ones to remember the Congregation of thy poore for ever But alas O Lord we finde and feele too much securitie and impenitencie in our hard hearts opposing weakning or depraving our Beleeving because thou gavest Christ to give repentance unto Israel aswell as remission of sins And we have too long made our hearts as an Adamant stone least we should hear thy Law and so be humbled and penitent But thou Lord smotest the rock it self that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed and ran in dry places like a River touch our hearts we shall relent to tears move our eyes and we shall then look up unto him whom we have pierced and so mourn and be in bitternesse for our sinnes for which he so suffered So let us be before thee here that when we come unto Thee hereafter thou mayst wipe away all tears from our eyes that there may then be no more sorrow nor crying nor any more paine for us as for the Impenitent and Unholy the smoke of whose Torment ascendeth up for ever where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth In the mean time O Lord because none can understand his errors as who knoweth how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret sinnes but especially keep back us thy servants from presumptuous sinnes let not them have dominion over us Yea wash us throughly from all iniquities with the blood of Iesus Christ which cleanseth from all sinnes For if our Transgressions and our sinnes be upon us and we pute away in them already how should we then live for ever if our sinnes lye down with us in the Dust and how Iustly mightest thou cut us off here now with pining sicknesse and from day even to night make an end of us or make us to possesse only moneths of vanity and wearisome nights to be appointed to us But as thou hast said that by Christ all that believe are justified from all things even so most Gracious Lord be it unto us thy servants according to thy word enabling us to look up unto Iesus who is the Author and Finisher of our Faith yea Lord we believe help thou our unbeliefe And seal we pray Thee our pardons here and thy justifying of our persons by thy sanctifying of our Natures for hast Thou but one blessing O our Father wilt thou forgive only and not give also O give unto us those Sanctifying those saving Graces of thy Spirit whereby thou makest thine meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in Light That we may be first partakers of the Divine Nature having escaped the corruption that is in this world and then partakers of the Divine Glory in that which is to come Perform O Lord thine own promise according to thy own Method in promising that the Lord will give Grace and Glory guide us with thy Counsel and afterwards receive us unto Glory And now Lord as we prase Thee for thy multiplied mercie all this day past so we pray thee for thy continued mercy all this night coming when the shadows of the Evening are stretched out keep us O Lord under the shadow of thy wings untill all callamities are overpast for thou Lord only canst make us dwell in safety We stand in Ieopardy every hour but most exposed unto dangers and with least helps in the night oh then let the Angells of the Lord encamp round about us and preserve us So shew that they are all Ministring Spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heires of Salvation But because as unto much longer life our Bones are dryed our hope is lost and we are already almost cut off for some of our parts Lord make us so wise as to consider our latter ends that as death is the end of all and after death judgement so whilst living we may lay it unto heart till death worketh in us so to live in thy feare that we may dye in thy love and in that thy loving kindnesse which is better then life Thou mayst say O Lord to any or all of us ye fools this night your Soules shall be required of you work in us therefore as thou also hast wrought all our works in us to remember thee on our beds and to meditate on Thee in the night watches because thou knowest our down-sitting and our up-rising and understandest our thoughts afar off when therefore we awake let us be still with Thee And as with long life thou hast in some measure satisfied us so now shew us thy Salvation Givens O Lord such a prospect of the Heavenly Canaan as may make us more willing to leave this wildernesse more desirous to be dissolved and to be with Christ in whose presence is the fulnesse of joy and at whose Right Hand there are