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A94125 A supply of prayer for the ships of this kingdom that want ministers to pray with them: agreeable to the directory established by Parliament. Published by authority. 1645 (1645) Wing S6191; Thomason E284_16; ESTC R200062 7,356 16

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A SVPPLY OF PRAYER For the Ships of this KINGDOM That want MINISTERS to Pray with them AGREEABLE TO THE DIRECTORY Established by PARLIAMENT Published by Authority May 16 LONDON Printed for Iohn Field and are to be sold at his house upon Addle-hill 1645 A Reason of this Work WHereas there are thousands of ships belonging to this Kingdom which have not Ministers with them to guide them in Prayer and therefore either use the old Form of Common-Prayer or no Prayer at all The former whereof for many weighty Reasons hath been abolished and the latter is likely to make them rather Heathens then Christians the Lords day being left without any mark of Piety or Devotion Therefore to avoid these Inconveniences It hath been thought fit to frame some Prayers agreeing with the Directory established by Parliament It being hoped that it will be no grief of heart to wise and full Christians if the thirsty drink out of Cisterns when themselves drink out of Fountains But they will rather pity the wants of their needy Brethren and out of Compassion immitate him who filleth the hungry with good things These Prayers being enlivened and sent up by the Spirit in him that prayeth may be lively Prayers and acceptable to him who is a Spirit and accepts of service in Spirit and Truth And in truth though Prayers come never so new even from the Spirit in one that is a guide in Prayer if the Spirit do not quicken and enliven that Prayer in the Hearer that follows him it is to him but a dead Form and a very carcase of Prayer The Company being assembled they may thus begin with Prayer O Lord in all reverence and humility we acknowledge thy incomprehensible Greatnesse and Majesty in whose presence we do now in a speciall manner appear and our own vilenesse and unworthinesse to approach so neer thee with our utter inability of out selves to such a holy duty And we humbly beseech thee for pardon assistance and acceptance in the whole service now to be performed and for a Blessing on the particular portions of thy Word now to be read and all in the Name and Mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ In whose name and words wee pray unto thee farther saying Our Father c. After this some Psalms and Chapters being read out of both Testaments but none out of those Books which are commonly called Apocrypha and a Psalm being sung a Prayer may follow in this manner O Great and gracious Lord we acknowledge before thee our sinfulnesse first by reason of Originall sin which besides the guilt of it which makes us lyable to eternall damnation is the seed of all other sins and hath depraved and poysoned all the faculties and powers of soul and body and doth defile our best actions and were it not restrained or our hearts renewed by Grace would break forth into innumerable Transgressions and the greatest Rebellions against the Lord that ever were committed by the vilest of the sons of men And next we acknowledge the guilt of Actuall sins our own sins the sins of Magistrates of Ministers and of the whole Nation unto which we are many wayes accessary Which sins of ours receive many fearfull aggravations we having broken all the Commandements of the holy just and good Law of God doing that which is forbidden and leaving undone what is enjoyned and that not onely out of ignorance and infirmity but also more presumptuously against the light of our mindes checks of our consciences and motions of thy holy Spirit to the contrary so that we have no cloak for our sins yea we have not onely despised the riches of Gods goodnesse forbearance and long-suffering which should leade us to Repentance and Holinesse but have stood out against many invitations and offers of Grace in the Gospel not endeavouring as we ought to receive Christ into our hearts by Faith or to walk worthy of him in our lives We bewail our blindnesse of minde hardnesse of heart unbelief impenitency security luke warmnesse barrennesse our not endeavouring after Mortification and newnesse of life nor after the exercise of Godlinesse in the power thereof and that the best of us have not so stedfastly walked with God kept our Garments so unspotted nor been so zealous of thy glory and the good of others as wee ought notwithstanding the manifold and great mercies of thee our God the love of Christ the light of the Gospel and Reformation of Religion our own Purposes Promises Vows Solemn Covenants and other speciall obligations to the contrary We acknowledge and confesse that as we are convinced of our guilt so out of a deep sense thereof we judge our selves unworthy of the smallest benefits most worthy of thy fiercest wrath and of all the curses of the Law and heaviest judgements inflicted upon the most Rebellious sinners and that thou mightest most justly take thy Kingdom and Gospel from us plague us with all sorts of Spirituall and Temporall judgements in this life and after cast us into utter darknesse in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone where is weeping and gnashing of Teeth for evermore Notwithstanding all which we draw neer to the Throne of Grace encouraging our selves with hope of a gracious answer of our Prayers in the Riches and All-sufficiency of that onely one Oblation the satisfaction and Intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ at the right hand of his Father and our Father and in confidence of the exceeding great and precious promises of Mercy and Grace in the new Covenant through the same Mediator thereof And we pray thee for his sake to turn away thy heavie wrath and curse from us which we are not able to avoid or bear and humbly and earnestly beseech thee out of thy free Grace and Mercy to grant unto us the full Remission of all our sins and that onely for the bitter sufferings and precious merits of that our onely Saviour Jesus Christ O that the Lord would vouchsafe to shed abroad his love in our hearts by the holy Ghost to seal unto us by the same Spirit of Adoption the full assurance of our Pardon and Reconciliation That he would comfort all that mourn in Zion speak peace to the wounded and troubled spirits and binde up the broken hearted And as for secure and presumptuous sinners Lord open their eyes convince their consciences and turn them from darknesse unto light and from the power of Satan unto God that they also may receive forgivenesse of sin and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus With remission of sins through the blood of Christ we pray thee also to give us Sanctification by his Spirit Mor●ification of sin dwelling in us and many times tyrannizing over us the quickning of our dead Spirits with the life of God in Christ Grace to fit and enable us for all duties of conversation and callings towards God and Man strength against temptations the sanctified use of Blessings