presence How was Saul distressed for want of Gods presence 1 Sam. 28. 15 16. Wo wo to such from whom God departs Hos. 9. 12. Use 2. Is God with us so great a priviledge and so much to be desired Then examine Is God with us Are we priviledged with his presence To know take these signs of Gods gracious presence First A praying frame of heart is a sign of Gods favourable presence God is a God hearing Prayer Psal. 65. 2. and prepares the heart to pray where ever he is Psal. 10. 17. and pour's out a spirit of prayer Zâ—ch 12. 10. Jerem. 31. 9. which spirit helps our Infirmities and prayes in us Rom. 8. 26. God sets them with whom he is a praying 1. In all places in the closet and family yea and in the field Ruth 2. 4. The Lord be with you said Boaz to his Reapers in the field 2. At all times in the Evening and Morning at Noon and at Midnight Psal. 55. 17. 119. 62. God was with Moses David and Daniel and they pray with Jabez and he prayes 1 Chron. 4. 10. with Ephraim Jerem. 31. 18. and he prayes with Paul and he prayes Act. 9. 11. and when with us we shall pray also Psal. 91. 15. Secondly A penitent frame of heart where God is there is weeping and mourning for sinning against him How werâ— Joseph's guilty brethren troubled at h 〈…〉 presence Gen. 45. 3. So shall guilty wâ— be at the presence of God we shall loâ—k on him whom we have pierced and mouâ—â— Zâ—ch 12. 10. Jâ—r 31. 9 18 19. where you have an instance of a mourning frame of heart when God vouchsafed his presence Thirdly An humble frame of heart God dwells with such and none but such sa 57. 15. Fourthly An obedient frame of heart inclined to God to walk in all his wayes If the Lord our God be with us he will incliâ—e our hearts to keep his Testimonies 1 Kings 8. 57 58. Where he comes he puts his spiriâ— into them and causeth them to walk in his Statutes Ezek. 36. 27. See Joh. 8. 29. Fifthly Strength in the Soul Psal. 138. 3. whom God is with he strengthens Isa. 41. 10. both to do and suffer to do business and bear burdens Psalm 55. 22. Sixthly Warm affections heat and life in the service of God whilst Christ was with and talked with his Disciples their hearts burned within them Luke 24. 32. Seventhly A spirit stirred up to promote the worship and service of God I am with you saith the Lord Hag. 1. 13. And the Lord stirred up their spirits and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts their God v. 14. Eighthly Preservation from evil from the evil of sin especially Oh that thou wouldst be with me and keep me from evil was the request of Jabez 1 Chrâ— 4. 10. where God is he delivers from every evil work 1 Tim. 4. 18. Ninthly Victory over enemies Surely I will be with thee saith God to Gideon Judg. 6. 16. and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man If God be with us enemies will be subdued 1 Chron. 22. 18. world fâ—esh and Devil too will be subdued Through the spirit the deeds of the flesh will be mortifâ—â—d Rom. 8. 13. Tenthly Profiting by afflictions Hâ—b 12. 10. Eleventhly Fruitfulness under means of grace If the spirit come and blow upon our garden the spices thereof will flow out Cant. 4. 16. If Christ be in us and abide in us we shall bring forth much fruit Joh. 15. 5. Twelfthly Fixedness unmoveableness from God and his truth God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved Psal. 46. 5. Because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved Psal. 16. 8. Because he is with us the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against us Christ our Sampson as one sayes hath flung them off their Hinges We shall not be greatly moved Psal. 62. 2. Use 3. Of Exhortation Sirs get God to be with you Gods gracious Presence is the principal thing therefore with all thy getting get it Gold in the purse or coffer will not stead or avail you like God with you God answers more then money Wealth when gotten moth and rust may corrupt it Thieves may break through and steal it But God is out of the reach of all there is no fear or danger of loosing him when once you have gotten him He therefore is worth the getting Some have found by experience that such and such things have not been worth their getting not worth their sitting up late and rising betimes for them not worth their running and riding and venturing for them How earnest have some been to be possessed of and to enjoy such and such persons and things and having obtained them have they not found them by wofui experience not worth the cost and pains laid out for them But God will over and above make amends for what is laid out for him A shadow is not worth the following but substance is Chaff is not worth heaping up but Corn is Dross is not worth the seeking but Gold is and God much more then Gold And farther you may seek the Creature and never be able to get it You may seek and not find You may wish O that I had wealth and yet never have it and O that I had credit and repute in the World and possibly never have it But who ever sought God and found him not who ever sought the presence of God and was denied it shall any Soul ever have cause to say Lord I did desire thy presence but could not have it I did chuse to have thee with me rather then to have all the World with me and yet I could not have thee with me Do you think there will ever be cause for such a Reflection upon God the God of love shall it ever be said this poor Soul would have had the presence of God but God would not afford it O no! shall any person be ever able to say I would have had God to be my God and to be with me as a Father Friend and Husband but he would not or shall ever any person be able to say I would have had Jesus Christ to be with me as a Prophet Priest and King but he would not I would have had him to be my mediator Advocate Surety and Saviour but he would not I would have had his righteousness imputed to me and his Spirit imparted to me but could not have it or shall any person be ever able to say I would have had the holy Spirit to be with me to convince me of my sin and misery to enlighten me in the knowledge of Christ and to renew my will and to perswade and enable me to imbrace Christ Jesus freely offered to me but he would not be with me to do any of those things for me no for then how should God be the faithful God as he is stiled Deut. 7. 9.
of them that they felt little or no pain Baynam one of our English Martyrs in the midst of flames with arms and legs half consumed uttered these words O ye Papists behold ye look for miracles here now ye may see a miracle for in this fire I feel no more pain then if I were in a Bed of Down but it is to me as a Bed of Roses Dir. 17. Get a meek and a quiet spirit This is in the sight of God an ornament of great price 1 Pet. 3. 4. But a froward heart is an abomination to God Prov. 11. 20. Moses had this commendation that he was very meek above all the men which were upon the face of the earth Numb 12. 3. God takes his part and appears for him Num. 12. 2 4. Moses is deaf and dumb but God hears and calls suddenly about the wrong done to Moses And what a good end did God make with patient Job Jam. 5. 11. Dir. 18. Be zealous hot fervent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. God cannot away with lukewarmness luke-warm Laodicea he loaths Rev. 3. 16. but zealous Phineas he loves Num. 25. 11 12 13. Psal. 106. 30. Be fervent in prayer swift to hear strict in the observation of the Sabbath be strong in faith weep bitterly for sin This heat in duty will please God Do justly This pleases God Mic. 6. 8. more then thousands of Rams To do judgment and justice to judge the cause of the poor and needy is the way to have it be well with us Jer. 22. 15 16. The just and rtghteous God hates injustice Zech. 8. 17. Doing justice and judgment is the way of the Lord Gen. 18. 19. And sure he is well pleased with those that walk in his way Dir. 20. Love mercy This also pleases God To do good and communicate forget not for with such sacrifice God is well pleased Heb. 13. 16. 'T is an odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God Phil. 4. 18. Christ is so well pleased with it that he takes it as done to himself Mat. 25. 34 35 36. And the contrary shewing no mercy he takes so ill that he threatens Jam. 2. 13. He shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy Dir. 21. Walk humbly To such an one God will look Isa. 66. 2. yea God will dwell with the humble and revive the humble Isa. 57. 15. God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble Jam. 4. 6. And if he give them grace sure he will give them glory Dir. 22. Be fruitful in every good work This pleases God The earth that brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God Heb. 6. 7. I am come into my Garden my Sister my Spouse Now there is such pleasant fruit there I cannot keep away He is so well pleased with the fruit he finds that he gathers eats and drinks Cant. 5. 1. A fruitful Vine pleaseth the Dresser A fruitful Tree the Planter A fruitful Field the Husbandman And a fruitful Christian pleaseth God much more Dir. 23. Be thankful This pleaseth the Lord Psal. 69. 30 31. I will praise the name of the Lord with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving v. 30. This also shall please the Lord better then an Oxe or Bullock that hath horns and hoofs v. 31. This rendring the Calves of our lips Hos. 14. 2. is very pleasing to God when offered up by Christ. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his Name Heb. 13. 15. He that offereth praise glorifieth me saies God Psal 50. Alwaies provided that the praise be cordial and real as well as oral provided that there be estimation of benefits and retribution for them as well as recognition of them And now beloved I must take my leave of you and what more or better can I wish or desire for you then this gracious presence of God The Lord be with you all The Lord be with you little children and incline your hearts to learn Solomons lesson which his father taught him 1 Chron. 28. 9. viz. To know the God of your Fathers and to serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts if you seek him he will be found of you but if you forsake him he will cast you off for ever and for this end The Lord be with you and incline your hearts whilst you are Children to know as Timothy did from a Child the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3. 15. and perswade you to continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of knowing of whom you have learned them 2 Tim. 3. 14. The Lord be with you young men and incline your hearts to remember your Creatour in the dayes of your youth as you are commanded Eccles. 12. 1. and to be kind to him in your youth Jer. 2. 2. that he may another day say to you I remember the kindness of your youth The Lord be with you to be the guide of your youth Jer. 3. 4. and to teach you from your youth as he did David Psal. 71. 17. The Lord be with you that you may with Obadiah fear the Lord from your youth 1 King 18. 12. and that you may flee youthful lusts as you are commanded 2 Tim. 2. 22. The Lord be with you and be your hope and trust from your youth as he was Davids Psal. 71. 5. and make you sober minded as you are exhorted to be Tit. 2. 6. The Lord be with you and cause you to grow up as plants in your youth Psal. 144. 12. That you may never complain as Job chap. 13. 26. Thou hast made me possess the sins of my youth And that you may not be forced to pray as David Remember not against me the sins of my youth Psal. 25. 7. nor lie down in shame because of the sins of your youth as they Jer. 3. 25. and that in your age you may not find your bones full of the sins of your youth Job 20. 11. The Lord be with you Aged men to make you sober grave temperate to make you sound in the faith sound in charity in patience as you are taught to be Tit. 2. 2. The Lord be with you young women to make you such as you are taught to be Tit. 2. 4. viz. Sober and to love your Husbands and your children and to be discreet chaste keepers at home good obedient to your own Husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed and that your Husbands beholding your chaste conversation coupled with fear may be won by it 1 Pet. 3. 1 2. The Lord be with you and deliver you from all unchaste thoughts words and actions and make you careful to
He acknowledges the God of Israel to be the only true God and his cure to be wrought by him 2 King 5. 15. 7. He resolves upon the worshipping and serving of the true God renouncing all other gods 2 King 5. 17. In like manner 1. Have you known your selves to be leprous and unclean and said as Isaiah chap. 6. 5. 2. Having heard of Christ and the efficacy of his blood to cleanse you have you come to his door and waited for direction what to do that you might be cleansed Have you waited dayly at the posts of his doors Prov. 8. 34. Have you sate at Jesus's feet and heard his word Luke 10. 39. as Mary did 3. Having heard counsel and direction what to do to be Cured viz. To go into the Jordan of Christs blood and to bathe your selves therein Have you resolved upon the entreaties of Gods Ministers who are are your servants 2 Cor. 4. 5. to make trial of this Jordan and with Esther to go into King Jesus come of it what will Saying I will go in and if I perish I perish Esth. 4. 16. And have you resolved with the prodigal Luke 15. To go unto Christ the everlasting father Isa. 9. 4. Have you done accordingly Have you dipped your selves in this bloody Jordan seven times Have you-gone into King Jesus as Esther into King Ahasueruâ— And as the Prodigal to his Father Have you been at the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. Have you rested upon this blood of Christ which cleanseth from all sin 1 Joh. 1. 7. for your cleansing and expected it according to the promise Ezâ—k 36. 25. 5. Do you find your hearts stirred up to be thankful for this Jordan of Chriâ—ts blood and the blessings we have thereby Can you do as Peter and Paul as Peter 1 Pet. 1. 3. as Paul Ephes. 1. 3. 6. Do you give Christ the glory of being the alone fountain for cleansing and acknowledge all your cleansing to be from him There being no salvation from the filthiness of sin in any other Act. 4. 12. 7. Do you resolve upon serving God in righteousness and holiness all your days As they that are delivered from their filthiness are bound to do Luke 1. 74 75. Quest. 6. Are you careful to keep your selves clean Do you shun all defilements by persons or things Is it your care to keep your self unspotted as pure Religion binds you to do Jam. 1. 27. Do you hate the garment spotted by the flesh Jude 23. And abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes. 5. 22. Quest. 7. Are you companions of those that are purged David Psal. 119. 63. was a companion of all them that feared God and of them that kept his precepts Are you so too Davids delight was in them Psal. 16. 3. Is your delight in them too Birds of a Feather will flock together Use 3. Of Exhortation If it be so as you have heard then continue no longer in your filthiness Wash ye make ye clean lay a part all filthiness and supersiuity of naughtiness James 1. 21. Cleanse your selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit 2 Cor. 7. 1. Cast it away and say unto it get thee hence Isa. 30. 2. Motives 1. 'T is filthiness Will a man continue in filth in dirt and mire In the filth of the lust of the eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of life 2. God would that you should be purged for First He calls upon you wash as you have heard Secondly God has prepared a fountain to wash in Zech. 13. 1. Thirdly God expostulates with you about it Jer. 13. 27. Wilt thou not be made clean Fourthly God thinks it long till you be purged Jer. 4. 14. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thâ—e And Jerem. 13. 27. When shall it once be 3. When you are purged washed God will take delight in you and have fellowship with you Isa. 1. 16 18. Means 1. Take the glass of the Law and view your selves therein that will shew you your filthiness I had not known sin but by the Law said Paul Rom. 7. 7. 2. Know the power of Gods anger Psal. 90. 11. you may see it in his terrible threats and the judgments which he executeth Psal. 9. 16. 3. Assent to the truths of Gods threatnings Say often to thy own soul it will be as God hath said Fury will rest settle upon me if I continue unpurged from my filthiness 4. Confess your natural and contracted filthiness as did David Psal. 51. 5. and then see 1. John 1. 9. 5. Pray purge me wash me cleanse me Create in me a clean heart as David did Psal. 51. 6. Above all getting get faith for 't is faith that purifies the heart Act. 15. 9. First Hear for it for it comes by hearing Rom. 10. Secondly Give God no rest till he has given it you 7. Act faith in the cleansing blood of Christ It cleanseth away all sin being sprinkled and applied 1 John 1. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Go to the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. Say to thine own soul. 1. I am filthy even filthiness My mind and conscience is d filed Tit. 1. 15. I am a person of u clean lips Isa. 6. 5. for how can he be clean who is born of a woman Job 25. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean Job 14. 4. Behold I am shapen in iniquity and in sia did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 5. Besides How aboninable and filthy am I who have drank iniquity like water Job 15. 16. Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7. 24. 1. The body of sin Rom. 6. 6. called a body because it hath many members Col. 3. 5. A body of death because it tends to death and threaten death 2. Say to thy own soul Christs blood was shed to cleanse from this filthiness of sin And that First By Gods own appointment Act. 2. 23. 1 Pet. 1. 20. Secondly For this very purpose Zech. 13. 1. 1 Joh. 3. 5 8. Isa. 53. 5. 3. Say to thy own soul Jesus Christ in the Ministry and preaching of the Gospel has been evidently set forth crucified before mine eyes Gal. 3. 1. God has set him forth to be a propitiation threugh 〈…〉 i th in his blood Rom. 3. 25. Not only in his eternal counsel and afterward in the execution of the same in the fullness of time but by the preaching of the Gospel 2 Tim. 1. 10 11. 1 Pet. 1. 20. He was manifested in these last times for us not only in respect of his incarnation but in respect of the Revelation of him in the preaching of the Gospel since his Incarnation So also God hath set him forth to be a Bath to wash us from our filthiness Rev. 1. 5. 4. Say to thy soul This blood of Christ is precious blood 1 Pet. 1. 19. powerful and effcacious to
derided by them about you Psal. 44. 13. Tears may be given you to drink in great measure Psal. 80. 5. Vile accounted c. Lam. 3. 45. Even as a scum 1 Cor. 4. 13. Wild beasts and boars out of the wood may waste you c. Psal. 80. 13. Seeing this is so will you take the course prescribed that if possible none of these things may come upon you or if they should that your eternal estate may be secured First What can you object against it 1. Is it not the course that God hath prescribed That it is has been proved before therefore you can't object 't is not required you cannot say Who hath required this for you have heard that God does 2. Is there any unreasonableness or unrighteousness in the prescribing of it Can you object against it as being unreasonable and unrighteous nay is it not most reasonable and righteous that having sinned and provoked God you should consider confess humble c. 3. Is it not that course that others with success have used as Nineveh and 2 Chron. 12. 7 12. Can you object and say others have taken this course to no purpose Ahabs external humiliation was not without some success The judgment was deferred upon it 1 King 21. 29. 4. Have not others perished for want of taking this course See 2 Chron. 36. 12. of Zedâ—kiâ— to 18. Dan. 5. 22 to 29. of Belâ—hazar Can you now object and say others have neglected this course and done well enough Thus you see you cannot object against this course Secondly Can you think of a better a safer course Can you or you or you c. speak if you can by your silence I take it for granted that you cannot Thirdly If you cannot are you resolved upon this To consider confess c. Fourthly If you be not resolved on this course as yet must I dismiss you unresolved and desperate as they Jer. 44. will you say as they ver 16. 18. 12. FINIS GODS Gracious Presence THE SAINTS Great Priviledge 2 Thes. 3. 16. Now the Lord of Peace himself give you Peace alwayes by all means The Lord be with you all YOU have Peace Blessed be God long may it last it is not like to be long-lived unless God work wonderfully Application therefore should be made to him that he who is the God of Peace would be pleased to give it alwayes and by all means The close of the Verse is that which I intend to say something unto as the Lord shall enable me The Lord be with you All. This is Pauls Valediction to the Thessalonians and shall be mine to you In this Valediction you have 1. Pauls wish and desire the Lord be with you 2. The extent of it The Lord be with you All. He leaves out none of them he wisheth well to them all and that which he wisheth is the Presence of the Lord with them All their welfare standing therein The Lord God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost we must not leave out any of the Three for we cannot be without the Presence of any one of them nor can you have the Presence of the one without the Presence of the other for these three are one and where One is All are Of the Fathers and of the Sons and of the Holy Ghosts coming to be with his People You read Joh. 14. Jesus said if a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him O for faith to believe this that the Father and the Son will come and make their abode with such Whosoever goes from you you may be sure the Father and Son will come if you love him and keep his words See verse 23. And for the coming of the Holy Ghost See Joh. 15. 16. I will pray the Father saith Christ Here 's a praying friend and praying friends we use to say are our best friends and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of Truth verse 17. That he may abide with you for ever mark that when he comes he will not be like a wayfaring man that comes for a night and then is gon but he will abide for ever when I came down from Heaven I came with a purpose to return again when I had done my work here but this Comforter my Spirit shall abide with you for ever Well then the Lord be with you the Father Son and Holy Spirit be with you the eternal Jehovah who hath his being of himself and gives being to all things else even the being of performance to his promises This Lord be with you Be with your whole man This Lord be with your Bodies This Lord be with your Souls This Lord be with every part of your Bodies and with every Power of your Souls The Apostle in his former epistle praying for these Thessalonians 1 Thes. 5. 23. Prayes thus The very God of Peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then the Apostle would have the Lord â—o be with their whole man not with a part of it not with their Souls and Spirits only or Bodies only but with their Spirit Soul and Body and the same Apostle praying for Timothy prayes The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy Spirit 2 Tim. 4. 22. It matters not who are absent so Christ be present his presence is more then the presence of the nearest and dearest relations The Lord be with you all not only with a part of you I know not which of you to leave out of my Prayers For you all have need of Gods presence whether you be Saints or Sinners If Sinners you have need of the Lord to be with you to convince you and convert you And as for those that are Saints I know none that have so much grace that they need no more the Lord therefore be with them to establish confirm and encrease grace in them the Lord be with you at all times If God be absent at any time we know not what to do Some of you have had experience that when God hath withdrawn never so little your case hath been bad enough The Lord be with you in all places We can be secure and safe in no place without his presence The Lord be with you in all conditions in all estates for if you be in the most prosperous estate you cannot tell how to be without God Jehosaphat thought so 2. Chron. 20. 12. In the fulness of a mans sufficiency he may be in straights Job 20. 22. You cannot be any where in any estate a minute without him You believe it to be a Truth that in him you live move and have your being Act. 17. 28. not naturally only but spiritually too The Lord therefore be with you at all times in all conditions
preserve your own and your neighbours chastity in heart speech and behaviour This prayer for you is not without need too much unchaste behaviour is to be seen in our Congregations I cannot think that the exposing of your naked backs and breasts to the view of all can consist with chastity of heart I wish that some or other would do that office for you that Shem and Japheth did for their father Gen. 9. 23. and cast at least a Scarf or Handkerchief over your naked necks backs and breasts The Lord be with you aged women that you may be such as you are required to be Tit. 2. 3. That you may be in behaviour as becometh holiness not false accusers not given to much wine Teachers of good things The Lord be with you widowes to cause you to trust in God as 't is your duty Jer. 49. 11. and continue in prayer and supplications night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. The Lord be with you Parents That you may bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Ephes. 6. 4. and that you may not provoke them to anger lest they be discouraged Col. 3. 21. The Lord be with you Children that you may obey your Parents in the Lord and honour them that it may be well with you and that you may live long in the earth Ephes. 6. 1 2 3. The Lord be with you Masters that you may give unto your Servants that which is just and equal Col. 4. 1. and forbear threatning knowing that your Master also is in Heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Ephes. 6. 9. The Lord be with you Servants that you may be obedient to them that are your Masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness of heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart Ephes. 6. 5 6. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the Inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ Col. 3. 24. Yea the Lord be with you that you may be subject not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward for this is thank-worthy if for conscience towards God you endure grief suffering wrong fully and acceptable with God if when you do well and suffer for it you take it patiently 1 Pet. 2. 18 19 20. The Lord be with you Husbands that you may love your wives and not be bitter against them Col. 3. 19. And that you may dwell with them according to knowledge giving honour unto them as unto the weaker vessels and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3. 7. The Lord be with you wives that you may be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they may be won by your conversation while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear and that your adornin̄g may not be with outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of Gold or of putting on of apparel but that it may be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which in the sight of God is of great price 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3 4. The Lord be with you poor and my request for you is double 1. That you may be poor in spirit and so blessed that yours may be the kingdom of heaven Mat. 5. 3. 2. That you may be rich in faith Jam. 2. 5. by which God has promised the just shall live Hab. 2. 4. The Lord be with you Rich that you may not be high-minded nor trust in uncertain Riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy 1 Tim. 6. 17. The Lord be with you that you may do good that you may be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate that you may lay up in store for your selves a good foundation against the time to come that you may lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 18 19. The Lord be with you young Disciples that having put your hands to the plough you may not look back lest you prove not fit for the kingdom of God Luk. 9. 92. The Lord be with you old Disciples that you may bring forth much good fruit and be fat and flourishing Psal. 62. 14. The Lord be with you All to deal well with you To hear your Prayers To direct your steps To give you rest To provide you necessaries To protect your persons To prevent trouble or to deliver out of it To assist in work To support under burdens To disappoint enemies To Animate against fear To comfort in tribulation To correct if need be To encline your hearts to God To give you wisdom To help you to finish your works and to effect difficult undertakings To hold you by your right hand To put a difference between you and toose that serve him not The Lord be with you All 1. With All of All of you 1. With your Hearts 1. To circumcise them Deut. 30. 6. 2. To write his Law in them Heb. 8. 10. 3. To new make them Ezek. 36. 26. 4. To soften them Ezek. 36. 26. 5. To strengthen them Psal. 31. 24. acchrding to his promise 6. To unite them Psal. 86. 11. 7. To enlarge them Psal. 119. 32. 8. To encline them to him and his Testimonies 1 King 8. 58. Psal. 119. 36. 9. To create them clean Psal. 51. 10. 10. To put gladness into them Psal. 4 〈…〉 2. With your heads 1. To lift them up Psal. 3. 3. 2. To make them waters Jer. 9. 1. 3. With your eyes 1. To open them that you may behold wonderous things out of Gods Law Psal. 119. 18. 2. To turn them away from beholding vanity Psal. 119. 37. 4. With your ears 1. To open them Psal. 40. 6. 2. To cause them to hear the word behind them Isa. 30. 21. 5. With your mouthes 1. To satisfie them with good things Psal. 103. 5. 2. That a deceitful tongue may not be found in them Zeph. 3. 13. 6. With your hands To hold them Isa. 41. 13. 42. 6. 7. With your feet To keep them 1 Sam. 1. 9. 1. The Lord be with you All 2. At all times 1. In the Morning when you awake that you may awake with God Psal. 139. 18. Psal. 55. 17. 2. At noon when you go to meat Psal. 55. 17. 3. At evening when you go to bed Psal. 55. 17. This was Davids practice Evening and Morning and at Noon will I pray and cry aloud and not in vain for it followes and he shall hear my voice 4. The Lord be with you even at midnight and in the night watches that even then you may meditate on Gods word and give thanks after the example of David Psal. 119. 62. 63. 6. 119. 148. 5. On the week dayes that you may do your work and all
your work on them as you are Commanded Exod. 20. 9. 6. On the Lords day that you may keep it holy and call it a delight The holy of the Lord Honourable not doing your own wayes nor finding your own pleasure nor speaking your own words Isa. 58. 13 14. The Lord be with you All 3. In All places In the closet in the family In the shop in the field In Bed at Board In the Closet to make you serious In the family to make you profitable In the shop to awe you In the field to preserve you In bed to refresh you At Board to satisfie you The Lord be with you All. 4. In all estates and conditions in adversity and prosperity in sickness and health in poverty and Riches In Adversity that you may consider Eccles. 7. 14. In prosperity that you may rejoyce Eccles. 7. 14. In sickness to make your bed Psal. 41. 3. In health to make you thankful Psal. 103. 3. In poverty to make you contented Heb. 13. 5. 1 Tim. 6. 8. In Riches to make you lowly minded Trusters in God rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate 1 Tim. 6. 17 18. The Lord be with you All 5. In all duties of Religion and holy Ordinances in praying reading hearing meditating conferring instructing admonishing exhorting reproving comforting In praying that you may pray fervently Jam. 5. 16 17. In reading that you may read understandingly Act. 8. 30. In hearing that you may hear believingly Heb. 4. 2. In meditating that you may have soul-satisfaction Psal. 6â— 5 6. In conferring that you do it with affâ—ctâ—on In instructing that you may do it convincingly In admonishing that you may do it compassâ—onately Jude 22. In exhorting that you may do it earnestly Heb. 10. 24. In reproving that you may do it wisely In comforting that you may do it mercifully In observing the Sabbath that you may observe it more strictly In receiving the Supper that you may receive it more worthily In fasting that you may do it soul-afflictingly soul-chasteningly Levit. 23. 32. Psal. 69. 10. and life-reformingly The Lord be with you All 6. In all your Civil Imployments and lawful undertakings that in All you do you may make Gods word your Rule Gods glory your end and the credit of the Gospel and Christian Religion your Care The Lord be with you In your Trading and dealing that you may do as you would be done unto Maâ— 7. 12. In buying and selling that you may set God before you buying and selling as in his presence Psal. 16. 8. In working and sitting still that you may be heavenly minded Phil. 3. 20. In your journeying and travelling that you may be preserved and prospered Gen. 24. 21. Finally Beloved The Lord be with you to sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the câ—minâ— of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen FINIS A Catalogue OF Books Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock at the Sign of the Three Bibles in Popes-head Alley TWelve Books Published by Mr. Thomas Brooks 1. Precious Remedies against Satans devices 2. Heaven upon Earth 3. The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. 4. Apples of Gold 5. String of Pearls 6. The Male Christian. 7. An Ark for Gods Noahs 9. The Privey Key of Heaven 10. A Heavenly Cordial 11. A Cabinet of choice Jewels 12. Loâ—â—ons Lamentations Mr. Câ—llâ—my's Godly Man 's Ark. Christs Communion with his Church Millitant by Nicholas Lockâ—er Sin the Plague of Plagues by Ralph Venning The Accurate Accomptant or London Merchant being Instructions for keeping Merchants Accounts by Thomas Brown Accountant Short-writing The most Easie Exact Lineal and speedy Method that hath ever yet been obtained by Thomas Metcalf Also a Book called a School-master to it explaining the Rules thereof A Copy Book of the Newest and most useful Hands Bridges Remains being 8. Choice Sermon 's by that Reverend Divine Mr. William Bridge heretofore Minister at Yarmouth A Discourse of Christ's coming by Theophilus Gale King James his Counterblast to Tobacco A Brief Description of New York The Shepherds Legacy or forty years Experience of the Weather Venning's Remains or Christ's School consisting of four Classis of Christians viz. Babes Children Young-men and Fathers being the â—ubstance of many Sermons by Ralph Verning Prepared for the Press by himself before his Death A Disâ—wasive from Conformity to the World as also Gods severity against Impenitent Sinners with a Farewel Sermon by Henry Stuâ—s Minister of the Gospel