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A47235	Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths for cure. By the author of the Manual of prayers, for the use of the scholars of Winchester Colledge.	Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.	1692 (1692)	Wing K277; ESTC R220999	15,192	82

God let thy Affliction produce my Amendment and all the happy effects in me which it is wont to do in thy Children and which thou in mercy doest design it should and then continue thy Affliction if it seem good in thy sight behold Lord Happy is the man whom thou thus correctest Job v. 17 What is best for me O my God I know not my Flesh desires a deliverance from this Distemper and if it be thy pleasure O Lord deliver me my Spirit desires that thou only wouldst choose for me do thou then O Heavenly Father choose for me choose for me because thou art my Father and out of thy Fatherly tenderness wilt be sure to choose what is the best for me I resign up my own will entirely to thine Father if thou be willing remove this cup from me nevertheless not my will but thine be done O my Father if it be thy blessed will the Waters should not be effectual to me make them effectual to all other Infirm Persons besides I will rejoyce in thy goodness for removing their Affliction I will acquiesce in thy goodness for continuing mine Hear Lord and have Compassion on me for the Merits and Sufferings of Jesus whose perfect Resignation may I always imitate Amen Amen Next to the great Duties of Repentance and Prayer I am to exhort you to Sacrifice of Alms-giving which is a Duty appropriate to the Rich or to those who have a Competence of the things of this World so that as hitherto I have united the Rich and Poor together because both are alike obliged to Repent and to Pray I must now seperate them and give distinct Exhortations to them both An Exhortation to the Rich. IF you are Rich or have wherewithal to relieve others then be sure to be rich in good works and according to your ability give alms Luke xi 41 and give them in this place to those poor Christians who come to the Bath for the Cure of the like Distempers as the Rich do but have nothing to sustain them or to defray the Charges of their Cure From what you feel your self learn to compassionate the like Miseries in others that Relief you would desire others should shew to you were you in want do you shew to the Poor Those Blessings that Ease that Health and that Patience you beg of God for your self beg of God for all others which you see are in the like distress and beg it as you would for your self and with a like concern Such Charity as this will be an unspeakable Comfort to you whatever your Distemper is there is a present Temporal Blessing promised to it and promised to Charitable persons in that very time when they most of all want it namely in the time of their trouble and on their sick Beds For Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble the Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness Psal. xli 1 3. Learn then of our most Compassionate Saviour to shew Mercy to the Sick and the Lame and to contribute all you can to their Healing lay aside mony for that very Use and pray to God to direct your Charity to those who most want it and who are most worthy to be relieved by this means you will be able Conscientiously to say with Job I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame Job xxix 15 A Prayer for the Rich. ALL Glory be to thee O Lord God for that portion of the good things of this Life thou hast been pleased to vouchsafe me Thou Lord hast made me thy Steward of them and at the great day I must give an account to thee of my stewardship O make me a faithful Steward of them that I may give an account to thee with joy and not with grief Thou Lord hast made it an argument of my love to thee to open my bowels to my Brother in need Behold Lord I see many of my Brethren and Sisters here in need and destitute of those Conveniencies for using the Waters which thou in great goodness hast vouchsafed me and out of a grateful sense of thy infinite Love to me I desire to shew Love to them and to my power to contribute to their Comfort Support and Cure Glory be to thee who hast enabled me to do it O Blessed Saviour I see thee in every one of thy poor Members here lying at the Pool and thou hast none to help thee in O give me grace to undertake that merciful Office to open my Bowels and my Purse wide to help thee and do thou vouchsafe help to me in my time of need O my God do thou direct me in the distribution of my Alms to those who most want and who best deserve relief that I may dispose of them most agreable to thy will and to those who shall most glorifie thee for them O make me ever merciful as thou O Father in Heaven art merciful indulge me a share in that mercy with which thou hast promsed to bless the merciful and send me deliverance in the time of trouble Hear Lord forgive and save me for thy own infinite mercies sake for thy truth and promise sake and for the merits of Jesus thy beloved Amen Amen Ejaculations at the giving of Alms. BLessed be thou O Lord God for ever and ever for all things come of thee and of thy own do I now give thee 1 Chr. xxix Lord let these Alms be an odour of a sweet smell a sacrifice acceptable well peasing to thee through Iesus the son of thy love Phil. iv 18 If your own Charitable disposition incline you and your Spiritual Guide do also advise you to devote a particular Sum to Pious Uses you may express your Vow in this or the like manner O my God if thou wilt be with me in this place and keep me in thy way and deliver me from my Sickness Lameness and bless the Waters to me then shalt thou O Lord be my God and of that thou hast given me I will surely give here name the Sum to thee and to the Poor that they may be relieved by it and Glorifie thee for it An Exhortation to the Poor YOU that are Poor though you cannot exercise your Charity in giving to others yet you may and ought to do it in praying for them especially for your Benefactours The greater your Temporal Wants are the more they should teach you to depend on God and the fewer are your Temptations and your very Poverty if you make a sanctified use of it will teach you Poverty of Spirit Humility Heavenly-mindedness of lively Faith and a firm confidence in God who is your only Refuge and Help in your greatest need A Prayer for the Poor O Lord God the Refuge of all mankind but especially of the miserable look down with thine Eye● of tenderest pity on my low and destitute

you that he dealeth with you as with a Child and that his paternal Bowels are ever yearning on you 'T is most true in common experience what the Appostle affirms That no Chastning for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous and so will your Chastning seem to you nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceble fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby Heb. xii 11 and such fruit it will in the end infallibly yield to you Believe me then that you will at last to your unutterable joy experimentally find that all things even the sharpest and the most continued afflictions work together for good to those that love God Rom. viii 28 Ejaculations for the Afflicted DEal thou with me O Lord according to thy Name for sweet is thy Mercy Thou hast been my Succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my Salvation I should utterly have faintted but that I verily believe to see the Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living I will wait on the Lord from whom cometh my Salvation Though I am somtime afraid yet put I my trust in thee Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because he trusteth in thee O what great Troubles and Adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh me As for me I patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more In the multitude of the sorrows I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my Soul Unto thy entire disposal I resign my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of Truth O may I always Do and Suffer thy will My God though thou slayest me yet will I put my trust in thee It is the Lord it is my God it is my Father it is my Friend it is infinite Love that afflicts me let him do what seemeth him good he can will nothing but good to me his Will be ever done and not my own To these Ejaculations may be added that Prayer for Amendment when God is pleased to try us which went before IF want of Children good Christian and hopes of Benefit from the Water bring you hither then I beseech you as I did those who were sick or lame to begin with God Repentance and Prayer and Resignation and Charity are all as proper for your condition as for them Be assured that Children are the Gift of God and let your first and chief recourse be to him and from him only expect a Bessing 'T is true the Blessing of the Womb are temporal only yet they are such which all married persons regularly ought to desire and for which they ought with humility and submission to Pray Though the blessing of Children is very often indulged to wicked persons as well as to good yet we see many times that God denies them to both though they never so passionately desire them When God denies Children to wicked persons it is in his anger and for punishment Thus Nadab and Abihu for offering strange fire died before the Lord Num. iii. 4 and as an aggravation of their punishment it is remarked that they had no children And the doom that God pronounced against wicked Coniah was Thus saith the Lord write this man childless Jer. xxii 30 God threatens incestuous persons That they shall die childless Lev. xx 20 32. And sometimes when hopes of Issue appear he gives the Wife a miscarrying womb and dry breasts Hos. ix 14 It is therefore most needful that you should ground your hopes of Children on a previous Repentance Children are no certain marks of Gods Favour and ●herefore the good often want them Never were ●here two better married Couples than Abraham the friend of God and Sarah ●han Zechary and Elizabeth ●ho were both righteous before God walking in all the Commandments of the Lord ●lameless and yet Sarah and Elizabeth were both barren ●nd never had been mothers ●ut by Miracle Rebeckah and Rachel and Hannah had all for a long time their wombs shut up and by Prayer they were all at last opened However when God foresees Children like to prove either Temptations or Calamities or Curses to their good Parents it is a grea● blessing then to deny them which our Lord imitates t● the Daughters of Jerusalem when he told them Th● dayes were coming in which they should say blessed are th● barren and the wombs th●● never bare and the paps th●● never gave suck Luk xxiii 29● But when God denie● Children to Holy Persons he makes up the blessing some other way and gives them a name better than of sons and of daughters an everlasting name that shall not be cut off Isa. lvi 5 so that which way soever God thinks fit to deal with you you have all the reason imaginable to assure your self that what is Gods Will is best for you and chearfully to acquiesce in his good pleasure A Prayer for a Wife O Lord God Almighty who formest us from the womb who coverest us there and seest our substance when imperfect and all our Members and how they are curiously formed Ps. cxxxix 16 All Glory be to thee I know Lord that Children and the Fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of thee and therefore of thee only I beg it O vouchsafe me that gift in thy good time Glory be to thee O Lord who makest the barren Woman to keep House and to be a joyful Mother of Children O that it might please thee to make me a joyful Mother Deliver me O my God from either a barren or from a miscarrying womb and from dry Breasts and if it be thy will bless the Waters that they may dispose me to to be Fruitful and to Conceive and do thou O Lord most tenderly preserve the Fruit of my womb that I may at last happily bring forth and may forget my pangs and may praise thy Name for joy that a Child is born into the World To thee O Lord God do I Vow this Vow that if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid and remember me and wilt give unto thy handmaid Children then I will give them unto thee 1 Sam. i. 11 I will early devote them to thee in Holy Baptism I will do my utmost to bring them up in thy nurture and admonition in thy filial Fear and reverential Love that they may become instruments of thy Glory on Earth and may at last become Saints in Heaven to sing eternal praises to thee there Bless me and my Husband O Lord God Almighty bless us with the blessings of Heaven above and with the blessings of the deep that lyeth under bless us with the blessings of the Breasts and of the Womb if it be thy will O Lord if thou art pleased for most wise and gracious purposes to deny us the blessings of Children thy most Holy Will be done O give us an entire contentedness without them and though it is not thy pleasure to make us Fruitful in our Bodies yet make us Fruitful in our Souls Fruitful in all saving Graces which will in the end prove a much greater joy and comfort and blessing to us both than Children Hear me O Lord and help me and grant my Petition if it be thy Will for thy infinite Goodness sake and the sake of Jesus the Son of thy Love Amen Amen If it please God to bless the Waters to your Fruitfulness then use the forgoing Form of Thanksgiving And if you or any one besides who have made use of this Paper have received the least good from it to God be all the Glory Amen FINIS