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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

safety and make them at length to know their own happiness and to acknowledg and embrace that fatherly care that thou hast taken of them that they may no more take thy Castle for a Prison nor the bounds of their safety for a restraint of their liberty vindicate ô Lord those two great trusts that thou hast established for the good of thy people in the world from those high presumptions and from that Sedition and Schisme whereby they have been violated so haniously in the world and in these Nations make the people sensible now at length both of the folly and iniquity of their rebellions and return them to obedience that they may be received to thy favour And open we beseech thee the bowels of thy compassion to our afflicted Soveraign that hath suffered so long under the cloud of our sins and his own miseries Remember O Lord our David and all his troubles remember all the holy Vows and resolutions of his soul for the establishment of thy truth and the advancement of thy worship remember his patience and humility under those great trials that thou hast been pleased to send upon him Remember his constancy in adhearance unto thy truth against all the temptations wherewith he hath been assaulted in that time of his distres remember O God the care that he hath taken of thy Church and of thy Gospel and of the spiritual concernments of thy peoples souls and how willing he hath been rather to undergo the continuance of his own trouble and afflictions than to purchase his release by betraying thy Truth by compliance with Romane superstition or permitting the corruption of the true Religion in this Nation remember him O Lord we beseech thee for good and cause thou his people to remember these things and the great offence that they have committed against him and the great obligations that are upon them toward him by thy Laws and the Laws and sacred Oaths of this Nation in point of recompence for those great injuries they have done and in point of thankfulness for all his love and tenderness toward them and his sufferings for them subdue the hearts of his enemies unto him increase the desires of his people after him And as thou hast brought him home out of his afflictions as Gold out of the fire pure and precious in thy sight and in the eyes of his people furnished and adorned with all those Royall endowments and christian graces that may make him a glorious Instrument of thy praise of the advancement of the Gospel and Kingdome of thy sonne of great good unto thy Church and of peace and happines unto these poor Nations That mercy and truth may meet together and righteousnes and peace may kisse each other That thy people may rejoyce under the shadow of his Government that he may be a nursing Father unto thy Church and people through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS The First Table A Prayer for incitement for affection to attend upon the Lord in the use of the Lords Supper folio 1. A Prayer for preparation to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper folio 20 A Prayer when the Bread and VVine is brought to the Table folio 68 Employment for Thoughts in the pauses of the Congregations folio 77 Between the Sermons end the Communion when the people that do not Communicate are going out folio 90 The judgment and practice of the antient Church concerning the frequent and constant use of the Lords Supper folio 93 The second Table A Clear and short Catechisme for those that are to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper folio 1 Prayers before the Sacrament to God the Father folio 21 To Christ Jesus folio 26 A prayer to the Holy Ghost folio 49 A prayer after the Sacrament folio 53 A prayer for Perseverance in grace and godlinsse after the receiving of the Lord Supper folio 63 A prayer of Intercession for the sick to be used by those that are with him or that come to visite him folio 80 A prayer to be used when we hear a Passing-Bell toll or have any other notice of a Soul ready to depart folio 113 A prayer for the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland proper for all times folio 122 A prayer for the restoring of our afflicted Soveraign folio 130 FINIS

set free from all earthly affections and fixed upon thee and upon things that are above and give up my heart and my life wholy to serve and glorify thee my God in a holy and a heavenly conversation which is the true state of Conversion help me to confesse my sins with sorrow and to reforme with joy and to make restitution where I have done wrong as thou givest oportunity and ability and where either are wanting let not will be wanting nor thy acceptance be wanting unto my sincere desires and endeavours Help me to accuse my self that thou mayest acquit me to judge condemn my self that thou mayest absolve me help me to exercise an holy revenge upon my self that thou mayest spare me help me to endeavour a redress of all scandals that I have given to reduce those whom I have seduced or with whom I have complied in any evill way and seal unto me thy pardon in the blood of Christ by the inward testimony of thy sanctifying spirit and let the reformation of mylife be an evidence unto me of the forgiveness of my sins which is the authentick seal of thy Spirit giving the impression of thine own Image Grant me a lively saving faith to believe thy Gospel and all thy Heavenly truthes that thou hast revealed in thy holy Word and to subdue and bring down all mine own thoughts apprehensions imaginations and affections thereunto that I may trust in the Lord with all mine heart and not lean unto mine own understanding Convince me O Lord of that great article of faith that my Jesus is thy Christ and the Son of the living God which is the rock upon which thou buildest thy Church and the gates of hell shal not prevail against it that I may not believe it by relation onely from men but by revelation from thee being wrought unto a full perswasion thereof by the arguments of thy spirit by the holy Prophecies that went before of him in the Old Testament which were all fulfilled in him in the New by the wonderfull miracles which he did by the descending of the Holy Ghost upon him in the visible form of a Dove by the voice from Heaven declaring him to be thy well beloved Sonne in whom thou art well pleased which voice was sent from thy heavenly Throne after his baptisme and at his tranfiguation by the holiness of his life the excellency of his Doctrine by the wonderfull sending of his Holy Spirit upon his Disciples in the likeness of fiery tongues and those excellent and wonderfull gifts that were bestowed upon them by the dreadfull judgment that fell upon the Jews for Crucifying him and reviling the Gospell by the blood of thy victorious Martyrs who sealed thy heavenly truth by their constancy in their sufferings and cruell deaths which they chearfully under went for the Testimony thereof and by the wonderfull wayes whereby thou hast carried on and maintained thy Church and Gospell against all the wisdome and power of the world that was against it Convince my Soul O Lord of that great truth by these arguments and by the experiment of the work of thy Grace in my Soul that I may firmly believe it and rely upon it for my falvation and that I may believe infallibly that this my Saviour by his death and passion hath satisfied for my sins that he hath justified me by his righteousness and that by his mediation he prevails with thee for obtaining of spiritual blessings all mercies needful for me and for the bring home of the fruit and benefit of that redemption which he hath wrought for me unto me bring a penitent sinner Give me faith to lay hold upon the Sacramental promise that I may come with a full and assured expectati on to receive thy Sons body crucified and his blood shed upon the Cross for my sins with all the benefits of his death and passion and of that great Redemption he hath wrought for me truly and really conveyed and applied and sealed to my soul in that thy holy Ordinance Let me take thy heavenly mysteries as thine earnest to oblidge me to serve thee and as thy pledges to assure me of thy love unto me and of my Interest in thy Christ and my Jesus unto my salvation And let my Faith work by Love that in the sense of thy great goodness offered and given unto me in Christ Jesus-I may love thee and thy Christ above all and with all my heart and soul mind and strength Let me think nothing too much to do or suffer for the who didst not think it too much to give thy son thy beloved son to suffer and die for me Enflame me with holy love unto all people that I may give up my self to them to serve them in love make me to own them in al their concernments to pitty them in all their miseries to be ready to relive them in all their wants to comfort them in all their distresses to counsel them in al their perplexity to pardon all their miscarriages towards me to bear their infirmities to study their good to love brotherly fellowship to delight in thy Sts. and holy ones and to walk comfortably chearfully together with them in thy holy worship and service Let not any poisoned dart of rancour or envy or malice or heart burning toward any rankle or feaster my soul But make us al up more more into the mistical body of thy Son that we may keep the unity fo the spirit in the bond of peace that we may be all one in thee as thou and thy Son Christ Jesus are one And let the Peace of God which passeth all nnderstanding rule in our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Give me a thankfull sense and sweet relish of thy great mercy in that great redemption thou hast wrought for my soul by thy blesed Son That I may have an high esteem of thy love in giving thy son for me to be a sacrifice for my sins upon the Cross and in giving him unto me to be the nourishment life of my soul in the Sacrament Oh make me to receive him from thee there with a gratefull soule to return thee the devout and thankfull homage of my heart Strike me into an holy amazment at the wonders of thy great mercy toward me in him to poure out my soule in the praises of thy name to embrace thee in thy Christ and my Jesus with all the dearest affections of my heart to devote and consecrate my self unto thee to be a sacrifice of praise unto thee in the whole course of my life and conversation to rejoyce in the mercy and the loving kindenesse of my God Affect me with an awfull Reverence toward the greatnesse of thy Majesty with whō I there come to renew my Covenant toward the excellency of thy sonne whom I come to receive into my soul Toward the holiness of thy spirit by whom I come there to be

as outward strength decayeth so let spiritual strength continually increase in him as outward comforts fade vanish let spiritual comforts appear be cleared up more and more unto him and when thou shalt be pleased to call him out of this wretch'd world make him willingly cheerfuly to yield him self up into thy hands and send thine holy angells with a commission of mercy from thy mercy-seat to translate his soul to thy heavenly glory thorow Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer to be used when we hear a Passing-Bell Toll or have any other notice of a Soul ready to depart OH Mercifull God Thou Father of all pitty and compassion open the bowels of thy Tender mercy unto this Soul that seems now ready to depart and to be now entring into the Ocean of Eternity Thou knowest O Lord the state and condition thereof and how it is disposed and prepared for a dissolution O Lord take it not out of this world untill thou hast weaned it from the world that it may have a free passage through thy mercy unto thy eternal mansions of Blessed nesse If thou knowest it may stand with thy Glory and may make for his salvation bring it back from this gate of Death and let it continue in the body and restore this person yet if it be thy blessed wil unto health and strength or if thou shalt be pleased to take this soul hence ô Lord wash it clean from iniquity by the blood of Christ and adorn it with the robe of his perfect righteousness and give it the benefit of the Intercession of thy Son Quicken repentance strengthen Faith raise up in it an holy flame of heavenly love to thee that may carry it up as a sacrifice to the throne of thy Glory Binde it up in the holy peace and Communion of thy Church by the bond of holy love and Christian charity to all thy people Grant patience and strength and spiritual comfort to convey it safe through the pangs torments of dissolution Let not the Enemy have any power to hurt it but take it into thy keeping and into the guard of thy grace and mercy Binde up Sathan and all spiritual adversaries and send thine Angels with a commission of Mercy to convey this Soul unto the habitation of thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this OGracious God be with this person in the holy operations of thy grace and in the yearning of thy tenderest mercies in the dreadfull moment when the Soul shal depart from the body conduct this thy dying creature through the valley of the shadow of death unto the Land of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this IN the midst of life we be in death of whom may wee seek for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sins art justly displeased Yet O Lord most Holy O God most mighty O Holy and mercifull Saviour remember the work of thy hands and the purchase of thy blood give not up this thy departing Creature unto the bitter pain of eternal Death Lord remember now thy great mercy and thy Bloody Sufferings and death and let thy Bowels melt in tender compassion towards this person in this great extremity Shut up Hell and open Heaven O Lord destroy not Oh Lord forsake not O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternal suffer not this person at the last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee Amen A Prayer for the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland proper for all tmes OH most Gracious God who doest Rule and Govern all things who increasest the Nations and destroyest them who enlargest them again look down I beseech thee with the eye of thy tender pitty and compassion upon these poore miserable and sinfull Kingdoms that have now lain for these many years under the load of thy heavy displeasure against them for their sins and are at this time in the mouth of so great ruin and destruction if we be not relieved by thy heavenly mercy O Lord we must all needs confess that our iniquities have been and are still very great against thee and in the very midst of the flames of thine indignation against us we have multiplied our rebellions against thee our God as if we would even bid defiance unto thine anger and dare thee to doe thy worst against us And that blood that bath been wickedly shed in these Nations cryes aloud for vengeance against us so that it were most just in thee to make the ruins of these three Kingdomes the standing monuments of thy displeasure against sinne unto all the rest of the Nations of the world But I humbly beseech thy divine Majesty to pitty a poore perishing people Hear not O Lord the cry of our sins neither heare the cry of that blood that cryes for vengeance but hear the cry of that blood that cryes for mercy even of the blood of thine own dear Son Christ Jesus That speaketh better things than the blood of Abel and hear the Cryes and the Prayers of thy people that call upon thee for Mercy O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord humble and convert us and these whole Nations unto thee O let it be thy pleasure to deliver us make hast O God to help us help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy name Oh deliver us and be mercifull to our sins for thy name sake leave us not to become a prey unto our own iniquities nor to the wicked interests of men But be thou pleased so to over-rule all the publick motions and consultations and all the confusions and distactions that are upon us or shall befall us that whatsoever men shall contrive or designe that whatsoever they shall act or enterprise all things may be drawn in by thy wisdome and thy providence to the advancement of thy glory of the Gospel and Kingdome of thy son amongst us to the restoring of a righteous and lawfull Government in the state of an holy and orderly discipline and ministry in the Church and to the establishment of all these nations in holinesse and truth in righteousnesse and peace and prosperity before thee and help us O God without the shedding of any more innocent blood and without any more bloody confusions and distractions if it be thy blessed will grant this O Lord though we be most unworthy for the worthiness and merrit of thy deare sonne and our onely Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer for the restoring of our afflicted Soveraign O Most Gracious Glorious God Thou King of Kings and Lord of Lords who hast established and ordained Kings and Princes in the world to be thy substitutes in the Rule and Government of thy people As thou hast appointed thine Ordinances of Government for the good and safety of thy people So we beseech thee be thou the Protectour of thine own ordinances and therein of thy peoples