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A treatise of prayer with several useful occasional observations and some larger digressions, concerning the Judaical observation of the Lord's Day, the external worship of God, &c. / by George Bright ...
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G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696.
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1678
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Wing B4677; ESTC R1010
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whosoever do shall not inherit the Kingdom of âod But that we be filled with all the Fruits of the Spirit Love Joy Peace Long-sufferââg Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance Galat. 5. Verse 16. c. That all âitterness Wrath Anger Clamour Evil-speaking and Malice may be put away far from us ând that we may be kind one to another tenâer hearteâ forgiving one another even as God for Christ'â sake hath forgiven us Ephes 4. Verse 31. That we may add to our Faith Virtue Knowledge Temperance Patience Godliness Brotherly-kindness Charity that these things may be in us and abound that as Christians we may not be unfruitful in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ Pet. â 1. Verse 5. Further still In order to all these pray we for other excellent instrumental Graces or Virtues as that God would cause us to adâire his most excellent Nature and Perfections to imitate him in what we are capable ând ought to resemble him to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect but especiallâ Holiness and Universal Beneficence that â may be holy as he which hath called us is â That he would grant us to obey him sincâly resolvedly universally that he wâ give us an obedient Heart and consqueâ be universally holy righteous and goâ and practise all manner of Virtue and eâcially in the hardest Lessons when iâ his Will we should undergo any Evils or âflictions then presently to comply witââ Will and to submit ours to it nay perfeâ acquiesce in it nay out of choice to make â Will to be ours That also God would gâ unto us to trust in him have Faith in ââ and Dependence upon him to believe wâ soever he teacheth us willingly to ââ our Applications to him as our best Fâ upon all Occasions to acknowledge âstantly that whatever inherent Strength â Ability in any kind we have we haââ from him to be heartily thankful to ââ for all good things to rejoyce in his Fââ which cannot be had without Holiâ which when we have we have all weâ wish or desire in Effect and we need as ââ trouble our selves about any thing but ââing our selves in all dutiful Demeanour â Temper towards him as the innocent and âdient Child of a loving Father Further still In order to the obtaiââ ând practising these and all other Virtues and âraces we may put into our Prayers that âod would bestow upon us both natural âarts and supervenient Gifts That he would âake us knowing and wise furnish our underâandings with the Knowledge of many and âf the most excellent things especially spiriâual and more especially that he would diâect us to the Knowledge of the Truth and ârue Goodness of things That we might âot be foolishly led away with things that âre false erroneous vain trifling swelling ând puffing up and much pleasing sometimes âor the present but of little Profit to our Selves or the World which make us little âruitful in good Works to others and conâequently the least acceptable to God Pray âe that God would illuminate our Minds and make us clearly to discern things especially spiritual things such as are Truth and â Goodness the excellent and invaluable effiâcacy of Holiness and all Virtue to make our Selves and the World happy the Mischievousness and consequently Unreasonableness of Sin and the real Contemptibleness of all other Qualities in compare with Holiness and that we might be affected accordingly that is that God would spiritualize our Understandings and Affections Particularly that he would give us to apprehend and understand and consider there is the greatest sincerest constantest Pleasure and Satisfactiâ in a holy virtuous wise and consequentâ godly Life and Temper that is in Imitatiâ of and Obedience to God much naturallâ especially after much use and we know ââ how much by the Influence of the Spirit â God that this will give us great Conâdence and Comfort in the Day of Deathâ Boldness Joy and Triumph in the Day â Judgment when shall be seen so many trembling Knees and amazed Countenances of thâ haughtiest Sinners and finally that it certainly fits us for and leads to a most perfecâ and happy Condition or State of Life hereafter That God would give us I say ofteâ to think of consider apprehend be affected with and feel these and any other Motives to â holy Life Add we further That God would bestowâ upon us a sober considerative advised calââ Mind as a great preparation for Wisdom anâ Virtue Pray we That God would instilâ into us the most generally useful and instrumental Graces of a most ingenuous impartialâ sincere Love of the Truth and more particularly a sincere Love to Christianity as â Systeme of the most certain and useful Doctrines That we might believe most firmly and with a sense of their Excellency Sublimity Nobleness Delightfulness and Usefulness all the things that are therein taught and delivered and most especially those concerning our Tempers Lives and Actions that we may be hearty not superficial Believers And in order to this that we may the more mind and love these things Pray we that we may have a very great Admiration of and Love to the excellent Qualities of our Saviour Jesus Christ his mighty miraculous Power and high Favour with God âay his being united so intimately to God or the Divine Nature his great Wisdom his âncomparable Holiness and Goodness and Virtue in the highest degree particularly that of his Charity and so of all other particular Virtues to us and all Mankind his being so great a Benefactor to us as he hath been in revealing and confirming so many excellent sublime noble and useful Truths and Doctrines to us in going through the most calamitous Life and Death to give us an Example of the most perfect Virtue and Holiness and thereby meriting and procuring for us the Remission and free Pardon of all our Sins or our Justification in case of true Repentance and Amendment in his procuring for us Grace and Assistance to repent amend and be converted which is in some measure afforded to the worst and the most negligent Finally in being the Author of Eternal Life to us by thus bringing us by his Grace and Merits to be good and to be pardoned and consequenntly not to be unmeet to enter into a State of great Perfection and Happiness after Death and the final Judgment of all Flesh of which he shall be the Judge and the Distributer After these may follow the things which for the most part are useful and subservient while we are in this Life and some of them proper thereto to make and keep us good or make us better or any way enable us to do more good to execute our Goodness more immediately or remotely Such as are long Life especially till we come to be good to be converted to repent that we may have the Experience of our own Sincerity and Strength in Goodness be profitable to the World by our good Example as we have been