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Forms of prayer for every day in the week, morning and evening composed for the use of private families / by John Meriton ...
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Meriton, John, 1636-1704.
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wherein we must give an account of our Stewardship and Luk. 16. 2. be no longer Stewards We acknowledge O Lord that we are guilty Sinners unable to help our selves and unworthy that thou shouldst help us our own consciences condemn us and thou mightest 1 John 3. 20 much more condemn us for thou knowest more by us than we do by our selves and art greater than our consciences But O God be merciful to us and spare us in the multitude of thy tender compassions Thou that hast promised pardon and forgiveness to all repenting Sinners work in us we beseech thee a serious and unfeigned repentance and let us thereby obtain remission of Sins And by a true and lively faith in our Lord Rom. 3. 24 25. Jesus Christ whom thou hast set sorth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood justifie us freely by thy Grace and let not any of our sins be charged upon us to our condemnation But let us by his Merits and Righteousness be so delivered from the guilt of them that we may serve thee in righteousness Luk. 1. 75. and holiness before thee all the days of our life And grant that as Christ dyed for us that were dead in sin and under a sentence of death for it we may not henceforth live unto our selves but unto him which 2 Cor. 5. 15. dyed for us and rose again Guide our Feet into those ways of righteousness and peace temperance and sobriety mercy meekness and charity that are well-pleasing to thee and guard us against the temptations of the World the Devil and our own naughty Hearts that we never depart from them Let a continued sense of thine Omnipresence and all-seeing Eye make us upright and sincere in the discharge of every duty careful and vigilant for the avoiding of every sin firm and constant in the resisting every temptation let us so set thee alway before us that thou being at our right hand Psal 16. 8. we may not be moved Heb. 13. 9. Keep us stedfast in thy truth and when many are carryed about with divers and strange Col. 2. 7. doctrines let us be more and more rooted and stablished in the faith by bringing forth the fruits of righteousness And 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. add to our faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity v. 8. that these things being in us we may not be barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ but an entrance may be ministred v. 11. unto us abundantly into his everlasting Kingdom Let the whole race of mankind find favour in thine eyes and let the glorious light of the Luk. 1. 79. Gospel of Salvation shine upon them that sit in darkness and the regions of the shadow of death Let the people praise Psal 67. 3. thee O God let all the people praise thee call home the Jews thine ancient people accomplish the promised fulness of the Gentiles that the whole Church may be in Christ as one Sheepfold under one Shepherd O be gracious and favourable unto Sion and build up the decayed and ruinous Walls of thy Jerusalem Free thy Church from all Heresie Prophaness Schism Superstition and Idolatry and whatever is displeasing in thy sight and a blemish of the blessed Gospel of God her Saviour Keep the Vineyard which thy right hand hath planted from all its enemies that would pull up the Hedges thereof and lay it waste water Isa 27. 3. it every moment lest any hurt it keep it night and day Bless these Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland forgive those many and crying Sins that might make us desolate without Inhabitants and let every one of us that have added to the great weight of wickedness and made it heavy enough to sink us into utter ruine turn from the evil of our ways and by an hearty repentance and real reformation stand in the gap and stop those Judgments that are gone forth against us and entering in at our wide breaches to destroy us Amend us by thy just severities and merciful salvations and let both thy punishments and preservations of us lead us into the ways of righteousness Bless with thy richest blessings our Sovereign Lord the King preserve him as thou hast done wonderfully heretofore from the malice and subtlety the mischievous Plots and Combinations of his Enemies and let him so remember the deep distress out of which thou hast drawn him and the high authority wherein thou hast placed him that in all his actions designs he may promote thy honour and glory and all 1 Tim. 2. 2. that are under him may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty Let the Bishops and Pastors of thy Church further truth and holiness by their life and Doctrine and civil Magistrates discountenance and suppress all wickedness and encourage virtue and goodness and not bear the Sword in vain And let all from the highest to the lowest so carry themselves as that thou mayest be glorified true Religion advanced the Gospel of Christ honoured and Truth and Peace may be established among us Let all that are Sick pained or impoverished distressed either in Body or Mind find thy gracious hand to sweeten and sanctifie their Afflictions and in thy good time to deliver from them Bless us O our God that are here before thee direct assist and prosper us in all that we this day set our hand unto and let us not undertake any business but what thou hast warranted by the rules of Righteousness and upon which we may desire and expect thy blessing Guide us by thy Counsel till Psal 73. 24. thou bring us to thy Glory by Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour who in compassion to our Infirmities hath taught us thus to pray OVr Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our Trespasses As we forgive them that Trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from Evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen Monday Evening BLessed and holy Lord God who madest all things by thy Power and rulest all things by thy Providence and fillest all places by thy presence art about our Bed and about Psal 139. 3. our Path and spyest out all our Ways we thy poor Creatures most heartily beseech thee that thou wouldest fill every one of our hearts with an awful sense of thee and an humble sincerity in our approaches to thee that laying aside all guile and hypocrisie we may draw near thee Heb. 10. 22. with a true heart and worship thee that desirest truth in the in Joh. 4. 24. ward
successful Enterprizes let all subordinate Authority be exercised to the beating down of Vice and the exaltation of Religion and Righteousness and dispose all that are under Authority to a pious obedience unto thee a peaceable subjection to them that thou hast set over them not only for wrath but for conscience Rom. 13. 5. sake and to mutual kindness and a brotherly love of one another We come unto thee holy Father for a blessing upon our selves beseeching thee to take our Bodies and Souls our Habitation and Possessions into the safe custody of thy watchful Providence that no evil befal Psal 91. 10. us nor any plague come nigh our dwelling repair the decays of our frail Bodies by a quiet and refreshing rest and let us lay out our strength and vigour in thy service to thy praise and honour and the giving up our account with joy at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in whom as the High Priest of our Profession we offer up all our Prayers and Praises and through whom alone we hope to be heard and accepted when praying we say OVr Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our Trespasses As we forgive them that Trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from Evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen Friday Morning O Lord the great and holy Dan. 9. 4. God that keepest Covenant and Mercy to them that Psal 145. 18. love thee and art nigh to all that call upon thee in truth and sincerity though thou hast thousands of holy and blessed Spirits and ten thousand times ten thousands dayly Ministring about thy Throne and art not at all better'd by their pure and spotless Services yet thou hast gracious and compassionate regards to the Prayers of weak and sinful Creatures that dwell in Houses of Clay thou openest thine Eyes to take knowledge of their condition bowest thine Ear to hearken to their Cryes movest thy Bowels to pity their infirmities and stretchest forth thine hand to relieve their wants We poor Creatures and guilty Sinners are here fallen down at thy Footstool adoring thine infinite perfections of holiness and wisdom power truth and goodness and beseeching thee mercifully to look upon our follies and frailties to supply our bodily and spiritual necessities to lift up the light of thy countenance upon us and turn away thy Face from our deserts of vengeance to answer 〈◊〉 which purposes we have none in Heaven Psal 73. 25. but thee none in Earth that our Souls can desire in comparison of thee We dare not we confess look up to Heaven with any confidence of being accepted for our own worthiness as being conscious that we have grievously offended that holy just and Almighty Majesty that is there seated on the Throne of his Glory nor are we worthy to tread upon the Earth or injoy the fruits and benefits of it where we have acted our wickednesses in the sight of Heaven We were not only conceived in Sin and brought forth in Iniquity but we have conceived Sin and brought forth Iniquity Num. 32. 14 and are risen up in our Fathers stead a generation of sinful men to kindle and in crease the anger of the Lord against us We have followed after our own imaginations and fulfilled the motions of our own Wills which have been opposite and contrary to the declarations of thine though there hath been the greatest reason we should receive Law from thy Mouth as our Almighty Creator Sovereign Lord and merciful Redeemer How barren and unfruitful have we been in thy Vineyard though thou hast caused the Clouds to drop down their moisture upon us and watered us with the plentiful showers of thy Word and the fructifying dew of thy holy Spirit that should have made us fruitful in all good works How have we neglected the Seasons of Grace And when thou hast called us to a speedy and present repentance the answer of our hearts hath been we will repent to morrow as if we could live as long as we listed and had power in our selves to turn to thee when we listed We bewail before thee the blindness of our understandings the stubbornness of our wills the vanity of our thoughts the earthliness of our affections we have hated what thou lovest and loved what thou hatest and the good things which thou hast allowed us to love moderately and in subordination to thee we have followed with eager and unbounded appetites and embraced with our highest and best love we have not carryed our selves as it becomes those that are Strangers and Pilgrims upon the Earth and profess to seek a better heavenly Countrey but lived as if we were at home and expected nothing better than what is to be here injoyed as if the happiness of this Life would never end and that of the next would never begin O Lord be merciful to us and in the multitude of thy tender mercies be reconciled to us through thy Son and blot out all our Iniquities give us heartily to repent of all our forepast Sins and Follies and so to receive Christ Jesus the Lord as Col. 2. 6. to walk in him And whatever thou denyest us grant us a full pardon through our dear and all-sufficient Redeemer whom thou hast set forth to be a Propitiation Rom. 3. 25. through Faith in his Blood And let the time past of our 1 Pet. 4. 3. Lives suffice to have wrought the wills of the flesh judging that Christ dyed for us that we 2 Cor. 5. 15. should not henceforth live unto our selves but unto him which dyed for us and rose again Col. 1. 10. help us to walk worthy of thee unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God give us we pray thee a Psal 111. 10 good understanding not only to know but to do thy Commandments and by growing 2 Pet. 3. 18. in Grace let us increase the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Phil. 4. 8. Whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise let us think on and follow these things and never be slothful in the weighty matters of thine honour and the everlasting interest and happiness of our Souls but diligently follow those that have been followers of thee and have Heb. 6. 12. through faith and patience inherited the promises And because we are weak in our selves and insufficient to perform our duty to subdue our lusts to improve our blessings or bear our burdens to resist and conquer our spiritual enemies to stand our ground in the