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A09491	An inuitation vnto prayer, and the practise of piety, directing the way to true happinesse Wherein is principally to be considered, these foure things. 1. What prayer vnto God is. 2. The necessity of it. 3. The profit we receiue by this holy exercise. 4. The maner and vse of it.	Perrott, James, Sir, 1571-1637.	1624 (1624)	STC 19774; ESTC S100356	25,890	144

and in the life to come Amen A prayer to be kept from all vncleannesse of our Lustes O Most eternall and gracious GOD thou art pure and perfect but we are most impure and polluted all the faculties of our soules are full of corruptions and our bodyes are fraught with infirmities those parts of our bodies and of our mindes which should be the seruants of our soules doe draw vs to be slaues to euil affections Our eyes which are ordained to behold contemplate the wonderful workmanship of the world and of all the creatures therein contained do commonly become like vnto sluces and flood-gates to carrie and conuey lust and Concupiscence vnto our harts and our harts which shold be as Clossets to keep thy Commandements are for the most part made the members and instruments of sinne and of Satan This O Lord we confesse is our wofull and wretched condition Yet thou O most mercifull God art able to cleanse vs from these contagions of our vncleane lusts purge vs we beseech thee and we shall be pure keepe vs from inward infections of our owne euill imaginations from outward temptations which lasciuious sights and dalliance● and fleshly prouocations pull vpon vs and that by the assistance of thy holy Spirite when these temptations assalt vs pray vnto thee beseeching thee to be our buckler and our strength in the time of our weaknesse our stay when we are ready to fall and that by thy power wee may resist and repel all the sensuall and fleshly lustes which are in vs and fight against vs. Wee haue no helpe nor no hope but in thee defend vs giue vs the victory and take the glory vnto thy selfe deliuer vs from these noysome lusts and giue vs grace to giue thee praise to whom all honor belongeth So be it good Lord Amen A Prayer before the hearing of the Word preached THy Word O Lord is a light vnto our feete and a Lanterne vnto our paths Thy word preached is the propagation of thy glorious Gospell it is the seed that fructifies knowledge conscience Let it not therefore be as good seede sowen in barren soyle but first clense the weedes and corruptions which growe in the vnfallowed fields of my heart And then most gracious God when thou hast remoued those impediments of faith and feruency make my heart by hearing thy holy word a harbour of sanctitie and sincerity And in this O Lord prepare me to hear to beleeue to receyue retaine and to remember the lessons that shall bee taught out of thy Sacred Word take away in the hearing thereof all drowsinesse distraction and coldnesse of zeale In this I pray not onely for my selfe but for the people in all places professing thy trueth for their profit and for thy glorie Send forth Labourers into thy Vineyard teach them to plant make vs to be plyant in hearing learning and following So shall wee haue sustenance vnto our soules reape the fruites of those fields that thou hast giuen vs and we shall giue vnto thee nothing but what is thine and belongs to thy Maiestie which is all honour glory praise and dominion thorow Iesus Christ our onely Lord Sauiour Amen A Prayer after the hearing of a Sermon MOST mercifull and mighty gouerner of heauen of earth amongst all thy blessings multiplied vpon mankind there is nothing doeth more magnifie thy Maiesty or helpe the infirmities of vs miserable Creatures then the manifestation of our weakenes and wickednesse in the reuelation of both and reconciliation of thy selfe after all our infinite transgressions thorow the suffering of thy Sonne his mediation and the Ministerie of the word preached Of this O Lord we haue bin vnprofitable hearers and learners We haue heard with our eares but yet we haue beene vnprofitable hearers We haue not felt and followed that we haue heard we haue bene told and plainely taught our sinnes but wee haue not amended them nor truly repented for our misdeeds We haue learned somewhat though but little haue performed and practised lesse the fault is ours yet let it not good Lord stand in the way of thy grace to stop from vs good things but as thou hast prouided for vs the word of life and hast conueied it by thy conducter men like our selues the Ministers and Preachers of thy Gospell so graunt that we go not from this exercise of preaching and publishing thy holy word like vnto empty vesselles which whilst they are moued and strucken vpon yeeld some sound but afterwards lying still afford neyther sweetnes sauour nor good liquor O Lord blesse fructifie our hearing make vs not onely hearers but dooers of thy word make it a sauour of life vnto life and not of death vnto death teach vs thereby to amend our liues to increase knowledge and conscience to yeelde comfort in afflictions strength and support in temptations and when we shall depart the world we may carry with vs a testimony of good Consciences that we haue profited by the word haue thereby learned to loue our Brethren to forsake sinne to imbrace righteousnesse to liue and to die well and that by faith in Iesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer before the receiuing of the Lords Supper BLessed Lord wee do not presume to present our selues before thee in the receyuing of this Sacrament celebration of thy Sonnes last Supper as beleeuing we are of our selues worthy to be partakers of thy heauenly banquet For we acknowledge our great greeuous sinnes our manifold mistakings our vnbeleefe vncharitablenesse hardnesse of heart selfe-loue pride and presumption with many other transgressions wherby we are made most vnworthie to come vnto thy heauenly Table Yet O Lord as it is thy holy Ordinance instruct and help vs to do that which may make vs more meete partakers of this spirituall Manna To this end take from vs our corruptions and carelesnesse in thy seruice graunt vs true repentance for our sinnes past for the trespasses that we haue committed against thee and those that professe thy trueth Lord euen now giue mee thy vnworthy seruant being so vnable of my selfe to doe this or any other spirituall duty a right and regenerated heart a sanctified soule purged from former pollutions by thy power and the grace of thy holy Spirite a desire to forgiue all men and to be forgiuen of all men to forsake sinne to follow thy holy Lawes Suffer not Sathan to worke in me his will any more but that as I now come to receyue this Sacrament so I may be a partaker of the benefites of our Sauiours death and suffering wherof this is a symbole that thorow his death sinne may dye in me and thorow his resurrection I may rise to newnesse of life A Prayer after the receiuing of the holy Communion WEE blesse and praise thy holie name O heauenly Father that amongst all thy innumerable benefits thou hast bestowed this is not the least but greatest mercie vppon mankinde to send thy Sonne our Sauiour

distrust diffidence of thy power or mercy that so through thy onely and all-able assistance I may bee made of a sinfull soule though not a perfect yet an acceptable worshipper of thee my Soueraigne Lord and onely Sauiour Short Admonitions concerning the premises I Shall desire the charitable viewer of these imperfect rules concerning prayer to conceiue that they are not set downe either to informe the learned or any that are well exercised in prayer But to giue some light vnto such as are young simple ignorant or not much vsed to prayer Neither should any of them bee tied onely to these words or formes heere set downe but it is in their choise to take the sence of the same so farre as they shall finde it to further their good and godly indeauours in prayer And if GOD shall indue them with better abilities they may vse them ought to be thankfull for that heauenly talent they haue and not to hide or to abuse it A prayer for deuotion in prayer SInce all good gifts comes from thee our gracious God the author of all goodnes grant vs thy speciall sauing grace of sanctified feruent prayer in frequent and zealous supplications Wee haue it not of our selues we seeke it of thee nether can wee seeke it without thou first send the motions thereof into our hearts and mindes prepare vs therefore for this holy duty grant vs the practice and power of it before we come to it touch our hearts with the remembrance of our sinnes and repentance for the same Call to our memorie and meditations how slowe wee haue beene to present our selues to thy presence by prayer how cold wee are in deuotion how distracted in our thoughts and how full of fantasies and of fond imaginations which draw our zeale and deuotion from thee even in the time of praier when our thoughts should bee pure and our hearts onely setled vpon thy seruice so that in stead of bringing a blessing we bring iust curses to our selues by these our more formall then faithfull praiers O Lord therefore infuse grace into our hearts kindle zeale fortifie our faith let not our secure and sensuall seruice of thee increase more of our abounding sinnes nor adde more to thy deserued anger but be thou in the middest of vs by thy assisting holy Spirit When wee lift vp our hands lift thou vppe our hearts vnto thee when we speake vnto thee speake thou peace vnto our Consciences giue vs words to vtter faith to beleeue feruencie in our prayers an earnest desire to abandon all euil affections and loose carriage of our cogitations and so closely to settle our soules vnto thy seruice When we come to make our supplications before thy Maiesty let this instant time of prayer whilest we now speake bee the beginning of our better seruice and so continuing in the same with humility constancy and fauour thou maiest haue the honour and wee the benefit To thee bee giuen all honour and glory now and all times Amen Morning prayer in a familie O Lord God light of lights thou that giuest light vnto our soules and to our bodies thou that hast brought vs from the darknesse of this night to see the comfortable light of this day bring vs from the darknesse of ignorance and of sinne and from the corrupting of our soules wherein wee haue liued both day and night As thou hast raised vs from our rests to follow our callings so raise vs from security sloath dulnesse distraction lust couetousnes selfe-conceites pride and all other corrupt affections which carry vs headlong after the vaine imaginations of our owne harts and euill affections Good Lord when we go abroad about our worldly affaires let not our mindes bee led altogether from heauenly meditations but let thy blessed Spirit be our motioner to put vs in minde of the shortnesse and vncertainty of our liues let vs haue before our thoughts often the sinnes wee haue committed the good wee might haue done and haue omitted the time wee haue mispent either in doing no good at all or in doing that is euill And this good Lord teach vs to tell our selues and our owne soules not with wordes onely comming from the lippes but with inward sighs and groanes from the heart and when through the assistance of thy holy Spirit thou hast made vs to search our sins and to smite our hearts then blesse thou the works of our hands in all our good endeauours and as by the same our store doth encrease our thankfulnes to thee may encrease As thy blessings are bestowed so our prayers praises may bee rendred and redoubled At our going out in our rest trauaile and returne bee thou with vs by the blessing and assistance of thy holy Spirit let this day good Lord bee a beginning and a new birth day of faith repentance for our sinnes and of reconciliation to thy Maiesty that so thou mayest receiue vs to mercy Let al the rest of our dayes be an amendment of our sinfull liues past Blesse good Lord thy Church our King his Realmes with faith truth peace and prosperitie guide the rest of the States of this land in their seuerall conditions callings that both they and we may maintaine thy truth set forth thy glory keepe a good conscience to our selues shew charity one vnto another So wee may liue in thy feare dye in thy fauour and after this mortall life is ended we may enioy an immortall life with thee in heauen there to magnifie praise and glorifie thy most glorious Name world without end Amen A Morning Prayer to be vsed in priuate THis day our good God appearing and thy mercies appearing by our deliuerance from dangers this night past and in the ordaining of dayes and of all thy other workes what praises shall we render for thy workes of Creation and of preseruation If we should not praise thee yet one day telleth another and one night certifieth another but I most sinnefull soule haue neyther expressed nor felte what belongs to the visible workes of thy inuisible Maiesty neither can I comprehend it in thy workes and made known by thy reuealed word for thy Maiesty is so great thy Wisedom so vnserchable and thy Word so deepe that I am not able to conceiue them It sufficeth great God vnto thee that art al-sufficient in thy selfe to expresse thy self vnto vs sinners in such sort as we are able to apprehend thee And I one of the least and vnworthiest seruants doe confesse my selfe to be a most greeuous sinner in thought word and deede I haue followed mine owne wicked fantasies I haue broken thy commandements and betrayed mine owne soule yet my hope is in thy mercie and therefore in the beginning of this day I beginne my prayers vnto thee teach me therefore to pray that I may this day and the rest of my life call vpon thee and praise thee through the assistance of thy power which graunt vs good Lord. 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disgraces IT is iust with thee O Lord and I haue iustly deserued that thou shouldest send me some wants and small disgraces after thou hast giuen me prosperitie plenty and sufficiencie when not vsing thy blessings well and neglecting the meanes thou hast affoorded for my maintainance I am faln from that I had which was sufficient to want some things for my necessary vse And yet my wants are not so great as my sinnes are or as they haue deserued Since then howsoeuer my estate or my estimation is in this world I do beseech thee graunt me patience to beare this or whatsoeuer crosse it pleaseth thee to lay vpon mee and to acknowledge that I my selfe am the cause of it And so when thou hast brought me home vnto thy self by the acknowledgement of my selfe and of my sinnes comfort me againe according to thy eternall wisedome that I bee neyther dismaide with aduersitie or puffed vp with prosperity but if it be thy good pleasure that pouerty shall still pursue mee prepare me with patience to beare this crosse though hard for flesh and blood yet once obtaining the victorie by thy sole strength ouer this inward enemy my infirmities sticking closest vnto me I may possesse my soul in peace and whatsoeuer becomes of my worldly estate the spiritual state of my soul may be safe I saued thorow thy abundant mercies Amen A Prayer in time of sicknesse MOst gracious Father we confesse and wee are driuen to confesse wee haue deserued plagues pestilence and other sicknesses whereto we are subiect of our selues aswell by the naturall infection of our bodies whereby one taketh contagion from another as by our spirituall pollutions whereby our sinnes being the inward festring sores doe ascend vnto the Tribunall in heauen calling and crying for vengeance on the earth on the sonnes of men the inhabitants and Rulers of the earth The effects of this good Lord we haue often and visibly seene though wee doe not well consider the cause Wee feele the stroke but do not see the hand that strikes neither do we well weigh what moues that hand to bee stretched out agaynst vs. Now the sicknesse thou hast sent vs makes vs to looke somewhat about vs and to feel that which our flesh can easily find paine anguish aches torments comming from the body to the mind But O Lord we are not so sensible of that which concernes the sicknesse of the soule Yet in this time of our visitation whilest paine and perill doth oppresse vs teach vs to take this as an information of our infirmities heale vs good Lord inwardly in the diseases of our soules and keepe vs from those corruptions of our naturall affections which draws vs vnto fond desires with false and foolish appetites the procurers of these our bodily diseases O Lord yet cleanse vs within from our sins and then we shal be cured from our corporall sicknes but if it be thy blessed will to continue this Contagion yet comfort and support vs during the time of sicknesse Make thou good Lord our beddes and bodies such as may make vs able to vndergo our sickenesse comfort vs with the inward consolation of thy holy Spirit when cold heat coniunction or succession of either comes then O Lord in the time of extremity whilest Na●u●e is distempred our bodi●s dis●ased our minds distracted betwixt feare of death danger of our estate care of our children friends kindr●d and family wee may y●t receyue a sweet repose from the influence of thy holy Spirit to rest content with thy good will and pleasure with a reference and relying on the same for resolution of life or of death So may wee by thy assistance say still and peaceably vnto thee in the sincerity of our owne soules We are heere now good Lord at thy disposing do with vs what thou wilt Only make vs able to bear our owne infirmities and thy visitations with faith help vs in the time of this wea●nesse and danger of this disease if thou giue life graunt amendment of life If thou appoint death grant vs preparation for our dissolution Repentance for our sinnes and a ioyfull assurance of thy mercies the bodie is weake the flesh trem●les the Spirit is troubled O thou the giuer of life and the disposer of death whē sense is dull or distracted infuse thy Spirit to temper it and to turne vs vnto thee dispose our harts so that whither life or death do come they may bee alike welcome vnto vs and we may entertaine either according to thy good wil and pleasure Arme vs against the feare of death if life be graunted graunt wee may leade a new life setting forth thy glory If death be designed let the period of this life bee finished in thy praises lift vp our hearts at the last gaspe And now at this instant plant in my heart faith to beleeue in thy sauing health feruencie to pray for it courage to endure the conflicts of sickenesse and of sinne and in the end a blessed death and a ioyfull resurrection thorow Iesus Christ our Lord Amen A prayer for knowledge THou O great and gracious God who art the light of our liues and the Conseruer of all sauing knowledge enlighten our vnderstanding with the true knowledge of thee of our selues and of the wayes wherein we should walke And although we can neuer in this world knowe thee as thou art being inuisible infinit in goodnesse and in greatnes yet giue vs such and so much knowledge of thee as our capacities can comprehend and thy will is to reueale Let vs attaine to so much knowledge as to see thy wonders in thy works and thy good pleasure reuealed in thy word if that which thou hast not reuealed of thy selfe let vs bee satisfied with what thou hast reuealed in thy word Of the first let our naturall inquisition of thy supernaturall power weaken or preiudice our faith And in that knowledge which thy word deliuereth let vs not be content with a weake and meane measure but couet to come vnto that knowledg which may strengthen our faith informe our consciences and reforme our liues In the knowledge of our selues teach vs to consider and know our owne weaknesse and wickednesse our frailtie and manifold infirmities our sinnes and transgressions against thy holy and heauenly Maiesty For the knowledge of our owne wayes grant vs warinesse and watchfulnes to see and finde out our faylings in the keeping of thy Commandements our feare plainly to professe thy truth thorow doubt of danger scoffe or losse the smal account we make of thy good things wee leaue vndone or do amis of the euill wee haue committed And when good Lord thou hast rightly instructed vs in the knowledg of thee by thy works and word of our selues in finding and confessing our sinnes and of our owne wayes by acknowledging them to be wandering by-paths then bring vs home vnto thee to pray vnto thee and praise thee in this life