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A66029	A discourse concerning the gift of prayer shewing what it is, wherein it consists, and how far it is attainable by industry, with divers useful and proper directions to that purpose, both in respect of matter, method, and expression / by John Wilkins, D.D. ; whereunto may be added Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concerning the gift of preaching by the same authour.	Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.	1653 (1653)	Wing W2180; ESTC R7133	129,988	242

When we are weary of the Sabbath and wish it were gone and cannot call it a delight And so for extraordinary dayes lawfully set apart for solemn Feasts Fasts Publike Private When we mispend our occasional Festivals altogether in outward carnall mirth without those inward spiritual duties of love and thankfulnesse which God requires not keeping them holy unto the Lord as we ought to do Not thereby taking occasion to enlarge our bounty to our poor brethren And so for dayes of humiliation which are called Sabbaths in Scripture Our neglect of these when there is any special occasion for them either publike or private our insensiblenesse of dangers and judgements like the old world keeping on in the road of our secular employments eating and drinking buying and selling c. putting far away the evill day chanting to the sound of the Viol drinking wine in bowls but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph Not sighing and weeping for the abominations that are committed in the midst of us When we do observe these dayes we are ready to rest our selves in bodily abstinence outward mortification hanging down the heads sad countenances without inward afflicting of the soul Not breaking bruising renting of our hearts Refraining not our feet but loving to wander Not turning from all our evil wayes and the violence in our hands CHAP. XI Sins against the second Table THe second Table doth enjoyn the duties of Charity and Justice towards our neighbour Against this we sin when we do not love our neighbours with such true unfeigned love as our selves when we do not deal so with others as we desire they should deal with us when we do not pray for them and endeavour their good as our own In the fifth Commandment are forbidden the Vices which concerne the relations of Superiours Inferiours So that we sin against this by not behaving our selves answerably to our several relations Not modestly and gravely to our Inferiours going before them in an example of good life Not humbly and dutifully to our Superiours not submitting to them for conscience sake as being ordained of God Not thankfully to our Benefactors either not remembring or not acknowledging or not esteeming or not requiting them as we might Subject to envy and extenuate those special gifts of others whereby they have attained any preheminence above our selves Hitherto likewise appertain the vices which do more particularly concern the relations of Parents Not educating instructing chastising their children so carefully Not providing and praying for them as they should Children Not loving and reverencing their Parents not submitting to them not being so thankful towards them as they might Husband Not behaving himself as a Head to govern instruct and cherish his wife Wife By being irreverent unquiet not an helper but an hinderer of her Husbands good Masters Not careful in directing governing punishing rewarding their servants Servants Disobedient slothful unfaithful answering again murmuring Aged Not sober and grave not wise and exemplary in their carriage Younger Irreverent towards the persons of the Ancient neglecting of their good counsels and examples Superiours in gifts whether inward of the minde or outward of the estate in respect of Nobility Riches c. abusing of their gifts unto scorn pride oppression Not doing so much good as the advantage of their abilities and places does require Inferiours Either too much disdaining or too much flattering those above them Magistrates Want of diligence and uprightnesse in the discharge of their places Subjects Not so respective serviceable submissive as they should Teachers Negligent in taking all occasions of instructing reforming others by Counsel Example Learners Not teachable inquisitive c. The sixth Commandment doth forbid all those sins which are against the health and welfare of our own or our Neighbours Bodies Souls So that we sin against this not only by outward acts of violence but also by an aptnesse to entertain prejudices and misconceits against others By rash immoderate anger injurious revengeful thoughts secret grudges hatred and implacablenesse By failing in those particulars which concern the maintenance of mutual peace and friendship amongst one another By haughty insolent carriage Reviling scoffing provoking speeches Being senselesse and hard-hearted in the miseries of our brethren not weeping with them that weep not being heartily affected at those publick evils wherein we our selves are not more immediately and particularly concerned By wounding and murthering the souls of others through scandal Active misguiding them Passive grieving them when we encourage them in their evil courses either by Provocation Counsel Example Connivance By the levity and unprofitablenesse of conversing amongst others when we do not labour to stirre them up unto holinesse according to our several opportunities and relations Not instructing the ignorant comforting the weak admonishing exhorting encouraging others unto well-doing By neglecting our own bodily health and welfare through intemperance immoderate passions c. By being carelesse of our own souls not providing for the dayes of death and judgement but thrusting them farre from us bidding those dayes care for themselves By quenching and suppressing those holy motions that are at any time suggested unto our hearts preferring the base things of this world before those great matters that concern eternity The seventh Commandment does forbid all kindes of uncleannesse both of body and soul together with the means and signes of it Against this we sin not only by committing any outward act of uncleannesse either by our selves or with others But also By the Adultery of the heart by having our minds full of unchast desires by cherishing in our selves any lustful unlawful affection By delighting our thoughts in the fancy and speculation of those lusts which we have not opportunity to act When we do not labour to quench our fleshly concupiscence by vigilancy over our own hearts and wayes by avoiding all evil company and such other occasions as may inflame us when we are not moderate in our delights modest in our carriages temperate in our diet diligent and painful in our callings When our eyes are full of adultery when our eares are willingly open to filthy and uncleane communication when our tongues are given to rotten and unsavory speeches When we are not wary and circumspect in avoiding all suspitions and appearances of this evil The eighth Commandment does forbid all those vices which do concerne our own or our neighbours outward estate as Theft Oppression Deceit Sacriledge Usury Bribery Prodigality We offend against this not only by those external acts of theft and injustice which humane law does take notice of but also By the Love of money which is the root of all evil by being discontent at our estates greedy of gain full of restlesse and insatiable desires after these earthly profits When we are not so strict and conscionable in the means of getting wealth either negligent and idle

After much consideration and debate with our own hearts Against our own experience and observation of many judgements that have been inflicted upon such a sinne Against many examples much patience the means of remedy in which respects the sins of men are much worse then those of the devil for he never sinned against example being the first offender nor against patience being immediately upon the first offence cast into hell nor against remedy there being no possible means allowed him for his recovery Out of base ingratitude against the frequent and favourable motions of the blessed Spirit Despising the riches of Gods goodnesse and forbearance and long-suffering whereby we should have been led to repentance After frequent relapses which do multiply the guilt of sin like the increase of figures though the first fault be but as one yet the second relapse makes it as ten the third as an hundred the next as a thousand and so on according to this multiplied proportion Out of presumption and forestalling of pardon making the mercy of God to lead us unto sin Out of much obduratenesse and pertinacy casting his laws behinde our backs and hating to be reformed Drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with cart-ropes Treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath as if we would weary God with our iniquities with much forwardnesse and constancy notwithstanding the great trouble and difficulty there hath been in the service of sin without any or with very small temptation with much cheerfulnesse and delight as if there had been pleasure in destruction with much eagernesse and desire drinking inquity like water working all uncleannesse with greedinesse with an high hand as if we would reproach the Lord refusing to return unto him with mad impudence provoking God to his Face as if we were stronger then he 7. The Time when Not only in our childehood but in our man-hood not only when we sate in darknesse in the dayes of our unregeneracy but since he hath called us into his marvellous light since the glorious Gospel hath shined into our hearts having perhaps but lately suffered under such an affliction and received such a special deliverance upon which we did renew our Covenant with God by fresh resolutions of strict and circumspect walking Each of these circumstances may be otherwise more largely amplified according to the several natures of those sins to which they are applied in our confessions but by that which hath been already said it may sufficiently appear how the distinct understanding and consideration of them may be very useful in this businesse CHAP. XIV Of our acknowledging the punishments that are due to sin WHen we have thus acknowledged our sins by an Enumeration and Aggravation of them we are in the next place to own the punishments that are due unto them thereby the better to affect us with sorrow and indignation at those evil courses which will expose us to so many fearful dangers That thus remembring our doings which were not good we may loath our selves for our abominations Acknowledging that we are not worthy the least of his mercies or truth that he hath shewed unto us Desiring to abhorre our selves and repent in dust and ashes Thus the Prodigal in his submission to his father first he acknowledges his offence I have sinned against heaven and against thee and then he ownes the punishment And am no more worthy to be called thy son There being a natural consequence betwixt these two For if God spared not the Angels that sinned but delivered them into chaines of darknesse to be reserved unto judgement if he spared not the old world but brought a flood upon them if the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were turned into ashes being condemned unto a dreadfull overthrow that they might be examples to those that after should live ungodly if God spared not the natural branches but cut them off for their disobedience and unbelief we may certainly then conclude that though sentence against other evill works be not executed speedily yet they shall not go unpunished But evill shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him And therefore besides the confession of our sins it is also requisite that we own and acknowledge the punishments that are due unto us for them Now these punishments are either External Internal Eternal 1. The External are those that concern the outward man either in Body Friends Name Estate 1. In our Bodies 'T were but justice if God should deprive us of our health if he should smite us with a consumption and a feaver with an inflammation and an extream burning with the botch of Egypt with the Emrods and with the Leprosie whereof we cannot be cured if he should send upon us sore sicknesses and of long continuance if he should suffer us with Job to be so wholly overspread with sores that we should become loathsome to our own selves That we should chuse strangling and death rather then life It were but justice if he should strike us blinde or deaf or lame if he should take from us those senses by which we have so much dishonoured and provoked him if he should deprive us of those limbs and members which we have used as instruments of sin and weapons of unrighteousnesse 2. In respect of our Friends We might justly expect that God should cast us into a forlorn destitute condition when there should be none to relieve or pitty us He might take from us the help and comfort of our Friends either turning their hearts against us or depriving us of them by death 3. In regard of our Names and Credit He might give us over to those notorious scandalous censures by which we should be made ashamed to live and afraid to die He might justly make us an astonishment and a proverb and a by-word amongst all Nations To be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us He might blot out our names from under heaven 4. For our Estates If God should lay judgement to the line and righteousnes to the plummet he might number every one of us to the sword and to captivity and to ruine Depriving us of our liberty peace plenty It were but justice if he should suffer us to be shut up in some prison or dungeon where we could not enjoy the mercies that we possesse If he should lead us into captivity sell us unto some cruell slavery and bondage Scatter us abroad amongst all the Kingdoms of the earth Causing us to wander about in sheep-skins and goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented Being dispersed in the deserts and mountains in dens and caves of the earth If he should take from us that peace quietness comfort which we have formnrly enjoyed filling us with confusion and trouble giving us over to the rage and malice of our enemies Causing the Sun to go

and way That our meeting together may prove for the better and not for the worse That we may after the hearing of it digest and settle it in our mindes by prayer meditation conference practice Expressing the power of it in our lives in all well-pleasing conversation and godlinesse Having our fruit unto holinesse that our ends may be everlasting life That he would prosper unto us the precious seed sown amongst us that neither the fowls of the aire devoure it nor the thornes choak it but that it may sinke down into our hearts and spring up in our conversations bringing forth in us the fruit of repentance and amendment of life that it may be effectual for the subduing of our sins the strengthning of our graces Transforming us daily into his Image from glory to glory That we may lead our lives in some measure answerably to the knowledge and means we have had as considering that to whom much is given of them much will be required That we may not receive his grace in vain Not being forgetful hearers but doers of the word That we may be able to say by experience It is good for us to be here and to wait upon God in his Ordinances That we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That he would lead us forward to perfection guiding us by his grace and after bringing us to his glory that in this life beholding his face in righteousnesse when we awake up in the resurrection we may be fully satisfied with his Image 3. Under this Commandment likewise are comprehended the duties that concern our reverent esteem and use of the Sacraments 1. For that of Baptisme That we may be truly sensible of the free mercy of God in making a gracious Covenant to us and our posterity and condescending so far unto our humane frailties as to afford us outward visible signes and seals of this Covenant to present that to our senses which ought to be apprehended by our faith That we may more frequently consider and esteem of this singular prerogative of our being actually admitted into his family and having his name put upon us That therefore we may resign up our selves wholly unto his good pleasure chusing him to be our Governour and our portion for ever that we may be more careful in observing that solemne Covenant which our Baptisme did engage us unto To forsake the Devill and all his works the vanities and lusts of the world and to continue faithfull in our service to him That this Ordinance may not be unto us onely an outward washing away of the filth of the flesh but the laver of regeneration working in us a good conscience towards God and may effctually seal unto us our adoption remission of sins and eternall life with all those promises that are contained in the Covenant of Grace that as we are received into the bosome of the visible Church and distinguished from those that are without so we may labour to walk as becomes this relation that the body of sin may be destroyed in us and his Image may be renued in us daily That we may serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our lives 2. For the Lords Supper That he would continue unto us our liberty unto that precious Ordinance raising our hearts to an higher esteem and love of it Quickening us to a more frequent attendance upon him in it with fervency and delight That he would prepare us for it assist us in it and make it effectual to us afterwards That he would furnish us with all those graces which may make us worthy Communicants at his holy Table Affecting our hearts with an holy awe and reverence upon our neer approaching unto him in this solemn Ordinance left we should be found amongst the guests at his Table without having the wedding garment That we may after a more special manner stirre up in our selves the graces of his holy Spirit impartially examining the condition of our own hearts how we stand to him in regard of knowledge repentance faith to men in respect of our love and chariity that we may renew our Covenant with him by fresh resolutions of strict and circumspect walking and that he would make good his Covenant with us in taking from us the guilt and power of our sins and in giving unto us a new nature with all those other priviledges that were purchased for us by the death of Christ which is herein represented At the receiving of this Sacrament that he would inable us to behave our selves with reverence and true devotion to use it as a sacrifice of praise unto him a memorial of Christs death for us and a means to confirme our faith in him That as we do by our senses receive the common element of bread and wine to our corporal nourishment so we may by our faith receive the body and blood of Christ to our spititual nourishment that he may live in us and we in him that this may renew in our thoughts the remembrance of Christs Death and Passion for us and our own duty of love and obedience to him that it may be a means to weaken our corruptions to strengthen our graces to renew us in the spirit of our mindes according to the Image of him that created us That we may afterwards labour to feel the benefit of it in our lives and conscionably to perform all those good resolutions which in the time of our preparation we have purposed and promised That we may be careful to examine our improvement by it in respect of growth in grace power against corruption comfort and inlargement of heart labouring to walk worthy of the grace of God herein profered and represented as becomes those who have received so great pledges of salvation CHAP. XX. Of the duties required in the third and fourth Commandment THe third Commandment does enjoyn the sanctifying of Gods Name By this we are directed to pray that he would enable us to bear a reverent and high esteem unto all his glorious Titles and Attributes his holy Word the Religion we professe his mighty works That we may fear that glorious and fearful name the Lord our God that we may sanctifie the Lord God in our hearts being more careful to observe and meditate upon his holy Attributes and Titles more solemn and reverent in mentioning his names and word upon every good occasion That we may be more conscionable in observing all those good promises and resolutions which we have made That we may walk worthy of that vocation wherwith we are called labouring by an holy life to adorn our profession and bring glory to his name That we may be blamelesse and harmlesse the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation amongst whom we may shine as lights in the world That he

not persecute us with his tempests and make us afraid with his stormes nor sweep us away with a generall deluge as he did the old world 2. For visiting the earth and watering it and greatly enriching it with the river of God providing for the corn setling the furrows thereof and making it soft with showers and blessing the springing thereof so that the pastures are cloathed with flocks and the vallies are covered over with corn for that he hath sent us a plentiful rain whereby he hath confirmed and refreshed his inheritance when it was weary 3. For healthful seasons that he hath delivered us from the noysome Pestilence that walketh in darkness and from the destruction that walketh at noon-day so that no evil doth befall us nor any plague come nigh our dwellings but hath satisfied us with long life and shewed us his salvation That he hath not made the Land to spue out her inhabitants CHAP. XXVIII Of the kindes of spiritual mercies to be enumerated THese Temporal favours which we ought thus to enumerate though they are very excellent in themselves and far beyond our deserts yet are common with us to Hypocrites and such as shall hereafter be damned and therefore 't is requisite that we should after a more especial manner magnifie his glorious name for those spiritual mercies that concern our eternity Chiefly for the Lord Jesus Christ the author and finisher of our faith the fountain of all the other mercies which we enjoy For his Birth Incarnation Sufferings Death Resurrection Ascension Intercession with all those unspeakable benefits that we receive by them for blessing us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. More particularly for those remarkable effects of his love and merits in our 1. Election For that God hath predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself accordng to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace whereby he hath made us accepted in the beloved and hath from the beginning chosen us to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and beliefe of the truth He might have designed us for vessels of wrath as he did the fallen Angels and then we had been eternally undone without all possible remedy There was nothing to move him in us when we lay altogether in the general heap of mankind It was his own free grace and bounty that made him to take delight in us to chuse us out from the rest and to sever us from those many thousands in the world who shall perish everlastingly 2. Redemption For that incomprehensible miracle of his wisdome and mercy in the contrivance of our redemption by the death of Christ. For he hath redeemed us by the precious blood of his dear Son who is the Image of the invisible God the first-born of every creature who gave himself a ransome for all 3. Vocation That he hath called us by the Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ And that with an holy calling not according to our own works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began 4. Justification For pardoning our sins the least of which would have been enough to have undone us to all eternity For that he hath forgiven our trespasses blotting out the hand-writing of Ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to the crosse For the remission of our sins through the blood of Christ according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us in all wisdome and prudence 5. Sanctification For renuing upon our souls in any measure the blessed Image of the Lord Jesus Christ the least glimpse whereof is infinitely more worth then the whole world For that he hath changed our vile natures and made us partakers of the divine nature Of strangers and forreigners raising us up to be fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God Making us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light delivering us from the power of darknesse and translating us into the Kingdom of his dear Son And because our Sanctification is considerable both according to the Parts Means of it therefore it may be further amplified from each of these 1. For the Parts of it both in respect of our Judgements Affections Conversations 1. For our Judgements that he hath not given us over to blindnesse of minde a reprobate sense to wilde and desperate errors by which we see so many others deluded but hath in some measure revealed unto us those mysteries of godliness which are hid from many wise and great ones of the world and hath according to his divine power given us all things pertaining to life and godlinesse through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vertue 2. For our Affections That he hath not given us over to hardnesse of heart slightnesse of spirit that he hath in any measure weaned our souls from looking after solid contentment in the creatures and raised them up to any love of holiness any desire of a neerer communion with himself 3. For our Conversations That he hath in any measure enabled us to do him service to renounce the hidden things of dishonesty to walk in some degree as becomes children of light Having no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darknesse not allowing our selves in any course which we know to be unlawful The Means of our Sanctification are principally these five 1. His Spirit to convince direct assist comfort us to prevēt follow us with his grace to support us in afflictions to strengthen us in tēptations to quicken us to duty to seal us up unto the day of redēption 2. His Word so powerful in discerning the thoughts intents of the heart able to make us wise unto salvation being profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good work for his holy and righteous Law for the many gracious invitations and promises in his Gospel 3. The Sacraments That he hath not left us as strangers without the Covenāt of promise but hath ordained visible signes and seals to represent that to our senses w ch we ought to apprehend by our faith 4. The Sabbaths and publike Ordinances that we have liberty to behold the face of God in his sanctuary and to enquire in his Temple that amidst some outward troubles the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet our Teachers are not removed into corners but our eyes may see them That vision does not fail in our days that we are not punished with a famine of the Word that the Sun does not go down upon our Prophets 5. The Communion of Saints