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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19467	Andrewes humble petition vnto almighty God, declaring his repentance Newly made in a right zealous and most godly prayer, out of the pure fountaine of holy scripture, in the autumne or declining of his age. Very necessary for all the children of God to vse in their daily praiers. Wherein is contained an alarum for old age: a watch-word for youth, and a caueat for all Christians.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1623 (1623)	STC 589; ESTC S115927	7,008	26

ANDREWES Humble Petition vnto Almighty God declaring his Repentance Newly made in a right zealous and most Godly Prayer out of the pure fountaine of holy Scripture in the autumne or declining of his age Very necessary for all the children of God to vse in their daily praiers Sero sed Serio Wherein is contained an Alarum for old age a watch-word for Youth and a caueat for all Christians Published by Iohn Andrewes Minister and Preacher of the word of God in the County of Wiles LONDON Printed for Iohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop without Newgate at the signe of the Bible 1623. THe Author did this Booke forestall And from the Presse he did it take That none thereof might haue the sale But he himselfe which did it make Except it be his speciall friend Which may it sell and giue and lend To the high and mighty King of Kings Prince of Peace Conqueror of death Hell and Sinne the great Iudge of the world and Bishop of my soule CHRIST IESV my Sauiour MOst singular most excellent most beautifull most glorious most worthy Sauiour most entirely beloued and most sweet Iesu in token of my humblest deuotion I owe vnto thy most sacred selfe I here dedicate this Mite entituled Andrewes Petition which is the true Copy of my loyallest affection vnto thee And so often from the bottome of my heart I doe salute thee as there be Angels in heauen drops of water in the sea Starres in the Firmament leaues on the trees and grasse on the ground yea incessantly with all humility I salute thee in the vnion of loue and vnto the most blessed and sweet heart of thy own sweet selfe I do in all dutifull affection assigne my selfe and my dearest loue vnto thee my sweet and louing Sauiour although vnworthy to be thy seruant and I most humbly beseech thee that thou wilt vouchsafe to entertaine and receiue me that I may be wholly thine and thou Co-equall with God thy Father maist be wholly mine that after my ended miseries thou wilt crowne mee with thy endlesse mercies vnto this sweet Iesu my Sauiour say Amen And so Amen To all Christian sinners that desire repentance health in the LORD REade attentiuely and iudge indifferently but pray continually receiue instructions willingly and watch in the same seriously with all sedulity Treasure them in your hearts carefully and daily meditate thereon zealously that yee enter not into temptation carelesly Prayer with practise Oft times on your knee Gets fauour with God As daily we see But prayer with lips Where heart is away Returnes into sinne Their soules to destroy Vale in Christo Yours in all Christian affection Iohn Andrewes The Author to the Reader IT is well knowne gentle Reader vnto many besides my licence of absence which I Iohn Andrewes the Author of this work haue to shew that by the handy-work of God in sending contrary windes I haue lost to the value of three-score pounds by the yeare in spirituall liuings within the Realme of Ireland to the vtter impouerishing of me my wife and children for euer except God in his mercy open the harts of well disposed Gentlemen and others by their good liking of these my labors to relieue me in these my present wants that thereby I may attaine vnto some better estate againe Wherefore I bestow this mite of my poore labours called Andrewes Petition vpon you in all dutifull manner and with as tender affection as euer Nurse or Mother gaue their brests to their children or the Pellican suckt the bloud from her brest to feed and cherish her yong I do hereby kindly present the same desiring almighty God that it may breathe out such sound and godly doctrine to your good liking in your hart that it may become a speciall salue to cure and preserue your soule Yours in all Christian duties to be commanded Iohn Andrewes An humble Petition vnto Almighty GOD. ALmighty and most mercifull God Father and maker of all men full of pittie and compassion rich vnto all which cal vpon thée for mercy promising to heare my petitions that whensoeuer I shall aske any thing in thy name through faith I shall obtaine the same Wherefore O Lord I am imboldned to direct my humble and vnperfit prayers vnto thy diuine Maiesty beseeching thee for thy Sonne Iesu Christ his sake to prepare my minde to prayer for I know not how to pray as I should but thou O Lord art ready to answer before I call And while I pray thou wilt heare and giue me farre more of thy comfortable mercies to salue and cure my poore wounded soule then I can eyther aske or desire Oh therefore I that am a miserable and wretched sinner lift vp my whole heart hand vnto thee desiring to come vnto thee O Lord euen vpon the multitude of thy mercies and with sighs groanes teares prostrate my selfe vpon my knees wherewith in my humble and contrite heart I bewayle my sinnes and openly confesse them vnto thee O bountifull Iesu O sweet Sauiour O Christ the Sonne of God Many and grieuous are mine offences and my transgressions infinite yea I haue spent the spring and prime of my yeares in the seruitude of my sinnes which haue Dauid-like feasted vpon beauty and slept in security vntill mine iniquity was ready to come to maturity Yet O Iesu O sweet Sauiour O Christ the Lambe of God which takest away the sinnes of the world I here beseech thee and from the tender bowels of my heart entyrely beg of thy most gracious and fatherly hands that according vnto the multitude of thy mercies thou wilt put away all mine offences And although I beganne to come to thee O Lord my God for thy comfortable mercies to saue and cure my poore wounded and distressed soule in the autumne or declining of my age in the euening of my dayes at the very sunne set of my life Yet O swéet Iesu I beséech thée to bow downe thy eares of pitty with thy tender eyes of mercy looke back vpon me as thou didst on the woman of Canaan on the poore Publican on Mary Magdalen or on the penitent Théese which came vnto thee in his last houre For thou O Lord hast brought mee home from Banishment redéemed me from Bondage withdrawne mee from punishment written me vpon thy hands called me in thy name and sealed mee with thy owne most precious bloud and withall thou hast couenanted and graunted to forgiue me all my sinnes at what time soeuer I repented if I were neuer so weary and heauy laden if they were as red as Scarlet thou wilt make them as white as snow to forgiue and