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A36933 Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration. Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. 1683 (1683) Wing D2660E; ESTC R220202 41,746 221

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thy heart foments and cherisheth the least spark of the love of God which it finds there and makes it flame out into a servent prayer David found this by experience where he saith of himself while I was thus musing my heart kindled within me and I spake with my Tongue The Devotion of the heart saith St. Bernard is the Tongue of the Soul without this it is silent and shut up but actuated and heated with Love it poures it self forth in Supplications and Prayers and Discourses with God sometimes Praising him for the Infinite Blessings received from him sometimes Praying to him for those which we yet want This is that conversing of the Soul with God which Gregory Nyssen speaks of as a Son Conversing with his Father or a Friend with a Friend into whose bosom he may pour forth with confidence all the Secrets of his Soul as a Favourite with his Prince or a betrothed Virgin with her Lover What the result of these discourses is what words are spoken what secrets discovered what delights enjoyed may easier be felt than spoken of When the Soul being lifted up by the wings of Prayer and rarified into a flame by Love reacheth the very Bosom of God But though every devout Soul mounts not to this pitch this top of the Ladder let none be dismaied at it For God knows whereof you are made he sees the body of flesh which you bear about you and the Plummets which it hangs upon your Soul and therefore when you cannot rise high enough to him he comes down to you for so you find in this Vision there were descending as well as ascending Angels We do not read that St. Paul was often rapt into the third Heaven Notwithstanding his Raptures the Angel of Satan that buffeted him made him remember that he was still upon the Earth For one foot of the Compass will unavoidably be fixed there when the other moves in the circumference of divine contemplation Iacob himself was but at the bottom at the foot of the ladder when his Soul was at the highest and saw God at the top of it O Most wise God the Unction of whose Spirit can teach me all things teach me the Rules I am to observe in this Heavenly Exercise of Prayer Stir up my Memory to remember that thou art present fix my intention upon Thee upon Thee alone Awake my Understanding to consider what I am about and who I am to speak to But above all inflame my Affections that my heart being set on fire with Thy Love my Prayers may participate of that Fervency and be accepted of Thee for his sake who came to send this Fire upon the Earth even Iesus Christ my Saviour Amen Of the Excellencies and Fruits of Prayer as they may be drawn out of the Lords Prayer THere is no clearer glass to see the excellencies of Prayer in than that very Prayer which our Saviour thought fit to teach his Disciples Where the first entrance presents you with that unvaluable Priviledge to call God your Father that therefore you come not to treat with him as a Slave with his Master or a Vassal with his Prince but as a Son with your Father God infusing into you by Prayer that Spirit of Adoption by which you cry to him Abba Father This being saith St. Chrysostome the highest excellency of the Creature to treat familiarly as a Son with his Creator A Dignity that raiseth us poor Worms of the Earth to a kind of equality with the Angels themselves for though in Nature they are above us yet this duty makes us equal For Quid potest inveniri sanctius iis qui cum Deo commercium habent Saith the same Father What can be more holy than he who is admitted to treat familiarly with God Moses by talking with God had such a brightness shed upon his face that they who looked upon him were dazled with it For if they who have the ear of Princes as Favourites having freedom of access and opportunity at all times of presenting their Petitions cannot want the splendor of Worldly things which consequently will follow them much less can the beams of an higher glory be wanting unto them who live as if they were always in the presence of God talking with God by Prayer and God with them by holy Inspirations What can they want who are admitted to this Privacy And it is your fault if you are not For there are neither doors nor locks nor any greater Favourite to keep you out He that gives you leave to call him Father cannot exclude his Son that cries Father I have sinned O Gracious Father what thanks what praise can we offer to Thee for raising us to that honour of entring into thy presence as Sons and conversing with Thee on the Earth with the same Freedom as the Angels do in Heaven O grant us the Grace so to make advantages of so Divine a Priviledge that our sins may never make us forfeit it but rather by a devout and humble use of it acquire to our selves daily new degrees of Thy Favour till Thou hast brought us Thy unworthy Sons to that incorruptible Inheritance which can neither have encrease nor end Amen THe second Excellency of Prayer is That it is a means by which the name of God is hallowed both by us and in us We pray that his Name may be Sanctified and we Sanctifie his Name by praying so Our Tongues but much more our Lives being made Instruments to glorifie him God is glorified by our believing in him by our knowing him by our adoring him and in Prayer we do all this By Prayer we bring to light those graces and gifts of God which he hath hid for us in his eternal Predestination as we may see in that Prayer of Christ to his Eternal Father And now O Father glorifie thou me with thy own self with the glory which I had with thee before the World was From whence the School infers That Prayer is the principal means ordered by providence for the execution of what God hath decreed on our behalf God had decreed the Incarnation of his Son for the saving of the World he had promised and could not vary from it Yet this kept not Moses from his Petition Send him whom thou wilt send nor the Prophet from praying O that thou wouldest bow the Heavens and come down The Father had decreed to give his Son being Incarnate the Nations for his inheritance but the execution of this Decree was to be by Prayer the Son of God himself was to pay for it for Postula Dabo Ask of me and I will give them thee If therefore the Decree of your Predestination be yet dark to you and you would willingly know whether your name be written in the Book of Life there is no way of obtaining this but humble Prayer Do but pray fervently that God would glorifie himself in thee by making thee a Vessel for his Honour and
me not when my strength fails me But in the multitude of my sorrows that are in my heart let thy comforts be the refreshing of my soul. O my God the more weak I am the more let thy strength be made known in my weakness And suffer no temptation to seize upon me but such as thou shalt give me grace to overcome O Lord hear my Prayer And let my cry come unto thee Amen sweet Jesu Amen Amen The Prayer O My dear God and most merciful Father who hast not only directed but encouraged me in all my troubles to call upon thee Hear I beseech thee the complaints that I now make and the Prayers which I pour forth in the anguish and bitterness of my spirit for thou hast shewn me heavy things O God And in the midst of all my prosperity hast been pleased to mingle a bitter Cup for me What the troubles of my heart are how heavy they lie upon me how deeply they wound me I need not labour to express to thee for all my comfort is that nothing is hid from thee For not only the Blessings which thou hast poured upon me through all the minutes and moments of my Life but the Afflictions which I now groan under come from the same hand to rouse me and awake me to a more devout and earnest way of serving thee And since it is thy own work look down with the more pity on this wounded Soul of mine See O my God how I pant and labour under the heavy scourge of thy displeasure a scourge which my own sins have twisted and mine own iniquities have drawn down upon me But O my dear Father to whom it is more easie to do all things than for me to ask any thing that is good Thou that hast promised to all them that love thee that they shall not be tempted farther than they are able Give I beseech thee that measure of grace and patience to thy sad and afflicted Servant that I may not only endure what thou layest upon me but entirely willingly and chearfully submit my will to thine And O thou God of Comfort and Spirit of all Consolation be not only with me but with all of my Relations that mourn in secret either for their own sins or sufferings or whatsoever Bitterness thou shalt think fit to lay upon us O teach us all to look up to the hand from whence these Judgments come to kiss and to adore it And when thou hast done so let thy mercy go one step further with me and compose my troubled mind into such a calm that none of my Sufferings whatsoever they are or may be may either make me repine at thy Judgments or despair of thy mercies but rather let all that is afflictive to me serve only to wean me from the World and to draw me the nearer to thee but because this cannot be done without thee O thou Preserver of the Children of Men behold I throw my self and all that is dear to me clearly and intirely into thine arms to do with me whatsoever shall be good in thine eyes And therefore amidst all the unquiet thoughts which now trouble and disorder me say unto me as thou didst to thy Disciples in the Storm Fear not for it is I. Or else if thou shalt find it better for me that I should find no calm abroad in the midst of the various changes and chances of this World let me find it at least in my own breast and bosom and possess my soul in patience whatever other storms thou shalt please to raise against me that so placed under the shadow of thy wings and refreshed here with the comforts of thy Spirit I may long earnestly for that blessed day when all tears shall be wiped from mine eyes and all sorrows shall be forgotten Grant this O my God for thy Son's sake who sits at thy right hand to meditate for me Grant it for thy Holy Spirit 's sake who pleads for me and all that love thee with Groans that cannot be expressed Grant it for thy own sake O my God who art never more thy self than when in the midst of Judgment thou remembrest Mercy Amen Amen Amen FINIS Joh. 17. 5. Psal. 2. 8. Luke in 21 22. Luke 9. 28. Mat. 17. ● Mark ix 3. Mark ix 5. Psal. lxvl. 13. Mat. xvil Dan. 6. Gen. xxxii 24. Hos. xii 4. Luke xi 5. Ephes. vi 12. 18. Matth. xvii 16. 21. Tob. viii 3. Lam. iii. 44. Isa. i. 13. 14. 15. 16. 18. Exod. xxxiii 20. Dan. vi Luke x. 41. Gen. XV. 11. Matth. viii 9. Eccles. xvlli 22. Lam. iii. 44. 1 Kings xviii Esther ii 12. 1 Kings XIX 13. Matth. vi 6. Mark XIV 15. Psalm lxxxvili l. Cxli. 2 xxviii 2. xiii 1 2. xxviii 1. Mal. i. 6. Ecclus. xxxv 17. Heb. v. 7. Luke xxii 41. Matth. xxvi 39. Heb. i. 6. Rev. v. 8. 14. John iv 24. Isa xxix 13. Matth. xv 8. Gen. xviii 29. 30. 1 Cor. VI. 19 20. Gen. xvii 3. Deut. ix 18. 1 Kings xviii 42. 1 Kings viii 22. Acts vii 60. 20. 36. Matth. xxvi 30. Isa. xiv 23. Mark vi 5 Luke xviii 13. 2 Chron. vi 13. Exod. xvii 11.