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fire_n	holy_a	soul_n	spirit_n	2,402	4	5.2015	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63950	The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing T336; ESTC R17298	60,024	193

perfe●… knowledge my weaknesses and dis●… 〈◊〉 the strength and beauties of the Sons ●…f God V. ●…N the mean time use what means thou 〈◊〉 pleasest to conform me to the image of ●…hy holy Son that I may be gentle to ●…thers and severe to my self that I may ●…t down in the lowest place striving to ●…o before my brother in nothing but in ●…oing him and thee honour staying for ●…ny glory till thou shalt please in the day ●…f recompences to reflect light from thy ●…ace and admit me to behold thy glories Grant this for Jesus Christs sake who ●…umbled himself to the death and shame of the Cross and is now exalted unto glory Unto him with thee O Father be glory and praise for ever and ever Amen For MUNDAY A Prayer against Covetousness I. O Almighty God eternal Treasure of all good things thou fillest all things with plenteousness Thou clothest the lillies of the field and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Thou art all-sufficient in thy self and all-sufficient to us let thy Providence be my store-house thy dispensation of temporal things the limit of my labour my own necessity the measures of my desire but never let my desires of this world be greedy nor my labourimmoderate nor my care vexatious and distracting but prudent moderate holy subordinae to thy Will the measure thou hast appointed for me II. TEach me O God to despise the world to labour for the true riches ●…o seek the Kingdome of heaven and its ●…ighteousness to be content with what ●…hou providest to be in this world like a ●…tranger with affections set upon heaven ●…abouring for and longing after the pos●…estions of thy Kingdomes but never ●…uffer my affectious to dwell below but ●…ive me a heart compassionate to the ●…oor liberal to the needy open and free ●…n all my communications without base ●…nds or greedy designes or unworthy ●…rts of gain but let my strife be to gain ●…hy favour to obtain the blessedness of do●…ng good to others and giving to them ●…hat want and the blessedness of receiving●…rom thee pardon and support grace and ●…oliness perseverance and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord For TUESDAY A Prayer against Lust I. O Eternal Purity thou art brighter then the Sun purer then the Angels and the Heavens are not clean in thy sight with mercy behold thy servant apt to be tempted with every object and to be overcome by every enemy I cannot O God stand in the day of battel and danger unless thou coverest me with thy shield and hidest me under thy wings The fiery darts of the Devil are ready to consume me unless the dew of thy grace for ever descend upon me Thou didst make me after thy image be pleased to preserve me so pure and spotless chaste and clean that my body may be a holy Temple and my soul a sanctuary to entertain thy divinest Spirit the Spirit of love and holiness the Prince of Purities II. REprove in me the spirit of Fornication and Uncleanness and fill my soul with holy fires that no strange fire may come into the Temple of my body where thou hast chosen to dwell O cast out all those unclean spirits which have unhallowed the place where thy holy feet have trod Pardon all my hurtfull thoughts all my impurities that I who am a member of Christ may not become the member of a harlot nor the slave of 〈◊〉 Devil nor a servant of lust and 〈◊〉 desires But do thou purifie my 〈◊〉 and let me seek the things that are 〈◊〉 hating the garments spotted with the 〈◊〉 never any more grieving thy holy 〈◊〉 by filthy inclinations with impure 〈◊〉 phantastick thoughts but let my 〈◊〉 be holy my soul pure my body 〈◊〉 and healthful my spirit severe 〈◊〉 and religious every day more and more that at the day of our appearing 〈◊〉 may be presented to God washed and cleansed pure and spotless by the blood of the holy Lamb through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For WEDNESDAY A Prayer against Gluttony and Drunkenness I. O Almighty Father of Men and Angels who hast of thy great bounty provided plentifully for all mankinde to support his state to relieve his necessities to refresh his sorrows to recreate his labours that he may praise thee and rejoyce in thy mercies and bounty Be thou gracious unto thy servant yet more and suffer me not by my folly to change thy bounty into sin thy grace into wantonness Give me the spirit of temperance and sobriety that I may use thy creatures in the same measures and to the same purposes which thou hast designed so as may best enable me to serve thee but not to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Let me not as Esau prefer meat before a blessing but subdue my appetite subjecting it to reason and the grace of God being content with what is moderate and useful and easie to be obtained taking it in due time receiving it thankfully making it to minister to my body that my body may be a good instrument of the soul and the soul a servant of thy Divine Majesty for ever and ever 11. PArdon O God in whatsoever I have offended thee by meat and drink and pleasures and never let my body any more be oppressed with loads of sloth and delicacies or my soul drowned in seas of ●…ine or strong drink but let my appe●…ites be changed into spiritual desires that 〈◊〉 may hunger after the food of Angels and thirst for the wine of elect souls and may account it meat and drink and pleasure to do thy will O God Lord let me ●…eat and drink so that my food may not become a temptation or a sin or a ●…ease but grant that with so much caution and prudence I may watch over my ap●…petite that I may in the strength of thy ●…mercies and refreshmnets in the light of thy countenance and in the paths of thy Commandments walk before thee all the dayes of my life acceptable to thee in Jesus Christ ever advancing his honour and being filled with his Spirit that I may at last partake of his glory through the same Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For THURSDAY A Prayer against Envy I. O Most gracious Father thou Spring of an Eternal Charity who hast so loved mankinde that thou didst open thy bosome and send thy holy Son to convey thy mercies to us and thou didst create Angels and Men that thou mightest have objects to whom thou mightest communicate thy goodness Give me grace to follow so glorious a precedent that I may never envy the prosperity of any one but rejoyce to honour him whom thou honourest to love him whom thou lovest to commend the vertuous to discern the precious from the vile giving honour to whom honour belongs that I may go to heaven in the noblest way of rejoycing in the good of others II. O Dear God never suffer the Devil to rub his vilest Leprosie of Envy

thy spirit will by use and custome be made tender and not willing to go less FRIDAY The sixth Decad. 51. HE is a truly charitable and good man who when he receives injuries grieves rather for the malice of him that injures him then for his own suffering who willingly prayes for him that wrongs him and from his heart forgives all his faults who stayes not but quickly asks pardon of others for his errors or mistakes who sooner shews mercy then anger who thinks better of others then himself who offers violence to his appetite and in all things endevours to subdue the flesh to the spirit This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of 〈◊〉 Christian 52. No man can have felicity in two ●…ates of things if he takes it in God ●…ere in him he shall have it hereafter for God will last for ever But if he takes ●…licity in things of this world where will ●…is felicity be when this world is done ●…ither here alone or hereafter must be ●…hy portion 53. Avoid those things in thy self ●…hich in others do most displease thee And remember that as thine eye observes ●…thers so art thou observed by God by Angels and by Men 54. He that puts his confidence in God ●…nely is neither overjoyed in any great good thing of this life nor sorrowful for 〈◊〉 little thing Let God be thy love and ●…hy fear and he also will be thy salvation ●…nd thy refuge 55. Do not omit thy Prayers for want of a good oratory or place to pray in ●…or thy duty for want of temporal 〈◊〉 For he that does both upon Gods account cares not how or what he ●…uffers so he suffer well and be the friend of Christ nor where nor when he prayes so he may do it frequently fervently and acceptably 56. Very often remember and meditate upon the wound and stripes the shame and the pain the death and the burial of our Lord Jesus for nothing will more enable us to bear our cross patiently injuries charitably the labour of Religio●…comfortably and censuring words and detractions with meekness and quietness 57. Esteem not thy self to have profited in Religion unless thou thinkest well of others and meanly of thy self Therefore never accuse any but thy self and be that diligently watches himself will be willing enough to be silent concerning others 58. It is no great matter to live lovingly with good natur'd with humble and meek persons but he that can do so with the froward with the wilful and the ignorant with the peevish and perverse he onely hath true charity alwayes remembring that our true solid peace the peace of God consists rather in complying with others then in being complied with in suffering and forbearing rather then in contention and victory 59. Simplicity in our intentions and purity of affections are the two wings of a soul investing it with the robes and resemblances of a Seraphim Intend the honour of God principally and sincerely and mingle not thy affections with any ●…reature but in just subordination to God and to Religion and thou shalt have ●…oy if there be any such thing in this ●…orld For there is no joy but in God ●…nd no sorrow but in an evil Conscience 60. Take not much care what or who is ●…or thee or against thee The judgement of ●…one is to be regarded if Gods judgement be otherwise Thou art neither better nor worse in thy self for any account that is made of thee by any but by God alone ●…ecure that to thee and he will secure ●…ll the rest SATURDAY The seventh Decad. 61. BLessed is he that understands what it is to love Jesus and contends earnestly to be like him Nothing else can satisfie or make us perfect Bu●… be thou a bearer of his Cross as well as a lover of his Kingdome Suffer tribulation for him or from him with the same spirit thou receivest consolation follow him as well for the bitter Cup of his Passion as for the Loaves and remember that if it be a hard saying Take up my Cross and follow me it is a harder saying Go ye Cursed into Everlasting fire 62. No man can alwayes have the same spirituall pleasure in his Prayers For the greatest Saints have sometimes suffered the banishment of the heart sometimes are fervent sometimes they feel a barrenness of Devotion for this Spirit comes and goes Rest therefore onely in God and in doing thy duty and know That if thou beest overjoyed to day this houre will passe away and temptation and sadnesse will succeed 63. In all afflictions seek rather for Patience then for Comfort If thou preservest that this will return Any man would serve God if he felt pleasure in it alwayes but the virtuous does it when his Soul is full of heavinesse and regards not himselfe but God and hates that consolation that lessens his compunction but loves any thing whereby he is made more humble 64. That which thou doest not understand when thou readest thou shalt ●…nderstand in the day of thy visitation ●…or there are many secrets of Religion ●…hich are not perceived till they be felt ●…nd are not felt but in the day of a great ●…alamity 65. He that prayes despairs not But ●…ad is the condition of him that cannot ●…ray Happy are they that can and do and ●…ove to do it 66. He that will be blessed in his Prayers must make his Prayers his Rule All our duty is there set down because in all our duty we beg the Divine Af●…sistance and remember that you are ●…ound to do all those duties for the Divine of which you have prayed for the Divine Assistance 67. Be doing actions of Religion as often as thou canst and thy worldly pleasures as seldome that if thou beest surprised by sudden death it may be oddes but thou mayest be taken at thy Prayers 68. Watch and resist the Devil in all his Temptations and Snares His chief designes are these To hinder thy desire in good to put thee by from any Spirituall employment from Prayers especially from the Meditation of the Passion from the remembrance of thy sins from humble Confession of them from speedy Repentance from the custody of thy Senses and of thy Heart from firm purposes of growing in Grace from reading good Books and frequent receiving the Holy Sacrament It is all one to him if he deceives thee by a lie or by truth whether he amaze or trouble thee by love of the present or fear of the future Watch him but in these things and there will be no part left unarmed in which he can wound thee 69. Remember how the proud have fallen and they who have presumed upon their own strength have been disgraced and that the boldest and greatest talkers in the dayes of peace have been the most dejected and pusillanimous in the day of temptation 70. No man ought to think he hath found peace when nothing troubles him or that God loves him because he hath no