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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64552	Milke for children, or, A plain and easie method teaching to read and write together with briefe instructions for all sorts of people ... : as also an appendix of prayer / by Lambrocke Thomas.	Thomas, Lambrocke.	1654 (1654)	Wing T967A; ESTC R27538	78,939	178

now and for ever Amen An Evening Prayer for a Family Let our Prayer be set before God as Incense and the lifting up of our hands as the Evening sacrifice O Eternall most glorious and most gracious Lord God thou who art rich in mercy and abundant in goodnesse and truth We thine unworthy Servants here prostrate before the footstool of thy sacred Majesty doe humbly confesse and acknowledge our many and manifold sinnes and transgressions As how shapen in wickednesse and conceived in sin when Children bred up altogether in childishnesse when growing strong strengthning our selves in wickednesse giving up our whole selves as instruments of unrighteousnesse unto sin our hearts hardned to ill workes our understandings dulled our wils refractory and our whole affections crooked and perverse our heads set to plotand contrive mischiefe our hands to handle iniquity our tongues to cursing swearing lying filthy and corrupt communication our eyes to looke upon and behold vanity our feet ready and swift to stand in the way of sinners and to walke in the counsell of the ungodly So as both within and without from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foot there is no whole part in us but we are altogether full of putrified sores sores of abominable sin and wickednesse As to the things of thy service and the advancement of thy glory how have we neglected and omitted our almost every pious duty As to our Neighbours good how intemperate have we beene in pride and envy in willfullnesse and uncharitablenesse to break all the Christian and godly bands of unity How have our words actions and intentions perverted the better practices both of our selves and others O Lord I what have we not done but might justly draw downe thy vengeance on us Yet O Lord there is mercy with thee As consequent to this our humble confession let us implore that mercy and desire thine all fatherly goodnesse to remove from us thy judgements and to prevent all further evils that might justly come on us for our sins Yea and the better to prevent those evils prevent our sins and let us cast away from us those our beloved those our darling sins to which our perverse nature is too much prone and inclined Let no temptation of Satan deceive us let no allurements of the world or flesh pervert us Soften our hearts enlighten our understandings rectifie our wils strenthen our affections reise up and revive our dead and benumned Consciences Let no wandring imaginations seduce us and in thy mercies washed let us not relapse into our old mire of sin Let not heresie schisme infidelity or Apostacy blemish the truth of our Religion Let not Wars Famine Plague or scarsity blain the happinesse of our healthfull prosperity No O Lord let not any evill whither of sin or punishment impaire or thy glory or our good Nor is it onely sin that thus brings us on our knees or the evill of sin that requires from us deprecations of evils but our parts also it is to supplicate thy farther mercies that tho● wouldst be pleased to grant a continuance of the happinesse we have and to supply us with the good blessings we want and have not Give us O Lord understanding hearts and cleer judgements to see our sins Give us O Lord humble wils and holy affections to hate and abandon those our sins And Lord give us true repentance to bewaile those our sins And for the furthering of all those graces further us and furnish us with the assistance of thy good spirit of grace supply that we want strengthen increase the grace we have O Lord so blesse every one of us in our severall places and callings as that we may truly become Instruments of thy glory to doe the will of thee our loving Lord and Master here that hereafter we may receive the Crowne of righteousnesse which thou haste prepared for all those that doe it When to conclude our Prayers give us leave to praise thee and give thee humble thankes for all thy mercies that for our sins thou hast not totally consumed us But to further thy glory and our good hast elected us before the foundation of the World created us in time after thine own Image redeemed us from the power of Satan by the more powerfull passion of thy Christ and our Jesus We thanke thee our Lord for our Christian calling and vocation wrought in us by the inward operation of thy spirit and the outward preaching and ministery of thy Word for our justification in Christ our measure of sanctification here and our hopefull ●ssurance of glorification hereafter yea for all thy blessings and benefits we now and ever yeeld thee a thankefull acknowledgement Nor for our selves are we onely thus suppliant but O Lord let our prayers extend also to the good both of our selves and others Be ever therefore gracious to thy Spouse the Church c. Here againe goe on as occasion seemes as in the generall Prayer When as reflecting upon the Church pray that God would purge her from Schisine and Heresie and as to all the Members of both Church and Common-wealth that he would reconcile all the differences of Opinions among us that in his good time we may not onely obtaine but keepe the unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace When you may conclude thus BLesse us all O Lord pardon our sinnes this day passed and let us have quiet rest this Night to come that the day following and so all the dayes of our lives we may still study and strive the advancement of thy glory our own and our Neighbours good And this and whatever else necessary for us grant us O Lord even for thy Sons sake Christ Jesus In whose Name and Words concluding these our imperfect Prayers come we unto thee in that his most perfect saying as he hath taught us Our Father which art in Heaven c. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the sweet and comfortable fellowship of God the Holy Ghost be with us blesse preserve and keepe us this Night following and for ever Amen The End

extemporary way but in peace let them go that their way and my prayer is that the God of peace may blesse it to them and others that depend upon them while my alike prayer is that God to me and others that goe by this set way may bless that also to us and that though going thus two severall wayes to God-wards we may both attain at our both aimed at jorneyes end God And while others more learned and versed in that extemporary way may goe on perhaps without Hesitation yet to avoyde Tautologies and some Absurdities that may arise from others lesse learned or not so well versed in that way and especially those my Children that I have all along thus laboured to instruct give them leave to be led along by these or the like premeditated formes whose intentive spirits may as effectually go along with as that of others without their books or forms by Gods blessing be to God as acceptable to And therefore while we censure none that go otherwise let 's not feele the lash of their Censure by our going this way but in their Extemporary wayes have they now and then a short ejaculation that God will blesse to us these like set formes in as much as my Charity is as theirs should also be that we both in our wayes seeke God we no lesse in these set forms then they in their Extemporary wayes When though our opinions may somewhat differ about the Mode of Prayer knowing that their opinions may some what differ whose faith may be yet the same yet herein we may both conclude that prayer is necessary And let 's thus conclude it too tha● howevermade if with sound hearts made and truly humbled souls that both are to God acceptable who lookes not upon the face of things but on the heart of man 1 Sam. 16. 7. not on the manner of delivery but on the hearts that make it Although by our Saviours owne to me seemeing advice and counsell we be yet carefull in the best Mat 6 7 manner we may to make it That l by only much speaking we be not thought to be accepted or however though sometimes perhaps there may be occasion of much speakeing that vaine Repetitions be avoyded Which unlesse by them of able parts and exquisitely versed in it are too too incident to many who rather then thus adhereing to the times and fancies of some too much affected to this way in dispute yet whither or no warrantable might do well to take up that which is without dispute warrantable and by set formes whither of their owne or others till as others better versed in the way avoyd those whatever absurdities when both they and their hearers before hand prepared for the service will doubtlesse after the better discharge it A Generall Prayer at all times of many together or by one Man or Woman alone as the occasion serves changing the Number and Sex LE● the Words of our mouthes and the Meditation of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight O Lord our strength our Redeemer O E●●rn●ll most glorious and most gratious Lord God thou who art rich in mercy and abundant in goodnesse and Truth we thine unworthy servants on our bended knees and from the bottome of our humbled hearts in the Name of thy son our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in whose name thou hast promised that if we aske any thing according to thy will thou will both heare and doe it do now thus humbly make our addresse unto thee and pray that our prayers now and ever may with acceptation come in thy presence We confesse Lord and we are ashamed of the manifold sins and transgressions we have in thought word and deed committed against thy divine Majesty And that not onely in that Originall sin of our first parent Adam whom thou at first madest upright and us in him but that by our impious inventions on that accursed stock we have grafted the impes of our owne infinite Actuall sins Graces t is true many we have had offered to us had too and received many Graces but alas in vain hath been our receit of them So many so infinite have been our sins that we have even grieved thy good spirit of grace with those seducers of old whatever we have professed as to thee with our words with our workes yet we have denied thee turning thy soveraigne soul-saving Grace into the destroying delusion of our owne wantonnesse Hath not thy longsuffering patience more then abundantly winked at our manifold sins And is not that space thou hast given us to repent in wherein we have not repented more then enough to testifie our ingratitude to thee our mercifull God O how uncleane are we made by sin how filthie is even our righteousnesse that even much more loathsome must needs be our sin how many are the impious inventions we daily plot and practise as if we meant no other then onely to study how to contrive even our owne ruine and damnation So many are our mischievous imaginations So as shouldest thou be so severe as to marke what hath been done amisse O Lord who may stand If thou shouldest lay Judgement to the Line and righteousnesse to the plummets thou mightest make thine anger to smoake thy jealousie to burne like fire and all the Curses that are written in thy book thou mightest lay upon us and blot out our name from under the Heaven When then O Lord what might remaine for us but a certaine fearefull looking for the Execution of these severer Judgements thy wrathfull displeasure may justly lay upon us Yet O Lord though to the terror of perverse and obstinate sinners we know that thou art just yet to the comfort of repentant sinners we know thou art mercifull too And therefore in most humble manner we now at thy Throne of grace and mercy beg of thee our God in thy Son Christ our Saviour the forgivenesse of those our sins O Lord remember not against us nor impute to us former transgressions and for them otherwise that may ensue let thy mercies speedily prevent And that we may happily lay hold of that thy preventing grace make us in every respect sit for it Is our Faith small O Lord encrease our faith Is our repentance backwards Hasten O Lord our Repentance dissolve our flinty hearts into godly sorrow and by that happy means work in us that more happy repentance repentance to salvation not to be repented of When to further both that faith and repentance inflame our holy zeale of glory and truly to manage that zeale endue us with the knowledge of thy will by the glorious Sun-beames of thy good word and spirit enlighten the eyes of our understanding that we may know thee as we ought and testifie our knowledge by our sincere love of thee our God and Saviour Put us O Lord in the way of thy truth and then Lord grant us grace happily to persevere in that way to the end Let not