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Private devotion and a brief explication of the ten commandments
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Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696.
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When I awake I am alwayes with thee thanking and praising and adoring thy Majesty who continually keepest the world from returning to nothing from whence thou first mad'st it Unto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens with the affection and reverence of a child with the fear and solicitude of a servant Psal. 123.1 2. Holy holy holy Lord God Omnipotent which was and is and is to come glory and honour and worship be to thee world without end Amen Rev. 4.8 Keep thy servant by thy grace O Lord that Hypocrisy Pride Envy Anger Gluttony Covetousness or Sloth or any other grievous sin may never have the dominion over me and become habitual and customary to me and ever keep me O Lord most holy from Fornication Drunkenness Theft and Dishonesty Idolatry Manslaughter Cursing Swearing and Lying Extortion and Oppression and all other scandalous and heinous actions and practices But engraft in my heart the contrary fruits of thy holy Spirit Piety Humility and Mildness Faithfulness and Honesty Modesty Temperance and Chastity Content and Quietness Compassion Charity and Liberality Prudence Care and Diligence and let this be my habit my custom and my life for Jesus Christ his sake Amen V. Thursday THe Lord is my strength and my praise There is none holy as the Lord neither is there any rock like our God. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the bed and to the grave and bringeth up He keepeth the feet of his saints and exalteth the horn of his anointed Hallelujah My heart rejoyceth in his salvation 1 Sam c. 2. Thou art my hope in the land of the living thou art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them that dwell in broad sea yea thou O God art my hope and joy to all eternity Amen Psal. 141.4 The Providence of the Father almighty guide me the Wisdom of his eternal Son enlighten me and the Power of his holy Spirit quicken me Amen What now shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits â—or my Birth my Education my Baptism Catechism and Confirmation What for the blessed Eucharist for the Sermons and the Prayers of this Church What for Sundry Deliverances and special Blessings through so many years of living Yea what shall I render unto thee holy JESUS for thy expiatory Blood for thy grand Example for the Mission of the Holy Ghost with various and unexpressible Grace and for the reserve of everlasting Blessedness O Lord what shall I render unto thee Take O take again most merciful Lord these Gifts together this Soul and Body and their abilities which I now kneeling humbly and faithfully offer to thy everadored Divinity O despise not but take again the works of thy own hands and receive all into the bosom of perpetual happiness Amen Hallelujah Or Is not this to be my last day and then Eternity O prepare me for thy self holy JESUS I know not the day nor the hour of thy Judgment Matth. 24.30 Or receive to thee in peace or visit this dearly purchased soul this piece of Immortality drencâ—t in thy Blood. Yea come quickly Lord Jesus Amen I will magnifie thee O God my King and praise thy name for ever and ever Every day will I give thanks to thee and bless thy name for ever and ever Great is the Lord and marvelous worthy to be praised There is no end of his Greatness no end of his Mercy Hallelujah Psal. 145.1 23. c. Grant me I humbly beseech thee Almighty and most merciâ—ul Father a quiet Mind and a â—ound Body a good Report and a liberal Conversation in all Piety Prudence Charity Honesty and Chastity and at last if I may not be a Martâ—r for thy Truth grant me a mild Death and happy Immortality for Christ Jesus his sake the Source of all Blessings as well visible and secular as invisible inconceivable and everlasting Amen Christ is ascended up on high hath led captivity captive and given gifts unto men that God might dwell amongst us Set up thy self O JESUS above all the heavens and thy Glory above the earth I now worship thee with all humility and affection as thy Apostles did when thou departedst from mount Olivet to the Joy of supercâ—lestial Glory The fowls of the air are thine O bountiful Creatour and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea and thou feedest them and multipliest them Wherefore I will seek the kingdom of God before food and rayment For our heavenly Father knoweth that we have need of these things Matth. 6.25 VI. Friday I Awakt and lookt up and my sleep was sweet unto me Blessed be the Lord our God the God of our fathers who satisifieth the weary soul and replenisheth every sorrowful heart who converteth the shadow of death into the morning and daily renews the face of the earth and maketh the evening and the morning alternately to praise him Ier. 31.25 26. Psal. 104.30 and 65.9 Who holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip who ruleth with his power for ever Hallelujah On this day O crucified Saviour have mercy on me and all mankind Amen I will walk this day God being my helper soberly chastly decently humbly and in diligence and content as a child of light and of God. Sufficient to the day is the evil and trouble of it I fully trust in the perpetual Grace of my heavenly Father through his Eternal Son. Amen Or I have remembred thy name O Lord in the night and have kept thy law Psal. 119.55 Our help standeth in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth Psal. 124.8 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man who putteth his trust in thee yea blessed is the man to whom thou imputest no sin Psal. 84.13 All the world doth worship thee sing of thee and praise thy name which is great wonderful gracious and holy Hallelujah Praise the Lord O my soul. O Father Eternal Almighty God Lord and Possessor of infinite perfection Majesty and mercy Maker and Upholder of all things visible and invisible O blessed Jesus Lamb of God Son of the Father who hast loved us and dyed on the cross for us O most holy Spirit founder and fountain of light and knowledge of vertue and grace of liâ—e peace and bliss everlasting with utmost humility intention of mind and affection I adore and glorifie thee All power and riches and wisdom and salvation and glory and honour and blessing be to the eternal Trinity now and for ever Amen Hosanna in the highest Hosanna I bless thee O Lord Almighty that thou hast made the world out of nothing and created me and all mankind after thy own image and hast set us over the works of thy hands and given thy holy angels charge of us to keep us in all thy ways and that after the early loss of paradise c. many and late transgressions and presumtions thou yet openest
and gracious God Father and fountain of mercies have mercy upon me anâ— spare me Out of the depths do I cry unto thee I have depressed by staind and miserable soul to the brink of hell Out of the depths do I cry unto thee Father spare me Father pity me I am oppressed I am in great misery my soul is exceeding sorrowful as unto death Eli Eli hear me and pardon me Enter not into â—udgment with me who am dust and ashes sin and weakness Let not the storm overwhelm me nor the depth of sorrow swallow me up nor the sence of thy anger destroy me Psal. 69.15 Father I am no more worthy to be called thy son or to be reckoned in thy creation But according to the infinity of thy mercies O Lord do away my iniquity and blot out my transgressions Psal. 51.1 2. My heart faileth me O Lord make hasts to help me Psal. 40.30 By thy cries and pains O Jesus deliver me from the guilt and burden of my sins from the terrors of my wakned conscience and from the unconceivable torments of hell By thy wounded head thy bored hands they lanced side thy pierced feet thy tortured body and afflicted soul by all the disgraces and passions of Gethsemane Gabbatha and Golgotha save me and deliver me O Christ at this hour and at the hour of death and in the day of judgement Amen Father and Saviour and Comforter let this bitter cup pass from me I humbly beseech thee Look upon me O precious Saviour Lamb of God in my sorrow and distress as once thou didst on Peter that denied thee and wept bitterly Compassionate me as thou didst the sinful Magdaleâ—e and as thou didst the penitent thief who confessed and believed in the anguish and paroxysme of the Cross. I deserved all their griefs and ten thousand pains and punishment more Intercede now for me Holy Jesus with thy dying petition Father forgive them for they know not what they do O Lord of glory I look unto thee I earnestly look unto thee whom I have pierced whom not so much Herod and Pontius Pilate and the Roman souldiers as sinful and wretched I have dishonoured pierced and crucified Lord forgive Lord save me or I perish for ever The Christ of God hide me in thy wounds By the blood of thy testament revive and release me I hope in thy merciful intercession For thy Fatherly tenderness and the numberless blessings already received from thy bountiful hand and through the passion and mediation of thy beloved Son and by the unutterable groans and suggestions of thy holy Spirit pardon and deliver me Lord God Almighty Amen IV. Resolution I will never adventure more to try and weary the grace and patience of Almighty God the righteous judge and avenger I now break off my sins by repentance and resolved amendment I see what brought me to this shameful and perillous defection it was this occasion that invitation that excess that eye this rashness that supinity Wherefore I now solemnly Renounce cast off and abominate the wicked and wounding practises of my life as c together with all their inducement and principles From this very hour and blessed be God who hath granted me this hour by prayer temperance charity industry fear and caution in all my actions and enterprices I fully purpose and now begin God helâ—ing me of his infinite goodness and pity to alter and Reform my life according to the gospel and example of Jesus Christ my Lord and also by kindness charity and almsdoing I will manifest to the world the sincerity and vigour of my Repentance and renovation V. Petition for grace HOly Father incline direct and fortifie my heart to pursue this pious and necessary Resolution that iniquity be not my ruine Ezek. 18.30 Thy grace is sufficient for me Lord soften bruise change and reform my soul according to thy own will according to thy own image and after the likeness and innocence of Adam when thou first breathest into him life and reason yea according to the same tâ—mper and purity I most humbly beseech thee wherein by thy grace I once ascended from the laver of Regeneration Tit. 3.5 Amen for Jesus Christ his sake Pardon and destroy not Amâ—nd and destroy not Most merciful Creator the work of thy own hands by me presumptuously and shamefully profaned Destroy not O blessed Saviour the purchase of thy precious blood the decaying part of thy mystical body Destroy not O Holy Spirit the subject of thy regeneration and various bounty Destroy not O everblessed and everadored Trinity the humblest and meanest of all that believe and worship thy Majesty Oh break not this bruised reâ—d Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon for Jesus's sake Isa. 55.7 Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden alas I feel my transgressions heavy and numberless as the sands of the sea and I will give you rest saith the compassionate Saviour Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest for your souls Matth. 26.28.29 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief I the vilest 1. Tim. 1.15 Such gracious sentences of the Holy Scriptures are my last hold are my plank O Lord make haste to help me Sickness and Pain CHAP. XVII I Will bear thy indignation O Lord till mercy prevaileth against judgment because I have sinned against thee Micah 7.9 Why should I yet living I complain for the punishment of my sin for any thing short of unquenchable fire Thou knowest whereof we are made Remember O Lord that I am but dust a fading flower and a transient blast remember for his sake who out of infinite condescension and pity bore our nature and our infirmities Amen Psal. 103.14 15 16. All my desire is before thee O Lord and my groaning is not hid from thee Turn unto me O Lord and deliver my soul for thy mercies sake Enlighten and cleansâ— and heal and revive thy servant that my ways may please thee that I may see the goodness of thy chosen and rejoyce with thine inheritance Amen Though the outward man perish alas I perceive I feel it perishing yet good Lord renew the inwarâ—â—an day by day Secure the part immortal that which understands thee loves thee praises thee and now aspires to thy beatifick presence for Christs sake See CHAP. VI. § 1. of this Book Hope in God and Resignation to his Pleasure CHAP. XVIII See CHAP. VI. §. 8. of this Book O Wretched creature that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. c. 7.24 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory