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A77634 Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well. Brough, W. (William), d. 1671. 1649 (1649) Wing B4991; Thomason E1339_1; ESTC R209131 186,268 487

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didst both live and die in virtue of thy blood that sole and soveraigne antidote and sanctuary of bleeding Sinners thy deare and pretious blood let my soule live if my body die but if thy blessed will both live to praise thy goodnesse to both Lord cast my sins behind thy back and hold me in thy Armes Into thy Armes of mercy I cast my self Body Soul my onely hope and refuge and rock of my salvation is in thy blessed merits and blood deare Jesus take me and keep me in thy Armes now and ever and especially in my last hower and agonie have mercy on me I beseech thee Amen Amen Thanksgiving for one recovered of the Plague THou hast smitten and thou hast healed me O my God! the blow was grievous thy help is greater the blow was just thy help more gracious my sinnes deserved death thy mercy hath spared my life O Lord with an humble thankfull soule I doe acknowledge as ever so now especially from thy good hand my present life and health And now I humbly beseech thee that my heart may smite me that I have ever rebelled against so good a Majestie and thy grace keep me that I never more lift up my hand against so great a goodnesse O let not the pestilence goe from my body to my soule let not Satan and corruption poyson perswade my spirit to sit in the chaire or stay in the house of pestilence Let not others be infected with sinne by me nor me by them lest thou be more provoked and the plague gone returne in a greater judgment My God my help my health my hope my life and comfort be thy Name ever blessed that hast spared my soule and life O let it be no more dishonoured by me that keeping from the infection of an evill world I may live in the blisse of a better where is neither sinne nor sicknesse to infect soule or body but perfect health strength grace and glory in thee and with thee to all eternity O Jesus my onely refuge and the horne of my salvation So be it Amen Amen Prayer for one at the Hower of Death to be said by the Sick or some for him altering the Person 1. Prayer of one at the point of Death GOd the Father his mercies be about me God the Sonne his merits be upon me God the Holy Ghost his comforts be within me Holy Trinitie preserve strengthen and support me that my Death may be pretious in the sight of the Lord and my Soule live with thee to all eternity Amen Amen 2. Prayer for one at the point of Death FAther of mercies let thy love be to him Saviour of the world let thy merits be on him Comforter of departing Souls let thy peace be in him Father Sonne and Holy Spirit defend a Child of thy Family save a Lamb of thy Flock keep a member of thy Church O thou One and onely Lord God of Heaven command thy holy Angels to tender him and forbid evill ones to trouble him Deliver his soul discharge his sinne seale his pardon heavenly Father by thy Holy Spirit in the blood of Jesus Amen Amen 3. Prayer for one at the point of Death LOrd Jesus Succour this Dying Soule make passage for him by death to a better life purge his sins in thy Blood and prepare his Soule by thy Spirit and receive it to the glory of thy Father Jesus that didst so deerly purchase it make haste to receive it from the pangs of present and paines of everlasting death Good Lord deliver it deliver it for thy mercies sake Amen Amen Thanksgiving after Death for one Departed ¶ Say this Scripture Psal 116. 7 15. Returne unto thy rest ô my Soule for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of the Saints Apoc. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord even so saith the Spirit that they rest from their labours ¶ Then Pray thus THou that hast sent for this Soul out of the Prison of his Bodie to come to the Palace of thy Blisse receive our praises O Lord for his happy deliverance from pangs to joyes from Tryalls to Triumphs from Earth to Heaven O Lord we beseech thee admit our humble lauds to attend him into thy presence and with them let our prayers enter before thee that as he so we in thy good time may come and present our Halleluja's with our selves in thy sight And meane time lead a godly life to have a blessed death Lord let us not forsake thee now that thou mayest not leave us then in that last and great hower upon which followes an Eternitie of weale or woe Lord have mercy on us and doe not forsake us and therefore let us have the feare of it and thee now and ever before us that as we believed our Brother departed is we may be blessed in and by our death grant we may deare Iesus Amen Amen A generall Thanksgiving for Gods mercies O Thou high Majestie of Heaven how hast thou filled me with the favours of thy bounty how great hast thou been in thy goodnesse and mercy how gracious in thy providence to me thou hast poured the blessings of heaven and earth upon my head Thou hast loaden me with thy gifts bestowed upon me in Creating Redeeming and in Preserving me In my Creation thou gavest me thine Image and madest me more noble than all the Creatures of the earth In my Redemption thou gav'st me thy Sonne and madest me more glorious than the Angels of Heaven In my Baptisme and Regeneration thou gavest me thy Spirit and hast made me more happy than millions of men in the world Thou hast given thy self to me Lord what could'st thou doe more for me thrice blessed yea for ever be thy glorious Name for thine infinite grace mercy and goodnesse to me And in thy providence for this life how abundantly hast thou blessed me in health wealth body mind c. and many and many mercies vouchsafed me In my weaknesse thou hast strengthened me in my dangers thou hast delivered me in my distresses thou hast comforted me in my prayers thou hast heard me in thy judgments thou hast spared me to this day preserving my life and making it many waies joyfull to me And not for any good in me O Lord hast thou been thus gracious towards me My ills on earth hath been many my ingratitudes great against thee For them thou mightest for ever banish me from heaven and with my sinnes cast me into hell amongst those that offend thee for thy owne goodnesse and great Names sake hast thou been thus bountifull and mercifull to me O fill my heart with thy love that my mouth may poure ou● praises to thee Ravish my soule with thy goodnesse that my heart may ever love thee Fill my life with thy feare that as my lips my thoughts deeds may ever honour thee let me not be so wretched as to forget thy
takes me and thy feare my onely care as the way to that glory In that way guide me keep me and continue me by thy holy Spirit I beseech thee let me so use thy earthly blessings that they may not hinder me Father of mercy and God of grace grant this I beseech thee even by the blessed Mediation and Merits of Jesus Christ Amen ¶ 3. Prayer for a Penitent Confessing Sins and Deprecating Judgments O Thou Holy and Dreadfull Majestie I am ashamed to lift up my eyes unto thee for the sins I have committed against thee Woe is me for the undue thoughts and lusts and words and deeds of which I stand guilty before thee I have like a prodigall Child wasted those goods and daies in the delights of vanity which thou O Father didst give me not to sinne with but to serve thee And even for those few houres which I have spent best privately in thy service and in thy Sanctuary I have need to aske thy forgivenesse and mercy So coldly so carelesly so distractedly so irreverently have I then and there behaved my selfe before thee By thy holy lawes by thy many mercies by my often vowes promises I stand at this day deeply obliged unto thee But I have broken all those bonds and even to this houre am not free from rebelling against thee For this I doe confesse thou mightest sentence me to as many judgments as the mercies are with which thou hast blessed and yet blessest me Thou mightest cast away that soule which I have so much polluted with sinne and smite that body which hath been so much a servant to it in the acts of vanity Thou mightest take away all Hope and Comfort from me and at once bereave me both of Life and Soule Of all these plagues O Lord I am most guilty by my sinnes and if thou shouldest execute them all upon me thou wert but righteous in thy judgements But in judgment Lord remember mercy To thy poore servant to thy penitent prostrate Child grant thy pardon Deare Father and reach to my soule thy hand of mercy I have guilt but thou hast Bloud O Blessed Redeemer I have staines but thou hast Grace O Holy Comforter O Holy blessed and glorious Trinity Spare my life and save my soule I beseech thee who have condemned my selfe for sinning so much and resolve by thy grace to serve the more conscionably And Lord save thy poor distracted Church O forgive her sinnes and build up her wal●s And in Her preserve all that are dutifull Children and faithfull to thee and her especially those who are in Place and Power to preserve Her Lord doe thou preserve Her and Them and all who are deare and neare to me and Thee Comfort all that are cast down especially those whose soules bleed for their sinnes all poor-penitent-broken Spirits Have mercy on them O Lord and comfort for them and heale them thou good Physitian who alone canst help them by the pretious wounds and death and bloody passion of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Letanie Ten Commandements Epistle 2 Cor. 11. 18. Gospel Mark 4. v. 35. Prayer for Catholike Church Service against Impatience for Thursday or other day Morning Prayer Psal 77. 37. Lessons Job 2. or Prov. 25. Mat. 18. Evening Prayer Psal 106. 145. Lessons 2 Sam. 15. Rom. 12. or Jame● 5. ¶ 1. Collect or Prayer against Impatience O Lord let not a Spirit of impatience possesse me by which I do but provoke thee and advance not all Jer. 7. 19. above my misery By it I shall neither get thy blessing nor ease my burden Isa 45 9. but draw thy curse double the cross upon me Thou art my Maker I may not strive with Thee And my misery Psal 39. 10. is thy worke I must not contest with it I may struggle under the yoke Lam. 3. 27 but what I shall gaine but gaule and guilt by the strife Gaule to my Jer. 28. 13. neck and Guilt to my conscience I will therefore kisse thy Rod and bow to what I cannot breake thy yoke Under which I will draw on my course with more humility and care Sad for that I have offended and carefull that I may not offend 1 Pet. 5. 6. so shall my obedience be accepted and my deliverance hastened For O Lord it is not my punishment but amendment which thou dost seek and therefore sendest distresse to drive me to Hos 5. 15. my duty Which when I learne by thy rod and yoke thou dost lay them aside and appeare in more comfortable shapes unto me yea and allowest my Apoc. 3. 10. patience good recompence for my better behaviour in the schoole of my misery Good Lord let me learne what thou doest teach that I may receive what thou doest give the honour of being held thy Faithfull Servant under the crosse and the glory of having Rom. 8. 18. a Crowne for my service Not for any merits of mine or it but for thine infinite mercies sake and the merits of Him who is the Great Master Heb. 12. 3 4. and Patterne of Patience and all perfection Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ 2. Prayer against Impatience LOrd keep me from Impatience as much my paine as sinne To thee the wise and just Disposer and Governour of Humane affaires it is a sinne a quarrelling and fighting with thy Providence To me a poore fraile Creature who cannot maintaine contest Job 2. 10. against my Maker it will be but paine If thy Hand lay the burden on Isa 49. 5. I must submit I cannot resist thee Pray it off I may I cannot throw it from me yea impatiently to seek to cast it off is the way to overwhelme me O! let me not delight at once in thy displeasure and my overthrow Thou art just If evill be on me it's what I deserve Thou art good If I submit to thy will thou wilt worke my good out of that evil Thou art great If I will not by choice I shall by force submit to thy will When therefore evil be it never so much or great is upon me let me look up to thee from whom it flowes Let me looke in to my sinne for which it comes Let me looke on to my good to which it tends So shall I sit downe in Patience under it and kneele downe in prayer to be delivered from it waiting humbly till thou shalt set me above it Even so give me grace to do and say of my Crosse and Paine as thou my Saviour didst of thy bitter Cup and Passion Father If it be thy will Let this Cup passe from me if not not my will but thy will be done Amen Amen Remedies against Impatience 1. AN Insurrection against the Government of a Providence Almighty and Good and therefore ever fond and foule 2. A Sinne of an everlasting date because man is in the perpetuall motion of misery till at rest in heaven 3. A Sinne which keeps
heights of Holy Perfection might Flesh and Blood attain were it not believ'd impossible And why Practise begets experience and that a mighty strength Thus doth he come to draw the strongest So the Martyr puts his finger into the Candle after his Body in the Fire Acts. Mon. 1 John 2. 12 13. bow that began with a weaker and carry an Oxe at last that hath it of a Calf on his shoulders Thou hast as many Presidents for this as there be Great Saints which from an Infancy of goodnesse have grown by degrees to be fo Great Even the Gyants of grace were once no taller then Dwarfes in goodnesse Say not then My Soul there 's a Lyon in the way Thy Phansie is the Lyon Enter goe Pro. 22. 13 on in the wayes of God thou shalt finde the Lyon slaine and hony in the Judg. 14. 1 Belly of the Lyon Even what was bitter will be sweet what was hard will be easie what was terrible will be amiable what was strange familiar to Phil. 3. 7 8. him that being well-resolv'd betakes himself to a good and righteous way But my Soul thou canst not stirre unlesse God strengthen pray then his Ability that thou maist goe on and let the hand have help from The Mouth To speak as it doth to Man for the Body so to God for thee for help If Psal 36. 9. Mat. 21. 22 1 Joh. 4. 21 Ezek. 31. 39. it speak from the Heart much may be done by the Mouth For as God is the Fountaine of Grace Prayer is the Bucket of the Well If then thou wouldst have it thou must down or rather since the Well is above up Joh. 14. 5. 1 Cor. 12. 3 Ezek. 36. 27. Rom. 8. 4. 11. 14. Ezek. 16. 37. Luk. 11. 13. with the Bucket My Soul thou canst no more do right without Gods Spirit then the Body live without thine If that Holy Spirit lead thee thou wilt not goe wrong I will put my Spirit into you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my Judgements and doe them Lo there 's the Power to doe right And shall not your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those that ask it That 's the way to come by that power And if thou Isa 61. 3. Dan. 9. 9. Isa 38. 3. Dan. 9. 3. Psal 6. 8. dost for thy better speed and haste mix thy Prayers with ashes and teares and weep and fast for their better fervency thou wilt sooner get to the end of that way And if thou wilt for thy better progresse provide thy self with more strength and store be sure to be one at an Eucharist if it come fairly John 6. 57 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damasc Viaticum Joh. 6. 58. Jam. 5. 16. Luk. 18. 1. to thy hand For my Soul nothing doth more nourish Holy Spirit then an Eucharist The bread of life from Heaven that thou faint not in the way And then Prayers must prevail when we wax not weary and grow faint My Soul thou hast been taught many helpes to doe well but by two things wilt be Cautioned to doe yet better If thou look to thy Christian Credit and Innocence well To keep that without just blot this without greater guilt Lessons that are not commonly taught and therefore to be more Singularly learnt Impaire not thy Credit Encrease not thy guilt Watch against both with strict Conscience Such Holy Cautions help to Heaven much My Soule there is a Reputation 4. Division Phil. 4. 8. 3 Joh. 12. Christian and if thou value the worldly before life the Heavenly should be dearer It is when thou givest no just Scandall and appearest without due blame and blemish in the Eye of the world I say scandall that 's just for if the Offence be causlesse in thee it s taken not given And I say appearing without blemish for thou must look as that it be not that it doe not appear Abstain from all appearance of Evill 1 Thes 5. 22. Thy Conversation must have neither ill Heart nor Face Nor ill Prospect for 1 Cor. 10. 32. Heaven nor Aspect to Earth Give no offence to any That is hurt not an Honest Eye with a Glass of foul behaviour Heb. 12. 13 stumble not an upright foot with a visible block of offence Providing for honest 2 Cor. 6. 3 2 Cor. 8. 21 Rom. 12. 17. Mat. 18. 16 things not onely in the sight of the Lord but in the sight of men And of the Good above all For better a Milstone tyed about thy Neck and thou throwne into the bottome of the Sea then offend one of those little ones What ever they Seeme thy Sin is great O then My Soule shall they be scandalized Phil. 1. 27. Phil. 4. 8. Ephes 4. 1. Col. 1. 10. Rom. 15. 2 rather then great ones bad ones be offended This will hang about thy neck a guilt heavier then a Milstone Have Sense then as of thy earthly of thy Christian Honour my Soule Say doe nothing unworthy that Noblenesse thy Goodnesse Have care as of thy Selfe of anothers Satisfaction and wound no more thy Credit then thy Conscience * Qui conscientiam negligit crudelis est in seipsum qui famam negligit crudelis in proximum Aug. Let not thy Brothers heart more then thy owne take thy wound Ill looks wound good hearts and if they infect kill like the Basiliske A good name is a pretious oyntment but an ill a Deadly Perfume And if thy Eccles 7. 1 Carriage want a good Countenance that 's a dead fly and makes it ill Away then with an Atheists heart and looke Away with unchast deeds and shewes Away with Prophane thoughts and Signes Away with an Epicures Spirit and Habit Away with a liars Soule and Suspition What is ill or looks ill doe all away For Beleive it The way for thee to goe to heaven is not to lay a stumbling-block in thy Rom. 14. 13. Psal 2. 15. Heb. 3. 12. 13. 2 Thes 3. 15. Gal. 6. 1. 2 Sam. 9. 12. Brothers way Build him a Bridge by thy good Example and by thy Counsell lead and help him over but doe not block up and Barricado his passage and by an ill Spectacle of Life like Amasiahs bloudy corps stop his better course Thou canst not bring others on their way and thy selfe be out for heaven No but Company comming Jam. 5. 19. 20. Dan. 12. 3. after thee thou wilt be let sooner and higher in Most doe not mind this but doe thou my Soul And Keep clear of others Guilts Be sure to mind that The reason is as great as thine and their Salvation My Soule Is not thy owne Proper guilt great enough that thou must pile on heaps of other mens to make the Psal 38. 8. fire greater Davids Sins went over his head and were a burden too heavy for him to beare My Soule Dost thou not shrinke at this He that
Dr. J. White p. 122. Dr. F. White pag. 188. Ag. Fisher 2. Eccl. Lutheranorum v. Conf. Ausb c. Et Quae Calvinum sequitur v. Ipsum Alios ut supra 1. De Romanae Ecclesiae Corruptelis in Confessione audi conquerentem Cassandrum in Consult de Confessione p. 108. Salutaris haec confitendi medicina ab imperitis importunis medicis multis inutilibus traditiunculis infecta contaminata fuit quibus Conscientiis quas extricare levare debebant laqueos injecêrunt tamquam tormentis quibusdam excarnificârunt 2. De Angl. Eccl. circae haec Judicio Vide Cas ub Epist ad Front p. 129. Cujus rigidam quidem necessitatem quae apud vos obti●et Ecclesia Anglicana molliendam sibi certo consilioputavit rem quidem ipsam neque sustulit ullâ unquam lege neque damnavit Ib. 5. But whether in or out of these cases if I have any Be sure my Pilot have skill My guide Goodnesse My Judge ability My Physitian experience I will not put my Body into the hands of an Empirike My State to an Ignorant at Law The Key of my House to a Varlets or Ideots hand Take heede then to whose Conduct and Judgement and Counsell and Trust I commit the Key of Heaven and my Heart 2. Be my Confession made to the Coram ipsis confiteantur Dco Conf. Boh. sie Jos 7. 19. Supreame Judge or His Delegate God or his Deputy to Him or Before Him it must be 1. Humble As the Publicans Because I stand as a Prisoner before Luk. 18. 13 the Judge of Heaven and am Suppliant for His Mercy 2. Hearty As the Apostles Because 1 Tim. 1 13 at Gods Barre The Knower and Tryer of the Heart 3. Particular As the Kings Of Psa 51. 14 what doth or should most disquiet the Conscience * Enumerationem quâ gravioraomnia peccata diligenter expenduntur tanquam Spiritualia vulnera Spirituali Medico revelantur retineudam esse dubium non est Protestantes non aspernantur hujusmodi enumerationem Casaub Consult p. 108. Such are Commonly Sins of a more grievous Nature either for their 1. Matter As Sins of a greate Kind which greatly wound and waste the Conscience As Perjury Murder Adultery Blasphemy c. a Rom. 2. 29. Gal. 5. 21 22. 2. Manner As Sins against Vows and Promises b Ezek. 16. 59. 17 18. and Mercies c Hos 7. 15 Isay 1. 2. or against Knowledge d Jam. 4. 17. Joh. 9. 41. and and Conscience Especially Since we last Received the Holy Communion 3. Touching Conversion or Amendment of Life 1. THis is the End and Complement Act. 26. 20 Mat. 3. 8. Act. 3. 19. Jer. 35. 15. Ezek. 18. 30. Dan. 4. 27 of Repentance without which it's vaine and fruitlesse to confesse as touching our Soules health As to bleed is in vaine if we presently fall to distemper our Bloud againe and to vomit ill humours out of the Stomack if we avoid not those things which will fill it up againe So at present to be Sick of Sinne and Bleed the Heart in Contrition and to void it up in Confession * Quasi escam indigestam-Evomit peccata Orig. in Psal 31. 2 Pet. 2. 22. if we amend not our Lives but returne to our old Vomit againe That were but to abuse Gods Ordinances and to make our Confession and the Holy Sacrament it selfe our Sinne if they serve onely to encourage and strengthen our Soules in Sinne and not as God Institues them to Arme and Enable us against it 2. And if the Amendment be not thorough even this is but as withered Fruit and to no end if it be not Jer. 7. 5. Ezek. 36. 25 26. Joel 2. 12. Rom. 6. 17 1 King 9. 4 Heb. 13. 18 Psal 139. 23 24. 1 Tim. 1. 5. 9. Isay 39. 4. Psal 32. 2. Psal 119. 165. Job 27. 6. 1 Joh. 3. 21 Jam 4. 8. 1. Vpright As well within as without and reach not as well to the Heart as Life 2. Absolute Without exempting any Sinne or Lust whatsoever whether in Life or Heart else indeed it is not Vpright This makes a Pure Heart and Quiet Breast Integrity of Life Which ensures our Repentance Seales our Pardon and Pacifies our Conscience and makes us Approach Gods Holy Presence and Table with confidence Which is not to be done without full purpose and some measure of this Integrity 2. How to Demeane our selves at the Holy Communion WIth all Humble and Entire Devotion of Body and Soul 1. The Body cannot be too Reverent Eccl. 5. 2. Mic. 6. 6. Exod. 3. 5. Jam. 4. 8. Psa 132. 7 because the Misteries are so High and Holy in which we draw so near to God 2. The Soul cannot be too Devout Whose faculties are all to be improved to the best and uttermost to discharge her Duty aright in this Great and Holy Service Therefore 1. The Mind must be Elevated to Putasn in ter consis●● Chrys Heavenly thoughts and Contemplations Of the Mystery of Mans Redemption By Gods Miraculous Incarnation In a most Bitter and Bloudy Passion Out of the Bottomlesse Deep of Love and Goodnesse Whereof we are to Receive his Pretious Pledges and ●okens All this of and with and in our Dying Lord and Dear Redeemer we are to have in Actuall Mind and Memory And Him in all to Mat. 6. 26. 1 Cor. 11. 24. Admire and Adore And 2. The Heart is to be Ravished with such Infinite mercy in God to Sinfull miserable Man * Vide quo modo his qui Christi cōmemorant passionem inter sacra officia quasi per qu●sdum can●les de interioribus fontibus oriantur ●orrentes super om●es deli●ias ●●●rymis nectarcis anima delectetur Cypr. de c. D. Psa 116. 11 12. To contrive and give so Glorious a Redeemer and Redemption to save his Soul And now to present him with such Gracious Seales of his Love and Admit him into so near and Holy Communion And for this to be dissolved in love to God and Christ and Man for His sake Psal 116. 11 12. With resolute Vowes of Life and Death to His Service That we will give forgive doe suffer any thing for Him And from that to be filled with Holy Rapts and Joyes and Hopes * Inde sequitur mentis jubilus cbrietas Haec non accendit sed extinguit peccatum Cum sopivit oblivio cuncta caernis ludibria mira sunt quae senti● mira quae videt inaudita quae loquitur Cypr. Rom. 8. 32. Rom. 5. 9 10. in so great a Goodnesse of so Good a God who having done this will deny me nothing And maugre the Rage and Malice of Hell will not see my Soul lost for whom all this is done And for those who need an aide v. Meditation on the Sacrament on the Passion Such Meditations will now be perused well as they have found to move most to give more
Heavenly light to their thoughts and holy Fire to their Affections This Fire like that of the Sanctuary must not goe out of the Heart and vanish like passions moved at a Play unlesse we will play away our Soules we must then see 3. How we are to Order our selves after the Holy Communion AS our care was before how to 1 Cor. 11. 27. Ephes 4. 1. Heb. 2. 16. Communicate it must be now how to Walk Worthily As those who are Honoured by Christ above Angels and therefore should be at least Saints Made now One with Christ * Assistunt Cherubini Chys Ut Christū gcrat in pectore Ferat in mente Cypr. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. and so henceforth to live Two from the Flesh the World and the Devill His Holy Body is in us His Holy Spirit must not be from us Else we Sinne grievously against His Bloud and Body What Nebuchadnezzars was in Eph. 4. 4. Dan. 2. 32. Dreame we make his Body indeed a Monster because we of it are such mungrill Limbs And as Belshazzar did at his Profane Banquet we doe by the Holy Supper Turne the Cup of 1 Cor. 11. 27 Blessing into Blasphemy Carousing as it were Healths to our Idol-lusts in Dan. 5. 4. His Hallowed both Wine and Bloud So 1. We play Judas with Christ Eat Joh. 13. 18 26. His Bread and lift up the Heele against Him Take the Sop and betray our Interests in Him 2. We play Gadaren with Him and worse We doe not Pray but Mar. 5. 17. cast Him out of our Coasts and after we have received Him in 3. We play Strumpet with Him 1 Cor. 6. 15. Jam. 4. 4. Our Members which are his are made the Worlds which is an Harlots 4. And so we play Fooles with our 1 Cor. 10. 22. Mat. 22. 11 1 Cor. 11. 29 30. own Soules On which we draw heavy Wrath for our vile provocations if not a Plague and Stroke from Heaven on our Bodies for doing such Injuries to our Saviour So end the Directions about the Holy Communion A Service fit for Sad Times for Wednesday or Friday Morning Prayer Psal 71 73 74. or 124 125 126 129. Lessons Dan. 9. or Ezra 10. to v. 7. or 2 Chron. 36. Jer. 14. Luk. 21. Evening Prayer Psal 44 77 78. or 83. 98 or 137. 140 141. Lessons 2 Chron. 13. or 20. 1 Cor. 10. or Jude Ep. ¶ 1. Collect Confessing and Depre●ating Judgments O Lord Thou hast given us to see Bitter and Bloudy Times Barbarous outrages are done and endured daily Our Houses and Friends are full Even thy Temples are not free Dear God! These be the Dues of our Sins Thou art Just but we are Wicked Against the great Meanes of thy Grace and Mercies of thy Goodness for many and many years vouchsafed to us and our Fathers before us we are notwithstanding full of Hypocrisie full of Profanenesse full of Lewdnesse most Ingratefully and therefore most Aboimnably Wicked And I even I have contributed a great measure of my Sins to fill up those Woes But O God! that art Mercifull as thou art Just that delightest not so much to appeare just as Mercifull Pardon those Sins of ours that cause those Woes Pardon those Sins of mine which concurre to that cause And with the Pardon of our Sins grant us a Release of our punishments Let civill broiles and bloodsheds cease True Piety and Peace flourish againe amongst us Thou that out of evill canst work good and out of Confusion didst set up the Order of the World out of those evills and confusions that are upon us worke good and establishment for us O Thou that powerfully canst Mercifully doe this To thy great Honour and our great happinesse for the comfort both in body and Soule of us and ours and all that truly fear and love Thee and true Religion in and for Thee Even for thy tender Pities sake hear us Even for the pretious Bloud and Passion of Jesus helpe us In whose Blessed and Beloved Name we put up our Prayers Saying Our Father c. Amen 2. Prayer for an End of Warre HAsten O God these Daies of Bloud and Woes and give a happy and speedy end to the Warrs O! Let unnaturall Divisions cease and the unhappy Separations of Dearest friends end amongst us For these Times of wants and wounds and bonds and destructions let the Daies of Plenty and Safety and Liberty returne againe unto us O! Let it be enough that for our sins thou hast so long wounded us and broken us and now heale us and binde us up and Save us for thy Mercies sake Give us peace for the Sword Thou God of peace even for his Sake who is the Prince of peace Jesus Christ our Lord Amen! 3. Prayer for Blessing on those who seeke peace O God of Peace Blesse those that seek it that they may findit and stop and turne those that fly it and make them to seeke it Bow their hearts to it that have the power and strengthen their hands for it that have the Will As for those who set their hands and hearts against it we beseech thee turne thine hand and face against them O! Forgive us our Sins which threaten to destroy us and send us a peace which may preserve us And from more Bloud and Violence Deliver us Deliver us for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen! 4. Prayer for Friends in Danger and Distresse O God of Power Pity preserve thou those that are in danger to die Rescue them from the rage of violence and shew thy selfe Mercifull to them in saving their lives if it be thy blessed will O thou preserver of men Save them If not grant them all Graces and Mercies needful for the saving of their Souls Let them Glorifie thee in life and death that thou maist glorifie them with thy Eternall Life Through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. In whose name I pray mercy for all that Suffer in these Times of extremity Chiefly the Destitute Widdows and Fatherlesse Lord Take them to thy care and comfort them Have mercy on them and helpe them Supply them all and Succour them for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen 5. Prayer for Conversion of one in an Evill Course O Lord That delightest not in the Death of a Sinner I beseech thee by thy Grace and-Providence to stay his Course who is entred into a way of Vice and Vanity O Let him not goe on to bring an end of shame upon himself in this World and Confusion of face upon his Soule in the World to come But of thy great Mercy stop him and turne him to a better Course For Jesus Christ his sake Amen 6. Prayer for preservation of the Church O Lord The Church is thy Body and thou art H●ae Head Shee is thy Spouse and thou art her Husband O! Save thine owne Body Preserve thine owne Spouse Protect her from all Enemies Men and Devills Keep her from all ills Errours