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A16892 The fourth part of the true watch containing prayers and teares for the churches. Or A helpe to hold up the hearts and hands of the poorest servants of God, untill our Lord Iesus Christ shall have rescued his glorie, kingdome, and people in all the world, and fully prepared the way to his most glorious appearing.; True watch. Part 4 Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624. 1624 (1624) STC 3788; ESTC S119302 193,245 564

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Sonne our onely Mediator and blessed Redeemer and Saviour Amen FINIS Protestants helpes for Deuotion and matters belonging to the stirring up of the same A AVgustines Meditations Allisons Meditations Art of happinesse Abba Father Abrahams Tryall Alphabet of Prayers Anatomy of the Soule Andersons prayers Anker of Faith Art of meditation B Bradfords Meditations Bezaes Prayers Banes Letters Banes his holy helper Banes his spiritual Armour Bifields Marrow Bifields signes of Saluation Bifields signes of a Wicked man Bound of Fasting Banes on true Happinesse Banes his direction Bifields Treatises Bifields Principles Burning bush Boaring of the Eare. Benefit of Affliction Battell between Vertues and Vices Beautifull Baybush C Christian dayly Sacrifice Crashewes prayers Crowne of life Christian watchfulnesse Chaine of Graces Christian mans walke Christian Combat Christian Sacrifice Contemplations 7. parts Converts Catechisme Couenant betweene God and Man Christians Touchstone Conquest of Temptations Combate betweene Man and Death Christian prayers and meditations Conduite of Comfort M. Cusuerwe●… of ●…aith Christian Armour by M. Gouge Caluins prayers Castle of the soule Conawayes prayers Cases of Conscience Cases of Conscience D Dauids Sling Diamond of Deuotion Daily exercise of a Christiā Deerings prayers Delights of the Saints Discourse of true happinesse Dauids Key D. Duns Deuotion Death subdued Dialogue betweene the Lord and the Soule Dike on the deceiptfulnes of mans heart Dike of repentance Dike of Conscience Dauids Cast. M. Dod on the Commandements M. Dod on the Lords Supper M. Dods houshold gouerment Dents pathway to Heauen Dents sermon on repentance Dauids Vow Defiance to death Dauids repentance Directions to the waters of Life Directions in our dutie to God and man Diuine Meditations E Euery dayes Sacrifice Eye to heauen Enemy to Security Enemy to Atheisme Estate of a Christian. Exercise for Christian Families Exercise of the faithful soule F Fields prayers Foot-path to Faith Lady Fane her Meditations Fountaine or Well of life Flower of godly Prayers Fruite of Faith Freemans Comfort G Glasse of Vainglory Grounds of Diuinity Grounds of Religion Granadoes Meditations Godly Garden Godly mans assurance Garland of godly Flowers Garden of spirituall Flowers Gods Husbandry Growing in grace Golden Chain by M. Rogers Gouernance of vertue Garden of Felicity H Helpe to Deuotion Hundred heavenly thoughts Heavenly progresse Heavenly Mansion Handful of wholsome hearbs Harbour of Christianity I Imitation of Christ 3. parts Iewell for Gentlewomen Ioy of a good Conscience K. Kings Bath Key of Knowledge Kings Psalmes L Linacars Consolations Life death of M. Stubbs Learne to liue Learne to dye Load starre of life Love of God Life of Religion Lampe of Virginity M Manuel of Prayers Markes of Salvation Meditations and Vowes Martyrs Prayers Melancthons Prayers Marlorats Prayers Markes of Gods Children O Oyle of Scorpions P Practice of Piet●… Practice of Christianity Practice of Quietnesse An Inuitation to prayer and the practice of Piety Poore mans rest Poesie of Prayers Pensiue mans practice Princes Prayers Pilgrimes profession Pathway to Paradise Practice of the faithful Pathway to Salvation Pathway to Felicity Pearle of the Gospell Preservatiue against sinne M. Perkins his Treaties Pars Grounds Perfect path to Paradise Path to penitency Progresse to piety Poore mans Pater nostey Pomander of Prayers Paradise of the Soule Pathway to please God Precious Pearle Poore mans Staffe Q Queene Katherines Prayers R Righteous mans evidence Reward of Religion Rocke of Religion Resolves divine Rogers seven Treatises Right godly rules Rosary of Christian Prayers S Sicke mans Medicine Sanctuary of a trobled Soule Supplication of Saints Seaven helpes to heaven Scudder on the Lords prayer Spirituall detraction Simpson on the Psalmes Simeons Sacrifice Suttons Meditations Safegard of the Soule Sicke mans Salve Solace of the Soule Soules watch Spirituall Garden Samuels encounter Samuel Smiths Workes Saints by Calling Ship of Salvation Sacrifice of a Christian soule Seven sobs of a sorowful soule Shield of Salvation Sampsons Prayers Sicke mans Comfort T True Watch. Twines prayers Topsels Meditations Treasure of Gladnesse Triall of Faith Trumpet of the Soule Lad Tirwits prayers Troubled mans Medicine Treatise of Conscience FINIS ¶ See more concerning all these following in M. Maunsels Catalogue dedicated to Queen Elizaebeth imprinted An. Dom. 1595 and sundry others since not mentioned HElpes for suffering adversity and affliction Pag. 2. Preparatiues against Apostacie 4. Col. 2 Catechismes Pag. 28. Col. 2 Treatises and helpes for keeping the Ten Commandements Pag 35. Col. 2 Confessing of Christ. Pag. 37. Col. 2 Treatises of Conscience with comforts for an afflicted Conscience 37. col 2 Treatises of the Creed for helpes for our faith Pag. 40. Col. 2. Helpes against the feare of death how to dye well Pag. 42 Helpes against desperation pag. 43 Directions for a Christian life 44 Of the end of the world and the second comming of Christ. 47 Exercises for a Christian Family and a Christian life pa. 48 Helpes for true Fasting 49 Spirituall preservatiues against the Pestilence 59 Imitation of Christ. 62 Prayers 83 Of Repentance 90 Helpes for preparation vnto the Sacraments of the Lords Supper 93 Holy Sermons in print a multitude 96 Comforts for the sicke 107 108 True Confession of sinne 108 Restitution of a sinner ibid. Of good workes and exhortation to them Pag. 113. ¶ A Table of the particular Meditations of each of the seuen generals 1. Generall Meditation HOw our Saviour looks for some to helpe him in the deliverie and saving of his church and what things are necessary for euery such a helper to know Pag. 12. 2. Generall Meditation 2 Of the present necessitie of this worke and of the lively feeling thereof and how the Lord cals all sorts thereunto 7 Heere in these particular Meditations 1. Concerning the calamities and dangers of our Brethren in all places and those which are threatned towardes our selues with the chiefe meanes of delivery and preservation from them pag. 9 2 How God hath beene wont to get himselfe glorie in saving his Church by Princes and Governours pag. 13. 3 How as Sathan Antichrist have set themselves to fight against Christ and his Kingdome so our Saviour hath ordained Kinges and Princes to hold up his Scepter and to defend and protect his subiects Gospell pa. 15 4 How Sathan and Antichrist set up themselves to bee obeyed and to destroy all out of the earth who seeke to obey Christ truely pag. 18 5 Concerning the innumerable miseries which our Brethren indure being deprived of the outward comforts of this and the better life and how n●…e the like may be to us pag. 20. 6 Concerning the general sinnes of the Churches so provoking the Lord and namely the generall abuse of the Gospel and blessings accompanying it and that our sinnes are of all others most heynous for the same pag. 23 7 How Satan exerciseth all his power and tyranny against the Churches spiritually like as he doth outwardly pag. 50 8 How the Kingdom and Glory are our Christs how
deserued this honor and hath this office to make us and our prayers to be accepted and therfore that we may in faith cry unto thee evermo●…e thorow him Amen Amen Good Lord helpe us and all thy people that by all these markes and the like wee may thoroughly try and examine our selves whether we be thy children or no and that wee may never give ouer crying unto thee untill we finde every one of these lively and sensibly in us Cause us rightly to understand and to bee fully perswaded heereof that in what measure we finde the former change wrought in us and every one of these marks in the same we may know our selves like wise to bee in thy favour and accepted of thee and that contrarily vvithout every one of these at least begun in us in some measure a sound resolution with an earnest desire and longing of our soules to increase and grow heerein vvee cannot assure our selves to bee any better then Hypocrites and that wee shall never finde sound comfort that thou wilt acknowledge us for thine untill we finde these evident markes upon us Grant unto us therefore Oh tender Father all the peculiar marks of thy Children and all other that hereby we and all thine may know our selves infallibly to bee thine owne deere Children for thy beloved Sonne our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen VI. A prayer for knowledge and right use of the meanes whereby wee may bee made Gods Children and grow up in the assurance thereof and so b●… established in grace continually OH most gracious God and mercifull Father the onely fountaine of wisedome and grace forsomuch as every one who hath any sparke of grace or true wisedome desires to bee in the blessed estate of thy Children to have thy love and favour to grow up in the assurance thereof as the chiefest happinesse in this world perswade us and all thy people aright what are the ordinary meanes whereby thou begettest thy Children to a lively hope That thou dost it ordinarily and usually even by the same meanes whereby thou diddest first gather thy Church in the daies of our Saviour and after that so wonderfully and speedily spread it over the face of the earth even by the sincere preaching of thy heavenly word and namely of thy sacred Gospell That howsoever the world accounts that foolishnesse yet thou hast ordained it to be the immortall seede whereby thine are begotten anew and thus made thy Children by grace and to be thy mighty power unto salvation to make all thine to beleeve and in beleeving to make them partakers of thy favour and love and so to give them eternall life And that this saving kinde of preaching stands as the preaching of Paul did not in the intising speech of mans wisedome but in the plaine evidence of thy Spirit of power That so our faith may bee apparant to bee wrought not by the wisedome of men but onely by thy divine and mighty power alone Perswade all thy people moreover that as thou doest beget all thine a-newe by this thy heauenly voyce the sincere preaching of thy Gospell and in calling them makest them thy Children so thou feedest and nourishest them and all thy Graces in them by the same principally and next therunto by the right use of thy holie Sacraments the reuerent reading of the same blessed word and other holy bookes grounded thereupon with sacred Meditations conference with the godly practise of all holy duties carnest supplications and prayers for a right and sanctified use for thy blessing upon everie one of these meanes and the like to make them all effectuall heereunto Good Father perswade ●…ll who thus desire to bee thy Children and in thy favour and to have all others likewise partakers with them of the same mercy to seeke by all holy meanes the establishing and advancement of thy sacred Ministery that them selves and all others may depend upon the conscionable faithfull and sincere Ministers Pastors and Teachers whom thou hast ordayned in this respect to succeed in the place of holy Paul and the other Apostles for the gathering together of the Saints for the worke of the Ministry and for the edification of the body of Christ and bee wholly affraid of all Anaba ptisticall fancies or separations or of any way vvithdrawing themselves from under the meanes ordayned by thee for their salvation to lye open to Sathan and his delusions Oh gracious Father who so tenderest thy Children and chosen flocke as thou hast set Kings Princes in thy place for the care and comfort of them above all other of the earth perswade and move effectually the heartes of all those whom thou hast appointed to be thus as Fathers to thy children as namely all Governours and principally the cheefe whom thou hast specially ordayned to bee the prime foster-Fathers unto those thy deere Children in al the parts of the world That they by all the meanes power that thou shalt ever vouchsafe to put into their hands may looke to see thy people committed to their charge to be furnished with such conscionable sincere faithfull Pastors and teachers as by whom they may be first begotten and after nourished and fed so as they may grow up to the measure of the age of the fulness in Christ and be provided likewise for all other gracious meanes helps belonging hereunto Thus in like manner wee humbly intreate thee most mercifull God and tender father that by the mighty operation of thy heavenly Spirit thou wilt thorowly perswade and move all those whome thou hast in a peculiar manner separated unto this worke of winning of soules unto thee or who have or shall any way enter heereupon that they may wisely consider that principall part of their Vocation and Function namely to endeavour to make al their Congregations to bee thine owne Children carrying lively thy image and bearing upon them the markes of thy Children Cause them to seeke tenderly to nourish and comfort them as in thy place and presence and ever to preserve keepe them from Sathan and all his cursed agents and instruments as from all seducing Iesuites and Seminaryes who compasse sea and land to make all sorts the children of the divell worse then themselves and so from all other deceyvers and all the delusions of this evill world Grant that thus they may study to be able each according to their places at all times whensoever thou shalt call them to an account and chiefly at the great day to present them with all confident boldness and joy before thy heavenly Majesty saying vvith the Prophet Lord heere am I and the children thou hast given me by my Ministry or any way cōmitted to my charge Hearken unto us Oh gracious Father in these our humble supplications all other things which thou knowest to be
burdens upon thee at all times and also by our rejoycing alwayes in thee as in our good God that thou takest care for us and by being heereby full of Christian chearfulnes and courage against all the oppositions and feares that ever wee shall or can mee●…e with in this our journey towards Can●…an as thy worthiest servants have bene wont to be Oh magnifie thy power and goodnesse in shedding out thy love so aboundantly upon all thy Churches and every member thereof and so manifesting it before the world that in the true sense and feeling of it in our hearts and our lively faith in thee wee may all joyntly manifest the fervent love wee returne unto thy Majesty by our unfeigned love of every one of thy blessed Commandemēts and our fervent desire to thy statutes to walke in them all without reproofe yea by our ardent affection towards all thy ordinances and servants onely for thy cause Good Lord cause the fervent zeale that wee have towards thy name to appeare before the world in the vehement griefe and indignation that we have for all y● dishonors done unto thy heavenly Majesty by trampling under feete thy blessed Commandements thy religion and servants and the injuryes and contumelyes done against any of them and so likewise by our study and holy indeavour by all meanes to promote thy true religion and causes and by our vehement hatred of whatsoever is offensive to thy holinesse that we may set up nothing in our heartes but thy Majesty and those things which thou lovest accounting all other as drosse and dung in regard of thy holinesse yea even life it selfe if it hinder us from injoying or obeying thee Cause thy glory to rest herein upon all the Churches and upon all thy poore afflicted servants that upon the assurance of thy love and that thou art our gracious God we may honour thee in shewing forth all holy patience with all cheerfullnesse even in the middest of all our tryals that howsoever thou maiest seeme to be displeased with us and to frowne upon us yea to favour our enemies in all their proceedings and to give us up into their hands to let them to be lords over us and make us a prey to their teeth yet our eye may bee still at thee at thy love wisedome and faythfulness knowing that whatsoeuer thou doest to us thou doest it but to humble us for our security and for all other our greevous sinnes and to prove us that thou art certainely disposing all to our greatest comfort in the end and thus to prepare our way unto thy heavenly Ierusalem That thus we all may ever possess our soules in patience and waite for the happy issue both of all our owne trialles and of all the trialles of thy Church and people and bee alwayes able to say with holy Iob though thou shouldst kill us or leave us utterly and wholly unto the pleasures and lustes of our enemyes yet we will still trust in thee approoving our wayes in thy sight that heereby we may make it manifest to the faces of all our enemyes that we are certainly assured that nothing can separate us from thy love and that thou canst not forsake faile or forget us whatsoever 〈◊〉 the present thou doe unto us Ye●… oh most blessed God cause thy glory yet to shine more clearly uppon all the Churches and upon everyone of us that are thy true servants and children indeed in this behalfe that though the wicked feare thee not but seek to drive all the true feare of thy Majestie even out of our hearts likewise as out of their owne and do therefore hate and persecute us so farre as thou permits them onely because we feare thee and put our tru●…t in thy mercy yet we may feare thee so much more with a true holy childe-like feare that we may ever and especially now in these evill dayes labour to live alwaies as in thy presence and as in the verie eye of thy all-seeing Majestie Grant good Lord that we may bee able thus to walke with thee constantly until we shall be translated hence and with holy Noah to endevour to be still more righteous in our generation and to be daily building our Arkes to save our selves and Families and all other that we can get into the same from the floud of thy vengeance that is rushing upon al the world of the wicked And albeit the world scorn and deride us dayly for it and though we be the onely talk and hatred of the wicked and as men appointed and designed to death onely for this our feare of thee in the bloody hopes of thine and our proud enemyes yet cause us heerein to honour thee that we may not feare the faces of them while we walke in thy blessed Commandements and do onely as thou requirest of us but that by the might and power of thy heavenly Spirit we may bee more full of all Christian corage as the three worthy Children of the Captivitie as good Daniel and holy Nehemiah And yet more also enable us heerein likewise to honour thee before the world and to shew openly before men and Angels that we have set thee uppe in our hearts to be our God even by walking humbly with thee that thogh the world regard thee not but thou art farre above out of their sight and though they doe band themselves agaynst thee against thy heavenly word and servants yea thogh they scorne al thy judgments and threatnings as the Gyants before the flood and as proud Pharao and Herod did yet we may all walke ever in all humility and lowlinesse of Spirit before thee Make us ever to have before our faces thy glorious excellencie and our own vilenesse thy holinesse and our sinnefulnesse and that not only by the fall of our first Parents and by the whol course of our sinful lives and also the power subtilty and malice of Sathan against us to destroy us each moment without thy speciall preservation mercie but even for the very corruption of our sinfull natures which still dwell in us that bodie of death which would carrie us to destruction yea even to hell it selfe every minute if thou in the riches of thy mercy shouldest not restraine it and shouldest not cover all our sinnes yea keep and uphold us Oh give us hearts that herein wee may all magnifie thy great name in giving unto thee as is thy due all the glory of our standing perseverance in grace and of every good thing that ever we enjoy acknowledging from our soules that they are all the free gifts of thy rich mercy and that we are not worthy any of them nay that we are much lesse then the least of them as thy deerest servants have beene wont to do And good Lord heerein make us specially able to give thee thy glory in being thorowly humbled and in mourning continually for all the heynous sinnes