hâ—â— chastised us and we were chastised turn thâ— us and we shall be turned thou art the Loâ—â— our God O! that remembring our ways arâ— all our doings wherein we have been defileâ— we could loath our selves in our own sighâ— for our iniquities and for our abominations O! give us saving knowledg give us tâ—â— spirit of Truth who will guide us into â— truth incline our Ears to wisdom and oâ— Hearts to understanding that we may cry aâ—ter knowledg and lift up our Voice for uâ—derstanding that we may understand the feâ—â— of the Lord and find the knowledg of oâ— God that we may be able to cry unto thee â— our God we know thee hast thou not promâ—ed saying I will put my law into their Hearâ— and write it in their inward parts and I wâ— be their God and they shall be my Peopâ—â— O! that thou would'st give us this Knowledâ— that thou would'st fill our Hearts with tâ—â— knowledg as the Waters cover the Sea â— give us the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelatiâ—â— in the Knowledg of Christ that the Eyes â— our Understandings being inlightned we mâ— know what is the hope of his Calling aâ—â— what is the riches of the Glory of his Inherâ—tance in the Saints Dear FAther is not thâ— secret with the Righteous is not the secret the Lord Revealed to them that fear him â— give us a love of God and of Christ and all things that belong to him Thou hast said I will Circumcise their Hearts and the Hearts of our seed to love the Lord our God with all our Hearts and with all our Souls that we may live and not die Oh set us on fire burn us make us new and Transform us that nothing besides thee may live in us O! wound very deeply our Hearts with the Dart of thy Love and that because of our sins which are many are forgiven us we may love thee not a little but much Oh! that we were sick of Love that our understandings will and affections were all overcome and amazed and that our faintings were enflamed towards thee and even â—melted into thee O sweet Jesu touch our Souls with thy Spirit that Vertue may come out of thee into us draw us unto thy self Oh let the savors of thy Oyntments whose very Breath is love be ever in our Nostrils O give us the Flagons of the New Wine of thy Kingdom which may lift up our Souls above our selves in our Loves that we may forget the low and base Loves of this World and by an Heavenly access may be Transported into an Heavenly Love and Embrace Jesus Christ who is the Lord from Heaven with a love like himself Oh! let us desire Union with thee and help us to bring forth fruit unto thee O give us the fruit of the Spirit that may resemble thee and be pledges to us of thy Union with us O burn and consume whatsoever would grow one with our Souls besides thee O let the fire of thy Spirit so turn our Souls into a Spiritual Fire that the dross of the Flesh and the World being wholly consumed we may be Spirituaâ— and so bring forth Fruits only to the Spirit O sweet Saviour look upon us in mercy orâ— look of thine will awaken our loves and makâ— us to weep bitterly that we loved thee so little whom to love sufficiently our best and mightâ—est Loves are most insufficient Prevent ouâ— seeking with thy seeking be thou present witâ— us in thy Providence and Power when thoâ— seemest to be far off us in the tast of thy sweetness and fruition of thy Loves and then wheâ— we have regained thy Love we will hold morâ— hardly and keep more Fastly and love thee morâ— vehemently and provide a Stock of Loves in thâ— Summer against the Winter if it return any more O help us to love one another as Christ hath loved us and make Our Love to abound more more towards all men especially to them that arâ— of the houshold of Faith And good Lord cause us to love our Enemies to bless them that curse us and to pray for them that despightfully use us and persecute us O give us a zeal after God and his Truth good Causes and good men O let us not rest concented with a lukewarm Profession being neither cold nor hot but make Our Souls to break for the Longings they have for thy Judgments at all times O that we were Fervent in the Spirit zealous always in every good thing O that the zeal of thy house might even eat us up And that Our zeal might provoke Others unto thee O that thy Word were in Our Hearts like a burning fire that we were weary with forbearing and that we could not stay O give us the Grace of Patience Thou hast told us in the world we shall have Tribulation and thro' much tribulation we must enter into the Kingdom of God O make us to run with patience the Race that is ses before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despised the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God O help us to consider him that endured such contradictions of sinners against himself lest we be wearied and Faint in Our Minds Let us not think it strange concerning the fiery Trial but rather rejoiâ—e in as much as we are made parâ—akers of Christs Sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed we may be glad also with exceeding joy O teach us to reckon with our selves that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared to that glory which shall be revealed in us Hast thou not said that if we be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are we O therefore that it may be given to us in the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake O help us to deny our selves and to take up our Cross daily and follow our Saviour Give us perseverance and to this end make us to build on thy promises Thou hast said that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord tho he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his right hand Thou hast said to your Old Age I am he and even to hoary hairs will I carry you and I will deliver you for this God is our God for ever and he will be our Guide even unto death O give us One Way and One Heart that we may Fear thee for ever And make thou an evetlasting covenant with us That thâ—n wilt not turn away from us to do us good O put thy Fear into our hearts that we may not depart from thee And dear Lord help us to hold fast the profession of our Faith without wavering confirm us unto the end that we may be blameless unto the coming and day of our Lord Jesus Christ And dear Father
sleep not in sin lest the sleep of death surprize thee the hour is certain in nothing but uncertainties For sure thou must die yet thou knowest not on what day nor in what place nor how thou shalt be disposed when death must be entertained O Lord how many thousand Bills of Mortality have passed over our heads and we little or nothing regard them who knows but some of us may fill up the next weeks account and be forc'd to render up our accounts before the Just Judg of all the Earth of all our deeds done in the flesh whether they be good or evil He that once thought to begin to take his ease was fain that very night whether he would or no to make his end would you have thought this He but now flourished like a green bay tree his thoughts full of mirth his soul of ease but I passed by and lo he was goue Gone whither his body to the grave his soul to hell whose turn may be next God only knows who knoweth all But whosoever we be that go on in a course of sin in the name of God let us seriously bethink our selves of Mortality how many have we heard of that went well to bed over night for ought any man could tell and yet have been found dead the next moâ—ning O help us to repent of all our sins by crying and sighing and sorrowing for sin It may be this night and that is not long to come but we may sleep our last in this world O keep us that we go not to bed with a conscience laden with sin O how should we take any rest or sleep with the brother of death when we lie down in danger of eternal death O there is no more but a breath one breath and no more no more but a step one step and no more Oh were not this lamentable that some One of us who are standing or sitting here should this night sleep his last and to morrow have his body carried to his Grave yea and before to morrow morning which the good Lord in mercy forbid have his soul cast from a bed of Feathers into a bed of Fire And yet alas alas if any of us should die this night in our sins or in an unregenerated state thus will it be with whomsoever we be To morrow may our bodies be cold under earth and our souls frying in the flames of hell 'T is good for us all to expect death every day and by this means death foreseen cannot possibly be sudden No 't is he dies suddenly that dies unpreparedly Watch therefore saith our Saviour be ever in a readiness and as we tender the everlasting wellfare of our poor souls let us learn that Lesson of our blessed Saviour not to lay up for our selves treasures on earth where Moth and Rust doth corrupt and where Thieves break through and steal but lay up for our selves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where Thieves do not break thro' and steal it is those treasures those stocks of grace that will last us for ever which is a circumspect walking that Fervency of spirit that Zeal of good works that purity of conscience St. John speaketh of which is the property of every true hearted profeâ—sor It is the work the life the power of that prayer that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy O that we could lay up such heavenly provision against the day of caamity if while it is called to day we could make our peace with our peace with our heavenly Father by an humble exercise of repentance If in this time of grace we could purchase Gods Favour and those rarest Jewels of Faith and a good conscience if now before we come to appear at that dreadful Tribunal that we could be so happy as to make God and Christ our Friends in the Court of Heaven O how wellcom and how blessed then would our death be unto us come it never so suddenly still should death find us ready and if ready no matter how suddenly yea tho it were this night Oh help us seriously to consider what Jesus Christ did and suffered for us and for our sins O how was he sorrowful even unto death with exceeding sorrow which made him pray that the cup might pass from him yet with submission to his Fathers will and all to save our poor lost and undone souls O the riches and love and the free grace of Jesus Christ to us Oh the earnestness of his prayers and the agony he was in not drops of water only but his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground O how was he buffeted spit on reviled mocked and scourged sor our sins Oh how was the chastisement of our sins laid upon him and by his stripes are we healed And dear Father do thou be graciously pleased to keep up in us an humble remembrance of this abundant love wherewith the Lord Jesus Christ hath bound us he was crowned with Thorns for our sins that we through his merits might be crown'd with glory in the Kingdom of Heaven O unspeakable love how were his tender hands and feet nailed to the Cross his holy unspotted breast peirced with a spear and his dearest hearts blood let forth and all to save our poor souls from the pit of eternal destruction O let us consider the great necessity we are in in not looking unto this Jesus we have need of Christ we have need that he pray in us and need that he pray for us unto our heavenly Father we have need that he work in us and need that he work for us of his plessed will and pleasure We have need that he present us and ours blameless before his Fathers presence in life and death and at the Judgment day O Lord there is not a moment in our lives wherein we stand not in continual need of Jesus Christ O then let our necessities drive us to Christ and mind us of Christ And as it hath been our great misery in departing from God dear Father we beseech thee to cause us now to lay out all our strength by the blessed assistance of thy holy spirit of grace to the uttermost of our power to gain a reconciliation with God to close with him on his own terms propounded to us in the Gospel And dear Father be pleased to raise up in us a love and a delight in the keeping holy thy Sabbaths here on earth that so we may be fitted and prepared to keep an ever lasting Sabbath with thee in Heaven Dear Lord pardon cleanse purge O purifie and make new our inward man by thine Almighty power subdue our corruptions and renew our Natures and bring us near unto thy self by the gracious workings of thy blessed spirit O forget not thy loving kindnesses of old but reach O reach our souls by the blessed spirit of thy grace O let us feel the power of thy
give us all other Graces a lively hope that may save us yea in those times let us with Abraham against hope believe in hope and give us joy in the Holy Ghost Thou hast said Joy is sown for the Righteous and gladness for the upright in heart O give us a filial Fear because thou takest pleasure in those that fear thee For in that day that thou makest up â—â—y Jewels they shall be thine and thou wilt spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him O give t is humility and lowliness of Spirit casting down imaginations and every thing that exalteth it self against the Knowledg of God O give us meekness of mind that the Wolf may dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard may lie down with the Kid the Calf and young Lion and the Fatling together whilst a little Child may lead them O give us peace of conscience and the peaco of God that may guide guard and garison our whole souls And for our further assurance o give an increase and growth to all these Graces and do thou guide us continually and satisfie our souls in drought O make Fat Our Bones that we may be like a watered Garden and like a Spring of water whose waters fail not O let the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing under his wings that we may go forth and grow up as the Calves of the Stall O that thopu would'st be pleased to make our path as the path of the just even as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day O that thou wouldest be unto us as dew unto Israel that we might grow as the Lilly and cast forth our Root as Lebanon that our branches might spread and our beauty be as the Olive-tree and our smell as Lebanon O Lord hast not thou said I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground and I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed and my blessing upon thy Off-spring O put into our hearts their ways who go from strength to strength every one of them in Zion appearing before God Nor pray we only for Remission but for cleansing not only for Pardon but for purifying and power against sin and deliverance from sin Holy God thou hast promised That he that is left in Zion and he that is left in Jerusalem shall be called holy when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the Daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the Spirit of Judgment and by the Spirit of burning Holy God thou hast said thou wilt put thy law in our hearts and write it in our inward parts Holy God it is thy promise the first promise and the Foundation of all other promises that the Seed of the woman should bruise the Serpents head that Christ should break the Power and Dominion of Satan O that having those Promises we could live by Faith that we could rest upon God and believe that God of his Free Grace in Christ will purge us from the filthy Remainders of sin and renew us more and more after his Own Image in Righteousness and true holiness Surely Lord thoâ— hast said it and therefore no Presumption buâ— true Obedience to assure our selves of whatsoever thou hast promised and entred into bond and covenant Freely to give us He that believeth on thee as the Scripture saith Out of his belly shall flow Rivers of living waters Christ is a Fountain of Grace ever flowing and ever Full and of his fulness we all receive grace for grace There is no grace but from Christ nor no communion with Christ but by Faith O therefore that we could embtace him by Faith for our sanctification that so we might be filled with the gifts of his grace in our measure 'T is Christ that is our Wisdom and Sanctification as well as Righteousness and Redemption O that our Jesus would justifie our Persons and sanctifie our Natures and enable us to those duties of holiness that he requires and that he would make us unto himself a Kingdom of Priests an holy Nation O Lord we have many potent Enemies that daily war against us the World the Flesh and the Devil and Our strength is too weak to vanquish the Allurements of this World and to repress the Lusts of our rebellious hearts or to defeat the Polices of Satan much more to cleanse our own hearts But O Lord thou hast promised O help us to believe that God who is rich in mercy will aid and assist and bless our Endeavours yea and do the whole work for us and in us according to his good pleasure O grant we may not love the world nor the things of the world that our hearts be not over-charged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life to neglect â—uâ— immortal souls O do thou be pleased to rouze us and lift us up from the death of sin unto a life of righteousness And good Lord grant that we may not suffer sin to reign in our mortal bodies that we should obey it in the lust â—hereof Neither suffer us to yeild our Members as â—nstruments of unrighteousness unto sin but unto God as those that are alive from the dead that being made free from sin and become the Servants of God we may have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life And dear Father grant that we may be sober and vigilant because our Advetsary the Devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour O make us strong in the Lord and in the power of his might that we may be able to stand against all the wilds of Satan Why Lord we wrestle not against flesh and blood only but against principalities and powers against thr Rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places O therefore strengthen us that we may stand having the girdle of truth about our Loins the Breastplate of Righteousness and the shield of Faith wherewith we may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked We confess and acknowledg O Lord to thy glory that all our strength is in thee and in the power of thy might And dear Father we humbly beg that thou wilt be pleased to stand and stay by us by thy blessed Spirit of Grace the remaining part of our days that we may live righteously and godly in this present world so that we may be able to stand when the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open and may hear that joyful call thy blessed Son shall then pronounce Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdom prepared for you That then we may enter into those Joys that the Living God hath provided for such as Fear and Love and delight in him and for ever enjoy that glory our blessed Saviour speaketh of that he had with thee before the Foundation of the world O help us to draw near unto thee in