and for others and for thy whole Church for the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Redeemer Amen For a Family BLessed Lord God the Father of all the Families of the Earth who art no respecter of Persons but requirest every one to walk faithfully in that vocation wherein thou hast placed him we humbly beseech thee for thy blessing on every member of this Family that each of us may perform his duty in that integrity and uprightness of heart as becometh them who profess the same Gospel of thy son Christ Jesus O drive away and keep off from hence as all other so especially the sins of this corrupt Age. Let not Atheism Drunkenness Swearing Pride Idleness Hypocrisy Unclean Lusts Covetousness Lying or any other sin whatsoever become a fretting Leprosie in the walls of this House But as thou hast given us a Blessing above many other our Brethren so give us grace to express a more special performance of duty in acknowledgment thereof Let the hand of thy good providence be stretcht forth to defend us in all dangers of Soul and Body give us wisdom to discern and courage to withstand all assaults of the Flesh the World and the Devil Let thy Fatherly corrections of us be always an advantage to our Religious Conversation Give us thankful hearts for all thy Blessings And so guide us in all things with thy merciful hand that finally we may be brought to the land of everlasting Life there to reign with thee World without end through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Evening Prayer O Most Powerful God and Merciful Father to whom the light discovereth nothing and from whom the Night cannot conceal us but the darkness and the light to thee are both alike leave us not we pray thee to the dangers and discomforts of this Night but let thine eye which slumbereth and sleepeth not watch over us for the good both of our Souls and Bodies O let not the darkness of the night nor the privacy of our retirements betray us to do any thing unworthy of our Christian calling and that inaccessible light in the presence and by the power of which we live and move and have our being But sit and prepare each of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit to a constant and sincere obedience of thy Holy Will that both in publick and in private we may do as becometh an holy seed and a People zealous of good works endeavouring in all things to shew our selves mindful of that inestimable price which our Lord Jesus Christ hath paid for us vile and miserable sinners And we humbly pray thee O Lord to pardon as all other so the sins and imperfections of which we have been guilty this day That if any of us shall be summon'd from the bed of our rest to that of our death we may through thy mercy have a comfortable and cheerful passage from this life of misery and mortality unto a life of everlasting happiness and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen FINIS A Brief Catalogue of Books newly Printed and Reprinted for R. Royston Bookseller to his Most Sacred Majesty THE works of the Reverend and Learned Henry Hammond D. D. containing a Collection of Discourses chiefly Practical with many Additions and Corrections from the Author 's own hand together with the Life of the Author enlarg'd by the Reverend Dr. Fell Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford In large Folio Σ Υ'МВΟΛΟΠΘЕΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ'ΠOr a Collection of Polemical Discourses addressed against the Enemies of the Church of England both Papists and Fanaticks in large Folio by Jeremiah Taylor Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles the First of Blessed Memory and late Lord Bishop of Down and Conner Animadversions upon a Book Intituled Fanaticism Fanatically imputed to the Catholick Church by Dr. Stillingfleet and the Imputation Refuted and Retorted by S. C. The Second Edition By a Person of Honour In Octavo A Serious and compassionate Inquiry into the Causes of the present Neglect and Contempt of the Protestant Religion and Church of England In Octavo Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church With the Prayers Hymns and Lessons themselves taken out of their Authentick Authors In Three Parts In Octavo New The Christian Sacrifice and the Devout Christian and Advice to a Friend these last three Books written by the Reverend S. P. D. D. in 12.
of but the sorrow of the world worketh death For behold this self-same thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort what carefulness it wrought in you yea what clearing of your selves yea what indignation yea what fear yea what vehement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge In all things ye have approved your selves to be clear in this matter Tenthly If the sick person needs or desires instruction how to demean himself in his sickness such Scriptures will be useful as direct us to 1. Contrition for sin Job 42.2 5 6. I know that thou canst do any thing and that no thought can be withheld from thee I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Psal 19.12 Who can tell how oft he offends O cleanse thou me from my secret faults Psal 32.1 c. Blessed is the man whose unrighteousness is forgiven and whose sin is covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose spirit there is no guile I will acknowledg my sin unto thee and mine unrighteousnes have I not hid Psal 34.17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit Psal 38.1 c. Put me not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thy heavy displeasure For thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin For my wickednesses are gone over my head and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to bear I truly am set in the plague and my heaviness is ever in my sight For I will confess my wickedness and be sorry for my sin Hos 7.2 They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness Jam. 3.2 In many things we offend all 2. Humility and Patience in affliction 2 Sam. 15.25 26. And the King David said unto Zadok carry back the Ark of God into the City if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him Job 2.10 What shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil In all this did not Job sin with his lips Chap. 34.31 32. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend any more That which I see not teach thou me If I have done iniquity I will do no more Psal 27.16 O tarry thou the Lords leasure be strong and he shall comfort thy heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Lam. 3.25 26. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Mic. 7.9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Luke 21.19 In your patience possess your souls Heb. 12.7 If ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons Jam. 1.2 3 4. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing 1 Pet. 5.6 Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 3. Reliance upon God Deut. 33.26 There is none like unto the God of Jesurun Vers 27. The Eternal God is thy refuge Vers 29. Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O People saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy excellency 1 Sam. 12.22 The Lord will not forsake his People for his great Names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his People 2 Chron. 16.9 The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him Job 13.15 Though he slay me yet will I trust in him Psal 5.13 Thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield Psal 9.10 They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee Psal 22.10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born thou art my God even from my mothers womb Psal 23.4 Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me Psal 33.17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy Psal 37.40 The salvation of the righteous cometh of the Lord which is also their strength in the time of trouble Psal 62.1 My soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him cometh my salvation Isa 30.15 Thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and confidence shall be your strength Lam. 3.25 26. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 4. The Benefit and Comfort of Prayer Isa 26.8 9. In the way of thy judgments O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Job 42.10 The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends Psal 50.15 Call upon me in the time of trouble So will I hear thee and thou shalt praise me Psal 55.17 18. As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me In the evening and morning and at noon day I will pray and that instantly and he shall hear my voice Psal 65.2 3. Thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come My misdeeds prevail against me O be thou merciful unto our sins Psal 69.13 c. Lord I make my prayer to thee in an acceptable time Hear me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation Take me out of the mire that I sink not Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters Let not the deep flood drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the Pit shut her mouth upon me Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindness is comfortable turn thee unto me according to
gathered unto his People Job 5.26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season Luke 2.29 Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation Chap. 23.46 When Jesus had cried with a loud voice he said Father into thy hands I commend my spirit And having thus said he gave up the ghost Acts 7.59 They stoned Steven calling upon God and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Vers 60. And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice Lord lay not this sin to their charge And when he had said this he fell asleep Rev. 22.20 He that testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus THe Minister must not fail to press the sick person to receive the Holy Eucharist and to open to him the comfortable Doctrine the Scripture holds forth in that blessed Ordinance this being the fittest close for the life of him whose constant business it hath been as of all good Christians to labour for pardon and grace the Benefits sealed to Believers in that Sacrament by Him who purchased them for us with his most precious blood as in that Commemorative Sacrifice is most lively represented to us The Institution whereof so nearly preceding the Passion of our Blessed Redeemer doth recommend the use of these Holy Mysteries unto Christians as very seasonable at that time when they are upon putting off their earthly Tabernacles their corruptible Bodies in expectation of a joyful Resurection and Exaltation unto life Eternal whereof this Holy Sacrament was by the Primitive Fathers of the Church esteemed a sure and sacred Pledg A most comfortable Preparative whereunto if heartily desired and cantiously and reverently administred is the Benefit of Absolution Which deserves not to be the less esteemed or the more neglected for whatsoever abuses it hath heretofore been liable unto when both Priest and People believed more of the Sacerdotal Power than was consistent with so great a Trust committed to the one and so strict a disquisition required from the other lest the Minister might be Partaker of other mens sins 1 Tim. 5.22 and the People delude themselves with unsincere and fruitless Repentance 2 Cor. 7.10 11. A Prayer to be used in a state of Health O Father of lights from whom cometh every good and perfect gift Thou art he who tookest me out of my Mothers womb and by thee have I been holden up ever since I was born The blessings of health and strength that I enjoy are from thy goodness and bounty And for them and all thy other mercies I bless and praise thy ever-great and glorious Name Most humbly beseeching thee to add to these that blessing of blessings the right use of all thy blessings That through the comfort and assistance of that health and strength thou hast given me I may become the more diligent and faithful in the practice of those several duties of piety justice and charity which thou requirest at my hands And suffer me not O Lord to deceive my self by a false account of the time of my Pilgrimage but so teach me to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom that I may readily discern the vast difference between this span of life and the infinite spaces of eternity between the pleasures of sin for a season and the everlasting fulness of joy in thy presence And for this end remove far away from me all those vices to which health and ease are apt to betray me especially all carnal security lust pride anger want of compassion misspending my time forgetfulness of thee and of thy ways and works And implant in my mind the daily remembrance of death and judgment the necessity of working out my salvation with fear and trembling and the misery of being surpriz'd by the coming of our Lord in my sins or fruitless repentance So that the health of my body may through thy blessing promote the health of my Soul and thy augmenting the number of my Talents increase both my labour and reward That passing the time of my sojourning here in fear I may treasure up for my self such spiritual strength and consolation as may stand me in stead when I shall lye down on my bed of sickness and death administring comfort to my soul in the conscience of well doing which thou hast promised us to accept and reward through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen A Prayer when one perceives himself to be sick O Lord my God I have learn'd from thy Holy Word and by daily experience in this vale of misery that dust I am and unto dust I shall return that I must put off this earthly Tabernacle and that thou wilt bring me to death and the house appointed for all living And now Lord I feel in my self the usual summons thy good providence doth give us to review our accounts and to sit our selves for death and judgment Blessed be thy Name for this thy mercy that thou hast not taken advantage of me whil'st I was thine enemy to cut me off suddenly in my sins and hurry me hence in mine iniquity but hast given me the time means and I trust grace for repentance and amendment of life And though I have not improved such hath been my negligence and sloth these rich favours to that great advantage I might and should have done yet I beseech thee O Lord for thine infinite mercies in thy son Christ Jesus that thou wilt not be extream to mark what I have done amiss and to lay my sins to my charge but that thou wilt deal mercifully with me thy most unworthy servant blotting out all my sins and transgressions that none of mine iniquities may be mentioned unto me in that great and terrible day of Recompences And forasmuch as thou alone in whose hands our times are dost know what will be the issue of this my present distemper and sickness cause me to reflect on it as proceeding from thy Will and Wisdom and cheerfully and thankfully to submit to this chastisement as a means appointed by thee for the benefit and comfort of my Soul and vouchsafe unto me that grace which may enable me to receive profit thereby and from experience of thy goodness towards me to gain hope and confidence of thy love And if thou hast reserv'd for me the blessing of restoring me to my former health which I beseech thee to do direct me to the use of such means as thou wilt make effectual for that end But if the days of my warfare are accomplished prepare me O Lord for a safe quiet and comfortable departure out of this life and fit me for thy prefence and glory O Lord strengthen me against all the malicious practices and devices of my subtil and implacable enemy against all errours and delusions of my understanding the allurements of this World inordinate love of this miserable Life and
Go in Peace Containing some Brief DIRECTIONS For Young MINISTERS In their Visitation of the Sick USEFUL For the People in their state both of Health and Sickness Deut. 32.29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end LONDON Printed by A. M. for Richard Royston Bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty at the Angel in Amen-Corner 1674. To the Right Worshipful Sr. George How Baronet The Author prayeth the increase of Grace here and Glory hereafter Honoured Sir IT is receiv'd for a truth of the greater magnitude 〈…〉 12.19 by One whose Profession renders his conceptions unsuspected of any bias by interest That the Gospel it self and the Ministers thereof are ever weighed in the same ballance of human judgment and the estimate of both whether of honour or contempt always alike The sincere esteem you have for the Duties of the Gospel doth not only manifest the certainty of that Maxim but also lay open the Root out of which your pious regard for the Ministers thereof doth grow and prosper Both which daily thriving by the Celestial showers of Divine Grace falling on your heart are become so conspicuous in the World like a City set on an hill that cannot be hid that it hath engag'd my weak endeavours to contribute something to the present imitation and future memory of your Vertues Sir I am confident whatever others may do yet you will not esteem your self unconcern'd in the purpose and benefit of this Collection For who can do so that believes That it is appointed to men once to dye and after that the Judgment Much less then a Person who dyes daily whose contemplation minutely suggest unto him the memento's of mortality and whose life is an entire design to prepare for death Did other foresee what kind of thoughts would suprize them at that woful day unless their spirits are congeal'd by some narcotick stupidity they would deem it as much beneath the sagacity of men as the wisdom of Christians to leave the most important business of their life to be huddled up in a few tempestuous hours encumbred with sorrow pain anguish horrour and amazement in themselves and others And who is there that can make a death-bed so well that an Vlcerous Soul may lye easie on it under the throws and pangs of a wounded Conscience It is to this almost insuperable task that I have adventured to set an helping hand rather indeed endeavour'd to prevent the huge difficulty of that work to bring out of the Sepulchre of a crucified Jesus a precious Relique as I may say some part of the Napkin that was bound about his head as an Handkerchief or Apron from the body of an Apostle wherewith to stanch the blood respite and avert the death of a sinner yea bring to him pardon life and immortality instead of it And who is he that dares reject a medicine how desperate soever be the state of the Patient the ingredients whereof are gathered out of the Garden of God the Book of Scriptures Who shall limit that mercy that is above all his works the supreme effect of Divine Omnipotency And now Sir though I do not altogether despair of the prosperous success of this charitable enterprize on others yet thus much I can safely promise my self which will abundantly recompence the little trouble I shall give them that it will free my Brethren from all umbrage of ingratitude to so sincere a Lover of the Clergy and put the World in mind how great a price is to be set on Vertue and Goodness when set-out and imbellish't with Greatness This being the Compass whereby the inferior world of men do steer their course and is the Anchor of Church and State under all the 〈◊〉 and Vicissitudes of Fortune THE Preface THere are some I presume amongst the Reverend Clergy of that Diocess of which I profess my self an unworthy member who need not be put in mind of a passage touching the Concerns of their Function that fell from the Blessed lips of a late godly Prelate of our Church in his Speech at his Primary and last Visitation in which he prest them to a zealous discreet and sedulous performance of their duty of Preaching For which amongst other he gave these two important Reasons The one from an observation himself had made whilst he liv'd in Exile for he was one of those Abiathar's 1 King 2.26 that was afflicted in all wherein his Majesty was afflicted of the gross and barbarous ignorance of the common People in those parts beyond the Seas where himself converst which he imputed chiefly to the want of frequent Sermons amongst them And his other was taken from the state of things in this Church which though by its Canons and Rubricks it exacts from Ministers sincere and diligent Preaching to the People yet hath it not laid any coercive obligation on the People themselves to have private recourse to their Ministers It is the latter of these Reasons that I principally reflect on as a very importunate motive to all zealous and pious Ministers of our Church to lay hold on every precious opportunity they can for private Discourse with them whose souls are committed to their charge thereby to facilitate a way to their own comfort and the salvation of their Brethren Both which are so nearly concern'd in their Visitation of the sick that One later than the Eleventh hour for that sort of address that I have taken the boldness to put them in mind of their duty 2 Pet. 1.12 though they know it already by delivering into their hand sundry pertinent and useful passages of Scripture proper to supply the unskilfulness of such as are but newly entered on that sacred Function The moment of which duty let me recommend to them in the words of Salvian an Ancient and Holy Bishop of the Church It is says he Revocare ab inquisitione ultimi Remedii durum ac impium est Spondere autem aliquid in tam sera curatione temerarium Sed melius est nihil inexpertum relinquere quam morientem non curare Maxime quia nescio an in extremis aliquid tentare medicina sit certe nihil tentare perditio Salv. ad Eccl. Cathol l. 1. an harsh and impious thing to discourage any one from slying to the last Remedy And no less rash is it to promise any thing in so late an undertaking the spiritual cure Yet better is it to leave nothing untried then not to have regard to a departing Soul Especially seeing I know not whether to attempt something may not prove successful but it would certainly prove destructive to make trial of no remedy at all But a greater than Salvian is here When I say unto the wicked thou shalt surely dye and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall dye in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thy
the terrours of Death by filling my heart with Divine comforts by strengthening my Faith in thy mercies through Christ Jesus by representing to my thoughts his victory over Death and those unconceiveable and endless joys which thou hast prepared for them that love thee That neither life nor death hight nor depth things present nor things to come may be able to separate me from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord and only Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen Prayers to be used in a Family A Morning Prayer O Lord and heavenly Father who renewest thy loving kindness unto us from day to day making the outgoings of the Morning and Evening to praise thee We give thee humble thanks for the dispensation of thy loving providence over us vouchsafed unto us in our preservation this night and the comfortable rest wherewith thou hast refreshed our frail bodies Humbly beseeching thee to pardon unto us whatsoever sins the subtilty and malice of Satan or our own corrupt nature and vain imagination have made us guilty of this night and all the times and days and nights of our lives until this present hour And we most humbly beseech thee to make this and all other thy good mercies bestowed upon us serviceable to the advancement of thy glory and the good of thy Church That we may not by wasting any of thy precious Talents vouchsafed unto us or by abusing and misapplying the comforts thou givest us render our selves accountable to thy dreadful Majesty as well for the good we have received as for the evil we have committed But let all the good things thou hast done unto us vile and miserable sinners increase a love of thy Divine Majesty in our hearts and perfect the practice of true holiness and righteousness in our conversation through the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen Almighty God by whose Spirit the whole body of thy Church is governed and sanctified receive the Supplications and Prayers which we humbly offer to thy Divine Majesty for all estates and conditions of Men in thy Holy Congregation Particularly for all Christian Kings Princes and Governours more especially for thy Servant Charles our King That they may be preserved from all Treachery and Violence and that they may use their Power for the encouragement of them that do well and for a terrour unto evil doers For Subjects that they may submit unto the higher Powers for conscience sake as being ordained of God For the Nobility and Gentry that they may give good examples as they are great in Place For the Clergy that their holiness may be according to the Shekel of the Sanctuary and that they may be able to divide the Word of truth aright giving unto every one his portion in due season For the Rich that they may be ready to give and glad to distribute laying up for themselves treasures in Heaven For the Poor that they may be diligent honest and contented and that there be never wanting those who will strengthen the hands of the Poor and Needy For the Fatherless and Widows that thou wouldest be a Father to the one and an Husband to the other For the Labouring-Man that thou wouldest give him an healthful body a patient mind and that thou wouldst prosper unto him the work of his hands For those who are at ease that they may beware of the sins of Sodom Pride abundance of Idleness and fulness of Bread For the Prisoners and Captives that their bread may not fail and that the hearts of their Brethren may not be hardened against them For the sick in Body that they may cheerfully submit to Gods afflicting hand and that their patience may have its perfect work For those who are in health that they may not remove far from them the evil day but may shew themselves wise in considering their latter end For those who are afflicted in mind that thou wouldst help them to put on the Breast-plate of Faith and for an Helmet the hope of Salvation and that thou wouldst make them to see thy faithfulness in not permitting them to be tempted above what they are able to bear For Parents that they may be careful to provide for the welfare of their Childrens Souls and Bodies bringing them up in the nurture of the Lord. For Children that they may love honour and reverence their Parents obeying them in all things For Husbands that they may love their Wives as their own bodies not being bitter against them but giving them honour as to the weaker vessels and being heirs together of the grace of life For Wives that they may reverence and be in subjection to their Husbands labouring to be adorned with a meek and quiet spirit For the Unmarried that they may not spend their precious Talents in the pleasures of sin and vanity of life but that they may be pure and spotless attending upon the Lord without distraction For the Antient that they may be sober grave temperate sound in Faith in Charity in Patience For the Young that they may be sober-minded reverencing the Aged as Fathers being ready to be taught by their wisdom and experience and to follow good counsels and examples For Masters that they may behave themselves prudently justly and gently towards their Servants as considering that they also have a Master in Heaven For Servants that they may be subject to their Masters with all fear not with eye-service as men-pleasers but willingly and from the heart shewing all good fidelity For Teachers that they may watch over the Souls of them who are committed to their charge as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief For Learners that they may esteem highly of their Teachers for their works sake improving all opportunities of being benefited by them For true Converts that they may daily grow in grace being strengthned with might by the spirit in the inner man For bare Professors of Religion that they may leave off to deny him in their works whom they profess with their mouths and that they may have the power as well as the form of godliness For our Friends and Kinsfolks according to the flesh that being graffed together in the same common faith we may together attain unto the perfection of Charity in the World to come For our Enemies that they may not be rewarded themselves as they have dealt with us but that we may melt them into an affection of us by returning to them good for evil For all that have done good unto us that thou wouldest remember them O our God for their good recompensing them with thy Blessings in this life and eternal glory in the world to come And we most humbly beseech thee the infinitely wise and all-seeing God that thou wilt of thy great mercy grant all those things that we have now prayed for and all other things which thou knowest to be needful both for our selves