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A70285 Prayers in the closet, for the use of all devout Christians Collected out of the Best companion, by the author of the same. Imprimatur, Apr. 11th. Jonath. Edwards Vice-Can.; Common-prayer book the best companion in the house and closet as well as in the temple. Selections Howell, William, 1656-1714.; Church of England. Liturgies. Book of common prayer. 1692 (1692) Wing H3133D; ESTC R223640 13,354 39

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the Glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen ASsist me mercifully O Lord in these my supplications and prayers And so dispose me towards the attainment of everlasting Salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal Life I may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready Help through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who of thy tender Love towards Mankind hast sent thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our Flesh and to suffer death upon the Cross that all Mankind should follow the Example of his great Humility Mercifully grant that I may both follow the Example of his Patience and also be made partaker of his Resurrection through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God the King of Glory who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph into thy Kingdom in Heaven I beseech thee leave me not comfortless but send me thine Holy Ghost to comfort me and exalt me unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Our Father c. PRAYERS for your self or other being sick ALmighty everliving God Maker of Mankind who dost correct those whom thou dost love and chastise every one whom thou dost receive I beseech thee have mercy upon me thy Servant or thy Servant A. B. now visited with thine hand Grant that I he may take my his sickness patiently and so sanctifie this thy fatherly Correction to me him that the sense of my his weakness may add strength to my his Faith and Seriousness to my his Repentance If it shall be thy good pleasure to restore me him to my his former health grant that I he may lead the residue of my his Life in thy fear and to thy glory Or else give me him grace so to take thy Visitation that after this Life ended I he may dwell with thee in Life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord look down from Heaven behold visit and relieve me thy Servant or thy Servant A. B. Look upon me him with the eyes of thy Mercy give me him comfort and sure confidence in thee defend me him from the danger of the Enemy and keep me him in perpetual peace and safety through Jesus Christ our Lord. For his sake renew in me him most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the Devil or by my his own carnal will and frailness Impute not to me him my his former sins but strengthen me him with thy Blessed Spirit And whensoever thou shalt be pleased to take me him hence take me him into thy favour through the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. PRAYERS for your self or other being sick beyond hope of Recovery O Father of Mercies and God of all Comfort our only help in time of need I beseech thee to succour me or thy Servant A.B. now lying under thy hand in great weakness of Body Look graciously upon me him O Lord and the more the outward man decayeth strengthen me him I beseech thee so much the more continually with thy Grace and holy Spirit in the inner man Give me him unfeigned Repentance for all the Errors of my his Life past and stedfast Faith in thy Son Jesus that my his sins may be done away by thy Mercy and my his Pardon seal'd in Heaven before I go he goes hence and be no more seen I know O Lord that there is no word impossible with thee and that if thou wilt thou canst even yet raise me him up and grant me him a longer continuance in this World Yet forasmuch as in all appearance the time of my his departure draweth near so fit and prepare me him I beseech thee against the hour of Death that after my his departure hence in peace and in thy favour my his Soul may be received into thine everlasting Kingdom Wash it I pray thee in the Blood of that immaculate Lamb that was slain to take away the sins of the World that whatsoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miserable and naughty World through the lusts of the Flesh or the Wiles of Satan being purged and done away it may be presented pure and without spot before thee that so at the general Resurrection in the last day I he may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that Blessing which thy Well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee saying Come ye blessed Children of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the World Grant this I beseech thee O merciful Father through Jesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen Our Father c. Prayers for your Child being sick O Almighty God and Merciful Father to whom alone belong the the issues of Life and Death Look down from Heaven I beseech thee with the Eyes of Mercy upon my Child now lying on the bed of sickness Visit him O Lord with thy Salvation Deliver him in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain and save his Soul for thy Mercies sake If it shall be thy good pleasure to prolong his days here on Earth grant that he may live to thee and be an Instrument of thy Glory by serving thee faithfully and doing good in his generation or else receive him into those Heavenly Habitations where the Souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity Grant this O Lord for thy Mercies sake in the same thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God world without end Amen DEfend O Lord my Child with thy heavenly Grace that he may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more until he come to thine everlasting Kingdom Amen Our Father c. Prayers for your self or other being troubled in Mind or Conscience O Blessed Lord the Father of Mercies and the God of all comforts I beseech thee look down in pity and compassion upon me or A. B. thy afflicted Servant Thou writest bitter things against me him and makest me him to possess my his former iniquities Thy wrath lieth hard upon me him and my his Soul is full of trouble But O merciful God who hast written thy holy Word for our learning that we through patience and comfort of thy holy Scriptures might have hope Give me him a right understanding of my self himself and of thy Threats and Promises that I he may neither cast away my his confidence in thee nor place it any where else but in thee give me him strength against all my his temptations and heal all my his distempers Break not the bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax. Shut not up thy tender Mercies in displeasure but make me him to hear of joy and gladness
mercifully upon * Here the Woman may alter it thus Me and my Husband and grant that he may love me according to thy Word as Christ did love his Spouse the Church who gave himself for it loving and cherishing it even as his own flesh and also that I may be loving and amiable faithful and obedient to him and in all quietness c. Me and my Wife and grant that I may love her according to thy Word as Christ did love his Spouse the Church who gave himself for it loving and cherishing it even as his own flesh and also that she may be loving and amiable faithful and obedient to me and in all quietness sobriety and peace be a follower of holy and godly Matrons O Lord bless us both and grant us to inherit thy everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Grant O Lord that as Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully toge●●●● so we may surely perform and 〈◊〉 the ●ow and Covenant betwixt us made and may ever remain in perfect love and peace together and live according to thy Laws through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Look O Lord mercifully upon us from Heaven and bless us And as thou didst send thy Blessing upon Abraham and Sarah to their great comfort so vouchsafe to send thy Blessing upon us that we obeying thy Will and always being in safety under thy protection may abide in thy love unto our lives end O God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost bless preserve and keep us O Lord mercifully with thy favour look upon us and so fill us with all spiritual Benediction and Grace that we may so live together in this Life that in the World to come we may have Life everlasting Amen If you want and desire Children being conscious of no reasonable cause why you may not ask any then add as follows Furthermore I most humbly beseech thee O merciful Lord and heavenly Father by whose gracious gift Mankind is increased that thou wouldst be pleas'd if thou shalt think fit to assist us with thy Blessing that we may both be fruitful in procreation of Children and also live together so long in godly love and honesty that we may see our Children Christianly and Vertuously brought up to thy praise and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PRAYERS to be said by those that have Children O Merciful Lord and heavenly Father by whose gracious gift Mankind is increased I give thee humble thanks that thou hast been pleased to assist me with thy Blessing and to make me the Father or Mother of a Child or Children And I beseech thee give me thy Grace that I may truly endeavour to see him or them Christianly and Vertuously brought up to thy praise and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. And because none can do any thing that is good without thee grant unto him or they thy Spirit O Lord to think and do always such things as be rightful that he or they may by thee be enabled to live according to thy Will through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Let thy Fatherly hand I beseech thee ever be over him or them Let thy holy Spirit ever be with him or them and so lead him or them in the knowledg and obedience of thy Word that in the end he or they may obtain everlasting life Strengthen him or them I pray thee with the holy Ghost the Comforter and daily increase in him or them thy manifold gifts of grace the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of Counsel and Ghostly strength the spirit of Knowledg and true Godliness and fill him or them O Lord with the spirit of thy holy Fear now and for ever O defend him or them with thy heavenly grace that he or they may continue thine for ever And grant that being stedfast in Faith joyful through Hope and rooted in Charity he or they may so pass the waves of this troublesom world that finally he or they may come to the land of everlasting life there to reign with thee world without end through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. PRAYERS to be said upon days of Fasting and Humiliation for Sin PSal 51. 1. Have mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2. Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sins 9. Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds 10. Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me 11. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me 12. O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit Then say the Confession Almighty God Father of c. and after that as follows TUrn thou me O good Lord and so shall I be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable unto me who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God full of compassion long suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare me good Lord spare me and let me not be brought to confusion Hear me O Lord for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon me through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grant I beseech thee Almighty God that I who for mine evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be releiv'd through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen After this say the Prayer for Pardon and Grace and then conclude with the Lord's Prayer PRAYERS to be said in any time of Trouble or Affliction Because Troubles and Afflictions are as well punishments for sin as tryals of our Faith and Patience therefore first humble your self before God in the words of the Confession afore-said and then proceed as follows O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful Mercifully assist my prayers that I make before thee in these my troubles and adversities which now oppress me Grant that by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed and that being hurt by no kind of sufferings I may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I Humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon mine infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from me all those evils that I most righteously have deserv'd and grant that in all my troubles I may put my whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant O Lord I beseech thee that I who am justly punished for mine offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for