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A80798	Captivity improved to spiritual purposes. Or spiritual directions, given to prisoners of all sorts whether debtors or malefactors Principally designed for the use of those who are prisoners in those prisons which are under the jurisdiction of the city of London, as Newgate, Ludgate, the Counters, &c. Though also applyable to others under the like circumstances else where. To which are annexed directions to those who have their maintenance and education at the publick charge, as in Christ-Church hospital, or cure, as in St. Bartholomew's and St. Thomas's, or reducement to a more thrifty course of life, as in Bridewel, or have been happily restored to their former sense[ ] as in Bethleem, alias Bedlam.	Cressy, Edmund.	1675 (1675)	Wing C6889A; ESTC R230962	54,833	136

be abated by some hope that when our soul shall be parted from the body it may be received into everlasting mansions through Jesus Christ our Lord In whose name and words c. A Prayer for Penitents by Bishop Taylour SON of David Blessed Redeemer Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us O Jesu be a Jesus unto us thou that sparedst thy servant Peter that denied thee thrice thou that didst cast seven Devils out of Mary Magdalene and forgavest the woman taken in adultery and didst bear the convert Thief from the Cross to the joys of Paradise have mercy upon us also for although we have amassed together more sins than all these in conjunction yet not their sins nor ours nor the sins of all the world can equal thy glorious mercy which is as infinite and eternal as thy self We acknowledge O Lord that we are vile but yet redeemed with thy precious blood we are blind but thou art the light of the world we are weak but thou art our strong Rock we have been dead in trespasses and sins but thou art our resurrection and our life Thou O Lord lovest to shew mercy and the expressions of thy mercy the nearer they come to infinite the more proportionable they are to thy essence and like thy self Behold then O Lord fit objects for thy pity Our sins are so great and many that to forgive us will be an act of glorious mercy and all the praises which did accrue to thy name by the forgiveness of David and Manasses and St. Paul and the adulteress and the Thief and the Publican will be multiplied to thy honour in the forgiveness of us so vile so unworthy wretches that we have nothing to say for our selves but that the greatness of our miseries are fit objects for thy miraculous and infinite mercy Despise us not O Lord for we are thy creatures despise us not for thou didst die for us cast us not away in thine anger for thou camest to seek us and to save us Prepare us for death and take away the bitterness of it Pardon our sins and purge us from them first of thy Grace make us fit for the inheritance of the Saints in Light and then bring us to it for the sake of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ In whose name c. CHAP. V. Instructions suited to the Condition of those who have their Education in the Hospital of Christ Church HItherto I have discoursed such things as I thought proper for the Instruction of Prisoners and among those the worst of them Malefactors and if I had consulted the order of Dignity I should have placed these last but I purposed in this discourse to pursue the rules not of honour but of Christian Charity and therefore have allotted the greatest share of my directions to those that most need it the greatest offenders herein following the example of my Saviour who bestowed a great part of his time and pains upon Publicans and sinners and came with a design not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance I proceed now to such as may be supposed to be of a more teachable temper more succeptive of instruction and have more opportunities for it as living under a strict Discipline and under the happy opportunities of a very advantagious education in the Hospital and School of Christ Church And here before I proceed any farther it will not be improper thankfully to take notice of the goodness of God towards this City in that he hath from time to time raised up so many generous Spirits among us and enclined them to such noble instances of Christian Charity For there is scarse any necessity that humane nature is lyable to but here Provision is made for the relief of it If men be infirm in their senses and disturbed in their brains there is provision for them in the Hospital of Bethlehem If weak and infirm in their Limbs or wounded in St. Bartholomews and if Children be Fatherless or which is the next degree of misery to it discended of such Parents as have not where withal to bring them up they are cloathed and fed and Educated in Christ-Church an Hospital erected by King Edward the sixth a Protestant Prince to the confutation of that Vulgar calumny then and still common among the Papists that men of our Religion have renounced not only the merit but also the practice of good works and as this Hospital is of Royal extraction so is it of Honourable Government The Governours of it being always some of the most Eminent Senators and Commonours of London and in the House they have all things necessary for the feeding and cloathing and lodging and instructing of those Children Male or Female that are under their care and therefore to those that are here Educated My first Direction shall be to be thankful to God who hath so plentifully provided for them There is a gracious promise in the Psalmist When my Father and Mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up Psal 27. 10 and again to the same import Psalm 146. 9. the Lord careth for the strangers he helpeth the Fatherless And again Psal 147. He feedeth the young Ravens when they call upon him the observation is common out of Plin. 10. 12. and Aristo Hist Animal 6. 6. that of all other Birds the Ravens are observed soonest to forsake their young ones and therefore by an argument à majori ad minus If God so sufficiently provide for the young Ravens when the dams forsake them much more will he provide for us who stampt with his Image are much more valuable then many Ravens when our Parents either through want cannot or through unnaturalness will not maintain us Of this providence of God towards such helpless Children there are diverse instances in profane stories that famous one of Cyrus exposed by his own relations and by a wonderful providence nourished by strangers Of Romulus and Remus deserted by their Parents and nursed by a Wolf and harboured by a Shepherd Or if the credit of these relations be as suspected as the Faithfulness of their first reports There are instances in sacred writ to prove his Faithfulness to the abovementioned promise and that when Parents have forsaken Children he hath taken them up When Ishmaels Mother despairing of his life had forsaken him and laid him gasping his last for ought she knew or could do to help it in the Wilderness the Lord took him up He opened a new Spring of Water and opened her eyes to see it and so the Child was preserved Gen. 21. 19. When Moses his Parents also had forsaken him for they durst not stand by him any longer and laid him down among the rushy flags the Lord took him up He provided him of a Saviour the Kings own Daughter and of a Nurse the Child 's own Mother and so he was preserved too But to the Children here maintained I need not multiply instances of

many other fraudulent arts and knavish compositions but God is not mocked Conscience will not hereafter be stifled and though we endeavour to Lull it a sleep now it will awake hereafter and torment us and when we have our Liberty the checks of it will be more anxious than the troubles of Imprisonment or if it be seared here it will be uneasie enough hereafter And the more drowned in security we are here the more affrighting will be our amazement hereafter If they will not now then they shall howl and weep their riches shall corrupt their Garments shall be Moth eaten their Gold and Silver shall be Cankered but the rust of them shall be a witness against them and shall eat their Flesh as it Were fire by all their fraudulent compositions and unrighteous conveyances and unjust detention of what is not their own they have but heaped up treasure against the last day but a very sad treasure indeed They have heaped up treasure against the day of wrath and the Revelation of the righteous judgment of God And now it remains that I conclude this Chapter with some office of Devotion not thereby to exclude the office of the Church which is very suitable not to publick only but also private Devotions but though the general exigencies of Christian votaries are provided for therein yet it did not become the Fathers of our Church to descend so low as to all minute circumstances of private Christians and therefore the most obedient sons of the Church have not thought it any wa● inconsistent with their high esteem for the Liturgy to compose new Prayers for some particular occasions as appears by the Printed labours in this kind as of divers others so particularly of the Right Reverend and Learned Bishop Andrews Bishop Hall Bishop Taylour and of the now living and no less Learned than conformable the Incomparable Doctor Patrick From whom I have borrowed this ensuing Prayer and because I have charity to think that Prisoners may find company in so good an exercise I have here and in other parts of the Book where I have transcribed such patterns of Devotion from others changed the Singular into the Plural which Singular they may replace again if they please when they pray solitary or retain the Plural still as Christians do in the Lords prayer when they use it in their Closets and with this Prayer of our Lord I have concluded this and think proper to conclude with it our other Devotion A Prayer to be used by Prisoners for Debt transcribed out of Dr. Patrick 's Devout Christian O GOD who art present to us in in all places and hast regard to the sighs and groans of the miserable who humbly implore thy pity and compassion towards them Vouchsafe to look graciously upon us thy afflicted Servants in this place which is most desolate and comfortless unless the light of thy countenance shine upon us We confess that we have too much abused the Liberty which we formerly enjoyed and not so carefully as we ought improved those happy opportunities which were put into our hands Many ways we are sensible we have offended thy Divine Majesty for which we are heartily sorry and acknowledg our selves infinitely indebted to thy goodness that we are not plunged into the depth of misery to bewail our sins in the bottomless pit We thank thee O Lord with all our Souls that we are not shut up into the place of utter darkness and that we have any hopes to obtain the redemption which is in Christ Jesus in whose name we beseech thee to pardon us and to sanctifie the streights wherein we lye to the freeing of our Souls from the bond of all iniquity and the restoring of us to the glorious Liberty of thy children Help us seriously to follow the direction of thy providence in this restraint and now that we are so much alone by our selves to descend into our own hearts to search and try our ways and unfeignedly to turn to thee our God Enlarge our spirits more than ever now that our bodies are confined in fervent prayer for thy divine grace and in chearful thanks givings for the innumerable benefits that we have received from thy divine bounty and in tender pity and commiseration of the sad condition of all distressed people and be pleased to touch the hearts of our Creditours also with a sense of our miseries incline them to accept of what we are able to pay and make us willing to satisfie them to the utmost of our power In the mean time bestow us on the blessing of a contented spirit help us patiently to endure the inconveniences of this place and preserve us from the danger of those temptations which we meet with in it especially from seeking a remedy of our sorrows in the pleasures and intemperance of evil company or any profane mirth whatsoever Be thou our comfort O God and our exceeding joy and the full satisfaction of our Souls in all conditions and when thou art pleased to deliver us from this place and restore us again to our desired freedom O Lord make us ever mindful of the Vows wherein we are now forward to bind our selves dispose our hearts to be sensibly affected with those mercies which we have formerly little regarded that we may never forget to praise thee even for the benefit of a sweeter air than now we enjoy to acknowledge thee in the night season upon our beds and to thank thee for the coursest food and especially that we may rejoyce to go again into the great congregation to praise thee with the most ardent love for all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus Preserve in us also a grateful remembrance of the kindness of our friends and neighbours especially of those persons to whom we stand particularly indebted when by their charity we shall be released and whatever loss they sustain by our poverty good Lord make it up abundantly to them and theirs out of thy rich grace and mercy requite their love with plenty and prosperity in this world and give them the reward of eternal life glory in the world to come through Christ Jesus our Lord in whose name and words we further pray Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen CHAP. II. Instructions for such Malefactours as have committed such crimes the punishment whereof is some publick shame or corporal infliction or any other punishment below that of death Applyable in great measure to the condition of those that are in Bridewel FRom Debtors I proceed in the next place according to my promised method to Malefactors and as soon as ever I

our bowels may be thought to be grievous there their worm shall never dye if the smart of the whip be tormenting there it is said that the wicked shall be delivered up to the tormentours and their torment shall never end I know there are dispersed up and down in the Gospel many more sweet and ravishing motives to repentance then these are The Love of Christ ought to constrain us the Grace of the Gospel ought to invite us the promises of it are with enough to encourage us to obedience and men of ingenuous spirits men who will act like men will be drawn by these cords of Love by these cords of a man as the Prophet calls them and they will follow God But the same Gospel hath more rough Arguments then these for men of more rough tempers and where we meet with obdurate sinners as knowing the terrours of the Lord We ought to perswade them We ought to tell them That vengeance is his and he will repay it That tribulation and anguish indignation and wrath shall be the Portion of every soul of man that worketh evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile That God will consume the wicked from the very beginning of revenges that his wrath will begin to burn against them here and will reach against them everlastingly hereafter If the Present sufferings of offenders raise up in them such thoughts as these are they have then a very useful effect upon them The very end of Punishment is that the wicked may see and hear and feel and be sensible of that hand of God that is stretched out against them and do no more wickedly And if this be the effect of such punishments as in this Chapter have been described they have reason to rejoyce That these chastisements which are not for the present Joyous but grievous have begun to bring forth the peaceable fruit of righteousness that these corrections which are in the Flesh have any way contributed to the saving of the Spirit in the day of the Lord Jesus and that these afflictions which are but for a moment have begun to work in them that fear of God which is the beginning of wisdom that Godly sorrow which is naturally productive of that repentance which is never to be repented of and that reformation of life which if persevered in to the end will entitle them to a far more exceeding weight of Glory And when these motions begin to work in them it is their duty and it is their interest to pray to God for that Spirit that may further convince them of sin and of righteousness and of Iudgment and our Heavenly Father hath promised that he will not deny his Spirit to them that ask it and if they lack Wisdom to direct them in that way with which as yet they are very much unacquainted Let them ask of God who giveth to all men Liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given them And because that of themselves as of themselves they are they are not sufficient to think any thing that is good much less to do it and much less still to preserve in doing Let them implore the Grace of God which is ready at hand to all those that by Faith and Prayer and sincere endeavours seek after it Let them ask and it shall be given Let them seek and they shall find Let them knock and God will open to them Let them draw nigh to God in sincere purposes of repentance and he will draw nigh to them in his grace and mercy and will enable them to cleanse their hands though they have been sinners and to purify their hearts though they have been double minded and to assist them in such supplications as these I have here subjoyned this ensuing Prayer A PRAYER O LORD our God we beseech thee look down upon us poor and miserable sinners who now groan under the weight of our sins and the punishment of them We desire to submit to thy providence in all things and to ackowledg that thou art just and righteous in those evils which thou sendest upon us and thou hast but recompenced upon us the fruits of our doings we have misused our liberty thou hast punished us with thraldom We have sinned in pride and the haughtiness of our hearts and thou hast brought us to shame and disgrace We have sinned by riot and excess by sloth and wantonness and thou hast exercised us with slavery and drudgery and hast made us to serve under Egyptian Task-masters We beseech thee O Lord of thy mercy to teach us how to discern our sin in our punishment to learn repentance and obedience by the things that we suffer and to humble 〈…〉 selves under thy mighty hand that thou mayest deliver us in thy due time However thou dealest with us now cast us not from thy presence hereafter howsoever thou exercises us with shame at present make us not then in our perdition to be a spectacle to the World and to Angels and to Men But let the sense of thy wrath at present instruct us in thy fear and withdraw us from the errour of our ways that our Soul may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Give us thy spirit O God further to convince us of sin and of righteousness and of judgment and to guide our feet into the way everlasting Give us thy wisdom to direct our steps and to lead us into those paths which as yet we are very much acquainted with Grant us thy grace to enable us to do those things which thou requirest of us As thou hast given us a heart to will what is good so of thy good pleasure give us strength to do and to persevere in well doing And whensoever of thy goodness it shall please to deliver us from this miserable condition wherein we are grant that we may return from the folly of the wicked to the wisdom of the just Let the time past of our Lives suffice us to have fulfilled the lusts of the flesh and for the time to come teach us to live more soberly and righteously and godly than hitherto we have done that we may adorn the Gospel as much by our repentance as we have dishonoured it by our looseness that we may break off our sins by repentance that we may work with our hands the thing that is good that we may commit our selves to thee well-doing that we may provide for the things that are honest in the sight of God and men that we may serve thee in this world and be happy in another and all this we beg of thee and what else thou shall see needful for us in the name and mediation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ In whose name and words we further pray Our Father c. CHAP. III. Directions for those that are tried and cast for their lives but have them spared by the mercy of the King or the Bench. FRom these that in Law are counted lesser

this nature they themselves are standing monuments of the goodness of God in that kind They are Lodged in those Chambers that their Parents never hired cloathed with those Garments they never provided fed with that meat they never paid for and supplyed with all things necessary by the care of those good Patrons which the Providence of God hath raised up for them And now that God hath so largly blessed them Let me teach them the duty of gratitude to him out of the Book of Psalms which they so often sing at their meals and so often read by the injunction of their instructors They may every one of them say with David Psalm 16. 5 6. The Lord is the Portion of my Inheritage and of my Cup he maintains my Lot the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly Heritage And therefore let them say with David also v. 7. I will bless the Lord who hath given me Counsel by the instruction of my teachers and maintenance by the bounty of my patrons My reins also shall instruct me in the night season They may again say all in general and each in particular in the words of the same King David Psalm 116. 5 6 8. Gratious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low through the poverty of my Parents and he helped me Return to thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt plentifully with thee For the Lord hath delivered my soul from death and from want which is almost as bitter as death mine eyes from tears and my feet from fallings And as their mercies are proportionable to his so let their thankfulness be proportionable to his also which they may appositely express in his words v 12 13 14. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Even those vows which I made in my low condition when my friends were forced to forsake me for want and no eye pitied my poor condition And as these great mercies ought to teach them thankfulness for all the loving-kindness of God towards them hitherto so Secondly Let the same mercies teach them to place their faith and hope and confidence in God for the time to come They have already found to their great comfort that God is a Father to the fatherless a protectour of the destitute and a ready help to them in the needful time of trouble and now of all men in the world they will be the most inexcusable if in their age they forget the God of their Childhood and of their youth or ever neglect to depend upon him who hath already been so good and so gracious to them The experience of the continued goodness of God should encrease their relyance in him and make them say in a pious expectation of his gracious providence towards them for the time to come In the words of Job which we find Chap. 5. v. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. God hath delivered us in six troubles yea in seven no evil hath touched us in famine he hath redeemed us from death and in need from the hand of poverty and now we will confidently rely upon his faithfulness and without wavering depend upon his providence for surely he that hath so soon prevented us with his loving kindness will be our God all the residue of our lives We shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue neither shall we be afraid of destruction when it cometh At destruction and famine we shall laugh neither shall we be afraid of the beasts of the earth For we shall be at league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with us We know that our Tabernacle shall be at peace we shall visit our habitation and not sin We know our seed shall be prosperous and our off-spring as the Grass of the earth We shall come to our grave in a full age like as a stock of Corn cometh in his season Lo this we have searched so it is After this manner we have found it hitherto and so we trust in the loving-kindness of our God we shall find it for the time to come But because those to whom in this Chapter I am to direct my exhortation are very much practised in the singing and reading the Psalms of David I shall from them further instruct them in this useful and comfortable duty of encreasing their relyance and dependance upon God from their experience that they have of his gratious protection and watchful providence over them hitherto This Lesson the Psalmist teaches them in Psalm 23. 4 5. Thou art with me O Lord thy rod and thy staff they comfort me Thou preparest a Table before me thou anointest my head with oyl my cup runneth over These words are very applyable to those that have their education in Christchurch the rod of God corrected them heretofore in the poverty and destitution of their parents his staff supports them now in their present maintenance they have a Table prepared for them and that plentifully their cup runneth over this is their present priviledge as exactly described in the expressions of this Psalm as if it were on purpose penned for them and their duty is in the ensuing words they ought confidently to expect that God will still preserve and bless them in well doing ver 6. Surely goodness and mercy shall preserve me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The like expressions we have concerning his early hope in God and God's early provision for him in his Childhood Psal 22. 9 10. But thou art he that took me out of the womb thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers breasts I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mothers belly And therefore he prayers with full assurance to be heard in the expressions that follow v. 11. Be not from me for trouble is near and there is none to help me excepting God only who hath been my helper from my very birth and in whom I trust that he will be so still And if at this second teaching the Scholars will not learn this Lesson we have it inculcated a third time Psalm 71. 5 6. For thou art my hope O Lord thou art my trust from my youth By thee have I been holden up from the womb thou art be that took me out of my mothers bowels and from these premises within few Verses follows that prayer v. 8 9. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day Cast me not away in my old age forsake me not when my strength faileth And both these immediately succeed each other v. 17 18. O God thou