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Of ejaculatory prayer the necessity there is of it, the advantages there are for it, and the advantages there are by it : demonstrated with several directions for the practice of it / by Theophilus Polwheile ...
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Polwheile, Theophilus, d. 1689.
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Here thou offerest the Body and Blood of thy Son Thou sayest Take ye eat ye drink ye Oh now that there may be an inward act answering to this outward whereby I may receive Christ thus visibly exhibited and tendered to me Oh that I may have Faith as a taking hand to go forth to the offering hand of God! That my taking and eating and drinking may be really significative of my Faith appropriating and applying Christ Thus for the strengthning of your Faith Pray in like manner for the strengthning of your Love You should exercise Love exceedingly abundantly when you come to the Lords-Supper First to Christ considering how lovely he is First in himself If there be any thing lovely in any 't is all in him Secondly in his Love to you He loved you and gave himself to dye for you made his soul an offering for sin endured buffeting spitting Crucifying is gone to prepare a place for you in Heaven appears there for you c. Thirdly in his Love to you manifested in this Ordinance Herein he makes a representation of his Death to you Gives you it as a Pledge to assure you Instituted it that very night he was betrayed Considering all this how should you stir up your selves to love him Pray therefore for grace whereby you may be enabled to let out your affection abundantly to him Say Lord let my eye affect my heart Let the sight of the Love of Christ to me in this Ordinance beget in me answerable Love to Christ Behold how he loved me even so as to give himself to dye for me And shall I not love him then Oh help me help me blessed God Let me Love him dearly even with all my heart with all my soul with all my might Thus Pray that you may express your Love unto Christ You must express it Secondly one to another and to all Saints whatsoever You are all one in Christ Jesus all one in this Ordinance all eat of the same bread and all drink of the same Cup And therefore Pray that you may be all one in Affection Say Lord let our Communion in this Ordinance unite our hearts together more than ever before Herein is Love not that we Loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins 1 John 4. 10 11. O Lord if thou so lovedst us we ought also to love one another Oh fill me with Love therefore to all these and to all others that are thy Servants Let me bear no malice in my heart now If any have injured me Lord I forgive them and desire from my heart that thou would'st forgive them too Forgive me my trespasses as I forgive them that trespass against me And Lord help me to forgive them as I desire thou would'st forgive me Thus pray for the strengthning of your Love Pray earnestly likewise for Desire and a Spiritual Appetite that God would make you sensible of your infinite need of Christ that so the desires of your Souls may be to him and you may hunger and thirst after him And that he would give you good hope of a gratious satisfaction to your desires that so you may be confident and be able confidently to say as Psal 65. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy Courts I shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy House And that he would seal up some Evidence of his special Love and Favour in Christ unto you that might fill you with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory that so you may be able to say My Spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour If ever we rejoyce it should be when we come to the Lord's Supper †The Superstitious deceive themselves who believe that the Commemoration of His Death consists only in mourning For in the Eucharist Jesus Christ is not simply propounded unto us as dead but as dead for us To the end that as his death is our life so it should be also our joy Nothing is more poper to the Commemoration we make of the Death of Christ therein which is our life Say therefore Lord rejoyce the soul of thy Servant Fill me with all joy peace in believing Lastly Pray that you may be in a Thankful frame that Deshagne Of the Eating of the Body of Christ Sect. 4. c. 5. so you may be able in Truth and Sincerity to say as Psal 103. 1 2. Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me bless his holy Name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his Benefits Thus you have the fifth Particular viz. how you should Pray with Ejaculatory Prayer when you come to the Ordinances Another special Season for Ejaculatory Prayer is VI. When you are upon your Sick-beds Then you cannot go to your Solemn Prayers as at other times therefore then is a fit season for Ejaculatory Prayer Pray then That God would shew you wherefore he contends with you That he would open your ear to Discipline and seal Instruction upon your Spirit That the fruit may be the taking away of sin That if it be his good pleasure you may live and keep his word That however you may be willing to die That you may Sanctifie the Name of God in your sickness by a meek quiet humble and submissive behaviour before others That you may be strengthned against the assaults of Sathan That you may have such to come to you as may speak sutably to your condition and that you may profit by it That you may have assurance if the Lord shall see it good for you that so an abundant enterance may be ministred to you whenever you go hence into his Heavenly Kingdome VII In the hour of Temptation Then dart up Prayers as fast as possibly you can Then Pray for Wisdome to discern the evil and danger of the Temptation For Courage and Resolution to resists it For Strength to overcome it And that Sathan may be called off VIII When you come into Vntrodden Paths then Pray that God would guide you by his Counsels IX When you are going a Journey Then Pray that God would be with you and bring you back again if you are to return That he would give his Psal 91. 11 12. Angels Charge over you to keep you in all your ways That he would succeed and Gen. 24. 12. Prosper you X. In time of the Motions of the Spirit See Psal 27. 8. When thou said'st Seek my Face my heart said Thy Face O Lord will I seek Thus be much in this Duty of Ejaculatory Prayer for your selves CHAP. V. Men exhorted to be much in Ejaculatory Prayer for Others It is their Duty to Pray for Others as well as for Themselves It is their Duty to Pray for Others with Ejaculatory Prayer When they should Pray with Ejaculatory Prayer for Others For whom they should Pray when they Pray with Ejaculatory Prayer for Others HAving
that I might but find now that God accepteth my Work See Psal 19. 14. 3. If any good hath been done Beg that God would enable you to do so still and to do so more See 1 Thes 4. 10. 4. If any good hath been gotten Beg that it may not be lost Say Lord keep these thoughts these affections c. in the heart of thy Servants for ever 1 Chron. 29. 18. Thus of this fourth Particular V. When you come unto any of the Ordinances As I. When you come to the Hearing of the Word Preached Oh then is a special Season for Ejaculatory Prayer And that 1. For your Ministers that a door of Utterance may be given that a sutable word may be spoken Say Lord now be with thy Servant that he may speak as he ought to speak Let his tongue be touch'd with a coal from the Altar Let him have a double portion of the spirit a fresh anointing that he may speak a word in due season a sutable and seasonable word c. 2. For your selves that a door of Enterance may be given Say Lord not only open his mouth but mine ear Let mine ear now be boared Let my ear be opened that I may not only hear but hearken not only understand but obey And for this end seek unto God by Ejaculatory Prayer both against that that may let and hinder you and for that that may help and further you in the sanctifying of God's Name in Hearing 1. Against that that may let and hinder you As 1. Vain thoughts thinking upon impertinent things Say Lord let not vain thoughts now lodg within me Deliver me from those sinful outgoings and wanderings of heart which I am wont to be subject to in hearing thy word 2 High and lofty thoughts Let the Word be mighty through thee O God to the casting down of imaginations and of every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 3. The Suggestions of Sathan Let Sathan now be chained up Lord rebuke Sathan Let him not steal away my heart from the word or the word from my heart 2. For that that may help and further you As 1. Real Apprehensions of the presence and Majesty of God whose word it is Say Lord Reason tells me that thou art every where present but thy word tells me that thou art in an especial manner present in the Preaching of thy Word oh help me to believe this Strengthen my Faith now that I may not only set my self to hear the voice of Man but of God that I may hear what the Spirit hath to say to the Churches Rev. 2. 7. 2. Composedness of spirit that your hearts may be composed into an awful frame and temper sutable to the holyness and awfulness of the Presence of God before whom you stand You will find you have vain and distracted minds they ought to be composed therefore lift up your hearts to God by Ejaculatory Prayer pray that he would fix them that so you may attend unto him and upon him without distraction 3. Quickness of Apprehension You are dull of hearing Heb. 5. 11. Beg of God that he would make you of quick understanding Isa 11. 3. that he would destroy the face of the covering cast over you and the vail that is spread upon you Isa 25. 7. 4. Livelyness of Affection that you may not sit like stocks and stones before your Ministers but that you may be easie to be moved and stirred up by the Reproofs and Counsels they dispense unto you And then for all these be earnest with God for the workings and influences of the Spirit 3. As you are hearing all along be lifting up your hearts by Ejaculatory Prayer unto God sutable to the nature of the Matter Preached that as the Minister is Preaching you may be Praying Therefore 1. When any thing is difficult then pray Lord give me to Understand this 2. When any thing is reproved Lord affect my heart to loath this and to leave it 3. When any thing is enjoyned and pressed as a Duty Lord incline my heart that I may practice it Thus when you come to the Preaching of the Word II. When you come to the Administration of the Ordinance of Baptisme See Ford's two Treatises of the Practical use of Infant-Baptism Then likewise is a special season for Ejaculatory Prayer Then Pray that your faith may be strengthned to believe the warrantableness of Administring the Ordinance not only to Believers but to their Seed also their Infant-Seed Say Lord hast thou not taken them into Covenant with thy self Thou hast declared that thou hast And wilt thou then deny them the Seal of it I believe that thou wilt not Hast thou not said That to Believers and to their Children the Promise is Act. 2. 39. And is not the Seal of it to them also Lord may not Saints be Baptized And hast thou not said 1 Cor. 7. 14. that the Children of a Believer are Saints Lord hast thou not made known 1 Cor. 10. 2. they were Baptized under the Old Testament And why should any think then that it should be otherwise under the New Testament Were not the Children of Unbelieving Jews broken off by the unbelief of their Parents and may I not thence infer that the Children of Believing Gentiles are by the faith of their Parents graffed in in their stead to partake of the fatness of the Olive in this Ordinance of Baptism Lord I believe help my unbelief Thus pray that your Faith may be strengthned to believe the warrantableness of Administring Baptism to the Children of Believers Then for the Child that is to be Baptized Pray that the Ordinance may be made effectual to him Say Lord this Child Ezek. 16. 20. that was born unto thee is now brought unto thee Oh take away all iniquity and receive him graciously Lay thy hand upon him and bless him Joyn the inward Baptism of the Spirit to this outward Baptism of Water that it may be indeed a Baptism of Regeneration to him Let his Soul be washed in the bloud of Christ as his flesh shall be washed with this water the sign of it Let him be buryed by Baptism in the likeness of his death that he may be also raised with him in the likeness of his Resurrection Lastly for your selves Pray that you may be humbled for that you have no more improved your Baptism for time past And that you may be quickned and stirred up to make Rom. 11. 19 20. a better improvement of it for time to come And beg earnestly that it may be more and more effectual to you Say Lord have I all the Grace that was sealed to me by Baptism is there no more forth-coming to me Lord is the efficacy of the Ordinance tyed only to the present Administration Thou hast declared that it is not Therefore let it be more and more effectual to me Thus