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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60498	Conversation in Heaven. Being devotions; consisting of meditations and prayers on several considerable subjects in practical divinity. Written for the raising the decay'd spirit of piety. By Lawrence Smith, LL.D. Fellow of St. John's College in Oxford.	Smith, Lawrence, 1656-1728.	1693 (1693)	Wing S4128B; ESTC R221501	97,123	362

Jesus may be unto us both in Life and Death great Advantage Grant this for the Merits and Mercy's-sake of him who dyed for our sins and rose again for our Justification and who hath left us this most Absolute form of Prayer wherewith to conclude our imperfect ones Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name c. A Prayer for a Sick Person O OUR God full of Compassion and Truth whose Ears are ever open to the Cryes of the Distressed who afflictest not neither Grievest willingly the Children of Men but in very Faithfulness Causest us to be Troubled Chastising us for our Profit that we may be Partakers of thy Holyness We thy Poor Unworthy Creatures Address our selves to the Throne of thy Grace in behalf of this thy Servant Grieved with Sickness O let his Grief of body move thy Succouring Pity behold him with the Eyes of thy Mercy Rescue him with the Al-Almightiness of thy Power however Grant that the Infirmity of his outer-Man may tend to the Health and Improvement of his Soul in all Gracious Qualifications O make him by means of thy Divine Chastisements Resemblant in a larger Measure of thy Divine Nature make him Perfect through Sufferings Train him up a Good Souldier of Jesus Christ by such Disciplining Hardships Teach him a more Compleat Obedience and Conformity to thy Will by the things which he Endures Relieve him under all his Distresses Give him Patience Repentance and Submission under all his Uneasiness Support him under all Tryals and Temptations O suffer not his Faith to fail in this Day of Adversity Strengthen him in the Inner-Man especially now he lyes on a Bed of Languishing O make Thou his Bed in all his Sickness In the midst of the pains of his Body let thine Inward Comforts Refresh his Soul make all things Tribulation as well as Prosperity work together for his Good may he Continue to be thy Servant under all Conditions Permit him not Gracious God for any troubles of Life or fears of Death to fall from Thee but Give him Joy and Consolation in Believing when encompassed with the Sorest Distresses Encrease therefore his Faith Confirm his Hopes Enlarge his Contentedness and Resignation Wean his Affections more and more from the things Below and Raise and Settle them on the Good things Above Free Blessed Lord this thy Servant from all Murmuring and Repining at thy Afflictive Providence and Cause him rather to Rejoyce and Glory in Tribulation as knowing that the Tryal of his Faith worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope and Hope maketh not Ashamed O let Patience have its Perfect work in him that he may be Compleat and Entire wanting no Vertuous Endowment let thy Grace be Sufficient for him that he may not faint in the time of Calamity O may his Affliction prove an Exercise and Enlargement of all his Graces Let it beget in him greater Trust and Affiance in thy Divine Mercy less Relyance on and Confidence in the Creature a being Crucified to the World and the World to him as to the immoderate Love of it Cause Holy Father this thy Afflicted Son to Humble himself under thy Correcting hand that Thou mayst Exalt him in thy due Season make him to Cast all his Care upon Thee because Thou carest for him Give him to feel now in this his Distress what is the Hope of his Spiritual Calling and what the Exceeding Greatness of thy Mercy and Power towards them who Believe in Thee O Give him that Saving Faith which worketh by Love and Purifieth the Heart and Overcometh the World Give him Repentance unto Newness of Life never to be Repented of Cause him by means of this Affliction to Search and Try his wayes and turn him unto Thee his God who in Mercy Chastisest him Afford him Gracious Lord afford this Sick Person the Comfort of an holy Hope that thou Acceptest his Penitential Tears and Contrition of heart Support him by this Hope under all his Sickness and Distemper Say unto him by the inward Testimonies of thy Spirit I am thy Salvation Son be of Good Chear thy Sins are forgiven thee I have heard thee in an Acceptable time I have laid Help for Thee on one who is mighty to Save Jesus Christ the Righteous He is the Propitiation for thy sins O Apply the Merits and Satisfaction of his Dying Redeemer unto the Soul of this thy Servant for Pardon and Acceptance wash it clean in the Blood of that Immaculate Lamb which was Slain to take away the sins of the world and through his Saviour's Stripes let him be Heal'd Bless and Succeed we beseech Thee those Remedies which have or shall be used for the Recovering this weak Afflicted Person to his former Health Command Deliverance for him Thou who art the God of Nature Speak Nature within him into a due Temper and Composure Known unto Thee are the most hidden things O do Thou therefore adapt suitable Medicines to any unknown Cause or hidden Spring of this present Distemper Suffer us Heavenly Father to have Power with thee in Prayer and mightily to Prevail on this thy Servants behalf Thou hast Promised that the Prayer of Faith shall Save the Sick and that the Effectual fervent Prayer of the Righteous shall Avail much O make us Pray in Faith and Believing so as to be Heard make us fervent and Zealous in Prayer so as to have our Prayers Answered Restore we entreat Thee this Diseas'd Person that he may be continued a Blessing and Comfort to his Relations that he may live to Performe his pious Vows and Resolutions made in time of Sickness that he may spend the Residue of his Life more to thy Honour and Glory But if in thy Fatherly wisdom thou seest it fitting to Prolong his Corrections thy Blessed Will be done and may thy Afflicted Servant say Amen with an Entire Submission May he bear further Chastisement in his Body so that his Soul be but Saved in the Day of our Lord. Yet O God most Gracious O most Holy and Mercyful Saviour Thou most worthy Judge Eternal be not Thou Extream to mark whatever he has done Amiss Correct him O Lord but with Judgment not in thine Anger lest Thou bring him to nothing and though thou take not off the Rod of Affliction yet take away thy Displeasure we beseech thee far from him Remember O Lord thy tender Mercies and thy Loving-kindnesses which have been ever of old and Cause this our Sick Friend in Thankful Recollection of former Divine Rescues to put his Trust in thee for a Present Deliverance O suffer him not for any Anguish of Body to let Go his Faith and Confidence in Thee but give him to say with the Stedfastness of holy Job though he Kills me yet will I hope in him Fit O God this Languishing Person for whatever Condition thou shalt call him unto that thy Son Christ Jesus may be unto him whether in Life or Death great Advantage O permit him

provoakt by any Greater ones he is like the Sublimer Regions of the Air all Calm and Serene Quiet and Sedate while the Lower Orbs Angry passionate Persons are full of Storms and Tempests of Rage and Resentment in their bosoms Intemperate Anger 't is the high Feavour of the Soul the foul Deformity of the Mind a Shame and Reproach to our Understandings That which unfits us for Humane Society makes us suitable companions only for Wild BeasTs unfits us both for the business of our Civil Employments and also for the Several Duties of Religion That which Roils and fires our blood corrodes and preyes upon our Hearts puts into a violent tumult and irregular hurry our Animal Spirits and hereby impairs our Health wastes our Strength and breaks the firmness of our Constitution Passion 't is a Disorder of Soul which Ruffles the Smoothness and disturbs the calm Tranquillity of our Lives renders us pityed by Friends laughed at by Strangers hated and Reviled by Enemies the Condolement of the former the Merriment and Scorn of the latter Impetuous Anger Oh how ill-Natur'd a thing it is How Envyous as it were of Mankinds Happyness For how unquiet does it render a Person to himself how uneasie and unacceptable to others What Mischiefs does it hurry Men into the Commission of which afterwards occasion their Sorrowful Repentance What foolish Speeches and unseemly Ridiculous Actions does it draw from those possest by it And no wonder for 't is the Drunkenness the Intemperance of the Mind and as we say of a Drunkard when the Wine is it with him the Wit is out so may 〈◊〉 be said of one Drunk with Passion when That is predominant then 〈◊〉 his Understanding supprest in 〈◊〉 operations How severely was undue passion Reproved by our Lord in his Disciples who were for calling down 〈◊〉 from Heaven on the inhospitable Samaritans The Son of Man says he is not come to destroy mens lives 〈◊〉 to Save them That is the Gospe● Occonomie which you are under 〈◊〉 a Gospel of Peace and Reconciliation not a Law allowing Revenge and Retaliation Impatient Rage and fierceness How contrary is it to that God who is Slow to Anger who waits to be Gracious who terms in holy Writ Judgment or Vengeance his Strange work As if through Desuetude and unfrequency of Executing it he was grown unacquainted therewith How opposite also is ungovernable fury to the Meek and Lowly the Calm and Dispassionate Example of the Ever-blessed Jesus who was oppress'd who was afflicted yet he open'd not his Mouth Isa 53. 7. who when he was Reviled Reviled not again when he suffer'd he threatned not but committed himself to him that Judgeth Righteously 1 Pet. 2. 23. Where was Anger where was the least Tendency towards it in all our Saviours Carriage from the time of his Apprehension to that of his cruel Death and Crucifixtion though Mocked and Scourged and in the highest Degree Tempted to a Discomposure And shall not we who profess our selves his Disciples Copy after his Pattern Transcribe it in as large a measure as may be into our Hearts and Lives Let us not in Cowardice and Lazyness cry out 't is impracticable to suppress passion whenas many Old Testament Worthies have done it and Gain'd themselves Immortal Renown thereby whenas we have above all others such an eminent Instance of suppressing it in our blessed Redeemer when we have such mighty Aids and Assistances of Gods Spirit under the Gospel whereby to suppress it when many Heathe●● who have had no such Illustrious Pattern no such powerful Assistance as we have however been famous for this Command over themselves it subduing their passions of all Victories the Greatest and most Noble And shall not what was praise-worthy and commendable in them be come a Vertue in us Christians of much higher Nature We practicing it according to more perfect Rules agreeably to a more Transcendent Example and in an higher measure than either Jew or Gentile even to the suppression of the first motions toward undue Resentment Ah what a foolish vice is Excessive Anger which creates a man trouble in his mind to no purpose for what is past and Gone and therefore cannot be Recall'd or Remedyed which makes him loose the Enjoyment of what he yet possesses out of fretful Discontent concerning what he has Lost Which turns also another Man's Sin his unjust provocation of me into my own most severe and smarting punishment while I fret and fum● and thereby Gratifie my Adversary in making his reproach or injury done me work beyond his Agency and in mine own hands and keeping This let me consider was what he Design'd it for to Disturb my Quiet and Repose and therefore fool that I am to suffer my provoker to have his Intent herein fool that I am to Set such an high value on my self or any thing I enjoy as to violate the Enjoyment of my own peace and Satisfaction through Resentments at my Reviler or through Loss and prejudice of whatever I had No rather let me possess my Soul in patience Silencing my Discontents with this Consideration that an All-wise and Infinitely Good Providence order'd or permitted things to be thus towards me and that 't is for the Tryal for the Improvement of my Graces of Meekness Humility Christian Patience and Charity that I am in this manner exercised with provocations But alass alass how utterly inexcusable is indulged fomented passion though a Complectional Vice though our lyableness unto it is owing to Temper and Constitution of Body for though 't is more Difficultly tameable upon this account yet sure not impossible to be tamed by the Aids of Reason of Religion and of Grace So that I fear those Persons do not Strive against it as for the Mastery who habitually fall into Anger and on whom it Returns frequently with as much violence as ever They use not I am apt to suspect the Means of Conquering and therefore is it they attain not the End a Conquest They use not Prayer Meditation and Fasting powerful instruments by which this kind of Evil Spirit the Angry Devil Goeth out of a Man but without Rending and Tearing of him as a violent passion doth Or if they use the means of Ejection mention'd they neglect others greatly Assistant such as fixt purposes and Resolutions against this furious Vice for the future flight of all Occasions and provoking Excitements thereof a Stifling of the first Springing Motions of it within our Breasts Thus would easily-provok't Persons fight Thus would they Contend they should be assured of a Victory over their passions and become more than Conquerors through Christ who would Strengthen them The Prayer O THOV God of infinite Goodness and Clemency Strong to Avenge thy offended Majesty on Sinners and yet Slow to Anger Patient and Long-suffering in the midst of thy wrath thinking on Mercy we beseech thee to produce in us an Imitation of thy Slowness to Anger of thy Patience and forbearance for