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A36374	Reform'd devotions, in meditations, hymns, and petitions, for every day in the week, and every holiday in the year divided into parts.	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.; Birchley, William, 1613-1669. Devotions in the ancient way of offices.	1687 (1687)	Wing D1946; ESTC R10442	174,240	506

their Melody All night all day they warbling run They never pause but still sing on All the fine Flowers that guild the Spring To this Praise their still Musick bring If kind Heaven bless them thankful they Will smell more sweet and look more gay Only Mankind can scarce afford This easie homage to our Lord We on whom his large bounty flows Gives all we have yet nothing owes Awake for shame my sluggish Heart Rouse thee and gladly sing thy part Learn of these birds and beasts and flowers How thou shouldst use thy nobler powers Invite whole nature to thine aid Since it was he whole nature made Joyn all in one Eternal Song Who to one Author all belong Say Live for ever glorious Lord Live by all thy great works ador'd Thou one in three and three in one All we thrice bow to Thee alone Amen MEDITATION II. TOo Glorious art Thou O Lord in thy self and thy direct Ray shines too bright for our Eyes Yet we may venture to Praise Thee in thy Works and Contemplate Thee at least reflected from thy Creatures In them we may safely behold our Almighty Maker and freely admire the Magnificence of our God Heaven and Earth are full of his greatness Heaven and Earth were created by his Power From him did all the Hosts of Angels receive their Being from him they have the honour to worship in his presence He kindled warmth and brightness in the Sun and beauteously garnisht the Firmament with Stars He spread the Air and stor'd it with flocks of Birds He gather'd the Waters and replenisht them with shoals of Fishes He establisht the Earth on a firm Foundation and richly adorn'd it with innumerable Varieties Every Element is fill'd with his Blessings and all the World with his liberal Miracles He spake the word and they were made he commands and they are still preserv'd He governs their motions in perfect order and distributes to each his proper Office contriving the whole into one vast Machin a spacious Theater of his own unlimited Greatness O Glorious Architect of universal Nature who disposest all things in number weight and measure How does thy Wisdom engage us to admire Thee How does thy Goodness oblige us to love Thee How does thy Greatness and Supream Excellency command us to reverence and stand in awe of Thee Not for themselves alone O gracious God did thy hand produce those happy Spirits above but partly to receive in charge thy little Flock and watch them in this Wilderness till thou gatherest them to folds of Bliss Not for themselves at all O Bounteous Lord were the rest of this huge Creation fram'd but to sustain our Lives in the way and carry us on to our Eternal home O my Soul do thou first Praise him for thy self and the excellent Powers that he has given thee and employ all thy Powers in his excellent Service Praise him next for all his Gifts but infinitely above all still value the Giver Let every Blessing be a motive of thy gratitude and every Creature a step of approach towards God So wilt thou faithfully observe their end and happily arrive at thine own Thou wilt use them only to sustain and comfort thee a little here and they will not hinder thy Souls preparation for Heaven And when thou art become full ripe for thy translation hence the kind Angels shall conduct thee into the divine Presence MEDITATION III. HOW admirable is thy Name O Lord over all the Earth How wise and gracious the Counsels of thy Providence After thou hadst thus prepar'd the World as a House ready furnish'd for a Man to Inhabit thy mighty hand fram'd our Bodies of the dust and built them in a shape of use and beauty Thou didst breath into us the Spirit of Life and fit us with faculties proportion'd to our end Thou gav'st us a Soul to govern our Bodies and reason to command in our Soul Thou didst reveal a Law for the Improvement of our reason and inablest us by thy grace to observe that Law Thou madest us Lords over all thy Creatures but little inferiour to thy glorious Angels Thou compellest whole Nature to serve us without reward and invitest us to love thee for our own happiness Thou designedst us an age of pure delights in that sweet and fruitful Garden where having led a long and pleasant Life thou promisedst to transplant us to thine own Paradise All this thou didst O glorious God the full Possessor of universal Bliss not for any need thou hadst of us or the least advantage thou couldst derive from our being All this thou didst O Infinite Goodness the liberal bestower of all that we possess not for any merit alas of ours or for the least motive we could offer to induce thee but for thine own excessive Charity and the meer inclination of thine own rich nature that empty we might receive of thy fullness and be partakers of thy overflowing bounty So sheds the generous Sun his beams and freely scatters them on every side guilding all the World with his beauteous light and kindly cherishing it with his fruitful heat And so dost thou and infinitely more O thou God of infinite more Perfection So we confess thou dost to us but we what return have we made to Thee have we considered well the end of our being and faithfully comply'd with thy purpose to save us Ah wretched we we neglect thy Holy Rules and govern our actions by chance and humour We quite forget our God that made us and fill our heads with thoughts that undo us This is the only praise thou expectest from us and the whole honour thou requirest of thy Creatures That by observing the orders thou appointest here in this lower region of motion and change we may all grow up to be happy hereafter in that state of permanency and Eternal rest above PETITIONS O Lord the Merciful and Gracious God I poor Sinner humbly beseech Thee to pardon all my past ingratitude all my neglect and forgetfulness of Thee and mercifully do thou direct my time to come Teach me wherein I have done amiss and have omitted my Duty and inable me to practise a sincere Repentance and amendment Teach every passage of my yet remaining Life to express the acknowledgements due to thee and to thy Mercies O Infinite and perfect Being make me to know and adore Thee to ascribe all excellency and perfection to Thee So guide thou my thoughts and words that neither of them may at any time impute what is unworthy of thee Make me ever humbly to adore thy infinite fulness of Being a fulness underived independant and unchangable Make me often to think and fully believe that there is none besides Thee like unto Thee and alwaies to ascribe unsearchable greatness Give me too O bounteous Lord I pray among thy other gifts a large sense of thy Immense liberality to Mankind that I may fitly acknowledge and praise thy bounteous Mercy Give to all mankind a

thou the desire of all Nations We were misled by the errour of our Forefathers we were abus'd by our own blind passions The Kingdom we expected deserves not that Name a short vain and troublesome Prosperity Thy Dominion O Lord is Holiness and Peace and of thy Kingdom there shall be no end Such was the Kingdom thou promisedst to David Thy Throne will I establish for ever Such is the Kingdom thou giv'st to thy Servants they shall live and reign with thee for ever If we love my Soul and seek first this eternal Kingdom all other things shall be added to it This Happy Kingdom we ought to love and seek though nothing else should be added to it Thou art O Lord the true light of the World they who follow Thee walk not in darkness MEDITATION II. RIse Holy Spouse of the Son of God rise and put on thy robes of joy Rise and shine forth for thy Glory is come and the splendour of our Lord strikes bright upon Thee The Gentiles shall walk in the beams of thy light and Kings in the lustre of thy Brightness Lift up thine Eyes round about and behold they gather all together and flock to thee Thy Sons shall come from far and thy Daughters be nurst at thy side Then thou shalt see and flow together thy Heart shall wonder and be enlarged with gladness Because the abundance of the Sea shall be converted unto Thee and the strength of the Gentiles come unto thee The Sons of Strangers shall build up thy Walls and their Kings shall Minister unto Thee The Nation shall perish that will not serve thee and the Kingdom be utterly wasted that refuses thee The Sons of thy afflicters shall come bending before Thee and all they that despised thee bow thimselves down at the soles of thy feet For our Lord shall be thy everlasting light and the dayes of thy Mourning shall end in Glory To thee shall be given the Keys of Heaven and thou shalt shut and open those Eternal Doors Thy Foundation shall be laid on a firm Rock and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against thee A way shall be made so direct and plain that the Passengers though Fools shall not erre therein And the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of our Lord as the waters cover the Sea. All this we read all this we firmly believe for the mouth of our Lord has spoken it Heaven and Earth shall pass away but not a tittle of his word be disappointed for ever Many of the Sacred Prophesies are already fulfill'd abundantly sufficient to assure us of the rest Already a Virgin has brought forth a Son and given him the Gracious Name of Jesus The Kings of the East have been led to him by a Star and offer'd him Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh His Holy Parents have presented him in the Temple and the devout Simeon was over-joyed to see him In his tender infancy he fled into Egypt and out of Egypt again God brought forth his Son. He past his private Life in Peace and meekness and taught a contradicting People in Patience and Humility He confirm'd his Doctrine with innumerable Miracles and defended the Truth to the last drop of his Blood. He rose again victoriously from the Grave and ascended in Triumph to the Right Hand of his Father And there O Glorious Jesu wilt thou sit and Reign till all thy Enemies become thy footstool Nor has thy Judgement slept O dreadful Lord but with a swift and terrible Vengeance crusht them into ruine Jerusalem long since was made a heap of stones and the Children of thy Crucisiers run wandering over the World But while thou art thus severe in the Predictions of thy Justice thou hast not forgot those of thy Mercy Thousands of that ungrateful City have acknowledg'd Thee their Lord Thousands of that perverse Generation have submitted to thy Scepter Whole Nations of the Gentiles have embrac'd thy Faith and remotest Islands obey'd thy Law. Blessed for ever be thy Name O Lord and blessed be the sweetness of thy Mercy who hast reveal'd thy self to those that knew Thee not and art found of those that sought thee not Who often followest those that fly from thee and never refusest any that come to Thee Thou still exactly performest thy part but we ingrateful wretches how do we comply with ours Where is the profit thou maist justly require to answer the ●are of thy Providence over us Thou hast planted us O Lord in thine own Vineyard and fenced us about with thy Holy Discipline Where is the Fruit we should alwayes be bearing since good works are never out of season Of our selves alas we are very dry and barren and our Nature at best brings forth nothing but leaves In Thee Lord while we remain we live but separated from Thee we are certainly dead and fruitless In thee O Lord is all our hope and that thou wilt have Mercy on the work of thy hands That thou wilt not curse these fruitless branches lest they wither away and be cast into the fire Nor pronounce against us that dreadful Sentence Cut them down why cumber they the ground But mercifully cut them off from their wild stock and graft them in thy self the true Vine And then still water us with the dew of Heaven and bless our low shrubs with thy powerful influence So shall Grapes grow on Thorns and Figs be gather'd from those that were Thistles MEDITATION III. REjoyce in our Lord all you Children of Adam rejoyce in the bounty of his free Grace No longer now confin'd to a few choice Favourites and the narrow compass of a private Family he has thrown down that partition Wall and opened the way of Life to all Mankind That all may believe and love him here and all enjoy and be happy in him hereafter But O my God! what do we see when we look abroad into the wide World We see the sad effects but cannot see the cause why so many Kingdoms lye miserably waste We know O Lord thy wayes are in the deep Abyss and humbly adore thy secret Councels Onely we cannot think of their lamentable condition without pitying their misery and imploring thy mercy Some have not yet so much as heard of thee and others who have heard have refus'd to entertain thee Some who have once acknowledg'd thee have quite fallen away others have corrupted thy Doctrines by mixing with them their own Traditions Many even of those who rightly believe abuse their holy Faith by a wicked Life Thus the far greatest part of wretched Mankind whom thy goodness created after thine own similitude whom thou hast shed thy precious Blood to redeem and to bring them to an everlasting Happiness still fail alas of their true end and die in their sins and everlastingly perish Where O Lord is thy Zeal and the Bowels of thy Mercy Where are thy promises to thy beloved Son Hast thou not said All Nations shall adore him and all the

away And into Joy turns all our Grief Come thou bright Sun shoot home thy darts Pierce to the Center of our Hearts And make our living Faith love thee Without thy Grace without thy Light Our strength is weakness our day night And we can neither move nor see Lord wash our sinful stains away Water from Heaven our barren Clay Our many mortal Bruises heal To thy sweet Yoke our stiff Necks bow Warm with thy fire our Hearts of Snow And soon our wandring feet repeal O grant thy Faithful dearest Lord Whose only hope is thy sure Word The saving gifts of thy good Spirit Grant us in Life t' obey thy Grace Grant us at Death to see thy Face And Heave'ns Eternal Joyes inherit All Glory to the Sacred Three One ever-living Deity All Power ascribe and Bliss and Praise As at the first when time begun May the same Homage still be done While time does last when time decayes Amen MEDITATION II. HOw glorious O Lord is thy Grace over all the World How admirable are the influences of thy Spirit They who through dulness so slowly understood the often repeated Lessons of their divine Master now when the Spirit descended upon them did with the first swift glance see through all and no mystery could pose nor errour deceive them They who through fear forsook their Lord and fled away from the danger of being his now do rejoice in suffering for his Name and neither Life nor Death can forbid them to confess him They who knew only their Mother tongue and that no better than as simple Fishermen now speak to every Nation in their several language and with their powerful Eloquence ravish their Hearts They who after our Saviours resurrection shut fast the doors for fear of the Jews now in the open Streets and publick Synagogues confidently proclaim the Name of Jesus These were new bottles sill'd with new Wine wine that made them quite forget their former selves Wine that exalted them into a generous Spirit of despising all things for the love of Jesus Wine that in the midst of Racks and Prisons made them often break forth into that sweet extasie no joy like the pain of suffering for Jesus no Life like the death endur'd for his Love. O were there now such tongues of fire to kindle in the world those divine flames O were there now such Hearts in the world to receive the holy sparks that fall from Heaven The Apostle Peter preach't but one Sermon and immediately there were converted to Thee three thousand Souls he preach't again and wrought but one Miracle and five thousand more were added to the Church Thus every day they encreas'd in number and which was better their number encreas'd in Vertue They were all inebriated with the same heavenly Wine and all fill'd with the same Heroick Spirit They sold all they had and brought the price and laid it down at the Apostles feet they liv'd in an Innocent community and call'd nothing their own even in their will and understanding they were all united Every one had enough and that is to be rich none had too much and that is to be free free from the cares that perplex the wealthy free from the temptations that wait on superfluity Hadst thou been there my Soul to have seen the flaming ardour of those first converts it would have made thee utterly asham'd of all sloath and coldness You may easily suppose you might have heard them saying such passionate words as these from a mixture of grief and love Ah dearest Lord why were we not so happy as to be converted by thee while thou livedst amongst us Why not to entertain Salvation when thou broughtest it to our homes and didst preferre our little Nation before all the World Unhappy we in our neglect and perverseness which were the causes of our insidelity We lookt on thy many kind miracles O Lord and did not see them Before our Eyes thou didst give sight to the Blind and our Souls were dark with Sin and prejudice Thou didst cleanse the Leprous and heal all manner of Diseases thou didst raise the Dead and cast out Devils with a Word Yet we alas how many of us blasphem'd thy Name how many conspir'd with thy Bloody Crucifiers We cryed out among the tumultuous rabble Away with him away with him crucifie him crucifie him for we knew thee not then to be the Lord of Glory Blessed be thy holy Spirit who has opened our Eyes and made us see through the veil that eclips'd thy lustre Now we believe thee the Messias we expected now we acknowledge thee the King of Israel MEDITATION III. PRoceed my Soul a little further to meditate on the mighty works of the Holy Spirit and with their greatness admire his power and with their goodness his bounty and Love. When Lord thou didst descend into our wretched World then was that Word of thy faithful Prophet fulfill'd The Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb the Leopard shall lie down with the Kid the Calf and the Young Lion and the Fatling shall be together and even a little Child shall lead them They who in the day of our Saviours Passion fiercely persecuted him like Lions and Wolves thou didst easily convert many of them into innocent Sheep and join them with the rest of his harmless Flock Those that were covetous as Wolves thy powerful Grace made them liberal those that were fierce and proud as Lions it made humble and meek Those that had been intemperate as Swine were made sober and they that were lustful as Goats became chast They were all join'd together in the bonds of pure Charity and submitted to the government of the meek and poor Apostles Then was the worship of God not a burden but a delight not a diversion but a business to the ardent love thou didst inspire The Disciples continued daily in the Apostles Doctrine humbly attending to their saving instructions Daily they broke the holy Bread and celebrated the appointed Supper of our Lord inflaming thereby their love to him and confirming their holy Faith and resolutions Daily they assembled to unite their Prayers being fill'd with the Spirit of Grace and Supplications Thus they obey'd thy dictates and thus they encreas'd in the measure of thy Gifts and the strength of thy Graces Such were the fervours of those happy times and Oh how Happy were our times had we those fervours too But our times alas are become miserable by Schisms and heresies and the darkness that covers a great part of the World Ours are become miserable by the defect of Charity and by the scandalous examples of too many Christians Many are scandalous in the Principles which they profess to the disparagement of our Lord's instructions and many others in their vicious Conversations which disparage his wise and pure Precepts Too many alas there are of these yet the Gates of Hell can never prevail against the Power of God Still the same Spirit visits the World and