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of my duty by the grace of thy Holy Spirit. To thee all hearts are open, and from thee no fecrets are hid; deal with me according to the earnest defire and full purpofe of my foul, to conform myself in all things to thy holy will.

Settle in me an unmoveable faith in thy infinite mercies, a conftant love and chearful affection to my duty, and a readiness of heart to obey thee, and to fubmit to thy wife appointments in every condition. The whole earth is full of thy mercy; thou openest thy hand, and fatisfiest the defire of every living thing: O refuse not the humble defires of my poor foul, which gafpeth after thee, even as the thirsty land. Thou, who giveft to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens when they cry; O fatify me early with thy mercies, that I may rejoice and be glad all my days. Compose my broken and disturbed thoughts; quiet my troubled and disordered spirit; and appease all the ragings and tumults there, by a sweet sense of thy most tender mercies, which have been ever of old, and endure continually.

Banish from me all caufless fears and jea loufies; deliver me from all unprofitable

fadness

sadness and dejections of fpirit; keep me from rafh judging of myself, and much more from charging thee foolishly. Beftow upon me a chearful fpirit, by an humble hope in thee; and by referring myself wholly to thee. Endue me with such wifdom and uprightness, that I may neither neglect my duty, nor fufpect thy gracious acceptance of me. Give me an hearty zeal to do the best that I am able; and a fettled perfuafion that thou requireft no more of

me.

Defend me, O my gracious God, from dishonouring thee and my religion, by diftrusting thy goodness, and calling thy loving kindness in question towards those, that are fincerely bent to please thee. Remove all troublesome imaginations from me, and give me a clear understanding of thee, and of myself: Or, when I am in darkness and confufion of thoughts, grant me fo much light and judgment, as not to conclude myself forfaken by thee, but to reflect upon thy long continued favours to me, and many deliverances of me; that so

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may refolve still to hope in thee, to bear my present trouble patiently, and to refign my will abfolutely to thy good pleasure.

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And, good Lord, enable me to look beyond thefe clouds to that bleffed state, whither my Saviour is gone, in which there is no darkness at all; and, in an humble hope of coming to the fame place where he is, to content myfelf with any condition, whilft I am here, fo far remote from that region of light and glory.

Hear me, moft loving and merciful Father, I most humbly befeech thee. Pity my great dulnefs and deadness of heart. Strengthen my weak and feeble endeavours. Support my fainting fpirit, and cause it humbly to hope in thee for ever. Confirm and eftablifh every good thought, defire and purpose, which thou haft wrought in me. Perfect that which thou haft begun. Make me to grow in wisdom, faith, love, and willing obedience. Conduct me hereafter fo evenly and fteadily, fo peaceably and quietly, fo chearfully and fecures ly in thy ways, that I may glorify thee whilft I live, by encouraging others to ac company me in thy fervice; and when I come to die, may refign my foul unto thee with an undisturbed mind, and in an holy hope of a joyful refurrection of the body at the great day of the Lord Jefus; to whom

whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

A Thanksgiving for Deliverance.

Blessed Lord, who art gracious and merciful, flow to anger and of great kindness, and repenteft thee of the evil; I thankfully acknowledge before thee, that thou haft not dealt with me after my sins, nor rewarded me according to my iniquities. My rebellions, O Lord, deserve to be scourged with fcorpions, and thou haft corrected them only with a gentle and fatherly rod; neither haft thou fuffered me to lie long under that, but haft given me a timely and a gracious iffue out of my late distresses. O Lord, I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy, for thou hast considered my trouble, and haft known my soul in adversity. Thou haft fmitten, and thou haft healed me. O let these various methods of thine have their proper effects upon my foul; that I, who have felt the fmart of thy chastisements, may ftand in awe and not fin: and that I, who have likewife felt the sweet refreshings of thy mer

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cy, may have my heart ravished with it,
and knit to thee in the firmeft bands of
love; and that by both I may
be prefer-

ved in a conftant entire obedience to thee
all my days, through Jesus Christ.

A Prayer for fuccefs in any extraordinary business.

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Lmighty and most merciful Father, the fupreme governour of the whole world; who difpofest and orderest all things in heaven and earth with admirable judgment, and canst not poffibly err in what thou doeft, nor fail of what thou designest. I adore, in the humblest reverence of my foul, thy most glorious majesty; thy eternal power, holiness, goodness and truth, which are all beyond my comprehension: And more particularly I adore thy unfpotted juftice, and all-feeing wisdom, which penetrates into the deepeft fecrets, and spies out all the ways of the fons of men, and renders to every one of them according to their doings.

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I know, O Lord, that the man is not in himself: it is not

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