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id: B05603
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation, for a solemn and publick thanksgiving.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1266
sentence: 65
flesch: 63
cache: cache/B05603.xml
txt: txt/B05603.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05603) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179041) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:30) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A36935
author: Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
date: 1644.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1136
sentence: 45
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A36935.xml
txt: txt/A36935.txt
title:
  Two prayers one for the safety of His Majesties person : the other for the preservation of this university and city of Oxford : to be used in all churches and chappells.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A36935 of text R24307 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing D2667). We know that unlesse thou keep the City , the Watchman watcheth but in vaine ; unlesse thou defend us , our Foundations , which are laid in dust , cannot stand firme .


id: B05614
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: Proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1318
sentence: 59
flesch: 61
cache: cache/B05614.xml
txt: txt/B05614.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05614) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180016) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: B05616
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: Proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving and publick prayers.
date: 1699.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1677
sentence: 72
flesch: 61
cache: cache/B05616.xml
txt: txt/B05616.txt
summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.


id: A33011
author: Church of England.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3142
sentence: 163
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A33011.xml
txt: txt/A33011.txt
title:
  A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the preservation of Their Majesties, the success of their forces in the reducing of Ireland ... to be used on Thursday the six and twentieth of November ...

summary:
  What shall we render to thee , O Lord , for all these benefits ? Vnto thee therefore , O God , do we give thanks , unto thee do we give thanks , who hast wrought this mighty Salvation for us : Give us , we beseech thee , such a dutiful sense of thy goodness to us , that we may live as becomes a People saved by the Lord. Banish from amongst us all Infidelity and Profaneness ;


id: A50098
author: Master, William, 1627-1684.
title: Drops of myrrhe, or, Meditations and prayers, fitted to divers of the preceding arguments.
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4197
sentence: 195
flesch: 77
cache: cache/A50098.xml
txt: txt/A50098.txt
summary:
  Yet O Lord , none of these considerations will prevail on my corrupt perverse treacherous heart , without thy blessing , without thou set them home upon me . O Lord , things are now at that pass , that we know not which way to look ; Our eyes are up unto thee , merciful God , save or we perish !


id: A33017
author: Church of England.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5394
sentence: 278
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A33017.xml
txt: txt/A33017.txt
title:
  A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God to be used throughout the cities of London and Westminster, and elsewhere within the weekly bills of mortality, on Sunday the second day of December next ensuing ... : for the preservation of His Majesty from the dangers to which His Royal Person was exposed during his late expedition : and for his safe return to his people : and for the success of his forces by sea and land.

summary:
  ALmighty God , who hast given us grace at this time with one accord , to make our common supplications unto thee , and dost promise , that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name , thou wilt grant their requests ; Fulfil now , O Lord , the desires and petitions of thy servants , as may be most expedient for them ; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth , and in the world to come life everlasting . O Most gracious God , who of thy infinite goodness hast preserved our Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM from the Dangers to which his Royal Person hath been exposed for the Publick Good , during his late Expedition ; and hast brought him back to us in safety : We beseech thee to fill our hearts with unfeigned thankfulness to thee for so great Blessings ; and still to continue Their Majesties under the watchful care of thy Providence ; to protect Their Sacred Persons from all secret Attempts and open Violence , that no Weapon , no Design formed against them may prosper : And to make them the happy Instruments of establishing that great Deliverance which thy Providence by them hath wrought for us in so wonderful a manner , that all the world may see that it is thy hand , and that thou , Lord , hast done it : Which we humbly beg for thy mercies sake in Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer .


id: A18925
author: Clapham, Henoch, fl. 1600.
title: A tract of prayer by He. Clapham.
date: 1602.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5489
sentence: 263
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A18925.xml
txt: txt/A18925.txt
summary:
  Beeing a Father , thou art willing : and being in Heauen , thou art able to effect whatsoeuer thou willest : and thou willest onely that which shal be good for thy children . And as thou specially declarest thy glory in the Heauens , ( for otherwise thy Essence & Beeing is beyond all place ) because there are the Spirits Angelicall ; who are more capable of thy glorie : so vouchsafe ô heauenly Father , ( for the sake of thy Sonne , through whom thou art become our Father ) to inrich our harts nowe and for euer with diuine thoughtes , beseeming the presenting our selues before such a heauenly Father : That so by thy grace , we may pray in Fayth : euen in that Fayth which worketh by Loue , the bond of Peace , the fulfilling of thy Law , the externall badge of thy Sonnes disciples .


id: A47219
author: Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.
title: Directions for prayer, for the diocess of Bath and Wells
date: 1686.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6280
sentence: 237
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A47219.xml
txt: txt/A47219.txt
summary:
  As their speech grows more plain and easie to them , teach them who Made , and Redeem'd and Sanctified them , and for what end , namely to glorifie and to love God ; and withal , teach them some of the shortest Ejaculations you can , such as these ; Lord help me . O God , make speed to save me : O Lord , make haste to help me .


id: A81572
author: Gordon, Jones, 1640?-1714.
date: 1662.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6490
sentence: 241
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A81572.xml
txt: txt/A81572.txt
title:
  Divine physick for devout souls: or, Four serious vvords to the most grave and solid christians that scruple at The book of common prayer. Viz. I. To serve God by a liturgie, is part of the publick worship of God. II. The forms of the generall part of the Liturgie, used in the Church of England, compared with such formes as we finde in Scripture. III. An help to scrupulous consciences touching some things most excepted against in the other parts of the rubrick appointed to be used on particular occasions. IIII. Wee ought not to refuse the rubrick or common-prayer because it is imposed by authority from men, but therefore to use it. By a moderate son of the church.

summary:
  A Liturgy is Liturgia , a Publick Service , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , est opus facere publicuns , vel publicè , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a form of Publick or Common Prayer ; Divine Service . 2 Cor. 9. 12. 1. 2. when Barnabas and Simeon , and other Teachers were in the Church at Antioch , they ministred to the Lord , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , they performed the Publick Service .


id: A57651
author: Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6157
sentence: 221
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A57651.xml
txt: txt/A57651.txt
title:
  Gods house, or, The hovse of prayer vindicated from prophanenesse and sacriledge delivered in a sermon the 24 day of February, Anno 1641 in Southampton / by Alexander Rosse ...

summary:
  3. Shall bee called , It is not then namelesse : men build houses , and call them by their names , shall not God have the same libertie ? 4. S. Marke saith , shall be called of all Nations ; his Churches then in England shall , and should be called houses of prayer , as well as the Temple of Ierusalem . Was not now Bethel become Bethaven , the house of God , the house of iniquitie ? Dens and Caves sometimes have beene Mansion places for good men ; David , Daniel , Elijah , the Prophets in Achabs dayes , and many more of whom the world was not worthy , dwelt in dens and caves of the earth ; But the Temple is not made a den for such men , but for theeves , and the worst sort of theeves , not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} secret theeves , but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} open robbers , robbing God of his honour , the people of their money , and the Temple of its holinesse .


id: A58209
author: M. R.
date: 1665.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7815
sentence: 238
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A58209.xml
txt: txt/A58209.txt
title:
  The meanes of preventing, and preserving from, and curing of the most contagious disease, called the plague with the pestilential feaver, and the fearfull symptomes, and accidents, incident thereunto. Also some prayers, and meditations upon death.

summary:
  The fourth signe of the Plague , is the Mark or Spots , called Gods Tokens , but not alwaies certaine signs of the Plague , nor of death to the Patient , as some ignorant Nurses , nay most Nurses imagine , for many have Spots of several forms and colours when venomous Feaversreigne , and yet not the Plague ; againe , many have suspicious and fearful Spots , which the Vulgar terme Gods Tokens , and recover , and live many years after to Gods glory ; these Spots are upon some bodies like Flea-bitings , in others larger , in some as bigge as a penny , their kindes in some like Freckles , sometimes found upon the Breast , sometimes upon the Back , the Armes , and Leggs of the Patient , they are in colour blewish , and of a sad red ; sometimes of a lead colour , and of a purple colour , they are without paine , but many times the very sight of them to the Patient causeth fear , but let me desire the Patient to fear his sins more , and use the means , and by the help of God you may doe well . Now who knows which of these deaths are appointed for him ? Now the Lord prepare us to meet him , for unto God the Lord belongs the Issues of Death , Psal . 68.20 .


id: A35569
author: Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.
title: The use of daily pvblick prayers in three positions
date: 1641.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7759
sentence: 251
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A35569.xml
txt: txt/A35569.txt
summary:
  Mention of those Prayers is made in the Councill of Laodicea , in the eighteenth Canon , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} : that is , That the forme or Liturgie of Prayers , both at the Nones , and at the Vespers , ought always to be the same . It seemes by him that no small part of that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , or , good order , required by Saint Paul , ( whose mind he might best know , as one of his Disciples ) 1 Cor. 14.40 doth consist in the due observing of those times and houres , limited and prescribed by authority for our Prayers and Devotions .


id: B05608
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation, for a solemn national fast and humiliation.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1463
sentence: 64
flesch: 59
cache: cache/B05608.xml
txt: txt/B05608.txt
summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179045) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2776:34) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: B05613
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation for a solemn national thanksgiving.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1564
sentence: 65
flesch: 60
cache: cache/B05613.xml
txt: txt/B05613.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05613) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179049) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A45346
author: Hall, William, d. 1718?
date: 1686.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10395
sentence: 391
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A45346.xml
txt: txt/A45346.txt
title:
  A sermon preach'd before Her Majesty the Queen Dowager in her chappel at Somerset-House, upon the fifth Sunday after Easter, May 9, 1686 / by William Hall.

summary:
  Since therefore our Holy Mother the Church , in a Season sacred to Prayer , do's propose to her Children the Gospel , wherein our Saviour encourages his beloved Disciples , to addict themselves to that holy Exercise , as being the only Sourse or Origin from whence flows the fulness of joy in this World , and the assurance of the ineffable Bliss of the World to come ; I think it will not be unseasonable from the words of my Text , to exhort you likewise ( D. Christians ) to apply your selves with joynt consent , with united affection and fervor , to the devout and holy Exercise of Prayer ; and that , not for these ensuing Days only , wherein we are more strictly engag'd by the Church to pay our respective Duties to Almighty God , the better to dispose us on Thursday next to ascend with Christ in Spirit into Heaven , and prepare us to entertain that supreme Author of all Sanctity and Grace , the Third Person of the ever Blessed Trinity , who descended upon the Apostles in fiery Tongues , and will come to enflame our Souls with the fire of Love ; but during also the series or continuance of your Days ; to the end , that by addicting your selves to an Employment , as necessary as advantageous to a Christian , your joy may be full , Vt gaudium vestrum sit plenum . The Soul likewise upon the Wings of Prayer takes her flight to Heaven ; she enters into the Palace of her Lord without controul or disturbance , ( Prayer being the Key of Paradise ( saith S. Augustin ) which gives her admittance into the Royal Bed-Chamber , where she freely entertains her self with an infinite Majesty ) she becomes familiar with her God , she not only obtains his Blessing as her Father , disarms his just Indignation against her own , and the Worlds Offences , atones for her self and others , but addresses her self to him as her dearest Friend , appropriates him to her as her Beloved , with the Spouse in the Canticles ; Dilectus meus mihi , & ego illi .


id: B05612
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: Proclamation for a solemn national monthly fast
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1382
sentence: 62
flesch: 61
cache: cache/B05612.xml
txt: txt/B05612.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05612) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180015)


id: B05605
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: Proclamation for a solemn fast and humiliation
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1874
sentence: 68
flesch: 57
cache: cache/B05605.xml
txt: txt/B05605.txt
summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 180014) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A33013
author: Church of England.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5698
sentence: 292
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A33013.xml
txt: txt/A33013.txt
title:
  A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God to be used throughout the cities of London and Westminster and elsewhere within the weekly Bill of Mortality on Thursday the 27th day of this instant October and in all other places throughout this kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick on Tweed, on Thursday the 10th day of November next ensuing.

summary:
  Lord , who is like unto thee : who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him ; yea , the poor and him that is in misery from him that spoileth him . O Most gracious God , who of thy infinite goodness hast preserved our Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM from the treacherous practices of wicked and blood thirsty men , and from the manifold Dangers to which his Royal Person hath been exposed for the Publick Good , during his late Expedition ; and hast brought him back to us in safety : VVe beseech thee to fill our hearts with unfeigned thankfulness to thee for so great Blessings ; and still to continue their Majesties under the watchful care of thy Providence ; to protect their Sacred Persons from all secret Attempts and open Violence , that no VVeapon , no Design formed against them may prosper : And to make them the happy Instruments of establishing that great Deliverance which thy Providence by them hath wrought for us in so wonderful a manner , that all the world may see that it is thy hand , and that thou , Lord , hast done it : VVhich we humbly beg for thy mercies sake in Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer .


id: A67898
author: Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
date: 1646.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12938
sentence: 394
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A67898.xml
txt: txt/A67898.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning prayer ex tempore, or, by pretence of the spirit. In justification of authorized and set-formes of lyturgie.

summary:
  The reason followes , Ne forte aliquid contra ●idem , vel per ign●rantia● , vel per minus studium ●it compositum : A Discourse concerning PRAYER Ex tempore , &c. I Have read over this book which the Assembly of Divines is pleased to call The Directory for Prayer , I confesse I came to it with much expectation , and was in some measure confident , I should have found it an exact and unblameable modell of Devotion , free from all those objections which men of their owne perswasion had obtruded against the publike Liturgy of the Church of England ; or at least , it should have been composed with so much artifice and finenesse , that it might have beene to all the world , an argument of their learning and excellency of spirit , if not of the goodnesse and integrity of their religion and purposes .


id: A51405
author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9205
sentence: 412
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A51405.xml
txt: txt/A51405.txt
title:
  The Countess of Morton's daily exercise: or, A book of prayers, and rules how to spend the time in the service and pleasure of Almighty God.

summary:
  When you are risen , Retire your self , and humbly kneeling , adore God , and say , O Holy Lord God Almighty , before whom all knees do bend , and to whom all Creatures in Heaven and Earth do bow and obey ; behold , here I prostrate myself before thee , adoring the divine Excellency of thy sovereign and infinite Majesty , with all the powers of my Soul , submitting my self with all lowliness and reverence to the greatness of thy Dominion and Power , and desiring nothing more than faithfully to serve thee all the days of my life ; for Thou art only holy , thou only art the Lord : and glory be to thee , O Lord , most High. And , Lord , be pleased so to guide the hearts of all who shall be intrusted with that great Concernment of setling this Nation , that they may weigh all their deliberations in the Balance of the Sanctuary , that Conscience , not Interest , may be the ruling principle , and that they may render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's , and to God the things that are God's ; that they may become healers of our breaches , and happy Repairers of the sad Ruines both in Church and State : And grant , O Lord , that as those sins which made them are become National , so the repentance may be National also , and that evidenc'd by the proper fruits of it , by zeal of restoring the rights both of thee and thine Anointed .


id: A06305
author: Merchant Taylors' Company (London, England)
title: [A Prayer to be said by the poor of the company]
date: 1603.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1173
sentence: 51
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A06305.xml
txt: txt/A06305.txt
summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28112)


id: A25381
author: Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.
date: 1645.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3891
sentence: 454
flesch: 98
cache: cache/A25381.xml
txt: txt/A25381.txt
title:
  Andrewes Golden chaine to linke the penitent sinner unto Almighty God richly adorned with ornaments of Holy Scripture ... : newly made in a godly prayer taken out of the pure fountaine of Holy Scripture, very necessary to cure the sick soule of a sinner, and to draw him from desperation, if with a beleeving faith he will daily use it in prayer unto Almighty God.

summary:
  MOst Mighty a , most Holie b , most Righteous c , and most merciful God d , my sweet Saviour e , and Physitian of my soule f , have mercie on me thou that art full of pity and compassion g , rich unto all which call upon thee for mercy h , and never forsakest them that put their trust in thee i , againe and againe have mercy on me , here I bow the very knees of my heart unto thee O God , and with sighes , groans , and feares bewaile my sinnes k , beseeching thee with all humility to cure my wounded and distressed soule . Saint Peters wives mother received thee O Christ , and thou curedst her p , Zacheus did but entertaine thee , and thou O God bestowedst salvation upon him q , Saint Peter which denied , and forsware thee , went for his sins , and was pardoned r .


id: A58783
author: Scott, John, 1639-1695.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19107
sentence: 243
flesch: 10
cache: cache/A58783.xml
txt: txt/A58783.txt
title:
  Certain cases of conscience resolved concerning the lawfulness of joyning with forms of prayer in publick worship. Part I ...

summary:
  ONE of the main Points which our dissenting Brethren insist on to justifie their Separation from our Church , is , That our Publick Worship is perform'd in a Form of Words of Man's Invention ; which , they conceive , is unlawful ; for hereby , say some of them , the Holy Spirit , who inspires our Prayer , is stinted and limited , and hereby the Gift of Prayer , say others , which the Holy Spirit communicates to Ministers , to inable them to express the Devotions of their Congregations to God , is rendred useless ; and not only so , but even the Devotions of the Congregation too are mightily deaden'd , by being continually express'd in the same form of words : besides , that the wants of Christians being various , casual , and emergent , cannot be so fully represented in a fixt Form , as in conceiv'd Prayers , which upon the account of their variation in Expressions , may be the better extended to the continual variations of Mens cases and circumstances : besides all which , say they , we have no warrant for the use of Forms , either in Scripture , or pure Antiquity ; and if we had , yet an universal imposition of them , can by no means be lawfully compli'd with : this , according to the best recollection I can make , is the sum of what our Brethren urge against the lawfulness of joyning with us in a stated Liturgy , or Form of Publick Worship : and therefore , in order to the satisfying their Consciences in this matter , I shall reduce their whole Plea to these following Cases , and indeavour a plain and clear resolution of them . But then , 2. It is pretended that conceiv'd Prayer is in it self more apt to fix the Ministers attention in Prayer than Forms , because in conceiv'd Prayer he utters his words immediately from his affections , by reason of which his thoughts have not that scope to wander , as when he reads them out of a Book : to which , in short , I answer , That if he hath devout affections , he may utter his words as immediately from his affections in a Form , as in a conceiv'd Prayer ; and therefore this pretence is altogether insignificant ; for his own invention is as much a medium between his affections and utterance in Praying extempore , as the Book in praying by a Form ; as for instance , suppose that in confessing sin , he be affected with shame and sorrow , he cannot express it in words , but by using his own invention , or a Form , and whether he uses one , or t'other , he uses a medium to express it ; and why those words which he reads should not be as immediate to his affections as those which he invents , provided they do as fully express them , I am not able to apprehend ; in short therefore , if he hath devout affections , they will at least as much confine his thoughts from wandering when he prays by Form , as when he prays Extempore , if he hath not , he cannot utter his words from his affections , either in the one or t'other .


id: A77774
author: Bulkeley, Lancelot, 1568?-1650.
date: 1642.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 864
sentence: 40
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A77774.xml
txt: txt/A77774.txt
title:
  O Lord of hosts, almighty and eternall God, whose high and glorious name is King of Kings and Lord of Lords ...

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A77774 of text R175631 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B5402A). The rate of 23 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.


id: A66950
author: Walker, George, of Londonderry.
date: 1690.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22327
sentence: 892
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A66950.xml
txt: txt/A66950.txt
title:
  The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.

summary:
  This gracious Man repeated the same things in substance to his only Daughter the Lady Tyrrel , and that with many Tears , and much about the same time that he had exprest the aforesaid to me , and which ●…e Lady Tyrrel assured me of ●…ith her own mouth to this ●…rpose : That opening the door of ●…s Chamber , she found him ●…ith his eyes lift up to Heaven , ●…d the Tears running apace ●…own his Cheeks , and that ●…e seemed to be in an Ecstasie , ●…herein he continued for a●…out half an hour , not taking ●…e least notice of her , though ●…e came into the Room ; but 〈…〉 last turning to her , he told ●…er , That his thoughts had ●…en taken up about the Mi●…ries and Persecutions that ●…ere coming upon the Chur●…es of Christ , which would ●…e so sharp and bitter , that ●…e contemplation of them ●…d fetched those Tears from ●…s Eyes , and that he hoped ●…e should not live to see it , ●…ut possibly she might , for it ●…as even at the door ; Therefore take heed ( says he ) that y●… be not found sleeping . Their Majesties went from 〈…〉 c-hall to Westminster , 〈…〉 Heralds being ready , 〈…〉 Peers in the Lords House , and the P●eresses in the Painted Chamber , so that 〈…〉 even in the Morning The● Majesties , and the wh●… Proceeding were conducted to Westminster-hall , where a Throne being erected , 〈…〉 Majesties took Their Sea● and after the Ceremon● was ended , the Proceeding began from Westminster-Hall to the Abby , where bein●…d in Order ,


id: A23100
author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
date: 1609.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24414
sentence: 866
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A23100.xml
txt: txt/A23100.txt
title:
  The sinners glasse containing Augustines Ladder to paradise : with diuers meditations and prayers, both for morning and euening / collected out of Saint Augustine and other ancient fathers.

summary:
  Lord Iesu Christ eternall King , God and man , crucified for man , look on me with the eyes of thy mercie , heare mee putting my trust in thee , haue mercy on mee full of miseries and sins , thou which euer makest the fountaine of thy compassions to spring . Why art thou troubled touching the price , Christ hath yeelded and deliuered vp himselfe to God his father ▪ that thou shouldest purchase thee a Kingdom : thou so giue thy selfe , that thou be his Kingdom and that sinne may not raigne in thy mortall bodie , but the spirit in obtaining of eternall life .


id: A16315
author: Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.
date: 1638.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24216
sentence: 666
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A16315.xml
txt: txt/A16315.txt
title:
  Certaine devout prayers of Mr. Bolton upon solemne occasions. Published by E. B. by M. Boltons owne coppy

summary:
  And grant that wee may all with one minde , heart and soule , love , feare , reverence and glorifie thy great Name ; that so after a few daies , spent religiously in this vaine and wretched world , wee may live and raigne with thee everlastingly , in the glorious and endlesse pleasures of the life to come , Heare us , &c. Another Morning Prayer . And if at any time , as it is ordinary with Gods children , it shall please thee to exercise me with any crosse , disgrace , slander , discoūtenance , losse of goods , disease of body , terror of soule , or the like , I pray thee ever sweeten & sanctifie them unto mee by thy blessing : & grant that I may ever obediently with all peace of heart , & patience of spirit submit to thy will & wisedome therein ; being fully assured that to me , which am in Christ , the sting , curse and poyson of them is most certainely pulled out by the Passion of thy Son. And resting ever upon thy sweet & pretious promises , that thou having given me Christ Jesus , will never deny me any truly needfull and and comfortable thing , while the world stands .


id: A59239
author: Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
title: Of devotion By J. S.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25370
sentence: 668
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A59239.xml
txt: txt/A59239.txt
summary:
  Hence , 't is very easy to remark , that in this Treatise , I meddle not with the Efficaciousness of Prayer for others , nor with other stranger Effects of it , ( nay , somtimes , even miraculous Ones ) which , by means of a firm Faith , and Relyance on God , are brought to pass . Nor , lastly , do I Treat of Prayer ( or Devotion ) as they depend on God ' s Grace , or the secret Workings of the Holy-Ghost , ( as I hint also in the Treatise it self , p. 60. ) ; which I from my Heart acknowledge to give us Ability to begin , continue , and consummate both Prayer , and every good Act that is Supernatural :


id: A01139
author: Foxle, George.
title: The groanes of the spirit, or the triall of the truth of prayer
date: 1639.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27634
sentence: 853
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A01139.xml
txt: txt/A01139.txt
summary:
  First , the Spirit maketh intercession for us with Groans : Secondly , the heart is the seate &c. Lord before thee is all my desire , and my sighing is not hid from thee : This must be done immediately to God ; for thou that hearest Prayers ( saith the Psalmist ) unto thee shal all flesh come , and that in the Name of Christ . But the godly out of knowledge of these infirmities , are exceeding humbled , whereupon there is roome made for the Spirit to rest in , for repairing of those ruines ; yea , the child of God by the knowledg of these his wants , commeth to speed best , when in his owne conceipt he prayeth worst , yea , when he can say nothing with Moses , and is to himselfe as it were breathlesse , and speechlesse , yet out of the sensibility of his prolixity he cryeth hardest of all , and God is nighest to him , when he conceiveth him to be farthest off : If then thou findest or feelest not in Prayer that comfort that thy heart desireth , be not discouraged , but rather comfort thy selfe , upon the feeling of thy wants , and humiliation for them , because it is a worke of the Spirit ; goe on then , and rather then thou pray not at all , cast thy selfe before the Lord , look up to heaven , if thou canst but cry like a litle child , cease not till thou make the Echo of the Rock to resound .


id: B05604
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation for a solemn day of humiliation.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1477
sentence: 70
flesch: 62
cache: cache/B05604.xml
txt: txt/B05604.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05604) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179042) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A14004
author: Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.
date: 1613.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28531
sentence: 777
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A14004.xml
txt: txt/A14004.txt
title:
  The practise of the faithfull containing many godly praiers both of morning and euening and other necessarie occasions. Whereunto are added diuers profitable and comfortable meditations necessarie to be remembered and practised of euery Christian.

summary:
  OEternall God & gracious Father , who in thy eternall counsell , and inestimable wisedome , hast ordained Kings & Princes to be as Fathers & Nurses to thy church , and as thou hast giuen them high soueraignty , and speciall authority , so thou hast communicated vnto them thine own names and titles , both to put them in continuall remembrance that they are for thée , & for thy glory , and also vs thy subiects of that same continuall loue & obedience which we owe vnto thy Maiestie , that vnder them we may be godly and peaceably gouerned : & seeing y ● by thée Kings raigne , and thy soueraigne authority reacheth ouer all , wee beséech thée good Lord , shew thy mercy vpon al christian Kings & Princes , calling on thy name : especially wee pray thée multiply thy graces vpon thy seruant & our dread soueraigne , Iames by thy prouidence , King of great Britaine , France & Ireland , defender of the faith . O Heauenly father from whom all good gifts come , I pray thée in thy mercy through Christ Iesus my sauiour to grant me thy gratious gift of a sound iustifying faith which I neither haue nor can haue by nature , that I may beleeue in thee O God only , the father Almightie , maker of heauen and earth , and also in Iesus Christ thy only sonne and our Lord , which was conceiued by the holy Ghost , bo●ne of the Virgine Marie , suffered vnder Pontius Pilate , was crucified dead and buried , that descended into hell , and rose againe the third day , and ascended into heauen , and there si●te●h at the right hand of thee ( O God ) father Almightie , from whence hee shall come to iudge vs all both quick and dead : & that I may b● le●●e in the holy Ghost , and that there is a Catholick church a Communion of Saints , the forgiuenes of sins , and the resurrection of the body , and life euerlasting , that so I may be truely perswaded of thy fatherly prouidence ouer me , & what Christ hath done , that is for my deliuerance , & the holy ghost to be my comfort & assistance , being a member of the church , and making me effectually partaker of all the priuileges thereof to my endlesse ioy & happines , which O father giue vnto me I beséech thée for Christs sake .


id: B05609
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: Proclamation for a solemn national fast.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1458
sentence: 64
flesch: 61
cache: cache/B05609.xml
txt: txt/B05609.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05609) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179046) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A25834
author: Armstrong, John, 1634 or 5-1698.
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23509
sentence: 985
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A25834.xml
txt: txt/A25834.txt
title:
  Secret and family prayers with brief helps for the more devout receiving of the Lords-Supper And better observation of the Lords-day, as also to further the needfull duties of catechizing, visiting the sick, and personal instruction. Fitted for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Cartmel in Lancashire.

summary:
  And being thus in some measure prepared , let us yet look up to Thee , to pardon our Unpreparedness ; Let us still continue our dependance upon Christ for his Assistance , as knowing that we are not sufficient of our selves , so much as to think any thing , but our Sufficiency is of God. Give me an awaking Spirit , and a diligent Soul , that I may seek to know thy Will ; and when I know it truly , may perform it faithfully to the honour and glory of thy ever Blessed Name ; for these and for all other needfull Mercies , which thou , O God , wouldst have me to pray , or to praise Thee , I continue to say , as Christ our Lord hath taught us .


id: A66403
author: Williams, John, 1582-1650.
date: 1672.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15947
sentence: 1134
flesch: 81
cache: cache/A66403.xml
txt: txt/A66403.txt
title:
  A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York.

summary:
  For This union of the members of the Catholick Church is inward , not outward , and therefore discerned only by God himself : We never sundred our selves from the People , or Church of Rome , but from the Faction , or Court of Rome ; not from the sincere doctrin of that Church , but from the corruptions and innovations foisted into that Church . Hence it cometh to pass , that although the Greek , Armenian , Ethiopian , and Syrian , and ( for the most part ) the Protestant doth censure charitably of those Laicks , who living rather in than of the Church of Rome , hold the grounds of the doctrin of Salvation , without any notorious mixtures , with the late superstitions , and impieties crept into the same ; yet doth the a Papist , b Russeist , c Anabaptist , d Familist , and e Puritan hold no Church a Church of God , but his own conventicle , and all to be damn'd , that are not of his society , and combination .


id: A07678
author: Norden, John, 1548-1625?
date: 1624.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30698
sentence: 664
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A07678.xml
txt: txt/A07678.txt
title:
  A godlie mans guide to happinesse A manuell of necessary motiues, holy meditations, and godly prayers, to stirre vp the hearts of men vnapt to pray. To the great comfort of all, that with due and holy attention will practise this most godly and Christian dutie. Written for his owne, and published for the comfort of them that long for trv[e] happinesse. by I.N.

summary:
  Let Pharoh pursue Gods children , with purpose to consume them , let them but call vpon God , let them bee faithfull , and they shall see the saluation of God , the confusion of their enemies , by the immediate hand of God , without the helpe or hand of man. When she shall perfectly enioy those things , which eye hath not seen , nor the eare heard , nor euer entred into the heart of man to co●ceiue , which God hath prepared , for them that loue him .


id: A44689
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1682.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17847
sentence: 644
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A44689.xml
txt: txt/A44689.txt
title:
  The right use of that argument in prayer from the name of God on behalf of a people that profess it by John Howe.

summary:
  And hereupon , because he was so entirely devoted to the honour , and service of Gods great name ( father glorifie thy name summ'd up his desires ) therefore God highly exalted him , and gave him a name above every name , That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow , &c. verse 9. 10. Though that be spoken of God but allusively , and after the manner of men , who by slow degrees , and by much deliberation arrive to the ( very imperfect ) knowledge of things , which at one view he perfectly beholds from all Eternity .


id: A09387
author: Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
date: 1628.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5706
sentence: 150
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A09387.xml
txt: txt/A09387.txt
title:
  Deaths knell: or, The sicke mans passing-bell summoning all sicke consciences to pr[e]pare themselues for the comming of the grea[t] day of doome, lest mercies gate be shut against them: fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem. Whereunto are added prayers fit for housholders. The ninth edition. Written by W. Perkins.

summary:
  If ●hou wert now laid on thy departing Pillow , wearied with waiting , pinched with paine , drowned in dolour , oppressed with the heauy load of thy fore-past committed sinnes , wounded with the sting of a guilty crying conscience : if thou feltst the force of death cracking thy heart-strings asunder , ready to make the sad diuorce of thy soule and body : if thou layest panting for shortnesse of breath , sweating a fatall sweat , and tyred with strugling against deadly pangs ; O , how much then wouldst thou giue for a dayes contrition , an houres repentance , or a minutes amendment of life ? Then worlds would be worthlesse in comparison of a little time , which now by whole moneths and yeeres thou lauishly mis-spendest . wouldst thou not then thinke one life too little , to repent for so many iniquities , the least whereof is strong enough to hurle thee irrecouerably into these vnspeakable torments ? Betimes then deuote the residue of thy dayes , to make an atonement with Iehouah , the generall Iudge , and so endeuour to set free thy soule from such confusion , as by sinne thou art sure to fall into .


id: A49732
author: Bulkeley, Lancelot, 1568?-1650.
title: [A prayer ordered to be used by the Earle of Ormonde, Feb. 28th]
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 876
sentence: 38
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A49732.xml
txt: txt/A49732.txt
summary:
  Bulkeley, Lancelot 1642 438 2 0 0 0 0 0 46 D The rate of 46 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49732 of text R21867 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L619).


id: A23804
author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
date: 1692.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31796
sentence: 729
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A23804.xml
txt: txt/A23804.txt
title:
  The whole duty of prayer containing devotions for every day in the week, and for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary / by the author of The whole duty of man ...

summary:
  THis is the day which the Lord hath made , let me rejoyce and be glad therein , it is a day of rest and sweetness unto my Soul , and a day of Ease from Labour● unto my Body ; as thou , O God , didst rest this day from the Works of thy Creation , so grant that I may cease this day from all Sin , and by an earnest Repentance implore thy Pardon ; thaw this frozen Heart of mine , that this day it may melt at thy presence ; and say unto my Soul those comfortable Words which thou wert pleased once to say to Zacheus , This day is Salvation come to thy House , O Lord , I am utterly unworthy in my self to stand at the Door of thy Sanctuary , much less to appear in thy presence , and be made partaker of thy Heavenly Gifts , for thou , O Lord art a God of pure Eyes , and canst not behold Iniquity ; and I am thy sinful Creature , not only wilfully opposite unto thee , but even Enmity it self against thee . LORD hear my Prayers , and let my Praises be acceptable in thy sight , for unto thee , O Lord , upon the Altar of my Heart do I offer up all possible Praise and Thanksgiving , for all thy Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal , which thou hast in a great measure bestowed upon me ; but above all , for Jesus Christ the Fountain of them all , by whom I have Redemption through his Blood , and Access through his Life .


id: A12610
author: Sorocold, Thomas, 1561-1617.
date: 1612.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32647
sentence: 1272
flesch: 73
cache: cache/A12610.xml
txt: txt/A12610.txt
title:
  Supplications of saints A booke of prayers: diuided into three parts.1. Daniels deuotion. 2. Paul, and his company. 3. David alone. prayers for seuerall dayes. seueral occasions. seuerall parties. Wherein are three most excellent prayers made by the late famous Queene Elizabeth.

summary:
  A ADmit me , O mercifull Lord , to thy gracious fauour : many are the dangers of this life , and I haue no patron to defend mee , but thee . O Heauenly Father , and Almightie God , which beyond all measure hast vnlocked the treasures of thy fauour and blessing vnto mee , from time to time : I most heartily thanke thee forthe sweet sleepe and comfortable rest which I haue taken this night , through thy gracious preseruation of me , and now ( O Lord ) I consecrate my soule and body to thy seruice this day againe , and euer hereafter , desiring that my prayer earely now this Morning , may haue accesse vnto thee .


id: A44516
author: Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22067
sentence: 1183
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A44516.xml
txt: txt/A44516.txt
title:
  The exercise of prayer: or, A help to devotion Being a supplement to the happy ascetick, or best exercise. Containing prayers and devotions, suitable to the respective exercises with additional prayers for several occasions. By Anth. Horneck D.D.

summary:
  Why shouldest thou prohibit it ? why shouldest thou warn , entreat , and beseech me not to do it , but that thou who knowest all things , knowest it to be prejudicial to my Soul. Lord do thou appear very amiable to my Soul , that this sight may constrain me to learn of thee .


id: A70397
author: Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28328
sentence: 1383
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A70397.xml
txt: txt/A70397.txt
title:
  A companion for the persecuted, or, An office for those who suffer for righteousness containing particular prayers and devotions, for particular graces, and for their private or publick wants and occasions.

summary:
  They stoned Stephen , and he kneeled down , and cryed with a loud voice , Lord ! lay not this sin to their charge , Act. 7. 59. 60. Being reviled , we bless ; being persecuted , we suffer it ; being defamed , we intreat or intercede for our defamers , 1 Cor. Grant not the desires of the wicked , O Lord , further not his wicked device , lest they exalt themselves , Ps. 140. 8. Put them in fear , O Lord , that they may know themselves to be but men , Ps. 9. 20.


id: A08279
author: Norden, John, 1548-1625?
date: 1614.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36734
sentence: 1166
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A08279.xml
txt: txt/A08279.txt
title:
  A load-starre to spirituall life. Or, a Christian familiar motiue to the most sweet and heauenly exercise of diuine prayer With prayers for morning and euening. Written to stir vp all men to watchfulnesse and reformation of their carnall and corrupt liues. By I. Norden.

summary:
  But to beleeue that he came in the flesh without man , to containe two natures vnder one visible forme ; that hee was God equall with the father , and man like vnto vs ; that he cancelled the hand-writing that was against vs ; that in him we are reconciled again to God the father ; that he sits at God's right hand a mediator for vs , and that all beleeuers shall ascend and rest with him in glorie ; that our bodies that are corrupt , shall either die and putrifie , or be changed , and in fine , be glorified in the heauens . The Iewes thinking to make themselues strong by the Egyptians and other carnall meanes , left their dependancie on God ; & therfore did God denounce his iudgements against them : Cursed is the man that trusteth in man , and maketh flesh ( any kind of carnal meanes ) his arme , and withdraweth his heart from the Lord : hee shall not see , when any good commeth .


id: A02198
author: Greenwood, John, d. 1593.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38808
sentence: 1209
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A02198.xml
txt: txt/A02198.txt
title:
  An aunsvver to George Giffords pretended defence of read prayers and devised leitourgies with the vngodly cauils and vvicked sclanders comprised in the first part of his book entituled, A short treatise against the Donatists of England. By Iohn Greenwood Christs poore afflicted prisoner in the Fleete at London, for the trueth of the gospel.

summary:
  This book / in that it standeth a publick prescript continewed Leiturgy / as iff it were the best that ever was devised by mortall man / yet in this place ād vse / being brought into the Church / yea or into any private house / yt becometh a detestable idol / standing for that yt is not in the Church of God and consciences of men : namely / for holy / spirituall / and faithfull prayer / yt being nothing lesse / but rather abhominable ād lothsome sacrifice in the sight of God / even as a dead dogg , Now vnder the law / might neither any corrupt or any vnlawful sacrifice / with any sene blemish / be offred at the Altar / nether any part of any beast ( though whiles / yt liued never so sufficiēt ) being slayne before yt be brought vnto the Altar / yt was abhomination vnto the Lord : Euerie sacrifice must be brought quick ād new vnto the Altar / ād there be slayne everie morning and euening : how much more in this spiritual Temple of God / where the offringes are spiritual / and God hath made al his servātes Kings / ād priestes / to offer vp acceptable sacrifices vnto him / through Iesus Christ / who hath thervnto givē thē his holy spirit into their hearts / to helpe their infirmities / ād teach thē to crie Abba Father . Now we haue receiued not the Spirit of the world , but the Spirit which is of God , that we might knowe the thinges of GOD giuen vnto vs. 13. Which things we also speak , not in the words taught of mans wisdome , but in wordes taught of the Holy Ghost , we compare spiritual thinges to spiritual thinges .


id: A30158
author: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
date: 1663.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20414
sentence: 868
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A30158.xml
txt: txt/A30158.txt
title:
  I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also, or, A discourse touching prayer, from I Cor. 14.15 wherein is briefly discovered 1. What prayer is, 2. What it is to pray with the spirit, 3. What it is to pray with the spirit and with the understanding also / by John Bunyan.

summary:
  Seventhly , It must be a praying with the Spirit if it be accepted ; because , there is nothing but the Spirit can lift up the soul or heart to God in Prayer . Prayer is a sincere , sensible , affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God through Christ , in the strength and assistance of the holy Spirit , for such things as God hath promised , or , according to the Word , for the good of the Church , with submission , in Faith , to the Will of God.


id: A63950
author: Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
date: 1655.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30275
sentence: 1346
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A63950.xml
txt: txt/A63950.txt
title:
  The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.

summary:
  For ever deliver us from that evil , ●…nd for ever deliver us from the power of ●…he evil one , the great enemy of Man●…inde , and never let our portion be in ●…hat region of Darkness , in that ever●…asting burning which thou hast prepared ●…or the Devil and his Angels for ever . Have mercy upon us , &c. Give the spirit of Government and ho●…iness to all Christian Kings , Princes and Governours : grant that their people may obey them , and they may obey thee , and ●…ive in honesty and peace , justice and holy Religion , being Nursing Fathers to the Church Advocates for the oppressed , Pa●…rons for the widows , and a Sanctuary for the miserable and the fatherless , that they may reign with thee for ever in the Kingdome of the Lord Jesus .


id: A06089
author: Church of England.
title: A thankesgiuing and prayer for the safe child-bearing of the Queenes Maiestie
date: 1629.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1041
sentence: 49
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A06089.xml
txt: txt/A06089.txt
summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A06089) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28942)


id: B05617
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation for a solemn thanksgiving.
date: 1693.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1529
sentence: 73
flesch: 62
cache: cache/B05617.xml
txt: txt/B05617.txt
summary:
  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179052)


id: A67107
author: Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.
date: 1693.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 7449
sentence: 539
flesch: 86
cache: cache/A67107.xml
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title:
  Forms of prayer for a family. Composed by the late pious and learned John Worthington D.D. Published by the right reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

summary:
  BUT we confess , O Lord , that we have not rendered unto thee according to what we have received from thee a : We have been unthankful , and have not glorified thee as God b . BUT we confess , O Lord , we have not given thee the Glory due unto thy Name a : We have been Lovers of our own selves , and Lovers of Pleasures more than Lovers of God b : We have loved this present World c , and the things that are in the World d .


id: A47146
author: Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 32066
sentence: 662
flesch: 47
cache: cache/A47146.xml
txt: txt/A47146.txt
title:
  The fundamental truths of Christianity briefly hinted at by way of question and answer : to which is added a treatise of prayer in the same method / by George Keith.

summary:
  And seeing the substance of Prayer consists in the Souls desire after God , so as to be joined and united unto him , and be refreshed with his Love and Divine Influences of his Life ; and to partake more abundantly of his Spirit ; and to taste and feed upon his living Word , which is the same to the Soul that Bread and Meat , and Drink , o● any most comfortable thing is unto the Body ; and that the Souls desire after those Heavenly and Divine Enjoyments , is enlarged in and by true Prayer : this , as it were , both gives and encreases the Souls appetite after God , and prepares the Soul for the enjoyment of him , by raising it on high , above all worldly things and the desires thereof ; and accordingly Damascen and Augustine did well describe Prayer to be the ascent or lifting up of the mind unto God. For seeing the substance of Prayer consisteth in the Souls desire after God , and that desire may be in the Soul without words , so much as conceived ; even as a natural desire after Meat or Drink , may be in us without words , therefore there is a Praver that may be in the Heart or Spirit of Man , without words , so much as inwardly conceived ; the which Prayer is oft times the most effectual and permanent , for it may remain continually in the Soul , without any intermission , as it doth in every good man ; by which Prayer he doth pray continually , or without ceasing , as the Scripture requireth ; for the Souls desire after God , may remain a constant and perpetual thing , by which it continually prefleth after God , as the stone continually inclineth to the center ; or as the Needle of the Compass , that is well touched with the Load-stone , and hath drunk in , or received the magnetical virtue thereof , continually pointeth Northward ; and if it be at any time diverted by any violent motion , it ceaseth not until it hath arrived at its former station : And thus it is with the soul that is effectually touched with Gods living Arm and Power , that its desire is continually after him ; and that desire causeth in it a continual motion towards him , and to his holy and blessed will to know and perform it .


id: A57346
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19857
sentence: 918
flesch: 72
cache: cache/A57346.xml
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title:
  The cursed family; or, A short tract, shewing the pernicious influence of wicked prayer-less houses, upon this church and kingdom Humbly tender'd by way of subserviency to His Majesties Royal Proclamations, and Acts of Parliament, for preventing and punishing immorality and prophaness. By THomas Risley Master of Arts, and sometime fellow of Pembrook-Colledge in Oxford. With a prefatory epistle by the reverend Mr. John Howe.

summary:
  O what a sad thing is it to see strong sins in feeble Age , Sins in the Meridian when Life is Setting ? What a deplorable thing is it , That Gospel-time ( the most precious time in the World ) should have ever have suffered so Great a Loss by thee , and , Thou so great a Punishment : When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angles , in flameing fire takeing Vengeance on them that know not God , and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ , who shall he punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord , and from the glory of his power , 2 Thes. The wages of sin is Death , but the Gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord , i. e. Of sin Indefinitely taken , any sort of sin , every sin , unrepented of . Quest.


id: A60343
author: Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46001
sentence: 1186
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A60343.xml
txt: txt/A60343.txt
title:
  A discourse of closet (or secret) prayer from Matt. VI 6 first preached and now published at the request of those that heard it / by Samuel Slater.

summary:
  Must thou go to God , in order to thy being judged by him , and sentenced as to thy everlasting state , and yet not pray ? Surely thou hast lost thy reason , and art chargeable with egregious folly and madness . Thou hast upon thee those Spots which are not the Spots of his People , when at the same time thou dost want those Marks which are the Marks of his People : thou who spendest thy days without prayer , dost pay no homage unto God , thou ownest no dependence upon him , thou givest him no reverence , thou dost him no service , thou bringest him no honour , and I pray , tell me , why should his blessing be upon thee ? God may deal bountifully with thee ; possibly he doth do so already , and gives thee waters of a full cup ; it is his manner ; many srcaps and good bits fall under his Table ; He lets them fall on purpose for his Dogs to gather up : his Sun shines , and his Rain falls upon barren Wildernesses and noysome Dunghills , as well as upon fruitful Fields , and pleasant Gardens ; Outward mercies are therefore called Common Mercies , because all have their share in them , the just and the unjust too , the evil as well as the good ; so that the Wise Man tells us , No man can know either love or hatred by all that is before him .


id: A63668
date: 1677.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37884
sentence: 1655
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A63668.xml
txt: txt/A63668.txt
author:
  Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. Guide for the penitent: or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin.

title:
  A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.

summary:
  He reconciled us to God by his Death led us to God , drew us to himself , redeemed us from all iniquity , purchased us for his Father , and for ever made us his servants and redeemed ones , that we being dead unto sin , might live unto God. 8. In your dressing , let there be ejaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing : as at washing your hands and face , pray God to cleanse your Soul from sin ; in putting on your cloaths , pray him to cloth your Soul with the righteousness of your Saviour and so in all the rest .


id: A36934
author: Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46937
sentence: 1765
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A36934.xml
txt: txt/A36934.txt
title:
  Private forms of prayer, fitted for the late sad-times. Particularly, a form of prayer for the thirtieth of January, morning and evening. With additions. &c.

summary:
  O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end , but guide thou the just : Give O Lord , rest from our fears , 〈◊〉 from our sorrows , and from ●…he oppressions under which we ●…n ; Let thine hand , O Lord , 〈◊〉 ●…own towards thy servants , ●…nd thine indignation towards ●…hine and the Kings Enemies : 〈◊〉 down , O Lord , from hea●… , and behold from the habi●…tion of thy holinesse and of thy glory ; restraine not ( we be●… thee ) To this end , thou O 〈◊〉 who breakest the gates of 〈◊〉 and smitest the bars of 〈◊〉 sunder ; be thou pleased to 〈◊〉 these unrelenting hearts of 〈◊〉 to work in every one of us 〈◊〉 sense of our horrid abom●… ons ( especially , that of this day ) as may cast us down in the 〈◊〉 est degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee : that 〈◊〉 we may be capable of that ●…tation which thou hast promi●… to the humble , that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners , through Jesus Christ our Lord , Amen . II. BLessed Lord ! in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious , we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull effusious of thy grace on our late Martyred Soveraign , which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant , Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities , and at lost resisting even unto blood , and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern , and praying for his Murtherers : Let his Memory , O Lord , be ever blessed among us , and his example efficacious upon us , that we may follow him , as he followed Christ : And , O Lord , we beseech thee , let not his blood out-cry his Prayers ; but let those that spilt the one , obtain benefit by the other : that by their Conviction and Repentance , his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation , our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact , our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood , and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners ; and all for Jesus Christ his sake , Amen .


id: A65798
author: White, Thomas, 1593-1676.
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16126
sentence: 374
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A65798.xml
txt: txt/A65798.txt
title:
  Notes on Mr. F.D.'s Result of a dialogue concerning the middle state of souls in a letter from Thomas White.

summary:
  Consider what a vast crowd of young Scholars thrust themselves into these holy Orders by occasion of getting Souls suddenly out of Purgatory ; to which they often think themselves sufficiently qualified with a very mean degree , God knows , of Vertue or Learning . What can more dangerously weaken if not quite abolish that best and onely immediate disposition of our Souls for Heaven , the hearty love of God above all things ? what can be possibly more prejudiciall to them that are in the Church , or more scandalous to them that are out of it ? Consider farther , how widows and poor folks defraud their children and Parents of such helps as else they could afford them , did not the eager hope of a hasty release from those dreadfull pains , divert their charities another way .


id: A47307
author: Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17550
sentence: 794
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A47307.xml
txt: txt/A47307.txt
title:
  An office for prisoners for crimes, together with another for prisoners for debt containing both proper directions, and proper prayers and devotions, for each of their needs and circumstances / by John Kettlewell ...

summary:
  For ordinarily we are not to promise our Selves so great Effects from the kindness of our Friends , as we have reason to apprehend from the malice of our Enemies ; Spite and Envy being usually more industrious and watchful of opportunities to shew it self , and eager to do it to the full , than Love is . And if by your Insolvency , any of your Creditors are brought against their wills to abate Part rather than lose all , look on that Part as respited not remitted , and pay it afterwards ( if God enable you ) in the Sum it self , or ( if you cannot do that ) be studious to make it up in Good Offices and Grateful Services , and for the rest have Recourse to God by Prayers in their behalf .


id: B05598
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation for a national humiliation upon the account of the Queens death.
date: 1695.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1484
sentence: 67
flesch: 62
cache: cache/B05598.xml
txt: txt/B05598.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05598) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179038) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A33973
author: Collinges, John, 1623-1690.
date: 1679.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 49764
sentence: 1710
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A33973.xml
txt: txt/A33973.txt
title:
  A reasonable account why some pious, nonconforming ministers in England judge it sinful for them to perform their ministerial acts, in publick, solemn prayer by the prescribed forms of others wherein several of their arguments are modestly propounded, opended and justified against pretended answers given to them, either by Ireneus Freeman, or Mr. Falconer, in his book entituled Liberitas ecclesiastica, or others : the strength also of the several arguments brought by them, for the lawfulness of forms to be used universally by ministers, in their publick ministrations, is fairly tried.

summary:
  2 The subject of the Question is , Forms of Prayer dictated or prescribed by other men , to be ordinarily used in solemn prayer by ministers of the gospel , furnished by God with the gift of prayer , and having a natural liberty to use those gifts . Wee desire with all thankfulness to God , to own and acknowledge the profitable labours of those , who have drawn the matter of prayer for more ordinary , & more extraordinary occasions into Forms ; from whence both young scholars , and private Christians , may bee taught the ordinary method , and matter of prayer .


id: B05607
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
title: A proclamation for a solemn national fast and humiliation.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1750
sentence: 73
flesch: 60
cache: cache/B05607.xml
txt: txt/B05607.txt
summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05607) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179044) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A41125
author: Fenner, William, 1600-1640.
date: 1648.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18673
sentence: 818
flesch: 80
cache: cache/A41125.xml
txt: txt/A41125.txt
title:
  The sacrifice of the faithfull, or, A treatise shewing the nature, property, and efficacy of zealous prayer together with some motives to prayer, and helps against discouragements in prayer : to which is added seven profitable sermons / by William Fenner ...

summary:
  But some may object , How can a man be unsatiable in his praiers til he speed ? must a man be alwaies a praying ? God calls men to other duties of his worshippe , and of his owne particular calling ; after morning I must have done till noone , after noone I must have done till night : whether God heare me or no , must I be alwaies a praying till I speed ? then I should doe nothing else but pray ; how then are we to continue our praiers till God heare us , and give the grace that we pray for ? to this I answer . if a man should be sicke on his death bed , and send for the Physicians and Apothecaries in the Country , and send for his Father , Mother , and for all his friends to come to him to minister to him : yet I know he is not cured by them so long as I see his deadly disease remaines upon him ; so if I see a mans pride , hypocrisie , security , deadnesse of heart , his lust , anger , &c. lie upon him : notwithstanding all his praiers , I know God heares not his praiers ; he prayes to be cleansed from his sinnes , and to be purged from his lust , and to be redeemed from his vaine conversation : if now God let his sinnes continue in him , and lets him goe on in them , we see plainely God heares not him .


id: A08277
author: Norden, John, 1548-1625?
date: 1624.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46552
sentence: 964
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A08277.xml
txt: txt/A08277.txt
title:
  The imitation of Dauid his godly and constant resolution in bearing all his trialls, troubles and afflictions being a king whose example of faith, patience, hope, obedience and deliueries, thankfulnesse and prayer, is left euen for princes, potentates, and all true Christians to imitate. Collected by way of meditations and prayers out of the 27. Psalme. By I.N.

summary:
  This is the true beholding of the face of God , to enioy his presence ; namely , when he is ready in his power and prouidence to helpe vs in our afflictions , and to deliuer vs in our dangers ; any other presence of his in this life we néede not séeke , his glory is aboue the Heauens : What is man then that he should séeke to sée his all-glorious face here in earth , which Moses saw but in a bush obscurely , in respect of his full and compleat glory ; and yet with that sight his face did shine so , as the people could not abide the glory of his face ? How much lesse , the glory of the most vnspeakable beauty of y e face of y e most high ? whose dwelling is in the heauens , and whose power is ouer all his works in heauen and earth ? And therefore saith Dauid ; O Lord our God , how excellent is thy name in all the world , which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens , where he sitteth and séeth the troubles and afflictions of his , and is néere them when they call vpon him , he turneth his face and louing countenance towards them , to cheare them and comfort them ; as for the wicked , he beholdeth them a farre off . He will exercise his owne children awhile to proue their patience , faith and obedience , to cause vs to meditate and ponder his word and promise , till hee haue sufficiently tried our constant assurance of his timely deliuery , for it is his property to come to helpe his , when they thinke hee hath most forgotten them . How suffered he Dauid , a man chosen after his owne heart , to bee enuironed with infinite dangers , in so much as he thought God had forsaken him altogether , and forgotten him , and therefore cries out , How long wilt thou forget me Lord , for euer ? and againe hee confessed that God had giuen him his hearts desire , and that hee had not denied the request of his lips , whereby appeareth that the sorce of liuely faith , holy meditation , and diuine prayer , are able to make ( God offended )


id: A61499
author: Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19011
sentence: 634
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A61499.xml
txt: txt/A61499.txt
title:
  Several short, but seasonable discourses touching common and private prayer relating to the publick offices of the church / by a divine of the Church of England.

summary:
  If the Minister chance to fail by impertinent , tedious , or any irregular expressions in preaching , the matter is of less moment than to err in prayer : Because , first , it is more safe to be bold with the people than with the great Majesty of Heaven ; the people may pardon an indiscretion , a rudeness , a mistake , if any such happen in a Sermon ; but that boldness , or impudence rather , which ventures to offer up unto God their mistakes and undecent expressions , is not so venial , and easily pardonable . A mistake , a falshood in prayer , is not a lye unto men , but unto God , Acts 5. 4 , 5. the great Sin for which Ananias and Sapphira were struck with sudden death . Which should strike the hearts of all men with such an awful fear , as not to dare to utter any thing unto God , that may prove false , or be improper to be spoken ; nor yet to go beyond what they are authoriz'd to say in publick by the commands of God , and of his Church .


id: A36933
author: Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21871
sentence: 772
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A36933.xml
txt: txt/A36933.txt
title:
  Holy rules and helps to devotion both in prayer and practice In two parts. The fourth edition. Written by the right reverend father in God, Bryan Duppa, late Lord Bishop of Winton, in the time of his sequestration.

summary:
  4. That this Duty of external Reverence doth not then necessarily oblige , when the Soul being suddenly and inwardly moved to lift it self up by Prayer , the outward man is as it were surprized in some other posture : as walking , standing , sitting , or lying down ; in which case , God will rather look to the inward Motions and Raptures of the Mind , than to the outward Form and Composure of the Body . That Set Forms of Prayer are altogether necessary in Publick , cannot be denied , and needs not now be represented : They are abundantly useful even for private Christians also ; since it is not every one that can pray extempore in his Closet , and he that can , may notwithstanding be defective enough in the matter or manner of his Petitions : For though God principally respects the Heart and Affections of his Servants , and the Spirit helps our Infirmities with sighs and groans , yet we ought even in private to have an awful orderly regard of the Great God , to whom we address our selves ; and the Holy Spirit teaches us to pray , as with ardent Affections ; so with reverend humble minds , and not with disorderly , confused or unprepared approaches , and a rude confidence , without just ground or foundation : This is not to help or diminish our infirmities , but to augment them more .


id: A20731
author: Downame, George, d. 1634.
date: 1604.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40249
sentence: 1859
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A20731.xml
txt: txt/A20731.txt
title:
  The Christians sanctuarie vvhereinto being retired, he may safely be preserued in the middest of all dangers. Fit for all men to read at all times, especially for those that are exercised in the schoole of affliction, in the time of Gods present visitation. Described in two bookes or treatises: I. Of the Christian exercise of fasting. II. Of holy inuocation on Gods name. By George Dovvname Doctor of Diuinitie.

summary:
  Now if it bee our dutie in affliction to flie vnto the Lord by prayer , it may not be denied , but that we are to pray in a sence of our want ; and consequently , that wee are to be humbled vnder the mightie hand of God , and that we are to mourne vnder the crosse , because by our sinnes wee haue offended God our gracious and louing father , and prouoked him to lay his rod of correction vpon vs. It becommeth not Christians when they are afflicted , to be like Stoicks or stockes , without sence and feeling : for it is a signe of an hard heart not to mourn when God afflicteth , Ier. 5. Lord thou hast stricken them , but they haue not sorrowed : thou hast consumed them , but they haue refused to receiue correction . The office of the minister is noted in generall termes , Acts 13.2 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as they performed the publicke function of their ministerie vnto the Lord and fasted : more specially Neb. 9 , where they are noted to haue read and preached the word of God ( as before chap.


id: A45033
author: Hall, John, d. 1707.
date: 1676.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35245
sentence: 768
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A45033.xml
txt: txt/A45033.txt
title:
  Jacobs ladder, or, The devout souls ascention to Heaven, in prayers, thanksgivings, and praises in four parts ... : with graces and thanksgivings : illustrated with sculptures / by Jo. Hall.

summary:
  MOst mighty and most merciful Lord God , by whose goodness I was created , by whose Justice I am punished , and by whose mercy I am saved ; I cast my self down before thee , and lift up my hands unto thee at this present as my Evening-sacrifice , but alas my conscience accuseth me , the secret cogitations of my heart reprove me , my fear checketh me , the infinite number of my sins oppress me , yea , my miscarriages this day witness against me , and exceedingly condemn me ; O Lord what am I , that thou shouldest yet favour me and shew thy self so loving and bountiful a Father unto me ? why should'st thou so nourish me , who am so unworthy a wretch , with thy mercy and loving-kindness ? Our hearts imagine wicked things ; our mouths utter them , and our hands put them in practise ; Thy Mercys are every day renewed unto us , and our sins are every day multiplyed against thee ; in the day of health , and prosperity , we forget thee , and we never think upon thee , in the day of sickness , and adversity ; Thy benefits heaped upon us , do not allure us to obey thee ; neither do thy Judgments inflicted upon others , make us afraid to offend thee ; what couldst thou have done , O Lord , more for us ? or , what could we have done more against thee ?


id: A16881
author: Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624.
date: 1607.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29661
sentence: 786
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A16881.xml
txt: txt/A16881.txt
title:
  The second part of the true watch containing the perfect rule and summe of prayer: so plainlie set downe, that the weakest Christian, taking but the leas paines, may in a very short space, learne to pray of himselfe, with much assurance and comfort: both to get strength to obserue the Lords watch; and to helpe to turne away, or at least finde comfort in the euils that are to come.

summary:
  And whereas wee are ordinarilie secure in ouerweening of our own strength ; Shew vs ( oh Lord ) the vilenesse of our corrupt natures , which are euer readie to conspire with Satan to our vtter perdition , & to swallow euery baite which he layeth for vs , without anie feare of danger ; so that wee haue no strēgth , more then thou reachest forth thine hand to helpe vs. Reueale vnto vs also the danger wee stand in frō thy glorious Maiesty , lest y u shouldest leaue vs vp vnto the power of the tempter , and our owne corruption ; to awake vs from our security , for our neglect of thy watch , & carelesse vsing the meanes of grace , or at least for tēpting thee , in not auoiding each occasion of temptatiō . Euen so Amen : Come Lord Iesus , come quicklie . OVr Father which art in heauen ] Oh Lord most holy and most glorious , whose brightnes the Angels are not able to behold , so terrible to all the vngodly , as they shall wish the mountaines to couer them , that they may neuer appeare in thy presence ; and yet a most gratious and tender Father to all thy children that desire to obey all thy Cōmandements : we that are but dust and ashes , and by nature through the fal of our first parents , children of wrath in state of damnatiō , bond-slaues of Satan , and most rebellious of all thy creatures , dare not presume of our selues , once to lift vp our eies to heauen ; yet neuertheles seeing it hath pleased thee of thy free mercie to adopt vs to be thy childrē by grace , through thy Son Iesus Christ , and hast chosen vs hereunto , bought vs with his precious blood , called vs by thy Gospel , sealed vs with thy Spirit , and giuen him to bee our perpetuall mediator at thy right hand , bidden vs to come to thee as to our tēder father , and call thee father through him ; oh deare Father wee present our selues before thy diuine Maiestie onely in his name , magnifying thy mercie that thou hast vouchsafed vs this blessed estate to be thy children , and to haue thy fauor , being the greatest happines that euer can befal mortal creatures .


id: A02199
author: Greenwood, John, d. 1593.
date: 1640.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22812
sentence: 757
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A02199.xml
txt: txt/A02199.txt
title:
  More vvorke for priests: or An answere to George Giffords pretended defence of read prayers and devised leitourgies comprised in the first part of his booke; intituled A short treatise against the Donatists of England: wherein is proved that the serving of God in such away [sic] and manner is a superstitious and vaine worship. Written by John Greenwood Christs faythfull martyr: here-unto is added by another man, many other argumers [sic] against stinted service and booke-prayer.

summary:
  That which is highly esteemed among men , is an abomination in the sight of God . I then shewed that no other prayer could utter and ease the severall occasions & distresses of this conscience , and that no other mans writing could speake for this soule unto God , but the heart and mouth of him that prayeth for himself , or is chosen the mouth of many , uttering to God his or their mindes for their present wātes or occasion urgeth , and the spirit giveth utterance .


id: A75019
author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
title: Private devotions for several occasions, ordinary and extraordinary
date: 1660.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23114
sentence: 834
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A75019.xml
txt: txt/A75019.txt
summary:
  I will lay me down in peace , and take my rest , for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety . O thou who hast as my high Priest , sacrificed for me , interceed for me also , and plead thy meritorious sufferings on my behalf , and suffer not , O my Redeemer , the price of thy blood to be utterly lost : And grant , O Lord , that as the sins I have to be forgiven are many , so I may love much .


id: A00452
author: Evans, John, minister of Gods word.
date: 1630.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 57281
sentence: 1545
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A00452.xml
txt: txt/A00452.txt
title:
  The sacrifice of a contrite heart in teares, meditations, and prayers. Penned by Iohn Euans minister of Gods word.

summary:
  Most humbly beseeching the God of mercy to accept and blesse my endeauoure herein : and grant that some glory to his holy name , and some benefite to his ch●ldren , and comfort and consolation to all that groane vnder the burden of sinne , may redound hereby , and that for the alone merits and mediation of Iesus Christ the righteous . Conceiu'd , condemn'd for Adams ill , To God arch-traitors we continue still : Sinne lu●●'d secure by Sathans charme and guile Who watchfull is to kill our soules that while .


id: A49708
author: Laud, William, 1573-1645.
date: 1683.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 42883
sentence: 2704
flesch: 86
cache: cache/A49708.xml
txt: txt/A49708.txt
title:
  The daily office of a Christian being the devotions of the most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud, late archbishop of Canterbury : wherein several catechetical paraphrases ...

summary:
  But I will call upon thee , O Lord , and thou wilt save me . [ to the rest ] this also , that I may retain the right Faith in all humilitie , that I may preserve perfect Charitie with all men , that I may seriously endeavour to serve thee my Lord with a pure heart and a chast bodie , even to my life's end ; that after [ all ] my labours , I may hear that most desirable voice , Well done , thou good servant , enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord ,


id: A65777
author: White, Thomas, 1543-1676.
date: 1654.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34073
sentence: 1022
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A65777.xml
txt: txt/A65777.txt
title:
  A contemplation of heaven with an exercise of love, and a descant on the prayer in the garden. By a Catholick gent.

summary:
  The greedy thirst of One ( now inebriated above ) obtain'd for Her self some yeares since this Elixir ; which the choaking necessity of these hot Times has at length dissolv'd into a charitable diffusion of it self to the wide world . Whereas for Reason , Grace never contradicts it , but guides it , and shewes it that many things ( which otherwise it would never have attain'd to ) are very reasonable , and by force of reason it self ought to be enacted and put in execution .


id: A18939
author: Clarke, John, d. 1658.
date: 1634.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 53227
sentence: 3612
flesch: 88
cache: cache/A18939.xml
txt: txt/A18939.txt
title:
  Holy incense for the censers of the saints. Or, A method of prayer with matter, and formes in selected sentences of sacred scripture. Also A praxis upon the holy oyle shewing the vse of scripture-phrases. And choyse places taken out of the singing Psalmes, digested into a method of prayer and praises.

summary:
  This was none other but the finger of God , this was thy doing O Lord , and it is marvellous in our eyes ; this is the day which thou hast m●de to be unto us , a good day , a day of blessings and prayses , we will rejoyce and be glad in it , yea and the children which are yet unborne shall arise , and for it praise thy name , and tell it also unto their children , that even to perpetuall generations , we all may remember this day ( as the Iewes did their feast of Purim ) and keepe it throughout every generation , every Family , every Province , and every Citie , that it may not faile from among the people of this land , nor the memoriall of it perish from our seed . O Lord this is a worthy worke , and who is sufficient for these things ! therefore doe thou make bare thine owne almighty arme , bring in the fulnesse of the Gentiles , give them where Satans throne is , an heart to perceive , and eyes to see , and eares to heare the word of thy grace ; that the ends of the earth may see the salvation of God , and they that dwell in the uttermost parts thereof may be converted unto thee : then shall the earth bee filled with the knowledge of the Lord , as the waters cover the sea , and they shall feare the name of the Lord from the West , and his glory from the rising of the Sunne .


id: A33979
author: Collinges, John, 1623-1690.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28104
sentence: 882
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A33979.xml
txt: txt/A33979.txt
title:
  A supplement to a little book entituled, A reasonable account why some pious nonconforming ministers cannot judg it lawful for them to perform their ministerial acts in publick solemn prayer, ordinarily, by the prescribed forms of others : wherein is examined whatsoever Mr. Falconer in his book called, Libertas ecclesiastica, and Mr. Pelling in a book called, The good old way, have said to prove the ancient use of forms of prayers by ministers : and it is proved, that neither of the two aforementioned authors have said anything that proveth the general use, or imposition of such forms of prayer in any considerable part of the church, till Pope Gregories time, which was six hundred years after Christ, nor in any church since the reformation, except that of England, and (which is uncertain) some in Saxony.

summary:
  A supplement to a little book entituled, A reasonable account why some pious nonconforming ministers cannot judg it lawful for them to perform their ministerial acts in publick solemn prayer, ordinarily, by the prescribed forms of others : wherein is examined whatsoever Mr. Falconer in his book called, Libertas ecclesiastica, and Mr. Pelling in a book called, The good old way, have said to prove the ancient use of forms of prayers by ministers : and it is proved, that neither of the two aforementioned authors have said anything that proveth the general use, or imposition of such forms of prayer in any considerable part of the church, till Pope Gregories time, which was six hundred years after Christ, nor in any church since the reformation, except that of England, and (which is uncertain) some in Saxony. A supplement to a little book entituled, A reasonable account why some pious nonconforming ministers cannot judg it lawful for them to perform their ministerial acts in publick solemn prayer, ordinarily, by the prescribed forms of others : wherein is examined whatsoever Mr. Falconer in his book called, Libertas ecclesiastica, and Mr. Pelling in a book called, The good old way, have said to prove the ancient use of forms of prayers by ministers : and it is proved, that neither of the two aforementioned authors have said anything that proveth the general use, or imposition of such forms of prayer in any considerable part of the church, till Pope Gregories time, which was six hundred years after Christ, nor in any church since the reformation, except that of England, and (which is uncertain) some in Saxony.


id: A58134
author: Rawlet, John, 1642-1686.
date: 1672.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20975
sentence: 994
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A58134.xml
txt: txt/A58134.txt
title:
  An explication of the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer with the addition of some forms of prayer / by John Rawlet ...

summary:
  Q. To whom do we owe the praise of any good thing wrought in us or performed by us ? A. To the Spirit of God , who works in us both to will and to do . Q. What are we taught in the second Commandment ? A. The second Commandment teacheth us to worship God according to his own appointment , and to take special heed that we make not any image or picture of him ; nor give religious worship to an Image , upon any pretence whatsoever .


id: A53685
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1682.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61055
sentence: 2063
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A53685.xml
txt: txt/A53685.txt
title:
  A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms / by John Owen ...

summary:
  The word is formed from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the other , to be gracious or merciful ; and expressing our Act towards God , it is Prayer for Grace , Supplication . Hence those who plead for Prayer by vertue of supplies of Gifts and Grace from the Holy Spirit , do admire that the use or necessity of them herein should be contradicted . Nor can they understand what they intend , who seem to deny , that it is every mans Duty in all his Circumstances , to pray as well as he can , and to make use in his so doing , of the Assistance of the Spirit of God.


id: A25409
author: Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
date: 1647.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17173
sentence: 1266
flesch: 88
cache: cache/A25409.xml
txt: txt/A25409.txt
title:
  The private devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes. Late Bishop of Winchester.

summary:
  O Lord be near at hand to save me , ô God make hast to help me , Ps. 90. 17. IT is good for me to adhere to God , to place the hope of my salvation in thee ô Lord , ô Christ our God .


id: A49717
author: Laud, William, 1573-1645.
date: 1667.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36572
sentence: 2671
flesch: 84
cache: cache/A49717.xml
txt: txt/A49717.txt
title:
  A summarie of devotions compiled and used by Dr William Laud, sometime Ld Arch-bishop of Canterbvry now published according to the copy written with his own hand and reserved in the archives of St. John Baptist's Colledge Library in Oxon.

summary:
  Mine eyes are ever looking unto thee , O Lord ; O pluck my feet out of the net . But I will call upon thee , O Lord , and thou wilt save me .


id: A72538
author: Leigh, William, 1550-1639.
date: 1613.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20003
sentence: 553
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A72538.xml
txt: txt/A72538.txt
title:
  The drumme of deuotion striking out an allarum to prayer, by signes in heauen, and prodigies on earth. Together with the perfume of prayer. In tvvo sermons, preached by William Leigh, Bachilor in Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish in Lancashire.

summary:
  In a word , the foundations of the earth were out of course ; and what had that righteous one done ? Surely , surely , though the prodigies be past with the passion , & tract of time hath vayled it from our flesh , that wee see it not , yet can it never from a passionate faith , that it feele it not : for to this end hath God giuē vs the spirit of prayer and compassion ( as saith another Prophet ) that we should weepe because of him whom wee haue pierced , but woe is me to tell who is sorrie for the afflictions of Ioseph the yron of sorrow , entered into the soule of our Sauiour , & we are senselesse of his sufferings , if man will not be moued , thou earth , ye rockes , graues , Sunne , Moone , and Starres , pleade the cause of the Innocēt , and say , what hath the righteous done ? Innocēt hands whom haue ye spoyled ? and yet are ye perced ? Innocent heart , against whom hast thou Imagined euill ? & yet art thou gored ? Innocent mouth , of whom hast thou spoken euill ? and yet art thou spunged ? gracious face , & coūtenance , vpon whom hast thou lowred , and yet art thou spit vpon ? head full of deawe , and lockes with the drops of the night , so wooing vs in grace , & now wedding vs in glory , how wer thy temples crowned with sharpe thornes , to the effusiō of thy blood ? and yet are we senselesse of thy suffering ? we haue sinned , and he hath smarted , the Iust for the vniust , and if we will be silent still and say nothing , to cleare the innocent , Sunne Moone and Starres , earth Rockes and Graues , will pleade the Lords quarrell , and say , what hath the righteous done ? When the man of God came out of Iudah vnto Bethell , and Ieroboam stood by the Altar to offer Incense , in reprehension of the kings Idolatrie , he cryed against the Altar , by the commandement of the Lord and said ; Altar Altar , thus saith the Lord : Vbi alloquitur aram molliorem carde Ieroboam , where and when he spake to the Altar softer then the heart of Ieroboam . It pierced deepe into the bowels of the earth ; and to this day , the flowers , hearbes , plants and trees , ( nay more , man and beast , fish and fowle ) haue not recovered their decayed strength , but yet feele the effects thereof ; all to warne vs of our chillerie zeale to God , more colde then the Isickles hanging at our doores : and strange it is , that so many Sunne-shines as haue beene since , and showers of Gods mercies still powred vpon vs , should not melt our frozen hearts to more speedy repentance , and provoke vs to prayer , with more deuotion .


id: A33987
author: Collins, Anthony, 1676-1729.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34002
sentence: 1094
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A33987.xml
txt: txt/A33987.txt
title:
  An answer to Dr. Scot's cases against dissenters concerning forms of prayer and the fallacy of the story of Commin, plainly discovered.

summary:
  But then Secondly , As for Diabolical Inspirations , of Matter and Words in Prayer , we have sundry very probable Instances ; such as Major Weier ( who is said to have received his Inspirations through a Staff ) Hacket , David George , and that Monster of Wickedness Iohn Basilides Duke of Russia , who were all of them possessed with such a wonderful Gift of Prayer , as did not only charm , and ravish those that heard them , but seemed in the Opinion of the most wise and impartial to exceed the Power of Nature , which renders it very probable , that the Matter of their Prayers was for the most part agreeable to Scripture ; otherwise it is hardly conceivable , how they could have procured to themselves so many Admirers , and abused so many honest Minds into a belief , that they were immediately inspired by God. Now , if it be the Will of God that we should sometimes pray only mentally , whilst one only useth Words in Prayer , and if it be lawful here to shut out the Spirit 's Influence upon our Words , when we are to use no Words , but only to join our Amen to him that useth them ; it will not therefore follow , that we may do it , when we are our selves to use Words , as to which the Holy Spirit may influence us .


id: A41838
author: Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656.
date: 1669.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61525
sentence: 1733
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A41838.xml
txt: txt/A41838.txt
title:
  Directions and instigations to the duty of prayer how, and why the heart is to be kept with diligence. Pressing arguments and directions for hearing the voice of the rod. Being the sum and substance of nine sermons (not heretofore printed,) by Mr. Andrew Gray, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.

summary:
  But if we would pra 〈…〉 more , we should pray more : and if we did p 〈…〉 more , we should praise more . m●● not that incite and provoke your desires to fo●low after it which is so excellent and preciou 〈…〉 Believe it , we are not able to tell the worth of i 〈…〉 There is this sixth impediment which obstructs a Christians liberty and access to God 〈◊〉 his secret prayer , and it is that woful resistin● and quenching of the motions of the Spiri 〈…〉 that oftentimes we fall into : hence it is , th 〈…〉 when a Christian doth go unto God , he is d 〈…〉 barred , and his prayers is shut out from God● and the reason of it is , because he debared Go 〈…〉 before : and this is remarkably clear from t 〈…〉 Brides practice , Cant. 5. 2. compared with th● following verses ; she held Christ at the doo 〈…〉 notwithstanding his locks were wet with the d 〈…〉 of the night , and his hair with the drops of t 〈…〉 morning .


id: A23765
author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
date: 1678.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 58296
sentence: 1512
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A23765.xml
txt: txt/A23765.txt
title:
  Scala sancta: or The exaltation of the soul. Being a train of pious thoughts, compleating the whole duty of man: or, Devotions compiled by R.A. Gent. in his solitudes.

summary:
  O cleanse thou me from my secret sins , keep thy Servant also from presumptuous sins , lest they get the Dominion over me , so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence ; save Lord , and hear me , O King of Heaven when I call upon thee ; the Lord is my Shepherd , therefore shall I lack nothing , but be not thou far from me ; O Lord thou art my succour , haste thee to help me ; unto thee , O Lord , will I lift up my Soul ; my God , I have put my trust in thee , let me not be confounded , neither let mine enemies triumph over me ; shew me thy ways , O Lord , and teach me thy paths : lead me forth in thy Truth , and learn me , for thou art the God of my Salvation , in thee hath been my hope all the day long : call to remembrance , O Lord , thy tender mercy , and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old : O remember not the sins and offences of my youth , but according to thy mercy think upon me , O Lord , for thy goodness , for thy Name sake ; O Lord , be merciful to my sin , for it is great ; turn thee unto me , and have mercy upon me , for I am desolate and in misery , the sorrows of my heart is enlarged : O bring thou me out of my trouble ; look upon my adversity and misery , and forgive me all my sins ; consider mine enemies how many they are that bear a tyrannous heart against me ; O keep my Soul and deliver me ; let me not be surrounded , for I have put my trust in thee ; let perfect and righteous dealing wait upon me , for my hope hath been in thee ; deliver Israel , O God , out of all his troubles ; be thou my Judge , O Lord , for I have walked innocently ; my trust hath been also in the Lord , therefore shall I not fall ; examine me , O Lord , and prove me : try out my Reins and Heart , for thy loving kindness is always before mine eyes ; and I will walk in thy Truth : thou hast charged that we should diligently keep thy Commandements ; wherewithal shall a young Man cleanse his way , even by ruling himself after thy word ; teach me , O Lord , the way of thy Statutes , and I shall keep it unto the end ; O give me understanding , and I shall keep thy Law ; yea , I shall keep it with my whole heart ; O turn away my eyes , lest they behold vanities , and quicken thou me in thy way ; O establish thy word in thy Servant , that I may fear thee ; O think upon thy Servant as concerning thy word , wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust ; the same is my comfort in my trouble ; for thy word hath quickned me : O Lord thou hast dealt graciously according to thy word ; before I was troubled I went wrong ; but now I have kept thy word , thou art good and gracious ; O teach me thy Statutes : O let my heart be sound in thy Statutes that I be not ashamed ; quicken me after thy loving kindness , and so shall I keep the Testimonies of thy mouth :


id: A09999
author: Davenport, John, 1597-1670.
date: 1629.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 43712
sentence: 1101
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A09999.xml
txt: txt/A09999.txt
title:
  The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in fiue sermons vpon I Thess. 5.17. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiesty, Master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.

summary:
  What , if the Lord will haue thee call vpon him , though hee purpose to doe the thing , even for this end , that thou maist worship him ▪ for , what is it to worship the Lord ? you shall finde this vsuall in the old Testament , The people ●…owed themselues and worshipped , or , they 〈◊〉 vpon them 〈◊〉 and worshipped . Wee are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this Text ▪ 〈◊〉 this duty of of prayer 〈◊〉 co●… ended to vs , and it is a commend from God himselfe delivered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be with our any great premises ▪ and reasons , and indeed , having therefore the more authority in it .


id: A66029
author: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 65229
sentence: 3414
flesch: 76
cache: cache/A66029.xml
txt: txt/A66029.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning the gift of prayer shewing what it is, wherein it consists, and how far it is attainable by industry, with divers useful and proper directions to that purpose, both in respect of matter, method, and expression / by John Wilkins, D.D. ; whereunto may be added Ecclesiastes, or, A discourse concerning the gift of preaching by the same authour.

summary:
  2 An expression of our desire to fly utterly out of our selves , to renounce all our own righteousnesse ; How should man be just with God ? if he should contend with us , we could not answer for one of a thousand . 3. From our own frailties ; What is man that he should be clean and he that is borne of woman that he should be religious ? God will pitty those that feare him , because he knows their frame , he considers that they are but dust .


id: A08282
author: Norden, John, 1548-1625?
date: 1626.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 61301
sentence: 1391
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A08282.xml
txt: txt/A08282.txt
title:
  A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N.

summary:
  If we did truely consider , and duely weigh , that it is God alone that measures out all our afflictions ; the length , breadth , and depth of them by his owne hand in his absolute wisedome ; and that neither Sathan nor the malice of man , hath any further share in inflicting them vpon vs , then they are limited in his prouidence , & did consider ( as I●b saith ) that afflictions spring not of the ca●●h , though many times by earthly men ( yet all of God ) we could not but with a most liuely and firme Patience imbrace them as sent from him . And therefore God often times takes it from one , and giues it to others : And in steed of his wealth , giues him want ; that hee may know , that it is neither in the wisedome , nor by the diligence of man , either to get or to retaine his wealth gotten , without the meere mercie and blessing of God.


id: A19616
author: Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
date: 1611.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 72619
sentence: 2677
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A19616.xml
txt: txt/A19616.txt
title:
  Scala cœli Nineteen sermons concerning prayer. The first sixe guiding to the true doore: the residue teaching how so to knocke thereat that wee may enter. The former part containing a preparation to prayer, the latter an exposition vpon the seuerall petitions of the Lords prayer.

summary:
  Why do thoughts arise in your hearts ? such thoughts are from vs , and of vs ; but those thoughts , that come from the Father of light , Iam. 1. are from our selues , but not of vs. All that we haue , by the strength of nature , is said to be of our selues , and from our selues , but the power , wherewith wee are endued from aboue , to the doing of heauenly , & spirituall things , is of our selues , but not from our selues , Perditio tua ex te Israel , Ho. 13. that is , from vs , and of vs , Tantummodo salus ex me ; that is , neither of vs , nor from vs. The Apostle saith , 1. Cor. 15. I persecuted the Church : that was from himselfe , and of himselfe ; but , when he saith , yet I laboured more then they all , he corrected that , and saith , yet not I , but the grace of God with me : Because that was of himselfe , but not from himselfe , but from the grace of God , which did co-operate with him . From the vehemency of this commandement we are to consider these three things : first , it lets vs see our want and need , in that wee are willed to aske : secondly , by seeking , Christ doth intimate thus much to vs ; that we haue lost our selues : thirdly , in that hee would haue vs to knocke , hee would haue vs to learne that we are as men shut out of the presence of God , and his kingdome , where is the fulnesse of ioy , and pleasure for euer .


