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a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index da02e48..28a0eca 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ Lord, thou art just and righteous in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works; and when the wicked have treasured up wrath against the day of wrath, thou hast also laid up a treasure of judgments to punish them with. And albeit the judgments be long in coming, yet, when they come, the slowness of them is recompensed with their weight, and they are very sore, for thy wrath is not as man's wrath; his is soon come, and then it is soon gone. Yet, this is the comfort of thy people, that even when thou destroyest thine enemies, then thou art good to them, in guarding them about with thy providence, as with a fiery wall, and in giving them peace within; and albeit they cannot tell particularly how it is done, yet they know that it is only thou who art the doer of it. Lord, we beseech thee, therefore, to guard us so also. We cannot tell how soon thy judgments may come upon us who are in this land; now, for Jesus' sake, when the destroyer comes, draw thou thy sword against thine enemies and the wicked in the world, and save thine own people, and let them know that verily there is a deliverance and outlet for the righteous in all their distresses. And, therefore, give us grace in time to be better acquainted with Christ, that so we may know him, and know the virtue of his blood, and that it is he who rules his kirk, and does all things in his wise providence for holding his people together, and that he shall make everything that comes to be comfortable to his own children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find @@ -24,42 +24,42 @@ it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God which he bestows upon his own children. Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas, we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubts, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore give us faith to believe thy word, and to believe in Christ, and to put our whole trust in him: and let us know also to whom it is that we entrust ourselves. And, Lord, we beseech thee, in thine own time, to give us the persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be coheirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessary for us to be seeking to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to check such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be content with thy dealing, for thou canst put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? And albeit we see nothing in ourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thine own people in all the parts of the world. Thou hast some of thine own among the most wicked in the world: we beseech thee to hasten their calling. Lord, oppose thyself against the kingdom of Antichrist and all the supporters thereof: and we beseech thee to be merciful to thy kirk that is born down by afflictions; help her out of them, and bear down Antichrist. Thou hast begun to consume him; Lord, spend him quite, that so he may be seen no more. Be merciful, O Lord, we beseech thee, to thy kirk within this land. We have entered ourselves in a covenant with thee, and who knows the excellency of that, to have thee to be their God? And who is there who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before; for these who have still gone on into a course of defection, their judgments shall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavor not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thine own people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou hast the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be an enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thine enemies, and that he may not be a terror to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counselors far from him and all Balaams, who would teach him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counselors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who @@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ idolatry,◊footnote{There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a bigoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especially the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kingdom he may be a profitable instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errors.◊footnote{"We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the manner of prayer... It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the ◊it{King}, Church, and Sick, as they doe, or ◊it{leave them to the last prayer, as we}." Baillie ii. 123. From this it appears that hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson's practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, etc., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for Public Worship, prayer for the King is set down among the topics of "Public Prayer ◊it{before} the Sermon." By referring to the directions there given in @@ -89,11 +89,11 @@ occur in this volume.} Bless the Nobility in the land, specially those of them who have given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and have gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, which is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be laboring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, etc. Lord, thou who hast our hearts in thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
And any who have a good and an honest mind to thy truth, and have access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak @@ -102,31 +102,31 @@ was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his request; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort in this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence these days bygone: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be, indeed, that we shall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we shall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us hear thee speaking to us; and when we speak to thee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to thee, and thou mayest be found of them; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and know not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be an occasion to us, to set our hearts off all other trifles only upon the knowledge of thee! Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor once among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleasest to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best which thou dost. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our own visitations; either to be removed out of this life, or for any change that thou shall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that which we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy own, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we shall be separate from our trifling portions in the world, we shall not be frustrated, but shall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
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Lord, thou art just and righteous in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works; and when the wicked have treasured up wrath again (against)against the day of wrath, thou hashast also laid up a treasure of judgments to punish them with. And albeit the judgments be long in coming, yet, when they come, the slowness of them is recompensed with their weight, and they are very sore, for thy wrath is not as man's wrath; his is soon come, and then it is soon gone. Yet, this is the comfort of thy people, that even when thou destroys thydestroyest thine enemies, then thou art good to them, in guarding them about with thy providence, as with a fiery wall, and in giving them peace within; and albeit they cannot tell particularly how it is done, yet they know that it is only thou who isart the doer of it. Lord, we beseech thee, therefore, to guard us so also. We cannot tell how soon thy judgments may come upon us who are in this land; now, for Jesus' sake, when the destroyer comes, draw thou thy sword against thythine enemies and the wicked in the world, and save thythine own people, and let them know that verily there is a deliverance and outgaitoutlet for the righteous in all their distresses. And, therefore, give us grace in time to be better acquaintacquainted with Christ, that so we may know him, and know the virtue of his blood, and that it is he who rules his kirk, and does all things in his wise providence for holding his people together, and that he shall make everything that comes to be comfortable to his @@ -24,47 +22,47 @@ unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God which he bestows upon his own children. Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas!alas, we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubtings,doubts, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore give us faith to believe thy word, and to believe in Christ, and to put our whole trust in him: and let us know also to whom it is that we lippenentrust ourselves. And, Lord, we beseech thee, in thythine own time, to give us the persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirscoheirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessary for us to be seeking to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to snib (check)check such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be content with thy dealing, for thou cancanst put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? andAnd albeit we see nothing in ourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thythine own people in all the parts of the world. Thou hashast some of thythine own among the most wicked in the world: we beseech thee to hasten their calling. Lord, oppose thyself against the kingdom of Antichrist and all the supposts (supporters)supporters thereof: and we beseech thee to be merciful to thy kirk that is born down by afflictions; help her out of them, and bear down Antichrist. Thou hashast begun to consume him; Lord, spend him quite, that so he may be seen no more. Be merciful, O Lord, we beseech thee, to thy kirk within this land. We have entered ourselves in a covenant with thee, and who knows the excellency of that, to have thee to be their God? andAnd who is there who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before; for these who have still gone on into a course of defection, their judgments shall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavourendeavor not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thythine own people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou hashast the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be an enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thythine enemies, and that he may not be a terrourterror to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellorscounselors far from him and all Balaams, who would learnteach him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors,counselors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and esteem Christ to be a King above him.◊footnote{The very thing he was in danger @@ -74,8 +72,8 @@ idolatry,◊footnote{There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a bigoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especially the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kingdom he may be a steadable (profitable)profitable instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.◊footnote{"Weerrors.◊footnote{"We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the manner of prayer... It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the ◊it{King}, Church, and Sick, as they doe, or ◊it{leave them to the last prayer, as we}." Baillie ii. 123. From this it appears that @@ -88,47 +86,47 @@ regard to that point, the reader will be struck with the similarity of method, matter and, to some extent, also, of language, there prescribed, and those of Henderson's prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which occur in this volume.} Bless the Nobility in the land, specially those of them who hashave given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and hashave gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, which is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouringlaboring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, etc. Lord, thou who hashast our hearts intoin thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
And any who hashave a good and an honest mind to thy truth, and hashave access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak anything for thee. And thou who put it in the heart of good Nehemiah, when he was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist;request; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort iin this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence these days by-gane:bygone: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed,be, indeed, that we shall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we shall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us hear thee speaking to us; and when we speak to thee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to thee, and thou maymayest be found of them; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knowsknow not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be an occasion to us, to set our hearts off all other trifflestrifles only upon the knowledge of thee! Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor once among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleasespleasest to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best which thou does.dost. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our own visitations; either to be removed out of this life, or for any change that thou shall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that which we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy own, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we shall be separate from our trifflingtrifling portions in the world, we shall not be frustrate,frustrated, but shall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index 1a0f470..4d77eb3 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ own children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God whilkwhich he bestows upon his own children. Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Henderson's prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which occur in this volume.} Bless the Nobility in the land, specially those of them who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilkwhich is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, etc. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good @@ -122,9 +122,9 @@ our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor once among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleases to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best whilkwhich thou does. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our own visitations; either to be removed out of this life, or for any change that thou shall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that whilkwhich we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy own,
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index c8b26f5..1a0f470 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessary for us to be seeking to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to snib (check) such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be content with thy dealing, for thou can put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? and albeit we see nothing in ourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thy own people in all the parts of the world. Thou has some of thy own among the most wicked in the world: we beseech thee to
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index 97f65ee..c8b26f5 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessarnecessary for us to be seeking to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to snib (check) such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be content with thy dealing, for thou can put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index 7d4d3d2..97f65ee 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ therefore, give us grace in time to be better acquaint with Christ, that so we may know him, and know the virtue of his blood, and that it is he who rules his kirk, and does all things in his wise providence for holding his people together, and that he shall make everything that comes to be comfortable to his own children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God whilk he bestows upon his own children. Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? and albeit we see nothing in ourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thy own people in all the parts of the world. Thou has some of thy own among the most wicked in the world: we beseech thee to hasten their calling. Lord, oppose thyself against the kingdom of Antichrist and all the supposts (supporters) thereof: and we beseech thee to be merciful to thy kirk that is born down by afflictions; help her out of them, and bear down Antichrist. Thou has begun to consume him; Lord, spend him quite, that so @@ -53,17 +53,17 @@ who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before; for these who have still gone on into a course of defection, their judgments shall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy own people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be an enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, who would learn him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and @@ -104,31 +104,31 @@ was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort i this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence these days by-gane: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed, that we shall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we shall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us hear thee speaking to us; and when we speak to thee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to thee, and thou may be found of them; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be an occasion to us, to set our hearts off all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee! Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor once among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleases to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best whilk thou does. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our own visitations; either to be removed out of this life, or for any change that thou shall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that whilk we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy own, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we shall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we shall not be frustrate, but shall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index ffd0449..7d4d3d2 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy own people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, @@ -97,14 +97,14 @@ into thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
And any who has a good and ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an honest mind to thy truth, and has access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak anything for thee. And thou who put it in the heart of good Nehemiah, when he was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort i this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence ◊scottish{thir#these|those}these days by-gane: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed, that we shall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we shall have a fair sunny @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ thee, and thou may be found of them; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an occasion to us, to set our hearts off all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee! Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index 75f4bb8..ffd0449 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -13,23 +13,23 @@ it is done, yet they know that it is only thou who is the doer of it. Lord, we beseech thee, therefore, to guard us so also. We cannot tell how soon thy judgments may come upon us who are in this land; now, for Jesus' sake, when the destroyer comes, draw thou thy sword against thy enemies and the wicked in the world, and save thy awinown people, and let them know that verily there is a deliverance and outgait for the righteous in all their distresses. And, therefore, give us grace in time to be better acquaint with Christ, that so we may know him, and know the virtue of his blood, and that it is he who rules his kirk, and does all things in his wise providence for holding his people together, and that he sallshall make everything that comes to be comfortable to his awinown children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God whilk he bestows upon his awinown children. Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore give us faith to believe thy word, and to believe in Christ, and to put our whole trust in him: and let us know also to whom it is that we lippen ourselves. And, Lord, we beseech thee, in thy awinown time, to give us the persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ thy dealing, for thou can put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? and albeit we see nothing in ourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thy awinown people in all the parts of the world. Thou has some of thy awinown among the most wicked in the world: we beseech thee to hasten their calling. Lord, oppose thyself against the kingdom of Antichrist and all the supposts (supporters) thereof: and we beseech thee to be merciful to thy kirk that is born down by afflictions; help her out of them, and bear @@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before; for these who have still gone on into a course of defection, their judgments sallshall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy awinown people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, @@ -97,17 +97,17 @@ into thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
And any who has a good and ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} honest mind to thy truth, and has access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak anything for thee. And thou who put it in the heart of good Nehemiah, when he was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort i this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence thir◊scottish{thir#these|those} days by-gane: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed, that we sallshall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we sallshall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us hear thee speaking to us; and when we speak to thee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to @@ -115,20 +115,20 @@ thee, and thou may be found of them; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} occasion to us, to set our hearts affoff all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee! Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor anesonce among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleases to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best whilk thou does. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our awinown visitations; either to be removed out of this life, or for any change that thou sallshall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that whilk we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin,own, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sallshall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sallshall not be frustrate, but sallshall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0013.pm b/src/0013.pm index c99a166..75f4bb8 100644 --- a/src/0013.pm +++ b/src/0013.pm @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, etc. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
@@ -131,4 +131,4 @@ is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sall not be frustrate, but sall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
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a/src/0013.poly.pm b/src/0013.poly.pm index a9853a3..c99a166 100644 --- a/src/0013.poly.pm +++ b/src/0013.poly.pm @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson's practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, etc., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for Public Worship, prayer for the King is set down among the topics of "Public Prayer ◊it{before} the Sermon".Sermon." By referring to the directions there given in regard to that point, the reader will be struck with the similarity of method, matter and, to some extent, also, of language, there prescribed, and those of Henderson's prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which
a/src/0013.poly.pm b/src/0013.poly.pm index 77a24d3..a9853a3 100644 --- a/src/0013.poly.pm +++ b/src/0013.poly.pm @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, &c.etc. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
a/src/0013.poly.pm b/src/0013.poly.pm index 82fab31..77a24d3 100644 --- a/src/0013.poly.pm +++ b/src/0013.poly.pm @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ of the kingdom he may be a steadable (profitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.◊footnote{"We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the manner of prayer... It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the ◊it{King}, Church, and Sick, as they doe, or ◊it{leave them to the last prayer, as we}." ---BaillieBaillie ii. 123. From this it appears that hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson's practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, etc., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for
a/src/0013.poly.pm b/src/0013.poly.pm index 626e0b1..82fab31 100644 --- a/src/0013.poly.pm +++ b/src/0013.poly.pm @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ of the kingdom he may be a steadable (profitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.◊footnote{"We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the manner of prayer... It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the ◊it{King}, Church, and Sick, as they doe, or ◊it{leave them to the last prayer, as we.}"---Bailliewe}." ---Baillie ii. 123. From this it appears that hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson's practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, etc., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for
a/src/0013.poly.pm b/src/0013.poly.pm index 605f766..626e0b1 100644 --- a/src/0013.poly.pm +++ b/src/0013.poly.pm @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ idolatry,◊footnote{There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a bigoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especially the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kmgdomkingdom he may be a steadable (profitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.◊footnote{"We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the manner of prayer... It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the ◊it{King}, Church, and Sick, as they doe, or ◊it{leave @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, &c. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us fordward,forward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
@@ -131,4 +131,4 @@ is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sall not be frustrate, but sall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0013.poly.pm b/src/0013.poly.pm index 50d1c37..605f766 100644 --- a/src/0013.poly.pm +++ b/src/0013.poly.pm @@ -23,22 +23,22 @@ awin children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God whilk he bestows upon his awin children. Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore give us faith to believe thy word, and to believe in Christ, and to put our whole trust in him: and let us know also to whom it is that we lippen ourselves. And, Lord, we beseech thee, in thy awin time, to give us the persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessar for us to be seeking to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to snib (check) such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be content with thy dealing, for thou can put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? and albeit we see nothing in ourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thy awin people in all the parts of the world. Thou has some of thy awin among the most wicked in the world: we beseech thee @@ -52,49 +52,50 @@ knows the excellency of that, to have thee to be their God? and who is there who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before; for these who have still gone on into a course of defection, their judgments sall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy awin people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be ane enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, who would learn him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and esteem Christ to be a King above him.◊footnote{The very thing he was in danger of forgetting at this moment, and the forgetting of which lay at the root of the present troubles.} Bless his Queen; make her to hate all superstition and idolatry,◊footnote{There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a bigoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especially the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kmgdom he may be a steadable (profitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.◊footnote{"We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the manner of prayer... It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the ◊it{King}, Church, and Sick, as they doe, or ◊it{leave them to the last prayer, as we.}"---Baillie ii. 123. From this it appears that hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson's practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, etc., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for Public Worship, prayer for the King is set down among the topics of "Public Prayer ◊it{before} the Sermon". By referring to the directions there given in regard to that point, the reader will be struck with the similarity of method, matter and, to some extent, also, of language, there prescribed, and those of Henderson's prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which occur in this volume.} Bless the Nobility in the land, specially those of them who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, &c. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us fordward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
And any who has a good and ane honest mind to thy truth, and has access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak @@ -115,18 +116,19 @@ pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be ane occasion to us, to set our hearts aff all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee! Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor anes among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleases to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best whilk thou does. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our awin visitations; either to be removed out of this life, or for any change that thou sall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that whilk we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sall not be frustrate, but sall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
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116 PRAYER.
Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And because we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away @@ -67,70 +53,40 @@ who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before; for these who have still gone on into a course of
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PRAYER. 11y
defection, their judgments sall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy awin people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,*course,◊footnote{The opposite of which was most feared at this time.} that so he may not be ane enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, who would learn him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and esteem Christ to be a King above him.+him.◊footnote{The very thing he was in danger of forgetting at this moment, and the forgetting of which lay at the root of the present troubles.} Bless his ueen;Queen; make her to hate all superstition and idolatry,}idolatry,◊footnote{There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a bigoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especially the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kmgdom he may be a steadable (profitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.§ Bless the Nobility in the land, specially
* The opposite of which was most feared at this time.
t+ The very thing he was in danger of forgetting at this moment, and the forgetting of which lay at the root of the present troubles.
1 There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a blgoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.
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118 PRAYER.volume.} Bless the Nobility in the land, specially those of them who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to @@ -159,24 +115,7 @@ pity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be ane occasion to us, to set our hearts aff all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee!and, to some extent, also, of language, there prescribed, and those of Henderson's prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which occur in this volume.
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PRAYER. 119 Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor anes among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish @@ -190,38 +129,4 @@ necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin, in Jesus Christ. And therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sall not be frustrate, but sall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, &c.
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[SABBATH BEFORE THE COMMUNION, APRIL 8, 1638.]
[AFTERNOON.] PREFACE.
Certainly, beloved, it will prove so in end, and it will prove so many times by the way, that blessed is that man whose God is the Lord, and who has that assurance wrought into their souls. And therefore, since there is no blessedness but that, and we say ali of us that we would be at blessedness, it is our pari to be drawing nearer to God, and to be making use of the means we have, whereby we may know him, while we have the opportunity. If we will be considering of this, the Lord will continue the means with us, and he will also supply what is deficient, for to him that has sall be given. But if we use not that whilk we have, and be seeking more of the outward means, it is but like the dealing of the hypocrite Jews, who cried, ¢ The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord ! " and yet, in the meantime, did not labour with their hearts to draw near to God. Surely the Lord will not take it in good part that we be crying for a reformation in the kirk, if in the meantime we be not crying also, and labouring earnestly, for a reformation into our awin'hearts: if there be any abomination and hypocrisy in the sight of God, this is it. They, I am sure, are more acceptable to God, who liv's in security and corruption, and yet sometimes are getting some drops of grace, than these who has the means of God's worship and of their awin salvation in purity, and does not make use of them. And, therefore, let us acknowledge this to be our guiltiness, for what can we do more to have religion and the means of God's woretc.
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Lord, thou art just and righteous in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works; and when the wicked have treasured up wrath again (against) the day of wrath, thou has also laid up a treasure of judgments to punish them with. And albeit the judgments be long in coming, yet, when they come, the slowness of them is recompensed with their weight, and they are very sore, for thy wrath is not as man’sman's wrath; his is soon come, and then it is soon gone. Yet, this is the comfort of thy people, that even when thou destroys thy enemies, then thou art good to them, in guard- ingguarding them about with thy providence, as with a fiery wall, and in giving them peace within; and albeit they cannot tell particularly how it is done, yet they know that it is only thou who is the doer of it. Lord, we beseech thee, there- fore,therefore, to guard us so also. We cannot tell how soon thy judgments may come upon us who are in this land ;land; now, for Jesus’Jesus' sake, when the destroyer comes, draw thou thy sword against thy enemies and the wicked in the world, and save thy awin people, and let them know that verily there is a deliverance and outgait for the righteous in all their distresses. And, therefore, give us grace in time to be better acquaint with Christ, that so we may know him, and know the virtue of his blood, and that it is he who rules his kirk, and does all things in his wise providence for hold- ingholding his people together, and that he sall make everything that comes to be comfortable to his awin children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God whilk he bestows upon his awin children.
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116 PRAYER.Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant ;ignorant; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And be- causebecause we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore give us faith to believe thy word, and to believe in Christ, and to put our whole trust in him: and let us know also to whom it is that we lippen ourselves. And, Lord, we beseech thee, in thy awin time, to give us the persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessar for us to be seek- ingseeking to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to snib (check) such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be con- tentcontent with thy dealing, for thou can put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? and albeit we see nothing in our- selvesourselves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thy awin people in all the parts of the world. Thou has some of thy awin among the most wicked in the world: we be- seechbeseech thee to hasten their calling. Lord, oppose thyself against the kingdom of Antichrist and all the supposts (sup- porters) thereof :(supporters) thereof: and we beseech thee to be merciful to thy kirk that is born down by afflictions; help her out of them, and bear down Antichrist. Thou has begun to con- sumeconsume him; Lord, spend him quite, that so he may be seen no more. Be merciful, O Lord, we beseech thee, to thy kirk within this land. We have entered ourselves in a covenant with thee, and who knows the excellency of that, to have thee to be their God? and who is there who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before ;before; for these who have still gone on into a course of
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PRAYER. 11ydefection, their judgments sall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy awin people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King's Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,* that so he may not be ane enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, who would learn him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and esteem Christ to be a King above him.+ Bless his
defection, their judgments sall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy awin people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes ; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King’s Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,* that so he may not be ane enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, who would learn him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and esteem Christ to be a King above him.+ Bless hisueen; make her to hate all superstition and idolatry,} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especi- allyespecially the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kmgdom he may be a steadable (pro- fitable)(profitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.§ Bless the Nobility in the land, specially
* The opposite of which was most feared at this time.
t+ The very thing he was in danger of forgetting at this moment, and the forgetting of which lay at the root of the present troubles.
1 There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a blgoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.
§ « We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the man- nermanner of prayer. . . It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the Kzng, Church, and chk as they doe, or leave them to the last prayer, as ae.””—Baillieae.""---Baillie ii. 123. From this it appears that hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson’sHenderson's practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, &c., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for Public Wor- ship,Worship, prayer for the King is set down among the topics of ‘ Public Prayer before the Sermon.”Sermon." By referring to the directions there given in regard to that point, the reader will be struck with the similarity of method, matter
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118 PRAYER.those of them who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, indeed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, &c. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us fordward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
those of themAnd any who has given up their names to thee,a good and hazarded all for thee,ane honest mind to thy truth, and has gone far on. This land, in- deed, has gone far on, even from professionaccess to confession, whilk iskings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak anything for thee. And thou who put it in the next partheart of good Nehemiah, when he was speaking to martyrdom ; thereforea king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give usthem grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort i this, to stand to it,serve both God and whatthe king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence thir days by-gane: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed, that we sall have yet of the gospel,a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we sall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us be labouringhear thee speaking to give testimonyus; and when we speak to it, in livingthee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to thee, and thou may be found of them; that so they may rejoice in faith, truth, holiness, &c.thee. Lord, thoupity us in this poor congregation: for there is none in the land who has our hearts intogreater need to fear thy hand, help us fordward,judgments than we have, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course ;have gone far on, and therefore,knows not what we beseechhave been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.make this to be ane occasion to us, to set our hearts aff all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee!
And any who has a good and ane honest mind to thy truth, and has access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak anything for thee. And thou who put it in the heart of good Nehe- miah, when he was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist ; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort i this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence thir days by-gane: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed, that we sall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we sall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us hear thee speaking to us; and when we speak to thee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to thee, and thou may be found of them ; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation : for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be ane occasion to us, to set our hearts aff all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee!and, to some extent, also, of language, there prescribed, and those of Hender- son’sHenderson's prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which occur in this volume.
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PRAYER. 119Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor anes among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleases to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best whilk thou does. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our awin visitations ;visitations; either to be re- movedremoved out of this life, or for any change that thou sall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that whilk we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin, in Jesus Christ. And there- fore,therefore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sall not be frustrate, but sall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, &c.
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[SABBATH BEFORE THE COMMUNION, APRIL 8, 1638.]
[SABBATH BEFORE THE COMMUNION, APRIL 8, 1638.][AFTERNOON.] PREFACE.
[AFTERNOON.] PREFACE.Certainly, beloved, it will prove so in end, and it will prove so many times by the way, that blessed is that man whose God is the Lord, and who has that assurance wrought into their souls. And therefore, since there is no blessedness but that, and we say ali of us that we would be at blessedness, it is our pari to be drawing nearer to God, and to be making use of the means we have, whereby we may know him, while we have the opportunity. If we will be considering of this, the Lord will continue the means with us, and he will also supply what is deficient, for to him that has sall be given. But if we use not that whilk we have, and be seeking more of the outward means, it is but like the dealing of the hypocrite Jews, who cried, ¢ The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord ! ”" and yet, in the meantime, did not labour with their hearts to draw near to God. Surely the Lord will not take it in good part that we be crying for a reformation in the kirk, if in the meantime we be not crying also, and labouring earnestly, for a reformation into our awin'hearts :awin'hearts: if there be any abomination and hypocrisy in the sight of God, this is it. They, I am sure, are more acceptable to God, who liv's in security and corruption, and yet some- timessometimes are getting some drops of grace, than these who has the means of God’sGod's worship and of their awin salvation in purity, and does not make use of them. And, therefore, let us acknowledge this to be our guiltiness, for what can we do more to have religion and the means of God’s wor-God's wor
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of God, sall save you by his blood sprinkled upon you. To whom, &c.
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of God, sall save you by his blood sprinkled upon you. To whom, &c.
PRAYER.
Lord, thou art just and righteous in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works; and when the wicked have treasured up wrath again (against) the day of wrath, thou has also laid up a treasure of judgments to punish them with. And albeit the judgments be long in coming, yet, when they come, the slowness of them is recompensed with their weight, and they are very sore, for thy wrath is not as man’s wrath; his is soon come, and then it is soon gone. Yet, this is the comfort of thy people, that even when thou destroys thy enemies, then thou art good to them, in guard- ing them about with thy providence, as with a fiery wall, and in giving them peace within; and albeit they cannot tell particularly how it is done, yet they know that it is only thou who is the doer of it. Lord, we beseech thee, there- fore, to guard us so also. We cannot tell how soon thy judgments may come upon us who are in this land ; now, for Jesus’ sake, when the destroyer comes, draw thou thy sword against thy enemies and the wicked in the world, and save thy awin people, and let them know that verily there is a deliverance and outgait for the righteous in all their distresses. And, therefore, give us grace in time to be better acquaint with Christ, that so we may know him, and know the virtue of his blood, and that it is he who rules his kirk, and does all things in his wise providence for hold- ing his people together, and that he sall make everything that comes to be comfortable to his awin children. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because everything that we do is but unprofitable without faith, and when we have any measure of faith, then we find sense to be very strong, and many exorbitant corruptions, Lord, therefore make it sensible to us that there is some other thing in us than nature, even this grace of God whilk he bestows upon his awin children.
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Lord, give unto us repentance for our ignorance, for, alas! we are very ignorant ; we know not the gospel, nor Christ that is revealed in the gospel, as it becomes us. And be- cause we are full of doubtings, and ready to fall away from thee, therefore give us faith to believe thy word, and to believe in Christ, and to put our whole trust in him: and let us know also to whom it is that we lippen ourselves. And, Lord, we beseech thee, in thy awin time, to give us the persuasion and assurance of the remission of our sins, and a testimony in our own souls of our adoption here, and that we shall hereafter be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in glory. When prosperity is with us, then we think the world to be the best of it, but when we are in trouble any way, then we say that it is good and necessar for us to be seek- ing to heaven; therefore, we beseech thee to snib (check) such thoughts as these in us, and give us grace to be con- tent with thy dealing, for thou can put us to a light trial. And, therefore, dispose of us according to thy wisdom and mercy, and give us grace to draw in to thee in time, while thou art calling upon us? and albeit we see nothing in our- selves wherein we can glory, yet give us grace to draw near to thee, and to glory in thee. Lord, be merciful to all thy awin people in all the parts of the world. Thou has some of thy awin among the most wicked in the world: we be- seech thee to hasten their calling. Lord, oppose thyself against the kingdom of Antichrist and all the supposts (sup- porters) thereof : and we beseech thee to be merciful to thy kirk that is born down by afflictions; help her out of them, and bear down Antichrist. Thou has begun to con- sume him; Lord, spend him quite, that so he may be seen no more. Be merciful, O Lord, we beseech thee, to thy kirk within this land. We have entered ourselves in a covenant with thee, and who knows the excellency of that, to have thee to be their God? and who is there who can ponder sufficiently the weight of that, to bind themselves to serve thee, the Lord? And, therefore, we beseech thee to give us grace to think upon it, that so we bring not on heavier wrath upon ourselves now, than we could have done before ; for these who have still gone on into a course of
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defection, their judgments sall not be so heavy as ours, if so be that we endeavour not to keep our covenant that we have made, and to do as we have said. We beseech thee, O Lord, to find out the way for peace and comfort to thy awin people, and for establishing of thy worship among us. Lord, thou has the hearts of all men in thy hand, even the hearts of great men and princes ; and therefore we beseech thee to settle our King’s Majesty his heart to a peaceable course,* that so he may not be ane enemy to these who are in friendship with thee, but only to thy enemies, and that he may not be a terrour to these who stand for thy truth, but to these who stand for idolatry. Lord, remove ill counsellors far from him and all Balaams, who would learn him a way how to get thy people destroyed; and furnish him with good counsel and counsellors, and give him grace to follow their counsel, who would instruct him in the right way. And give him grace to count it his glory to stand for the truth of Christ, and let him not be ashamed to count and esteem Christ to be a King above him.+ Bless his
ueen; make her to hate all superstition and idolatry,} and to know thy truth and to love it. Bless their children, especi- ally the young prince, that so, when he shall be advanced to the throne of the kmgdom he may be a steadable (pro- fitable) instrument for setting up thy glory, and holding down all errours.§ Bless the Nobility in the land, specially
* The opposite of which was most feared at this time.
t+ The very thing he was in danger of forgetting at this moment, and the forgetting of which lay at the root of the present troubles.
1 There is here an implied allusion to the religion of the Queen, who was a blgoted adherent of the Church of Rome. The same occurs more than once again.
§ « We were next settling [in the Westminster Assembly] on the man- ner of prayer. . . It in that first prayer it were meet to take in the Kzng, Church, and chk as they doe, or leave them to the last prayer, as ae.””—Baillie ii. 123. From this it appears that hitherto in Scotland it had been the practice, as it is Henderson’s practice in this volume, to reserve prayer for the King, &c., till after the Sermon. The Assembly seems to have altered this arrangement, as, in the Directory for Public Wor- ship, prayer for the King is set down among the topics of ‘ Public Prayer before the Sermon.” By referring to the directions there given in regard to that point, the reader will be struck with the similarity of method, matter
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those of them who has given up their names to thee, and hazarded all for thee, and has gone far on. This land, in- deed, has gone far on, even from profession to confession, whilk is the next part to martyrdom ; therefore give us grace to stand to it, and what we have yet of the gospel, let us be labouring to give testimony to it, in living in faith, truth, holiness, &c. Lord, thou who has our hearts into thy hand, help us fordward, for we cannot continue nor go on into a good course ; and therefore, we beseech thee to create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us.
And any who has a good and ane honest mind to thy truth, and has access to kings, Lord, we beseech thee to assist them when they have a purpose to speak anything for thee. And thou who put it in the heart of good Nehe- miah, when he was speaking to a king, to lift up a secret ejaculation to thee, give them grace to do so also; and then the king was moved to grant his requeist ; let it be so with them also; that so they may find comfort i this, to stand to serve both God and the king. Lord, be merciful to all the assemblies of thy people in this land. Many of them has found thy presence thir days by-gane: if so be that thou had had a mind to destroy us, there had been no such work as this, and therefore, we trust that thou will dwell still with us. It may be,indeed, that we sall have a foul stormy hour yet, but we hope that we sall have a fair sunny day after it. And, therefore, we beseech thee, O Lord, to deal mercifully with us, and dwell thou still among us, and let us hear thee speaking to us; and when we speak to thee, be thou found of us; that so thy people may seek to thee, and thou may be found of them ; that so they may rejoice in thee. Lord, pity us in this poor congregation : for there is none in the land who has greater need to fear thy judgments than we have, for we have gone far on, and knows not what we have been doing. Lord, if it would please thee to make this to be ane occasion to us, to set our hearts aff all other triffles only upon the knowledge of thee!
and, to some extent, also, of language, there prescribed, and those of Hender- son’s prayers for the King and other members of the royal family, which occur in this volume.
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Lord, we beseech thee to send in thy light and thy Spirit into our hearts, to touch them; that so, while the day of our visitation lasts, we may know the things that belongs to our peace. Lord, we beseech thee to pity and deliver the poor anes among us, who are lying under any distress or affliction, and furnish them with patience to bear it, so long as thou pleases to hold it on; that they may acknowledge it to be the only best whilk thou does. And Lord, prepare every one of us for our awin visitations ; either to be re- moved out of this life, or for any change that thou sall be pleased to bring upon us, while we are in it: for in that whilk we think to be most heritable and permanent here, there is nothing but a continual change in all; for if it change not from us, of necessity we must change from it. There is nothing that is unchangeable but only thou, O Lord, and thy love to thy awin, in Jesus Christ. And there- fore, give us grace to seek after that; and then, when we sall be separate from our triffling portions in the world, we sall not be frustrate, but sall be fully satisfied with that rich portion purchased to us in Jesus Christ. To whom, &c.
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[AFTERNOON.] PREFACE.
Certainly, beloved, it will prove so in end, and it will prove so many times by the way, that blessed is that man whose God is the Lord, and who has that assurance wrought into their souls. And therefore, since there is no blessedness but that, and we say ali of us that we would be at blessedness, it is our pari to be drawing nearer to God, and to be making use of the means we have, whereby we may know him, while we have the opportunity. If we will be considering of this, the Lord will continue the means with us, and he will also supply what is deficient, for to him that has sall be given. But if we use not that whilk we have, and be seeking more of the outward means, it is but like the dealing of the hypocrite Jews, who cried, ¢ The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord ! ” and yet, in the meantime, did not labour with their hearts to draw near to God. Surely the Lord will not take it in good part that we be crying for a reformation in the kirk, if in the meantime we be not crying also, and labouring earnestly, for a reformation into our awin'hearts : if there be any abomination and hypocrisy in the sight of God, this is it. They, I am sure, are more acceptable to God, who liv's in security and corruption, and yet some- times are getting some drops of grace, than these who has the means of God’s worship and of their awin salvation in purity, and does not make use of them. And, therefore, let us acknowledge this to be our guiltiness, for what can we do more to have religion and the means of God’s wor-