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O Lord, if through continuance and joining of spiritual exercises we could find faith wakened and still ascending upward, then that would be great contentment to us; but evermore while we live we find great proofs of ignorance, doubtings,doubts, and manifold infirmities intoin us; and so it must be only through Christ and his power that we must be saved from the power of unbelief. And therefore, O Lord, because we have been now speaking and hearing of faith, make each one of us all to look in to our own souls, and see what seed of faith is there; that so it @@ -11,66 +9,66 @@ may be watered from thee from above, and we may be careful then to get it kept, and to count the heart to be a paradise so long as it is there. And we entreat thee, O Lord, because we will meet with oppositions, and it is not in our own strength we can stand, acquaint us with the oppositions we may meet with in the way, and that we may know that there is great enormity intoin our hearts; and so may draw into Christ, to get strength against all oppositions: and let us know that for each horn that our enemy has to pursue us, he has a hammer to beat it down. And, Lord, we beseech thee to frame our hearts to the doing of thy will; and let us know more and more of it. We bless thee, Lord, for what thou hashast begun intoin us, and what thou of thy mercy hashast been pleased to do to us this day. Lord, we have silly hearts, fill us with the sense of thy kindness as we stand in need; our hearts hashave not been right with thee this day; yet we trust that thou willwilt gather up the least motion or intention to do good, and that thou willwilt make our intention to be acceptable to thee, through Christ. And for time to come, Lord, give us grace to rest upon Christ, and still to use the means that thou hashast appointed, till the walls fall to the ground; we know that not a jot of that which thou hashast promised shall fail, if we wait on, and therefore give us grace to wait on till the appointed time come. Lord, save us from thy curse, for it is heavy and sore; we indeed have deserved it, for we have put to our hand to the building of Jericho and Rome, or, at least, we have countenanced these who has been preassing (striving)striving to build it, and laid the groundstone thereof, and were building up the walls very high, and presumed to get the roof upon it. Lord, be merciful to us for this, and let us never again return to that course. If it shall be said that one day we follow one religion, and another day another religion, then we shall be counted the affcastoutcast of all people both by God and man; but blessed are they who enduresendure to the end, for they shall get the crown of glory. Alas, Lord, many departsdepart from thee without any opposition, and therefore it were just with thee that thou shouldshouldst hide thyself from them, when they turn to thee; yet we are sure, if so be we will turn to thee with the whole heart, thou willwilt accept of us: Lord, we beseech thee to do it, that so we may be filled with the sense of thy love towards us, and may be refreshed thereby. Lord, look graciously upon thy kirk in all the parts of the world where she is suffering distresses and troubles for righteousness' sake; Lord, relieve her and help her. And be merciful to this kirk and land: Lord, we entreat thee not to suffer Jericho to be buildedbuilt up here again, after it has been once castencast down; but make Jerusalem and the walls thereof [to be buildedbuilt up]; and let curses of all sorts be upon those who are preassingstriving to build Jericho again. Bless all thesethose who are in places of authority, for Christ's sake, especially our King's Majesty; fill him with wisdom and counsel from thee, and give him a love to thy truth in his heart, and with a resolution to obey it; that so there may be a blessing upon him and upon his people over whom thon hasthou hast set him. Let not his authority and power be exercised against these who are just and religious, but against the wicked and profane. And, Lord, incline him to take such a course as may be most agreeable to thy will, and may serve most for establishing thy truth intoin this land. Bless his Queen, and make her a hater of idolatry, and a lover of the truth of religion. And bless their children, that in their own time they may be profitable instruments for holding down errours,errors, and setting up the truth of religion; and for this end make them to be bred and brought up in the ways of Christianity and holiness. It is because of the sins of the people that there are such ills intoin a land; and because they love not the truth, therefore it is just that thon stirthou stirest up others to be evil affected to it: Lord, give us the love of thy truth, that so thou maymayest continue it with us. Thou maymayest justly raise up a new generation to remove the truth from us, because we do not entertain it as it becomes; and so we may only wyte (blame)blame ourselves if the gospel be removed, and not lay the wyteblame upon others. Lord, give thy blessing to the nobility, etc.; especially we remember thesethose of them to thee who loveslove the cause of Christ. Alas, the love of the world deceives many; they think thesethose who followsfollow it to be despised; but thy children knowsknow that they ought not to seek the world. These, O Lord, who have given up their names to thee, let the enemies see that thou art for them, and upon their side; and let it be known that thou art their God. Lord, bless all the assemblies of thy people this day, and bless us who hashave been here assembled before thee. Let us go away with some sense of thy love towards us; and if we find no more, yet let us find a further resolution to resist our corruptions, and all the tentationstemptations of sin, and to walk in thy ways till we come to the end of them, and then get that reward promised to us, and purchased by Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0035.pm b/src/0035.pm index 8a4d4c5..e424bdd 100644 --- a/src/0035.pm +++ b/src/0035.pm @@ -7,23 +7,23 @@ and manifold infirmities into us; and so it must be only through Christ and his power that we must be saved from the power of unbelief. And therefore, O Lord, because we have been now speaking and hearing of faith, make each one of us all to look in to our own souls, and see what seed of faith is there; that so it may be watered from thee from above, and we may be careful then to get it keeped,kept, and to count the heart to be a paradise so long as it is there. And we entreat thee, O Lord, because we will meet with oppositions, and it is not in our own strength we can stand, acquaint us with the oppositions we may meet with in the way, and that we may know that there is great enormity into our hearts; and so may draw into Christ, to get strength against all oppositions: and let us know that for each horn that our enemy has to pursue us, he has a hammer to beat it down. And, Lord, we beseech thee to frame our hearts to the doing of thy will; and let us know more and more of it. We bless thee, Lord, for what thou has begun into us, and what thou of thy mercy has been pleased to do to us this day. Lord, we have silly hearts, fill us with the sense of thy kindness as we stand in need; our hearts has not been right with thee this day; yet we trust that thou will gather up the least motion or intention to do good, and that thou will make our intention to be acceptable to thee, through Christ. And for time to come, Lord, give us grace to rest upon Christ, and still to use the means that thou has appointed, till the walls fall to the ground; we know that not a jot of that which thou has promised shall fail, if we wait on, and therefore give us grace to wait on till the appointed time come. Lord, save us from thy curse, for it is heavy and sore; we indeed have deserved it, for we have put to our hand to the building of Jericho and Rome, or, at least, we have
a/src/0035.pm b/src/0035.pm index 7137279..8a4d4c5 100644 --- a/src/0035.pm +++ b/src/0035.pm @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ yet we trust that thou will gather up the least motion or intention to do good, and that thou will make our intention to be acceptable to thee, through Christ. And for time to come, Lord, give us grace to rest upon Christ, and still to use the means that thou has appointed, till the walls fall to the ground; we know that not a jot of that whilkwhich thou has promised shall fail, if we wait on, and therefore give us grace to wait on till the appointed time come. Lord, save us from thy curse, for it is heavy and sore; we indeed have deserved it, for we have put to our hand to the building of Jericho and Rome, or, at least, we have
a/src/0035.pm b/src/0035.pm index 475f616..7137279 100644 --- a/src/0035.pm +++ b/src/0035.pm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ faith wakened and still ascending upward, then that would be great contentment to us; but evermore while we live we find great proofs of ignorance, doubtings, and manifold infirmities into us; and so it must be only through Christ and his power that we must be saved from the power of unbelief. And therefore, O Lord, because we have been now speaking and hearing of faith, make ◊scottish{ilk#each|every} ◊scottish{ane#an|one}each one of us all to look in to our own souls, and see what seed of faith is there; that so it may be watered from thee from above, and we may be careful then to get it keeped, and to count the heart to be a paradise so long as it is there. And we @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ entreat thee, O Lord, because we will meet with oppositions, and it is not in our own strength we can stand, acquaint us with the oppositions we may meet with in the way, and that we may know that there is great enormity into our hearts; and so may draw into Christ, to get strength against all oppositions: and let us know that for ◊scottish{ilk#each|every}each horn that our enemy has to pursue us, he has a hammer to beat it down. And, Lord, we beseech thee to frame our hearts to the doing of thy will; and let us know more and more of it. We bless thee, Lord, for what thou has begun into us, and what thou of thy mercy has been pleased to
a/src/0035.pm b/src/0035.pm index 6dece0c..475f616 100644 --- a/src/0035.pm +++ b/src/0035.pm @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ faith wakened and still ascending upward, then that would be great contentment to us; but evermore while we live we find great proofs of ignorance, doubtings, and manifold infirmities into us; and so it must be only through Christ and his power that we must be saved from the power of unbelief. And therefore, O Lord, because we have been now speaking and hearing of faith, make ilk ane◊scottish{ilk#each|every} ◊scottish{ane#an|one} of us all to look in to our awinown souls, and see what seed of faith is there; that so it may be watered from thee from above, and we may be careful then to get it keeped, and to count the heart to be a paradise so long as it is there. And we entreat thee, O Lord, because we will meet with oppositions, and it is not in our awinown strength we can stand, acquaint us with the oppositions we may meet with in the way, and that we may know that there is great enormity into our hearts; and so may draw into Christ, to get strength against all oppositions: and let us know that for ilk◊scottish{ilk#each|every} horn that our enemy has to pursue us, he has a hammer to beat it down. And, Lord, we beseech thee to frame our hearts to the doing of thy will; and let us know more and more of it. We bless thee, Lord, for what thou has begun into us, and what thou of thy mercy has been pleased to @@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ yet we trust that thou will gather up the least motion or intention to do good, and that thou will make our intention to be acceptable to thee, through Christ. And for time to come, Lord, give us grace to rest upon Christ, and still to use the means that thou has appointed, till the walls fall to the ground; we know that not a jot of that whilk thou has promised sallshall fail, if we wait on, and therefore give us grace to wait on till the appointed time come. Lord, save us from thy curse, for it is heavy and sore; we indeed have deserved it, for we have put to our hand to the building of Jericho and Rome, or, at least, we have countenanced these who has been preassing (striving) to build it, and laid the groundstone thereof, and were building up the walls very high, and presumed to get the roof upon it. Lord, be merciful to us for this, and let us never again return to that course. If it sallshall be said that one day we follow one religion, and another day another religion, then we sallshall be counted the affcast of all people both by God and man; but blessed are they who endures to the end, for they sallshall get the crown of glory. Alas, Lord, many departs from thee without any opposition, and therefore it were just with thee that thou should hide thyself from them, when they turn to thee; yet we are sure, if so be we will turn to thee with the whole heart, thou will accept of us: Lord, we beseech @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ and may be refreshed thereby. Lord, look graciously upon thy kirk in all the parts of the world where she is suffering distresses and troubles for righteousness' sake; Lord, relieve her and help her. And be merciful to this kirk and land: Lord, we entreat thee not to suffer Jericho to be builded up here again, after it has been anesonce casten down; but make Jerusalem and the walls thereof [to be builded up]; and let curses of all sorts be upon those who are preassing to build Jericho again. Bless all these who are in places of authority, for Christ's sake, especially our King's Majesty; fill him with @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ exercised against these who are just and religious, but against the wicked and profane. And, Lord, incline him to take such a course as may be most agreeable to thy will, and may serve most for establishing thy truth into this land. Bless his Queen, and make her a hater of idolatry, and a lover of the truth of religion. And bless their children, that in their awinown time they may be profitable instruments for holding down errours, and setting up the truth of religion; and for this end make them to be bred and brought up in the ways of Christianity and holiness. It is because of the sins of the people that there
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PRAYER.
O Lord, if through continuance and joining of spiritual exercises we could find faith wakened and still ascending upward, then that would be great contentment to us; but evermore while we live we find great proofs of ignorance, doubtings, @@ -37,113 +26,51 @@ the means that thou has appointed, till the walls fall to the ground; we know that not a jot of that whilk thou has promised sall fail, if we wait on, and therefore give us grace to wait on till the appointed time come. Lord, save us from thy curse, for it is heavy and sore; we indeed have deserved it, for we have put to our hand to the building of- [ ] Completed?
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184 PRAYER. Jericho and Rome, or, at least, we have countenanced these who has been preassing (striving) to build it, and laid the groundstone thereof, and were building up the walls very high, and presumed to get the roof upon it. Lord, be merciful to us for this, and let us never again return to that course. If it sall be said that one day we follow one religion, and another day another religion, then we sall be counted the affcast of all people both by God and man; but blessed are they who endures to the end, for they sall get the crown of glory. Alas, Lord, many departs from thee without any opposition, and therefore it were just with thee that thou should hide thyself from them, when they turn to thee; yet we are sure, if so be we will turn to thee with the whole heart, thou will accept of us: Lord, we beseech thee to do it, that so we may be filled with the sense of thy love towards us, and may be refreshed thereby. Lord, look graciously upon thy kirk in all the parts of the world where she is suffering distresses and troubles for righteousness' sake; Lord, relieve her and help her. And be merciful to this kirk and land: Lord, we entreat thee not to suffer Jericho to be builded up here again, after it has been anes casten down; but make Jerusalem and the walls thereof [to be builded up]; and let curses of all sorts be upon those who are preassing to build Jericho again. Bless all these who are in places of authority, for Christ's sake, especially our King's Majesty; fill him with wisdom and counsel from thee, and give him a love to thy truth in his heart, and with a resolution to obey it; that so there may be a blessing upon him and upon his people over whom thon has set him. Let not his authority and power be exercised against these who are just and religious, but against the wicked and profane. And, Lord, incline him to take such a course as may be most agreeable to thy will, and may serve most for establishing thy truth into this land. Bless his Queen, and make her a hater of idolatry, and a lover of the truth of religion. And bless their children, that in their awin time they may be profitable instruments for holding down errours, -andand setting up the truth of religion; and for this end make them to be bred and brought- [ ] Completed?
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PRAYER. 185 up in the ways of Christianity and holiness. It is because of the sins of the people that there are such ills into a land; and because they love not the truth, therefore it is just that thon stir up others to be evil affected to it: Lord, give us the love of thy truth, that so thou may continue it with us. Thou may justly raise up a new generation to remove the truth from us, because we do not entertain it as it becomes; and so we may only wyte (blame) ourselves if the gospel be removed, and not lay the wyte upon others. Lord, give thy blessing to the nobility, etc.; especially we remember these of them to thee who loves the cause of Christ. Alas, the love of the world deceives many; they think these who follows it to be despised; but thy children knows that they ought not to seek the world. These, O Lord, who have given up their names to thee, let the enemies see that thou art for them, and upon their side; and let it be known that thou art their God. Lord, bless all the assemblies of thy people this day, and bless us who has been here assembled before thee. Let us go away with some sense of thy love towards us; and if we find no more, yet let us find a further resolution to resist our corruptions, and all the tentations of sin, and to walk in thy ways till we come to the end of them, and then get that reward promised to us, and purchased by Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.- [ ] Completed?
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[AFTERNOON OF COMMUNION SABBATH.] [APRIL "15, 1638
PRrREFACE.
There is one thing above all others that the children of God do seek after: ""One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after," says that king and prophet, Ps. xxvii.* Mary also, Luke 10,+ she chooses that one thing necessar, while all others trouble themselves about many things; and the Apostle Paul says, "I determined to know nothing but Christ, and him crucified:" this was the principal thing he desired to know, and whilk the angels pry in to search,--- even Christ, and his cross. And upon the other part again, there is only one thing whilk the Lord requires of his children, and that is set down 1 Sam. 12,} " Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things the Lord hath done for you." This one thing, I grant, contains many things, yet all tends to this,---to have the fear of God. And Samuel there, like a priest and a prophet, urges this duty greatly upon them. First, he says, "Fear not: albeit ye have done all this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart; and turn ye not aside: for then ye should go after vain things, which cannot profit." That is, if ye fear the Lord, and serve him, ye need not to fear his wrath; yea, notwithstanding all the wickedness that ye have committed against him, ye need not to fear, if ye will
* Ver. 4. t Verag2: i Mer. 24,
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PRAYER.
O Lord, if through continuance and joining of spiritual exercises we could find faith wakened and still ascending upward, then that would be great contentment to us; but evermore while we live we find great proofs of ignorance, doubtings, and manifold infirmities into us; and so it must be only through Christ and his power that we must be saved from the power of unbelief. And therefore, O Lord, because we have been now speaking and hearing of faith, make ilk ane of us all to look in to our awin souls, and see what seed of faith is there; that so it may be watered from thee from above, and we may be careful then to get it keeped, and to count the heart to be a paradise so long as it is there. And we entreat thee, O Lord, because we will meet with oppositions, and it is not in our awin strength we can stand, acquaint us with the oppositions we may meet with in the way, and that we may know that there is great enormity into our hearts; and so may draw into Christ, to get strength against all oppositions: and let us know that for ilk horn that our enemy has to pursue us, he has a hammer to beat it down. And, Lord, we beseech thee to frame our hearts to the doing of thy will; and let us know more and more of it. We bless thee, Lord, for what thou has begun into us, and what thou of thy mercy has been pleased to do to us this day. Lord, we have silly hearts, fill us with the sense of thy kindness as we stand in need; our hearts has not been right with thee this day; yet we trust that thou will gather up the least motion or intention to do good, and that thou will make our intention to be acceptable to thee, through Christ. And for time to come, Lord, give us grace to rest upon Christ, and still to use the means that thou has appointed, till the walls fall to the ground; we know that not a jot of that whilk thou has promised sall fail, if we wait on, and therefore give us grace to wait on till the appointed time come. Lord, save us from thy curse, for it is heavy and sore; we indeed have deserved it, for we have put to our hand to the building of
- [ ] Completed?
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184 PRAYER.
Jericho and Rome, or, at least, we have countenanced these who has been preassing (striving) to build it, and laid the groundstone thereof, and were building up the walls very high, and presumed to get the roof upon it. Lord, be merciful to us for this, and let us never again return to that course. If it sall be said that one day we follow one religion, and another day another religion, then we sall be counted the affcast of all people both by God and man; but blessed are they who endures to the end, for they sall get the crown of glory. Alas, Lord, many departs from thee without any opposition, and therefore it were just with thee that thou should hide thyself from them, when they turn to thee; yet we are sure, if so be we will turn to thee with the whole heart, thou will accept of us: Lord, we beseech thee to do it, that so we may be filled with the sense of thy love towards us, and may be refreshed thereby. Lord, look graciously upon thy kirk in all the parts of the world where she is suffering distresses and troubles for righteousness' sake; Lord, relieve her and help her. And be merciful to this kirk and land: Lord, we entreat thee not to suffer Jericho to be builded up here again, after it has been anes casten down; but make Jerusalem and the walls thereof [to be builded up]; and let curses of all sorts be upon those who are preassing to build Jericho again. Bless all these who are in places of authority, for Christ's sake, especially our King's Majesty; fill him with wisdom and counsel from thee, and give him a love to thy truth in his heart, and with a resolution to obey it; that so there may be a blessing upon him and upon his people over whom thon has set him. Let not his authority and power be exercised against these who are just and religious, but against the wicked and profane. And, Lord, incline him to take such a course as may be most agreeable to thy will, and may serve most for establishing thy truth into this land. Bless his Queen, and make her a hater of idolatry, and a lover of the truth of religion. And bless their children, that in their awin time they may be profitable instruments for holding down errours, -and setting up the truth of religion; and for this end make them to be bred and brought
- [ ] Completed?
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PRAYER. 185
up in the ways of Christianity and holiness. It is because of the sins of the people that there are such ills into a land; and because they love not the truth, therefore it is just that thon stir up others to be evil affected to it: Lord, give us the love of thy truth, that so thou may continue it with us. Thou may justly raise up a new generation to remove the truth from us, because we do not entertain it as it becomes; and so we may only wyte (blame) ourselves if the gospel be removed, and not lay the wyte upon others. Lord, give thy blessing to the nobility, etc.; especially we remember these of them to thee who loves the cause of Christ. Alas, the love of the world deceives many; they think these who follows it to be despised; but thy children knows that they ought not to seek the world. These, O Lord, who have given up their names to thee, let the enemies see that thou art for them, and upon their side; and let it be known that thou art their God. Lord, bless all the assemblies of thy people this day, and bless us who has been here assembled before thee. Let us go away with some sense of thy love towards us; and if we find no more, yet let us find a further resolution to resist our corruptions, and all the tentations of sin, and to walk in thy ways till we come to the end of them, and then get that reward promised to us, and purchased by Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
- [ ] Completed?
[Link to this page on Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/sermonsprayerspu00hend/page/186/mode/1up)
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[AFTERNOON OF COMMUNION SABBATH.] [APRIL "15, 1638
PRrREFACE.
There is one thing above all others that the children of God do seek after: ""One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after," says that king and prophet, Ps. xxvii.* Mary also, Luke 10,+ she chooses that one thing necessar, while all others trouble themselves about many things; and the Apostle Paul says, "I determined to know nothing but Christ, and him crucified:" this was the principal thing he desired to know, and whilk the angels pry in to search,--- even Christ, and his cross. And upon the other part again, there is only one thing whilk the Lord requires of his children, and that is set down 1 Sam. 12,} " Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things the Lord hath done for you." This one thing, I grant, contains many things, yet all tends to this,---to have the fear of God. And Samuel there, like a priest and a prophet, urges this duty greatly upon them. First, he says, "Fear not: albeit ye have done all this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart; and turn ye not aside: for then ye should go after vain things, which cannot profit." That is, if ye fear the Lord, and serve him, ye need not to fear his wrath; yea, notwithstanding all the wickedness that ye have committed against him, ye need not to fear, if ye will
* Ver. 4. t Verag2: i Mer. 24,