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a/src/0045.pm b/src/0045.pm index f98ce5f..206ab96 100644 --- a/src/0045.pm +++ b/src/0045.pm @@ -1,15 +1,13 @@ #lang pollenTruly we have great cause and just reason for us, wheretorewherefore we should return to thee continually, God almighty and merciful, for the manifestations of thy love and providence, and for the magnifying of thy mercies towards us, who are so unworthy a people. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who hashast revealed the curses of thy law to us, and hashast told us what the wages of breaking thy law is; that so we, apprehending it, may be humbled for it, and so eschew it. And blessed be thou, the Lord, who hashast revealed thy mercies to us in the gospel, that so we may repent and believe, and be saved through Christ. The greatness of thy mercy cannot be manifest to us, and yet it is necessary for us to see it: Lord, give us a light to see it, that thou, who isart so ready to for. giveforgive sin, may also redeem us from all iniquity. And, Lord, give us grace to consider what we have been, and what we now are. It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in sin, if so be that now we resolve to forsake it; and therefore make us in time @@ -19,39 +17,39 @@ because nature has been sensible in us, to make faith to be as sensible now: we regret that we have found so great testimony of nature in us, and yet so little testimony of regeneration. Lord, create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us; and let us know what it is, to be partakers of the divine nature; that so, albeit our natural part be ayealways looking downward, yet the spiritual part may be ayealways looking upward. Lord, it is thy Spirit in us that must do this; for if fire be put in earth itself, it ascends and smokes upward; even so if we get the fire of thy Spirit, we will ascend also. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who hashast not castencast our lot to live in these parts where religion has not shined, but has castencast it in such a part where the message of salvation is clearly revealed; and has trysted our time◊footnote{◊it{Trysted our time} Caused our time to meet with this time,}time} with this time. Lord, but this be an exceeding great favour,favor, if we could consider of it aright! andAnd if we could think upon it, it would make us to disgesttolerate all other hard things that we have. Lord, we beseech thee to continue this light among us; and not only to continue it among us, but also to spread it through all other parts in the world; and bring in both Jews and Gentiles, who are not yet brought in to thee. Thou, who brought in Rahab the harlot, has thyhast thine own chosen once elsewhere, and will call them when it pleases thee; we beseech thee to hasten their calling. We entreat thee, O Lord, that the ruins that hashave been made in thy house elsewhere, and within this land, may be made up again. And thesethose who stands intostand in the breach, albeit that of themselves they be but weak, yet stand thou beside them, and then they have strength enough: albeit we be weak of ourselves, yet we are sure, if we lippen totrust in thee, then we are strong enough.◊footnote{There is plainly here an allusion to himself, the modesty of which, as usual, is observable.} And because it is only thee, and thy honour,thine honor, that we are seeking, and not ourselves, nor our own honour;honor; but that thou, the Lord, may shine throughout the land in thy truth, and may rule in thy kirk; Lord, we beseech thee to be with us, and still make thy glory to continue among us.
For this end we recommend to thy gracious care and providence all thesethose whom thou hashast set in authority over us, especially our king, etc. Lord, it is very material for us that their hearts should be wrought upon by thee; and therefore we entreat thee, because we cannot win in to their hearts, and although we could win in, yet we can do no good, therefore, good Lord, teach every one of them, in the places that thou hashast put them in, to fear thy name, to cry to thee, the Lord God, and to stand for thy truth;that so that the Lord may be served in his own house, according to his own will. And grant, Lord, that they may cause open the book of the law, and read it, and see what it says; and so there may be a blessing both upon them and upon their posterity: that idolatry, @@ -59,42 +57,42 @@ superstition, and will-worship may be banished out of the land, and everything may be done in thy house, according to thy will. It is strange that men will have their will to be done in their house, and yet will not give thee, the Lord, thy will in thy house: ay, would any be content that any other should take charge to rule his house, but especially his enemy? andAnd indeed our witt (will?)will is enmity to thee. Lord, give every one of them grace to take to heart what is their duty, and to follow that; and bless every one of them, who give their heart and their hand for the defencedefense of the good cause. Lord, let them find comfort in the defencedefense of it; and let them find faith daily increasing into them; that so they may go on in the defencedefense thereof, by all lawful means.
Bless all the congregations in the land who are crying for a blessing from thee to it. If ever there was a time for us to cry mightily to heaven, and more than ordinarily, this is the time, when our life and our death, our wealwell-being and our woe, is set before us; and except thou put to thy hand and help the matter, it will turn to our woe and destruction. And how shall thou put to thy hand to help, if so be we will not cry to thee for help? andAnd if so be that we cry not uncessantlyincessantly in our prayers, albeit deliverance come, there is no promise that we shall have any comfort in it. And, therefore, in the poor weak measure of faith that we have, we come now, presenting ourselves before the throne of thy grace, beseeching thee to be merciful to us, and to continue the light of thy truth with us, that so the blessing of the Lord may be upon us here and hereafter. And, indeed, we may be confident, if so be we will go on into our prayers, thou willwilt do it; for if so be thou had had a purpose to destroy us, we would not have gotten leave to have done that which we have done; and these things which now we see to be abominations in thy worship, we would not have seen them to be so; and therefore, good Lord, what thou hashast begun among us, perfyteperfect it, to thy glory and our comfort, and the good of these who come after us. Bless this congregation, Lord; according to the several tentationstemptations that every one of us has to do with, pity us, we beseech thee. And thou who opensopenest a backdoor to all thythine own in their troubles, let us find a way of outgait (escape),escape, we beseech thee, in thythine own time; and pity these among us who are in any distress. We beseech thee, O Lord, because our life is daily wearing away, and it will be well with us if so be we serve and honourhonor thee, and find thee working for us, and find ourselves thankful to thee for it; then we shall have double cause to gratify thee, if thou dodost so to us. And therefore give us grace to observe what thou, the Lord, art doing for us; for if so be that we do not observe thee, the more good we receive, we will be the worse; but if so be that thou shallshalt work for us, and our thankfulness shall also kythe (shew itself),show itself, then our comfort shall be great. Lord, we beseech thee to give us eyes to see thy dealing for us, that so our thankfulness to thee, it may be begun here, and may hereafter be perfytedperfected in the heavens, in and through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0045.pm b/src/0045.pm index b4d12dc..f98ce5f 100644 --- a/src/0045.pm +++ b/src/0045.pm @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ grace, beseeching thee to be merciful to us, and to continue the light of thy truth with us, that so the blessing of the Lord may be upon us here and hereafter. And, indeed, we may be confident, if so be we will go on into our prayers, thou will do it; for if so be thou had had a purpose to destroy us, we would not have gotten leave to have done that whilkwhich we have done; and these things whilkwhich now we see to be abominations in thy worship, we would not have seen them to be so; and therefore, good Lord, what thou has begun among us, perfyte it, to thy glory and our comfort, and the good of these who come after us. Bless this congregation, Lord; according to the several tentations that
a/src/0045.pm b/src/0045.pm index 0c3f0b4..b4d12dc 100644 --- a/src/0045.pm +++ b/src/0045.pm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ thy law to us, and has told us what the wages of breaking thy law is; that so we, apprehending it, may be humbled for it, and so eschew it. And blessed be thou, the Lord, who has revealed thy mercies to us in the gospel, that so we may repent and believe, and be saved through Christ. The greatness of thy mercy cannot be manifest to us, and yet it is necessarnecessary for us to see it: Lord, give us a light to see it, that thou, who is so ready to for. give sin, may also redeem us from all iniquity. And, Lord, give us grace to consider what we have been, and what we now are. It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in
a/src/0045.pm b/src/0045.pm index d0313b1..0c3f0b4 100644 --- a/src/0045.pm +++ b/src/0045.pm @@ -15,35 +15,35 @@ been, and what we now are. It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in sin, if so be that now we resolve to forsake it; and therefore make us in time to interrupt the course of sin and iniquity by true and unfeigned repentance; that so our thoughts may be brought up to heaven. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because nature has been sensible in us, to make faith to be as sensible now: we regret that we have found so great testimony of nature in us, and yet so little testimony of regeneration. Lord, create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us; and let us know what it is, to be partakers of the divine nature; that so, albeit our natural part be aye looking downward, yet the spiritual part may be aye looking upward. Lord, it is thy Spirit in us that must do this; for if fire be put in earth itself, it ascends and smokes upward; even so if we get the fire of thy Spirit, we will ascend also. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has not casten our lot to live in these parts where religion has not shined, but has casten it in such a part where the message of salvation is clearly revealed; and has trysted our time◊footnote{◊it{Trysted our time} Caused our time to meet with this time,} with this time. Lord, but this be an exceeding great favour, if we could consider of it aright! and if we could think upon it, it would make us to disgest all other hard things that we have. Lord, we beseech thee to continue this light among us; and not only to continue it among us, but also to spread it through all other parts in the world; and bring in both Jews and Gentiles, who are not yet brought in to thee. Thou, who brought in Rahab the harlot, has thy own chosen once elsewhere, and will call them when it pleases thee; we beseech thee to hasten their calling. We entreat thee, O Lord, that the ruins that has been made in thy house elsewhere, and within this land, may be made up again. And these who stands into the breach, albeit that of themselves they be but weak, yet stand thou beside them, and then they have strength enough: albeit we be weak of ourselves, yet we are sure, if we lippen to thee, then we are strong enough.◊footnote{There is plainly here an allusion to himself, the modesty of which, as usual, is observable.} And because it is only thee, and thy honour, that we are seeking, and not ourselves, nor our own honour; but that thou, the Lord, may shine throughout the land in thy truth, and may rule in thy kirk; Lord, we beseech thee to be with us, and still make thy glory to continue among us.
For this end we recommend to thy gracious care and providence all these whom thou has set in authority over us, especially our king, etc. Lord, it is very @@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ working for us, and find ourselves thankful to thee for it; then we shall have double cause to gratify thee, if thou do so to us. And therefore give us grace to observe what thou, the Lord, art doing for us; for if so be that we do not observe thee, the more good we receive, we will be the worse; but if so be that thou shall work for us, and our thankfulness shall also kythe (shew itself), then our comfort shall be great. Lord, we beseech thee to give us eyes to see thy dealing for us, that so our thankfulness to thee, it may be begun here, and may hereafter be perfyted in the heavens, in and through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
a/src/0045.pm b/src/0045.pm index 10a5e27..d0313b1 100644 --- a/src/0045.pm +++ b/src/0045.pm @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ been, and what we now are. It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in sin, if so be that now we resolve to forsake it; and therefore make us in time to interrupt the course of sin and iniquity by true and unfeigned repentance; that so our thoughts may be brought up to heaven. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because nature has been sensible in us, to make faith to be ◊scottish{als#as|also}as sensible now: we regret that we have found so great testimony of nature in us, and yet so little testimony of regeneration. Lord, create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us; and let us know what it is, to be partakers of the divine @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ even so if we get the fire of thy Spirit, we will ascend also. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has not casten our lot to live in these parts where religion has not shined, but has casten it in such a part where the message of salvation is clearly revealed; and has trysted our time◊footnote{◊it{Trysted our time} Caused our time to meet with this time,} with this time. Lord, but this be ◊scottish{ane#an|one}an exceeding great favour, if we could consider of it aright! and if we could think upon it, it would make us to disgest all other hard things that we have. Lord, we beseech thee to continue this light among us; and not only to continue @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ may be done in thy house, according to thy will. It is strange that men will have their will to be done in their house, and yet will not give thee, the Lord, thy will in thy house: ay, would any be content that any other should take charge to rule his house, but especially his enemy? and indeed our witt (will?) is enmity to thee. Lord, give every ◊scottish{ane#an|one}one of them grace to take to heart what is their duty, and to follow that; and bless every ◊scottish{ane#an|one}one of them, who give their heart and their hand for the defence of the good cause. Lord, let them find comfort in the defence of it; and let them find faith daily increasing into them; that so they may go on in the defence thereof, by all lawful means.
a/src/0045.pm b/src/0045.pm index f91f5cb..10a5e27 100644 --- a/src/0045.pm +++ b/src/0045.pm @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ been, and what we now are. It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in sin, if so be that now we resolve to forsake it; and therefore make us in time to interrupt the course of sin and iniquity by true and unfeigned repentance; that so our thoughts may be brought up to heaven. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because nature has been sensible in us, to make faith to be als◊scottish{als#as|also} sensible now: we regret that we have found so great testimony of nature in us, and yet so little testimony of regeneration. Lord, create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us; and let us know what it is, to be partakers of the divine @@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ even so if we get the fire of thy Spirit, we will ascend also. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has not casten our lot to live in these parts where religion has not shined, but has casten it in such a part where the message of salvation is clearly revealed; and has trysted our time◊footnote{◊it{Trysted our time} Caused our time to meet with this time,} with this time. Lord, but this be ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} exceeding great favour, if we could consider of it aright! and if we could think upon it, it would make us to disgest all other hard things that we have. Lord, we beseech thee to continue this light among us; and not only to continue it among us, but also to spread it through all other parts in the world; and bring in both Jews and Gentiles, who are not yet brought in to thee. Thou, who brought in Rahab the harlot, has thy awinown chosen anesonce elsewhere, and will call them when it pleases thee; we beseech thee to hasten their calling. We entreat thee, O Lord, that the ruins that has been made in thy house elsewhere, and within this land, may be made up again. And these who stands into the breach, @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ then they have strength enough: albeit we be weak of ourselves, yet we are sure, if we lippen to thee, then we are strong enough.◊footnote{There is plainly here an allusion to himself, the modesty of which, as usual, is observable.} And because it is only thee, and thy honour, that we are seeking, and not ourselves, nor our awinown honour; but that thou, the Lord, may shine throughout the land in thy truth, and may rule in thy kirk; Lord, we beseech thee to be with us, and still make thy glory to continue among us.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ we entreat thee, because we cannot win in to their hearts, and although we could win in, yet we can do no good, therefore, good Lord, teach every one of them, in the places that thou has put them in, to fear thy name, to cry to thee, the Lord God, and to stand for thy truth; that so the Lord may be served in his awinown house, according to his awinown will. And grant, Lord, that they may cause open the book of the law, and read it, and see what it says; and so there may be a blessing both upon them and upon their posterity: that idolatry, superstition, and will-worship may be banished out of the land, and everything @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ may be done in thy house, according to thy will. It is strange that men will have their will to be done in their house, and yet will not give thee, the Lord, thy will in thy house: ay, would any be content that any other should take charge to rule his house, but especially his enemy? and indeed our witt (will?) is enmity to thee. Lord, give every ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} of them grace to take to heart what is their duty, and to follow that; and bless every ane◊scottish{ane#an|one} of them, who give their heart and their hand for the defence of the good cause. Lord, let them find comfort in the defence of it; and let them find faith daily increasing into them; that so they may go on in the defence thereof, by all lawful means. @@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ Bless all the congregations in the land who are crying for a blessing from thee to it. If ever there was a time for us to cry mightily to heaven, and more than ordinarily, this is the time, when our life and our death, our weal and our woe, is set before us; and except thou put to thy hand and help the matter, it will turn to our woe and destruction. And how sallshall thou put to thy hand to help, if so be we will not cry to thee for help? and if so be that we cry not uncessantly in our prayers, albeit deliverance come, there is no promise that we sallshall have any comfort in it. And, therefore, in the poor weak measure of faith that we have, we come now, presenting ourselves before the throne of thy grace, beseeching thee to be merciful to us, and to continue the light of thy truth with us, that so the blessing of the Lord may be upon us here and @@ -85,16 +85,16 @@ seen them to be so; and therefore, good Lord, what thou has begun among us, perfyte it, to thy glory and our comfort, and the good of these who come after us. Bless this congregation, Lord; according to the several tentations that every one of us has to do with, pity us, we beseech thee. And thou who opens a backdoor to all thy awinown in their troubles, let us find a way of outgait (escape), we beseech thee, in thy awinown time; and pity these among us who are in any distress. We beseech thee, O Lord, because our life is daily wearing away, and it will be well with us if so be we serve and honour thee, and find thee working for us, and find ourselves thankful to thee for it; then we sallshall have double cause to gratify thee, if thou do so to us. And therefore give us grace to observe what thou, the Lord, art doing for us; for if so be that we do not observe thee, the more good we receive, we will be the worse; but if so be that thou sallshall work for us, and our thankfulness sallshall also kythe (shew itself), then our comfort sallshall be great. Lord, we beseech thee to give us eyes to see thy dealing for us, that so our thankfulness to thee, it may be begun here, and may hereafter be perfyted in the heavens, in and through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ. To whom, etc.
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228 PRAYER.
their faith then was not entire, full, and perfyte: but still they desired to have more faith, and still they drew nearer to Christ, to know more of him. And when Christ said to "them, " Will ye also leave me?" they answer, ‘ Master, whither sall we go, if we go from thee? thou hast the words of eternal life." That is, we know that thou has all the words that belongs to life eternal, albeit that we ourselves have not many of them; therefore we will stay with thee, and get moe of them from thee. And therefore let none of us pride ourselves in our knowledge; for there be some who thinks, because they have mickle knowledge, therefore they have mickle faith; but thou may have mickle knowledge, and yet in the meantime have but little faith. If so be that with thy knowledge thou has not a sense of that whilk thou knows, because thou has no sense of thy unbelief, and because thou strives not to the obedience of that - whilk thou knows; if so be that thou have not sincerity and uprightness with thy knowledge, and thy obedience be not answerable, and so lives not a life answerable to the same, then thou has no faith. And therefore let us evermore be striving to know more, and think with ourselves, and acknowledge it, that we know but in part; and then let us join obedience to our knowledge; and if we do so, then the Lord will count our faith to be great, and we will find the quickness and acrimony of it in ourselves, in making us to eschew ill, and striving to do good. And thus sall we find it to be acceptable to God, comfortable to ourselves, and it sall bring forth fruit in our life and conversation; whilk we crave may be done, in and through the merits, etc.
PRAYER.
Truly we have great cause and just reason for us, wheretore we should return to thee continually, God almighty and merciful, for the manifestations of thy love and providence, and for the magnifying of thy mercies towards us, who are- [ ] Completed?
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PRAYER. 229 so unworthy a people. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has revealed the curses of thy law to us, and has told us what the wages of breaking thy law is; that so we, apprehending it, may be humbled for it, and so eschew it. ~AndAnd blessed be thou, the Lord, who has revealed thy mercies to us in the gospel, that so we may repent and believe, and be saved through Christ. The greatness of thy mercy cannot be manifest to us, and yet it is necessar for us to see it: Lord, give us a 81ghtlight to see it, that thou, who is so ready to for. give sin, may also redeem us from all iniquity. And, Lord, give us grace to consider what we have been, and what we now are.. It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in sin, if so be that now we resolve to forsake it; and therefore make us in time to interrupt the course of sin and iniquity by true and unfeigned repentance; that so our thoughts may be brought up to heaven. And we beseech thee, O Lord, @@ -71,37 +25,25 @@ must do this; for if fire be put in earth itself, it ascends and smokes upward; even so if we get the fire of thy Spirit, we will ascend also. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has not casten our lot to live in these parts where religion has not shined, but has casten it in such a part where the message of salvation is clearly revealed; and has trysted our time*time◊footnote{◊it{Trysted our time} Caused our time to meet with this time,} with this time. Lord, but this be ane exceeding great favour, if we could consider of it aright! and if we could think upon it, it would make us to disgest all other hard things that we have. Lord, we beseech thee to continue this light among us; and not only to continue it among us, but also to spread it through all other parts in the world; and bring in both Jews and Gentiles, who are not yet brought in to thee.* Trysted our time, Sc. Caused our time to meet with this time,
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230 PRAYER. Thou, who brought in Rahab the harlot, has thy awin chosen anes elsewhere, and will call them when it pleases thee; we beseech thee to hasten their calling. We entreat thee, O Lord, that the ruins that has been made in thy house elsewhere, and within this land, may be made up again. And these who stands into the breach, albeit that of themselves they be but weak, yet stand thou beside them, and then they have strength enough: albeit we be weak of ourselves, yet we are sure, if we lippen to thee, then we are strong enough.*enough.◊footnote{There is plainly here an allusion to himself, the modesty of which, as usual, is observable.} And because it is only thee, and thy honour, that we are seeking, and not ourselves, nor our awin honour; but that thou, the Lord, may shine throughout the land in thy truth, and may rule in thy kirk; Lord, we beseech thee to be with us, and still make thy glory to continue among us.
For this end we recommend to thy gracious care and providence all these whom thou has set in authority over us, especially our king, etc. Lord, it is very @@ -119,26 +61,10 @@ have their will to be done in their house, and yet will not give thee, the Lord, thy will in thy house: ay, would any be content that any other should take charge to rule his house, but especially his enemy? and indeed our witt (will?) is enmity to thee. Lord, give every ane of them grace to take to heart what is their duty, and to follow that;* There is plainly here an allusion to himself, the modesty of which, as usual, is observable.
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PRAYER. 231 and bless every ane of them, who give their heart and their hand for the defence of the good cause. Lord, let them find comfort in the defence of it; and let them find faith daily increasing into them; that so they may go on in the defence thereof, by all lawful means.
Bless all the congregations in the land who are crying for a blessing from thee to it. If ever there was a time for us to cry mightily to heaven, and more than @@ -165,56 +91,10 @@ any distress. We beseech thee, O Lord, because our life is daily wearing away, and it will be well with us if so be we serve and honour thee, and find thee working for us, and find ourselves thankful to thee for it; then we sall have double cause to gratify thee, if thou do so to us. And therefore give us grace to observe what thou, the Lord, art doing for us; for if so be- [ ] Completed?
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2132 PRAYER. that we do not observe thee, the more good we receive, we will be the worse; but if so be that thou sall work for us, and our thankfulness sall also kythe (shew itself), then our comfort sall be great. Lord, we beseech thee to give us eyes to see thy dealing for us, that so our thankfulness to thee, it may be begun here, and may hereafter be perfyted in the heavens, in and through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ. 'ToTo whom, etc.- [ ] Completed?
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[ON THE SABBATH AFTER THE COMMUNION,] [APRIL 22, 1638.]
[AFTERNOON.] PREFACE.
It should be our wisdom not to seek after that whilk commends us in the world, and whilk commends ane of us before another; but we should seek after that whilk commends us all to God. We may have many things that may appear worthy of commendation before the eyes of men, and yet, for all that, we, and all that we have, may be odious before God. And therefore, since we see that faith is so much commended before God, and I may say, faithless is graceless also, and that is sure, if we get not grace here, we sall never get glory hereafter, we would therefore labour, by all means, to have this divine plant of faith into our souls. We have indeed many weeds into them, and our hearts are fertile for these weeds; but except the Lord, by his awin finger, plant in us this plant, it will not grow. Faith is evermore the thing whilk in all ages and generations commended the children of God; and if so be that we will join ourselves to the people of God, it must be in faith. And, therefore, since that this is the work of God only, let us at this time humble ourselves before the Lord, and crave pardon of him for our great unbelief, whilk has rung (reigned) into us, and beseech him that he would plant in this divine plant of faith into our souls, to his honour, and our eternal comfort, in Jesus Christ.
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their faith then was not entire, full, and perfyte: but still they desired to have more faith, and still they drew nearer to Christ, to know more of him. And when Christ said to "them, " Will ye also leave me?" they answer, ‘ Master, whither sall we go, if we go from thee? thou hast the words of eternal life." That is, we know that thou has all the words that belongs to life eternal, albeit that we ourselves have not many of them; therefore we will stay with thee, and get moe of them from thee. And therefore let none of us pride ourselves in our knowledge; for there be some who thinks, because they have mickle knowledge, therefore they have mickle faith; but thou may have mickle knowledge, and yet in the meantime have but little faith. If so be that with thy knowledge thou has not a sense of that whilk thou knows, because thou has no sense of thy unbelief, and because thou strives not to the obedience of that - whilk thou knows; if so be that thou have not sincerity and uprightness with thy knowledge, and thy obedience be not answerable, and so lives not a life answerable to the same, then thou has no faith. And therefore let us evermore be striving to know more, and think with ourselves, and acknowledge it, that we know but in part; and then let us join obedience to our knowledge; and if we do so, then the Lord will count our faith to be great, and we will find the quickness and acrimony of it in ourselves, in making us to eschew ill, and striving to do good. And thus sall we find it to be acceptable to God, comfortable to ourselves, and it sall bring forth fruit in our life and conversation; whilk we crave may be done, in and through the merits, etc.
PRAYER.
Truly we have great cause and just reason for us, wheretore we should return to thee continually, God almighty and merciful, for the manifestations of thy love and providence, and for the magnifying of thy mercies towards us, who are
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so unworthy a people. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has revealed the curses of thy law to us, and has told us what the wages of breaking thy law is; that so we, apprehending it, may be humbled for it, and so eschew it. ~And blessed be thou, the Lord, who has revealed thy mercies to us in the gospel, that so we may repent and believe, and be saved through Christ. The greatness of thy mercy cannot be manifest to us, and yet it is necessar for us to see it: Lord, give us a 81ght to see it, that thou, who is so ready to for. give sin, may also redeem us from all iniquity. And, Lord, give us grace to consider what we have been, and what we now are. . It is nothing for us, albeit we have been born in sin, if so be that now we resolve to forsake it; and therefore make us in time to interrupt the course of sin and iniquity by true and unfeigned repentance; that so our thoughts may be brought up to heaven. And we beseech thee, O Lord, because nature has been sensible in us, to make faith to be als sensible now: we regret that we have found so great testimony of nature in us, and yet so little testimony of regeneration. Lord, create clean hearts, and renew right spirits within us; and let us know what it is, to be partakers of the divine nature; that so, albeit our natural part be aye looking downward, yet the spiritual part may be aye looking upward. Lord, it is thy Spirit in us that must do this; for if fire be put in earth itself, it ascends and smokes upward; even so if we get the fire of thy Spirit, we will ascend also. Blessed be thou, the Lord, who has not casten our lot to live in these parts where religion has not shined, but has casten it in such a part where the message of salvation is clearly revealed; and has trysted our time* with this time. Lord, but this be ane exceeding great favour, if we could consider of it aright! and if we could think upon it, it would make us to disgest all other hard things that we have. Lord, we beseech thee to continue this light among us; and not only to continue it among us, but also to spread it through all other parts in the world; and bring in both Jews and Gentiles, who are not yet brought in to thee.
* Trysted our time, Sc. Caused our time to meet with this time,
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Thou, who brought in Rahab the harlot, has thy awin chosen anes elsewhere, and will call them when it pleases thee; we beseech thee to hasten their calling. We entreat thee, O Lord, that the ruins that has been made in thy house elsewhere, and within this land, may be made up again. And these who stands into the breach, albeit that of themselves they be but weak, yet stand thou beside them, and then they have strength enough: albeit we be weak of ourselves, yet we are sure, if we lippen to thee, then we are strong enough.* And because it is only thee, and thy honour, that we are seeking, and not ourselves, nor our awin honour; but that thou, the Lord, may shine throughout the land in thy truth, and may rule in thy kirk; Lord, we beseech thee to be with us, and still make thy glory to continue among us.
For this end we recommend to thy gracious care and providence all these whom thou has set in authority over us, especially our king, etc. Lord, it is very material for us that their hearts should be wrought upon by thee; and therefore we entreat thee, because we cannot win in to their hearts, and although we could win in, yet we can do no good, therefore, good Lord, teach every one of them, in the places that thou has put them in, to fear thy name, to cry to thee, the Lord God, and to stand for thy truth; that so the Lord may be served in his awin house, according to his awin will. And grant, Lord, that they may cause open the book of the law, and read it, and see what it says; and so there may be a blessing both upon them and upon their posterity: that idolatry, superstition, and will-worship may be banished out of the land, and everything may be done in thy house, according to thy will. It is strange that men will have their will to be done in their house, and yet will not give thee, the Lord, thy will in thy house: ay, would any be content that any other should take charge to rule his house, but especially his enemy? and indeed our witt (will?) is enmity to thee. Lord, give every ane of them grace to take to heart what is their duty, and to follow that;
* There is plainly here an allusion to himself, the modesty of which, as usual, is observable.
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and bless every ane of them, who give their heart and their hand for the defence of the good cause. Lord, let them find comfort in the defence of it; and let them find faith daily increasing into them; that so they may go on in the defence thereof, by all lawful means.
Bless all the congregations in the land who are crying for a blessing from thee to it. If ever there was a time for us to cry mightily to heaven, and more than ordinarily, this is the time, when our life and our death, our weal and our woe, is set before us; and except thou put to thy hand and help the matter, it will turn to our woe and destruction. And how sall thou put to thy hand to help, if so be we will not cry to thee for help? and if so be that we cry not uncessantly in our prayers, albeit deliverance come, there is no promise that we sall have any comfort in it. And, therefore, in the poor weak measure of faith that we have, we come now, presenting ourselves before the throne of thy grace, beseeching thee to be merciful to us, and to continue the light of thy truth with us, that so the blessing of the Lord may be upon us here and hereafter. And, indeed, we may be confident, if so be we will go on into our prayers, thou will do it; for if so be thou had had a purpose to destroy us, we would not have gotten leave to have done that whilk we have done; and these things whilk now we see to be abominations in thy worship, we would not have seen them to be so; and therefore, good Lord, what thou has begun among us, perfyte it, to thy glory and our comfort, and the good of these who come after us. Bless this congregation, Lord; according to the several tentations that every one of us has to do with, pity us, we beseech thee. And thou who opens a backdoor to all thy awin in their troubles, let us find a way of outgait (escape), we beseech thee, in thy awin time; and pity these among us who are in any distress. We beseech thee, O Lord, because our life is daily wearing away, and it will be well with us if so be we serve and honour thee, and find thee working for us, and find ourselves thankful to thee for it; then we sall have double cause to gratify thee, if thou do so to us. And therefore give us grace to observe what thou, the Lord, art doing for us; for if so be
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that we do not observe thee, the more good we receive, we will be the worse; but if so be that thou sall work for us, and our thankfulness sall also kythe (shew itself), then our comfort sall be great. Lord, we beseech thee to give us eyes to see thy dealing for us, that so our thankfulness to thee, it may be begun here, and may hereafter be perfyted in the heavens, in and through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ. 'To whom, etc.
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[ON THE SABBATH AFTER THE COMMUNION,] [APRIL 22, 1638.]
[AFTERNOON.] PREFACE.
It should be our wisdom not to seek after that whilk commends us in the world, and whilk commends ane of us before another; but we should seek after that whilk commends us all to God. We may have many things that may appear worthy of commendation before the eyes of men, and yet, for all that, we, and all that we have, may be odious before God. And therefore, since we see that faith is so much commended before God, and I may say, faithless is graceless also, and that is sure, if we get not grace here, we sall never get glory hereafter, we would therefore labour, by all means, to have this divine plant of faith into our souls. We have indeed many weeds into them, and our hearts are fertile for these weeds; but except the Lord, by his awin finger, plant in us this plant, it will not grow. Faith is evermore the thing whilk in all ages and generations commended the children of God; and if so be that we will join ourselves to the people of God, it must be in faith. And, therefore, since that this is the work of God only, let us at this time humble ourselves before the Lord, and crave pardon of him for our great unbelief, whilk has rung (reigned) into us, and beseech him that he would plant in this divine plant of faith into our souls, to his honour, and our eternal comfort, in Jesus Christ.