ing up of my Hands, as the (6) Matt. XXVI. 41. WATCHand EVENING SACRIFICE. Set a (b) Watch, O Lord, before my Mouth, and keep the Door of my Lips. Incline not my Heart to any (c) EVIL Thing, to practise WICKED WORKS with Men that work Iniquity, and let me not eat of their Dainties. PRAY, that ye enter not into Tem- 1 Pet. v. 8. Be (c) 1 Pet. 1. 18. For ye know that ye were not redeemed with CORRUPTIBLE Things, as Silver and Gold, from your vain Converfation, received by Tradition from your Fathers. (d) Rev. 11. 23. And all the Churches shall know, that I am he which SEARCHETH the Reins and Hearts; and I will give unto every one of you according to your Works. Heb IV. 12. For the WORD of For thou, O Lord, haft searched (1) me, and known me. Thou (e) knowest my down-fitting and my up-rifing; thou understandeft my Thoughts afar off. Thou compaffeft my Path, and my God is QUICK and POWERFUL, and SHARPER than any two-edged lying down, and art acquaint- Sword, PIERCING even to the died with all my Ways. For viding asunder of SOUL and SPIthere is nota Word (f) in my RIT, and of the JOINTS and MARTongue, but lo, O Lord, Row, and is a Difcerner of the thou knowest it altogether. Heart. 1 Cor. 11. 10, 11. For the Thou hast beset me behind Spirit SEARCHETH all things, yea, and before, and laid thine Hand upon me. Such Knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot at tain unto it. Whither (g) shall I go from thy SPIRIT? or whither shall I fly from thy Prefence? If I ascend up into (b) HEAVEN, thou art there; the deep things of God. For what Man knoweth the things of a Man, save the Spirit of a Man which is in him? Even so, the things of God knoweth no Man, but the Spi rit of God. Chap. 111. 16. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. (e) Heb. IV. 13. Neither is there any Creature that is not manifeft in his Sight; but all things are naked, and opened unto the Eyes of him with whom we have to do. (f) Matt. x11. 36, 37. Every idle Word that Men shall speak, they hall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment; for by thy Words thou shalt be justified, and by thy Words thou shalt be condemned. (g) Jer. xx111. 23,24. Am I a God at hand, faith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any HIDE himself in secret Places that I shall not fee him? faith the Lord. Do not I fill Heaven and Earth? faith the Lord. (h) Job xx11. 12, 14. Is not God in the heighth of Heaven? and beho'd the heighth of the Stars, how high they are; and he walketh in the Circuit of Heaven. Ifai. xL. 17,22. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and Vanity: It is he that fitteth upon the Circle of the Earth, and the Inhabitants thereof are as Grashoppers. 1 & Pfalm CXXXIX. 1, to 21. and ver. 24. if if I make my Bed in (1) HELL, behold, there does thy Justice appear: If I take the Wings of the Morning, and dwell in the uttermoft Parts of the Sea; even there shall thy Hand lead me, and thy right Hand shall hold (k) Dan. 11. 22. He revealeth the deep and secret things, he knoweth what is in the DARKNESS, and the LIGHT dwelleth with him. James 1. 17. Every good Gift and every perfect Gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of LIGHTS, with whom is no Varia me: If I say, furely the (k) bleness, neither Shadow of changDARKNESS shall cover me, ing. 1 Tim. VI. 15,16. Who is the even the Night shall be light blessed and only Potentate, the King about me; for the Darkness hideth not from thee, but the Night shineth as the Day; the Darkness and the Light are both alike to thee. For thou haft poffefsed my Reins, and haft covered me in my Mother's Womb. of Kings, and Lord of Lords; who only Immortality, dwelling in the LIGHT which no Man can approach unto; whom no Man hath feen, nor can fee. (1) Acts XVII. 26,27,28. And hath made of one Blood all Nations of Men for to dwell on all the Face of the Earth; and hath determined the Times before appointed, and the Bounds of their Habitations; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after hina and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we LIVE, and MOVE, and have our BEING. Rom. 1. 18, 19, 20. For I will praise thee, for I (1) am fearfully and wonderfully MADE. Marvellous are thy WORKS, O Lord, which my Soul knoweth right well. My Substance was not HID from thee, when I was made in SECRET, and curiously wrought in the lowest Parts of the Earth. Thine Eyes did see my Substance, being. yet unperfect; and in thy Book all my Members were are made, even his eternal Power written; which in Continu- and Godhead; so that they are withance were fashioned, when out Excufe. as yet there was none of them. HOW PRECIOUS are thy THOUGHTS unto me, O God? How great is the Sum of them? If I should count them, they are more in number than the Sand; when I awake, I am thee. the Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven, against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men, who hold the Truth in Unrighteousness: Beis manifeft in them, for God hath shewed it unto them: For the invifible things of him, from the Creabeing understood by the things that of the World, are clearly seen; cause that which is known of God tion (m) Ifai. XXVI. With soul have I defired thee in the Night; yea, with my Spirit within me will I seek thee early : For when in the Earth, the Inhabitants of the World will learn RIGHTEOUSNESS. thy Judgments are (m) ftill with Surely : Surely thou wilt (n) SLAY the Wicked, O God; for they speak against thee wickedly, and thine Enemies take thy Name in vain : Therefore am I (0) GRIEVED with those that rise up against thee. SEARCH (p) me, O God, and know my Heart; try me, and know my Thoughts; and fee if there be any wicked Way within me; and lead me in the WAY EVERLAST ING. (n) Fude 14, 15. And Enoch pro phefied, saying, The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints to EXECUTE Judgment upon all, and to CONVINCE all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly which they have committed; and of all their hard Speeches, which ungodly Sinners have spoken against him. (0) 2 Pet. 11. 7,8. And delivered ju just Lot, vexed with the filthy CONVERSATION of the Wicked; for that righteous Man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, VEXED his righteous Soul from Day to Day with their UNLAWFUL Deeds. (p) 1 Cor. 11. 10,12. For the Spirit SEARCHETH all things, yea, the deep things of God. Now we have received not the Spirit of the World, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. John x1v. 26. But the COMFORTER, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your Remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Chap. xvI.7,8. For if I go not away, the COMFORTER will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will fend him unto you: And he will REPROVE the World of Sin, and of Righteousness, and of Judgment. Rom. VIII. 13, 14, 15. For if ye live after the Flesh, ye shall die; but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the Deeds of the Body, ye shall live: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God. For ye have not received the Spirit of Bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Luke x1. 13. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good Gifts unto your Children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the HOLY SPIRIT to them that ASK him? I present not these my humble Supplications to thy Divine Majesty for my Righteousness, but for thy great Mercies, and the infinite Merit of Chrift Jesus our Redeemer; who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God, World without end. Amen. A A Morning Prayer for EAR my Pray- FAITHFULNESS answer me, and in (a) thy RIGHTEOUSNESS. Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant, for in thy Sight shall no Man living be (b) Jus TIFIED. When my Spirit is overwhelmed (c) within me, and my Heart within me is desolate, I will remember the Days of old, I will meditate on all thy Works, I will muse on the Work of thine Hands: 1 stretch forth my Hands un the KINDNESS and Lot after that (a) Tit. 111. 4, 5. But our Saviour toward Man appeared; not by Works of RIGHTEOUSNESS which we have done, but by the Washing of Regeneration, according to his Mercy he saved and renewing of the Holy Ghost. (6) Rom. 111. 19, 20-26. Now the Law faith, it faith to them whe we know that what things soever are under the Law, that every Mouth may be stopped, and all the World may become GUILTY before God : Therefore by the Deeds of the Law, there shall no Flesh be JUSTIFIED in his Sight. For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin; but now the Righteousness of God without the Law is manifested, being witneffed by the Law and the Prophets, even the Righteousness of God, which is by Faith of Jesus Chrift, unto all and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference : For all have finned, and come short of the Glory of God, being justified. freely by his Grace, through the Redemption that is in Jesus Chrift; whom God hath set forth to be a PROPITIATION through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are paft, through the Forbearance of God; that he might be Juft, and the Juftifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 1 Tim. 11.5,6. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and Men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a RANSOM for all. Heb. VII1. 1,6. We have such an High Prieft, who is set on the right Hand of the Throne of the Majefty in the Heavens; the MEDIATOR of a better COVENANT, which was established upon better PROMISES. (c) Rom. v. 6,21. For when we were yet without Strength, in due time Chrift died for the Ungodly; that as Sin hath reigned unto Death, even so might Grace reign through Righteousness unto eternal Life, by Jesus Chrift our Lord. Gal. 11. 19, 20. For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God: I am crucified with Chrift, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the Life which I now live in the Flesh, I live by the Faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. • Pfalm CXLIII, 1,2,4,5,6,7. to my Soul to thee; eth after thee, as (d) thirst- (d) Matt. v. 6. Blessed are they a thirsty which do hunger and thirst after RIGHTEOUSNESS, for they shall Land. Hear me speedily, be filled. John VII. 37, 38, 39. Fe Lord; my Spirit faileth: sus stood and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come unto me Hide not thy Face from me, man drink: For he that believeth lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit. I will on me, as the Scripture hath faid, out of his Belly shall flow Rivers b cry unto thee, O of living Water. But this spake he my Voice unto thee, O Lord, of the Spirit, which they that be Lord, with my Voice; with lieve on him should receive. do I make my Supplication. my Trouble: When my within was overwhelmed me, then thou knew before thee; thee SPIRIT est my Path. thee, I CRY unto O Lord; thou art my REFUGE, and my PORTION in the Land of the Living. (e) Attend unto my CRY, (e) for WELL-DOING, for in due Seafon ye I am brought very Low: E fecutors, than for they are stronger (f) I. Bring my SOUL out the Lord IV. 18. The Spirit of is upon me, because he Gal. v1.9. Be not weary in shall reap, if ye faint not. DELIVER me from my Per Luke of (f) PRISON, that I may hath anointed me to preach the praise thy Name. hear thy loving Kindness in and recovering of Sight to the the Morning; for in thee do Blind; to are bruised. the WAY wherein I should Gospel to the Poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to Cause me, O Lord, to preach Deliverance to the Captives, 1 truft. Cause me to know walk, for I lift up my Soul unto thee. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine Enemies; I fly unto thee to HIDE me. for thou art my God. Thy Spirit ; to fet at Liberty them that (g) Matt. v. 8. Blessed are the Teach me to do thy Will, is good, (g) LEAD me pure in Heart, for they shall SEE into the Land of UPRIGHT- God. |