Certain devout prayers of Mr. Bolton upon solemn occasions. PublishedCertaine devout prayers of Mr. Bolton upon solemne occasions. Published

Let us cast our eye also upon thy pure eye, and infinite indignation against sin: by considering how in thy fierce wrath thou threwest down so many glorious Creatures from Heaven. How thou cast Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit out of ⟨p. 203⟩Paradise, drownedst the whole world, Cursedst Sodom and Gomorrah as it were with hellish flame upon earth into ashes, cast off thine own people who had been so dear unto thee: puts sometimes a guilty enraged conscience even into an hell above ground, and hast created and provided the never dying worm, and unquenchable fire, even all the torments in hell, for impenitent sinners.

Let us cast our eye also upon thy pure eye, and infinite indignation against sin: by considering how in thy fierce wrath thou threwest downe so many glorious Creatures from Heaven. How thou cast Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit out of ⟨p. 203⟩Paradise, drownedst the whole world, Cursedst Sodome and Gomorrah as it were with hellish flame upon earth into ashes, cast off thine owne people who had beene so deare unto thee: puts sometimes a guilty enraged conscience even into an hell above ground, and hast created and provided the never dying worme, and unquenchable fire, even all the torments in hell, for impenitent sinners.

O LORD let these considerations, of the foulness of our sins, ⟨p. 204⟩and the fearfulness of the curse due thereunto; but above all the beholding of JESUS CHRIST, dying and bleeding upon the cross; make every one of our hearts to break and burst and bleed within us for them all: That we may heartily, and abundantly mourn over him whom we have pierced with them. And then most merciful Father we humbly beseech thee be graciously pleased to open upon us the blessed fountain for sin and for uncleanness, ⟨p. 205⟩