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

11. We have wretchedly abused our own bodies, and souls, by abandoning them to the service of Satan, and making all our members instruments of unrighteousness to sin. Fearfully ⟨p. 225⟩were they infected with Original sin at first, but we have made them much more sinful by our actual transgressions ever since; we have added a great deal of folly in respect of the mystery of CHRIST: every way LORD thou knowest we are become exceeding sinful.

11. We have wretchedly abused our owne bodies, and soules, by abandoning them to the service of Satan, and making all our members instruments of unrighteousnesse to sin. Fearefully ⟨p. 225⟩were they infected with Originall sin at first, but we have made them much more sinfull by our actuall transgressions ever since; we have added a great deale of folly in respect of the mystery of CHRIST: every way LORD thou knowest we are become exceeding sinfull.

We humbly entreat thee in the name of the LORD JESUS to enlighten our minds, and open our eyes, to see the length, and breadth, the height, and depth, of this our sinful misery, for ⟨p. 226⟩which thou mightest justly bring upon us all the curses in thy book, and all the torments in hell, and in the mean time plague us with giving us over to more hardness of heart, blindness of mind, deadness of conscience, slavery under our lusts, a reprobate sense, and to be finally sealed up with the spirit of slumber against the day of vengeance, which are far worse then all the plagues of Egypt.

We humbly intreate thee in the name of the LORD JESVS to illighten our mindes, and open our eyes, to see the length, and breadth, the height, and depth, of this our sinfull misery, for ⟨p. 226⟩