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

LORD prepare our dull and unprepared souls to pour out our petitions with humility, zeal and reverence unto thy great Majesty. LORD make our hearts as mountains of myrrh and Incense to send up praises and thanks-giving to the Sanctuary where thy honour dwelleth.

LORD prepare our dull and unprepared soules to powre out our petitions with humility, zeale and reverence unto thy great Majesty. LORD make our hearts as mountaines of myrrhe and Incense to send up prayses and thankes-giving to the Sanctuary where thy honour dwelleth.

Most mighty and most glorious God, thou that inhabitest eternity, and dwellest in the light that no man can attain unto; at whose terrible presence the mountains melt away and the Angels hide their faces, yet our most gracious and merciful Father in CHRIST JESUS, vouchsafing from the height of Heaven to look upon us vile worms and dust with the eye of tender compassion, we thy wretched and sinful ⟨p. 90⟩servants, heirs of corruption, children of wrath, sons of disobedience; do in the name and mediation of thy dear Son our blessed Saviour prostrate our selves before thy throne of grace and mercy-seat, begging and craving at thy hands pardon and remission for all our sins. LORD they are most grievous and manifold, most horrible and intolerable. To the original corruption of our sinful nature, wherein we were conceived, we have added all kinds ⟨p. 91⟩of actual transgressions. All the time before our calling we gave our selves to wantonness, to work all uncleanness even with greediness, we drunk up sins like water, and fed upon iniquity as the horse-leach on corrupt bloods, we drew iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes. All our thoughts, words and deeds were menstruous, filthy and abominable, nothing but a slavish service of the world, the flesh and the devil; since our calling when ⟨p. 92⟩we should have been most pure, sincere and sanctified, we have sinned grievously, although not notorious to the world, yet horribly before thine eyes in privy pride, hypocrisy, dullness, security, want of zeal and forwardness in thy service; nay LORD we have had many fearful backslidings into our grossest sins, &c. so that now they are become as many in number as the Stars in Heaven, as great as the mountains, as red as scarlet; for