A27107:1108
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Spiritual Sigh on the Fifth Thought.
O Lord, thou seest the malice of Satan, who (not contenting himself,1 like a roaring Lion all the days and nights of our life, to seek our destruction) shows himself busiest, when thy Children are weakest, and nearest to their end: O Lord reprove him, and preserve my Soul. He seeks to terrify me with death, which my sins have deserved: but let thy Holy Spirit com•ort my Soul with the assurance of eternal life, which thy Blood hath purchased. Assuage my pain, increase my patience, and (if it be thy blessed will) end my troubles: for my Soul beseecheth thee with old blessed Simeon, 2Lord, now let me thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.
O Lord, thou seest the malice of Satan, who (not contenting himself,1 like a roaring Lion all the days and nights of our life, to seek our destruction) shews himself busiest, when thy Children are weakest, and nearest to their end: O Lord reprove him, and preserve my Soul. He seeks to terrifie me with death, which my sins have deserved: but let thy Holy Spirit com•ort my Soul with the assurance of eternal life, which thy Blood hath purchased. Asswage my pain, increase my patience, and (if it be thy blessed will) end my troubles: for my Soul beseecheth thee with old blessed Simeon, 2Lord, now let me thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.