A27107:593
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.
Evening Prayer for a Family.
O Eternal God, and most gracious Father, we thine unworthy Servants, here assembled, do cast down our selves at the footstool of thy grace, acknowledging that we have inherited our Fathers corruption, and actually in thought, word and deed, transgressed all thy holy Commandments, so that in us naturally there dwelleth nothing that is good: for our hearts are full of secret pride, anger, impatience, dissembling, lying, lust, vanity, profaneness, distru••, too much love of our selves and the World, too little love of thee and thy Kingdom; but empty and void of faith, love, patience, and every spiritual grace. If thou therefore shouldst but enter into judgment with us, and search out our natural corruption, and observe all the cursed fruits and effects that we have derived from thence, Satan might justly challenge us for his own, and we could no• expect any thing from thy Majesty, but thy wrath, and our condemnation, which we have long ago deserved.
O Eternal God, and most gracious Father, we thine unworthy Servants, here assembled, do cast down our selves at the footstool of thy grace, acknowledging that we have inherited our Fathers corruption, and actually in thought, word and deed, transgressed all thy holy Commandments, so that in us naturally there dwelleth nothing that is good: for our hearts are full of secret pride, anger, impatience, dissembling, lying, lust, vanity, prophan•ness, distru••, too much love of our selves and the World, too little love of thee and thy Kingdom; but empty and void of faith, love, patience, and every spiritual grace. If thou therefore shouldst but enter into judgment with us, and search out our natural corruption, and observe all the cursed fruits and effects that we have derived from thence, Satan might justly challenge us for his own, and we could no• expect any thing from thy Majesty, but thy wrath, and our condemnation, which we have long ago deserved.