A31961:656
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…
An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy, Mr. Watson, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Case, Mr. Sclater, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Jenkin, Dr. Manton, Mr. Lye, Mr. Collins : to which is added their prayers before and after sermon as also Mr. Calamy's sermon for which he was imprisoned in Newgate : his sermon at Mr. Ashe's funeral and Dr. Horton's and Mr. Nalton's funeral.
London : s.n., 1662
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Mr. Jenkins's Prayer after Sermon.
O Lord our God thou art never weary of doing us good, if we either consider the mercies thou givest to us, or the miseries that thou keepest from us, that yet we have another opportunity of drawing nigh to thee; we beseech thee, O Lord, let not our mis-interpreting of such opportunities as these are, cause thee to take them from us, or thy self from them; if thou dost Lord, we cannot but justify thee, and abase our selves, and lie low before thee because we have sinned against thee; O Lord we bless thee, that we are yet alive to bless thee, that yet we have not sinned our bodies into a cold grave, nor our souls into a scorching Hell: thou givest us our beings, if thou withdraw thy self, we cease to be, and shall return to our first nothingness, from whence we came: the living, the living they praise thee; as if we know our own hearts, we desire to do at this time. Praised be God for Jesus Christ, that he died and rose again, and is now a pleading at thy right hand for poor sinners. Praised be God that he is offered to us, for his sake, O God pardon all our sins: let our lusts die, that would not let the Lord of life live; let not any one of them live one quiet moment in these hearts of ours; let us give up our selves, and all that we are or can do to the purpose of thy praise: we beseech thee prepare us for a blessed eternity, that we may not be ashamed before thee, nor ashamed of thee nor thy ways, in the midst of a crooked, perverse, unclean, idolatrous generation: Dear Father, we most humbly pray thee prepare us for communion with thy self; assist us in the ensuing duties of this day, let all the work be done by thee, let all the praise redound unto thee: prepare us by hearing, for prayer, by both, for practice, by all, for glory; Lord set up thy truth, ruin Babylon, build up Zion, delight yet to dwell in the midst of us; and do us good, though we are a sinful, back-sliding, God-provoking Nation: Mayest thou not say of us as of old, what couldst thou have done more for us then thou hast done? yet how ill have we requited thee for all thy benefits.
O Lord our God thou art never weary of doing us good, if we either consider the mercies thou givest to us, or the miseries that thou keepest from us, that yet we have another opportunity of drawing nigh to thee; we beseech thee, O Lord, let not our mis-interpreting of such opportunities as these are, cause thee to take them from us, or thy self from them; if thou dost Lord, we cannot but justifie thee, and abase our selves, and lie low before thee because we have sinned against thee; O Lord we bless thee, that we are yet alive to bless thee, that yet we have not sinned our bodies into a cold grave, nor our souls into a scorching Hell: thou givest us our beings, if thou withdraw thy self, we cease to be, and shall return to our first nothingness, from whence we came: the living, the living they praise thee; as if we know our own hearts, we desire to do at this time. Praised be God for Iesus Christ, that he died and rose again, and is now a pleading at thy right hand for poor sinners. Praised be God that he is offered to us, for his sake, O God pardon all our sins: let our lusts die, that would not let the Lord of life live; let not any one of them live one quiet moment in these hearts of ours; let us give up our selves, and all that we are or can do to the purpose of thy praise: we beseech thee prepare us for a blessed eternity, that we may not be ashamed before thee, nor ashamed of thee nor thy wayes, in the midst of a crooked, perverse, unclean, idolatrous generation: Dear Father, we most humbly pray thee prepare us for communion with thy self; assist us in the ensuing duties of this day, let all the work be done by thee, let all the praise redound unto thee: prepare us by hearing, for prayer, by both, for practice, by all, for glory; Lord set up thy truth, ruine Babylon, build up Sion, delight yet to dwell in the midst of us; and do us good, though we are a sinful, back-sliding, God-provoking Nation: Mayest thou not say of us as of old, what couldst thou have done more for us then thou hast done? yet how ill have we requited thee for all thy benefits.