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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 Lye's Prayer July 20. 1662. at Allhallows Lombard-street.
Mr Lye's Prayer Iuly 20. 1662. at Allhallows Lombard-street.
O Lord, our great God, thou canst do all things, for thou dost dispose and govern all the ways, and works, and words of thy Creatures to thine own praise; We thy poor Creatures, the workmanship of thy hands, the price and purchase of thy Sons blood, do desire this morning to fall down and humble our selves at the throne of thy grace; we desire to lift up an eye of faith to thee, that thou mayst dart an eye of love to us: since thou hast commanded us to come unto thee, O bless us now we come. Let it not be in vain for any of us, from the highest to the lowest, from the richest to the poorest, that we have sought t•y face this morning. Blessed Father, pour down a spirit of Prayer, a spirit of Preaching, a spirit of rejoicing, a spirit of practising in the midst of us, let us not only be enabled to know what to do, but to do what we know. Thou that didst cure the eyes of the blind with clay and spittle, oh heal that natural dimness that is in the best of us: thy rod in the hand of Moses brought water out of the rock; oh do thou strike upon these rocky hearts, that our adamantine hearts being softened, may gush out into rivers of tears. O drown our sins in the red Sea of our Saviours blood; help us to sinite upon our thigh, and to ask our selves what we have been, and what we have done, and humble us under the omission ⟨p. 327⟩of any commanded duty, and the commission of any forbidden sin, sins of thoughts, words, and deed, sins against the law, against the Gospel, of youth, manhood, and old age: sins before, under, and since conversion: sins against prayers, vows, promises, covenants and oaths. O Lord, if thou didst prefer thy bill against us, we could not stand; if we were weighed in the balance of the sanctuary we should be sound too light. But holy Father, remember not against us our former sin, •t rather have mercy upon us according to thy loving kindness; cross and blot out our iniquities, blot them out so fully and wholly, that it may be to us as to Judah in the promise, that the sins of Judah should be sought for and not found.