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The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to…
The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ to be received by Him / prepared for the funerals of Mary the widow first of Francis Charlton Esq. and after of Thomas Hanmer, Esq., and partly preached at St. Mary Magdalens Church in Milk-Street, London, and now, at the desire of her daughter, reprinted by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by B. Griffin for B. Simmons, 1682
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.
Doct. 7.
Prayer in general, and this prayer in particular, that Christ will Receive our dep•rting souls, is a most suitable conclusion of all the action of Christians life.
PRayer in general, and this prayer in particular, that Christ will Receive our dep•rting souls, is a most suitable conclusion of all the action of Christians life.
Prayer is the breath of a Christians life: it is his work and highest converse, and therefore fittest to be the concluding action of his life; that it may reach the end at which he aimed: We have need of Prayer all our lives, because we have need of God, and need of his manifold and continued Grace: But in our last extremity we have ⟨p. 73⟩a special need: Though sloth is apt to seize upon us, while prosperity hindereth the sense of our necessities, and health persuadeth us that Time is not near its journeys end; yet it is high time to pray with doubled fervour and importunity, when we see that we are near our last: when we find that we have no more time to pray, but must now speak our last for our immortal Souls, and must at once say all that we have to say and shall never have a hearing more; O then to be unable to pray, or to be faithless, and heartless, and hopeless in our prayers, would be a calamity beyond expression.
Prayer is the breath of a Christians life: it is his work and highest converse, and therefore fittest to be the concluding action of his life; that it may reach the end at which he aimed: We have need of Prayer all our lives, because we have need of God, and need of his manifold and continued Grace: But in our last extreamity we have