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The fourth part of the true watch containing prayers and teares for the churches

by John Brinsley · fl. 1581–1624

Published: 1624
Length: 76,968 words
Reading: ~5 hours
Divisions: 89

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The fourth part of the true watch containing prayers and teares for the churches. Or A helpe to hold up the hearts and hands of the poorest servants of God, untill our Lord Iesus Christ shall have rescued his glorie, kingdome, and people in all the world, and fully prepared the way to his most glorious appearing.

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The true watch

1606

London Printed [by I. Jaggard?] for Thomas Pavier 1624.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

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DedicationTO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND VERTVOVS Ladies, the Ladie ZOVCH, wife to the Right Honourable the Lord ZOVCH,…
To catholic readerTO ALL THE PLAINE AND simple-hearted people of our Land, seduced by Poperie; that they may forthwith…
To protestant readerTO EVERIE TRVE CHRISTIAN Soule, rightly taking to heart the estate of Christs poore Churches and dispersed…
Table of contentsThe Contents in generall.
Note
RulesRules to be observed in the use of all the Meditations and Prayers.
RulesRules to helpe to keepe us from ever declining from the Lord, and from all delusions, cheefely by Popery.
Biblical texts¶ Places of Scripture to be ever in our hearts, to quicken us and stirre up in us the power of prayer.

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PartA PREPARATIVE to instant Prayer, according to the necessity of the Times, by thinking day and night of…
Meditation 1The first general Meditation; How our Saviour lookes for some to helpe him, in the delivery & saving of his…
Meditation 2The second generall Meditation, concerning the present necessity of this worke, and the liuely feeling…
9 sections
Meditation 3The third generall Meditation.
8 sections
Meditation 4The fourth generall Meditation.
5 sections
Meditation 5The fift generall Meditation.
9 sections
Meditation 6The Sixt generall Meditation.
2 sections

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Author: John Brinsley (fl. 1581–1624)
Imprint: London Printed [by I. Jaggard?] for Thomas Pavier 1624.
Extent: [108], 273, 278-420, [38] p.
Language: English
Catalogue: STC 3788 · ESTC S119302
Source: TCP A16892
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

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Meditation 7The seuenth generall Meditation.

PrayersPrayers according to our Sauiours direction, chiefly for maintaining and advancing of his glory and…

Prayer 1I. A prayer for our preparation, that wee may bee made meete to bee admitted, and may bee accepted as…

Prayer 2II. A prayer for increase of our love to all the Children of the Lord, and for keeping a continuall fresh…

Prayer 3III. A prayer that wee may be able to seeke and finde this first, that God is our gracious and tender…

Prayer 4IIII. A prayer that wee may not deceive our selves in vayne conceite, that we are Gods Children, when wee…

Prayer 5V. A prayer that wee may finde in our selves, not onely the generall, but even all the particular markes of…

Prayer 6VI. A prayer for knowledge and right use of the meanes, whereby wee may bee made Gods Children, and grow up…

Prayer 7VII. A Prayer, that all may understand how deere Gods Children are unto him, that they may be so to us…

Prayer 8VIII. A Prayer that we may all bee able to lift uppe our eyes and hearts unto our heavenly Father alone,…

Prayer 9IX. A Thanksgiving to God, according to the first petition of the Lords prayer, for causing his glorie to…

Prayer 10X. A prayer, that wee and all the Churches in token of our thankfullnesse to our blessed God, for our…

Prayer 11XI A Prayer that Gods glorie may breake forth more and more, then ever heeretofore, in causing us and all…

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Prayer 12XII. A humble confession of the sinnes of the Churches, and an acknowledgment of Gods righteous proceeding…

Prayer 13XIII. A humble confession of the heynous sinne of our lande, and namely in all the Popish sort, who have so…

Prayer 14XIIII. An earnest prayer that the Lord would open the eyes of our brethren and sisters, seduced by the…

Prayer 15XV. A humble thanksgiving for our dread Soveraigne, our gracious Prince, the Prince and Princesse Palatine,…

Prayer 16XVI. A humble thanksgiving, that the Lord hath already, begunne so graciously to heare our praiers: with…

List of devotional aidsProtestants helpes for Deuotion, and matters belonging to the stirring up of the same.

Index to further reading¶ See more concerning all these following in M. Maunsels Catalogue dedicated to Queen Elizaebeth, imprinted…

Table of contents¶ A Table of the particular Meditations of each of the seuen generals.

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