tinually with strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou thy grace and wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Psal. xli. 3. Holy Spirit in the inner For which cause we faint not: but though our out man. 4. Give him unfeigned repentance for ward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 2 Cor. iv. 16. I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. Eph. iii. 14. 16. 4. Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts xx. 21. Him hath God all the errors exalted, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. Acts v. 31. Repentance to salvation stedfast f ith not to be repented of. 2 Cor. vii. 10. Repentance of his life past, and in thy Son Jesus; 5. that his sins may be thy mercy, and his par heaven, before he go unto life. Acts xi. 18. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. Psal. xxv. 7. 11. God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Acts iii. 26. We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end. Heb. iii. 14. Stedfast in the faith. 1 Pet. v. 9. 5. According to the multitude of thy mercies do done away by away mine offences. Psal. li. 1. Repent, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts don sealed in iii. 19. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Eph. hence, and be ii. 8. To him give all the prophets witness, that no more seen. through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Acts x. 43. Whatsoever yc shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Matt. xviii. 18. Sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. Eph. i. 13, 14. Having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. 2 Tim. ii. 19. I heard the number of them which were sealed. Rev. vii. 4. Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the 6. We know, there is no sible with thee; and wilt, thou canst even yet raise him up, and grant him a longer continuance amongst us: heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job xiv. 10, 11, 12. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Eccl. ix. 10. O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, and be no more seen. Psal. xxxix. 15. 6. Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven O Lord, that and the earth, by thy great power and stretched word impos- out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. Jer. xxxii. 17. Speak the word only, and my servant that, if thou shall be healed. Matt. viii. 8. With God nothing shall be impossible. Luke i. 37. Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. John xi. 32. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead. Heb. xi. 17. 19. The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. James v. 15. Tell Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 2 Kings xx. 5, 6. 7. Yet forasmuch as in all appear of his dissolu near, so tit and prepare seech thee, 7. The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I ance the time have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for tion draweth me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day. 2 Tim. him, we be- iv. 6, 7, 8. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house against the in order for thou shalt die, and not live. Isa. hour of death. xxxviii. 1. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, departure and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be in thy favour, like him; for we shall see him as he is. his soul may be received into thine everlasting kingdom, that after his hence in peace, and And every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 1 John iii. 2, 3. Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye merits and yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, mediation of when he will return from the wedding; that when Jesus Christ, he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him through the thine only immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom the ited when he cometh shall find watching: be ye therefice ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. Luke xii. 35, 36, 37. 4% They that were foolish took their lamps, and tank no tổ with them: but the wise took oil in their resse's with their lamps. Matt. xxv. 3, 4. Brethren, give gence to make your calling and election sure.i eye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantby man the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Samir Jesus Christ. 2 Pet. i. 10, 11. He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds. Isa. 2. Mark the perfect man, and behold the uprigin: for the end of that man is peace. Psal. xxxvii. $. Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even sr might grace reign through righteousness unto ette by Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. v. 20, 1. I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, We, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from benefieth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do few them. Rer. xiv. 13. Father, I will that they ist, vim thou hast given me, be with me where I am : that they may behold my glory. John xvii. 14. Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the wield Matt. xxv. 34. See also, Luke vii. 2— GT. 24-Rom. vii. 29. 30.-2 Tim. i. 10. CCXXII. A Commendatory Prayer for a sick 1. God spuke, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead. but the God of the liv Merk x 26, 27. Then shall the dust rethe earth as it was: and the spirit shall rezum unto God who gave it. Eccl. xii. 7. Ye are come to the general assembly and Church of the irscheen, which are written in heaven, and to God 2. We humbly commend the soul of this thy servant, our into thy a faithful Creator, and most merciful Saviour; the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Heb. xii. 22, 23. We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. We are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 Cor. v. 4. 6. 8. 2. And now, I commend you to God. Acts xx. 32. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. 2 Tim. iv. 22. I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I dear brother, have committed unto him against that day. 2 Tim. hands, as into i. 12. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59. the hands of Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. Psal. xxxi. 5. Let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. 1 Pet. iv. 19. The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 1 John iv. 14. In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Heb. ii. 17. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John xv. 13. See also, Eph. ii. 4, 5. 3. most humbly beseeching thee, that it may be pre cious in thy sight. 3. Hide not thy face from thy servant; hear me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it. Psal. lxix. 17, 18. Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Psal. xxxv. 3. All souls are mine. Ezek. xviii. 4. Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men. Redeem me, and be merciful unto me. Psal. xxvi. 9. 11. Let my life now be precious in thy sight. 2 Kings i. 14. My soul was precious in thine eyes this day. 1 Sam. xxvi. 21. 4. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and we pray thee, cleanse me from my sin. Wash me, and I shall be of that imma- whiter than snow. Psal. li. 2. 7. Ye are washed, that was slain ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the Name of the 4. Wash it, in the blood culate Lamb, the sins of the world: to take away Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. vi. 11. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John i. 29. Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. Rev. v. 9. These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Rev. vii. 14. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Rev. i. 5, 6. 5. That whatsoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miserable and naughty world, through the lusts of the flesh, or the wiles of Satan, being purged and done away, 6. it may 5. The whole world lieth in wickedness. 1 John v. 19. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job xiv. 4. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Eccl. vii. 20. Christ gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world. Gal. 1. 4. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Gal. v. 17. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Pet. v. 8. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us : for we are not ignorant of his devices. 2 Cor. ii. 11. The wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John ii. 1. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. Psal. li. 1. 6. Christ also loved the Church, and gave be presented himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse without spot it with the washing of water by the word, that he pure and before thee. |