The most Reverend Father Father iâ— God Dr. William Laud latâ— Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Metropolitan of aâ—â— England Officium Quotidianum OR A MANUAL OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS BY The Most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bâ—s rom 1. 594. The Second Edition LONDON Printed for Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery lane 1663. Et Conversus vivificasti Me Psal. 71. 20. O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul Psal. 66. 14. Pater noster LAEsus est sed tamen Pater qui es in coelis Eminenter noninclusivè Sanctificetur In Me per Me super Me Nomen tuum Patris in Nobis ut simus filii Patris nostri Adveniat regnum tuum Ut destruatur Regnum Peccati per quod regnant Mors Diabolus Fiat voluntas tua sicut c. In me qui sum terra sicut in Sanctis Angelis Panem Et super Coelestem Corporeum nostrum Proprium licitè acquisitum quotidianum c. Pro quotidiana necessitate Et remitte nobis Debita sicut c. Talenta dimitte nobis minuta remittentibus Et ne nos inducas in tentationem Nec facias intrare ductos promosque Sed Libera Nos Ab Authorà Malo Extra Nos Diabolo Mundo Intra à Malo Nos Nobis ipsis a Malo Culpa per gratiam poenae per misericordiam Quia tuum est Omniper Pacem Regnum Absolutum in Se. Potentia Independens ab aliis Gloria Circumfulgens Omnia in Omnibus Tuum Amen Et à Te per Te ad Te in Gloria Salute servorum tuorum Amen Oratio Dominica OUr Father which art in Heaven 1 Hallowed by thy Name 2 Thy Kingdom come 3 Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven 4 Give us this day our daily Bread 5 And forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us 6. And lead us not into Temptation 7 But deliver us from Evil. For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever Amen Symbolum Apostolicum divisum in Articulos 1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth 2. And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried 5. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the Dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father 7. From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead 8. I Believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholike Church The Communion of Saints 10. The forgiveness of sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the life Everlasting Amen OFFICIUM QUOTIDIANUM In Nomine Patris F. Sp. Sti. Amen O Lord I am risen up and fallen prostrate before thee prevent mee I beseech thee in all my doings with thy most gracious favour and further me with thy continual help that in all my works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life Through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God and most merciful father Al-merciful Mercy it self I have erred willingly and strayed willingly nay even from thy wayes more like an untamed heifer then a lost and wandring sheep I have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart I have offended against nay been offended at thy holy most holy lawes I have left undone not done at all those things which I ought to have done And I have done done nothing else but those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health no hope of health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable most miserable sinner the greatest sinner and most unthankful for so great grace Spare me and them all O God which confesse their faults Restore me and them all O God that be penitent that desire to be penitent that wish they were would be glad if they were so that fear they are not enough and are sorry they are no more for this is according to thy promises most gracious most sweet promises declared unto Mankinde in Christ Jesus our Lord. Grant therefore O most mercifull Father for his sake who is our Redeemer Advocate Authour and Finnisher of our faith our Propitiation Righteousness and Justification that I and all penitents may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name and the salvation of our own souls Amen O Eternal God and most merciful Father pardon I beseech thee all the sins Omissions and Commissions thoughts words and deeds by which I have provoked thee to anger from the time of my birth unto this present moment that no one nor all of my sins together may ever be able to cry oftner or louder in thy ears for vengeance then the cry of my prayers may ascend up unto thee for mercy and forgiveness and obtain that they sue for particularly I humble beseech thee forgive unto me my great and clamorous sins such as are c. O Lord against heaven and against thee have I sined and committed foul transgressions in thy sight but I beseech thee wipe them all out of the book of remembrances which thou hast written through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen Give unto me O Lord I humbly beseech thee a wise a sober a patient an understanding a devout a religious a courageous heart Chast and temperate reynes and thoughts A soul full of devotion to do thee service strength against all temptations especially the temptations of c. Through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord I give the humble and hearty thanks increase my thankfulnesse I beseech thee for all benefits and blessings both Spiritual and temporal which in the riches of thy great mercy thou hast liberally poured down upon me but especially Spiritual Lord let me not live but to praise and magnifie thy glorious Name Particularly I give thee most unfeigned thanks for my preservation from the time of my birth unto this present moment for c. for bringing me safe to the beginning of this day in which and all the dayes of my life I beseech thee preserve me from sin and from danger in soul and in body that all my thoughts words and works may tend to the glory and honour of thy Name the good of the Church and the discharge of my duty the salvation of my soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee through Jesus Christ our Saviour and redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee blesse thy whole Catholike Church wheresoever
Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Visita quaeso Domine habitationem meam Omnes infidi Inimici ab eà longè repellantur Angeli tui Sancti habitent in eâ nos in pace sanitate custodiant benedictio tua sit super Nos semper Per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Linguae Froenum LEt the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be always acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen Psal. 19. 14. Lord keep my tongue from evill and my lips that they speak no guile that so I may eschew evil and do good seek peace and ensue it Amen Psalm 34. 12 13. O Lord give me the mouth of the righteous that it may be exercised in wisdome and that my tongue may be talking of Judgment Amen Psalm 37. 31. Lord I have said in thy Grace I will take heed to my wayes that I offend not with my tongue Give me O give me that grace that I may take this heed that I may keep my mouth as it were with a bridle especially when the ungodly is in my sight be it never so much pain or grief to me Hear me and grant Even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal 39.1 2. Let the free-will Offerings of my mouth please thee O Lord and teach me thy Judgments Amen Psal. 119. 108. O Lord set a watch before my mouth and keep the door of my lips and let not my heart be inclined to any thing that is evil Amen Psal. 141. 3. O Lord set a watch before my mouth and a seal of wisdom upon my lips that I fall not suddenly by them and that my tongue destroy me not Amen Ecclus. 22. 27. Afflictiones IF I find favour in thy Eyes O Lord thou wilt bring me again and shew me both the Ark and the Tabernacle and set me right in thy service and make me joyfull and glad in thee But if thou say O for Jesus Christ his sake say it not I have no pleasure in thee Behold here I am do with me as seems good in thy own Eyes Amen 2 Sam. 15. 25. O Lord though I be afflicted on every side let me not be in distresse though in want of some of thy comfort yet not of all though I be chastened yet let me not be forsaken though I be cast down let me not perish and though my outward man decay and perish yet let my inward man be renewed daily even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 2 Cor. 4. 8 16. O Lord whatsoever thou shalt lay upon me I will hold my peace and not open my mouth because it is thy doing Amen Psal. 38. 10. O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant according to thy Word before I was troubled I went wrong but now have I prayed that I may keep thy law and it is good for me that I have been in trouble that so I may learn still to keep it better in the mercies of Jesus Christ Amen Psal 119.65 75. I know O Lord that thy Judgments are right and that thou of very faithfulnesse hast caused me to be troubled O let thy merciful kindnesse be my comfort according to thy Word to thy servant even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 119. 75. O Lord Almighty O God of Israel the soul that is in trouble and the spirit that is pierced cryeth unto thee Hear O Lord and have mercy for thou art mercifull and have pity upon me because I have sinned before thee for thou endurest for ever but unlesse thou have mercy I utterly perish Have mercy therefore even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord remember the promise that the poor shall not alwayes be forgotten nor the patient abiding of the meek perish for ever Amen Psal. 9. 18. Lord I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soul in adversities Amen Psal. 31. 8. Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and my eye is consumed for very heavinesse yea my soul and my body my strength faileth me because of my Iniquity and my bones are consumed I am even become like a broken vessel for I have heard the Blasphemy of the multitude and fear is on every side but my hope hath been and is in thee O Lord thou art my God save me and deliver me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 31. 10 12 14 15 16. Why art thou so full of heavinesse O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me O but thy trust in God that I may yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance O my God my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee Amen Psalm 42. 6. Up Lord why sleepest thou Awake and be not absent from us for ever wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble For our soul is brought low even unto the dust our belly cleaves unto the ground Arise O Lord and help us and deliver us for thy mercies sake Amen Psal. 44. 23. In thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse bow down thy Ear to me make hast to deliver me be thou my strong rock and house of defence that thou mayest save me Be thou also my Guide and lead me for thy names sake Amen Psal. 31. 1. O God the enemy cryeth so and the ungodly cometh on so fast that they threaten to overbear me they are minded to do me some mischief so maliciously are they set against me my heart is disquieted within me and the fear of death is sallen upon me Fearfullnesse and trembling and an horrible dread have overwhelmed me and I said O that I had wings like a Dove that I might make haste to escape the storm wind and tempest but be thou my helper and I will magnifie thee O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen Psal. 55. 3. O be thou my help in trouble for vain is the help of men Amen Psal. 60. 11. Gracious Father the life of man is a warfare upon earth and the dangers that assault us are diversly pointed against us I beseech thee be present with me in all the course and passages of my life but especially in the services of my calling suffer not malice to be able to hurt me nor cunning to circumvent me Nor violence to oppresse me Nor falshood to betray me That which I cannot foresee I beseech thee prevent That which I cannot withstand I beseech thee master That which I do not fear I beseech thee unmask and frustrate that being delivered from all dangers both of body and soul I may praise thee the Deliverer and see how happy a thing it is to make the Lord of hosts my helper in the day of fear and trouble Especially O Lord blesse and preserve me at this time from c. that I may glorifie thee for this deliverance
spread upon the face of the whole earth good Lord purge it from all Atheism Heresie Schism and superstition factious maintenance of groundlesse Opinions that one Faith one Lord one Baptism may in all places be professed as thy Church is and can be but one And grant good Lord that I may be and continue a faithful living and a working member under Christ the head in the Church the body all the dayes of my life and through the hour of my death through the merits and by the Grace of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen O Most Mercifull God bless this particular Church in which I live make it and all the members of it sound in faith and holy life that they may serve thee and thou blesse them through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Lord blesse our most Gracious Soveraign treasure up in him all thy hidden blessings make him and keep him a devout servant to thee a constant Pastour of thy Church and Truth that he may live long and be ful of honourable successe all his dayes in his person in his actions in his Queen in his children in his servants in his people and Crowned with glory after life under him blesse the whole State Ecclesiastical and Civil that righteousnesse and peace may kisse each other and we serve and honour thee for ever Amen Good Lord bless all the places to which thou hast made me have any nearer reference the place where I was borne c. Every Soul contained in any of these All my friends kindred acquaintance Any unto whom thou hast made me any wayes beholding especially my nearer and bosome friends all those c. Lord I beseech thee forgive me and them all our sins and continue us thy servants both in life and death Amen Gracious Father bless my servants and make them thine give them grace to serve thee first then me with faithfulness soberness and dilgence Make me ever willing and in some measure able to repaire unto them the time and the strength which they either have or shall spend to do me service even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord blesse all the afflicted members of the Body of thy Son wheresoever howsoever afflicted send them constant patience and speedy deliverance as seems best to thee and is best for them according to their several wants and necessities whatsoever particularly c. And do unto them according to all those mercies which I would or should desire thou shouldest shew unto my own soul if at any time thou shalt be pleased to make mine estate as theirs is at this present And O Lord be merciful Amen Blessed Father blesse all sorts of men in their particulars mine enemies wish I forgiveness of sins Turn their heart that they may no longer hate thy servant and if they will not be turned deliver me not over I beseech thee into their power And next after the salvation of my soul I humbly beg it deliver me not into the hands of men to the shame and scorne of the world Amen O Domine Jesu da quod Jubes Jube quod vis facias animam meam paratam in adventum tuum veni quando vis Des mihi ad minimum sufficientem si placet pacatissimam patientiam veni quo modo vis O tu qui salus es omnium sperantium in te Et in super interpone obsecro O Domine Jesu Mortem Crucem Passionem Meritum Sanguinem tuum inter Judicium tuum animam meam Nunc semper pracipuè in hora Mortis meae Quae Mors obnixé precor nunquam sit subitanea nunquam adveniat inveniat me imparatum Nunquam it a adveniendo saeviat quin ut retineam Fidem spem Charitatem Memoriam intellectum sanum usque ad Extremum halitum Et esto mihi in Deum Protectorem Des Peccatis meis Misericordiam veniam Ecclesiae Pacem Concordiam Mihi Peccatorum primo Gratiam in hâc vita Gloriam in futura Ita Ita venias Domine Jesu miserere Mei Amen Lord here I am do with me as it seemeth best in thy own eyes only give me I humbly beseech thee a penitent and a patient spirit to expect thee Amen Lord make my service acceptable to thee while I live and my soul ready for thee when I dye Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. I. O Lord by thy mercy I am risen out of my grave where I might have slept in death but that thou preserved'st me Make it I beseech thee a resurrection to grace in this life and to glory in the life to come through Jesus Christ who merited both for us Amen This day by the resurrection of thy Son our blessed Saviour was made holy to us Give me that grace that I may keep it holy unto thee through Jesus Christ Amen O send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me and bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling that I may go unto the Altar of thee O my God even the God of my Joy and Gladnesse and give thanks unto thee Amen Psal. 43. 3 4. Almighty and everlasting God who governs all things both in heaven and earth mercifully hear my prayers for my self and all thy people and grant us thy peace even all the dayes of our life even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almighty God I humbly beseech thee give me grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the Armour of light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visite us in great humility that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead I with all thy faithful servants may rise up to the life Immortal through him who liveth and raigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Blessed God which hast caused all holy Scripture to be written for our learning grant unto me and all Christians that we may in such wise read hear mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort thereof we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Lord I humbly besech thee raise up thy power and come amongst us and with great might succour us that whereas by our sins we are sore let and hindered thy bountiful grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen Lord let thy Angels tarry round about me and deliver me that I may taste and see how gracious thou my God art and how blessed the man is that trusteth in thee through Jesus