thy grace establish our hearts and save us Ps. 136. 25. 147. 9. 71. 5. Acts 14. 17. Heb. 13. 9. Thou which makest the Evening an end to the day that it may put us in mind of the evening of our life Psalm 104. 23. Grant that we may ever consider that as the day so our life vanisheth Eccl. 8. 13. Grant that we may ever remember the dayes of darknesse which are many that the night commeth when wee cannot worke that so wee be not cast out to utter darknesse And save us Mat. 25. 3c O Lord my God WHose Essence is above all Essence and whose Nature is uncreated whose handywork the whole World is I set thee before mine eyes Ps. 16. 9. I lift up my soul unto thee I worship thee falling down upon my knees I draw neer unto thee and humble my selfe under thy mighty hand I stretch sorth my hands unto thee my soule gapes to thee as the thirsty land I smite upon my Breast and say with the Publican O Lord be mercifull to me a siâ—â—er To mee more sinfull then the Publican be mercifull as to the Publican ô Father of Mercies Psal. 16. 9. 25. 1. 95. 6. 134. 2. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Psal. 143. 6. Lake 18. 13. I beseech thy paternall bowels of compassion despise me not though I be an uncleane worm a dead dog a stinking carkasse Psal. 216. 2 Kings 9. Despise me not the work of thine hands Psal. 138. 8. Despise me not the likeness of thine owne Image though I beare the brands of mine iniquity Gen. 1. 26. Col. 3. 10. Lord if thou wilt thou canst make mee cleane Mat. 8. 2. O Lord say but the word and I shall be cleansed ver. 8. And thou ô Saviour Christ ô Christ my Saviour Saviour of sinners of whom I am chiefe despise me not redeemed by the price of thy precious bloud 1 Tim. 1. 15. Luke 22. 23. Despise not ô Lord but look upon me looke upon me with thine eyes such eyes as thou did'st upon Mary Magdalen at the Feast St. Peter in the high Priests Hall and the Thiefe on the Crosse That with the thief I may call upon thee saying Remember mee O Lord when thou art in thy kingdom Luke 7. 44. 22. 55. 23. 43. 23. 42. With Peter I now weepe bitterly ver. 22. 62. And ô who will give my head a fountaine of teares that therewith I may weep both day and night With Mary Magdalen I may hear thee say thy sins are forgiven thee Lu. 9. 48. And with her I may love thee much because my many and manifold misdeeds are remitted ver. 9. 47. And thou all holy and gracious and life-giving Spirit dspise me not But turne thee againe O Lord at the last and repent thee concerning thy servant For those thy paternall bowels the bleeding wounds of thy Sonne for the unutterable grones of thy holy Spirit O Lord heare O Lord forgive O Lord consider and doe it deferr not for thine own sake ô my God Dan. 9. 19. Morning Prayer BLessed art thou O Lord our God the God of our fathers which hast turned the shadow of death into the morning and hast renewed the face of the earth Am. 5. 8. Ps. 104 30. Which hast made sleep to depart from mine eyes and slumber from mine eye-lids Psal 132. 4. Which hast lightned mine eyes that I sleep not in death Ps. 13. 4. Which hast delivered my soule from the night feares from the pestilence which walketh in the dark psal. 91. 4 5 6. Which makes the out goings of the morning evening to praise thee v. 65. 8. For I laid me downe and slept and rose againe for it was thou O Lord which didst sustaine me psal. 4. 5. For I waked and beheld and loe my sleepe was sweet Ier. 31. 26. O Lord doe a way as the Night so my sins scatter my transgressions as the morning cloud Esa. 44. 22. Make me a child of the light and of the day cause me to walke soberly chastly and decently as in the day time 1 Thes. 5. 5. Rom. 13. 13. O Lord uphold us when wee are fallen into sinne and raise us up when wee are fallen Ps. 145. 14. That wee harden not our hearts as in the provocation or with any deceitfulnesse of sinne Heb. 3. 8. 13. Deliver us also from the snare of the hunter evill alurements crosse words the Arrow which flyeth by day Ps. 91. 3. 6. From the evill of the day preserve me O Lord and me from doing evill in it Mat. 6. 34. The Hymne O Let mee heare of thy loving kindnesse betime in the morning for in thee is my trust Psalme 143. 8. Shew me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soule unto thee Deliver me ô Lord from mine enemies for I flye unto thee for succour vers. 9. Teach me to do thy wil for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit leade me forth into the Land of righteousnesse v. 10. Quicken me ô Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soule out of trouble v. 11. Chase from my mind althoughts without understanding Wisd. 1. 5. Turne away mine eyes that they behold not vanity Psal. 119. 37. Hedge in mine ears with thornes that they listen not to foolish discourses Eccl. 23. 29. Set a watch before my mouth and keep the door of my lips Psal. 14. 3. Let me doe nothing that may be scandalous or scrupulous to my soule 1 Sam. 25. 31. Let the meditation of mine heart be ever acceptable in thy sight Ps. 19. last Let mine eyes behold and let mine eye-lids direct my way before mee Pro. 4. 25. Awaken mine eares in the morning to heare the word of instruction Esa. 50. 4. 5. Let my speech be seasoned with salt that it may edifie and give grace to the hearers Ephes. 4. 29. Col. 4. 6. O Lord prepare thou some good way for mee to walk in Eph. 2. 16. Into thy hands I coÌ„mend my Spirit my soule body thou hast created thou hast redeemed thou hast regenerated theÌ„ ô Lord thou God of truth Ps. 31. 5. With my self I commend to thee all that have any relation to me And all that is mine thou ô Lord hast graciously lent them me in thy goodnesse Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from all evil keep our soules good Lord we beseech thee Ps. 121. 7. Keep them all spotlesse and present them guiltlesse in that day Keepe my out-goings and my commings in from this time forth for evermore v. 8. Prosper thou thy servant this day and give him favour in their eyes with whom he meeteth Nehem. 1. 11. O Lord be near at hand to save me ô God make hast to help me Ps. 90. 17. The glorious Majesty of our God be upon us Prosper thou-our worke unto us yea prosper thou our handy worke Let not my dayes be spent in vanity let not my year wast in doing nothing but let one day teach another let
with us for ever Be mercifull be merciful ô Lord and pitty us and be not angry with mee to my ruine Deal not with me ô Lord according to my trangressions neither reward thou me according to my sinnes But according to thy mercy deale thou with me And according to the multitude of thy compassions reward me According to that great mercy of thine And according to that exceeding multitude of thy compassions By whatsoever is deare and acceptable to thee From all evill and misfortune at all times of necessity Rise up Lord defend and save me preserve me good Lord and destroy me not But most especially in the time of extremity in the houre of death in the day of judgment in that fearefull day good Lord deliver me From beholding the sterne countenance of the Judge Apo. 6. 6. From my standing on the left hand Mat. 25. 41. From hearing that terrible sentence depart from me you wicked Mat. 8. 12. From being bound in the chaines of darknesse Jude 5. 6. From casting out into utter darknesse Mat. 8. 12. From being thrust into the bottomles pit of fire and Brimstone where the smoake of the fire ascendeth up for ever Be mercifull O Lord spare me Have pitty O Lord and deliver me And confound me not for ever And to this end and purpose from a blinded and a hardned heart tending to impenitence Eph. 14. 19. From a wanton and brasen face tending to impudence Acts. 28. 27. From a seered conscience Pro. 7. 13. From a reprobate mind Esa. 48. 4. From the sin unto death Tit. 1. 16. And against the holy Ghost Jo. 5. 16. Mat. 12. 13. Be mercifull good Lord and deliver me Prayers against Evills Temporall FRom all evill and misfortune and all perrillous accidents in this world From the pestilence Famine and Warre From great fires inundations Earthquakes From excessive Raine drought and mil-dew From al blastings lightning and Thunder From Temptations Stormes infectious diseases and sudden death Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us Against evills in the Church FRom all Innovations private interpretations difference in doctrine contending about vaine and fruitles questions endles desputations and controversies Heresies both publique and private Schismes Scandalls From the pernicious flattering of Princes Acts. 12. 22. The partiality of Saul 1 Sam. 14. 18. The contempt of Michal 2 Sam. 6. 16. The Preisthood of Micha Judg. 17. 10. The flesh-hook of Hophni 1 Sam. 2. 16. The fraternity of Symon Magus and Judas Iscariot Act. 8. 17. Mat. 26. 17. From such as are corrupted in minde unstable and unlearned 1 Tim. 6. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 16. From the arrogance of young Schollers 1 Tim. 36. And from People that contradict their Minister speaking according to the word of God Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us Hos. 4. 4. Against evills Politicall FRom Anarchie or want of Kings From the multitude of Princes From Tyranny From Princes like Ashur Jeroboham Roboam From the cruell insolency of Hamon 2 Sam. 15. 31. From the councellors of Zoan Esa. 14. 11. From the perillous counsell of Achitophel 1 Kings 21. 13. From the Judges of Jesrael From the Lawes of Omri Micha 6. 16. From the Torrents of Belial Psa. 18. 4. The plague of Per◠Num. 25. 5. The vale of Achor Josh. 7. 26. From effussion of blood deadly feind Treason Forraign invasion Civill Warr For the displaceing of good Magistrates and the raising of evill be mercifull good Lord and deliver us From whatsoever may make against the tranquility of our Soules The health of our bodies our estates our libertie or our credit Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest REmember me O Lord in the favour which thou bearest to thy People and visite me with thy salvation that I may see the felicity of thy chosen And rejoyce with the gladnesse of the Saints And give thanks with thine Inheritance For certainly there is a glory to be revealed hereafter And when the judge commeth some shal behold his joyfull countenance Job 33. 16. And be placed on his right hand Mat. 25. 32. And here that most sweet voyce come yee blessed v. 34. And be taken up to meet Christ in the Clouds 1 Thes. 4. And enter into his joy his full joy Mat. 25. 21. His joy which shall never be taken away v. 22. And enjoy that beatificall vision of him And remaine with him for evermore And they onely onely they of all the sonnes of men are blessed To grant me the vilest of men the meanest place there a place even under their feet under the feet of thine elect and of the lowest among them and to this purpose Let me finde grace in thy sight that I may obtaine the grace to serve please thee with feare and reverence Gen. 6. 8. Heb. 12. 8. And give me yet a second grace that I may not receive that grace in vaine 2 Cor. 6. 1. So farre forth as to neglect it or to be wanting to it 1 Tim. 4. 14. Heb. 12. 15. But that I may stirr it up rather so as to encrease in it and to remaine therein to my lives end 1 Tim. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 18. Acts. 13. 43. And O Lord supply thou the defects of thy graces in me helpe my weake faith confirme my faint hope enflame the smokeing flax of my charity And kindle it so in my heart that I may learne to love thee first above all and my friends in thee any Enemies for thee and thy sake As I would have men to deale with me so give me grace to deale with them One thing onely let mee feare that is to feare any thing more then thee And let my heart so rejoyce in the feare of thee That this feare of mine may be my hope Lastly thou which givest grace to the humble Give me so much grace as to be humbled Comprecation of temporall blessings Hosanna in Terrenis REmember O Lord to crowne the years with goodnesse and let thy providence distill plenty For the eyes of all things waite upon thee ô Lord and thou givest them foode in due season Thou openest thy hands and fillest every Creature with thy blessing Psal. 145. 15. Vouchsafe us therefore ô Lord the blessing of the heavens and of the dew from above and of the fountaines of the deepe beneath Deut. 33. 13. 14. The precious things returned by the Sun and the precious fruits put forth by the Moone v. 15 The choicest things of the ancient mountains and the precious things of the lasting hills the precious things of the earth and fulnes thereof O make peace within our borders And fasten thou the Barres of our gates v. 19. But cloath our enemies with confusion and blesse our children among us Let our Sonnes grow up as the young plants and our Daughters be as the polished corners of the Temple v. 144. 12. Lord blesse our victualls with increase and fill us with the floure of wheate and
perticular and that Most ordinary twice a day at Morne Even Numb. 18. 3. More extraordinary Twice a day at Morne Noone and Night Psalme 55. 1. Seven times a day Dan. 6. 11. The Horologe 1 Before day Mar. 1. 31. 2 At Sun-rise Psal. 63. 1. 3 At the third houre Act 2. 15. 3 At the sixt or noone 10. 9. 4 At the ninth houre 3. 1. 5 At Sun-set P. 134 6 After it at night P. 134 7 At Midnight Ps. 139. 62 The place of Prayer In generall in every place Exod. 20. 24. In speciall for 1 Tim. 2. 8. Publique Prayer In the Congregation or Temple Psal. 111. 1. Acts 3. 1. and 22. 17. Private Prayer At home Esa. 26. 20. In the Chamber Mat. 6. 6. On the house top or leades Acts 10. 9. Abroade In the Garden Joh. 18. 2. In the field Gen. 29. 63. In the Desert Mar. 1. 35. The manner of Prayer in respect of The Posture Standing Mar. 11. 25. Kneeling Luke 22. 41. Falling on the face Mat. 26. 29. The Gesture Lifting up the eyes Psal. 123. 1. Lifting up of the hands 1 Tim. 2. 8. Smiting the brest Luke 18. 13. Vncovering the head 1 Cor. 11. 4. At your entrance into the Church before publique service say O LORD IN the multitude of thy mercies I wil aproach thine house and I will worship towards thy holy Temple in the reverence of thee Lord hear the voyce of my prayer when I call unto thee when I lift up my hands towards thy Sanctuary Remember these my brethren also which stand about me and pray together with me remember their endeavours their zeale Remember them likewise which for just causes are absent and O Lord have mercy upon them and us according to the abundance of thy goodnesse I have loved the beauty of thine house and the place where thy glory dwelleth that I might hear the voyce of thy praises and publish all thy wonders One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will still intreate That I may dwell still in the house of the Lord and visite his holy Temple To thee O Lord my heart hath said I will seeke the Lord Thee ô my God have I sought thy face And thee will I seeke The Horologe or Diall of Prayer THou which hast put the times and seasons in thine own power Acts 1. 7. Grant that wee may pray unto thee in a fit and acceptable time and save us Mar. 4. 38. 1. Thou which for us men and for our salvation wert borne at Midnight Lu. 2. 7 Grant that we may be daily regenerate by the renewing of thy holy Spirit untill Christ bee perfectly found in us and save us Lu. 3. 5. 2. Thou which early in the morning whilst the Sunne was rising didst rise again Mar. 16. 2. Raise us up daily to newnesse of life prompting us unto those means of repentance which thou best know'st and save us Rom. 6. 4. 3. Thou which at the third houre didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Apostles Acts 2. 15. Take not thy Spirit from us but renew it daily in us and save us Psal. 51. 10. 11. 4. Thou which at the sixth houre and on the sixth day did'st fasten the sins of the world and crucifie them on the same Crosse with thy selfe Mat. 27. 45. Col. 2. 14. Cancell the hand-writing of our sins which is against us and take it cleare away and save us Thou which at the sixth hour did'st let downe the great sheete from Heaven and Earth as a type of thy Church Acts 10. 11. Receive us sinners of the Gentiles into the same and with it take us up into Heaven and save us Gal. 2. 15. Acts 10. 16. 5. Thou which at the ninth houre did'st for us sinners and our sinnes take that bitter and cursed death Mar. 15. 34. Heb. 2. 9. Mortifie in us our earthly members and whatsoever opposeth thy will and save us Col. 3. 5. 6. Thou which at even would'st be taken downe from the Crosse and laid in the Sepulchre Mar. 15. 42. Bury our sinnes in thy grave and with thy righteousnesse cover the evill which we have committed and save us Rom. 6. 4. Thou which late at night gavest to thine Apostles the power of remitting or retaining sinnes Jo. 2. 23. Make us pertakers of that benefit unto remission good Lord and not unto retention and save us Thou which at midnight did'st raise the Prophet David and the Apostle Paul to praise thee Ps. 119. 62. Act. 16. 25. O give us also Songs in the night and make us mindefull of thee upon our Beds and save us Ps. 63. 6. Thou which by thine owne mouth hast foretold the coming of the Bridegroome at midnight Mat. 5. 6. Grant that we may ever have that crye in our eares the Bridegroome cometh and so be never unprepared to meet him and save us Thou which by the Cocke crowing did'st admonish thy Apostle Peter and made him returne to repentance Matt. 26. 74. 75. Grant that wee also weepe bitterly for the things wherein wee have sinned against thee and save us Thou which at the Seventh hour did'st cure the Rulers Sonne of a feaver Jo. 4. 52. If any feaver or sicknesse remaine in our soules take that away also and save us Thou which at the 10. houre would'st have thy Apostle which found thy Sonne to cry with great joy wee have found the Messias Jo. 1. 41. Make us find the Messias likewise and having found him to rejoyce in like manner and save us Jo. 1. 41. Thou which vouchsafest to call those which stood al day idle and with promises of reward to send them even at the 11. houre into thy Vinyard Matt. 20. 6. Shew us the same favour and though wee returne late unto thee as at the 11 houre graciously yet denie not to entertaine us and save us Thou which at Supper time did'st institute the holy mysteries of thy body and bloud Jo. 13. 3. Matt. 26. 20. Make us mindefull and pertakers of them and not to our perdition but to the remission of sinne and our obtaining the legacies of the new Testament and save us Thou which hast foretold thy comming to judgment on a day which wee expect not and in an houre which wee knew not Luk. 12. 46. Matt. 24. 50. Make us ready every day And houre that wee may with joy attend thy comeing and save us Thou which sendest forth the light wch createst the morning and makest the Sun to rise upon thee good bad inlighten the blindnesse of our mindes with the knowledg of thy truth Ps. 43. 3. 74. 16. Eph. 1. 18. Lift up the light of thy Countenance upon us that in thy light we may see light in the light of grace the light of glory and save us Ps. 4. 7. 36. 9. Thou which givest food to all flesh which feedest the young Ravens which call upon thee and hast nourished us from our Childe-hood Fill our hearts with food and gladnesse and with
me an evening there is as of the day so of our life that Evening is old age age hath now surprized me Lord prosper thou that likewise unto me Tarry with me ô Lord for the evening growes upon me Luck 24. 29 And my day is much declined cast me not off now in min age forsake me not now when my strength faileth me Psal. 71. 8 9. But rather let thy strength bee made more perfect in this my weaknes 2 Cor. 12. 9. O Lord the day is vanished and gon so doth this life The night doth now approach so doth death also death without death the end both of our day and of our life is neere at hand Remember this therefore wee beseech thee ô Lord make the end of all our lives Christian-like and acceptable to thee peaceable and if it like thee painlesse translating us among thine elect unto thy heavenly kingdome O Lord thou hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come In the morning at Noone and in the evening I will call I will cry out and thou shalt heare my voyce In the night will I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary and will blesse thee ô Lord Psal. 133. 4. The Lord hath shewed his mercy in the day therfore at night I will sing of him and pray unto the God of my life psal. 42. 9 10. Thus will I praise thee all my life long and in thy Name will I lift up my hands Psal. 63 4 5. O let my prayers be directed as the incense and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou ô Lord my God the God of my Fathers Psal. 144. 20. VVhich hast created the Changes of night and of day v. 22. VVhich givest rest to the weary and refreshest the weake Esa. 40. 29. VVhich givest Songs in the night Job 35. 10. And makest the out-going of the Morning and Evening to praise thee Psalme 65. 9. VVhich hast delivered us from the malice of this day Matt. 6. ult. And cuttest not off our lives like a VVeaver neither from Morning to Evening makest an end of us Esay 38. 12. As we add dayes to our dayes so we add sinnes to our sins Eccles. 5. 8. The just man falls seven times a day Frov. 24. 16. But wee wretched sinners seventy times 7 times Mat. 18. 22. But wee returne to our hearts Esa. 46. 8. And with our hearts we returne to thee Deut. 30. 2. To thee ô Lord wee returne and all that is within us saith Ps. 103. O Lord wee have sinned against thee 2. Sam. 12. 13. But we repent alas wee repent spare us good Lord Luke 17. 4. Be mercifull and spare us Be propitious to us Haue pitty upon us and spare us ô Lord Forgive us the guilt Rom. 13. 19. Take out the staines Psal. 51. 3. 9. Cure the faintnesse in us by reason of our sins psal. 146. 3. and heale our soules O God for wee have sinned against thee psal. 41. 4. Deliver mee from my unavoydable sins psal. 27. 17. Cleanse me from my secret offences psalm 19. 13. And for my Communion with the transgression of others pardon thy servant ô Lord All our good deeds thou hast wrought in us Esay 26. 12. If wee have done any thing well mercifully regard it ô Lord Our sin and our distraction is from our owne selves Hosea 13. 9. Whatsoever wee have done amisse graciously pardon it Thou which givest thy beloved secure rest grant that I may passe this night without feare Psal. 3. 6. Enlighten my eyes that I sleep not in death p. 13. 4. Deliver mee from the mighty feare from the businesse that walketh in the darke psalm 91. 5. Thou which neither sleepest at any time nor slumbrest keepe mee this night ô Lord from al evill chiefly ô Lord keepe and preserve my soule Psalme 121. 4. 7 Visite mee ô God with the visitations of thy Saints open mine eares in the visions of the night Job 33. 15 16. At least let my sleepe be a cessation from sins from labour and let me dream of nought that may offend thee or defile my selfe Prov. 4. 6. Let not my loynes be filled with illusions but let my reynes chasten mee in the night psalme 38. 8. and 16. 7. Let mee remember thee upon my bed and let mee meditate with my heart and search out my spirit Psalme 63. 6. and 77. 6. And when it shall bee time for mee to rise let mee wake with the light to thee ô Lord to thy praise and thy service Rom. 13. 11. Psal. 63. 1. O Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit my soule and my body Thou hast created thou hast redeemed them ô Lord thou God of truth Psalm 31. 5. And with my selfe I commend to thy mercifull protection all those that belong to mee and all that is mine Thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hast bestowed them upon me Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from evil chiefely good Lord keepe and preserve our soules Keepe them ô God keep them all spotlesse and without guilt present them in that day Psa. 121. 7. I will lay me down and sleepe in peace For thou only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 3. 5. and 4. 8. After divine service O Lord thou which hast suffered me this holy day and houre to raise my soule and give praise unto thee and offer up the glory due to thee accept then from my soul this sacrifice sprituall and send into me the grace of thy most sacred spirit ô visit me in thy great goodnesse forgive me all my sins both wilfully and unwillfully committed deliver me from the reward of them that is from everlasting punishment yea and from all distresses in this world change my thoughts into Piety Sanctifie my spirit My soule and my body Oh give me grace to adore and please thee in godlines and holines of life to the utmost end of al my dayes Amen Before thy Approaching the Holy Communion say O Lord I am not worthy nor prepared for thee to come under my sordid roofe for it is wholy desolate and ready to dropp downe quite neither canst thou with me have any fitting place for thy Reposall Mar. 8. 8. But as thou denyest to rest in the Stable and manger of bruit beasts Luk. 2. 7. As thou didst not Disdaine Simon the Kepers house and entertainement Mat. 26. 6. As thou didst not forbid the adulterous Sinner to come and touch thee Luk. 7. 19. Nor did'st abhor her impure and prophane mouth Nor yet the Theeves confession of thee upon the Crosse Luk. 7. 23. Vouchsafe O Lord to receive me likewise an over-worne and most unworthy sinner Amen In approaching the Holy Sacrament O Lord with all thanks wee commemorate the saving passions of thy Christ our Saviour This life-restoring Crosse His precious death His 3. dayes Sepulture His resurrection His ascention to heaven And his sitting on thy right hand His glorious and most Dreadfull returne thence to the
EFFIGIES R. P. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANDREWES QVONDAM EPISCOPI WINTONIENSIS Obyt 1626. AEtatis suae 7â— If ever any merited to be The Universall Bishop this was He Great ANDREWES who ye whole vast Sea did drain Of Learning and distilled it in his brain These pious dropps are of the purest kind Which trickled from ye limbeck of his mind W.M. sculptit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Private DEVOTIONS Of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes Late Bishop of Winchester Lord I have called daily upon â—hee I have stretched out my hands unto thee Psal. 88. 9. London Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church yard An. Dom. 1647. THE STATIONER To the Christian Reader THe life of this Reverend Father was a life of Prayer Five houres in a day he spent in his Devotions and for divers months before his dissolution hee gave himselfe wholy up to converse with God It is most remarkable and may instruct Posterity that when sicknesse had deprived him of his voyce yet his eyes and hands prayed and when both they failed his heart still prayed till it pleased God to accept it as his last Sacrifice This testimony and Character of his holy Pietie wee received from learned Bishop Buckeridge who being well acquainted with his life commended his precious memory to posterity in a funerall Sermon one of the last offices which as men and christians we are wont to pay to Honour and Virtue In the evening of his life hee was seldome seene without these devotions in his hand he penned them in Greeke and in that language presented them to his God the reason it is not for mee to determine whether it were for that the clearest evidences of our salvation are delivered to us in that tongue or whether amongst those fifteene he was Master of he chose this language as the most copious to expresse the fulnesse of his soule It appeares not as yet who translated this manuall of devotions some of his learned Friends to whom the world owes much for the benefit of of this publication informed me that they found them written with his owne hand from whence they had the happiness to transcribe them it is not improbable that wee are indebted to the same hand for the translation to whom we owe the originall since I could never yet learne that any have laid claime thereunto it being no new thing in this ambitious age for men to indeavour to translate fames as well as bookes it may seeme strange in these ex-tempore times for me to send these Set formes to the presse since I am not ignorant how of late it hath been hotly disputed whether it be better to pray to God with consideration or without against this wild fancy I conceived I could not oppose any argument above the example of this learned Doctor of our Church Who though he was so universall in allholy dimensions you may be pleased to observe the reverentiall addresses of his soule in these his approaches to the highest Majesty hee well knew the distance betwixt heaven and earth betwixt God and himselfe which I hope will be a motive to every pious Christian as Salomon saith not to be rash with his mouth Ecles. 5. 2. I must clearely confesse when these Copies came first to my hand I resolved to imprint them in my own heart but considering with my selfe that no man might better excuse the divulging of so usuall a booke then one of my profession and withall that there were divers manuscripts dispersed abroad and the Church might be deprived of this genuine Edition and I of mine owne right I thought this publication absolutely necessary being confident that no man could justly except against this Reverend Author who both abroad at home was acknowledged for his Pietie and learning to have been one of the Oracles of the church much less against these his devotions which are for the most part selected out of the holy Scripture And whereas he freely wrot his controversies and Sermons for the benefit of others these pieces I suppose cannot be too well thought off which he kept peculiar to himselfe having appropriated and consecrated them to his private use for the employment of his owne soule This treasure so piously laid up in his life time I thought good not to keep wrapt up in a napkin from the Publick injoy it thankfully to the glory of that God who kindled these holy fires in his soule and let the memory of the devout Author in spight of ignorance and malice be perpetuated and blessed by after ages as for mee I shall never desire any higher recompence then to be in some measure serviceable to the Church and to be esteemed Your faithfull servant HUM MOSELEY An Index of the heads contained in this Booke A Meditation at your entrance into the Churh before publique worship Pag. 1. The Horolege or Diall of prayer 3 Morning prayer 17 The Hymne 20 A paraphrase upon the Lords prayer 25 A confession of sinne 31 A prayer for the performance of the Law 44 A confession of faith 50 A prayer fâ—r faith 53 A confession of hope 56 Intercession 59 A deprecation or prayer against evill 64 Prayers against evills temporall 69 Against evills in the Church ibid. Against evills politicall 71 Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest 73 Comprecation of temporall blessings Hosanna in Terrenis 77 A Thanksgiving 81 A thanksgiving in particular 92 Praises 96 Praises in particular 105 Evening Prayer 109 A prayer after divine service 119 At the approaching to the holy sacrament 122 In the time of Receiving 124 After the receipt of the Eucharist 129 Mourning and weeping 131 A prayer on the meditation of the great worke of our redemption 132 A meditation on Canticles 5. 10 134 A prayer after the holy Ordidinances on Whitsunday 137 Light from heaven 138 An imprecation against the enemies of the Church 142 Prayer for King Iames after the Sermon of Gowries conspiracy 144 Thanksgiving after the deliverance from the gunpowder treason A prayer for Magistrates Eccleciasticall and civill 150 Before Sermon 151 The forme of bidding of prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after the opening of the Text 152 Another exhortation to prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of his Text EPHE. 6. 18. Pray alwaies with all manner of Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit Confessio In Prayer there are considered The species or kinds As confession of our Sinnes pag. 31 Demerits ibid. Faith p. 51. Hope p. 56. Deprecation page 64. Petition for the aversion of Evills Eternall Internall or Spirituall Externall Comprecation The conferring of blessings Eternall Hosanna p. 73. Internall In Altis p. 69. Externall In Terrenis 77. Retribution of thanks Eucharistica Praise Conf. laudis page 87. The circumstance of persons it being for Our selves called Oratio pag. 25. Others also Intercession pag. 59. Time Place Manner The time of Prayer In generall Alwaies Luk. 18. 11. In
Dreadfull power Exquisite Justice Amiable goodnesse How have I been drawn away by mine owne conconcupiscence that I am become a prey to the devil to be taken of him at his will 1 Tim. 2. last Behold now therefore O Lord I adjudge and professe my selfe most guilty and worthy of eternall punishment yea and of all extreamities here in this world also Gen. 18. 19. Eze. 33. 9. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Behold me O Lord already condemned by mine owne Sentence Tit. 3. 11. Psalme 143. 2. Behold it O good Lord enter not thou into judgement with thy Servant Tit. 3. 11. Ps. 143. 2. Gen. 30. 20. I acknowledge that I am farre lesse then all yea even the least of al thy mercies Luk. 15. 19. That I am not worthy to be made one of thy Hyrelings not the very meanest of them That I am not worthy of the scrapps that fall from thy Table Mat. 15. 15. Nor so much as to touch the hem of thy garment Mat. 9. 21. And now O Lord humbled under thy mighty hand I bend my knees unto thee and fall prostrate on the earth on my face 1 Pet. 5. 6. Eph. 3. 14. Mat. 26. 29. I stretch forth my hands unto thee and my soule is as the land that wanteth water before thee Psalme 146. 6. I dare not so much as lift an eye towards heaven but I smite my brest and from the depth of it doth my soule call and cry out unto thee Luk. 18. 13. Psal. 35. and 79. 9. O for thy names sake for the glory of thy name bee mercifull to my sinne for it is very much for it is exceeding great and for thy mercies thy sweet and tender mercies psal. 25. 10 11. Luke 1. 18. For the greatnesse the multitude the vast multitude the riches the abundance the over abundance of them ps. 69. 16. 119. 156 and 51. 1. and 130. 4. Eph. 1. 6. 1 Tim. 1. 14. Rom. 5. 20. Be mercifull O Lord to me a sinner ô Lord be merfull to me the chiefe of all sinners O remember and consider what my substance is that I am but as grasse or the flower of grasse but flesh a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe Esay 40. 6. Psal. 73. 40. Job 17. 14. But a worme and rottennesse but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. psal. 35. 13. Job 4. 19. Gen. 41. 9. prov. 27. 1. Esa. 38. 13. That I am a stranger and Pilgrim upon the earth that I dwell in an house of clay that my dayes are few and evill that I am here to day and not tomorrow in the morning and not at night now and not anon that I live in a body of sinne and death in a world of corruption and which is set upon mischief or lyeth in wickednesse Rom. 6. 6. 1 pet. 1. 4. 1 Jo. 15. 19. psal. 74. 18. Remember this O Lord and discharge remitt and forgive mee all those my transgressions which as a man bearing about me this flesh and dwelling in such a world I have committed against thee Reprove me not ô Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thy displeasure Psal. 6. 1. For unto thee I confesse my wickednesse ô pardon thou the ungodlinesse of my heart psal. 6. 1. 32. 5 6. 38. 9. All my desire ô Lord is before thee and my groaning is not concealed from thee Pitty me therefore according to thy great mercie and according to the multitude of thy compassions doe away all mine offences psal. 51 1 Rise ô God and have mercy upon me for it is time to have mercy on me yea the time is come psal. 102. 13. For if thou should'st strictly examine our iniquities ô Lord what man were able to subsist psal. 33. 3. Enter not thou into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight no flesh can be righteous psal. 14. 32. O Lord Thou which camest into the world to save sinners save mee which am the chiefest of all Sinners 1 Tim. 1. 15. 24. Thou which takest away the sinnes of the whole world be pleased to take away my sins also 1 Iob. 1. 24. Thou that camest to redeeme that which was lost Lu. 19. 10. Suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed That which was so dear to redeem suffer not to be lost as a thing of no value A Prayer for the performance of the Law I Lift my hand ô Lord to thy Commandements which I have loved open mine eyes and I shall understand incline my heart and I shall affect direct my steps and I shall walke in the path of thy precepts Ps. 119. 48. 18. 36. 133. 1. O Lord God Grant that I May know thee for the true God and knowing it that I may acknowledg thee and no other nor any thing else with or beside thee John 17. Rom. 1. 21. 2. Grant that I may worship adore thee in truth of spirit Jo. 4. 14. 3. In the decent habit and gesture of my body 1 Cor. 14. 40. 4. In the benediction of my mouth Jam. 3. 9. in publique and private 1 Cor. 14. 26. 5. Grant also that I may render honour to my Superiours That I may bee perswaded and ruled by them love to all those which belong to me that I may bee carefull and provident for them Heb. 1. 13. 17. 1. Tim. 5. 8. 6. That I may overcome malice with goodnesse Rom. 12. 21. 7. That I may possess my Vessel in holinesse and honour 1 Thes. 4. 4. 8. That being content with what I have my conversation may bee void of all coveteousnesse Hebr. 13. 5. 9. That I may speak with charity Ephes. 4. 15. 10. That I covet not inordinately nor pursue any covetous desires Rom. 7. ult. Col. 3. 5. Eccles. 8. 30. Good Lord Remove from mee all 1. Atheisme Hypocrisie 2. Idolatry will-worship 3. Perjury and Blasphemy 4. Superstition and profanesse in thy service 5. Stubbornesse and carelesnesse 6. Strife and malice 7. Lust and uncleanenesse 8. Injury and Cosenage 9. Lying and slandering 10. And all wicked desires and base Concupiscence Grant me O Lord thy grace To remember the latter end Deut. 32. 29. To bruise the Serpents head Gen. 3. 15. To cut off occasions of sinne To covenant with my sence 2 Cor. 11. 13. To prevent scandals Iob. 31. 1. To subdue my body Ez. 14. 4. Not to sit idle 1 Cor. 9. 8. To shun wicked company Mat. 24. 6. To consort with the righteous Psal. 26. 4. To select times for prayer 1 Cor. 7. 5. Stopp up my pathes with thornes that I finde not the way to vanity Hos. 2. 6. Hold me in and rayne me with bitt and bridle when I keep not neer thee Psal. 32. 9. And constraine mee to come to thee If inviting will not serve Luc. 14. 34. 39. Vouchsafe O Lord to give me the knowledge and beliefe of thy justice that it may breed in me Feare Humility Repentance Prayer and Fasting Hope Charity Thanksgiving Praise and Almes Confession of Faith Lord
untill now For the good which I have received For the good if any which I have done For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits For the promise and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing For my good and honest Parents My kinde and mild Master and Teacher My ever memorable Benefactors My trusty friends My faithfull companions My loving and carefull Wife My obedient and towardly children For all those which have any way furthered and profited me By their writings Sermons Discourses Proverbs Examples Reproofes Injuries For all these and for all other known unknown manifest and secret remembred and forgotten Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered I praise and will praise Blesse Blesse Thanke Thank thee All the dayes of my life What am I Lord or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven which he hath given me to this instant Praises IT is good to sing psalms unto our God For sweete and decent is his praise Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart In the counsell of the Saints and in the Congregation O magnifie the Lord with me and let us elevate his Name Let all his works blesse the Lord in all the places of his Dominion from the Sun rise to the fall thereof Let all that breath praise the Lord Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations and praise him only ô all ye people Give unto the Lord all ye Kindreds of the earth give unto the Lord honor and glory Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Being your offerings and come into his Courts Praise thou the Lord ô Salem and thou ô Sion praise ye the Lord All ye that stand in the Lords house in the courts of the house of our God lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary ô lift them up and praise the Lord My soule praiseth the Lord him will I praise all my life long To my God will I sing whilst I have any being Thou art my God and I will praise thee Thou art my God and I will exalt thee Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens and thy glory above the Earth Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures All man-kinde in generall The Klngdome of the whole world The Catholike Church The Kingdomes and Churches in severall This Church and Kingdome of ours The orders and degrees in each And the particular persons in them Towards this City This Parish wherein I dwell Towards all that are mine Mine Household Kindred Benefactors Friends Wel-willers Towards my poor selfe My soule and body in the gifts of grace Nature The world Now to this present and which shall bee at my time hereafter Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord For indeede it is most due and just Most meet and convenient in all and by all means in all â—indes Times and places To memorize adore confesse praise blesse Magnifie and thanke thee VVhich art the Creator Nourisher Preserver Governour Restorer Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures Their Lord and Father Their King and God The fountain of life and Immortrlity The treasury of eternall blessing VVhom the heavens applaud and the heaven of heavens the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them with them Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high in earth peace and good will among men Blessed and praised and magnified extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord The memoriall mention and remembrance thereof For the faith of the Patriarchs The hope of the Prophets The labours of the Apostles The trueth of the Evangelists The blood of the Martyrs The zeale of the Confessors The study of the Doctors Glory be to thee O Lord glory be to thee Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them In whom wee also glorifie thee Amen Glory and wisedome Honour and Virtue Praise and Riches Blessing Power Thanksgiving and Dominion Holinesse and Salvation be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever and to the Lambe which was slaine Amen Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee for thy judgments are made manifest Praises in Particular COme and harken unto me ô all yee that feare the Lord and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule he hath created me hee hath brought me into life and hath so disposed of mee that I am A living soule and not a sensles thing A Man not a Beast Civill not barbarous Freeborne not a slave Legittimate not a bastard Of honest parentage not of base or Ignominious Of understanding not blockish Sound in sences not blind or deafe Sound in Limbs not lame or maimed Well brought up not forlorne or exposed A Christian not a Pagan Peaceable not quarelsome Cleare of dangers not swallowed up by them Cleere of infamy not wounded in credit Of sufficient estate not forced to flatter or borrow And living in the dayes of PEACE not turmoyled with hurly burly To thee O Lord Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. To an Inheritance Immortall undefiled and never fading reserved in heaven for us which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me so through Christ my consolation aboundeth To thee O Lord The God of my fathers I make my confession to thee I give praise because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee and hast opened thy Word unto me Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood according to the power which worketh in us Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ through out all generations for ever and ever As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this â—â—â— I give my thanks to tâ—â—e ô Lord The Evening approacheth ô blesse that also to
one night adde knowledge unto another Teach mee good Lord so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisedome From the morning watch untill the evening let Israel trust in thee O Lord A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer O Lord I Have neither knowne thee as I ought might have done neither as I have known thee have I glorified thy name or beene thankefull unto thee and woe is me that I have not But with sorrow I confesse and humbly I crave pardon and would to God I had done it nay would I might now hereafter so know thee and live so holily that both in me and by mee and by others for my sake thy name might be hallowed O let me so serve and so promote thy Kingdome here upon earth in the state of grace that I may attaine unto some place though the lowest even under the feete of thy Saints in Heaven in the state of glory Thy will which is holy and just and good be done by mee thy mercifull and gracious will be done with me me earth as I am As it is in Heaven Give us this day those things which may conduce to our welfare our quiet and our contentment Forgive mee my debts That excessive score of my debts my filthy slips fals my frequent relapses my long long wallowing in abominable pollutions even such as it is a shame to name or repeate these all and those other also which are not so sensible and yet perhaps no lesse grievious and which sinke me full as deep into perdition Out of these depths I cry out unto thee good Lord I beseech thee deliver my soule deliver it from the nethermost hell One deep calleth upon another the depth of my misery on the depth of thy mercie psal. 42. 7. O let thy mercie bee exalted above thy justice let thy goodnesse overcome my wickednesse Jam. 2. 13. Where sin hath abounded let thy grace much more abound Rom. 5. 20. Take away my sinnes take away the cause of my sins my sinns both those which are scandalous and scrupulous to my heart and those also which are not so and yet perhaps far more heynous of which I desire thee ô Lord that I may bee enlightned that so I may bee humbled for them In thy wrath remember mercie and forgive me my sinnes sins of mine owne ends with others sins secret and manifest sins ancient and fresh of the world or of the flesh As thou art most mercifull and indulgent and compassionate O Lord forgive them all even as wee forgive our debters and grant us this also that wee may forgive them and to that end infuse thy charity into our hearts Leade me not neither suffer me to be led nor â—â— enter into temptation but remember commiserate my frailty and weakenesse so often discovered But deliver me from evill from the evill Spirit and his suggestion from the evill in my selfe that is in my flesh and the inticement therof from the evil in the world and the contagion of it From all penall evills which most justly and worthily I have deserved from the evils of the world to come and spare mee there and feare and launce me here rather From the evills of this present world ptty mee Lord for I am but feeble from the malice and evill of this day and of this disease wherewith I now struggle and from the evill ensuing From all manner of evills past present and to come from them all good Lord deliver me and keepe me thy servant for ever Amen Confession of sin TO thee O Lord I confess for if I would I cannot hide it from thee that I also am one of the number for even my life discovereth my guilt O Lord I am a Sinner a branch of the wild Olive tree arising from the roote of bitternesse Job 14. 4. For of uncleane seed was I begotten and in sinne did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 1. And I have sinned I have dealt unjustly I have done wickedly even in thy presence Psa. 106. 6. 51. 2. Impiously have I behaved my selfe in thy Covenant and have cast off thy law 1 King 8. 34. And rejected thy correction oppressed thy spirit and have gon a whoring after mine owne inventions and proceeded from bad to worse and have not feared thee Esa. 5. 24. Pro. 15. 3. Esa 63. 10. Ier. 18. 12. Lev. 25. 43. Nor yet returned Luk. 15. 18. No not when I was called back Pro. 13. 10. Not when I was afflicted Heb. 3. 13. But have waxed hard 1 Kings 16. 33. And have provoked thee And all this thou hast seene Psa. 9. 33. And yet hast held thy peace La. 2. 59. Sam. 49. 21. O God Thou knowest my foolishnesse and my transgresssions are not hid from thee I know it also my guilt is ever more before me Ps. 69. 5. Ps. 51. 3. Job 31. 33. Ps. 141. 4. And I hide not ô Lord Iincline not my heart to such wicked words as to excuse the accusations of my sinnes But against mine owne selfe I acknowledge mine iniquity and all that is within me and all my bones say that I have sinned I have sinned O Lord against thee Psa. 32. 5. 103. 1. 55. 10. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 19. Like a lost sheep I have gon astray and have been as froward as an untamed Heifer nay like a dogg have I returned to my vomit and like a washt Sow have I wallowed in the mire againe and rushed into mine owne destruction like a barbed steed into the battell Psalme 119. vlt. Ier. 31. 18. Pro. 26. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Ier. 8. 6. And now O Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hidden from thee thou know'st Lord my greif because I have thus sinned against thee that I am become tedious to mine own selfe because my sorrow is not greater that earnestly desire of thee a contrite heart unspeakable groanes and teares of bloud Psa. 38. 9. Iob. 7. 20. Psalme 51. 17. Rom. 8. 26. And woe is me for my leanesse for the drynesse of my eyes and the hardnes of my heart Esa. 24. 16. Ier. 9. 1. Rom. 12. 5. Mar. 9. 25. Yet Lord I repent I repent O Lord O doe thou help my want of penitence and still more and more bruise thou rend prick and smite this heart of mine Psa. 51. 17. Ioel. 2. 13. Act 1. 2. 37. Behold O Lord I am angry with my selfe for my foolish unprofittable nay hurtfull dangerous lust 1 Cor. 7. Ps. 73. 22. Luc. 23. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 8. 1 Tim 6. 9. Yea I even loath and abhorr my selfe for the absurdity the foolishnesse the basenesse of it Iob 42. 6. 2 Thes. 3. 2 All the day long my shame is before mine eyes and the confusion of face hath covered me Ex. 5. 12. 13 17. Psa. 44. 15 Alas Alas That I have no more reverenced nor yet feared Ja. 1. 14. Thy Incomprehensible glory Awfull presence