the Unitie of the Deitie and hast revealed the undivided glorie of the onely ever-blessed Divinitie and demonstrated the perfect eternitie of thy Trinitie grant me I beseech thee Faith and Obedience in this life and Glorie in the life to come by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Redeemer Amen O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angrie with thy poor servant that prayeth O turn me again O God shew the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen * Glorie be to thee glorie be to thee O Lord How great is the depth of thy mercie how great the abundance of thy patience Behold how some that have been raised from a mean and obscure degree to honour and renown under pretence of thy Name how they abuse their honour and use it against thee the Donor they are unjust and assume to themselves what they should not dare against thy most holy Mysteries they use their utmost to thrust out men of approv'd integrity that profligat men may with the greatest fecuritie and licentiousness put all things into confusion Arise O Lord and help thy Church and suffer not my soul to come into their counsels through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I will crie day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thine ear unto my calling for my soul is full of trouble and my life draws nigh unto the pit O let not thine indignation lie too hard upon me neither vex me with all thy storms but remember of what mould thou hast made me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord let me have no idle contention about words but let me constantly profess the Faith without delays Preserve in me I beseech thee an unblemished reverence to thy Faith and grant me this restimonie of my Conscience whilst I have my being that I may alwaies retain that Profession which I made at the Sacrament of my new Birth when I was baptized in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost That I may acknowledge thee the Father and together with thee may adore thy Son and may merit thy holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord be merciful unto me and I will sing praises unto thy Name yea I will tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season O bless me and fulfil all thy works of grace in me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * Grant me O Lord a watchful mind and sober thoughts a pure heart and pleasant sleep and free from all diabolical phancies And raise me again O Lord at the hour of prayer that I may adhere firmly to thy precepts and keep an entire remembrance of thy Judgements Amen LOrd remember thy promise unto thy servant wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust That thy statutes may be my songs in the house of my pilgrimage and that I may remember thy Name in the night-season Amen * Into thy hands O Lord I commend my soul and bodie for thou hast created and redeemed them O Lord thou God of truth And together with my self I commend unto thee all that is mine for thou Lord hast graciously bestow'd them on me according to thy good pleasure Cause me therefore O Lord both to lie down and sleep in peace for it is thou onely makest me to dwell in safetie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord and maker of all things O God the Father and Governour of thine O thou disposer of Life and Death O thou preserver and benefactor of Souls O thou that makest all things and changest them by the creating Word which framed them both seasonably and wisely according to the depth of thy Wisdom and Providence govern thou my life in the flesh as long as shall be most expedient for me and thy Church And in thy good time receive me I beseech thee as one prepared not surprized so as I may not flie thee at the last day nor come with an unwilling mind like one forcibly broke off and snatcht away from this world but that I may go readily and chearfully to that most blessed and eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord to whom be glorie for ever and ever Amen * O Lord my God call me that I may come to thee fix me that I may not leave thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SATURDAY O Lord I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercie in the morning for thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of my trouble Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my defence and my merciful God Amen The glorious Majestie of thee O Lord my God be upon me prosper thou the work of my hands upon me O prosper thou my handie-work Amen O Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy Commandments from me for thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellors Lord continue that favour to me that so they may ever be Amen O Lord our heavenly Father Almightie and everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same with thy mightie power and grant that this day I fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O My soul wait thou still upon my God for my hope is in him he is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall So Amen Lord Jesu Amen O Lord God be merciful unto every one that prepares his whole heart to seek thee O Lord God the God of his Fathers though he be not according to the Purification of the Sancturie Amen O Lord I walk in the midst of trouble I beseech thee refresh me Stretch forth thy hand upon the furie and the cunning of mine Enemies that thy right hand may save me O make good thy loving kindness towards me and despise not I beseech thee the work of thine own hands Amen I deal with the thing that is lawful and right O give me not over unto mine Oppressors Amen O make me thy poor servant still to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie God the Fountain of all Wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking I beseech thee to have compassion upon my infirmities and those things which for my unworthiness I dare not and for my blindness I cannot ask vouchsafe to give me for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ
And I now desire to depart this life in the Invocation and Confession of thy Name Lord I confess it and call upon it O come Lord Jesu Amen O Lord I have sinned 1. But I have not denied thee O never let the Enemie prevail with me to denie thee 2. But I believe O Lord increase my Faith and let me never be confounded 3. But I hope and what is my hope but in thee alone receive me O Lord according to thy Word and let me not be disappointed of my hope 4. But I have prepared and directed my heart to seek thee and though I am not purified according to the purification of the Sanctuarie yet O Lord Jesu quench not the smoaking flax nor break the bruised Reed 5. But I bear thy correction patiently and I hold my tongue because thou Lord hast done it 6. But I forgive those that have trespassed against me and thou hast promised forgiveness to him that forgives them 7. But I cast my self upon thee O withdraw not thy self from me and in no wise cast me out when I come unto thee 8. But I desire to depart confessing unto thee and calling on thy Name Wherefore not for my sake O Lord nor for any thing that belongs to me but for thine own sake for thy Names sake for the glorie of thy great Name and for thy Truths sake for thy many great and wonderful mercies sake for the sake of Christ the Mediator and of the Holy Ghost the Comforter receive me that am returned to my self and returning unto thee Amen And therefore O Lord my God I shew forth I offer I commemorate Between thee and me Christ the Priest the Lamb the Sacrifice Between me and Satan Christ a King a Lion a triumphant Conqueror Between me and sin Christ's Innocencie in his Life Between the punishment of me and my sins Christ's Satisfaction Passion and Bloud shedding Between me and my want of Righteousness Christ's Righteousness and unsinning Obedience Between me and my unworthiness to be rewarded Christ's Merits Between me and my want of sorrow for my sins Christ's Tears and bloudie sweat Between me and my want of fervencie in Prayer Christ's Intercession Between me and my own Conscience or the Accusation of Satan Christ the Advocate Between me and my Concupiscence Christ's Love Let it be acceptable unto thee O Lord for the same Christ's sake Amen O Lord I have sinned But I do not cover my sin I do not excuse it I willingly confess it I reflect on it in the bitterness of my soul. I abhor my self for the sins I have committed against thee O give me grace that I may judge and take vengeance on my felf that I may not depart this most miserable life without forgiveness O Lord I have not onely sinned but provoked thee with many and grievous sins yet I beseech thee remember that I am but flesh even a wind that passeth and cometh not again * And the mercie of my blessed Saviour can avail more towards the salvation of me a sinner than my iniquitie can do to my destruction Amen * O Lord Jesus in thee there was found no cause of death and yet didst thou suffer death for me I have deserved death give me grace O Lord that I may not fear to die and that I may be prepared for it Amen * O Lord Jesus for those bitter pains which thou didst endure on the Cross for me a most miserable Creature and especially at that hour when thy most pretious soul went forth from thy blessed body I beseech thee have mercy on my Soul when she takes her flight and bring her unto life eternal Amen Absolution OUr Lord Jesus Christ who hath lest power to his Church to Absolve all sinners which truly repent and believe in him of his great mercie forgive thee thine offences And by his Authoritie committed to me I Absolve thee from all thy sins In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Consecrations Ordinations O Lord I am now at thy Altar at thy work keep me that I lay not my hands suddenly upon any man lest I be partaker of other mens sins but that I may keep my self pure in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord give me grace that as oft as they shall come in my way I may put them in remembrance whom I have ordained that they stir up the gift of God that is in them by the putting on of my hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grant O Lord I beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy Governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee let thy continual mercie cleanse and defend thy Church And because it cannot continue in safetie without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee keep thy Houshold the Church in continual godliness that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in good works to the glorie of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For his Episcopal Charge * O God the Pastor and Governor of all thy faithful people look down in mercie upon me thy servant whom thou hast been pleased to appoint chief Pastor of the Church of Canterbury grant I most humbly beseech thee that I may profit those whom I am set over both by my Doctrine and my Example that I together with my Flock committed to my charge may come at last to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O my God my most merciful Father let thy grace work so in me that I may be truly humble in the refusal of every great Office and yet obedient to undertake it that I may be faithful in the possession and courageous in the administration of it that I may be watchsul in ruling them earnest in correcting them servent in loving them patient in bearing with them prudent in governing them That in behalf of those who are under my care I may wrastle with God when he has a Controversie with them and stand in the gap when he is angrie through the faith and merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen O Lord as the rain cometh down from Heaven and returns not thither but waters the Earth and makes it bud and bring forth that it may give seed to the sower and bread to him that eateth So let thy Word be that goeth out of my mouth let it not return to me void but accomplish that which thou wilt and prosper in the thing whereto thou hast sent it that the people committed to my charge may go out with joy and be led forth in peace to thy freshest waters of comfort in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Son of God thou which takest away the
to us Increase it good Lord to more Children the prop one of another against single hope Increase it to more Sons the great strength of his Majestie and his Throne Increase it in the Joy of his Royal Parents and all true-nearted Subjects Increase it by his Christian and happie Education both in Faith and Goodness that this Kingdom and People may be happie in the long life and prosperitie of our most gracious Soveraign and his Royal Consort And when fulness of days must gather time Lord double his Graces and make them apparent in this his Heir and his Heirs after him for all Generations to come even for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen O most gracious God and loving Father we give thee as we are bound most humble and heartie thanks for thy great mercie extended to us and this whole State in blessing the Queens Majestie with a happie deliverance in and from the great pains and perils of Child-birth We humbly beseech thee to continue and increase this Blessing to give her strength that she may happily overcome this all dangers else that his most gracious Majestie may long have joy in her happie life that she may have joy in his Majesties prosperitie that both of them may have comfort in the Royal Prince Charles the new-born Princess the Lady Mary and with them in a hopeful healthful and successful Posteritie that the whole Kingdom may have fulness of joy in them and that both they and we may all have joy in the true honour and service of God that both Church and Kingdom may be blessed and their Royal Persons filled with honour in this life and with eternal happiness in the life to come even for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O eternal God and merciful Father we give thee all humble and heartie thanks for our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles both for the gentleness of thy hand in a disease otherwise so troublesome and fearful and for the mercifulness of thy hand in taking it off so soon and so happily We know and acknowledge before thee our sins and what grievous punishments they have deserved But Lord we beseech thee still to remember us in mercie and long to bless our gracious King with life and health and strength and happiness and above all with the fear of thy holy Name that so he may continue under thee and over us a Father of the State a Patron of the Church a Comfort to his Royal Queen till he see his Childrens Children and peace upon Israel Grant this good Lord even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Most gracious God and loving Father we give thee all humble and heartie thanks for thy great mercie in blessing the Queens Majestie with a happie deliverance in and from the great pains and peril of Child-birth We humbly beseech thee to continue thy mercies towards her that she may happily overcome this and all other dangers that his most gracious Majestie may long have joy in her most happie life and both of them comfort in the Royal Prince Charles and the rest of their Princely Issue particularly in the new-born Prince the Duke of York that they all may prove a healthful hopeful and a successful Posteritie that both Church and Kingdom may have fulness of joy in them That their Majesties Royal Persons may be filled with honour in this life and with eternal happiness in the life to come And this even for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O eternal God and merciful Father by whom alone Kings reign thou Lord of Hosts and giver of all Victorie we humbly beseech thee to guard our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles to bless him in his Person with health and safetie in his Counsels with wisdom and prudence and in all his Actions with honour and good success Grant blessed Lord that Victorie may attend his designes and that his Liege-people may rejoyce in thee but that shame may cover the face of thine and his treacherous Enemies Give him blessed Father so to settle his Subjects in Peace and the true fear of thy Divine Majestie that he may return with joy and honour and proceed long to govern his Kingdoms in peace and plentie and in the happiness of true Religion and Pietie all his days These blessings and whatsoever else shall be necessary for him or for our selves we humbly beg of thee O merciful Father for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Redeemer Amen O eternal God and merciful Father by whom alone Kings reign thou Lord of Hosts and giver of all Victorie we humbly beseech thee both now and ever to guide and preserve our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles To bless him in his Person with health and safetie in his Counsels with wisdom and prudence and in all his Actions with honour and good success especially against those his traiterous Subjects who having cast off all Obedience to their Anointed Soveraign do at this time in rebellious manner invade this Realm Grant blessed Lord that Victory may attend his Majesties designes that his Liege-people may rejoyce in thee but that shame may cover the faces of thine and his treacherous Enemies Enable him blessed Father so to vanquish and subdue them all that his Loyal Subjects being setled in Peace and the true fear of thy holy Name he may return with joy and honour and continue to govern his Kingdoms in peace and plenty and in the happiness of true Religion and Piety all his days These Blessings and whatsoever else shall be necessary for him or for our selves we humbly beg of thee O merciful Father for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Redeemer Amen His Grace's Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Jan. 10. 1644. to his Chaplain Dr. Sterne after Lord Archbishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12. 2. Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God I have been long in my Race and how I have looked unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of my Faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I find the Cross a death of shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red Sea and my feet are upon the very brink of it An argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for
I took of my self upon it And as for them and their like let them not have their desire O Lord let not their mischievous imaginations prosper against me nor their furie lay hold upon me lest they be too proud and lest I end my wearie days in miserie Yet forgive them O Lord for they know not why they did it And according to thy wonted mercie preserve me to serve thee and let the same watchful Protection which now defended me guard me through the remainder of my life And this for thine own goodness sake and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen O eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee look down upon me in this time of my great and grievous affliction Lord if it be thy blessed will make mine Innocencie appear and free both me and my Profession from all scandal thus raised on me And howsoever if thou be pleased to trie me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me full patience proportionable comfort contentment with whatsoever thou sendest and an heart readie to die for thy Honour the Kings Happiness and this Churches Preservation And my zeal to these is all the sin humane frailty excepted which is yet known to me in this particular for which I thus suffer Lord look upon me in mercie and for the merits of Jesus Christ pardon all my sins many and great which have drawn down this Judgment upon me and then in all things do with me as seems best in thine own eyes and make me not onely patient under but thankful for whatsoever thou dost O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O eternal God and merciful Father after long imprisonment I am now at last called to answer I most humbly beseech thee to strengthen me through this Tryal to preserve the patience with which thou hast hitherto to blessed me through this affliction Suffer no coarse language or other provocation to make me speak or do any thing that may mis-become my person mine age my calling or my present condition And Lord I beseech thee make me able to clear to the world that Innocencie which is in my heart concerning this Charge laid against me Grant this O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O merciful Lord I have had a long and a tedious Tryal and I give thee humble and heartie thanks for the wonderful strength that I have received from thee in the bearing up of my weakness Lord continue all thy mercies towards me for the storm gathers and grows black upon me and what it threatens is best known to thee After a long Tryal I am called to answer in the House of Commons and that not to Evidence but to one single man's report of Evidence and that made without Oath What this may produce in present or in future thou knowest also O Lord furnish me with patience and true Christian wisdom and courage to bear up against this drift and send not out thy storms to beat upon me also but look comfortably upon me to my end in and through the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen Prayers upon sundry Publick Occasions MOST gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most Religious and Gracious King at this time assembled that thou wouldest be pleased to bless and direct all their Consultations to the preservation of thy Glorie the good of thy Church the safetie honour and welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms Lord look upon the humilitie and devotion with which they are come into thy Courts And they are come into thy House in assured confidence upon the merits and mercies of Christ our blessed Saviour that thou wilt not denie them the grace and favour which they beg of thee Therefore O Lord bless them with that wisdom which thou knowest necessarie to speed and bring great designes into action and to make the maturitie of his Majesties and their Counsels the happiness and the blessing of this Commonwealth These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen O eternal God and our most gracious Father thou art the Lord of Hosts and the strength of all Nations is from thee If thou keepest not the Citie the Watchman waketh but in vain And no Victorie can wait upon the justest designes upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies if thou teach not their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steadie hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them which go and remain in the broad Sea Lord at this time we need thy more special Assistance both by Land and Sea and sor the mercie of Christ deny us neither Be with our Armies and the Armies of our Allies and Associates by Land be with our Navie at Sea Be not from the one nor from the other in power and in great mercie until thou hast brought them back with honour and a setled Peace Lord turn our Enemies sword into their own bosom for we sought Peace and ensued it and while we did so they did more than make themselves readie to battel We are thy servants truly and heartily sorrie for our sins Lord forgive them and then we will trust upon thee that thou wilt pour down all thy Blessings upon this and all other designes and actions of this State undertaken for thy glorie the honour of our most gracious King CHARLES and the peace and welfare of this Church and Commonwealth Grant this we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Advocate Amen Most gracious God we humbly beseech thee pardon and forgive all our many great and grievous transgressions We may not hope thou wilt take off thy punishments until thou hast forgiven our sins We may not think thou wilt forgive our sins until our humiliation and repentance come to ask forgiveness We have been too slow to come and now thou hast apparell'd thy Mercie in Justice to force us to thee Lord we believe but do thou increase our Faith our Devotion our Repentance and all Christian Vertues in us At this time the Vials of thy heavie displeasure drop down upon us and while we smart under one Judgement thou threatnest the rest The Pestilence spreads in our Streets and so as if it sought whom to devour No strength is able to stand against it and it threatens to make Families nay Cities desolate While the Pestilence eats up thy People we hear the sound of War and the Sword calleth for such as it would devour In the mean time the Heavens are black over us and the Clouds drop leanness and it will be Famine to swallow what the Pestilence and the Sword shall leave alive unless thou send more seasonable Weather to give the Fruits of the