thou O God hast care ouer thine and dooest chasten them for their health that they should not perish for euer with the wicked For thou wilt restore the gouernement of good things to their vse and then the godlie shall follow thée chéerefullie Grant vs we humblie beséech thée to know thy waies and to ascend vp vnto the throne of thy maiestie by faith giuing thée praise and glorie for thy fatherlie preseruation and health towards vs continuallie For thou hast béene a house and defense for vs thou hast chosen vs to be thy people before the foundation of the earth was laid Wherefore we are sure that thou wilt heare vs whensoeuer we call and crie vnto thée for mercie and grace Blesse vs now and euer with all goodnes that we may lead our liues according to thy will liuing in thy feare all the daies of our life that after this course is ended we may dwell with thée world without end Amen 7. Another for the same I Make my humble petition in thy sight O GOD most holie which biddest vs aske and it shall be giuen séeke and we shall find knocke and it shall be opened vnto vs and beléeue onelie and we shall receiue whatsoeuer we desire Lord I beléeue helpe thou mine vnbeléefe and giue me that faith which shal be most acceptable in thy sight Sowe in my heart good Lord the graine of stedfast faith which may aspire and spring vp vnto the mercie seat of thine almightie maiestie for without true faith and obedience we cannot call vpon thée a right Giue me therefore good Lord that most pretious iewel of faith that thou maist thereby heare me And giue me comfort saluation through thy mercifull goodnesse O God who neuer dooest forsake thy faithfull seruants that come to thée in humblenesse of heart looking vpon Iesus Christ thy deare sonne our Lord and Sauiour for he is the trée of life which standeth in the middest of paradise by whom we haue entrance vnto thée O déere father Whosoeuer séeketh anie other waie than this thy déere Sonne he is a théefe and a robber and shall neuer be partaker of the benefits which he of his mercie hath most louinglie bestowed vpon vs which grant me Lord Iesu neuer to forget but euermore to shew my selfe thankefull For it is thou O Lord that art worthie to receiue all glorie honour and praise for thou hast created and redéemed all and without thée we cannot doo anie thing that is good Wherefore Lord Iesus I come vnto thée crauing at thy mercifull hand an humble and contrite heart a patient mind a quiet conscience the gift of faith and of the holie Ghost O thou louer of soules heare me poore wretch although vnworthie once to thinke much lesse to speake vnto thy maiestie But thou art the same Lord who dooest most louinglie saie Come to me all ye that are heauie loden and I will ease you Which comfortable saieng of thine O Christ maketh me bold to come into thy presence vnloding my sinfull sacke of corruption before the face of thine almightie power not doubting but thou wilt mercifullie heare me and ease me with thy helpe for I cast all my burthen on thée who art the giuer of life and saluation Wherefore I turne my selfe vnto thée O Lord Iesus Christ desiring thée by praier to renue whatsoeuer is amisse in me either by mine owne frailtie or malice of the diuell For I acknowledge O Lord that I am the most wicked the most fraile of all others the weakest to resist my ghostlie enimie But I trust through thy mercie to be of the number of them for whom thou hast ouercome the diuell and the world which grant me Lord Iesus for thy bitter passions sake that after this life I may enioie the endles blisse and glorie of heauen To thée with the liuing Father and the holie Ghost be giuen all honour and glorie all praise and thanks for euer and euer Amen Amen 8. A praier of the iustice of God and of his mercie O GOD almightie Lord of heauen and earth from whom nothing can be hid or kept secret thou art the searcher of the hart and reines which knowest the thoughts of all men when I remember thy iust iudgment I tremble and quake for feare considering the burthen wait and filthines of sinne to be so great that for one proud thought a great number of angels fell from heauen The earth was not able to beare the burthen of Corah Dathan and Abiram but for the rebellion against thée and thy seruant Moses the earth opened and swallowed them quicke For the sinne and pride of Dauid who mustered his men putting his trust in the multitude of them rather than in thée that art the liuing God thou scourgedst him with the plague of pestilence so that there died foure score thousand of his people within the space of thrée daies Who would not then feare séeing we sinne dailie with most gréeuous sinnes Now haue we no remedie to flie from thy wrath but to shrowd our selues in the bosome of thy most dearelie beloued sonne our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ making him our bulworke and house of defense betwéene thine anger and vs most humblie beséeching thée for his sake and for the bitter paines that he suffered for our redemption to be mercifull vnto vs and rebuke vs not in thine anger Let not the sentence of euerlasting death take place which thou gauest against Adam and all his posteritie for his disobedience Thou art méeke gentle and long suffering of thy selfe It is our gréeuous offenses heaped one vpon another that prouoke thée vnto anger Therefore acknowledging our offenses we praie thée most mercifull father to haue compassion vpon vs for we are not able of our selues to arise it is thou Lord and thy blessed sonne that must heale our infirmities We haue no strength to withstand the temptation of our enimies thy sonne Christ must reach vs his hand as he did to Peter walking on the water when he was in perill of drowning His patience is our medicine and health thy grace and his are sufficient remedies We are all carnall sold vnder sinne so that the good we would doo that doo we not but the euill that we wold not that we doo We are all euill of our selues Consider O God our contrite hearts and penitent minds and heare heale and amend vs. Hope biddeth vs still to crie and call vpon thée for helpe as the woman of Canaan cried still vpon thy sonne Christ for the helpe of hir daughter and at the last was heard to hir owne contentation so we knocking and calling still doubt not but thou wilt grant through our importunacie our desires as he that granted his neighbour thrée loaues We doo now knocke crie and will neuer cease till thou Lord turne towards vs and deliuer our soules Turne we heartilie beséech thée from thy wrath to pittie and mercie deliuer vs from the manifold troubles which we haue in our
gifts of grace which thou hast lent me I may yéeld a iust account with much aduantage so that I may be worthie to heare thy voiee saieng vnto me Come thou true good seruant thou hast béene faithfull in a little I will make thée ruler ouer much enter thou into thy maisters ioie O blessed and happie are they that shall be so placed of thée they haue fought a good fight and thorough Iesus Christ haue ouercome the battaile and prince of this world Therefore shall they liue and reigne with the same Christ their grand capteine bicause they tooke him for their guide in all their dooings and fought manfullie vnder his banner Thy poore soldier I am Lord and fight dailie Lord helpe me for thy mercies sake to ouercome all mine enimies Giue me O Lord a waking mind an vnderstanding hart and renue in me a right spirit which may lead me vnto thée who art the waie the truth and the life whose mercies remaine for euer whose truth indureth from generation to generation Glorie be to the father who so mercifullie created vs and to the sonne who louinglie redéemed vs and to the holie Ghost who sanctifieth vs and maketh vs blessed thrée persons and one GOD whose name be praised for euermore Amen 35. A thankesgiuing vnto God for the redemption of the world wherein is shewed from what graces he fell and how he was restored O Most holie father of heauen the onelie liuing God of power inestimable of wisdome incomprehensible to thée be honour and glorie and thanks for thy noble works in the creation of mankind and also for our redemption out of captiuitie and thraldome of the diuell by the passion of thy most deare beloued sonne Iesus Christ For thou madest Adam the first man and gauest him frée will to obeie thy commandements from the which he fell by the intisement of the diuell and by his owne stubbornes whereby he spoiled himselfe and his after commers of those godlie gifts which thou of thy mercie haddest bestowed vpon vs. Howbeit thou of thy fatherlie goodnesse diddest not vtterlie leaue him but gauest him faith to beléeue thy promises made vnto him and to vs all in Iesus Christ with grace and obedience to kéepe thy lawe By faith we beléeue in thée by charitie we worke towards our neighbour according as thou hast commanded No man liueth without sinne but happie and blessed are they to whom thou giuest thy grace not to abide and sléepe in sin but by penitence to come to a godlie conuersation Lord giue vs faith and a willing heart to follow thy holie word so that we may exercise our selues in it all the daies of our life Make vs O Lord like vnto the wise virgins that were prouided of oile in their lampes against the comming of the bridegroome Then wilt thou know vs to be thy faithfull children by election and open the gate to vs that we may enter in to our comforts Which grant vs Lord for thy blessed sonnes sake who to saue vs suffered bitter passion whose mercies be praised for his goodnes with thée O father and the holie ghost in the world of worlds now and for euer Amen 36. An other praier of praise and thankesgiuing to the same purpose aforesaid WHat liuing creature can giue condigne thankes most gratious heauenlie father for the manifold gifts which thou of thy infinite mercie and goodnes hast giuen him First for his noble creation wherein he excelleth all other earthlie creatures then for his redemption through the bitter passion and resurrection of thy most louing sonne For the which I as one of thy poore creatures most humblie giue thée thanks For had not our redemption ensued our creation it had béene much better for vs that we had neuer béene made Thy loue aboue all other was most feruent when thou diddest not spare to giue thine onelie begotten sonne for vs washing awaie all our filthines in the blood of that méeke lambe thine onelie naturall sonne who being GOD was made man to the intent that we who naturallie are the sonnes of men by him through grace might be made the sonnes of God And not being contented with this kindnesse thou also Lord considering our weake and fraile nature readie to sinne dooest with thy grace guide vs and gouerne vs as the shéepheard dooth his shéepe suffering vs not to want anie thing defending thy poore flocke from the rauening woolues that would else deuoure vs. Thy blessed sonne hath put vs to féed in the pleasant gréene and beautifull pasture of his holie church making vs to rest in the vnitie thereof by a liuelie faith and hope in him Which church is verie plentifull abounding with all spirituall meate of the word of God which nourisheth and giueth life to the soule as bread and other food féedes the bodie With this food thou diddest féed the prophet Ezechiel when thou diddest cause him to eate a booke wherewith his bowels were filled and it séemed in his mouth swéeter than honie In this pasture runneth also a fresh and pleasant riuer of running water of godlie doctrine wherewith we often doo refresh our soules In this also is a water of spirituall washing by baptisme whereby we were woonderfullie refreshed in our youth For our soules being made foule through the diuell and sinne by baptisme are repaired and made beautifull according to the first creation that is to thy likenesse and image and by this water we are replenished with thy holie spirit This water saw the prophet Ezechiel long ago gushing foorth of the right side of the temple and grew to a great riuer that no man could wade ouer to which water whosoeuer we come was made whole Euen so in the water of our baptisme we were borne againe in the water of godlie doctrine we are nourished and without these we are but dead in sinne and wickednesse and at the end shall go to euerlasting death but these waters are to vs a well springing vp vnto euerlasting life And if at anie time by our frailiie we fall into sinne yet is thy mercifull sonne readie to receiue vs to his grace and quicken our soules if we be sorowfull and penitent By which grace he maketh vs also to knowe how to loue him and not to estéeme the pleasures of this world but to haue our eies onelie fixed vpon him So that with thine apostle Paule we account all things but losse that we may winne Christ and be found in him not hauing our owne righteousnesse but that which springeth of the faith which is in Iesus Christ Whose grace if we haue though we walke in the vallic and shadow of death yet we feare none euill for thou art with vs. This life is a shadow of death after which we trust by faith to dwell with thée Neuerthelesse whilest we are here thou art with vs and thy sonne hath also promised to be with vs vnto the end of the world his rod of discipline and correction dooth chasten vs
for the which I despise all earthlie things in respect of of thée the euerlasting GOD without measure who féedeth all things Thou art the comfort of the soule and the true ioie of the heart Wherefore Lord continue thy graces towards vs and helpe our present necessities for we are far vnworthie of thy great benefits which thou bestowest vpon vs and all people who appointest the earth to bring foorth to mans vse Thou art a most nourishing father prouiding for all creatures their dailie food for none is able to do anie thing but as thou appointest them sith they are but instruments to doo thy worke though intentions be diuers Thou O God art the sender of peace and warre prosperitie and aduersitie punishing whole nations for their sinnes How can we then so foolishlie persuade our selues that we shall escape vnpunished for our offenses Séeing thou hearest and séest all things who hast in all ages plagued all such as maliciouslie and contemptuouslie depart from thy truth For who so forsaketh thée O God shall be punished and made wearie of his sinnes wherein he delighteth As for me I hate them O Lord that presumptuouslie dare attribute vnto themselues that they can guide their owne harts séeing it lieth in thy omnipotencie to giue the will and further the worke For there is none able to speake a word except thou giue it him neither is anie able to thinke a good thought without thée much lesse may anie doo the thing that good is without the assistance of thy holie spirit Wherefore regenerate me O Lord God by the same spirit and restore me to thine image giuing me grace and an assured faith to thinke doo that which is righteous in thy sight For I desire to liue but onelie to please thée as thy seruant Moses did who was brought vp with the daughter of Pharao and taken as hir sonne where he might haue liued still in much wealth if he would But when he was great through faith he refused to be called hir sonne chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God than to enioie the pleasure of sinne for a while and all for that he had respect to the reward to come in thy heauenlie house Which grant me to aspire vnto for thy mercie sake whatsoeuer vexation or trouble my bodie bide For what should all the world gaine me if I lose my soule Better I were in this world to féed vpon the bread of teares and to wash my cup with moorning than to liue in all prosperitie wallowing in worldlie wealth and forget thée my God as the rich glutton did For assuredlie it is thy plague when the rich man hath not a liberall hart to vse his riches to thine honour and glorie For there is no power so high or mightie but thou O God canst visit him with thy rod neither is there anie mountaine or hill so strong or mightie that it can preserue the wicked from thy wrath O most mightie when thou wilt strike for thine office is to take vengeance on the wicked and to reward them according to their wickednes and deseruing Blesse me O GOD and make me of that number which regard not the pleasures of this world with the temporall commodities thereof but make me strong against my spirituall enimie that I may be thy well beloued child and seruant for I haue no other refuge but thée O Lord in whom my conscience is at rest Thou art named mercifull gratious and long suffering Lord shew thy selfe so vnto me thy poore creature who is most weake and fraile of all other Lord I haue confessed all mine offenses and imperfections vnto thy Maiestie and now I depend wholie on thée resting still on thy most holie word beséeching thée to strengthen my poore soule which sigheth and groneth vnto thée with gréefes that cannot be expressed vntill thou haue mercie vpon me Which grant me for thy deare sonne Iesus Christ our Lord and sauiour Amen So be it 43. A praier for the good estate of the church and congregation of God ARise O LORD GOD and haue mercie vpon thy church and faithfull congregation Giue vs that be of the houshold of faith ioie and consolation Thou didest euer shew mercie vnto thy seruants for euer since the fall of angels vnto the end of the world thy mercie hath euer béene and shall be aboundantlie shewed to all mankind but chéefelie it was shewed when thy sonne was sent into this world to suffer death whereby the gate of heauen was opened which before was shut that no man might enter This time was the beginning of grace and was certeinlie appointed when the fulnes of time was come which was before sinne by the euerlasting wisdome of thy deitie whereby thou dooest all things in most perfect order This time of grace we trust shall continue for euer to those that are penitent Wherefore we praie thée without ceasing to haue mercie vpon thy church for we faithfullie build vpon a sure rocke thy sonne Iesus Christ is our foundation Wherefore most louing father turne thée vnto the praiers of vs that are poore destitute of any helpe but onelie of thy helpe through thy mercie Despise not we humblie beséech thée our humble desire Behold our petitions with thy fatherlie eie wherewith thou didst looke vpon the oblation of Abel and receiue it thankfullie wherewith also thou beheldest the the praier of the Israelties being in bitter bondage in Aegypt and deliueredst them with those same mercifull eies vouchsafe to looke vpon vs and our praiers whereby the noble fame and praise of thy mercie shall be written for those that come after which shall be borne in faith by baptisme and may praise thée For those that be thy children shall haue a power aboue nature in their age shall they bring foorth most swéet and pleasant fruit Thou wilt euer declare thy selfe the preseruer of the church in destroieng thine enimies as thou diddest in thy red sea Thou O God art mercifull and wilt not forsake vs neither destroie vs nor forget the appointment of our Fathers which thou swarest vnto them And forsomuch as thou O God hast appointed that thy church in this world shal be vnder the crosse both bicause we should learne not to put our trust in anie worldlie thing and also féele thy comfort when all other helpe faileth Therfore we humblie beséech thée O Lord gather thy church which is dispersed and giue vs constancie vnder the manifold crosses which we suffer that we may with one consent all togither praise thée for euer For thou hast promised by the mouth of thy swéet sonne Iesus Christ that thy power and thine assistance shall be with hir vnto the end of the world Strengthen vs therefore with thy grace and holy spirit that we may sowe the séed of good works in this world that they may declare vs to be thy faithfull seruants and that they may be acceptable fruit in thy sight for thou dooest trie
be diminished For thou art so mercifull that a sinner can no sooner humble himselfe but thou receiuest him to mercie waiting as it were with patience to call him to repentance Wherefore we crie now vnto thy maiestie from the depth of our hearts most humblie beséeching thée to put all our wickednes out of thy remembrance and giue vs grace to put our onelie trust in thée from whom we looke for our deliuerance who shalt change our bodies and make them like to the most glorious bodie of thy sonne Iesus Christ to whom with thée the holie Ghost be giuen all praise honour and glorie now and for euer more Amen 39. A praier of lamentation wherein the sinner lamenteth his miserable estate and crieth for mercie MY God when I do earnestlie behold mine owne state wherevnto I am brought through sinne not onlie being naked and bare of all goodnes but also to be ouerwhelmed in the depth of all iniquitie I cannot but lament moorne and crie for helpe as dooth a woman whose time draweth néere to be deliuered of hir child for she can take no rest till she be discharged of hir burthen No more can I Lord as long as I féele my selfe loden with my heauie burthen of sinne the weight wherof draweth me downe to the déepe bottome of all miserie from whence I can by none be deliuered but onelie by thée that art the guide and the eie to those that are blind through ignorance the succor of the oppressed the comfort of the weake the life of those that are dead so that they repent and turne vnto thée It is not the long distance of vs from thy highnesse which kéepeth our praiers from thée thine eares are readie in the hearts of all that are willing to crie for the help of thy grace Who so is made farre from thée through sinne by repentance is made néere vnto thée He that is in the bottom of the sea of miserie if he beginne to call for thy helpe he shall not be suffered to sinke From all déepe dangers most mercifull God deliuer me I crie and call pitiouslie vnto thée which art onelie able to helpe me Heare therefore I most hartilie praie thée my sorowfull praier and let my poore petition pearse the eares of thy Godhed And since thy sonne Christ died for to release vs of sinne let not my sinnes be a staie whereby my praiers should not be heard but wipe them cleane awaie that they neuer more appéere For I miserable sinner doo flie to the gentlenes of thy fauourable mercie whose nature and propertie is to haue pitie compassion From thée floweth all mercie and grace which was so great vnto vs that it mooued thée to send thine onlie Sonne to die for our redemption whereby thy iustice was satisfied and thy mercie found that it sought O how feruent was this thy noble charitie to vs vile wretches It tooke root beginning in thy mightie deitie from thence it was deriued to mankind being an example that we thy christian people should like louing brethren beare one anothers burthen Wherefore I am most willinglie contented to remit all iniuries doon to me as it hath pleased thy goodnes to forgiue me much greater offenses committed against thée And whensoeuer it shall please thée to scourge and punish me I will gladlie receiue thy chastisement for that I knowe it procéedeth of loue for my wealth and suretie trusting that after my long abiding suffering in this life I shall surelie obteine thy reward by thy promise that is If we suffer with Christ we shall also reigne with him Such sure hope haue I euer had in thée Lord and by the same hope I trust to haue thy fauour and liue for euer For blessed are they that trust in thée most mercifull Father and cursed are they that trust in man Of thy grace and mercie onelie commeth all goodnes thy mercie forgiueth onelie our sinnes dailie and hourelie the painfull death of thy sonne Christ deliuereth vs from all the paines due for our sinnes Thou boughtest vs not with gold and siluer but with the pretious bloud of that lambe without spot thy blessed Sonne whose death had béene sufficient for thousands of worlds The greatnes of thy loue caused the plentifull paiment of the price of our redemption The charitie of our Lord Iesus Christ hath burnt vp and consumed by his death all our iniquities Wherefore the faithfull being thus deliuered from all dangers by thine onlie goodnesse may now giue thanks vnto thy mightie Maiestie resting in hope to haue after this life euerlasting ioie and felicitie thorough Iesus Christ our mercifull Lord and redéemer to whom with thée O deare Father the holie Ghost be giuen all honor glorie and praise now and for euer Amen 40. A praier wherein the fatherlie loue and preseruation of God is set foorth and a request that we may continue faithfull and constant vnto the end GRant vs O Lord that we may constantlie beléeue in thée that being certified by thy iustice taught by thy wisedome gouerned by thy power we may stedfastlie perseuere euen vnto the end in hope of that ioie that is set before our eies framing our liues continuallie in christian exercises that we may shew our selues thankful to thée our God with dutifulnesse to our neighbour For thy iudgements appéere manifest in this world against those that suppresse thy word and persecute thy seruants For thou dooest disappoint the lot and expectation of the wicked turning their ioie into sorrowe and the teares of the godlie into gladnesse dwelling in the harts of thy faithfull by thy holie spirit who are called thy glorie bicause thy image and the token of thy grace shineth in them Thou art a light to comfort thy people and a fire to consume thine enimies Thou art he O Christ that touchest the harts of all thy seruants mortifieng their concupiscence but to the wicked thou art the sauour of death Wherefore the faithfull desire of thée to be deliuered that thou by them maist be glorified for thou hast promised to be true and iust vnto all that trust in thée Wherefore we will take thée for our defense against all our enimies what danger soeuer we fall into Thy word giueth life vnto man causing him to sée and trie the secrets of his darke heart For thou shewest thy selfe most liberall to thine when they séeme to be most destitute kéeping them vnder thy protection that they may be safe against all dangers and frée from the cruelties of their enimies For as to the elect all things turne to their profit so to the reprobate euen those things that are good turne to their damnation As for me I will neuer boast of mine owne vertues O God but confesse that thou of thy frée goodnes hast euer bin mercifull vnto me and giuen me power against mine enimies as to one of thine household Wherefore grant me alwaies to make my praier vnto thée from the fountaine of my
beare the name of a christian for that through mine own sin I haue defaced the beautie of the principall part of man which is my soule made to thy godlie image Neuerthelesse since thou art the reformer of all our harts and the inspiror of all grace and goodnesse I most humblie beséech thée to correct by thy power that which through my frailtie is amisse Redres by thy pitie that which I haue mard through my follie make me able to yéeld vnto thée that which thou requirest of me acknowledging mine owne vnworthines and to render vnto thée noble praises and louing thanks for thy manifold gifts of grace wherby thou hast of thy méere liberalitie indued both my soule and bodie Make me worthie to laud thée which I cannot doo vnlesse thou giue me grace to wipe awaie all mine iniquities For thy praises be not séemelie in the mouth of a sinner Yea Lord I praie thée inflame my hart with the loue of thée so that from the bottome thereof I may speake them and not to loue anie thing in this world but thée for thée Thou art the true God and sauiour and there is none but thou O Lord. Out of thy mouth commeth the word of righteousnes which no man may turne Wherefore all other gods set I asside to thée onelie will I sing praises and confesse thée onelie to be the liuing GOD which I will acknowledge before the whole congregation of the faithfull Thou knowest the inward intent of the heart for in the hearts of the beléeuing is thy seate and resting place The soules of the iust are the temples wherein thou dooest inhabit To this temple good Lord will I turne my selfe by pondering the state of mine owne soule for strength whereof I call most humblie vnto thée most mercifull God that I may be able to vanquish the illusions of the subtill serpent Performe in me that which thou hast promised for all thy waies are mercie and truth Thy mercie reacheth vnto the heauens and thy faithfulnesse vnto the clouds thy righteousnes stands like the strong mountaine When thy goodnes is considered all the rulers of the earth must néeds confes that great is thy might and thy glorie Neuerthelesse although thou dwellest aboue the heauens yet hast thou a louing respect vnto the lowlie and méeke of spirit and dooest behold them as one looketh on his friend if they trust in thée Thou drawest néere vnto them that séeke thée to heare their praiers yea thou art their shéeld and protection in all their necessities as for the proud workers of iniquitie thou séest them a far off thou beholdest them with a fearse looke to their confusion to destroie and roote out their memoriall out of the euerlasting beatitude Who so therfore will haue thy maiestie come néere vnto him must plucke downe his mind and become lowe in heart For the méeke humble people be those that shall enioie the heuenlie countrie And though they walke in the middest of trouble yet shalt thou refresh and quicken them This world is a place ordeined for trouble and not for rest Here we are appointed to trauell in this place is no want of tribulation but thou euer gratiouslie comfortest the faithfull thou sufferest them not to be ouercome in any tribulation for through thée they vanquish all their enimies Wherefore Lord powre out thy mercies I beséech thée vpon thy flocke deliuer vs from all our enimies spirituall and temporall let thy right hand saue vs and lead vs through thy grace into eternall felicitie As for riches ease honor or any kind of temporall pleasure which be thy gifts also but of thy left hand we nothing estéeme Manie times thou bestowest these benefits vpon thine enimies the other thou reseruest for thine elect to receiue after manie tribulations And the same Lord I humblie beséech thée to kéepe in store for me thy poore seruant Regard not the wickednes which I dailie commit but looke vpon the merits of thy son Iesus Christ my God and my sauiour for it is he that hath paied my debt and thou Lord hast sealed the acquitance grant me to honour thée therefore as I ought to doo now and for euer Amen Amen 49. A praier wherein is shewed that God is alwaies our protection if we trust in his sonne Iesus Christ O Lord thou art my God I will praise thée and magnifie thy name and thy word aboue all things Thou bringest maruelous things to passe according to thy will and pleasure Thou art the poore mans helpe a strength for the néedfull in the time of trouble defending them against all weathers and their shadowe in the time of heate Likewise to the presumptuous thou art like a strong whirle wind that casteth downe the boasting of the vngodlie bicause they know not thée to be the euerlasting strength but the righteous Lord haue a respect vnto the waie of thy iudgements and thy name and remembrance reioiseth their hearts As for my soule it thirsteth after thée both daie and night and my mind hasteth fréelie vnto thée bicause thou art so mercifull vnto all them that séeke thée in singlenesse of heart for thou wilt be found of them that thirst after thée Thou art the well of pleasant waters whorewith whosoeuer is filled they shall neuer be a thirst for thou O lambe of GOD that dwellest in the middest of the throne wilt lead thine vnto the founteine of liuing waters and giue them euerlasting rest bicause that in this world they made themselues white in thy blood bearing thy crosses with willing minds and confessed thée before men on earth For this cause wilt thou acknowledge them before God thy father in heauen where they shall praise thée and him world without end O God most holie I acknowledge that I am none of those that haue deserued halfe such mercie at thy hands but I hope through the mercies and merits of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ my Lord and sauiour to be made as perfect before thée O heauenlie father as if I had neuer sinned For thus I stedfastlie beléeue if I come vnto him he will not refuse me and if I praie heartilie desiring his helpe he will heare me and cloath me with his righteousnes and take from me all the sinnes that euer I haue committed from my birth vntill this present houre as he hath promised in his holie word Come Lord Iesus for thou art true and iust in all thy waies and wash me with thy most pretious blood Sanctifie me with thy bitter passion pretious death and glorious resurrection Restore me to those ioies that thine elect doo find in thée powre thy holie spirit into my heart that he may draw my mind continuallie vnto thée for thou art the waie the truth and the life Blessed are they that trust in thée and with a stedfast faith make thée their onelie staie and refuge they shall be sure of all happinesse in this world and when it shall please thée to call them hence they shall enioie with thée the crowne of glorie who hast all power giuen thée both in heauen and earth for the father iudgeth no man but hath committed all vnto thée who art the verie wisedome of God Wherfore Lord Iesu make me blessed with thée like as thou art blessed for I commit my selfe both bodie and soule into thy mercifull hands who hast redéemed me O thou God of truth Thou O Lord art worthie to receiue all glorie and honour and might for thou hast created all things and for thy willes sake they were and are created O most noble creator of light shine into my hart that it may cléerlie sée the excellencie of thy maiestie and quicken my soule and spirit that they may continuallie be stirred to honour and glorifie thée as thou art worthie which by thy grace I shall not cease to do with hart soule mind and strength among thy faithfull congregation which of thy mercie Lord preserue and kéepe that we may praise thée one God in persons thrée and euerlasting in vnitie world without end Amen FINIS 1584 H D OS HOMINI SVBLIME DEDIT Imprinted at London by Henrie Denham dwelling in Pater noster Rowe at the signe of the Starre Cum priuilegio