deny'st me deny me not a broken and a contrite heart O that my head were waters and my eyes fountains of tears that I might weep much and love much having much to be forgiven Lord hear me help me save me for thy own gratious promise sake for thy own tender mercies sake for the merits and sufferings of Iesus thy beloved in whom thou hast made Penitents accepted Amen Amen Q. Having repented of the violations of your Baptismal Vow shew me how you will renew it A. I shall doe it after this manner I have sinned O Lord God I have sinned and done evil in thy sight but I repent I turn to thee I confess and forsake my wickedness and am sorry for my sins It grieves me O most amiable Goodness it grieves me that ever I offended thee With all my heart O my God do I now renew the Sacred vow which alas alas I have so often violated O Lord God I do for the future Renounce the devil that Arch-rebel against thee with all his Apostate-Angels I renounce all his worship all his impious suggestions delusions and temptations for which he is called the tempter and all the ways of consulting him which ungodly men have taken I renounce all his works all those sins of the Spirit all pride and malice and envy all treachery and lying revenge and cruelty all tempting others to Sin hatred to Holiness and Apostasie which are his daily practice and are truly diabolical I utterly renounce O Lord God the pomps and vanity of this wicked world all covetous desires of honour riches and pleasure all sinfull excesses in things lawfull I renounce Lord all evil customs all evil companions all that is vain or wicked in the world all that friendship with the world which is enmity with thee all things that may alienate my heart from thee I renounce O Lord God all worldly comforts and possessions all my natural relations and my own life whenever they stand in competition with my duty to thee I utterly renounce O Lord God all the sinfull lusts of the flesh all the inordinate desires of my own corrupt nature of my own carnal mind which is enmity with thee I Renounce Lord all fleshly lusts which war against thee and against my own Soul all sloth and idleness and intemperance and lasciviouâ—ness all filthiness of flesh and spirit which render us unclean in thy sight O Lord God I utterly Renounce all things that may any way displease thee from them all let it be thy good pleasure to deliver me I know Lord that Sin is the utmost abomination to thy purity the most audacious outrage to thy Adorable Majesty the perfect contradiction to thy Deity and therefore I utterly renounce and abhor it I know Lord that Sin exposes us to all the Vials of thy wrath and to vengeance eternal I know it sets the Sinner at the extremest distance and opposition and defiance to thee and therefore I utterly renounce and abhor it I know Lord I cannot love thee but I must hate evil and therefore I renounce and detest it Turn thou me O Lord God and so shall I be turned Turn O Lord the whole stream of my affections from sensual love to the love of thee O my God let thy heavenly love be the constant byass of my Soul O may it be the natural spring and weight of my heart that it may always move towards thee Thy love O my God shall hereafter be the sole rule and guide of my life I will love thee and love whatever thou lovest and hate whatever thou hatest I will believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith and I will keep thy Holy Will and Commandments and waâ—â— in the same all the days of my life All this O my God I own my self bound to believe and doe and though of my self I am impotent to all good yet by thy help I will perform it and I heartily thank thee O heavenly Father who out of mere compassion to my Soul hast call'd me to this state of salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Glory be to thee O Lord who hast indulg'd me this opportunity of repentance Glory be to thee who hast wrought in me this Will to renew my Baptismal vow O my God I humbly I earnestly pray unto thee to give me continual supplies of thy grace that I may continue in thy love unto my lives end that being faithfull to death I may receive the Crown of life O Lord God I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments My heart is empty and disengag'd and longs for thee my heart is entirely devoted to thee Enter O my God possess it with thy gratious presence and fill it with thy love Lord for thy tender mercies sake restore me to thy favour to all the graces and privileges of my Baptism of which I have been spoil'd by my sins Lord make me a living member of thy Church the mystical body of thy Son O my God unite me inseparably to Christ my Head and from thence let his gratious influences be ever streaming into my soul Father I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy Son But I return with the Prodigal O let thy paternal bowels yearn on me and gratiously receive me Lord send thy Spirit of Adoption into my heart to instill true filial affections that I may again be own'd by thee for thy Child and call thee Father and share in the blessings of thy Children and at last become an Inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven O heavenly Father accept my imperfect repentance compassionate my infirmities forgive my wickedness purifie my uncleanness strengthen my weakness fix my unstableness and let thy love ever rule in my heart through the merits and sufferings and love of the Son of thy love in whom thou art always infinitely pleas'd Amen This Office may be us'd in times of devout Retirement or on the Lord's day or in Affliction or Sickness but especially before the Holy Eucharist Q. Rehearse the Articles of your Belief A. I. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth II. And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord III. Who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Uirgin Mary IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried He descended into Hell V. The third day He rose again from the Dead VI. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty VII From thence he shall come to iudge the quick and the dead VIII I believe in the Holy Ghost IX The Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints X. The Forgiveness of Sins XI The resurrection of the body
to thee O Love enthron'd thy Resurrection Ascension and Session are all signal instances of thy love and earnests of our future felicity the entire purchase of thy love All our hopes of Heaven our Resurrection Ascension and Glorification depend on and are derived from thine and are all the trophies of thy love to us and therefore I will ever praise and love thee From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe O Glorified Love that from thy Throne at God's right hand where thou now sittest thou wilt come again to judge the world attended with thy holy Angels All glory be to thee I believe O thou adorable Judge that all mankind shall be summon'd before thy awfull Tribunal All the Dâ—ad who shall be wak'd out of their Graves when the Angel shall blow the last Trump and all that are then Quick and alive shall then appear before thee All glory be to thee I believe Lord that I and all the world shall give a strict account of all our thoughts and words and actions that the Books will be then opened that out of those dreadfull Registers we shall be judged that Satan and our own Consciences will be our accusers O let the last Trump be ever sounding in my ears that I may ever be mindfull of my great accounts and that I may neither speak nor doe nor think any thing that may wound my own Conscience or provoke thy Anger or make me tremble at the awfull day I know O thou adorable Judge that Love onely shall then endure that terrible Test that Love onely shall be acquitted that love onely shall be eternally blest and therefore I will ever praise and love thee Glory be to thee O thou beloved Son of God to whom the Father has committed all Iudgment How can they that love thee O Jesu ever despond though their love in this life is always imperfect when at last they shall have love for their Judge Love that hath felt and will compassionate all their infirmities and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe in the Holy Ghost I believe in thee O thou Spirit of God the third Person in the most adorable Trinity I believe O blessed Spirit that thou art the Lord that thou art God eternal and omniscient a Person distinct from both the Father and the Son eternally proceeding from both and equally sent by both and joint-authour with both of our Salvation and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe O blessed Spirit that thou art Holy essentially Holy in respect of thy own Divine Nature and being essentially Holy art infinitely Amiable and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe O blessed Spirit that thou art personally Holy that thou art the Authour of all internal Holiness and all internal and sanctifying Grace that thou art the principle of all spiritual life in us and therefore all love all glory be to thee Glory be to thee O Love Incarnate for sending the Spirit in thy stead and for promising it to our Prayers all love all glory be to thee Glory be to thee O Spirit of Love for shedding the love of God abroad in our hearts for filling all that love thee with exuberance of joy and consolation all love all glory be to thee O thou blessed Spirit the Comforter purifie my Soul and infuse thy love into it and consecrate it to be thy Temple and fix thy Throne immovably there and set all my affections on fire that my heart may be a continual Sacrifice of Love offer'd up to thee and the flame may be ever aspiring towards thee The Holy Catholick Church I believe O blessed and adorable Mediatour that the Church is a Society of persons founded by thy love to Sinners united into one Body of which thou art the Head initiated by Baptism nourish't by the Eucharist govern'd by Pastours commission'd by thee and endow'd with the power of the Keys professing the Doctrine taught by thee and deliver'd to the Saints and devoted to praise and to love thee I believe O holy Jesus that thy Church is holy like thee its authour holy by the original design of its Institution holy by baptismal dedication holy in all its administrations which tend to produce holiness and though there will be always a mixture of good and bad in it in this world yet that it has always many real Saints in it and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe Lord this Church to be Catholick or Universal made up of the collection of all particular Churches I believe it to be Catholick in respect of time comprehending all ages to the worlds end to which it is to endure Catholick in respect of all places out of which Believers are to be gather'd Catholick in respect of all saving Faith of which this Creed contains the substance which shall in it always be taught Catholick in respect of all Graces which shall in it be practised and Catholick in respect of that Catholick War it is to wage against all its ghostly enemies for which it is called Militant O preserve me always a true Member of thy Catholick Church that I may always inseparably adhere to thee that I may always devoutly praise and love thee Glory be to thee O Lord my God who hast made me a member of the particular Church of England whose Faith and Government and Worship are Holy and Catholick and Apostolick and free from the extremes of Irreverence or Superstition and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of thy Church Universal and which teaches me Charity to those who dissent from me and therefore all love all glory be to thee O my God give me grace to continue stedfast in her bosome to improve all those helps to true Piety all those means of Grace all those incentives of thy Love thou hast mercifully indulged me in her Communion that I may with primitive affections and fervour praise and love thee The Communion of Saints I believe O King of Saints that among the Saints on Earth whether real or in outward profession onely there ought to be a mutual catholick participation of all good things which is the immediate effect of catholick Love Thou O God of Love restore it to thy Church I believe O thou God of Love that all the Saints on Earth by profession ought to communicate one with another in evangelical Worship and the same holy Sacraments in the same Divine and Apostolical Faith in all Offices of corporal and spiritual Charity in reciprocal delight in each others Salvation and in tender sympathy as members of one and the same Body O God of Peace restore in thy good time this catholick Communion that with one heart and one mouth
hatefull violations of thy love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull people O my God O my Love I earnestly pray that thy love may so prevail over our hearts that we may sadly lament and abhor all these abominations and may never more provoke thee The Second Commandment O my God O my Love I know the true Love of thee is incommunicable to any but thee and therefore I renounce and detest and bewail as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy love and to thy glory All making of Idols or false Gods or of graven Images with intent of worshipping and bowing down before them All representations and picturing of thee O my God by visible likenesses of things in Heaven or in Earth All corporeal shapes which are infinitely unsutable to thy invisible and spiritual nature and derogatory from thy adorableness All Idolatry and Religious invocation of Creatures All sacrilege and prophanations of thy House and of things sacred All abuse or disesteem or carelesness of thy Word and contempt of thy Ministers All superstitious or unlawfull rites superfluities or mutilations irreverence or indecencies in thy publick worship by which thou art any way dishonoured All resting in mere outward observances or refusing to give thee bodily worship and to fall down before thee All the least tendencies to any of these impieties From all these and the like violations of thy incommunicable Love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull people c. as p. 39. O my God O my Love imprint on my soul an Awfull Love of thy Majesty that I may worship thee in spirit and in truth and in a manner worthy of thee O my God O my Love make me so tender of the Honour of thee my Beloved that I may shew a due regard to all the parts of thy worship That with lowest humiliation of soul and body whenever I appear in the presence of infinite-Love I may fall down and adore thee O my God O my Love O may I always enter thy house the habitation of unbounded Love with recollected thoughts compos'd behaviour becoming reverence and sincere intentions of Love O my God O my Love O may I ever frequent the publick Prayers and approach thine Altar with fervent and heavenly affections with holy impatience for the blessings of thy Love O my God O my Love O may I always reade and hear thy Word the heavenly register of thy Love with a serious attention an inflamable heart and a particular application and ever learn from it some lesson of thy Love O my God O my Love for thy dearest sake give me grace to pay a religious veneration to all sacred persons or places or things which are thine by solemn dedication and separated for the uses of Divine Love and the communications of thy grace or which may promote the decency and order of thy worship or the edification of faithfull people O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of thy love our souls may be continually employed to praise and to love thee c. as p. 39. Thou O my God O my Love art a jealous God jealous of thy own Honour and of the chastness of my Love O let me never run after other Loves or commit spiritual Adultery against thee to provoke thee to anger Thou O my God O my Love dost visit the iniquities of the Fathers upon the children Thou when thy jealousie burns like fire against Idolaters and those that rob thee of thy worship art wont to punish them in their very posterity with temporal evils and with spiritual too when their children tread in their steps for then thou makest their Father's sins occasions of hastning or of increasing thy judgments though thou always sparest the children that repent O let thy just indignation against violating thy Worship deter me and all that profess thy Name from such violations Thy jealousie O my God O my Love falls heavy upon them that hate thee but how is it possible for any one to hate thee who art infinite love and yet alas all that are enemies to thy Divine Worship all that exalt any lust any creature into thy Throne to ascribe their happiness to sacrifice their esteem and zeal and affections and to offer up Sovereign Honours to it what do they doe but love false Gods and hate thee and are therefore hated by thee O Lord God to hate thee is the proper character of Devils and Lucifer himself cannot sin beyond that utmost extremity of evil the hatred of thee and my heart is full of horrour and grief to think that ever those that bear thy Image and daily subsist by thy love should turn themselves into Devils and this World into a Hell by hating thee O boundless Love turn them O turn them into men again and then they cannot chuse but love thee Glory be to thee O my God who shewest mercy to them that love thee and keep thy Commandments Love and Obedience always go together and entail a blessing on the posterity of thy Lovers O keep me always one of that happy number O let me ever love and obey thee Glory be to thee O Lord God whose Love is more diffusive than thy Anger they vengeance extends but to the third or at most the fourth generation thy mercy unto thousands and the more diffused thy Love is the more powerfully it moves us to praise and to love thee The Third Commandment O my God O my Love thy Name is thy own glorious and amiable self thy Divine Nature and Perfections and Works most worthy to be ador'd most worthy to be lov'd and therefore I will always adore and love thy Name O my God O my Love may I ever have awfull thoughts of thee may I never mention thy venerable Name unless on solemn and just and devout occasions may I never mention it on those occasions without acts of love and adoration O my God O my Love to love and to glorify thy Name is the great end of our Creation which is still more enforced by our Redemption O let it be the greatest busineâ—â— of my whole life to love and to glorifie it all the possible ways I can by my mouth by my conversation by my publick confession of thee before men even to death whenever thou art pleas'd to call me to it by engaging all I can to glorify and love thee O happy life O blessed death which is spent and expires in glorifying in loving thee O my God O my Love
Father Almighty though thou fillest all places yet thy Glory is most manifested in Heaven and there thy Majesty does most Illustriously dwell and to thy Throne there are we to lift up our hearts when we Pray O let my soul fly up to thee when I pray in Heavenly Thoughts and Desires and Love O let me savour nothing of the earth whenever I treat with thee in Heaven Glory be to thee O Gratious Lord who in the Petitions of thy most Divine Prayer hast taught us for what we are to Pray for all blessings Temporal and Eternal for all things lawful and acording to thy will Glory be to thee O Jesu who in ranking the Petitions for Spiritual blessings first hast taught us to seek Heaven in the first place grant Lord that I may always beg thy blessings in their due order that I may pray for blessings Spiritual with holy violence with importunity and resolution not to be denyed as being the proper ingredients of thy Love and absolutely necessary to my eternal welfare and for Temporal with Indifference and Resignation to thy will since I may Love thee and be eternally happy without them Hallowed be thy Name O Lord God may Thy Name thy own Glorious and Amiable self have a Love and Honour separate and incommunicable May thy infinite Goodness and Greatness be for ever by all Men and all Angels Confest and Admired and Adored and Magnified both in Private and Publick in our Hearts our Mouths and our Lives All Creatures share in thy Goodness O God O let all Creatures help us to Glorifie thy Name O may every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Thy Kingdom come O thou King of Kings may Thy Kingdom of Grace the Church Militant the Catholick Seminary of Divine Love come to its utmost Evangelical perfection in this life O may thy Gospel Lord be dayly propagated Unbelieving Nations Converted and the number of thy Saints augmented Grant O Lord God that thy true Religion thy Word thy Conveyances of Grace all the Holy Institutions Laws and Governours fixt by thee in thy Spiritual Kingdom may be Loved and Honoured and Obeyed and that thy faithful Subjects may be protected against all the malice of wicked men or the powers of darkness O my God let it be thy good Pleasure to put a period to sin and misery to infirmity and death to compleat the number of thine Elect and to hasten thy Kingdom of Glory that s and all that wait for thy Salvation may in the Church Triumphant eternally Love and I Praise thee Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven O my God thy Will and thy Commands are most Holy Iust and Good and condescending to our weakness and by no means grievous O give me Grace Conscientiously to observe them Thy blessed Angels O Lord always behold thy Face in Heaven They have the Beatifick Vision of thy incomparable Amiableness they cannot but unalterably choose thee they must needs to their utmost capacity Praise and Love thee they cannot possibly offend thee they ever perfectly obey thee and are always upon the Wing at thy Command Lord give me Grace in imitation of the blessed spirits above to set thee always before me O six my serious Contemplation on thee Ravish my soul with a lively sense of thy infinite Amâ—ableness O vouchsafe me one short glimps of thy Goodness O may I once tast and see how Gratious Thou art that all things besides thee may be tastless to me that my desires may be always flying up towards thee that I may render thee Love and Praise and Obedience Pure and Chearful Constant and Zealous Universal and Uniform like that the Holy Angels render thee in Heaven Give us this day our dayly Bread Glory be to thee O Heavenly Benefactor who openest thy hand and fillest all things living with plenteousness O let it be thy good pleasure to give me and all the wait on thy Beneficent Love our food in due season Give us Bread and all that is comprehended by it Health Food Raiment and all the necessaries of Life Give us O Heavenly Father Dayly Bread nothing to gratifie our Luxury but such a competence as thy Divine wisdom sees fittest for us Give us O bountiful Creatour Dayly Bread this day Teach us to live without covetous anxiety for to morrow with a fiducial dependance on thy Fatherly Goodness and to be content and thankful for the present portion thy Love has indulged us O merciful Lord give us Our Bread that which is our own Bread by honest Labour or a lawful Title and grant that we may never eat the Bread of Idleness or of deceit Do Thou Lord Give us our Bread for unless thou givest it we cannot have it and together with our Bread give us thy blessing otherwise our very Bread will not nourish us Above all O Lord God give us the Bread of Life the Bread that came down from Heaven the Body and Blood of thy most Blessed Son to feed our Souls to Life eternal Blessed Jesus O that it might be my meat as it was thine to do the will of thy Heavenly Father And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us For thy own inâ—inite mercies sake and for the Merits of the Son of thy Love Forgive me and all penitent sinners Our trespasses our sins Known or Secret of Omission or Commission which are the vast debts we owe to thy vindictive justice Forgive us O Lord as we forgive all them even our greatest Enemies that tâ—â—esâ—â—ss against us their trespasses which are infinitely inconsiderable in comparison of our trespasses against thee Glory be to thee O Lord who to teach us Charity hast made our forgiveness the condition of obtaining Thine O Easie O Gratious condition of Pardon who would not forgive his Brother a few pence in this Life to have ten Thousand Talents forgiven in the next O let my love Lord learn from thine not only to forgive my Enemies but to be Zealous also to do them good And lead us not into temptation O Lord God thou seest how our Ghostly Enemies the World the Flesh and the Devil are every moment soliciting inticing alluring or tempting us to evil O be merciful to us save and help and deliver us Thou seest O my God how infirm I am and how ready my own deceitful heart is to surrender it self to the Tempter and I know that Satan cannot tempt me without thy permission O lead me not if it be thy good pleasure suffer me not to fall into violent or lasting Temptations that may endanger my perseverance I know O heavenly Father that to be tempted is no sin for thy own beloved Son God incarnate was tempted to the most horrid of all Sins to fall down and worship the very
take Heavenly delight in thy Gracious Presence that with Praise and Thansgiving with Jubilation and Triumph I may receive thee into my Heart there I will have Love only Love always Love to entertain thee Lord when I present my self and my Love as all the Gift I have to offer at thy Altar next to my Love to thee and for the sake of thy infinite Love to me which I there remember give me Grace to love my Neighbour and to be in Charity wiâ—h all men and to walk in Love as thou hast loved us and hast given thy self for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour for which all Love all Glory be to thee O most Reconcileable Jesu in this Memorial of thy Sufferings I see how thou didst forgive me and didst love me when I was thy Enemy O for thy dearest Love to me give me Love to forgive all my Enemies and to be at peace with the world as I desire to be Loved and Forgiven and to be at peace with thee All that have any way injured me O my God I freely forgive for thy sake O do thou also forgive them incline them to Brotherly Charity and let them at last feel the comfort of that Reconciliation thou didst make upon the Cross for which I will ever Adore and Love thee O my God if I have wronged or injured my Neigbour O give me Grace to beg his pardon and as I have opportunity to make him satisfaction and restitution according to my power O crucified Love whenever I see thee in any of thy poor Members Hungry or Naked or in Distress O let the Remembrance of thy Love in Dying for me engage me to contribute all I can to thy relief O may I ever be liberal in my Alms to thee who wert so liberal of thy inestimable Blood for me It is very adviseable that persons before they Communicate should read over the whole Communion-Office or at least the exhortations there which they will find to contain very proper and plain and excellent Instructions It were much to be wish'd that people would make more use of their Common Prayer Books than they do and apply the Prayers they meet with there to their own particular conditions for the Book is always at hand and the Prayers are most safe and familiar and devout and the more they affect us in our Closet the more they will affect us in the Congregation and well meaning souls will reap great spiritual advantage from this practice For example an humble poor Christian who it may be has no other Book but his Common Prayer Book and who intends to come to the Holy Communion may learn to turn the Communion-Office to his own private use after this manner Almighty God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of my heart by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit that I may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy Holy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen I give most humble and hearty thanks to thee O God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the Redemption of the World by the Death and Passion of our Saviour Christ both God and man who did humble himself even to the death upon the Cross for us miserable sinners who lay in darkness and the shadow of death that he might make us the Children of God and exalt us to everlasting Life Glory be to thee O Jesus our master and only Saviour who to the end that we should always remember thy exceeding great Love in thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by thy precious Blood-sheding thou hast obtained to us hast Instituted and Ordained Holy Mysteries as Pledges of thy Love and for a continual remembrance of thy Death to our great endless Comfort To thee therefore O blessed Saviour with the Father and the Holy Ghost I will give as I am most bounden continual thanks I submit my self wholly to thy Holy Will and Pleasure and will study to serve thee in true Holiness and Righteousness all the days of my Life Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judg of all men I acknowledg and bewail my manifold sins c. I lift up my heart unto thee O Lord I give thanks unto thee O Lord our God it is meet and right so to do it is very meet right and my bounden duty that I should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty everlasting God But chiefly am I bound to praise thee for giving thy only Son Jesus to dye for my Sins and to rise a-again for my Justification Therefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the Company of Heaven I laud and magnifie c. I do not presume to come to thy Table O merciful Lord trusting in my own righteousness c. Glory be to God on high and on earth Peace good will towards men I praise thee c. To these as you see occasion you may add many very good Prayers short and plain and pertinent to your purpose which you may collect out of the Common Prayer and which will much further your Devotion such as these O Lord who never â—ailest to help and govern them whom thou doest bring up in thy stedfast Fear and Love keep me I beseech thee under the protection of thy good Providence and make me to have a perpetual Fear and Love of thy Holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass Mans understanding pour into my heart such Love toward thee that I loving thee above all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that I can desire through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Lord of all power and migâ—t who art the Author and Giver of all gooâ— things graft in my Heart the Love of thy Name encrease in me true Religion nourish me with all goodness and of thy great mercy keep me in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord who hast taught me that all my doings without Charity are nothing worth send thy Holy Ghost and pour into my Heart that most excellent gift of Charity the very bond of Peace and of all Vertues without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee Grant this for thy only Son Jesus Christs sake Amen Almighty God who hast given thy only Son to be unto us both a Sacrifice for Sin and also an example of Godly life give me grace that I may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable Benefit and also daily endeavour my self to follow the blessed steps of his most holy Life through the same Jesus Christ our Lord Amen They that are ignorant or that cannot read should go to their Parish Priest or to some