thy Spirit and by all meanes mould me and make my heart of that temper that the least touch of sin may trouble me that I may not obstinately goe on in a course of Rebellion against thee Mercifull Father let all thy crosses come rather upon me then this curse befall me That I may rather grieve and groane with hope on earth then waile and houle in hell without remedie A heart of flesh for stone Lord give me let thy holy Spirit work and keep it in me Doe it deare Saviour for me I beseech the in thy mercy Amen Amen Animadversion to the Devout Reader touching these Services THe Author in these Services tenders thee some things new and nothing he hopes naught There are extant Books of Prayers and Meditations and Directions apart and those who joyne some of these together but all as in his way he knowes none He conceives that the Soul engaged in a particular duty will be much assisted by so manie helps at hand and come off better with the Service Vicissitudes of Devotions like changes of clothes as they please the mind because they clog lesse so they will advance her piety the more when all though they goe severall waies meet in one study and care to work her Spirituall preferment Thy Spirit will not be lesse devoted to thy Prayers for having breathed it in holy Scriptures Nor wilt thou take in that Holy aire with lesse advantage to thy Soules health for going to it from thy Prayers Nor will those Heavenly refreshments profit or last less for plying the Soul at present well-devoted with proper pious Meditations Instructions set suteing to her particular purposes This will be as a Word in due season fit and good and serve as a little Sermon to nourish Holy Spirit so Divinely begot which else may starve before it can come to a greater and perhaps not have her particular state and case much reached and relieved neither if she come The Closet the good mans Daily Sanctuary alwayes * Ezek. 11 16. and in persecution often his onely Church as it never wants Gods Spirituall Altar a Devout heart nor his Garden Gods Holy Book in it nor Gods Holy Service an Holy Prayer-Book for it By this shall have a little Pulpit too Necessary for those who have no other and profitable for those who may want a better And surely the Soule which keeps her daily walkes betwixt Gods Altar and Garden her Prayers and his Scriptures must needs grow and goe on in Godlinesse And faster and firmer both for hearing every day a Sermon when Her selfe is the Preacher Her state the Text and God and Conscience the Auditory Reader He that is not for a Pulpit in the Chamber would have this in thy Closet and thinkes he shall doe God and thee good Service in these devote-lesse times to furnish thy Closet with such a Pulpit His Aime thou seest His patterne thou maist easily aime at especially if a Child of that Mother whose wisdome taught him such Prayers Though some things in the Services be new there are no novelties in them but for thy singular use compiled and made a Handfull of little Homilies and Prayers Rules for every Sundayes Devotion Sunday-morning When you awake lift up your heart and say O Sun of Righteousness which this day didst rise for me shine now and ever with thy Grace and Mercy upon me Amen When you are up kneel and say this Prayer O Lord Holynesse becometh thy House Dutifulness becometh me to go to thy Courts wait upon Thee And this is the great day of thy Service Thou that hast given me to see the light of this day make me carefull to do the duty of it timely to Present my selfe unto Thee and reverently to behave my self before Thee that I may come with fruit and favour from thee for Jesus Christ His sake Amen Before you goe to Church say if you have time the Sunday-Service following Omit not to say the Collect for it howsoever in the Afternoone say the Evening-Service Sunday-night When you goe to Bed kneel and say O Sun of Righteousnesse keep me from utter darknesse let me so sleep in thy Peace that I may be every ready to arise and meet thee in thy Glory Amen Amen Seven Services for the 1 st Week Services set to the Daies of the Weeke for foure severall Weeks Sunday-service Of the joyes of Heaven Morning Prayer Psal 36. 84. Lesson Isa 64. Mat. 5. to 13. or Mat. 17. to 14. Evening Prayer Psalm 15. 16. Lesson Isaiah 35. Apoc. 21. Then this following Collect. After it the Daily Prayers ¶ Sunday Collect or Prayer for the joyes of Heaven DEare Saviour who hast purchased lost Heaven for me by thy blood and now possessest it for me in my flesh possesse my soule I beseech thee with thy holy Spirit that my conversation now may be heavenly on earth and my habitation hereafter happy in heaven O let me not for the perishing pleasures of this vaine world lose an eternity of blessed joyes in thy presence and Kingdome Preserve me to it deare Redeemer who hast prepared it for me even for thy mercies sake O Lord. Amen Daily Prayers 1. Meditation of the joyes of Heaven WHat do I on earth when God is in Heaven Why are my Heart Body in two severall worlds And where but with Him and on Him should be my Heart Lord draw to thee what is made for thee till Bodie can come let my Spirit be with thee till my Soule depart from my Bodie to dwell for ever with thee let Devotion carry my thoughts out of my Soule and daily visit thee My help my hope my solace my salvation Father of my Spirit Husband of my Soule Soveraigne of my welfare Author of my nature End of my essence Blisse of my being Satisfaction of my desires Rest of my thoughts Perfection of my powers my life is a banishment imprisonment punishment on earth if thou be in heaven shun I never so much I shall meet with nothing but sinne and miserie seek I never so much I shall not find any thing of blisse below had I whole lands of wealth with hills of honour upon them and rivers of pleasure about those all were not a peble a pile a drop to my blessednesse my avaritious ambitious voluptuous desires are left drie on earth onely fill'd and drown'd in the paradise crowne and kingdome of heaven the ocean of blisse runs about the good that is infinite high above change great without measure full without want long beyond time away then my Soule from thy banishment bondage woe and miserable vanitie to thy home freedome joy and true felicitie Dove of grace flie to the windows of glory mount to those Louvers on high where the ravenous Bird of hell can neither seize or fright thee nor the beasts of the earth devoure or disquiet thee Heaven on Earth is a monstrous confusion if thou vainly seek it there thou
Rom. 12. or Heb 10. v. 30. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Revenge O Thou to whom vengeance belongeth keepe me from a revengefull spirit that I fall not into the hands of thy vengeance And since my pitty and patience and pardon is thy will let me not study revenges and returnes of injuries Thou O meek and mercifull Saviour didst pray for thy bloody enemies O let me then forgive my greatest foes Committing my cause to thee who wilt doe justice for me on them if I seek not revenge and for thy self upon me if I doe Thine O Lord is the sword of vengeance thine is the sharpest sword O let me not dare to take it out of thy hand lest whilst I strike others I fall justly by thy sword Though flesh and blood provoke me to it let thy holy Spirit hold me from it cast keep out of me that evil spirit by thy power O good God and Saviour of thy mercy Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Revenge 1. THe sinne of Revenge strikes at God and Man 1. It invades Gods Prerogative and takes his sword out of his hand Rom. 12. 19 2. It is many waies an injury to man To his 1. Nature Borne without armes to live without revenge And even armed Bruits agree with their kind and Devils avoid quarrels 2. Glory To passe by an injury of Prov. 19 11. all the most excellent victory Caesars noble memory to forget Pro. 16. 32. Ro. 12. 22. nothing but wrongs 3. Peace The mind is disturbed and takes no rest Ester 5. 11 12 13. Prov. 12. 15 4. Justice I am my owne Judge and anothers Executioner 5. Wisdome If my revenge fall on a Just man it toucheth God his Zach. 2. 8. friend If he be unjust my vengeance will make me so too 2. Be a Christian and you cannot doe this sinne contrary to the Holy life and law of Christ for when much provoked Luk. 9. 55. 1. He check'd his Disciples for calling for it 2. He commands Charity to pardon Joh. 15. 12 Luk. 21. 19 Ro. 12. 20. wrongs Patience to suffer them and Kindnesse to conquer them 3. He forbids Selfe-love the mother 2 Tim. 3. 2. Ephes 4. 31 32. and Wrath the father both which beget and bring forth revenge A Penitentiall Service fit for a troubled Soule fasting and praying for mercy and grace for Wednesday or other Day Morning Prayer Psal 6. 32. 38. or 51. 130. 143. Lesson Isa 1. Mat. 11. or Act. 3. Evening Prayer Psal 40. 42 43. Lesson Job 9. or Ezek. 18. or 33. 2 Cor. 7. ¶ 1. Collect or Prayer for a Penitent O Lord I doe here cast downe my self before thee O cast me not away from thee I cannot stand at the Barre of thy justice I doe therefore lie downe at the Foot-stoole of thy mercy I doe condemne my self for my sins Lord doe not thou judge me Cancell my sins in my Saviours blood and wash my soule in the streames of mercy Though as red as crimson and scarlet thou hast promised the penitent they shall be white as snow O acquit this pensive soule of mine I beseech thee let not my guilt be black as Hell before thee Wash me from it forgive it me And because forgivenesse of what 's past availes not if I fall againe into former offences O God of all grace I beseech thee so to pardon me a sinner as to make me a Saint Give me an holy strength to mortifie my lusts with an holy care to watch and withstand all occasions and temptations to wickednesse especially those that are by nature custome or condition of life most ready to surprize me against them make me to watch and ward and pray and strive more diligently And let thy Holy Spirit assist and strengthen me to a victory even for the blessed merits of him who overcame the world for me the Captaine of my salvation thy Deare Son Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen ¶ 2. Collect or Prayer for a Penitent O God! with a prostrate body and bleeding heart I doe most humbly confesse bewaile my wretched nature and wicked life before thee For my thoughts my lusts my deeds and words past my conscience cryes out against me * Here thinke of particulars when you say it So vaine so vile so foule so ill have they been before thee And thou art greater then my heart and can'st lay more unto my charge then conscience knowes about me O thou searcher of all hearts and wayes how oft I have vowed thee better service thou knowest and have shamefully violated my faith with thee I have sometimes begun to seek after thee but soone lost my self again in the waies of former vanity As the hills so hath been my love to vaine things but my goodnesse as the morning dew which vanisheth presently And for this even from my owne mouth thou mayest againe condemne me Yea Lord with grief of heart and shame of face I doe yet further confesse and lament bitterly that as if it had been a light thing my self to be in sinnes and armes against thee I have been a Leader of others into Rebellion and so am both a Sinner and a Tempter before thee I have countenanced in them what I should condemne and encouraged what I should abhorre And so as principall to my owne have made my selfe accessary to other mens ills and by nursing the acts of their sinnes have contracted their guilts for which thou mayest againe condemne me charging their wickednesse and woes upon me And though I have been and am at this day so guilty unworthy and vile a wretch against thee O how good and gracious a God hast thou been all my life at this present art unto me Though I deserve all vengeance even to eternall death thy mercies have been and are still great upon me O God of all pity and patience I am confounded to consider thy great goodnesse and my wickednesse against thee Woe is me that the bonds of thy Lawes and thy mercies and my vowes should be all thus broken by me For this shame and confusion of face for ever might justly cover me But Lord though I be every way a miserable Sinner thou art infinitely more a mercifull God Thou hast a propitiatory for sinne above all my provocations Mary Magdalene was foule with lust yet forgiven St. Peter perjured but pardoned Saint Paul made others to blaspheme yet found mercy O Lord for thine infinite mercies sake let my sinnes be forgiven me even for my Saviours sake punish not my guiltinesse upon me Seale to my soule thy pardon in his blood which was shed to save me And for time to come let thy Holy Spirit assist me to live with more conscience and lesse sinne before thee Lighten my mind with a sight of thy truth and fire my heart with a love to thy majestie that the vanities of the earth may be my scorne and the glory of heaven the onely ambition that
Armes I leave the wounded Mother and at thy Feet I lay the Bleeding Child Jesus nourish these Holy Passions in me which my Heart hath conceived and my Tongue now brought forth before thee Let thy Holy Passion ever Breed them in me and thy Holy Spirit nurse them for thee Even by the Merits of thy Bloody Passion I beseech thee Amen Amen A Service Eucharisticall or Preparatory to the Holy Communion for Saturday or other Day Morning Prayer Psal 26. 74. 146. Lessons 2 Chron. 30. Mat. 26. to Verse 46. Evening Prayer Psal 55. 67. Lessons Isay 55. 1 Cor. 11. or 10. 1. Prayer before comming to the Holy Communion Acknowledging and Deprecating our unworthincs O Lord I am every where in thy Presence and under thy Eye and therefore should be profanc no where But thy Speciall Presence and Face is in thy Temple there therefore I should be most Holy And thy Chair and Seat is at thy Table there then I should be most Even the Angels are not pure enough for such a Heavenly Presence how then shall a poor sinfull mortall Man appear at so High and Holy a Service How shall I dare to Communicate with thee that deserve not to Come before thee Lord Since I cannot come as I should Pure I will endeavour by thy Grace to come as I may Penitent I will be more Humble because lesse Holy and more Wash'd because so Eilthy And O Lord give me Grace so to come Let me look over my life in the Glass of thy Law let my Conscience help me look and make me wash with my Teares what is polluted in my wayes and clense in Christs Bloud what I wash with my Tears O Lord in a Bath of this water warm'd in that Blood flowing from a Sinners bleeding Heart and Saviours bloody Side shall I not be clean if I wash Pierce my Heart O Lord that I may Repent open my Heart that I may Believe that I may so wash and be clean Though I did not live let me believe aright and let me love whom I doe believe Thee O God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who didst send thy Sonne to shed his Bloud and Redeeme me Thee O Son of God who didst come and shed thy Blood to make a Bath and heal me Thee O Holy Spirit of God! by whose Grace and Work upon my heart I come to have the benefits of that Bloud And whom I love let me not grieve Lord let me no more offend thee Let my heart be set to serve thee resolved to please thee And doe thou accept me Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Amen 2 Prayer to be used before the Holy Communion to be pardoned and prepared for it DEare Saviour that hast given thy Flesh and Bloud to be my meat and drinke and now invitest me to those heavenly dainties Who am I wofull and wicked wretch that I am that I should dare with my unworthy hands to receive those High and Holy Mysteries Originally uncleane Actually defiled and even since my last comming and Communicating for all my vowes and protestations before Thee againe and againe polluted In these straits and stresses of spirit how shall my soule be satisfied If I come not at thy call I rebell against thy mercy If I come I trespasse upon thy puritie O my God! I will not stand out a Rebell but rather fall downe an humble Suppliant before thee I am guilty Lord pardon me I am polluted Lord purge me Though guilty though polluted I am thy Ransomed soule Deare Redeemer save me Let the Merits of thy pretious bloud clense me from the guilts upon me Let the graces of thy Holy Spirit Sanctifie me from the stains within me Let the sighs and teares which come from my bleeding heart wash off those blots by vertue of that pretious bloud Let the cryes and prayers which now come from my believing soule obtaine those graces from thy Holy Spirit True repentance and humility A lively faith and charity with all those holy and heavenly thoughts and affections which may dispose and prepare me for thee By these fit my soule for thy selfe and my body with my soule to be an holy house and habitation for thee Let thy Holy Spirit and Body enter into me Come Deare Redeemer come to the price of thy bloud seize thine owne and save me Possesse my soule feede me and preserve me Hereafter let me have more grace then to grieve thee Give me care to keepe my bodie thy Temple more pure from sinne and holy to thee and my heart thy Bed more cleane from lust and undefiled before thee In the strength of thee the Living Bread let me grow more able to serve thee And by vertue of so neare an Union and Communion with thee let not mine but thy Holy Spirit from henceforth lighten lead and enliven me That I may shun sinne which thou hatest and daily doe those duties of devotion and charity which please thee So let this Holy Sacrament at once Seale to me thy mercy and my glory Where I shall for ever communicate with thee in perfect purity and felicity To that happy Communion by thy grace deare Saviour ever prepare me and now for a Holy Communion with thee Amen! Amen! Say Amen Lord Jesu 3. Prayer at our comming to the Holy Communion DIdst Thou not invite me to thy Holy Table O Lord I durst not come Now thou callest me I dare not keepe away And yet when I doe consider Who and what is here I fear and tremble to come Thou O Lord art a Holy and Dreadfull Majesty and so Thy Mysteries be Holy Bread and Holy Wine A most Holy Bodie and Bloud No taint in His Bloud who is God and Lord as Thy selfe The Lamb of God Immaculate Undefiled without Spot all-pure most High and Holy But alas I am Uncleane Uncleane Uncleane Originally Actually every way In Heart Hand Lips every part Throughout Childhood Youth Manhood every Age Most unworthy to approach a Presence so pure who am so unholy True Lord But I lament my Uncleanness I renounce my owne worthinesse I come not because worthy but needie I come to be made cleane and worthy That Bodie and Bloud can make me cleane It is my Saviours His Merits can make me worthy They are thy Sons And here is a conveyance of that Blessed Body and Bloud It is thy Sacrament Lord Thinke me worthy for his sake and Make me worthy for thy Mercies sake by my comming Give my Sins thy Pardon my Soul thy Grace My selfe thy Acceptance in thy Beloved And what Thou dost convey Seale to me by what I am to Receive from thee The Blessed Body and Bloud of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen 4. Prayer and Thanksgiving after Receiving of the Holy Communion PArdon O Father thy poore Child the errours and infirmities which have pass't in thy Holy Service whether before or in or since the Sacrament And in and for the pretious Bloud of thine Holy Child Jesus of which I
have had the Holy Communion Seale me my pardon And behold and accept thy Servant from a heart full of thy love pouring out praises to thee for the inestimable benefits received in those High and Holy Mysteries What am I O Lord or what is in me that thou shouldest doe this great honour and favour to me I am unworthy to touch the thresholds of thy House and thou hast taken me to thy Table I am not worthy to stand amongst thy Saints and thou hast made me sit with my Saviour I am not worthy to come before thee and fall down before thy Footstoole and thou hast beene pleased to come into me and make my heart thy Throne I am not worthy to eat the bread of Men and thou hast given me the bread of Angels Yea Lord The Angels hunger but have not this bread What they admire I have received whom they adore I have entertained The Body and Bloud of Jesus their Mirrour is my meat Christ and they are Two but I and my Saviour are One. Flesh of his Flesh and Bone of his Bone One Bloud one Body O unspeakable Mysterie O incomparable Mercy Lord I beseech thee since of my selfe I cannot enough praise thee make me some way worthy of thee Let my Hands which have received that Blessed Body and Bloud be henceforth Sacred and doe no deeds that may offend thee Let my Lips which have touched those Holy Mysteries be hallowed from all words that may displease thee And let my Heart the Habitation of my Lord and Saviour be hereafter holy and no vain thoughts lodge within me As I am one with Him in Body and Bloud let me be one in Spirit The spirit of Wisdome Love and Holyness truly to know Thee serve Thee and cleave unto Thee By the blessed Sacrament of his Body and Blood Convey it to me Confirme it in me Let it be to my soule the Signet of thy Love and Seale of thy Glory And even for the Precious Merits of that Bloud and Body receive me to it I beseech thee that I may be one in everlasting Union and Communion with Thee for Jesus his sake Amen Amen! A Thanksgiving to be said after the Communinn fit for one devoutly affected at it THou that hast given the Bread of Heaven to feed me O give me the tongue of an Angell to praise thee O Lord the very Angels are not blessed with such a Bread O! what an high Mystery and mercy is this that my Saviour is my Sustenance and their Maker my Meat The Body and Bloud of Christ the Eternall Sonne of Gods to be in an holy Communion eaten drunken by the mouth of a mortall man O the infinite condescending Goodnes of a gracious God to make my humble heart the habitation of his Holines To come to me enter in me and become one not by Reconciliation onely but heavenly Union and Communion with me O miraculous Union O mysterious Incorporation O happy Soule that art so neare to thy Saviour O blessed Saviour that art so neare to my Soule O wretched Soule if any thing be too deare with thee for such a Saviour That wouldst not give thy body and blood for his Truth that wilt not give thy life to his Glory O Lord let my Soule which by thy Sacrament is made so happie by my sinne be never made so wretched Thou that hast entred thy Bodie and Bloud into me by thy Spirit take possession of me Guide me leade me command me rule me move me Be thou the Spirit of my Soule and Soule of my Body Let not the Flesh World or Devill henceforth have any power in me Live O Live Thou in me O Christ in thy earthly House and let me live for ever with Thee in thy Heavenly Habitation Even by the Merits and vertues of thy pretious Body and Bloud Sweet Jesus my Deare Lord and Saviour I beseech thee Amen Amen! An Holy Rapture to be said by One having Devoutly Communicated O Lord Where thou doest dwell is Heaven Heaven then is not this day more Above me then Within me How then shall my Single Soule Honour thee and my Tongue extoll Thee who hast made for thy Servant a Double Heaven O Lord Let all that is within me and all that is without me minde heart tongue hand all Savour of that Heaven that is within me and set forth thy Glory And doe Thou who this day hast conveyed Heaven into me at my last houre Convey my Soule into Heaven That what is here wanting in thy due Praises I may pay there in everlasting Halleluja's Even so Lord Glory be to thee for ever for the Invaluable favour and honour thou hast done to thy servant For the unsearchable Riches and Treasures Conveyed in thy Sacrament even the Blessed Body and Blood of Jesus Christ my deare Redeemer and Lord and Saviour Amen Amen Meditations for the Holy Communion upon 1 Cor. 11. 24. 25. ¶ Doe this in Remembrance of me D Oe but for thee Dear Jesus I had been undone for ever for thee then and for Mat. 18. 11 thy sake what is it which I should not doe 2. Thy desires are my Commands There is Authority enough in thy love for me to doe what thou shalt please Speak Lord then thy Servant heareth what ever thy will is that will I doe 3. Since thou wouldst have no flesh but my Bodies I will have no will but Heb. 10. 5. thy Soules What is thine shall be my will O Lord and done which thou wilt hav◠me doe 4. I dare not say so to any man O Lord though never so Godly so much thy Man His will may have Errour for Guide and ill in Company But O thou Holy one of God! Thy mind knowes no Errour thy will no Obliquity I dare doe whatsoever thou dost will 5. Dare doe Dare not but doe it If thy desire once come out in an Injunction and thy will be signified by Command not onely upon my Obligation I ought But must upon my Mat. 17. 5. Act. 3. 23. Act. 9. 6. Allegeance to thee the King of the Church and Soveraign as well as Saviour of my Soul I must not dispute nor delay but doe and therefore ought may must doe This. For Lord what is it thou wouldst now have me do Is it to climb a Crosse to undergo a bitter Passion Act. 21. 19 Even for thy sake I should not think much to doe that who hast done more for mine What then when it is not so much as this not to goe to a Scaffold but come to thy Table not to goe to a Grave but a Feast not to Bleed or Burne but to to Eat and Drink not to Suffer that but to doe this 2. And what is that I am to Eat and Drink Bread of Affliction and Water of Adversity which flag my Spirits No Deare Jesus but Bread and Wine to confirme and comfort my Heart Not a Confessours Bread Tears nor a Martyrs Cup Bloud
but a Saviours fare Blessed Wine and Bread yea in them what both is and makes Blessed The Body and Bloud of Blisse Deare Jesus Thy Holy Body John 6. 48 53. 54. and Bloud Meat and Drink that doth both joy my heart and save my Soule Bread of life and Well of Life Of that O Lord I eat in thy Bread and drinke of this in thy Cup Because thee in both who art Lord and Bread Well and Lord of Life Was the Passover a feast and is thy Supper none Where no sower herbs but Naturall and Celestial sweets are serv'd in at the feast If that be thy Command O Christ I am a rebell as much to my good as thy Law a damn'd rebell if I doe not this 3. And a Wretch if I doe not all but bate thee halfe of that I am not Saved but by thy Body I shall be damned 1 Pet. 2. 24 Heb. 9. 12. 21. without thy Blood I can want neither Bloud nor Body for my Sacrifice and shall I not have them both in thy Sacrament Didst thou offer thy Bloud for me on the Crosse and shall I not take the Pledg from thee at thy Supper Dost thou give me a Title Mat. 26. 27. Mat. 26. 28. Ephes 1. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 19. to thy Bloud and shall any keep me out of my Possession Rob me of thy Mercy and my Right of no less then the Price of my Redemption Doest thou give me the Purchase in thy Bloud and shall any deny me the Seale in thy Church Thine O Christ how is that Church Thine that dare be guilty of so great a Rebellion and Robbery To violate at once thy Will and Seale To steal at once thy Cup and Scepter Against thy Testament and Will thy expresse Will and Order to doe that can there be a bolder a greater Rebellion To take the Cup from thy People and the Scepter out of thy hand to deprive their Soules of thy Bloud Sine grandi Sacrilegio fieri non posse Gelasi Concil Const thy Selfe and of thine Authority can there be a viler Robbery And to Confesse the Fact and Justifie what is done O thou King of Heaven and the Church can any Hand against thee be more High or act more Vile What then shall I doe Dear Jesus when and where I cannot doe this Where though I beg I cannot have thy Cup Shall I take half or none O Lord that art not for Halfe a Service thou art not for Half a Sacrament Thou that lookest at that as none wilt thou accept this for any And have not they just ground to fear that doe but half of this that when all is done they have done nothing Because by thine Authority and Holy Institution and the Practice of Primitive and Purest Church it was not Ordained nor Used so to be done Dear Jesus Pâ—ty the People that endure this Injury and either seek not or finde not ease from so great a Tyranny And Justifie thou their cause O Christ who for their Saviour and their Soules sake doe not give the right hand of Fellowship to those who thus rob thee of thy Worship Separate from their Service who divide thy Sacrament Because they dare not owne what those Usurp a Power to alter what thou dost Institute Nor Seal what they Decree an Act confest against thy Ordinance Nor doe what they enjoyne a Violation to thy Holy Seal and Sacrament How shall I Body with them that keep thy Bloud from me How shall my Soul unite with them who exhibite to me but half a a Saviour Shall â— not withdraw my self whole from them that will not give me the Sacrament entire but half If they deny me thy Cup shall they have my Communion O Lord How should I Communicate with them that take as my understanding from thy Service * In an unknown Tongue and thy Scripture from my * Reading forbidden Eyes so thy Cup from my Lips If that thou Commandest upon my Obedience without thy Curse I cannot doe other That is not to doe this 4. Doe this And see you doe it not what language is this leave this half undone Who dares thus contradict thee O Christ Is he thy Vicar or Master that dare doe thus Is it the Pillar of Truth whâ—ch thus puls down the Pillar of a Sacrament a Pillar of Salvation Takes off thy Blood the Cement of that Holy Pillar And so pulls if not all at least halfe down Shall I satisfie my Conscience with Wit And first Devise then Believe the Bloud is given in the Body But in Per Concâ—mitantiam the Eucharist thy Bloud is given as shed not kept Poured out not conteined Mat. 26. 28. in the Body And why then should any have the Cup since in the Body is a Conveyance of the Bloud Did the Apostles onely take the Cup Then Laiety must not eat the Bread and so be cut out of the Sacrament of Salvation both Body and Bloud Didst thou not foresee this O Lord and therefore say of purpose not Eat Mat. 28. 26 27. Non Edite omnes Previdente Domino quod de calice c. Bux Hist Dom Caenae 15. ye all but Drinke ye all of this to shew that none are to be excluded from the Cup By thy Grace then I will never doe that As thou appointest I will observe and doe this 5. This. Not thus It ties not to a Circumstance but the Substance of the Command Nor Place nor Time nor Number is confest for then only Twelve should Communicate in an upper Roome and at Night nor Gesture then if accidentall too though evident what it was the Church hath power to appoint it and I may with good Conscience observe her Appointment and though neither so nor so yet doe this In Remembrance I blush Lord to see my self need thy Memento for this Have I a Chest for the Trash of the World and no roome for thee my Heavenly Treasure Memory for what I list and none for what I should Thou hast so done thy marvellous Workes that they ought to be had in Remembrance O Lord And O thou Psa 114. 4. Isay 9. 6. whose Name is Wonderfull and all thy Workes as thy Name and in this above all thy Workes can I ever forget thee 2. Can I forget my self so much That do not breath a minute on Earth or out of Hell without thee If I forget thee O Jesus Let my tongue cleave to the Roof of my Mouth Let my right Hand forget her cunning Surely that Harp had never known the tune of Joy nor Hand had ever to doe with Harp hadst not thou put a World Ephes 1. 10 1 Cor. 5. 19 all out in order againe and set all in Tune 3. And is that all when I owe a thousand lives unto thee to require not my Body but my Minde to say Remember Not to suffer Death and die for thee but to forbid thy Memory to die in me Wil
difficulty because our Christianity is purged from such corruptions Then I aske If he be mad that being to passe over a deepe River will leave a Bridge for a narrow Planke Is he wise that in the Great Case of Eternall life and Salvation will put his Soule on a perplext and perillous way when he may goe a plaine and a safe one 2. And by that Argument should not every Papist turne Protestant Believe Worship Pray Come to Service and Sacrament with us For 1. They confesse with us Scripture is infallible but we say not the Pope The Rule of Faith say both but not Tradition say we Safe to believe the Old Creed both grant but a New One we deny To trust to Christs Merits sure with both but not to ours with us Both believe Heaven and Hell but we have no faith for Purgatory The Protestants then is the safer Faith 2. And to worship God they say with us is safe and profitable piety but to worship Images we say is damnable Idolatry Ours therefore is the safer Worshipping 3. And to pray to God in Christs Name both grant good Religion but to call to Saints for helpe or to God in their Name we say grosse Superstition That therefore is the safer Praying 4. And in the Sacrament of the Eucharist a Sacrifice Commemorative both grant but a Propitiatory we disclaime A Reall Presence both allow but the way of Transubstantiation we reject The Cup by Institution and Primitive Observation we and they confesse A power of Alienation we abhorre This therefore is the safer Receiving 5. Lastly in our Liturgy is no errour some of them say but in their Missall are many say we Service in a Knowne Tongue is not sinfull with them but in an unknowne unwarantable and against Scripture with us Therefore it 's best to come to our Church to Service and Prayers And so ours by their Confession and Reason is the best Religion To conclude Upon my Grounds before I build all this The True Christian hath Gods Word and Seale for his Salvation He that Believes Does and Praies aright is the True Christian 1. Such a one is a member in and of the Catholike Church though not of the Romane 2. Such Christians the Primitive Times had therefore he is no new but an ancient Christian 3. Where Gods Word and Sacraments are professed and used by such there 's a Church of Christ and visible Christianity 4. And from any Church in the world that is such I will not From the Romane as such I doe not separate So I am no Schismaticall Christian 5. And in these Grounds all agree and so there is Unity And this is the onely plaine Christian way to Heaven and so it 's safest to be Reformed not Corrupted a Catholike Christian not a Particular Romane GAL. 6. 16. And as many as walk according to this Rule Peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel os God Rules of Devotion for Morning IN the Morning when you first awake What to doe when you awake lift up your eyes to God and say I lift up mine eyes to the Hils from whence cometh my help Then lift up your heart to God and pray Lord keep me from all sin and danger this day for Jesus Christ his sake When you are up kneel down and say What to doe when you are first up this prayer Almighty God who hast touched my heart with a sense of thy fear and holy dread of thy Majesty I beseech Let this never be omitted thee give me thy grace so to governe my thoughts and look to my words and wayes this day that I may avoid all sinnes Especially those to which I am most inclined or may be most provoked That so my soul and body may be kept pure and unspotted before thee and whensoever the houre of their separation shall come may be ready and prepared for thee through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen When you are ready for your Morning Prayers use every day one of the following Services Rules for the Evening BEfore you goe into your Bed kneel and say this short Prayer O God who hast made the day for labor and the night for rest let thy Sons Bloud cleanse me from this days guilt that I may sleep in thy peace and rise againe refreshed and preserved by thy favour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen And this Thanks-giving and Prayer Almighty God who hast preserved me this day from many sinnes and dangers I doe humbly magnifie thy Name for thy Grace and Goodnesse towards me Beseeching thee to forgive me all the errours of this day whereof my conscience doth or may accuse me And grant that those sins which by my frailty I have committed may by the help of thy Spirit be more carefully avoided That I may ever stand in thy favour walk under thy protection and now rest and lie down in thy peace and at last come to thy heavenly Kingdom through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ Amen! When you lie down say I will lay downe my â—head in peace and take my rest for thou onely O Lord makest me to dwell in safety Then pray thus Lighten mine eyes O Lord that I sleep not in death I commit my soule and body to thee Keep me for thy mercies sake PSAL. 55. 18. In the Evening and Morning and at Noone day will I pray and that instantly and he shall heare my voyce Dayly Prayers Here begin the Daily Prayers saying first some of these Sentences PSAL. 66. 2. O Thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come PSAL. 123. 125. 1. Vnto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the Heavens Vnto thee O Lord will I lift up my soul PSAL. 66. 16. If I incline to wickednesse in my heart the Lord will not hear me JOHN 16. 23. Verily verily I say unto you whatsoever you shall ask the Fatherin my name he will give it to you JAM 1. 6. But let him ask in faith nothing doubtin for let not that man thinke he shall receive any thing of the Lord. that is wavering and without Faith 1 JOHN 3. 22. And whatsoever we aske we receive of him because we keep his Commandements and doe the things that are pleasing in his sight JAM 4. 3. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amisse that ye may spend it on your lusts 1 TIM 2. 8. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy bands without wrath without doubting Preparatory Prayer BReath on me with thy holy Spirit O God that the Breath of mine may now please thee and my Prayers come up as sweet-smelling odours before thee Through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen! Or This PRevent me O Lord in all my doings with thy most gracious favour and further me with thy continuall help that in all my works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy name and finally
by thy mercy obtaine everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Confession ALmighty and most mercifull Father I have erred and strayed from thy wayes like a lost Sheep I have followed too much the devices and desires of my owne heart I have offended against thy holy laws I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and I have done those things which I ought not to have done and there is no health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable Offendour Spare thou me O God which confess my faults Restore thou me that am penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord and grant O most mercifull Father for his sake that I may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Prayer for Pardon ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desirest not the death of a Sinner but that he may turne from his wickednesse and live and hast promised pardon to them that truly repent unfeignedly believe thy holy Gospel of thy mercy I beseech thee to grant me true repentance and thy holy Spirit that those things may please thee which I doe at this present and the rest of my life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last I may come to thine eternall joy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill c. The Versicles Vers O Lord open thou my lips Resp And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise Vers O God make speed to save me Resp O Lord make hast to help me Glory be to the Father c. Alleluiah Praise the Lord. ¶ Read the Psalmes for the Service of that day Then the Lessons appointed for it After say the Creed c. Then the Daily Prayers Animadversions to the devout Reader touching these Daily Prayers IF thou wouldest have reason why these Prayers are so short and in severall which use to make a long one all put together that thy Devotion may be quicker they are so short a little space being run with a greater speed and that thy Spirit may hold out fresher in severalls as so many rests all the way it runs If thou beest a Man of another Spirit take that course of prayer wherein thy soule speeds best This is propounded not prescribed to every Devotion and intended for help not the hinderance of any Morning Prayers 1. Collect for Grace O God! I can aske no greater gift than thy Glory and therefore beg no better gift than thy Grace yea even this consummate is nothing else but 1 Cor. 13. 10. that nor can I come at it but by the way of grace I doe therefore for Jesus Christ his sake beseech thee bestow on me that blessed gift Grace to doe thee service on earth that thou may'st give me thy salvation in heaven through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Collect for Peace MY poore Soule is an humble Suiter for peace O God! the Col. 1. 20. blood of Jesus is my plea thy Spirit my Advocate I deserve by my sinnes eternall enmity but for thy deare 2 Cor. 5. 19. Sonnes sake have favour for me by whom the world is attoned O let me be reconciled to thee I know not how Rom. 8. 26. to pray this as I ought but thy Spirit can make effectuall Intercession for me Lord let thy Spirit move and thy Son make my peace Subdue my lusts conquer Satan for me that my conscience may have peace with thee and I in it By thy grace through the mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 3. Collect for Health O Lord when I am sick let me thinke I may die when I am in health that I may be sick that I may not mispend the stock of my life but doe thee honour with my health and thou mayest give me comfort for it in my sicknesse Even this that sin hath not bound me to my bed but thy providence hast cast me downe which can and will lift me up or to health in this world or to happines in a better such an enjoyment of health give me I beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 4. Collect for Safety O Lord so many daies as I live so Act. 10. 28. many lives I owe thee thou renewest my lease every day a poore Tenant at thy will I am and a fraile Isa 28. 5. cotage of clay by thy power I keep Job 4. 19. Deut. 10. 12. Lord that hast hitherto spar'd me still preserve me and let me pay as I can what I owe of service the onely rent thou requirest for tenement and appurtenances life health wealth and all the good things I have of thee for which thou both grantest terme of life and givest eternity This to that continue I beseech thee for his sake who was surety and is sole Purchaser for me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 5. Collect for Friends FOr all my Kindred and Friends Lord receive my prayers Doe thou good unto them all O God! To those that erre shew thy truth and those that see it keep from errour to those that doe amisse give grace to doe better and those that doe well continue in so doing to those that are afflicted give comfort and deliverance to those that prosper humility and temperance blesse the sick with health and the healthy from sicknesse supply those in want and let those that want not give supply to all grant thy grace O God! and shew thy mercy let love bind us one to another and Religion knit us all to thee that all who are of naturall kindred may meet in heavenly consanguinity Even so Esth 2. 31. Job 1. 13. Lord let the bloud of Jesus runne through all our veines and the Spirit of Jesus go along with the blood that the glory of Jesus may be the end of us all And how ever we suffer and scatter on earth we may live and joy together in the blisse of Heaven By the Union of that holy Spirit and communion of that blessed blood Amen Amen 6. Collect for the Kingdome O Lord we were the mirror of the world for mercy we are for misery a people wofully torn divided distressed distracted a multitude of headlesse heartlesse disordered men ready to be destroyed O thou great Physitian that canst as easily cure Jer. 4. 22. a Kingdome as a Man heale our Land for thy tender pities sake Lord have mercy on us and heale us In the blood of Jesus purge our sins the cause of all our maladies whether ours or of the Ages before us from their guilt and curse
the Devill of more goodnesse wisdome care and power to save then he is able to destroy Thou canst send more succours to me then he can bring forces against me more holy Angels then he hath wicked Spirits Lord give me that strength Lord send me those succours Put upon me the armour of light to fight with the Rulers of darknesse Let the Helmet of hope be on my head and the brestplate of faith and love on my heart that I be not mortally wounded in the fight In my extremity send thy Angels to succour me And let thy holy Spirit be my Leader that the evill one may not be my Conquerour Lord Jesus that knowest what it was to be tempted and didst overcome the Tempter for me relieve my frailty when I am tempted and suffer not Satan to overcome me And let me be sober and watch and pray that I enter not into Temptation that thou mayest relieve me O Lord How shall I not fall into the hand of Hell if I throw my selfe into Temptation From such presumptions O Christ preserve me How many soules have beene left and lost in those bold adventures of their strength make me sadly to consider that such a daring Spirit may never possesse me Let me remember with feare and trembling what great Saints have falne that I may with an humble and holy care and feare seeke for thy strength to stand and being upheld by thy right hand may never fall But let me not cast my self out of thine into Satans hand for if thou Lord doe not uphold and he pull downe how shall I stand And let me keepe my wayes that I cast not my selfe out for thou wilt not protect me but in thy wayes And let me not runne my selfe into temptation for that is out of my wayes and thy protection Thou great Shepheard of the sheep keepe me a poore Lambe of thy fold Thou Lion of the Tribe of Juda that hast prevailed save me from the roaring Lion that he may never prevaile And in and from all his Temptations deliver me in thy mercy that he may not devour my soule for all his roaring Rescue me thou that didst redeeme me Preserve me thou that didst create me my Lord and my God my strength hope deare Jesus Amen TUESDAY A Prayer against the World O Lord The World is a strong Enemy to conquer The great Conquerors of the powers were Captives to the vanities of the World yet by thy strength it may be conquered for thou art greater then he that is the world Thou didst O Saviour conquer it for me and by thy aide I may conquer it for my selfe And by thy will I must conquer it with thee on earth if I will triumph with thee in Heaven O then let me resolutely set and fit my selfe for the conquest of the world And to the forces of reason Lord give me the powers of grace by which I may make a conquest This world is but for a time and will end at last and how soone to me thou Lord onely knowest and did it endure what comfort or contentment can my immortall soule receive in any or all the good of the world O let me not lose my eternall inheritance in the world to come for a poore portion in this present world Thou Lord hast made me in it but me for thy self and it for me O then let me never be of it let my Spirit alwayes be above it Let me not make my Servant my Soveraigne good Assist me by thy grace that I may not O God! And because my senses are so naturall and neare unto me and the world takes my soule captive by the power of my senses O let me watch those gates against the entries of Temptations and looke well to my sense that I lose not my soule That I doe not Lord keepe me from all evill from the men and from the things of the world From Companies and Counsels and examples of the ill set on by the Devill to wooe for the world Lord keep me as so many foes and fiends to my soule and let me rather suffer them as my sorrowes then take solace in such men From the Vanities of the world that they doe not allure me and the miseries of it that they may not deject me The great powers by which the world assaults me defend me O Lord that they doe not overcome me and let me looke well to my soule because I am never free from such assaults From the Vanities of Riches Honours Pleasures the prevailing goods of the world the Heaven she brings And from the miseries of wants scornes ignominies injuries tortures the powerfull ills of the world the Hell she hath Lord keep me that they lead not my soule into the Captivitie of sin lest I feele a worser Hell and lose a better Heaven Let me not lose thy favour for the smiles nor incurre thy displeasure for the frownes of this world Let neither her Sorceries bewitch me to ill nor her Tyrannies fright me from good Let my love and feare be both on thee the good and ill not of this but another life On that be my heart on this my foot Let me love and value and use this world onely as it may helpe me to that Not for the Throne of my Spirit but the footstoole of my soule By whose good my body may be better enabled to serve my Spirit and both to serve Thee and come to the good of a better world For such a Conquest Lord strengthen me and to these Triumphs above bring me even for his sake who hath overcome the flesh the Devill and the World for me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen WEDNESDAY A Prayer against sudden Death O Thou great Judge of the world I am a child of death by the sentence of the Law for Adams sinne and have deserved it at the hands of thy Justice for my owne yet in thy mercy thou hast not executed that sentence upon me but to this day hast continued my life Yea most mercifull God when the feares and snares of Death and Hell tooke hold on me and my provocations were great against thee in those great distresses I called upon thee and thou didst heare me and deliver me Lord make me ever thankfull for thy goodnesse and take not away thy loving kindnesse from me though since I have not walked worthy of thy mercy Save my soule from the sins that trouble me Save my body from the sicknesses that feare me And save my life from all ill accidents and disasters that may befall me If thou speak the word O Lord I shall be safe body and soule and no ill can touch me Good Lord speake that word and save me Pardon my sins that they doe not destroy me and lengthen my dayes that I may better serve thee For a sudden death by a present repentance and good life Lord ever prepare me And from a sudden death by thy good providence deliver me That I may have
time with more comfort and contentment and setlement of minde to yeild up my life and soule unto thee Deare Saviour heare me that sheddest thy bloud to save me and sittest in Heaven to preserve me For my last houre fit me From sudden surprizall of it keep me To it and in it ever save me and by thy grace and holy merits make it a happie houre unto me that I may then die in thy armes and at the day of Judgment rise and stand joyfull before thee Lord Jesus for thy mercies sake grant all this to me Amen! Amen! THURSDAY A Prayer against Hypocrisie O Lord Make me abhorre to be prophane and feare to be an Hypocrite If I be a notorious sinner the world will condemne me and if a close offender Thou wilt not justifie me Let me therefore be a Saint in sinceritie that God and man may approve and blesse me O Lord God of truth that searchest the heart what will it availe me to have the world accquit me when my conscience shall be a thousand witnesses against me and Thy selfe more then ten thousand consciences to condemne me Keepe me therefore from the blot and follie of Hypocrisie And since Hypocrites are the first-borne of the damned let me have no part in that sinne that I may have no portion with such sinners Let me be the same wheresoever I am in the Closet and Church in secret and publike in the darke and day and let me be alwayes what I should be studying ever to approve my heart and wayes before thee that thou who seest in secret mayest reward me openly O let me set Thee every where before my eyes and my selfe before thine and accordingly walk uprightly before thee till I come to rest eternally with thee O Lord since thou requirest no more to have thy favour on Earth and glory in Heaven but a heart true unto thee and doest pardon and passe by many infirmities where thou seest such a heart Let me not give thee lesse then a sinceritie in thy service God of Truth give me a single heart to serve thee and accept it from me and a Monster of a double heart let Satan never make me From Hypocrisie and lyes of life Lord deliver me Thou that hadst no gaule in thy heart nor guile in thy mouth Blessed Sonne and Truth of God let me be Thine in truth sweet Jesus Amen! FRIDAY Prayer against Inconstancie in good O Lord Thou art immutable what thou art let me be unchangeable what I should be never ceasing to be thy good Child and Servant who ever continuest to be my good Father and Lord O Lord There is not one moment in which I can be or live without thy goodnesse and shall there be many dayes wherein thou art without my service The glory with which thou rewardest it is to all eternity and shall the duties of it faile and fall short of constancy O my God! had I the age of Angels to live I owe the service of all that life unto thee and now that I have but a span of time shall I keepe away a great part of that from thee O Lord let me not so much forget thee and my selfe as to doe thus by thee And should I so farre forget my duty let me remember my necessity It is constancie gets the Crown to thy service and shall I fall off from it and lose my Crowne O Lord In what a fearefull condition would my soule be if death should seize me when I am faln off and take me away in that time of sin and have I any assurance this howre the next not to see death And were I sure of life time should I so live and divide it best yeares to the devill and worst to my God Months to vanity minute to piety Day and night looke to this world and not spare an houre for a better Lord Let not the Devill and the World divide my time with thee lest not giving thee all thou takest none from me or giving thee the least share thou throwest it backe upon me Fix my heart on thy feare that no temptation of Devill or man may remove mee Bind my soule with such resolutions to thee that no strength of the flesh may loose me Since I cannot for my bodies frailty serve thee as an Angell without intermission continually let me as a Saint without failing constantly be devoted to thee not as a retainer but daily servant attending upon thee Keeping carefully my howres of devotion and consecrating all my dayes unto thee in a conscionable and constant endeavour in all places â—nd things and at all times to shun all evill and doe what may please thee O thou that art without shadow of change ever the same settle my fickle soule in thy feare and establish thy holy Spirit in me that I may serve thee on earth with constancie and in heaven to all eternity By the grace and merits of him who finished the work of Eternall Redemption for me living and dying to save me and now sits at thy right hand to uphold and keepe me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SATURDAY Prayer against impenitence in ill LOrd keepe me from the fearfull sinne and judgment of an impenitent heart Since repentance for sinne is the onely remedy appointed to save me let me not neglect it lest I die for it irrecoverably O Lord what shall become of my guilty soule if thou doe not pardon me And how should I hope thy pardon if I goe on to provoke thee Give me therefore a sorrow for my sinnes past wherein I have offended thee and if I fall by frailty into sin let me not lye without remorse but rise by repentance that I may returne againe into favour with thee O my God if now I will not I shall repent in Hell if not on Earth if not with timely teares in hope in fires with everlasting horrour O let me weep for a time that I may not waile them for ever Let me mourne for them unto comfort rather then rejoyce into confusion From a heart hardned in sin and a conscience seared with guilt Lord keep me as from the threshold of hell And from continuance and custome in sin keep me that I grow not senselesse of it and seared And from multiplying and reiterating the acts of sin keep me that I get not a custome If I sin let my heart smite me that thy hand of vengeance may not touch me And for that hardnesse and habit of ill which I have already got by any acts of sin Deare Saviour help me and heale me Melt my heart in the fire of thy love to a tendernesse of offending thee and O blessed scape-goat * Leviâ— 16. 21. Goates blood melts Adamant Such is an hard heart Zach. 7. 12. mollifie my hardnesse by the vertue of thy blood that I may not stand stubborne against thee Bow me with thy mercies break me with thy judgments wound me with thy Word move me with
nor Cool'd to Earth and the Seas of mercy run as fresh and full as ever they did in Heaven Thence take I Hope But 8. I fear too I Dread Temptation Thy Crosse was made of Adams Gal. 3. 13. Tree I fear because he fel Lord Deliver me I Dread Desertion Solomons Wisdome and Davids Grace I want Yet had I both should fall if thou forsake me Lord on the Crosse thy Mat. 26. 56. Disciples left thee let me never If Temptation carry me away look after me doe not leave me I Dread Apostacy O keep me from that Sinne from which even thy Bloud thy Crosse cannot or will not save me How should it when I re-build thy Crosse Heb. 10. 26 27. and trample thy Bloud I fear my self for all this As my Sinnes nail'd Thee to thy Crosse Corruption 1 Pet. 2. 24. rivets me in my Sinnes The Devill never wants a Hammer whilst Rom. 7. 27 God hath a World nor hath a Naile to seek whilst Man hath a Heart O Lord I have one and a Forge of Jer. 17. 9. wicked devices and lusts in it full of all damned cheats and deceits From a Tempest then of Temptation From the Gulf of spirituall Desertion From the Precipice of finall Apostacy by the Vertue of thy Crosse Deliver me And from my self above all and my Heart above all in my self Deliver me Good Lord I fear Precipice Gulfe Tempest but the Forge above all Without whose work and wiles the Devill doth in vain Tempt God will not desert me nor shall I desert God And Corruption and the Flesh that is there I behold with most horrour as the Anvile in the Forge Upon which the Devill and it Hammer fashion and beat out all their Works What will keep me from the Vertue of thy Crosse and my Blisse Lord Jesus That hath and ever let it have my fear 9. And how doth my Bloud boile in my Veines to see thy Crosse robb'd of its Vertue O Christ My Spirit is at once in Ird dolore impleor pro Christo meo c. Naz. Griefe and Rage for thee Jesus I am full of Indignation for the Affronts and Injuries done unto thee To see thy Bloud spilt or scorn'd To see thy Passion forgot or abused Thy love without Memory or Value Thy Paines without Relief or Remorse Who can who should endure O Christ to see thy Crosse made the Devils Standard Without the Church a Stumbling-block and Rock of Offence 1 Cor. 1. 23 within an Idol and Tree of Superstition To see thy Wounds shelters for Sinners turn'd Cities of Refuge for Sinnes Thy Merits their Sanctuaries Thy Bloud their Life Thy Self their Patron Thy Passion the Nurse of Presumption Thy Mercy the Milk of all Abomination Thy good Theif made the greatest Robber of Mankind and thy Pitty Principall to the Robbery And in the strength of these Villainconfidences and Blasphemous Inferences from thy Crosse who can consider without anger what is done in thy Kingdome What Reeds are made thy Scepters What Chaires thy Thrones What Tricks thy Orders What Rudenesse thy Service What Miscreants thy Worshippers What Confusion thy Religion What Wild-fire thy Zeale What Shames thy Glory What Ends thy Services What Lunacies thy Revelations What Prodigies thy Dictates What Larguage thy Word What Prayers thy Breath What Devilishnesse thy Spirit What stirres thy Motions All Wickednesse done in thy Name to thy Glory by thy Warrant and most under the Seal of thy Crosse By those who wear thy Livery pretend to thy Service and professe for thy Honour seeme to desire to know nothing but thee and see themselves Crucified as meer mortified Men who seek nothing less then themselves yet tear at once thy Lawes and Limbs pull downe both thy Cross and House and lay together thy Worship Bloud in the Dust O Jesus that didst whip the Buyers and Sellers out of thy Temple Where is thy Zeal for thy Church for thy self for thy Fathers sake That canst see and yet suffer these injuries to thy Honour and Bloud When Indignation kindles in thy poor Servants Soul at so great Indignities how is it that Wrath flames not out in thine How is it Even so it is be-because thou art Jesus lovest to Save Joh. 12. 47. 2 Pet. 3. 9. loath to Destroy Waitest our Repentance wavest thy Vengeance 10. I am Ravish'd with that good Spirit of thine O Christ Thou hadst it on the Cross and keep'st it on the Throne where it appears it doth ravish Luk. 23. 34. Joh. 19. 28. me In thy lips Prayest thou their Pardons that are shedding thy Blood Thirstest thou their Salvation that are Butchering thy Body In thy Armes stretcht out to embrace all on Earth and therefore strike not though in all the power of Heaven In thy Eyes As thou wast with one of my Mothers Cant. 4. 9. I am ravished with one of thine Thy fury frights me O Lord Thy favour is that One. The eye with which thou didst look at the poor Thief and give him both thy Pardon and Paradise Luke 23. 43. Joh. 19. 26. The Eye by which thou didst look at thy Dear Mother and amidst all thy Wounds chuse her a Gardian and have her in thy cares The Eye by which thou didst look at the dear Disciple Joh. 19. 27. and adopt him of thy Servant thy Mothers Sonne The Eye by which thou didst look at poor Sinners to be saved a Church to be Bought Eph. 5. 25. Joh. 12. 42. and World to be Ransomed But in thy Heart O! what an Apparition see I there Through the Bloody door of thy wounded Breast a House full of nothing but Goodness Patience Pitty Mercy O what a Perspective is there by the way of the Spear to the Joh. 19. 24. 1 John 5. 6. 8. Prospect of a poor Sinners sole Delight a Heart full of all Grace and Favour in the Breast of a Jesus a Saviours Heart From that Heart with that Eye O Christ behold the Afflicted Mother thy Church and thy dear Disciple Her Child Breath comfort to Her for whom thou gavest Bloud And to Him who is the Son of Her Comfort Make peace betwixt Mother and Children where there should be Love Let them live by one Spirit that are bought with one Bloud And no longer be one anothers Cross but beare one anothers Burdens Dart Lord from that Blessed eye of Pitty these favours on the face of that Bleeding Body And with thy Armes nailed once to a Cross now extended on a Throne embrace Her and uphold her in life Advance her Throne for whom thou didst endure thy Psal 8. 3. John 1. 3. Crosse O thou who didst with thy fingers work Heaven and Earth and Heb. 1. 2. upholdest all things by the Word of thy Power whom the World treads under foot take thou into thy Armes In thy blessed Armes O thou Omnipotent and All-mercifull Maker and Saviour of the Word In thy blessed
I wear a Deaths-head in a Ring to preserve alive the memory of a Dead Friend And O thou Loving and Blessed above all Beloveds when thy Passion is Engraven by thy own Hand in an Holy Mystery for my minde to wear shall not the Ring be on my Finger shall not my Heart keepe and weare thy Ring 4. But is that all Dear Jesus Is that all I am to doe to give thee a Memory Surely then it must be the best of all O thou Manna that camest Joh. 6. 32. Heb. 9. 4. downe from Heaven a Golden Pot must keep thee My Soule must have most Pretious memory for thee Quick not Dull Humble not Bold Tender not Hard Active not Contemplative that 's Leaden Brasen Iron but Silver at best and reprobate at worst The Memory which moves all good Affections to thee and Promoves all good Abilities for thee that 's the Golden pot must keep thee So thou wouldst have this Memory because it will minde and doe all Duty Admire and Love thee Obey Endure Doe and Suffer for thee It will establish Faith excite Repentance enflame Charity maintain Constancy O thou Mirrour of the Godhead Heb. 1. 3. 4 Beauty of the World Excellent above Angels High above all Lord of Lords King of Kings Those are thy 1 Tim. 6. 15. Eccles 12. 1. Dues And Holy Memory is a Store-house full and Rich to Pay all therefore thou sayest Remember me I cannot but Believe Repent and Love to the last if thou be in minde If I Deut. 32. 18. fail payment of any Duty to God or Man it is because thou art out of my Memory But to thy Memory Dear Jesus what is it I should doe O Lord thou wouldst have me doe this In Remembrance of thee Thy Passion that that must be in my Memory and Thee I must Remember in 1 Cor. 11. 26. that Thy Sacrament then is an Obelisk to the Eternall Memory of thy Passion A Pyramide of everlasting date set up in the Church for a Solemne memoriall of thy Death And Lord So oft as I neglect it what doe I but pull downe thy Pyramide And Bury Thee and thy Merits as the Jews did thy Limbs but in a worser grave not in a garden but desert a grave of oblivion 2. And what Lord Shall I Remember of thy Passion What But that thou the Eternall Son of God wast made Man to endure it Moved Heb. 9. 14. by meer Love Infinite Love to undergoe it And I wretched Creature Sinfull Sonne of Man the Man that caused it who else had been for ever a Miserable and Damned Man And thus did Infinite Wisdome Mercy and Power in God wonderfully work the Salvation of Man This ineffable Mystery of Redemption by the Miraculous Passion of the Sonne of God which thou didst Suffer thou wouldst have me Remember And thy Sacrament is a Monument to last as long as thy Church that whilst I have Life and Soul I should perpetuate and preserve a Holy Memory of my Saviour 3. And what a Wretch am I that have neede of such a helpe to my Memory and Spur to my Duty as both a Commandement and a Sacrament for both It casts reproaches on me O Christ That thou should give thy Body for me and I scarce give my minde to thee That I should have so great a roome in thy heart and thou so hardly get any in mine That thou should be more ready to Bleed for me then I to Thinke of thee Dear Jesus That didst empty all thy Veines for me shall I not finde a vessell to Preserve thy Pretious Bloud Doe I not Spill what thou didst shed if I let it run out of my Memory Yet art Thou put to it to finde me both Bloud and Minde And when thou hast done all that out of Remembrance of me lest it should be forgotten ordainest a Sanction and Sacrament and sayest Do this in Remembrance of me 4. But more Wretch I if I doe not so doe and Remember For Lord If I doe thee Honour dost thou not doe me favour for it If I give thee glory is it more my Duty then Felicity to doe it If thy Sacrament is it not my Emolument Receive I not great Honours in it Reap I not good Benefits by it Conveyes it not the Bloud-Royall Concorporei Consanguinei Basil of Heaven into me and am I not Kinsman Brother of God an Heire and Prince of Heaven by vertue of that Bloud Is not the Godhead Bodily in Christ And is not his Body Col. 2. 9. 1 Cor. 10. 16. Mystically in me And I near Akinne to God by the Communion of that Body And can he want Demeans that is such a Prince Is not the Earth Psal 2. â— thy Gift and Heaven in thy Power Mat. 28. 18. Heb. 1. 2. Ephes 1. 7. 2 Cor. 1. 22. Rom. 8. 32 1 Cor. 3. 21 22 23. Jesus thou Son and Heire of all And have I not thy Spirit thy Flesh to Pledge for all The Conveyance Sealed in thy Bloud and thy Merits made over and Assured in thy Body O Lord I am so much concern'd in Honour and Estate to doe what thou dost command that if I doe consider my Selfe I should do it to thy Memory in Remembrance of me as well as Thee 5. But what Lord Must I so doe Mat. 26. 26. Credi salubriter posest investigaâ—i saâ—ubrâ—iter non potest Lumb Believe Thee Present in thy Holy Sacrament Upon thy Word I doe But Determined in a Naturall and Corporeal way of prâ—sâ—nce for thy Word I doe not * Act. 3. 31 So thou art in Heaven and wilt be to the great day Not on Earth So. This Remembrance teacheth me that Absence If so present I should see thee not Remember thee Thou art Glorified in Heaven Thou wast Crucified on earth It 's this I remember I Remember but doe not Offer Heb. 9. 25 26 28. Heb. 9. 24. Col. 1. 20. this That thou didst once I Commemorate not Râ—iterate often The Propiatory Sacrifice is Thine the Eucharisticall Mine That was on the Crosse this is in the Eucharist This I 1 Cor. 11 26. doe that I Remember The Memory of that I offer the Tragedy I doe not act What was in Sacrifice is here in Sacrament This is all that I doe and neede to doe and can doe if all in Remembrance of thee 6. So then My Soule and Body have both to doe in this Businesse of thine But my Soule more then my Body My Soule is Chief Minister to wait upon thee in this Mysterie My senses but handmaids to wait upon my Soule Sight Touch Tast Smell all to bring the more to my minde and reach the better to my Memory Thy Bodily Presence makes a True 1 Cor. 11. 29. 1 Cor. 1â— 30 31. Eucharist Mine if minde be away to me but a Mock-Sacrament To thee but a Mock-Service and will convey to me a Reall Judgement but a Mock-Salvation What
hast no other reward or punishment then what I see and feel O let my Eyes look to the end of all Heaven or Hell and let me envie no ill mans happinesse who shall end in Hell Nor bewaile any good mans wretchednesse who shall have Heaven for his end And let me understand that Prosperity of Psal 92. 7. Sinners is a heavy Plague because their Prov. 1. 32 spur to Hell the greatest punishment and Adversity of Saints a happy Mercy Psal 94. 12 because thy Rod to beat them into Heaven the Best Reward Meane while let me not give a Breast Psal 4. 8. full of thy Peace for an Armefull of that wealth which breeds nests of Vipers and Adders in their Hearts and continuall Job 20. 14. 16. stings in their Bosomes let me prefer the sufferings of Innocence before the Spoiles and Triumphs of Violence O God since a guilty Conscience is the greatest punishment on Earth because next to Hell And Accusing and Condemning thy Providence and forsaking Mal. 2. 17. 3. 13 14 15. my Innocence the greatest Guilt To that Extremity let no Temptation ever lead me Jesus Keep me from it by thy Grace and Mercy Amen Evening Prayers 1. Collect for Grace THou that hast promised Thy Holy Spirit to those that ask Luk. 11. 13. it give me Thy Grace O God with courage and constancy so to fight and subdue my flesh and ghostly enemy that I may passe my Pilgrimage in thy fear and at last receive my Triumphs in thy Glory Apoc. 3. 21 through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Collect for Peace O God of peace who art Incomprehensible give me thy peace Phil. 4. 7. which passeth all understanding Let me so live according to thy Rule that Gal. 6. 16. I may have peace with my Conscience Let me be so ruled by thy Will and Word that my Conscience may have peace with Thee Lord make an everlasting Jer. 6. 16. peace with me and let me never doe what will break that league with Thee Dear Jesus treat it for me in thy Bloud and maintaine it in me by thy Spirit Amen Amen 3. Collect for Health IT is the wonder of thy providence O Lord that a body subject to thousands of Frailties and casualties every day should enjoy health or life an hour yet through thy mercy I have both at this instant Lord continue to me what I have and let me so improve it to thy honour that thou maist continue it and for Christ his sake doe not for any wickednesse smite me with sicknesse Amen Amen 4. Collect for Safety FOrgive O Lord the forfeitures I Psal 19. 11. have made of thy protection by the wandrings of my life And though I have not beene as I should a dutiful Child yet be Thou O Lord as thou ever art a mercifull Isa 63. 16. Father Forget not thy fatherly goodnesse to me who pray thy pardon for offending Thee thy Grace to serve Thee and thy Providence to preserve me this night and evermore through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 5. Collect for Friends O Lord it is joyfull for Friends to Psal 3. 3. 1. Heb. 12. 22 23. love live together on earth but the joy of joyes all to live with thee in Heaven I beseech thee let this happinesse be the portion of all whom thou hast made more nearly and dearly mine Let us so live in thy service that we may die with thy Salvation Mean while what wants of earthly good to any give us what is amisse and offensive to thy Heavenly Majesty in any forgive us what is requisite to make us so to serve thee now as thou mayest save us then in thy bounty bestow upon us Truth and Grace aright to see and seek thy face in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 6. Collect for the Kingdome O Lord we lie all in broil and bloud Pity us Our distraction threaten desolation to us Preserve us Our sinnes cry loud for thy vengeance upon us Pardon us Thy mercies have been great to this Nation Lord remember them Thy deliverances of us have been many Lord renue them That iniquity be not our ruine let us repent ruine it The guilt bloud Ezek. 18. 13. upon us forgive our Breaches repaire The order which may bring peace establish The Government thou hast establish'd maintain what is just and right in thine eyes set up what thou seest evill cast down what makes the Nation miserable remove what may make it happy restore Lord for thy mercies sake say we have been miserable enough and make us more happy Let the light of thy countenance shine again upon us and grant us peace the Power and Authority which may procure it preserve and those to whom thou hast given that power blesse them to us and us in them and all in thee for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 7. Collect for the Church Catholike BEhold O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ I a Christian and child of his true Catholike Church pray thy mercies on my Good and Great Mother and all my Brethren and her Children in thee and thy Son For Errours amongst them send them Truth For Schisme Unity For Superstition warrantable worship For Confusion Order For Profanenesse Piety For Variance Concord For War Peace that all may as one Body with one mind and heart and mouth and knee believe love confesse adore and so serve thee and him whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ the Great Lord and common Saviour of us all as thou mayest save us all in the world to come O thou Head of the Church fave thy Body By thy Bloud cleanse it By thy Spirit sanctifie it By thy Power preserve it and every Limb of it dear Jesus Amen 8. Collect for the Church O Christ Head of thy Body the Ephes 1. 22 Church Let not this poor Member of it amongst us perish What it is thou seest Lord with pity behold us What it was thou knowest O Lord in mercy restore us Thy Primitive Order in Christian Truth and Worship for the saving of Soules cast down set up The present Confusions Distractions Innovations Errours which are got up cast down Set up thy Glory O Lord amongst us and what is set apart to support it doe thou maintaine and continue to us and our Posterities after us for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Amen Concluding Prayer BEhold Lord I have prayed thy Grace and Peace with Health and Protection for my Friends the Kingdome and this and thy Church Grant good God all the requests I have prayed of thee or what more I should have prayed from thee or what any else have prayed with me In whose name I have presented with whose words I desire to perfume perfect my Prayers Beseeching thee that his Spirit may breathe in those words in which I know I pray both what and as I ought And therefore as devoutly confidently say Our Father
thee as that is my state let this be my blisse Give me the blessings of the Womb a healthy and holy seed which may be Heires of thy blessings on earth after us and at last inheritance of thy eternall blessednesse in heaven with us even for the sake of thy onely begotten Sonne my deare and onely Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 1. Prayer for a Woman with Child LOrd who hast blessed me with a hopefull Conception crowne thy mercy in mee with a happy Deliverance From all frights and harmes which may cause miscarriage to me let thy providence shield me From all errors and ills which may draw thy displeasure upon me let thy grace preserve me And for all my faults and failings past let thy mercy pardon me And Lord let not the Child for the Parents sake be any way unhappy The blessing of shape and perfectnesse of Body and mind be upon it I beseech thee so shall the Church have a Child and thou a Servant my Family a pillar and thy kingdome an heire mine shall be the comfort but thine shall be the gaine O thou that thy selfe wast once enclosed in a Mothers womb conceived bred and born shew this mercy to me doe it for me deare Iesus thou holy Sonne of God Amen Amen Prayer against Miscarriage LOrd keep me from all harmes and frights this day * At Evening say this Night and that my Womb by no ill acccident may miscarry within me let not my heart by any ill act miscarry before thee Body and Soule let thy mercy grace preserve me now and ever deare Iesus Amen Amen Prayer for a Woman in Travaile LOe this is the fruit of the forbidden Tree our first Mother brought forth sin and we bring forth in paine for it justly O Lord for I am the Daughter of my Mother as I sinned in her loynes so since I came into the world I have justified often what she did once I have sinned O Lord I have sinned O how often have I coveted what thou hast forbidden done ill in thy eyes to doe what was pleasing to my owne and been both tempted and Tempter unto evill By inheritance therefore and purchase wrath is my due misery my portion and this paine my proper lot and thy great mercy it is in Christ my Saviour that the pangs of everlasting death are not my but O thou Judge of the world remember that thou art the Preserver of men preserve me in it support me under it make haste make haste good Lord to deliver me from it and comfort me after it O remember not what the first Adam hath done but the second suffered and by his immaculate Conception and holy Birth and Life by the bitter passion and pangs and death of the holy Child Jesus deliver me deare Father in this my extremity Let the paines of my Travaile end in the joies of a blessed Birth that may to the comfort of my soule live and be made an Heire of thy kingdome Amen Amen Prayer after Deliverance of Child LOrd that hast look'd downe on thy poore hand maid in her great distresse I looke up unto thee and blesse thy Name for my happy deliverance that thou hast made me the joyfull Mother of a hopefull Child without visible infirmity or deformity which might take from my joy Goe on good God in mercy to me and it Support me on my bed of weaknesse and in thy due time raise me from it with strength Let my Child live till thou by holy Baptisme hast made it thy Heire and in that holy and happy state of soule preserve it to thy kingdome and let it be my continuall care by all good meanes to preserve it And good Lord from the pangs of eternall death and paines of Hell keep me and it for ever And whatsoever burden of woe I shall travaile under on earth let me not despaire of mercifull deliverance whom thou hast so graciously eased of my late paine and burden Thy power mercy is the same for ever O Lord let it be shewed to thy Servant in all her extremity according as her hope and trust is in thee by the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayer after Christening the Child WHat an honour hast thou done unto thy Servant O Lord thou hast given me a naturall birth and my Child a new one what came polluted into the world is washed cleane in thy laver for the raggs of Adam thou hast put on it thy Sonnes robes My Child is made thy heire and what was borne by me to a Crosse thou hast begotten againe to a Crown of glory O Lord let it be my care to keep my Child thine thy Sonnes righteousnesse on him and Spirit in him and my ambition so to be thy Child that I may with it be Inheritor of thy Crowne By the merits of him who is the first-borne of his Brethren thy Son and Heire of all things Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer and Thanksgiving for our Birth-day I Thank thee O Lord for my Birth this day but especially for my new-birth By that I was made a Man by this a Christian from that I have a naturall life from this a spirituall that was to live on earth this in heaven nor was that to live for ever but a time on earth Lord let me not frustrate the end of my Birth nor apostate from the blisse of my Baptisme The state of grace in which this set me let me ever maintaine And if by sinne I ever fall from it let me by a true and timely repentance rise againe and recover it that when I shall go from earth I may come to heaven and when leave to live with men live with thee and thy Angels for ever for which end I am created redeem'd and preserved in this world Lord that gavest my life this day to begin let it so end for his sake whose birth life and death makes all ours blessed who is the beginning and end Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayer for New-years-day GOd of my life who hast given me this day to see a New-yeare begin let me live to see it at a happy end and thou who hast a new-New-heart in thy gift O give that to me that according to all the good purposes of my soule I may walke in good conscience before thee and have thy peace within me and thy blessing all the yeare upon me even for his sake who was content to be borne at this time and this day to be circumcised and shed his just blood for me Iesus Christ thy Son my deare Saviour and Lord. Amen Prayer for a Widow O Lord that hast taken my Head from me be thou Husband to me thou that boughtest my Soule by thy bloud to be thy Spouse doe not lose me doe not leave me guide and governe in me in all my waies in all my wants and straits supply me thou that art better than Friend than Father than Husband than all be unto
thy poore Child and Spouse who desires to love thee O be thou unto me all yea more than all unto me and that I may ever have thy love and care have thou mine ever I beseech thee and let neither world wooe nor Devill tempt nor flesh yeild it from thee let no lust defile my heart thy bed nor sinne blemish my body thy members let both be as thine undefiled before thee Where I have failed in either for time past Lord forgive me that for time to come I may keep more truly thine Lord strengthen me Behold the desires of my soule are after thee deare Jesus accept me let me live espoused by thy grace and at last be married to thy glory to that blessed day deare Saviour bring me and for it fit me and ever keep me deare Lord Jesus Amen Amen A Prayer for Fatherlesse-Children THou that art the Widowes Iudge and Orphans Father I commend to thy fatherly care my selfe and the Children thou hast given me Lord keep us from the evill of this world and bring us to the blisse of a better I beseech thee Holy Father take my Children to thy care and teach them thy feare be thou Tutor to their soules and Protector of their lives that by thy grace and mercy they may miscarry in neither let me serve thee in them and nurse them up in both for thee Assist me with wisdome and grace and power to doe it and give them grace in all duty and good obedience to suffer it let not my affections be too fiery or fond let me not neglect them nor distrust thee the love and care which is just let me give them and so expect thy blessing upon them And good Lord give it to them let the Fathers blessing be on them who is dead let a poore Mothers blessing be on them who lives let the blessing of their Friends be on them even all that pray it for them but above all let thy Blessing which is above all be upon them all I beseech thee Father of mercies Helper of the Fatherlesse blesse them Sonne of God that hadst little ones in thy armes on earth lay thy hands on them and blesse them Holy Spirit that didst appeare in the shape of a Dove behold their innocency and blesse them Holy Father Son and Spirit blesse them with thy grace and bring them to thy glory and me with them I beseech thee even for thy mercies sake for thy merits sake for thy goodnesse sake thou deare Maker Redeemer and Sanctifier of us all now and ever say Amen to the humble prayers which I put up unto thee in such words as thou hast taught me to say Our Father c. Prayer against sudden Death IF my repentance be daily no Death can be sudden to my Soule O Lord to make my Soule therefore surely thine let me be every day at a certaine with repentance And because the summes of my sinnes are vast and I may forget my debt and duty in the daily discharges of my sinnes and not repent for all or not enough O therefore give me a faire summons to my last end that I may die with a cleare soule and make so good an account as thou mayest acquit me of all my sins for his sake who paid the price of all in his blood even for the deare merits of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayers for one going to Sea 1. Prayer for a Voyage SEal thou my Passe O Lord and then I shal go safe yea do thou according to thy wonted goodnesse goe with me good God! guide me prosper me return me O let not my failings follow me but thy mercy put them from me and thy grace in Iesus Christ accept me And now save me and mine I beseech thee and all that by Land or Sea are in any extremity for his sake who is the Saviour of us all Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Prayer Gratulatory after a Voyage SAlvation is thine O Lord thine therefore be the glory that the flouds have not swallowed me up and the Deep shut her mouth upon me And now Lord who in thy great mercy and goodnesse hast been my Saviour at Sea be my Guide at Land lead me and shield me and blesse me that as I desire I may doe and in thy due time returne to live and serve thee in the place and way thou hast appointed for me on earth till I come to the place prepared in heaven for all that love thee through the merits of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen 3. Prayer at returne to Sea I Doe againe cast my selfe into thy armes deare Father embrace me for thy mercies sake hold my life in thy hand till thou hast brought me to the Haven where I would be and thence conduct me to the home where I should be there let me preserve the memory of thy mercies that thou mayest continue the possessions of thy goodnesse to me and mine till thou shalt please to translate us from our earthly Tabernacles to thy everlasting Habitations through the merits of Iesus Christ the blessed Purchaser of both for which ever fit us and prepare us by thy grace O God! Amen Amen A Prayer after returne home from Sea O God that hast been with me in my going out and comming in my Pilot by Sea Conduct by Land receive therefore the humble praises of my gratefull soule most sensible of thy goodnesse And still O Lord blesse me and mine and let thy holy Spirit so steare our course in the Sea of this sublunary world that we may escape those lusts which drowne souls in perdition and by the blessed guidance and assistance of thy grace arrive at last at the Land of everlasting life to live and dwell and love and laud adore joy in thee and enjoy thee for ever by the merits of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thanksgiving for deliverance from a Storme O Lord thou hast made me to see the great dreads and dangers of the Deep and I am alive at this day by thy gracious deliverance O let this mercy be ever in my memory and let me never forget the service which I vowed and owe unto thee for that mercy Make me so mindfull of that Passe-over of the floods that I may better passe the time of my Pilgrimage in thy feare till at last I come to have a happy Passe-over to thy glory even for his sake who is passed to heaven before me and for me Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Thanksgiving for deliverance from a Storme With a holy Meditation against perills O Lord thy providence is above all perils thy power above all stormes thy mercy above all sins I have seen I have seen at once thy Greatnesse and Goodnesse O God! thou wast my Anchor and I am saved thou wast my Pilot and I am preserved when no hope but to perish for wants then I had it and am help'd from heaven praised for ever be thou the God of my help Praised for
ever every way be the God of my salvation yea whilst I live wil I praise thee in this manner For thy mercy O Lord thine infinite mercy it is that I am preserved and live Lord let those dangers never depart from my mind that thy deliverance may never go out of my heart but that I may ever be mindfull and carefull of thee and thy service for it all the daies of my life O let me keep with joy the memory of those waves which came over but went off my head as the great passeover of my life And let thy tempest be made a Temple to me to call me to pray unto thee and praise thee the God of my life to teach me to feare obey and trust serve thee better every where whilst thou shalt continue to me those daies 1. Even thy Creatures how terrible are they O Lord all hearts are afraid of thy tempests and melt at thy stormes O let me in this glasse of their terror see the dreadfull face of thy angried Majestie at which the depths themselves doe tremble and the foundations of the world are discovered even as the blast of the breath of thy nostrils O Lord And let me never presume to exalt my selfe against thee but ever tremble before thy face 2. At thy word the stormes did cease their rage and lie still O God! if any tempest shall arise in my passions through my frailty let it cease at thy command let not the Seas obey thee and my Soule rebell against thee 3. Thou hast presented the horror of a tempest to my eyes and eares O Lord keep me that I never feele a tempest in my Conscience let the raging Sea never run in my Soule to raise up stormes in me more dreadfull than death And that I may never be drowned in the depths of despaire Lord keep me from the overflowing of wickednesse Let not presumptuous sinnes have any dominion over me let the conversation of the wicked never cleave unto me 4. Thou hast in this great extremity of danger manifested to my Soule thy ready and mighty help for deliverance even when the waves were about to overwhelme me then even then O blessed God did thy goodnesse save me O let this experience of thy mercifull power and aide make me to trust and stay my Soule upon thee in all distresses and dangers whatsoever shall hereafter befall me 5. O let not any temptations of the vanities of the Land drowne in me the memory of thy mercies at Sea but against all temptings to offend thee let this tempest thus arme me Had I bin in that hower tempted to sinne O God would I durst I then have offended thee And now that I am by thy mercy delivered shall I yeild upon any temptation to sinne against thee and breake my great obligation and vow to serve thee 6. O let those waters which did fright but not drowne me in the deep be apprehended as a new Baptisme in which thy hand was pleased at once to sprinkle and teach me that my cheeks are to be wet daily with the brinish teares of repentance for my sins and the fresh springs of joy are to flow from my eyes for the goodnesse of thy deliverance Thy waters came over me but confusion did not cover me my face felt the danger but thou hast saved my head O Lord my God! O Lord I beseech thee doe thou thus sanctifie these great passages of thy providence to me that whilst I live thou mayest have from me a better service and when I die I may receive from thee a better salvation even for Iesus Christ's sake my deare and onely Saviour Amen Prayer before or in a Journey O Lord who hast set thy Angels to keep us in all our Psal 91. 11 Psal 94. 5. waies charge that Convoy with me in whose heart they are forgive me that I have gone astray from thee and give me grace to goe no more astray and be not extreame to marke all errors and wandrings Ps 130. 3. from thee who then O Lord shall be preserved on earth or saved in heaven let thy holy Spirit guide me this day and ever in the waies which please thee and thy blessed protection be over me and all with me for his sake who is the Way the Truth and the Life even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Prayer Gratulatory after a Journey LOrd thou hast been with me in my Journey and as I prayed I have passed the perils of the way by the conduct of thy providence and where I would be I am by the favour of thy conduct blessed be thy holy name O Lord for all thy goodnesse How many have miscarried and doe daily many waies and even so might I have done had it not been for thy favour Blessed be thy name for it yea for all the preservations of my life and the mercy to which I owe those preservations Blessed for ever be thy holy name And still O Lord so magnifie thy mercy in my protection on earth that thou mayest ever be blessed of me till I am blessed with thee in Heaven through the merits of him who by his blood bought that blessednesse for us and in our flesh sits at the right hand to save us Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayers for a Souldier in a just Warre 1. Morning Prayer for one in Warre O LORD in daies of blood Read Psal 140. there be many howres of Death what minute may not be that hower O let me then thinke of mine thinke of it and prepare for it Thy grace give me so to doe this day and thy mercy for what hath been misdone before it that when my life shall end on earth it may begin where it shall never have an end Meane while let me live to doe thee more honour if it may stand with thy pleasure and see a happy peace to be the purchase of this warre that I may so live to my Prince Nation Church Religion me mine every way happy And doe thou therefore guide my Soule this day and guard my life from all evill and danger for Jesus Christ his sake in whose words I pray it saying Our Father c. 2. Evening Prayer for one in Warre LOrd who hast been my shield this Read Psal 91. day be my watch this night that I may be safe from the swords and hands of all Enemies and by the guard of thy goodnesse preserv'd to blesse and serve thee the next day for and in thy mercy through the merits of Jesus Christ in whose words I pray it saying Our Father c. 3. Prayer before Bataile O Thou shield of those that put Read Psal 143. 21 23. their trust in thee be his shield whose hope is onely in thee and in thy mercy onely Mercy Lord grant me for all my sinnes past and pardon me Mercy grant me in my present perils and preserve me Mercy grant me good God in my attempts this day and
prosper me O blessed Captaine of my salvation deare Jesus who didst shed thy blood for me shield me now that am to fight for thee and all engaged with me Have mercy on us all deare Jesus and give us victory Amen Amen Our Father c. 4. Thanksgiving after Fight LOrd that hast been the shield of Ps 28. 30. 124. 128. After Victory 26. 98. thy Servant I give thee the glory of thy goodnesse And still Lord in all dangers be my shield that I may give thee yet more glory for that thou hast given me to see many fall and my selfe stand that thou hast shewed me this day many wounded and kept me safe Glory be to thee O Lord for thy mercy for ever by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. 5. Prayer for one wounded in Warre O Lord thou woundest and healest 1 Sam. 2. 6. thou killest and thou makest alive I doe beseech thee therefore to heale him in thy mercy who is not wounded without thy providence Lord Jesu thou good and great Physitian of wounded bodies souls who never failest to cure whom thou pleasest to recover take him to thy care who is wounded in thy cause and even for thy tender mercies sake I beseech thee heale his Soule of his sins and his Body of his wounds O thou that thy self was wounded and sheddest thy blood for him and us all in this bleeding condition of his let thy blood be his cordiall and thy wounds his remedies And thou Lord of life who on earth with thy Word made the sick and wounded to recover yea the dead to live say unto him from Heaven Live and Recover that he may serve thee more and better on Earth And now and ever fit and prepare him with thy grace that when he dies he may live and reigne with thee in Heaven through the blessed merits and mediation who wast wounded and slaine to heale and save us all O Jesus Christ our Lord our life and onely hope and succour and Saviour in life and death Amen Prayers for the Sick 1. A Confession and Prayer for mercy and Deliverance O Lord I do humbly confesse to the glory of thy justice that the sicknesse which I suffer is the fruit of my sin the Root of Mankind was poysoned with it and I am a branch of it yea and am much and many waies polluted by it and so am like my Root a poysoned branch I am therefore a Child of Death Rom. 5. 12. and Heire of the Grave the issue of his sin and sicknesse is my portion as I am his Child But Lord I am the seed of a second Adam looke at me not as I am in the first but thy Christ a graft of that Isaiah holy stock the root of Jesse the branch of righteousnesse the Holy One of God for his pretious merits sake forgive me my sin and have mercy on me in my sicknesse And O deare Iesus Joh. 5. 14. that didst take flesh and blood for me pity me poore flesh and blood groaning before thee comfort me and succour me help me and heale me even by the merits of thy pretious blood I beseech thee Amen Amen Prayer for Patience in Sicknesse I Am thy Prisoner O Lord chained by infirmity to a bed of paine but let me not fret even because I am thine Thine whose chaine I cannot breake Thine who dost draw me to thee by this chaine Thine who for my sinne dost justly bind me Thine who knowest when it 's best to loose me Thine who seest what lies upon me Thine who hearest every groane within me Thine who for my sinnes mightâ—st bind me in everlasting chains and sendest this sicknesse to save me O Lord since I am so many waies thine let me submit to thy chaine and lie as thy prisoner so thy Patient before thee and let thy pity in thy good time release me and charge not the errors of my infirmity upon me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Thanksgiving for Recovery of Sicknesse WHat shall I render unto the Psal 116. Lord for all his benefits done to me the snares of death compassed me and the paines of Hell tooke hold upon me I found woe and misery then called I on the name of the Lord and he heard me yea thou Lord wast he that helped me Thou art my God and I wil praise thee It was not Man it was thou that healed me All Physitians are of no value all Medicines vaine without thee Thy Mercy O Lord was my Balme and I will magnifie it Thou wast my Physitian and I will praise thee My heart in all extremity shall therefore trust in thee My lips shall speake of thy praise and my life honour thee I will not be so wretched as to offend thee with the healthinesse thou hast given me with the life anew bestowed on me O Lord keep that wretchednesse for ever from me thy grace therefore ever give me to have in all my waies this mercy and thy glory before me even so be it I beseech thee O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Amen Prayer against the Plague O Lord Pestilence is thy Arrow and my sins have made mee thy marke nor canst thou misse me in thy justice But spare me Lord spare me in thy mercy Though I deserve the stroke for my selfe spare me for my Saviours sake let his innocency be my shield and his blood my antidote O Lord I have I wish no other antidote or shield By the soveraigne and all-saving merits of his I beseech thee pardon my sinne and spare my life Spare my soule that it may better serve thee spare my body that it may better serve my soule spare my heart that I may keepe it more carefully for thee spare my blood that my spirits may be more active to serve thee And as I pray Pestilence from my body so I beseech thee keep it from my soule Preserve me from the house and shield me from the chaire of pestilence As from infected Bodies so from Spirits which breath errors and vices pests and plagues of souls From all mutuall diseases defend me Body and Soule but from those fearfull ones above all I beseech thee And all those thou hast made neare and deare unto me deare Saviour doe it for thy mercies sake Amen Prayer for one infected with the Plague I Am struck O God and by thy hand I beseech thee let me bleed in thy Armes in thy Armes of mercy let me depart if I must die but Lord embrace me with thy favour that I may live live out this danger and see thy deliverance out-live my sins and doe thee more service Meane while mercy Lord for Jesus his sake mercy to thy poore Servant pardon to my sinne comfort to my spirit acceptance to my repentance strength to my faith life to my charity salvation to my soule that whether I live or die I may be thine O Lord who to redeem and save me
mercy so wicked as to abuse thy blessings let all that I am and have serve thee mind body state health friends none be abused to vanity in any way of sin to reproach thee but all made to extoll my Makers praises and my Redeemers glory Since I owe my selfe by so many bonds of blessings to thee yea thousand lives and soules had I so many to serve thee let me not deny the service of one poore soule body unto thee O blessed Maker and Redeemer and Preserver of both I have no more to give thee my self therefore made of both I present unto thee I give thee my self on earth O Lord accept me and receive me to thy selfe in heaven where with thy Angels I shal give thee perfect praises singing Hallelujahs day and night giving everlasting lauds unto thee my great Maker my deare Redeemer my holy Comforter my good Preserver O God Father Son and holy Ghost O blessed and adored Trinity to thee and to thy goodness alone for what I am and have hope of bliss in this or a better world be all honour praise thanksgiving and glory for ever and ever Amen Amen A Gratulatory Commemoration of Gods mercies and deliverances REceive the sacrifice of my thankfull soule O Lord for all thy mercies * Here think of particular and mercifull deliverances of me and mine from diseases and dangers by Land or Water in Warre or Peace of old or late for soule or body O! what great dangers hast thou shewed me and them and yet hast delivered us from all our feares they live and I live and all live and why but to praise thee the God of our salvation and life thou art my God and I will praise thee thou art my God and I will worship thee yea whilst I live will I magnifie thee on this manner And O give me grace to give thee more better glory Glory from my lips and glory from my life Glory in my mind by a just sense and Meditation of thy mercy And glory from my heart in a true love and joy of thy goodnesse till thou dost give me thy glory in heaven Lord let me ever give thee this glory on earth even so Lord for all thy benefits and blessings from any ill or of any good to me or any more nearly mine from the hower of my birth to this day of my life glory be to thee now and ever by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thanksgiving for a preserved Friend or others formerly Prayed for MY Heart is full of thy goodness O God! thou hast delivered thy Servant from his dangers and me from my fears O what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits to me O my God! I give thee a thankfull heart and beseech thee to give me a thankfull life Grace so to live that my deeds as well as words may speak me thankfull O let me not pay thee with neglects for thy favours lest thou returne me plagues for thy mercies let me have care to serve thee in for thy goodnesse that I may still rejoice in and for thy salvation of him and me and all who are more dearly mine even so be it for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Prayers for every day in the Week SUNDAY A Prayer against the flesh O Lord deliver me from my selfe my sinfull sensuall and carnall selfe ready to joyne with my foes to ruine my soule by yeilding it up to the temptations of sinne Let me watch it as my most mortall enemy without which all the Devils in hell cannot force nor all the powers on earth fasten a sin upon me and yet a foe so inbred and Naturall to me as will lodge in me whilest I live and never leave me Make me see what cause I have to keepe a strict and continuall watch and pray thy aide when the Devill and the World without beset me and lead on Armies of Temptations against me and the flesh within is false and ever ready to betray me and let them in upon me From such Enemies and Traytors Lord deliver me and as I love the eternall salvation of my soule let me not sleepe in security that have to doe with such Enemies And since the flesh is my foe let me not cherish it and satisfie it and provide for it and entertaine it as a friend but according to thy will and the necessity of my soule let me not spare to crucifie and kill it as my Enemy which will torture me if I be not crucified and kill me if I doe not kill it And grant me Good God the power of thy Spirit to doe thy will in mortifying of the flesh to the saving of my soule Let my life be a continuall fight against the corruptions of my flesh and succour me with wisdome and grace to maintaine that fight let me watch and fast and use all due meanes to beat downe my body if that give it strength Let me meditate and heare and reade and pray and weep in all good wayes seeking to beare up my soule to beat downe that sinfull body and bring it to death And because though now beaten downe a new Temptation will raise it up and struck dead it will revive againe Hasten my soule O Lord out of these endlesse Warres where I may keep the triumphs of an eternall peace from earth to heaven and strengthen my soule to get those daily victories over my lusts that they bring me to those triumphs O Christ that hadst flesh and no corruption pitty me that have both Succour my double frailty thou that knowest the infirmity of the flesh Assist me with thy holy Spirit to stand Recover me when I fall in these holy fights Relieve my wants forgive my weaknessâ—s close up my wounds by thy bloud Blessed Saviour the Captaine of my Salvation who didst fight and conquer all my foes and now sittest on thy Throne in triumph in heaven make me so to fight that I may conquer on earth and having subdued the flesh may sit with thee on the Throne From their shame keepe me that prefer the Subject before the Soveraigne Flesh before the Spirit From their losse keep me that prefer a Toy to a Crowne a Lust to a Kingdome From their Cowardise keepe me that dare not fight for a Crowne but yeild their souls up to lust From their woe ever keep me that buy delights with their death for a little life after the flesh dying eternally bodies and soules From such folly and misery deare Jesus deliver me Amen! Amen! MONDAY A Prayer against the Devill O Lord how shall my poore soule stand against Temptation it thou doe not assist me who have as many Ghostly Enemies as Devils to tempt me malicious crafty busie and mighty all of them hating my soule to death watching my weaknesses and continually seeking occasion to devour me O my God without thy strength I cannot stand and by thy strength I shall not fall For thou O God art above
mayest as soone find it in Hell God is not in that heaven onely seek and solace thy self in the waies of God that 's heaven on earth indeed both a glimpse of the glorie above and a light to find heaven where it is in heaven and from the goods of the world raise up thy thoughts to a better blisse Say if so well on earth how much better in heaven so let it be not thy myrrour of blisse but perspective Not thy chaire but foot-stoole to take a better sight flight to thy Throne so thou shalt at once walke on earth and goe to heaven yea thou shalt divide thy selfe betwixt both Bodie to earth and Soule to heaven And God will in that day blessedly unite what thou dost devoutly divide and keep with him in heaven for ever both Bodie and Soule 2. Meditation see Soliloquie p. Monday-Service Of the Miseries of this World Morning Prayer Psal 120. 129. 137. Lesson Gen. 47. or Job 14. Luk. 21. or Act. 20. Evening Prayer Ps 39. 42. or 84. 102. Lesson Lam. 3. Rom. 7. Then after this following Collect the Daily Prayers ¶ Monday Collect touching the Miseries of Earth O Lord with us is miserie with thee is mercy on earth all ill in heaven all good O for thy mercies sake support me in all my miseries and deliver me from my sins the cause of them all And of thy goodnesse I beseech thee raise up my heart to covet and seek the good of heaven that my hold and hope of it may comfort me against all the ills of the earth Let the bitternesse which I feele below win me from this evill world and whet in me a holy appetite to the pure sweets and joies which be above And in thy good time fill my Soule with those blessed Solaces I beseech thee even for his blessed merits and mediation sake who is my onely joy hope in heaven and earth Jesus Christ my deare Redeemer and Advocate Amen Meditation of the Miseries of the World WHy so much wedded to the world when woe is her Dowrie entailed as a Portion by God Gen. 3. 17. on Adam and thee if his Son since he forfeited with his Allegiance his Paradise and thine by his default Earth ever since brings forth woes as Job 5. 7. fire sparks Within thee or without thee for thy self or others In Bodie or Soule woods will as soone want leaves as the world faile thee of woes thou art heire to all Inheritour at least of some never secure from any because alwaies in griefe or feare of all And least blest too when most secure most unhappy when least miserable bliss in this life being the greatest curse because the portion of a man markt out for everlasting unhappiness Psal 17. 14. Alas what a purchase is a little fickle worldly bliss with woes all and everlasting after it not without some in it My heart if thou hast so mis-caried in thy choice let this divorce the mariage love earth when thou art fond of woe and not afraid of hell Thou wilt find good Alimonie after this divorce Thou wilt live more well and die much better for it Thou wilt entertaine death as a deliverance from her ills whose goods thou scornest And receive and read a Summons to thy end not as an Archest and call to judgement but an Acquittance from calamitie Thou wilt eye heaven as thy harbour of rest and be weary of the world as a sea of trouble Thou wilt study to steer thy course by the Card and Compass of the Infallible word and rule to know and goe the right way to heaven So good is the Worlds wormwood above her honey for the souls health if we take and taste it right And even our miseries are made great mercies because good medicines for that happy health Did earth afford sinfulfalne man one Paradise he would scarce looke for two Now that he finds a Purgatorie of it it drives him to the true Paradise and bring him sooner to those joies by the hastening of those woes which hie more to heaven when most heavie on earth Tuesday-Service Against the Vanities of the World Morning Prayer Psal 4. 39. or 37. 102. 104. Lessons Eccl. 1. 2. or any Chap. of it Mat. 16. or Lu. 12. Evening Prayer Psal 52. 62. Lessons Eccles 3. 4. c. Hab. 2. 1 Tim. 6. Then the Daily Prayers after this folowing Tuesday-Coll against the vanities of the world O Lord who hast made this world for me and me for another let me not be caried away with the vanities of that world which cannot content my Soule and will not continue with me O! let my heart be fixed on higher things never to be moved with worldly vanities that when this world shall end to me or I to it I may enjoy those honours and joyes and goods which shall never end with thee thy Angels and Saints in a better world through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then Daily Prayers Meditation of the Vanities of the World THe World is a shop of Vanities Honours Riches Pleasures the chief Commodities the Devil Master of the shop and Man his miserable Customer The common price is our Souls which we give him to get them and yet possesse nothing lesse worse than nothing by all we get which is the vainest of that vanitie of vanities O Man be not thou so vile and vaine why doth transitory good take thee who hast an Immortall Spirit why doth sensible joy carry thee away who hast a faculty for the highest intellectuall good capacity of Eternitie Alas thou wilt as soone fill a sive with water as thy Soule with the Isa 55. 2. world and couldst thou give her a fill of it a short time would to thy greater losse and grief run it all out again Let the world then be not thy Idol but thy scorne Believe it if worldly good be thy Deity her glory profit and delight thy Trinity they will not fill but faile and vex thy heart and so give thee for blisse a triple infelicity vexation is their fullest satisfaction and their end not thy content but torment It is infinite eternall goodnesse which must give man of an immortall Spirit content In that Deity is his rest and his felicity in that only Trinity Let God then be as he is thy Throne the world as it should be thy footstoole By her good climbe up to God get thus up Abundance of good here seems brave what is all indeed in heaven what is substance when the shew is such what to have all things when so valued to have nothing what blisse is to be found in the Trinity of uncreated goodnesse when so much is fancied in the Three poorpetty created Goods of that revised devised and fond-imagined Godhead What if thou hast senses by which they wooe and court thy love Hath not thy Soule a power to guide and governe those Handmaids O Man thy senses are in thy Soule Monster if thou
put it in thy senses Man of reason be not a beast for sense live and love above worldly vanitie looke and long after sure solid satisfying soule-felicity else saving thy selfe nothing is or can be so vaine Wednesday-Service Against the Villanies of the World Morning Prayer Psal 12. 14. 120. Lessons Gen. 6. or 19. Mat. 24. Evening Prayer Psal 18. 55. Lessons Jer. 5. or Isaiah 13. 2 Pet. 2. or 1 Joh. 5. Collect against the villanies of the World O Lord since the World is a Sodome 2 Pet. 2. 8. let me be a Lot vexed not delighted with her filthiness Since it is a Mesech let me be a David not taken but tired with her Psal 120. 4 wretchedness Lord why should that have my joyes where my Soule is never free from dangers nor thy glory from wounds where Blasphemie is as common as the ayre and Oppression as the earth where Iniquitie flowes like water and lust flames as fire why should I be in love with her that is in hate with thee where if I follow her course I go to the damnation of another world and if I crosse it meet with nothing but vexation all the way O Lord though I be in it let me not be of it if it be wicked let me be good yea the more wicked it is the better let me be that thou mayest Apoc. 3. 12 take a more mercifull notice of my goodnesse And because it is hard to breath the ayre of corruption and take 2 Cor. 6. 17 no taint into conversation let me be willing to get fairly from it and come to thee where is blisse pure without teare or taint Take me from the Devils of the world to thy Angels O God! meane time let me live a Saint even amongst Devils that I may at last be a Saint amongst Angels yea as one of thy Angels in that world where is no woe nor wickednesse Sinner nor Satan but thy blessed unitie with holy and happy society of glorified Men and Angels enjoying adoring lauding and serving thee for ever ever so be it for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Daily Prayers Meditation of the Villanies of the World MOther of all misdeeds and mischiefs when shall I be delivered from thee gaole of my Soule and wrack of my salvation a hill of poor Pismires tossing up and downe thou art at best a hell of debauch'd and damned Spirits at worst Source of sinne forge of hell and a field of all temptation If I love my God I must hate thee because an enemy to his honour if I love my self I must loath thee because an adversary to my salvation if I hate the Devill I must not love thee because thou art his Sword to destroy if I may not love the flesh I must not love thee because her staffe of support if I must not love vice I must abhorre thee because thou art the Mistresse of Vanitie if I must love grace I must detest thee because the Step-dame of Virtue Hagge of Satan Hate of Heaven Schole of Vice Seminary of Errour Mother of Sinne Step-dame of Saints Pest of the Spirit Nurse of the Flesh who by thy bad counsels and examples breedest the Brat of Sin in thy wicked womb and then sucklest and indearest it with thy profits and pleasures thy wretched dugs woe is me that I must stay in thee shame on me if I love thee thy best things are vanities of Earth thy worst villanies against Heaven what in thee can I love Though thou be a Whore I will not be a Villaine to my God so much a Villaine as to love such a Whore so Jac. 4. 4. 1 Joh. 2. 14 much a Villaine as by any lust of mine to make thee more Strumpet and by my additions of particular ills to encrease thy whoredomes I will have care what I can not to be Partaker of thy guilts but Ringleader I will never be to thy rebellions I would not come to thy end and therefore will avoid thy way God I thank thee for thy good Spirit which carries me against the streame of my corruption and tide of the World I cannot goe but in the strength of that Spirit against such a tide and streame God I pray thee let me continue my course that I fall not at last into thy Sea of Wrath and when the world of nature shall end be tormented with a world of sinners world without end for ever and ever Thursday-Service About Death Morning Prayer Psal 39. 49. Lesson Geu 3. or 5. Luk. 16. Evening Prayer Psal 90. 23. Lesson Eccles 12. Rom. 5. ¶ Thursday-Collect or Prayer about Death O Lord who hast appointed all to die make me ever mindfull of my dissolution that I may lesse love the vanities of this and more seek the felicities of a better life where death and distresses are not but we shall be as the Angels of God healthy and vigorous and happy for ever O let me every day so live that I may come to that life when I die And because the best-led life may have need of some time to prepare for death Of thy great mercy I beseech thee keep me from an unprepared heart and unexpected end Even for his sake who himselfe had the horrour of death Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers after it Meditation of Death DIe I must and after live in weal or woe for ever and no time after to recover the woe if I lose the weal As I tender then eternity let me look to my life Die I must and know not where House a Field Land or Water Bed or Board every where then let me look to it Die I must but know not how By a violent or naturall course casualty or infirmity lingringly or speedily every way then let me looke for it Die I must but know not when Day or night this or that day next or this This or that hour that or this minute this or that time Morn Noon Even ever then let me look after it And how look to it better then to finde out the murderer and doom him to death O Sin shalt thou lie in my bosome that hast laid all Mankind in a grave I will have thee to the crosse Rom. 5. 12 for that yea and for this too lest thou adde murder to murder and kill my Soul after my Body O what a sad hour of parting will that be if when Soul should leave the Body to death God shall leave the soul to be damn'd All full of horrour and utterly comfortlesse when it should be most the comforter of the Body But strength thou hast not to have death under foot without a Christ in Luke 2. 28 29. thy Armes Thou canst not welcome it without fear till thou embrace him in thy Faith To whom then should I look but to thee O Lord who art my Saviour And for what but thy mercy which is my Salvation And why but for my sinnes my onely destruction And how
let me loath the honie of wicked delights and because under the flowers of pleasure snakes of guilt lye hid let me beware of all but O Lord ever keepe me from setting my heart on any On thee be my soule ever fixt O God! In thee be the joy of my heart even in thee alone and in other things onely in thee and for thee and let thy feare be the matter or measure of all my pleasures that they may be in thee that when the brook of earthly joyes shall faile I may drink of the river which runs to all eternity O thou who art said to weepe not to laugh strengthen me to see and overcome this vanity That I may joy in thee now and with thee hereafter in endlesse felicity Deare Jesus Amen Daily Prayers Monday-Service Of the Vanity of Honours Morning Prayer Psal 49. 82. Lesson 1 Sam. 2. or Esth 6. Dan. 4. Joh. 12. Evening Prayer Psal 75. 83. Lesson Isa 3. or 5. or 23. or Jer. 5. 2 Cor. 1. ¶ Prayer against the Vanity of Honours O Lord Because thou hast made me great shall I not be good Because my bloud is noble shall my life be wicked Because men doe me honour shall I doe thee shame Lord let such a spirit of basenesse never possesse me let me know that the greater my honours are the greater be my obligations to serve thee And let those parasites of greatnesse appeare as so many fiends of Hell unto me who would have me break those bonds and flatter and nourish such a spirit in me Make me too wise to build my blisse on mans breath that I be not miserable at their pleasure and happy when they list Make me not so fond as to think a glory so vaine can make me happy So poore as to thinke that applause my blessednesse which goes and comes with a blast of mans Make me so wise as to know that a holy spirit makes the noblest bloud and to be thy child is the best descent to beare thine image the best coat to have thine Angels the best Ministers of honour and thine eyes the best Judges And make me so good as to doe those noble acts of vertue and piety which may give me this honour let others court the vaine let me seeke tâ—ue glory To scorne earth get heaven shining as the Sun in the State of immortality King of Glory give this honour to me Sweet Jesus I beseech thee Amen Amen Daily Prayers Tuesday-Service Against the Vanity of Riches Morning Prayer Psal 39. 49. Lessons Deut. 8. 9. or Pro. 11. 23 Mat. 13. or 19. or Mar. 10 Evening Prayer Psal 52. 62. Lessons Job 31. or Eccles. 5. James 5. ¶ Prayer against the Vanity of Riches KEep me O Lord from their madnesse who make riches their God and poverty their Devill Let not that be my heaven whâ—ch is so near to hell let me not make that my blissâ— which earth hath in her bowels And let not that have my heart which is not my heaven From immoderate desires to get or keepe wealth keepe me O Lord and from sinfull defend me that I may not covet much to spend more in the maintenance of lust vice and vanity and have much to ruine me Let me know that riches are good as they come from thee and give me a power of greater piety and charity and alacrity to serve thee and so let me value them as acts of thy bounty But as things unable to save either soule from hell or body from death in the day of distresse or to satisfie the soule in any better day let me despise them as poore and of no value And as Meanes of Sinne and Woe Feeds of pride luxury and excesse let me abhorre them as the Fewell of wrath and hell Let me be rich in thee and to thee in baggs laid up in heaven laid out in earth to mans Necessity and thy Glory Let the riches of grace be my joy others my use and their love my scorne That when the Worldly Rich shall be Beggers bereaved of all comfort I may be rich in all abundance in thee and with thee who art all in all by the purchase of the pretious blood and passion of Him who became poore to make us rich Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Wednesday-Service Against the Vanity of Beauty Morning Prayer Psal 38 39. 45. Lessons 2 Sam. 14. or Pro. 31. or 11. or Ezek. 28. Mat. 23 Evening Prayer Psal 6. 96. 145. Lessons Isay 3. or 28. Ezek. 16. 1 Cor. 11. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Beauty O Lord let me looke at Beauty as thy blessing but not make it my blisse Let not my care be more for my body then my soule and to have a faire face then conscience O let that which is thy face and Image have the chiefest of my costs and care Let the glasse of thy Word be often before me to see it and the waters of repentance daily with me to wash it and the fine linnen of the Saints ever by me to adorne it that the King of Heaven may delight in my beauty and not Men but Angels love me For beauty of the body let it not be my sinne or anothers snare Let me not hate Deformity above Hell and love Beauty before Heaven Since age at last will and infirmity before may deface that beauty and change it to a loath'd deformity And Lord keepe my looks from being lures of vanity Let no guilts be upon my eyes of anothers iniquity Let thy feare preserve me and them from these guilts Make it my care to appeare with a faire and cleane conscience before thee and to Him whom thou hast made the vayle of my eyes let me be joy of his That when humane beauty shall faile an Angels may be given me a body and soule both faire without blot or blemish to all eternity To that beauty Lord Jesus bring me Amen Amen Daily Prayers Thursday Service Against the Vanity of Strength Morning Prayer Psal 22 33. 38. 102. Lessons Job 6. or 9. or 40. or 1 Sam. 17. Act. 3. or 5. Evening Prayer Psal 86. 147. Lessons Job 21. or Isay 26. 1 John 2. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Strength THat I have health the Crown of earthly mercies I thank thee O God of my strength And I beseech thee continue it to me without which I cannot serve thee or enjoy any comfort from thee And let me use it whilst it is with me to the end for which thou givest it me to look and seek after eternall life where is no sicknesse nor infirmity Lord make me know that all other use is Vanity To trust in strength idolatry to turne it against thee villany To doe more sinne because I have more health from thee Let me therefore have care in the dayes of my youth and strength to remember thee my Creatour that in the dayes of age and infirmity thou mayest not forget thy Servant Let my
healthy body make my soul more cheerfull to serve thee How unfit sicknesse is to doe thee service and how many wayes it may come let me sadly consider that in my health I may goe about my happinesse and in my sicknesse have the comfort of a well-employed health and at my death the assurance of eternall life by that employment Lord since thou givest me the best of thy blessings let me give thee the first of my years the strength of my youth not my decrepite dayes that come sicknesse or health life or death I may be Thine ever a child of blisse and heire of immortality by the merits of him who is the Sonne of thy Love Jesus Christ Amen Daily Prayers Friday-Service Against the Vanity of Wit Morning Prayer Psal 36. 94. Lessons 2 Sam. 17. or Prov. 3. Lukc 10. Evening Prayer Psal 90. 111. 2. Lessons Jer. 4. Ecclcs 2. 1 Cor. 3 or 2 Tim. 3. Jam. 3. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Wit I Thanke thee O Lord for the blessing of my Reason For the power of it by which thou hast made me a man not a beast and the use of it by which thou hast made me of understanding not an ideot I beseech thee let me not marre what thou hast made My wit to delude my will and it to draw my soule from thee lest I foole my selfe of the end for which I was made and an Ideot get to Heaven before me As I have the wit let me have the wisdome to know thee and with my understanding the conscience to feare thee without which the most wise is but a foole before thee Ftom a wit to contrive mischiefs and to compasse designes of vanity from skill to use the arts of sinne and finde the wayes of death and hell Good Lord deliver me From an Atheists wit to dispute against thee and Religious acts which binde the soule unto thee and cunning to maintaine acts of vice and villanie Lord keepe me that it find neither roome nor favour in me that such wickednesse be not charged upon me Let me be a foole on earth to be a Saint in Heaven even theirs who thinke Sanctitie a simplenesse Devotion a dulnesse and thy Feare a folly And from pride of understanding and scorne of the simple who have little to my much let this preserve me that thou canst make my much to be little if I so provoke thee bereaving me of my wits by a sicknesse or a phrensie Wisdome of God from all this save me Deare Jesus Amen! Daily Prayers Saturday-Service Against the Vanity of Friends and Favour Morning Prayer Psal 38. 41. 11. 5. 39. Lessons Esth 6. or Job 6. or Pro. 19. Luk. 1. Act. 7. Evening Prayer Psal 88 89. 106. Lessons Micha 7. Eccles 9. James 1. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Friends and Favour O Lord Friends are Jewels and so thou hast taught us to value them yet as men that may be false or will be fickle our trust must not be in them Some are not more friends to my person then my prosperity And those that are now most friends with me may prove bitter enemies against me Let me therefore seeke to have my Conscience thy Angels and Selfe for friends that will never faile me and let thy will be mine O God that all these friendships may be for me O thou great Friend of mankind who by thy bloud didst make falne man friends with God by thy Holy Spirit make me fit for all these friendships And Lord let me not value mans with thy favour They can give me honour but not a Crowne of Glory Wealth but not Heaven Their hands are too short Yea in sicknesse and distresse they cannot reach health or quiet to my body or my conscience And though their power be ever lesse then my wants it may be often greater then their wills O Thou Unchangeable Majestie The everlasting lover of them that feare thee let me be one that thou maist ever favour me Let me not care for mans cloud so the light of thy countenance shine upon me Let my sinnes never hide that light from my soule I beseech thee Sun of righteousnesse let some beame of thy love ever come unto me Lord Jesus say Amen Amen! Daily Prayers Services upon other subjects and particular occasions Advertisement to the devout Reader touching these Services FOr those services in the fourth Week which may not be so proper for all as that of Honour Beauty Strength those here which are of more Cōmon concernment may be used in their stead as the Service against Malice Revenge Impatience The rest as occasion and discretion guides thee and devotion finds most beneficiall for thee Wherein the Authour gives thee thou mayest take thy choice And if thou wilt make these serve for a fift Weeke doe as shall most please and profit thee A Service of the pleasures of piety for Sunday or other day Morning Prayer Ps 4. 30. 32. or 33. 97. Lessons Deut. 16. or Isa 29. or 35. 61. 65. Joh. 16. Evening Prayer Psal 16. 36. or 126. 132. Lessons Heb. 3. or Mat. 3. or 8. Phil. 4. ¶ A Prayer to have the pleasures of Piety RAvish my heart O Lord with the joyes of thy Saints and cause me to see the felicity of thy chosen O! What are the pleasings of sense to the solaces of a Soule or the delights of the flesh to the raptures of Spirit And in what but in thee O God can my immortall Soule take repose or my Spirit finde rellish thou art the Soveraign good In thee is the Crown of joy All in the world is nothing to thee woe without thee And how can my Soule rejoyce in thee but in the favour which thou hast to those that feare thee and those multitudes of mercies which proceed from thy favour to those that are in holy league and peace with thee Lord make me one of thy Saints that I may have some of those joyes which none but those that feele know and those that know cannot utter And give me I beseech thee some taste of those holy pleasures which may encourage me more and more to seek to be a Saint O Lord of those shoures of hidden Manna which daily fall upon Soules greatly devout indeed let some crums and drops come to me who truly desire to be so and whilst others take pleasure to swim in sensuality let me be satisfied with those drops Let sinfull contents be my hate because they banish them and sensuall my scorne because below them Let me joy in the goods of the earth as my common portion but triumph in thy favour as my great Inheritance and in the duties of thy service and feare as the wayes to thy favour To the harvest of joy in Heaven Lord at last bring me and to live more comfortably on earth in thy feare the First-fruits of thy Spirit give me and a love and care and conscience of thy feare encrease ever in me God
flamma c. Bern. O let my Heart never be so hard as to see those Wounds of so great love to me and have no woundings of affection for Thee for Thee And all in heaven and earth that have Relation unto Thee O Christ I am in love with the Father of my Lord Jesus Christ who would give His Joh. 3. 16. Rom. 8. 32 onely Sonne so to suffer on earth for a time that I might not frie in Hell for ever And I have love tâ— Thee O Holy Spirit of God who didst Anoint Jesus Isa 61. 1. to be my Christ and give Him Inauguration to his Crowne of Thornes and Blessed though most bloody Function O Holy Trinity I doe adore what I cannot comprehend as your Heavenly 1 Joh. 3. 7. Heb. 10. 7. Persons so your Counsels And with an humble love and holy reverence desire to behold and blesse your Designe for the Salvation of one World by the Passion of Him who is more worth than a Thousand I see and admire your wonderfull Wisdome Goodnesse and Power that could and did contrive such a Decree And next to your Persons that Blessed Trinity of your Perfections I will Ephes 3. 10 11. Col. 1. 27. for ever love admire and adore And next God I have love for thee O Man Son of man who ever thou art by His flesh and blood and bloody Passion made Gods Son and Brother of Christ Thy Heb. 2. 10 12 14. Ephes 2. 13. 19. Crosse O Jesus shall make all Mankind my friends and Thy Blood glue my heart to every man O Christ why should I hate any when Thou didst so love all How dare I slight any when Thou gavest thy Hearts-blood for every one shall he that is Mat. 25. 40. thy Brother be my hate or scorne And of all Mankind I love you ye Saints that are Twice his Brethren Rom. 12. 5 1 Cor. 12. 27. in Spirit and flesh so neer to Him in both as makes you His Limbs as well as Brothers And Thee O Holy 2 Cor. 11. 2. Col. 1. 18. Ephes 5. 23. Church Spouse of Him and Mother and Body of them yea the Body for which with specialty He gave His Blood and Selfe I have Passionate Ephes 5. 25. Act. 20. 28. Love for thee O thou Dearest Body of Christ shall I think any thing too good for thee for whom He gave Himselfe Preferring thee His Mysticall before His Naturall Body And shall I esteem friend or state or liberty or life or any thing or all things before thee And above all the world though no worship I have kindnesse for you you holy Angels of God who though you have no Ransome because no need of a Redeemers Blood nor had wherwithall as it needed not to pay and contribute at all to the Redemption yet for your Zeale to God and Love Luk. 2. 13. to Man gave it the joy as if it had been your Deliverance and Christ the Welcome as if He had come to be your Saviour Messengers of His Birth Ministers in his life Attendants at his Luk. 2. 11. Mat. 4. 11. Joh. 20 12. Luk. 24. 6. Act. 1. 11. Death Heraulds of his Resurrection and Ascension Giving to his Naturall Body all Due Services on earth and paying for him to his Mysticall your Heb. 1. 14. Holy Ministeries now he is in Heaven O you Pure and Holy Spirits of God! though you got not your Blisse you lost not by Him It is made more strong to you and you more High in Mediator Confirmationis it by the Numbers of Glorified Bodies filling the Rooms of Apostate Spirits to vour farre greater joy and Blisse You love Him and His Passion for it and I you for that You love Man above your owne Kind for that and I you for it Thus Lord I love all for Thee and Thee in all And now I will love my self amongst them O Lord I am One in whom is thy flesh a Man I am One in whom is thy Spirit a Christian I am One for whom thou didst Heb. 2. 12. Joh. 3. 5. Heb. 2. 9. Rom. 5. 5. Isa 43. 4. shed thy Blood On whom thou hast shed thy Spirit A Redeemed Esteemed Man by Thee And shall I be so poore as to value dirt to thy Blood the world before thee Shall I quit Phil. 3. 8. thy Spirit for luâ—t value thee after the Flesh Shall I be tempted to give my selfe from thee to the Flesh and World love Thee lesse than the Devill O Lord I will value thy Blood more I will keep thy Spirit better I will set a higher price on my Self than to sell thy Blessed Purchase to the Devill for a Base piece of flesh and small portion of the World So am I and let me ever be in love with thee O Lord 2. But O Sinne I am in hate with thee for my owne and for my Saviours sake That didst pose Heaven it selfe and put God to it one of the two to damne my Soule or doe thus to my Saviour O thou Enemy of God Man how execrable art thou more than heart can think that madest Him Lamentable more than Eye saw Lam. 1. 12. And O Devill I hate thee who didst tempt man out of Paradise and so draw Christ to a Crosse And could thy Temptations have prevailed and thy power have matcht thy malice wouldst have cast the Second Adam out too that so nor the First nor His Seed might ever have come in againe And O World I abhorre thee as the Imp of the Devill who of His Jewes and Gentiles couldst find hands for such horrid acts and Sinnes that Act. 5. 27. made those Bloody Passions Sinne Devil World for the Death of my King and Lord and Christ Have as you deserve my hate 3. I long for the Lord My Soule longeth for God even the living God! Psal 42. 1. yea even for the dying God! when shall I come and appeare in the presence of God God dying once yet Apoc. 1. 18. Heb. 2. 8. living-ever when shall I come before the dying-living God! I long for the Chariot which will bring me to Thee and will Kisse it 2 Tim. 2. 12. though it be a Crosse I long for the Inne which will lodge me neare Thee and will embrace Phil. 1. 23. it though it be a Grave I long for the Bed which will raise me to Thee and will climb it though Act. 21. 13. it be a Gibbet O Cup of Salvation I will not refuse Psal 116. 12 thee Though full to Martyrs Mar. 10. 39 measure of blood if from Him thou shalt be drunke and yet deem'd nothing to thy Saviours Blood And till my Soule can come to thy Glorified-Crucified Body in Heaven I long after thy Courts where Thou art present in Spirit on earth To be Psal 95. 6. Mat. 28. 20 in thy Holy Temple which is the Chamber At the Altar and
and Dangers Thou didst purchase thy selfe a Church at the price of thy Bloud O! Let no hand seize and Spoile so Deare a Purchase More particularly Hear my Prayers for these persecuted parts The Petition of a poore Child for a Deare Distressed Mother Many O Lord are the Enemies to destroy it and few friends to preserve it Strong are the Armes to pull it downe and weake the Hands to hold it up But O God! doe not thou desert it uphold it with thy Holy Arme Maintaine the Religion Established amongst us and thy Holy Truth and Worship in that Religion Maintaine a Clergie that may be able by Learning and Holy Life to Defend thy Truth and Worship and the Meanes that may continue such a Clergie Let not Errour and Heresie corrupt it Ignorance blind it Superstition infect it Profanesse overgrow it Schisme teare it Sacriledge devoure it Atheisme lay it waste Persecution make it desolate Lord make us as happy as we were and more thankfull and lesse sinfull that we may be so happy Let Errors vanish Sects cease Furie leave us and the Spirit of Truth and love againe possesse us Let Confusions end and all Irreverences in thy Service be banisht from us and Holy Order Decency appear again amongst us Let wars and Tumults and Civill broiles and bloudsheds depart and the voyce of joy and peace returne againe unto us Lord Let us have that Religion which may make us happy in Heaven and that peace which may give us Time and Leave to enjoy that Religion And let those that have the power restore and preserve that Religion and Peace And doe thou to that end mercifully maintaine their Power and Them O Thou by whom Kings raigne who hast promised to make them Nursing Fathers to thy Church grant us these blessings to the Glory of thy Name the Quiet of our lives and the Saving of our Soules Even for thy Deare Son our Saviours sake Amen! 7. Prayer for Mercy to the Nation O Lord we are a Nation not to be Loved ready to be Ruined And for our sins thou maist justly destroy us Prince and People But Spare us good Lord Spare us for thy mercy sake let the Blood of Jesus expiate our guilts and the Spirit of Jesus amend our Misdoings O Thou who wouldst not have one Sinner die Suffer not Millions of poor Souls and Lives to perish Be Reconciled to us in a Mediatours Bloud and be Reconciler of us in a blessed peace God of pitty and peace be at peace with us make it for us O Thou Holy One of God who camest into the World to take away the Sins of it and make peace for us Pitty a poore Church and Nation ready to perish Pity the Church that hath so long maintained thy Truth and worship in the Nation Pity Them who are ready to perish for seeking to maintaine thy Holy Truth and Worship in the Church And do thou from Heaven Preserve It and us and Them Thou that hast the power of Heaven and Earth in thy hand stirre up thy strength and come and save us And in this low condition doe not leave us but Deliver us for thy Mercies sake Amen After these Daily Prayers for Grace Peace Health Safety Friends If it be made a Fasting Day or of more Solemne Humiliation and seeking God then Say the Letany and Ten Commandements Read for an Epistle Joel 2. or Jona 3. Gospell Luke 13. or Mat. 24. After being at Church-Prayers if to be had forbear Dinner for that Day and in that time 1. Read some Scriptures which may put in minde of the Miseries of the Age. As Deut. 28. Jos 7. Iud. 20 or some of the Lessons not read or some Godly Bookes 2. Meditate and call to minde the most Memorable mercies of God to you in all your Life 1. In Deliverances from Dangers Sicknesse c. 2. In Blessings of Birth Marriage Condition c. as fits your particular state And lift up the heart to God for these in all humble Thankfullnesse 3. Call to minde the Greatest Sinnes of your life and for them as Pardon and your present wants and for them beg supplies After-noone After Psalms and Lessons 1. Private Prayers as Before 2. Publike if any be 3. A lesse Supper then Ordinary 4. Some Alms to the poore 5. At Bed-time Ordinary Prayers Close all with this Prayer THou that markest those who Ezek. 9. 4. mourne for the Abominations of the Time Take a Mercifull notice Good Lord of thy Servant who have desired this day to humble my Soule before Thee The Abominations of the Time are manie O Lord And the more for mine both of heart and life Lord Forgive all that mourne for offending thee And spare those that greive to see how thou art offended Thou that wouldest have saved Sodome if but Ten such had beene found in it save all such for thy Mercy sake Save a sinfull Nation for their sake Save us all for Jesus his sake For his Infinite Merits and thine Infinite Mercies Sake Amen! Amen! The Blessing BLessed are they that Mourne for Mat. 5. 4. they shall be Comforted The Blessing and Comfort of God be on me and all such sad and Sorrowfull Soules with me now and evermore Amen! Seven SOLILOQUIES SACRED Set to the Seven Dayes of the Week by so many secret Sermons and Calls to Conscience Inviting and Directing the Soul to Mind and Do what wil make Blessed Not to pretend but practise Piety and to be not seeme Religious The Materialls of the Soliloquies 1. The Nobility of Piety For Sunday 2. Domesticall Devotion For Munday 3. Church-Duty For Tuesday 4. Perpetuall Service For Wednesday 5. Remora's in Religion For Thursday 6. Helps to Heaven and Happinesse For Friday 7. Remedies of Humane frailty For Sarurday PSAL. 4. 4. Stand in awe and sinne not Commune with your own Heart and in your Chamber and be still The same altering their Number and Order may serve for two Weekes thus 1st Week 1. Church-Duty 1. part For Sunday 2. Domesticall Devotion For Munday 3. Perpetuall Service For Tuesday 4. Remora's Religion 1. p. For Wednesday 5. Remora's 2 d. part For Thursday 6. Helps to Heaven first division For Friday 7. Helps to Heaven 2d. div For Saturday 2d. Week 1. Church-Duty 2d part For Sunday 2. Helps to Heaven 3. div For Munday 3. Helps to Heaven 4. div For Tuesday 4. Remedies of Frailty first part For Wednesday 5. Remedies c. 2. part For Thursday 6. Remedies c. 3. part For Friday 7. Nobility of Piety For Saturday Animadversions touching the use of the Soliloquies SOliloquies are of Antient and Excellent Vse With them the Fathers fed their Soules high and ours at this Day fare much better for them They must be ill Writ and worse Read if we thrive not in Piety by such Holy Fare Devotion feeding more on one single Dish of those Wholesome Home-selfe-Conferences than at many Feasts and Gluts of shaâ—per and nicer Disputations and
Discourses Reader Thou hast here that which the Author thinkes was never seene before All Divinity in Soliloquie or at least the most Materialls of all And sure thy Appetite is not good to Heaven if none of the Meat relish thee and thy Stomack ill if Godlinesse digest worse with thee Provision is here made thee of Meales for Seven Dayes sufficient to keep thy Soul in Health if Spirituall life be in thee and Gods Blessing begged of thee without which Preaching Hearing Writing Reading all is but Breath and Labour lost and doth not solidly nourish but vanish into aire and emptinesse The Author would have thy Soul Fed not Cloid and therefore breakes into parts his longer Soliloquies to prevent such Surfeits Dâ—votions please God better by being quick then long and so by Man should be measured more by their Spirit then Length Barre Idlenesse then and he leaves thee who knowest thy strength best to thy owne measure And when thou dost Feed and ruminate on these Holy Repasts He prayes Gods Blessing on the Meat and thy Soul Much Heavenly good may it doe thee Sunday-Soliloquie The Nobility of Piety OR A Soliloquie Discovering to the Soul How much Sin sets Her below and besides Her self and gives Ten deadly Wounds to her Life and Honour O My Soule Thou art Spirit a Heb. 12. 23. thy Body is Flesh Wilt thou then make Flesh of thy Spirit Feeding on corrupt lusts turnes it into the basest Flesh b Rom. 7. 5 Rom. 8. 6. That of the Body is Naturall and good but this of the Soul unnaturall and ill c Rom. 8. 7. O! Doe not make thy selfe a Monster whom God hath made his most Goodly creature d Gen. 1. 26. Psal 8. 5 He that did so Dignifie thee in thy Begining did it to Glorifie thee in the End But Carnality makes thee fall off from thy Dignity and short of thy Glory e Psal 49. 12. With it God will not owne thee for his f Jer. 2. 21. and then tremble to think who will take thee O! Doe not commit so grosse on Apostacy Maintaine Primitive Spirit in thee if thou hast sense of honour or welfare If it be lost by lust let Grace make a Recovery g Eph. 4. 15 O My Soule The Immortall piece of Man h Mat. 22. 32. why is the Mortall i Gen. 4. 19 part preferred before thee The Body will die thou canst not k Eccles 12 7 Canst thou not die and carest not how to live Hath that which will die must die all thy care What a folly is this to preferre a Lease to a Perpetuity a Moment to Eternitie The Satisfactions of a Body to the Salvation of a Soule Nay by Seeking for it an unreasonable Welfare to bring on both an Eternall ruine For so the Immortall is made damnably Mortall l Ezek. 18. 4 and dies to blisse and the Mortall Miserably m Isa 66. 24. Immortall ever living in woe Be wiser and better O my Soule to thee and it Doe thou so waite on God and let it so wait on thee in his Service that when thou shalt be rewarded it may share with thee in his Salvation By thee let it be made Immortall in Glory n Job 6. 29. Be not thou by it Immortall in Misery For thy own sake suffer not this For thy o Mark 9. 48. Bodies sake do that If thou dost love it indeed Promote it to Heaven to raise it from a Grave to a Throne is a friendly Promotion But doe not kill thy selfe for love of it O what a Murder is this O what a Murderer art thou p Pro. 6. 32 8. 38. My Soul if thou beest Murdered of eternall Life the Body is both q Rom. 13. 14. Gal. 5. 21. Quarrel and Sword but thy selfe wretched Spirit thy selfe art the Murderer r Hos 13. 9 O do not commit so Horrid an Homicide look to thy Body as thy Life and fight against Sensuality as for Eternity 3. O my Soul The Noble part of Humane nature Remember thy Nobility To love Earth and Earthly things is infinitely below thee Thy Mind and Will thy Armes are made to imbrace the Soveraign Truth and Goodnesse of Heaven Set thy Foot O my Soul Set thy Foot upon Earth s Psal 8. Thy Foot yea let thy Servant and Subject the Body set Foot on it It doth by Nature set it Foot to teach thee not to set thy Heart upon it t Psal 62. 10. O my Soul if thou dost thou art not a Sinner more against Grace than very Nature and art not lesse a Prodigie to Earth than Heaven O thou Noble of the Almighties Making be not so base a Creature of the Devills u Joh. 8. 44 as by him to be made at once a Miscreant and the Abomination of the World 4. O my Soul Gods Image is in thee What then doth the Similitude of Beast upon thee Why doth not Reason but Sense governe thee v Psal 49. 12. Why doth not Rationall will but Brutish Appetite rule thee This is to out-doe the Devill in thy undoing He took Shape of a Serpent for an ill turn and time and thou appearest and continuest in thy bestiall Shape Nay not the Figure of Beast but the very Forme is in thee Vnreasonable Creature that thou art worse then the Brute that hath no Vnderstanding because with Reason and against it My Soul Heaven hath in it neither Beastly Bodies nor Soules w Apoc. 21 27. And therefore Act like Man Appear like God if thou wouldst be there If then x Ephes 4. 24. Deform'd by Wicked Spirit be Transform'd y Ro. 12. 2. by Holy one Child of God Maintaine thy Fathers likenesse that thou maist inherit his happinesse Acts of Lust and Brutishnesse z 1 Joh. 2. 16 Ephes 5. 5. blot it out of thee and thee out of Heaven 5. O my Soul Thou art the Spouse of God no Creature is thy Match or Mate Thy Creatour is thy Husband * Isa 54. 5 Where then is thy Honour if the World have thy Love and Earth thy Embraces O thou that hatest Adultery with Man how darest thou be Adulteresse a Jam. 4. 4. to God May not a Strumpet-Body stand in thy sight and must a Whorish b Ezek. 6. 9 heart lie in thy Bosome Must not Man Court thee and shall the Devil Wooe thee Is thy Bed Clean and God's Defiled Instead of thy Lord thy Slave the World taken into his Bed What is Gods Bed but Mans Heart Setting it on other then him but Strumpetting c Ezek. 16. 30. his Bed * Consensisti in corde tuo concubuisti Aug. And the Baser the good which steales Affections from him the more Abonable the Whorishnesse O thou Beloved above all Creatures d Prov. 8. 31. that hast God for thy Husband Heaven for tâ—y Dower and Earth for thy Service Let not Hell be thy
Pander to take the World for thy Love have not lesse in thy Heart then thy God and his Heaven 6. O my Soul Thou art the Bodies Lord Take then her Homage Let her serve thee not undoe thee Doe thou Act Gods Will and let it execute thine e Rom. 6. 19. But do not thou its the Will of thy Handmaid the Lust of the Flesh Let not Her Senses wooe thee to Vanities To doe pleasure to the Body bring not Paine on the Soul Make not thy Body thy God f Phil. 3. 19. lest thou make thy Self a Devill Damn'd for ever for not doing thy duty better to Almighty God and thy Selfe O my Soul An Angels Peere g Psal 8. 5. make not thy self a Devills Fellow h Joh. 6. 70 Sell not thy Lordship for Slavery and Misery to Boot If thou be not Lord but serve thy Servant never Earth saw none but Hell will harbour such a Slave 7. O My Soule Thou art Soveraigne i Rom. 6. 12. 23. in Man Under God Supreme over all that is in him Wilt thou be thy Subjects Subject Shall the Law of the Members be the Minds Law Rom. 6. 23 The Senses are thy handmaids O thou Princess of Heaven Shall they be the Chiefe Commanders of thy Life Wilt thou only move goe run refuse chuse as they Command O what a basnesse is this to be so unworthy to thy Maker and Nature And yet say O my Soule Speak out of Conscience and say Is not Sense the great Leader and Appetite l Rom. 8. 1 the Ruler of thy Life whilest Reason and Diviner Vnderstanding Lackie after their Desires and the Members are mere Drudges for them O my Soule The Soveraigne of God be not so much Subject to the Devill as to be led at his lust m Tim. 2. 26. by the Lure of Sense to satisfie the Flesh against Gods Law and thy Reason To a life which he himselfe though most wicked doth not lead For though Spirituall wickednesse abound in him n Ephes 6. 12. the Bodily is below him If thou wiâ—t be so base be not more then the Devill 8. O My Soule Thou Free-borne Child of Eternity Heire of Immensity Daughter of Him who is beyond all bounds of Time and Being The Body is but thy Prison Thou art shut up in o 1 Cor. 4. 2. 4. Walls of mud within the Gates of sense why then dost thou delight in a Prison before thy Palace And chuse a Bodily restraint before a Spirits p Rom. 8. 21. Liberty Is it blisse to be in bondage Are Chaines of Iron better then Gold Fetters before Freedome Even Earth is but a Gaole to Heaven q Rom. 8. 23. What a Little ease then doth the Spirit finde in so little a spot of Earth O doe not destroy thy Spirituall Liberty r Rom. 6. 16. Tit. 3. 2. by a Bodily Licentiousnesse Love not thy Gaole before thy Delivery lest thou be cast into that Gaole whence none is Delivered s Mat. 5. 25. It 's just with God most just that the Soule which chuseth the Devills Chaine before Gods Liberty should have the Devils Prison for Gods Palace And be his slave in Hell for ever that would not for a time be Gods servant on Earth Dove of God fly to Heaven Spiritus quisque ales est Tert. Cant. 2. 14 Amor temporalium viseus Spiritualium Belime not thy Spiritual wings in slime and mud Doe not Crow-like feed on Carrion and like a blind Beetle place thy blisse in dirt Sell not thy Selfe to buy a Gaole when thou givest a Palace for the Purchase and thy selfe to the bargaine t Mat. 16. 26. and hast nothing but Shackles and Tortures to boot 9. O My Soule Thou art Gods Jewel u Mal. 3. 17. the Body thy Casket Why then dost thou prefer her good to thy welfare Must the jewell be burnt to Save the Casket from the Fire Nay w Mat. 5. 30. it 's not so much It is at once to Fire casket and jewel to cast both together into Hel Fire Sardanapalus-like with all his bundles and heaps of worldly Treasures to make up one funerall pile and perish together for ever Body and Soule O Bright Diamond of Heaven Divinae particulam aurae Sparke of the Divinity Ray of Divinest Glory Set in the foile of Flesh for a Time till taken up and kept in Gods owne Cabinet for ever what dost thou on the Devills Finger Why dost thou doe him honour and worke x Joh. 8. 44. What dost thou under the Bodies Foot O my Soule looke better to thy selfe Burne the Casket if need be to Save the Jewell the Body to save the Soule So Holy Martyrs z Dan. 3. 28. Heb. 11. 34. did But not the Jewel to save the Casket the Soule to save the Body that filthy Epicures doe * Luk. 12. 19. And thy end O my Soule be a Saints not an Epicures 10. O My Soule The Purchase of Christ a Act. 20. 28. 1 Pet. 1. 19 Bought with no lesse then Gods owne Bloud the Bloud of the Son of God! Why dost thou Sell that so cheap b Isa 55. 2. which cost thy Saviour so Deare For the World which is Nothing c Pro. 23. 5 for vanity which is lesse d Psa 39. 7. Eccl. 1. 2. For a litle of that vanity which is lesse yet then what is lesse then that nothing e Isa 40. 17 Why hath that which cost more f 1 Tim. 2. 6. then Ten Thousand worlds are worth least of thy care and cost If thy Body be Sick thou wilt have Physick if wounded Salve if naked Cloths if hungry bread no rate no paine is spared for it But the pretious Soule may lie Sick of Sin g Psa 41. 4 wounded by guilt h Pro. 78. 14. stript of innocence i Ezek. 16. 22. starv'd for grace k Amos 8. 11. and nothing is given or done to helpe it For my Soul What is Gods price for his helpe but mans Labour Two mites worth of paines * Due miâ—uta carc anima Ber. is all thy l Isa 55. 2 owne and thy Bodies and yet thou wilt bate one if not keep both from him Wouldst thou lose a life that wilt not quit a state an honour a friendship for him Dost thou give him thy Soul that wilt not leave a bad custome or base lust to serve him But O my Soule no more of these neglects I charge thee by thy Heavenly Birth and Parentage by thy Immortall Substance and Durance by thy Pretious Ransome the Deare Bloud of God Value thy welfare more Seek the Bodies lesse thinke not Gods price too great mans Labour for his happinesse when the Son of God thought not his Sweat too much his Bloud for the Price O thou deare and Pretious Peice and Purchase of Divinest Architect and device Detect this Serpentine Policy
argue from his singular thy same condition Nor from the Parable of the Eleaventh hour to thy Call at the last For what if those Hours be the Ages of the world then from Christs first comming to his second is the Eleventh And what if the Ages of Man Mind my Soul who Mat. 20. 7. was called He that was not before Hired But how oft hast thou had offers and refused Think then of the five Mat. 25. 12 Mat. 22. 7. Virgins as well as the five Labourers And of the Kings Supper as of the Lords Penny And for thy daily Recusancy Luk. 14. 28 look more to be excluded then admitted Heaven And to what To work till the time of wages My Soul death is the time to take the Penny The night in which no man can and Joh. 9. 4. when it should end hast thou not begun thy work And Whither but into the Vineyard of the Church out of the Market-place of the world and thou dost nothing but stand idle or doe ill in the Vineyard ever since by Baptisme taken in And Who calls but the Lord And if thou dost all thy life time refuse his work will he at death call thee to his Wages The Eleventh hour of the day then may be as well the Morn or Noon as Night of thy life No hope then if when called betimes 't is late ere thou wilt come Nor is that so Promising At what Ezek 18. 21. Aug. time soever It is that the Penitent shall have Pardon but where that tho Sinner shall be Penitent It is If he be it 's not that if he shall And must be from the bottome of the heart not from Ita versio Liturgica a frighted Phansie or quavering lip My Soul it is a great way from the Top of the Heart to the Bottome Jer. 17. 9. Psal 64. 6. And is a turning from wickednesse not against it That reacheth to the life from the Heart but that the Death-Bed cannot doe And though it be when it is not howsoever yea and for all that there are bounds to that when A set Place for Jezebel a Day for Jerusalem Apoc. 2. 21. Luk. 19. 42 Gen. 6. 3. a time for the world Too late thou maist repent too soon thou canst not If the Glasse be run the Sun Heb. 12. 17. Amos 8. 9 Eccl. 8. 12. Eccl. 9. 10. Luk. 13. 25 Pro. 1. 28. set though Noon naturall woe to thee it is too late The Door of mercy though it stand long open will at last be shut Wisdom it self shuts the Door All these then plead little for thee Nay doth not every one much against thee For my Soul if of two Thieves one was damned is it not an Eaven lay whether thou be saved whether thou shalt die Repenting or Blaspheming the Right-hand or the Left-hand Thief Is it not so by the President If some be called at the Eleaventh hour but all before from the first to that Is it not ten to one ods if ever thou be called if thou neglect the work of thy Salvation till the Eleaventh Is it not so by the Parable If when and not till when I repent I shall live Is it not a hundred to one nay a hundred thousand to one ods if I defer it I shall die Is not this the straight gate which for want of mind Mat. 7. 13. or time or grace few find because they seek it with Sin which they are loath Isa 55. 6. to lose till life and Soul and all be lost S. Jerome sayes my Soul There E centum millibus vix benè moritur malè qui vivit Hier. dies well that lives ill not one of a Hundred thousand And to prove his summe From Adam to Christ that have so lived and died we read but of one but one of many Thousands of Millions Without delay therefore Ioel 2. 12. now also turne even to him with all thy Heart with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and Rent thy Heart and not thy Garment and turne to the Lord. The Lord sayes it who delights not in thy death poor Sinner whosoever Ez. 33. 11. thou art And therefore would have thee by a true and timely Repentance Act. 3. 19. to recover thy health and life For from Soul-sicknesse that 's Gods Recovery 2 Tim. 2. 25. Recovery My Soul That may be a wholsome but a wearisome course to plow up thy Jer. 4. 3. Hos 10. 12. Heart and Harrow thy whole man with daily and continuall duty will make thee apt to faints and perhaps some ground will passe untouch'd and some clod unbroke when all is done Psal 19. 12 there will be failings and need to repent 1 Joh. 3. 20 thy very repenting To Comfort and Confirme thee therefore against this provision is made by the mercy of God And Faith is the Cordiall And for Materialls and vertues if 1 Tim. 1. 5 Job 28. 25 28. true a most Rare one Gold and Pearle and Corall are not Comparable to it Manus Christi is not Sanguis Christi makes it Nay Bloud and Spirit Godhead and Manhood Vertues and Merits what He did doe say Suffer all Christ and all Christs is it 1 Cor. 1. 30. Mat. 11. 28 1 Joh. 2. 1. Phil. 2. 9. Joh. 6. 50. Gal. 3. 27. Joh. 8. 36. 2 Cor. 8. 9. Phil. 4. 13. Isa 61. 1. 1 Thes 1. 10. Christ the Onely Cordiall to a Sinfull Soule None to Him None but Christ And Jesus None to that The Name above all names Bread to the starv'd Cloth to the Naked Freedome to the fetter'd Wealth to the begger'd Strength to the Faint Light to the darke Life to the dead Deliverance to the damn'd all 's in Jesus My Soule Christ is a Name of Medicine * Anointed Heb. 1. 9. Jesus of Health Saviour Mat. 1. 21. Mal. 4. 1. 1. Tim. 1. 15. Heb. 9. 11 12. There 's His Oyle but here thy Salvation Gladnesse that thou hast a Christ but thy happinesse in Jesus Healing is in his wings Saving his Worke Health in his Name Redemption his Office Against Sin Hell Guilt Wrath Devill Death Woundings Faintings Swounings no Remedies to Jesus And Faith makes the application * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Joh. 3. 14 15. Joh. 6. 37. Joh. 1. 12. Rom. 7. 4. 2 Cor. 11. 12 Eph. 3. 17. Joh. 6. 47. Heb. 3. 18. Rom. 13. 14 Gal. 2. 20. Joh. 14. 16 The eye by which I see Him The foot on which I come to Him The hand by which I take Him The Ring by which I Marry Him The House in which I dwell with Him The Board at which I feed on Him The Bed on which I rest in Him The Vest in which I weare Him The Soule by which I live in Him The Body by which he lives in me What doth thus unite to the All-saving Comforter must needs be Cordiall And thence are in it
from our sinnes in his owne Blood and of vassals and slaves of Satan hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father To him be Glory and Dominion and therefore from us Duty and Obedience for ever and ever Amen 3. So then My Soule Take them And Canst thou valew them enough Never too much Thy Bodies Health is worth all the World but thy owne worth more then Ten Thousands of Worlds Ten Millions of Bodies It 's worth as much as Salvation as Eternity comes to beyond all valew As much as thy Christ thy Saviour thy God is worth above Myriads of Salvation For Repentance Recovers thy Sickness * Gods salve for every sore Latimer Tit. 1. 13. Col. 1. 11. Joh. 3. 15. Act. 16. 31 Faith sets thee Sound Obedience keeps thee strong all give a state of good and perfect health and so save from death And my Soule valew faith above all So God doth and therfore ascribes thy health to it alone to shew it the Cheife And so it is Repentance is but a Preparative to it Obedience a Preservative of it Faith is the Royall Grace Repentance the Latimer Ser. 7. before K. Ed Vsher that goes before Obedience that bears up the Train after it The Queen Mother of this the Mistresse to that Regent to both O My Soule The Cordiall is above all because Christ is all in all The Quintessence of Heavenly vertue Col. 3. 11. the Elixar of all Grace the very Spâ—rit of Goodnesse and the perfection of all Col. 2. 9. Eph. 1. 23. Col. 1. 15. Perfections both in Heaven and Earth Beare no Heart in thy Body then not this in thy heart O let that pretious Viall never want this Holy Essence Count worldly good grease to this Oyle All Delights death to this Glad Psal 4. 6. Phil. 3. 8. Col. 1. 27. Apoc. 2. 10 Apoc. 3. 11 nesse All Honours shames to this Glory Keep thy Christ as thy Crowne thy Life as the Crowne of Life thy Immortall Crown and Keep thy Faith as Him for thou hast and holdest Him in it Keep Him as thy Saviour and it as thy Salvation Him as thine Heb. 10 19 1 Pet. 1. 3 4 Eph. 2. 18. Jam. 3. 2. Inheritance and this as thine Interest Him as the onely Sanctuary of a troubled Spirit and this as the only Accesse to Him If Defects be in thy Repentance Errors in thy Obedience as there may there will be in both fly by Faith unto thy Sanctuary Hide thy Selfe in his wounds Hold by the Hornes of the Altar Creep under his wings Die within his Armes goe run from the Pursuer of blood to this Heb. 3. 18. 19. City of Refuge Enter in by thy Faith And My Soul Keep the viall clean that the Elixar goe not out Wash it with Repentance and Dry it with Obedience that it be so kept let them doe that Duty to it that doth so much good and help for them And then My Soul thou shalt be healthy and strong and happy in them all Of old all was not enough for thy health but Christ hath Mediated thy Covenant thus New And to doe this Heb. 8. 6. Duty God for his sake will give thee Ability Ability of Grace to doe him acceptable Service Take his Word for it he Promiseth he will And his Command with it for he Saies thou must A New heart will I give you and a Ezek. 36. 26. new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart and give you a heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and you shall keep my judgements to doe them Therefore saith the Lord God Repent Ezek. 18. 31 32. and turne your Selves from all your transgressions So iniquity shall not be your ruine Cast away all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new Spirit For will yee die O House of Israel For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live The Summe of this Soliloquie God hath appointed Remedies against our failings in His Service 2. Repentance is the Sinners first Remedie And a most faire and Soveraigne Remedie Experiments of it Taking it by Halves or Deferring it too long makes it not to be Saving To Delay it to future is dangerous till death Desperate 2. Faith is a Sinners Cordiall Most pretious because Christ is cheife yea onely Ingredient of it and taken by it Excellent Spirits begot by the Cordiall of true faith Six counterfeits of faith not truly cordiall 3. Obedience in the New Covenant the Souls Preservative in â—ealth Why it is called New and how it is Preservative of it Some take Poison instead of this Preservative The Proofs of these three Remedies and Prescripts how and when to take them and Pretiousnesse of all and of Faith in Cheife Helps to Heaven and Happinesse OR A Soliloquie acquainting the Soul with such Reliefs and Aids as will facilitate and further her Course and Progresse in the wayes of Godlinesse The second Part. Holy Actions and Cautions great Assistants to Piety MY Soul If good Meditations 3. Division and Motions live in thee the mind may do much But when all that is done there must be more And thy Ear Eye Heart Hand Mouth every one must doe his Part Hear Read Resolve Practice Pray all must be in Action And Conscience must keep a particular watch too and have some things in Holy Caution This will compleat all And the Good is not meane which may be done by The Eare. For my Soul by this Dore Gods Act. 14. 2â— 16. 14. Joh. 3. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 2. Joh. 10. 27 Joh. 13. 17 Psal 109. 105. Jer. 23. 29. 2 Cor. 4. 45. Luk. 24 42. 2 Tim. 4. 2 3. 16. Luk. 11. 28. Heb. 5. 11. Isa 28. 10. Heb. 6. 1 2 Heb. 4. 12. Word is received in Baptisme first sets thee Preaching keeps thee on thy feet For what are they but to know and do And in Gods Word is both light and heat and both are Communicated by good Preaching And observe that my Soul to avoid common Errour The work of it is both on minde and heart to informe and enflame Til thou dost as well doe good as know it the Preacher hath not done his nor thou thy work He may tell thee that in an hour which he can scarce teach thee to doe in a life The Principles of Christianity are easie but the Practise is hard And Efficacy as well as Instruction is the work of the Word Even the Preached Word So it be duly Preached For that my Soul thou shalt doe well to eye as another prevailing but most pestilent error The Pulpit doth not make the Word nor Speaking from it Preaching But a Reverend handling of Holy Scripture according to the Truth of Gods Sense and to the aimes
had so good shoulders so great a strength to Act. 13. 22 1 King 11 38. beare So little a load to carry yet was his too heavy for him And is thine so light to take others on Art thou confounded to consider the vast sum of thy Single Trespasses though but Dan. 9. 8. a Daniels debt and will not the Scores of other mens Sins bring on the overwhelming Confusion Art thou Principall to Innumerable ills and wilt thou Psal 40. 12. be Accessory to Millions My Soule We must bear one anothers burdens Gal. 6. 2. But their Miseries not their Sins By charity not Copartnership A fellowship and feeling doth well in woes but wofully Heb. 13. 3. Ephel 5. 7. 2 Cor. 6. 14 Act. 2. 40. in Sin Atlas was feigned to beare up Heaven but none Hell And couldest thou make shift for thy Selfe to be saved wouldst thou have others by thy Default to perish Have the Curses of Hell with the joyes of Heaven My Soule So many Rom. 14. 15 Ezek. 33. 6 as Sin by thee are damned for thee And can'st thou number how many Number then all that by thy Acts have beene made Sinners and by Gods Grace not made Penitents Thus when thou art dead thy Errors may live and thy guilts for many ages lie unburied like Cursed Parents propagating ill 2 King 13 2. Issues Successively to Souls throughout many Generations And though thy Naturall Sins die with thee the Adopted 2 King 17 22. 2 King 14 24. 1 Tim. 5. 22. may live for ever My Soul then doe what the Apostle saies Be not partaker of other mens Sins But more then he means He would have no hands laid on unworthy Persons doe thou keepe thine from unworthy actions By any Deed of thine to Bane anothers Soule is of all most Apoc. 18. 4 unworthy or by anothers to bane thine And there are many waies to do both Nine are numbred And very naught all When thou canst not to hinder it for so thou art Assistant to it and thy Hand doth it helpe When thou shouldest not to Reprove it for so thou art Advocate for it and thy Tongue gives it License To Counsell Sin for that 's to conceive it in another to give it womb and be its Mother To Command it for that 's to beget it to give it Seed and be as Naturall Father To Consent to it for that 's to owne and 2 Joh. 11. maintaine it and be Adopting Father to it if not Naturall To Commend it for that 's to give it dug and Suck and to be Nurse to it at least if not a Mother To Entertaine the Actor of it for that 's to give it shoulders and Support it or Refuge and to be Patron and Protectour and so Brother if not Parent to it To Keep Silence and be Mute at it for that 's to give it hand and heart and to be a friend if not a Brother to it To partake of it for that 's to give it arme and face and to be both Sworne Brother and friend and loving Benefactour of it In the Instance of one Sin see all this O My Soul Let Bloud be it and behold how another may shed it and thou be guilty of the Bloud Joab 2 Sam. 18. 9 2 Sam. 16. 21. kill'd Absalom but Ahitophel Murdered him Because his Counsell brought him to his death The Ammonite slew 2 Sam. 12. 9 Uriah but David killed him because he fell by his Command The Jews Act. 7. 59. Act. 22. 20 stoned Stephen Saul did not touch him yet had hand in his death because with his Consent Sons of Belial stoned Naboth 1 King 21 13. 19. yet Ahab slew him because as he gave Countenance to the doing it with his Seale so he had Complacence in the deed and so commended what was done All Benjamin did not ravish the Jud. 19. 22 20. 5. 13 14. Levites Concubin to death but gave shield and shelter to them that did and so the Bloudy Rape became theirs by Patronage The Jews in Christs time did not sâ—ay the Prophets which were kill'd many hundred yeares before yet by Participation with their Fathers Mat. 23. 31. Luc. 11. 48 49. Pro. 31. 9. became Heirs of their Murders And if King Solomon open not his mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed for destruction They may be the Children but he shall be the Father of it Scrangers cut of Jacob Esau Sate still and lookt but on and he destroyed because he did not save Though Ob. 1. 12. 1 Sam. 2. 22. 29. 33 34. Levit. 19. 17. Elies Sons fell by the Philistims His hand gave them the fatall blow because he did not sufficiently reprehend that which was their ruine their Sins O My Soule Be for the Communion of Saints not Sinners Nor in blood nor any guilt doe thou Communicate in anothers Sin Advise from it Forbid it Dissent Dispraise Disrespect Disclaime Proclaime against it Resist it Rebuke it Thou hast guilts enough of thy owne to multiply thou needest not adde any others to it My Soule then giving others Scandall and partaking others guilt are thy Enemies against which Conscience must be Charg'd to keep a strict watch And is thy great friend if it doe For surely not to hinder others from Heaven is to further thy Selfe not to be Laden with much guilt gives an easier Passage to heaven And to be free of such blocks and fetters makes the course of Piety more easie More easie though to craz'd and corrupted Nature hard and not to be compassed without our best thoughts and endeavours even all that Mind or Man can doe though eare and eye and heart and hand and mouth and Conscience improve all their arts and faculties to the full and with united forces set on the good and great Employment of Gods Service and our Godlinesse But so it wil be For my Soul wisdom assures thee Prov. 2. 1. 2 3 4 5. If thou wilt receive my Words and hide my Commandements within thee So that thou encline thine eare unto wisdome and apply thy heart to understanding If thou criest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding If thou seekest her as Silver and Searchest for her as for hid treasures Then shalt thou understand the Feare of the Lord and find the knowledge of God The Summe of this Part is 1. Some Acts are great Assistances to Pious Life which by Gods blessing we may doe 2. Hearing Gods Word Reading Resolving Attempting Practice and Praying are those Acts. 3. Holy Cautions help much as well as Actions 4. It will advance much to Heaven to looke carefully to a Christian Credit and Innocence on earth 5. To have great Caution to avoyd just Scandall and keep cleare of other mens guilt is the way to maintaine that good Credit and Innocence Animadversions touching the Daily use of what is directed throughout the whole Manuall IF all set seem a great Dayes work of Devotion though two hours will make the longâ—st day it is put into thy power to lessen it Thâ— Authors Aim is to be a Spirituall Helper not a Taâ—k-master That Office he leaves to thee with Discretion and Conscience to executâ— And thou wilt discharge it better if when thy thoughts are set to contrive and lay out the Spirits work flesh and blood be not called in to the Câ—unsel As Bodies so Soules are not all of equall strength and speed and as Dayes differ in severall Climates yea in the same often vary their length so days of Devotion are not of a like length for all Spirits and Occasions Hezekiâ—h was not so long on his Knees as Solemon a 2 King 19. 5. 2 Chro. 6. 13. nor Ezra the Priest so long at his Prayers as the Levites b Ezra 9. 5 Neh. 9. 4. The Apostles did lengthen and shorten theirs c Act. 1. 24 4. 24. And our Lord kept not a punctuall measure for His d Mat. 26. 42. 44. John 17. A Man may pray much in little with the Publican e Luk. 18. 13. and little in much like a Pharisee f Mat. 23. 14. Mat. 6. 1 and much and not little as the Centurion g Act. 10. 2. 4. The heart is all in all If that goe along thou maist do well to travaile all the Book over if not better to cut off some Stages There are that measure Sermons by Glasses and Orisons by Beads but as the wise judge those by braines not lungs so the Devout weigh these by their thoughts not fingers Behold that pattern of all piety and perfection Luk. 6. 12. Christ himself He prayed whole nights to teach us we may pray long and well yet taught us Mat. 6. 9. a short form of Prayer to shew that generally it is not better for being long The life of Devotion lies in the Spirit not Breath and Prayers must be measured by the Heart not the Hour-glasse FINIS