untill now For the good which I have received For the good if any which I have done For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits For the promise and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing For my good and honest Parents My kinde and mild Master and Teacher My ever memorable Benefactors My trusty friends My faithfull companions My loving and carefull Wife My obedient and towardly children For all those which have any way furthered and profited me By their writings Sermons Discourses Proverbs Examples Reproofes Injuries For all these and for all other known unknown manifest and secret remembred and forgotten Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered I praise and will praise Blesse Blesse Thanke Thank thee All the dayes of my life What am I Lord or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven which he hath given me to this instant Praises IT is good to sing psalms unto our God For sweete and decent is his praise Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart In the counsell of the Saints and in the Congregation O magnifie the Lord with me and let us elevate his Name Let all his works blesse the Lord in all the places of his Dominion from the Sun rise to the fall thereof Let all that breath praise the Lord Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations and praise him only ô all ye people Give unto the Lord all ye Kindreds of the earth give unto the Lord honor and glory Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Being your offerings and come into his Courts Praise thou the Lord ô Salem and thou ô Sion praise ye the Lord All ye that stand in the Lords house in the courts of the house of our God lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary ô lift them up and praise the Lord My soule praiseth the Lord him will I praise all my life long To my God will I sing whilst I have any being Thou art my God and I will praise thee Thou art my God and I will exalt thee Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens and thy glory above the Earth Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures All man-kinde in generall The Klngdome of the whole world The Catholike Church The Kingdomes and Churches in severall This Church and Kingdome of ours The orders and degrees in each And the particular persons in them Towards this City This Parish wherein I dwell Towards all that are mine Mine Household Kindred Benefactors Friends Wel-willers Towards my poor selfe My soule and body in the gifts of grace Nature The world Now to this present and which shall bee at my time hereafter Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord For indeede it is most due and just Most meet and convenient in all and by all means in all â—indes Times and places To memorize adore confesse praise blesse Magnifie and thanke thee VVhich art the Creator Nourisher Preserver Governour Restorer Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures Their Lord and Father Their King and God The fountain of life and Immortrlity The treasury of eternall blessing VVhom the heavens applaud and the heaven of heavens the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them with them Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high in earth peace and good will among men Blessed and praised and magnified extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord The memoriall mention and remembrance thereof For the faith of the Patriarchs The hope of the Prophets The labours of the Apostles The trueth of the Evangelists The blood of the Martyrs The zeale of the Confessors The study of the Doctors Glory be to thee O Lord glory be to thee Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them In whom wee also glorifie thee Amen Glory and wisedome Honour and Virtue Praise and Riches Blessing Power Thanksgiving and Dominion Holinesse and Salvation be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever and to the Lambe which was slaine Amen Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee for thy judgments are made manifest Praises in Particular COme and harken unto me ô all yee that feare the Lord and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule he hath created me hee hath brought me into life and hath so disposed of mee that I am A living soule and not a sensles thing A Man not a Beast Civill not barbarous Freeborne not a slave Legittimate not a bastard Of honest parentage not of base or Ignominious Of understanding not blockish Sound in sences not blind or deafe Sound in Limbs not lame or maimed Well brought up not forlorne or exposed A Christian not a Pagan Peaceable not quarelsome Cleare of dangers not swallowed up by them Cleere of infamy not wounded in credit Of sufficient estate not forced to flatter or borrow And living in the dayes of PEACE not turmoyled with hurly burly To thee O Lord Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. To an Inheritance Immortall undefiled and never fading reserved in heaven for us which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me so through Christ my consolation aboundeth To thee O Lord The God of my fathers I make my confession to thee I give praise because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee and hast opened thy Word unto me Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood according to the power which worketh in us Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ through out all generations for ever and ever As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this â—â—â— I give my thanks to tâ—â—e ô Lord The Evening approacheth ô blesse that also to
perticular and that Most ordinary twice a day at Morne Even Numb. 18. 3. More extraordinary Twice a day at Morne Noone and Night Psalme 55. 1. Seven times a day Dan. 6. 11. The Horologe 1 Before day Mar. 1. 31. 2 At Sun-rise Psal. 63. 1. 3 At the third houre Act 2. 15. 3 At the sixt or noone 10. 9. 4 At the ninth houre 3. 1. 5 At Sun-set P. 134 6 After it at night P. 134 7 At Midnight Ps. 139. 62 The place of Prayer In generall in every place Exod. 20. 24. In speciall for 1 Tim. 2. 8. Publique Prayer In the Congregation or Temple Psal. 111. 1. Acts 3. 1. and 22. 17. Private Prayer At home Esa. 26. 20. In the Chamber Mat. 6. 6. On the house top or leades Acts 10. 9. Abroade In the Garden Joh. 18. 2. In the field Gen. 29. 63. In the Desert Mar. 1. 35. The manner of Prayer in respect of The Posture Standing Mar. 11. 25. Kneeling Luke 22. 41. Falling on the face Mat. 26. 29. The Gesture Lifting up the eyes Psal. 123. 1. Lifting up of the hands 1 Tim. 2. 8. Smiting the brest Luke 18. 13. Vncovering the head 1 Cor. 11. 4. At your entrance into the Church before publique service say O LORD IN the multitude of thy mercies I wil aproach thine house and I will worship towards thy holy Temple in the reverence of thee Lord hear the voyce of my prayer when I call unto thee when I lift up my hands towards thy Sanctuary Remember these my brethren also which stand about me and pray together with me remember their endeavours their zeale Remember them likewise which for just causes are absent and O Lord have mercy upon them and us according to the abundance of thy goodnesse I have loved the beauty of thine house and the place where thy glory dwelleth that I might hear the voyce of thy praises and publish all thy wonders One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will still intreate That I may dwell still in the house of the Lord and visite his holy Temple To thee O Lord my heart hath said I will seeke the Lord Thee ô my God have I sought thy face And thee will I seeke The Horologe or Diall of Prayer THou which hast put the times and seasons in thine own power Acts 1. 7. Grant that wee may pray unto thee in a fit and acceptable time and save us Mar. 4. 38. 1. Thou which for us men and for our salvation wert borne at Midnight Lu. 2. 7 Grant that we may be daily regenerate by the renewing of thy holy Spirit untill Christ bee perfectly found in us and save us Lu. 3. 5. 2. Thou which early in the morning whilst the Sunne was rising didst rise again Mar. 16. 2. Raise us up daily to newnesse of life prompting us unto those means of repentance which thou best know'st and save us Rom. 6. 4. 3. Thou which at the third houre didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Apostles Acts 2. 15. Take not thy Spirit from us but renew it daily in us and save us Psal. 51. 10. 11. 4. Thou which at the sixth houre and on the sixth day did'st fasten the sins of the world and crucifie them on the same Crosse with thy selfe Mat. 27. 45. Col. 2. 14. Cancell the hand-writing of our sins which is against us and take it cleare away and save us Thou which at the sixth hour did'st let downe the great sheete from Heaven and Earth as a type of thy Church Acts 10. 11. Receive us sinners of the Gentiles into the same and with it take us up into Heaven and save us Gal. 2. 15. Acts 10. 16. 5. Thou which at the ninth houre did'st for us sinners and our sinnes take that bitter and cursed death Mar. 15. 34. Heb. 2. 9. Mortifie in us our earthly members and whatsoever opposeth thy will and save us Col. 3. 5. 6. Thou which at even would'st be taken downe from the Crosse and laid in the Sepulchre Mar. 15. 42. Bury our sinnes in thy grave and with thy righteousnesse cover the evill which we have committed and save us Rom. 6. 4. Thou which late at night gavest to thine Apostles the power of remitting or retaining sinnes Jo. 2. 23. Make us pertakers of that benefit unto remission good Lord and not unto retention and save us Thou which at midnight did'st raise the Prophet David and the Apostle Paul to praise thee Ps. 119. 62. Act. 16. 25. O give us also Songs in the night and make us mindefull of thee upon our Beds and save us Ps. 63. 6. Thou which by thine owne mouth hast foretold the coming of the Bridegroome at midnight Mat. 5. 6. Grant that we may ever have that crye in our eares the Bridegroome cometh and so be never unprepared to meet him and save us Thou which by the Cocke crowing did'st admonish thy Apostle Peter and made him returne to repentance Matt. 26. 74. 75. Grant that wee also weepe bitterly for the things wherein wee have sinned against thee and save us Thou which at the Seventh hour did'st cure the Rulers Sonne of a feaver Jo. 4. 52. If any feaver or sicknesse remaine in our soules take that away also and save us Thou which at the 10. houre would'st have thy Apostle which found thy Sonne to cry with great joy wee have found the Messias Jo. 1. 41. Make us find the Messias likewise and having found him to rejoyce in like manner and save us Jo. 1. 41. Thou which vouchsafest to call those which stood al day idle and with promises of reward to send them even at the 11. houre into thy Vinyard Matt. 20. 6. Shew us the same favour and though wee returne late unto thee as at the 11 houre graciously yet denie not to entertaine us and save us Thou which at Supper time did'st institute the holy mysteries of thy body and bloud Jo. 13. 3. Matt. 26. 20. Make us mindefull and pertakers of them and not to our perdition but to the remission of sinne and our obtaining the legacies of the new Testament and save us Thou which hast foretold thy comming to judgment on a day which wee expect not and in an houre which wee knew not Luk. 12. 46. Matt. 24. 50. Make us ready every day And houre that wee may with joy attend thy comeing and save us Thou which sendest forth the light wch createst the morning and makest the Sun to rise upon thee good bad inlighten the blindnesse of our mindes with the knowledg of thy truth Ps. 43. 3. 74. 16. Eph. 1. 18. Lift up the light of thy Countenance upon us that in thy light we may see light in the light of grace the light of glory and save us Ps. 4. 7. 36. 9. Thou which givest food to all flesh which feedest the young Ravens which call upon thee and hast nourished us from our Childe-hood Fill our hearts with food and gladnesse and with
EFFIGIES R. P. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANDREWES QVONDAM EPISCOPI WINTONIENSIS Obyt 1626. AEtatis suae 7â— If ever any merited to be The Universall Bishop this was He Great ANDREWES who ye whole vast Sea did drain Of Learning and distilled it in his brain These pious dropps are of the purest kind Which trickled from ye limbeck of his mind W.M. sculptit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Private DEVOTIONS Of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes Late Bishop of Winchester Lord I have called daily upon â—hee I have stretched out my hands unto thee Psal. 88. 9. London Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church yard An. Dom. 1647. THE STATIONER To the Christian Reader THe life of this Reverend Father was a life of Prayer Five houres in a day he spent in his Devotions and for divers months before his dissolution hee gave himselfe wholy up to converse with God It is most remarkable and may instruct Posterity that when sicknesse had deprived him of his voyce yet his eyes and hands prayed and when both they failed his heart still prayed till it pleased God to accept it as his last Sacrifice This testimony and Character of his holy Pietie wee received from learned Bishop Buckeridge who being well acquainted with his life commended his precious memory to posterity in a funerall Sermon one of the last offices which as men and christians we are wont to pay to Honour and Virtue In the evening of his life hee was seldome seene without these devotions in his hand he penned them in Greeke and in that language presented them to his God the reason it is not for mee to determine whether it were for that the clearest evidences of our salvation are delivered to us in that tongue or whether amongst those fifteene he was Master of he chose this language as the most copious to expresse the fulnesse of his soule It appeares not as yet who translated this manuall of devotions some of his learned Friends to whom the world owes much for the benefit of of this publication informed me that they found them written with his owne hand from whence they had the happiness to transcribe them it is not improbable that wee are indebted to the same hand for the translation to whom we owe the originall since I could never yet learne that any have laid claime thereunto it being no new thing in this ambitious age for men to indeavour to translate fames as well as bookes it may seeme strange in these ex-tempore times for me to send these Set formes to the presse since I am not ignorant how of late it hath been hotly disputed whether it be better to pray to God with consideration or without against this wild fancy I conceived I could not oppose any argument above the example of this learned Doctor of our Church Who though he was so universall in allholy dimensions you may be pleased to observe the reverentiall addresses of his soule in these his approaches to the highest Majesty hee well knew the distance betwixt heaven and earth betwixt God and himselfe which I hope will be a motive to every pious Christian as Salomon saith not to be rash with his mouth Ecles. 5. 2. I must clearely confesse when these Copies came first to my hand I resolved to imprint them in my own heart but considering with my selfe that no man might better excuse the divulging of so usuall a booke then one of my profession and withall that there were divers manuscripts dispersed abroad and the Church might be deprived of this genuine Edition and I of mine owne right I thought this publication absolutely necessary being confident that no man could justly except against this Reverend Author who both abroad at home was acknowledged for his Pietie and learning to have been one of the Oracles of the church much less against these his devotions which are for the most part selected out of the holy Scripture And whereas he freely wrot his controversies and Sermons for the benefit of others these pieces I suppose cannot be too well thought off which he kept peculiar to himselfe having appropriated and consecrated them to his private use for the employment of his owne soule This treasure so piously laid up in his life time I thought good not to keep wrapt up in a napkin from the Publick injoy it thankfully to the glory of that God who kindled these holy fires in his soule and let the memory of the devout Author in spight of ignorance and malice be perpetuated and blessed by after ages as for mee I shall never desire any higher recompence then to be in some measure serviceable to the Church and to be esteemed Your faithfull servant HUM MOSELEY An Index of the heads contained in this Booke A Meditation at your entrance into the Churh before publique worship Pag. 1. The Horolege or Diall of prayer 3 Morning prayer 17 The Hymne 20 A paraphrase upon the Lords prayer 25 A confession of sinne 31 A prayer for the performance of the Law 44 A confession of faith 50 A prayer fâ—r faith 53 A confession of hope 56 Intercession 59 A deprecation or prayer against evill 64 Prayers against evills temporall 69 Against evills in the Church ibid. Against evills politicall 71 Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest 73 Comprecation of temporall blessings Hosanna in Terrenis 77 A Thanksgiving 81 A thanksgiving in particular 92 Praises 96 Praises in particular 105 Evening Prayer 109 A prayer after divine service 119 At the approaching to the holy sacrament 122 In the time of Receiving 124 After the receipt of the Eucharist 129 Mourning and weeping 131 A prayer on the meditation of the great worke of our redemption 132 A meditation on Canticles 5. 10 134 A prayer after the holy Ordidinances on Whitsunday 137 Light from heaven 138 An imprecation against the enemies of the Church 142 Prayer for King Iames after the Sermon of Gowries conspiracy 144 Thanksgiving after the deliverance from the gunpowder treason A prayer for Magistrates Eccleciasticall and civill 150 Before Sermon 151 The forme of bidding of prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after the opening of the Text 152 Another exhortation to prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of his Text EPHE. 6. 18. Pray alwaies with all manner of Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit Confessio In Prayer there are considered The species or kinds As confession of our Sinnes pag. 31 Demerits ibid. Faith p. 51. Hope p. 56. Deprecation page 64. Petition for the aversion of Evills Eternall Internall or Spirituall Externall Comprecation The conferring of blessings Eternall Hosanna p. 73. Internall In Altis p. 69. Externall In Terrenis 77. Retribution of thanks Eucharistica Praise Conf. laudis page 87. The circumstance of persons it being for Our selves called Oratio pag. 25. Others also Intercession pag. 59. Time Place Manner The time of Prayer In generall Alwaies Luk. 18. 11. In
I beleeve in the Father one God Word Spirit In the Father THat by his infinite power all things were created In the Sonne That by his goodnesse and his love Mankinde was redeemed to which purpose the world became flesh And was Conceived and Borne Suffered and was Crucified Dyed and was buried Descended rose againe Ascended and sate at the right hand of God from whence he shall returne reward every one according to his worke In the Holy Ghost That by his illumination and his sacred inspiration his elect people are called out of the whole world to the beleife of the truth and to holinesse of conversation In whom wee are made partakers of the communion of Saints and the remission of sinnes in this present world And in whom we faithfully expect the resurrection of the flesh and life eeverlasting in the world to come This I beleeve Iob. 11. 26 O Lord helpe thou my unbeleife Mar. 9. 24. But above and before all I beleive that thou wert Christ the son of the living God Mat. 16. 16. Prayer for Faith ANd ô Lord grant that I may love thee as a Father for thy indulgence adore thee as Almighty for thy power and by good works commend my Soule unto thee as a faithfull Creatour 1 Pet. 4. Grant also that I may receive From Jesus Salvation Anoynting From Christ From the onely begotten Son Adoption  That I may worship and serve him in faith For his conception For his Nativitie in humilitie For his sufferings in patience For his Crosse in my crucifying all occasions to sin For his death in the mortification of my flesh For his Sepulture in burying my bad purposes by good works For his descent in my meditation upon hell For his resurrection in newnesse of life For his ascention in my contemplation of heavenly things For his Session in my choice of the better part on the right hand For his returne in the feare of his second comming For his future judgement in the judging of my selfe before I come to be judged And grant me further the inspiration of saving grace from thy most holy Scepter that I may participate of vocation Sanctification in the holy Catholique Church And that I may have my Communion in The Mysteries The grounds The watchings The prayers The Teares The Fastings and all the sufferings of the Saints To my firme perswasion of the remission of my sins and to the confident hope of my Resurrection and translation to life eternall Confession of Hope O Thou which art the Hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them which remaine afar off in the Seas Psal. 65. 6. Thou upon whom our Fore-fathers did depend v. 22. 4. And thou deliveredst them upon whom they only relyed and were not confounded v. 5. Thou which art my hope from my youth from the breasts of my Mother and to whom I have beene intrusted from the very wombe v. 9. 10. Bee thou my hope still and still ever and ever and my portion in the land of the Living I hope on thy Nature thy Name thy Word thy Practise O let mee not bee confounded by this hope of mine Tou Lord shalt save both Man and Beast Psal. 36. 7. How excellent is thy mercy ô God therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow dow of thy wings v. 39. 8 And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee My soule fainteth with longing for thy salvation Psal. 119. 81. Yet have I good hope because of thy Word O think upon thy Servant as concerning thy Word wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust v. 49. Why art thou so full of heavinesse ô my soule and why are thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God for I wil yet praise him which is the helpe of my countenance and my God Psal. 42. 14 15. Against hope I will believe in hope Rom. 4. 18. And though hee slay mee yet will I trust in him Iob 13. 15. Intercession HEar our prayers good Lord we beseech the for thy creatures For healthfull times seasons fruitfull Peacefull For man-kind for the succour and comfort of all that are in distraction of minde In sickenesse in poverty in perplexity For the sobriety and thankfulnesse of all that are in minde quiet sound in body in estate wealthy and free from all trouble For the conversion of all Turks Jewes Pagans Atheists For all Christians They which continue in truth grace may be established That they which wander in errour and sin may be reduced into the right For al churches throughout the whole world their unity and confirmation For this Church of ours that the defects thereof may be supplyed that al Heresies and scandals both publique and private may be removed that the Clergy may deliver the Word sincerely and walke in it uprightly For the Laity that they be not overweined with their own understanding but rather be perswaded by the instruction and obedience to the authority of their Superiours For all Common-wealths their establishment and tranquility for this Realm of ours for all Incorporations in it for this City that they may be freed and preserv'd from all danger and distresse For our King and his Queene and for their safety and prosperity For the Councell and their prudence For the Judges and their uprightnesse For our forces and their fortitude For the Communalty and their temperance and holy simplicity For our Husbandmen Merchants Artificers Even to the baser Tradesman even to the Beggars For our Posterity now springing up for the good education of the Issue Royall the young Nobility Gentry of all Students and learners in the Universities in the Innes of court in Schooles and Trades that as they grow in years so they may encrease also in wisedome and in favour both with God and men For all such as are recommended to our prayers By nearnesse of Kindred and affinity By beneficense towards us Morall friendship Christian charity Familiar neighbourhood Fellowship in Household Or mutuall promise For those that are in their last extreamity or in any eminent danger For those which have undertaken any great work for the glory of thy Name or the peace of the Church For those which are bountiful towards any holy designes or towards the poo And lastly but most especially for all those whom in word or in deed I have any wayes at any time wronged Deprecation or Prayer against evills O Father of Heaven which hast created us O Sonne of God which hast redeemed us O sacred Spirit which hast regenerated us Remember not our offences nor the transgressions of our Fore-fathers Neither take thou vengeance for their sinnes and â—ine upon me But spare us good Lord spare thy people in thy people thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Be mercifull be merciful O Lord and spare us and be not angry