chyldren in token of thy great wrathe against synne what shal we loke for who do no lesse deserue thy feareful scourge and of mercy it is that thou doeste thus lenge forbeare vs but liue as though there were no god at all to be reuenged vpon our sinnes It maketh vs to feare and cry inwardly in our sowles Come lord Iesu Apor 22. holy and trus in al thy doinges and shortē our dayes brynge this our pilgremage to an ende suffer vs not to heape synne vpon synne vnto the day of vengeaunce leste we be taught vp amongest the numbre of the wicked and reprobate whiche shall neuer see thy louyng countenaunce It maketh vs to crye to thee o lorde Let thy kingdome come ende this our synfull lyfe wherin we do nothing but rouoke thee to wrath Psal 6. Correcte vs not O lorde in thyne indignation neyther chasten vs in thine heauy displeasure thoughe to vs belongeth nothinge but shame and confusion though our offences haue deserued to be visyted with the rodde and our sinnes with scourges Psal 89. yet in mercy lorde and with fatherly correction chasten vs and thy louinge kindenes take not away from vs. To thee we flee for succour vnder the winges of thy mercy shall be our refuge vntill thou turne thy wrathfull countenaunce from vs. Psal 57. We knowe that thye mercy is aboue all thye workes and euen as great as thy selfe Eccle. 2. Therfore wil we say with holy Iob though thou kill vs yet wyll we put our trust in thee Thou cammest to comforte and plucke out of the dungeō of hel such wretches as wee are Luke 10. thou art the good Samaritane that cameste to heale our deadlye woundes thou art that good phisition that camest to cure our mortal infyrmities thou arte the good shepeherd that camest to seke vs wanderinge and loste sheepe Luke 15. and to bringe vs to thy folde againe and more then that thou art our brother Eph. 5. fleshe of our flesh and boane of our boanes whiche haste tasted of oure infirmities Esa 53. felte our temptations and borne the burden of our synnes Therfore at thy handes wee looke for mercy againste the daye of vengeaunce And thoughe thou punyshe vs yet our hope is and euer shall be that thy rodde shal no further touche vs then shall make to thy glory our commoditie the streng thenyng and increace of our faythe Let this thy preaching sundry wayes O lord be sufficient for our warning and graunte that we maye spedely and from the bottome of our hartes repent endeuour to do thy righteouse and blessed wyll reueled in thy word and frame our lyues accordinge to the same that we maye here liue in thye feare all the dayes of our lyfe and after this our sin ful course is ended may dwel with-thee in thy blessed kyngedome throughe the death and merites of Iesus Christe our onely redemer So be it When thy wrathe is kendeled O Lorde blessed are all they that put their trust in thee Psal 2. ¶ A prayer for fayre weather O God and mercifull father we acknowledge that we through our manifolde sinnes haue deserued to be sharpely rebuked and corrected of thee But if thou shuldest deale with vs after our synnes we are not hable to abyde thy wrath heuy hand Wherfore deale mercifully with vs O Lorde after the greatnes of thy goodnes and the multitude of thy mercies that we rather may reioyce and be thankeful vnto thee for the aboundance of thy great mercies and louing kindenes then be caste downe and discouraged by the heauy waight of thy hande In thy handes O lord are both heaven and earth So gouerne them therfore we besech thee for thy names sake that we maye haue seasonable weather to receaue the fruites of the earth Stay the immoderate plentie of rayne and vnseasonable weather and powre rather vpon vs the plentyfull dewe of thy spytite that we may daily grow to the perfection of christen menne Take awaye from vs our stony hartes geue vnto vs in the stede therof hartes of fleshe that we may cease at the length thus to prouoke thy wrathe to brynge vpon vs eyther this so great a plague as the losse of the fruites of the earthe eyther elles other plagues of thy iuste iudgement Graunte that we maye so repente vs of our former euils that hereafter the worthy fruites of true repentaunce may continually appere therin and soo to passe ouer and to ende this our mortall lyfe that at the last we may attaine vnto the blessed resurrection and lyfe euerlasting through Iesus Christ our lorde Amen ¶ A Prayer to be said before the receauing of the communion O Father of mercy and god of all consolation seinge all creatures doe knoweledge and confesse thee to be theyr gouernoure and lorde Apoc. 5. it becommeth vs the workmanship of thine owne handes at all times to reuerence and magnifie thy godly maiestie Fyrste Gent. 1. for that thou hast created vs to thine own ymage and similitude but chiefly because thou hast delyuered vs frō that euerlasting deathe and dampnation Ephe. 2. Gal. 1. Gene. 3. into the whiche Sathan drewe mankinde by the meanes of synne frō the bondage wherof neyther man nor Angell was hable to make vs free Act. 4. Hebre. 1. Apoc. 5. but thou o lorde ryche in mercye and infinite in goodnes haste prouyded our redemption to stande in thine onely and welbeloued sonne whome of verye loue thou diddeste geue to be made man lyke vnto vs in al thinges Iohn 3. Hebre. 8. Hebre. 4. 1. Pet. 2. Es 43.53 Mat 3.17 Iere. 31. Heb. 8. Rom. 5. Heb. 2. Iohn 6. Gene. 3. Rom. 5. Ephe. 3. synne excepted that in his body he mighte receyue the punishement of our transgressiō by his death to make satisfaction to thy iustice and by his resurrection to destroye him that was authour of deathe and so to bringe againe lyfe to the worlde frō which the whole ofspring of Adam was most iustely exiled O lord we acknowledge that no creture was able to comprehende the lēgth and breadth the depenes and heighte of that thy most excellent loue whiche moued thee to shew mercy where none was deserued Ephe. 2. Io. 6.17 Ephe. 2. Gene. 6. Rom. 3. Esai 64. Psal 5.12 Rom. 7. Mat. 10. 1. Cor. 2 Luke 11. Mar. 10. Math 26. Luke 22. 1. Cor. 11. to promise and geue life wher deathe had gotten victory to receiue vs into thy grace whē we could do nothing but rebell against thy maiestie O lorde the blinde dulnes of our corrupt nature wyll not suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites yet neuerthelesse at the commaundemente of Iesus Christ our lorde we presente our selues to this his table whiche he hath lefte to be vsed in remembraunce of his deathe vntyll his comminge againe to declare and witnesse before the worlde that by hym alone we haue receiued lybertie
CERTAYNE GODLY EXARCISES MEDITACIONS AND PRAYERS VERY necessary and profytable for all persons and for all times set forthe by certayne godly lerned men to be vsed dayly as you shal be godly disposed and shall feele nede thervnto And also the Letany dayly vsed in Churches annexed to the ende hereof Ephesians vi i. Timothe ii ¶ Praie alwaies euery where with all maner of praier and that in the spirite lifting vp pure hartes and handes with out wrath or doubtinge ¶ IMPRINTED London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George neere to saincte Dunstons churche by VVyllyam Powell ¶ Vse often and hartye prayer to God knowing that it is no lesse necessary for your soule therby to liue and contynue in godlines then water is for the life of fishe or dew is for the growth of grasse and herbes but if you wyll haue youre praier accepted of god se that you accept his worde For accursed be they sayth Sallomon and their prayer that wyll not heare the worde of god If I behold with fauour any wyckednes saith Dauid in my hart god will not heare me for he heareth no such synners as retainethe styll the purpose to continewe it sinne as hee stoppethe not hys eares to heare the prayers of the pore penitents but often before they pray he graunteth them their hartes desire I B. ¶ Occations to meditate to stirre vp the harte to praier IN your praiers thinke vpon the remission of sinnes promysed by and for Chryste and let there be in your remembraunce some most euidente and playne sentence to inflame stirre vp the mind as this Aske and ye shal haue c. And verely verely I saye vnto you what soo euer you shall aske the father in my name he wyll geue it you c. Asking al spiritual gifts without condicion and all temporall vppon condicion As Christ did Father if it be thy wyl let this cuppe passe frō me c. God commaundeth vs to aske of him We breake his commandment in not askynge We do his cōmaundement in asking of hym He promiseth to vs our askinge He is debtour to vs tyll he fulfill our askinge We make god a liar if we mistrust to obteine our askynge He is glorified in his sonne by giuing vs our askynge He longeth to haue vs aske of him loketh for it at our handes If we therfore turne not oure eares from his lawe but call vpon him wyth a stronge Faythe he will moste gladly geue vs our askynge Because we are necligent in askinge he doth of his fatherly goodnesse by necessities and troubles dryue prouoke vs to aske of hym And because we are ignoraunt in askinge he teacheth vs by his holy spirite sent into our hartes and by the prayer that therfore is called the lordes praier how what we shulde aske of him Let vs therefore in our necessitie and troubles aske of god our father and he for his sonnes sake will geue vs our askinge whose very nature and propertie is to relieue suche as are in necessitie and in deede our necessities are as lowde cryinges in his merciful eares A meditation vpon the Lordes prayer QVr father which art in heauen We gloriousely formed vnto the Image of thy deuine maiestie created by thy gracyouse goodnesse vnto highest honour how be it by our own sinfulnes diffigured with vilenes deseruinge dampnation and yet by Christes death redemed and restored vnto grace to be Citizens with sainctes of the family of God Nowe altogether in Christian vnitie as members of one body we pray desyre and trust to obtayne of thee our heauenly father accordinge vnto thy gracious goodnes mighty power and faithefull promise vnto vs that aske aboundaunce of thy grace That thy name may be halowed That thy diuine power and glorious maiesty may be certainely knowne and reuerently honoured That the hartes of vs men by thy word and prayer maye be sanctified from all sinne and vanity so that we with al that we haue seruing thee in holinesse righteousenesse may so shine afore men vpon earth that they therby may be occasion to honoure thee our father which art in heauen Thy kyngdome come Thy worde be so fruitfully preached amongest vs thy peple that we may be throughly instructed taught to brydle our sensual apetites by natural reason and to submit our wyttes reasons vnto a good godly spirite and to trye our spirites by the true scriptures So that within vs may raigne the kingdome of God which is neither meate nor drink whiche is neither supersticious ceremonies voluptuous pleasures nor vayne glory but righteousnes peace comforte in the holy ghost by the which we now tasting of thy heauenly ioyes may be made frō henceforth wery of al worldly vanities continually loking prayinge for the apperance and comming of thy eternall and euerlasting kyngdom Thy wyll be done in earth as it is in heauen In heauen the angelles of reuerente loue do thy will and commaundement with comfortable courage ioyful pleasure In hel the wicked spirits through malice and enuye repininge and grudging do torment and vexe them selues what so euer they be doinge And vpon earth men being subiect vnto sinne do thinke it a labour and paine to be occupied in any thing that is good and godly Wherfore we pray that the grace of thy heauenly spirite maye so worke in our earthly bodies that we being delyuered from sinne and vanitie may frely delite and take pleasure to do thye wyll and commaundement being men vpon earth as thy glorious aungels do whiche be in heauen Geue vs this day our dayly breade We hauinge great nede not hable of our selues to deserue any thing beseche the of thy fatherly goodnes to geue frely vnto all vs in general So that none be hurt nor hindered seuerally this day when as we crye constrained by present nede not craftely crauing for vayn care against to morow our dayly bread our daily and necessarie foode reliefe both bodely and ghostly And especially so that the spiritual foode of Christes flesh and his bloud by dayely preachinge of the gospell and ministracion of the sacramentes maye replenishe our hartes mindes with continual remembrance of Christes deathe and his passion dayly to be vsed for necessary and spirituall consolation Forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgeue them that trespas against vs. Geue vnto vs that feling and knowing oure owne synfulnesse do nede and desire thy mercifull forgeuenes of oure fautes trespasses which we haue committed against thee so that we frely forgeuing all other that haue offended vs in any thyng what so euer it be may be sure that mercy springyng in thee hathe proceded vnto vs and being graciousely offred of thee hath ben thankefully receaued of vs and beinge charitably vsed of vs towardes other shal most certainly be confirmed and enlarged of thee toward vs So that by free mercy sprynging and proceding from thee al fautes maye be freely forgeuen euen as those
al suche as haue erred and gone astray comfortest the sowles of them that hunger and thyrst after ryghteousnesse and plenteously enrychest those with diuerse gyftes which aske them in Iesus Chrystes name purifie our hartes we besech thee inflame them with the fyre of thy loue arme vs against the crafty assaultes of subtyl sathan agaynst the vayne plcsures of the wicked world agaynst the sinfull lustes of fylthy fleshe the we beynge endued with grace from aboue by thy holy inspiration may walke forwardes in newenesse of lyfe in true holynes and righteousnes all the dayes of our lyfe Fyl our hartes with newe afctes and spirituall motions renewe vs both in body and sowle that we may dye vnto olde Adam lyue vnto righteousenes through a liuely faythe whiche worketh by Charitie whiche synguler gyfte of faythe graunt vnto vs that we truely beleuing in thee O eternal God the father the sonne and the holy ghost and fully perswaded of the truthe of thy holy word may be made thy sonnes and inheritours of the euerlastynge ioyes whiche as they are great and vnspeakeable so are there fewe that do inioy thē For straite is the way narrowe is the gate that leadeth therunto fewe there be that fynde it Notwithstandinge O god thou hast a lyttell flocke to whō it is thy pleasure to geue that ioyful kingdome whose names are wrytten in the boke of lyfe Make vs therfore of that nombre for Iesus Christes sake place vs amongest those thy shepe whiche shall stande on thy ryght hande to receiue that blessed inherytance and dwell with thee for euermore An other prayer REmēbre not O lorde god our olde iniquites but let thy mercy spedely preuent vs for we be very myserable help vs god our sauiour and for the glory of thy name deliuer vs be merciful forgeue our synnes Let not the wicked people saye where is their god we be thy people the shepe of thy passture we shal geue thākes vnto thee for euer frō age to age we shal set forth thy lawde and praise to thee be honour and glory world without ende Amen 2. Peter 3. The day of the Lord will come as a theefe in the night in the which day the heauens shall peryshe with terrible noise and the Elementes shall melt with heate and the earth with the worckes that are therin shal burne vp Seinge therfore that all these things shall perish what maner persons oughte ye to be in holy conuersacion and godlines loking for and hastening vnto the day of God ¶ The Letany and suffrages O GOD the father of heauen haue mercye vppon vs myserable sinners O God the father c. O god the Son redemer of the worlde haue mercy vpon vs myserable sinners O God the sonne redemer c. O God the holy ghoste procedinge from the father and the sonne haue mercye vpon vs myserable sinners O God the holy ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one god haue mercye vpon vs miserable sinners O holye blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lorde oure offences nor the offences of oure forefathers neyther take thou vengeaunce of oure synnes Spare vs good Lorde spare thy people whom thou hast redemed wyth thy most precious bludde and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good lorde From all euyl and mischiefe from syn from the craftes assaultes of the deuil from thy wrathe and from euerlastynge dampnation Good lorde deliuer vs. From all blindnes of hart from pryde vayne glorye and hipocrisie from enuie hatred and malice and al vncharitablenes Good Lorde deliuer vs. From Fornication and al other deadly synne and from al the deceyptes of the world the fleshe and the deuyl Good Lorde deliuer vs. From lightnynge and tempeste from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sodain death Good Lorde deliuer vs. From al sedicion and priuie conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresy from hardnes of harte and contempte of thy worde and commaundement Good Lorde deliuer vs. By the mistery of thy holy incarnacion by thy holy natiuitie and circumsition by thy baptisme fasting and temptaciō Good Lorde deliuer By thyne agony and blouddy sweat by thy Crosse and Passion by thy precious death and burial by thy glorious resurrection and ascention and by the commyng of the holy ghost Good Lorde deliuer vs. In al time of our tribulation in al time of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lorde deliuer vs. We synners do beseche thee to heare vs O Lorde God that it may please the to rule and gouerne thy holy churche vniuersally in the right waye We beseche thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshippinge of thee in ryghteousnes and bolines of life thy seruaunt Elizabeth our most gracyous Queene and gouernour We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please the to rule her hart in thy faythe feare and loue and that she may euermore haue affiaunce in thee and euer seke thy honour and glorye We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to be her defender and keper geuing her the victory ouer all her enemies We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to illuminate all Byshoppes Pastours and ministers of the church with trew knowledge and vnderstandyng of thy woorde and that both by theyr preachynge and lyuinge they maye set it foorth and shewe it accordynglye We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to endue the lordes of the counsell and all the nobilitye with grace wisedome and vnderstandynge We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to blesse kepe the Magistrates geuyng them grace to execute iustice and to mainteine truth We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to blesse and keepe all thy people We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to geue to all nacions vnitie peace and concorde We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to geue vs an harte to loue and dreade thee and dilygentlye to lyue after thy commaundementes We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to geue al thy people increase of grace to heare mekely thy word and to receyue it with pure affection and to bryng forthe the fruites of the spiryte We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to brynge into the waye of truth all such as haue erred and are deceyued We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to strengthen suche as do stande and to comforte and helpe the weake hearted and to raise vp thē that fal and finally to beate downe Sathan vnder our fete We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please