persecutours then gauest thou some tranquilitie and rest after those ragyng stormes and cruell afflictions O Lord thou remainest one for euer we haue offended and are vnworthy of any deliueraunce but worthy art thou to be a true and constant god and worthy is thy deare sonne Christ Iesus that thou shouldest glorify his name and reueng the blasphemy spoken against the truth of his gospell which is by our aduersaries damned as a doctrine deceiuable false yea the bloude of thy sonne is troden vnder fete in that the bloud of his members is shedde for wytnessyngs of thy truth And therefore O lorde beholde not the vnworthines of vs that call for the redresse of these enormities neither let our imperfections stoppe thy mercies from vs but beholde the face of thyne annointed Christe Iesus and let the equitie of oure cause preuayle in thy presence Let the bloudde of thy sainctes which is shed be openly reuenged in the eyes of thy Churche that mortall men may know the vanity of their counsels and that thy children may haue a tast of thine eternal goodnesse And seing that from that man of sinne that Romayne Antechriste the chyefe aduersary of thy deare sonne do the all iniquitie springe and myschyefe procede let it please thy fatherly mercy more and more to reuele his deceit and tiranny to the worlde open the eies of princes and magistrates that clearely they may see how shamefullye they haue bene and are abused by his deceiuable wayes how by him they are compelled most cruelly to shede the bloud of thy sainctes and by violēce refuse thine eternall testament that they in depe consideration of their greuous offences maye vnfaynedly lament their horrible defectiō from Christ Iesus thy sonne from henceforth studieng to promote his glorye in the dominions committed to their charges that so yet once againe the glory of thy gospell may appears to the worlde And seing also that the chiefe strength of that odious beaste consisteth in defension of princes let it please thee O father whiche hast claymed to thy selfe to be called the God of peace to vnite and knyt in perfect loue the hartes of all those that looke for the life euerlastinge Let no craft of sathan moue them to warre one againste an other neither yet to mainteine by their force and strengthe that kingedome of darkenesse but rather that godly they may conspire illuminated by thy word to roote out from amongest them al supersticion with the maynteyners of the same These thy graces O lord we vnfainedly desyre to be powred forth vppon all realmes and nations that they may be firmly vnited and godly knitte together in the vnitie of thy worde that in their godly concorde thy name maye be glorified and thy dispersed flocke comforted and relieued The cōmon wealthes O lord where thy gospell is truely preached and harborowe graunted to the afflicted members of Christes body and specially accordinge to our bounden duetie this out countrey of Englande we commend to thy protection and mercy Be thou vnto them a defence buckler be a watch man to their walles a perpetual saue garde to their cities that the crafty assaultes of their ennemies repulsed by thy power thy gospell maye haue free passage from one nation to an other let al preachers ministers of the same haue the giftes of thy holy spirite in suche aboundance as thy godly wisedome shal know to be expedient for the perfect instruction of that flocke whiche thou hast redemed with the preciouse bloud of thy onely and welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ Purge their hartes from al kind of superstition from ambicion vaine-glory by whiche sathan continually laboureth to stirre vp vngodly contēcion and let them so consente in the vnitie of thy truthe that neither the estimation whiche they haue of men neyther the vaine opinions whiche they haue conceyued by their writinges preuaile in them against the cleare vnderstandyng of thy blessed worde And nowe last O lorde we most hūbly beseche thee according to that praier of thy dere sonne our lord Iesus so to sanctifie and confirme vs in thy eternal veritie that neither the loue of life temporall neither yet the feare of tormentes and corporall death cause vs to denie the same when the confession of our faith shal be required of vs but so assist vs with the power of thye holy spyrite that not onely boldely we may confesse thee O father of mercies to be the true god alone and whō thou haste sent our lord Iesus to be the only sauiour of the world but also that constantly we may withstande all doctrine repugninge to thy eternall truthe reueiled to vs in thy most blessed worde Remoue from our hartes the blynde loue of our selues and so rule thou all the actions of our life that in vs thye godly name may be glorified thy churche edified and sathan finally confounded by the power meanes of our lorde Iesus Christe to whom with thee and the holy spirite be all glory and prayse before thy congregations nowe and euer So be it Arise O lord and let thine ennemies be ashamed let them flee from thy presence that hate thy godly name let the grones of thy prisoners enter in before thee and preserue by thy power suche as be appointed to death let not thyne enemies thus triumphe to the ende but let them vnderstande that against thee they fight preserue and defend the vine whiche thy righte hande hath planted let all nations see the glory of thine annoynted Hasten lord and tary not A praier against the obstinate enemies of the truth MOste righteous iudge god of all mercy and comforte whiche by thy secrete iudgmente and wisedome doest suffer the wicked to triumph and increase for a tyme for triall of the faith of thy welbeloued little flocke and the mortifyinge of theyr lustes but at length to the vtter confusion of the enemies ioyfull delineraunce of thy people loke doune we beseche thee on thy dispersed shepe out of thy holy habitation in heuen and strengthen our weakenes againste their furyous rages abate their pryde asswage their malyce confound their deuises wherwith they lifte vp them selues against christ Iesus thy sonne our Lord and Sauiour to deface his glory and set vp Antechrist We be not able of oure selues to thynke a good thought much lesse to stād against their assaultes excepte thy vndeserued grace and mighty arme defend and deliuer vs. Performe thy promises made to Iacob and stoppe the mouthes of the cursed Edomites call them to repentance whom thou hast apointed to saluation bringe home them that runne astraye lyghten the blind and teach the ignoraunt forgeue al those that wilfully obstinately rebell not against thy holy will let thy fearefull threatninges pearce our stony hartes make vs tremble at thy iudgementes Make the exaumples of theim whom thou haste ouerthrowne in their owne deuises as Cayn Cham Nimrod Esau Pharao Saule Achitophel Iudas such other to be a
which other hath committed against vs so likewise those whych we haue done a gainst thee And leade vs not into temptation Suffer not the deuyll by the abuse of thy benefites to leade vs captyues into deceitefull and dampnable temptation drawing vs by deinty meates vnto gredy glotony by money and richesse vnto vnsaciable couetousenes and by wealth and prosperity vnto pryde vayne glory and by al thy godly gracious giftes vnto euery dyuelishe abominable sinne But deliuer vs from euill Deliuer our goodes from abuse our bodies from corruption our soules from damnation Deliuer vs by Christ Iesu from the bondage of sinne vnto the lybertye of the Gospell so that from all daunger of diuelishe temptation trayning and enticing men toward damnation we maye be deliuered to serue thee in holinesse and ryghteousenesse all the daies of our life with most certaine and sure hope of euerlasting saluation thorow Christ Iesu in whom our hope and thy promise is moste certaine that is to say Amen Your time is short your daungers be great you are well warned by Goddes worde written Mar. xiij Take hede watche and praye Take hede that your hartes and mindes be not made heauy hard and dull with meates and drink vaine plesures or worldly cares Watch with dyllygence to doe youre owne dewties in desyrous lokynge for Chrystes comming Praye that ye may escape all daungers and stande in grace and fauoure afore the face of Christ at his comminge T. Leuer APOCAL. XXII Beholde I come sone ¶ A prayer to be sayde in the mornynge O Almighty and moste gracyous God we hartely thancke thee for the swete slepe comfortable rest whiche thou hast geuen vs this nighte and for as muche as thou haste commaunded by thy holy worde that no man shoulde be idle but all occupied in godly and vertuous exercises euery mā according to his calling we most humbly beseche thee that thine eies may attende vpon vs dayely defende vs cherishe comforte and gouerne vs and al our counsayles studies and labours in suche wise that we maye spend and bestowe this day accordynge to thy moste holy wyll without the hurtynge of our neighbours and that we may diligentlye and warely eschewe and auoyde all thinges that shoulde displease thee set thee alwaies before our eies liue in thy feare workyng that may be founde acceptable before thy diuyne maiestie through Iesus Christ our lord So be it ¶ A Confession of our synnes O Mercifull and most louing father whose Loue is infinite whose mercye endureth for euer we sinfull creatures trustinge in thine vnspeakeable goodnes loue towardes vs do appere this mornynge before thy dyuyne maiestie most humbly confessing our manifold sinnes and innumerable transgressions of thy commaundementes and fatherly wyll against thee only against thee O lord haue we synned we acknowledge oure offences we accuse our selues vnto the O mercifull lord and wyl not hyde our vnrighteousnesse we fynde in our selues nothinge but ingnoraunce of thye wyll and disobedience mistrust doubfulnes in thy goodnes and incredulitie hatred contempt of all spirituall thinges selfe loue confidence in our selues and feruent lustinge after carnall thinges of this worlde and this tree of our corrupt nature bryngeth forth continually in vs none other fruictes but rotten and vnsauery workes of the fleshe in thoughtes wordes and doinges vnto condempnation Wherfore we humbly beseche thy fatherly goodnes euen for thy sonne Iesus Christes sake whome thou hast set forth for a purchaser of mercye vnto vs through fayth in hys bloud make our hartes cleane take away our stony hartes and geue vnto vs a true a liuely fayth whych shal worcke continually by loue throughe Christ haue mercy vppon vs forgeue vs our sinnes for thy sonnes sake certifye our consciences of remission of the same by thy holy spirite by whose operation so mortifye in vs our olde man the whole body of sinne that we continually dyeng vnto sinne may walke in newnesse of life to the glory of thy holy name through Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen ¶ Before thou prayest beleue that god is not onely almighty to helpe and to delyuer thee but also that he is gracious and faythefull to fulfill all his promises made vnto vs. Then forgeue if thou hast any thing against any man And remember that thou commest not to god with a double harte but lyfte vp pure handes with oute wrathe or doubtinge O Almighty eternal euerliuing god 1. 2. Corin. 1. and. 2. 1. the eternal father of our Lorde Iesus Chryst whych haste made 2. heauen and yearthe 2. Ictes 4. the sea and al that therin is and of thy great goodnes didst open thy selfe from heauen madest proclamatiō of Iesus christ saieng 3 this is my deare sonne heare him 3. Matth. 3. thou maker of al thinges preseruer helper 4. Philip. 2. Ebre 1. with thy 4. coeternal sonne our lord Iesus Christ raignyng with thee and manifested in Ierusalem and thy holy ghost poured on the apostles O most wise good mercifull righteous iudge and also strong which hast sayde by thy prophet 5. Ezechi 18. 5. I will not the death of a sinner but that he cōuert and liue I thy pore creature and worke of thy handes do acknowledge and confesse vnto thee my manifold synnes and offences which I from my youth vp vnto this time haue greuously committed against thee in thought worde dede am now taught moued by thy word grace to be hartely sory for the same desiring thee which hast sayd 6. Psal 50. 6. call vpon me in the day of thy trouble and I wyll heare thee and delyuer thee for the precious bloudde sheading of Iesus Christ thy sonnes sake our lord whom thou wouldest to be made a slaine 7. Eb. 9. ◠10 7. sacrifice for our sinnes to haue mercy vppon mee and forgeue me all those myne offences according to thy great mercy promise whych haste sayde 8. Eze. 18. 8. at what time so euer a sinner doth repent him of his sinne from the bottom of his hart I will put al his wickednes out of my remembraunce O lorde I acknowledge and confesse that I was borne in sinne 9. Psal 51. Ephe. 2. Rom. 7. and. 9. conceiued in wickednes and am by nature a. 9. childe of wrath for that in my 9. fleshe as saincte Paule saith dwelleth no good thing and that of my selfe I am not able to think a good 10. thought that can please thee 10.2 Corin. 3. much lesse to wishe and least of al to doe that thou in thy lawe requireste of me to be done for 11. Gala. 3. Rom. 7. 11. thou hast saide cursed is he that continuethe not in all thynges that are written in the lawe to do them againe thy lawe is 11. spiritual but I am carnall solde vnder sinne therfore o lorde I call vnto thee for grace whyche haste saide 12. Math. 7. 12. aske and ye shall haue seeke
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
meditate very profitable to euery Christian WAtche and Pray Part. 4. that ye enter not into temptation c. For the deuyll your aduersary goeth about lyke a roaryng lion seking whō he may deuoure Committe thy selfe and all thye doinges vnto god with feruent and faithfull praier and then doubte nothing at all of the good and profitable successe of the same Pray before thou comest into any cōpany that thou geue no offēce in worde or dede but rather mayst geue good exaumple to edyfie Pray also that thou mayst marke wel and immitate that whiche is well done and spoken and that thou maist forget and flie from that whiche is euyll doone or spoken of any one where thou shalte come Pray when thou art come alone from company with any that god wyl make them to forgette the euyll example thou hast geuen in worde or dede In euery prayer begge of god the spyrite of grace and prayer zacha 12. that thou maist haue delight in praier and talking with God aske I say continually his holy spirite with encrease of Faith Hope In euery benefite behold goddes grace and stay not the considering of the same tyll thou comest to the oryginall rote that is the grace of god in Christ before the worlde was made so shal euery benefite confirme thy Faith Speake thinke and do al thinges as in the sight of god and as vnto god Of all thy thoughtes Eccle. 7. woordes and dedes consider the ende and thou shalt neuer do amisse Trust in god whē thou felest no cause in thy selfe for that is the gretest honour thou canst geue vnto him and a sure token that thou arte his Chylde for euer When thou beholdest any of the workes of god beware thou do it not to cōprehende him for so thou loosest thy labour but loke vpon theym to beholde him to be a God of might and power in the diuersitie of theym to be exceadynge wise by the multitude of theym to be good and gracious whiche hath so done them that they ought to be had in remēbraunce of vs And when thou hast this profite by them then be thou thanckful to god who hath geuen it thee The more sure we are of our saluatiō that we be the children of god the temples of the holy ghost the inherytours of heauen the more we cannot but loue long for the dissolutions of our bodies Vse therfore to beg of god by continual praicr his spirite to cōfirme you in this certen perswasion that god loueth you In the lawe behold god to be thy god to be holy to be iust and seuere against synne and thy selfe vnholy vniust and full of contumacie therfore not mete nor worthy to be where god is but to be reiected frō him and worthy dampnation therfore feare him sinne not In the gospell beholde god to be thye father to loue the euerlastingely to for geue thee all thy synnes to geue thee eternall saluation through his sonne Iesus Christe who hath ouercome sinne death and hell for thee hath brought lyfe ymmortalitie vnto light therfore loue him as a son loue hym for he loued thee fyrst loue hym I say in and for his Christ loue his Christ loue him euer Onely beleue in him forget not to be thanckefull to hym for that he is thy god and thy father for his loue for his Christ for thy saluation for the forgiuenesse of thy synnes for thy delyueraunce from dispaire for the sure certificate of thyne election for the delyueraunce from errour into his truthe for calling the into this grace wherin thou standest and therfore reioyce in hope of the glory of God R. Coles A Complaynt of the Tiranny vsed against the sainctes of god conteyning a confession of our sinnes a praier for the deliuerance and preseruation of the Church and confusion of the enemyes ** ETernall and euerlyuinge god father of our lord Iesus Christ who hast commaunded vs to praye and promised to heare vs euē when we do call from the pyt of desperation the miseries of these our moste wycked dayes compell vs to poure forth before thee the complaintes of our wretched hartes oppressed wyth sorrowe Our eyes do beholde and our eares do heare the calamities and opressions whiche no tongue canne expresse neyther yet alas doo oure dull hartes rightly consider the same For the Heathen are entred into thine inherytance they haue poluted thy sanctuarye prophaned and abolished thy blessed instytutions moste cruelly murthered and dayly doe murther thy deare children Thou hast exalted the arme and force of our enemies thou hast set vs forth as a praye to ignomy and shame before such as persecute thy truth Their wayes do prosper they glory in mischefe speake prowdely agaynste the honoure of thy name Thou goest not forth as a captaine before our hostes The edge of our sword which somtime was most sharp is now blunt and doth returne without victorye in battaile It apereth to our ennemies O lorde that thou hast broken that league whiche of mercie goodnes thou hast made with thy churche For the libertie whiche they haue to kil thi childrē like shepe and to shed their bloudde no man resistinge doth soo blynde and puffe theim with pride that they ar not ashamed to affirme that thou regardest not our intreatinge Thy longe suffering and pacience maketh them hold from crueltie to procede to the blasphemy of thy name And in this meane season alas we do not consider the heauines of our sinnes which longe haue deserued at thye handes not onely these temporall plagues but also the tormentes prepared for the inobediēt For we knowing thy blessed will haue not applyed our dilygence to obey the same but haue folowed for the most parte the vaine conuersation of the blind world and therfore in very iustice hast thou visited our vnthanckfulnesse But O lorde if thou shalt obserue and kepe in mind for euer the iniquities of thy children then shal no fleshe abide nor be saued in thy presence And therfore cōuicted in our own consciences that most iustly we suffer as punished by thy hande do neuerthelesse cal for mercy according to thy promes And first we desire to be corrected with the rod of thy children by the whiche we maye be brought to a perfect hatred of synne and of our selues therfore that it would please thee for Christ Iesus thy sonnes sake to shewe to us thy whole church vniuersally persecuted the same fauoure and grace that some times thou diddest whē the chiefe members of the same for anguish and feare were compelled to cry why haue nations raged why hathe the people made vprores and why haue princes kings coniured against thyne anointed Christ Iesus Then diddest thou wonderfully assiste and preserue thy smale and dispersed flock then diddest thou burste vp the barres and gates of yron then dyddest thou shake the foundations of stronge prysons then dyddeste thou plague the cruell
beseche thee to graunt that we may knowledge truely without hipocrisie bowe miserable a state of perdition we are in by nature and how worthely we procure vnto our selues euerlastinge dampnation◠heapinge vp from time to time thy greuous punishmētes towards vs through oure wicked and synfull life to the ende that seing there remayneth no sparke of goodnes in our nature and that ther is nothing in vs as touching our first creation and that which we receaue of our parentes mete to inioye the heritage of gods kingedome we may wholy render by oure selues with all oure hartes and with an assured cōfidēce vnto thy deroly beloued son Iesu Christ our lord our only sauiour redemer to the ende that he dwelling in vs may mortefy our olde man that is to say our sinneful affectiōs and that we may be regenerated into a more godly lyfe wherby thy holy name as it is worthy of all honoure may be aduaunced and magnified through oute the world and in al places so that thou hauing the tuicion and gouernaunce ouer vs we may learne dayely more and more to humble and submyt our selues vnto thy maiestie in such sort that thou maist be counted king and gouernour ouer al guiding thy people with the scepter of thy word and by the vertue of thy holy spirite to the confusion of all thine enemies through the mighte of thy truth righteousnes so that by this meanes all power and heighte which withstandeth thy glory may be continually throwen downe and abolyshed vnto suche time as the full and perfecte face of thy kingdome shall apeare when thou shalt shewe thy selfe in iudgement whereby also we with the reste of thye creatures may render vnto thee perfecte and due obedience euen as thy holy aungells do apply them selues onely to the perfourming of thy commaundementes so that onely thy will may be fulfilled without any cōtradiction that euery man may bend him selfe to serue and please thee renouncing their owne wylles with all the affections and desires of the fleshe Graunte vs also good lorde that wee thus walking in the loue and dreade of thy holye name maye be nouryshed and susteyned through thy goodnesse that we may receue at thy handes all things expediente necessary for vs and so vse thy giftes peaceably and quietly to this ende that when wee see that thou haste care of vs wee maye the more affectuousely knowledge thee to be our father lokinge for all good giftes at thy hand and withdrawynge and pullinge back al our vaine confidence from creatures may set it wholly vpon thee and so rest onely in thy most bountiful mercy And for so moch as whiles we continue here in this transitory life we are so miserable so frayle and so much inclyned vnto synne that we fall continually and swarue from the right way of thy commaundementes we beseche the pardon vs our innumerable offences whereby we are in daunger of thy iudgemente condempnation and forgeue vs so freely that deathe and synne may hereafter haue no title against vs neither lay vnto our charge that wicked rote of sinne whiche dothe euermore remaine in vs but graunt that we may forget and forgeue the wronges whiche other do vnto vs in stede of seking vengeaunce may procure the wealthe of our ennemies And for as muche as of our selues wee are so weake that we ar not able to stād vpright one minute of an houre and again so belaid assaulted euermore with such a multitude of so daūgerous ennemies that the deuyl the world synne our own cōcupicēces do neuer leaue of to fyghte against vs Let it be thy good pleasure to strengthen vs with thy holy spirit to arme vs with thy grace that therby we may be able strongly to with stand al tēptations to endure constātly in this spiritual battaile against syn vntil such time as we shal obteine the ful victory so at length may triūphātly reioyse in thy kingdome with our captain gouernour Iesus christ our lord Amē Who can tel whether the lord wil turne againe and haue compassion vpon vs and leaue a blessinge behynde him Ioel. 2. ¶ A prayer mete for this present tyme that god woulde turne away his plagues hanging ouer vs for our sinnes OH lorde God strong and mighty great and fearfull whiche dwellest in the heauens and workest great wonders we thy myserable chyldren here vpō earth do most humbly beseche thee to be mercifull vnto vs to pardon our offences forgers vs all our sinnes O Lord enter not into iudgement with thy seruauntes for if thou do there shall no fleshe be saued in thy sight O Lord we confesse and acknowledge that it is our syns that hath caused thee to be moued vnto wrathe to shewe suche tokens of thy displeasure towardes vs in these our dayes fyrfte with fire from heauen whiche did betoken thy hotte burning indignation and wrathfull displeasure for synne whiche aboundeth at this day then with such horrible and monstruous shapes against nature as was neuer sene in our daies nor in no time before vs in this miserable countrey of oures whiche all do betoken to vs none other thinge but thye plagues to come vppon vs for our degenerate and monstrous lyfe and conuersation and our wonderfull and terryble destruction and desolation vnlesse we spedely repent and turne to thee because we haue ben so longe taught oute of thy most holy and sacred worde and yet no fruites of repentaunce or christyan life will appere Woe and alas to these our daies that neyther preachinge by worde most comfortable nor preaching by fyre most terrible nor preaching by monsters moste ougly horrible wil flyrre vp our stony hartes and awake vs from our sinnes We feare oh Lorde that the turkes with all the rest of the vnbeleuing will condempne vs in the last day whiche if they had ben so longe instructed by the comfortable preaching of thy word and sweete promises of thy gospell or seene the wonders whiche we haue seene no doubt their righteousenes woulde haue shined at this day to our greate shame and confusion Thou hast no lesse warned vs oh Lord of thy feareful displeasure heauie plagues at hande for our great wickednes then thou dyddest the Israelites of that horryble destructyon which came vpon them whō thou first in mercy diddest call to repentaunce by the preachinge of thy worde but when no warnynge wolde serue thou diddest send them monstrus and feareful signes and tokens to declare that thy visitation was not farre of But they like vnto vs at this daye dyd alwaies interprete these thinges after the imagination of their owne vaine hartes promysynge to them selues peace when destruction was ouer their heades Whiche thinges when we do call to minde for as muche as they are writtē for our learnynge exaumple and warnynge it maketh vs to tremble quake for feare of thy iust iudgementes For if thou hast thus dealt with thine owne dears chosen
DEare father to whome it is more easie to do all thinges then for me to thyncke anye one good thing Lo do thou but speake a worde and thy deadly sicke seruaunte my soule shall be made whole Helpe O Lord let thy strength suffise against my weakenesse and thy holy spirite againste my synfull fleshe and olde man Thou art true and faithfull O Father who hast promysed that I shall not bee tempted further then thou wile make me able to beare 1. Cor. 10. Geue therefore thy power vnto thy seruaunt that I may with a stronge fayth in thyne infallible truthe and promysed mercy vanquishe subdue what so ouer rebelleth against thy most blessed wills Do this O Father for thy sonne Iesus Christes sake our deare Lorde and gracious redemer Amen ¶ A Prayer to God the Father for the true knowledge of the mystery of our redēption in Christ O Almyghty God and father of our lorde Iesus Christ and by hym also our father the father of all mercy and god of all consolation haue mercye vppon vs and heare our prayers We most humbly beseche thee for thy deere sonne Iesus Chrystes sake his merites and cruel death whiche he suffered to delyuer vs from eternall deathe and the power of darkenes geue into our harts the spirite of truth to worke in vs a true liuely and stedfaste faithe that the cleare lyghte and brightenesse of thy gospell the glorye of Christ may shyne vnto vs and lyghten our myndes that we may learne vnderstande the wonderfull and vnspeakeable rychesse of the misteric of our redēption in Christ and by Chryst O father of glory geue vnto vs the spirite of wisedome brynge vs vnto the true knowledge of this thy beloued sonne Iesus Christe and the knowledge of thy selfe Open and lyghten the eyes of our mindes and vnderstandinge Ephe. 1. that we maye knowe what the hope is wherunto thou hast called vs and howe ryche the glory of thine inheritaunce is vppon thy sainctes and the excedinge greatnes of thy power towardes vs that by trewe fayth vnderstanding and knowledge of thine eternall wisedome whiche is Iesus Christe we may be in deede as wee are called true christians and vnfained professours of thye holy name to worshippe thee in spirite and truthe and to sette forthe the glory of thy grace geuen vnto vs in Christ Iesus our lord Amen O dere father write in our hartes loue to thy lawe hate to all synne thankefulnesse of heart and continual heate of thy holy spirite for thy sonne Iesus Christes sake To whom with thee and thy holy spirite be all honour maiestie glory thankes rule empire and dominion for euer more ¶ A prayer to be vsed of all sortes of men and at all times O Lord God for thy great mercies sake graūt vnto me these my petycions whych I shall make vnto the in Iesus Christes name and endue me with thy grace that I maye aske of thee in such sorte as thou requirest to the honour glory and prayse of thy holy name to the furtheraunce of thy worde the profitte of thy people and to my consolation and comforte throughe Iesus Christe our onely sauiour and readeuter So be it O Lord thou great and terryble god thou that kepest couenant merry with theym that loue thee and doe thy commaundementes let thyne eares be open that thou mayst heare the praiers of thy seruaunte which I make before thee at this time haue mercy vpon me thy pore creature worke of thine handes for I haue sinned done wickedly and haue offended thy maiesty greuously in that I haue gone backe departed from all thy preceptes and iudgementes haue not folowed thy seruaūtes the prophets the spake vnto me in thy name but haue from day to day prouoked thy iust wrath and indignation agaynst me O Lorde I knowledge and confesse my manifolde sinnes and wyckednesse the whiche I haue vnrighteousely committed against thee in thought worde dede fro my youth vp vntill this day for the which I am hartely sory and do vnfainedly repent purposing euermore through the assistaunce of thy grace to walke in a newe life Remember not lord the numbre of my misdedes I besech the but accordinge to thy great mercyes thinke vpon me Call to remembraunce for Christes sake thy louing kindnes and thy tender mercy the which hath euer bene of olde Hyde not thou thy face from me nor cast not of thy seruaunte in thy displeasure for I confesse my sinnes vnto thee and hide not mine vnrighteousnesse For thy mercies sake deliuer me from al my sinnes and make me not a scorne vnto the folyshe Tourne not away thy mercy frō me but let thy most louing kindnes truth alwaies preserue me Helpe me for thy names sake and deliuer me in thy strength Heare my prayer O lord and consider the wordes of my mouth for my misdedes preuayle agaynst me O be thou mercifull vnto my sinnes Let the sorowfull sighyng of thy prysoner come before thee and according to the power of thyne arme preserue those the be appoynted to dye for thy iust cause O Lord comforte the soule of thy seruant for vnto thee do I flee for succour Teache me to number my dayes that I may apply my hart vnto wisdome Satisfie me with thy mercy and that sone so shall I reioyce and be gladde in thee all the dayes of my lyfe Looke not extremely what is done amysse in me for I haue sinned againste heauen and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne yet lorde of thy great goodnes powre down some of the cromes that fall frō thy childrens table and make me as one of the least of them Rewarde me not accordyng to my deseruings for then I must nedes perishe for vnto me perteyneth nothinge but open shame confusion and damnation but with thee ther is mercy forgeuenes and saluacion O Lorde therefore doe I come vnto thee not hopyng in myne owne righteousnes but trusting onely in thy greate mercies and promises made vnto me in Chryst Iesu my lorde for whose sake I beseth thee to clense me from al my sinnes and do away all mine iniquities For thy tender mercy sake lay not my sinnes to my charge but forgeue that is paste and geue me grace to amende my lyfe to declyne from sinne and incline to vertue that I may walke in a perfect harte a cleue comience and single eye before thee this daye or nyght and euermore Remember not forde myne offences nor the offences of my forefathers neyther take thou beingeance of my sinnes spare me good Lorde spare me whome thou hast redemed with thy most precyous blonde and be not angrye with me for euer spare me good lord spare me Put me not frō thy presence oh thou god of al comfort but incline thine eare vnto my callyng Strengthen thy Seruaunte with the power of thy right hande and helpe the Sonne of thy handmayden Replenyshe my hart with grace wisedome
and vnderstanding Comforte my soule with thy swete promyses and let thy mercies couer my infirmities For the deathe and bloudshedynge of thy Christ O Lord consider myne infirmities which are many and helpe to heale myne imperfection delyuer me from al kyndes of euilles that I do not obey vnto them as from adultery fornication vncleannesse wantonnes ydolatry good lord deliuer mee Frō witch craft lyeng hatred varyaunce zeale wrath strife sedition good lorde delyuer mee From sectes enuiyng whyspering backebityng bringing vp of euyll tumours good lorde delyuer mee From murther drunkennes gluttony and from the spirite of euyl telosie good lorde deliuer me From enuiynge of other which loue thee thy people more then I or be beloued of thee or of thye people more than I am from swelling at other mennes giftes good lorde deliuer mee From surmisynge murmuringe lowring grudging mutteringe when wordes be not spokē to my mind good lorde for thy great mercies sake deliuer mee and geue me grace that I do at no tyme enuye any good man or womaunes loue but labour to increase it that their prosperstie in worde prayse of other may be my consolation and reioysynge O lord graunt me that I may be low in myne owne syght to submit my self to beare all occasions to wrestle wyth fleshe and bloudde and get the victory Graunt me this gyfte that I maye be swyft to heare slowe to speake slowe to wrathe that my hart do not go after any euyll and wicked imaginations Geue me grace to walke soo that I geue none euill occasions and to auoid all suspitious thinges wherby euyll occasions maye growe O Lorde assist mee with thye spirite that I may labour to mainteyne peace to increase loue and to further vertue Graunte O mercifull father that I may prosper in all vertue in long suffering gentlenes goodnes faithfulnes mekenes temperaunce strength and pacience with all suche like vertues as are cōmaunded in thy holy law for mee to walke in O lorde geue me ioye in thy holy spirite that I may reioyce in thy holy scriptures that al my whole pleasure felycitie and consolation may be in thy holy woorde night and daye in readinge thinking talkinge of the same to thy glory and my edifienge Assist thy seruaūt against this world with the vaine pompe pleasure beautie thereof that it maye be vnto me as vile dust slime fylthynes and asshes that I maye vse it as thoughe I vsed it not and that it may serue me and I not it that I may take my part therof vnto my necessitie with thankesgeuing that I do not vse thy creatures voluptuousely but that I may at al tymes liue righteously soberly and godly in this lyfe Geue me grace to walke with a good conscience bothe before thee and towardes all men in bying and sellinge and in all other my doinges to cast away allyinge craft and disceite that I be not a reader of thy holy worde and a talker onely but that it may appere also in my lyfe and conuersation O Lorde graunte vnto thy seruaunte the strengthe of thy holy spirite to subdue this bodye of synne with the whele lustes therof that it may be made obedient both in wyll minde membres to do thy will that it may be weake vile simple and of no reputation in it selfe by the way of fastinge prayer and meditation of thy lawe that I may be low harted humble minded gentle spryted and to all vertues obedient Geue me grace O lorde to brydle my mouth from al vayne and lyght communication and geue me an vnderstāding hearte with suche discretyon that neyther fylthynes nor folishe talkinge nor iestinge whiche are not comely procede out of my mouthe but rather geuing of thankes O Lord my sauiour increase my faith in thee and in thy Christe and make it stronge to beleue thy promyses O Lorde my redemer increase in me a loue to do thy wyll and to thy ryghteous people O Lorde my iustifyer increase in me a sure hope of my saluation withoute doubt or wauering in aduersitie with out pride or presumption in prosperytie so that in aduersitie I maye be pacient and geue thankes in prosperitie serue thee with reuerence and godly feare all the dayes of my lyfe Increase in me Lord al other vertues agreable to a godly lyfe for I come vnto thee my god as vnto the wel euerlasting fountaine of health and saluation O heauenly father graunt vnto mee al other wheresoeuer they be dispersed throughout the whole world which professe thy holy worde so to lyue that we may dye to sinne and leade a godly conuersatiō walking innocētly before thee Preserue and defende thy seruaunte from all false opinions that I be not deceyued and caryed awaye in errour of the wicked but that I maye growe in grace and knoweledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ O Lord geue me a reuerent and pure vnderstanding of thy holy word that I may therby auoyde al rashe iudgemente and peruerse interpretations O Lorde geue me wisedome knoweledge and vnderstandinge to perceyue those false lying flatteryng spirytes whiche doe deceyue the hartes of innecentes and begyle vnstable soules O Lorde make me to be content with thys woman which thou hast geuen me to be my wyfe that we maye godly lyue together accordynge to thy holy ordynaunce Geue her an hearte of vnderstanding and set thy feare alway before her eyes that she may be obedient in word dede and thought to all that is thy wil. O Lord geue vs the power of thy holy Spirite to rule gouerne and bryng vp these our children and familie in al god lye feare and knoweledge of thy holye worde and that we maye be vnto them an example in all godlynes and vertue to the prayse of thy holy name Saue my soule oh my God whether it be throughe prosperitie or aduersitie losse or gayne sickenes or health life or deathe Ayde strengthen succour and defend thy seruaunt in all aduersitye tribulation and temptaciō and suffer not him to be tempted aboue his strength Increase my ioye that I may reioyce in persecution embrace it to my cōsolacion comfort thinke my felfe happie and blessed when I am counted worthy to suffer rebuke for thy names sake Take from my hearte the care of all worldly thinges only set before my eies the ioye of the crosse of Christe that I maye take comforte therin and despyse the shame for the great rewarde that is laide vppe in heauen for all those that with pacience suffer in aduersitie continue in well doinge vnto the ende O Lorde neither lay thou presumption vnto thy seruauntes charge nor loke not vppon my vilenes whiche am but dust earth and ashes yet lorde I haue taken vpon me am bolde to come vnto thee throughe the merites of Chrystes death and bloud shedyng to lay my prayers before thee requiringe merry pardon and forgeuenesse of all my sinnes and also the assistance of thy
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