necessitie from al temptations of the diuel Be our Reconciliatrix and Aduocate in the hour of Iudgment Deliuer vs from the fire to comand darknes and vouchsaif vs the glorie of thy Sonne for thou art the most holie hope of Christians with God To whom be honour world without end Amen O holie and immaculate Virgin Marie Mother of God and Mother of our Lord Iesus Christ vouchsaife to make intercession for me to him whose Temple thou deseruedst to be I besech the Intercession of blessed Marie the Virgin that my praier may be effectual O holie Mother of God Virgin Marie pray for vs. O Queene of heauen and Ladie of earth euer most holie Virgin Mother of God our Lord Iesus Christ pray for vs and daily yea continually make intercession for me thy seruant and for al the holy Church of God for remission of sinnes purging of vices for increase and perfection of vertues for the peace and health of the faithful people for the fruictes of the earth for the stabilitie of the Church the order of Sainctes and for al seruantes of God men and women both liuing and departed that by thy praiers and holie merites God almightie may take mercie on a people ful of sinnes here and for euer Haile o Queene Mother of mercie life sweetenes and our hope al haille We that are the banished children of Eue do crie vnto thee To thee we sigh groaning and weping in this vale of teares Therfore o thou our aduocate turne those thy merciful eyes vnto vs and shew vnto vs after this exile blessed Iesus the fruite of thy wombe O merciful o ful of pitie o sweete Virgin Marie Pray for vs o holie Mother of God That we may be made worthie of the promises of Christ Harken o daughter of Dauid Abraham and incline thine eare to our praiers and forgeat not thy people We crie vnto thee o most holie Virgin remember vs and render vnto vs for this litle speech great guiftes out of the riches of thy graces thou who art ful of grace We vse these wordes for thy praise If at anie time Himne if at anie time praise be offered vnto thee either by vs or anie creature to thee I say our gracious Ladie Queene Mistris Mother of God Arke of the Sanctuarie Al orders of Angels and earthly thinges pronounce thee blessed We exalt thee with a great and lowde voice saying Haile gratious our Lord is with thee o Mistris and Ladie and Queene and Mother of God make intercession for vs. O venerable Virgin chast most happy adorned with the garment of immortalitie accompted as a Goddesse be mercifuly present to my praiers receiue my petitions O Ladie graunt that I may so depart forth of this life that hauing thee so great a gouernesse of it I may alwaies find thee for me a most acceptable Patronesse to thy Sonne Suffer me not to be deliuered ouer as it were to be crucified and exposed to the scorne of him that is the sworne enemie plague of al mortal men O maiden equalled by none in grace Mother and Virgin comly aboue al virgins and the greatest who excedest al orders of heauenly inhabitantes Queene Ladie the good of mankind be alwaies a frend to mortal men and to me euerie where the greatest saifguard O thrice blessed Mother o light of virgins which inhabitest the most glorious Temple of heauen free from the stianes of mortalitie now thou art adorned with the stoale of immortalitie harkē gently from aboue to my wordes and I besech thee o Virgin receiue my praiers It is worthy and iust to glorify thee Goddes Mother alwaies most blessed wholly vndefiled Mother of god more honourable then the Cherubins and incomparably more Glorious then the Seraphins which without corcorruption hast brought forth God verily we magnify thee Goddes Mother O glorious Mother of God who brought forth true God pray vnto him to saue our soules O Mother of God because thou art more excellent then al creatures we which are not able to praise thee worthily do freely besech thee haue mercie vpon vs. Haile ful of grace our Lord is with thee Haile organe of ioy by which the condemnation of our offence is purged and ful cōpensation of true ioy is made Haile truly blessed Haile illuminated Haile magnificent Temple of Diuine glory Haile consecrated Palace of the King Haile bride chamber in which humanitie was espoused to Christ Haile elected to God before thou wert borne Haile Goddes Reconciliation with men Haile treasure of life which neuer fadeth Haile heauen celestial Tabernacle of the sunne of glory Haile most ample feild of God whom none other place but thou alone could comprehend Haile holie virginal earth of which the new Adam by an vnspeakable framing was formed which should restoare the old Adam to saluation Haile Marie ful of grace our Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe for thou hast brought forth the Sauiour of our soules It is worthie it is worthie that we cal thee who art trulie blessed the Mother of God alwaies blessed euerie way irreprehensible the Mother of our God more honourable thē the Cherubins and more glorious then the Seraphins who without corruption hast brought forth God the word We truly magnify thee the Mother of God o ful of grace to thee euerie creature maketh ioy the companie of Angels and mankind thou who art the sanctified Temple the spiritual paradise the glorie of virgins of whom God receiued flesh and became a child our God who is before the world for he made thy belie his Throne and thy wombe more spacious and large then the heauens them selues To thee o ful of grace euerie creature doth gratulate glorie to thee O holie Marie Mother of God pray for vs I say sinners Amen O Mother of God Queene of heauen doare of paradise Ladie of the worlde begin praiers for my sinne Amen O my blessed Ladie and defence of mankind the harbour and protection of them that flee vnto thee I know o my Ladie Mother of God that I haue greatly offended thee For who o my Ladie hath hoped in thee and was ashamed or what man hath faithfully asked thy help able to al thinges hath at anie time bene forsaken verly no man at anie time Wherfore I a sinner also and wicked person aske thy euer-during fountaine from which cures do flowe to our soules be merciful vnto me Of the same praying vnto and honouring this most blessed Virgin Marie Chapter 4. HAile ful of grace our Lord is with thee He that said Let light be made let the firmament and the rest of the workes of wonderful creation be made Haile Mother of immeasurable ioy Haile new Arke of glory in which the spirit of God descending rested Arke in which rested the sanctification of new glorie Haile ornament of al Prophets and
Patriarks and most true praise of the vnsearchable oracles of God Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe and verily thou art trulie blessed for God hath blessed thee a Tabernacle to him self Blessed art thou among women who alone hast gott the blessing which God had promised to the Gentiles by Abrahā Verily thou art blessed who art called the Mother of the blessed child Iesus Christ our Sauiour for whom the Gentiles crie Blessed is he that cometh in the name of our Lord blessed the eternal name of his glorie Blessed art thou among women whom al generations proclame blessed kinges do glorifie whom Potentates adore whom virgins both following and going before thee do attend into the Temple of the King O haphie Marie and worthie of al praise O Virgin o glorious Mother of God o high child-bearer to whose bowels the maker of heauen and earth is committed O B. Marie admitte our praiers within the sacrarie of thy Auditorie and bring againe vnto vs grace of reconciliation Obtaine what we aske and excuse that we feare for we finde none more excellent in merits to pacify the Iudges anger then thou art who hast deserued to be the Mother of our Redemer Iudge Succour those that be in miserie assist the weake harted comfort those that weepe pray for the people intreat for the Cleargie make intercession for the company of Monkes besech for the deuout woman sexe Let al persons perceaue thy helpe that celebrate thy name Haue compassion vpon the afflicted beare a merciful affection to vs that be pilgrims from heauen present our wepinges vnto God and for vs intreate him as thine owne sonne We on earth are yet afflicted intertained with iniuries affected with reproches do hunger thirst are detained in prison But thou in heauen art preferred before al companies of virgins thou folowest the Lambe whether soeuer he goeth Thou in that most happy Region of the blessed hast gotte the cheifest dignitie To thee a kingly Queare of Angels is placed in the palace of the eternal King And the King of kinges himself louing thee aboue al with an embracing of loue doth sociate thee to him seif as his true Mother and comlie Spouse Therfore possessing these felicities turne thy self to the saluation of our soules assist the praiers of them that aske thee be careful daily to pray for the people of God thou being blessed didest deserue to beare the Redemer of the world who liueth and reigneth for euer Amen O blessed Marie who is able worthily to render dutie of thankes solemnitie of praises vnto thee who by thy singular assent hast sucoured the world which was lost What praises shal the frailtie of man yeld vnto thee who by thy negotiation alone hast found the meanes to recouer it againe Wherfore receiue such as they be very smale such as they be thankes vnequal to thy merites and when thou hast receiued our praiers by praying excuse our faultes Blessed among women pacify our Lord for his common creature For so long as thou didest conuerse on earth a litle portion of the earth had thee but since thou art translated from earth the whole world conteineth thee a common propitiatorie O Mother of God to vs that honor thee geue againe this reward of a litle guift that we may haue more precious and resplendant then riches humble praiers to thy Sonne and our Lord and King and God O vnspotted and whollie pure Virgin Goddes Mother Queene of al hope of the desolate my most glorious Ladie higher then the inhabitantes of heauen more pure then the beames brightnes of the Sunne more to be honoured then the Cherubim more holie thē the Seraphim hope of the Fathers glorie of the Prophets praise of the Apostles and honour of Martyrs ioy of Sainctes and light of the godlie Abraham Isaac and Iacob ornament of Aaron shynnig of Moyses fleece of Gedeon the Crowne of the companie of sarced Prelates and al Sainctes and Virgins inaccessible for brightnes By thee we are reconciled to Christ my God thy Sonne Thou art the helper of those that sinne and are destitute of aide comfort of the world renowmed deliuerer of the imprisoned Thou the receiuer of orphanes Thou the redemption of captiues Thou the exultation of the sicke and saiftie of al. Thou the ornament crowne ioy of virgins haue mercie on me that am defiled who with vetie manie sinnes haue offended my Creator my God and Iudge that most hateful Sathan do not glorie against me O syncere Virgin I haue none other trust for thou o inuiolate Virgin art my harbour and readie helper Lastly I am whollie vnder thy winge and protection most renowmed Mother I besech thee with frequent teares I lye prostrate to thee o my Ladie humbly crauing that thy sweete Sonne geuer of the life of al do not take me away for manie sinnes which I haue committed O thrice holie Virgin Marie looke vpon us frō heauen with a merciful eye and now lead vs from hence in peace place vs free from confusion before the Throne of the Iudge and at last make vs partakers of the station at the right hand that from thence being taken to heauen together with the Angels we may praise the increated and Homousion Trinitie O Virgin Mother of God and Christ at al times carrie vp our praier with the elect of thy Sonne that our sinnes may be forgeuen Be ioyful o Lady because thou hast brought forth to vs the true light pray for vs with him that he wil haue mercie on our soule pray for vs in the sight of the Throne of thy sonne Iesus Christ be ioyful o immaculate verily our Queene be glad o glorie of our parents because thou hast brought forth vnto vs Emanuel o verily Mediatrix before our Lord Iesus Christ We humblie besech thee that thou wilt be mindful of vs that our iniquities may be blotted out Verily the blessed Virgin Marie was a great miracle for what was or euer shal be found at anie time greater or more renowmed then she She alone 〈◊〉 assed heauen earth in renowme What more holie then she Not the Prophets not Apostles not Maryrs not Patriarches not Angels not Thrones not Dominations not Seraphim not Cherubim Lastly no other thing among thinges visible or inuisible can be founde greater or more excellent The same is the handmaid and Mother of God The same a Virgin Mother This is the Mother of him who before al beginning was begotten of his Father whom Angels and men acknowledge Lord of al thinges Wil you know how much this Virgin is more excellent then the celestial powers They with feare tembling do assist she offereth Mankind to him whom she brought forth By her also we obtaine Pardon of sinnes Haile therfore o Mother Heauen Maiden Virgin Throne of our Church the renowme glorie and firmament pray for vs daily to Iesus thy
vnspotted Sacrifices which we offer vnto thee for thy Catholicke church We aske and pray that thou wilt receiue this Oblation in thy high Altare by the handes of thine Angels as thou didest vouchsaife to receiue the guiftes of thy seruant Abel the iust and which thy high Preist Melchizedech hath offered vnto thee Being mindful of Christes most glorious passion and Resurection from those below and ascension into heauen O Lord we offer vnto thee this immaculate Oblation vnbloudy Sacrifice this holy bread and Chalice of eternal life And we aske and pray that thou wilt receiue this Oblation in thy high Altar by the handes of thine Angels as thou didest vouchsaife to receiue the guifts of thy seruant iust Abel and the Sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham which the high Preist Melchizedech offered vnto thee O Lord I being mindful of thy venerable passion do come to thine Altare although a sinner that I may offer vnto thee the sacrifice which thou hast instituted and commanded to be offered in commemoration of thee for our saluation O high God receiue it I besech thee for thy holy Church and for the people which thou hast gotten with thy bloud O high Preist and true Bishop Iesus Christ who hast geuen vnto vs thy flesh to eate and thy bloud to drinke hast put this Mysterie in vertue of the holy Ghost saying So often as you do these you shal do them in memory of me I aske by the same thy bloud the price of our saluation I ask by this meruelous vnspeakable Charitie with which thou hast vouchsaifed to loue vs wretches vnworthy that thou wouldest wash vs frō our sinnes in thy bloud Teach me thy vnworthy seruāt whom thou hast vouchsaifed to cal vnto preistly functiō teach me I besech thee by thy holy Spirit to handle so great a Mysterie with that reuerence and honour with that deuotion and feare with which it behoueth and becometh For thy great clemency graunt me to celebrate the solemnities of Masse with a cleane heart and pure minde For with how great contrition of heart and fountaine of teares with how great reuerence and trembling with how great chastity of body and purity of soule is that diuine and heauenly Sacrifice to be celebrated where thy flesh in truth is receiued where thy Bloud in truth is drunke where lowest thinges are ioyned to the highest earthly thinges to diuine where the presence of holy Angels is where thou meruelously and vnspeakably art constituted Sacrifice and Preist We aske thee also o Lord for the soules of the faithful departed that this great Sacrament of pietie be vnto them saluation health ioy and refreshing O Lord let that inuisible and incomprehensible Maiestie of thy holy Spirit descend as long agone it did vpon the Oblations of the Fathers and make our Oblations thy Body and Bloud and teach me an vnworthy Preist to handle so great a Mysterie with puritie of heart and deuotion of teares with reuerence and dread that thou maist receiue pleasedly and gently of my handes for the saluation of al both liuing and dead We aske that the holy Ghost coming may with his holy good and glorious presence sanctify and make this bread the holy Body of thy Christ this Chalice the pretious Bloud of thy Christ that it may be vnto al receiuing of them to remission of sinnes O louer of men we humbly besech thee that thou wilt shew thy face vpon this bread and Chalice vpon this portable Altare Blesse sanctify cleanse and change this bread into thine immaculate flesh and this wine into thy pretious bloud O Lord Iesus Christ our God attend from thy holy Tabernacle from the Throne of the Glorie of thy Kingdome come to sanctify vs vouchsaife with thy powerable hand to impart vnto vs thine impolluted bodie and pretious Bloud and by vs to al the people O Lord make this bread the glorious Body of our Lord Iesus Christ for expiation of offences remission of sinnes and life euerlasting to them that receiue it Amen And this Chalice the pretious bloud of our Lord God Sauiour Iesus Christ for expiation of offences and forgeuenes of sinnes life euerlasting to them that receiue it Amen O Lord send forth thy spirit vpon vs and vpon these guiftes proposed and make this bread the pretious body of thy Christ and that which is in this Chalice the pretious bloud of Christ thy Soone transchanging them with thy holy Spirit O Lord we besech thee that pacified thou wilt accept this Oblation of our seruice and of al thy family Which Oblation o God vouchsaif we besech thee in al thinges to make blessed ratified acceptable that it may be made for vs the body and bloud of thy most beloued Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ O lord we thy seruantes and thy holy people mindful of so blessed passion rysing from hel and ascention into heauen of the same Christ thy Sonne our Lord do offer to thine excellent Maiestie out of thy guiftes a pure oblation holy oblation immaculate oblation the holy bread of eternal life and Chalice of euerlasting saluation Vouchsaife to accept them as thou didest the guiftes of thy seruant iust Abel and the Sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham that which Melchizedech thy high Preist offered vnto thee holy Sacrifice immaculate Oblation Humbly we besech thee o god almightie that as many of vs as shal receiue of this participatiō of the Altare the holy Body and Bloud of thy Sonne may be filled with celestial Benediction and grace by the same Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord we offer this Sacrifice vnto thee that we may remember al those which before vs are departed from this world First the Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Martyrs that God by their praiers wil receiue our praiers We pray for our holy Fathers and Bishops after we pray for al which are dead among vs beleuing it to be the greatest help of soules for whom is offered praier of that holy and dreadful Sacrifice which is placed vpon the Altar When we pray for the dead although they be sinners we offer vp Christ who was slaine for our sinnes that we may procure him who is most bountiful to be merciful both to our selues and them O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world looke vpon vs and haue mercie vpon vs. Thou art made vnto vs a Sacrifice who art our Preist Thou art our reward who art our Redemer kepe vs whom thou hast redemed from al euils What preeminence aboue al others S. Peter his Successors in his Sea Apostolick haue in this sacred Preisthood Chapter 17. O Peter the Rocke and firmament of the Church highest topp of the Apostles I besech thee to be present this day taking pitie vpon vs and in spirit conuerse in this place O B. Peter why art thou silent for the sheepe and Lambes commited vnto thee by
our commō Lord with great charge and carefulnes O good Shepheard gentle Peter receiue the praiers of them that pray vnto thee and by authoritie committed vnto thee Vntye the bandes of our sinne The confession of Peter obtained plainly a worthie rewarde because he had seene the Sonne of God in man Blessed is this man who was praised to haue fixed his eyes and seene more thē a thing humane not beholding that which was of flesh and bloud but perceiuing by the reuelation of out heauenly Father the Sonne of God and iudged worthy who should first acknowledge that which was in the Christ of God O happy foundation of the Church in naming of thy new name and a rock worthie of the building by that Rock which should dissolue the infernal lawes and gates of hel al the cloisters of death O blessed porter of heauen gates to whose wil the Keyes of the euerlasting entrie are committed whose terrestrial Iudgment preuenteth the authoritie in heauen that what thinges on earth are bound or loosed obtaine the condition of the same decree in heauen O God who didest bestow vpon S. Peter thine Apostle the Keyes of the Kingdome of heauen geue vnto him the high Preistly power of binding and loosing graunt that by the help of his intercession we may be deliuered from the bandes of our sinnes By how much you more feare the maker of al thinges so much more you may loue his Church to whom it was said Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke wil build my Church the gaites of hel shal not preuaile against it I wil geue vnto thee the keyes of the Kingdome of heauen what soeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth shal be bound also in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt vnbind on earth shal be vnbound in heauen From whence it is not doubtful vnto vs with how stronge a loue you bind your selues to him by whom you desire to be vnbound from al the bandes of sinnes Therfore I besech he may be the keeper of the Empyre a Protector to you on earth an Intercessor for you in heauen Let it be lawful for no man without daunger of his state to violate either the diuine constitutions or the Decrees of the Apostolike Sea We pray that by S. Peter these thinges be obserued for euer We with al our Nobles the whol Senate and my Lordes and al people subiect to the Romane glory of the Empyre haue Iudged profitable that as S. Peter semeth to haue bene constituted the Vicar of the Sonne of God on earth so also the Popes which are Successors of the same prince of the Apostles obtaine power of principalitie more then the terrene meeknes of our Emperial serenitie graunted from vs and our Empyre choosing vnto vs the same Prince of the Apostles and his successors to be firme Patrons with God Pray that the Ecclesiastical honour be not euacuated in our daies nor at any time the Romane Sea which by our Lordes inssitution is the head of al Churches may want or be spoyled of her priuileges in any place O Lord God almightie who by the mouth of thine only begotten Sonne our Lord God and Sauiour Iesus Christ hast said to our Father Peter Thou art a Rocke and vpon this Rock wil I build my Church and the gates of hel shal not preuail against it to be shaked and I wil geue vnto thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of heauen whomsoeuer thou shalt binde vpō earth shal be bound in heauen whomsoeuer thou shalt vnbind on earth shal be vnbound in heauen Let thy seruantes and handmaides be vnbound from the mouth of the holy Trinitie the Father the Sonne and holie Ghost and also from my mouth thy seruant a sinner ful of offences What diuersitie of orders and degrees belongeth to true Preisthood Vowes Virginitie Chastitie al degrees of the Church Chapter 18. O Lord remember thy holy and only Catholicke and Apostolicke Church from the endes of the earth vnto the last endes therof is diffused and al thy people and al thy foldes O Lord God omnipotent we pray besech thee to preserue the most holy and most blessed high Preist Pope N. and most reuerend Bishop N Preserue them vnto vs many yeares peaceably executing holy preisthood for thy holy and blessed wil rightly administring the word of truth with al orthodoxal Bishops Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Lectors singers Lay people O Lord remember the orthodoral Bishops Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Lectors singers Monkes perpetual Virgins Widowes Lay people liuing in al places O Lord who didest breath vpon the faces of thine Apostles say vnto them Receiue the holy Ghost so breath vpon vs thy seruantes standing round about in the entrance of the holy ministerie Bishops Preistes Deacons Lectors Singers and Lay people with al fulnes of the Catholicke and Apostolicke Church O Lord remember our fathers and brethren which are dead in the true Faith Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Lectors Monkes liuing in perpetual chastitie Let vs pray for al Bishops Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Acolythites Enorcistes Lectors Ostiaries Confessors Virgins Widowes and for al the holy people of God Let vs pray vnto our Lord for those which liue in Virginitie and Chastitie in Monasteries and in venerable Mariage and for our holy fathers brethren that be exercised in mountaines in caues holes of the earth Let vs besech our Lord praying for our brethren which haue vowed glorious Virginitie in body minde that the spirit of mercy may prosecute them euen to the consummation of their purpose O Lord behold sacred Virgins and voluntarie chast persons the pretious Margarites of thy Church that with an equal estimation they may keepe their bodies and spirit with an inuiolate conscience of chastitie by Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou hast shewed vnto me that I am thine for which I neuer tooke wife that I might wholly intend to thee lest the vse of coniugal loue might diminish or custome dissolue the grace of thy Temple You Virgins haue you only Christ in your praiers before your eyes and his father you being illuminate by the holie Ghost God graunt I may enioy your sanctitie as of Iesus the sonne of Naue as of Melchizedech as of Elizeus as of Iohn Baptist as of that beloued Disciple as of Timotheus as of Titus as of Euodius as of Clement which ended this life in puritie O King of Virgins and louer of chastitie and integritie with the heauenly dew of thy blessing quench in my body the nurishment of burning lust that the tenure of chastitie of bodie and soule remaine in me Mortify in my members the prickes of flesh al lasciuious motions and geue vnto me true and perpetual Chastity with the rest of thy guiftes which please thee in truth that I may be able to offer vnto thee the sacrifice of praise with a chast
A MANVAL OF PRAIERS VSED BY THE FATHERS OF THE PRIMAtiue Church for the most part within the foure first hundred yeares of Christ al before the end of the sixt hundred yeare diuided into seueral Chapters Wherin by the very praiers of the Apostles and their successors here related without anie word or sillable added or altered al the cheifest questioÌ„s now in controuersie are inuincibly proued for the holy doctrine of the present Roman Church by which we are instructed how to beleeue and what to practise in deuotion By R. B. P. Simb Apostol I beleeue the holy Catholicke Church With Licence 1618. TO OVR MOST REnowmed Queene Anne And al her Right honorable and other Ladies MOST GRATIOVS QVEENE RIght noble and other worthy Ladies as by place of dignitie you are honorable in this world and honour is that which many of you enough if not to much affect to haue and being had continue as careful to encrease and feareful not to loase it So seeing you consist as al men and women doe of two portions the cheif and best by nature immortal and the other after a short life and death to be cloathed with immortalitie and al honors and pleasures here be fading mortal and no obiects of delight for creatures immortal It is wisdome in time for al that loue and desire honor to prouide how to ioyne honor immortality together for most sure it is that both you and al humane kinde shal be immortal and if we seeke not here for a better honour then this which is mortal we shal remaine without honour and be in dishonour for euer And al who haue or claime title vnto honour must also render true and due honour to euerie one more honourable in degree For to render honour is the vrgent and bynding law of God Nature and Nations But they which be often honourable in this world are not alwaies so strictly bound for accepting or seeking honour And because I do not doubt but manie or most of you are expert enough in the second case of admitting honour vnto your sâ—â—ues and as negligent or ignorant in the former so generally commanding precept of performing honour office and dutie I haue to condemne ignorance wilfulnes and al vaine euasions perused the bookes of armorie of the best and most anutient Heraldes in the Religion of Christ next vnder him his holie Apostles their happie successors the practises of Apostolick and al Churches with the learned vertuous Fathers of this sacred Primatiue vnspotted Church of the first second third fourth fift and none after the sixt hundred yeare after Christ and out of them gathered together and set downe in this breife Summarie of true honour To whom when where how and what honour these most diuine and honourable persons yelded vnto others nor by anie priuate inference or exposition of mine owne but in the very wordes praiers them selues without anie sillable added or altered by which those holie Churches Fathers publikly professed and proposed to al posterities that inward faith which they beleued and also that office dutie and honor which they and al good ChristiaÌ„s owe and ought to render That except anie men or women naming them selues Christians wil be so impious Antichristians to condemne these most holie guides and Pastors in the kingdome of Christ and now by these professions of their faith performinges of dutie and honour glorious and happie Sainctes in heauen and our most B. Sauiour Redemer him self Christ Iesus to be a seducer the cheifest controuersies of this time in Religion being in this short Treatise by these inuincible Argumentes and authorities demonstratiuely proued made euident and adiudged for the most sacred doctrine of the present Romane Church wil haue an end the wilful and obstinate inuincibly refuted the ignorant truly instructed the vniustly persecuted truly rewarded and pitied most sacred preisthood and Sacrifice by many so prophanly vsed wil here thus proued appeare most reuerent holy and glorious To be breife what homage honour dutie loue pitie compassion or releife we owe and must render to the Church Triumphant Militant or patient that we may truly with the other Articles of our holie Creede beleue and confesse the holie Catholicke Church the Communion of Sainctes they are here thus manifestly and vndeniably determined and al cheifest matters now called into question so decided Diuers praiers of this subiect I haue wholly here omitted being alreadie lately published in my Manual of Meditations and Prayers And in some few CoÌ„trouersies though of least momeÌ„t because their praiers do not belong to al estates for which this booke is published I haue bene silent The cause why I principally dedicate it to you is not to make you patrons of the praiers of Sainctes and their holie faith but to make them Patrones vnto you not to constitute you Iudges of the honour which is due to the High Queene and Ladie in Heauen but to make you ladies there nor to make your vnlearned sexe vmpeare ouer the whole Church of God but to procure you to be true members of that holie companie forth of which there is no saluation not because I woud exclude your Lordes whom I duly honour but to haue it presented to them by you and you in knowing and performing the true honours and duties here remembred to be more honourable both to them and others and them by this and your example to learne and do the honours and duties they owe to others Neither do I omitte the inferiour of your kind to be grateful vnto you though the vertuous among you I honour with double honour that liue in state But because vertue or vice is often learned from the higher I wish you the first and you therin to be imitated and made a Rule And so in al dutie I shal euer rest Your Maiesties dutiful subiect and Ladiships true seruaÌ„t and frend R. B. P. The Table of the contentes The first Chapter containeth praiers concerning Iustification which is not by faith alone The 2. Chapter Iustification and merite of Almes Sacrifice suffering persecution Praiers of Sainctes other good deedes in grace The 3. Chapter of the Communion of the Militant Church with the Triumphant in honour praier protection and first of our B. Ladie S. Marie the Mother of God The 4. Chapter of the same The 5. Chapter of Praier and honour to the holie Angels and their Protection The 6. Chapter of praier and honour to al the Sainctes in heauen in general their protection The 7. Chapter to Sainctes in particular deceased before the Passion of Christ The 8. Chapter of praier honour vnto and the patronage of Sainctes in particular after the Passion of Christ The 9. Chapter the old Lytanies of the Church The 10. Chapter Reuerence of holie Reliques The 11. Chapter praiers for one departed out of this life The 12. Chapter praiers for al faithful deceased The 13. Chapter praiers before receiuing the B. Sacrament
Prophets behold how she is afflicted whom you haue tuned forth with Prophetical praise O you Apostles be you intercessors for her whom to gather together you haue runne about al the world O you holie prophets who foretold the coming of God in our flesh you Martyrs who with the slaughter of your bodies shedding of your bloud haue geuen testimonie to the Lambe that was killed and is aliue I humbly besech you to be present with me The Infantes protomartyrs in the order of Sainctes acquainted with the diuine secrets by their familier nearenes vouchsaife to intreate the mercie of God for our laboures O most blessed Martyrs who for our Sauiour and the loue of him haue frely and perfectly sustained tormentes therfore are more familiarly ioyned to God We intreate you that you wil vouchsaife to make intercession to our Lord for vs wretches and sinners and polluted with the filthines of negligence that the grace of Christ may com vpon vs to illustrate our heartes with the beame of his holy loue O most blessed men o most glorious Martyrs of God help me a wretch with your praiers that I may obtaine mercie in that hour when the secrets of men shal be manifest Stande before the Throne of the Maiestie of God for me that by your praiers I may deserue to be saued and with you to enioy eternal blessednes I aske the Sainctes by their intercession to obtaine vnto me the goodwil of God I aske and besech that by the Intercession of al Sainctes I may obtaine the help of God I besech those Sainctes whose life I have written that they wil not despise me liuinge farre from their spiritual companie but draw me lying beneath and lift me vp to the toppe of vertue ioyne me with them that I may not only praise the riches of others but my selfe may haue some occasion of praise glorifying the Sauiour of al both in deede and word and thought O Sainctes arise and kepe vs humble sinners in peace Of praier and honour vnto some Sainctes on particular deceased before the Passion of Christ Chapter 7. O Father Abraham pray for me that I be not driven from the boundes which I have greatly desired O blessed Iob who liuest for euer with God and remainest a conquerour in the sight of the King our Lord pray for vs wretches that the dreadful mercie of God defend vs in al tribulations and deliuer vs from al oppressions of the diuel and number vs among the iust inrol vs with those that are saued and cause vs to rest with them in his kingdome where we may continually magnify him with his Sainctes Amen O blessed Iob be a guide vnto vs forsake vs not vntil thou haue directed vs vnto the plaine way in which we may trauaile saifly not erre from truth The Protomartyrs which haue the first place in the order of Sainctes and acquainted with diuine secrets by their most familiar nearnes vouchsaife to entreate the clemency of God for our laboures whom to this day deadly Herode persecuteth with whose bloud and death the diuel delighteth Therfore these translated from their cradles to heaueÌ„ are made Senators of the heauenly Capitol and Iudges there obtaining pardon for some without desâ—ruing O Baptist I besech thee graunt vnto me the hope of my Praier and as thou art a voice preserue vnto me sure stable the senses of the instrumentes of voice O Rachel Rachel my Mother behold Ioseph thy Sonne whom thou hast loued what hath chanced vnto him Behold he is ledde captiue as a malefactor O Rachel receiue thy sonne O mother receiue me o my mother heare the mourning and bitter scriking of my heart mine eyes can no longer sustaine teares neither my life sufficeth to such lamentations and groaninges Of praier and honour vnto Sainctes in particular deceased after the Passion of Christ Chapter 8. THe most blessed Apostle Peter vouchsaife by his praiers to helpe our praiers fastings and almes Blessd Peter and al Sainctes that haue bene present with vs in manie tribulations vouchsaife to help our praiers with the merciful God through Christ our Lord. Amen O Peter from whence may I cal thee to teach me what thou didst think when thou didst weepe from whence I say may I cal thee from heaueÌ„ where thou art among the Queares of Angels or froÌ„ thy graue also because thou thinkest it no iniurie to be there froÌ„ whence our lord arose teach vs what thy teares did profitt thee O Peter Paul pray for vs continually we besech you performe your promises for these are your couenantes of one of you this come with me let vs not faint in good thinges and of the other that I wil studie after my death to make mention of you Therfore do not forgeat your agreed couenantes but you which are immediatly present to the B. Trinitie without beginning aske for vs al thinges belonging to saluation O holy Paul Doctor of the Gentiles and al you holie Apostles lament together with vs. We prostrate aske by him who promoted you lowly fishers to the highest Apostolical dignitie that you do not despise your wretched sinners O Paul excellent Doctor instruct our maners and endeuour to translate vs in minde into heauen O S. Paul who hast receiued the Crowne pray and make intercession for vs that our soules may be deliuered by the multitude of the mercies of Iesus Christ and his holy name O S. Andrew cherish vs which be fainting haue care of vs that by the victorie of the Crosse we may go to the countrie of heauen O verily worthily more holy Apostle the shyning head of Spaine be a defendour patrone and saifguard to vs from heauen driue away from vs siknes sore and sinne Be fauourable that by heauenly help we may possesse Ioy obtaining the kingdome may be adorned with eternal glorie that by thee we may escape hel O Euangelist o blessed Iohn speak vnto vs some great and notable thing O Aposte open vnto vs the wel of life graunt now that we may draw from thy fountaines O ornament of Martyrs and glory of Sainctes defend and kepe this company without harme by thy praiers O most holie driue-backe the cruel diuels with the dart of thine intercessions O holie Lawrence thou hast a double mansion one of thy bodie on earth and an other of thy soule in heauen There thou art a chosen Citizen of the vnspeakable citie wearest a celestial Croune aboue in the euerlasting Court I seeme to see a man glittering with illustrious pretious stones whom the heauenly Rome hath chosen vnto her for an eternal Consul What power is bestowed vpon thee and what great office is giueÌ„ vnto thee is expressed by the ioies of the Romanes whose petitions thou yeldest vnto what anie man doth humbly aske he prosperously obtaineth They aske they