geue rest and good memorie to all hauing societie with vs to my father and to my mother to my maister who brought me vp O most holy Virgin Mother of God pray for al seruantes of God men and women both liuing and departed out of this life Praiers preparatorie before receiuing the most blessed Sacrament of the Altare Christs true bodie bloud Chapter 13. I Doe not ioy in corruptible nourishment nor in the pleasures of this life I desire the bread of God the bread celestial which is the flesh of Christ the Soune of God and drink I desire his bloud which is life euerlasting O diuine and sacred Misterie vouchsaif to open tne couerings of signifying signes which are about thee and apparantly appeared and replenish the eyes of our vnderstanding with a singular and manifest brightnes of thy light When thou receiuest the holy meate and that incorrupted banquet when thou dost enioy the bread and cuppe of life thou dost eate and drinke the bodie and bloud of our Lord Then our Lord entreth Vnder thy roofe and thou therfore humbling thy self imitate the Centurion and say O lord I am not worthie that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe O Lord our God the heauenly bread life of al I haue sinned against heauen and before thee and I am not worthie to be made partaker of thine immacuate misteries but as a merciful God make me worthie of thy grace that without condemnation I may be partaker of thy holy bodie pretious bloud to forgeuenes of sinnes and life euerlasting O Lord who dwellest aboue the Cherubim and lookest downe vpon thy people and inheritance blesse thy seruants and their children graunt a portion to them that come to receiue of thy miraculous Table for purging of their mind and remission of sinnes vnion of the holie Ghost and health of soule and bo die inheritance of the Kingdome of heauen Amen Tast and see that our Lord is bountiful who distributed into partes not diuided and bestowed vpon the faithful is not consumed for remission of sinnes and life euerlasting now euer world without end O Lord God almightie we besech thee to driue away from our thought the darke assaultes of sinne make our mindes ioyfui with the brightnes of thy holie Spirit that being increased with the knowlege of thee we may worthily participate of those good thinges which are proposed vnto thee of the immaculate body and pretious bloud of thine onely begotten Sonne our Lord and God Sauiour Iesus Christ Forgeue vnto vs al shew of sinnes by thy manifold vnsearchable goodnes by the grace and mercies and gentlenes of thine only begotten Sonne with whom to thee be honour Rule with the most holie and good and quitning Spirit O Lord our God who out of the aboundance of thy grace hast bestowed vpon vs al thinges Thou geuest vnto vs more then we demand more boūtifully then we vnderstand thou dealest with vs stretch forth o Lord thy inuisible hand and blesse thy seruantes and handmaides and clense them from al spotte of flesh and spirit and vouchsaife vs to be made partakers of the body of thine only begotten Sonne that with puritie and holines humble we may offer our praiers to thee and vnto thine only Sonne our Lord Iesus Crist to thy most holy Spirit to be adored world without end Amen O our God let vs not be guilty of the Body Bloud of Christ thy Sonne nor sicke in mind or bodie because vnworthie we participate the sacred Mysteries but rather graunt vnto vs that vntil our last breath we may please thee and be accompted worthie to receiue the sauing Sacraments of our Lord and Redemer Iesus Christ nor to be vnworthie of his bodie and purging bloud but meete to receiue thē that by them being strenghned clensed and perfected we may worthily besech thee by that praier which thy only begotten Sonne hath taught vs that we may crie with a pure heart and say Our Father which are in heauen halowed be thy name O high Preist and true Bishop Iesus Christ who hast geuen for vs wretched sinners thy flesh to eate and thy bloud to drinke cause me by thy grace alway to beleue and vnderstand to thinke and firmly hold to say and esteme of so great a misterie that which is pleasing vnto thee and profitable for my soule O holy bread o liuely bread bread bewtiful pure bread which did descend frō heauen and geuest life to the world come into my heart and cleanse me frō al vncleannes of bodie and soule enter into my soule heale it within and without Be thou a perpetual saluation of my bodie and soule Driue back from me the enemies which lye in waite for me Let them depart from thy presence that I being both without and within defended by thee may come by ◠ready path to thy kingdome where thinges are not handled with misteries as in this time but we shal see thee face to face when thou shalt deliver thy kingdomes to God the Father God shal be al in al. Then thou shalt fil me with thy self with a meruelous fulnes that I shal neither hunger nor thirst for euer Who with the Father and holy Ghost liuest reignest world without end Amen O Lord make me worthie by the Intercession of the vnspotted our Lady Mother of God and euer Virgin Marie that without condemnation I may receiue thy immaculate guist to remission of sinnes to life euerlasting purgation of euil cogitations for illustration of thy commandements O Lord Iesus Christ Sonne of the liuing God who by the wil of thy Father the holy Ghost cooperating hast reuiued the world deliuer me by this thy sacred body and bloud from al mine iniquities and al euils cause me alwaies to cleaue to thy commandemens and suffer me neuer to be seperated frō thee who with the same God the Father and holie Ghost liuest and reignest world without end Amen O Lord my God graunt vnto me so to receiue the Bodie and Bloud of thy Sonne our Lord Iesus that by it I may deserue to haue forgeuenes of al my sinnes and be replenished with thy holy Spirit o our God who liuest reignest world without end Amen Haile for euer o most sacred flesh of Christ for euer the greatest sweetnes O Lord I am not worthy thou shouldest enter under my roofe but only say the word my soule shall be cured O Lord I am not worthie thou shoudest enter under my roofe but only say the word my soule shal be cured O Lord I am not worthie thou shoudest enter under my roofe but only say the word my soule shal be cured The Bodie Bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ preserue my bodie and soule vnto euerlasting life Amen After receiuing of the bodie of Christ I come to the Chalice of
his bloud prostrate in maner of Adoration and worship saying Amen Of Praiers Thankes after receiuing of this most blessed Sacrament of the Altar which is Christs true Body Bloud Chapter 14. HAuing receiued the pretious Body and pretious Bloud of Christ let vs geue thankes to him who hath made vs worthie to receive his holy Misteries And we aske that they be not to vs for iudgment but saluation for the profit of our soule and body for preseruation of godlines for remission of sinnes to life of the world to come O Lord God omnipotent Father of Christ thy blessed Sonne the hearer of them which rightly cal vpon thee who knowest the intercessions of the silent Let vs geue thankes vnto thee for that thou hast made vs worthie of the participation of thy holie Misteries which thou hast geuen vnto vs for confirmation of thinges wel knowne for keping of pietie for remission of sinnes because the name of thy Christ is called vpon ouer vs and we are reconciled vnto thee Thou who hast seperated vs frō Communumcatinge with the vngodly ioyne vs with those that be consecrated vnto thee confirme vs in truth by the coming of the holy Ghost reueale thinges which we know not fulfil thinges which are wanting strengthen thinges knowne defend Preistes vnspotted in thy seruice preserue kinges in peace Magistrates in iustice the ayre in holsōnes the fruites in fertilitie the world in perfect prouidence Represse warring Nations conuert them that erre sanctifie thy people conserue Virgins kepe the married in faithfulnes strengthen the ignorant bring infantes vnto ripe age confirme nouices instruct Cathecumens and make them worthy to be admitted to thy Misteries and gather vs al together into the Kingdome of heauē in Christ Iesus our Lord with whom to thee and the holie Ghost be Glorie Honour and Worship for euer Amen O Lord Iesus I besech that this thy Sacrament be vnto vs to life that it be to vs for remission of sinnes for thy Passion was celebrated for vs. Thou didest drinke gaule for vs that al bitternes of the aduersary might dye in vs. Also for vs thou didest drinke vineger that our wearines might be comforted Thou wert spitted vpō for vs that thou mightest sprincle vs with immortal dew Thou wast stricken with a brittle reede to make firme our brittlenes to euerlasting life eternitie Thou wast crounned with thornes to croune those which beleue in thee with the euerflorishing Laurel of thy loue Further thou wast wrapped in a Syndon to inuest vs with a certaine enwrapping of thy vertue Thon wouldest be put in a new Sepulchre to reforme new grace a new world vnto vs. I desire this Eucharist be vnto vs to life the bowels of mercie and grace of saluation health of our soules Amen O Lord fil our mouth with thy praise replenish our lippes with ioy that we may praise thy glory and al the day thy magnificence We geue thankes vnto thee o Christ our God because thou hast vouchsaifed vs to be made partakers of thy body and bloud to remission of sinnes and life euerlasting O God who for thy manifold and vnspeakable bounty hast condescended to the infirmitie of thy seruantes vouch saifed to make vs partakers of this heauenly Table condemne not vs sinners for receiuing thine immaculate mysteries but bountifully preserue vs in sanctification of thy holy Spirit that we being made holy may obtaine part inheritance with al Sainctes which from eternitie haue bene accepted of thee in the light of thy countenance by the mercy of thine only begotten Sonne our Lord and God and Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord thou hast geuen vnto vs sanctification and receiuing of the most holy bodie and pretious bloud of thine only begotten Sōne our Lord Iesus Christ Bestow vpon vs also the grace of thy good holy Spirit and preserue vs without offence in faith lead vs into perfect adoption and Redemption into those future eternal fruitions Amen Blessed be God that blesseth sanctifieth the receiuing of his holy liuely and immaculate Misteries now euer world without end Amen We geue thankes to thee o our God we exalt thee the Father omnipotent merciful praise thee Creatour of the world and adore thee abounding with mercie and grace because thou hast taken mercy vpon vs and cleansed vs and blotted forth our sinnes and vouchsaifed vs the receiuing of thy holy liuely Sacraments which euen the Angels desires to behold Therfore let their swetnes vnto vs a cleansing their participation for remission of sinnes before committed by vs and for a medicine of those in which we are yet conuersant Finally for an auoiding and defence against those which hereafter may be cōmitted by vs and for ioy and exultation with Sainctes who from the beginning haue pleased thee We geue thankes vnto thee o most gentle Lord Redemer of our soules because at this present thou hast made vs worthy of thy heauenly and immortal Mysteries Direct thou our way kepe vs in feare defend our life strengthen our goinges by the praiers and intercessions of the holy glorious Mother of God and alwaies Virgin Marie O God he thou exalted aboue the heauens and thy glory ouer al the earth now and euer world without end Amen O Lord my God Father Son holy Ghost cause me alwaies to seeke loue thee and by this holie Communion which I haue receaued neuer to depart from thee because thou art God and besides thee there shal be none other for euer Amen Being refreshed with the body and Bloud of Christ we praise thee o Lord Alleluya Alleluya Alleluya The Body of our Lord Iesus Christ which we haue receiued and his holy bloud which we haue drunke adhere fast vnto our bowels o euerlasting almighty God that it come not vnto vs to iudgment nor condemnation but profit to saluation and remedie of our soules vnto life eternal Amen O Christ Iesus who hast effected an euening Sacrifice by the Crosse in the euening of the world vouchsaif to make vs new Sepulchres for thy Bodie Amen Of Sacramental Confession a due preparatiō before receiuing the most blessed Sacrament of the Altare Chapter 15. THere is yet an other hard and laborious remission of sinnes by penance when the sinner doth wash his couch with teares is not ashamed to tel his sinne to the Preist of our Lord seeke remedie according to that I will pronounce against me mine iniustice to our Lord and thou hast forgeuen the wickednes of my heart Graunt o Lord as thou hast geuē vnto to thy Preistes the preisty office in thy holy Church so we besech thy goodnes and clemencie o louer of men that they may absolue vs thy seruantes al bowing downe their heades before thy sight in this thy holy Sacrifice I confesse to God almightie to the Blessed Marie euer Virgin to the blessed
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
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