and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Psal. 27.16 O cast thy burthen upon the Lord and He shal refresh thee and shal not suffer the righteous to fail for ever Psal. 55.23 O put your trust in Him alway yea people Pour out your hearts before Him for God is our hope Psal. 62.8 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth He His anger for ever Psal. 103.9 In His wrath He will remember mercie P. Hab. 3.2 Heaviness may indure for a night but joy will come in the morning Psal. 30.5 For a little while have I forsaken thee but with great compassion will I gather thee For a moment in mine anger I bid my face from thee but with everlasting mercie have I had pitie on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer P. Isa. 54.7 8. Concerning the Contrition and Repentance of the Sick DO you acknowledg yourself not to have lived so well as you ought but to have sinned don amiss and dealt wickedly Do you call to mind the years of your life spent amiss in the bitterness of your soul Do you desire to have your mind illuminated by God touching those sins you never knew or which you once knew but have now forgotten that you may repent of them 1 Do you desire to feel greater sorrow in your soul for your sins committed then you do 2 Would you be glad if you did feel it 3 And are you grieved that you feel it not that you are no more grieved Be there or is there any special sin that doth lie heavie on your conscience for the which you need or would require the benefit of private Absolution Say Thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin and makest his beautie consume as a moth fretting a garment Psal. 39.12 There is no health in my flesh by reason of Thy wrath neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sen. Psal. 38.3 Lord be merciful unto me Heal my soul for I have sinned against Thee Psal. 41.4 Lord I confess my wickedness and am sorrie for my sin Psal. 38.18 I call to mind the mispent years of my life in the bitterness of my soul. P. Isa. 38.15 My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be Thou merciful unto my sin Psal. 65.3 For Thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great Psal. 25.10 O remember not the offenses and frailties of my youth but according to Thy mercie think Thou upon me O Lord for Thy Goodness Psal. 25.6 Namely O Lord and specially in be merciful unto me Herein the Lord be mertiful unto His servant 2 Kings 5.18 O Lord lay not to my charge Acts 7.60 If Thou Lord be extreme to mark what is don amiss O Lord who may abide it Psal. 130.3 O enter not into judgment with Thy servant for no flesh is righteous in Thy sight Psal. 1 43.2 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face bath covered me Psal. 44.16 My heart is disquieted within me and the fear of death is fallen upon me Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me Psalm 55.4 5. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as are of an humble spirit Psal. 34.17 A broken and contrite heart O Lord wilt Thou not despise Psal. 51.17 Repent you of these your sins That is 1. Have you a purpose to judg yourself for them if you live 1 Cor. 11.31 2. And to inflict upon yourself punishment for committing them according as you shal be directed 2 Cor. 7.11 Levit 5.18 3. Are you resolved if God send you life hereafter to amend and live more carefully and to avoid both those means occasions that may provoke you to sin again and those signs and marks which testifie you delight in it 4. Do you holily promise thus much in the presence of God His grace aiding you 5. Do you desire if God send you health again to be specially put in mind therof Turn us then O God our Saviour and let Thine anger cease from us Psal. 85.4 Concerning the Belief of the Sick BEleive you the Christian Creed or Confession of our most Holie Faith once delivered to the Saints Beleive you that you cannot be saved except you did beleive it Are you glad in your soul and do you give God heartie thanks that in this Faith you were born have lived in it and now shal die in the same Do you yourself desire and do you wish us to desire at the hands of God that this Faith may not fail you until the hour and in the hour of death If your sense fail you or if the pain of your disease or weakness otherwise so work with you as it shal happen you with your tongue to speak ought otherwise then this your Faith or Religion would do you renounce all such words as none of yours and is it your will we account of them as not spoken by you Is there in your mind any scruple touching any matter of Faith or Religion Say Lord I beleive help Thou mine unbelief S. Mark 9.24 Concerning the sick parties Forgiving offenders against him DO you forgive them that any manner of way have offended you as freely as you would be forgiven at Gods hand Do you likewise desire of God that He would forgive them That amends which they are bound to make you in that they have offended you are you content to remit them also Are you willing that so much be shewed them from you that you have forgiven them freely and fully and desire God to do the like Say Father forgive them they knew not what they did S. Luke 23. 34 O Lord lay not these fins to their charge Acts 7. 60. Concerning the sick parties Desire of Forgiveness from them whom be hath offended YOu yourself living in the world it cannot be but some you have offended Do you desire that all such as you have offended would pardon and forgive you Do you remember or call to mind any person or persons in special whom you have so offended Will you that so much be signified to them in your name that you desire them to forgive you Inasmuch as the offenses against the Seventh Commandment of getting any children by the act of adulterie committed with the wife of another man and against the Eighth Commandment touching mens goods and against the Ninth touching mens credits or good names are not by God forgiven unless restitution be made to the parties wronged Are you readie and willing to restore and make satisfaction to such as you have wronged in thrusting in a child begotten by you likelie to deprive the true children of the partie and begotten by him of a childs part and portion and to such as you have wronged in their goods and to satisfie those whom you have any way touched in their good name and that without all fraud or delay Can you call to mind any persons in
overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid V. 3. The snares of death overtook me the pains of hell gat hold upon me Ver. 4. Psal. 116. I have found trouble and heaviness and I will call upon the Name of the Lord. O Lord I beseech Thee deliver my soul. Ver. 4. Psal. 18. Hear my voice O Lord out of Thy Holie Temple Let my complaint come before Thee let it enter even into Thy ears Ver. 6. Send down from on high and deliver me take me out of many waters Ver. 16. Psal. 116. Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful V. 5. The Lord preserveth the simple I am in miserie but He will think upon me Ver. 6. Turn again then to thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath regarded thee Ver. 7. Psal. 22. My God my God look upon me why hast Thou forsaken me and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint Ver. 1. O my God I crie in the day time and Thou hearest not and in the night season also I have no audience Ver. 2. Yet Thou continucst Holie O Thou Worship of Israel Ver. 3. Our Fathers hoped in Thee they trusted in Thee and Thou didst deliver them Ver. 4. They called upon Thee and were holpen they put their trust in Thee and were not confounded Ver. 5. But Thou art He that took me out of my mothers womb Thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers brests Ver. 9. I have been left unto Thee ever since I was born Thou art my God even from my mothers womb V. 10. O go not far from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me Ver. 11. Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog Ver. 20. Save me from the Lions mouth deliver me from among the horns of the Unicorns V. 21. Psal. 25. For Thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great Ver. 10. O turn Thee unto me and have mercie upon me for I am desolate and in miserie Ver. 15. The sorrows of my heart are inlarged O bring Thou me out of my troubles V. 16. Look upon my adversitie and miserie and forgive me all my sin Ver. 17. O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in Thee V. 19. Psal. 28. Unto Thee do I crie O Lord my strength think no scorn of me lest if Thou make as though Thou heardest not I become like them that go down into the pit Ver. 1. Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I crie unto Thee when I hold up my hands toward the Mercie-seat of Thy Holie Temple V. 2. Psal. 27. O hide not Thou Thy face from me nor cast Thy servant away in displeasure Ver. 10. Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation Ver. 11. Psal. 40. Withdraw not Thou Thy mercie from me O Lord let Thy loving kindness and Thy truth alway preserve me V. 14. For innumerable troubles are come about me my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up yea they are more in number then the hairs of my head and my heart hath failed me V. 15. O Lord let it be Thy pleasure to deliver me make haste O Lord to help me Ver. 16. As for me though I be poor and in miserie yet the Lord careth for me Ver. 20. Thou art my Helper and Redeemer make no long tarrying O my God Ver. 21. Psal. 31. O Lord my hope hath ever been in Thee I have said Thou art my God Ver. 16. My time is in Thy hand O deliver me and be merciful unto me V. 17. Shew Thy servant the light of Thy countenance and save me for Thy mercies sake V. 18. Psal. 38. Forsake me not O Lord my God be not Thou far from me V. 21. Haste Thee to help me O Lord God of my saluation Ver. 22. Psal. 54. Save me O God for Thy Names sake and deliver me in Thy strength V. 1. Hear my praier O God and hearken unto the words of my mouth Ver. 2. Psal. 55. Hear my praier O God and hide not Thy self from my petition Ver. 1. Take heed unto me and hear me how I mourn in my praier and am vexed Ver. 2. Psal. 61. Hear my crying O God give ear unto my praier Ver. 1. From the ends of the earth will I call unto Thee when my heart is in heaviness Ver. 2. Psal. 69. O Lord let me make my praier unto Thee in an acceptable time V. 13. Hear me O God in the multitude of Thy mercies even in the truth of Thy salvation Ver. 14. Take me out of the mire that I sink not O let me be delivered from them that seek my soul and out of the deep waters Ver. 15. Let not the water flood drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me Ver. 16. Hear me O Lord for Thy loving kindness is comfortable turn Thee unto me according to the multitude of Thy mercies Ver. 17. Hide not Thy face from Thy servant for I am in trouble O haste Thee and hear me V. 18. Draw nigh unto my soul and save it O deliver me Ver. 19. As for me when I am poor and in heaviness Thy help O God shal lift me up Ver. 30. Psal. 109. But deal Thou with me O Lord God according to Thy Name for sweet is Thy mercie Ver. 20. O deliver me for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me Ver. 21. I go like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the Grashopper V. 22. My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatness Ver. 23. Help me O Lord my God O save me according to Thy mercie V. 25. And men shal know how that this is Thy hand and that Thou Lord hast don it V. 26. Psal. 74. O God wherefore art Thou absent from us so long why is Thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture Ver. 1. O think upon Thy Congregation which Thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Ver. 2. O deliver not the soul of Thy Turtle dove unto the multitude of Thine enemies and forget not the distressed of Thy servants for ever Ver. 20. O let not the simple go away ashamed but let the poor and needie give praise unto Thy Name Ver. 22. Psal. 80. Turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew the light of Thy countenance and we shal be whole V. 3 7 19. Psal. 85. O forgive the offenses of Thy servants and cover all their sins V. 2. Take away all Thy displeasure and turn Thyself from Thy wrathful indignation Ver. 3. Turn us then O God our Saviour and let Thine anger cease from us V. 4. Wilt Thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt Thou stretch out Thy wrath from one
generation to another Ver. 5. Wilt Thou not turn again and quicken us that Thy people may rejoice in thee Ver. 6. Shew us Thy mercie O Lord and grant us Thy salvation V. 7 Psal. 70. Haste Thee O Lord to deliver me make haste to help me O Lord. V. 1. Psal. 44. Up Lord why sleepest Thou awake and be not absent from us for ever Ver. 23. Wherfore hidest Thou Thy face and forgettest our miserie and trouble Ver. 24. For our soul is brought low even unto the dust our bellie cleaveth unto the ground Ver. 25. Arise and help us and deliver us for Thy mercies sake V. 26. Psal. 86. Bow down Thine ear O Lord and hear me for I am poor and in miserie Ver. 1. Preserve Thou my soul for Thou gavest it me my God save Thy servant who putteth his trust in Thee V. 2. Be merciful unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon Thee V. 3. Comfort the soul of Thy servant for unto Thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. V. 4. For Thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercie to all them that call upon Thee Ver. 5. Give ear Lord unto my praier and ponder the voice of my humble desires Ver. 6. In the time of my trouble I will call upon Thee for Thou hearest me Ver. 7. For Thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercie long-suffering plenteous in goodness and truth Ver. 15. O turn Thee then unto me and have mercie upon me Give Thy strength unto Thy servant and help the son of Thine hand-maid V. 16. Shew some good token upon me for good that they who love Thee may see it and be glad because Thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Ver. 17. Psal. 142. I cried unto the Lord with my voice yea even to the Lord did I make my supplication V. 1. I poured out my complaint before Him and shewed Him of my trouble Ver. 2. When my spirit was in heaviness Thou knewest my path V. 3. I looked also upon my right hand and lo there was none that could help me Ver. 4. I had no place to flie unto and none was able to relieve my soul. V. 5. I cried unto Thee O Lord and said Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living Ver. 6. O consider my complaint for I am brought very low Ver. 7. Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks unto Thee which thing if Thou wilt grant me then shal the righteous resort unto my companie V. 9. Psal. 141. Mine eies look unto Thee O Lord God in Thee is my trust O cast not out my soul. V. 9. Psal. 88. O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before Thee O let my praier enter into Thy presence incline Thine ear unto my calling V. 1. For my soul is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell Ver. 2. Lord I have called daily upon Thee I have stretched out mine hands unto Thee V. 9. Dost Thou shew wonders among the dead or shal the dead rise up again and praise Thee Ver. 10. Shal Thy loving kindness be shewed in the grave or Thy faithfulness in destruction Ver. 11. Shal Thy wonderful works be known in the dark or Thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten Ver. 12. Unto Thee do I crie O Lord and early shall my praier come before Thee Ver. 13. Lord why abhorrest Thou my soul why hidest Thou Thy face from me Ver. 14. I am in miserie and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up Thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind Ver. 15. Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me and the fear of Thee hath undon me V. 16. Psal. 141. Lord I will call upon Thee haste Thee unto me and consider my voice when I crie unto Thee Ver. 1. Let my praier be set forth in Thy sight as the Incense Let the lifting up of my hands be as an evening Sacrifice Ver. 2. Psal. 79. Lord how long wilt Thou be angrie and shal Thy jealousie burn like fire for ever V. 5. O remember not mine old sins but have mercie upon me for I am come to great miserie V. 8. Help me O God of my salvation for the glorie of Thy Name O deliver me and be merciful to my fins for Thy Names sake Ver. 9. Psal. 143. Lord I stretch forth mine hands unto Thee my soul gaspeth unto Thee like a thirstie land Ver. 6. Hear me O Lord and that soon for my spirit waxeth faint Hide not Thy face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the silence Ver. 7. Psal. 13. How long wilt Thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt Thou hide Thy face from me V. 1. How long shal I seek counsel in my soul and be so vexed in my heart how long shal mine enemies triumph over me Ver. 2. Consider and hear me O Lord my God lighten mine eies that I sleep not in death V. 3. Psal. 30. In my prosperitie I said I shal never be removed Thou Lord of Thy goodness hadst made my state so strong Ver. 6. Thou didst turn away Thy face from me and I was sore troubled V. 7. Then cried I unto Thee O Lord and gat me unto my Lord right humbly V. 8. What profit is there in my bloud if I go down into the pit V. 9. Shal the dust give thanks unto Thee or shal it declare Thy truth V. 10. Hear O Lord and have mercie upon me Lord be Thou my helper V. 11. Psal. 77. I will crie unto God with my voice even unto God will I crie with my voice and He shal hearken unto me V. 1. In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not in the night season my soul refused comfort Ver. 2. When I am in heaviness I will think upon God when my heart is vexed I will complain Ver. 3. Thou holdest mine eies waking I am so feeble that I can scarce speak V. 4. I have considered the daies of old and the years that are past V. 5. I call to remembrance my song and in the night I commune with my heart and search out my spirits V. 6. Will the Lord absent Himself for ever and will He be no more intreated V. 7. Is His mercie clean gon for ever is His promise come utterly to an end for evermore V. 8. Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will He shut up His loving kindness in displeasure ver 9. And I said It is mine own infirmitie but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High ver 10. 2 Chron. 20. O God there is no strength in us neither do we know what to do but only we lift up our eies unto Thee Ver. 12. Psal. 35. Lord how long wilt Thou look upon this ver 17. This Thou hast seen O Lord hold not Thy tongue then go
not far from me O Lord. V. 22. Psal. 69. Save me O God for the waters are come in even unto my soul. ver 1. Psal. 68. Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered let them also that hate Him flee before Him ver 1. P. Isa. 38. Lord it oppresseth me answer for me v. 14. Psal. 38. Thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God ver 15. Psal. 130. Out of the deep have I called unto Thee O Lord Lord hear my voice ver 1. O let Thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint ver 2. Psal. 79. O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before Thee according to the greatness of Thy power preserve Thou those that are appointed to die ver 12. A Praier to be used by the Priest begging Pardon of his own unworthiness and acceptance of his devotions for the sick O Lord it is a great presumption that one sinner should dare to commend another to Thy Divine Majestie especially the greater the less and who would not fear to undertake it But Thy commandment it is by Thy Holie Apostle When any is sick that the Priests should be called for that they should pray for the sick partie and that their praiers Thou wilt receive and save and forgive the fins of the partie so praied for And now behold O Lord we that are no way meet but unworthie utterly unworthie to sue for ought for our selvs charitie and compassion so binding us are enforced to become suitors to Thee for others Even O Lord for this Thy servant readie to depart this world To Thee we hope to Thee we desire to Thee we intreat and pray in all meek manner and even from the bottom of our hearts O Lord that which justly Thou mightst denie to our unworthiness denie not we beseech Thee to Thine own gracious goodness O Lord forgive us our sins our great and grievous sins oft and many times committed long and many years most wretchedly continued that so we may be meet to pray for others that so we may make our praier unto Thee in an acceptable time Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of Thy people Favorably with mercie receive our praiers Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ. Graciously hear us O Christ. Graciously hear us O Lord Christ. A Letanie for the sick person in danger of death O God the Father of Heaven have mercie upon h. keep and defend h. O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercie upon h. save and deliver h. O God the Holie Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercie upon h. strengthen and comfort h. O Holie Blessed and Glorious Trinitie have mercie upon h. Remember not Lord h. offenses Call not to mind the offenses of h. forefathers But spare h. good Lord spare Thy servant whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy pretious bloud and be not angrie with h. for ever From Thy wrath heavie indignation The guilt and burthen of h. fins The dreadful sentence of the last Judgment Good Lord deliver h. From The sting and terror of Conscience The danger of impatience distrust or despair The extremitie of fickness anguish or agonie that may any way withdraw h. mind from Thee Good Lord deliver h. From the Bitter pangs of eternal death Gates of Hell Power of darkness Illusions assaults of our ghostlie enemie Good Lord deliver h. By Thy manifold and great mercies By the manifold and great Merits of JESUS Christ Thy Son By His Agonie and bloodie Sweat Strong Crying and Tears Bitter Cross and Passion Mightie Resurrection Glorious Ascension Effectual and most acceptable Intercession and Mediation By the Graces and Comforts of the Holie Ghost Good Lord deliver h. For Thy Names sake The glorie of Thy Name Thy loving Mercie Thy Truths sake Thine own self In this Time of h. most extremitie H. last and greatest need In the Hour of death and Day of Judgment Good Lord deliver h. Deliver h. O Lord from all danger and distress from all pains and punishments both bodilie and ghostlie Amen As Thou didst deliver Noah from the Flood so save and deliver h. Lot from the fire of Sodom so save and deliver h. Isaac from present death so save and deliver h. Job from all his tentations so save and deliver h. Moses from the hand of Pharaoh so save and deliver h. Daniel from the Lions den so save and deliver h. Jonas from the belly of the Whale so save and deliver h. And as Thou hast delivered Thy blessed Saints Servants from all their terrors and torments so deliver h. soul and receive it to Thy mercie We sinners do beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to remember h. with the favor Thou bearest unto Thy people and so vifit h. with Thy salvation We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to save and deliver h. soul from the power of the enemie lest as a Lion he devour it and tear it in pieces if there be none to help We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to be merciful and to forgive all h. sins and misdeeds which by the malice of the Devil or by h. own frailtie h. hath at any time of h. life committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee not to lay to h. charge what in concupiscence of the eie pride of life vanitie or superfluitie h. hath committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee not to lay to h. charge what in the fierceness of h. wrath or in the eagerness of an angrie spirit he hath committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee not to lay to h. charge what in vain and idle words in the loosness and slipperiness of the tongue h. hath committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to make h. partaker of all Thy mercies and promises in Christ JESUS We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to vouchsafe h. soul the estate of joy bliss happiness with all Thy blessed Saints in Thy heavenly Kingdom We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to grant h. bodie rest and peace and a part in the blessed Resurrection of Life and Glorie We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech Thee to hear us O Lord God Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercie upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world have mercie upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world grant h. Thy peace Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father have mercie upon us Lord have mercie upon us Christ have mercie upon us Lord
salvation for the glorie of Thy Name O deliver him and be merciful to his sins for Thy Names sake Psal. 79.8 9. Call to remembrance O Lord Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and offenses of his youth but according to Thy mercie think Thou upon him O Lord for Thy goodness Psal. 25.5 6. Cleanse him O Lord from his secret sins Psal. 19.12 From whatsoever he hath offended By Thought Word or Deed. Ignorance or Error Frailtie or Negligence In Excess or in Defect By Leaving Good undon or Doing Evil In Publik or Private By Day or Night Against Thee His Neighbour Own Bodie Before or since his effectual Calling By Himself or by Others Remembred or Forgotten From them all cleanse him O Lord even from them all Lay none of them to his charge Cast them behind Thee Burie them Drown them Scatter them as the mist and as the morning cloud Make them to vanish away and come to nothing And wherinsoever his conscience most accuseth him therin O Lord be Thou most merciful O enter not into judgment with Thy servant If Thou shouldst no flesh should be righteous in Thy fight Psal. 143.2 If Thou Lord shouldst be extreme to mark what is don amiss O Lord who may abide it Psal. 130.3 But good Lord one deep calleth another Psal. 42.9 the deep of our miserie the deep of Thy mercie Where fin hath abounded there let grace over-abound Rom. 5.20 And in and through all fins and offenses O Lord let Thy mercie triumph over Thy Justice S. James 2.13 O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider O Lord and do it P. Dan. 9.19 Delay not O Lord for his spirit waxeth faint Turn not Thy face away from him lest he be like unto them that go down into the pit Psal. 143.7 Be favorable O Lord be favorable For Thy Names sake Truths sake Mercies sake For Thy Many mercies sake Great mercies sake Wonderful mercies sake For Thine own self O Lord Our Creator and Redeemer Lord our Father our God King our Father our God Commendatio Animae Or The Recommending of the soul to God LOrd now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace S. Luke 2.29 Into Thy hands O Lord we commend his spirit for Thou hast redeemed it O Lord Thou God of truth Psal. 1.6 Bring his soul out of prison that it may praise Thee Psal. 142.9 O deliver him from this bodie of death Rom. 7.24 Say unto his soul I am Thy salvation Psal. 35.3 Say unto him This day shalt Thou be with me in Paradise S. Luke 23.43 Let him now feel the salvation of JESUS Let him now feel the Anointing of Christ even the oil of gladness wherwith Thou art anointed Guide Thou him through the vale of the shadow of death Psal. 23.4 Let him see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living Psal. 27.15 O Lord command his spirit to be received up to Thee in peace O Lord will him to come to Thee S. Matth. 14.28 Lord JESU receive his spirit Acts 7.59 Andopen to him the gates of everlasting glorie Let Thy good Spirit conduct him into the land of righteousness Psal. 143.10 Into Thy holie Hill Psal. 15.1 and heavenlie Kingdom Send Thine Angel to meet him and to bring him into Abrahams bosom S. Luke 16.22 Place him in the habitation of light and peace of joy and gladness Receive him in the armes of Thy mercie and give him an inheritance with Thy Saints in light Colos. 1.12 There to reign with Thy elect Angels Thy blessed Saints departed Thy holie Prophets and glorious Apostles in all joy glorie felicitie and happiness for ever and ever Amen Comfortable Scriptures to be applied to the friends of the deceased partie PRetious in the fight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal. 116.13 I heard a voice from heaven saying Write Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord For they rest from their labors and their works follow them Revel 14.13 A General Confession of sins collected out of the Holie Prophets and Apostles P. Moses WE have sinned O Lord. Thou hast set our faults before Thee and our secret sins in the fight of Thy countenance Psal. 90.8 Return O Lord how long and be merciful toward Thy servants Psal. 90.13 H. Job I have sinned what shal I do unto Thee O Thou Preserver of men Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee that I am become a burthen to myself Job 7.20 That I have offended Thee wo is me Job 10.14 Have mercie upon me O Lord and restore unto me my righteousness again Say concerning me O Lord Deliver him for I have received a reconciliation Job 33.24 26. Yet if Thou kill me will I put my trust in Thee Job 13.15 P. David My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be Thou mercifull unto my sin Psal. 65.3 I have gon astray like a sheep that is lost O seek Thy servant for I do not forget Thy cōmandments Psal. 119.176 We have sinned with our fathers we have don amiss and dealt wickedly Psal. 106.6 For Thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto our sin for it is great Psal. 25.10 My foot hath slipped Let Thy mercie O Lord lift me up Psal. 94.18 P Isai. Behold Thou art angrie for we have sinned We have been as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as a defiled cloth We all fade away as a leaf and our iniquities like a wind have taken us away But now O Lord Thou art our Father we are the clay and Thou art the Potter We all are the work of Thy hands Be not angrie O Lord above measure neither remember our iniquitie for ever Lord we beseech Thee remember we are all Thy people Ch. 64. V. 5 6 8 9. P. Jeremie Lord our iniquities are against us Our rebellions are many we have sinned against Thee Yet deal with us according to Thy Name For Thou Lord art in the midst of us and Thy Name is called upon us O Lord forsake us not O Lord the Hope of Israel the Savior of it in the time of trouble forsake us not Ch. 14. Ver. 7 8 9. P. Daniel We have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and don wickedly Yea we have rebelled and have departed from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments O Lord righteousness belongeth unto Thee but unto us confusion and shame of face because of all the offenses we have committed against Thee Yet compassion and forgiveness is with Thee O Lord our God though we have rebelled against Thee O Lord according to all Thy goodness I beseech Thee let Thine anger and Thy wrath be turned away from me and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy servant O my God incline Thine ear and hear open Thine eies and behold my afflictions For we do not present our supplications before Thee for our own righteousness but for Thy manifold and great mercies O Lord hear O Lord
forgive Consider and do it O Lord. Defer not for Thine own sake O my God Ch. 9. V. 5 7 9 16 17 18 19. P. Jonas O Lord in following vanities I have forsaken mine own mercie For which I am cast out of the fight of Thine eies Yet I remember Thee O Lord yet will I look yet again toward Thy Holie Temple O Lord hear and have mercie Ch. 2. v. 8. 4. Prodigal child Father I have sinned against heaven and against Thee I am no more worthie to be called Thy son But forgive me and make me one of the meanest of Thy hired servants S. Luke 15.18 19. God be merciful to me a sinner S. Luke 18.13 JESU Master have mercie upon us S. Luke 17.13 Have mercie on me O Lord Thou son of David S. Mat. 15.22 O Lord help me v. 25 O Lord even the little whelps eat of the crumbs of Thy table Ver. 27. S. Paul O Lord I am carnal and sold under fin And in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good Rom. 7.14 18. The good thing I do not which I would The evil that I would not that do I. V. 15. Though I consent to the Law according to the inner man V. 22. Yet I feel another law in my nature rebelling against the Law of my mind and leading me captive to the Law of sin V. 23. O wretched man that I am who shal deliver me from this bodie of death Ver. 24. But this is a true saying and by all means worthie to be received That JESUS Christ came into the world to save sinners wherof I am chief 1 Tim. 1.15 S. Peter We have spent the time past of our life aster the lusts of the heathen walking in wantoness lust surfeting uncleaness and other excesses 1 S. Pet. 4.3 But Thou hast redeemed us O Lord by the pretious blood of Christ the undefiled Lamb. 1 S. Pet. 1.1 18 19. Have mercie upon us in that Name besides which Thou hast given none under heaven wherby we must be saved Acts 4.12 S. John If we say we have no fin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us 1 S. John 1.8 If our heart condemn us not God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things 1 S. John 3.20 But we confess our sins and confessing them we have an Advocate with the Father JESUS Christ the Righteous and He is the propitiation for our sins 2 S. John 1.2 S. James In many things we sin all Ch. 3. V. 2. But Lord let Thy mercie triumph over Thy Justice Ch. 2. V. 13. A Confession of sins according to the branches of the Decalogue I. I Have touching Thee O Lord been full of roving imaginations and evil thoughts I have not studied to seek and know Thee as I ought Knowing Thee I have not glorified Thee nor given thanks to Thee accordingly I have doubted of Thy promises and not trusted to Thy help I have made flesh mine arm and hoped for prosperitie from man rather then from Thee I have not performed the dutie of Invocation with that reverence I ought I have not been thankful specially not for Thy chastisements II. I have not worshiped Thee in spirit and truth I have drawn neer to Thee with my lips but my heart hath been far from Thee I have been more careful of the outward ceremonial part of Thy worship then of the inward and spiritual III. I have not with due regard taken Thy Name into my mouth I have with rash oaths and eager execrations oft abused it I have not given occasion to others to sanctifie Thy Name but have caused it to be evil spoken of through mine evil dealing I have not duely regarded and reverenced those things wheron Thy Name is imprinted IV. I have not to Thy Sabbath or Sanctuarie brought that care which I should I have not spared to absent my self from Thy Holie Assemblies without sufficient cause I have not spent the days assign'd to Holie exercises upon them chiefly but have in them too much intended mine own private business I have been content in them with the use of the Means alone without any practise at all V. I have not so reverently spoken nor so dutifully carried myself toward some whom Thou hast placed over me as was meet I should I have not so carefully prayed for them as was requisite I have not opposed to them who unreverently in terms used them Chiefly those who have had me in government touching my soul. VI. I have not wished or provided for the good of my neighbor as I should but rather maligned been angrie and quareled with them and sought revenge upon everie light injurie I have not had that compassion on the poor that I should nor ministred to their necessities I have not defended them against the wrongs of others as I might I have not rejoiced in the good success of my neighbor but envied his welfare VII I have not possessed my vessell in holiness and honor nor preserved it from pollution as the Temple of God should be I have suffered my phancie to wander licentiously Mine ears and tongue I have not kept as I should I have not eschued the occasions of lust nor made the covenant with mine eies that I should I have not brought under my bodie nor kept it in subjection with such abstinence as I should I have more studiously and with more cost intended my flesh then my spirit VIII I have not reckoned godliness gain nor been content with my estate but wished an higher I have not been so exact in paying and dealing with those I have dealt withall as in justice I was bound I have by undue means interverted to my use that which was not mine I have not of that whereof I had more then enough been willing to part with to the relief of the needie IX I have not been so studious of speaking the truth as I should I have been desirous to seem and to be reputed more then I was I have not had that care of the good name of my brother I was bound I have not so hated flatterie as I should I have not so stood for and defended the truth as was meet I should X. I have been full of wandering desires wicked affections unlawful concupiscences evil suspitions and surmises and inordinate lusts touching my neighbor and that which is his The Triumph of Mercie in many Gradual Expressions and Remembrances propounded to us in the Holie Scriptures GOD In his Mercie is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Corin. 10.1 Gen. 18.32 Takes all in the better part If it will admit any good sense so he construes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 10.1 Meek not irritable not easily stirred up or provoked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wisd. 11.24 Sees and sees not makes as if He did not see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 17.30 Overlooks looks beyond our sins looks not at them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. Micha 7.18 Passeth by or over them
Dissimulat peccata propter poenitentiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.4 When He cannot but see yet He forbears is patient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.4 Neh. 9.28 30. Forbears long suffers long many times many years 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. Hos. 6.4 and 11.9 When He can suffer no longer yet stands as over Ephraim asking How shal I staies yet Expectat ut misereatur P. Isa. 30.18 When He can forbear no longer but punish He must He doth it not from the heart Lament 3. V. 33. but against His will When He punisheth He doth it Not suffering His whole displeasure to arise Psal. 78.39 containing Himself and His anger Not according to our deserts Psal. 103. 10. nothing so much Not long it indures but a moment in comparison Psal. 30.5 103.9 and P. Isa. 54.7.8 He thinks everie stripe two P. Isa. 40.2 is quickly wearie In His wrath He remembers mercie P. Hab. 3.2 Repents Him of the evil P. Joel 2.13 Is moved with the sight of our miserie Psal. 106. 43 44. Is soon appeased easily appeased P. Isa. 30. 18. and 55.7 S. Mat. 18.32 Hath mercie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multitudes of it Hath compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bowels of compassion S. Luke 15.20 a parent Psalm 103.13 a mother P. Isa. 49.15 many bowels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. James 5. 11. secundìon Edit Complut Forgives Pardons S. Mat. 18.27 Is reconciled 2 Cor. 5 19. Takes into favor again S. Luke 15.22 23. Receives to grace Rom. 3.25 All have sinned and are defective in giving glorie to God Rom. 3.23 In His Angels He found follie and the stars are not clean in His fight Job 4.18 15.15 25.5 But God hath not made all men for nought Psal. 89.46 Yet if God should be extreme to mark what were don amiss who were able to abide it Psal. 130.3 If He should enter into Judgment with His servants no flesh should be found righteous in His sight Psal. 143.2 None were able to answer one for a thousand No not Job himself Job 9.3 Therefore God hath shut up all under fin that He might have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 He would have all to be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 He would have none to perish but to turn to him by Repentance 2 S. Pet. 3.9 He would not the death of a sinner but that he might turn to Him and live P. Ezech. 33.11 All that 1 know their sin Psal. 51.3 Know it and 2 acknowledg it Psal. 32.5 S. Luke 15.18 Acknowledg it and 3 be sorrie for it Psal. 38.18 Be sorrie for it and 4 be readic to leave it Pro. 28.13 Not only to leave it but 5 to judg themselvs for it 1 Cor. 11.31 P. Ezech. 36.32 1 Cor. 9.27 And to 6 punish themselvs for it 2 Cor. 7.11 By the 1 fruits of Mortification P. Joel 2. 12 13. P. Jonab 3.5 accompanied with 2 Prayer Psalm 32.7 Acts 8.22 3 Alms. P. Isa. 58.7 Pro. 16.6 P. Dan. 4.27 At the 4 estimation of the Priest Levit. 6.6 5 Who may forgive us in the person of Christ. S. John 8.11 and 20.23 2 Cor. 2.10 Which His Mercie is not only for common and ordinarie sinners but for the chief such as Manasses Paul such as David Peter such as Rahab Marie Magdalen such as Jonas The Thief on the Crosse. such as The Corinthian 1 Cor. 5.1 The Corinthians 1 Cor. 6.11 Et haec eratis such as the Jews His Betrayers Murtherers Acts 3.13 14 15. David was a man according to Gods own heart Christ is the Son of David and David for gave Semei 2 Sam. 19.23 and wept for his rebellious son Absolom 2 Sam. 18.33 The Preface or stile of the Law The Lord the Lord Gentle and Merciful Patient and of much mercie who keepeth mercie for thousands and forgiveth Exod. 34.6 7. The Discourse of Elihu Job 33.23 24. If there be a Messenger with Him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightness Then He is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransom Taste and see how gracious the Lord is Psal. 34.8 1 S. Pet. 2.3 His Mercie is sweet Psal. 109.20 His Mercies are many There is a multitude of them Psal. 69.17 5.7 and 51.1 There is plenteous Redemption Psal. 130.7 His Mercies are great Psal. 86.5 119.156 Have a magnitude Great in height Psal. 103.11 108.4 36.5 depth Psal. 42.9 length Psal. 26.3 Psal. 136. There is no end of His salvation Psal. 71.13 Mercie shal be set up for ever Psal. 89.2 His Mercie is over all His works Psal. 145.9 As is His Majestie so is His Mercie Ecclus. 2.18 His propertie is to have mercie P. Isai. 28.21 He is the Father of mercies 2 Cor. 1.3 He is Mercie itself Psal. 59.17 He was so merciful that He forgave their misdeeds and destroied them not Yea many a time turned He His wrath away and would not suffer His whole displeasure to arise For He considered they were but dust Psal. 78.38 39 40. The Lord waiteth that He may have mercie on you P. Isa. 30.18 In the Father of the lost child His Image S. Luke 15.22 Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Heb. 9.22 God hath shut up all under sin that He might have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 Where sin aboundeth there Grace doth over-abound Mercie triumpheth over Justice S. James 2.13 In this GOD set forth His love to us ward that when we were His enemies Christ died for us Rom. 5.8 This is a true saying and of all men worthie to be received that JESUS Christ came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 Christ died once for our sins the just for the unjust that He might offer us unto God 1 S. Pet. 3.18 We have an Advocate with the Father JESUS Christ the righteous And He is the Propitiation for our sins and not for our only but for the sins of the whole world 1 S. John 2.1 2. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance S. Mat. 9.13 Come unto me you that travail and be heavie laden and I will refresh you S. Mat. 11.28 Of them that come to me I will cast none out S. John 6.37 Thou never failest them that seek Thee Psal. 9.10 Spiritual Comforts and Confidence issuing from the contemplation of Gods Goodness WHy art thou so heavie O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God for I shal yet give Him thanks For He is the light of my countenance and my God Psal. 42.6 7 14 15. and 43.5 6. Return then to Thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath been gracious to thee Psal. 116.7 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence In the midst of the troubles that were in my heart Thy comforts have refreshed my soul. Psal. 94.17 19. Nevertheless though I be sometimes
have mercie upon us Our Father who art in heaven c. O Lord deal not with h. after h. sins Neither reward h. according to h. iniquities O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desires of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our praiers which we make before Thee At such times specially when our greatest and most grievous extremities are readie to oppress us And O Lord graciously hear us that those evils those illusions terrors and assaults which Thine or our enemie worketh against us may be brought to nought and by the providence of Thy goodness may be dispersed that we Thy servants being swallowed up with no tentations may evermore give thanks unto Thee in Thy Holie Church through JESUS Christ our Lord. Amen An humble recognition of humane frailtie and a deprecation of falling from God IN the midst of life we are in death of whom then may we seek for succor but of Thee O Lord who for our sins art most justly displeased with us Yet O Lord most Holie O Lord most mightie O Holie and most merciful Father deliver us not over to the bitter pains of eternal death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not up against us the ears of Thy mercie but spare us O Lord most Holie O Lord most mightie O immortal and most merciful Father Thou most worthie Judg eternal suffer us not in our last hour for any pains of death to fall from Thee Ch. Engl. Office for Burial An affectionate recommendation of the sick person to Gods mercie grounded upon his special relations to God and the sinceritie of his soul. I. WE commend unto Thee O Lord the soul of This Thy servant He is the Work of Thy hands Despise not O Lord the work of Thine own hands the Likeness of Thy Image Suffer not O Lord Thy Image to be utterly defaced the Price of Thy Blood Let not so great a Price be cast away a Christian the Name of Thy Son is called upon him For Thy Names sake be good unto Thy Name He is Thine O save him Psal. 119. 94. Give not over that Thine is into the will of the enemie Though he hath finned yet Thy Name hath he not denied but called upon it and confessed it unto his lifes end And there is no other Name under heaven but Thine wherby he hopeth to be saved Acts 4. 12. Though he hath finned yet he hath not hid his sin Job 31. 33. nor excused it Psal. 141. 4. but hath confessed it and been sorrie for it and wisheth even tears of blood wherwith to lament it Though he hath sinned yet others also have sinned against him whom he from the heart forgiveth and desireth forgiveness of them at Thy gracious hands O stablish Thy word with Thy servant Psal. 119. 38. and let him not be disappointed of his hope Psal. 119. 116. Though he hath sinned yet in Thee he trusteth O suffer him not for ever utterly to be confounded Though he hath sinned yet he seeketh Thee And Thou Lord never failest them that seek Thee Psal. 9. 10. Though he hath sinned yet he cometh to Thee And of them that come to Thee Thou castest none out S. John 6.37 II. O Lord Let not the guiltiness of a sinner more prevail to condemn then the gracious goodness of a most merciful Father to acquit and to pardon O let not the unrighteousness of man make the goodness of God of none effect Rom. 3.3 O Lord do not so remember the unkindness of this Thy Child that therby Thou forget the compassion and kindness of a Father Do not so think upon our sins that Thou therby forget Thine own nature and propertie which is alway to have mercie Ch. Engl. Liturgie Do not so remember our sins that Thou therby remember not Thine own Name which is JESUS a most loving and kind Savior III. Lord If Thy Life in our Life hath not sufficiently appeared yet let not Thy Death lose the full power and effect therof in our death also Suffer not O Lord in both so great a price to perish Lose not O Lord that which Thou hast redeemed since Thou camest to redeem that which was lost S. Matth. 18.11 S. Luke 19.10 That which was so dear to Thee to redeem suffer not to be lost as a thing of no value A Praier for Mercie and Divine assistance to uphold the sick person in his present affliction HAve mercie upon him O Lord consider the pains which he suffereth Thou who only dost deliver from the gates of death Psal. 9.13 Shew Thy marvellous loving kindness Thou that art the Savior of them that put their trust in Thee Psal. 17.7 O keep him as the apple of Thine eie hide him under the shadow of Thy wings Psal. 17. 8. O let Thy merciful loving kindness be his comfort according to Thy word unto Thy servant Psal. 119. 76. He is troubled above measure Psal. 119. 107. O be merciful to him according to Thy goodness O consider his adversitie and deliver him for he is brought very low Psal. 142. 7. His eies long sore for Thy Word saying O when wilt Thou comfort me Psal. 119. 82. His eies are wasted away with looking for Thy health and for the word of Thy righteousness Psal. 119. 123. O think Thou upon him O Lord as concerning Thy word wherin Thou hast caused him to put his trust Psal. 119. 49. O look Thou upon him and be merciful unto him as Thou usest to do to those that love Thy Name Psal. 119. 132. Cast him not away in the time of his weakness forsake him not now when his strength faileth him Psal. 71. 9. In the multitude of the sorrows that are in his heart let Thy comforts O Lord refresh his soul. Psal. 94. 19. O Lord when it oppresseth comfort Thou him P. Isa. 38. 14. O Lord let thy strength be made perfect in his weakness 2 Cor. 12. 9. Let no tentation oppress him but such as is incident to Thy children But as Thou art faithful O Lord so suffer him not to be tempted above that he is able But good Lord with the tentation give an happy issue that he may be able to overcome it 1 Cor. 10. 13. O Lord though he be afflicted on every side yet let him not be distressed though in want of some of Thy comforts yet not of all though chastened yet not forsaken though cast down yet not perish 2 Cor. 4. 8 9. A Praier for the Grace of God and the Pardon of the sins of the sick partie REmember him O Lord with the favor Thou bearest unto Thy children O visit him with Thy salvation That he may see the felicitie of Thy chosen and rejoice with the gladness of Thy Saints and give thanks with Thine inheritance Psal. 106.4 5. O remember not his former sins but have mercie upon him O Lord and that soon for he is come to great extremitie Help him O Lord God of his