Lord be and dwell in the midst of me for thy Name is called upon me Leave me not O God of my salvation but have mercy for Iesus Christ his sake Amen For thy Names sake O Lord. be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen O Lord Almighty I acknowledge and confess I am not worthy to lift up mine eyes to heaven much less to present my self before thee with any confidence that thou shouldest hear my prayâ—ers and grant my requests if I consider my own deserâ—ing For my Conscience accuses me and my sins witness against me and thou art a just and an upright Judge and wilt not justifie any sinner in his transgressions O Lord suffer me not to be swallowed up of death and desperation but in the multitude of thy mercies pardon me O Lord for thy goodness sake For though I am a worm and no man yet thou art my Creator and I am the work of thy hands yea thou art my Father and I thy Son Thou my Shepheard I one of thy stragling Flock Thou my Redeemer and I one of thy People whom thou hast dearly bought Thou my God and I thy Creature O correct me not in thine anger O Lord neither punish me according to my deservings but remember my weakness as well as my sin and have mercy upon me for my dearest Saviours sake Iesus Christ. Amen Almighty everlasting God which hatest nothing that thou hast made and forgivest the sins of all them that are penitent Create make in me a new and contrite heart that I may worthily lament my sins and acknowledge my wretchedness and obtain of thee the God of all mercie perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty everliving God which art alwaies more ready to hear then we to pray and usest to give more then either we desire or deserve Pour down upon me most miserable sinner the abundance of thy mercy forgiving me those things whereof my conscience is afraid and giving me that which my prayer dares not presume to ask Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen Grant I beseech thee merciful God to me thy sinful but humble servant pardon and peace that I may be cleansed from all my sins and serve thee with a quiet mind through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee free me from all my offences and by thy bountiful goodness deliver me from the bands of all those sins which by my ignorance frailty or wilfulness I have committed Grant this even for Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as besorrowful Mercifully assist my prayers that I make before thee in all my troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress me and graciously hear me that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against me be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness so dispersed that I thy poor servant being overcome by no temptation nor hurt by any persecution may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord of thy great goodness I beseech thee give me true repentance and forgive me all my sins negligences and ignorances and indue me with the grace of thy holy Spirit that I may amend my life according to thy holy word through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive receive my humble petitions And though I am tied and bound with the chain of my sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose me and that for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Exaudi quaeso Domine supplicis preces confitentis tibi parce peccatis ut pariter mihi indulgentiam tribuas benignus pacem per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Amen Omnipotens Deus qui aquam de petra produxisti educ de duritia cordis mei compunctionis lachrimas ut peccata mea ita plangere valeam ut remissionem eorum te miserante accipiam per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Almighty God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men I acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness which I have from time to time most grievously committed by thought word and deed against thy divine Majesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against me I do earnestly repent and am heartily sorry for these my misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto me the burden of them is intolerable Have mercy upon me have mercy upon me most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Iesus Christ his sake forgive me all that is past and grant that I may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life to the honour and glory of thy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God and my most merciful Father who of thy tender mercy hast promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto thee Have mercy upon me pardon and deliver me from all my sins confirm and strengthen me in all goodness and bring me to everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Piissime Domine misericordissime Deus sufficiat mihi quod hucusque peccavi quod contempsi quod foetoribus carnis meae satisfeci jam nuâ—â— te inspirante voveo me a nequitia mea conversurum Adjuva Domine des ut impleam in per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Gratiarum actio Laudes I Will magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me thou hast kept my life from them that go down into the pit Sing praises unto the Lord O my soul and give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his holiness Amen O my soul be joyful in the Lord and rejoyce in his Salâ—â—â—ion All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poor and him that is in misery from him that spoileth him Amen I will give thanks unto thee O Lord according to thy righteousness and I will praise thy Name O Lord most high O Lord thou art high and terrible a great King over all the Earth thou hast subdued the people under us and the Nations under our feet therefore will I sing praises unto thee O God who art greatly to be exalted Amen Thy Vows are upon me O my God I will render praise unto thee for thou hast delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling that I may yet walk before thee O my God in the light of the living and bless thee Amen Gratias
me and deliver me that I may tast and see how gracious thou my Lord art and how blessed the man is that trusteth in thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen I will wait for thy loving-kindness O God in the midst of thy Temple and there will I praise thee Amen Lord let me behold thee in thy Sanctuary and there see thy Power and Glory For thy loving-kindness is better then life therefore my lips shall praise thee Thus will I magnifie thee all my life and lift up my hands in thy Name O! satisfie me with that Riches of Mercy which is in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O how amiable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My Soul hath a desire and a longing to enter into the Courts of thee O Lord my heart and my flesh rejoyceth in thee O merciful God Amen Lord I humbly beseech thee to hear and accept my prayers for my self and for thy people which call upon thee and grant that we may perfectly know what things we ought to do and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty everlasting God mercifully look upon all my infirmities and in all dangers and adversities stretch out thy right hand to help and defend me through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen God thou which knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailty we cannot always stand upright Grant I most humbly beseech thee to me the health of body and soul that all those things which I suffer for sin I may by thy help well pass and overcome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord the sun is at height for this day upon me but lift up the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Make all darkness and spiritual shadows short upon me and shorter in me through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my Secret sins Keep me also O Lord from Presumptuous sins least they get the Dominion over me And keep me innocent from the Great offence I humbly beseech thee Amen Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praising thee Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy ways Lord thus bless the heart of thy servant â—or Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Sancta adoranda longanimis Trinitas Longanimis enim es quae eos a quibus scinderis tam diu toleras O Trinitas cujus ego ut cultor ac minime fictus praeco essem jam pridem dignus habitus sum O Trinitas omnibus aliquando vel per Illuminationem vel per Poenam agnoscenda Oro te ut hos quoque qui nunc contumeliis te afficiunt adoratores accipias ne quisquam vel ex minimis pereat Et hoc etiamsi mihi propterea aliqua Gratiae jactura facienda sit Neque enim tantum dicere audeo quantum Apostolus Concede autem hoc per propter merita Jesu Christi Redemptoris nostri Amen ALmighty God who through thine only begotten Son Iesus Christ hast overcome Death and opened to us the gate of Everlasting Life I humbly beseech thee that as by thy special grace preventing me thou dost put into my mind good desires so by thy continuall help I may bring the same to good effect through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God who hast given thine only Son to die for our Sins and to rise again for our Justification Give me grace so to put away the leaven of Malice and all Wickedness that I may alwaies serve thee in pâ—reness of living and in truth through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a Sacrifice for sin and an Example of godly life Give me grace that I may always most thankfully receive that inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life even for the same thy Son Iesus Christ his sake Amen LOrd give me that grace that I may hold me still by thee and abide patiently upon thee That I may not grieve my self at the man whose way doth prosper nor against him that doth after evil counsels That I may leave off from wrath and let go displeasure least I fret my self and be moved to do evil Amen Tribuat hic mihi Dominus ut in me pro me fiat ignis consumens ardeat hoc igne cor meum in lumen aeternum mihi ne eodem ardeat anima mea in poenam perennem per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord make me like a green Olive-tree in thy house for I trust in thy tender mercy for ever And I will alwais praise thee for that thou hast done and hope in thy name for ever Amen O Lord I beseech thee make me remember how much more then other men I have need to call upon thee My charge is great and my strength little O give me grace to come often before thee and to ask that help which thou art readier to give then I to ask through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Have mercy upon mee O Lord Consider the troubles which I suffer of them that hate me O thou which didst lift me up from the gates of death Amen O Lord increase in me Faith Devotion replenish my heart with all goodness and by thy great mercy keep me in the same Give me godly zeal in prayer true humility in prosperity perfect patience in adversity and continuall joy in the holy Ghost even for Iesus Christ his sake my only Lord and Saviour Amen O God who hast taught the hearts of thy faithful people by sending to them the Light of thy holy Spirit Grant me by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoyce in his holy comfort through the merits of Christ Iesus our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Almighty everlasting God who hast given unto thy servants grace by the confession of true Faith to acknowledge the Glory of the Eternal Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity I humbly beseech thee bless me also that I may live in the stedfastness of this Faith through it be evermore defended from all Ghostly and Bodily dangers for thy mercies sake who livest and reignest one God world without end Amen O My God incline thine eare and hear open thine eyes and see O Lord forgive O Lord consider and doe it for thine own sake O my God and for my Saviour Iesus Christ his sake Amen Lord let me not be afraid though one be made rich or though the glory
of his house be increased For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shal his pomp follow him But ever make me afraid to offend thee Amen Mine eyes long sore for thy word saying When wilt thou comfort me Lord comfort me for I am become like a bottle in the smoak yet let me not I beseech thee forget thy Law even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord God which seest that I put not my trust in any thing that I do Mercifully grant that I may be defended against all adversity through Iesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen O Lord which hast taught us that all our doings without Charity are nothing worth Send thy holy Ghost and pour into my heart that most excellent gift of Charity the very bond of Peace and all Vertues without the which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee Grant this for thy only Son Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord fill me with grace that I may fulfil all the service which I owe thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God spare I beseech thee who shall raise up Iacob for he is small Spare him therefore O Lord spare thy people spare me Say unto my soul thou hast repented of the evil intended and it shall not be Amen Lord when I am asleep let me not be made afraid but let my sleep be sweet that I may be enabled to serve thee Amen Grant I beseech thee most Mercifull Father that I who for my evil deeds am worthily punished may by the comfort of thy grace be mercifully relieved through Iesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour Amen COnsider hear me O Lord my God Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death Amen O Lord thou hast proved and visited my heart in the night season thou hast tried me O blessed Father purge me that thou mayst find no wickedness in me through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord hear me that seven times a day I may praise thee and be acquainted with that great peace which they have that love thy Law Amen O Lord from whom all good things do come Grant unto me thy humble servant that by thy holy inspiration I may think those things that are good and by thy merciful guiding may also perform the same through our Lord Iesus Christ. Amen MUNDAY POnder my words O Lord consider my meditations O hearken unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer My voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up But make me remember that thou art God and hast no pleasure in wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee Amen O Lord bless me and I will sing unto thee and praise thy Name and be telling of thy salvation from day to day Amen O Lord let counsell preserve me and understanding keep me Deliver me from the evil way from the man that speaketh froward things and from all such as leave the ways of Righteousness to walk in the ways of Darkness even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I know the way of man is not in himself It is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps Therefore O Lord I beseech thee make me know my way and direct my steps to thy honour and my own salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen BE not wroth with me O Lord but spare me and have mercy upon me for thou wilt be merciful unto thy creature O Lord I and my Fathers have all had the same sickness but because of us that are sinners thou shalt be called merciful through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord guide me here with thy Counsell and after that receive me into Glory For whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee O Lord preserve me in those longings after thee Amen O God take from me the way of lying and cause me to make much of thy Law that I may chuse the way of Truth and lay thy Iudgments before me that I may stick unto thy Testimonies and run the way of thy Commandements when thou hast set my heart at liberty Amen O God the strength of all them that trust in thee Mercifully accept my prayers and because the weakness of mans nature can do no good thing without thee grant me the help of thy Grace that inkeeping of thy commandements I may please thee both in will and in deed through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou art just and all thy ways are mercy and truth thou judgest truly for ever remember me and look upon me punish me not according to my sins or my ignorances or my Fathers which have sinned before thee deal not with me according to my sins but as seemeth best unto thee O Lord my strength and my salvation Amen Lord I acknowledge my wickedness and the iniquity of my Fathers we have sinned against thee O Lord be merciful Amen Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Amen Lord I beseech thee mercifully to hear me And as thâ—â— hast given me an hearty desire to pray so grant that by thy mighty aid I may be defended both in soul and in body through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Domine accipe quaeso quas offero preces dona quod rogo excusa quod timeo quia tu per Christum tuum es unica spes peccatorum per eum spero veniam delictorum Amen O Lord be gratious unto me and give me an heart to worship thee and to do thy Will and open my heart in thy Law and send me peace hear my prayers and be reconciled to me and never forsake me in the time 〈◊〉 trouble for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the felicity of thy chosen and rejoyce in the gladness of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance Amen O God the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy Encrease and multiply upon me thy mercy that thou being my ruler and guide I may so pass through things temporal that I finally lose not the things eternall Grant this O heavenly Father for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Grant O Lord that I may live in thy feare dye in thy favour rest in
Lord hast done it Amen Lord Iesu Amen If my delight had not been in thy Law I should have perished in my trouble O continue my delight Amen Pestilentia DEliver me O Lord from all my offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish Take I humbly beseech thee thy plague away from thy people for we begin to be consumed by means of thy heavy hand And for Iesus Christ his sake lay neither me nor mine under this uncomfortable disease Amen O Lord deliver me from the â—nare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilence O defend me under thy wings and keep me safe under thy feathers that I may not be afraid for any terror by night nor for the arrow that flyeth by day for the pestilence that walketh in the darkness nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day Though thousands fall beside me and ten thousands at my right hand yet let it not come near me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord thou art my hope I beseech thee let no evil happen unto me neither let any plague come nigh my dwelling but give thine Angels charge over me to keep me in all my wayes O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O let the sorrowful sighing of them whom thou hast visited come before thee and according to the greatness both of thy power and mercy preserve thou them that are appointed to die even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy humble servant that I my Family which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness from this and all other infection both of soul and body that so we may live both to serve and to praise thee to the glory of thy great Name through Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen O Almighty God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst save the rest Have pity upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sickness and mortality and like as thou didst then command thine Angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God who hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavy and long-continued Visitation and in the midst of that Judgment remembring mercy hast redeemed us from death We offer up unto thee our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast now delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee And here I offer up unto thee most merciful Father in the name of all thy people all possible praise and thanks and shall ever magnifie thee through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Morbus O Lord the sorrows of death compass me and the snares of it are ready to overtake me When thou wilt dissolve my tabernacle thou alone knowest therefore in this my trouble I will call upon thee my Lord and will complain unto my God O be with me at the instant of my death and receive me for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth O Lord thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is become like the drought in Sommer I acknowledge my sin unto thee O Lord and my unrighteousness have I not hid O Lord be merciful unto me Amen O Lord hear my prayer and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my Fathers were O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Amen O Domine media vita in morte sumus unde aut a quo quaerimus auxilium nisi a te Domine qui tamen pro peccatis nostris merito infensus es nobis Sancte fortis sancte misericors Salvator amarissimis poenis mortis aeternae ne tradas me Ne projicias me in tempore aegritudinis meae quum deficit virtus mea ne derelinquas me Domine ante te omne desiderium meum suspiria mea a te non sunt abscondita Nosti Domine nosti intima Cordis mei ne quaeso occludas precibus meis aures misericordiae tuae Quin parce mihi ô Domine sanctissime ô Omnipotens Deus sanctus Salvator maxime misericors dignissime aeterne Iudex ne sinas me in hora mea novissima proâ— quocunque terrore mortis excidere a te Amen O Domine Salvator Jesu O Lord the snares ofâ— death compass me round about the pains of hell get hold upon me I have found trouble and heaviness but will call upon thy Name O Lord O Lord deliver my soul. Deliver my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling that I may walk before thee in the land of the living Amen Thou O Lord hast chastened and corrected me but not given me yet over unto death Open me the gates of righteousness that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord. Amen There is no health in my flesh by reason of thy wrath neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin Yet O Lord be merciful unto me and heal me even for thy Names sake Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks for the great and almost miraculous bringing of me back from the bottom of my grave What thou hast further for me to do or to suffer thou alone knowest Lord give me patience and courage and all Christian resolution to do thee service and grace to do it And let me not live longer then to honour thee through Iesus Christ. Amen Bellum O My God though mighty Nations gather together on heaps yet let them be broken in pieces though they take counsel together bring it to nought For though they pronounce a decree yet it shall not stand if thou O God be with us Be with us therefore O God for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Blessed be thou O Saviour of Israel which didst destroy the assault of the Mighty man by the hand of thy servant David and gavest the Host of strangers into the hand of Ionathan shut up this Army in the hand of Israel and let them be confounded with their power and with their horsemen Make them afraid and consume their boldness and strength that they may be astonished at their own destruction Cast them down by the sword of them that love thee that we which love thy Name may praise thee and sing unto thee Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord of Hosts give us strength that we may follow on upon our enemies and overtake them and
help me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Many O Lord they are that trouble me and persecute me yet do I not swerve from thy Testimonies yes Lord I do daily swerve from them Quicken me as thou art wont Amen O take from me shame and rebuke and I will keep thy Testimonies O take away the rebuke that I am afraid of for thy Judgments are good O Lord do this for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Timor LOrd make me remember that the fear of thee is clean and that thy Judgments are true and righteous altogether Amen O Lord give me that grace that I may so carry my self and that courage that I may so bear up my self as that I may fear none but thee nothing but that wherein I offend thee even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Fraudes Dolus O Lord watch over thy servant for my familiar friends whom I trusted have laid wait for me Be thou merciful unto me O Lord and deliver me from them that even in this I may know thou favourest me that mine Enemies are not able to triumph against me Amen Exalt thy self O God above the heavens and thy glory upon all the earth For men have laid a net for my steps they have pressed down my soul they have digged a pit before me Lord I desire not that they should fall into the midst of it themselves but I beseech thee keep me out and deliver me for thy mercy sake Amen Mine enemies lay wait for my soul and take counsel together They pursue me out of an opinion that thou O God hast forsaken me But go not far from me O God my God haste to help me Amen O Lord the proud have digged pits for me They persecute me falsely O be thou my help They had almost made an end of me upon earth yet suffer me not I beseech thee to depart from thy Commandments for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Lord keep me from the snare which malicious men have laid for me and from the traps of wicked doers If they will not repent let them fall into their own nets together but let me ever escape them Amen O Lord I pour out my complaints before thee Consider them for I am brought very low O deliver me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me Amen Templi ingressus LOrd I will come into thy house upon the multitude of thy mercies and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy Temple O bless me that I may Amen Hear the voice of my humble Petitions O Lord when I crie unto thee in this place when I hold my hands towards the mercy-seat of thy holy Temple even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings O Lord hear our desires and give an heritage unto those that pray unto thee and fear thy Name Amen O my God I will go into thy Gates with thanksgiving and into thy Courts with praise I will be thankful unto thee and speak good of thy Name For thou Lord art gracious thy mercy is everlasting and thy truth endureth from generation to generation Amen O Lord I love the habitation of thy House and the place where thine Honour dwelleth O shut not up my soul with impenitent sinners but give me plenty of thy grace even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Fames BE merciful O Lord and remember us that we be not confounded in these perillous times and that in these daies of dearth we may have enough and a free heart and hand to bestow it upon thy poor ones even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord our sins have prevailed against us yet be thou merciful unto our transgressions O visit the earth and prepare corn for the Inhabitants thereof Crown the year with thy goodness and let no cloud drop other then fatness that the very Hills may rejoyce 〈◊〉 every side that the Pastures may be covered with sheep and the Vallies with corn that thy People may rejoyce and sing unto thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God heavenly Father who by thy Son Iesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy Kingdom and the righteousness thereof all things necessary for their bodily sustenance Behold we beseech thee the afflictions of thy people and grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do now most justly suffer for our sins may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty for the love of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord be mâ—â—cifully pleased to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the Earth so that in due time we may enjoy them and praise thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Pluvia O God heavenly Father whose gift it is that the Rain doth fall the Earth is fruitful Beasts increase and Fishes do multiply Send us we beseech thee such moderate rain and showres that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to thy honour through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Serenitas O Lord God which for the sin of Man didst once drown all the world except eight personsâ— and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again We humbly beseech thee that though weâ— for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters yet upon our true repentance thou wilt give us such weather whereby we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Poenitentiales 6. 32. 38. 51. 102. 130. 143. O Lord turn thee again now at the last and be gracious unto thy servant O satisfie me with thy mercy and that soon so shall I rejoyce and be glad all the dayes of my life And when thou hast forgiven my sins O comfort me again after the time that thou hast plagued me and for the years wherein I have suffered adversity O Iesus Christ my Saviour and be merciful Amen O Lord my flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy Judgments yet stablish me according to thy word that I may live and let me not be disappointed of my hope even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost O seek thy servant that I may not forget thy Commandments buâ— return to thee Amen O Lord our iniquities testifie against us for our backslidings are many and we have sinned against thee yet O thou hope of Israel thou Saviour thereof in time of trouble shew mercy foâ— thy Names sake and on me especially For why shouldest thou be as a stranger in my soul or as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry but for a night O
own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without check God forgive the setters of this withall my heart I beg it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In S. Stephens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Act. 6. 12. And Herod went the same way when he had killed S. Iames yet he would not venture upon S. Peter till he found how the other pleased the people Acts 12. 3. But take heed of having your hands full of blood Esai 1. 15. For there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes Inquisition for blood And when that Inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psal. 9. 12. that God remembers but that 's not all he remembers and forgets not the complaint of the poor i. e. whose blood is shed by Oppression ver 9. Take heed of this 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 12. but then especially when he is making Inquisition for blood And with my prayers to avert it I do heartily desire this City to remember the Prophecy that is expressed Ierem. 26. 15. 3. The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse then a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body And at every cleft profaneness and irreligion is entring in While as Prosper speaks men that introduce profaneness are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell too much in Opinion And that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruine is fallen into danger by her own 4. The last particular for I I am not willing to be too long is my self I was born and baptized in the bosome of the Church of England established by Law In that Profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to die What clamours and slanders I have endured for labouring to keep an Uniformity in the external Service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High-treason in Parliament a crime which my soul ever abhorred This Treason was charged to consist of two parts An endeavour to subvert the Laws of the Land and a like endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by Law Besides my answers to the several Charges I Protested mine innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners Protestations at the Barre must not be taken I must therefore come now to it upon my death being instantly to give God an account for the truth of it I do therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death that I never endeavoured the Subversion either of Law or Religion And I desire you all to remember this Protest of mine for my innocency in this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an Enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I did dislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many wayes and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima And that being the highest Court over which no other hath jurisdiction when 't is misinformed or misgoverned the Subject is left without all remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me and humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man And so I heartily desire you to joyn in prayer with me O Eternal God and merciful Father look down upon me in mercy in the riches and fulness of all thy mercies Look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Cross of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to trie me to the uttermost I most humbly beseech thee give me now in this great Instant full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to die for thine honour the Kings happiness and this Churches preservation And my zeal to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I come now to suffer I say in this particular of Treason But otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present judgment upon me And when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own eyes Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more then miserable Kingdom O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all Blood-thirsty people But if they will not repent O Lord confound all their devices defeat and frustrate all their designes and endeavours upon them which are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their just power the preservation of this poor Church in her Truth Peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their Ancient Laws and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with Religious dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandments all their dayes So Amen Lord Iesu Amen And receive my soul into thy bosom Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. The Lord Archbishop's Prayer as he kneeled by the Block LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Umbra mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke through the jaws of death So Lord receive my soul and have mercy upon me and bless this Kingdome with peace and plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian bloud amongst them for Iesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Then he layd his head upon the Block and after he had prayed to himself said aloud Lord receive my Soul
A SUMMARIE OF DEVOTIONS Compiled and Used by Dr WILLIAM LAUD Sometime L d Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRY Now Published according to the Copy written with his own hand and reserved in the Archives of Baptist's Colledge Library in OXON OXFORD Printed by William Hall Anno Dom. 1667. Imprimatur GILBERTUS CANT Dat. Lambethae Dec. 12. 1666. Imprimatur IOHAN FELL Vicecan Oxon. Dec. 28. 1666. Et Conversus vivificasti me Psal 70. 20. O Come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my Soul Psal. 66. 16. Pater noster Laesus est sed Pater Qui es in Coelis Eminenter non Inclusive Sanctificetur In me per me super me Nomen tuum Patris in nobis ut simus filii Patris nostri Adveniat Regnum tuum Ut destruatur Regnum Peccati per quod regnant Mors Diabolus Fiat voluntas tua sicut in Caelo in Terra In me qui sum Terra sicut a sanctis Angelis Panem Super Caelestem Corporeum Nostrum Proprium licite acquisitum Quotidianum da nobis hodie Pro quotidiana necessitate Et remitte nobis debita sicut c. Talenta dimitte nobis Minuta remittentibus Et ne nos inducas in tentationē Nec sinas intrare ductos pronosque Sed libera nos a Mal◠Ab authore mali extra nos Diabolo Mundo Intra nos Nobisipsis Et a malo Culpae per Gratiam Poenae per Misericordiam Omni per Pacē Quia tuum est Regnum Potentia Absolutum in se Independens ab aliis Gloria Circumfulgens omnia in omnibus Tuum Et a Te per Te ad Te in gloria salute servorum tuorum AMEN OUr Father which art in Heaven 1. Hallowed be thy Name 2. Thy Kingdome come 3. Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven 4. Give us this day our daily bread 5. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us 6. And lead us not into temptation 7. But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Symbolum Apostolicum divisum in Articulos 1 I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth 2. And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried 5. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty 7. From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead 8. I believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholicke Church The Communion of Saints 10. The Forgiveness of Sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the Life Everlasting AMEN Officium Quotidianum In nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti AMEN O Lord I am risen up and fallen prostrate before thee Prevent me I beseech thee in all my doings with thy most gracious◠Favour and further me with thy continual Help that in all my Works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy Holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain Everlasting Life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God and most Merciful Father all Merciful Mercy it selfe I have erred wittingly and strayed willingly nay Runne from thy wayes more like an untamed Heifer then a lost or wandring Sheep I have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart I have offended against nay been offended at thy holy most holy Lawes I have left undone not done at all those things which I ought to have done And I have done done nothing else but those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health no hope of health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable most miserable sinner the greatest sinner and most unthankfull for so great Grace Spare me and them all O God which confess their faults Restore me and all them that be penitent that desire to be penitent that wish they were would be glad if they were so that fear they are not enough and are sorry they are no more For this is according to thy Promises most pretious most gratious most sweet Promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. Grant therefore O most merciful Father for his sake who is our Redeemer Advocate Author and Finisher of our Faith our Propitiation Righteousness and Justification that I and all Penitents may hereafter live a Godly Righteous and Sober life to the Glory of thy Holy Name and the Salvation of our own Souls Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father Pardon I beseech thee all the Sins Omissions and Commissions Thoughts Words and Deeds by which I have provoked thee unto anger from the time of my Birth to this present moment That no one nor all of my sins together may ever be able to cry oftner or lowder in thine ears for vengeance then the Cry of my Prayers may ascend up unto thee for mercy and for forgiveness and obtain that they sue for Particularly I humbly beseech thee forgive unto me my Great and my Clamorous sins such as are c. O Lord against Heaven and against Thee have I sinned and committed foule Transgressions in thy sight but I beseech thee wipe them all out of the Book of Remembrances which thou hast written through Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen GIve unto me O Lord I humbly beseech thee a wise a sober a patient an understanding a devout a religious a couragious Heart Chast and temperate reynes and thoughts A soul full of devotion to do thee service strength against all temptations especially the temptations of c. Through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks increase my thankfulness I beseech thee for all benefits and blessings both Spiritual and Temporal which in the riches of thy great mercy thou hast liberally powred down upon me but especially Spiritual Lord let me not live but to praise and magnify Thee and thy glorious Name Particularly I give thee most unseigned thanks for my preservation from the time of my birth to this present moment for c. For bringing me safe to the beginning of this day in which and all the days of my life I beseech thee preserve me from sin and from danger in Soul and in Body that all my thoughts words and works may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name the good of thy Church the discharge of my Duty the salvation of my Soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee through Iesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee Bless
tua laudabo glorificabo te per omnes dies vitae meae Tu enim es Deus poenitentium Salvator peccantium Tibi gloria per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Anniversaria O Eternal God and merciful Father with whom do rest the souls of them that die in thy faith and favour Have mercy upon me and grant that my life may be a preparation to die and my death an entrance to life with thee As upon this day it pleased thee to take my dear Father to thy mercy wheâ— I was yet young O Lord he was 〈◊〉 servant thy meek humble faiâ—hful servant and I assure my self he is in rest and light and blessedness Lord while I am here behind in my pilgrimage showre down thy grace upon me Thou hast been more then a Father to me thou hast not suffered me to want a Father no not when thou hadst taken him from me O be pleased to be a Father still and by thy grace to keep me within the bounds of a Sons obedience Thou hast given me temporal blessings beyond desert or hope O be graciously pleased to heap spiritual blessings on me that I may grow in faith obedience and thankfulness to thee that I may make it my joy to perform duty to thee And after my painful life ended bring me I beseech thee to thy joyes to thy glory to thy self that I and my Parents with all thy Saints and Servants departed this life may meet in a blessed glorious resurrection ever to sing praises and honour to thee in and through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Deus meus respice servum tuum miserere mei secundum viscera misericordiae tuae Scandalum ecce factus sum Nomini tuo dum ambitioni meae aliorum peccatis servio Quin hoc licet aliorum suasu oblatrante tamen Conscientia perpetravi Obsecro Domine per misericordias Jesu ne intres in judicium cum servo tuo sed exaudi sanguinem ejus pro me perorantem nec hoc Conjugium sit animae meae Divortium a sinu tuo O quanto satius fâ—isset si vel hujus diei satis memor Martyrium cum Proto-martyre tuo potius perpessus essem negando quod urgebant aut non satis fidi aut non satis pii amici mei Pollicitus sum mihi tenebras peccato huic sed ecce statim evolavit nec lux magis aperta quam ego qui feci Ita voluisti Domine prae nimia misericordia tua implere ignominia faciem meam ut discerem quaerere Nomen tuum O Domine quam gravis adhuc est memoria peccati hujus etiam hodie etiam pâ—st tot toties repetitas preces a tristi confusa anima mea coram te profusas O Domine miserere exaudi preces depressi humiliati valde servi tui Parce Domine et remitte peccata quae peccatum hoc induxerunt sequuta sunt Nam confiteor Domine iterum eodem die revolventis anni nec satis adhuc cautus aut satis humilis factus in aliud grave peccatum incidi lapidatus iterum non pro sed a peccato Nunc plene suscita me Domine ne moriar ultra in peccatis meis sed des ut vivam vivens gaudeam in te per merita miserationes Jesu Christi Salvatoris nostri Amen O merciful God thou hast shewed me much mercy and done great things for me and as I was returning instead of thankfulness I wandred out of my way from thee into a foul and a strange path There thou madest me see both my folly my weakness Lord make me ever see them ever sorry for them O Lord for my Saviours sake forgive me the folly and strengthen me against the weakness for ever Lord forgive all my sins and this and make me by thy grace thy most true humble and faithful servant all the daies of my life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O misericors Pater quo me vertam Qui exeundo revertendo peccavi contra te Abii cum Prodigo pâ—â—digus in longinquam regionem Dissipavi substantiam meam tuam luxuriose Ibi primum sensi omnia consumpta me dignum non meliori quam porcorum consortio Nec tamen aut vita illa immunda aut fames gratiae de reditu ad meliorem frugem vel cogitare fecit Reversum jam ab itinere infausto ecce judicia tua Domine insequuntur me Ignis corripit tecta sub quibus sum vidit enim Deus nec multum distulit sed ignis accensus est in Jacob ira ascendit in Israel Et scelera non dubito mea conflagrationem Collegio minitabantur mihi Nam dum igni extinguendo intentior sum parum abfuit quin ab igne extinguerer Quam ecce misericordia tua Domine vix sine miraculo me flammis â—â—puit Nam dum amica manus astantis me vi quadam amovit eodem instanti ex eodem loco ubi pedem figere decrevi prorupit inclusus ignis in flammas subsidunt gradus ego st ibi invenisset incendium una periissem O peccata mea nunquam satis deflenda O misericordia tua Domine nunquam satis praedicanda O poenitentia nunquam mihi magis necessaria O gratia tua Domine humillime jugiter imploranda Surgo ô Domine Pater ecce venio lento quidem instabili gressu sed venio confiteor peccavi enim in coelum contra te nec dignus sum vocarifilius tuus Sim ô Domine quid vis modo tuus Ablue peccata mea in sanguine Filii tui ut sim tuus Et concede obsecro ut sicut tum terror ita quotidie memoria ignis hujus exurat faeces omnes reliquias peccatorum meorum ut me cautioreÌ„ factum melior ignis charitatis devotionis in amorem tui in odium peccati accendat per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Domine misericors glorificetur beatissimum nomen tuum Ecce enim ego dum pro Officio Regem sequor tui humanorum casuum immemor mihi praefidens infausto in via saltu in terram infidam incidi Tendonem fregi Levatus in curtum Hamptoniam perveni Cruciatus talis fuit qualem nervi sentire solent Et certe in febrem ferventiorem ipse angor conjecisset nisi ingens defluxus sanguinis me ab illo metu liberasset Magna infirmitate laboravi et fere per biennium claudus incessi Infirmitatem aliquam adhuc sentio sed gratiae immortales tibi O beatissima Trinitas usum satis perfectum Crurium dedisti mihi confirmasti praeter omnium expectationem gressus meos Dirigas nunc eos O Domine in viis mandatorum tuorum ut nunquam vel inter te falsum cultum vel inter te mundum claudicem sed recta pergam
the shame for me and God forbid that I should not despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red sea and my feet are upon the very brink of it An argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of Promise for that was the way through which he led his people But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sowre herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sowr herbs as well as the Lamb. And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hands that gathered them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these For men can have no more power over me then what is given them from above S. Iohn 19. 11. I am not in love with this Passage through the Red-sea for I have the weakness and infirmity of flesh and blood plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Ut transiret calix iste that this cup of red wine might pass from me S. Luke 22. 42. But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall most willingly drink of this cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good people that when Gods servants were in this boisterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of blood as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my resolution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I the Imaginations which the People are setting up Nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Ieroboams Calves in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blind lead the blind and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch S. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by thought word and deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges For if they proceed upon proof by valuable witnesses I or any other Innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of the Sentence lie heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the Fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows Before these S. Iohn Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd Woman And S. Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many examples great and good and they teach me patience For I hope my Cause in heaven will look of another die then the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against S. Paul Acts 25. 8. For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i. e. Religion And like that of S. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i. e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say Do I then compare my self with the integrity of S. Paul and S. Stephen No far be that from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is memorable that S. Paul who helped on this accusation against S. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself S. Iohn 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our Place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come And see how just the judgment of God was They crucified Christ for fear lest the Romans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects aud Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by honour and dishonour by good report and evil report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in his Kingdom and that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the Many could not or would not do Justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger many an innocent man and pluck his blood upon their