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A19962	Every-dayes sacrifice Wherein are comprehended many comfortable prayers and meditations, very necessary for all Christians. Also, many comforts for the sicke which are afflicted by the sight of their sins and the terrour of death; written by D. M. Luther, a little before his end. With most true comforts out of holy Scripture of the knowledge we shall haue of one another in the world to come. Translated by, W.R.S.	W. R. S., fl. 1624.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 6398; ESTC S114714	51,362	282

through Christ thou wouldst forgiue mee all these my sins and poure thy holy Ghost into my heart that I may constantly abide in a godly life All which grant vnto mee for thy deare Sonnes sake Iesus Christ my Lord and Sauior Amen Another prayer to our Lord Iesus Christ the euerlasting Son of God for grace and forgiuenesse O My deare Lord Iesus Christ I confesse vnto thee from the bottome of my heart with great sighing that I am alas a poo●e sinner conceiued and home in sinne and iniquity to haue liued wickedly against thee and thy holy Word with vngodly and vnthankefull heart for which I am heartily sorry But I am comfored in my heart that thou wilt not the death of a sinner which thou hast sworne and confirmed with an oath That thou wilt not be angry with me for euer nor yet for euer punish mee Thou dost call and entice all them that are weary oppressed comfortlesse sorrowfull bearts and consciences to thee and thy holy Word and namest thy selfe A heauenly Physicion which takest vpon thee our woes and miseries wherein wee through sinne are fallen and bringest to vs thy euerlasting helpe and refreshing by Preaching of thy holy Gospell wherewith wee may be holpen for euermore vpon such thy gracious promises come I to thee and pray thee from the bottome of my heart O my Lord God and Sauiour to be mercifull to me poore sinner like as thou hast promised such mercy for the loue of thy owne grace merits Amen Lord Iesus Christ Amen The Lords Prayer contained in a short forme ABba deare Father wée thy vnworthy children call vpon thee in the name of thy beloued Sonne Iesus Christ through thy holy Ghost vphold vs by thy holy Word giue vs honest and true Teachers and Preachers to distribute the same amongst vs Release vs quickly out of the Diuels kingdome bring vs to thy Kingdoom of Grace and to euerlasting life And giue vs thy holy Spirit that wee as the Angels of God may liue holily according to thy will and pleasure Nourish blesse and preserue our households Wiues Children and Seruants in this life couer our trespasses and of fences and giue vs a louing heart to forgiue all those that haue offended vs. Let vs not consent vnto sinne nor fall from thy onely Word of saluation but keepe vs from the euill Fiend and from all his deceites Thou art a most mightie King powerfull to rule thou canst and wilt grant vs all these things For which wee will giue thee thankes and praise thee for euer Amen A Prayer wherein the confession of our Christian Faith is simply contained wherewith a man may cal vpon God for st●engthening of his faith O Almightie and euerlasting God which art a Father of all grace and mercy and a God of all comfort for vs poore sinners which I and all Christians through reuealing of thy Word doe acknowledge and beleeue for certain Therefore doe I land honour and praise thee deare Father of heauen for such thy vnspeakable loue wherewith thou hast graciously had respect to vs thy enemies transgressors of thy commandements and damned creatures Namely in that thou hast not spared thy onely Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ who is equall with the God head and with the holy Ghost Especially that thou hast let him bee incarnate for our sinfull nature and doings with our actuall misdeeds and howsoeuer we haue thereby deserued and into manifold horrible reproches and finally to yeeld himselfe to the shamefull death of the Crosse And so of pure fatherly loue hast ordained him a Lambe to carry my sinnes and the sins of the whole world vpon the Crosse and to be a perfect Oblation therefore and dost proffer proclaime and promise the same throughout the whole world commandest also the same to be beléeued vpon paine of losing euerlasting saluation for thereby and by no other meanes must it onely bee applyed and impropriated to me and to all the faithfull and to bée our owne Therefore deare Father do I constantly beleeue according to the same reuealing of the holy Gospell all this same and doubt not thereof any thing at all as I thy Childe am bound and will doe not respecting my vnworthinesse In Christ thy onely Sonne are all my sins and all which beleeue and boldly trust vnto it sufficiently punished corrected spent and through his perfect obedient death of the Crosse all killed and taken away And that I am and also all Christiās through such faith planted in the Kingdome of thy deare Sonne as the holy Scripture saith by whom we haue redemption through his bloud namely remission of sinnes I beleeue also verily that in the death of Christ thy deare Sonne my death is ouercome that it shall neuer hurt mee nor consume mee into damnation as the Scripture saith Christ hath ●a●ed of death for all hath taken into his power and brought to lighten vntransitory life and being through his Gospell I beleeue also that the destroying of ●●ell which was done by thy deare Sonne is destroyed and torne asunder for mee and all faithfull that the same cannot consume or deuoure mee nor any of the right beleeuers as the Scripture saith ●●ll where is thy victory And in another place The gates of Hell shall not preuaile against the right Beleeuers And The Prince of this world is iudged I beleeue also that thy Commandements with all the power thereof which they haue haue no more right ouer mee although I cannot absolutely keepe them For the Lord Christ thy deare Sonne hath through his obedience perfectly kept the same for mee and taken from them the right and interest which they had in mee wherewith thou almighty Euerlasting and Merc●full God and Father art satisfied I beleeue also that the resurrection of Christ thy deare Sonne is a new life vnto mee and to all faithfull vnto euerlasting life Finally I beléeue also as the Scripture saith that hee is ascended into Heauen and hath taken rule on the right hand of his Father and answereth for me and al the faithfull that hencefoorth the Diuell and all his power is taken must bee subiect and lie at the feete of mee and all the Faithfull Therefore I pray thée O Lord GOD thou infinite Fountaine of all grace that through the power working of the Holy Ghost thou wilt giue mée such faith and acknowledging this day and lawaies to the end of my life And I pray thee also my Lord Iesus Christ which art true and perfect GOD with the Father and the Holy Ghost forasmuch as thou hast put thy selfe vnder the tyranny of the Law which by reason of sinne it had towardes mee and all mankind and hast taken on thée my sinne Death Hell and damnation which I by all reason right and rigour thereof should haue borne that thou wilt help to still and pacifie these great misdeedes betwéene GOD our heauenly Father and mee especially in my conscience which continually disquieteth mee through the power

of God of the Holy Ghost which thou hast promised to send vs from the Father 〈…〉 so said 〈◊〉 m●● 〈…〉 ●●●ek th●● bu● th●●● 〈◊〉 the● Thou art the onely euer last 〈◊〉 ●●vas●parable truth There 〈◊〉 do I s●edfastly beleeu● by knowledge of the S●●ty●u●e● that thou art to m●●●●●●●o all Ecleeuers a 〈◊〉 h●pnest a seat of Grace and A●uacate so thy heauenly Father and I beleeue ve●rily notwithstanding that reason is astonished thereat that through no other Oblation workes or meanes either in Heauen or on Earth our sinnes Death Hell and damnation is ouercome and taken away and we at agreement with God thy heauenly Father but onely through thee Iesus Christ whereon I will trust and also die thereon Thereto helpe thou me thou deare God Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Amen O LORD Iesus Christ which with the Father and the Holy Ghost a●● one vnseparable Essence and a Fountaine of all Grace I thanke and praise thee al●waies that thou hast also reuealed vnto mee thy grace for my better comfort as thou hast endued thy dea●e Mother Mary and also other Saints with great grace and wrought wonderfull workes in them I pray thee therefore heartily to look vpon on mee with the eyes of thy mercy as thou diddest looke vpon the euill doer which was hanged vpon the Crosse by thee and diddest open his heart that hee confessed his sinnes and was mightily afraide of them but yet despaired not but confessed desired thy grace and mercy which thou gauest to him willingly and plentifully Also Saint Peter which denied thee and Mary Magdalen in her sinfull liuing And hast also respected Mathew the Customer in open estate Saint Paul a raging and earnest persecutour of Christians Also in the old Testament Dauid King Manasses the Tyrant and other sinners more which thou didst bring to repentance and confession of their sins and of pure loue grace and mercy which thou didst reueal vnto them by thy holy Word hast placed them with thee in thy Kingdome Therfore dear God and mercifull Father will I strengthen my self so much the more and doubt nothing thereof These and other godly people of worth which thou of thy grace hast taken out of this sinfull life to righteousnes are a comfort and example to mee and all beléeuing Christians that thou wast mercifull to them and so wilt be to me and to euery sinner which repents according to thy owne pure loue which the holy Ghost through faith in the Gospell worketh in vs both gracious and mercifull and grants vs a happy end in such acknowledging of thy Name Which help thou me with and all Christians dear God Father Sonne and holy Ghost which art in three inseparable persons one only and euerlasting GOD for euer Amen Heer follow certain Praiers to call vpon God for strengthening of our faith O LORD ●ESUS CHRIST strengthen mée also with thy holy Spirit in my feare and quaking And admonish me that I thinke vpon thy sacred Wounds in my last end And let not thy holy and bitter Passion bee lost on mee poore sinner thou which art therefore come that thou maist destroy the Diuels worke and pay and counterpoize my sinnes with thy hard and painfull labor and thou which hast sworne Thou wilt not the death of a sinner Strengthen my weak faith and kéep mee through thy Spirit of grace and of praier vnto a happy end Amen A Prayer O Lord Iesus Christ I confesse vnto thée my great and manifold sins and the righteous wrath of God and euerlasting punishment which I haue deserued But I comfort my self with the great loue and pure mercy of thy Father and pray thee séeing thy bloud is more than the sinnes of the whole world and thou art our Mediatour and Aduocate that thou wilt bee Intercessor for mee to thy Father that my faith doo not diminish and that I neuer despaire of thy mercy for my sinnes Amen A Praier O Lord Iesus Christ increase my faith and trust in thée that I despair not of thy gracious mercy nor in my greatest sin perish in vnbeleef O Lord preserue for mee thy promised grace in the holy Gospell let it not come out of my heart Thou art my onely comfort and hope stand to me in this my sorrow Let not my poor soule come into the hands of my horrible Aduersary and giue him no power ouer me But shew mee thy goodnes at this present for thou art my Sauiour and Redéemer Amen A Prayer O Lord Iesus Christ I pray thee through thy goodnes and mercy that thou wilt strengthen my soule vpon thy holy way which lyeth before me into thy heauenly and euerlasting Kingdome I beléeue that thou diedst for my sake hast of thy grace and mercy forgiuen mee my sins and that euerlasting life is promised to mee Of this my faith O Lord shall thou be witnes and all thy Elect and in this faith shall bee my last Will to die therein O Lord in thy pure mercy And although I through griefe want of sense or other troubles should fall off from the same yet O Lord let m●e not die in vnbelief and blasphemy but strengthen and increase my faith that neither sinne hell nor diuell hurt me Thou art stronger and of more power than all they whereunto I will trust Lord let me not be confounded Amen A comfort out of holy Scripture against the feare of sinne ESAY 12. Behold God is my saluation I am safe and feare not for God the Lord is my strength my Psalm and my saluation The first Comfort How a man should comfort himself against sin and the just anger of God out of the comfortable promises of the holy Scripture The first comfortable sentence GENESIS 3. The Seed of the Woman shall tread down the head of the Serpent THis is the first Euangelicall Doctrine of the euerlasting Sonne of God in Paradise reuealed vnto the fallen and damned mankinde whereby he might be released againe from death Gods wrath Sinne Hell and power of the Diuell and might obtaine through beliefe in these words Comfort Grace Remission on of sinnes and euerlasting life And with this Promise haue all the holy men comforted themselues vntill Abraham two thousand yéers long for héer doth GOD tell vs that he euen of pure loue and mercy will send vnto vs poore damned sinners his onely and deare Sount borne of a Uirgine to take vpon him mortall and humane flesh and bloud who should with his absolute Obedience and Passion pay the ransome of our sinnes pacifie GOD's wrath kindled by reason of our sinnes destroy Death through his death and with his victory and rising againe restore againe righteousnesse resurrection and euerlastin●g life This comfort should wée conceiue with faithfull harts and bee certaine thereof that the Diuels workes are destroyed for o●r sakes and all his power taken away that wee neuer néed to bée afraid of sinne death hell or God's anger but through Iesus Christ our Lord true God and

neither goods f●iends riches mony or gold nor any other temporall matter or thing wherein he had peraduenture héere to fore put his trust can counsell or help yet hath he heere by Christs word a sure and certayne comfort and a powerfull counsell whereby hee shall bee r●ght and well yea prosper and bee holpen for euermore This dee the poore Christians acknowledge in 〈◊〉 Therefore when they should depart out of this miscrable life and leaue all that is temporall they doe take hold of this happie comfort and counsell of the holy Gospel in their hearts and die therein happily Thus Saint Peter comforted himselfe Iohn 6. Thou hast the word of life And the Apostle Saint Paul in the first chapter of his Epistle to the Romans The Gospel of Christ Iesus is the power of of God to saluation to all that beleeue How a man should comfort him selfe against sinne and Gods iust indignation Other general comfortable sentences ESAY 1. IF your sinnes were redde like blood yet shall they bee white as Snow and if they were like purple they shall be like wooll Esay 2. The Lord will not iudge according to the sight of his eies nor punish according to the hearing of his eares But will with righteousnes iudge the poore Esay 6. Thou kéepest continuall peace according to sure promise for man relyeth vpon thée Therefore rely you vpon the Lord alwaies for God the Lord is an euerlasting Rocke Esay 27. God is not angry with me Esay 38. Thou hast heartily accepted my Soule that it perish not for thou hast cast all my sins backward behind thee Esay 40. Comfort my people saith your God speake faire to leru ●ale●r and preach to her that her warrefare is at air end her misde●des are pardoned for shee hath receiued double from the hands of the Lord for all her sinnes Esay 44. Israel d ee not forget mee I driue away thy misdeeds like a cloud and thy sinnes like a mist Turne thee vnto me for I haue red●emed thee Reioyce yee Heauens for the Lord hath done it Esay 53. Hée was wounded for our misdeeds and beaten for our sins The punishment was laid vpon him that we might haue peace and through his wounds are wee healed Esay 53. Through his knowledge shall my righteous Seruant make many righteous for he beareth their sinne Esay 64. Thou Lord art our Father and Redeemer from the beginning hitherto that was thy name Esay 66. I haue respect to the wretched and him that is of a lowly spirit which is afraid of my Word ●zechiel 33. So sure as I liue I will not she death of a sinner but that hée turne from his wickednesse and liue Dan. 9. In the Lord our God is mercifulnesse and forgiuenesse Zachary 9. Thou redeemest also through the bloud of thy Couenant thy Prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water Micheas 7. Who is such a God as thou art which forgiuest sins and releasest misdeeds Ierem. Hée is mercifull hee will take pitty on vs againe put downe our wickednesse and cast all our sins into the bottome of the Sea Ionas 4. I know that thou art gracious mercifull long suffering and of great goodnesse and repentest thée of euill Psal 13. I hope vpon thée because thou art so merciful my heart reioyceth that thou so willingly helpest Psal 25. The Lord is good and gracious therefore directeth hée sinners vpon the right way Psal 22. I said I will confesse my trans ressions vnto the Lord and thou forgauest mee the inquity of my sinne Psal 31. I rejoyced and was glad in thy goodnesse that thou didst consider my misery and know my soule in his need Iohn 3. God hath sent his Sonne into the world not to iudge the world but that the world through him might bee saued Whosoeuer beléeueth on him shall not bee iudged Iohn 3 Like as Moses sifted vp the Serpent in the Wildernesse so must the Sonne of man bee lifted vp to the end that all which beleeue in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life Iohn 1. This is the Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the world Iohn 6. This is the will of him which sent mee that whosoeuer looketh on the Son and beléeueth in him hath euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last day Iohn 6. Verily verily I say vnto you whosoeuer beleeueth on mee hath euerlasting life Math. 1. The Angell saith of Christ Hée shall saue his people from their sinnes Mathew 9. I am come to call sinners to repentance and not the righteous Luke 24. Thus it is written and so must Christ suffer And in his name doe they preach Repentance and forgiuenesse of sins amongst all people Acts 4. There is no other saluation nor any other name giuen to mankinde whereby they should be saued Acts 10. Of Christ doo all the Prophets witnesse that through his Name all they which beléeue in him should receiue remission of sinnes 1. Tim. 1. This is a true and worthy Saying that Iesus Christ is comne into the world to saue poor sinners 1. Tim. 2. There is one GOD and one Mediatour betwirt God and man namely the Man Christ Iesus who gaue himself for vs to the redemption of all 1 Iohn 2. If any man sinne we haue an Aduocate with GOD the Father Iesus Christ who maketh vs righteous and hee is the atonement for our sinnes 1 Iohn 4. GOD hath loued vs and sent his Son for a reconciliation of our sins 1 Peter 2. Christ hath offered vp our sinnes himselfe with his body vpon the Crosse to the end we might be frée from sinne and liue vnto righteousnesse through whose wounds you are healed 1 Cor. 1. Christ is made to vs from God for righteousnes glory and redemption 1 Thes 5. GOD hath not appointed vs to wrath but to attaine saluation through our Lord Iesus Christ which died for vs. 1 Pet. 1. Ye are not redéemed with transitorie siluer or gold but with the most precious bloud of Christ like a guiltlesse and vnspotted Lamb. 1. Iohn 1. The bloud of Iesus Christ maketh vs cleane from all sinne Mat. 9. Be comforted my sonne thy sins are forgiuen thée The second comfort against sin and the right wrath of God out of examples of holy Scripture BEsides these mercifull promises God hath caused many comfortable examples to bee written in the sacred Scriptures how hee hath taken the greatest sinners to mercy when they haue méekely acknowledged and confessed their sinnes belieued in Iesus Christ and amended their liues and all for the comfort of vs poore sinners For when sinne and Gods wrath is rightly felt in our harts some man is somtimes so troubled therewith that no comfortable Sayings will enter into the heart but hée thinks alwaies Ah! GOD speaks not of such great sinners as thou art But that the mercifull God not onely promiseth forgiuenes of all great and manifold sinnes but sheweth also indéed what sinners and wicked people hee

mee out of my troubles Looke vpon mine aduersitie and miserie and forgiue me all my sinnes O kéepe my soule and deliuer mee let mee not be confounded for I haue put my trust in thée The Lord is my light and my saluation whom then should I feare The Lord is the strength of my life of whom then should I bee afraid Though an hoast of men were laide against mee yet shall not my heart bee afraide and though there rose vp war against mee yet will I trust in him O hide not thou thy face from mée cast not thy seruant off in displeasure Thou art my succour leaue me not neither forsake me O God my Sauiour The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hopeth in him In thee O Lord is my trust let mee neuer bee put to confusion Bowe downe thine eare to mee make haste to deliuer mee Thou art my strong hold and my castle O bee thou my guide and leade mee for thy Names sake Into thy hands I commend my Spirit deliuer me O Lord God of truth O Lord consider my trouble and know my Soule in aduersitie My hope is in thee O Lord thou art my God Shew mee the light of thy countenance help me for thy mercies sake Let mee not be confounded O Lord for I call vpon thée Thou art my defence in the trouble that is come about mee O compasse thou mee about also with the ioy of deliuerance Striue thou with them O Lord that striue with mee fight thou against them that fight against mee and stand vp to helpe me Awake Lord and stand vp auenge thou my cause my God and my Lord. Thou art my helper and redéemer make no long tarrying O my God Arise O Lord help me and deliuer mee for thy mercies sake Haue mercie vpon mee O Lord after thy goodnesse and according to thy great mercies do away mine offences For I acknowledge my faults and my sinne is euer before me Against thée onely haue I sinned and done euill in thy sight Cast mee not away from thy presence Heare my prayer O Lord and hide not thy selfe from my Petition Take heede vnto mee and heare me and preserue my soule Fearefulnesse and trembling are come vpon mee and an horrible dread hath ouerwhelmed me Bee mercifull vnto me O God bee mercifull vnto mee for my soule trusteth in thee and vnder the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge Heare my crying O God giue heede vnto my prayer for thou art my hope a strong Tower for mee against the enemy Take mee out of the myre that I sinke not Heare mee O Lord and turne thee vnto me according vnto thy great mercie I am poore and in miserie haste thée O God for to helpe mee For thou art my helpe my Redéemer and my God oh make no long tarrying In thee O Lord is my trust let me neuer bee put to confusion For thou art the thing that I long for thou art my hope euen from my youth Forsake mee not O Lord when my strength fayleth mee for mine enemies that lay white for my soule take their counsell together Go not farre from mee O my God my God hast thee to helpe mee O remember not mine iniquities but haue merey vpon me and that soone Helpe me O Lord my Sauiour for the glorie of thy Name O deliuer mee and forgiue mee my sinnes for thy Name sake Comfort the soule of thy seruant for thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercie vnto all them that call vpon thee In the time of trouble I call vpon thee turne to me haue mercie vpon mee giue thy strength to thy seruant Thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercie long-suffering great in goodnesse and truth The snares of death compassed mee round about the paines of hell gat holde vpon me I found trouble and heauinesse O Lord deliuer my soule Thy mercie O Lord endureth for euer despise not the worke of thine owne hands Enter not into Iudgement with thy seruant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man liuing be iustified Bring my soule out of trouble for I am thy seruant A Prayer O My God my Lord and Father now shew vnto my poore soule that she may perceiue that thou art my strong rock castle shield tower defence hope succour refuge defender and goodnes that I in this great trouble for mine enemies through thy godly grace helpe and assistance may bee preserued Lord in thee I put my trust let me not bee put to confusion Into thy hands I commend my spirit deliuer mee Lord God of truth Amen A Prayer O Father receiue againe the thing which thou hast created O Sonne receiue the thing which thou hast gouerned O Holy Ghost fetch the thing which thou so bountifully hast preserued Three persons and one verie God I beséech you remember not mine offences for euer For I crie Lord God and Father mercie Lord God Sonne mercie Lord God Holy Ghost mercie Amen When thou departest from a sicke person say vnto him IN your trouble and necessitie call vnto the Lord and crie vnto your God and hée will heare your voice and your crying commeth before him in his eares And God which called you vnto his eternall glorie by Christ Iesu shall his owne selfe after you haue suffered a little affliction make you perfect shall settle strength stablish and saue you To him be glory and dominion for euer and euer FINIS