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
intent that they may return into the way of Righteousness Grant I beseech thee unto me and all them that are admitted into the Fellowship of Christs Religion that we may eschew those things which are contrary to our profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Domine Salvator qui habes in potestate peccatum solvere dicas mihi oro Exi de vinculis tuis Exide nexibus peccatorum tuorum dicendo solve funes errorum meorum quibus circumdatus ligatus sum Etsi enim nequissimus sim omnium detestabilis usu peccatorum te tamen jubente liber ero Amen LOrd give me grace that I may dwell under the defence of the most highest and that I may abide under thy shadow O thou Almighty For thou art my hope and my strong hold in thee will I trust through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God thou which declarest thy Almighty power most chiefly by shewing mercy and pity Give unto me abundantly thy grace that I running to thy promises may be made partaker of thy heavenly treasure through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God thou art my hope and strength a very present help in trouble Confirm me that I may not fear though the earth be moved and the hills carried into the midst of the sea though the waters thereof rage and swel and the mountains shake at the tempest of the same O be in the midst of my soul and I shall never be moved Amen O Lord look upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to do to those that fear thy Name Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me Amen Almighty God give unto me I beseech thee a full increase of faith hope and charity And that I may obtein that which thou dost promise make me love that which thou dost command through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd I call upon thee in the day of my trouble in the night of my heaviness O deliver me and I will glorifie thee Amen O Lord correct me but with judgement not in thy anger lest thou bring me to nothing And grant that thy correction may amend me and make me thine through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Respice me quoque O Domine Jesu ut propria possim recognoscere peccata fletibus piis culpas solvere Da quaeso lacrymas Petri nolo laetitiam peccatoris Utque hoc fiat Respice tu des ut mihi etiam miserrimo peccatorum aliquis gallus cantet ut liberatus tibi cantem in secula seculorum Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father grand I humbly beseech thee that I may love all those things which thou commandest and desire that which thou dost promise that among the sundry and manifold changes of the world my heart may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen WEDNESDAY O Lord I have sinned and dealt wickedly nay offended in all thine Ordinances Let thy wrath turn from me for I am weak and hear my prayers and deliver me for thine own sake and the merits of my Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen Gracious Father without thee I can do nothing but sin nor can I confess it to have pardon but by thee I was conceived and born in sin And though thou didst wash me from that in the laver of Baptisme yet I have since defiled my self again and by many grievous actual sins have made my self a sinner above all other men considering the great measure of grace that thou hast given me Lord increase thy grace and by it weaken first and then cut off my resistance that I may see and confess and hate and forsake all my sins and find mercy and salvation in the merits of my blessed Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen O Lord early this morning do I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust Hear me O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust O shew me the way that I should walk in this day and all the daies of my life for I lift up my soul unto thee in the mercies of Jesus Christ. Amen Deliver me O Lord from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain But Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee And there let it still continue acceptable in Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen O Lord look upon me in mercy In the greater mercy because the calling and place I am in must give a stricter account to thee Look therefore upon me O Lord 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 which should else overtake me may pass over me then look and say unto my soul I have forgiven thee and by the work of thy mercy in my soul make me feel it through Iesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour Amen O Domine qui magnos greges perficis parvos per gratiam auges pro amplissima benignitate tua copiose me consolare gregem meum mecum pasce conserva per Jesum Christum summum Pastorem et Salvatorem nostrum Amen O Lord plead thou my cause with them that strive with me and fight against them that fight against me Bring forth the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me Say unto my soul I am thy Salvation Even so Amen Give ear O Lord unto my Prayer and ponder the voice of my humble desires In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me Amen Deliver my soul O God from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue Amen Keep me O Lord thy poor humble servant with thy perpetual mercy And because the frailtie of man without thee cannot but fall preserve me ever by thy help and lead me to all things profitable to my salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord give me such grace as I may seek thee while thou mayest be found and call upon thee while thou art near that I may detest and forsake the wickedness of my wayes and the unrighteousness of my own imaginations that I may return unto thee and thou have mercy upon me in Iesus Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen Teach me thy ways O Lord and I will walk in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy Name Amen Lord I beseech thee grant that thy Grace may
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
whatsoever is desolate therein for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Pro Afflictis O Let the sorrowful sighing of the Prisoners come before thee and according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou them that are appointed to die even for Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Regnum Angliae BEnedic Domine Deus omnipotens Regnum hoc ut sit in eo sanitas castitas victoria virtus omnis gratiarum actio Deo Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto et haec Benedictio maneat super hoc Regnum super habitantes in eo per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Iejunium O Lord the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me up and the rebukes of them which rebuked thee are fallen upon me Therefore I wept and chastned my self with fasting and that was turned to my reproof I put on sackcloth also and they jested upon me they that sate in the gate also spake against me and the drunkards made songs upon me But Lord I make my prayer unto thee I hope in an acceptable time O hear me in the multitude of thy mercies which are in Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen Quadragesima O Lord which for our sake didst fast fourty days fourty nights Give us grace to use such abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness to thy honour and glory who livest and raignest one God with the Father and the Holy Ghost Amen Rogationes STir up I beseech thee O Lord the wills of thy faithful people that they plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works may of thee be plenteously rewarded through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Iejunia quatuor Temporum ALmighty God the giver of all good gifts who of thy divine Providence hast appointed divers Orders in the Church Give thy grace I humbly beseech thee to all those which are to be called to any Office and Administration in the same and so replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine and innocence of life that they may faithfully serve before thee to the glory of thy great Name and the benefit of thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Consecrationes Ordinationes O Lord I am now at thy Altar at thy work keep me that I lay not my hands suddenly upon any man lest I be partaker of other mens sins but that I may keep my self pure in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord give me grace that as oft as they shall come in my way I may put them in remembrance whom I have ordained that they stir up the gift of God that is in them by the putting on of my hands through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grant O Lord I beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy Governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee let thy continual mercy cleanse and defend thy Church And because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee keep thy Houshold the Church in continual godliness that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in good works to the glory of thy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Exilium LOrd send me not to the waters of Babylon that I may have no cause to weep when I remember Sion that no mans cruelty may lead me away captive nor no mans scorn call upon me to sing in my heaviness But that in my Country where I learnd to serve thee I may live to honour thee all the daies of my life even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Martyrium LOrd make me remember the bones of thy Saints how they lie scattered before the pit even as when one heweth wood upon the earth O Lord mine eyes look unto thee in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul. And if my bones also must be broken O Lord I beseech thee give me courage and abundance of patience that no torment may make my faith fall away from thee for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Eucharistia Quaecunque ab Infantia usque ad momentum hoc sciens vel ignorans intus vel extra dormiens vel vigilans verbis factis vel cogitationibus per jacula Inimici ignita per desideria cordis immunda peccavi tibi miserere mei dimitte mihi per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Almighty God and most merciful Father give me I beseech thee that grace that I may duely examine the inmost of my heart and my most secret thoughts how I stand before thee Lord I confess all my sins and my unworthiness to present my self at thine Altar But thou canst forgive sin and give repentance do both Gracious Father and then behold I am clean to come unto thee Lord make me a worthy receiver of that for which I come Christ and remission of sin in Christ And that for his own mercy sake and thine Amen O Lord into a clean charitable and thankful heart give me grace to receive the blessed Body and Blood of thy Son my most blessed Saviour that it may more perfectly cleanse me from all dregs of sin that being made clean it may nourish me in faith hope charity and obedience with all other fruits of spiritual life and growth in thee that in all the future course of my life I may shew my self such an ingrafted member into the Body of thy Son that I may never be drawn to do any thing that may dishonour his Name Grant this O Lord I beseech thee even for his merit and mercy sake Amen O Lord God hear my prayers I come to thee in a stedfast faith yet for the clearness of my faith Lord enlighten it for the strength of my faith Lord encrease it And behold I quarrel not the words of thy Son my Saviour's blessed Institution I know his words are no gross unnatural conceit but they are spirit and life and supernatural While the world disputes I believe He hath promised me if I come worthily that I shall receive his most precious Body and Blood with all the benefits of his Passion If I can receive it and retain it Lord make me able make me worthy I know I can no more die eternally then that Body and Blood can die and be shed again My Saviour is willing in this tender of them both unto me Lord so wash and cleanse my soul that I may now and at all times else come prepared by hearty prayers devotion and be made worthy by thy grace of this infinite blessing the Pledge and Earnest of eternal life in the merits of the same Iesus Christ who gave his Body and Blood for me Amen Almighty God unto
not return till we have destroyed them O gird us with strength unto the Battail that we may smite them that they may not be able to stand but fall under our feet And when thou hast thus blessed us make us fall down at thy feet and ever worship thee through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen O make the wars to cease in all the world break the Bow and knap the Spear in sunder and burn the Chariot in the fire that men may be still and know that thou art God that thou wilt be exalted among the heaâ—hen and in the earth Amen Lord be not far off put us not to confusion but go out with our Armies and prosper them that we may not turn our backs upon our Enemies while they that hate us spoil our persons our honour and our goods O sell not us thy poor people for nought make us not a rebuke to our insolent neighbours nor a scorn to them that are round about us Our confusion by reason of our sins is daily before us and the shame of our face hath covered us But Lord we humbly beseech thee forgive us our sins and deliver us for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Hast thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our Hosts O help us against the Enemy for vain is the help of man O Lord help us Amen O Almighty God King of Kings and Governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our Enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son our Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen Almighty God who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their Enemies We give thee praise and thanks for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed We acknowledge it thy great goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them And we humbly beseech thee to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord bless the King all his Commanders under him and all his Souldiers Cover all their heads his especially in the day of Battail Teach all their hands to warre their fingers to fight And bless all the Guides and Conductors of his Armies under him with wisdom and courage and faithfulness watchfulness and diligence and whatsoever else may lead on good success And set a happy end we humbly beseech thee to all these Bloody distractions and restore Peace and preserve Religion in integrity among us even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Paupertas O Lord when thou makest inquisition for blood remember and forget not the complaint of the Poor Arise O Lord God and lift up thy hand forget not the Poor Take his cause into thy hand for he commits himself unto thee and thou art the helper of the friendless O be so still even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O praise the Lord ye that fear him and magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the Poor he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him O bow down thine ear and hear him still O thou holy one of Israel Amen I am poor and needy O God make haste unto me Thou art my helper and my deliverer O Lord make no long tarrying Amen Dolor LOrd turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery The sorrows of my heart are inlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles Look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sins through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Hear my crying O God give ear unto my prayer from the ends of the earth whither soever thou shalt cast me I will call upon thee when my heart is in heaviness O set me upon the Rock that is higher then I to be my hope and a strong tower against my oppressors Amen Save me O God for the waters are entred into my soul. I stick fast in the deep mire where no stay is I am come into deep waters and the streams run over me They that hate me without a cause are more then the hairs of my head and they which would destroy me causless are mighty O let not these water-floods drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me Hear me O Lord for thy loving-kindness is great turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies Hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble but draw near unto my soul and redeem it for Iesus Christ his sake Amen My soul melteth away for very heaviness comfort thou me according to thy word Amen O Lord trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon meâ— patience good Lord that for all this my delight may be in thy Commandments Amen Infamia O Lord my sins have made me a rebuke to my neighbours and to be laughed to scorn of them that are round about me O suffer me not longer to be a by-word among the people My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face hath covered me The voice of the slanderer and blasphemer hath overtaken me And though all this be come upon me suffer me not O Lord to forget thee or to behave my self frowardly in thy Covenant through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Destroy their tongues O Lord and divide them for I have seen cruelty and strife in the City But I will call upon thee O Lord and thou wilt save me Amen O Lord send down from heaven and save me from the reproof of them that would swallow me Send out thy mercy and truth for my soul is among Lions I lie among the children of men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword O deliver me and I shall magnifie thy Name for ever Amen I am become a Monster to many but thou art my sure trust O be my Anchor for ever Amen O remember Lord the rebuke that thy servant hath and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people O remember me Amen Vis. O Lord the ungodly laid wait for me to destroy me yet make me the more thankful and the more careful to consider thy testimonies Amen O Lord they draw nigh that of malice persecute me therefore be thou nigh at hand to
viam testimoniorum tuorum curram quum dilatasti cor meum Oro itaque ne differas vel dilatationem cordis vel confirmationem pedum in semitis justificationum tuarum per propter Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Eternal God and my most merciful Father as this day the fury of the enraged multitude was fierce upon me and my house to destroy me and to pillage it it pleased thee in mercy to preserve both and bring some of them to shame and punishment I have sinned many ways against thee O Lord and this was a loud call of thine and a merciful to bring me to repentance which I beseech thee give me grace to hear and obey But what I have done to hurt or offend them that should stir up this rage against me I know not Lord in thy mercy look down upon me fill my heart with thankfulness for this great deliverance and suffer me not to forget it or the Examination which I took of my self upon it And as for them and their like let them not have their desire O Lord let not their mischievous imaginations prosper against me nor their fury lay hold upon me lest they be too proud and lest I end my wearie days in misery Yet forgive them O Lord for they know not why they did it And according to thy wonted mercy preserve me to serve thee and let the same watchful Protection which now defended me guard me through the remainder of my life And this for thine own goodness sake and the merits of my Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee look down upon me in this time of my great and grievous affliction Lord if it be thy blessed will make mine Innocency appear and free both me and my Profession from all scandal thus raised on me And howsoever if thou be pleased to trie me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me full patience proportionable comfort contentment with whatsoever thou sendest and an heart ready to die for thy Honour the Kings Happiness and this Churches Preservation And my zeal to these is all the sin humane frailty excepted which is yet known to me in this particular for which I thus suffer Lord look upon me in mercy and for the merits of Iesus Christ pardon all my sins many and great which have drawn down this Judgment upon me and then in all things do with me as seems best in thine own eyes and make me not only patient under but thankful for whatsoever thou dost O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father after long imprisonment I am now at last called to answer I most humbly â—eseech thee to strengthen me through this Tryal to preserve the patience with which thou hast hitherto blessed me through this affliction Suffer no course language or other provocation to make me speak or do any thing that may mis-become my person mine age my calling or my present condition And Lord I beseech thee make me able to clear to the world that Innocency which is in my heart concerning this Charge laid against me Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O merciful Lord I have had a long and a tedious Tryal And I give thee humble and hearty thanks for the wonderful strength that I have received from thee in the bearing up of my weakness Lord continue all thy mercies towards me for the storm gathers and grows black upon me and what it threatens is best known to thee After a long Tryal I am called to answer in the House of Commons and that not to Evidence but to one single man's report of Evidence and that made without Oath What this may produce in present or in future thou knowest also O Lord furnish me with patience and true Christian wisdom and courage to bear up against this drift and send not out thy storms to beat upon me also but look comfortably upon me to my End in and through the merits of Iesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Prayers added since the restoring of this Book to me which was taken from me in a search by Mr. Prinne May 31. 1643 and with much difficulty restored unto me Nov. 6. 1644. O Domine ad Adventum tuum secundum paratus sim ne talem me non invenias qualem voluisti invenire qui omnia pro me passus es ut invenires talem cui non supplicia inferres sed praemia redderes sempiterna Amen O Domine cum Christi adjutorio sic agere studeam ut te tam pium Dominum non solum hospitem recipere possim sed etiam perpetuum habitatorem habeam per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O AEterne Deus auxilium tuum imploro ut veram discretionem et perfectam charitatem praestare mihi pro tua pietate digneris cui est gloria imperium cum Patre Spiritu Sancto in secula seculorum Amen O Domine misericors qui tanta mihi beneficia concessisti des insuper mihi cum omni humilitate fidem rectam tenere charitatem integram cum omnibus hominibus conservare mundo corde casto corpore tibi Domino meo servire usque ad finem vitae serio laborem ut post labores desiderabilem illam vocem audire possim Euge serve bone intra in gaudium Domini tui Amen Meditationes praeparantes ad Mortem O Lord quicken and comfort my soul for I have sinned against thee Lord I call to mind all the years of my life past in the bitterness of my soul for my sin My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be thou merciful unto my sin O for thy Names sake be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen Namely and especially O Lord be merciful unto me c. Herein O Lord be merciful unto thy servant O Lord lay not these nor the rest unto my charge O let the depth of my sin call up the depth of thy mercies of thy grace Lord let it come that where my sin hath abounded grace may supeâ—abound Lord I believe help thou my unbelief O Lord though thou kill me yet will I put my trust in thee Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil For I hope verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living O let this Cup pass from me nevertheless if it may not pass from me but that I must drink of it thy will be done Thou art the Lord do what seemeth good in thine own eyes For I will take it as the Cup of Salvation and give thanks to thy Name O Lord. O Lord grant that all the dayes of my appointed time upon earth I may wait when my Changing shall come O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave and keep me secret until thy wrath be past and appoint
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
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
thy Holy Catholick Church wheresoever spread upon the face of the whole Earth Good Lordâ— purge it from all Atheisme Heresy Schisme Superstition Factious maintenance of Groundless Opinions that one Faith one Lord one Baptisme may in all places be uniformly professed as thy Church is and can be but one And grant Good Lord that I may be and continue a faithful living and a working member under Christ the Head in that Church the Body all the dayes of my life and through the hour of my death through the Merits and by the Grace of the same Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen O Merciful God bless this Particular Church in which I live make it and all the members of it sound in Faith and holy in Life that they may Serve thee and thou Bless them through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd bless our most gratious Soveraigne treasure up in Him all thy hidden Blessings make him and keep him a devoted Servant to Thee a constant Patron of the Church and Truth that He may live long and be full of honourable success all his daies in his Person in his Actions in his Queen in his Children in his Servants in his People and crown'd with Glory after life and in that good time that shall be best both for Him and Us make him a joyful Father of happy and successful Children Under him bless the whole State Ecclesiastical and Civil that Righteousness and Peace may kiss each other and we serve and honour thee for ever Amen GOod Lord bless all the places to which thou hast made me have any nearer Reference the place where I was borne c Every Soul contained in any of these All my Friends Kindred Acquaintance any unto whom thou hast made me any way beholding especially my nearer and my bosom Friends Dr c. All those c. Lord I beseech thee forgive me and them all our sins and continue us thy servants both in Life and Death Amen GRacious Father bless my Servants and make them thine Give them Grace to serve thee first then me with Faithfulness Soberness and Diligence Make me ever willing and in some measure able to repay unto them the time and the strength which they either have or shall spend to do me Service even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord bless all the Afflicted members of the body of thy Son wheresoever howsoever afflicted Send them constant Patience or speedy Deliverance as seems best to thee and is best for them according to their several wants and necessities whatsoever particularly c. And do unto them according to all those mercies which I would or should desire thou shouldst shew to my own Soul if at any time thou shalt be pleased to make my estate as their's is at this present And O Lord be merciful Amen BLessed Father bless all sorts of men in their Particulars mine Enemies with the Forgiveness of sins Turn their hearts that they may no longer hate thy Servant and if they will not be turned deliver me not over I beseech thee into their Power And next after the Salvation of my Soul I humbly beg it deliver me not into the hands of men to the shame or scorne of the World Amen O Domine Jesu Da quod jabes jube quod vis Facias animam meam paratam in adventum tuum veni quando vis Des mihi ad minimum sufficientem si placet pacatissimam patientiam veni quomodo vis O Tu qui Salus es omnium sperantium in Te. Et in super interpone obsecro O Domine Jesu Mortem Crucem Passionem Meritum Sanguinem tuum inter Iudicium tuum Animam meam nunc semper praecipue in hora mortis meae Quae mors obnixe precor nunquam sit subitanea nunquam adveniat inveniat me imparatum nunquam ita adveniendo saeviat quin ut retineam Fidem Spem Charitatem memoriam intellectum Sanum usque ad extremum halitum Et esto mihi in Deum Protectorem Des peccatis meis Misericordiam Veniam Ecclesiae tuae Pacem Concordiam mihi peccatorum primo Gratiam in hac vita Gloriam in futura Ita ita venias O Domine Jesu miserere mei Amen Lord here I am do with me as seems best in thine own eyes only give mee I humbly beseech thee a Penitent and a Patient spirit to expect thee Amen Lord make my Service acceptable to thee while I live and my Soul ready for thee when I die Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. SUNDAY O Lord by thy mercy I am risen out of my Grave where I might have slept in death but that thou preservedst me Make it I beseech thee a Resurrection to Grace in this Life and to Glory in the Life to come through Iesus Christ who merited both for us Amen This day by the Resurrection of thy Son our blessed Saviour was made Holy to us Give me that Grace that I may keep it Holy to thee through Iesus Christ. Amen O send out thy Light anâ— thy Truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy Hill and to thy Dwelling that I may goe unto the Altar of thee O my God even the God of my joy and gladness and give thanks unto thee Amen Almighty and everlasting God who governest all things both in Heaven and Earth Mercifully hear my supplications for my selfe and all thy people grant us thy peace all the days of our life even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Almighty God I humbly beseech thee give me grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the Armour of light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Christ Iesus came to visit us in great humility that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead I with all thy faithfull servants may rise up to the life immortal through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Blessed God which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning Grant unto me and all Christians that we may in such wise hear read mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort thereof we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting Life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen Lord I humbly beseech thee raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us that whereas by our Sins we are sore let and hindered thy bountiful Grace and Mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may â—peedily deliver us To whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory world without end Amen Lord let thine Angels tarry round about
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
thy peace rise in thy power raigne in thy glory for thy only beloved son's sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen HEar O Lord consider my complaint hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips and prevent me in mercy before the Evening of my daies close up upon me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Domine Oro te ultra se infirmitas mea non tendat sed loquatur hoc solum in quo animae salus est Neque in id stultitiae simul impietatis unquam erumpam ut omnipotentiae tuae Sacramentorum arbiter esse velim Neque permittas me erigere infirmitatis meae sensum ultra aut infinitatis tuae religiosam opinionem aut significatam mihi aeternitatis tuae fidem Amen Illumina quaeso Domine tenebras nostras totius noctis hujus insidias a me omnibus fidelibus tuis ab animabus praecipue sed a corporibus nostris repelle propitius per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O God which hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass mans understanding Pour into my heart such love towards thee that I obeying thee in all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that I can desire through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ENcline thine ear unto me O Lord and hearken unto my words Shew thy marvellous loving-kindness thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee Keep me as the apple of thine eye and hide me under the shadow of thy wings even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I cry unto thee let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as Incense and the lifting up of my hands be an Evening Sacrifice even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen The Lord is my Strength and my Shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for joy and in my song will I praise him Amen O Lord of all power and might who art the Author and giver of all good things Graft in my heart the love of thy Name increase in me true Religion nourish me with all goodness and of thy great mercy keep me in the same through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd let me know my end and then umber of my daies that I may be certified how long I have to live Behold thou hast made my daies as it were a span long and my age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Domine Mea omnia meipsum tibi dono offero actionem sermonem quietem silentium Tantum me habeas duÌ„cas manum mentem linguam ad ea quae honesta sunt tibi grata moveas ab omnibus a quibus abstinere praestat abducas Per propter Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen TUESDAY LOrd preserve me that neither this day nor any day of my life I may walk in the counsel of the ungodly stand in the way of sinners or sit down in the seat of the scornful but that my delight may be in thy Law O Lord and my exercise in it day and night Amen O Sol Iustitiae Pater Origo omnium tuo sydere afflari reviviscere â—est tuo foveri lumine proficere est tuis accendi flammis perfici est absâ— te deseri perire est O ter felices quibus mitis roscidus exoreris Bees me O Domine Jesu lumine tuo discute nebulas ignorantiae meae caliginem peccatorum meorum ut non aberrans a via mandatorum tuorum te sequar in lumen aeternum per teipsum unicum Salvatorem Redemptorem meum Amen O Lord thou art my Assurance I humbly beseech thee preserve my foot from taking even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord give me I beseech thee the spirit to think and do alwayes such things as be rightful that I who cannot be without thee may by thee be able to live according to thy will through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I lift up my soul to thee my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me Shew me thy waies O God teach me thy paths Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee is my hope all the day long Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and offences of my youth or my riper age but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord of thy goodness and the merits of Iesus Christ my Saviour Amen Almighty God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves Keep me I beseech thee both outwardly in my body and inwardly in my soul that so I may be defended from all adversity which may happen to my body and from all evil thoughts which my assault and hurt my soul through Iesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen HEarken unto my voice O Lord now I cry unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me My heart hath talked of thee Seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my Salvation Amen At Evening Morning and at Noon day will I pray and that instantly Lord hear my voice O deliver my Soul in peace from the practises that are against me Amen Let thy merciful ears O Lord be open to the prayers of me thy humble servant and that I may obtain my petitions make me to ask such things as shall please thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd let me not be confounded for I have called upon thee O how plentiful is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sons of men Lord I trust in thee have mercy upon me My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me Where is now thy God But let them have no cause to say it any more even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen ALmighty God which shewest to all men that are in errour the light of thy truth to the
alway prevent and follow me and make me continually to be given to all good works through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen HAve mercy upon me O God after thy greatâ— goodness and according to the multitude of thy Mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin For I acknowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me But let not this Evening take from me the light of the Sun of Righteousness Iesus Christ my Saviour Amen O Domine exaudire dignare preces meas in beneplacito tuo Inâ—micum ab actibus meis cogitationibus virtute tua expelle Multiplica mihi fidem guberna mentem spirituales cogitationes concede super stratum vigilanti ad beatitudinem tuam perducito per Jesum Christum Filium tuum Salvatorem nostrum Amen Lord I beseech thee give me grace to avoid the infections of the Devil and with a pure heart and mind to follow thee the only true God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd I offer up unto thee my Evening Sacrifice thy Sacrifice even a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart which thou wilt not despise in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Domine supplex te oro respice me purga mentem meam cogitationes meas ab impuris concupiscentiis ab omni inquinamento carnis spiritus ab omni diabolica operatione per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Domine ineffabilem misericordiam tuam clementer ostende simul exue me a peccatis quae commisi eripe me a poenis quas merui per Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O God for as much as without thee I am not able to please thee grant that the working of thy mercy may in all things direct and rule my heart through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord give me that grace that I may remember thee upon my Bed and think upon thee when I am waking Thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow of thy wings I will hope to pass through the darkness of this night in the comfort of Iesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen O Lord make mine eyes prevent the night watches that I may be occupied in thy words Amen O Lord thou which hast made the night for man to rest in as well as the day to labour Grant dear Father that I may so take my bodily rest that my soul may continually watch for my deliverance out of this mortal life And that my sleep be not excessive according to the insatiable desires of the flesh but sufficient to relieve and maintain nature to live and serve thee in all sober and godly conversation through the aid and assistance of Iesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour Amen THURSDAY O Hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not Amen Subveni Domine mi Jesu accingere gladium tuum circa femur Potentissime Omnium Potentissime egredere Occide me in me ut vivam in te desinant inimici persequi me Amen O God thou art my God early will I seek thee My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is O satisfie this thirst with thy freshest waters of comfort in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord have mercy upon me I have waited for thee Be thou my arm in the morning and my help in the time of trouble that I may exalt thy Name which dwellest on high that I may live in the stability of thy times and that thy fear may be my treasure even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Almighty God and merciful Father grant I beseech thee that as I do believe thy only Son our Lord to have ascended into the heavens so I and all thy faithful Servants may in heart and mind thither ascend and with thee continually dwel Amen O God the King of glory who hast exalted thine only Son Iesus Christ with great triumph into thy Kingdom in heaven I beseech thee leave neither thy Church nor my poor self comfortless but send us thy Holy Ghost to comfort us and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before who liveth and raigneth with thee one God world without end Amen HEar my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my petition Take heed unto me and hear me how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed Give me strength and comfort in thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God the proud are risen against me and the Congregation of factious men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes But thou Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long suffering plenteous in goodness and truth O turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me shew some token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Assist me mercifully O Lord in these and all other my supplications and prayers and dispose my ways towards the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life I may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Deliver me from them whose words are softer then butter when they have war in their heart And from them whose words are smoother then oyl while they are very swords Lord I cast my burthen upon thee that thou mayst sustain me and not suffer me to fall for ever Amen Bless me O Lord when thou chastenest me and teachest me in thy law that thou mayst give me patience in time of adversity till the pit be digged up for the ungodly O Lord fail me not neither forsake me for I am part of thine Inheritance in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty and merciful God of thy bountiful goodness keep me from all things that may hurt me that I being ready both in body and soul may with a free heart accomplish those things that thou wouldest have done through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O AEterne Deus quamdiu hic in terris sum supplex oro in quantum terrena mihi serviunt doceant me esse Dominum suum sed a te constitutum In quantum molesta sunt doceant me servire â—ibi Domino meo cui dum non obtempero illa in justam vindictam molesta esse solent Ut sive illa mihi serviant sive non ego semper serviam tibi in per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Hold not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened
but have mercy upon me that soon for I am come to great misery Help me O God of my salvation O deliver me and be merciful unto my sins for thy Names sake Amen Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the praise and that for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake Amen O tu unus Deus Pater Fili Sancte Spiritus qui unitam Deitatem nobis declarasti sacrosanctae solius Divinitatis indivisam gloriam revelasti et perfectam Trinitatis tuae sempiternitatem demonstrasti Da mihi obsecro fidem et obedientiam in hac vita gloriam in futura per propter Redemptorem nostrum Jesum Christum Amen O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy poor servant that prayeth O turn me again O God shew the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen Tibi gloria tibi gloria Domine Quanta apud te clementiae abyssus quanta patientiae copia En qui nominis tui praetextu ex ignobilibus obscuris clari illustres effecti sunt honore abutuntur contra te qui honorem largitus es audenâ—que non audenda in sacro sancta mysteria tua injurii Probos quantum possunt extrudunt ut homines perditis moribus praediti summa cum quiete licentia conturbent omnia O Domine exurge adjuva Ecclesiam tuam ne sinas animam meam in eorum Consilium descendere per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord I will cry day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thine ear unto my calling for my soul is full of trouble and my life draws nigh unto the pit O let not thine indignation lie too hard upon me neither vex me with all thy storms But remember of what mould thou hast made me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Domine ne sit mihi inutilis pugna verborum sed incunctanâ—is fidei constans professio Conserva oro in me fidei incontaminatam religionem Et usque ad excessum spiritus mei hanc conscientiae meae vocem dona mihi ut quod in regenerationis meae symbolo baptizatus in Patre Filio Spiritu Sancto professus sim semper obtineam Ut te habeam Patrem ut una tecum Filium tuum adorem Spiritum Sanctum tuum promerear per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord be merciful unto me and I will sing praises unto thy Name yea I will tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season O bless me and fulfill all thy works of grace in me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Dona mihi Domine mentem vigilem cogitationem sobriam cor castum somnum placidum ab omni diabolica imaginatione liberum Et deinde excita me Domine hora Orationis ut praeceptis tuis firmiter adhaeream memoriam retineam in violatam judiciorum tuorum Amen LOrd remember thy promise unto thy servant wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust That thy statutes may be my songs in the house of my pilgrimage and that I may remember thy Name in the night season Amen In manus tuas Domine commendo animam corpus meum creasti enim redemisti ea Domine Deus veritatis Commendo autem mecum et mea omnia tu enim mihi gratiose largitus es illa pro beneplacito tuo In pace ergo me simul cubare dormire facias ô Domine qui solus me habitare facis secure per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O omnium Domine effector O Deus tuorum Pater Gubernator O vitae mortis arbiter O Animarum Custos Benefactor O qui omnia facis tempestive atque ut ipse pro sapientiae tuae administrationis altitudine nosti artifice sermone transmutas me opportuno tempore tuo suscipe tamdiu in carne vitam meam moderatus quamdiu conducibile fuerit mihiipsi Ecclesiae Et suscipe quaeso ob metum tuum paratum non turbatum nec in extremo die terga vertentem nec invito animo tanquam abstractum aut avulsum a mundo sed ut prompte alacriter ad beatam illam aeternam vitam proficiscentem quae est in Christo Jesu Domino nostro cui gloria in secula seculorum Amen O Domine Deus meus voca me ut accedam ad te firma me ne recedam a te per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen SATURDAY O Lord I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercy in the morning for thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of my trouble Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my defence and my merciful God Amen The glorious Majesty of thee O Lord my God be upon me prosper thou the work of my hands upon me O prosper thou my handy-work Amen O Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy Commandments from me For thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellors Lord continue that favour to me that so they may ever be Amen O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day I fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do alwayes that which is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O My soul wait thou still upon my God for my hope is in him he is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall So Amen Lord Iesu Amen O Lord God be mercifull unto every one that prepares his whole heart to seek thee O Lord God the God of his Fathers though he be not according to the Purification of the Sanctuary Amen O Lord I walk in the midst of trouble I beseech thee refresh me Stretch forth thy hand upon the fury and the cunning of mine enemies that thy right hand may save me O make good thy loving-kindness towards me and despise not I beseech thee the work of thine own hands Amen I deal with the thing that is lawful and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors Amen O make me thy poor servant still to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Almighty God the fountain of all wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking I beseech thee to have compassion upon my
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
humillime peta verbo exemplo quibus pâ—aesum proficere Ut una cum Grege mihi credito ad vitam perveniam sempiternam per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Deus mi Pater clementissime gratia tua ita in me operetur ut sim humilis in recusando omne magnâ—m ministâ—â—ium subditus tamen in suscipiendo â—idelis in servando stâ—enuus in exequendo iâ— regendo populo vigilans in corrigendo vehemens in amando aâ—dens in sustinendo patiens in moderando prudens ut proiis quibus praesum Deo me interponam consulenti opponam iâ—ascenti in fiducia meritis Jesu Christi Salvatoris nostri Amen O Lord as the rain cometh down from heaven and returns not thither but waters the Earth and makes it bud and bring forth that it may give seed to the sower and bread to him that eateth So let thy Word be that goeth out of my mouth let it not return to me void but accomplish that which thou wilt and prosper in the thing whereto thou hast sent it that the people committed to my charge may go out with joy and be led forth in peace to thy freshest waters of comfort in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Son of God thou which takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon me in this heavy Charge Amen Rex O Lord grant the King a long life that his years may endure as many ages Furnish him with wise and safe Counsels and give him a heart of courage and constancy to pursue them O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness for him that they may preserve him so will I alwaies sing praises unto thy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord hear the King in the day of his trouble that thy Name O God of Iacob may defend him Send him help from thy Sanctuary and strength out of Sion Grant him his hearts desire fulfill all his mind Set his heart firm upon thee and upon other things but as they are in and from thee that we his Servants under thee may see with joy that thou helpest thine Anointed and that thou wilt hear him from thy holy Heaven even with the wholsome strength of thy right hand And O Lord close not mine eyes till I see thy favour shine ouâ— upon him even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Ecclesia O Lord we humbly beseech thee to keep thy Church and Houshold continually in thy true Religion that they which do lean only upon hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power And that I may humbly and faithfully serve thee in this thy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Gracious Father I humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholick Church fill it with all truth in all truth with all peace Where it is corrupt purge it where it is in error direct it where it is superstitious rectifie it where any thing is amiss reform it where it is right strengthen and confirm it where it is in want furnish it where it is divided and rent asunder make up the breaches of it O thou holy one of Israel Amen O merciful God since thou hast ordered me to live in these times in which the rents of thy Church are grievous I humbly beseech thee to guide me that the divisions of men may not separate me either from thee or it that I may ever labour the preservation of truth and peace that where for and by our sins the peace of it succeeds not thou wilt yet accept my will for the deed that I may still pray even while thou grantest not because I know thou wilt grant it when thou seest it fit In the mean time bless I beseech thee this Church in which I live that in it I may honour and serve thee all the daies of my life and after this be glorified by thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou hast brought a Vine out of Egypt and planted it thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land O why hast thou broken down her hedge that all which go by pluck off her grapes the wild boar out of the wood rooteth it up and the wild beasts of the field devour it O turn thee again thou God of Hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this Vine and the place of the Vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self Lord hear me for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord except thou buildest the house their labour is but lost that build it and except thou O Lord keep the City the Watchman waketh but in vain It is but lost labour to rise early and take late rest and to eat the bread of carefulness if thou bless not the endeavours that seek the peace and the welfare of thy Church Therefore O Lord build thy Church and keep it and take care for it that there may be no lost labour amoâ—g the builders of it Amen O Lord our God the great the mighty and the terrible God O thou which keepest covenant and mercy let not all the trouble seem little before thee that hath come upon us upon our Priests upon the Houses built and dedicated to thy Name upon the Maintenance for them that serve at thy Altar upon our Kings State and People since that day of affliction Thou art just in all that is brought upon us For thou hast done right but we have done wickedly Yet O Lord have mercy and turn to us again for Iesus and his mercy sake Amen Respublica O Lord thou which bringest the counsels of the Heathen to nought and makest the devices of the people to be of none effect and castest out the counsels of Princes when they have offended thee Have mercy upon this Kingdom forgive the sins of this People turn thee unto them and bless them that the world may say Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Iehovah and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his Inheritance Lord hear and grant for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Lord bless this Kingdom that Religion and Virtue may season all sorts of men that there may be Peace within the Gates and Plenty within the Palaces of it In Peace I beseech thee so preserve it that it corrupt not In War so defend it that it suffer not In Plenty so order it that it riot not In Want so pacifie and moderate it that it may patiently and peaceably seek thee the only full supply both of Men and States that so it may continue a Place and a People to do thee service to the end of time through Iesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Lord according to all thy righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger be turned away from this City and thy People and cause thy face to shine upon
Enemies threaten But there is mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared O Lord shew us this mercy and give us grace so to fear thee as that we may never be brought to fear or feel them And whensoever thou wilt correct us for our sins let us fall into thy hands and not into the hands of men Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and most gracious Father we have deserved whatsoever thy Law hath threatned against sinners Our Contempt of thy Divine Worship is great and we hear thy Word but obey it not Forgive us O Lord forgive us these and all other our grievous sins Give us light in our understanding readiness and obedience in our will discretion in our words and actions true serious and loyal endeavours for the peace and prosperity of Ierusalem the unity and glory of this Church and State that so we may love it and prosper in it and be full of grace in this life and filled with glory in the life to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O most merciful God we give thee praise and thanks for the wonderful ceasing of the late raging Pestilence in the chief City of this Kingdom and other places Lord shew us yet faâ—ther mercy and look upon all parts of this Land with tender compassion Keep back the destroying Angel that he enter not into places that are yet free nor make farther waste in those which are already visited Comfort them that are sick preserve them that are sound receive them that die to mercy that living and dying they and we may continue thy faithful servants through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O most gracious God and loving Father we have felt thy manifold mercies no Nation more and we have committed sins against thee few Nations greater Enter not into judgment with us O Lord but for Christ and his mercy sake pacifie thine anger and save us from the malice and cruelty of our Enemies They are our crying sins that have called them upon us Let it be an addition to thy wonted mercy to restrain their fury To this end Lord pâ—t thy bridle into their mouths and thy bit between their teeth Frustrate their designesâ— and let them find no way in our Seas nor any path in our Floods but scatter them with thy tempest follow them with all thy storms that we being delivered by thy hand may bless and honour thy Name devoutly serving thee all our daies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou gracious Governour of all the Kingdoms of the Earth Look down we beseech thee in mercy upon this Realm upon all other Reformed Churches Save and deliver us and them from the hands of all such as threaten our destruction Protect the person of our Gracious Soveraign direct his Counsels go forth with his Armies be unto him and to us a wall of brass and a strong tower of defence against his and our Enemies that so we being safe through thy mercy may live to serve thee in thy Church and ever give thee praise and glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father all peace and strength of Kingdoms is from thee and lineal Succession is thy great blessing both upon Princes and States the great means to preserve unity and confirm strength We therefore give thee humble and hearâ—y thanks as for all thy blessings so especially at this time for thy great mercy and loving-kindness to our dread Soveraign his Royal Queen and this whole State in giving her Majesty hope of her long desired Issue thereby filling their and our hearts with gladness Lord go along with thine own blessings to perfect them Be with her in soul and in body preserve her from all dangers Keep her safe to and in the hour of Travel that there may be strength to bring forth her Joy and our Hope And make her a joyful Mother of many Children to the glory of thy great Name the happiness of his Majesty the security of this State and the flourishing of the Church and true Religion amongst us Grant this even for Iesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father since lineal Succession is under thee the great security of Kingdoms and the very life of Peace We therefore give thee most humble and hearty thanks for the great blessing which thou hast again begun to work for our Gracious King CHARLES and this whole State in giving the Queens Majesty further hopes of a desired and happy Issue And as we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this so we pray thee to perfect this great blessing thus begun to preserve her from all dangers and to be with her by special assistance in the hour of Travel Lord make her a happy Mother of succesful Children to the increase of thy glory the comfort of his Majesty the joy of her own heart the safety of the State and the preservation of the Church and true Religion among us Grant this even for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen O most merciful God gracious Father thou hast given us the joy of our hearts the contentment of our souls for this life in blessing our dear and dread Soveraign and his vertuous Royal Queen with a hopeful Son us with a Prince in thy just time and his to rule over us We give thy glorious Name most humble and hearty thanks for this Lord make us so thankful so obedient to thee for this great mercy that thy goodness may delight to encrease it to us Encrease it good Lord to more Children the prop one of another against single hope Encrease it to more Sons the great strength of his Majesty and his Throne Encrease it in the Joy of his Royal Parents and all true-hearted Subjects Encrease it by his Christian and happy Education both in Faith and Goodness that this Kingdom and People may be happy in the long life and prosperity of our most Gracious Soveraign and his Royal Consort And when fulness of daies must gather time Lord double his Graces and make them apparent in this his Heir and his Heirs after him for all Generations to come even for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen O most gracious God and loving Father we give thee as we are bound most humble and hearty thanks for thy great mercy extended to us and this whole State in blessing the Queens Majesty with a happy Deliverance in and from the great pains and perils of Child-birth We humbly beseech thee to continue and encrease this Blessing to give her strength that she may happily overcome this and all dangers else that his most Gracious Majesty may long have joy in her happy life that she may have joy in his Majesties prosperity that both of them may have comfort in the Royal Prince
Charles the new-born Princess the Lady Mary and with them in a hopeful healthful and succesful Posterity that the whole Kingdome may have fulness of joy in them and that both they and we may all have joy in the true honour and service of God that both Church and Kingdom may be blessed and their Royal Persons filled with honour in this life and with eternal happiness in the life to come even for Iesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father we give thee all humble and hearty thanks for our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles both for the gentleness of thy hand in a disease otherwise so troublesome and fearful And for the mercifulness of thy hand in taking it off so soon and so happily We know and acknowledge before thee our sins and what grievous punishments they have deserved But Lord we beseech thee still to remember us in mercy and long to bless our Gracious King with life and healâ—h and strength and happiness and above all with the fear of thy holy Name that so he may continue under thee and over us a Father of the State a Patron of the Church a Comfort to his Royal Queen till he see his Childrens Children and peace upon Israel Grant this good Lord even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Most gracious God and loving Father we give thee all humble and hearty thanks for thy great mercy in blessing the Queen's Majesty with a happy Deliverance in and from the great pains and peril of Child-birth We humbly beseech thee to continue thy mercies towards her that she may happily overcome this and all other dangers that his most Gracious Majesty may long have joy in her most happy life both of them comfort in the Royal Prince Charles the rest of their Princely Issue particularly in the new-born Prince the Duke of York that they all may prove a healthful hopeful and a succesful Posterity that both Church and Kingdom may have fulness of joy in them That their Majesties Royal Persons may be filled with honour in this life and with eternal happiness in the life to come And this even for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father by whom alone Kings reign thou Lord of Hosts and giver of all Victory we humbly beseech thee to guard our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles to bless him in his Person with health and safety in his Counsels with wisdome and prudence and in all his Actions with honour and good success Grant blessed Lord that Victory may attend his designes and that his liege People may rejoyce in thee but that shame may cover the face of thine and his treacherous Enemies Give him blessed Father so to settle his Subjects in Peace and the true fear of thy Divine Majesty that he may return with joy and honour and proceed long to Govern his Kingdoms in peace and plenty and in the happiness of true Religion and Piety all his daies These blessings and whatsoever else shall be necessary for him or for our selves we humbly beg of thee O merciful Father for Iesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father by whom alone Kings reign thou Lord of Hosts and Giver of all Victory We humbly beseech thee both now and ever to guide preserve our most gracious Soveraign Lord King CHARLES To bless him in his Person with health and safety in his Counsels with wisdom and prudence and in all his Actions with honour and good success especially against those his Traiterous Subjects who having cast off all Obedience to their Anointed Soveraign do at this time in Rebellious manner invade this Realm Grant Blessed Lord that Victory may attend his Majesties designs that his Liege People may rejoyce in thee but that shame may cover the faces of thine and his treacherous Enemies Enable him blessed Father so to vanquish and subdue them all that his Loyal Subjects being setled in Peace and the true fear of thy holy Name he may return with joy and honour continue to Govern his Kingdomes in peace and plenty and in the happiness of true Religion and Piety all his daies These blessings and whatsoever else shall be necessary for him or for our selves we humbly beg of thee O merciful Father for Iesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Redeemer Amen Quotidie O Lord forgive me all my sins that are past O Lord strengthen me against all Temptations especially the Temptations of c. O Lord fill my heart with thankfulness and I do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for the great deliverance of me from the rage and fury of the Multitude O Lord let the same wings of thy merciful protection be spread over me all the daies of my life O Lord give me a faithful a patient a penitent a persevering heart in thy service that so I may with comfort daily nay hourly expect when my Changing shall come So Amen Lord Iesu. Amen Absolutio OUr Lord Iesus Christ who hath left power to his Church to Absolve all sinners which truely repent and believe in him of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences And by his Authority committed to me I Absolve thee from all thy sins In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Admissio in Ecclesiam GOd who of his mercy hath given you grace to give your self to his Church Preserve aud keep you in his Truth free both from Superstition and Prophaneness The Lord bless and keep you The Lord make his face shine upon you and be merciful unto you The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace in Conscience and constancy in Truth And by the power of Ministration committed to me by our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ I Readmit you into the Fellowship of his Church in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen His Grace's Speech according to the Original written with his own hand and delivered by him upon the Scaffold on Tower-hill Jan. 10. 1644. to his Chaplain Dr. Sterne now Lord Arch-Bishop of York Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12.2 Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God I have been long in my Race and how I have looked unto Iesus the Author and Finisher of my Faith he best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I find the Cross a death of shame But the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Iesus despised
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