THE PROTESTANT's Crums of Comfort CONTAINING I. Prayers and Meditations with Ejaculations for every day in the Week and other occasions II. Thanksgivings for Deliverances from Popery Tyranny and Arbitrary Power III. The Rebellion in Ireland and Massacre of Paris IV. The Learned Bishop Usher's Prophecy concerning Ireland and the Downfall of Rome V. Advice to the late Besieged in London-Derry under that Reverend Divine and valiant Commander Coll. George Walker Ilustrated with Pictures sutable to each particular Occasion London Printed by W. W. for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane 1690. Defenders of y e Protestant Religioâ— Q. Elizabeth K. William K. James Q. Mary II. of Sam. XXIII v. 3. He that ruleth ore men must be just ruling in y e fear of God Licensed December 16th 1689. To the Honourable The Lady P. T. Madam WHere true Piety inhabites Charity always â—ims a Priviledge in â—owning Religious Actions â—d like the good Samaritan â—ords the Oil of relief to the â—ounds of the distressed Such tender Compassion alâ—â—ys attends the Great and â—st of whom Madam you â— a perfect Pattern your â—…nty has been unlimited to 〈…〉 distressed and afflicted to 〈…〉 Fatherless and the Widow â—…t even Commiseration it self has been your daily delight and practice Divine Souls like yours can never be free from humblâ— Addressers which creates â— Prâ—sumption in me to lay thâ—… Tract at your Laâ—â—ships Door where I humbly conceive yoâ— will honour it so far as 〈◊〉 take it into your Closet That Heaven may prospâ—… you with length of days here and reward you with a Croâ—… of Glory hereafter is tâ—… hearty Prayer of Madam Your most obedient Servanâ— G. W. THE Protestant's Manual OF PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS When we first awake O God thou art my God early will I seek thee I will sing of thy power â—…d will praise thy Mercy becomes in the Morning for â—…ou hast been and wilt be 〈…〉 defence and refuge in the â—…y of my Trouble A Prayer for the Morning O Eternal God whose Providence has protected mâ— the night past brought me tâ— the beginning of this day defend me O Lord in the same by thy Almighty power anâ— grant that this day I fall into nâ— Sin neither run into any kinâ— of danger but that all mâ— doings may be ordered by thâ— Governance to do alwayâ— that which is righteous in thâ— sight through Jesus Christ. II. I praise thy Name thâ—â— thou hast still continued to 〈◊〉 the opportunity of servinâ— thee and advancing my hopâ— of a blessed Eternity preserâ—â—â—â— me this day from all violence and snares of my Enemies visible and invisible keep me from all pride self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and dissimulation and let the graces of thy holy Spirit take an absolute possession of my Soul and all its faculties that I may finally tread down Satan under my Feet all this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Evening ALmighty God I praise and magnifie thy holy Name for thy preservation of me this day and all the days of my Life for unless thy Mercy had withheld me I had committed more and more grievous Sins and had been overwhelmed by thy just wrath and severest judgments Pardon O Lord I beseech thee the Sins and Offences of my Youth and the irregularity of all my Actions either in thought word or deed II. Let thy Heavenly Grace be present with me that though my Body sleep yet let my Soul be vigilant lest I sleep in Sin and be forgetfull of my Duty towards thee let thy goodness and loving kindness never slip out of my remembrance but so unite my heart unto thee with fervent Charity that whatever I do may redound to thy glory III. Grant that whether I sleep or wake live or dye I may never lose the light of thy Countenance but evermore live in thy favour that escaping from the Darkness of this World I may at last arrive at the Land of everlasting Peace and happiness to behold thy power and glory Amen Meditations for Sunday Morning LEt God arise and let his Enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoak vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the Fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God But let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce before God let them also be merry and joyfull II. O Sing unto God and sing Praises unto his Name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an Horse praise him in his Name yea and rejoyce before him He is a Father of the Fatherless and defendeth the Cause of the Widows even God in his holy Habitation He is the God that maketh Men to be of one Mind in an House and bringeth the Prisoners out of Captivity but letteth the Runnagates continue in scarceness III. O God when thou wentest forth before the People when thou wentest through the Wilderness The Earth shook and the Heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sinaâ— also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel Thou O God sentest a gracious Rain upon thine in heritance and refreshed'st iâ— when it was weary Thy Congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy Goodness prepared for the Poor IV. The Lord gave the Word Great was the Company of the Preachers Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the Household divided the spoil Though ye have liâ—n among the Pots yet shall ye be as the Wings of a Dove that is covered with silver Wings and her Feathers like Gold V. When the Almighty scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon As the Hill of Basan so is God's Hill even an high Hill as the Hill of Basan Why hop ye so ye high Hills this is God's Hill in which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever VI. The Chariots of God are Twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy Place of Sinâ—i Thou art gone up on high â—hou hast led Captivity Captive and received Gifts for Men yea even for thine Enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them VII Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us He is our God even the God of whom cometh â—alvation God is the Lord by whom we escape Death God shall wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy Scalp of such a one as goeth on sâ—ill in his wickedness VIII The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan Mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the Sea That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine Enemies and that the Tongue of thy Dogs may be red through the
arose to Judgment and to help all the meek upon Earth The fierceness of Man shall turn to thy praise and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain Promise unto the Lord your God and keep it all ye that be round about him bring Presents unto him that ought to be feared He shall refrain the spirit of Princes and is wonderful among the Kings of the Earth The Prayer GReat is thy Name O Lord and thy dwelling in the highest Heavens give a deep impression of a dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our Hearts Let thy threatnings and judgments which descend from Heaven and are executed upon stubborn and disobedient People make us loath Sin or the thoughts of it and shun all the occasions and alluring baits of it II. O let thy continued mercies and loving kindnesses be ever in our remembrance and make our Hearts still full of smoothness and tranquillity that we may not fear the rigour of man or the cruel wrath of those whose spirits thou canst refrain lest we be hindred in our duty towards thee but let us so fear to offend thee that we may press forwards from fear to love from apprehensions of thy wrath to the sense and comfort of thy mercies Meditations for Saturday Morning UNto thee O God do we give thanks yea unto thee do we give thanks Thy Name also is so nigh and that do thy wondrous works declare When I receive the Congregation I shall judge according unto right The Earth is weak and all the Inhabitants thereof I bear up the Pillars of it II. I said unto the Fools Deal not so madly and to the Ungodly set not up your Horn. Set not up your Horn on high and speak not with a stiff Neck For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South And why God is the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another III. For in the hand of the Lord there is a Cup and the Wine is red it is full mixt and he poureth out of the same As for the dregs thereof all the ungodly of the Earth shall drink them and suck them out But I will talk of the God of Jacob and praise him for ever All the Horns of the ungodly also will I break and the Horns of the Righteous shall be exalted The Prayer GReat Judge of the whole Universe from whom proceeds all promotion and punishment extend thy Mercy now upon us at the hour of Death and in the day of Judgment when thou shalt judge all the Society of Men and Angels according to Right II. O Give us thy powerful Grace that we may expect thy coming in Humility and perfect Charity and not be puft up and exalted in our Fancies and Imaginations but may submit to thy Will with Meekness and Holy Obedience that when thou shalt pour forth thy Wrath upon the Ungodly we may not be numbered amongst them but partake of those Mercies thou hast provided for those that love and fear thee Amen Meditations for Saturday Noon HAst thee O God to deliver me make hast to help me O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my Soul Let them be turned back-ward and put to confusion that wish me Evil. Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame that cry over me There There II. But let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy Salvation say always The Lord be praised As for me I am poor and in misery Hast thee unto me O God Thou art my Helper and my Redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying The Prayer THou O God art our Deliverer Helper and Redeemer have mercy upon us and all those which serve thee in Sincerity and Truth help us O God against those that seek to destroy our Souls Let our delight be to wait for thy Salvation and to trust in thy never-failing Mercies that our Feet being guided by thy direction we may remain safe under thy Providence II. Suffer us not O thou who art a God of Power and great Glory to be a Prey to our Enemies but dissipate and scatter them as offensive Clouds to the light of thy Gospel Strengthen our Weakness by thy Power pardon our Sins by thy Mercies and justifie our Souls by thy free Grace that we may now and evermore with the humble Addresses of Devotion give thee Praise not only with our Lips but in our Lives through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditations for Saturday Night GOD be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his Countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon Earth thy saving Health among all Nations Let the People praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee II. O let the Nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the Folk righteously and govern the Nations upon Earth Let the People praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the Earth bring forth her Encrease and God even our own God shall give us his Blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the World shall fear him The Prayer O God thou great Governour of all Mankind and judge of the whole Earth have mercy upon us and bless us Thou makest the resplendent Beams of thy unwearied Sun to shine and cast his Lustre upon all corners of the habitable World bestowing his Light both on the Good and Bad. II. Let the blessed Light of thy bright Countenance spread it self to all Nations and to all People Lighten all our Darknesses with the radiant Beams of thy Divine Favour teach thy ways to all People and give thy saving Health to all Nations that all may joyn with one consent to fear thee and praise thy Name for evermore Amen EJACULATIONS UPON Several Occasions Out of the Holy Scriptures In the Morning MY Voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord Early in the Morning will I direct my Prayer unto thee and will look up Psal. 5. 3. My days are like the days of an Hireling Untill the day break and the shadows flie away Job 7. 1. Cant. 4. 6. At going forth The Lord preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth and for evermore Psal. 121. 8. O hold thou up my goings in thy Paths that my Footsteps slip not Psal. 17. 5. Beginning a good Work In the volume of the Book it is written of me I delight to do thy Will O my God yea thy Law is within my Heart Psal. 40. 7 8. In good Inspirations The Lord God hath opened my Ear and I was not rebellious against him Isa. 50. 5. At Church O how amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts Psal. 84. 1. Before Reading Speak Lord for thy Servant heareth 1 Sam. 3. 9. Speaking My Heart is inditing a good Matter I speak of the things which I have made touching the King Psalm 45. 1.
Body Mind or Estate especially those who suffer Persecution for enjoying the Light of thy Gospel and fly into this Land for Succour Hear us O Lord for them and thy whole Church and hear Christ for us all in whose Name and Word we further call upon thee saying Our Father c. A Prayer before the Communion O Merciful Jesu who diedst an ignominious Death upon the Cross for my Sins and didst bequeath in thy last Will and Testament this holy Sacrament for my Souls Nourishment My Sins O Lord are great but I lament my Uncleanness and renounce my Unworthiness II. I come not to thy Holy Table because Worthy but Necessitous I come to be made clean and purged from my Dross and Filthiness thy Body and Bloud can make me Clean thy Merits can make me a worthy Receiver and here is a Conveyance of thy blessed Body and Bloud in this Holy Sacrament Give my Sins thy Pardon my Soul thy Heavenly Grace and what thou dost convey seal unto me for thy alone sake my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen At receiving the Bread Blessed Jesu as thou hast given thy Flesh to be the Bread of Life and Salvation so vouchsafe to work in me by a lively Faith that I receiving the same may evermore continue in thee and thou in me Amen At receiving the Cup. Lord grant that as thy Bloud was shed to wash me a poor Sinner so grant that it may through a lively Faith take effect in me that I may become a fit Member of thee and live and die in thee for ever A Prayer after the Communion GLory Honour and Praise be given unto thee O Lord most Holy for all thy Mercies bestowed upon me I have now been partaker of Bread and Wine Lord make me partaker of thy Body and Bloud The one turns to the Nourishment of my Body but the other with thy Grace is the Nourishment of my Soul II. O let not thy precious Bloud be shed in vain for my Sins but let my hearty Repentance with thy Grace fully purge me from all Uncleanness I have this day been put in mind of the benefit by Christ's Death let me every day learn to die unto Sin and live the Life of the Righteous that at last I may become a new Creature Unto thee O Father my Creator and Preserver unto thee O Christ my Redeemer and Justifier unto thee O Holy Ghost my Sanctifier and Instructer be ascribed all Honour Power and Glory now and for evermore Amen For the Church WE beseech thee O Lord graciously to accept the Prayers of thy Church that she being delivered from all Adversity and Errour may serve thee in safety and freedom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the King and Queen O Lord we beseech thee Bless our Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary by thy Gracious Appointment our supream Governours enrich them with all increase of Vertues whereby they may be able to eschew Evil and to follow thee the Way the Truth and the Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Royal Family We beseech thee O Lord to Bless Catherine the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Grant that they may walk in the ways of thy Holy Commandments all the days of their Lives through Christ our Lord. Amen For the High Court of Parliament O Lord Bless the great Council of the Nation direct The joyfull Coronation of King William and Queen Mary at Westminster Abby April the 11th 1689. April â—he 11th 1689. Their Majesties went from 〈…〉 c-hall to Westminster 〈…〉 Heralds being ready 〈…〉 Peers in the Lords House and the Pâ—eresses in the Painted Chamber so that 〈…〉 even in the Morning Theâ— Majesties and the whâ—… Proceeding were conducted to Westminster-hall where a Throne being erected 〈…〉 Majesties took Their Seaâ— and after the Ceremonâ— was ended the Proceeding began from Westminster-Hall to the Abby where beinâ—…d in Order the Lord â—ishop of London began â—…th the Recognition which ended with an universal Acclamâ—tion of Joy then the 〈…〉 of St. Asaph and Banâ—r sung the Lâ—â—tâ—ny 〈…〉 ended the Communion Service began the Epistle taken out of the 1. Pet. 2. 〈…〉 17. read by the Bishop oâ— Carlisle the Gospel 〈…〉 22. 16. 22. read by the Bishop of St. Asaph then followed the Sermon by the 〈…〉 of Salisbury whose Texâ— was 2. Sam. 23. 3. 4. 〈…〉 God of Israel said the Rocâ— of Israel spake c. Sâ—â—mon being ended Tâ—… Majesties took the Oath aâ—d were solnmnly anoiâ—…nd 〈…〉 Crowns placed on their Heads by the Lord Bishop of London assisted by 〈…〉 Lord Bishop of Rochestâ— upon which the Drâ—…t the Trumpets sounded the great Guns were fired yet were drowned in a manâ—…y the loud Shouts and â—…lamations of the Peoplâ—… Many other Royal Ceremonies â—as used too tedious to insert in this narrow 〈…〉 About Eight in the Eveâ—ing Their Majesties râ—…d to White-hall and prosper all their Consultations grant that what they do may be to the advancement of thy Glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Sovereign Lord and Lady and their Kingdoms that all things may be so well ordered and firmly settled by their good endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us for all Generations These and all other Necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg for thy Son's sake our Saviour Amen For the Clergy Almighty and everlasting God who by thy Spirit dost sanctifie and govern the whole Body of thy Church Graciously hear our Prayers for all those whom thou hast Ordained and called to the publick Service of thy Sanctuary that by the help of thy Grace they may faithfully serve thee in their several degrees through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Friends I beseech thee O Lord for all those to whom I am indebted for my Birth Education Instruction Promotion their Necessities are known unto thee thou art rich in all things reward them for these Benefits with Blessings both Temporal and Eternal For a Family Almighty and Everlasting God send down thy Holy Angel from Heaven to visit protect and defend all that dwell in this House through Christ our Lord. For a Friend Almighty and Everlasting Lord God have Mercy upon thy Servant N. and direct him by thy Goodness into the way of Eternal Salvation that through thy Grace he may desire those things which please thee and with his whole Endeavour perform the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Peace O God from whom all Holy Desires all good Counsels and all just works do proceed give unto us thy Servants that Peace which the World cannot give that both our Hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the Fear of our Enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the
Merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour In the time of Plague Let thy Anger cease O Lord and be appeased for the inquity of thy People as thou hast sworn by thy self O Holy God Holy and Strong Holy and Immortal have Mercy upon us For a City Compass this City O Lord with thy Protection and let thy Holy Angels guard the Walls thereof O Lord mercifully hear thy People For Grace Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto us thy humble Servants that by thy Holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Enemies O God the lover and preserver of Peace and Charity give unto all our Enemies thy true Peace and Love and Remission of Sins and mightily deliver us from their Snares through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the Afflicted O Almighty God the Afflicted Soul the troubled Spirit crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have Mercy for thou art a merciful God For Travellers Assist us mercifully O Lord in our Supplications and Prayers and dispose the way of thy Servants towards the Attainment of Everlasting Salvation that among all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life they may ever be defended by thy most Gracious and ready Help through Christ our Lord. For the Fruits of the Earth O God in whom we live move and have our Being open thy Treasure in the due Season and give a Blessing to the works of thy Hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Against Temptation Almighty God which doth see that we have no Power of our selves to help our selves keep us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all Evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ. For Misbelievers and Sinners Almighty and Everlasting God who desirest not the Death of a Sinner mercifully look upon all that are deceived by the subtilty of Satan that all evil Prejudice laid aside they may return to the Unity of thy Truth and Love For Temporal Necessities Replenish those O Lord we beseech thee with Temporal Nourishment whom thou hast refreshed with thy Blessed Sacraments Against Tempests Drive spiritual Wickedness from thy House O Lord and preserve it from the malignity of tempestuous Weather For Women in Travel O Lord of thy abundant Goodness and Mercy help thy Servants who are in great pains and perils of Child-birth that being delivered out of their present Danger they may glorifie thy holy Name who art blessed for evermore For the Sick O God the only refuge of our infirmities by thy mighty power relieve thy sick Servants that they with thy gracious Assistance may be able to give Thanks unto thee in thy Holy Church through Jesus Christ. For Prisoners O God who deliveredst thy Apostle Peter from his Chains and restoredst him to Liberty have pity upon thy Servants in Captivity release their Bonds and grant them Freedom and Safety Accept of the hearty Repentance of those that are appointed to dye and save their Souls for his Merits who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God VVorld without end For the Dying Father of all Flesh and God of all Spirits receive the Souls which thou hast redeemed with thy bloud returning to thee A Prayer before Study O unspeakable Creatour who out of the Treasure of thy VVisdom hast ordained Hierarchies of Angels and hast placed them above the highest Heaven in a wonderfull order and disposed them sweetly for all parts of the VVorld thou the true Fountain and incomprehensible Principle of Light and VVisdom vouchsafe to illuminate the Darkness of my Understanding with a Beam of thy Light remove the Darkness wherein I was born Sin and Ignorance thou who makest the Tongues of Infants Eloquent loosen my Tongue and pour forth the Grace of thy Spirit upon my Lips give me acuteness to apprehend capacity to retain subtilty to interpret aptness to learn readiness to speak direct my beginning farther my progression and perfect my conclusion When the Bell tolls for a Dying Person O gracious God be with this Person in the holy operations of thy Grace and in the yearnings of thy tenderest Mercies in the dreadfull Moment when the Soul shall depart from the Body and conduct this thy dying Creature through the Valley of the Shadow of Death unto the Land of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A concluding Prayer Almighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine Ears to us who have now made our Supplications and Prayers unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy VVill may be effectually obtained to the relief of our Necessities and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be with us now at the hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched Life and take me among thy chosen Howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen's sake send me Life and Health that I may truly serve thee II. O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine inheritance O Lord God Save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy True Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name Amen For God's Mercies upon Their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg O Most powerfull and great God mighty in Battel fearfull in praises doing wonders thou hast done mighty things already for us whereof we rejoice O be pleased still to continue thy undeserved Mercies towards us and accomplish what thou hast already begun for us Go forth we humbly beseech thee with our Armies against those who would make a Prey of thy People II. Protect and guide our great Governour and Commander whose Commission is to fight thy Battel Guide him and Counsel him in all his Undertakings and cover his head in the day of Battel cause those that hate thy Name and People to flee before him and scatter them as the dust before the Wind Crown him with Victory and great Success that at the last he may return home in Peace and Safety to thy Glory their Majesties Comfort his own Satisfaction and all the Nation 's happiness this we beg for the Merits of Jesus Christ Amen For Mercy to the whole Nation
Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the Praise for thy loving Mercy and for thy Truths sake Wherefore shall the Heathen say Where is now their God As for our God he is in Heaven he hath done whatsoever pleaseth him II. Their Idols are Silver and Gold even the Work of Mens hands They have Mouths and speak not eyes have they and see not They have Ears and hear not Noses have they and smell not They have hands and handle not Feet have they and walk not neither speak they through their Throat They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their Trust in them III. But thou House of Israel trust thou in the Lord He is â—â—eir succour and defender Ye House of Aaron put your Trust in the Lord He is â—heir helper and defender The Lord hath been mindâ—ull of us and he shall bless â—…s Even he shall bless the â—ouse of Israel he shall bless â—â—e House of Aaron He shall bless them that â—…ar the Lord both small and â—…reat The Prayer ALmighty God whose Dwelling is in the highest Heavens and â—st whatsoever pleaseth thee both in heaven and on Earth give Grace 〈…〉 beavenly Father that in all our â—…ubles and calamities we may put 〈…〉 who le Trust in thee who art our â—…y succour defender and deliver II. Let us evermore praise thy holy Name and never ascribe to our selves any Honour and Glory or Thankâ— of any good Action or prosper oâ— Success but to thee alone who aâ—â— the Author and Giver of all good things Keep us from Idolatry from worshipping vain Imaginationâ— and any thing which is contrary to tâ—â— Gospel Bless us in all our wayâ— that when we go from hence we 〈…〉 inherit thy Kingdom Amen Meditations for Monday Night I Will lift up mine Eyes unâ— the Hills from when cometh my Help My Help cometh even from the Lord which hath maâ— Heaven and Earth II. He will not suffer thy Foâ— to be moved and he thâ— keepeth thee will not sleep Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor â—â—eep III. The Lord himself is thy Keeper The Lord is thy Defence upon the right hand So that the Sun shall not â—urn thee by day nor the Moon by night IV. The Lord shall preserve thee â—â—om Evil Yea it is even he â—hat shall keep thy Soul The Lord shall preserve thy â—oing out and thy coming in â—â—om this time forth for evermore The Prayer O GOD from whence cometh all our Help and Succour preâ—…ve us by thy Power and Providence â—…at nothing either by day or night â—…ay molest our Peace or disturh our â—afety suffer not the Vanities of â—…e one to allure us nor the Terrours 〈…〉 the other to amaze and affright us II. Let our Feet be immoveable anâ— fixed upon the Rock and Foundation Christ Jesus and so dispose of oâ— going out and coming in that â— may not swerve from thy Commandments but walk according to tâ— Holy Rule in all things who art oâ— Lord and Saviour Meditations for Tuesday Morning THey that put their Trâ—… in the Lord shall be evâ—… as the Mount Sion which mâ—… not be removed but standeâ—… fast for ever The Hills stand about Jerusalem even so standeth tâ—… Lord round about his Peopâ—… from this time forth for evâ—… more II. For the Rod of the Ungoâ—… cometh not into the lot of tâ—… Righteous lest the Righteous out their hands unto Wickedness Do well O Lord unto â—hose that be good and true of Heart As for such as turn back unâ—o their own wickedness the â—ord shall lead them forth with the Evil-doers but â—eace shall be upon Israel The Prayer MErciful God our only Trust and Confidence and whosoever â—usteth in thee shall not be removed â—â—t stand fast for ever let thy Powâ—â— and Glory stand round about us â—nd all thy Holy People like Hills â—…r our Protection and Safety that â—…e may be sheltered from our Enemies II. Permit us not to put our hands to Wickedness neither let us partake 〈◊〉 the Lot of the Ungodly whom thou or dainest for Destruction Bâ—… let us receive that Blessing which oâ—… Lord and Saviour hath left 〈…〉 Church even the Peace of God tâ—… Father Son and Holy Ghost 〈…〉 whom be all Honour and Glory Worâ—… without end Amen Meditations for Tuesday Noon WHen the Lord turned again the Captivity 〈…〉 Sion then were we like untâ—… them that dream Then was our Mouth filâ—…ed with Laughter and oâ—… Tongue with Joy II. Then said they among thâ— Heathen the Lord hath doâ—… great things for them Yea the Lord hath doâ—… great things for us already whereof we rejoyce III. Turn thou our Captivity O Lord as the Rivers in the South They that sow in Tears shall â—eap in Joy He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth â—orth good Seed shall doubtâ—ess come again with Joy and â—ring his Sheaves with him The Prayer GRacious God who hast promised Life and Salvation to thy choâ—en Servants and hast wrought â—ighty things for them already â—hereof they rejoyce Deliver us we â—eseech thee from the Slavery and â—etters of Sin and Misery dissipate â—nd scatter all our Enemies which â—ay close Siege to us seeking to destroy us II. Fill our Hearts with ConÌ„tâ—ition â—or having trespassed against thee teach us that Divine Art of Self denial to moâ—tifie our Affection 〈◊〉 our Lust and extinguish aâ—â—â—â—shly Temptations that when thâ— great Harvest shall come â—e may 〈◊〉 admitted as Fellow Labourers 〈◊〉 work in thy Spiritual Kingdom through Jesus Christ. Amen Meditations for Tuesday Night OUT of the Deep have called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my Voice Oh let thine Ears consideâ— well the Voice of my Complaint II. If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done aâ— miss O Lord who may aâ— bide it For there is Mercy with thee therefore snalt thou bâ— feared I look for the Lord my Soul doth wait for him in his Word is my Trust. III. My Soul flieth unto the Lord before the Morning Watch I say before the Morning Watch. O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is Mercy and with him is plenteous Redemption And he shall redeem Israel from all his Sins The Prayer O Blessed Lord who with thy most precious Blood didst pay â—ur Ransom to purchase for us Freedom and Salvation With thee â—here is Mercy and plenteous Redemption O let the height of that Mercy â—ake us out of the bottomless Pit of â—in and Misery II. Be not extream O Lord in marking out what we have done amiss in our Life time but rather blot out thâ— Hand-writing which is against us And as thy boundless Mercy pardonâ— what is past so let the sweetness of iâ— create thy Fear in our Hearts that we may never more dare to offend sâ— gracious and merciful a Saviour aâ— thou art to us Grant this O Lord I beseech thee for thy alone sake Amen Meditations for
O Lord God who art full of Mercy and Compassion to all thy people bless us we beseech thee from all domestick and foreign Enemies that would endeavour to ruine our Souls and betray our Lives Let thy goodness and loving kindness evermore watch over us to defend protect and keep us from all assaults and temptations of the Enemy and grant that we may live sober godly quiet Lives to the glory of thy Holy Name Amen A Short Account OF THE MASSACRE IN Ireland Paris THE Popish Party in Ireland pretending the English unjustly detained their Lands from 'em which were justly forfeited to the Laws by their continual Rebellions and Treasons they did at last resolve to stir up all the cursed Romish Faction to shew their utmost Zeal for the Protestant's Destruction When their business was well laid in their publick Prayers they recommended the good Success of a great Design to advance their Catholick Cause and to stir up the People to act this Villany with the greater Cruelty they publickly discoursed that the English Protestants were Hereticks and not to be suffered to live any longer amongst them that it was no more Sin to kill one of them than to kill a Dog and a mortal Sin to protect or relieve any one of them When their Plot was ripe for Execution they proceeded against the English in divers methods some of the Papists only stripping the Protestants and turn'd them out of doors naked others murdering Men Women and Children without Mercy they all agreed â—o root out all the Protestants The most Reverend Bishop Usher The Irish Rebellion and French Massacre The Downfall of Rome The Massacre in Ireland happened in the year 1641 which by the learned Bishop Usher was predicted in 1601. at which time the Irish and English Papists by all manner of cursed Cruelties murdered near Three hundred thousand innocent English Protestants without the least cause or provocation given them whose bloud yet cries for Vengeance from Heaven against them and which we doubt not but the God of Vengeance will judge in his due time The Massacre of Paris was in the time of bloudy King Charles the Ninth the Papists used divers means to draw the Chief of the Protestants to Paris under pretence of a Marriage between the king of Navarre a Protestant and the Lady Margaret Sister to the French King Admral Coligni a Protestant Gentleman 〈◊〉 invited to the Wedding and in the Evening the Duke of Guise sent for the Captain of the Switzers and shewed him the King's Commission for murdering the Admiral and at midnight the Provosts Sheriffs and Captains of every Ward had the same Commission shewed them the Watch-word for the general Massacre was The tolling of the Bel in the King's Pallace a break of day and that the Executioners should be known by white Handkerchiefs tied on their Arms and a white Cross in their Hats no sâ—oner was the Watch Woâ—â—â— given but they felt to their Barbarity and murdered the Admiral and in two days there was slain in Paris above Ten thousand men women and children Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power being vanquished Rome's Idolatry must expect its downfall the Multitude being got together begun to root out their damnable Religion here in England by falling down burning and demolishing most of Their Chappels and Houses but the utter ruine of Rome will be when she thinks her self most secure as the learned Bishop Usher mentions in his Prophesie in that Kingdom and so great was their violence that they would not permit the English Language to be spoke but punished all that used it they likewise changed the Names of all English Places killing or maiming all sorts of Cattle which belonged to the English Protestants The Popish Priests gave their Sacrament to several Irish on condition they should spare none of the Protestants but wash their hands in their bloud They also Excommunicated those that afforded any Relief so that many were â—â—â—â—ved and perished their Friars and Monks exhorted them with Tears not to spare any of the English and boasted when they had destroyed them 〈◊〉 Ireland they would go into England do the like for they â—â—ld it as lawsull to kill an English Man as to kill a Sheep or a Dog and that it was no more Conscience to deprive them of their Lives and â—sâ—ates than to take a bone from â— Dog 's Mouth The day before this bloudy Massacre the Priests gave them admission after Mass telling them they had now freâ— Liberty to go and take possession of their Lands and 〈◊〉 strip rob and despoil all the English of whatever they had that killing them was a mentorious Act and would preserve them from the pains 〈…〉 Purgatory which cause some of these murtherous Vâ—…lains after they had â—lain multitude of the English puâ—… lickly to boast That if the should die immediately thâ—â— were sure of Heaven and escape Purgatory They then proceeded commit all manner of Cruâ—…ties and Villanies imaginablâ— stripping naked Man Woman and Child driving Eight hundred and odd into a River where they were drowned and put one Hundred and Fifty into a Castle and burned them altogether An Abstract of their Popish Tortures and Cruelties against the Protestants in Ireland and Paris A Protestant Woman being delivered in the Fields they gave the new born Infant to the Dogs to be devoured The Irish Women followed the Camp and stirred up the Men to Cruelty crying Kill them all spare neither Man Woman or Child yea such was their detestable Malice that they taught their Children to kill English Children An Irish Woman was very angry with a Soldier that he did not bring the Grease of a â—at English Gentlewoman who was murdered to make Candles with which they barbarously did in many places By all manner of cursed Cruelties the Irish and English Papists in a short time murdered near three hundred thousand Protestants without the least cause or provocation whose bloud yet crys loud for Vengeance from Heaven against them and doubt not but God will avenge it in his due time Children have been cast to Dogs and Swine to be devoured by them Women great with Child have been hanged up and their Bellies ripped open that the Infant has dropped out and been thrown into a Ditch Youths have had their brains dashedout against Trees and some have been trampled to death Some Infants have been found sucking the Breasts of their dead Mother A great Commander took delight to â—lea off the skins of Men and to Head his Drums with them Some have been driven to a River where the Bridge has been broken down and there drowned if any of them could swim they either shot at them with Musquets or knocked them on the head as they came near the Land Some were put into Dungeons full of mire and dirt and having Bolts put on their Legs there perish'd with hunger Some had their eyes plucked out and their hands cut off and so let go to
same IX It is well seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and my King goest in the Sanctuary The Singers go before the Minstrels follow after in the midst are the Damsels playing with the Timbrels Give Thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the Congregations from the ground of the Heart There is little Benjamin their Ruler and the Princes of Judaâ— their Counsel the Princes of Zabulâ—n and the Princes of Napthali X. Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us For thy Temples sake at Jerusalem so shall Kings bring Presents unto thee When the Company of the Spear-men and multitude of the Mighty are scattered abroad among the Beasts of the People so that they humbly bring pieces of Silver and when he hath scattered the People that delight in War Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt the Morians Land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God The Prayer MOst gracious God who art â— Father of the Fatherless and pleadest the Cause of the Widoâ— have Mercy upon thy holy Catholick Church and since her Lord is â—scended up on high even to his heavenly Mansions leave us not alone comfortless but send thy holy Spirit into our hearts that by his assistance we may escape spiritual and the bitterness of the temporal II. Send a gracious showre even the Dew of thy divine Favours to refresh our weariness in this Calamity make thy People as Doves innocent and chast and adorn them with the Beauty of inward Sanctity Let all Kings Princes and Rulers of the Earth confess thy Name and thy honour that thy Gospel extending forth into all Lands Peace and all thy Blessings may follow it and thy praise be encreased from Generation to Generation through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Sunday Noons Meditations SIng unto God O ye Kingdoms of the Earth O sing Praises unto the Lord Who sitteth in the Heavens over all from the beginning Lo he doth send forth his Voice yea and that a mighty Voice Ascribe ye the Power to God over Israel his Worship and strength is in the Clouds O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy Places even the God of Israel he will give strength unto his People blessed be God II. O clap your hands together all ye People O sing unto God with the voice of melody For the Lord is high and to be feared he is the great King upon all the Earth He shall subdue the People under us and the Nations under our Feet He shall chuse out an Heritage for us even the Worship of Jacob whom he loved III. God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the Trump O sing Praises sing Praises unto our God O sing Praises sing Praises unto our King For God is the King of all the Earth Sing ye Praises with understanding The Prayer O Lord God Celestial King who reignâ—st Potentate in all the World thou art exalted above all Creatures and art to be feared in all the Dominions of the Earth let the Seed of thy glorious Gospel be planted in all parts of the habitable World that thy saving Health may be known unto all Nations II. Let thy Grace pull down all the strong Holds of Sin and Satan that any ways oppose thy Holy Name and Word subdue all thy People unto thee and the Nations under thy Feet so that we that are thy People and Sheep of thy hands may become one Sheepfold under one Shepherd Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and Saviour Meditations for Sunday Night I will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy Name for ever and ever Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to be praised there is no end of his Greatness II. One Generation shall praise thy Works unto another and declare thy power As for me I will be talking of thy Worship thy Glory thy praise and wondrous Works So that Men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous Acts and I will also tell of thy greatness The Memorial of thine abundant Kindness shall be shewed and Men shall sing of thy Righteousness III. The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great Goodness The Lord is loving unto every one and his Mercy is over all his Works All thy Works praise thee O Lord and thy Saints give thanks unto thee They shew the glory of thy Kingdom and talk of thy power That thy power thy glory and mightiness of thy Kingdom might be known unto Men. Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and thy Dominion endureth throughout all Ages The Prayer MOst mighty God marvellous worthy art thou to be praised and of thy greatness there is no end give us sanctified Hearts and Lips that we may express thy Righteousness and magnifie thy glory Worship and wondrous Works II. All the Earth praises thee O Lord and thy Saints give Thanks unto thee Make us religious and sincere before thee and to lay aside all Hypocrisie Protect us O Lord by thy hand of Providence that we fall not and raise us up when we are down III. Give us spiritual and temporal Meat in thy oâ—n due time for our Souls and Bodies that we being filled abundantly with thy Mercies here we may have our hearts desire fulfilled and satisfied hereafter among such as fear thee and praise thy holy Name for evermore Amen Monday Mornings Meditations THE Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down For he shall deliver the Poor when he cryeth the Needy also and him that hath no helper He shall be favourable to the Simple and Needy and shall preserve the Souls of the Poor He shall deliver their Souls from wrong and falshood and dear shall their bloud be in his sight II. There shall be a heap of Corn in the Earth high upon the Hills His Fruit shall shake like Liâ—anus and he shall be green in the City like Grass upon the Earth His Name shall endure for ever his Name shall remain under the Sun among the Posterities which shall be blessed through him and all the Heathen shall praise him III. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the Earth shall be filled with his Majesty Amen The Prayer O Eternal God thou that defendest the Children and Poor but puâ—ishest the wrong doer have mercy upon thy People under affliction extend thy Mercy and compassion from â—ne Sea to another even unto the Worlds end II. Make thy People who love thy Name flourish and subdue their Enemies under them that neither â—alshood nor wrong may any ways â—pâ—ress them Bless them with Peace â—nd Tranquillity and satisfie them with thy Righteousness and Salvation through thy Mercy O blessed â—esu Amen MoÌ„nday Noon's Meditations NOT unto us O
Wednesday Morning DEliver me O Lord from the Evil Man and preserve me from the Wicked Man Which imagine mischief iâ— their Hearts and stir up strisâ— all the day long They have sharpened their Tongues like a Serpent Adders Poyson is under their Lips II. Keep me O Lord from the Hands of the Ungodly preserve me from the wicked Men which are purposed to overthrow my going The Proud have laid a sâ—are for me and spread a Net abroad with Cords yea and set Traps in my way III. I said unto the Lord thou art my God hear the Voice of my Prayers O Lord. O Lord God thou strength of my Health thou hast covered my Head in the day of Battle IV. Let not the Ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous Imagination prosper lest they be too Proud Let the mischief of their own Lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about A man full of Words shall not prosper upon the Earth Evil shall hunt the wicked Person to overthrow him The Prayer O Lord God the Strength of all those that depend upon thee deliver us from evil and wicked Men that neither their Examples may corrupt us nor their Counsels misguide us or their Mischief disturb our Safety II. But do thou O Lord cover our Heads in the day of Battle and Strife against all our Bodily and Ghostly Enemies that though they pursue us to overthrow us yet we may be safe on Earth under thy Favour and Almighty Protection and at the last being removed from all Fears and Dangers we may appear in thy sight amongst the Righteous for evermore Meditations for Wednesday Noon HEar my Prayer O Lord and consider my Desire Hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake And enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no one living be justified II. For the Enemy hath persecuted my Soul he hath smitten my Life down to the ground he hath laid me in the Darkness as the men that have been long dead Therefore is my Spirit vexed within me and my Heart within me is desolate III. Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works Yea I exercise my self in the works of thy Hands I stretch forth my Hands unto thee my Soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty Land The Prayer MOst Righteous Judge and dear Redeemer hear us for thy Truth and Mercies sake free us from the hainous Guilt of all our Sins and renounce those Punishments due to us for the same II. Enter not at any time into Judgment with us for in thy sight no Flesh can be justified by its own worthiness Fortifie our Souls with the Holiness of a lively Faith which worketh by Charity that at last we enter into thy Holy of Holies even Life Everlasting Amen Meditations for Wednesday Night HEar me O Lord and that soon for my Spirit waxeth faint Hide not thy Face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in thee is my Trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my Soul unto thee II. Deliver me O Lord from mine Enemies for I flie unto thee to hide me Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the Land of Righteousness III. Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy Righteousness sake bring my Soul out of trouble And of thy goodness slay mine Enemies and destroy all them that vex my Soul for I am thy Servant The Prayer BOW down thine Ear O Lord and hear my Complaint support my weak Spirit with thy Heavenly Grace which is sufficient for me Hide not the light of thy Countenance from me but replenish me with the Beams of thy Mercy and Goodness II. Direct me in the way that I should walk in instruct me to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken my Soul in thy Paths which lead to Life Eternal and so continue the Conduct of thy Blessed Spirit to me that it may never depart from me till I am brought out of this temporal World and am safely arrived at thy Spiritual Kingdom Amen Meditations for Thursday Morning PRaise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any Being will I sing praises unto my God O put not your trust in Princes nor in any Child of Man â—or there is no help in them For when the Breath of Man goeth out he shall turn again to his Earth and then all his Thoughts perish II. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the Hungry III. The Lord looseth Men out of Prison the Lord giveth Sight to the Blind The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the Righteous The Lord careth for the Strangers he defendeth the Fatherless and Widow as for the way of the Ungodly he turneth it upside down The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer GReat God who art King for everlasting world without end vouchsafe us thy Grace and assist us with thy ready help that we may fix all our hopes in thee for thou alone art able to grant Deliverance II. Lord feed our Souls and satisfie us with thy Salvation when we hunger and thirst after thee revenge our Cause when we suffer wrong and heal our back-slidings Enlighten our Darkness that we walk not in the shadow of Death and let thy hand of Providence take care of us in all our necessities that when our life is expired and we return to that Earth from whence we were taken we may reign with thee for evermore Meditations for Thursday Noon I Cryed unto the Lord with my Voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication I poured out my Complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble When my Spirit was in heaviness thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me II. I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no Man that would know me I had no place to flie unto and no man cared for my Soul I cried unto thee O Lord and said thou art my Hope and my Portion in the Land of the Living III. Consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O deliver me from my Persecutors for they are too strong for me Bring my Soul out of Prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the Righteous resort unto my Company The Prayer THou art our Place O Lord to flee unto and the only Sanctuary wherein is
safety O hide us under the Shadow of thy Wings keep us from all those Dangers which increase upon us when our Spirits are in heaviness and our Bodies bowed down with infirmities II. Stand thou evermore at our right hand and aid us so with the power of thy Grace that our Temptations and Enemies may at no time molest and disturb us Grant that our Souls in thy good time may depart out of the Prison of the Body with joy and not with grief and enter into thine eternal Joy to reign with thee for evermore Amen Meditations for Thursday Night O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before Thou art about my Bed and about my path and spiest out all my ways For lo there is not a Word in my Tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me II. Such Knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence If I climb up into Heaven thou art there If I go down to Hell thou art there also If I take the Wings of the Morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the Sea III. Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me If I say peradventure the Darkness shall cover me then shall my Night be turned into day Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike For my Reins are thine thou hast covered me in my Mothers Womb. The Prayer INfinite art thou O Lord in Wisedom and omnipresent in all places thou fillest Heaven and Earth with Majesty and the effects of thy Glory Hell feels thy Mighty power but thou communicatest to us thy poor Creatures thy boundless Mercy II. And O Lord as thou art present with us so we humbly beseech thee be President amongst us teach us thy Holy Laws and so guide us by thy Golden Rule and Divine Precepts that we wander not in the darkness of our own Errors but in thy Light whom no Clouds can overcast nor Darkness eclipse Preserve us O Lord from falling into utter darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth Meditations for Friday Morning I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy Works and that my Soul knoweth right well My Bones are not hid from thee though I am made secretly and fashioned beneath in the Earth Thine Eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy Book were all my Members written Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them II. How dear are thy Counsels unto me O God! O how great is the Summe of them If I tell them they are more â—n number than the Sand When I awake up I am preâ—ent with thee Wilt thou not slay the Wickâ—d O God Depart from me â—e bloud-thirsty Men. For they speak unrighteâ—usly against thee and thine Enemies take thy Name in â—ain III. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am not grieved with those that riâ—â— up against thee Yea I hate them right sorâ— even as though they weâ—â— mine Enemies Try me O God and seâ—â— the ground of my heart Prove me and examine mâ— thoughts Look well if there be aâ— way of Wickedness in mâ— and lead me in the way evâ—â— lasting The Prayer O Lord thy Works are marvellâ— for thou hast done great thiâ— for my Soul it is thou that hast 〈◊〉 med me in the Womb and thy 〈◊〉 der care hath preserved me to 〈◊〉 moment Teach me to hate and hor all iniquity und to love Counsells as my dearest Treasure we may be as fearfull of committing Sins in Secret with that circumspection as in the Eye of the World II. Lead me in thy Truth and guide me in the Paths of a Holy Life that I may examine my self strictly of what Sins I stand guilty off and earnestly repent of those offences Make me to shun all wicked ways and conduct me into the way everlasting through Christ our Lord Amen Friday Noon's Meditations O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best Member I have Awake thou Lute and Harp I my self will awake right early I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the People I will sing praises unto thee among the Nations II. For thy Mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds Set up thy self O God above the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me III. God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sicâ—em and meet out the Valley of Succoth Gilead is mine and Manaâ—seâ— is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Juda is my Law-giver Moab is my Wash-pot over Edom will I â—ast out my Shoe upon the Philistines will I triumph III. Who will lead me into the strong City and who will bring me into Edom Hast not 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 Through God we shall do great Acts and it is he that shall tread down our Enemies The Prayer EArly O my God to thee will I make my Prayer and Supplication for thy Mercy in extent is greater than the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth for ever be thou exalted in thine own strength and magnifie thy power and thy never-failing Mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our Enemies temporal and spiritual II. Leave us not nor forsake us O God who art our strong Tower and Defence for in vain is Man's help unless thou strengthen us fortifie us and go forth with our Hosts to Battel that we being defended and armed by thee may perform Acts great and good fighting thy Battels and place our Confidence in thy Righteousness only and thy Salvation Amen Meditations for Friday Evening IN Jury is God known his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling in Sion There he brake the Arrows of the Bow the Shield the Sword and the Battel Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the Robbers II. The proud are robbed they have slept their sleep and all the Men whose hands were mighty have found nothing At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the Chariot and Horse are fallen Thou even thou art to be â—cared and who may stand â—n thy sight when thou art angry Thou didst cause thy Judgments to be heard from Heaven the Earth trembled and was still III. When God
pine away in Misery Many have been stoned to death and some have been stripped stark naked and driven into the Woods and Mountains in the extremity of Frost and Snow and there starved Some have been compelled to carry their own Parents to Execution others to give fire to the Wood that burnt them Mothers have been forced to throw their own Children into the Water Wives to hang their own Husbands Children to hang up their own Parents and when they have done all this in hope and upon promise of Life they themselves were barbarously Murthered Some have been boiled alive in Cauldrons some have been put into a hole in the ground all but the head and there forc'd to continue till they died Some have been driven through the streets naked and if through weakness they kept not their pace they were pricked forward with Spears and Swords Some have been so rack'd and tormented that Worms have bred in their putrified Sores Infants have been closed again in their Mothers Bellies which the Villains had ript up and there strangled some have been wounded deadly and then hung upon Tenter-hooks and others have been hung by the Arms that the Souldiers might try their valour and the strength of their Swords upon them Some have been ript up and their Guts let out to trail about their heels others have been dragged with Wythes and Ropes about their Necks through the VVaters Bogs Woods and Streets to force them to confess their Treasure which when they had gotten they were basely murdered One hundred and four sheltred themselves in Caves and by smoak made with wet straw at the mouth thereof have been smothered The same Cruelties we must have expected again to have â—aln upon all Protestants if God in his great Mercy had not prevented them Strange and remarkable PREDICTIONS OF THAT Holy Learned and excellent Bishop James Usher LATE Lord Primate of Ireland THE Author of the Life of this worthy Archbishop relates That amongst other extraordinary Gifts and Graces the Almighty had bestowed upon him he was wonderfully endued with a Prophetick Spirit whereby he predicted several things sometime long before they came to pass whereof some we have seen fulfilled and others remain yet to be accomplished and though he was one that abhorr'd Enthusiastick Notiâ—â—s being too Learned Rational and Knowing to admit such idle Freaks and Whimsies Yet he profest That several times in his Life he had many things imprest upon his Mind concerning future Events with so much warmness and importunity that he was not able to keep them secret but lay under an unâ—voidable necessity to make them known From which Spirit he foretold the Irish Rebellion Forty years before it came with the time when it should break forth in a Sermon at Dublin in 1601 where from Ezek. 4. 6. discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the iniquity of Judah forty days the Lord therein appointed a day for a year He made this direct Application in relation to the connivance of Popery at that time From this year says he will I â—eckon the Sin of Ireland that those whom you now embrace shall be your ruine and you shall bear this Iniquity Which Prediction proved exactly true for from that time 1601 to the year 1641 was Forty years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and Destruction of Ireland happened which was acted by those Popish Emissaries which were then connived at And of this Sermon the Bishop reserved the Notes and made a Remark of it in the Margent of his Bible and for 20 years before he lived in the expectation of the fulfilling of it and the nearer the time was the more he was confident it was near accomplishment though as yet there was no visible appearance The year before the Rebellion brokeforth says Dr. Bernard The Bishop taking his leave of me being going from Ireland to England he advised me to a serious Preparation for I should see heavy Sorrows and Miseries before I saw him again which he delivered with as great Confidence as if he had seen it which seems to verifie that of the Prophet Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing but he will reveal it to his Servants the Prophets From this prophetick Spirit he foresaw the Changes and Miseries of England in Church and State for having in one of his Books De Prim. Eccl. Brit. given a large Account of the Destruction of the Britains by the Saxons about 550 years after Christ he gives this among other Reasons why he insisted so largely upon it That he foresaw that a like Judgment was yet behind if timely Repentance and Reformation did not prevent it and he would often mourn upon the foresight of this long before it came From this Spirit he gave mournfull intimations of the Death of King Charles the I of whom he would be often speaking with fear and trembling even when the King had the greatest Success and would therefore constantly pray and gave all Advice possible to prevent any such thing From this Spirit he foresaw his own Poverty in Worldly things and this he would often speak of with admiration to the Hearers when he was in his greatest Prosperity which the event did most certainly verifie From this Spirit he predicted the Divisions and Confusions in England about Religion and the sad Consequences of it some of which we have seen fulfilled and I pray God the rest which he feared may not also be accomplished Lastly from this Spirit he foretold That the greatest stroke upon the Reformed Churches was yet to come and the time of the utter ruine of Rome should be when she thought her self most secure and to this last I shall add a brief Account from the Person 's own hand who was concern'd The year before the Primate's Death I went to him and earnestly desired him to grant me in Writing his Apprehensions of Justification and Sanctification by Christ because I had formerly heard him Preach upon those Points wherein he seemed to make those great Mysteries more intelligible to my mean Capacity than any Discourse I had heard from others but by reason I had an imperfect Memory of the particulars I took the boldness to importune him That he would please to give me a brief Account of them in writing whereby I might the better imprint them in my memory oâ— which he would willingly have excused himself by declaring his Intentions of not writing any more adding That if he did write any thing it should not exceed a sheet or two but upon my continued importunity I at last obtained his promise He coming to Town some time after was pleased to give me a Visit where I failed not to challenge the benefit of his promise made to me to which he replyed That he had not writ and yet could not charge himself with any breach of promise for said he I did begin to write but when I came to write of Sanctification that is of the new Creature which
Persecutions that â—…ere coming upon the Churâ—…es of Christ which would â—…e so sharp and bitter that â—…e contemplation of them â—…d fetched those Tears from â—…s Eyes and that he hoped â—…e should not live to see it â—…ut possibly she might for it â—…as even at the door Therefore take heed says he that yâ—… be not found sleeping The same things he also râ—…peated to the Lady Bysse 〈…〉 Wife to the Lord Chief Bâ—…ron of Ireland but addinâ—… this Circumstance That 〈…〉 they brought back the King 〈…〉 might be delayed a little longer but said he it will sâ—râ—… come therefore be sure to look thâ—… you be not found unprepared for it To conclude in the Worâ—… of Dr. Bernard speaking 〈…〉 this excellent Person Noâ—… howsoever I am far froâ—… heeding of Prophecies yeâ—… with me it is not improbablâ—… that so great a Prophet sâ—… sanctified from his Youth 〈…〉 so knowing and emineâ—… throughout the universâ—… Church might have at somâ—… special times more than oâ—…dinary Motions and Impuâ—…ses in doing the Watch-man 〈…〉 part of giving warning oâ—… Judgments approaching The Spanish Invâ—ion 1558. Gun powder Treason Nov 5. 1605. The Arrival of the Prince of Orange Nov. 5. 1688. The Thanksgiving for the Deliverance from the Spanish Arâ—ada was August 7. 1558. their Fleet was 150 Ships and 65 Galleons which were to join the Duke of Parma who had 32 Ships of War 70 Flat-bottoms and 2â—0 Boats which lay in Newport Haven with 2000 empty Casâ—s to choâ—k Havens and make Bridges To this Design the Pope contributeâ— a Million of Gold November the 5 1605. was our great Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot and â—e miraculous finding of it out was by a Letter sent to the Lord Mounteagle to advise him to take care of himself for the Parliameâ—â— should receive such a Blow and not see who hurt them The Conâ—irâ—â—ors were Everard Digby Knight Robert Catesby Esq Ambrose Rockwood Esq Francis Tresham Esq Robert VVinter Esq Tho. Piercy Gent. Tho. VVinter Gent. John VVright Gent. Christ. Wright Gent. John Grant Gent. Robert Keys Gent. Gâ—y Faâ—x and Bates Catesby's Man Provisions for this horrid Design was 36 Barrels of Powder 500 Faggots and 1900 Billets November the 5. 1688 was our happy Deliverance from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power by the Arrival of the Prince of Orange who landed with a considerable Army at Brixam Key in Devonshire where the whole Country congratulated him and brought Plenty of Provisions and Necessaries for the Sâ—diers Thanksgivings for God's wonderful Deliverances From the Spanish Invasion WE laud and magnifie thy holy Name for this wonderfull Deliverance wrought for our Ancestors which were surrounded with fear of Roman Slavery and Popish Usurpation which would have destroyed both Queen and Kingdom when their Gallies and Ships came to assault us with murthering Pieces and Instruments of Cruelty which none but Satan and themselves could invent as Whips to scourge us Seals to mark us and Fetters to manacle us II. They were full of Pride calling themselves Invincible and had hemm'd us in on every side trusting in their own Arm of Flesh and pursuing our ruine and destruction then O Lord thou didst awake as one out of sleep and as a Giant refreshed with Wine and smotest our Enemies in the hinder parts putting them all to confusion Blessed be thy Name for this and all other Mercies bestowed upon us and grant that we may never want thankfull Hearts to praise thee From the Gun-Powder Treason November 5th 1605. Blessed Lord whose Eye of Providence watched over us and didst discover to us those hellish Contrivances which were laid in the dark but not hid from thine All-seeing eye Rome's Factors were then busie in contriving to blow up the Bodies of our King and Nobles with a most barbarous and unnatural invention II. What had they done to them to be adjudged to so strange a Death and what had they done for thee to be so graciously preserved as we consider their inhumanity in laying their cruel project so we must acknowledge thy Goodness in revealing the same to whom be glory now and for ever Amen For our Deliverance from Popery Tyranny and Arbitrary Power O Eternal God who hast wrought so great a Deliverance to all thy People by raising up happy Instruments for thy Glory and our Peace and Safety even thy Servants our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady K. William and Q. Mary who like Moses stood in the Gap between us and Pharaoh's Cruelties II. Thou hast delivered us O Lord thou God of Mercy when we were even ready for destruction Tyranny and what else their Roman Malice could invent or slavish yoke have imposed upon us but blessed be thy holy Name that thou hast snatched us as a Brand out of the Burning and hast restored those good Laws and Liberties which our Forefathers lâ—ave enjoyed teach us to prize value this great Mercy that all Nations may say happy are the people that are in such a Case yea happy is the People whose God is their Lord. For the Relief of London-Derry in Ireland O Lord of Heaven and Earth who didst in thy great Mercy remember thy poor Servants when they were in trouble and besieged round about being in great necessity s â—race the Duke of Scâ—â—mberg The Valiant Governour Walker The Siege of London-derry 1688. The Irish and French Forces being leaded by the late King James laid close Siege to London-derry at which time Collonel Lundy and others 〈◊〉 driven away by fear they were destitute of a Governour the Town then consisting of about Nine thousand Fighting men they 〈◊〉 chose Col. VValker their Governour and preserved the Place couragiously enduring great extremity but at last they were supplieâ— with Provisions by way of the River and the Besiegers after great loss sustained drew off and left them August the 13th His Grace 〈◊〉 Duke of Schombergh lâ—nded his Forces in Ireland near Carrickfergus and reduced divers Places to obedience causing the French and Irish Army to retreaâ— Not long after Governour Walker safely arrived in England and waited upon their Majesties at Hampton-Court with an humble Address from the Governours Officers Clergy and Gentlemen in the City and Garison of London-Derry at which time His Majesty was pleased as a Mark of his Royal â—ounty to order him Five thousand Pounds with this Assurance That it should not at all lessen his Kindness to him and his Family for want of Food and other Necessaries thou didst in thy due time send them Relief and Succour else they had perished in their Affliction II. And what can we render O Lord sufficient for these things our best thanks we can pay O God are less than the least of all thy Mercies yet in the mean time we desire to acknowledge thine abundant Goodness and loving Kindness to us and to praise thy Name for evermore For the Gifts of God I yield thee all humble and hearty Thanks O mercifull God that by the
ours but God's Is it God's Battel we are to fight let not sloth then seize upon us or a supine Carelessness take hold of us but let us quit our selves like Men and fight 1 Sam. 4. 9. securing to our selves that Religion the Light of that glorious Gospel God hath given us not forgetting to take the Prophet Jeremiah's Counsel in the 6. wâ—ap of his Prophecy ver 16. peâ—nd ye in the way and see and ask 〈◊〉 the good old paths where is the good way and walk therein and you shall find rest unto your Souls The well compacted Hedge of our Laws was trodden down let us therefore be diligent and repair those breaches our Sins have made by our earnest Supplications to the Throne of Grace so true is that Maxime Inter Arma silent Leges The Voice of Law cannot be heard for the noise of Drums and the threatning Cannon O let Policy now amongst us ever give place to Piety and now let me exhort the chiefest amongst us beseeching you to let your private Affections be swallowed up in the common Cause as small Rivers lose their Name in the Ocean That practice of Pompey deserveth well your observation and imitation who when his Soldiers would needs leave the Camp threw himself down at the narrow Passage and bid them goe but they should tread first upon their General So let your pious Resolutions and valiant Examples stir up the Courage of our weak Brethren expose your selves to the worst of dangers and endure the bruâ—â—t that they may not desert you may it be your Glory in after Ages to be loudly proclaimed that you were the Champions of the Lord to fight his Battel that you stood in defence of your Religion against gross Idolatry that you promoted Peace against bloudy Persecution and rather choose to endure Affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a Season In our Duty in Matters of Religion we are no farther to walk after Ruler's Commands than they walk after God's Fatherly power is the rise of all Authority and yet our Saviour tells us He that loves Father or Mother more than him is not worthy of him Mat. 10. 37. Parents must be honoured but God preferred it is as true in regard of Regal as Paternal Authority the Instances of the Hebrew Midwives Exod. 1. 17. the three Worthies and Daniel are obvious to all Dan. 3. 18. 6. 10. That Epithete that was given to Bâ—câ—n of Doctor Resolutus in this Case well becomes every Christian. It was a just Resolve of Luther in divine Matters Cedo nulli and a remarkable Speech of the Apostles Acts 4. 19. 5. 29. That we ought to obey God rather than Men it is true when the supream Authority enjoins what God inhibits we must patiently undergo the punishment inflicted but not willingly walk after the Commandment prescribed It was a pious Speech of King Henry the Eighth to Sir Thomas More when he made him Chancellour Look first at God then at me St. Augustine's Rule is excellent The Supream Power hath a Superiour in Heaven for fear of one we must contemn the other the one may threaten the Prison but the other has ordained Hell In a word neither must Princes leave the People to their own Will nor the People conform themselves to the Prince's Will but both to God's Will in Matters of Religion lest otherways both Prince and People be consumed But O Lord we have sinned against thee and as the Prophet David says Psal. 76. 7. Who can stand in thy sight when thou art angry no Bounds could keep us from Sinning and therefore God's Wrath knows no Bounds in punishinâ—… our Transgression was above Measure so God's Judgment is without Measure It is St. Chrysostom's Note concerning that fiery shower which God rained upon Sodom That as the Sodomites inverted the course of Nature to seek Woman in Man so God changed the Order by showring down Fire instead of Water Thus doth the Almighty's Justice ever proportion the Smart to the Fault so that here we may at once behold the greatness of our Sin in the punishment and the fitness of the punishment to the Sin Invasion and being Besieged by Romish Adversaries for our neglecting God's Commands which ought to be our Rule and despising of his Goodness which should lead us Sinners to Repentance But as the Water that is poured on the Earth can never be gathered up again so let us pour out all our Sins and God will not pour out all his Wrath let us speedily cast away the filth of our Transgressions and he will soon stop the current of his Indignation let us cheerfully reform and he will willingly assist us let us repent of our provocations and he will bring us out of this Calamity may this our great work be wisely and speedily accomplished and by the Divine Assistance and our weak endeavours faithfully performed that the power of Religion may be advanced the Name of God honoured the fury of our Enemies suppressed the Hearts of Gospel-Friends comforted and which is above all and beyond all Christ over Antichrist in the purity of his Gospel among us and our Posterity for ever Which God of his infinite Mercy grant us to whom be ascribed as most due all Honour Power and Glory Adoration and Subjection now and for evermore The Prayer afterwards BLessed Lord who aâ—t our Strength Hope and Fortress our Castle and Deliverer our Defender in whom we trust how the Heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine Hand from above deliver us and take us from the great Waters from those Miseries and Afflictions which come upon us by reason of our Sins and from the Condition of Mortality and from the hand of strange Children whose right hand is a right hand of Wickedness Give us O Lord Victory and Peace and all the Blessings belonging to it with which thou usest to adorn and beaâ—tifie the Dwellings of the Righteous that we may be happy in the continual descent of thy Favours but above all that our happiness may consist in being thy People and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so happy a Union through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer for the preservation of our most gracious Soveraign Lord King William in his Royal Undertaking to Subdue Ireland and for his safe Return to England O Most mighty God the great Creatour of the World and the Preserver of all Mankind preserve we beseech thee our most gracious Soveraign Lord King William whom thou hast made the happy Instrument of our mighty Deliverance Let thy Blessing accompany him in his Journey and Voyage protect him from all Dangers visit him as thou didst Moses in the Bush Joshua in the Battel Gidâ—on in the Field and Samuel in the Temple Let the Dew of thy never failing Mercies fall upon his Head and give him the blessing of David and Solomon II. Be unto him an
Helmet of Salvation and cover him with thy Grace as with a Buckler against the Face of his Enemies dissipate and scatter all those which shall oppose him as the Dust before the Wind and as the Clay in the Streets direct him in all his Counsels to the end that being blessed with Success in this great Design he may employ all that great Power which thy Omnipotence shall â—ntrust him with to the Honour of thy Holy Name the establishment and Advancement of the True Religion and to the Peace and Happiness of thine and his People and the perfect Deliverance of our poor Distressed Brethren in Ireland that they may rejoice together with us and triumph in thy Praise III. Grant him in this Enterprize a good Event that he may Return home with Joy and Victory Let his Reign be prosperous and his days many let Peace and Love and Holiness let Justice and Truth and all Christian Vertues flourish in his Time Let his People serve him with Honour and Obedience and let him so duly serve thee here on Earth that he may hereafter everlastingly Reign with thee in Heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen THE CONTENTS WHen we first awake Pag. 1. A Prayer for the Morning 2. A Prayer for the Evening 3 Sunday Mornings Meditations 5 The Prayer 10 Sunday Noons Meditations 12 The Prayer 13 Sunday Nights Meditations 14 The Prayer 16 Monday Mornings Meditations 17 The Prayer 19 Monday Noons Meditations ibid. The Prayer 21 Monday Nights Meditations 22 The Prayer 23 Tuesday Mornings Meditations 24 The Prayer 25 Tuesday Noons Meditations 26 The Prayer 27 Tuesday Nights Meditations 28 The Prayer 29 Wednesday Mornings Meditations 30 The Prayer 32 Wednesday Noons Meditations 33 The Prayer 34 Wednesday Nights Meditations 35 The Prayer 36 Thursday Mornings Meditations 37 The Prayer 38 Thursday Noons Meditations 39 The Prayer 41 Thursday Nights Meditations 42 The Prayer 43 Friday Mornings Meditations 44 The Prayer 46 Friday Noons Meditations 47 The Prayer 49 Friday Nights Meditations 50 The Prayer 52 Saturday Mornings Meditations 53 The Prayer 55 Saturday Noons Meditations 56 The Prayer 57 Saturday Nights Meditations 58 The Prayer 59 Ejaculations upon several Occasions out of the Holy Scriptures IN the Morning 61 At going forth 62 Beginning a good Work ibid. In good Inspirations ibid. At Church ibid. Before Reading ibid. Speaking 63 When you go about worldly Affairs ibid. Before Eating ibid. After Eating 64 In Prosperity ibid. Adversity ibid. Troubles ibid. Galumnies 65 Praises ibid. Against vain hope ibid. Pride ibid. Covetousness ibid. Luxury ibid. Envy 66 Gluttony ibid. Anger ibid. Sloth ibid. Rules of Faith ibid. Acts of Faith ibid. Hope ibid. Charity 67 Against Worshipping of Idols ibid. Popish Tradition 68 Praying to Saints 69 Antichrist ibid. Divine Breathings of the Soul towards the Evening 70 A Prayer for a Family that may serve for Morning or Evening 71 A Prayer before the Communion 74 At Receiving the Bread 75 At Receiving the Cup ibid. A Prayer after the Communion 76 for the Church 77 for the King and Queen 78 for the Royal Family ibid. for the High Court of Parliament ibid. for the Clergy 79 for Friends 80 for a Family ibid. for a Friend 81 for Peace ibid. in time of the Plague 82 for a City ibid. for Grace ibid. for Enemies ibid. for the Afflicted 8â— for Travellers ibid. for the Fruits of the Earth ibid. A Prayer against Temptations 84 For Misbelievers and Sinners ibid. For Temporal Necessities ibid. Against Tempests 85 For Women in Travel ibid. For the Sick ibid. For Prisoners 86 For the Dying ibid. A Prayer before Study ibid. When the Bell Tolls for a dying Person 87 A concluding Prayer 88 King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery 89 A Prayer for God's Mercies upon their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg 90 A Prayer for Mercy to the whole Nation 92 A short account of the Massacre in Ireland 93 An abstract of their Popish Tortures and Cruelties 97 Bishop Usher's Prophecy concerning Rome's Downfal 103 Thanksgivings for God's wonderful Deliverances A Thanksgiving for our Deliverances from the Spanish Invasion 121 From the Powder Treason November the 5th 1605. 122 For our Deliverance from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power 123 For the relief of London-Derry in Ireland 124 For the Gifts of God 125 To God for all his Benefits 126 A Prayer before the following Discourse 128 Christian Courage in Affliction a Discourse by way of Advice to the Besieged in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and valiant Commander Col. Walker 131 The Prayer afterwards 150 A Prayer for the preservation of our most gracious Saveraign Lord King William in his Royal Vndertaking to Subdue Ireland and for his safe Return to England 151 FINIS In the Morning In the Evening