thy goodnesse ouer all the world whereby thou chearest and comfortest all things liuing but also beholdest all things and actions of the world which are naked and conspicuous in thy sight and dispellest and scatterest all thicke clouds and darke mists of ignorance infidelity and error and shewest vnto thy children the right way to heauen preseruing them from stumbling slipping and dangerous falling in that way Grant vs therefore that in thy light wee may see light And seeing thy Sonne Iesus Christ is the true life and light of men that enlighteneth euery man that commeth into the world who when the naturall light of rectified reason which thou gauest vnto man in his creation was by sinne extinguished and put out did supply the defect thereof by a better light the light of faith whereby thy children do vnderstand the mysteries of the kingdome of heauen O Lord make vs euery day more and more partakers of this light Enlighten our vnderstandâ—ngs by thy blessed Spirit and our hearts by the light of faith and our affections by thy Word that we being naâ—urally darkenesse may be light in thee and may shine as lights in a froward and peruerse generation and may let our light so shine before men that they may see our good workes and glorifie thee our Father in heauen And seeing the night of our ignorance is passed and the day is at hand and thy grace which bringeth saluation to all thy faithfull hath appeared teaching vs to denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and to walke soberly and iustly and godly in this present world Grant vs thy grace whereby we may cast off the workes of darkenesse and put on the armour of light and walk as children of the light that thy Son being come a light into the world we may not loue darkenes more then light because our works are euil but Lord let the light of thy countenance shine vpon vs that the light of faith which we receiue of thee in this life may make vs liue in expectation of thy light of glory in the life to come being by thee made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light And now Lord we humbly intreate thy fatherly protection of our bodies soules from all dangers both outward and inward this day giue vs grace to make spiritual vse to our soules of all the actions and occurrences therein make vs conscionably carefull not to offend thee either in thought word or deede and prosper we beseech thee whatsoeuer wee vndertake in thy feare that wee may chearefully goe on in the seuerall workes of our places and callings so as we may seale vp our election by good workes and worke out our saluation in feare and trembling that whensoeuer this miserable and sinfull life of ours shall be ended wee may rest and raigne with thee in glory through the merits of thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ in whose name wee further call vpon thee as he hath taught vs saying Our Father c. An Euening Prayer WE present ouâ—â—â—lues again before thee most merciful Father acknowledging and confessing against our selues our manifold sins which wee haue daily multiplied against thy Maiestie and against our owne consciences from the beginning of our dayes and euen this day now passed We confesse O Lord that we were at first conceiued and borne in sinne and that from that originall corruption there haue euer since proceeded so many wicked and vngodly thoughts words and works that if thou examine what we haue done amisse we were not able to abide it or to answere one of a thousand of our actions for euen our best workes our prayers are accompanied with so many imperfections of wandring imaginations that when we haue done praying we had need to pray vnto thee againe to forgiue the scapes and negligences and ignorances of them Wee confesse further O Lord God that in respect of our sinnes wee are not worthy to looke vp to heauen or to call vpon thy name for we haue iustly deserued not onely to be depriued of all thy good blessings both concerning this and a better life which hitherto by thy mercies we haue enioyed and which we more fully expect hereafter by thy gracious promise but also wee haue deserued and doe daily deserue thy wrath and indignation to bee poured downe vpon vs vpon our bodies and soules in this life and in the life to come if thou shouldest enter into iudgement with vs. But there is mercy with the O Lord that thou maist be feared And we appeale therefore from thy seuere iustice against sinne vnto thy tender mercies in thine owne Sonne in whom wee know thou art well pleased Wee humbly beseech thee for his sake to be mercifull vnto â—s to pardon and to forgiue vs all our sinnes to wash them away in his blood to bury them in his death and passion so as they may neuer be imputed to vs either in this life to the terror and affrighting of our consciences or in the world to come to our vtter condemnation Good Lord giue vs euery day more and more the true sight of our sinnes the true sense and feeling of them and of thy great iudgements hanging ouer our heads in respect of them Giue vs a true sorrow and hearty repentance for all our sinnes past and a full resolution in the residue of our liues to be more wary and circumspect ouer all our words and actions that we may not onely striue to abstaine from sin but auoid those occasions which we haue formerly found to haue drawne vs thereunto And now Lord seeing the night is come vpon vs and hath not onely depriued vs of the light of the Sun but hath also brought with it darkenesse and terrors fearefull to our weake natures yet wee still depend vpon thy holy protection for as the day is thine so the night is thine Thou hast made darkenesse thy secret place and thy pauillion round about thee euen darkenesse of waters and clowds of the aire and yet the darkenesse hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day the darkenesse and the light to thee are both alike Preserue vs therefore we humbly beseech thee from the perils and dangers of this night following giue our bodies rest and sleepe and let our soules continually watch for the time when our Lord Iesus Christ shall come for our full deliuerance out of this mortall life O Lord the sleepe wee now desire is an image of death while our senses being thereby bound vp from the performance of their functions and operations wee lye still as dead men not able to see or heare or doe any thing Let our beds therefore put vs in mind of our graues and the rest which we desire for our wearied bodies put vs in minde of the true rest and quiet both of body and soule which thou hast prouided for thy children after this life eâ—ded And
was yet in their mouthes when the wrath of God came vpon them and slew the strongest of them and smote downe the chosen in Israel So God gaue them a King at their request but in his wrath And the very diuels sometimes haue their request granted as vers 32. of this Chapter 2. It is not a signe of reprobation to haue our sute denied for the sonnes of Zebede are so serued and Paul himselfe was not heard at the first but was faine to pray three times God doth not grant presently to make vs to depend vpon him the more For the delaying of desires doth make men the more earnest and things easily granted are lightly esteemed but hee neuer denies any thing that stands with his glory and his Churches good And thus much of the occasion of their carnestnesse Now for the prayer it selfe it is very short but three words and I consider in it three things first the title they giue him Master or Lord. Secondly their request Saue vs. Thirdly the reason We perâ—sh In the first I obserue their humility in calling him Lord and Master In the second I obserue their weake faith yet calling to be saued In the third their faint hope and almost forlorne Wee perish 1 And first for the title or name wherby they call him The three Euangelists which all report this miracle doe all differ therein For the word here vsed by our Euangelist signifies Lord acknowledging his rule and authority ouer them Saint Marke vseth a word which signifieth Master or Teacher signifying that they had left their former trades of life to become his Disciples and depend on him as their master Saint Luke vseth a third word which signifies one that was set ouer and had taken care and châ—rge of others a terme giuen to shepheards in regard of their sheepe and to Commanders both in peace and warre In the comparing of which words we may conceiue that there was a kind of confused noyse among the Disciples striuing as it were by their outcries who should wake him first and who should giue him the best title whereby they might not only put him in minde of the dutie that belonged to him toward them as he was their Lord and Teacher and Master but also to shew that they in this misery depended vpon his only help and assistance to deliuer them And here seeing that our Sauiour Christ approuing of these titles saith vnto them in another place Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am I might take iust occasion to speake of names and titles and shew that as God himselfe in the first giuing of names to the day and the night the heauens the earth and â—he seas And as Adam afterward in giuing particular names to all the creatures by Gods commission and appointment did make their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is did giue them proper names according to their seuerall proprieties of nature So it behoueth euery one in what place calling soeuer he be plaeed to consider what name doth properly belong to his place whether it be of rule and gouernment or of subiection and obedience and to be stirred vp by those names to performe those duties that belong to their seuerall callings whether in the Magistracie or in the Ministery whether as a husband as a father as a master and on the other side whether as a subiect a scholer a wife a childe a seruant That seeing seuerall duties doe belong vnto each of these places and they fitly expressed in the names giuen to euery one they may learne to make their names and dispositions answerable and sutable that the argument giuen by the Apostle preferring Christ aboue the Angels to wit That he was made so much more excellent then the Angels in as much as hee hath obtained a more excellent name then they might teach all men to studie to excell others in goodnesse as they are aduanced to higher places and receiue more honourable names but the especiall thing that I obserue in these titles is the humility of the Disciples acknowledging themselues to bee his vassals his scholers and seruants that being now in extreame misery do relie only on his mercy and goodnesse for their deliuerance that they may seeme to say with the Prophet Behold as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their Masters and as the eyes of a maiden vnto the hand of her mistrisse so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God vntill he haue mercy vpon vs. Now for the vertue of humility as pride it was not onely the first sin both in the Angels and in man but was and is the mother and root of all sin and the bane and poyson of all vertue So humility it was the first lesson taught to Adam after his fall Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne And it was the principall lesson that our Sauiour taught his Disciples both by precept Learne of me that I am meeke and humble of heart and by his owne example Behold I haue giueâ— you an example And by demonstration setting a little child in the middest of them and telling them Except ye be conuerted and become as little children ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen But as this vertue is necessarie for all Christians at all times so is it most necessary in prayer of all other things as may appeare in the prayers of the Pharisie and Publican where the pride of the Pharisie ouerthrew al the good deeds that he boasted of and the humble confession of the Publican made him to goe away more iustified And indeede in the duty of prayer whether we consider 1. God and his excellencie his maiesty his omnipotency and other attributes 2. Our owne corruption our weaknessa our wickednesse euen of the best men in their best actions that euen our righteousnesse is as a filthie and polluted cloth That our best workes are fitly compared to starres which haue a little light but not of themselues but from the Sunne and that light may be discerned in the night and darke but when the Sunne ariseth doth not appeare So our workes if we compare them with the workes of the wicked the workes of darknesse they shew somewhat but compared with the Sonne of righteousnesse from whom wee receiue all the light we haue they vanish and are nothing I say if we either consider God to whom we pray or our selues wee cannot but in all humility acknowledge our selues to be but dust and ashes to bee nothing nor nothing worth to be base wretched miserable contemptible as the Heathen haue confessed not to bee worthie to looke vp to heauen nor to tread vpon the earth nor to call vpon his name considering our consciences doe accuse vs and he is greater then our conscience
mosâ— great and precious promisâ—s which they that saile in her haue to be partakers of the diuâ—ne nature yea to pillage her of the benefit of that most precious blood of Christ of much more value then gold and siluer and precious stones 3. This sea of the world hath her Mâ—rmaids and Syrens entising lusts and fleshly pleasures alluring men to forsake the ship of Christs Church with Deâ—as and wilfully to leape into this sea to their vtter destruction 4. It is full of â—ockes on both sides presumption of Gods mercy on the one side making men bold and fool-hardie to aduenture vpon any dangerous sinne bee it neuer so great and on the other side desperation of Gods mercy after sinne to make the ship split and sinke suddenly And when wee haue escaped all these dangers when wee haue euen descried land think we haue made our port yet if we take not the direction of our good pilot to steer a right course and keepe the deepe channell there are such quick-sands that we may soone runne aground if not to losse of ship and goods that it may bee verified of vs procella â—nti in portu naufragi that we rid out the storme and perish in the hauen which if euer it fall out it had been better for vs neuer to haue knowne and begun the way to heauen at least we shall recouer our port after so great danger with so great losse as we shall haue good cause to repent our carelesse negligence The sea then is full of dangers The sea of this world hath more dangers Fourthly the sea is full of monsters The Prophet Daniel in a vision saw the foure winds of the heauen striue vpon the great sea And foure great beasts came vp from the sea one diuers from another the first a Lion with Eagles wings the second a Beare that had three ribs in his mouâ—h betweene his teeth The third like a Leopard which had vpon his backe foure wings of a fowle and had also foure heads The fourth was fearfull and terrible very strong and had iron teeth and had ten hornes But the sea of the world hath more monsters beasts after the manner of â—en monstrous men that are rather to be accounted for beasts then men some as full of poyson as serpents some as full of rage as roring Lions some as blood-thirstie as wild beares and boares some as raâ—ening after their pray as wolues some as wilie and craftie to beguile as foxes some as full of lust as goats some taking as much pleasure in their filthy sinnes as swine to wallow in the miâ—e some generations of vipers that eate themselues forth of their mothers belly as if some enchanting Circe in the world had by her cup of forcerie metamorphized and transformed men so much that Diogenes might well goe at noone day into the market with a lanthorne and candle light to looke a man amongst men and lose his labour The Prophet Dauid telleth vs that Man being in honour had no vnderstanding but is like vnto the beasts that perish And certainly all beastly minded men and women are monsters in nature Some hauing as many heads as they haue noysome lusts whereby they are led and directed Some as many hornes as they haue meanes and opportunities to doe mischiefe Some hauing two tongues as all flatterers and slanderers Some hauing swords in their lips as all railers reuilers and ill-tongued persons There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their iawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth and the poore froÌ„ among men Of whoÌ„ the Prophet Dauid speaketh thus Their teeth are speares and arrowes and their tongue a sharpe sword and againe Behold they brag in their talke and swords are in their lips Some carrie two faces as all liars and dissemblers Some are great giants as all proud men Some are crook-backed as all rich couetous worldlings for whom it is as impossiâ—le to come to heauen as for a cammell to goe through the eye of a needle So generally all men that giue their members seruants of vncleannesse and iniquity to commit iniquity are monsters whereof the world is so full as of Atheists Idolaters blasphemers swearers drunkards or as the Apostle reckoneth them vp Backbiters haters of God doers of wrong proud boasters inuentors of euill disobedient to parents couenant-breâ—kâ—rs without naturall affection such as cannot be appeasâ—d mercilesse that I must conclude this point As the sea is full of monsters So is this sea of the world more full Fifthly the sea hath many deuouring fishes the great fishes deuoure the little ones So in the sea of the world the great and mighty men like pikes in a pond deuoure and vndoe poore men They grind the faces of the poore they swallow vy the needy yea Thâ—y sell the righteous for siluer and the poore for shooes they take their poore fellow-seruanâ—s by the throat as our Sauiour speakes in the parable and say pay that thou owest In this sea as in the other might ouercomes right For heere wee may many times see great malefactors sitting in iudgement and giuing sentence of death as Iudah was like to haue done and coâ—fesseth it against them that are more righteous thâ—n themselues Here Anachâ—rsis may see Solons lawes like to cob-webs which hold the little flies but the great flies breake through Here Socrates may laugh to see pettie theeues trust vp at the gallowes and great theeues without punishment ride vp and downe in state and pompe Here Heraclâ—tus may weepe to see vertuous men despised and vertue trampled vnder foot if they speake the truth conscionably from their hearts and vicious men extolled for clawing and flattering great men against their conscience And if good men liue in this sea it must be as â—onas in the whales belly which he cals the belly of hell For good men haue not onely their purgatorie but their hell in this world while with iust Lot their righteous soule is vâ—xed from day to day with the vnlawfull deeds of filthy lust So that the great fishes doe not make thâ—ir pray more vpon the small ones in the sea then wicked men in their greatnesse doe vâ—on poore silly wretches in the sea of the world Lastly the sea is no place for men to dwell and abide in but those that loue it best and liue by trading in it and through it make their longest voyages in as short time as they can possibly and are full of ioy when they can descry the hauen whither they shape their course So the sea of the world is no place for Christians to dwell and abide in for they are in it and liue in it as strangâ—rs and â—ilgrims they haue here no abiding City but they looâ—e for one to come And they know when the earthly
the sea great and wide for therein are things creeping innumerable both small beasts and great There goe the ships yea that Leuiathan which thou hast made to play therein All these waite vpon thee that thou maist giue them meate in due season Thou giuest it to them and they gather it thou openest thy hand and they are filled with good things But if thou hide thy face they are troubled if thou take away their breath they die Againe if thou send forth thy Spirit they are created and thou renuest the face of the earth The floods haue lifted vp O Lord the floods haue lifted vp their voice the floods haue lift vp their waues the waues of the sea are maruellous through the noise of many waters yet thou Lord on high art more mighty We haue seene thy workes in the sea and thy wonders in the deepe For thou didst command and raise the stormie winde and liftedst vp the waues thereof Our ship hath mounted vp toward heauen and descended againe to the deepe so that our soule melted for trouble We were tossed to and fro and staggered like drunken men and all our cunning was gone Then wee cried to thee in our trouble and thou deliueredst vs out of our distresse Thou hast turned the storme into a calme so that the waues thereof are still Thou rulest the raging of the sea when as the waues thereof arise thou stillest them Thou hast according to thy promise brought vs againe from the depth of the sea Thou appeasest the noise of the seas and the noise of the waues thereof Let heauen and earth praise thee therefore the sea and all that moueth therein Let vs reioyce from the sea yea let vs depend vpon thy might and mercy in thy time to bring vs to the hauen where wee would be Let vs confesse before thee thy louing kindnesse and thy wonderfull works before the sonnes of men Open our lips O Lord that our mouthes may speake thy praise which breakest the sea whē the waues therof rore thy name is the Lord of hosts Whatsoeuer it pleased thee thou hast done in heauen and in earth and in the sea and in all the depths Let our mouthes therefore bee filled with praise and with thy glory euery day Let thy praise be in our mouthes continually and Let vs sing vnto thee a new song and thy praise from the end of the earth Let vs neuer forget thy mercies and louing kindnesse to vs miserable sinners but seeing wee haue nothing else to render vnto thee for all thy benefits accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiuing and teach vs euermore to ascribe and giue vnto thee O Father with thy Son and the holy Ghost all honour glory power might and maiesty from this time forth and for euer Amen A Prayer before a Fight at Sea O Lord God of Hostes thou art the God of peace and the God of war we confesse that without thee we can haue no true peace nor make any iust war Grant vs therefore first to be at peace with thee and at peace with our owne consciences that so we may vndertake in thy name the fight now intended against thine and our enemies O Lord we acknowledge that our sins haue separated betweene thee and vs and that in respect of our iniquities thou maist iustly make our enemies thy rod and scourge to correct vs yea euen as a fire to consume and deuoure vs. Thou hast many times suffered thine owne people when they haue sinned against thee with an high hand and not humbled themselues before thee but trusted to their owne strength to become a prey vnto wicked and vngodly men that haue risen vp against them But Lord we confesse our manifold sinnes and that thereby wee haue iustly deserued thy iudgements wee repent vs of our former liues and resolue by thy gratious assistance to liue and die in thy feare and faith And now Lord Loe thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee haue lift vp their head They haue taken counsell against thy people and consulted against thy secret ones They haue said Come and let vs cut them off from being a people and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance Looke downe therfore O Lord from heauen and behold their wicked imaginations against vs. Confound their malicious and mischieuous policies giue vs courage and true Christian resolution to withstand the rage and fury of these idolaters and fight for vs as thou art wont to doe for thy children Teach our hands to warre and our fingers to fight Let thy power and might in thy mercifull preseruation of vs be knowne among the Heathen that they may confesse Doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the world Let not these wicked men triumph ouer vs neither deliuer vs as a prey vnto their teeth It is thy mercy O Lord that bath affoorded vs many excellent prouisions of warlike meanes to defend our selues and to make them if thou please to giue a blessing to fall into the same pit which they haue digged for vs. But our trust is not in these secondary meanes but in thy mercies Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but wee will trust in thy name A horse is a vaine thing to saue a man and so are all other meanes without thee Let the right of our cause fighting for thee against thine and our enemies put such life and spirit and courage into vs that wee may bee resolued to liue and die thy seruants and let vs so rely vpon thy protection that wee neglect no meanes which thou hast giuen vs for our preseruation but may manfully in our greatest extremities shew our Christian resolutions not to feare bodily death which is euery day before our eies being assured of euerlasting life hereafter purchased by the death and passion of thy Son Iesus Christ So we thy people and sheepe of thy pasture shal learne daily to praise and glorifie thy holy name for all thy mercies which wee receiue at thy hands here in this life and publish them in the great Congregation if thou giue vs safe returne into our natiue Country yea wee shall declare them vnto the ages to come and desire in all places to acknowledge that greatnesse and power and glory and victory and praise are thine for euer and euer And thus submitting our selues to thy good will and pleasure and depending vpon thy gracious protection wee commit and commend our soules and bodies and endeuours in this dangerous fight to thy mercy in thy Sonne Iesus Christ praying further vnto thee as hee hath taught vs Our Father which art in heauen c. A Thanksgiuing after Victory O Lord God the strength of our saluation thou hast couered our heads in the day of battell If
thou Lord hadst not been on our sides when men rose vp against vs they had swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs Then the waters had drowned vs and the streame had gone ouer our soule Then had the swelling waters gone ouer our soule Praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs ouer as a prey vnto their teeth Our soule is escaped euen as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken we are deliuered Let vs not therfore forget to offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiuing vnto thee the true God y◠hast deliuered vs frō the hands of our enemies let the holy examples of thy seruants Moses and Miriam and Baruch Deborah and the Prophet Dauid in their Psalms of thanksgiuing for their victories and deliuerance from their enemies incite and prouoke vs to praise thy name as long as wee liue yea as long as we haue any being Thou hast giuen vs the shield of thy saluation and thy right hand hath staid vs and thy louing kindnesse hath caused vs to encrease For thou hast girded vs with strength to battell Them that rose against vs thou hast subdued vnder vs. Let the Lord liue and blessed be our strength and the God of our saluation be exalted It is God that giueth vs power to auenge vs and subdueth the people vnto vs O our deliuerer from our enemies euen thou hast set vs vp from them that rose against vs thou hast deliuered vs from the cruell men Therefore will we praise thee O Lord among the nations and will sing vnto thy name We will alwaies giue thankes vnto thee and thy praise shall be in our mouth continually and our tongues shall vtter thy righteousnesse and thy praise euery day Thou hast put into our mouthes a new song of praise vnto thee our God Many shall see and feare and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust and regardeth not the proud and such as turne aside to lies O Lord our God thou hast made thy wonderfull works so many that none can count in order to thee thy thoughts towards vs. Wee would declare and speake of them but they are more then we are able to expresse Thou makest war to cease vnto the ends of the world thou breakest the bow and cuttest the speare and burnest the chariots in the fire Let vs therefore be still and know that thou art God and wilt be exalted among the Heathen and wilt bee exalted in the earth Thou Lord of hosts art with vs thou God of Iacob art our refuge Let vs therefore reioyce and be glad in thee and tell and sing of thy greatnesse Thy name shall bee for euer thy name shall endure as long as the Sunne All Nations shall blesse thee and bee blessed in thee Blessed be the Lord God euen the God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things And blessed be his glorious name for euer and let all the earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen A Prayer in the time of Famine and Dearth O Lord our God thou hast broken the staffe of our bread and taken away the strength therof wherby it should nourish vs we eat our bread by waight and with care and drinke our water by measure with astonishment because our bread and water faile we are astonied one with another But thou hast taught vs that Man liueth not by bread only but by euery word that proceedeth out of thy mouth We know therefore that howsoeuer thou hast appointed bread and meat and drinke as the ordinary means to maintaine life yet it is thy blessing vpon those meanes whereby we are preserued and as it is easie with thee to turne penurie and scarcity into plenty and abundance beyond the expectation of men so thou canst giue a blessing to a little meale in a bartell and a little oyle in a cruse to continue and not wast till thy seruants are relieued And though thou hast threatned the iudgement of Famine as a punishment to wicked men yet wee know that thy dearest children the holy Patriarches Abraham Isaac and Iacob haue all of them been tried thereby and yet after been relieued by thee And seeing the Scripture teacheth vs that thy eye O Lord is vpon them that feare thee and that trust in thy mercy To deliuer their soules from death and preserue them from famine And that our Sauiour Iesus Christ hath not onely charged vs not to cark and care for our selues as the Heathen What wee shall eate or drink but to depend vpon thy prouidence which feedest the fowles of the aire and knowest that wee haue need of these things but also hath promised that they that seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse shall haue all these things ministred vnto them Teach vs to relie vpon thy prouidence O Lord and to know that when all outward meanes faile vs yet thou art still the same God faithfull in thy promises and thy mercies cannot faile Thou canst suddenly by meanes vnknowne to vs supply our wants thou canst make a little stretch farre and canst proportion our appetites to our store Giue vs grace therefore to make vse of this crosse when we see the great care taken for our prouision before we vndertook the voyage cannot helpe vs that it may cause vs both to waite thy leisure and expect supply in thy good time and submit our selues vnto thee without murmuring grudging or repining at thee and without mutining or falling out among our selues And if it please thee to supply our necessities grant that we may thankfully acknowledge thy mercies therein and keepe our selues in so sober a diet that we may both auoide the sins of surfetting and drunkennesse and may specially be stirred vp to hunger and thirst after righteousnesse and the spirituall meate and drinke of our soules which shall endure vnto euerlasting life which now and euer we desire to be so carefull of that howsoeuer it please thee to dispose of our bodies the food belonging vnto them we may know that meate was made for the belly and the belly for meate but thou shalt destroy them both but this bread of life and water of life shall last and neuer faile vs but euen in death bring vs to euerlasting life purchased for vs by the death of thy Sonne Iesus Christ in whose name and words we craue the supply of all our wants in that forme which hee hath prescribed saying Our Father which art c. A Prayer being arriued at a Port among Infidels O Lord it is thy goodnesse and mercie that hath brought vs safe through the many dangers of Sea vnto this place where we are to enter yet into more dangers being to trade and conuerse with