perticular and that Most ordinary twice a day at Morne Even Numb. 18. 3. More extraordinary Twice a day at Morne Noone and Night Psalme 55. 1. Seven times a day Dan. 6. 11. The Horologe 1 Before day Mar. 1. 31. 2 At Sun-rise Psal. 63. 1. 3 At the third houre Act 2. 15. 3 At the sixt or noone 10. 9. 4 At the ninth houre 3. 1. 5 At Sun-set P. 134 6 After it at night P. 134 7 At Midnight Ps. 139. 62 The place of Prayer In generall in every place Exod. 20. 24. In speciall for 1 Tim. 2. 8. Publique Prayer In the Congregation or Temple Psal. 111. 1. Acts 3. 1. and 22. 17. Private Prayer At home Esa. 26. 20. In the Chamber Mat. 6. 6. On the house top or leades Acts 10. 9. Abroade In the Garden Joh. 18. 2. In the field Gen. 29. 63. In the Desert Mar. 1. 35. The manner of Prayer in respect of The Posture Standing Mar. 11. 25. Kneeling Luke 22. 41. Falling on the face Mat. 26. 29. The Gesture Lifting up the eyes Psal. 123. 1. Lifting up of the hands 1 Tim. 2. 8. Smiting the brest Luke 18. 13. Vncovering the head 1 Cor. 11. 4. At your entrance into the Church before publique service say O LORD IN the multitude of thy mercies I wil aproach thine house and I will worship towards thy holy Temple in the reverence of thee Lord hear the voyce of my prayer when I call unto thee when I lift up my hands towards thy Sanctuary Remember these my brethren also which stand about me and pray together with me remember their endeavours their zeale Remember them likewise which for just causes are absent and O Lord have mercy upon them and us according to the abundance of thy goodnesse I have loved the beauty of thine house and the place where thy glory dwelleth that I might hear the voyce of thy praises and publish all thy wonders One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will still intreate That I may dwell still in the house of the Lord and visite his holy Temple To thee O Lord my heart hath said I will seeke the Lord Thee ô my God have I sought thy face And thee will I seeke The Horologe or Diall of Prayer THou which hast put the times and seasons in thine own power Acts 1. 7. Grant that wee may pray unto thee in a fit and acceptable time and save us Mar. 4. 38. 1. Thou which for us men and for our salvation wert borne at Midnight Lu. 2. 7 Grant that we may be daily regenerate by the renewing of thy holy Spirit untill Christ bee perfectly found in us and save us Lu. 3. 5. 2. Thou which early in the morning whilst the Sunne was rising didst rise again Mar. 16. 2. Raise us up daily to newnesse of life prompting us unto those means of repentance which thou best know'st and save us Rom. 6. 4. 3. Thou which at the third houre didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Apostles Acts 2. 15. Take not thy Spirit from us but renew it daily in us and save us Psal. 51. 10. 11. 4. Thou which at the sixth houre and on the sixth day did'st fasten the sins of the world and crucifie them on the same Crosse with thy selfe Mat. 27. 45. Col. 2. 14. Cancell the hand-writing of our sins which is against us and take it cleare away and save us Thou which at the sixth hour did'st let downe the great sheete from Heaven and Earth as a type of thy Church Acts 10. 11. Receive us sinners of the Gentiles into the same and with it take us up into Heaven and save us Gal. 2. 15. Acts 10. 16. 5. Thou which at the ninth houre did'st for us sinners and our sinnes take that bitter and cursed death Mar. 15. 34. Heb. 2. 9. Mortifie in us our earthly members and whatsoever opposeth thy will and save us Col. 3. 5. 6. Thou which at even would'st be taken downe from the Crosse and laid in the Sepulchre Mar. 15. 42. Bury our sinnes in thy grave and with thy righteousnesse cover the evill which we have committed and save us Rom. 6. 4. Thou which late at night gavest to thine Apostles the power of remitting or retaining sinnes Jo. 2. 23. Make us pertakers of that benefit unto remission good Lord and not unto retention and save us Thou which at midnight did'st raise the Prophet David and the Apostle Paul to praise thee Ps. 119. 62. Act. 16. 25. O give us also Songs in the night and make us mindefull of thee upon our Beds and save us Ps. 63. 6. Thou which by thine owne mouth hast foretold the coming of the Bridegroome at midnight Mat. 5. 6. Grant that we may ever have that crye in our eares the Bridegroome cometh and so be never unprepared to meet him and save us Thou which by the Cocke crowing did'st admonish thy Apostle Peter and made him returne to repentance Matt. 26. 74. 75. Grant that wee also weepe bitterly for the things wherein wee have sinned against thee and save us Thou which at the Seventh hour did'st cure the Rulers Sonne of a feaver Jo. 4. 52. If any feaver or sicknesse remaine in our soules take that away also and save us Thou which at the 10. houre would'st have thy Apostle which found thy Sonne to cry with great joy wee have found the Messias Jo. 1. 41. Make us find the Messias likewise and having found him to rejoyce in like manner and save us Jo. 1. 41. Thou which vouchsafest to call those which stood al day idle and with promises of reward to send them even at the 11. houre into thy Vinyard Matt. 20. 6. Shew us the same favour and though wee returne late unto thee as at the 11 houre graciously yet denie not to entertaine us and save us Thou which at Supper time did'st institute the holy mysteries of thy body and bloud Jo. 13. 3. Matt. 26. 20. Make us mindefull and pertakers of them and not to our perdition but to the remission of sinne and our obtaining the legacies of the new Testament and save us Thou which hast foretold thy comming to judgment on a day which wee expect not and in an houre which wee knew not Luk. 12. 46. Matt. 24. 50. Make us ready every day And houre that wee may with joy attend thy comeing and save us Thou which sendest forth the light wch createst the morning and makest the Sun to rise upon thee good bad inlighten the blindnesse of our mindes with the knowledg of thy truth Ps. 43. 3. 74. 16. Eph. 1. 18. Lift up the light of thy Countenance upon us that in thy light we may see light in the light of grace the light of glory and save us Ps. 4. 7. 36. 9. Thou which givest food to all flesh which feedest the young Ravens which call upon thee and hast nourished us from our Childe-hood Fill our hearts with food and gladnesse and with
one night adde knowledge unto another Teach mee good Lord so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisedome From the morning watch untill the evening let Israel trust in thee O Lord A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer O Lord I Have neither knowne thee as I ought might have done neither as I have known thee have I glorified thy name or beene thankefull unto thee and woe is me that I have not But with sorrow I confesse and humbly I crave pardon and would to God I had done it nay would I might now hereafter so know thee and live so holily that both in me and by mee and by others for my sake thy name might be hallowed O let me so serve and so promote thy Kingdome here upon earth in the state of grace that I may attaine unto some place though the lowest even under the feete of thy Saints in Heaven in the state of glory Thy will which is holy and just and good be done by mee thy mercifull and gracious will be done with me me earth as I am As it is in Heaven Give us this day those things which may conduce to our welfare our quiet and our contentment Forgive mee my debts That excessive score of my debts my filthy slips fals my frequent relapses my long long wallowing in abominable pollutions even such as it is a shame to name or repeate these all and those other also which are not so sensible and yet perhaps no lesse grievious and which sinke me full as deep into perdition Out of these depths I cry out unto thee good Lord I beseech thee deliver my soule deliver it from the nethermost hell One deep calleth upon another the depth of my misery on the depth of thy mercie psal. 42. 7. O let thy mercie bee exalted above thy justice let thy goodnesse overcome my wickednesse Jam. 2. 13. Where sin hath abounded let thy grace much more abound Rom. 5. 20. Take away my sinnes take away the cause of my sins my sinns both those which are scandalous and scrupulous to my heart and those also which are not so and yet perhaps far more heynous of which I desire thee ô Lord that I may bee enlightned that so I may bee humbled for them In thy wrath remember mercie and forgive me my sinnes sins of mine owne ends with others sins secret and manifest sins ancient and fresh of the world or of the flesh As thou art most mercifull and indulgent and compassionate O Lord forgive them all even as wee forgive our debters and grant us this also that wee may forgive them and to that end infuse thy charity into our hearts Leade me not neither suffer me to be led nor â—â— enter into temptation but remember commiserate my frailty and weakenesse so often discovered But deliver me from evill from the evill Spirit and his suggestion from the evill in my selfe that is in my flesh and the inticement therof from the evil in the world and the contagion of it From all penall evills which most justly and worthily I have deserved from the evils of the world to come and spare mee there and feare and launce me here rather From the evills of this present world ptty mee Lord for I am but feeble from the malice and evill of this day and of this disease wherewith I now struggle and from the evill ensuing From all manner of evills past present and to come from them all good Lord deliver me and keepe me thy servant for ever Amen Confession of sin TO thee O Lord I confess for if I would I cannot hide it from thee that I also am one of the number for even my life discovereth my guilt O Lord I am a Sinner a branch of the wild Olive tree arising from the roote of bitternesse Job 14. 4. For of uncleane seed was I begotten and in sinne did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 1. And I have sinned I have dealt unjustly I have done wickedly even in thy presence Psa. 106. 6. 51. 2. Impiously have I behaved my selfe in thy Covenant and have cast off thy law 1 King 8. 34. And rejected thy correction oppressed thy spirit and have gon a whoring after mine owne inventions and proceeded from bad to worse and have not feared thee Esa. 5. 24. Pro. 15. 3. Esa 63. 10. Ier. 18. 12. Lev. 25. 43. Nor yet returned Luk. 15. 18. No not when I was called back Pro. 13. 10. Not when I was afflicted Heb. 3. 13. But have waxed hard 1 Kings 16. 33. And have provoked thee And all this thou hast seene Psa. 9. 33. And yet hast held thy peace La. 2. 59. Sam. 49. 21. O God Thou knowest my foolishnesse and my transgresssions are not hid from thee I know it also my guilt is ever more before me Ps. 69. 5. Ps. 51. 3. Job 31. 33. Ps. 141. 4. And I hide not ô Lord Iincline not my heart to such wicked words as to excuse the accusations of my sinnes But against mine owne selfe I acknowledge mine iniquity and all that is within me and all my bones say that I have sinned I have sinned O Lord against thee Psa. 32. 5. 103. 1. 55. 10. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 19. Like a lost sheep I have gon astray and have been as froward as an untamed Heifer nay like a dogg have I returned to my vomit and like a washt Sow have I wallowed in the mire againe and rushed into mine owne destruction like a barbed steed into the battell Psalme 119. vlt. Ier. 31. 18. Pro. 26. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Ier. 8. 6. And now O Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hidden from thee thou know'st Lord my greif because I have thus sinned against thee that I am become tedious to mine own selfe because my sorrow is not greater that earnestly desire of thee a contrite heart unspeakable groanes and teares of bloud Psa. 38. 9. Iob. 7. 20. Psalme 51. 17. Rom. 8. 26. And woe is me for my leanesse for the drynesse of my eyes and the hardnes of my heart Esa. 24. 16. Ier. 9. 1. Rom. 12. 5. Mar. 9. 25. Yet Lord I repent I repent O Lord O doe thou help my want of penitence and still more and more bruise thou rend prick and smite this heart of mine Psa. 51. 17. Ioel. 2. 13. Act 1. 2. 37. Behold O Lord I am angry with my selfe for my foolish unprofittable nay hurtfull dangerous lust 1 Cor. 7. Ps. 73. 22. Luc. 23. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 8. 1 Tim 6. 9. Yea I even loath and abhorr my selfe for the absurdity the foolishnesse the basenesse of it Iob 42. 6. 2 Thes. 3. 2 All the day long my shame is before mine eyes and the confusion of face hath covered me Ex. 5. 12. 13 17. Psa. 44. 15 Alas Alas That I have no more reverenced nor yet feared Ja. 1. 14. Thy Incomprehensible glory Awfull presence
me an evening there is as of the day so of our life that Evening is old age age hath now surprized me Lord prosper thou that likewise unto me Tarry with me ô Lord for the evening growes upon me Luck 24. 29 And my day is much declined cast me not off now in min age forsake me not now when my strength faileth me Psal. 71. 8 9. But rather let thy strength bee made more perfect in this my weaknes 2 Cor. 12. 9. O Lord the day is vanished and gon so doth this life The night doth now approach so doth death also death without death the end both of our day and of our life is neere at hand Remember this therefore wee beseech thee ô Lord make the end of all our lives Christian-like and acceptable to thee peaceable and if it like thee painlesse translating us among thine elect unto thy heavenly kingdome O Lord thou hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come In the morning at Noone and in the evening I will call I will cry out and thou shalt heare my voyce In the night will I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary and will blesse thee ô Lord Psal. 133. 4. The Lord hath shewed his mercy in the day therfore at night I will sing of him and pray unto the God of my life psal. 42. 9 10. Thus will I praise thee all my life long and in thy Name will I lift up my hands Psal. 63 4 5. O let my prayers be directed as the incense and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou ô Lord my God the God of my Fathers Psal. 144. 20. VVhich hast created the Changes of night and of day v. 22. VVhich givest rest to the weary and refreshest the weake Esa. 40. 29. VVhich givest Songs in the night Job 35. 10. And makest the out-going of the Morning and Evening to praise thee Psalme 65. 9. VVhich hast delivered us from the malice of this day Matt. 6. ult. And cuttest not off our lives like a VVeaver neither from Morning to Evening makest an end of us Esay 38. 12. As we add dayes to our dayes so we add sinnes to our sins Eccles. 5. 8. The just man falls seven times a day Frov. 24. 16. But wee wretched sinners seventy times 7 times Mat. 18. 22. But wee returne to our hearts Esa. 46. 8. And with our hearts we returne to thee Deut. 30. 2. To thee ô Lord wee returne and all that is within us saith Ps. 103. O Lord wee have sinned against thee 2. Sam. 12. 13. But we repent alas wee repent spare us good Lord Luke 17. 4. Be mercifull and spare us Be propitious to us Haue pitty upon us and spare us ô Lord Forgive us the guilt Rom. 13. 19. Take out the staines Psal. 51. 3. 9. Cure the faintnesse in us by reason of our sins psal. 146. 3. and heale our soules O God for wee have sinned against thee psal. 41. 4. Deliver mee from my unavoydable sins psal. 27. 17. Cleanse me from my secret offences psalm 19. 13. And for my Communion with the transgression of others pardon thy servant ô Lord All our good deeds thou hast wrought in us Esay 26. 12. If wee have done any thing well mercifully regard it ô Lord Our sin and our distraction is from our owne selves Hosea 13. 9. Whatsoever wee have done amisse graciously pardon it Thou which givest thy beloved secure rest grant that I may passe this night without feare Psal. 3. 6. Enlighten my eyes that I sleep not in death p. 13. 4. Deliver mee from the mighty feare from the businesse that walketh in the darke psalm 91. 5. Thou which neither sleepest at any time nor slumbrest keepe mee this night ô Lord from al evill chiefly ô Lord keepe and preserve my soule Psalme 121. 4. 7 Visite mee ô God with the visitations of thy Saints open mine eares in the visions of the night Job 33. 15 16. At least let my sleepe be a cessation from sins from labour and let me dream of nought that may offend thee or defile my selfe Prov. 4. 6. Let not my loynes be filled with illusions but let my reynes chasten mee in the night psalme 38. 8. and 16. 7. Let mee remember thee upon my bed and let mee meditate with my heart and search out my spirit Psalme 63. 6. and 77. 6. And when it shall bee time for mee to rise let mee wake with the light to thee ô Lord to thy praise and thy service Rom. 13. 11. Psal. 63. 1. O Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit my soule and my body Thou hast created thou hast redeemed them ô Lord thou God of truth Psalm 31. 5. And with my selfe I commend to thy mercifull protection all those that belong to mee and all that is mine Thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hast bestowed them upon me Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from evil chiefely good Lord keepe and preserve our soules Keepe them ô God keep them all spotlesse and without guilt present them in that day Psa. 121. 7. I will lay me down and sleepe in peace For thou only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 3. 5. and 4. 8. After divine service O Lord thou which hast suffered me this holy day and houre to raise my soule and give praise unto thee and offer up the glory due to thee accept then from my soul this sacrifice sprituall and send into me the grace of thy most sacred spirit ô visit me in thy great goodnesse forgive me all my sins both wilfully and unwillfully committed deliver me from the reward of them that is from everlasting punishment yea and from all distresses in this world change my thoughts into Piety Sanctifie my spirit My soule and my body Oh give me grace to adore and please thee in godlines and holines of life to the utmost end of al my dayes Amen Before thy Approaching the Holy Communion say O Lord I am not worthy nor prepared for thee to come under my sordid roofe for it is wholy desolate and ready to dropp downe quite neither canst thou with me have any fitting place for thy Reposall Mar. 8. 8. But as thou denyest to rest in the Stable and manger of bruit beasts Luk. 2. 7. As thou didst not Disdaine Simon the Kepers house and entertainement Mat. 26. 6. As thou didst not forbid the adulterous Sinner to come and touch thee Luk. 7. 19. Nor did'st abhor her impure and prophane mouth Nor yet the Theeves confession of thee upon the Crosse Luk. 7. 23. Vouchsafe O Lord to receive me likewise an over-worne and most unworthy sinner Amen In approaching the Holy Sacrament O Lord with all thanks wee commemorate the saving passions of thy Christ our Saviour This life-restoring Crosse His precious death His 3. dayes Sepulture His resurrection His ascention to heaven And his sitting on thy right hand His glorious and most Dreadfull returne thence to the
satisfie our poore with bread Psal. â—32 6. Let our Garners be full and abounding with all manner of store let our sheepe bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets And let our Oxen be strong to labour v. 13. Let there bee no decay no leading away into captivity nor no complaining in our streets Two things I desire of thee O Lord deny me not them before I dye Pro. 30. 7 8 9. Vanity and lying words remove farr from me v. 8. Beggery and abundance give me not Give me onely what is needfull for my life least being full I be tempted to deny thee and say who is the Lord verse 9. Or being forced by want I steale so forswear the name of my God Teach me O God to abound to want Phil. 4. 11. that every where and in all things in what condition soever I shal be I may learne to be content v. 12. Thanksgiving LEt all thy workes confess unto thee ô Lord and let thy Saints blesse thee Psal. 34. 96. 103. 107. It is a good thing to praise the Lord and to sing unto thy Name O most high Psa. 91. 1. To declare thy loving kindnes in the morning and thy truth in the night season v. 2. I will exalt thee O God my King and blesse thy Name for ever and ever every day I will blesse thee and extoll thy Name for ever and ever Psal. 145. 1. v. 2. For it is thou which callest the things which were not as if they were and by whom all things are made in Heaven and on Earth visible and invisible Rom. 4. 17. Col. 1. 16. And it is thou which sustainest all things by the word of thy power and by thy ordinance they continue to this day Heb. 13. Psal. 119. 91. for all things serve thee Which leavest not thy selfe without a witnesse in doing good from heaven giving us raine and fruitfull seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladnesse Acts. 14. 17. 1. It is thou which by thy wisdome and power didst thy selfe 2. With thine owne hands make man of the mould of the earth 3. And didst breath into his nostrills the breath of life Acts. 1. 26. 4. And did'st honour him with thine owne Image 5. And did'st give the Angells charge over him Psal. 91. 11. 6. And dost place him over the worke of thy hands Psal. 8. 7. 7. And did'st seate him in the paradise of pleasure Gen. 2. 15. And when he had dispised thy Commandements did'st not yet dispise him but did'st open to him a gate to repentance and life Acts. 11. 18. Giving to him that great and pretious promise of the seed which should save us 2 Pet. 1. 4. It was thou which did'st instruct us 1. By that which is knowne of God 2. By the Law written in our hearts 3. By the services of sacrifices and oblations 4. By the Oracles of the Prophets 5. By the melody of the Psalmer 6. By the wisdome of the Proverbs 7. By the experience of the sacred story It was thou which when the fulnesse of time came didst send downe thy son who emptying himself and taking the forme of a Servant of the feede of Abraham Heb. 12. 6. Being made of a woman and subjected to the Lawe Gal. 4. 4. Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 21. 6. Ga. 4. 4. By his active obedience fulfilled the Law and by his death tooke away the curse thereof Eph. 5. 1. Redeeming by his death and by his resurrection reviving our nature and leaving nothing undone that was needfull to doe that wee might be made partakers of the divine nature who likewise manifested himselfe to be our Saviour in all places by the preaching of the Gospell Rom. 4. last 2 Cor. 2. 14. Bearing witnesse thereunto by divers signes and miracles Heb. 2. 4. By the admired holines of life in his Saints and By their wonderfull patience even to the effusion of their bloud Heb 11 36 37. And by the incredible condition of the whole world to the faith 1 John 5 4. It is thou also which hast made us the Sonnes of Saints and heirs of the same vocation Which hast given thy Church power to be the pillar and foundation of Truth 1 Tim 3 15. It is thou which hast granted to our Church ability to keep that which was committed to her 1 Tim. 6. 20. To teach us the way of peace and to retain certain ordered stedfastnesse and decency Rom. 3. 22. Col. 2. 5. It is thou which hast established the throne of thy Servant our Soveraigne 1 Ch. 17. 13. Which hast instructed our Princes hast taught our Magistrates wisedome Psal. 105. 22. Which hast vouchsafed us pastours according to thine own heart to feed us with knowledge and learning Jer. 3. 15. It is thou which hast made peace in our inclosure and hast satisfied us with the flowre of wheate Psalm 106. 13 14. Which hast strengthned the Barres of our gates and hast blessed our Children among us Which hast turned our swords into Mattocks and our spears into sithes Esay 2. 4. Which hast cloathed our enemies with confusion and hast given us for a blessing for ever and ever and made us glad with the joy of thy Countenance Psal. 21. 7. It is thou which hast brought mee into this life and hast led mee to the lavar of regeneration and renewing by thy holy Spirit and hast revealed to me the paths of life Tit. 3. 5. Psalm 16. 11. Which hast connived at my sins for my repentance Wisd. 11. 12. And hast not crushed me under the hands of mine iniquity Esa 64. 7. Which hast even waited to shew mercy on me Esa. 30. 18. And hast not suffered my heart to harden Rom. 2. 9. But hast left mee in the compunction of heart and memory of my latter end and conscience of my former sins Acts 7. 37. Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 10. 3. Which hast not cut off my life like a weaver in the beginning Psa. 16. 29. nor from morning to night hast made and of us Jo. 20. 22. Which hast not called me away in the middest of my dayes Psalme 102. 25. But hast holden my soule in life and hast not suffered my feete to slip Psalme 66. 9. Therefore for all these benefits and for many more through their multitude and our forgetfulness omitted Glory be to thee ô Lord glory and honour praise and blessing and thankes with the tongues of Angels and men The meanest of thy work by reason of our sin now every houre and every day Even to our latest gaspe To the end of the world and to all Eternity Amen Thankesgiving in particular O Lord my God For my being living endowment with reason For my nourishment preservation ingenuous education For thy gifts to me of nature of the world of grace For my redemption regeneration christian instruction For thy calling of me calling againe often reiterated calling For thy patience long-suffering long long-suffering of these many times these many yeares even