any time asseÌ„bled but they are redy to praye for vs therfor it is our duty to pray for theÌ„ We therfore coÌ„mend to thee thy whole church each meÌ„ber of the same be good gracius to these churches of EnglaÌ„d Scotland FraÌ„ce IrelaÌ„d giue the Gospel a free passage euery whâ—… put on the meanes by which it may be publisht wher it is nâ—t or maintained wher it is Deuid not O thou indiuisible goâ—… deuid not Ephraim against Manasses nor Manasses against Ephraim nor both of them against Iudah The coat of thy son was wtout seam let the church of thy son be without seame Our aduersaries get ground and work vpon our diuision knit vs so together that there worke may be as the coÌ„fusion of Babel Ar there any means to hinder the curraÌ„t of thy gospell stop them in the head poyson them in the stream stay theÌ„ in the time let their labor he like his that wold repair Iericho To this end bee good to the light of our eies the breathe of our nostrils the procurer of our happines thy Salomon our King preserue his bodie in health his soule in soundnes his hart in thy trueth his life in honor his honor from vnder miners his ears from flatterers the haue of each kingdome Keep him that he may euer maintain thy truth Defend him against the insinuation of practising papists who will neuer wish wel vnto him vnlesse they see we do wish wel vnto thee Let thy good spirite hee with Ioâ—… doâ—… prince season his young yeares with the knowledge of thy will that as hee groweth in yeares so he may grow in staâ—… fauor both with god and men Be good vnto them that haue the â—…ition of him make them instruments of much good that may be done by him Preserue with these our gratious Queene let vs see her as a fruitfull vine about the Kings house and her children like to oliue plantes round about his table And because wher many counsellors are there is peace O Lorde blesse his honorable counsail in al things let them take counsail at thy word and in euerie consultation aime at thy glorie The peeres of our land the pillars of our kingdome wee commend vnto thee make them contented with their present honors and to continue loyall to their vndoubted soueraigne And because the preachers of thy worde are the pillars of thy church blesse them all from the highest to the lowest that both by life and doctrine they may set out thy most holie word Take from the great the spirit of ambition and from the meane the spirit of contention that both may labor as much as they may to oppose themselues against the common aduersarie and not to aduantage him by intestine diuision Blesse the people of this laÌ„d such as are called confirme them such as are not conuert them to that purpose send faithfull pastor into each congregation who may speake a word in due season vnto theÌ„ Couch all our hearts from the highest to the lowest with true repentance that thy iudgementes present imminent may be preuented remoued thy mercies stil continued to vs our posterity after vs especially in the true ministery of the word and sacraments that such as suruiue vs may praise thy name Bee mercifull to all thine afflicted ones be they sick in bed distressed in conscience pinched with pouerty disgraced for thy truth or kepte in prison and deliuered to death releeue them in theyr necessity strengthen them in their weaknes comforte them in ther distresse mitigate their sorrows turne al their troubles to thy glory and theire good To this end giue thy seruaÌ„ts coÌ„fort by thy word sufficiency of things needful for them bles the fruits of the earth disappoint both Turk Pope from incroching vpon thine inheritance let all such prosper as sight thy battails and let thy gospel be preached from the one end of the worlde vnto the other In thy good time let the sun of thy gospel shine vpon Iews Turks Infidels Atheists and papists belonging to thee Be good to our kinsfolkes in the flesh our friendes in the spirite and them to whome wee are any wise bounden or desire to bee commended to thee in these our praiers and supplications Haue mercy vpon vs nowe calling vpon thy name forgiue our sins and manifolde deffects in this holye duty accepting at our handes this our obedience in Christ And because thou hast bin good vnto vs many wayes make vs thankfull vnto thee for all thy mercies as our election in thy loue our redemption in thy sonne our sanctification by thy spirit our preseruation by thy prouidence our health in body peace of conscience our life in thy church our gratious Gouernours our painfull Preachers our christian friends our desire to please thee and that wee haue the ministration of thy word and sacraments and can shew loue euen to our enimies We thanke thee O Lord for all graces of thy spirit as faith in thy promises hope of eternall life feare of thy name loue to thy maiesty zeale to thy glory affection to our bretheren patience vnder the crosse strength against our seuerall temptations humility gentlenesse méekenes forbearing with many other giftes and graces of thy spirit all which wee acknowledge haue procéeded from thy méere mercie O let vs not hee negligent in the vse of all good meanes by which thy grace may dayly growe vp in vs. We do also with all thankfulnesse remember all the blessings of this life our deliuerance from our enimies in 88. our preseruation from the pestilence in 93. our protection from Gunpowder in 95. as all other fauors which we do enioye vnder the blessed gouernment of our gratious Prince and for all thy goodnes vnder our lase noble Queene We thanke thee that thou hast sustained vs in great weaknes releiued vs in much necessity coÌ„forted vs in much distresse resolued vs in many doubts deliuered vs from many dangers preserued vs from many sinnes made vs willing to desire to do thy will and bestowed vpon vs such a larges of thy good creatures that we are more fit to giue then receiue Blesse vs nowe and euer hereafter keepe vs and all ours and all that are nere about vs from all dangers whatsoeuer and grant vs all such a portion of thy grace that whether we stay at home or goe abroad watch or sléepe rate or drinke buy or sell bee in labour or recreation we may euer labour to glorifie thy high and great name in the workes of such callings as thou shalt cal vs vnto and fit vs for through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour in whose name and in whose wordes wee further call vpon thée saying Our Father which art c. O LOrd blesse vs and kéepe vs O Lord make thy face shine vpon vs O Lord graunt vnto vs thy sweete and euerlasting peace especially that peace of conscience which the world cannot giue with the
especially in the congregation of Saints for there many voyces are Gods best melodie Pray also at all times at euening Pray at all times morning and at noone day will I pray vnto thee yea at midnight will I rise to call vpon thee nay seauen times a day will I praise thee saith Dauid Daniel did so three times a day Paul did it day and night Hannah did it all the dayes of her life and the Psalmographer vowes it I will praise the Lord as long as I liue as long as I haue any being I will sing praises to my God Euchyta Pray continually not as those heretiques who would euer doe so but as Christians who know when to do so With morning prayer the day begin With euening praier the night shut in Without this prayer sit not to eate Without Gods praise rise not from me ate And forget not to pray for all persons Pray for person for the King as the head his Senators as the eyes his Cleargie as the mouth his Souldiers as the hands his subiects of all trades as the feete vpon which the commonwealth doth stand Art thou a Minister pray for thy flocke An Auditor for thy preacher A father for thy child an husband for thy wife a maister for thy seruant or a gouernour pray for thy famulie Is any sick pray for his health Poore for his wealth imprisoned for his libertie seduced for his recouerie confirmed for his constancie or in any distresse for his deliuery Pray for all men that their bodies may be preserued soules saued estates maintained that thy and their thoughts may bee sanctified your words seasoned and your actions ordered by the spirit of God Will you know now to whom we must pray To whom we must pray not to a Calfe as the Israelites did nor to Baal as his Priests did nor to an image as idolatours did nor to any Saints as our fathers did but as we are bound to serue God alone so are we bounden to pray to God alone for he alone knoweth our wants heaâ—…th our petitions hath promised to help vs is able to doe for vs and is the alone present helper in the needfull time of trouble I will draw to an end How we must pray you haue seene beloued the necessitie of this seruice let me shew you a little the qualities of this seruice Pray we must in knowledge with vnderstanding in faith by beleeuing in remorse with feeling in zeale without cooling in intention without wandring in reuerence without contemning in constancie without reuolting and in loue without reuenging Let our eies be fastned hearts fixed knees bowed mouthes opened and our hands lifted vp as to the King of Kings And as Iacob would not let the Angell goe till he were blessed so let not vs let him go till wee be heard Let not the woman of Canaan be more earnest with Christ militant then wee wil be with the same Christ triumphaÌ„t Let neuer Queene of Sheba so willingly come to Salomon as wee must willingly come vnto Christ hee loueth most willing and importunate sutors Wherefore as Dauid said to Abner neuer see my face vnlesse thou bring Michal with thee so say I vnto you neuer looke God in the face vnlesse you bring prayer with you As I haue declared to you the dutie of praier so should I speake somewhat of giuing of thankes Many can bee content to pray in troubles but fewe giue thankes for deliuerance out of trouble Multi petentes pauci promitteÌ„tes paucissimi reddentes saith an ancient father there are many petitioners few promisers most few thanks giuers Are there not ten cleansed where are the nine there is none returned to giue thankes but this one and he is a Samaritan If euer people vnder the cope of heauen had occasioÌ„ to praise God we are they especially for his word and gospell and for many deliuerances shewed to our Princes and people But because at the end of this treatise I haue set downe a forme both of praier thanks giuing I refer you to the perusing of those two platformes I doubt not of your patience for the length of this preface because I desire to leaue it as an ocular sermon instructing you continually how to call vpon God and preparing you to the exposition of the Lords prayer which of many through ignorance is as much prophaned as euer God was by saying the Pater-noster in Latin or repeating other rosaries in an vnknown laÌ„guage Now hauing ended as you see these questions and answers I make question with my selfe to whom I may command them and because for these three yeares immediatly past I haue liued and preached amongst you I am bolde in generall to present them to you all You haue I confesse knowne my conuersation bin acquainted with my ministrie countenanced me in my calling maintained me in health comforted me in sicknes afforded vnto me much more kindnesse then can be requited by this paper present And since it pleaseth God to dispose of me still in such vncertaine places as that I could neuer yet say heere must I rest I blesse God that euer I came vnto you whose loue and larges hath bene such vnto me as makes me to say of my late exile Perijsseâ— nisi perijssem I had bene vndone if others had not sought to vndoe me And therefore though I cannot say to you as Paul did to the Corinthians I am yours to liue and die with you yet this I will say I am yours to liue and pray for you that you may so know God as you may pray to him so pray to God that you may liue before him so liue that you may euer be fit to receiue his sacrament and so both fit to know pray liue and receiue that after you haue knowne him by Christ prayed to him through Christ liued before him in Christ and receiued his fauour in the seales of Christ you may in the end dye in his faith as you haue liued in his feare and at the last day in bodyes and soules bee partakers of eternall glorye To the grace of this GOD I commend you to your grace I coÌ„mend these treatises doubting not but many of you will be as readie to read them as you haue bene willing to heare them From your Parish of S. Martin the fields Ian. 1. 1606. Your seruant in the Lord ROBERT HILL The Speakers Euchedidascalus a teacher of praier Phileuches a louer of praier Euch. PHileuches amongst manie Sermons which I haue preached vnto you you haue heard me expound the Lordes prayer are you bound to giue accompt of that you haue heard Phil. Sir doubtlesse I am for the Apostle Peter teacheth me that I must be alwaies ready to giue an answer to euery one that asketh mée a reason of the hope that is in me with meekenesse and reuerence a 1. Pet. 3.15 Euch. Repeate then the Lordes prayer Phil. Our Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy
vnder the burden of them make vs good god displeased with our selues because by sin wee haue dishonored thy maiesty Stir vp our dead dul harts that we may hunger after Christ his righteousnesse and after euery drop of his precious bloud In that son of thine looke on vs thy seruants and for his merits righteousnes vouchsafe good God mercifullie and freelie to doe awaye all our offenses Wash them away in his bloud and by the puritie of his spirite clense our hearts from the pollution and impuritie of them all say vnto our soules thou art our saluation let thy spirite in our hearts crie Abba Father Teach vs O Lord thy way and we shall walk in thy trueth O knit our hearts vnto thee that we may feare thy name And because through corruption in our harts and sin in our liues our faith is feeble and our confidence small we do humbly beseech thee to strengthen our faith by the daily meditation and particular application of thy mercifull promises made vnto vs in thy son Christ that neither in the dangers of this world nor the trobles of conscience nor in the hour of death wee may fall from thee Gratious father expell out of our hearts all carnall confidence the vnderminer of our faith teach vs in the spirit of tru humility to deny our selues to rely only vpon thee the merit of christ in the mater of our saluation And because it is not enough to com vnto thee by praier to sue vnto thee for pardon but al that ar in christ must be new creatures therfore we cal vpon thee for the spirit of regeneration mortify therby the corruptions of our flesh quicken vs thereby in the inner mā By the powr of Christs deth let vs dy vnto sin by the power of his resurrectiō let vs rise to righteousnes newnes of life let the one as a corrosiue eat vp the dead flesh of vngodlines the other as a spur stir vs vp to holines Illuminatour minds that we may know thy will giue vs spiritual vnderstāding to discern good euil Sanctify our memories to tresure vp good things purify our consciences to haue peace in thee reform our wils to doe thy wil let al our affections be ordered aright Teach vs to fear thee continually whersoeuer we ar to neglect al things in regard of christ to loue thee our brethren for thy sake to be zealus of thy glory to be greeued at our other sins ioyful when we cāpleas thee Let our bodies the instruments of sin be euer heerafter clensed by thy spirit that they may bee temples for that spirit to dwel in keepe our eies from beholding vanitie our eares from harkning to variety our mouths frō speking blasphemy our hands frō committing of iniquity our bodies from the action of adultery Let our light so shine before mē that they seeing our good works may glorify thee our heauenly father Make vs to remember that as we are sons wee must depend vpon thee as we ar seruants wee must obey thee and as we are christians we ought to walk worthy of our vocatiō and calling And because we haue al som particular calling either of rule or seruice or trust or fauor make vs from the highest to the lowest Faithful in our callings to remēber that a day wil come in which we must giue an accompte vnto thee of all our actions doon in this flesh whether they be good or euill Take away from vs all oportunity of sinning make vs euer thankful that we liue so as wee want allurementes to many sinnes Cause vs to see how deformed sin is in it selfe to what confusiō it is like to bring vs Lord make vs to fly the very occasiōs of sin to resist the beginnings of al tēptation let not a night pas ouer our heads in which we examin not howe wee haue spent the day neuer let vs come into any company wherin we may not not doe or receiue som good Keep vs that we fashiō not ourselues to this world but rather imitate the fashion of the moste godly in our callings Let vs neuer count any sin to be a little one because that our sauior died for the least And because we liue in dangerous times wherin many ar withdrawne from the profession of thy trueth Lord giue vs harts neuer to entertain any such doctrine which cannot be warranted out of thy word nor to admit of any such teachers as goe about to withdraw vs frō obedience to our gouernors if any one fal into any sin let vs restore such an one with the spirit of meeknes cōsidering our selues that we also may be tempted We further acknowledge most gracious God that our life is a war-fare vpon earth our enemies are sinn Satan the flesh Lord helpe vs in this spitituall combat are we weak be thou strong ar we tempted with the tēptation giue an issue may we be ouercom tech vs to watch ouer our own harts waies is there any one ◅une which we are weak to resist in the act of temptation giue vs power to resist it that by this means we may haue as iust cause to praise thee in our cōquests as we haue many reasons to hūble our selues in our foyles We see also most all seeing God that none cā liue godly in this world but they must suffer persecutions either Ismaell wil reuile them with a reproachful tongue or Esau wil pursue them with a blody sword what now must we do in these days of trial whether shal we come for helpe but to thee To thee therfore must wee come O Lord our god crauing wisdom to forsee prouidence to preuent patience to beare harts to be prepared for this fierytrial that by the denial of our selues distasting the worlde liking of heauen and heauenly things wee may make a good vse euen of the least affliction Confound in euery on of vs the cursed workes of the diuel Increase in vs dayly the giftes of thy spirit Fit vs for such calings in which thou hast or wilt place vs make vs to referre the strength of our bodies the giftes of our minde our credit in this world what so euer grace thou hast alredy or wilt hereafter bestow vpon vs to the glorye of thy name the good of thy church the eternal saluacion of our own souls And howe soeuer we liue heer in this Babilon of the world lord let our conuersation be euer in heauē that whether we eat or drink or what soeuer we do else wee may heare alwayes this voice soūding in our eares arise you dead come vnto iudgment Many other things haue we to beg for our selus that our ignorāce knoweth not to aske or forgetfulnes remēbers not to ask hear vs for thē in thy beloued son And giue vs leaue now good god to pray to thee for others Ther ar no christiā peple at
many oportunities to meete together we beseech thee to blesse vs and our méeting at this time and all thy good creatures prouided for vs and graunt that we may vse them soberlie as in thy presence and receiue them thankfully as from thine hand to the glory of thy name the good of our bodies and the future saluation of our soules through Christ our Lord and alone blessed Sauiour Amen Grace before meate ALmighty Lord God and our mercifull Father we beséech thy Maiesty to bée good vnto vs in the pardon and forgiuenesse of our sinne past by the assistance of thy good and holy Spirit to preuent all them that are to come to watch ouer vs as thou hast done by thy special prouidence to direct vs continually by thy holy word to blesse vs in the vse of all thy good creatures that nowe we shall receiue from thy bountifull hand giuing strength to them to nourish vs and giuing hearts vnto vs to bée thankefull vnto thée for the same And graunt that whether wée eate or drinke or whatsoeuer wée doe else wée may doe all to the glory of thy most holy name through Christ thy Sonne and our onely Sauiour Amen Grace after meate VVE beséech thy Maiestie eternall God and gracious Father to make vs truly and vnfainedly thankful vnto thée for all those mercies that we haue receiued and for all those iudgements that we haue escaped both temporall concerning this life and eternall concerning that life to come for thy gracious prouidence this day past for our comfortable peaceable chearfull méeting together in thy feare at this time and for all thy good creatures bestowed vpon vs for the comforting refreshing of these féeble and weake bodies of ours Now we humbly intreate thée that as thou hast fed them with that food which is conuenient necessary for the same so it would please thée to féed our soules with that food which perisheth not but endureth to eternall euerlasting saluation so as we may séeke so to passe through these thinges temporall that finally wee loose not things eternall Blesse with vs thine vniuersall Church our Kings and Quéenes Maiesty the Prince their Realmes O Lord continue thy truth peace among vs with the pardon and forgiuenesse of all our sins this day at this time and heretofore committed against thée through Christ our Lord and blessed Sauiour Amen Another after meat O Lord of eternall glory who half elected vs in the loue of a Father redeemed vs by the obedience of thy Sonne sanctified vs by the operation of thy spirit preserued vs hitherto by thy gratious prouidence instructed vs many times by thy good holy word and now at this present and often heretofore most graciously and bountifully refreshed comforted vs with thy good creatures with the mutuall societie comfort one of another hast bestowed many other good blessings and benefits vpon vs as health of body peace of conscience and abundance of thy good creatures which thou hast denied to many of thy seruants deare children which deserue the same as well as our selues thy maiesties name bee blessed and praised of vs and thy whole church both now and for euermore Amen Serenissimo Regi Iacobo Franciscj Bertj Carmen gratulatorium PApa quid effrendis quid frendis Roma superbaÌ„ Quod nunc te faciat dic mihi nunc quid habes Bella quid Arma Minae quid Bellarmine tonasti Quid nostros sic tu mordicus ore premis Quid parsone canis tu personale Britanne Siccine relligio fulta cruore tua Sanguine placari diuos animisque litandum Anglorum stulti creditis vnde fides Vana fides falsa fides hac luditur arte Nescia plebs vera religione fâ—ui Sperastis sine spe sed spem deusipse fefellit Etquam sperastis non fuit atra dies Non fuit atra dies quam fex haec vestra papalis Stuxerat in vestrum concidit illa caput Nil ficti factique dei nil lignea virgo Et nil sanctorum saxea turba valet Non ea nostra voco vis haec Romana valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite vos alios Ludite vos alios non hijs deludimur Angli Relligio vestra est san guinolenta nimis Aspicite ô ciues et vos generosa propago Dicite non veros credilis esse lupos Credimus et mentes si non dementia fallat Hic iterum talis non metuenda dies Sume animum gladiumque tibi viresque Iacobe Pugnabit pro te qui titus ipse deus Sume animos gladios nostras accipe vires Quod magis est nostram sume Iacobe fidem Same animos animasque simul tesospite nostrum Quicquid erit nostrum non erit omne tuum Omne tuum pia vota preces adiungimus istis Qua possis multo fortior esse fidem His fortis satis esse potes his vtere pennis Ne te decipiat Roma cruenta caue FINIS
will Phil. The reuealed will of God is done by voluntary f 1. Thes 5.3 obeying or patient suffering that which God commaundeth g Math. 26.39 The secret will is done of vs by praying that Christ Iesus may come to Iudgement h Col. 22.20 that Antichrist may more and more bee reuealed and that wee may patiently beare all future afflictions Euch. What meane you by Earth and heauen in this petition Phil. I doe not meane by Earth my bodie and Heauen my soule as Tertullian thought nor by earth earthly men and heauen heauenly men as others thought but in these words I praie that as the angelles in heauen are readie to doe Gods will so men on earth may be ready to doe it Euch. Howe doe Angells the will of God Phil. They doe it chearefully without murmuring spéedily without delaying generally without omitting sincerely without dissembling constantly without forbearing and perfectly without halting Euch. But is it possible for man to doe perfectly Gods wil Phil. It will be possible in the life to come it is impossible whilest we liue in this world for the good which was would doe we do not and the euill that we would not that doe we Rom. 7. Euch. How many kindes then of perfections are there Phil. There is first a perfection of sincerity which was in Hezekias obedience a Esay 38.3 Secondly a perfection of all partes which was in Zacharie and Elizabeths obedience b Luk. 1.6 Thirdly a perfection of degrees which was onely in the first and second Adam and is now only in the holy Angels who only can perfectly obeie Gods will Euch. If this obedience be impossible to be performed why then doe we pray for it Phil. Because I must with Paul striue for this perfection c phil 3. and pray vnto GOD d 1. Thes 5 25. that I may come to this perfection without whose will I shall neuer bée able to doe his will Ioh. 15.5 Euch. What wants doe you heere bewaile Phil. 1. I bewaile mine owne and others rebellious natures in that we are as prone to receiue sin as a match or tinder is to receiue fire 2. I bewaile the sinnes of the world as ignorance schismes hypocrisie pride ambition couetousnesse and all contempt and all disobedience to the word of God 3. Our impacience that when God layeth any crosses vpon vs we cannot as wee ought endure them patiently 4. Our slacke and imperfect obedience yea priuie pride proud presumption deadnes of spirit secret hypocrisie and all other weaknes which breaketh either in or out vpon vs in our best seruice to our heauenlye Father Euch. What things doe you pray for in this petition Phil. 1. I pray that I and all people may in true humiliation and hatred of sinne be conuerted to GOD by putting off the old man and putting on the new that wee may obey his commaundements in our generall and particular callings and in all afflictions submit our selues to the wil of god 2. That with a speedy resolution a willing minde chearefull heart and coÌ„stant purpose wee may euer doe that which we are commanded Euch. What things do you pray against in this petition Phil. I pray against all impiety towardes God vnrighteousnesse towards man and disobedience in my selfe In a word against all rebellious withstanding Gods reuealed wil vnfaithfulnesse in mens callings all discontented murmuring at Gods doeings and all either backwardnesse or wearines in the seruice of God and â—astly against all hypocrisie which is contrary to an honest and a sincere heart Euch. What things doe you héere thanke God for Phil. 1. Here I blesse God for mine owne and others conuersion 2. For our obedience to Gods will 3. For our pacience in all trialls 4. That with some chearefulnesse we may serue god 5. That our seruice is not full of hypocrisie and that profanenes vnrighteousnes disobedience rebellion vnthankfulnes murmuring discontentement backwardnes wearines and hypocrisie are so mortified in vs that in some weake measure wee desire to please God Euch. Why are these thrée petitions in the first place Phil. Because when we do beginne to aduance Gods glory set vp Gods kingdome and do Gods will then our dayly bread the forgiuenes of sinnes and al other blessings will be giuen vnto vs. As on the contrary if we dishonor God hinder his kingdome and do our own willes we cannot looke for any blessing of this or a better life for godlines onely hath a promise of this life and the life to come 1. Tim. 6.6 Euch. Hauing spoken thus much of the thrée first petitions wee are nowe come to the latter three how do you deuide those three last petitions Phil. One of them is for things concerning mans body the other two are concerning his soule Euch. But why are you here taught to pray for things corporall and after to pray for things spirituall doth not this crosse that commaundement of Christ Seeke first the kingdome of God Math. 6.32 Phil. No it doth not but by this order I am taught 1. To sée the corruption of mans nature which ought in the first place to séeke thinges spirituall but because we liue rather by sense then faith wee doe principally desire things corporall Secondly I am taught Christs mercie vnto man in that by this order hee descendeth to our infirmity who rather depend vpon him for the pardon of our sinnes then we can trust him for our prouision in this life which argueth that wee are of little faith Thirdly I am taught by this to depend vpoÌ„ him for the forgiuenes of my sinnes for when I see that he is heere so careful for my bodie he will doubtles be more careful to prouide for my soule Rom. 8.32 Euch. What vse can you make of this order Phil. 1. That I must principally seeke the good of my soule which will bring all goodnesse and goods to my body a mat 16.26 Psal 4.6 2. That I must haue care also of my body for the preseruation whereof God hath prouided foode apparell phisicke and other meanes b 1. Tim. 5.23 3. That from the blessings on my body I must ascend by degrees to bee perswaded for my soule that he who is so prouident for the one will be much more prouident for the other c Eccl. 11.30.31 4. I must acknowledge mine owne corruption that I am so carefull for earthly things d math 6. 5. I see that I may vse gods creatures in that he will haue me to praye for them 6. I must acknowledge the mercy of god to me in that he yeeldeth so much to mine infirmity as to permit mee to aske these corporall things before such things as are spiritual and of greatest good for the saluation of my soule Euch. Which is the fourth petition and the first of the three latter giue vs this day our daily bread Phil. Giue vs this day our daily bread Euch. Do you not by bread here vnderstand
it procéedeth frō the creator the euill doing it comes frō the creature Euch. Can you shew this by some cōparisons Phil. I remember you taught me this by these which follow The sun beams light vpon a carrion that it smelleth the sunne is the cause that it smelleth ill it selfe is the cause A man spurreth foreward a lame horse if the horse goeth on the rider is the cause if he limpeth on himselfe is the cause A musition playeth vpon an vntuned or broken instrument that it soundeth the Musition is the cause that it soundeth ill it selfe is the cause and the like may bée said of any other things Euch. But why doth God tempt some and they recouer in temptation doth also tempt others and beates them in temptation Phil. Do you a man aske this of me who am but a man let vs both learne the answer of the Apostle Paul O man who art thou that disputest with God He findes such euill and beates them so he is bounden to none to giue him grace his iudgements are vnsearchable his waies past finding out and we are all as clay in the handes of the Potter he may make vs of what fashion he will The sunne doth harden the clay softens the waxe and no man must aske a reason thereof Euch. How may GOD bee said to tempt man Ph. 1. By afflictions as he did the Isralites a Deu. 9.3 Iudg. 2.22 2. By commaundement as hee did Abraham b Gen. 2◠1 1. Sam. 11 Gen. 3. 3. by prosperity as he did Dauid 4. By offring obiects as he did Euah and as maisters vse to trie the fidelitie of seruants by laying money in some corner to try them Euch. That this may be known the better shew me how you were taught that each man is said to harden himselfe Sathan is said to harden man and GOD is saide to harden man Phil. Man hardens himselfe when he refuseth Grace Satan hardens man to presume of grace God hardens man when hee giues not grace though he offer vnto him all the meanes of grace Euch. Are not mercies iudgments able to bring man to God without the especiall grace of God Phil. No they are not but as the highway the more it is troden vpon the harder it is till the rayne moysten it and the Stiddie the more it is beate vpon the harder it is till the fire soften it so the heart of man the more it is troden and beaten vpon by mercies and iudgements the worse it is til God by the dewe of his grace moysten it and the fyre of his spirit soften it Euch. Shew me some other reasons then you did before why God doth thus tempt and harden man Phil. He doth it to these endes 1. To humble them that they may see themselues 2. To chastise them for former sinnes 3. That his grace in them may appeare as gold in the fire 4. That they may see their owne weakenes and impatience 5. That they may take more heede hereafter 6. That more earnestly they may pray to God for assistance Euch. What vses can you make of this doctrine of temptation Phil. I learne first the imcomprehensible purity of God who can worke in sinne with our sinnes 2. That Sathan can go no further in temptation then God will giue him leaue 3. That I must not pray absolutely against temptations but that I be not ouercome in temptation 4. That by nature we are all sathans bondmen til such time as God frée vs from temptation Euch. Séeing god tempteth many waies tell me how he tempteth by prosperity and riches Phil. By this hee tryes man 1. Whether hee will consider howe hee comes by them 2. To whom the continuance of them is promised 3. To what ende it is giuen vnto him 4. Whether he will thinke of the mutability of high places 5. Whether hee will meditate of the fearefull downefalles of such as haue not vsed Prosperity well And 6. That it is a part of great felicity not to be ouercome of felicity Euch. How doth God trie vs by that late deliuerance from that vnnaturall conspiracie against our king and countrye 1. Whether we will acknowledge it 2. Whether we will be thankfull for it 3. Whether we will kéepe a memorial of it 4. Whether we will pray more earnestly for our King and countries preseruation 5. Whether we will desire the conuersiō or confusiō of those our enemies 6. Whether we wil be more obedient to God then before least a worse thing happen to vs. 7. Whether we will detest that cruell cacolique religion which thirsteth after blood especially the blood of princes 8. Whether we will loue and embrace more earnestly our Christian religiō which teacheth obedience practiseth it euen to such gouernours as are had though their catholique Apologie slander vs with the contrary Euch. How doth God tempt men by aduersity Phil. Whether we will thinke 1. That godly men haue béene so tempted 2. That it is Gods Furnace to trie our faith 3. That it is Gods medicine to purge our sinnes 4. That we must not declame against God 5. That we must more meditate of heauen 6. That if we féele not the Sunne rising of Gods grace wee must not thinke that it is set for euer 7. That we must endure all kinds of temptations whether of body by sicknesse or soule by sorrow or our person by imprisonment or state by pouertie or name by contempt c. Euch. But to come to mans temptations What if man tempt you to Popish religion how must you resist this temptation Phil. By considering that that religion cā be no good religion 1. Where the Scriptures are not knowne 2. Where Images are worshipped 3. Where a péece of bread is adored 4. Where Saints are innocated 5. Where ignorance is cōmended 6 Where purgatorie is maintained 7. Where Christs merit is mangled 8. Where subiects are so fréed from allegeance to their soueraigne that if he be not a Romanist it shall be meritorious to kill him Euch. What if you be tempted to forsake the church because of some abuses supposed in the church how must you resist that temptation Phil. By considering that a child is not to be forsaken because it is sick nor a body neglected because it is diseased and that Christ and his Apostles did not depart from the Churches though there were amongst them many abuses and the most of them greater then be amongst vs who haue the worde purely preached and the Sacraments rightly administred Euch. To come againe vnto Sathans temptations what must you doe to resist them Phil. I must labour 1. Not to be ignorant of his enterprises 2. To watch ouer my selfe continually 3. To resist him by the shield of faith 4. To subdue him by the sworde of the spirit 5. To be perswaded that he will neuer cease 6. To thinke of my danger if I fall 7. To consider how I may hurte others if I fall 8. That by falling I
neither Satan nor the world nor my flesh hath so subdued me but that I am able to rise againe Euch. Which is the 3. part of this petition The 3. part of the lords prayer Phil. For thine is the kingdome the power and the glorie for euer euer Which words are a reason of all the former by which wee are mooued to craue all the former blessings at the hands of our God Euch. Why doth Luke leaue out this clause Phil. Either because the Euangelists did not bind themselues to a precise forme of words or because this prayer was vttered at 2. seuerall times by Christ in a seuerall manner leauing out not onely this clause but the third petition wholly the explanation of the sixt and changing some words which are in Mathew But we haue no warrant to do the like as the Rhemists do euen in the Gospell of saint Mathew being bold to mangle the Lords praier as they are to leaue out the second cōmandement Euch. Why is this conclusion added Phil. To teach 1. To pray vnto him who is able to heare vs. 2. To pray in faith to him that will helpe vs. 3. To pray in feruency as desirous to be holpen 4. To pray in humilitie because al is of God 3. To pray in thankefulnesse because all is from God 6. That in euerie petition we must haue this conclusion in our mindes Euch. What do you meane by these words thine is the kingdome Phil. Euen that which Dauid meant when he said 1. Cor. 29.11 Thine O Lord is greatnesse power and victorie and praise and all that is in heauen and in earth is thine thine is the kingdome thou excellest ouer all Euch. Why is the kingdom said to be Gods Phil. 1. Because he made all 2. Because he possesseth all 3. Because he commandeth all 4. Because he disposeth al. Euch. What doe you learne out of this Phil. That I may with confidence pray vnto him because as kings will prouide for the bodies and soules of al their subiects so God my king will prouide for me Euch. But haue not other Princes their kingdomes Phil. Yes they haue and in them do rule and for conscience sake must euer be obeyed yet they rule by and in and through this king a Pro. 8.15 Dan. ◠37 Reuel 20. Euch. Howe manie properties are there of this kingdome Phil. There it is a powerfull kingdome Thine is power a glorious kingdome Thine is glorie and an euerlasting kingdom it is For euer and euer Euch. Why are these thrée properties added Phil. That when wee pray for or against any thing in the former petitions we may be strengthened in the hope of obtaining them by the consideration of the Power Glory and Eternitie of Gods kingdom Euch. Why is power attributed to the kingdome of God 1. To distinguish it from the kingdomes of the world in which many Princes are heads of people but haue not power to subdue their enemies 2. To teach vs to giue all power vnto God 3. That we must submitte our selues vnto him 4. That he being a powerfull kings we may in faith pray vnto him Euch. How great is the power of God See my booke life euerlasting of gods prouidence Phil. It is not only of it owne nature in it selfe and of it selfe but also in respect of the obiect vpon which it can worke and effectes which it can produce and of the action by which it can and doth worke both infinit and vnmeasurable Euch. Can it be communicated to any creature Phileu No not to the humanity of Christ for whatsoeuer is omnipotent is God Euchedida Why then doth Christ saye all power is giuen vnto me Phil. 1. He speaketh of that power which wee call Authority not of that which is called omnipotencie 2. He saith not all power is giuen to my humanity but to me GOD and Man 3. If it be meant of the humanity by this power is to bee vnderstood as much as the creature is capable of 4. In that word the humanity may be said to be omnipotent as the word is said to suffer not in it selfe but in the the flesh Euch. What doe you meane by thine is the glory Phil. 1. That god hath made al things for his glory 2. Whatsoeuer wee aske they are meanes of thy glory 3. The things which we aske shal be referred to thy glory And therefore O Lord graunt these things vnto vs because thy glory is most deare to thy selfe which will be also performed of vs if we sanctifie thy name aduaunce thy kingdome doe thy will haue our dayly Bread the forgiuenesse of our sinnes and hee able to resist all euill temptations Euch. What is the third property of Christs kingdome For euer and euer Which is an excellent inducement to strengthen vs in praying Euch. Why is Gods kingdome power glory said to be euerlasting Phil. 1. Because in themselues they are euerlasting 2. Of vs they should neuer be forgotten Euch. To what purpose are all these arguments added here Phil. Not to perswade God who knoweth our wants before we aske but to perswade vs that he who is a king of such power glory and eternitie he will heare our praiers and grant our requests Euch. What vse doe you make of this conclusion Phil. 1. That in our prayers we euer debase our selues and ascribe all glory to this King of Kings 2. In our prayers to be euer perswaded of the power of God that he can helpe vs and the promise of God that he will helpe vs. a 2. Cor. 1.20 3. That prayer and giuing of thanks must goe together because this is a doxologie giuen to God 4. Whatsoeuer we aske we must in purpose before and practise after referre the same to Gods glory For the Alpha of this prayer is Halowed be thy name and the Omega is Thine is the glory 5. That all gouernours must remember that they holde al in caepite vnder this head 6. That if we be able to do any thing all that power commeth from God Euch. Which is the last part of this petition Phil. The seale thereof in the worde Amen Euch. How is this worde Amen The fourth part of the Lords Prayer taken in the Scriptures Phil. Thrée maner of wayes sometimes as a Nowne signifying Christ himselfe Reuel 1. These things saith Amen Sometimes as an Aduerbe as Iohn 3. Amen Amen that is Verily verily I say vnto you And sometimes as a Verbe as in this place signifying So be it or it shall be so Euch. What then doth this worde Amen import at the end of this petition and euery prayer Phil. More a great deale then man thinks for it is as much as if we should say thus Wee haue begged many things at thy hands and we doe desire thee to heare and are perswaded thou wilt heare all our requests Euch. What are we taught by this seale Amen Phil. We are taught 1. To desire earnestly that we
Morrice sonne to M. Morrice Attourney of the court of Wardes who thinking euer of sodaine death died suddenly in Milforde Lane Sep. 12. 1604. at the age of 23 yeares Twise twelue yeares not fully tolde a wearied breath I haue exchanged for an happy death My course was short the longer is my rest God takes them soonest whom he loueth best For he that 's borne to day and dyes to morrow Looseth some daies of rest but moneths of sorrow VVhy feare we death that cures all sicknesses Author of rest and end of all distresses Other misfortunes often come to grieue vs vs. Death striks but once that stroke doth relieue vs. He that thus thought of death in lifes vncerteÌ„ty Hath doubtles now a life that brings eternity Liue for to learne that die thou must And after come to iudgement iust A Communicant instructed AT LONDON Printed for William Cotten 1606. A Communicant prepared to the Lordes Table Question MY good auditor after all these instructions concerning praier and pietie are you not desirous to receiue the Lordes supper Answ Yea sir I am desirous with all mine heart if you shal thinke me fit for so holy a banquet Quest What must you doe to bee a fit guest 1. Sam. 16.6 Psal 27. 1. Cor. 21. Ans Samuel bids me to santifie my selfe Dauid bids mee to wash mine hands in innocencie Paul bids mée to examine my selfe and so to eate of that bread and after to drink of that cuppe Quest Howe doe you proue this examination to be néedefull Ans 1. If the Iewes durst not eate the pascall Lambe without it I must not eate of the Lambes Supper without it 2. I must neither pray nor heare Gods word before I sée in what estate I am 3. I come in the best sort I can to the feast of any great man in this world 4. He that came without his wedding garment was examined how hée came thither Math. 22.12 5. If I eate and drinke vnworthily I eate and drinke mine owne damnation 1. Cor. 11.29 Quest What things are required of him that will come a fit guest to the Lords table Ans Thrée things The first what I must doe before I come 2. What I must doe when I am come 3. What I must doe after I haue bin partaker of that holy supper Quest What things are required of you before you come Ans Two things First I am bound to examine my selfe 2. I am bound to pray meditate of diuers things Quest What is examination An. It is a triall of my selfe howe I stand in the grace of God Quest What learne you out of this that a man must examine himselfe before he come to this table An. First that children are not capable of this banquet 2. That ignorant persons must not approach to this table 3. That madde people are not to bee admitted to this feast 4. That such as intend to liue in their sinnes must not dare to approach vnto this communion Quest Wherein stands this examination An. In fiue things 1. I must examine what knowledge I haue 2. What faith I haue 3. What repentance I haue 4. What obedience I haue 5. What loue I beare to my brethren Quest Wherein standes the examination of your knowledge An. In two things 1. What general knowledge I haue 2. What knowledge I haue in particular Quest Wherein consists generall knowledge Ans In three things whereof the 1. is What knowledge I haue of God 2. What knowledge I haue of my selfe 3. What knowledge I haue of the couenant of grace Quest what knowledge must you haue of God Ans I must know him to be such an one as he hath reuealed himselfe in his word to wit one inuisible and indiuisible essence and three truely distinct persons namely the Father begetting the Sonne begotten and the holy ghost procéeding from the father and the sonne Quest Must you knowe nothing els of God Answ Yes I must knowe that hee is creator and gouernour of all things a most wise vnderstander and knower of all thoughts most holy iust and mercifull to his creatures that hee is eternall without either beginning or ende and that he is present in all places Quest What must you know concerning your selfe Ans That by nature I am stained wholly with originall sinne so that my mind is full of blindnes will of frowardnes affections of peruersenes my conscience of guiltines so that therby by I am subiect to the curse of God in life in death and after death Quest What things are you subiect to in life Ans By reason of this sinne in my soule I am subiect to madnes in my body to diseases in my goods to losse 〈◊〉 in my name to reproach Quest What are you subiect to in death Ans To the separation of the soule from the body Quest What are you subiect to after death An. To be tormented for euer with the deuill and his angels and to be cast away from the presence of God Que. What must you know concerning the couenant of grace An. That Christ Iesus hath deliuered me from this misery who béeing very God became man to die for my sinnes and rose againe for my iustification Quest What particular knowledge is required of you An. I must know the nature and vse of this sacrament Quest What then is the Lords Supper An. It is a Sacrament wherein by the vse of bread and wine those that are ingrafted into Christ are nourished to life Quest What learne you out of this definition An. 1. That he cannot eate the Lords body who is not of the Lords body 2. That a man must come withall cheerefulnesse to this banquet and not to feare it as a man would doe poyson Quest Tell me now what is the outward matter of this sacrament An. Bread and wine by which are signified Christs bodie crucified and his blood powred out Quest Is not the bread wine turned into the body blood of Christ Ans No for these reasons 1. Christ instituted this supper before he was crucified 2. Then he must haue giuen his dead bodie with his liuing hands 3. The bread after consecration 〈◊〉 distributed into partes but the whole body of Christ is receiued of euery seuerall communicant 4. The bread is the communion oâ— Christs body and therefore not the very body 5. This were to make the body oâ— Christ of bakers bread 6. The bread and wine will corrupt being kept after consecration 7. We sée and taste onely bread and wine 8. Else the wicked should eate Christs body and so must haue eternall life 9. This takes away the nature of a sacrament wherein there must be a signe and the thing signified 10. It destroyes the nature of Christs body making it aliue dead in heaâ—uen vpon earth glorified vilified and in many places at one time Quest But yet may not this be done by a miracle An. Priests haue no promise to worke miracles nowe a daies and
made the nourishment of my body so Christes body and blood is made the nourishmente of my soul Yea I must feele the power of christe to mortify the corruption of my nature by his death to quicken mee in newnes of life by his resurrection and to giue me power to fight against my dedly aduersaries the world the flesh the deuill Is there nothing to doe for you after you haue receaued this holy sacrament Yes I must obserue these three thinges First I must giue god thanks for so great a benefyt 1 cor 11. â—6 2. I must look to receiue by it increase of faith repentance to rise from sin to receiue power against the deuill 3. If I feele this present comforte to bee thankful for it if not I must know that it is because I haue not prepared my selfe or because my faith is weak or because I liue in some secret sin wherefore I must goe to god acknowledge my fault desire paron and comfort for the same Now the Lord grant me this grace so to be partaker of his sacramental table that I may be partaker of his heuenly table through Iesus christ my lord alone blessed sauior Amen Ille non edit Corpus Christi qui non est de corpore christi August He cannot eate the body of Christ that is not of the body of christ Accede panis est non venenuÌ„ mala res non est sed malus accipit Idem Come it is bread not poyson the thing is not euil but an euil person receiues it A godly praier for morning or Euening MOst high and mighty God and in thy sonne Christ Iesus our mercifull louing and gracious father thou hast commaunded vs to come vnto thee and vpon the knees of our hearts we do come vnto thee humbly entreating thee before wee begin to remoue far from vs all such impediments as vsually Satan casteth vpon this exercise and so to quicken vs vp by the spirit of supplication that in feare and reuerence of thy great name in faith and confidence of thy gratious assistanâ—… and in a seeking desire of the supplye of our wants wee may put vp and powre out our supplications vnto thee that as the messengers of our soules they may signifie our wants as the petitioners of mercy they may sue for our pardon and as proclaimers of thy grace they may declare our thankfulnes for all those mercies which we haue receiued and al those iudgements which we haue escaped O Lord our God we do here in thy prefence blessed are we that we may come to thy presence acknowledge and confes that wee are of our selues most wofull wicked and cursed creatures The corruption of our natures the iniquities of our liues doe generallie beare witnes against vs. But more particularly we confesse that our hearts are full of infidelity by reason whereof we do not as wee ought either depend vpon thy prouidence for the things of this life or beleeue thy promises for the life to come Dost thou visit vs we are impatient dost thou deny vs our desires in this world we are neuer contented with our estate Wee are full of doubt for the life to come and full of distrust for the things of this life We are glued too much to this wicked world and as though we said in our harts there is no god our mindes are greatly estranged from thee And alas miserable wretches that we are we delite in doing our own willes it is not meate and drinke to vs to do thy will In the pride of our hearts wee exalte our selues aboue thee and our brethren and boaste our selues as though we had receued nothing from thee We put away from vs the euill day and liue as though we should neuer die We walke on in the hardnesse of our heartes and by reason of the abundance of vainglory we rather seeke praise of men then thy glorye Our soules are so filled with loue to our selues that wee preferre our owne pleasure peace and liberty before thy maiesty or the loue of our brethren yea hypocrisie is so rooted in our soules that we content our selues with a profession of piety and labor not for the power of Gdlinesse And as for our liues they abound with actuall transgressions againste euery one of thy ten commandements hauing broken the same ten thousand times we Lord haue liued in contempt of thy prouidence committing Idolatry with thy creatures taking thy glorious name in vaine and prophaninge of thy moste holy sabaths we euen we who shoâ—… haue been vpright haue disregarded our betters enuied our brethren defiled our soules with vnchast desires labored to be rich by vnlawfull meanes disgraced our neighbors Iduged after that which was none of ours Wee haue herd thy worde O Lorde but wee haue not beleeued it wee haue knowen thy words but haue not practised it We haue come to thine hous without reuerence approached to thy table without repentance and practised many sinnes without remorse Do wee any good we please our selues too much doe we any euill we feare thee too little we are weary of praying when wee talke with thee wee are carelesse in hearing when thou speakest to vs. If we reade thy sacred and holy worde it is not sweet vnto vs as the hony combe but we delight more euen in vngodlye bookes Yea O Lorde the pampering of our bellies the pride of our apparell the negligence in our calling the mispending of our time our vaine conference at tables our wandring eies our wanton lusts our ambitious mindes our couetous desires our vngodlye speeches our lasciuious eares our censuring of our brethren our sin in recreations our vnwillingnes to labor our vnfaithfulnes in life our forgetfulnes of death and our abuse of thy mercies especialy in Christ do testify against vs that wee haue sinned against heauen and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy children Are we ashamed at this and reclaimed from it no Lorde we are not ashamed But howsoeuer it hath pleased thee to vse many meanes as partly by thy word partly by thy spirit and partly by thy mercies partly by thy iudgments to the end we might be reclaimed from our crooked waies yet we haue contemned thy word the ministery of saluation grieued thy spirit the earnest of our inheritance abused thy mercies the pledges of thy loue forgotten thy iudgments the messengers of thy wrath Enter not into iudgement with vs thy seruants O lord for then shal no flesh liuing be iustified in thy sight Be mercifull vnto vs in forgiuing sins past be gratious vnto vs in preuenting sinnes to come Correct vs O Lord but with mercy not in thy iudgement for then shal we be consumed and brought to nought Open our blind eies that wee may come to a particular knowledge of our particular sinns especially such as we ar most giuen vnto Soften our hard and stony harts that we may sigh and grone
pardon and forgiuenes of all our sinnes this day at this time and heretofore committed against thée with a blessing vpon thy church and children euery where as well as though we had named them thorough Christ our Lord and onelye Sauiour Amen A thanksgiuing for our late deliuerance from that vnnaturall conspiracie against our King and State ALmighty Lord GOD father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our most Gratious and mercifull Father many are thy mercyes towards vs and that our soules know right well And as we cannot be ignorant of them vnles we be senselesse soe wee may not be forgetfull vnles we be thankelesse By thée our lot is fallen into a good soile and by thée we haue a goodly inheritance by thée are our bodies deliuered from sicknesse and by thée are our soules deliuered from sin by thée our names are not a reproch vnto our enemies and by thée our estates are not a prey vnto the Idolatrous Thou euen thou hast don great things in our land thy right hand amongst vs hast brought mighty things to passe What is it O Lord that thou hast not done vnto this vine of thine English Israel and what couldest thou doe more for it then thou hast Thou hast planted it by thy hand placed it in thy vineard hedged it by thy prouidence garded it by thine Angells watred it by thy spirit pruyned it by thy rodds supported it by thy power committed it to thy husbandmen beautified it by thy mercies and fructified it by thine aboundance not of sower but swéete grapes The wilde boore of the woods can neuer roote it vp the beasts of the forest shall neuer deuour it Lord continew still to visit this vine which without thy visitation must be fruitles and strengthlesse Thou hast cast out the heathen and planted vs in thou hast subdued our enemies and made vs the mirror of the whole world Thou hast giuen vs thy Sonne to be our Sauiour thy word to be our instructor thy Spirit to bée our sanctifier thy preachers to bee our monitors thy sacraments to be our seales and Kings to be our nursing Fathers and Quéenes to bee our nursing Mothers When our enemies came against vs thou subduest them when our light was extinguished thou oldest set vp a greater 1588. Q. Elizabeth K. Iames. 1603. when the plague was amongst vs thou calmest it and when our Countrie was to be betraied thou wast our deliuerer What shall we render vnto thée for all these fauours or what can we render for all these mercies O our soules praise the Lord and all that is within vs praise his holy name O our soules praise the Lord and let vs neuer forget his benefitts Wee Lord had bin blowen vp with the powder of rebellion had not the power of thy prouidence watched ouer vs. We therefore our Princes Nobles Clergy Commons our Wifes Children Seruants and al are héere before thy Maiesty this day now render vnto thée for more we cannot and more thou desirest not the sacrifice of praise the calues of our lipp◠for this wonderfull deliuerance shewed vnto our Gracious King and Country Lord teach vs therby to bée thankfull vnto thée obedient to our gouernours frequent in praier feruent in the spirit and zealous in good workes least a worse thing hereafter happen vnto vs. Make vs to detest Popery the poyson of Authority Iesuits the bellowes of sedition Papists the plotters of rebellion and to thinke better of our Christian Brethren and this not new but most auncient religion of ours by which wee are taught Pietie to God Loialty to Gouernours Peace to the Church reuerence of superiority charity to our inferiours amity to our equalls loue to our enemies patience in tribulation thankfulnesse in prosperity faithfulnesse in our calling honesty to al. And séeing of late thou hast deliuered our backs from whipping our liberty from seruing our soules from dying our country from consuming our King and Estate from a suddaine blowing vp Lord wée pray thée that the meditatiō of this mercy may neuer depart out of our minds but that wee may bée thankful vnto thée for mercies receiued and fearfull of thée for iudgements escaped Teach vs to pray vnto thée alone who canst heare graunt our requests to kéepe our country from inuasion our Church frō dissention our houses from infection our State from alteration and people from the cruell mercies of the Italian Popedom whose faith is fancie whose force is fraud whose trust is treason whose obedience is hipocrisie whose lawes are traditions whose pardōers are priests whose sauiour is the Pope whose god is an Idol whose seruice is ceremonies whose glorie is their shame and whose end is damnation except they repent Let the Sunne of the Ghospell be neuer eclipsed the Light of thine Israel neuer be extinguished the hope of our happinesse neuer bée subuerted Nor the branches of our vine euer cut off Thus we thy people and shéepe of thy pasture shall haue iust occasion to praise thy great name in the face of thy congregation from this time forth foreuermore Lord kéepe in our Kinge the Spirit of Maiestie in our Quéene the Spirit of Chastitie in our Prince the Spirit of Pietie in our Nobles the Spirit of Loialtie in our Councellers the Spirit of Prudencie in our Clergie the Spirit of Vigilancie and in vs all the Spirit of Fidelytie and as for such as wish euill to this Sion of ours the Honour of thy name the Pallace of thy pleasure the Place of thy protection and the Wounder of the world if they béelong to thée giue them hearts to repent and to returne to vs if not or euer their pottes bée hotte with thornes let indignation vexe them as a thing that is rawe Euen soe let all thine Enimies perish O Lord. And vnlesse their Children bée better then the Parents as the Prophet prayeth deliuer them vp to famine let them droppe by the force of the sword let their wiues be robbed of their children and be widdowes and let their husbands be put to death let their confederate young men be slaine by the sword let them be ouerthrowne in the day of thine anger and let none be left to make lamentation for them and to say O my brother O my sister Lord roote all Cananites out of this land of the liuing that such as feare thee may dwell safely Blessed be the Lord God of our saluation for euer and euer and let all the people say Amen Amen 1. Sam. 12.24.25 Now therefore feare yee the Lord and serue him in the truth withall you hearts and consider how great thing he hath done for you But if you do wickedly ye shall perish both ye and your King He that eateth and drinketh and letteth grace passe Sitteth downe like an Oxe and riseth like an Asse Grace before meat WE acknowledge and confesse this fauour of thine eternall God and gratious Father that it pleaseth thy maiestie to giue vnto vs so