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B08144	The devotions and formes of prayer, daily vsed in the king of Svvedens army: being the first part of our intended booke concerning the Svvedish discipline; religious, civill, and military..		1632 (1632)	STC 23519.5; ESTC S126259	13,095	47

body that we may laud prayse thee here on earth for a time and for ever in the Heavens O Lord Iesus Christ succour vs in this sickly time for those bitter paines that for our sakes thou sometimes enduredst make intercession for vs with thy heavenly Father defend vs against the heavie wrath of God forgiue vs our trespasses giue thine innocency vnto vs. Call to minde in this grievous plague-time how much our Redemption cost thee and suffer not that thy bloud-shed for vs to be lost or become in vaine O Holy Ghost vouchsafe thou to descend sweetly into our languishing hearts refresh thou and recreate our soules And if it so fall out that this plague strike vs also then take thou the cure of our soules in that houre in which we must depart out of this life lay vs in the most sweete bosome of Christ our Redeemer that we may be there partakers of eternall joy and quietnesse Fulfill all thy most sweete promises in us which are in thy Word made unto vs. Take from us all unbeliefe doubting and impatience make us ever readie to obey the will of God even thou who with the Father and the Sonne livest one God world without end Amen Of forgiuenesse of Sinnes and of the Lords Supper O Good Lord Iesus Christ I am no way able eyther in words or thought sufficiently to make expression of thy great loue which thou hast declared towards me at such time as thou receivedst me miserable sinner into grace and hast made me to eate and drinke of thy true body and bloud vnto euerlasting life Accept in the meane time this sacrifice of Thankesgiving of my heart and mouth which in this mortall bodie I am able to pay unto thee untill I come home unto thee where I shall for ever praise thee Giue thy Holy Spirit unto me who may teach me to know how much good thou hast alreadie wrought in me that so in faith charitie hope patience I may begin to leade a new life vnto thy prayse mine owne amendment and the good of my neighbour Grant this for the merit of thy precious bloud and the redemption which thou thereby hast made Amen And these be some of those devout prayers with which this most pious Prince teaches his Army to call vpon the Lord of Hosts and Victory Now vnto these good prayers let all religious Readers that wish well vnto this King adde this or the like for a close vnto the rest The Lord heare thee in the time of trouble and the name of the God of Iacob defend thee be vnto thee a Shield and Buckler against thine enemies arme thee with the sword of Gideon and the Lord of Hosts goe forth with thine Armies that the Victories which God shall giue thee may bring freedome and justice vnto the innocent and oppressed inlargement to Religion liberty to Germany and the benefits of a sweet and a lasting peace vnto all Christendome This grant vs for the Prince of Peace his sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ANd now that you may know that the King of Sweden doth not onely enjoyne others to pray but that in his owne person he practises these devotions by himselfe I will here subjoyne you two severall prayers conceived no doubt in his owne more private and premeditated consideration and uttered in publicke and extempore as it seemed The first was at his Majesties first landing upon the coasts of Germanie where so soone as ever he out of his long boate set his foote upon the dry Land he thus by prayer and thankesgiving in Gods Name tooke possession of the Countrey himselfe whilest his men were landing stepping a little aside and before them all upon his knees uttering these words of devotion O most great God that commaundest what ever thou pleasest both in heaven and earth and in the surging Seas what thankfulnesse am I now bound to render unto thee for that thou hast preserved me thus safely in all this so perilous a voyage Againe and againe doe I from the very bottome of my heart and soule giue thankes unto thee and here I humbly beseech thee that seeing as thou very well knowest I haue not undertaken this expedition for any private end of mine owne but onely for thine honours sake and to be some comfort and assistance unto thine afflicted Church so if so be the time which thy selfe hast appoynted be alreadie come thou wouldst now be pleased to favour and blesse me hereafter also and that especially thou wouldst send me a fayre winde and a prosperous that the Army yet left behinde which out of so many people and Nations I haue gathered together I may with joyfull eyes shortly here behold and with a happie beginning promote with them the glory of thy holy name Amen When his Counsellors and Commanders then next his person saw their devout King thus on the bare ground upon his knees and heard with what a fervencie of spirit he uttered these devotions an inward comfort and an holy joy they tooke at it wrought more with them than their enemies could yet ever doe that is even forced and pressed teares out of their manly eyes This his pious Majestie then perceiving Forbeare to weepe sayes he to them but heartily conjoyne your prayers with me for the greater the army of prayers is the greater and more assured shall the victory be He that prayes diligently hath in part overthrowne the enemy already and already gotten the victory Thus having sayd he out of two hundred long boates lands his men then on the shoares side and then sends them to his shippes to fetch more and God so heard him and the winde so favoured him that according to his former prayers his whole Army very shortly and very safely arrived I will not here compare this prayer of this pious and victorious Prince vnto that of the great Iosuah at whose request the Sunne stood still as the winde here did at his but that you may see that God did indeed heare the prayers of this King too I will now giue you a more eminent example of it The Papists had one of theirs done it would undoubtedly haue cryed out A miracle and well they might for few such they haue but I will onely thinke of it as of a present and a visible blessing sent from that great God to whom the windes and the Seas obeyed And thus it was The King a little after this having a designe upon Stetin and his Army now readie upon the shoare and his boats readie upon the River to imbarke them the winde behold was contrary and so had beene for some dayes before This the King observing turning a little aside he before his Army with bended knees and hands lift up to Heaven uttered these words O thou most just God! full well thou knowest that this enterprise I did not at first undertake out of any rashnesse or ambition but for the glory of thy most holy Name and the defence of the truth of thy Word here therefore now call I vpon thy Godhead and most humbly doe I beseech thee that with the ayre of thy favour and with a prosperous winde thou wouldst vouchsafe to breath vpon this my vndertaking Amen No sooner was this prayer ended but the winde suddenly as a man might say chopt about and swel'd the Swedish sayles with so hard a gale that the whole Fleete passing the Swing or arme of the Oder was in two houres space runne full sixe Germane myles twentie of ours perchance if not more and all on the sudden when they were little looked for came to an Anchor within an English myle of Stetin to the great admiration of the beholders and the greater defeate of the hopes and purposes of the Imperialists who had a designe within two dayes after to haue layd siege to the same Towne had not God thus miraculously prevented them And thus much though I now giue you out of a Latine Copie yet to confesse the truth did I in the writing of my former Booke finde mentioned in one of the weekly Currantoes how that the Kings Fleete was by a strong and a sudden Northerly winde strangely advanced through the Oder even to the very walles of the Citie But this I durst not then write vpon the bare credite of a common Curranto nor durst I with this winde though a strong one it were adventure to stemme the tyde of popular opinion which I found not onely to runne against but to vse the language of the Sea with a stiffe currant strongly to be set against the credite of these weekly Currantoes Which warinesse of mine made me indeed to leaue out many notable particulars which I since finde reported in the Booke called Arma Suecica God Almightie that hath so graciously both heard and granted these two prayers of this pious King heare all the rest also both those that himselfe makes and what other good Christians make likewise for him And those Englishmen that will not I wish they would say Amen vnto it FINIS