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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08848	[Divine meditations.]	Palfreyman, Thomas, d. 1589?	1572 (1572)	STC 19136; ESTC S120110	52,549	180

teares it repenteth me that euer I sinued against thée I fall flat to the earthe before thée confessing my sinnes vnfainedly my weakenesse and infirmitie for I haue most greuously offended thée my conscience therein accuseth me crie yet with true saithe vnto thée Mercie good Lord mercie with thankes giuing and extolling thée for thine infused grace vppon me And I pray thée moste humblie O my God of all mercie to continue thy fatherly affection the encreasing of thy grace and strength of thy spirit vpon me to helpe to directe and comfort me vnto the ende and in the ende in all my temptations troubles weakenesse and infirmities bothe of bodie and minde Least sathan as I said preuaile and confound me the tickling pleasures of this world deceiue me and the olde man my wretched flesh which is not yet subiect to the spirite do master me againste all which I must arme my self stande to the battaile continually fighte bolde out at the swoordes pointe offer the pricke driue backe chase ouerthrowe wound and confounde whilest breath shall holde in this wretched body yea I say wretched in déede being compassed with so many calamities and infinite miseries for the which cause O Lord I craue alwayes thy mightie power in my weakenesse I make my mone haste thée nowe to helpe me O strengthen me graunte me thy presence stande by me encourage me to fight manfully that by thee I may amaze the enemies put them fast to flight gette the victorie triumphe before thée and extoll thée in thy great might mercie nowe and for euer through Iesus Christ our Lord who liueth and raigneth with thée and the holy Ghost in all honoure and glory worlde without ende Amen II. To dvvell in the seruice of God to haue the world and the pleasures thereof in cōtempt and to striue daily against them with the armor of rightuousnesse FOr as muche O almightie God as we are all warned by thine holye Apostle Iohn not to bée louers of thys euyll world nor the vain pleasures therof bicause bothe the one and the other come vtterly to naughte and that also to be a louer of the world is to be an hater of thée to slip from thy will and from the presence of thy maiestie as one that regardeth thée not knowes thée not neither séeke to know thée but startle aside from thée forsaketh the right way and entreth of will the perrillous way full of hidde thistles thornes briers brambles venemous wormes and serpentes linking also thē selues into the amitie league and seruice of the moste sleightie hatefull and deadly enemie the proude Prince of this worlde who for a time by Gods permission is brokē lose and rageth in his course roareth and fighteth cōtinually against the Soule of man who entangleth only his owne to their vtter ouerthrowe with the vaine pleasures thereof euen with the delightes in effect but of one houre and with the encreasing of sorowes for manye yéeres I beséeche thée O thou king of all holinesse whose seruice is most highe most happie most sure most healthfull wealthful heauenly perpetuall perfecte selicitie and freedome which seest the weakenesse inconstancie greate miserie and necessitie of me thine humble seruaunt the outrage also power of my cruel aduersaries graunt me sufficiencie of thy grace strengthe of thine holy spirite that by vertue thereof I may be directed in the way wherin I should walke my pathes made straite and my foote stedfast alwayes to withstande the euil attemptes of the moste wicked and the outwarde glittering gloryes of this sinful and vain world and not yéelde my minde to the pleasures comforts of the same as a childe of vanitie enclosed therin for the time as in a deepe dungeon of daunger and of deadly darkenesse founded vppon a sandie and rotten soile very olde ruinous sore shaken and readie at euery momente to fall throughe age vppon me but to be otherwise staide by thine holy and mightye arme pacientlie in the meane season to abide thy will to lay my foundation sure to be sober and watchfull ouer all daungers to stretch forth mine handes to the battaile to strengthen mine armes like a bow of stéele that vnder thy protection power I may manfully resist all hurtful euilles and the assaults of the wicked and stand stably to my profession in thy holy seruice wherunto thorow thy grace I am called to the ende that by thine only helpe I should do the workes of rightuousnesse O thou rightuous Lorde and God of my strengthe which haste made me which hast conserued me and arte moste louing and carefull ouer me I putting mine only hope and confidence not in the holy Angels celestiall spirites blessed Sainctes in heauen or good men héere in earth but only in thée suffer me not to be tempted aboue my strengthe or to be ouerwhelmed of mine owne cōcupiscēce but in the midst of temptation make thou a way for me to escape with ioy Thou O God art only omnipotent moste gratious ful of al goodnesse faithfulnesse and truthe fulfil therfore thy promisses towardes me most merciful Lord thou God of truthe Put vppon me thine whole armor of rightuousenesse O thou God of mighte and true holinesse that by thy power I may be strong against all aduersaries for I wrestle not as thou knowest against flesh and blud in this life but against rule against power and againste worldly rulers of the darknesse of this worlde and againste spirituall wickednesse in heauenly things by whome without thine heauenly power I stande euer in hazarde to eternall destruction bothe of body and soule For which cause I say O my swéete God arme me strongly strengthen me in my weakenesse and make me stoute that in this christen chiualrie I may stand perfecte in all things before thée and not slippe by cowardise or inconstancie from thy faithful seruice but fight vnder thy banner vntil the last breath couragiously putting mine euemyes to flight and cary away with triūph a glorious victorie ouer them So shall it come to passe that thorowly running this so shorfe a race in my holy calling as a puissant warrior in thy most high and excellent seruice with lawfull striuing and with violent plucking towards me thine heauenly kingdome I shall in the ende perfectly sée it and possesse it and shall receiue in mine hands a Palme of victorie vppon mine head a Crowne of glory prepared the hidde Manna also and a white stone wherein is written a newe name which no man knoweth sauing only the receiuer of it who shal serue thée thou great God of heauen in the moste sacred state of true holinesse perfecte frée dome excellencie dignitie and equalitie with thine holy Angels and al blessed Saincts in euerlasting felicitie Graunt this mine humble petition O Lorde for thy greate mercies sake So shall I here and in eternall blessednesse extoll and magnifie thy glorious name Amen III. For the humble

of all our affences and be depely tormonted in vnsufferable anguishes 〈◊〉 forowes yelling lauguistying and the auinosse for our carelesse most gracelesse negligence bicause 〈◊〉 our health and tune of felicitie we 〈◊〉 forgetful of thée vs we caued not to tēpte thée we feared not thy threatned vengeance neither thy Preachers and Prophetes we were vnmindefull of the ende we considered not the way of all fleshe we remembred not deathe neither readily prepared for his sodaine comming whose ensigne by thy iustice is openly all blacke displayed most ougly issuing out of his darke sepulcher to the spéedie destruction of all fleshe Therefore O Lord as oure liues are wholely in thyne onely hande and are by thée when we call vppon thée most graciously directed quicken our harts to prayer endue vs thorowe thy grace wyth thine heauenly wisdome teache vs thereby to number our dayes to applie oure hartes vnto wisedome to be mindefull of thée our God not to be forgetfull of oure wretched and wicked state and to remember alwayes thy rightful iustice in iudgemente that we may endeuor to be suche in déede in oure liues as we woulde wishe moste gladly to be founde at our deathes O heauenly father so strengthen vs with thy vsuall and woonted grace that as we may haue this worlde in most earnest contempte so we may also as effectually craue at thine holy hād the daily prospering and going forwards in vertue pray that our loue may abounde towardes godly discipline for the fourme of good liuing yéelde fréely forth the frutes of earnest and true repentāce haue ready and prest wils to shewe true obedience bothe in body and soule to be humble and méeke in spirite not to stay at any time the deniall of oure selues to subiecte our selues to thy holy will and commaundements and so to leane gladly to the suffering of this worldes calamities not for oure selues but for the loue of Iesus Christe for our brethren for so shal we be knowne to be the children of god All which if we happely possesse vse and put in daily practise great shall be the cause of oure ioy to haue good affiaunce in thy mercy a swéete tast of good life and a sure hope by happie death becomming in the meane while parient Pilgrims in spirituall pouertie and not regarding the pleasures of this life that oure soules may possesse the felicitie of thy freedome be daily lifted vp vnto thée in this our short race that we may continually praie with sorowfull sighings déepe sobbings inwarde gronings and shedding salte teares in our accustomed and moste humble sutes bewayling oure miserable state mourning the delay of this bodyes dissolution and yéeld with pacience to abide the stroke of deathe that when it which is the laste enemie shall be destroyed our spirites may haue rest in thine eternall life therow the only merites of thy sonne our Lord and sauior Iesus Christe Amen Amen XVII To haue in remembrance the secrete iudgementes of God and to feare the withdrawing of his grace HAuing good experyence by thyne holy scriptures O thou rightuous God that as thou arte moste high most glorious most holy wise and mighty and a great God aboue all Gods eternal and from euerlasting so arte thou also a Lord a ruler a master an ouerscer a iudge ouer all the dooings of men yea a seuere iudge a straighte examiner an vpright iust rewarder against whome no man may once rowse or aduaunce him selfe stande in his owne conceite or shewe before thée any proude or hautie countinance for it is thou onely O Lorde that art omnipotent whose mighty arm reacheth ouer all which aduancest and bringest lowe which strykest and healest which woundest and makest whole which liftest vp and throwest downe againe which dealest in thy iudgement not after the manner of men wickedly winking at the sinnes generally committed of all or of a few but vsest vprightnesse vnto all withoute respecte of persons generally particularly to many to a fewe and to some one alone when their sinnes before thée are ful and waxeth ripe vnto iudgement apte to fall and ready to féele from thy wrathfull hande the sodaine stroke of thy vengeance for vengeance annexed to thy power is only thine and thy iust rewarde whose iudgementes for sinne are very terrible fierce a flaming and consuming fire to licke vp catche burne and deuonre all or some as the cause shal require and as by thy iustice in iudgement thou finedest thē for so in all ages we haue both truly heard and knowne which examples of thine in sundry wise are all wrytten for our vnderstanding and learning always to be remembred of vs to put vs in good mind to terrifie vs to bridle oure affections to feare thy maiestie to séeke the true knowledge of thy will reuerently therein to obey thée and to escape aptly therby thy iust rigor vengeance for vengeance is thine thou wilt reward O holy and iust god which also artmost gracious which sparest whē we deserue punishmēt in thy wrath thinkest vpon mercy and haste vowed compassion vpon the poore penitent haue mercy vppon me moste wretched sinner O forgéeue me all my wickednesse past let thy tender mercie preuent my sinnes cast them al behinde thy backe and shewe me againe thy cōfortable countinance for my sinnes sore trouble me they iustly accuse me thy iudgementes terribly thunder against me they sore shake my limmes with feare and trembling and terrifie out of measure my sore vexed and contrite heart And if by thine heauenly motion O Lorde I yet wade further in thy iudgemēts and consider the very heauens not to be cleane in thy sight but expecte the day of their renouation for further cleerenesse and puritie O how am I occasioned to be the more amazed and to bewail my wretched state in the lothsomnesse of my corruption And if in the Angels them selues thou haste founde sinne and the desert of eternall death therefore not spared thy iudgemēts ouer them O what shall become of me earthie fraile and moste sinnefull wretche And if also the gloryous starres themselues haue in the excellencie of their outwarde clearenesse and beautie falne down from heauen abide likewise thy iudgement what shall I a masse of darknesse stime and filthe of the earthe looke for at thy wrathfull hand hauing my very secrete sinnes not hid from thee in their moste horrible lothsome and poysoned apperance But yet I beséeche thée O heauenly father althoughe thou be a straighte iudge ouer all thy creatures for sin whether of heauen or of earth celestiall terrestriall or infernall subiecte to thy will and to abide iustly thy iudgement for thine approued clemencies sake and tender pity towardes me imprinted stil freshe in my memorie and boldened thereby to approche thy presence so to extēd vpō me thy great mercy and grace that as I nowe craue the continual good motion inward stirring vp of my mind