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A17024	A new manual of old Christian Catholic meditations, & praiers faithfully collected and translated, without any word altered, or added, except in tytles of chapters, citations of places, & some few merginal annotations, for the most part taken forth of Holy Scriptures, or the Holy Fathers within the first four hũdred yeares of Christ ...	Broughton, Richard.	1617 (1617)	STC 3900; ESTC S1530	87,081	260

tongue For al thy gifts by Christ we geue thankes vnto thee who hast geuen vs voice framed for confession Thou hast lent vnto vs a tongue as an instrument for the Harpe and Organe Thou hast graunted vnto vs an agreable taist a conuenient touching sight to behould hearing to apprehend voices smelling to perceaue odoures handes to worke feete to walke al these thinges thou doest forme of a litle drop in the womb and after information bestowest an immortal soule and bringest forth into light man a reasonable creature whom thou hast instructed with lawes adorned with iustifications and after dissolution of his short time hast promised Resurrection Therefore what life could be sufficient or what excellency of praises would be enough that we might geue thankes vnto thee But this we are not able to performe answearably to thy deseruinges yet we ought deuoutly to performe it so much as we are ab●e For thou hast deliuered vs from the impiety of them that worship many gods and those that killed Christ Thou hast freed vs from heresies recalled vs frō the errour of ignorance sent Christ vnto men that he might be mā which was god onely begotten hast placed vs in the comforter appointed Angels ouer vs dishonoured the deuil When we were not thou hast made vs being made thou preseruest vs thou ministrest life geuest foode hast promised penance For al these thinges glory be to thee and honour by Iesus Christ now euer for euer Amen An other praier of praise or thankes out of the same S. Clement Constit SS Apost lib. 7. ca. 35. GReat art thou o Lord almighty and great is thy strength and there is none end of thy wisdome Creatour Sauiour riche in graces patient and shewer of mercie which takest not away saluation from thy creatures For by nature thou art god sparest sinners prouoking them to penance for thy correction is ful of mercies For how should we sustaine it if we were called to sudaine Iudgment when longe time expected we hardly cast away infirmity The heauens declare thy power the earth poysed with stability the sea wauing with agreable greatnes feeding infinite multitudes of liuing creatures The sande is bridled trembling at thy commaundement and causeth al men to crye O Lord thy workes are magnified thou hast Ps 103. made al thinge in wisdome the earth is replenished with thy workes The ardent armie of Angels and the intellectual Spirits doe say one holy the Seraphim together with the Cherubims Is 6. with their sixe adorned winges singing vnto thee an Himne of victory with a neuer ceasing voice crye forth Holy Holy Holy Lord of Hostes the heauen and earth are ful of thy glory Also the other multitudes of orders Angels Thrones Dominations Principalities Potestates Powers crying forth do say Blessed be the glory of god Ezechiel 3. from his place But Israel that is the Church on earth gathered together of the gentiles imitating the heauenly powers day and night with a ful heart and willing mind do sing The Chariot Ps 67. of god with ten thousandes manifould thousandes of reioycers our lord amōg them in Sinai in the holy The heauen haith knowne him because he arched it resting vpon noe supporter and made it stable as a four-square stone who also gathered togethe● into one the earth and water and diffused the aire from whence life spirit should be drawne to which he ioyned the fire for warmnesse and putting away of darknesse The company of starres is amazed shewing forth him that numbreth them Ps 146. and declaring him who nameth them The liuing creatures also are astonished at him that inspireth their life and the trees at him that planteth them Al which thinges created with thy word denownce the greatnesse of thy power Wherefore euery man ought with al his heart to geue praise vnto thee by Christ for al those thinges seeing by thee he posseseth them al for thou art gracious in graunting benefites and boutiful in shewing mercy who alone art omnipotent for when thou wilt power is in thee to be able to do it For thy eternal Dan. 3. Dan. 14. Iou. 2. might cooleth the flame bridl●th the lyons maketh the whale gētle succourreth the sicke ouerthroweth powers destroyeth the army of enemies the proude multitude of people Thou art in heauen in earth in the sea in the vttermost bondes thy selfe circumscribed with no bond of thy greatnesse there Ps 144. is no end And o Lord not we alone say this but it is the oracle of thy seruant saying And thou shalt know with thy heart Deu. 4. that thy lord thy god is god in heauen aboue and in earth beneath and there is no other but he for there is no god but he alone There is not an holy besides thee lord god of knowledge the God of Sainctes holy aboue al that are holy For they which are made holy are vnder thy hād thou art glorious exalted inuisible by nature vnserchable in iudgmentes whose life wanteth nothing duration without chaunge and variety operatiō without labour maiesty contained with no boundes Comlinesse euerlasting a mansion place vnaccessible an habitation vntransmigrable knowledge interminable truth inuariable a worke with out midle power without deceiptes rule without succession strength without aduersary the multitude of thine army is greate For thou art the father of wisdome authour of nature by the Mediatour as cause diposer of prouidence Lawgiuer replenisher of pouerty reuenger of the impious and rewarder of those that be iust of Christ God and Father and the Lord of those that worship him whose promise is infallible iudgment incorruptible sentence not entreatable piety vnexhausted benignity eternal for whom worthy deserued adoration is due to thee of euery reasonable and holy nature Iudith 16. LEt vs singe an Himne vnto our Lord let vs sing an Himne vnto our god Adonai Lord thou art great and excellent in power and whom noe man can ouercome Let euery creature serue thee because thou hast said the word and thinges were made thou hast sent thy spirit and they were created and noe man can resist thy wil. The mountaines shal be moued from the foundations with waters the rocks shal melt as waxe before thy face but they which feare thee shal be great Ecclesiastic 51. 1. 2. with thee in al thinges O Lord our King I wil confesse vnto thee and praise thee god my Sauiour I wil confesse vnto thy name be 10. 11. cause thou art made my helper protector I looked for the help of men and it was not I remembred thy mercy o Lord for thou deliuerest those that expect thee I haue called vpon our Lord the Father of my Lord that he would not leaue me in the day of tribulation and in the time of the proude without helpe I wil praise thy name dayly and extol it 14. in confession and my prayer is heard and thou hast deliuered me from perdition

none vpon whom you shal see the signe Thou In the old characters of the Hebrewes which the Samaritanes vs● to this day the last letter is Than hauing the similitude of a Crosse which is made in the forheades of Christians and signed by often forming it with our hand A praier after the Creede out of S. Hilary l. 1● Trin. in fine PReserue o Lord this Religion of my faith vnspotted and til my soule departeth from me geu● me this voice of conscience that I may alwaies kepe that which I haue professed in the Symbole of my Regeneration when I was baptised in the Father and the Sonne and the holy Ghost that is may worship thee our Father thy Sonne together with thce and may deserue thy holy Spirit which is of thee by thy onely begotten Sonne Because there is a fitt witnesse for my faith vnto me saying Father al my thinges are thine and thine are mine my Lord Iesus Christ remayning in thee and of thee and with thee alwaies God who is blessed for euer Amen An other inter oper sancti Cipriani de Symb. which som ascribe to S. Cip. others to Ruffinus OVr Lord vouchsaife to graunt vs that keeping the Faith which we haue receaued after our course is ēded to expect the crown of Iustice laid vp in stoare and to be found among them that rise againe to euerlasting life to be deliuered from confusion and euerduring reproach by Christ our Lord by whom to God the Father almighty with the holy Ghost be glory and rule world without end Amen Meditations and praiers vpon those wordes of the Creede Communion of Sainctes may be vsed before Iournay or other busines Gen. 48. THe Angel which haith deliuered me frō al euils blesse these children The Angel of our Lord wil put him Ps 33. self in the compasse of them that feare him and deliuer them He haith geuen his Angels charge Psal 90 of thee that they kepe thee in al thy waies When thou didest pray with teares Tob. 12. buriedst the dead left thy dinner and hiddest the dead in the day in thy house and buriedst them in the night I did offer thy praier to our Lord. I am Raphael the Angel one of the seauen which stand before our Lord. The vision was this Onias which Mach. l. 2. c. vlt. had bene high Preist houlding out his handes to pray for al the people of Israel and after this an other man appearing meruelous for age and glory and with habit of great comlinesse about him and Onias answearing to haue said This is a louer of his brethren the people of Israel this is he that prayeth much for the people and al the holy Citie Ieremy the prophet of god The four and twenty Elders fel downe before the Lambe hauing euery Apoc. 5. one Harpes and Phials of Gold ful of sweete odores which are the praiers of Sainctes A Praier of Iudas Machabeus 2. Machab. cap. vlt. O Lord who hast sent thy Angel 4. Reg. 10. Tob. 21. vnder Ezechias king of Iuda and killed an hūdred fourscore and fiue thousand of the army of Sennacherib and Eccl. 48. Is 7. 1. Mac. 7. c. now o Lord of heauens send thy good Angel before vs in feare and trembling of the greatnesse of thy strength that they which come against thy holy people may be affraid A Meditation out of S. Ciprian de mortalitate WE must consider and think with our selues that we haue renounced the world and liue here a while as strangers and pilgrimes Let vs embrace that day which appointeth euery one to his dwelling house which restoareth vs being deliuered from hence and freed from worldly snare to paradise and the heauenly kingdome What man being a pilgrime farr of would not hasten to returne to his Country Who seeking with speede to saile vnto his frendes would not wishingly desire a prosperous winde that he might quickly embrace his dearly beloued frendes We accompt Paradise to be our Country haue begonne to haue the Patriarkes for our parents Why do we no● make hast and runne that we may see our country and salute our parents A great number of our deare frendes expect vs there a frequent and abundant company of parents brethren children desireth vs now secure of their owne immortality and yet careful for our saluation What great and common ioy is it both to them and vs to come to their sight and embracing What pleasure is there of the heauenly Kingdomes without fear of dying with eternity of liuing How exceeding and euerlasting felicity There is the glorious company of the Apostles there the nūber of reioycing prophets there innumerable people of Martyrs crowned for their victory of combate and suffering there Virgins triumphing which haue subdued the concupiscence of flesh and body with the force of continency there the merciful rewarded which haue done the workes of Iustice with feeding liberally rewarding the poore haue translated their earthly patrimonies to the ●elestial treasures Let vs with a greedy wishing hasten vnto these that we may desire soone to be with these and come to Christ S. Leo ser in Epiph. Dom. c. 4. Confirme your frendships with holy Angels enter into the City of god whose inhabitation is promised vnto vs and ioyne your selues in company with the patriarches Prophets Apostles and Martyrs Reioyce in such thinges as they ioy in Couet their richesse and by good emulation seeke to obtaine their suffrages S. Euseb Emiss hom de S. Stephano LEt vs enquire what neede or reason there is seeing the holy Martyrs being placed in that light of paradise neede not humane praises why they are celebrated with so great affections of men Why are their Reliques God reueling them so manifested to the world Doubtlesse for many causes First they are worshiped of careful men that they may make intercessiō for their diligent worshipers Againe that whilest they are proposed to posterity for an example of deuotion and faith they may alwaies be encreased with new merits now renowned for their vertues they may also be amplifyed by the profits of others And further that the old enemy euen before Iudgment may see the punishment of his malice by which he vnderstandeth that he haith fought for the glory of Sainctes that whom he seeth here now honoured he nedeth not doubt but there they wil be reuenged That when the whole world doth celebrate the crowne of the martired the killer of Martyrs must nedes bewaile his victory S. Augstin lib. meditat cap. 20. O House of God bright beutiful I haue loued thy comlinesse and the place of the habitation of the glory of our lord my possessor and maker Let my pilgrimage sigh vnto thee day and night Let my hart be open vnto thee Let my mind intēd thee Let my soule desire to come vnto the felowship of thy blessednes I speake vnto him that made thee that he may possesse me in thee

Rom. supr lib. 8. c. 37. Let euery faithful man or woman earery in the morning when they arise from sleepe pray before they begin any worke S. EPiphanius in Compendiar Morning Hymnes are vsed continually in the church morning prayers A meditation or preparation to prayer out of S. Basile Const Mon. c. 2. 3. THere be two maners of praying wherof the one is in glorification yelding submission of minde The other in petition to be vsed after the former Wherefore when thou art to pray do not presently fal to petition otherwaies thou art an euidence to thy wil that thou makest not thy praiers vnto god vntil by necessity thou be vrged vnto it Therfore when soeuer thou art determined to pray forsake wife children and thy self also and depart farre from thinges of the earth climbe aboue the heauen and leaue behinde thee al creatures visible and inuisible and begin with glorifiing him that created al thinges And whē thou hast sufficiently rested on him say as foloweth I geue thankes vnto thee o Lord for thy incredible clemency and gentlenes in bearing with the offences of men who sufferest me that sinneth daily and geuest power to vs al to amend our liues For this is the cause for which thou art silent and sparest vs o Lord that we should geue thankes vnto thee who dost manadge the saluatiō of mankind somtime by threatning somtime by exhorting with lenity And first didest visit vs by thy Prophets and lastly by the coming of thy Christ For thou hast framed vs and not we our selues thou art our god And when thou hast sufficiently geuen thankes and glorified god with praises of holy Scripture then againe with humility begin and say I am not worthy o Lord to speake before thee because I am excedingly a sinner And although to thy self thou art guilty of no sinne yet it behoueth thee so to say For seing that in many Iac. 3. thinges we al offend yet we do not vnderstand the greater part of our offences Therefore the Apostle said I am 1. Cor. 4. guilty to my self in nothing but in this I am not instified Which is the same as if he had said I commit many offences wich I know not that I commit them For this cause also the Prophet said Who doth vnderstand his offences Ps 18. And when thou hast sufficiently in wordes shewed thy humility and said I I geue thankes to thee o Lord that thou hast suffered me a sinner so long time with thy patience and to this day exacted of me noe punishment of my sinnes Verily o Lord I had long since deserued infinite punishments and was worthy to be buried most farre from thy sight but thy most patient gen●lenesse haith most mercifully borne with me a sinner I geue thankes I say vnto thee although I know my self vnable to render thankes answearable to thy clemency towardes men And so soone as thou hast satisfied these two duties that is of geuing thankes humility then at last aske what thou oughtest to aske A Meditation out of S. Leo ser 1. de Natiuitate Domini O Christian acknowledge thy Meditations and prayers for morning dignity and being made partaker of diuine nature do not returne by degenerate conuersation to thine old vilenesse Forgeate not of what head and whose body thou art member Cal to minde how being deliuered from the power of darknesse thou art translated into the light king dome of god Doe not driue away frō thee with wicked deedes so worthy an inhabitant and againe subiect thy self to the slauery of the deuil because thy price is the Blood of Christ who in iustice wil iudge thee who in mercy haith reedeemed thee who with the Father and the holy Ghost reigneth for euer Amen An other Meditation out of S. Athanasius ser de sanctiss Deipara CHhrist receauing the throne of Ps 109. Dauid shal reigne among Christians for euer of his Kingdome Luc. 1. Dan. 7. there shal be none end For being borne of a Virgin and hauing consummated al thinges that belonged to the businesse of his death Crosse after his Resurrection he said vnto his Disciples Alpower is geuen to me in heauen in Math. 28. earth Behould now from thence he be gan to reigne and is declared to be the King of Christians as men in the beginning of their prayers exhorting one an other calling the company together do vse to crye Come let vs adore fal Ps 94. downe before Christ our King Psal 94. COme let vs reioyce vnto our lord let vs make ioy to god our Saviour Let vs approach to his presence in confession and in psalmes let vs make ioy vnto him Because god is a great lord and a great king aboue al gods Because in his hād are al the boundes of the earth and the heightes of the mountaines are his Because the sea is his and hee made it his handes framed the earth Come let vs adore and fal downe and weepe before our lord that made vs because he is the lord our god And we are his people and sheepe of his pasture To day if you wil heare his voice do not harden your heartes As in prouocation like as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse Where your fathers tempted me proued me saw my workes Fourtie yeres was I offended with that generation I said they alwayes erre in heart And these haue not knowne my wayes as I haue sworne in my anger if they shal enter into my rest 4 Pope Damasus ordained Gloria Patri c. to be said after euery Psalme In vita Dams con Vas c. 7. proueth it ageneral custome S. Aug. l. 9. confes c. 7. c. Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now euer shal be world without end Amen Direction out of S. Clement Athanas Clem. const l. 2. c. 63. Come together earely in the morning singing praying In the morning saying 62. psalme Atharisius l. de virgin In the mornīg say this psalme O God my god from the light Ps 62. do I watch to thee My soule haith thirsted after thee and my flesh very many wayes In a land desert where there is no way and without water so in the holy haue I appeared vnto thee that I might see thy power and thy glory Because thy mercy is better then liues my lippes shal praise thee So wil I blesse thee in my life and in thy name wil I lift vp my handes Like as with fatte and fatnesse let my soule be filled and my mouth shal praise with lippes of ioyfulnesse So haue I bene mindful of thee vpon my bedde in the morning I wil meditate on thee because thou hast bene my helper And in the couert of thy winges I wil reioyce my soule haith cleeued after thee thy right hand haith receaued me But they in vaine