prosper me O blessed Captaine of my salvation deare Jesus who didst shed thy blood for me shield me now that am to fight for thee and all engaged with me Have mercy on us all deare Jesus and give us victory Amen Amen Our Father c. 4. Thanksgiving after Fight LOrd that hast been the shield of Ps 28. 30. 124. 128. After Victory 26. 98. thy Servant I give thee the glory of thy goodnesse And still Lord in all dangers be my shield that I may give thee yet more glory for that thou hast given me to see many fall and my selfe stand that thou hast shewed me this day many wounded and kept me safe Glory be to thee O Lord for thy mercy for ever by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father c. 5. Prayer for one wounded in Warre O Lord thou woundest and healest 1 Sam. 2. 6. thou killest and thou makest alive I doe beseech thee therefore to heale him in thy mercy who is not wounded without thy providence Lord Jesu thou good and great Physitian of wounded bodies souls who never failest to cure whom thou pleasest to recover take him to thy care who is wounded in thy cause and even for thy tender mercies sake I beseech thee heale his Soule of his sins and his Body of his wounds O thou that thy self was wounded and sheddest thy blood for him and us all in this bleeding condition of his let thy blood be his cordiall and thy wounds his remedies And thou Lord of life who on earth with thy Word made the sick and wounded to recover yea the dead to live say unto him from Heaven Live and Recover that he may serve thee more and better on Earth And now and ever fit and prepare him with thy grace that when he dies he may live and reigne with thee in Heaven through the blessed merits and mediation who wast wounded and slaine to heale and save us all O Jesus Christ our Lord our life and onely hope and succour and Saviour in life and death Amen Prayers for the Sick 1. A Confession and Prayer for mercy and Deliverance O Lord I do humbly confesse to the glory of thy justice that the sicknesse which I suffer is the fruit of my sin the Root of Mankind was poysoned with it and I am a branch of it yea and am much and many waies polluted by it and so am like my Root a poysoned branch I am therefore a Child of Death Rom. 5. 12. and Heire of the Grave the issue of his sin and sicknesse is my portion as I am his Child But Lord I am the seed of a second Adam looke at me not as I am in the first but thy Christ a graft of that Isaiah holy stock the root of Jesse the branch of righteousnesse the Holy One of God for his pretious merits sake forgive me my sin and have mercy on me in my sicknesse And O deare Iesus Joh. 5. 14. that didst take flesh and blood for me pity me poore flesh and blood groaning before thee comfort me and succour me help me and heale me even by the merits of thy pretious blood I beseech thee Amen Amen Prayer for Patience in Sicknesse I Am thy Prisoner O Lord chained by infirmity to a bed of paine but let me not fret even because I am thine Thine whose chaine I cannot breake Thine who dost draw me to thee by this chaine Thine who for my sinne dost justly bind me Thine who knowest when it 's best to loose me Thine who seest what lies upon me Thine who hearest every groane within me Thine who for my sinnes mightâ—st bind me in everlasting chains and sendest this sicknesse to save me O Lord since I am so many waies thine let me submit to thy chaine and lie as thy prisoner so thy Patient before thee and let thy pity in thy good time release me and charge not the errors of my infirmity upon me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Thanksgiving for Recovery of Sicknesse WHat shall I render unto the Psal 116. Lord for all his benefits done to me the snares of death compassed me and the paines of Hell tooke hold upon me I found woe and misery then called I on the name of the Lord and he heard me yea thou Lord wast he that helped me Thou art my God and I wil praise thee It was not Man it was thou that healed me All Physitians are of no value all Medicines vaine without thee Thy Mercy O Lord was my Balme and I will magnifie it Thou wast my Physitian and I will praise thee My heart in all extremity shall therefore trust in thee My lips shall speake of thy praise and my life honour thee I will not be so wretched as to offend thee with the healthinesse thou hast given me with the life anew bestowed on me O Lord keep that wretchednesse for ever from me thy grace therefore ever give me to have in all my waies this mercy and thy glory before me even so be it I beseech thee O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Amen Prayer against the Plague O Lord Pestilence is thy Arrow and my sins have made mee thy marke nor canst thou misse me in thy justice But spare me Lord spare me in thy mercy Though I deserve the stroke for my selfe spare me for my Saviours sake let his innocency be my shield and his blood my antidote O Lord I have I wish no other antidote or shield By the soveraigne and all-saving merits of his I beseech thee pardon my sinne and spare my life Spare my soule that it may better serve thee spare my body that it may better serve my soule spare my heart that I may keepe it more carefully for thee spare my blood that my spirits may be more active to serve thee And as I pray Pestilence from my body so I beseech thee keep it from my soule Preserve me from the house and shield me from the chaire of pestilence As from infected Bodies so from Spirits which breath errors and vices pests and plagues of souls From all mutuall diseases defend me Body and Soule but from those fearfull ones above all I beseech thee And all those thou hast made neare and deare unto me deare Saviour doe it for thy mercies sake Amen Prayer for one infected with the Plague I Am struck O God and by thy hand I beseech thee let me bleed in thy Armes in thy Armes of mercy let me depart if I must die but Lord embrace me with thy favour that I may live live out this danger and see thy deliverance out-live my sins and doe thee more service Meane while mercy Lord for Jesus his sake mercy to thy poore Servant pardon to my sinne comfort to my spirit acceptance to my repentance strength to my faith life to my charity salvation to my soule that whether I live or die I may be thine O Lord who to redeem and save me
by thy mercy obtaine everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Confession ALmighty and most mercifull Father I have erred and strayed from thy wayes like a lost Sheep I have followed too much the devices and desires of my owne heart I have offended against thy holy laws I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and I have done those things which I ought not to have done and there is no health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable Offendour Spare thou me O God which confess my faults Restore thou me that am penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord and grant O most mercifull Father for his sake that I may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Prayer for Pardon ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desirest not the death of a Sinner but that he may turne from his wickednesse and live and hast promised pardon to them that truly repent unfeignedly believe thy holy Gospel of thy mercy I beseech thee to grant me true repentance and thy holy Spirit that those things may please thee which I doe at this present and the rest of my life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last I may come to thine eternall joy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill c. The Versicles Vers O Lord open thou my lips Resp And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise Vers O God make speed to save me Resp O Lord make hast to help me Glory be to the Father c. Alleluiah Praise the Lord. ¶ Read the Psalmes for the Service of that day Then the Lessons appointed for it After say the Creed c. Then the Daily Prayers Animadversions to the devout Reader touching these Daily Prayers IF thou wouldest have reason why these Prayers are so short and in severall which use to make a long one all put together that thy Devotion may be quicker they are so short a little space being run with a greater speed and that thy Spirit may hold out fresher in severalls as so many rests all the way it runs If thou beest a Man of another Spirit take that course of prayer wherein thy soule speeds best This is propounded not prescribed to every Devotion and intended for help not the hinderance of any Morning Prayers 1. Collect for Grace O God! I can aske no greater gift than thy Glory and therefore beg no better gift than thy Grace yea even this consummate is nothing else but 1 Cor. 13. 10. that nor can I come at it but by the way of grace I doe therefore for Jesus Christ his sake beseech thee bestow on me that blessed gift Grace to doe thee service on earth that thou may'st give me thy salvation in heaven through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Collect for Peace MY poore Soule is an humble Suiter for peace O God! the Col. 1. 20. blood of Jesus is my plea thy Spirit my Advocate I deserve by my sinnes eternall enmity but for thy deare 2 Cor. 5. 19. Sonnes sake have favour for me by whom the world is attoned O let me be reconciled to thee I know not how Rom. 8. 26. to pray this as I ought but thy Spirit can make effectuall Intercession for me Lord let thy Spirit move and thy Son make my peace Subdue my lusts conquer Satan for me that my conscience may have peace with thee and I in it By thy grace through the mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 3. Collect for Health O Lord when I am sick let me thinke I may die when I am in health that I may be sick that I may not mispend the stock of my life but doe thee honour with my health and thou mayest give me comfort for it in my sicknesse Even this that sin hath not bound me to my bed but thy providence hast cast me downe which can and will lift me up or to health in this world or to happines in a better such an enjoyment of health give me I beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 4. Collect for Safety O Lord so many daies as I live so Act. 10. 28. many lives I owe thee thou renewest my lease every day a poore Tenant at thy will I am and a fraile Isa 28. 5. cotage of clay by thy power I keep Job 4. 19. Deut. 10. 12. Lord that hast hitherto spar'd me still preserve me and let me pay as I can what I owe of service the onely rent thou requirest for tenement and appurtenances life health wealth and all the good things I have of thee for which thou both grantest terme of life and givest eternity This to that continue I beseech thee for his sake who was surety and is sole Purchaser for me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 5. Collect for Friends FOr all my Kindred and Friends Lord receive my prayers Doe thou good unto them all O God! To those that erre shew thy truth and those that see it keep from errour to those that doe amisse give grace to doe better and those that doe well continue in so doing to those that are afflicted give comfort and deliverance to those that prosper humility and temperance blesse the sick with health and the healthy from sicknesse supply those in want and let those that want not give supply to all grant thy grace O God! and shew thy mercy let love bind us one to another and Religion knit us all to thee that all who are of naturall kindred may meet in heavenly consanguinity Even so Esth 2. 31. Job 1. 13. Lord let the bloud of Jesus runne through all our veines and the Spirit of Jesus go along with the blood that the glory of Jesus may be the end of us all And how ever we suffer and scatter on earth we may live and joy together in the blisse of Heaven By the Union of that holy Spirit and communion of that blessed blood Amen Amen 6. Collect for the Kingdome O Lord we were the mirror of the world for mercy we are for misery a people wofully torn divided distressed distracted a multitude of headlesse heartlesse disordered men ready to be destroyed O thou great Physitian that canst as easily cure Jer. 4. 22. a Kingdome as a Man heale our Land for thy tender pities sake Lord have mercy on us and heale us In the blood of Jesus purge our sins the cause of all our maladies whether ours or of the Ages before us from their guilt and curse
but a Saviours fare Blessed Wine and Bread yea in them what both is and makes Blessed The Body and Bloud of Blisse Deare Jesus Thy Holy Body John 6. 48 53. 54. and Bloud Meat and Drink that doth both joy my heart and save my Soule Bread of life and Well of Life Of that O Lord I eat in thy Bread and drinke of this in thy Cup Because thee in both who art Lord and Bread Well and Lord of Life Was the Passover a feast and is thy Supper none Where no sower herbs but Naturall and Celestial sweets are serv'd in at the feast If that be thy Command O Christ I am a rebell as much to my good as thy Law a damn'd rebell if I doe not this 3. And a Wretch if I doe not all but bate thee halfe of that I am not Saved but by thy Body I shall be damned 1 Pet. 2. 24 Heb. 9. 12. 21. without thy Blood I can want neither Bloud nor Body for my Sacrifice and shall I not have them both in thy Sacrament Didst thou offer thy Bloud for me on the Crosse and shall I not take the Pledg from thee at thy Supper Dost thou give me a Title Mat. 26. 27. Mat. 26. 28. Ephes 1. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 19. to thy Bloud and shall any keep me out of my Possession Rob me of thy Mercy and my Right of no less then the Price of my Redemption Doest thou give me the Purchase in thy Bloud and shall any deny me the Seale in thy Church Thine O Christ how is that Church Thine that dare be guilty of so great a Rebellion and Robbery To violate at once thy Will and Seale To steal at once thy Cup and Scepter Against thy Testament and Will thy expresse Will and Order to doe that can there be a bolder a greater Rebellion To take the Cup from thy People and the Scepter out of thy hand to deprive their Soules of thy Bloud Sine grandi Sacrilegio fieri non posse Gelasi Concil Const thy Selfe and of thine Authority can there be a viler Robbery And to Confesse the Fact and Justifie what is done O thou King of Heaven and the Church can any Hand against thee be more High or act more Vile What then shall I doe Dear Jesus when and where I cannot doe this Where though I beg I cannot have thy Cup Shall I take half or none O Lord that art not for Halfe a Service thou art not for Half a Sacrament Thou that lookest at that as none wilt thou accept this for any And have not they just ground to fear that doe but half of this that when all is done they have done nothing Because by thine Authority and Holy Institution and the Practice of Primitive and Purest Church it was not Ordained nor Used so to be done Dear Jesus Pâ—ty the People that endure this Injury and either seek not or finde not ease from so great a Tyranny And Justifie thou their cause O Christ who for their Saviour and their Soules sake doe not give the right hand of Fellowship to those who thus rob thee of thy Worship Separate from their Service who divide thy Sacrament Because they dare not owne what those Usurp a Power to alter what thou dost Institute Nor Seal what they Decree an Act confest against thy Ordinance Nor doe what they enjoyne a Violation to thy Holy Seal and Sacrament How shall I Body with them that keep thy Bloud from me How shall my Soul unite with them who exhibite to me but half a a Saviour Shall â— not withdraw my self whole from them that will not give me the Sacrament entire but half If they deny me thy Cup shall they have my Communion O Lord How should I Communicate with them that take as my understanding from thy Service * In an unknown Tongue and thy Scripture from my * Reading forbidden Eyes so thy Cup from my Lips If that thou Commandest upon my Obedience without thy Curse I cannot doe other That is not to doe this 4. Doe this And see you doe it not what language is this leave this half undone Who dares thus contradict thee O Christ Is he thy Vicar or Master that dare doe thus Is it the Pillar of Truth whâ—ch thus puls down the Pillar of a Sacrament a Pillar of Salvation Takes off thy Blood the Cement of that Holy Pillar And so pulls if not all at least halfe down Shall I satisfie my Conscience with Wit And first Devise then Believe the Bloud is given in the Body But in Per Concâ—mitantiam the Eucharist thy Bloud is given as shed not kept Poured out not conteined Mat. 26. 28. in the Body And why then should any have the Cup since in the Body is a Conveyance of the Bloud Did the Apostles onely take the Cup Then Laiety must not eat the Bread and so be cut out of the Sacrament of Salvation both Body and Bloud Didst thou not foresee this O Lord and therefore say of purpose not Eat Mat. 28. 26 27. Non Edite omnes Previdente Domino quod de calice c. Bux Hist Dom Caenae 15. ye all but Drinke ye all of this to shew that none are to be excluded from the Cup By thy Grace then I will never doe that As thou appointest I will observe and doe this 5. This. Not thus It ties not to a Circumstance but the Substance of the Command Nor Place nor Time nor Number is confest for then only Twelve should Communicate in an upper Roome and at Night nor Gesture then if accidentall too though evident what it was the Church hath power to appoint it and I may with good Conscience observe her Appointment and though neither so nor so yet doe this In Remembrance I blush Lord to see my self need thy Memento for this Have I a Chest for the Trash of the World and no roome for thee my Heavenly Treasure Memory for what I list and none for what I should Thou hast so done thy marvellous Workes that they ought to be had in Remembrance O Lord And O thou Psa 114. 4. Isay 9. 6. whose Name is Wonderfull and all thy Workes as thy Name and in this above all thy Workes can I ever forget thee 2. Can I forget my self so much That do not breath a minute on Earth or out of Hell without thee If I forget thee O Jesus Let my tongue cleave to the Roof of my Mouth Let my right Hand forget her cunning Surely that Harp had never known the tune of Joy nor Hand had ever to doe with Harp hadst not thou put a World Ephes 1. 10 1 Cor. 5. 19 all out in order againe and set all in Tune 3. And is that all when I owe a thousand lives unto thee to require not my Body but my Minde to say Remember Not to suffer Death and die for thee but to forbid thy Memory to die in me Wil
Heavenly light to their thoughts and holy Fire to their Affections This Fire like that of the Sanctuary must not goe out of the Heart and vanish like passions moved at a Play unlesse we will play away our Soules we must then see 3. How we are to Order our selves after the Holy Communion AS our care was before how to 1 Cor. 11. 27. Ephes 4. 1. Heb. 2. 16. Communicate it must be now how to Walk Worthily As those who are Honoured by Christ above Angels and therefore should be at least Saints Made now One with Christ * Assistunt Cherubini Chys Ut ChristuÌ„ gcrat in pectore Ferat in mente Cypr. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. and so henceforth to live Two from the Flesh the World and the Devill His Holy Body is in us His Holy Spirit must not be from us Else we Sinne grievously against His Bloud and Body What Nebuchadnezzars was in Eph. 4. 4. Dan. 2. 32. Dreame we make his Body indeed a Monster because we of it are such mungrill Limbs And as Belshazzar did at his Profane Banquet we doe by the Holy Supper Turne the Cup of 1 Cor. 11. 27 Blessing into Blasphemy Carousing as it were Healths to our Idol-lusts in Dan. 5. 4. His Hallowed both Wine and Bloud So 1. We play Judas with Christ Eat Joh. 13. 18 26. His Bread and lift up the Heele against Him Take the Sop and betray our Interests in Him 2. We play Gadaren with Him and worse We doe not Pray but Mar. 5. 17. cast Him out of our Coasts and after we have received Him in 3. We play Strumpet with Him 1 Cor. 6. 15. Jam. 4. 4. Our Members which are his are made the Worlds which is an Harlots 4. And so we play Fooles with our 1 Cor. 10. 22. Mat. 22. 11 1 Cor. 11. 29 30. own Soules On which we draw heavy Wrath for our vile provocations if not a Plague and Stroke from Heaven on our Bodies for doing such Injuries to our Saviour So end the Directions about the Holy Communion A Service fit for Sad Times for Wednesday or Friday Morning Prayer Psal 71 73 74. or 124 125 126 129. Lessons Dan. 9. or Ezra 10. to v. 7. or 2 Chron. 36. Jer. 14. Luk. 21. Evening Prayer Psal 44 77 78. or 83. 98 or 137. 140 141. Lessons 2 Chron. 13. or 20. 1 Cor. 10. or Jude Ep. ¶ 1. Collect Confessing and Depreâ—ating Judgments O Lord Thou hast given us to see Bitter and Bloudy Times Barbarous outrages are done and endured daily Our Houses and Friends are full Even thy Temples are not free Dear God! These be the Dues of our Sins Thou art Just but we are Wicked Against the great Meanes of thy Grace and Mercies of thy Goodness for many and many years vouchsafed to us and our Fathers before us we are notwithstanding full of Hypocrisie full of Profanenesse full of Lewdnesse most Ingratefully and therefore most Aboimnably Wicked And I even I have contributed a great measure of my Sins to fill up those Woes But O God! that art Mercifull as thou art Just that delightest not so much to appeare just as Mercifull Pardon those Sins of ours that cause those Woes Pardon those Sins of mine which concurre to that cause And with the Pardon of our Sins grant us a Release of our punishments Let civill broiles and bloodsheds cease True Piety and Peace flourish againe amongst us Thou that out of evill canst work good and out of Confusion didst set up the Order of the World out of those evills and confusions that are upon us worke good and establishment for us O Thou that powerfully canst Mercifully doe this To thy great Honour and our great happinesse for the comfort both in body and Soule of us and ours and all that truly fear and love Thee and true Religion in and for Thee Even for thy tender Pities sake hear us Even for the pretious Bloud and Passion of Jesus helpe us In whose Blessed and Beloved Name we put up our Prayers Saying Our Father c. Amen 2. Prayer for an End of Warre HAsten O God these Daies of Bloud and Woes and give a happy and speedy end to the Warrs O! Let unnaturall Divisions cease and the unhappy Separations of Dearest friends end amongst us For these Times of wants and wounds and bonds and destructions let the Daies of Plenty and Safety and Liberty returne againe unto us O! Let it be enough that for our sins thou hast so long wounded us and broken us and now heale us and binde us up and Save us for thy Mercies sake Give us peace for the Sword Thou God of peace even for his Sake who is the Prince of peace Jesus Christ our Lord Amen! 3. Prayer for Blessing on those who seeke peace O God of Peace Blesse those that seek it that they may findit and stop and turne those that fly it and make them to seeke it Bow their hearts to it that have the power and strengthen their hands for it that have the Will As for those who set their hands and hearts against it we beseech thee turne thine hand and face against them O! Forgive us our Sins which threaten to destroy us and send us a peace which may preserve us And from more Bloud and Violence Deliver us Deliver us for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen! 4. Prayer for Friends in Danger and Distresse O God of Power Pity preserve thou those that are in danger to die Rescue them from the rage of violence and shew thy selfe Mercifull to them in saving their lives if it be thy blessed will O thou preserver of men Save them If not grant them all Graces and Mercies needful for the saving of their Souls Let them Glorifie thee in life and death that thou maist glorifie them with thy Eternall Life Through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. In whose name I pray mercy for all that Suffer in these Times of extremity Chiefly the Destitute Widdows and Fatherlesse Lord Take them to thy care and comfort them Have mercy on them and helpe them Supply them all and Succour them for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen 5. Prayer for Conversion of one in an Evill Course O Lord That delightest not in the Death of a Sinner I beseech thee by thy Grace and-Providence to stay his Course who is entred into a way of Vice and Vanity O Let him not goe on to bring an end of shame upon himself in this World and Confusion of face upon his Soule in the World to come But of thy great Mercy stop him and turne him to a better Course For Jesus Christ his sake Amen 6. Prayer for preservation of the Church O Lord The Church is thy Body and thou art Hâ—ae Head Shee is thy Spouse and thou art her Husband O! Save thine owne Body Preserve thine owne Spouse Protect her from all Enemies Men and Devills Keep her from all ills Errours
Rom. 12. or Heb 10. v. 30. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Revenge O Thou to whom vengeance belongeth keepe me from a revengefull spirit that I fall not into the hands of thy vengeance And since my pitty and patience and pardon is thy will let me not study revenges and returnes of injuries Thou O meek and mercifull Saviour didst pray for thy bloody enemies O let me then forgive my greatest foes Committing my cause to thee who wilt doe justice for me on them if I seek not revenge and for thy self upon me if I doe Thine O Lord is the sword of vengeance thine is the sharpest sword O let me not dare to take it out of thy hand lest whilst I strike others I fall justly by thy sword Though flesh and blood provoke me to it let thy holy Spirit hold me from it cast keep out of me that evil spirit by thy power O good God and Saviour of thy mercy Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Revenge 1. THe sinne of Revenge strikes at God and Man 1. It invades Gods Prerogative and takes his sword out of his hand Rom. 12. 19 2. It is many waies an injury to man To his 1. Nature Borne without armes to live without revenge And even armed Bruits agree with their kind and Devils avoid quarrels 2. Glory To passe by an injury of Prov. 19 11. all the most excellent victory Caesars noble memory to forget Pro. 16. 32. Ro. 12. 22. nothing but wrongs 3. Peace The mind is disturbed and takes no rest Ester 5. 11 12 13. Prov. 12. 15 4. Justice I am my owne Judge and anothers Executioner 5. Wisdome If my revenge fall on a Just man it toucheth God his Zach. 2. 8. friend If he be unjust my vengeance will make me so too 2. Be a Christian and you cannot doe this sinne contrary to the Holy life and law of Christ for when much provoked Luk. 9. 55. 1. He check'd his Disciples for calling for it 2. He commands Charity to pardon Joh. 15. 12 Luk. 21. 19 Ro. 12. 20. wrongs Patience to suffer them and Kindnesse to conquer them 3. He forbids Selfe-love the mother 2 Tim. 3. 2. Ephes 4. 31 32. and Wrath the father both which beget and bring forth revenge A Penitentiall Service fit for a troubled Soule fasting and praying for mercy and grace for Wednesday or other Day Morning Prayer Psal 6. 32. 38. or 51. 130. 143. Lesson Isa 1. Mat. 11. or Act. 3. Evening Prayer Psal 40. 42 43. Lesson Job 9. or Ezek. 18. or 33. 2 Cor. 7. ¶ 1. Collect or Prayer for a Penitent O Lord I doe here cast downe my self before thee O cast me not away from thee I cannot stand at the Barre of thy justice I doe therefore lie downe at the Foot-stoole of thy mercy I doe condemne my self for my sins Lord doe not thou judge me Cancell my sins in my Saviours blood and wash my soule in the streames of mercy Though as red as crimson and scarlet thou hast promised the penitent they shall be white as snow O acquit this pensive soule of mine I beseech thee let not my guilt be black as Hell before thee Wash me from it forgive it me And because forgivenesse of what 's past availes not if I fall againe into former offences O God of all grace I beseech thee so to pardon me a sinner as to make me a Saint Give me an holy strength to mortifie my lusts with an holy care to watch and withstand all occasions and temptations to wickednesse especially those that are by nature custome or condition of life most ready to surprize me against them make me to watch and ward and pray and strive more diligently And let thy Holy Spirit assist and strengthen me to a victory even for the blessed merits of him who overcame the world for me the Captaine of my salvation thy Deare Son Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen ¶ 2. Collect or Prayer for a Penitent O God! with a prostrate body and bleeding heart I doe most humbly confesse bewaile my wretched nature and wicked life before thee For my thoughts my lusts my deeds and words past my conscience cryes out against me * Here thinke of particulars when you say it So vaine so vile so foule so ill have they been before thee And thou art greater then my heart and can'st lay more unto my charge then conscience knowes about me O thou searcher of all hearts and wayes how oft I have vowed thee better service thou knowest and have shamefully violated my faith with thee I have sometimes begun to seek after thee but soone lost my self again in the waies of former vanity As the hills so hath been my love to vaine things but my goodnesse as the morning dew which vanisheth presently And for this even from my owne mouth thou mayest againe condemne me Yea Lord with grief of heart and shame of face I doe yet further confesse and lament bitterly that as if it had been a light thing my self to be in sinnes and armes against thee I have been a Leader of others into Rebellion and so am both a Sinner and a Tempter before thee I have countenanced in them what I should condemne and encouraged what I should abhorre And so as principall to my owne have made my selfe accessary to other mens ills and by nursing the acts of their sinnes have contracted their guilts for which thou mayest againe condemne me charging their wickednesse and woes upon me And though I have been and am at this day so guilty unworthy and vile a wretch against thee O how good and gracious a God hast thou been all my life at this present art unto me Though I deserve all vengeance even to eternall death thy mercies have been and are still great upon me O God of all pity and patience I am confounded to consider thy great goodnesse and my wickednesse against thee Woe is me that the bonds of thy Lawes and thy mercies and my vowes should be all thus broken by me For this shame and confusion of face for ever might justly cover me But Lord though I be every way a miserable Sinner thou art infinitely more a mercifull God Thou hast a propitiatory for sinne above all my provocations Mary Magdalene was foule with lust yet forgiven St. Peter perjured but pardoned Saint Paul made others to blaspheme yet found mercy O Lord for thine infinite mercies sake let my sinnes be forgiven me even for my Saviours sake punish not my guiltinesse upon me Seale to my soule thy pardon in his blood which was shed to save me And for time to come let thy Holy Spirit assist me to live with more conscience and lesse sinne before thee Lighten my mind with a sight of thy truth and fire my heart with a love to thy majestie that the vanities of the earth may be my scorne and the glory of heaven the onely ambition that
I doe is to no end without forme and voide if not with a Minde devoutly busied as a Body Well-devoted and all done in Remembrance of thee Naturally I may do something and see some Body but Sacramentally nothing if I discerne not Thine 7. Something then is to be done before I doe this I must get an Holy Appetite before I Eat and Drinke which is by Repentance And bring Mat. 5. 6. an Heavenly Mouth to the Meat which is my Faith And much is to Joh. 6. 35. be done after this I must Digest it so in Conscience as to get good Spirit by it and gaine such strength by the Digestion as to walke more hoâ—ly and grow Better for it Else what doe I but Deforme thy Body and Defile thy Bloud That must raise my Thoughts and Afflictions to the Memory This keepe them up As I must doe this in Remembrance of Thee I must do that in Remembrance of this and what is done not forget I have beene doing and put thee after out of my Remembrance Jesus Make me doe what I should Not neglect it lest I neglect at once my Saviour and Soule Not doe it as an Act of Complyance with Time or as a Due more to Custome then Conscience which is as ill Nor in a rude unhallowed unprepared irreverent bold Carriage and Confidence which is worse then a neglect Jesus Give me grace so to doe So to Remember Thee on thy Crosse that thou maiest not forget me in thy Kingdome So to Remember thee Luk. 23. 42. Luk. 22. 30. at thy Table that thou maiest Remember me on thy Throne Where Commemoration shall be turn'd into Vision Where I shall have not Sacramentall 1 Cor. 13. 12. but Beatificall Communion Where I shall not weare thy Ring but see thy Face Not Remember thee but Behold thee Not in Faith but cleare and full Fruition Even so be it O Lord Feede me to it in Faith and Love and Seale it to me in Spirit and Conscience Lord Thus have me and let me have Thee for ever in Remembrance Amen! Amen! Directions about the Holy Communion how to Prepare for it 1. Touching Prayers Preparatory to it ON Wednesday before Read the Penitentiall Service On Friday the Service on the Passion On Saturday the Service Preparatory to the Holy Communion On Sunday some of the Scripture Lessons with the Prayers proper for it and Meditation upon it 2. Touching Self examination necessary before we Communicate YOu must Examine your selfe 1. Cor. 11. 28. touching your Faith and Life 1. Your Faith is Right if you Believe concerning God and His Church according to the Rule of it Comprized summarily in the Apostles Creed Received by all Christians 2. Tim. 1. 13 2. Your Life is Right if it agree with the Rule of it The Law of God Comprehended in the Ten Commandements For finding of which 1. You are to Consider apart every Commandement and the Contents * Juxta ordinem Decalogi institutum Mcl. l. com de poenit v. Partic. apud ipsuÌ„ Rom 7. 7. Psa 119. 15. Lam. 3. 40 of it what Duties it Requires What Sins it Forbids and then aske your Conscience how you have Discharged your selfe therein 2. Where you finde upon Just Enquirie that you have led your life according to Gods Law in Piety to God or Charity to Man Thank God for His Grace where you find that you have failed Ask God for His Pardon 3. And because none but Penitents can ask and have Gods Pardon and Contrition is the Root Confession the Branch and Amendment of Life the Fruit of Repentance look therefore carefully to all And first 1. Touching Contrition IT is the Bleeding of a Soul toucht Act. 2. 37. with Remorse for Sinne And if of the Bodies much more care must be had of the Soules Bloud That it Bleed 1. Wisely For doing ill not well 2 Cor. 7. 10 That were to let out good Bloud and keep in Ill. 2. Kindly Even for doing Ill as an Psal 51. 4. Ezek. 7. 16 Offence to God chiefly Not so much for the Dread of Damnation as the Displeasure of his Goodnesse 3. Rightly For the Sinne which hath done more Displeasure to God and is chiefe in me most That 's to strike the right Veine Psa 51. 14 4. Freely The Heart must bleed for all and that above all Water must 1 Cor. 15. 9 Psal 66. Mat. 26. 75. Luk. 7. 38. not be wrung out of the Eye like Fire out of a Flint but if nature stop not the Course flow as from a full Fountain Naturally and Plentifully out Yet 5. Temperately too Not bleeding Joel 2. 12 13. Jer. 18. 11 12. to the Death of Despaire but so as to keep in Heart a Life of hope for Mercy and Help The sorrow be-being to drowne Sinne and not the 2 Cor. 7. 5 Heart To that end God hath given the Soule as the Eyes for Sluces to Jer. 13. 17. let out the Waters of Griefe when they swell about the Heart and are ready to overwhelme it So a Floodgate in the Mouth to void them and prevent an Inundation Psal 39. 4. of Heavinesse And as Teares spend Grief by the Eye Confession puts it out at the Mouth Of which is the next Enquiry 2. Touching Confession GOd being the Majesty whom Sin Psa 51. 13. Isay 43. 25 Prov. 28. 13. 1 Joh. 1. 8. Lev. 5. 5. John 20. 23. 2 Cor. 20. Vice Dei qui thesaurum in â—s posuit hominum Luth. 1 Sam. 7. 6 offends of him Pardon is to be sought and Confession the way to find it without which we seeme either to need no Pardon or not to seek it And God being pleased two wayes to give Pardon Immediately by a Power Imperiall in and of Himselfe and Mediately by the Ministry of Man Delegated by him to Seal Pardons in his Name and the Soules Peace Hence Man also hath two wayes to make Confession or speake his Guilt to God One is to pour out the Soul into Gods Bosome by having an Immediate Recourse for mercy to God Himself The other is into Gods Ear Fiat pastori vel potius Deo Coram pastore Zanch. in 1 Joh. 1. Betaking our selves for Ghostly good and Comfort to some Man of God And as in some Cases there is great need â—o for sundry Causes there may be much profit of this 1. In a storme of Conscience it 's not Job 33. 23 24. 37 38. Isay 504. Jam. 5. 15 16. safe to be without a Spirituall Pilot lest for want of better Direction and helpe the Soule be Swallowed up in her owne Deeps or Sunke under some Gust of Temptation As God knowes many daily are * Damnaberis tacitus qni posses liberari confessus Aug. 2. Or If the Mind Fluctuate and cannot rest Satisfied in her Spirituall Estate it 's dangerous not to seeke a Guide of God to leade us out of those Ghostly straights
and troubles * Si quis bujusmodi consolationis majoris certitudinis causâ pastorem pium doctum conveniat suum in ejus sinum exoneret petatque absolutionem Consolationem rem utilissimam fecerit Zanch. in 1 Joh. 1. Job 33. 23. Some Divine Counsellour to Examine our Estate and if cause be Seale from God our Evidence for Heaven by giving his Pardon to that which threatens Hell For the Devil wil be sure to set on the 1 Cor. 2. 11 1 Pet. 5. 8. Soul which he finds in a straight and doubt and may devour it if it have none but it s own relief As God knows he daily does * Tanquam portum Refugium illis quos Diabolus c. Luth. in Gen. 32. 3. And every man being favourable for Absolution a Quisque sibi benevolus judex est Basil if his own Judg and no man able without his Relation to know and helpe the Maladies of anothers heart b Prov. 14. 10. 2 Sam. 1. 13 14 15. 1 Cor. 2. 11. Pulpit generalls not comming home often to * Ne fingas tibi peculiarem Confessionem Luth. in Gen. 32 Nemo sibi dicat occulte ago poenitentiam apud DeuÌ„ ago ergo sine cause dictuÌ„ est QuoruÌ„ peecata c. Aug. the Particulars of many Soules c Melius in privata confessione ubi morbos aperit quà m in publicâ concione ubi quâ re cuique privatim opus sit pastor ignorat Zanch. in 1 Joh. 1. 1. Bishop Andr. S. in Joh. 16. 7. p. 636. Consolationem accipiunt quam in publicâ concione non possunt apprehendere Luth. in Gen. 32. nor of power ordinarily to make Entries and Discoveries of hearts as when the dores are set open of purpose Hence great profits may come upon pious Confessions even out of those cases My disease better remedied because more known d Quod ignorat medicina non curat Hier. My state more assured because better Examined My way e Ob praedicationes multas non eruditior quod euique credendum agendum c. Haec inquisitio docet commâ—dissimè sic fit Luth. better directed because errors more Discerned My piety more advanced because my Soule better Studied My Repentance more perfected because my self more humbled f Dan. 9. 7 My Sins more abhorred because I more confounded g Magis coram Ipso pastore quam Deâ— solo Zanc. in 1 Joh. Jam. 5. 15 15. My Spirituall wants better relieved because more particularly known and recommended And God knowes what losses many suffer for want of this 4. Yea and Harmes too as well as losses voidable by a seasonable use of such Spirituall Counsels * ColloquuÌ„ privatum Melan In propriâ causâ quisque excaecatur ut saepenumero quod maluÌ„ est benefactum judicet vol saltem quod gravissimum extenuet Zanch. ib. Parlies since many Acts passe for innocent and good or not greatly bad which are truly and very ill * Juvatur ad scelerum agnitionem sui a pastore non sic si solus c. Idem and would so appear if Cited and Questioned before a Judgement well exercised in causes and cases of Conscience So they lose the Advantages of keeping themselves good and cleare before God of such things as pollute them and provoke him because they knew neither And run into hazards never to amend them because not considered as amisse or very little if any thing By which meanes without a miraculous mercy Facit cognosci lapsus morbos gradus peccatorum Mel. l. c. Erudit docet nos defectus nostros Luth. of God they Live in them without Regret and Die in them without Repentance Flattered into a better Belief of themselves and their state to God then either their Life can give good Evidence or true Judgment good Warrant for And God knowes how many Consciences without Check swallow down as harmlesse acts grievous Guilts which at last swallow their Soules up by not bringing their wayes to the Test and Triall v. Luth. S. de Euch. which would discover them dangerous and so make way to have them at once both Abhorred and Amended 5. To these good ends and purposes Constanter rotinemus Conf. Sax. Diligenter retinemus Conf. Ausb Private Confession is reteined in the Reformed Churches and the Moderate and sober use as much Commended as the Tyrannous and Superstitious abuse is condemned in the Roman With true and large praises a Veris amplissimis Conf. Ausb For weighty causes b Conf. Sax. As an Appointment of God c Rom à Deo institutam ut salutariter ipsis inserviat Conf. Boh. Non pugnat cum verbo Dei imò conformis est Zanch. in Joh. 1. Officii sui esse meminerit non negligendum quod a Domino offertur remedium ut ad se sublevandum privatâ confessione apud pastorem suum utatur Calv. Instit l. 3. c. 4. n. 12. n. 13. Ut sistant se pastori oves quoties Sacram Coeâ—am participare volunt adeo nou reclamo ut maximè velim hoc ubique observari Idem Examina publica vel privata Communicantium minimè improbamus imò requirimus abfit verò tyrannis superstitio Pare in 1 Cor. 11. And meanes of Remission d Per Potestatem clavium Evangelii Dispensatio fit non solum omnibus in communi sed singulis Conf. Ausp Medium remissionis Externum Privatum Privata Confessio est in qua dicitur Remittuntur tibi c. Zanch. in 1 Joh. 1. Most Comfortable e Cum fiduciâ Remissione frui sc credant secundum verbum Cui remiseritis c. Conf. Boh. Non aliter quà m si à Christo ipso perciperet cum hic illis has tradidâ—rit neque ullo modo dubitet per ministerium hoc clavium virtute potestate Christi peccata sua ci remitti juxta id Cut peccata c. Conf Boh. Valde plâ—na consolatione est ista confessio Luth. de Euch. Profitable f Res utilissima Zanch. 1 Joh. 1. Sunt aliae utilitates mulâ—ae Mel. l de panit Necessary g Sentio vehementer necessariam Hem. in 1 Cor. 11. Multas praeclaras res in sc complectitur Luth. S. Euch. Est enim opus valde praeclarum pretiosum quod non nisi a vero Christiano ficri potest Luâ—h ib. Desirable h Hanc tam piam utilem causam spero valituram apud multos ut morem pâ—tendae absolutionis magis ament libentius retâ—uâ—re studeant Mel. l. c. For Spirituall Ease Advice better Assurance and Intelligence betwixt God and the Soule Greater Remonstrance and Assistance against Sinne and the Consciences more Light Purity and Peace Of which their Churches and Doctors are sufficient witnesses i Mille mundos perdi mallet c. Luth. 1. Eccl. Angl. Exhort 2. ad Euch. In visit aegroti Can. 1. 103.
of the Devill who because he once got Eternity for an Apple thinkes to Tempt away thy Salvation for nothing And therefore would have thee all for the Body that nothing may be done for the Salvation of the Soul Dear one thou wast not Ransom'd be not Ruin'd for nothing And now O my Soul Spirituall Immortall Intellectuall The lively Image The Dear Spouse of God Lord Paramount and Soveraigne Power in Man The Free and High-borne Child and Heire of Eternity Delight and Darling-Gemme of Heaven Most precious Purchase and Inheritance of the Sonne of God Doe not O doe not abuse and lose thy selfe in Bodily Sensualities and for Half a satisfaction scarce to the half of Man and but a Moment on Earth sell away Salvation in full of Soul and Body in Heaven for ever For What shall it profit a man to gaine the whole World and lose his owne Mat. 16. 27 Soul or What shall a man give in exchange for his Soul The Summe of this Soliloquie is The Soule is Spirit Sinne turnes it Flesh The Soule is Immortall Sin makes it Die The Soule is Noble Sinne makes it Base The Soule is Lord Sinne makes it Slave The Soule is Soveraigne Sin makes it Subject The Soule is God-like Sinne make it Beast The Soule is Gods Spouse Sin makes it Strumpet The Soule is Gods Jewell Sinne casts it in Fire The Soule is Free-borne Sinne keeps it in Prison The Soule is Gods Purchase Sinne mâ—kes it away Animadversion to the Devout Reader Touching the second and third Soliloquies IF some things in them seeme to be set more sutable for a Court then Cotage and possible in setled then troubled times as supposing a greatnesse which thou perhaps hast not and requiring a Church-Duty which thou canst not doe thou dost not guesse amisse at the Authors aime nor doth he thinke thee to move and make thy Scruple amisse For removall of which that no barre may be from him betwixt thee and thy Benefit receive this satisfaction for both 1. What is not proper may be profitable for thee and if not directly concerne thee by consequent If the Great be disputed out of all their Excuses and Customes which are pleaded and practised to the neglect or injury of Gods Private or Publique Service the mean are thereby concluded if so faulty to fail their Duty without all Apologie oâ— Plea 2. What is not possible doth not concern thee And what is unjustifiable should be impossible Such is sometimes the Publick Id possumus quod jure possunus use of Religion in the Church Take heed of the Principle as both false and perrilous that whatsoever is in the Church thou must be at it So in Aegypt thou mightest Worship a Crocodile and at Rome must goe to Masse If without Sinne then I cannot I must 1 Cor. 10. 20. 21. not goe So to Separate is not to be a Separatist nor can such absence be impious Provided that the Judgement of Sinne and the Service be right and hate 2 Cor. 6. 17. not love of Schisme make the Separation Thus caution'd thou maist read even those Soliloquies without Scruples and for the rest there is no cause of any as fit without Dispute for all Nor dost thou more in this then in Reading King Davids Psalmes or Saint Austins Soliloquies Psal 42. wherein all things are profitable though not pertinent to every one For one particular Soliloquie will no more fit every Soul then one Shoe any Foot So then where it fits thy Soul make it thy Soliloquie where it doth not thy History Monday-Soliloquie Domesticall-Devotion OR A Soliloquie Inviting and Enabling the Soule to a Privacy of Piety and Discharge of Daily Duty in Secret and Closet Prayers HEare O my Soule What is required to the Service of God For as thou dost know Joh. 13. 17 it in vaine if thou dost not doe it So thou canst not doe it aright Prov. 19. 2 if thou dost not know it Know then O my Soule As Thou art of thy selfe One and One of the World thou dost owe and must pay Almighty God the Maker of Thee and It a Private and a Publike Service In the Closet God must see it In the Church Man must behold it There Deare Child Speake freely for thy Selfe to God be thy owne Priest and Mouth in Secret and doubt not but thy Heavenly Father will grant and Seale thy Suits But Here let thy Mother * The Church Mal. 2. 7. Speake for thee and Her Priest Gods lips be thy Mouth unto Almighty God The Closet is thy Particular Church but the Church the Common Sanctuary For Gods Sake then be Reverend there but here both for Mans and Gods Neglect not Deare Soule neglect not thy Daily Sacrifice Morning and Evening offer up thy Service to Allmighty God Open the Day with this Holy Key that the blessing of the light may be upon thee shut up the Night with the same Key that the curse of Darknesse doe not seize thee Dare not to eat nor stir till thou hast Prayed thy Passe from Heaven lest Mischiefe meet thee before night and hale thee to thy Grave Doe not dare to rest or sleep till thou hast beg'd thy Pardon for the guilts of the day least Judgewent surprize thy Soule before the Luk. 12. 20 Morrow My Soul These are thy Visits and Entertainments of Almighty God and doe not O doe not to give Man his neglect Gods Visits He is the Greatest Person serve him therefore first Be not guilty of that rudenesse to thy Heavenly Father which thou abhorrest as uncivill to a Noble Person Let Him stay and waite for thee whilst thou entertainest thy selfe with some Sorry one Leave not a Prince to goe to a Peasant Thy Prayers and Addresses to Almighty God to Entertaine any earthly one whatsoever Alas my Soul In Comparison of the Mighty God the Greatest Man is not so much Isay 40. 17. Job 34. 19 Psal 91. 11. as a Peasant to the Mightyest Prince When thou art with God Angels are with thee O my Soul And doe not turne thy back on Angels to goe to Men though Saints and much lesse to such as appeare in sinfull shape like Devills And though thou be no Priest nor Professed Recluse bound by Canons to set Houres yet my Soul thou shalt do God and thy selfe but right to set keep some set times of Devotion Thou canst doe so much for thy Bodily Health thou shouldst for thy Soules Observing that Rule brings better health for a Time but keeping this Order makes healthy and happy for ever And if thou dost as thou maist observe thy Physitians Prescripts my Soul thou must not neglect Diviner Directions Their best end is that the Body may be more Serviceable to the Soul But the aime of those better that the Soul may be most Serviceable to Almighty God And if thou dost resolutely set and observe thy Howers who will disturb thee Even the most profane
of them all good Lord deliver us Deliver us from blood O God from all the innocent and pretious blood which lies upon us From our sins of peace which brought the warre and the sinnes of warre which brought and left us in that guilt of blood O Jesus that hadst mercy even for those that shed thine and Act. 2. 27. madest the matter of their sinne the meanes of their salvation let the virtue of thy blood expiate the guilt of all shed amongst us and the voice of Heb. 12. 24 it out-crie all the clamours which it makes in Heaven against us And by the grace of thy Spirit make our hearts bleed for our sins that it may crie so for us With our sinnes remove our woes Piece our rents and close our wounds with thy heavenly hands O God of peace that we perish not under them let us not make our selves a prey to foraigne force nor fall by an intestine fury Meet Body and Head in common safety meane while looke upon our languishings and keep life in the Body Lord who delightest not in the death of one Sinner pitty millions of poore sinfull miserable soules at the very point to perish pitty us good Lord and preserve us for thy great mercies sake in Christ Jesus Amen Amen 7. Collect for the Church 1 Cor. 11. 2. FOr thy deare Spouse and my best Mother I thy poore Child and Hers on bended knees hold up my hands and humbly pray all thy Goodnesse O God! Truth Love and Peace be with her For errour truth for schisme love for persecution peace Behold O Lord not what She is but was and not what She was for sin but thy Service And Heare Lord not the cries of her sins but groanes of her miseries And make her to be as Good as She was yea Lord make her be as Good as She should be Beautifull in Her selfe Unblemished in her Children Shining in truth Comely in order Holy in life Repair'd in her ruines Restored in her Rights Relieved in her injuries To Thy glory Her honour and the happinesse of us all through the Grace and Worthinesse of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 8. Collect for the Catholique Church O God of peace send Unity amongst all that professe thy Name As they have but one Head Ephes 4. 1 4 c. let them be but one Body as they are but one Body let them have but one Spirit the Spirit of truth and holiness in doctrine and life be in all Cease schismes and warres in the Christian world Let not them spill one anothers blood for whom thy Sonne shed His. Let there not be many Hearts under one Head nor more Heads with it lest they make a Massacre in thy Body or a Monster of it O let thy Scepter have obedience and thine Orders Observance every where Suffer none by delusion or depravation of mind or ambition of Spirit to pull downe thy Throne whilst they pretend for thy Scepter and let confusion and tyranny into the Church whilest they professe to bring in liberty and order and pull downe thy House to set up thy Glory From Violence avarice sacriledge schisme heresie Anarchy tyranny King of the Church keep us Do Thou governe us and let us obey thee doe Thou save us and let us serve thee Even all Christian souls save through out the world Dear Jesus Amen Concluding Prayer IT is thy promise to grant whatsoever I aske in thy Sons name Lord thou wilt not performe lesse because I BreviariuÌ„ totius Evangelii Tert. aske so in his Words In His blessed Breviary therefore I Summe and offer up all and say Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Blessing God the Father blesse me God the Son defend me God the holy Ghost preserve me and all mine and His now and evermore Amen So ends Morning Prayer A Charitable Prayer for these Miserable Times O Lord that dost not willingly afflict the Children of Men Behold from thy Holy Habitation of Heaven the Multitudes of miserable Souls Lives amongst us and have mercy upon us Have mercy on all Ignorant Souls instruct them On all Deluded Mindes and Enlighten them On all seducing and seduced Spirits and Convert them Have mercy on all broken Hearts and Heal them all strugling with Temptation and Rescue them All Languishing in Spirituall Desertion and Revive them Have mercy on all that stagger in Faith and establish them That are falne from Thee and Raise them That stand with Thee and Confirme them Have mercy on all that groan under their Sinnes and Ease them that blesse themselves and goe on in their wickednesse and curb and stop them Jesus that didst shed thy Bloud for all Soules to save them shed thy Holy Spirit on all and heal them And Lord have mercy on all miserable Bodies Those that are ready to Famish for want Feed them Those that are bound to Beds of pain Loose them Those that are in Prison and Bonds Release them Those that are under the fury of Persecution and cry under the yoke of Oppression Relieve them Those that lie smarting in their Paines and Wounds Cure them Thâ—se that are Distracted in their Thoughts and Wits Settle them Those that are in Perils of their Lives Preserve them Jesus that didst freely Distribute thy Comforts and Cures to all Miseries and Maladies of Men when thou wast on Earth Have mercy on all and Help them Far or near with us or from us Lord have mercy on all Even every Sonne and Daughter of Adam at this time in paine and anguish upon the face of the Earth where ever they are whosoever they be what help I would pray for my self from thee or Comfort from Man in their condition I beseech thee the God of all Help and Comfort to give it to them Take them to thy Care and Tender them Supply them and Succour them have Compassion on them and Heal them Jesus that didst give thy Bloud for them deny not thy bowels to them Thou that didst Redeeme them all preserve them Even all Miserable Souls and Bodies I beseech thee for thine Infinite mercies sake Amen A Prayer against the Temptations of the Time O God Who wilt not suffer us to be tempted above what we are 1 Cor. 10. 13. able to bear Succour me that the Temptations of the Time doe not overwhelme me Discover to me the wayes of thy Providence so far that I may see why I should neither deny it or doubt it And make me know Thy Judgements Job 11. 6. Rom. 11. 33. Job 40. 4. 41. 3. Jer. 12. 1. to be so unsearchable and thy wayes past finding out that I may humbly submit my wit to thy Wisdome and admire and adore the Justice which I doe not see Let me not be of so narrow a mind as to confine thy Worke to one World which thou dost not finish but in Two Nor let me be such a Creature of Sense as to believe thou