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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63668	A choice manual containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or prayed for; the prayers being fitted to the several days of the week. Also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church. Composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons, by Jeremy Taylor, D.D.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662. Guide for the penitent: or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin.	1677 (1677)	Wing T292; ESTC R219156	74,175	230

noblest way of rejoycing in the good of others II. O Dear God never suffer the Devil to rub his vilest Leprosie of Envy upon me never let me have the affections of the desperate and damned let it not be ill with me when it is well with others but let thy holy Spirit so over-rule me for ever that I may pity the afflicted and be compassionate and have a fellow-feeling of my brother's sorrows and that I may as much as I can promote his good and give thee thanks for it and rejoice with them that do rejoice never censuring his actions curstly nor detracting from his praises spitefully nor upbraiding his infelicities maliciously but pleased in all things which thou doest or givest that I may then triumph in spirit when thy Kingdom is advanced when thy Spirit rules when thy Church is profited when thy Saiuts rejoice when the Devil's interest is destroyed truly loving thee and truly loving my brother that we may all together join in the holy Communion of Saints both here and hereafter in the measures of grace and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Friday A Prayer against Wrath and inordinate Anger I. O Almighty Judge of Men and Angels whose anger is always the minister of Justice slow but severe not lightly arising but falling heavily when it comes give to thy servant a meek and a gentle spirit that I also may be slow to anger and easie to mercy and forgiveness Give me a wise and a constant heart that I may not be moved with every trifling mistake and inconsiderable accident in the conversation and entercourse of others never be moved to an intemperate anger for any injury that is done or offered let my anger ever be upon a just cause measured with moderation and reason expressed with charity and prudence lasting but till it hath done some good either upon my self or others II. LOrd let me be ever courteous and easie to be intreated never let me fall into a peevish or contentious spirit but follow peace with all men offering forgiveness inviting them by courtesies ready to confess my own errours apt to make amends and desirous to be reconciled Let no sickness or cross accident no imployment or weariness make me angry or ungentle and discontent or unthankful or uneasie to them that minister to me but in all things make me like unto the holy Jesus Give me the spirit of a Christian charitable humble merciful and meek useful and liberal complying with every chance angry at nothing but my own sins and grieving for the sins of others that while my passion obeys my reason and my reason is religious and my religion is pure and undefiled managed with humility and adorned with charity I may escape thy anger which I have deserved and may dwell in thy love and be thy Son and Servant for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Saturday A Prayer against weariness in well-doing I. O My God merciful and gracious my Soul groans under the loads of its own infirmity when my spirit is willing my flesh is weak my understanding foolish and imperfect my will peevish listless my affections wandering after strange objects my fancy wild and unfixed all my senses minister to folly and vanity and though they were all made for Religion yet they least of all delight in that O my God pity me and hear me when I pray and make that I may pray acceptably Give me a love to Religion an unwearied spirit in the things of God Let me not relish or delight in the things of the world in sensual objects and transitory possessions but make my eyes look up to thee my Soul be filled with thee my spirit ravished with thy love my understanding imployed in the meditation of thy Law all my powers and faculties of Soul and Body wholly serving thee and delighting in such holy ministeries II. O Most glorious God what greater favour is there than that I may and what easier imployment can there be than to pray to thee to be admitted to thy presence and to represent our needs and that we have our needs supplied only for asking and desiring passionately and humbly But we rather quit our hopes of Heaven than buy it at the cheapest rate of humble prayer This O God is the greatest infirmity and infelicity of man and hath an intolerable cause and is an insufferable evil III. O Relieve my spirit with thy graciousness take from me all tediousness of spirit and give me a laboriousness that will not be tired a hope that shall never fail a desire of holiness not to be satisfied till it possesses a charity that will always increase that I making Religion the business of my whole life may turn all things into Religion doing all to thy glory and by the measures of thy Word and of thy Spirit that when thou shalt call me from this deliciousness of imployment and the holy mysteries of Grace I may pass into the imployment of Saints and Angels whose work it is with eternal joy and thanksgiving to sing praises to the mercies of the great Redeemer of Men and Saviour of Men and Angels Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and worship all service and thanks all Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen A Prayer to be said by a Maiden before she enters into the state of Marriage I O Most glorious God and my most indulgent Lord and gracious Father who dost bless us by thy bounty pardon us by thy mercy support and guide us by thy grace and govern us sweetly by thy providence I give thee most humble and hearty thanks that thou hast hitherto preserved me in my Virgin-state with innocence and chastity in a good name and a modest report It is thy goodness alone and the blessed emanation of thy holy Spirit by which I have been preserved and to thee I return all praise and thanks and adore and love thy goodness infinite II. AND now O Lord since by thy dispensation and over-ruling providence I am to change my condition and enter into the holy state of Marriage which thou hast sanctified by thy Institution and blessed by they Word and Promises and raised up to an excellent mystery that it might represent the Union of Christ and his Church be pleased to go along with thy servant in my entring into and passing through this state that it may not be a state of temptation or sorrow by occasion of my sins or infirmities but of holiness and comfort as thou host intended it to all that love and fear thy holy Name III. LOrd bless and preserve that dear person whom thou hast chosen to be my Husband let his life be long and blessed comfortable and holy and let me also become a great blessing and comfort unto him a sharer in all his joys a refreshment in all his sorrows a meet helper for him in all accidents and chances

resolved with thy Servant David to take care of my ways that I offend not in my tongue but have many times vainly and inconsiderately let it loose and either to please the Company or my self I have spoken words which might unhappily prove occasions of sin both to them and me without regard or remembring how great Flames such little sparks might kindle But I Repent O my God I Repent I do infinitely condemn my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XVIII Wo Wo unto me O God that all the parts and faculties of my Soul and Body have been abused and have not served the Laws of their Creator but have so eagerly and constantly pursued the corrupt desires of a seduced Heart that I have cause to fear that either my whole life may be looked upon as one continued sin or at least as having admitted so few inconsiderable Pauses that if thou shouldst enter into strict Judgment with me I should not have the confidence to say when or where or wherein I have been innocent But I Repent O my God I Repent I am confounded and astonished at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XIX Wo unto me O God that I have wretchedly failed even in my best endeavours that I have been cold in my Devotions weary of my Prayers inconstant to good purposes dull and heavy in the way to Heaven but quick and active in all the ways of sin having made it the whole business of my life rather to seem to be Religious than really to be so But I Repent O my God I Repent I Accuse and Judge and Condemn my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XX. Wo Wo unto me O God that I have not washed mine hands in Innocency when I have gone unto thine Altar nor made mine heart ready to receive the bread that came from Heaven but have failed in my Preparations and have not sufficiently considered either mine own unworthiness or the high secrets of so great a Mystery But I Repent O my God I Repent I am grieved and troubled at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXI Wo Wo unto me O God that having so often received those inestimable Pledges of thy love the precious Body and Blood of thy dear Son in the Holy Sacrament I have been so unwary as to admit my former sins under the same roof with thee and have unhappily done what lay in me to drive thee from me But I Repent O my God I Repent I am infinitely ashamed at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXII Wo Wo unto me O God that my Repentance the only plank left me in the Shipwrack of my Soul hath been so weak so slight and so unsteady that every small blast of a new Temptation hath been able to drive me from it and by frequent Relapses into sin gives me cause enough to repent even of my vain repentance But I Repent again O God again I I Repent I hate and loath and abhor my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXIII Wo Wo unto me O God that having received my Life and Being and Preservation from thee with so many advantages to have made me happy in this world and blessed in the next I have been so abominably unthankful that I have cast all these thy Blessings behind me and returned thee nothing back for all thy favours but affronts and injuries and sins But I Repent O my God I Repent I am confounded and astonished at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXIV Wo wo unto me O God that being Redeemed by the Death and Passion of thy dear and only Son I have not laid his bitter Agonies to heart nor made right use of the precious Ransom which was laid down for me That I have not yet sued out my pardon with such Penitent Tears as thou requirest nor laid hold of the benefits of it by a lively Faith but have chosen rather stupidly to continue in my Sins and to neglect the Blood of the Covenant as an unholy thing But I Repent O my God I Repent I hate and loath and abhor my self for it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXV Wo Wo unto me O God that thy Holy Spirit I have grieved thy Counsels I have rejected thy Motions I have quenched and have entertained the Lusts and Vanities nf this life with far more earnest and passionate affections than all thy Holy Inspirations But I Repent O my God I Repent I am utterly ashamed and confounded at it Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner XXVI Wo Wo unto me O God that having thus far opened my guilty heart before thee I have left so many Sins behind that I cannot number them some that I have really forgot some that I would forget if my Conscience would give me leave Sins known that I cannot conceal and sins secret such as I have taken so much care to hide from others that they are now become hidden from my self But whatsoever they are or wheresoever they are registred whether in my own Conscience or in any other Record that may be proved against me in the day of Judgment I call the whole Court of Heaven to witness That I do sadly Repent my self of them all That I do abhor my self for them all That I resolve stedfastly to renounce them all Lord be thou merciful to me a Sinner Amen Amen The Penitent Soul having made this or the like Confession prepares and stirs up it self to true Contrition WHat shall I say more unto thee O thou that art the Judge of the whole Earth or what shall I do more I have ransacked my breast and laid it open I have spread it before thee as Hezekiah the blaspheming Letter of his Enemy I do not desire that there should be so much as any fold or pleight or corner of it hidden from thee Or if this be not enough to transact this great business of my Soul between me and thee alone and that possibly I may flatter my self in the several acts of my intended Penitence I am ready to go farther and to make my self the more ashamed of sinning with all humility to confess these sins of mine to some of those servants of thine whom thou hast placed between mee and thee and to whom alone under thee thou hast so clearly given the power of Absolution O deal with me then as thou didst with thy Servant David who no sooner confessed his sins but thou forgavest him all his iniquities But are there not they who confess their sins and have the impudence to glory in them or at least pass them over without any act of real Contrition or any remorse at all But O my God if my heart deceive me not I am none of those for I can neither glory in my shame nor can I be satisfied with my self when I appear with dry eyes before thee After this Preparation these

am unprofitable yet I am thy Servant And here upon my bended Knees I humbly beg of thee that I may live and die so Lord hear my Prayers and let my cry come unto thee Lord pardon my Prayers and let not my coldness and wanderings and infinite unworthiness turn them into sin Lord hear my Prayers and let my cry come unto thee Amen Amen FESTIVAL HYMNS Celebrating the Mysteries and chief Festivals of the Year according to the manner of the Ancient Church fitted to the fancy and devotion of the younger and pious persons Apt for memory and to be joined to their other Prayers Hymns for Advent or the Weeks immediately before the Birth of our Blessed Saviour I. WHen Lord O when shall we Our Dear Salvation see Arise arise Our fainting eyes Have long'd all night and 't was a long one too Man never yet could say He saw more than one day One day of Eden's seven The guilry hour there blasted with the breath Of sin and death Hath ever since worn a nocturnal hue But thou hast given us hopes that we At length another day shall see Wherein each vile neglected place Gilt with the aspect of thy face Shall be like that the porch gate of heaven How long dear God how long See how the Nations throng All humane kind Knit and combin'd Into one body look for the their Head Pity our multitude Lord we are vile and rude Headless and senseless without thee Of al things but the want of thy blestface O haste apace And thy bright self to this our body wed That through the influx of thy power Each part that er'st confusion wore May put on order and appear Spruce as the childhood of the year When thou to it shalt so united be Amen The second Hymn forAdvent or Christ's coming to Jerusalem in triumph LOrd come away Why dost thou stay Thy rode is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectation wait The Consecration of thy beautious feet Ride on triumphantly behold we lay Our lusts and proud wills in thy way Hosanna welcome to our hearts Lord here Thou hast a Temple too and full as dear As that of Sion and as full of sin Nothing but Thieves and robbers dwell therein Enter and chase them forth and clense the floor Crucifie them that they may never more Profane that holy place Where thou hast chose to set thy face And then if our stiff tongues shall be Mute in the praises of thy Deity The stones out of the Temple wall Shall cry aloud and call Hosanna and thy glorious footsteps greet Amen Hymns for Christmas-day I. MYsterious truth that the self-same should be A Lamb a Shepherd and a Lion too Yet such was he Whom first the sheperds knew When they themselves became Sheep to the Shepherd-Lamb Shepherd of Men and Angels Lamb of God Lion of Judah by these titles keep The Wolf from thy indangered Sheep Bring all the world unto thy Fold Let Jews and Gentiles hither come In numbers great that can't be told And call thy Lambs that wander home Glory be to God on high All glories be to th' glorious Deity The second Hymn being a Dialogue between three Shepherds WHere is this Blessed Babe That hath made All the world so full of joy And expectation That glorious boy That Crowns each Nation With a triumphant wreath of blessedness Where should he be but in the throng And among His Angel-Ministers that sing And take wing Just as may Echo to his Voice And rejoyce When wing and tongue and all May so procure their happiness But he hath other Waiters now A poor Cow An Ox and Mule stand and behold And wonder That a stable should enfold Him that can thunder Chorus O what a gracious God have we How good How great even as our misery The third Hymn Of Christ's Birth in an Inn. THE blessed Virgin travail'd without pain And lodged in an Inn A glorious Star the sign But of a greater guest than ever came that way For there he lay That is the God of Night and Day And over all the pow'rs of Heaven doth reign It was the time of great Augustus Tax And then he comes That pays all sums Even the whole price of lost Humanity And sets us free From the ungodly Empirie Of Sin and Satan and of Death O make our hearts blest God thy lodging-place And in our brest Be pleas'd to rest For thou lov'st Temples better than an Inn And cause that sin May not profane the Deity within And fully o're the ornaments of Grace Amen A Hymn for Christmas-day A Wake my Soul and come away Put on thy best array Lest if thou longer stay Thou lost some minutes of so blest a day Go run and bid good morrow to the Sun Welcome his safe return to Capricorn And that great morn Wherein a God was born Whose Story none can tell But he whose every word 's a Miracle To day Almightiness grew weak The World it self was mute And could not speak That Jacob's Star which made the Sun To dazzle if he durst look on Now mantled o're in Bethlehem's night Borrow'd a Star to shew him light He that begirt each Zone To whom both Poles are one Who grasp'd the Zodiack in 's hand And made it move or stand Is now by Nature Man By stature but a Span Eternity is now grown short A King is born without a Court The Water thirsts the Fountain's dry And Life being born made apt to die Chorus Then let our praises emulate and vie With his Humility Since he 's exil'd from skies That we might rise From low estate of men Let 's sing him up agen Each man wind up's heart To bear a part In that Angelick Quire and show His glory high as he was low Let 's sing t'wards men good will and Charity Peace upon Earth Glory to God on high Hallelujah Hallelujah A Hymn upon St. John's day This day We sing The friend of our eternal King Who in his bosom lay And kept the Keys Of his profound and glorious Mysteries Which to the world dispensed by his hand Made it stand Fix'd in amazement to behold that light Which came From the throne of the Lamb To invite Our wretched eyes which nothing else could see But fire and sword hunger and miserie T' anticipate by their ravish't sight The beauty of Celestial delight Mysterious God regard me when I pray And when this load of clay Shall fall away O let thy gracious hand conduct me up Where on the Lamb 's rich viands I may sup And in this last supper I May with thy friend in thy sweet bosom lie For ever in Eternity Allelujah Upon the day of the holy Innocents MOurnful Judah shreeks and cries At the obsequies Of their Babes that cry More that they lose the paps than that they die He that came with life to all Brings the Babes a funeral To redeem from slaughter him Who did redeem us all from sin They