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A91785 A ladies legacie to her davghters. In three books. Composed of prayers and meditations, fitted for severall times, and upon severall occasions. As also several prayers for each day in the weeke. / By Madam Elizabeth Richardson, wife to the late Sir Thomas Richardson knight, Lord Chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench. Cramond, Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness, d. 1651. 1645 (1645) Wing R1382; Thomason E1165_4; ESTC R210104 81,683 176

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in need and be liberall of my earthly vanishing wealth to relieve thy childrens necessities for thy sake that are dear unto thee who wert free of thy very bloud and sparedst not thine owne life to ransome them and me from utter destruction and so the loynes and bellies of the poore shall praise thee and blesse me in their comforts and thou maiest vouchsafe to receive and accept at my poore hands that small mi●e of thankfulnesse and obedience towards thee my God from whose most gracious hand I have received many bountifull blessings and benefits throughout my whole life which let mee never forget gratefully to acknowledge while ● have breath and to praise thy holy Name 〈◊〉 ●ll thy mercies now and for evermore Amen d●●re God Amen Thursday 4. A Prayer to the Trinity for spirituall graces MOst gracious Lord God who didst create man of the dust of the earth and knowest we are by nature the children of wrath and wholy inclined to evill for thou best understandest how unapt and unable I sinfull creature am to doe any good before thee much lesse to call upon thy great and glorious Name as I ought to doe yet thou in mercy hast appointed prayer to bee the chiefe meanes betwixt thy great Majesty and the unworthinesse of us thy poore sinfull servants wherby to declare our wants griefes and desires unto thee who art our only hope and helpe Therefore deare Lord indue me thy unworthy servant with thy true spirit of grace and prayer to teach mee how to pray as I ought that thereby I may have power and strength to withstand all evill temptations that seek to draw me from thy service and by thy assistance that I may be able so to resist the Divell that hee may flye from me in the performance of all duties towards thee and give mee grace with faith and fervency humility and true devotion to cry and pray daily and constantly unto thee for relief and distresse in all my troubles and wants and faithfully to call and relye upon thee for all thy blessings and benefits both spirituall and temporall to be bestowed on my soule and body as thou shalt thinke fittest that so I may render all thanks and magnifie thy Name as I am right bound to doe for all thy mercies and favours vouchsafed unto me the most unworthiest of all thy servants from time to time And I humbly pray thee O Lord to give me the blessed gift of true faith without which it is impossible for me to please thee my God but thereby I may lay hold and rightly apply unto my owne soule all the infinite benefits purchased by the bitter death and passion and precious bloud-shedding of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that I may bring forth the fruits of righteousnesse and true holinesse before thee as becommeth that Saints and servants whereby I may glorifie thee and have assurance to my owne conscience that I am thine by constantly obeying thy will And also Lord grant me hearty and unfaigned repentance and true sorrow for all my sinnes originall and actuall in omitting the good I ought to do and committing the evill I should not doe against thee that so I may obtaine pardon of all my trespasses through the merits of Jesus Christ the righteous and let thy blessed Spirit produce in me amendment of my life all my time to come and assist mee with thy grace to shun and hate all approaches of evil and Lord shew me the way of life and turne my steps into the right paths that I may wallke in true obedience to all thy holy Commandements Now deare God of thy mercy give me the true feare of thy holy Name with assurance of thy gracious favour towards me and continuall joy and comfort in the Holy Ghost that I may strive alwaies to keep faith and a good conscience before thee towards all and indue me with grace will understanding and ability to do good workes to thy glory and bring comfort and profit to my soule in praying reading and hearing of thy most holy word at all times and most devout love towards thy Majesty with affection to all my brethren thy children servants and all the daies of my life to come by thy gracious assistance dear God Amen Friday 5. A Prayer for defence against our soules enemies in all temptations GOod Lord God who knowest the power and great malice of our spirituall enemies from whō none can defend or deliver us but only thou O Lord whose power and strength is over and above all and if thou please to receive me into thy gracious protection who can hurt or plucke mee out of thy mercifull hands Therefore I most humbly beseech thee O God to defend me both in soule and body in life and death from all the temptations of my owne wretched nature within me the wicked inticements of this vaine world round about me with the malicious snares and evill temptations of the Divell that are ever at my backe ready to intrap me and draw my soul from thee my God and all goodnesse and to lead mee captive into all wickednesse sinne and evill to seperate me from thee all which like roaring Lions seeke to devoure and destroy me everlastingly But I most humbly pray unto thee O Lord who understandest my frailties to preserve and deliver me from all their assaults that they may never be able to prevaile over me to draw mee to sin against thee my God in any thing neither suffer them to prevent hinder disturbe or carry away my minde or possesse my vaine heart with wandring thoughts in the performance of any holy duty or service towards thy Majesty nor give them power to bring those harmes dangers or mischiefes upon me either in soule or body which they desire to doe But let thy blessed Spirit so fully possesse me and ever direct and assist mee in all my waies to doe all things in a right faithfull and acceptable manner before thee that so at all times thy Spirit may witnesse unto my spirit that I am thy childe and servant and of thy infinite mercy good Lord vouchsafe thou alwaies to say unto my soule especially at my death that thou art my God my helpe and my salvation for ever and by thy grace make my heart and soule to answer and performe unto thee againe that I am and will bee thy true faithfull and obedient servant unto my last breath for ever Amen Saturday 6. A Prayer for the true spirit of prayer or a meditation With a short prayer to Jesus our Saviour DEare Lord Holy Ghost the helper of our infirmities the preserver and sanctifier of mankinde I most humbly begge of thee to indue mee thy unworthy sinfull servant with thy true Spirit of grace and prayer that I may rightly performe that duty towards thee of calling upon thy holy Name and all other thy service this day and at all times with true and right devotion that so my petitions being humbly
bury them in thy grave so as they may never be able to come in judgement against mee either to accuse or shame me in this world or to condemne and confound mee in the world to come for thy mercies sake sweet Jesus my Saviour But I most humbly beseech thee O Lord ●● sanctifie and cleanse my heart and soule from all sinne and evill by thy holy Spirit that I may be upright in thy sight to reforme all my waies before thee and let thy grace and holy Spirit lead mee into the paths of truth and righteousnesse all my life that after death thou maiest of thy infinite mercy bring me to that everlasting inheritance of happinesse which thou hast so dearly purchased for us with thine owne bloud in whom is all my trust who art my only Saviour Mediator and Advocate for ever O God the Holy Ghost our comforter preserve and sanctifie thou my heart and soule that I may unfeignedly love thee truly feare thy holy Name and faithfully serve please and obey thee as I ought to doe now and all the daies of my life And vouchsafe O blessed Spirit to instruct and inlighten my soule and understanding with the true knowledge devout love and stedfast beliefe of thy sacred truth and keepe me therein for ever O Holy Ghost vouchsafe to make thy seat and dwelling in my soule and let thy holy Spirit take full possession of my heart and abide alwaies with mee to fill me with all saving graces whereby I may bee preserved from falling into any sinne or evill and bee inabled to doe all good that may be best pleasing unto thee and to performe all duty and service by thy assistance in an acceptable manner unto my gracious and Almighty God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one ever glorious Trinity to whom be rendred all praise honour power and thanks as is right due for ever and ever Amen 20. An evening Prayer to God the Holy Ghost for Wednesday O God the Holy Ghost blessed Spirit by whom we are sanctified and sealed unto the day of redemption and by whose holy operation we are joyned unto our blessed Lord and head Christ Jesus from whom let nothing in heaven or earth ever separate me And mercifull Lord I humbly pray thee cast me not in thy displeasure out of thy care and favour for my sinnes and withdraw not thy grace and holy Spirit from me neither forsake me nor leave me to my selfe who am wholly subject to all wickednesse But I most humbly beseech thee to creat in me a new a clean an upright a faithfull and perfect heart in thy sight to walke in all true holinesse before thee as thou requirest all my daies to come and good Lord daily renue thy grace and a right holy spirit within mee to sanctifie and cleanse my soule from sinne to preserve mee from falling into evill and to guide me into the waies of truth and righteousnesse Now dear Lord marke me thy poore servant for thine owne and prevent mee with thy grace that I never grieve despight or neglect thee my God in any thing neither to resist or quench the good motions of thy holy Spirit in my heart at any time but I most humbly pray and desire to bee led and directed in all things by thee who best knowest my frailties and infirmities that I can of my selfe neither will nor performe any good at all much lesse call upon thy holy Name as I ought all my best works and endeavours being full of imperfection and corruption but I humbly beseech thee good Lord to accept in me the will for thee deed the affection for the action and vouchsafe to heale and helpe my great disability to any goodnesse and teach and assist me rightly faithfully and constantly to pray unto thee my God now and at all times according to thy holy will and daily to call upon thy great Name in truth and sincerity And be pleased O Lord Holy Ghost to prepare assist and lift up my heart and soule towards thee and bend downe thine eare of mercy to heare me and vouchsafe thou blessed Lord to make request by thy grace in mee with such inward and faithfull devotion humility sighs and groans as cannot be expressed that so my supplications may bee acceptable to God my heavenly Father through the merits and sufferings of my dear Saviour Jesus and the holy working of thee O God the Holy Ghost my comforter who art the sanctifier and preserver both of my soule and body I humbly pray thee to inflame my heart and spirit with fervent zeale and unfeigned devotion to the true and constant performance of all duties and services that I owe unto thee my God And vouchsafe Lord by thy holy Spirit to infuse into my soule everlasting and devout love towards thy Majesty with Christian charity towards all my brethren thy children and servants And Lord put thou a right and stedfast hope into my heart that my trust in thee may never faile till I have attained to the eternall felicity which God the Father hath prepared and our blessed Saviour hath purchased and thou blessed Spirit by thy holy assistance wilt bring us unto to glorifie the Name of my God in heaven hereafter for ever Amen 21. The conclusion for Wednesday at night to the blessed Trinity MErcifull God heavenly Father blessed Son and Holy Ghost who hast appointed the night for all mortall creatures to take rest without which our weake natures cannot subsist I am now in health by thy gracious providence by thy favour and laid downe in my bed which representeth the grave and by thy mercie hope also to take quiet rest and sleepe that is the image of death from which I know not whether ever I shall awake againe to this worlds light for my life dependeth on thy good pleasure therefore I most humbly pray thee of thy infinite mercy O God to forgive all my sins past that I have committed against thee this present day or heretofore through the merits and sufferings of my Redeemer Jesus and vouchsafe heavenly Father to bee reconciled unto mee thy most guilty sinfull servant in and through thy dear and innocent Son who is my righteous Saviour And grant while I live here that in Christ I may hereafter live to thee and thy faithfull service and when I sleepe Lord let me safely rest by thy blessed preservation and by the assistance of thy holy Spirit that I may continue in thy true faith feare and favour with a good conscience unto my last breath that so if thou call me away this night or any other time in my sleep thou wilt in Christ pardon my sinnes and after death receive my soule to thy grace and mercy to remaine with thee for ever and may praise thee my God everlastingly Amen Amen 22. A Prayer for Thursday morning at first awaking to God the Father MY God I heartily praise thee for my present health rest and