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A63711 A collection of offices or forms of prayer in cases ordinary and extraordinary. Taken out of the Scriptures and the ancient liturgies of several churches, especially the Greek. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, according to the Kings translations; with arguments to the same.; Collection of offices or forms of prayer publick and private Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. 1657 (1657) Wing T300; ESTC R203746 242,791 596

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unto the profession of thy faith and we humbly beseech thee to grant unto him thy grace to accompany him all the daies of his life that he may hold fast the profession of his faith making his calling and election sure that his body being washed in pure water and he tasting of the heavenly gift being made partaker of the holy Ghost and sprinkled in his heart from an evil Conscience he may follow thee in the regeneration and after the end of this life he may for ever be with them who have washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lamb. Grant this O God our Father thorough Jesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer II. O most holy most gracious Saviour Jesus who lovest thy Church and hast given thy self for it that thou mayest sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water in the word do thou with thy holy Spirit enlighten and with thy word instruct the understanding of this child that he may live by faith and may perceive the secrets of thy kingdom and know thy will and obey thy laws and promote thy glory III. O God be thou his Father for ever Christ his elder Brother and his Lord the Church his Mother let the body of Christ be his food the bloud of Christ his drink and the Spirit the earnest of his inheritance Let faith be his learning Religion his imployment his whole life be spiritual heaven the object of his hopes and the end of his labours let him be thy servant in the kingdome of grace and thy Son in the kingdome of glory thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the priest adde this blessing OUr Blessed Lord God the Father of men and Angels who hath sent forth his An-Angels ministers appointing them to minister to the good of them who shall be heirs of salvation he of his mercy and goodness send his Holy Angel to be the Guardian of this child and keep him from the danger and violence of fire and water of falls and sad accidents from evil tongues and evil eyes from witchcraft and all impressions of the spirits of darkness from Convulsions and Rickets from madness and stupidity from folly and evil principles from bad examples and from evil teachers from crookedness and deformity from the mutilation of a member or the loss of sense from being useless and unprofitable from being impious harsh natur'd and unreasonable and make him a wise useful and a holy person belov'd of men and belov'd of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Amen YOU the Godfathers and Godmother of the child as you have done this charity to the infant to bring him to Holy Baptisme so you must be sure to continue your care over him till he be instructed in his duty taught what vow he hath made by you and how he shall perform it To this purpose you shall take care that he may learn the Lords prayer the Apostles Creed and the Commandements of our Lord that he may know how to pray what to beleeve and what to practise and when he is in all these things competently instructed neglect not any opportunity of bringing him to the Bishop that he by imposition of hands and invocation of the holy Spirit of God may procure blessing and spiritual strength to this child Which duty when you have done you are discharged of this trust and from the mercies of God may humbly hope for the reward of your charity So ends the office of Baptisme THE DEVOTIONS and PROPER OFFICES for WOMEN An office for safe Childbirth I. O Almighty Father of Men and Angels in whose hands are the keyes of life and death of the womb and of the grave look down at this time in great mercy and gentlest compassion upon thy servant Thou hast O God upon the weakest of mankind fixed the sharpest decree of painful childbirth but so thou lovest to magnifie thy mercies and thy power that thy strength may be seen in our weakness so let it be O God unto thy handmaid let thy loving kindness be her confidence and her rest her hope and her security now and in the hour of her travail II. LORD let thy holy Angels be present with thy servant in their holy and charitable ministeries about her person it is a great thing that we require but we beg it of the great King of Heaven and Earth the Lord of Angels who hath promised that his Angels shall stand in circuit round about them that fear the Lord Look O Lord upon her fear it is humble but it is trembling look upon her love and make it what it is not yet doe thou sanctifie her fear of thee and change it into obedience and carefulness of duty increase her love of thee and make it to be pure and perfect operative and buisie zealous and obedient make it to grow up to the perfections of a Christian and pass unto the beauties of holyness so shall thy servant feel thy daily mercies and no evil shall come neer to hurt her III. GRacious Father give thy servant leave to rely upon thy glorious promises thou hast commanded us to call upon thee in our trouble and hast promised to deliver us O look upon thy handmaid leave her not nor forsake her for trouble is hard at hand and there is none that can help or deliver but onely thou O God In thee O Lord doe we trust let thy servants never be confounded Be pleased O Lord to give thy servant patience and dereliction of her own desires perfect resignation of her own will and a conformity to thine that she may with joy receive the blessing which thou wilt choose for her and which we humbly beg of thee even that she may have a holy a healthful a joyful and a safe deliverance of her burden Lord keep her from all sad accidents and evil contingencies from violent pains and passions from all undecency of Comportment and unquietness of Spirit from impatience and despair from doing any thing that is criminal or feeling any thing that is intolerable IV. O Lord my God give thy servants leave to pray to thee in behalf of this thy handmaid that thou wilt not cut her off in the middest of her daies nor forsake her when her strength faileth but spare her O God not for any purposes of vanity or the satisfaction of any impotent or secular desires but that she may live to serve thee to redeem her time mispent in folly to get victory over temptations and perfect dominion over her passions to grow great in religion and of an excellent charity and devotion O spare her a little that she may recover her strength before she goes hence and be no more seen so shall thy servant rejoice in thy mercies and speak of thy loving kindness in the Church of thy redeemed ones and will spend her daies in holiness and zealous pursuances of religion Remove her sinnes far from her as the East is from the
thy power and among the diversities of opinions and judgments in this world from all errors and false doctrines and led into all truth by the conduct of thy holy spirit may for ever obey thy heavenly calling that we may not be onely hearers of the word of life but doers also of good workes keeping faith and a good conscience living an unblameable life usefully and charitably religiously and prudently in all godlinesse and honesty before thee our God and before all the world that at the end of our mortal life we may enter into the light and life of God to sing praises and eternall hymnes to the glory of thy name in eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In whose name let us pray in the words which himselfe commanded saying 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 daily 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 For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen A prayer of Thanksgiving after Sermon if it be convenient by reason of the time or other circumstances I. ALmighty God our glory and our hope our Lord and Master the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort we humbly present to thee the sacrifice of a thankfull spirit in a joyfull acknowledgment of those infinite favours by which thou hast supported our state enriched our spirits comforted our sorrowes releiv'd our necessities blessed and defended our persons instructed our ignorances and promoted our eternall interest * We praise thy name for that portion of thy holy word of which thou hast made us partakers this day Grant that it may bring forth fruit unto thee and unto holinesse in our whole life to the glory of thy holy name the edification of our Brethren and the eternall comfort of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus II. Have mercy upon all that desire and upon all that need our praiers Ease the paines of the sick support the spirit of the disconsolate heare the cries of Orphans and Widdowes in their calamity and restore all that are oppressed to their rights and sanctify to them all their wrongs pity the folly and pity the calamities of poor mankind in mercy remembring them that are appointed to die comfort and support their spirits perfect and accept their repentance and receive the soules returning unto thee whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood III. Lord pity and pardon direct and blesse sanctify and save us all Give repentance to all that live in sinne and perseverance to all thy sons and servants for his sake who is thy beloved and the foundation of all our hopes Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory praise and adoration love and obedience now and for evermore Amen If this whole office be said at Morning or Evening Prayer respectively the Collect before sermon here put downe may be used instead of the Usual prayer before sermon ending with the Lords prayer and the Sermon to begin immediately before the blessing The Sermon being ended the prayer of thankes-giving may be said and the congregation dismissed with the blessing set downe at the end of Evening Prayer A prayer when a sick person desires to be publikely prayed for I. O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of life and health and pardon hear the prayers of thy servants in behalfe of our Brother or Sister the miserable for the afflicted of sinners for him or her whom thou hast smitten Lord lay no more upon him then thou shalt enable him to beare but give him patience and doe thou thy selfe open a door for his escape even by a holy and a reformed life and a speedy recovery or else by a blessed death as thou in thy infinite loving kindnesse shalt choose for thy glory and his eternall interest II. Lord give unto thy servant a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon of all his sins Remember not the errors of his youth the weaknesse of his spirit the surprises of his life and the crimes of his choice but joyne his present sufferings to the passion his prayers to the intercession and his repentance to the merits of our dearest Saviour Jesus that he may be pardoned and pitied comforted and supported sanctified and saved in the day of recompenses III. Blessed Jesus who hast overcome all the powers of sinne Hell and the grave take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death give him a perfect resignation of his will and conformity to thine restraine the power of the enemy that he may not prevaile against the soule which thou hast redeemed If it be thy will give him a speedy restitution of his health and a holy use of the affliction or if thou hast otherwise decreed preserve him in thy fear and favour and receive his soule to mercy to pardon and eternal life through thy mercies and for thy compassion sake O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen I. For seasonable weather in time of drowth immoderate raine or scarcity or death of Cattel c. O Lord God whose providence is universal and sufferest nothing to happen in vaine have mercy upon thy servants who have deserved thy wrath and to suffer thy indignation in every expression by which thou art pleas'd to signifie it Thou O God coverest the Heaven with clouds and preparest raine for the earth thou makest the grasse to growe upon the mountains and herbe for the use of men Thou givest fodder unto the cattel and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Heare us O God who are thy servants and the sheep of thy pasture we have indeed wandered and gone astray but doe thou be mercifull unto us and bring us home to thee Take away thine anger from us Blesse the labours of the husbandman and the fruits of the feild refresh the weary earth with seasonable showers or seasonable weather for thou hast the key of raine and the key of providence thou didst bind up the heavens with ribs of iron and thou didst open againe the sluces of water at the prayer of thy servant Elijah and thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies have no limit II. Open thy hand O God and fill us with thy loving kindnesse that the Mower may fill his hand and he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome that our garners may be full with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in or going out that our hearts may be replenish'd with food and gladnesse that there be no complaining in our streets Give us sufficient for this life