haue so butcherly mindes as to deale so outragiously with him Now I bethink my selfe I know him it is Christ. Art thou he that excellest all the children of men in beauty in whose lippes grace was shed most plentifully yea euen with Gods own hand where theÌ„ is that beauty of thine Where is that grace of thy lippes I finde it not I see it not fleshly eyes conceiue not so great a mistery Open thou the eyes of my minde Bring thy diuine light nearer vnto me and giue me power to look more wistly vpon thee I seé it is Iesus the sonne of God the vnspotted lambe without sinne Taste The mouth tasteth the meats Iob. 34. without fault without offence which tooke my wickednesse vpon him to the intent that I being set freé from sinne might be brought again into Gods fauour rise again from my fall returne home agayn from banishment and attayn to the end for which I was created That which I deserued he suffered and that which I could neuer haue attayned vnto he geueth O my Redeémer deliuerer and sauiour draw me to theé that being alwayes mindful of thy death trusting alwayes in thy goodnes and being alwayes thankfull for thine vnspekable benefites I may be made partaker of so great reward and not be separated from thy body through mine own vnthankfulnes so as thou shouldest haue beén born in vayn as in respect of me in vayne haue suffered so many torments yea and euen most bitter death Smelling Geue a swete smell as incense c. Eccle. 39. of thine own accord for my sake AmeÌ„ * Another MY minde beholdeth thy body crucified for my soul O that thou wouldest also crucifie me with thee so as I might liue or rather not I but thou my Lord Christ in me Who will geue me to die with thee that I might rise againe with thee to life euerlasting Thou dyedst for me that I might liue through thee Thy flesh is crucified O Christ crucifie thou the power of sin that raigneth in me that being stripped out of the old Adam I may be transformed into the second Adam to lead a new life by shaking down and dispatching away of all wickednes vnbeleefe and tiranny of Sathan Let thy yoke become sweete and thy burthen lightsom to me through Touching Touch no vncleane thing 2. Cor. 6. thy crosse that I following thee willingly and cherefully may come to the same place where thou art that is to wit to thy most blessed and immortall father from whom nothing may euer separate vs hereafter Amen Another O Most high and singular obedieÌ„ce wherthrough thou didst submitte thy selfe to innumerable torments yea and euen to most bitter and reprochfull death because it lyked thy father to haue it so O noontide of feruent loue and suÌ„shine neuer drawing towards euentide shew vs where thou feedest in the midst of the day and where thou shroudest thy sheep from cold O would to god we might be transformed into that crosse of thine that thou mightest dwell in our harts by fayth rooted and grounded in charitie so Esay 2. 19. Math. 24. Mark. 13. Luke 17 The sun shall be darkned the moone shal losâ— hir light the starres shall fal from heauen as we might with all thy holy ones comprehend the length breadth heigth depth of thy cros which exceed all the strength and wisdome of the world Amen Another I Seé a wonderfull kinde of loue Thy highnes boweth down the head to that intent we should hope to be heard and be heard in deéde Thou offerest the kisse of peace and attonement yea and that of thine own accord being the party greéued and wronged vnto vs that haue done the wrong Two men shall be in the field the one receaued the other shall be refused O father and Lord of oures thou seést the hardnes of our hart and much rather y dulnes of it It is not inough for vs to be allured and called so gently so sweétly and so louingly but thou must be fayn euen to draw vs pull vs hale vs drag vs Create a new and obedient hart in vs for this olde one that we haue already is stony it feéleth no gentlenes it is not moued with any hope of the great good thinges that are promysed Amen Another O Lord Iesu Christ the euerlasting sweétnesse and triumph of them that loue theé exceéding all ioy and all longing thou sauer and louer of repentant sinners which auowest that thy delight is to be among the children of Two women â—hall be grinding at the mill the one shall be receaued the other shall be refused men and therfore in the end of times becamest man for mennes sakes remember all the foretast and greéfe of sorrow which thou didst indure euen from the instant of thy conception in the humain nature forth on but most of all when the time of thy most healthfull passion was at hand according to the eternall ordinance which God had purposd in his mind before al worlds Remember the greéfe and bitternesse which thou feltst in thy hart euen by thine own record when thou saydst my soule is heauy euen vnto the death And at such time as thou gauest thy body and bloud to thy disciples at thy last supper didst wash their feéte and comforting them sweétly toldst them of thy passion that was at hand Remember the sorrow anguish and greéfe which thou didst suffer throughout thy whole tender body before thy The Sea shall swell higher theÌ„ any 〈◊〉 shall fal agayne as low fishes monsters of the Sea shal appere with roaring voyce suffering vpon the crosse at such time as after thrice praying thou diddest sweat water like to bloud wast betrayed by one of thine own disciples apprehended by thine own chosen people accused by false witnesses condemned wrongfully by threé iudges in thy chosen citie at the time of the passouer in the florishing youth of thy body and being vtterly giltlesse wast deliuered to the Gentils bespitted stript out of thy own garment clothed with another bodies apparrail buffeted blinfolded bobbed with fistes tied to a poste whipped and crowned with thornes O most sweéte Iesu I beseéch theé make me mindfull of these thy paynes and sufferings which thou abodest for my sâ—nnes that I might be discharged and set freé from them and mine attonement be made with thy father through thy chastisement Make me to abhorre The sea and all â—â—uddes shall burne trees and herbes shal drop blud Cities and all buildings shall be ouerturned my so detestable cursednesse which could not be put away but by thy so greéuous punishments Make me to be hartely sory for my sinfulnesse and to eschue my offences which draw theé to the suffering of so great tormentes Make me mindfull of thy great loue to me and to all mankind and let the infinitenes thereof kindle an vnfayned loue in me towards theé and my neighbor Let this thy vnmeasurable goodnes breéde in me a willing minde and desire
Ioseph thy younger bretheren with the kisse of comfort pour into our harts thy holy spirite pluck vs vp from the earth earthly things open our eyes and lift them vp vnto theé open thy mouth and call vs vnto theé open our eares that we may heare theé so that whatsoeuer we doe speak or thinke it may be directed vnto theé alone our Redeémer Mediator Aduocate Amen Death wins the field All armes must yeald ¶ The Herauld Herald in thy shield beare grasse in green field Sergeant at Armes Sergeant see thou stay Al glory must away ⧠A Prayer at our going to a Sermon MAny and sundry wayes O lord doest thou vtter and shew forth thy light vnto vs in this great darcknes of oures But no way more effectually and plenteously then by thine Apostles and by them that haue succeéded in their charge Great and plentyfull is the haruest as thou thy selfe hast told vs but few are the haruestfolkes For the most part they be all ignorant and ouercast with the cloud of darcknes And as for true preachers that teach as they ought to doe the number of them is very small ¶ The TruÌ„petor Trumpet geue sound all must to the ground ¶ The Pursiuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without baggage All must needes die we need not tell Our message hath been sounded well And vnto this man also graunt the treasure of thy wisedome that he may poure it out vpon vs to our saluation And in vs open thou the windowes and dores of our harts that we may so receiue into vs the wholesome light of thy most holy word as that the good seéde which shall fall into vs be neither choked with bryars thornes and brambles nor burnt vp with drought nor deuâ—ured by the birds of the ayre but battle as in good ground bring forth plentifull fruit to the prayse honor of thy name Amen A Prayer for knowledge and vnderstanding HEare my prayers O Lord Iesu the euerlasting wisedome of the We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all soldiâ—rs to deathes band ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„â—t ¶ The Fife Fife seé thou play to leade them the way Father which geuest vnto childhoode the commoditie of aptnes to learne I pray theé adde the furtherance of thy grace to the forwardnes of nature that I may the sooner and more perfectly learn knowledge and the liberall sciences Howbeit in such wise as they may serue to thy glory so as my minde being furthered by the help of them may attayn to the fuller knowing of theé which is the highest poynt of mans felicitie And also that according to the example of thy most holy childhoode I may dayly prosper more and more in age wisdome and fauor both before God and man to the glory of thy name which liuest and raignest c. Amen A Prayer to be sayd before receuing of the Communion O Father of mercy and God of al consolation seéing all creatures ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy long vyage Death only maketh Captaines quail â–ª And harty souldiers for to fayle do acknowledge and confesse theé to be their gouernour and Lord it becometh vs the workmanship of thine own hands to reuerence and magnifie thy godly maiestie First for that thou hast created vs to thine own Image and similitude but cheéfly because thou hast deliuered vs from that euerlasting death damnation into the which Sathan drew mankind by the meanes of sinne from the bondage wherof neither man nor angell was able to make vs freé But thou O Lord rich in mercy and infinite in goodnes hast prouyded our redemptioÌ„ to stand in thine only and wel beloued sonne whom of very loue thou didst geue to be made man like vnto vs in all things sinne excepted that in his body he might receaue the punishment of our transgression by his death to make satisfaction to thy iustice and by Vse gayne of Gold and liue in cost So as by death life be not lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can me perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue no pitie his resurrection to destroy him that was author of death and so to bring agayn life to the world from which the whole ofspring of Adam was most iustly exiled O Lord we acknowledge that no creature was able to comprehend the length and breadth the deépenes and height of that thy most excellent loue which moued theé to shew mercy where none was deserued to promise geue life where death had gotten victory to receaue vs into thy grace when we could doe nothing but rebell against thy maiesty O Lord the blind dulnes of our corrupt nature will not suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites Yet neuerthelesse at the commaundement of Iesus Christ our Lord we present our selues to this his table which he hath left to be vsed in remembrance of his death vntil his comming ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page spent is thine age Pressmen goe play printing must stay We Printers wrote with wisdomes peâ— She liues for â—ye we die as men again to declare and witnes before the world that by him alone we haue receaued liberty and life that by him alone thou doest acknowledge vs to be thy children and heires that by him alone we haue entraÌ„ce to the throne of thy grace that by him alone we are possessed in our spiritual kingdome to eate and drinke at his table with whoÌ„ we haue our conuersation presently in heauen and by whom our bodies shall be raysed vp agayn from the dust and shall be placed with him in that endles ioy which thou O Father of mercy hast prepared for thine elect before the foundation of the world was layd And these most inestimable benefits we acknowledge and confesse to haue receaued of thy freé mercy and grace by thine onely beloued sonne Iesus christ For the which therfore we thy congregation moued by thy holy spirite Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siiluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By rigâ—t I must be bold with thee that liuest so old render to theé all thanks prayse and glory for euer and euer Amen Another WHat tongue or what hart can worthely geue theé thankes O Lord Iesu for thine vnspekable loue towards vs Who to the intent to redeéme mankind forlorn diddest vouchsafe to become man and to take all the miseries of our state vpon theé in so much that in the end thou being a pure and vnspotted lamb wast contented to be made a sacrifice for vs vpon the altar of the cros and to abide the punishment due for our sins that thou mightest reconcile vs to thy Father yea and both in life and death thou didst spend geue and bestow thy selfe wholy vpon vs and
for vs. ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I haue store No one deuise no arte no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foil Wherfore I beseéch theé let thy spirite cleanse my hart that I may not come vnworthely to that heaueÌ„ly feast and to the table whereat euen the very Angels doe tremble But that by thy sheading of thy selfe into my bowels I may grow manly in theé and become the lustyer by spirituall increasements so as I may continue to the end in the blessed fellowship of thy misticall body whom it is thy will to haue all one with theé in such wise as thou art all one with the Father by the knitting of the holy Ghost To whom be prayse thanks for euermore Amen In song â–ª in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in clay ¶ 〈◊〉 Musicion Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away Another I yelde thee harty thanks O Lord Iesu Christ for thine vnutterable loue in vouchsafing to redeeme man kind by thine own death and I beseech thee suffer not thy most holy bloud to haue been shed in vaine for me that I growing vp in thee by coÌ„tynual increase of heauenly strength may beâ—ome a fit member of thy misticall body which is the church and neuer swarue from that most holy couenant which thou madest with thy chosen discyples in thy last supper by distributing the bread vnto them by reaching them the cup and by theÌ„ with all those that are graffed into thy company by faith in Baptisme Amen * Another ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shep And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fonde I breakâ— the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto thee MY Lord Iesu Christ who am I that thou shouldest vouchsafe to come vnder my roofe Can a sinfull man deserue such grace Certes Lord I am not worthy Am I better then all my Fathers were Thou wouldest not shew thy selfe to Moyses one twinckling of an eye and how hapneth that thou humblest thy selfe so much as to come down to a man that is a publican and sinner And thou vouchsafest not only to eate with him but also to geue thy self to be eaten of him Hayl O bred of life which camest down from heauen which giuest life to as many as receiue thee worthely Surely who so receiueth thee worthely although his soule be seuered from his body by temporall death yet shall he not dye for euer because that that separatioÌ„ is not a deth but a passing from death to life by reason wherof he that eateth thee worthely beginneth to liue with thee for euer when Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally ¶ The â—eggar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest he dyeth in this world Thou art the bread of the angels the very sight of thee refresheth and gloryfieth the Angels Thou art foode for the soule and not for the body Thou nourishest the minde and not the maw He that eateth thee is turned into thee that by partaking of thee he may become God and yet art thou not changed into his substance as other bodily meates be But woe be to them that receaue thee vnworthely O most holy food by the eating whereof aright a man becommeth God is set free from all euil is filled with all goodnes and is vndoubtedly made immortall O sacred pittance of our pilgrimage wherby we passe out of this naughty world to the company of heauen Goe to therfore thou beleeuing soule be mery and make good cheare for thou shalt not dye Feede vpon these daintyes and stick not Take thy fill of this feaste ¶ Of Youth Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally wherin the body of thy Sauyour is set before thee to feede on Man fell from God by eating the foode of the forbidden tree But by this foode he is releeued agayn to endles glory * A Thankesgeuing after the receauing of the holy Communyon MOst mercyfull Father we render vnto thee al praise thanks honor and glory for that it hath plesed theé of thy great mercies to graunt vs miserable sinners so excellent a gifte and treasure as to receaue vs into the fellowship and company of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ our Lord whom thou hast delyuered to death for vs and hast geuen him vnto vs as a necessary food and nourishment vnto euerlasting life And now we beseéch theé also O We that were of highest degree Lye dead here now as ye do see ¶ The Empresse Empresse thogh thou be Thou must away with me ¶ The Queene Queene also thou doost see As I am so shalt thou be heauenly father to graunt vs this request that thou neuer suffer vs to become so vnkind as to forget so worthy benefites but rather imprint and fasteÌ„ them sure in our hartes that we may grow and increase dayly more more in true fayth which continually is exercised in all manner of good workes so much the rather O Lord confirme vs in these perilous dayes and rages of SathaÌ„ that we may constantly staÌ„d and continue in the confession of the same to the aduauncement of thy glory which art God ouer all things blessed for euer So be it A prayer for Gods grace It is sorrowful to be sayd how great a wound our nature which is frayle and weak of it selfe hath receiued by sinne and how much ability strength ¶ The princes â–ª Princes of hye estate coÌ„teÌ„t you I am your mate ¶ The Duchesse Duches princes Death dayly conuinces We that sate in the highest seate Are layd here now for wormes meate it hath forgone It is not able to lift vp it selfe nor to stand nor to go without thy help and ayd Whatsoeuer y mind of man thinketh or deuiseth it is vtterly vneffectuall and to no purpose if it be not grounded vpon thy fauor Nothing is strong except it be vphild by thy goodnesse all things without that do fall by and by to the ground That is it which cleanseth and scoureth vs from our filthines that is it y strengtheneth our weaknes that is it that maketh vs cunning workmen in al vertues Graunt we besech theé O Lord that this grace of thine may alwayes accompany vs then the which ther can no greater gyft be deuised neither is there any thing which thou bestowest more readily and willingly therfore also more often Let the same so worke in vs as we acknowledging how much neéd we haue thereof may both applye Beauty honour and riches auayle no whit For death when he commeth spoyleth it ¶ The Countesse Countesse or what thou art I strike thee with my dart ¶ The Vicountesse Vicountes I do not spare For of them I
nor good workes at all to alleadge before thee But as for euill workes I haue alas to many of them Neuertheles my hope is that I shal be reckned in the number of the righteous by meanes of thy righteteousnes For my sake wast thou borne for my sake didst thou thirst for my sake wast thou huÌ„gry for my sake diddest thou teach for my sake diddest thou Vse gayn of gold and liue in cost So as by death life be not lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can â—e perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue no pitie pray for my sake didst thou fast for my sake didst thou perfourme the great number of good works in this life for my sake didst thou suffer so many bitter panges for my sake didst thou geue ouer thy precious life to the death Let the things profite me which thou hast geueÌ„ me of thine own free will thou I say which hast geuen thy self wholy for me Let thy bloud wash away the spots of my sinnes Let thy righteousnes hide mine vnrighteousnes Let thy deseruings commend me to the soueraign Iudge As my greef and disease increase so increase thou thy grace Let not my faith wauer Let not my hope staggar Let not my charity waxe colde Let not my humain infirmitie be cast down with the dread of death But euen when death shall haue cloased ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page spent is thine age Pressmen goe play printing must stay We Printers wrote with wisdomes pâ—n She liues for aye we die as men the eyes of my body let the eyes of my minde looke still vpon thee with out wauering aside And when it shal haue bereft me of the vse of my tung let my hart cry stedfastly still vnto thee Into thy hands I commit my spirite O Lord to whom be honor prayse world without end Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd in the Plague time IT is no maruail O most righteous Father that the elementes of this world are fearce against vs sometime with earthquakes sometime with tempestes and lightnings sometime with ouerflowing of seas and Riuers sometime with pestilent concourses of the heauenly lights and sometime with corruption of the infected ayre for we doe commonly abuse thy gifts Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By right I must be bold with theé that liuest so old We acknowledge that euen in this case also the creatures serue and obay their Creator whose coÌ„maundements we neglect so oftentimes Also we acknowledge thy fatherly nurturing of vs wherby thou callest vs back from the trust of this world with gentle correction and drawest vs to the desire of the euerlasting life ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I haue store No one deuise no arâ— no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foil A Prayer for health both of body and minde DOubtles the only true health is to be found in that part which is cheéfest in vs and lykest vnto theé O Lord that is to say to haue the soul allyed In song in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in â—la◠¶ The Musâ—â—iâ—n Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away and knit vnto theé as neare as is possible by louing and worshipping of theé which art our only welfare But forasmuch as the same is annexed to the body it feéleth the affections therof and is moued by them As for salues and medicines they doe good when thou listest but they be superfluous and to no purpose if thou list not to worke by them Thou I say which art the founder of them and of al naturall things Thine only will is the cause of life and death and of health and sicknes which thou layest vpon vs most commonly to chastise and bridle this body of oures which rusheth forth into vnruly losenes in all things like an vnweldy vnbrideled beast ouerwhelming vs with forgetfulnes of the true health when it groweth to strong and ouerlusty But thou O Father graunt vs so ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shepâ— And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fonde I breake the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me to be hole in body as our minds may also be hole and sound Or if it be not for our benefite to haue health of body at least wise geue vs a healthy minde and lend vs power strength to beare our sicknes that the greéfe and weakenes of the body appaire not the soule Amen A Prayer in affliction or aduersitie MOst mercifull Redeémer which art alwayes full of compassion thou art alwayes our preseruer whether thou send vs aduersitie or prosperitie For great is thy mercy compassion in that thou healest the inward man by outward afflictions as it were by bitter medicines and preparest vs to euerlasting ioyes by temporal troubles And for as much as thou thy selfe hast traced vs out this true way to felicitie Time to liue time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Begâ—ar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest by thine own footesteps graunt that I may paciently and obediently drinke this cup which thou reachest vnto me Greéuous in deéde are these thinges vnto my nature but yet hast thou suffered greéuouser things for me and I haue deserued far greéuouser things for I haue deserued hel fire Notwithstanding thou knowest the frailety of mans state and therfore like the mercifull Samaritane thou pourest wine into our wounds which maketh our vices to smart but yet thou alayest it with the oyle of thy comfort to the end we should indure the things which also would be intollerable If thou thinke meéte to increase our greéfes increase thou also the gift of pacience graunt that these afflictions may turne me to the amendement of my misdeédes Or if thy Fatherly louing kindnes thinke ¶ Youth Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be Time to liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally this thy chastising of me to be sufficient let this storme passe into calme wether that I may thanke theé in both respects as well for that thou hast amended thine vnprofitable seruant by gentlenes as also for that thou hast put away the bitternes of the affliction by the sweétnes of thy comfort hauing in the one case respect of necessity and in the other being mindfull of our infirmities To theé therfore be prayse and thanks for euer Amen ⧠A Prayer vpon the minding of death WHat doe we dayly all our life long but heape sinne vpon sinne and lode wickednes vpon wickednes so as euery day becomes worse then other by increasing the number of our offences and the wrath that is
no persequutions may euermore geue thanks vnto theé in thy holy church through Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou didst in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise help vs and deliuer vs for thy honor ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shepe And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fond I aÌ„reake the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning c. FroÌ„ our enemies defend vs O Christ. Graciously look vpon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our harts Mercifully forgeue the sinnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our Prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy on vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ. Graciously heare vs O Christ graciously heare vs O Lord Christ. O Lord let thy mercy be shewed vpon vs. As we doe put our trust in thee Let vs pray Time to liue time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Beggar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest WE humbly beseéch theé O father mercifully to looke vpon one infirmities for the glory of thy names sake turne from vs all those euils that we most righteouslye haue deserued And graunt that in all our troubles we may put our whol trust and confidence in thy mercy and euermore serue theé in holynes and purenes of liuing to thy honor and glory through our only mediator and aduocate Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ⧠A Prayer for the Queenes Maiestie O Lord our heauenly father high and mighty king of kings Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which doest from thy throane behold al the dwellers vpon the earth most hartely we beseech theé with thy fauour to 〈…〉 Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be No state no might yâ—ung nor old To resist death dare be hold behold our most graciâ—us us souerain Lady Queéne Elizabeth and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy Spirit that she may alway incline to thy will and walke in thy way Indue her plentifully with heauenly gifts Graunt her in health and wealth long to liue Strength her that she may vanquish and ouercome all her enemies And finally after this life she may attayne euerlasting ioy and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ⧠In the time of any common plague or sicknes O Almightye God which in thy wrath in the time of king Dauid didst slea with the plague of pestilence threéscore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst saue the rest Haue pitie vpon vs miserable We that were of highest degree â–ª Lye dead here now as ye do see ¶ The Empresse Empresse thogh thou be Thou must away with me ¶ 〈◊〉 Queene Queene also thou doost see As I am so 〈◊〉 thou be sinners that now are visited with greate sicknes mortalitie that like as thou didst then commaund thine Angell to cease from punishing so it may please theé to withdraw from vs this plague and greéuous sicknes through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen * A Prayer of Chrisostome ALmighty God which hast geuen vs grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications vnto theé and doest promise that wheÌ„ two or threé be gathered together in thy name thou wilt graunt their requestes Fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy seruants as may be most expedient for them grauÌ„ting vs in this world knowledge of thy truth in the world to come life euerlasting Amen ¶ The princes Princes of hye estate coÌ„teÌ„t you I am your mate ¶ The Duchesse Duches princes Death dayly conuinces We that sate in the highest sâ—ate Are layd here now for wormes meate * A Prayer to be sayd at the visitation of the sick O Almighty and eternal God the God of al mercy many diuers are thy chastisements by which thou callest vs vnto theé thy sonne Christ. Especially it is thy wonted clemency to tame our flesh by sundry and sore diseases to awake and shake of our sleépe by dangerous infirmities to admonish vs of our former wicked life frayl of it selfe by greéuous anguishes and torments the messengers of death Also by this thy crosse thou puttest vs in minde of thy Sonne Christ his crosse of his bloudy sweate and passion of the great and last day of thy iudgement ioyfull to thine elect to the reprobate a iudgement day most horrible O Lord most horrible Beauty honour and riches auayle no whit For death when he commeth â–ª spoyleth it The Countesse Countesse or â—hat thou art I striâ—e thee with my dart ¶ The Vicountesse Vicountes I do not spare For of them I â—aue no care Forasmuch therfore O Lord God as we find this our poore brother weakened with sicknes imprisoned here in his bed sustayning the rigor of thy punishment sharpnes of thy rod whose conscience also the feéling of his sins and feare of death doth terrifie We wretched sinners yet thy creatures members of thy church being flesh and bloud of corruptible flesh as well as he most humbly and most hartely pray beseéch thy goodnes that thou wilt not shew thy rigorous iudgement vpon him as he hath deserued But rather cast thy eyes of mercy vpon him Looke on him as on one whom thou hast redeémed Geue him grace and constancy of courage that he may peaceably and patiently take this thy fatherly correction submitting himselfe with all his hart to thy good pleasure and will who hast visited him ¶ The Baronnesse Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be â—old Assist him in this his present danger especially if his conscience discouered before his inward sight accuseth him of any inward and secret sinne O our God our good God God of al comfort and consolation set against the same his wounded conscience the greéuous torments and voluntary sacrifice of thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ who bare our infirmities and indured the payn which we had deserued being made sinne for vs wheÌ„ he suffred death for our sinnes and offences which he washed away with his bloud and rising agayn from the dead is made our iustice and present redemption Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Dutchesse and Prince The Iudges wife Madame or iustice wife I am come to ende thy life The Lawyers wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward thee not with pain The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fâ—â—e Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarlet And yet art â—ut my varlet
morrow Moreouer because this life hath not one houre certayne whensoeuer the eâ—entide therof commeth the long sleepe of the body groweth vpon me from which we shall not wake till the dead rise agayn at the sound He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Abraham said Lord if I haue now found fauor in thy sight c â–ª Gen. â—1 Nâ—buchadneser aÌ„swered Lo I seâ— foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire Dan. 3 of thine Angels Trumpet I beseech thee lighten thou then the eyes of my minde so as I may not sleepe in euerlasting death by the quenching of my faith but rest in thee to whom euen the dead are aliue Which lyuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen ¶ A prayer to be sayd when we vnclothe our selues to bedward THis body which is become vnhaÌ„some and vnwealdy through sin shal be consumed by litle and litle and deliuered agayne to the earth from whence it was taken There shall the end be of this vanitie which we haue purchased to our selues by our owne folly Now therfore thou O most louing Father which hast set me together Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned agaynst the lord c. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked vpon Myriam and behold she was leprous Num. 12. Iesus sayd Many sinnes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7 dissolue me in such wise as I may feéle my selfe to be dissolued and remeÌ„ber of whom I am ouercome and consider whether I must goe Take me not vnwares and vnprouyded to thy iudgement seat but like as we be willing to put of our clothes which we shall put on agayne when the night is past so let vs not be loth to put of this body which we shall receiue agayn after that the night of this world hath run out his full race Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd at our going into bed WHen the day is ended we geue our selues to rest in the night so when this life is ended we rest in deth Nothing resembleth our life more theÌ„ the day nor death more then sleépe nor the graue more then the bed Uouchsafe therfore O Lord our gouernour When Christ came nere Ierusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. Who shall haue pity then vâ—on thee O Ierusalem or who c. Iere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation their Alars c. 1. Michâ— 1. defender both to shield vs now lying vnable to help our selues from the craftines assaults of our cruell enemy also to call vs then vnto theé when we shal be yet more vnable at the finishing of the race of this life not for our own deserts but for thy own mercy sake that we may liue walk with theé for euer And now let vs so fall a sleép in theé as thou only those exceding great incredible good thinges may in such wise be preseÌ„t alway before vs by the insight of our minds as we may not be absent from theé no not euen in sleép that such dreames may both keép our beds and bodies pure vndefiled and also chere our harts with that blessed ioy of thine In trust wherof I wil fall on sleép and take my rest through our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen A Prayer when we be redy to sleep The women sang by course in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 2â— The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Christ riding to Ierusalem many spred their gâ—â—â—entes in â—he way other cut downe branches of the trees strawed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. â—â— â–ª TAke me into thy protection O Lord Iesu Christ our defender and graunt that while my body slepeth my soul may wake in thee and cheérefully and ioyfully behold the happy gladsome heauenly life wherein thou art soueraine with the Father and the holy Ghost and the Angels and holy soules of men are most blessed fellow Citizens for euer and euer Amen * A preparation or preface to Publick Prayer ALmighty God and heauenly Father I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy feare will I worshippe toward thy holy Temple I haue loued the habitation of thine house and willingly am I present in the congregation of thy Saints praysing and confessing thy holy name Iesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them it is written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a deâ— of theues Luke 10 Is this house become a den of theeues wherupon c. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56 Come let vs fall and bow down before the Lord who hath made vs because he is the Lord our God and we the sheep of his pasture Exalt the Lord our God fall down before his footstoole for he is holy Lord I make my prayer vnto thee in an acceptable time euen in the multitude of thy mercies O God heare me in the truth of thy saluation I will offer to thee a sacrifice of praise and will call vpon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord euen now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lords house euen in the middest of thee O Ierusalem I will run in the way of thy commaundementes when thou shalt inlarge mine hart Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes Open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy lawe When Iosephes brethren saw him a farr of c. Gen. 3 Absolon rose vp early and stode hard by the c. 2. Sam. 15. Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes â–ª and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 1â— Then will I take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy prayse I will sing with the Spirite and in vnderstanding and say Amen * A short speech before the Lords Proyer O Heauenly Father O most merciful God I most wretched sinner am vnworthy to lift vp my hands and eyes vnto thee or to trouble thee with my prayers Neuerthelesse forasmuch as thou hast commaunded all men to pray promised that thou wilt heare vs And moreouer prescribed vs a forme of Prayer in expresse wordes by thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ being
to abide all things patiently for thy sake and for the truth of thy gospell And let it ingender in me a despising of all worldly and earthly things and an earnest loÌ„ging and indeuour to attayn to the heauenly herytage for the purchasing wherof vnto me for the bringing of me therunto thou hast endured these and all other thy most bitter and intollerable torments Stones shall â—uÌ„ble togeâ—her and make a huge noâ—e â—irrible earthquakes shall make meÌ„ hide theÌ„selues Valyes shall be filed and hils brogh â–ª low Wherfore I beseéch theé graunt me true repentance amendment of life perseuerance in all goodnes a stedfast fayth and a happy death through the merites of thy sufferings that I may also be made partaker of thy blessed resurrection Amen Another O Lord Iesu the very freedome of the Angels and the pleasure of paradise remember the terror and greefe which thou didst indure at such time as all thine enemies stoode about thee like a sort of Lyons vexing thee with buffetings spittings scratchings and other intollerable dealings and martyring thee with reprochfull words greeuous stripes and most greeuous torments I beseech thee O Lord for thine own sake and for thine exceding great mercies sake which caused thee to abide these things for our They that hid thâ— selueâ— shall runne forth like mad 〈◊〉 The bones of the dead shall appere aboue the Sepulâ—res The povvers of heauen shall be shaken redemption delyuer me from all mine enemies visible inuisible and graunt that I may finde both protection in this life and endlesse felicitie in the life to come vnder the shadow af thy wings Amen Another O Iesu the framer and creator of the world whom no measure can comprehend within bounds and which holdest the earth in thy hand call to minde thy most bitter payn which thou didst indure when they nayled thy most holy hands to the crosse likewise strake through thy most tender feet making thy wouÌ„ds still more and more paynfull because thou wast not agreeable to their fancy and so drawing and retching out thy body to the length and bredth of the crosse that they loosened all the sinewes of thy members Euery one liuing shall dye presently Heauen earth all elementes shall burne The dead shall rise I beseech thee graunt that my continuall minding of this thy most holy and bitter paynes vpon the crosse may cause me to stand in awe of thee and also to loue thee Amen Another O Iesu the heauenly phisition remember the anguish payn and greéfe which thou diddest suffer by the rending and tearing of all thy members wheÌ„ thou wast hoysed vp nayled to the crosse insomuch as ther was not any one of them that remayned whole and sound so that there was neuer any payn found like vnto thine for there was not any place of theé left whole from the sole of the foote to the crown of the head and yet euen then vnmindefull of all thy paynes thou prayedst meékly to thy father for thine Emperors and kings we did raigne But now the earth doth vs detayne ¶ The Emperor Of Monarch Emperor I am the conqueror ¶ The king Keâ—sar or king I must thâ—e bring enemies saying Father forgeue them for they wote not what they doe I beseéch theé by thy louing kindenes and mercy which caused theé to suffer these paynes for my sake let thy passion be the full pardon of all my sinnes Amen Another O Iesu the mirror of eternall brightnes and fountayn of vnconsumeable goodnes which hanging vpon the crosse didst thirst for the saluation of maÌ„ mankind I beseech thee kindle in vs the desire of all good works and quench in vs the thirst of all fleshly lustes and both coole and kill in vs the loue of all worldly delighte Amen * Another O Princely Iesu the strength and triumph of our mindes which for ¶ The Duke Duke though thou be daunce after me â–ª ¶ The Marques Marques of state march with thy mate Dukes and Marques we haue been Nought now but bones are to be seen our sakes diddest suffer such anguish of hart that the bitternes of thy death and the exclamation of the Iewes vpbraiding and reuyling thee made thee to cry out with a loud voyce O God my God why hast thou forsaken me I beseech thee forsake me not in my distresse but be at hand to comfort me and delyuer me specially in the time of death Amen Another O Iesu the bottomles sea of all mercye I beseech thee by thy deepe wounds which pearced through thy flesh into the marow of thy bones and into the very bowels of thee pull me out of the gulfe of my sins and hide me in the holes of thy wounds from the sight of thy Fathers iust wrath vntill his displeasure be ouerpast Amen We Earles and Barons were sometime Now wrapt in lead are turnd to flâ—me ¶ The Baron Barons of nobilitie sweare to me fealty ¶ The Vicount Earle or Vicount geue thy account O Iesu the mirror of truth the staÌ„dard of vnitie and the bond of charitie remember thine innumerable wounds wherwith thou wast torne froÌ„ top to toe by the wicked Iewes so that thou wast all on a gore bloud Which torment thou didst suffer in that chast body of thine for our sakes O most meéke Iesus leauing nothing vndone on thy behalf that might be for our benefite I beseéche theé write all thy woundes in my hart with thy most precious bloud that in them I may reade thy great loue towards me ¶ The Archbishop Archb. Metropolite theé thy Prouince I visite ¶ The Bishop Bishops graue old are sheep of my fold Bishops we haue taught the lore That all must enter deathes dore Another O Iesu the only begotten Sonne of the heauenly Father the brightnes and Image of his substaÌ„ce remember the harty commending of thy spirite into thy Fathers handes when hauing thy body all to torne and thy hart full of anguish and hauing earst vttered the bowels of thy mercy thou gauest vp the Ghost I beseeche thee for this thy precious deaths sake O king of Saincts giue me strength to withstand the diuel the world and the flesh that being dead vnto the world I may liue to thee onely And whensoeuer this banished and wayfaring soule of myne shall depart hence I beseech thee receiue it home into the hands of thy mercy Amen Both sheep and shepheard all must dye We taught the same the same we try ¶ The Doctor Doctor diuine at last thy reading houre is past ¶ The Preacher Preach no more about thy glas is run out Another O Iesu the true and fruitful vine remember the aboundant flowing out sheading of thy bloud which thou didst send out of thy body most plentifully as out of grapes pressed at the wine presse at such time as thou didst tread the winefat alone and begannest to vs of the cup of water and wine by the soldyars thrusting of theé into the
â—aue no care our selues continually to craue it and earnestly endeuer by wel doing to keép it Amen * A Prayer for fayth EAsily yea to easely O Lord do we beleue man which is euill vntrue and ignorant but hardly â–ª and slowly do we beleue theé which art God exceéding good most sothfast and most wise We beleue men in the things that can do vs no good but we beleue not theé in the care of our saluation Man is able to do nothing but thou art able to do al things We can find in our harts to follow our seÌ„â—es which are so oft deceiued and yet we doubt of theé O God which canst neither deceiue nor be deceiued O how great is our vnthaÌ„kfulnes and ignorance Alas how is man blinded of his own sin But thou O Christ through the pitifulnes and compassioÌ„ ¶ The Baronnesse â–ª Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death 〈◊〉 behold of thy Father art appoynted as a guid in this our blindnes and as a schoolemaster to our rudenes yet notwithstanding the greuousest inconuenience in this blindnes and ignorance is that trembling and staggaring still from time to time eyther we conceaue not the excellent and most wholsome precepts of our good scholemaister or els we stand wauering and doubting of the truth of theÌ„ Blind wretch how wilt thou scape the vengeaÌ„ce that is prepared for theé if thou shrinke away from him seéing thou neither knowest the way thy selfe nor beleéuest him that sheweth it theé O Christ which art the pure euerlasting truth vouchsafe to shead thy selfe so into our harts that as thou and all thy sayinges are most true so we may take them for more certayne then the things which we seé with our eyes Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Duches and Prince ¶ The â—uâ—ges wife Madame or iustice wife I am come to ende thy life â—he Lawyeâ—â— wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward theé not with pain or handle with our hands which are but sences of the body that may and do deceiue vs notwithstanding that the foolish beastly flesh do trust so much to them Asswage and settle these motions of the flesh which driue vs from time to time to the altering of the thing that ought to be alwayes most firme fast setled in our minds Faith is a gift of thy inlightening O Christ therfore shead it mercifully and bouÌ„tifully in such wise into our harts as these faulty eyes of oures may be inforced to behold it euen loth and vnwilling though they be Lord I beleéue but yet help thou mine vnbeleéfe Lord increase our faith Amen A Prayer for trust in God THe ground of mans decay was his trusting of himselfe and the beginning of his rysing agayne was The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fine Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarlet And yet art but my varlet Behold vs here that sometime were gay How now we lye dead all wrapped in clay his distrusting of him selfe and his trusting to God. O most excellent and singular wise guid which leadest all them the rightest and nearest way to euerlasting blessednes which trust theé truely and vnfaynedly Graunt that as we be blind and weak in very deéd so we may take our selues so to be that we take not vp on vs to shift for our selues but let our looking be to seé theé alone and let our inabling of our selues be no further but to desire to follow theé going afore vs to come to theé wheÌ„ thou callest vs to obay theé as thou guydest vs and to betake our selues wholy vnto theé that thou who only knowest what way to goe mayst lead vs to the attaynement of our desires that way which we wold neuer haue set foote into of our own accord Amen Riches nor treasure auayle nothing For death to earth all doth bring Merchantes wife Braue neuer so nice daunce after my deuice ¶ Citizens wife Tricke and trim put of your hood I am come to do you good * A Prayer to be sayd for the feare of God. GRaunt Lord that being taught by thy commauÌ„dements I may serue theé with feare and reioyce before theé with trembling in all things standing in awe of theé least thou happen to be angry and I perish out of the right way For the feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome ⧠A Prayer for loue towards Christ. THe ground of all happines is to loue thee which art most excelleÌ„tly good and the perfection of happines is to be knit vnto thee which art most excellently good as we may become all one with thee for that is the very end of loue Therfore do we begin our blessednes here by louing thee and Riche mans wife Though thou haue siluer and golde Yet art thou within my â—olde Young woman Fine prety in the wast Come with me in hast As death in this world hath the victory So by death we hope to enter Gods glory we finish it in heauen by being knit vnto thee O most louing Christ would God we were so far in loue with thee that beyng swallowed vp and altogether consumed in thee we were one with thee euen as thou and thy Father art one so as we were no more our selues but thou nor any more men but after a sort Gods as we beyng oll one thing with God which is the highest and most perfect blessednes For God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Now therfore I am aliue or rather not I But Christ in me To him therfore be all thanks and prayse for euer Amen A Prayer to be sayd for cleanes of hart MOst merciful Iesu Christ who being made in the likenes of sinfull flesh hast born our sinnes in thy Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally ¶ The Mayde Fresh galant gay All must with me away ¶ The Damosell Fine proper neate And all is but wormes meate body to wipe away all our naughtines by thy death and to make vs clean and new creatures acceptable vnto god Scoure vs from the spots which we by our sinnes doe dayly cast vpon the whitenes that we haue gotten by theé And when thou hast so cleansed vs let thy grace maintayn vs still in the same cleanes that we may be worthy to be called thine both in profession name Lord cleanse me from my secret sinnes and beare with thy seruant in his other sinnes Amen Another A Clean hart create in me O god and renue a right spirite within my bowels Let my hart be made vndefiled through thy inrighteousing that I may not be put to shame Amen ¶ Farmers wife Cease thy labour and paine For I am thy riches and gainâ— HusbandmaÌ„s wife Toyle no more I say For heÌ„ce I must away Time to liue time to dy God