never heard and know what was never revealed below O grant that she may have aydes that her she never did neede even mighty assistances in proportion to her new and strang erstate that whatsoever is in the darkenesse or in the fire in the secret regions of wrath and the horrible places of torment and fearful exspectations may not afflict or affright the lambe of thy flock the price of thy bloud the child of thy kingdome and the portion of thine owne inheritance Amen V. O sweetest Jesu say unto this soule This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise say unto this foule Feare not for it is my Fathers pleasure to give thee a Kingdome Let this soule dwell in safe and pleasant regions and be supported with the hope of God comforted with a holy conscience rejoyce in a confirm'd pardon be recreated with the visitation of Angels and walke in white whithersoever the Lambe shall goe Amen VI. Give unto this decaying dying body a blessed and a glorious resurrection to this weary and afflicted this penitent and redeemed soule a portion in the blessed sentence of the right hand amongst the blessed children of thy Father who shall receive the Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the world Amen VII Remember O God the good things which by thy grace and by the aides of thy holy Spirit thy servant hath done in all his life and remember not his evil deedes which by the weakenesse of the flesh and the temptations of the Devil and the evil contingencies of this world have afflicted and humbled the soule of thy servant remember thy holy Son did die for these and thy holy Spirit was the cause of those and for whom thou hast given thy Son and to whom thou hast given thy Spirit give thy eternal pardon and thy eternal glories thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After the soule is departed the Minister may say this prayer in behalfe of the living friends and relatives of the dead ALmighty God who governest all things in heaven and earth with infinite wisedome and infinite mercy and bringest good out of evil comfort out of sorrow and after a gentle visitation dost refresh thy children with the light of thy countenance with the blessings of thy providence with the returnes of thy grace and the comforts of thy holy Spirit have mercy upon this family and returne to them all with thy loving kindnesse exchanging their present sorrow into the advantages of holinesse and blessing Be thou now and ever what thou gloriest in a Father of the Fatherlesse a Husband to the Widow a God of comfort to them that mourn◠in secret Grant that thy servant may not weepe as men without hope nor murmure at thy dispensation nor complaine of any thing but themselves nor desire any thing but that thy will be done nor doe any thing but what is agreeable to thy holy word and commandement and grant that when thou smitest any of us it may increase thy feare in us and when thou doest good to any of us in smiting or forbearing in chastising or comforting it may increase thy love in us and let thy holy Spirit so prevail over all our wills and understandings our affections and the outward man our interests and our hopes that we may live in this world pleasing to thee and may goe out of this world with the peace of a holy conscience and may have a joyful resurrection in the last day to a participation of the glories of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing THE Lord blesse you and keepe you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen Prayers and devotions to be us'd at the Burial of the Dead The Minister before the Corps entring at the Church doore may begin with one or more of these sentences A Good name is better then precious ointment and the day of death then the day of ones birth It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to goe to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord He that beleiveth in me yea though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall not die for ever It is appointed to all men once to die and after death comes judgement I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleepe that we sorrow not even as others without hope For if we beleive that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him After the Corps is set downe in the body of the Church let Morning or Evening prayer be read according to the time of the day with this difference onely Instead of the usual Psalmes Read Psalme 39. Psalme 49. Psalme 90. For the first lesson read Job 14. or 19. After the first lesson read Psalme 88. For the second lesson read 1 Corinth 15. from verse 12 to the end After the second lesson read Nunc dimittis * LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word ¶ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation * Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people ¶ To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. After the usual prayers are done then the Corps carried being to the grave the Minister shall read this lesson Ecclesiastes 12. REmember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil daies come not nor the yeers draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned nor the clouds return after the rain In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and feares shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowle be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern Then shall the dust retrun
Come and hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soule * The people that walked in darknesse hath seen a great light and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shin'd * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of men * He turneth the wildernesse into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs * He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyfull mother of Children * For unto us a child is borne unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders * His name shall be called wonderfull counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the prince of peace * Of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end * He shall sit upon the throne of David to order his Kingdome and to establish it with judgement and justice for ever and ever * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of Men. Minister Glory be to God on high Answer And on earth peace good will towards men Minister Amen Answer Amen Then proceed to the Nicene Creed The collect to be inserted after the first collect of the Morning and Evening prayer and may be said during the twelve daies ALmighty God who hast so loved the world that for our redemption from sin misery thou gavest thy son that he taking upon him our nature and being borne of a Virgin might performe to thee the obedience which mankind owed and pay the price in which we were indebted and teach us what thou wouldest have us to doe and convey to us all the good which thou didst designe for us overshadow us with thy holy Spirit of grace that we may conceive Christ in our hearts by faith relyup on him in a holyhope and expresse him in anexcellent charity that as he was pleased to take upon him our nature so we may be borne againe and be partakers of the Divine nature that conforming to his image following his example and being filled with his Spirit we may grow in the knowledge and love of God and live in righteousnesse that being thy sons by a holy adoption we may partake of the inheritance of thy welbeloved son the firstborne of all the creatures our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Upon Good Friday Instead of the Psalmes of the day read at Morning Prayer Psalme 22. Psalme 25. Psalme 51. Evening Prayer Psalme 81. Psalme 85. Psalme 86. Psalme 88. or any three of them The Collect. O Most Blessed most gracious Saviour Jesus who by thyobedience unto death even the death of the crosse didst become the sacrifice of the world the great example of patience the Lord of life the good shepherd laying downe thy life for thy sheepe and the mediator betweene God and man let thy wounds heale thy blood cleanse thy death make us to live and thy Spirit make us to worke righteousnesse all our daies that we may by thy aide and by thy example obey our heavenly Father with all our powers and all our faculties with our reason and our affections with our soules and with our bodies with our time and with our estate in prosperity and adversity that we may beare our crosse patiently and doe thy worke cheerefully and be ready to benefit mankind with great charity and great industry that being followers of thy life and partakers of thy death we may receive a part in the resurrection of the just to the joyes of God in thy inheritance O most blessed most Gracious Saviour Jesus Amen For Easter day The Psalmes appointed for Morning Prayer Psalme 30. Psalme 45. Psalme 47. Evening Prayer Psalme 57. Psalme 66. Psalme 72. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening prayer IN thee O Lord I have put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse incline thine ear unto me and save me ¶ Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to helpe me for thou art my house of defence and my Castle * For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth ¶ Thorough thee have I beene holden up ever since I was borne thou art he that tooke me out of my mothers wombe my praises shall be alwaies of thee * O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long ¶ Thy righteousnesse O God in very high and great things are they which thou hast done O God who is like unto thee◠* O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turne and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deepe of the earth againe ¶ Thou hast brought to me great honour and comforted me on every side * Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel ¶ My lips will be faine when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered * Blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things ¶ And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the earth shall be filled with his Majesty Amen Amen Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect O Most Holy most Glorious Saviour and redeemer Jesu who for our sakes didst descend from the glories of God to the paines and labours of the earth and didst passe from a painfull life to an ignominious death from the bitternesse of death to the darkenesse of the grave and by thy divine power didst raise thy selfe from death to life againe we give thee thanks for thy infinite love to us and all mankind we acknowledge thee to be our Lord and confesse thee to be our God we adore thy Majesty and rejoyce in thy mercies we humbly pray thee to enable us with thy Spirit to beleive all thy doctrines and to obey all thy Commandements that after a holy and a religious life spent in doing honour to thy holy Name we may be partakers of thy holy resurrection passing from death to life from the darkenesses of the grave to the light of Heaven from an imperfect duty to the perfection of holinesse in the fruition of the joyes of God in thy eternall Kingdome O Most holy Most Glorious Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Upon Ascension day Instead of the Psalmes of the day read at Morning Prayer Psalme 15. Psalme 21. Psalme 24. Evening Prayer Psalme 92. Psalme 96. Psalme 97. The Collect. O Blessed High Priest Holy Jesus King of the world and head of the Church who
west for thou didst send thy most holy Son to die for us and redeem us from all the powers of sin and hell thou knowest whereof we were made and remembrest that we are but dust O doe not visit her sins upon her by a hasty death but manifest thy mercies and thy pardon by giving her a mighty grace that she may live a holy life and be pleas'd to grant this also that those impresses of pious resolutions and religious purposes of fear and love of hope and desire which thy grace in the circumstances of her present condition makes upon her may abide in her soul for ever and in the daies of ease and safety may be as operative and productive of holiness as now they are of a hearty prayer and passionate desires for thy mercies upon her in a safe and blessed child-birth V. LORD bless her child grant it may be born with a right shape and a perfect body with a comely countenance and streight limbs with intire senses and expedite faculties with an excellent power of understanding and sweet dispositions and let thy holy Spirit of grace conduct it to the Sacrament of Baptisme and in safety and holiness from the Cradle to the grave Grant this O Eternal God for his sake who was born of a holy maid and suffered the infirmities of nature and dyed for our sins and rose again for our Justification even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen An Office of Publick Thanks-giving for Women after their delivery from Child-birth or any great sickness or calamity or fear At the end of the morning prayer immediately before the blessing the woman presenting her self before God on her knees in some convenient place neer to him that ministers begin with this exhortation FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God who hath commanded us when we are afflicted to pray and hath promised to be with us in trouble and hath made good his truth and mercy unto you in standing at your right hand in the day of your sorrow and danger giving you safe deliverance and a living and a hopeful child you shall therefore return to him the sacrifice of a thankful and joyful heart in an humble acknowledgement of the divine mercies and goodness unto you in this great blessing and deliverance from the pain and peril of Childbirth Or else name any other instance in which the Minister is required to give thanks The psalm or Hymn of Thansgiving * THE Lord is my Shepheard I shall not want he maketh me lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters ¶ He restoreth my Soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sake * Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me ¶ I will declare thy name unto my Brethren in the midst of the Congregation will I praise thee * Ye that fear the Lord praise him for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cryed unto him he heard ¶ O Lord my God I cryed unto thee and thou hast healed me * O Lord thou hast brought up my Soul from the grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit ¶ Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness * For his anger endureth but for a moment in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning ¶ I cryed unto thee O Lord unto the Lord I made my supplication * What profit is there in my bloud when I goe down into the pit shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth ¶ Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper * Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness ¶ To the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks to thee for ever Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or else say the Te Deum VVE praise thee O God we knowledge thee to be the Lord. ¶ All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting * To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein ¶ To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry * Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth ¶ Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory * The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee ¶ The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee * The noble armie of Martyrs praise thee ¶ The holy Church thoroughout all the world doth acknowledge thee * The Father of an infinite majesty ¶ Thy honourable true and onely Son * Also the holy Ghost the Comforter ¶ Thou art the King of glory O Christ. * Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father ¶ When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhorre the Virgins womb * When thou haddest overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdome of heaven to all beleevers * Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father ¶ We beleeve that thou shalt come to be our judge * We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud ¶ Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting * O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage ¶ Govern them and lift them up for ever * Day by day we magnifie thee ¶ And we worship thy name ever world without end * Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin ¶ O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us * O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee ¶ O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray O Most merciful Saviour and Redeemer Jesus who wert born of a pure and a holy maid who hast felt the calamities of Mankind and knowest how to pity our infirmities and rejoicest in doing and shewing mercy to all that need and to all that call to thee for succour we give thee thanks and praise that thou hast heard the prayers and considered the cries and releeved the necessities of this thy servant and kept her life from the grave still continuing to her a portion in the land of the living and opportunities of serving thee O be pleased to continue and increase and to sanctifie thy mercies to thy servant pardon al her sins pity her infirmities enable her duty keep her from all evil by thy blessed providence let her portion be in the things of God and of Religion in the light of thy countenance and the service of
Penitential Letanies The Psalter or Psalms of David after the Kings Translations with Arguments newly fitted to the design and sense of every Psalm An Advertisement to them that shall use these PRAYERS BEcause no prayers are the more pleasing to God for being long and they are oftentimes displeasing even to good men if they be very long and yet on the other side if the devotion be long it is the better and if that be lasting it ought to be supplied with materials like gummes to the Altar of incense and fuel for the holy fires he that collected these devotions did design to serve the advantages both of length and shortness that the most devout may be fitted and the most secular and imployed may not be wearied 1. Therefore although every thing is set down at length that the trouble of references and turnings back might be avoided and therefore seem longer then they are and the Hymnes are sometimes double that the variety might be more apt to please and to instruct and the Offices are made full that upon the more solemne days when people come with a greater and more active devotion and greater leisure their time and their piety might be imployed yet on other days there is but one Lesson appointed and one Hymne to follow it 2. The prayers are divided into smaller portions that with ease any of them may be omitted by persons whose occasions force them from their attendance on longer Offices besides that there are two forms of Morning and Evening Prayer the one shorter the other longer 3. In the beginning of Morning and Evening Prayer some of the devotions which are set down are desired and intended to be used but seldome not onely to avoid tediousness but for other reasons very obvious that the Ministers more solemn power and office might not be less regarded by being daily and consequently very often without just dispositions offered I mean it concerning the form of Absolution The Confession may be shortned as there is cause by making use onely of some of the sections and leaving out the other 4. If upon Communion days the morning Prayer and the Communion Office be not read at one time but the morning Prayer be read at seven or eight of the clock in the morning and the Communion office at the time of celebration or if it be convenient that they be both together if then the Sermon be in the afternoon the length will be very tolerable 5. These Prayers being intended onely as a charitable ministery to them who are not permitted to use those which were appointed formerly there is no necessity upon any one and he may use as much or as little as he please and therefore no man will have cause to complain of length or shortness ☞ For the Offices themselves I pray God bless them to all those ends whither they are designed and to which in their own nature they can minister And as I humbly recommend them to Gods blessing so I doe submit them to the judgement of my afflicted Mother the Church of England and particularly to the censure of my spiritual Superiours and I desire that these Prayers may no longer be used in any publick place then my L ds the B ps upon prudent enquiries and grave considerations shall perceive them apt to minister to Gods glory and useful to the present or future necessities of the Sons and Daughters of the Church of England MORNING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences HE that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his lawes which he hath set before us by his servants the prophets Dan. 9. 10. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse 1 John 1. 8 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise â—sal 51. 17. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit For why will ye die I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live ye Ezek. 18. 31 32. After which say Draw nigh therefore unto God and he will draw nigh unto you Cleanse your hands and purifie your hearts Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and make a confession of your sins unto him with a hearty sorrow and a humble hope begging for pardon at the throne of Grace Let us pray The Confession I. O Almighty God Great Lord of Heaven and Earth we miserable sinners with fear and shame cast our selves downe before thee humbly confessing our manifold sins and unsufferable wickednesses by which we have deserved thy wrath and that we should be separated from the sweetest comforts of thy presence for ever II. We confesse O Great God we have sinned against thee by knowledge and by ignorance by folly and by surprize by word and deed by anger and desires by night and by day in private and in publick by the lusts of the flesh and the vanity and pride of our spirits our sins of omission are infinite and the sins of our tongue cannot be numbred O God thy words and lawes are holy and thy judgements are terrible but we have broken all thy righteous lawes and commandements and we have great cause to be afraid of thy severest judgements and where shall we appeare when thou art angry with us III. But thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Thou art our Judge but thou art our Redeemer we have sin'd but thou O Blessed Jesus art our Advocate Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most miserable sinners Enter not into judgement with us least we die let not thine anger arise least we be consumed but spare us gracious Lord spare thy servants whom thou hast redeem'd with thy most precious blood O reserve not evil in store for us against the day of vengeance but shew thy goodnesse in us and let thy mercies be magnified upon us deliver us O Lord from the power of sin and preserve us from the punishments of it through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Deprecation to be used upon solemn daies or at the discretion of him that ministers I. O Lord our God whose power is infinite whose glory is supreme whose mercie is without measure whose goodnesse is unspeakeable despise not thy returning servants who earnestly beg for pardon and to be reconciled to thee sanctify O God our bodies and soules search out our spirits and cast out all iniquity from within us all weak principles and false
with faith and hope submit his body and soule to thy merciful and just dispensation that he may not discompose the duties of his repentance by a new sin nor provoke thee to anger by his impatience nor offend them who charitably minister to him nor neglect the doing of any thing that can be in his power or in his duty to his body or his soule O God be mercifull unto thy servant and presse not him or her with an unequal load but remember that we are but flesh and vanity that we are crushed before the Moth and die in thy displeasure give him ease and rest a quiet mind and a peacefull conscience make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and deliver him not into the will of his Spiritual enemies but glorify thy mercies and make thy goodnesse illustrious upon thy servant through Jesus Christ our Lord. III. Against death and the feare of it O Eternal God who for the sin of man didst send death into the world and by the Resurrection of thy holy Son didst bring life to all beleivers have mercy upon this thy servant whom thou hast smitten with thy rod and brought into the vally of teares and the shadow of death O let not thy feirce anger goe beyond a fatherly correction let this rod be discipline not vengeance let it kill his sin but not the man but in judgement remember mercy take from thy servant all inordinate feare give him a present mind a hopeful Spirit a faithful heart a perfectly repenting conscience a charitable and a devout soule Take from him the feare and take from him the sentence of death preserve his life and restore his health if that be best for him for to thy power we submit on thy goodnesse we doe depend by thy wisedome we desire to be governed and that thy love should choose for thy servant But if thou hast otherwise decreed O grant to thy servant the comforts of a holy hope and the strengths of an unconquerable faith the constancy of an unmooved patience and the meekenesse of a perfect resignation that to him to live may be Christ and to die may be gaine that whether he lives or dies he may be thine through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. For Pardon O Most gracious and eternal Son of God who onely hast power to forgive sins and to rescue erring soules from the power of sin and from the wrath of God be gracious toâ— thy servant who confesses thy justice in his suffering and begs to feele thy mercy in his pardon and thy pity in his ease and restitution Contend no longer with the miserable who confesses himselfe guilty reject him not that begs for remission of his sins and remission of thy anger remember not the follies of his childhood nor the vanities of his youth the sins of his tongue nor the sins of his anger the sins of desire nor the innumerable breaches of charity his infinite omissions of duty the inexcusable actions of his choice Thou hast glorified thy selfe in all generations of the world by giving pardon to the penitent and ease to the afflicted comfort to the comfortlesse and refreshment to the weary Behold O God the sorrowes of thy servant and remember his sins no more Behold the passion and the paines which our blessed Lord suffered for our sins and let not the sins of thy servants cause thee to take another forfeiture and produce another and an eternall anger but spare thy servant in thy anger and remember him in thy mercy and pity him in thy infinite compassion and releive him with thy mighty grace and deliver him from his sins and bring him to thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. V. If he be in or neere the agonies of death O Blessed God thou lover of soules and the Saviour of thy servants who gavest thy Son to die for us that we might live in him looke with mercy and great compassion upon the soule of thy servant for whom the Lord Jesus gave his precious bloud Now O God is that sad period in which he is to be consign'd over to his final sentence now is the day of his great expence his needes of mercy are great as his sins and great as his dangers and great as all his enemies let him or her receive the fruit of all his labours a blessed returne of all his prayers the grace of thy promises and the effect of all the sufferings of the holy Jesus Now O God let him find the end of his hopes and a just peace in his conscience a spiritual communion with Christ and the benefit of all his Passion pardon of his sins and the sweetest visitations of thy holy Spirit the comforter Now let him feele the effect of thy mighty power and of thy glorious victory over sin and all the powers of darkenesse let them have no portion in him and let thine angers end in comfort and pardon in the visitation of Angels and the glorious appearing of thy holy Spirit Now let him feele the truth of religion and the substance of the things he hath hoped for the verification of thy promises and the goodnesse of God let all the sermons of the Gospel passe into real exhibition of thy loving kindnesse and let thy servant rejoyce in the portions of the blessed in the redemption of his soule in the communion of Saints in the society of the spirits of just men made perfect through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then shall the Minister recommend the soule of the Dying man if it be departing the body I. O Most Blessed and most gracious Saviour Jesus into thy holy hands we commend the soule of this our Brother or Sister praying thee to defend it from all evil from the wrath of God which he hath deserved from the evil Spirits of darkenesse which are ready to devoure it from the flames of hell from whence nothing can rescue it but the mercies of God in our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen II. Let thy holy Angels receive this soule from her prison and ruinous house of clay and carry it to the region of loving and obedient soules in the bosome of Jesus there with joy and longing with the assurance of hope and a peaceful charity to expect the Resurrection of the just and the day of thy righteous judgement Amen III. O let not the Devils accuse this soule before thee or if they doe let them not prevaile but interpose thy death and passion thy mediation and intercession between thy judgement and this soule now at her departure and at the day of judgement that in the terrors of that day this soule may stand upright supported by the armes of thy eternal mercy Amen IV. Let not this soule carry along with her the infirmities of her present state but be immur'd with a guard of loving and blessed Spirits to defend her against all the hostilities and incursions of all evil Angels Now she shall see what she never saw and heare what she