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A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

Body Mind or Estate especially those who suffer Persecution for enjoying the Light of thy Gospel and fly into this Land for Succour Hear us O Lord for them and thy whole Church and hear Christ for us all in whose Name and Word we further call upon thee saying Our Father c. A Prayer before the Communion O Merciful Jesu who diedst an ignominious Death upon the Cross for my Sins and didst bequeath in thy last Will and Testament this holy Sacrament for my Souls Nourishment My Sins O Lord are great but I lament my Uncleanness and renounce my Unworthiness II. I come not to thy Holy Table because Worthy but Necessitous I come to be made clean and purged from my Dross and Filthiness thy Body and Bloud can make me Clean thy Merits can make me a worthy Receiver and here is a Conveyance of thy blessed Body and Bloud in this Holy Sacrament Give my Sins thy Pardon my Soul thy Heavenly Grace and what thou dost convey seal unto me for thy alone sake my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen At receiving the Bread Blessed Jesu as thou hast given thy Flesh to be the Bread of Life and Salvation so vouchsafe to work in me by a lively Faith that I receiving the same may evermore continue in thee and thou in me Amen At receiving the Cup. Lord grant that as thy Bloud was shed to wash me a poor Sinner so grant that it may through a lively Faith take effect in me that I may become a fit Member of thee and live and die in thee for ever A Prayer after the Communion GLory Honour and Praise be given unto thee O Lord most Holy for all thy Mercies bestowed upon me I have now been partaker of Bread and Wine Lord make me partaker of thy Body and Bloud The one turns to the Nourishment of my Body but the other with thy Grace is the Nourishment of my Soul II. O let not thy precious Bloud be shed in vain for my Sins but let my hearty Repentance with thy Grace fully purge me from all Uncleanness I have this day been put in mind of the benefit by Christ's Death let me every day learn to die unto Sin and live the Life of the Righteous that at last I may become a new Creature Unto thee O Father my Creator and Preserver unto thee O Christ my Redeemer and Justifier unto thee O Holy Ghost my Sanctifier and Instructer be ascribed all Honour Power and Glory now and for evermore Amen For the Church WE beseech thee O Lord graciously to accept the Prayers of thy Church that she being delivered from all Adversity and Errour may serve thee in safety and freedom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the King and Queen O Lord we beseech thee Bless our Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary by thy Gracious Appointment our supream Governours enrich them with all increase of Vertues whereby they may be able to eschew Evil and to follow thee the Way the Truth and the Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Royal Family We beseech thee O Lord to Bless Catherine the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Grant that they may walk in the ways of thy Holy Commandments all the days of their Lives through Christ our Lord. Amen For the High Court of Parliament O Lord Bless the great Council of the Nation direct The joyfull Coronation of King William and Queen Mary at Westminster Abby April the 11th 1689. April ●he 11th 1689. Their Majesties went from 〈…〉 c-hall to Westminster 〈…〉 Heralds being ready 〈…〉 Peers in the Lords House and the P●eresses in the Painted Chamber so that 〈…〉 even in the Morning The● Majesties and the wh●… Proceeding were conducted to Westminster-hall where a Throne being erected 〈…〉 Majesties took Their Sea● and after the Ceremon● was ended the Proceeding began from Westminster-Hall to the Abby where bein●…d in Order the Lord ●ishop of London began ●…th the Recognition which ended with an universal Acclam●tion of Joy then the 〈…〉 of St. Asaph and Ban●r sung the L●●t●ny 〈…〉 ended the Communion Service began the Epistle taken out of the 1. Pet. 2. 〈…〉 17. read by the Bishop o● Carlisle the Gospel 〈…〉 22. 16. 22. read by the Bishop of St. Asaph then followed the Sermon by the 〈…〉 of Salisbury whose Tex● was 2. Sam. 23. 3. 4. 〈…〉 God of Israel said the Roc● of Israel spake c. S●●mon being ended T●… Majesties took the Oath a●d were solnmnly anoi●…nd 〈…〉 Crowns placed on their Heads by the Lord Bishop of London assisted by 〈…〉 Lord Bishop of Rochest● upon which the Dr●…t the Trumpets sounded the great Guns were fired yet were drowned in a man●…y the loud Shouts and ●…lamations of the Peopl●… Many other Royal Ceremonies ●as used too tedious to insert in this narrow 〈…〉 About Eight in the Eve●ing Their Majesties r●…d to White-hall and prosper all their Consultations grant that what they do may be to the advancement of thy Glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Sovereign Lord and Lady and their Kingdoms that all things may be so well ordered and firmly settled by their good endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us for all Generations These and all other Necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg for thy Son's sake our Saviour Amen For the Clergy Almighty and everlasting God who by thy Spirit dost sanctifie and govern the whole Body of thy Church Graciously hear our Prayers for all those whom thou hast Ordained and called to the publick Service of thy Sanctuary that by the help of thy Grace they may faithfully serve thee in their several degrees through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Friends I beseech thee O Lord for all those to whom I am indebted for my Birth Education Instruction Promotion their Necessities are known unto thee thou art rich in all things reward them for these Benefits with Blessings both Temporal and Eternal For a Family Almighty and Everlasting God send down thy Holy Angel from Heaven to visit protect and defend all that dwell in this House through Christ our Lord. For a Friend Almighty and Everlasting Lord God have Mercy upon thy Servant N. and direct him by thy Goodness into the way of Eternal Salvation that through thy Grace he may desire those things which please thee and with his whole Endeavour perform the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Peace O God from whom all Holy Desires all good Counsels and all just works do proceed give unto us thy Servants that Peace which the World cannot give that both our Hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the Fear of our Enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the

Merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour In the time of Plague Let thy Anger cease O Lord and be appeased for the inquity of thy People as thou hast sworn by thy self O Holy God Holy and Strong Holy and Immortal have Mercy upon us For a City Compass this City O Lord with thy Protection and let thy Holy Angels guard the Walls thereof O Lord mercifully hear thy People For Grace Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto us thy humble Servants that by thy Holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Enemies O God the lover and preserver of Peace and Charity give unto all our Enemies thy true Peace and Love and Remission of Sins and mightily deliver us from their Snares through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the Afflicted O Almighty God the Afflicted Soul the troubled Spirit crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have Mercy for thou art a merciful God For Travellers Assist us mercifully O Lord in our Supplications and Prayers and dispose the way of thy Servants towards the Attainment of Everlasting Salvation that among all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life they may ever be defended by thy most Gracious and ready Help through Christ our Lord. For the Fruits of the Earth O God in whom we live move and have our Being open thy Treasure in the due Season and give a Blessing to the works of thy Hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Against Temptation Almighty God which doth see that we have no Power of our selves to help our selves keep us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all Evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ. For Misbelievers and Sinners Almighty and Everlasting God who desirest not the Death of a Sinner mercifully look upon all that are deceived by the subtilty of Satan that all evil Prejudice laid aside they may return to the Unity of thy Truth and Love For Temporal Necessities Replenish those O Lord we beseech thee with Temporal Nourishment whom thou hast refreshed with thy Blessed Sacraments Against Tempests Drive spiritual Wickedness from thy House O Lord and preserve it from the malignity of tempestuous Weather For Women in Travel O Lord of thy abundant Goodness and Mercy help thy Servants who are in great pains and perils of Child-birth that being delivered out of their present Danger they may glorifie thy holy Name who art blessed for evermore For the Sick O God the only refuge of our infirmities by thy mighty power relieve thy sick Servants that they with thy gracious Assistance may be able to give Thanks unto thee in thy Holy Church through Jesus Christ. For Prisoners O God who deliveredst thy Apostle Peter from his Chains and restoredst him to Liberty have pity upon thy Servants in Captivity release their Bonds and grant them Freedom and Safety Accept of the hearty Repentance of those that are appointed to dye and save their Souls for his Merits who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God VVorld without end For the Dying Father of all Flesh and God of all Spirits receive the Souls which thou hast redeemed with thy bloud returning to thee A Prayer before Study O unspeakable Creatour who out of the Treasure of thy VVisdom hast ordained Hierarchies of Angels and hast placed them above the highest Heaven in a wonderfull order and disposed them sweetly for all parts of the VVorld thou the true Fountain and incomprehensible Principle of Light and VVisdom vouchsafe to illuminate the Darkness of my Understanding with a Beam of thy Light remove the Darkness wherein I was born Sin and Ignorance thou who makest the Tongues of Infants Eloquent loosen my Tongue and pour forth the Grace of thy Spirit upon my Lips give me acuteness to apprehend capacity to retain subtilty to interpret aptness to learn readiness to speak direct my beginning farther my progression and perfect my conclusion When the Bell tolls for a Dying Person O gracious God be with this Person in the holy operations of thy Grace and in the yearnings of thy tenderest Mercies in the dreadfull Moment when the Soul shall depart from the Body and conduct this thy dying Creature through the Valley of the Shadow of Death unto the Land of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A concluding Prayer Almighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine Ears to us who have now made our Supplications and Prayers unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy VVill may be effectually obtained to the relief of our Necessities and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be with us now at the hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched Life and take me among thy chosen Howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen's sake send me Life and Health that I may truly serve thee II. O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine inheritance O Lord God Save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy True Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name Amen For God's Mercies upon Their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg O Most powerfull and great God mighty in Battel fearfull in praises doing wonders thou hast done mighty things already for us whereof we rejoice O be pleased still to continue thy undeserved Mercies towards us and accomplish what thou hast already begun for us Go forth we humbly beseech thee with our Armies against those who would make a Prey of thy People II. Protect and guide our great Governour and Commander whose Commission is to fight thy Battel Guide him and Counsel him in all his Undertakings and cover his head in the day of Battel cause those that hate thy Name and People to flee before him and scatter them as the dust before the Wind Crown him with Victory and great Success that at the last he may return home in Peace and Safety to thy Glory their Majesties Comfort his own Satisfaction and all the Nation 's happiness this we beg for the Merits of Jesus Christ Amen For Mercy to the whole Nation

Wednesday Morning DEliver me O Lord from the Evil Man and preserve me from the Wicked Man Which imagine mischief i● their Hearts and stir up stris● all the day long They have sharpened their Tongues like a Serpent Adders Poyson is under their Lips II. Keep me O Lord from the Hands of the Ungodly preserve me from the wicked Men which are purposed to overthrow my going The Proud have laid a s●are for me and spread a Net abroad with Cords yea and set Traps in my way III. I said unto the Lord thou art my God hear the Voice of my Prayers O Lord. O Lord God thou strength of my Health thou hast covered my Head in the day of Battle IV. Let not the Ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous Imagination prosper lest they be too Proud Let the mischief of their own Lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about A man full of Words shall not prosper upon the Earth Evil shall hunt the wicked Person to overthrow him The Prayer O Lord God the Strength of all those that depend upon thee deliver us from evil and wicked Men that neither their Examples may corrupt us nor their Counsels misguide us or their Mischief disturb our Safety II. But do thou O Lord cover our Heads in the day of Battle and Strife against all our Bodily and Ghostly Enemies that though they pursue us to overthrow us yet we may be safe on Earth under thy Favour and Almighty Protection and at the last being removed from all Fears and Dangers we may appear in thy sight amongst the Righteous for evermore Meditations for Wednesday Noon HEar my Prayer O Lord and consider my Desire Hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake And enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no one living be justified II. For the Enemy hath persecuted my Soul he hath smitten my Life down to the ground he hath laid me in the Darkness as the men that have been long dead Therefore is my Spirit vexed within me and my Heart within me is desolate III. Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works Yea I exercise my self in the works of thy Hands I stretch forth my Hands unto thee my Soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty Land The Prayer MOst Righteous Judge and dear Redeemer hear us for thy Truth and Mercies sake free us from the hainous Guilt of all our Sins and renounce those Punishments due to us for the same II. Enter not at any time into Judgment with us for in thy sight no Flesh can be justified by its own worthiness Fortifie our Souls with the Holiness of a lively Faith which worketh by Charity that at last we enter into thy Holy of Holies even Life Everlasting Amen Meditations for Wednesday Night HEar me O Lord and that soon for my Spirit waxeth faint Hide not thy Face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in thee is my Trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my Soul unto thee II. Deliver me O Lord from mine Enemies for I flie unto thee to hide me Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the Land of Righteousness III. Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy Righteousness sake bring my Soul out of trouble And of thy goodness slay mine Enemies and destroy all them that vex my Soul for I am thy Servant The Prayer BOW down thine Ear O Lord and hear my Complaint support my weak Spirit with thy Heavenly Grace which is sufficient for me Hide not the light of thy Countenance from me but replenish me with the Beams of thy Mercy and Goodness II. Direct me in the way that I should walk in instruct me to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken my Soul in thy Paths which lead to Life Eternal and so continue the Conduct of thy Blessed Spirit to me that it may never depart from me till I am brought out of this temporal World and am safely arrived at thy Spiritual Kingdom Amen Meditations for Thursday Morning PRaise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any Being will I sing praises unto my God O put not your trust in Princes nor in any Child of Man ●or there is no help in them For when the Breath of Man goeth out he shall turn again to his Earth and then all his Thoughts perish II. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the Hungry III. The Lord looseth Men out of Prison the Lord giveth Sight to the Blind The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the Righteous The Lord careth for the Strangers he defendeth the Fatherless and Widow as for the way of the Ungodly he turneth it upside down The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer GReat God who art King for everlasting world without end vouchsafe us thy Grace and assist us with thy ready help that we may fix all our hopes in thee for thou alone art able to grant Deliverance II. Lord feed our Souls and satisfie us with thy Salvation when we hunger and thirst after thee revenge our Cause when we suffer wrong and heal our back-slidings Enlighten our Darkness that we walk not in the shadow of Death and let thy hand of Providence take care of us in all our necessities that when our life is expired and we return to that Earth from whence we were taken we may reign with thee for evermore Meditations for Thursday Noon I Cryed unto the Lord with my Voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication I poured out my Complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble When my Spirit was in heaviness thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me II. I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no Man that would know me I had no place to flie unto and no man cared for my Soul I cried unto thee O Lord and said thou art my Hope and my Portion in the Land of the Living III. Consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O deliver me from my Persecutors for they are too strong for me Bring my Soul out of Prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the Righteous resort unto my Company The Prayer THou art our Place O Lord to flee unto and the only Sanctuary wherein is

Persecutions that ●…ere coming upon the Chur●…es of Christ which would ●…e so sharp and bitter that ●…e contemplation of them ●…d fetched those Tears from ●…s Eyes and that he hoped ●…e should not live to see it ●…ut possibly she might for it ●…as even at the door Therefore take heed says he that y●… be not found sleeping The same things he also r●…peated to the Lady Bysse 〈…〉 Wife to the Lord Chief B●…ron of Ireland but addin●… this Circumstance That 〈…〉 they brought back the King 〈…〉 might be delayed a little longer but said he it will s●r●… come therefore be sure to look th●… you be not found unprepared for it To conclude in the Wor●… of Dr. Bernard speaking 〈…〉 this excellent Person No●… howsoever I am far fro●… heeding of Prophecies ye●… with me it is not improbabl●… that so great a Prophet s●… sanctified from his Youth 〈…〉 so knowing and emine●… throughout the univers●… Church might have at som●… special times more than o●…dinary Motions and Impu●…ses in doing the Watch-man 〈…〉 part of giving warning o●… Judgments approaching The Spanish Inv●ion 1558. Gun powder Treason Nov 5. 1605. The Arrival of the Prince of Orange Nov. 5. 1688. The Thanksgiving for the Deliverance from the Spanish Ar●ada was August 7. 1558. their Fleet was 150 Ships and 65 Galleons which were to join the Duke of Parma who had 32 Ships of War 70 Flat-bottoms and 2●0 Boats which lay in Newport Haven with 2000 empty Cas●s to cho●k Havens and make Bridges To this Design the Pope contribute● a Million of Gold November the 5 1605. was our great Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot and ●e miraculous finding of it out was by a Letter sent to the Lord Mounteagle to advise him to take care of himself for the Parliame●● should receive such a Blow and not see who hurt them The Con●ir●●ors were Everard Digby Knight Robert Catesby Esq Ambrose Rockwood Esq Francis Tresham Esq Robert VVinter Esq Tho. Piercy Gent. Tho. VVinter Gent. John VVright Gent. Christ. Wright Gent. John Grant Gent. Robert Keys Gent. G●y Fa●x and Bates Catesby's Man Provisions for this horrid Design was 36 Barrels of Powder 500 Faggots and 1900 Billets November the 5. 1688 was our happy Deliverance from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power by the Arrival of the Prince of Orange who landed with a considerable Army at Brixam Key in Devonshire where the whole Country congratulated him and brought Plenty of Provisions and Necessaries for the S●diers Thanksgivings for God's wonderful Deliverances From the Spanish Invasion WE laud and magnifie thy holy Name for this wonderfull Deliverance wrought for our Ancestors which were surrounded with fear of Roman Slavery and Popish Usurpation which would have destroyed both Queen and Kingdom when their Gallies and Ships came to assault us with murthering Pieces and Instruments of Cruelty which none but Satan and themselves could invent as Whips to scourge us Seals to mark us and Fetters to manacle us II. They were full of Pride calling themselves Invincible and had hemm'd us in on every side trusting in their own Arm of Flesh and pursuing our ruine and destruction then O Lord thou didst awake as one out of sleep and as a Giant refreshed with Wine and smotest our Enemies in the hinder parts putting them all to confusion Blessed be thy Name for this and all other Mercies bestowed upon us and grant that we may never want thankfull Hearts to praise thee From the Gun-Powder Treason November 5th 1605. Blessed Lord whose Eye of Providence watched over us and didst discover to us those hellish Contrivances which were laid in the dark but not hid from thine All-seeing eye Rome's Factors were then busie in contriving to blow up the Bodies of our King and Nobles with a most barbarous and unnatural invention II. What had they done to them to be adjudged to so strange a Death and what had they done for thee to be so graciously preserved as we consider their inhumanity in laying their cruel project so we must acknowledge thy Goodness in revealing the same to whom be glory now and for ever Amen For our Deliverance from Popery Tyranny and Arbitrary Power O Eternal God who hast wrought so great a Deliverance to all thy People by raising up happy Instruments for thy Glory and our Peace and Safety even thy Servants our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady K. William and Q. Mary who like Moses stood in the Gap between us and Pharaoh's Cruelties II. Thou hast delivered us O Lord thou God of Mercy when we were even ready for destruction Tyranny and what else their Roman Malice could invent or slavish yoke have imposed upon us but blessed be thy holy Name that thou hast snatched us as a Brand out of the Burning and hast restored those good Laws and Liberties which our Forefathers l●ave enjoyed teach us to prize value this great Mercy that all Nations may say happy are the people that are in such a Case yea happy is the People whose God is their Lord. For the Relief of London-Derry in Ireland O Lord of Heaven and Earth who didst in thy great Mercy remember thy poor Servants when they were in trouble and besieged round about being in great necessity s ●race the Duke of Sc●●mberg The Valiant Governour Walker The Siege of London-derry 1688. The Irish and French Forces being leaded by the late King James laid close Siege to London-derry at which time Collonel Lundy and others 〈◊〉 driven away by fear they were destitute of a Governour the Town then consisting of about Nine thousand Fighting men they 〈◊〉 chose Col. VValker their Governour and preserved the Place couragiously enduring great extremity but at last they were supplie● with Provisions by way of the River and the Besiegers after great loss sustained drew off and left them August the 13th His Grace 〈◊〉 Duke of Schombergh l●nded his Forces in Ireland near Carrickfergus and reduced divers Places to obedience causing the French and Irish Army to retrea● Not long after Governour Walker safely arrived in England and waited upon their Majesties at Hampton-Court with an humble Address from the Governours Officers Clergy and Gentlemen in the City and Garison of London-Derry at which time His Majesty was pleased as a Mark of his Royal ●ounty to order him Five thousand Pounds with this Assurance That it should not at all lessen his Kindness to him and his Family for want of Food and other Necessaries thou didst in thy due time send them Relief and Succour else they had perished in their Affliction II. And what can we render O Lord sufficient for these things our best thanks we can pay O God are less than the least of all thy Mercies yet in the mean time we desire to acknowledge thine abundant Goodness and loving Kindness to us and to praise thy Name for evermore For the Gifts of God I yield thee all humble and hearty Thanks O mercifull God that by the

Death of thine only Son hast redeemed us from death to life and hast continually a care of us preserving us as the Apple of thine Eye from the dangerous Assaults of Satan and providest for us all things necessary that more Thanks and Praise is due unto thee than the Tongue of Men or Angels can declare II. Accept these my Praises and Thanksgivings O Lord Ibeseech thee and encrease in me a daily desire to praise thy Goodness acknowledging every good and perfect Gift to come from thee to whom with the Son and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for evermore Amen To God for all his Benefits Most merciful God we yield thee humble thanks for thy continual favour and kindness towards us thy poor and unworthy Creatures for whose Salvation when we were lost thou wert pleased even of thy mere Love to send thine only beloved Son Christ Jesus into the World taking humane Nature upon him and suffering most bitter pangs of Death upon the Cross to redeem us again to thy favour II. Such O Lord was thine unspeakable Love for which we are never able to pay the least recompence but give us O Lord thankfull and obedient hearts that we may yield thee praises not only with our Lips but in our lives not only in giving thy Son for us but in leaving unto us a continual remembrance of the same thine unspeakable Love thy Holy Gospel wherein consists the rule whereby we are directed and though Heaven and Earth pass away yet not one tittle of that shall decay or diminish for without which we should have been in our accustomed Ignorance accept us we beseech thee in thy Son our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Prayer before the following Advice to the besieged Souldiers in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and most Loyal and Valiant Commander Col. Walker O Most Eternal Lord God whose Providence never fails those who trust in thy Name and Word mercifully we beseech thee to cast down thy Eyes of Pity and Compassion upon us miserable Sinners which are here met together we do in all humility prostrate our selves before thy Divine Majesty beseeching thee to pardon all our Sins and help our Infirmities O Lord we are not able of our selves to do any thing but offend thee committing daily and hourly Sins without number but O Lord hear thy Son Christ Jesus for us and nail them to his Cross that they may never rise up in Judgment against us either to shame us in this World or condemn us in the World to come bury them in the bottomless Sea of thy Mercy and Forgetfulness that they may never appear before thee to hinder thy Favours unto us seal the remission of them to our Souls and Consciences that they may not disturb or distract us in our Devotions and Duty pour thy Grace and holy Spirit into us that may enable us to walk before thee in Holiness Righteousness and in Sobriety all the days of our lives Bless we beseech thee our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Katherine the Queen Dowager the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Bless the Archbishops and Bishops with the rest of the Dispencers of thy holy Sacraments and grant that the light of thy Gospel may never depart from us And Lastly we come unto thee for a Blessing upon our Governours Commanders and fellow Souldiers guide and conduct them in this Calamity fortifie them with Courage and Strength against our Romish Adversaries that thy Name may be glorified our Lives preserved and our Souls Eternally saved in the great day of the Lord Jesus when all flesh shall appear Grant that our Meeting at this time may be for the better and not for the worse to praise and glorifie thy holy Name in whose holy Name and Word we put up these our imperfect Prayers in that most absolute and perfect form of Prayer which Christ himself bath taught us Our Father c. Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Discourse by way of Advice to the besieged in London-Derry 2 Chron. 20. Chap. Verse 9. latter part of it Be not afraid nor dismay'd by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's THE Context runs thus And he said Hearken ye all Judah and ye Inhabitants of Jerusalem and thou King Jehoshaphat Thus saith the Lord unto you Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's These are the words of God which he commanded Jahaziel the Prophet to deliver to Jehoshaphat King of Judah When the Moabites and Ammonites came to make War against him to dispossess him of his Kingdom verse the 8th of this Chapter and may be a seasonable Text for this Auditory Our Sins indeed are many which have justly provoked God's heavy Wrath against us and our Enemies are very numerous which surround us therefore now let us cry mightily unto God earnestly beseeching him that he would pardon all our Sins blot out all our Iniquities and receive us graciously let us sincerely repent and be heartily sorry for our manifold Transgressions committed against him so shall we by his Divine Assistance be in a readiness to encounter with Roman Malice these Moabites and Ammonites who are Enemies to our Lives Religion Laws and Liberties and be animated with Courage to go out cheerfully against Rome's Force and Cruelties fighting manfully the Lord's Battel every one of us laying his hand upon his Heart with this comfortable Expression in our Mouths Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not ours but God's Servile Fear is the harbinger of the Guilty and a slavish timorousness belongs not to the Strong and Couragious but a God like Fear attends upon the Vertuous and produces Success in their Undertakings Holy Job that great Proficient in God's School and great Example of Christian Patience tells you Job 28. 28. The fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from Evil is Understanding This is the only supream Good and Fear which secures us from committing shameful Acts and creates a circumspection in our Lives for as the shadow of the Body is followed by the Sun so doth Glory attend Vertue in our progress to Christ. Let us then put our whole trust in God in this time of danger and take the Royal Prophets resolution Psal. 118. 6. Not to fear what man can do unto us but rather fear the Lord who pitieth those that fear him Psal. 103. 13. It is the Duty of every one of us to be circumspect in our Lives but more especially at this season and time of Affliction when the hand of God is stretched out against us when the Enemy waits even at our doors ready to devour us when they stand gaping ready to swallow us up quick and none of us can prognosticate how soon his