the whole world thus From pestilence famine and war from earth-quakes inundations and great fires from the plagues of immoderate rains and droughts from corrupting winds and blastings from thunder lightning and tempests from epidemicall and sharp diseases and from suddain death Deliver the whole world good Lord From private interpretations of Scriptures from innovations in holy things from strange doctrines from doating about questions from heresies schisms and scandals publick and private Deliver thy whole Church good Lord From the Priesthood of Micah and Jeroboam from the combination of Judas Iscariot and Simon Magus from the doctrins of the unstable and the unlearned from the pride of novices and from people that strive with the Priest Deliver this Church good Lord From forain invasion and civil insurrection from displacing good Magistrates and exalting bad from the massacre of Athaliah and from the bloodinesse of Herod Deliver this nation good Lord From the Anarchy of Corah and Dathan from the tyranny of Ashur and Achab from the dangerous counsil of Achitopel and the foolish counsil of Zoan from the Statutes of Omri and the Judgements of Jesabel from the floods of Belial and from the plagues of Peor Deliver the state of this Nation good Lord From the pride of the Amorite from the envy of the Hittite from the anger of the Perizzite from the gluttony of the Gergashite from the wantonnesse of the Hivite from the worldlinesse of the Cananite and lukewarmnesse of the Jebusite Deliver this City good Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen In whose blessed name and words c. To the condemned to dye YOur time is short therefore my discourse to you shall not be long not many dayes betwixt you and death and therefore not many words lest I keep you from the thought of death I dare not be so unchristian as to think you prepare not your selves for the last fatal stroak and therefore one onely prayer for you from me if you have not a better from others for your selves O God! most powerfull yet most pitifull by thy Power preserve them that are appointed to dye and redeem them from the sentence of death which is past upon them if it may stand with thy Goodnesse But if thy Providence hath appointed this time for their period and this way for their dissolution yet by thy pity save their souls from eternal death and grant them all those graces which are necessary for their salvation Remember not their ignorances Forget the sins of their youth and Forgive the sins of their age Give them a sight of all their sins Give them a sense of all their sins and true repentance to bewail them Give them a sight of all thy Promises Give them a sense of all thy Promises and true faith to apply them Suffer not their Ghostly enemies to assault them to any present desperation for their former presumptions against thy Justice Send thy holy Angels to take their souls as they did the soul of Lazarus and carry them into Abrahams bosome and let thy everlasting Gates be open to receive them for his sake who by overcoming the sharpnesse hath opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Beleevers Make keep their senses intire their understandings right their penitence unfeigned their hope well grounded their faith firm and their charity perfect Give them ô give them a quiet and joyfull departure by carrying their eyes back unto Jesus who died for them and forward to those Joyes which are purchased for them by the life and death of Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed Name and words I further call upon thee as he hath taught me saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. Or if any sin lies heavy upon thy soul and thou canst not have those assistances thou desirest then confess thy sins and comfort thy soul in this or such a kind of Devotion as this Behold ô God! I was conceived in sin Psal 51. and brought forth in iniquity and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour was conceived by the Holy Ghost Luc. 1. and born in innocency not for himself but me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have discoursed with the Devil Gen. 3. and at his temptations have tasted the forbidden fruit and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour wrestled with and overcame the Devil for me Mat. 4. for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But I have committed all sin and kept the poyson of Asps under my lips Psal and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour did no sin 1 Petr. neither was any guile found in his lips for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have fulfilled the will of the flesh too Psal and done no good and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour fulfilled thy will Joh. and did all good for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have defiled my body Gen. as Onan by Pollution if not as Judah by Fornication Gen. if not as David by Adultery 1 Sam. 11. if not as Ammon by Incest if not as the Sodomites by Bestiality and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviour offered his Body to the knife of Luc. 2. Circumcision to the water of Baptisme Mat. 3. to the Curse of the Tree to the Death of the Crosse and all this to expiate the sins of my body for which Philip 2. My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But mine hands have been lifted up against Heaven and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours hands in Heaven are as upon the Crosse they were stretched out to embrace me for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But my feet my very feet have been swift to shed the blood of Revenge and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours feet were nail'd to shed the blood of Attonement for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my heart my inmost and remotest heart hath been filled with evil imaginations and that continually and therefore I dare not but continue to pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours Heart was pierced to offer up the blood of satisfaction for the sins of my heart for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my soul my once most precious soul I have defaced by all manner of ungodlinesse and therefore I pray God he mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I yet
mercy upon me The Ship that I am now in is but a vain thing to save a man and that Pyrates may not board us that windes and waves may not drown us that Infidels may not captivate us Have mercy upon us That thâ— Devil may not infect us That we may be constant in our Religion That we may be true and just in our dealings That in all places we may demean our selves as the Professors of Christ and give no occasion to the Adversary to speak evil Have mercy upon us That the great Leviathan may not seize upon our souls as the Whale did upon Jonas his body for sins we stand guilty of Have mercy upon us and blot out all our offences In a Storm O God! who didst save Noah and his Family in the Aâ—k from perishing by water Help us or else we perish O God! who didst hear the prayer of thy Prophet from the bottom of the Sea and our of the belly of Hell Hear us and help us else we perish O God! who hast commanded and raised the stormy winde which lifteth up the waves of the Sea Help us else we perish O God! these winds and these waves mount us up to Heaven and bring us down again to the depth and melt our souls Help us else we perish O God! we reel to and fro and stagger like drunken men and are at our wits end Help us else we perish Our sins have raised thy Anger O God! and thy Anger hath raised these storms In justice thou mayest deal with us as thou didst with Pharaoh and the Egyptians but we beseech thee to deal with us in mercy as with Moses and the Israelites in the red Sea Cast our sins into the bottomlesse Sea of thy mercy Drown them in the red Sea of Jesus Christs blood and as he did rebuke the waves and the Sea so doe Thou turn this Sea into a Calme and bring us to our desired Haven Spare us a little longer before we goe hence and be no more seen Guide us in this whole voyage by thy Power Govern is with thy Mercy Return us with thy Grace that we may give up our lives in the Land where we received them Or if thou hast 〈◊〉 appointed us unto deathâ— prepare us for death in the full remission of our Sins in the free justification about Persons in the fruiâ—full sanctification of our remaining Daiâ—s and in the future glorâ—fication of our Souls through Jesus Christ Amen In whose Name c. After the Storm That thou hast heard us from above and drawn us out of many waters My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord That thou hast delivered us from all our Feaâ—s and hast not suffered the water-floods to over whelm us nor the deeps to swallow us up My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord That thou â—ast shewn us thy w 〈…〉 in the deep and 〈◊〉 delivered us from death by preserving us in the ship and commanding the waves to be quiet and the winds to be still My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord That 〈◊〉 hast brought me 〈◊〉 to the shoar comforted me with the sight and life health if my friends My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord At thy Return And now what shall I render unto thee ô Lord for all thy benefits My soul and body I dedicate unto thee and beseech thee to consecrate them unto thy self They have been washt in the waters of the Sea oh now wash them in the laver of Regeneration They have tasted the saltness of the Sea oh let them now taste the Merits of my Saviour and then my soul shall never consent again to sin my body shall never again commit sin And that this may not prove presumption but that I may bring my promise into performance Be 〈…〉 O God! with the earnestnesse of my soul upon the kâ—ees of my body I beg thy assistance â—nd thâ— graces of 〈◊〉 holy Spirit that I mâ—y conq 〈…〉 s in he commanding power of sin and never again obey it the condemning guilt of sin and never despair under it And this for the bitter Agony and precious death â—f my Lord Saviour Jesus Christ Amen In whose blessed Name and words I further call upon thee saying Our Father c. The Sea-mans Character IN him I see a warrantable a dangerous a gainful and an honourable Calling so warrantable that Christ of his twelve Apostles chose four Sea-men Andrew Peter James and John so dangerous that there is never above a foot and half betwixt him and death which made one Poet say Ille robur c. He had an heart of oake that first adventured to Sea and another Aut insanit c. He is either a mad-man or a begger or desirous to die that goes to Sea onely they are so happy in this danger that they see Gods wonders in the deep and give him thanks when they are by him brought unto the haven so gainful that Solemons good huswife is compared to a Merchants Ship that brings riches from a far Countrey so honourable that of old the merchants of Tyre were called Princes and of late years those of Genoa Venice and the Low-Countries are arrived so high that a great part of the world envies them the rest admires them to them we are beholding for Balme from Gilead for Incense from Sheba for Gold from Ophir for Cedar and Firr from Tyre for Gumms and Spices from India and somewhat more than ordinary there is in this Calling since Christ hath graced it with the immaterial letters of his own name The Travailer I Am now taking a journey by land whether for the necessity of businesse or the visiting of my friends or the wooing of a wife I need not scruple my self so I am sure it is not for vanity or sin I may pray God for his protection and thus I addresse my self to his Throne of Grace O most gracious God! who didst protect thy servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob in their several journeys and gavest thy servant Tobias a convoy of Angels to conduct and bring him back again conduct me also in this my journey by thy Angels that I may be safe from the violence of Thieves and guide me by thy spirit that I may be safe from the assaults of those great Thieves of my Soul the Flesh the World and the Devil against the World give me the staffe of faith against the Devil give me the bag of charity against the Flesh give me the bottle of tears that as a Pilgrime I may not be cumbred with any thing of impediment but only furthered with all things of emolument and in every step of this journey remember my great journey from Earth to Heaven and keep such an even pace in the path of Grace that thou mayest return me back from this journey to my home receive me at the end of that journey to thy City of Glory for his sake who is the way the Truth and the life Jesus Christ In
whose blessed name and words I further call upon thee c. At thy Return O most mercifull God! That many have miscarried in their travails I hear and know some in their purses some in their lives that I am returned safe in both and injured in neither I feel and know and know no cause of it but thy providence and therefore know my self bound to acknowledge the duty of my thankfulnesse to that providence of thine which I doe and ever will blesse not onely for this but for all the preservations of my whole life and consecrate the remainder of my whole life to thy service wherein I beseech thee so to blesse me in my whole race upon earth that I may blesse thee in the long race of eternity in heaven for his sake who took his journey from heaven to earth and returned again from earth to heaven to prepare a place for me and now sits at thy right hand to intercede for me Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen In whose blessed name and words c. The Travailers Character HE is an honest and a wise man h◠never goes on foot but when he wants an horse nor doth he ever ride but when he hath businesse he spends like himself little or much nor doth he make much account of his expences for he laies up that before he finds or is forc'd occasions to use it if he travails with safety and returns without danger his first salutation is Gratias De◠The Soldier SOme Phanaticks in the world have questioned the lawfulness of my calling But I have Gods word for my warrant and Gods servants for my pattern Gods word sayes when thou goest out with thin◠Host Deut. 23 or when thou goest to war and that very word when doth suppose it and sure I am Gods word doth not suppose any thing which is unlawful As Gods word so his servants too warrant it yea and his choicest servants Abraham Joshua Debora Sampson Gideon David they were all warriers they waged war some of them offensive some of them defensive and therefore I need not doubt of the lawfulness of my Calling all the doubt is in resolving these Cases of Conscience Whether I am lawfully called to this lawful Calling How I may be assured that I am lawfully called and may with a safe conscience take up and make use of these weapons And that being done I thus addresse my self to Jehovah the Lord of Hosts O Almighty God! who hast styled thy self a man of war and hast now called me to be a man of war I beseech thee teach my Hands to War and my Fingers to Fight give unto me and to every one of my Fellow Soldiers the strength of Sampson the courage of David and the wisedome of Solomon that we may undermine all the attempts and overthrow all the plots and overcome all the Gyants that fight against thy Truth yet even in the heat of Fury give us pity that we may rather spare than spoile and while we gird our selves with Armour to resist these Enemies of ours doe thou put upon us thy whole armour that we may resist that enemy of mankind and quench all the fiery darts of the Devil goe thou forth with us against them that are come without thee against us animate our and abate their courage confound their devices but convert their souls and because death is before our eyes give us grace to be mindful of it and prepared for it that while we fight against them we may also fight the good fight against all our ghostly enemies and receive a Crown of righteousnesse Take our Bodies into thy protection and defend us take out souls into thy tuition and sanctifie us that though we return not home we may be received into heaven through Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed name c. The Soldiers Character HE is the Father of Peace and Mother of Patience his subtilty begets peace his magnanimity nurses patiences in both he is the founder and supporter of Kingdomes If he be conquered he sowes patience if he conquer he reaps peace in That he founds in This he supports the Kingdome if he be able to second the peace of victory with the grace of humility he is the breeder of all virtue and the bane of all vice for then good lawes are put in execution and bad men in the house of correction so necessary he is in peace that else we lose it so necessary in war that else we have no hope of it so necessary in both that no Kingdome can subsist long without him if you chance to see him you see a head quick of wit a tongue full of eloquence an eye of vigilance a face of curtesie a hand of bounty and an heart of valour and for his good parts say God blesse him so that he remember and practise his lesson Neminem concutit eneque calumniamini The Trades-mans Devotion THis Calling is of a large extent For the extent of Trades is very large so many several Trades as there are so many several callings to those Trades there are too The best marke whereby to know the lawfulness of a Trade is To find a ground for it in Scripture or if humane Inventions have found out some Trades that the Scipture gives no ground for yet if the Scripture forbids it not the Trade is lawfull and a man may lawfully make use of it v.g. There is no mention made of a Chimney-sweeper in the word of God yet though there were nothing conducing to this Trade This Trade notwithstanding is lawfull because it is not forbidden whereas on the other side The Trades of Usury and Pawn taking are directly forbidden in the word of God especially the latter The taking of such things to pawn as are necessary for livelyhood and subsistence But I thank God my Profession is not forbidden for I am a Merchant I am a Mercer I am a Taylor I am a Carpenter c. and therefore I may safely use it and that I may use it honestly I pray O God! who for the sin of Adam hast appointed that every man shall earn his living by the sweat of his brows and shall eate his bread in the sweat of his face and hast also forbidden that man to eate who will not work and to this end hast ordained several Callings to some whereof every particular man should apply himself whereby with thy blessing he should provide for his family and posterity and amongst all hast called me to this Trade and course of life _____ and herein hast promised to bless my honest labours and endeavors I beseech thee that I may comfortably and contentedly undergoe it without grudging thereat as at some uneasie burthen driving not onely at mine own private gain but also at the publique good not seeking Riches by wronging of others by false weights short measures or deceitfull work Be such thoughts and things ô God! ever far from me but onely seeking a competency and honest
hope to have Because my Saviours soul descended victoriously to trample upon the enemies of my soul for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But yet in my Body I can see nothing but wounds in my soul nothing but soars in my life nothing but sins and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I yet hope to have Because in my Jesus I see balme enough to cure my wounds in thy Christ I see unction enough to heale my soares In his life obedience and in that obedience merit enough to pardon my sins In his death patience and in that patience redemption enough to save my soul In his blood innocence and in that innocence satisfaction enough to cure my wounds to heal my sears to pardon my sins to save my soul in his Descent Humility in his Resurrection and Ascension Hope in his Intercession Comfort for he is now at thy right hand to make intercession for me and for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But yet but yet I have trampled that blood under foot I have crucified my Jesus afresh and therefore dare not but pray afresh God be mercifull to me a sinner But yet but yet but yet I am the greatest sinner upon the face of the whole Earth for who or what man or devil durst to doe what I have done I have broke all thy commandements I have broken all my vows for better obedience and that even to this moment of my life the very last moment of my life and therefore will pray so long as life doth last God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because that saying which is worthy of all acceptation is believed by me and I desire I may believe it to the very last minute Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners even my self the chiefest of sinners for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord And now most gracious God! I beseech thee to accept of my resolutions and to accomplish them in my true though weak and late endeavours and look upon me nor as I am in my self but as I am in thy Sen washed washed in his Baptism as well from my actuall trangressions I have committed since as from my original corruption I stood guilty of before I was baptized look upon me ô my God! as I am in thy Son clothed clothed with his righteousnesse for his love clothed himself with the imputation of my wickednesse and doth not thy gift of faith cloth me with the imputation of his righteousnesse I doe believe the one That he came into the world and I desire to believe the other That he came into the world to save me for I am a sinner the chief of sinners look upon me ô my God! as I am in thy Son healed healed by his stripes for the bled to save the whole Body the Church and of that body I am a member and doe not ô God! doe not suffer any member of thy Sons body to perish look upon me ô my God! as I am in thy Son reconciled and at peac with thee Rom 5.1 for being just fied by faith I have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Look upon me so ô God! and thy baptism shall cleanse me cleanse me as well from future filth as from passed guilt look upon me so ô God! and thy other blessed Sacrament which I have now or shall by and by receive received shall preserve me unto everlasting life otherwise I dare not look upon thee but in the Face of Jesus Christ and otherwise I beseech thee look not upon me but through the merits of Jesus Christ in whose blessed name and presence I promise thee new and better obedience if I live and for whose blessed sake and merits I beg thy assistance that I may have victory over sin victory over the commanding power of it and never again obey it in the lusts of my mortal body while I live nor never despaire under the condemning guilt of it when I dye but now while I live and then when I dye be cured of all the stings I have received from the fiery Serpents of the World the Devil and mine own flesh by fixing the eyes of my faith upon the true brasen Serpent Jesus Christ Amen In whose blessed name and words I conclude my prayer and life in that most perfect form of prayer which he hath taught me in his holy Gospel saying when yee pray say Our Father which art in Heaven c. To my Benefactors YOu are blessed men so the Psalmist tells you Psal 41.1 Blessed is the man that considers the poor and needy So my saviour tels you Come ye blessed of my Father For yee gave me meat when I was hungry Mat 25. ye visited me when I was in pâ—ison So St. Paul tells you It is a better thing to give than to receive Such blessed men I have hitherto met with in my hunger in my thirst in my mprisonment in my nakednesse Their blessednesse hath blessed me and they have made themselves more blessed by the law of beneficence which is they forget their charity But I may not make my self cursed by forgetting my duety in the law of gratitude No I will remember my Duty by remembring God not to forget their labor of love because they have not forgot to doe good to them that are in bonds and particularly to my self the worst and unworthiest of the rest To you my Benefactors I say Be not weary of well doing You shall reap if you faint not To God I pray Reward them seven-fold ô God! with Grace and Plenty here with Glory and Eternity hereafter From Him I assure you of both if you add but your own Faith to the Devotion of your Beadsman with whom Vindicta oneri Gratia in quaestu habetur FINIS