which are in Heauen haue mercie vpon me and be thou my mercifull mediator for me vnto thy Father that I may be saued O holy Ghost God conqual with the father the sonne haue mercie vpon me worke thy diume power in me thorow thy gracious mipiration Drame me vnto Iesus Christ that I may finde fanour and be saued Amen The second part As concerning my bodie that I bequeathe vnto the earth from whence it came My Consission I Knowledge and confese with all my heart that I am a sinner yea such a sinner as hath neede of the grace mercie and fauour of God My faith ioyned with hope I beleeue that the Lord will haue mercie vpon me for he hath first made me and if it shall please him he may saue me This I beleeue whether I liue or dye I am the Lords My hope I Hope that I shall find both grace and mercie for my sinnes of God the Father euen for Iesus Christes sake in him I beleeue he is my redeemer he liueth for euer and euer He maketh intercession for sinnes So this I know that now I am a corruptible body but I hope through Christ to rise an vncorruptible body Now a mortall bodie but through Christ and his merites I hope to haue though now an earthly bodie then an heauenly bodie For as many as shall be saued shall shine in the kingdome of God as bright as the Sunne This my faith and hope I lay vp in my minde the mind of my Soule trusting onely to be saued thorowe the merites of Iesus Christ God and man which is in Heauen From whence we looke againe the which shall change our vile bodie and make it like his owne most glorious bodie whereby he is ablel to subdue all things vnto himselfe O Christ haue mercie vpon mee thou hast redeemed mee O Christ saue me A Prayer for the Sicke OH how sicke am I My weakenesse increaseth more and more Lord be mercifull vnto me and giue mee grace pacientlie and thankefullie to beare the crosse and in the middest of this my sickenesse alwaies to say Thy will O heauenly Father bee done and not mine Another Prayer for the Sicke O Lorde Iesus Christ which art the onely health of all men liuing and the euerlasting life of them which dye in thy faith I wretched sinner giue submic my selfe wholy to thy most blessed will And I being sure that the thing cannot perish which is committed vnto thy mercie most humbly beseech thee O Lord to giue me grace that I may now willinglie leaue this fraile wicked flesh in hope of the resurrection which in better wise shall restore it to me againe I beseech thee O most mercifull Iesu Christ that thou wilt by thy grace make strong my soule against all temptations and that thou wilt couer and defend my with the Buckler of thy mercie against all the assaults of the Diuell I see and acknowledge that there is in my selfe no helpe of life and fasuation 〈◊〉 my considence hope and trust i◠in thy most mercifull goodnesse I haue no merites 〈◊〉 good workes which I may alleage before thée Of sinnes and euill works alas I see a grace heape but through thy mercie I trust to be of the number of them to whom thou wilt not impute their sinnes but take and accept me for righteous and iust and to be the inheritour of euerlasting glorie Thou O most mercifull Lord waste borne for my sake Thou diddest suffer both hunger and thirst for my sake Thou diddest preach and teach thou diddest pray and fast for my sake Thou didest all good woorkes and deedes for my sake Thou sufferedst most greeuous paynes and torments for my sake And finally thou gauest thy most precious body to dye and thy most blessed blood to be shed on the Crosse for my sake Now most mercifull Sauiour let all these things profite me which thou freely hast giuen me which hast giuen thy selfe for me let thy blood cleanse and wash away the spottes and foulenesse of my sinnes Let thy righteousnes hide and couer my vnrighteousnesse Let the merites of thy passion and blood be the satisfaction for my sinnes Giue me Lord thy grace that my faith and perswasion in thy blood wauer not in me but euer be firme and constant that the hope of thy mercie and life euerlasting neuer decay in me that Charitie waxe not colde in me finally that the weakenesse of my flesh be not ouercome with the feare of death Graunt me also O most mercifull Sauiour that when death hath shut vp the eyes of my bodie yet the eyes of my Soule may still behold and looke vnon thee and that when death hath taken away the vse of my tongue and speech yet that my heart may crye and say vnto thee O Lord into thy hands I giue and commit my soule Lord Iesu take my Spirit A thankes giuing to God for the departure of the faithfull out of this vvorld O How can we most louing Father render vnto thee sufficient thankes for thine inestimable goodnesse toward thy faithfull seruants Whom thou calling out of this wetched world vouchsafe to place in thy heauenly Ringdome among the glorious companie of thy holy Angels and blessed Saints O full precious is the death of the faithfull in thy sight Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord. For they are at rest from their painfull trauels and labour The soules of the righteous are in thy hand O God and the paine of death shall not touch them In the sight of the vnwise they appeare to dye but they are in peace They shine as the sparkes that runne through the red bush They glister as the shyning heauen They are as the starres world without end They are as the Angels of God They are clad with white garments and haue golden Crownes vpon their heads Tey doe seruice day and night before the glorious Throne of thy Diuine Maiestie They neither hunger nor thirst any more neither doth the Sunne or any heate fall vpon them for the Lambe which is in the middest of the Throne gouerneth them and leadeth them vnto the liuing fountaine of waters They followe the Lambe whithersoeuer he goeth They haue such ioyes as eye hath not seene nor eare hath heard neither is there any heart able to thinke them infinite and vnspeakeable are thy treasures O Lord which thou hast layde vp for them that depart in thy faith For these thy fatherly benefites toward the soule of the faithfull and for that it hath pleased thee to call this our Christian brother from this vale of miserie vnto thy heauenly kingdome we giue vnto thee most heartie thankes humbly beseeching thee that thou wilt take like care for vs and so gouerne vs with thy holy Spirit both in sicknesse and in health that we may liue a good and godly life in this present world and whensoeuer it shall be thy good pleasure to call vs hence we may with strong faith
then shall come vnto vs no sickenesse no neede no payne no kinde of euill to soule or bodie but whatsoeuer good we can wish that shall we haue and whatsoeuer we loath shall be farre from vs. O deare Father that we had faith to behold these things accordingly Oh that our hearts were perswaded thereof and our affections inflamed with the desire of them Then should we liue in longing for that which now we must lothe O helpe vs and graunt that we being ignorant of things to come and of the time of our death which to thee is certaine may so liue and finish our iourney here that we may be readie and then depart when our departing may make most to thy glorie and our comfort through Christ What is this life but a smoke a vapor a shadow a warfare a bubble of water a word grasse a flower That thou shalt dye it is most certaine but the time no man can tell when The longer in this life thou doest remaine the more thou sinnest which will turne to thy more paine By cogitation of death our mynds be often in a manner oppressed with darkenesse because we doe but remember the light of the bodie forgetting the light of the minde and for thy resurrection Hereto remember the good things that after this life shall ensue without wauering in certeintie of faith and so shall the passage of death be more desired It is like a sayling ouer the Sea to thy home and countrie It is like a medicine or purgation to the health of soule and bodie it is the best Phisition it is like to a womans trauaile For as the childe being deliuered commeth into a more large place then the wombe wherein it did lye before so mysoule being deliuered out of the bodie commeth into a much more larger and fayrer place euen into heauen A deuout prayer to be said daylie O Almightie and eternal God which vouchsafest that we as it were heaueuly Children should euery one of vs call thee our heauenly Father Graunt that among vs be purenesse and example of innocent life thy most holy name may be sanctified that all other Nations beholding our goodnesse and vertuous deedes that thou workest in vs may be stirred to hallowe and glorifie thee Graunt O Lord that the kingdome of thy grace and mercie may reigne continually in our hearts so that we may be worthie to be partakers of the Realme of glorie and maiestie Graunt that vnto the very death we refuse not to followe thy diuine will and that we according to the example of the celestiall Citizens agreeing together quietly vnited in spirite all controuersie in opinions layd apart the lustes of the flesh being subdued and the flattering assaultes of the world and the Deuill ouercome neuer wrastle against thy most holy will but obey it in al things Graunt O Lord for our bodie needefull sustenaunce that we may the more freely serue thee Giue vs we beseech thee O mercifull Father that Hearuenly bread the bodie of thy Sonne Iesus Christ the very foode and health of our soules giue vs the bread of thy diuine precepts that we may truely walke and liue after them Giue vs the bread of thy heauenly word which is the strong fortresse and sure defence of our Soules that we being well fed and silled with this foode may worthily runne to the celestiall feast where as is no hunger Graunt O Lord that we paciently beare and susfer our enemies and such as hurt vs and willingly to forgiue the offences committed against vs that so we may finde the Lord in forgiuing vs our trespasses milde and mercifull Graunt O Lord that we be not vtterly led into temptation that there by we should be lost But in all perilles of temptation and in the middest of the stormie tempests and tribulations let vs thy children perceiue and feele thy fatherly succour readie to helpe vs least that we be ouercome with the naughtie craftes and deceites of the tempter should be drawne into euerlasting destruction but when we be well assayed approoued and purged with the fire of temptation then let vs finish our course and so well and valiantly fight that we may for euermore liue with thee in that heauenly Citie where and against the which no manner temptation canpreuaile Finally graunt most mercifull Father that we through thy benigne goodnesse may be deliuered from all euils present and to come both in bodie and soule and that at the last that yoke of that foule feend being shaken off we may possesse the heritage of the heauenly kingdome which thy Sonne with his precious blood bought for vs thy children and there fore euer to haue the fruition of celestiall delectations accompanied with Angels and blessed Saints through the helpe benignitie and grace of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to whom and to thee our father and to the holy Ghost be all glorie and honour now and euer Amen Another Prayer O Heauenly father God almightie I pray and beseech thy mercie beningly to behold me thy vnworthy seruant that I may by thy gift of thy holy Spirit feruently desire thy kingdome that I may knowne thy will and worke thereafter Giue me O Lord wisdome Make me constant patient and strong in thee Keepe me Lord from the sleightie inuasion of the olde wilie Serpent Defend me from the counsailes and cursings of euill tongues let thy mightie arme be my shield against all the malignitie of the wicked world Remember not O Lord myne offences instruct prepare me to repent and to be sorie for my sinnes Make me to loue iustice and hate wrong to doe good and abstaine from all euils that I may be worthie to be called thy child To thee be honour and glorie for euer and euer Amen A deuout Prayer LORD hearken to my wordes consider the thought of my heart Behold how lowde I crye vnto thee let my iust prayer enter into thy cares which vnfeignedly commeth from my heart Heare me Lord for I am poore and destitute of mans helpe Take care for my Soule saue me thy Seruant which wholy trust in thee haue mercie vpon me O Lord for I will neuer cease crying to thee for helpe For thou art milde and more mercifull then any tongue can expresse as often as aduersitie assayleth me I will crye and call for helpe vnto thee I will call vpon thee in the day time and in the night my cry shall not be hid from thee O thou God of the heauens and maker of the waters and Lord of all creatures heare me a poore sinner calling vpon thee and putting my whole trust in thy mercie Haue mercie vpon me for thy manifold mercies sake forgiue me al myne offences Amen The Letanie O God the father of heauen haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father c. O God the sonne redeemer of the world haue mercie vpō vs miserable sinners O God the sonne c. spare vs good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast
in all our troubles and aduersities promising euen then to helpe vs when we feele our selues as it were swal owed vp of death and desperation we vtterly renounce all worldly confidence and flee to thy soueraigne goodnesse as our onely stay and refuge beseeching thee not to cal to remeÌ„berance our mauifold sinnes and wickednes whereby we coÌ„tinually prouoke thy wrath and indignation against vs neither our negligence and wickednesse which haue neither worthely esteemed nor in our liues sufficiently expressed the sweete comfort of the Gospell reuealed vnto vs but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Sonne Iesus Christ who by offering vp his body in sacrifiee once for all hath made a sufficient recompence for all our sins Haue mercie therefore vpon vs. O Lord forgiue vs our offences each vs by the â—oly spirit that we may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent for the same and so much the rather O Lord because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot praise thee nor call vpon thy name but the repenting heart the sorrowfull mind the conscience oppressed hungring and thirsting for thy grace shall euer set forth thy praise and glory And albeit we be but worms dust yet thou art our Creator and we be the workes of thy hands yea thou art our redeemer and we be the people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and we thine inheritance Correct vs not therefore in thine anger O Lord neither according to our desarts punish vs but mercifully chastise vs with a fatherly affection that all the world may knowe that at what time so euer a Sinner doth repent him of his sinne from the bottome of his hart thou wilt put away all his wickednes out of thy remembrance as thou hast promised by thy holy Prophets Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thée to make the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordeyned him the day to trauaile graunt O deare Father that we may so take our bodily rest that our soules may continuallie watch for the time that our Lord Iesus Christ shall appeare for our deliuerance out of this mortall life and in the me and season that we be not ouercome by any sautasies dreames or other temptations but fully set our mindes vpon thee loue thee seare thee and rest in thee in such sorte that our very sleepe also may be to the glorie of thy name Furthermore that our sleepe be not excesssiue or ouer much after the insatiable desire of the flesh but onely sufficient to content our weake nature that we may be better be disposed to liue in all godly conuersation to the glorie of thy holy name and profite of our Brethren thorow Iesus Christ our Lorde in whose name we make our humble petitions vnto thee as he hath taught vs saying Our father which art in Heauen c. Almighty and euerlasting God vouchsafe we beseech thee to grant vs perfect continuance in thy liuely faith augmenting and increasing the sâ—me in vs daylie vntill me grow to the full measure of our persectiotn in Christ whereof we make our confession saying I beleene in God the Father almightie c. The Lorde blesse vs and saue vs the Lord make his face to shine vpon vs and be mercifull vnto vs the Lord turne his fauourable countenance towards vs and grant vs his peace The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ the loue of God and the communion of the holy Ghost be with vs and remaine with vs for euer So be it VVhen a man is bound to vvarde any iourney THis our life most mercifull Lord is nothing els but a pilgrimage through-fare for we haue here no abiding or dwelling place We are come from thee and we must returne againe vnto thee But amongst or betweene all the traps assaults pits and snares which the Diuell hath layde out and spread abroad for vs blinded in sinne Vouchsafe thou O Lord Iesus Christ to leade vs with thy right hand for thou art a true trustie and a sure friend Open our eyes to the intent that we misse not the way which thou thy selfe art but leade vs through and by thy selfe vnto thy Father to the intent that all we may be made one with thee and him euen like as hou art one with him O most mercifull Lorde like as thou doest send thine holy Angels to be defenders of as many as serue please thee with a simple innocent and pure heart by the which they be led like as young children oren are lead of them which are elder and stronger than they And like as thou diddest vouchsafe to send thine Angell Raphal to be a guide vnto the Sonne of that rouerent man Toby Vouchsafe euen so O Lord to send vs the same Angell although we are not so worthie as the same Toby was that he may encourage and leade vs thorow that way which is not pleasant vnto vs but vnto thee So be it A Prayer for a Christian life MOst mercifull mightie God take away from vs all euill counsell and then our sinnes suffer vs not to run into an vngodlie and wicked life and sinally kéepe our minds far from the contempt of godlinesse and scorning of vertue and in the stead of those euils graunt that we may continuallie be occupied in thy law and sacred Scriptures that we be not caried about like the wirked as light dust and fruitles chaffe with euery blast of affection and Docirine but rather that we as trees planted by the water brookes induâ—d with the life of the spirite and faith may also bring foorth the fruites of good workes and that whatsoeuer we take in hand may prosper and tende to thy praise and glorie of thy name and furtherance of our saluation and at the last when the wicked shall all away in thy iudgement we may stedfasily stand and be made perfect through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer in distresse SEeing that O almightie God our wretch eduesh and pouertie is right greattherefore haue we very much neede of thy saiuation for se long as we now flee vnto theâ— to the intent thou shouldst be our speedie succour and assured defence we call to rememberance our most grieuous sinnes corrupt life and leaud behauiour which neither we wil hide or yet if we were willing thereto could keep the same secret froÌ„ thee Thou right well perceiuest al our naughtines which we truly acknowledge and confesse vnto thy diuine maiestie we haue grieuouslie sinned we haue done greatly amisse we haue bin marueilous disobedient very stubborne and exceeding wilful against thee who deserue farre more heynous displeasures then these which we now feele and suffer But bowe thou downe thy fauourable looke O excellent father and giue care vnto our feruent Prayerse haue compassion vpon vs that crie out daily vnto thee and lift vp our sorrowfull eyes and heauie mindes towards thy most excellent mercies seate hauing this assured confidence that thou art ready to
hurt nor hindered this day when we crie vnto thee constrained by present neede not greedilie crauing through vaine care against to morrow our dailie Bread our daily and necessarie foode and reliefe both bodily and ghostlie and espeiallie so that the spirituall foode of Christs flesh and his blood by dailie preaching of thy Gospell and the ministration of the Sacraments may replenish our heart and mindes with continuall remembrance of his death and passion dailie to be vsed for our necessarie and spirituall consolation Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. We feeling and knowing our own sinifulnes doe desire thy mercifull forgiuenes of our faultes and trespasses which we haue committed against thee so that we freely forgiuing al other that haue offended vs in any thing whatsoeuer it be may be sure that mercie springing in thee hath proceded vnto vs being graciously offered of thee hath bin thankfully receiued of vs and being charitably vsed of vs towards other shall most certainly bee confirmed and enlarged of thée towards vs so that by free mercie springing procéeding from thee all faults may be freely forgiuen Euen as those which other haue committed against vs so likewise those which we haue done against thee And leade vs not into temptation Suffer not the Deuill by the abuse of thy benefites to leade vs Cap\tiues into deceitful and damnable temptation drawing vs by daintie meates vnto greedie Gluetonie by money and rithes vnto vnsatiable couetousnes and by wealth and prosperity vnto pride and vaine-glorie and by all thy godly and gracious gifts vnto euery diuelish and abominable sinne But deliuer vs from euill Deliuer our goods from abuse our bodies from corruption our soules from damnation Deliuer vs by Christ Iesu from the bondage of sinne vnto the libertie of the Gospell so that from the danger of the diuell and all his temptation traming and inticing towards danmation we being deliuered may serue thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of our life For thine is the kingdome the power and glory for euer and euer Amen For such is thy riches and regiment power and authoritie praise and excellencie that whatsoeuer treasures lands and possessions might wisdome and superioritie dignitie honour and maieslie hath been is or shall be in any persons times and places the same of equitie dutie and necessitie begin continue and ende so as the Eternitie Veritie and Maiestie of thy onely kingdome power and glorie may best appeare and be knowne to be far past all creatures ability vnderstanding or capacitie in thee onely Lorde God of truth without beginning change or decay eternally yea euery other kingdome power and glory be but slender shadowes and shewes seruing for this transitoric time to make vs more mindfull and desirous of thy eternall kingdome power and glorie By reason whereof out hope and the promise of eternall saluation and glorie in Christ be Amen that is to say most certaine So be it ALmightie and euerlining God vouchsafe we beseech thée to graunt vs perfect continuance in thy liuely faith augmenting the same in vs daylie till wée growe to the full measure of our perfection in Christ whereof wée make our coufession saying The Crede of the Apostles I Beleeue in God the father Almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord. Who was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary Suffered vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from death He ascended into heauen And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almightie From thence shall he come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beléeue in the holy Ghost The holy eathelike Church The communion of Saints The forgiuenesse of sinnes The resurrection of the bodie And the life euerlasting Amen The Confession of the Christian faith I Beleeue and confesse my Lord God eternall infinite vnmeasurable incomprehensible and inuincible one in substance three in person Father Sonne and holy Ghost who by his almightie power and wisdome hath not onely of nothing created heauen earth and all things therein contained and man after his own Image that he might in him be glorified but also by his Fatherly prouidence gouerneth maintaineth preserueth the same according to the purpose of his will I beléeue also and confesse Iesus Christ the only Sauiour and Messias who being equall with God made himselfe of no reputation but tooke on him the shape of a seruant and became man in all things like vnto vs sinne except to assure vs of mercy and forgiuenesse For when through our Father Adams transgression we were become Children of perdition there was no meanes to bring vs from that yoke of sin and damnation but onely Iesus Christ our Lord who giuing vs that by grace which was his by nature made vs thorow faith the Children of God who when the fulnesse of time was come was conceiued by the power of the holy Ghost borne of the Virgine Mary according to the flesh and preached on earth the Gospell of saluation till at length by tyrannie of the Priests he was giltlesse condemned vnder Pontinus Pilaie then President of Iurie and most slaunderously hanged on the Crosse betwixt two theeues as a notorious trespasser where taking vpon him the punishment of our sinnes he deliuered vs from the curse of the lawe And for as much as he being onely God could not feele death neither being only man could ouercome death hee ioyned both together and suffered his humanitie to be punished with most cruell death feeling in himselfe anger and seuere iudgement of God euen as if he had been in the extreame torments of hell and therefore cried with a loude voyce My God my God why hast thou for saken me Thus of his free mercie without compulsion he offered vp himselfe as the onely sacrifice to purge the sins of all the world so that all other sacrifices for sin are blasphemous and derogate from the sufficiency hereof The which death albeit it did sufficiently reconcile vs to God yet the scriptures commonly do artribute our regeneration to his resurrection for as by rising again from the graue the third day he conquered death euen so the victorie of our faith standeth in his resurrection and therefore without the one we cannot feele the benefite of the other For as by death sinne was taken away so our righteousnesse was restored by his resurrection And because he would accomplish al things and take possession for vs in his kingdome he ascended into heauen to enlarge the same kingdome by the aboundant power of his spirit by whom we are most assured of his continuall intercession towards God the Father for vs. And although he be in heauen as touching his corporall presence where the father hath now set him on his right hand committing vnto him the administration of all things as well in Heauen aboue as in the Earth
riches so a man be content with that he hath For we brought nothing into the world and it is a plaine case that we carrie nothing out When we haue food and raiment let vs therewith be content They that will be rich fall into temptations and suares and into many foolish and noyseme lustes which drowne men in perdition and destrucion For Couetousnisse is the roote of all euil which while some lusted after they erred form the faith and tangled themselues with many sorrowes Deut. 6. These words which I commaunde thee this day shall be in thyne heart and thou shalt whet them in thy Children and shalt talke of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou walkest by the way and wheÌ„ thou liest downe and when thou risest vp and thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine head And they shall be papers of remembraunce betweene thine eyes and thou shalt write them vpon the posses of thy house and vpon thy gaies Deut. 3. Take heede and heare all these words which I commaund thee that it may go wel with thee and with thy Children after thee for euer when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God Deut. 6. See thou do that which is right and in the sight of the Lord that thou mayst prosper Deut. 12. He shal not de after al these things that we do here this day euery man what see moth him good in his owne eyes but whatsoeuer I commaund you take héeâ—â—e do and put nought thereto nor take ought thereiroÌ„ Deuter. 27. Curied bee he that maintaynech not all the words of the law to do them Galat. 3. Christ hath deliuered vs from the curse of the law in as much as he was made accursed for vs for it is written Cursed is euery one that hangeth on trée that the blessings of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Iesus Christ that we might receiue the promise of the Spirit through faith Ierem. 31. This is the Testament that that I wil make with the house of Israel After those dayes say the Lord I will put my Lawes in their minds and in their hearts I wil write them and their sinnes and iniquities I wil no more remember And I will be with my people The svveete and louing promises of almightie God in such as keepe his Commaundements Deut. xxviij IF thou hearken diligently vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to obserue and doe all his Commaundements Blessed shalt thou be in the towne and blessed in the fields Blessed shall be the fruite of thy bodie the fruite of the ground and the fruite of thy Cattell the fruite of thyne Oxen and the flockes of sheepe Blessed shall thy Barnes be and thy siore blessed shalt thou be both when thou goest out and blessed when thou commest in The Oration of Iob in his most grieuous aduersitie and losse of goodes Iob. 1. NAked came I out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I turne againe and the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done now blessed be the name of the Lord. A Prayer in prosperitie I Giue thee thankes O God Aloughtie which not onty hast indued me with the giftes of nature as reason power and strength but also hast plentifully giuen me the substance of this world I acknowledge O Lord that these are thy gifts and confesse with holy Saint Iames that there is no perfect nor good gift but it commeth from thee O Father of light which giuest freely castest no man in the teeth I acknowledge with the Prophet Agge that gold is thine and Siluer is thine and to whome it pleaseth thee thou giuest it to the godly that they may be the disposers and distributers thereof and to the vngodly to heape vp their damnation with all Wherefore my most mercifull God I humbly beseech and desire thee to frame in me with the holy Spirit a faithfull heart and readie hand to distribuce these thy good gifts accoding to thy will and pleasure that I treasure not vp heere where theeues may rob and moths corrupt but to treasure vp thy heauenly kingdome where neither Theefe may steale nor moth defile to myne owne comfort whom of thy mercie thou hast promised to reward therfore to the good example of the humble and meeke of the Congregation and to the glorie of thy name To whome with thy Sonne and holy Ghost be al honor and praise world without end Amen A godly prayer to be sayd in thy aduersitie and trouble O Lord GOD without whose will and pleasure a Sparrowe doth not fall on the ground saeing it is thy will and permission that I should be in this miserie and aduersitie and séeing also thou doest punish mee with aduersitie and trouble not to destroye mée and cast me away but to call me to repentaunce and saue mee for whom thou doest loue him doest thou chasten Furthermore seeing afflictions and aduersitie worketh patience and who so patiently beareth tribulation is made like vnto our Sauiour Christ the head Finally seeing that in all tribulation and aduersity I am in assurance of comfort at thy gracious hands for thou commaundest me to call vpo thee in time of tribulation and hast promised to heare and succour me grant me therefore O almightie God and mercifull Father in all trouble and aduersitie to be quiet without impatience and mururing without discouraging and desperation to praise and magnifie thee to put my whole trust and confidence in thee for thou neuer forsakest them that trust in thee but workest all for the best to them that loue thee and seeke the glorie of thy name Tot hee he glocie for euer So be it A prayer to be sayd before the receiuing of the Communion O Father of mercie and God of all consolation seeing all creatures doe knowledge and confesse thee to be their gouernour and Lord it becommeth vs the workemanship of thine owne handes at all times to reuerence and magnifie thy godly Maiesti e First for that thou hast created vs to thine owne Image and similitude but chiefly because thou hast deliuered vs from that euerlasting death and damnation into the which Sathan drewe mankinde by the meanes of sinne from the bondage whereof neither man nor Angell was able to make vs free but thou O Lord rich in mercie and infinite in goodnesse hast prouided our redemption to stand in thine onely and welbeloued sonne whom of very loue thou diddest giue to be made man like vnto vs in all things sine xcepted that in his bodie he might receiue the punishment of transgression by his death to make satisfaction to thy iustice and by his resurrection to destroy him that was the author of death so to bring againe life to the world from which the whole spring of Adam was most iustly exiled O Lord we acknowledge that no creature was ble to comprehend the length and the breadth the deepenesse and