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B08144	The devotions and formes of prayer, daily vsed in the king of Svvedens army: being the first part of our intended booke concerning the Svvedish discipline; religious, civill, and military..		1632 (1632)	STC 23519.5; ESTC S126259	13,095	47

same purpose ALmightie and everlasting God Creator of Heaven and Earth we thy poore children doe from the bottome of our hearts in the name of thy beloved Sonne Iesus Christ entreat thee that by the power of thy Spirit thou wouldst be pleased to direct thine owne Christian Church with all the true servants of it that with constancy they may cleaue unto thy Word so increasing in faith hope charitie and patience unto to the end that they may be saved Vouchsafe thy divine grace also unto all Christian Kings Princes and Governours and especially the King our Soveraigne Lord and to all their Counsellours and chiefe Officers that they may so rule their Subjects thy people well and according to thy good pleasure as that peace good dealing and righteousnes may be cherished troubles injustice and all wickednesse may be banished and quite taken out of the way Looke mercifully upon our enemies and upon all those that persecute us cause that both they and we may seriously repent us of our sinnes grant them and us and all the whole Christian world such a minde to the loue of peace that we may serue thee O holy God in all pietie and honestie Comfort moreover all those that are afflicted poore sicke sorrowfull distressed captiues troubled in minde those that suffer persecution or temptation that they may beare the crosse patiently and obtaine at last a happie issue out of all their troubles Blesse the fruits of the earth also unto us for the necessary nourishment of our bodies and preserve them from all danger and ill weather And especially be thou present with us in this our expedition pardon our sinnes and mercifully turne away from us these punishments which we haue deserved Keepe safe moreover our Lord the King from all dangers both of soule and body preserue all his Captaines Commanders higher and lower together with his whole Army and our fellow-Souldiers Grant us O Lord our God unanimous and sincere minds wise direction happie proceedings and our desired end in all our actions and endevours So as may best make to the glory of thy holy Name the quietnesse peace comfort joy and happinesse finally both temporall and eternall of our selues Countrey and all these afflicted Christians which professe the Orthodox and true faith Shew us some token for good Psal 86.17 that they which hate us may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen us and comforted us These blessings that thou wouldest vouchsafe unto us we thy poore children entreate thee humbly by the death passion of thy onely Sonne Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth with thee world without end Amen Another Prayer to the same purpose OMnipotent and eternall God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Creator and preserver of all things most humbly we entreate thee together with thy beloved Sonne and holy Spirit that thou wouldest be pleased to be favourable unto us even for the merits of thy Sonne Iesus Christ whom in thy wonderfull counsell thou hast given us to be a Sacrifice for our sinnes and whom thou hast appoynted to be our Advocate and Mediator that by Him thou mightest expresse thy justly conceived anger against the sinnes of the world and thy mercies towards us Sanctifie Lord and guide us by thy Holy Spirit gather governe and preserue thy Christian Church giue us thy grace that according unto what thou hast in thy holy Word prescribed us we may liue holily and unblamedly in this present world Preserve our Lord the King The Queene of Swedens name is Maria Eleonora sister unto George William now Marquesse Elector of Brandenburg This young Lady their Daughter being the onely childe of the King of Sweden now liuing is named Christina who was by the States of Sweden in the Parliament of Stockholme An. 1627. received for their Queene in case the King should dye without other Issue our soveraigne Lady the Queene their royall Daughter and all the regall Family unto the glory of thy Name and the generall comfort and protection of us all Grant us a good government in the Common-wealth and whatsoever els is necessary for our wel-being Peace namely a happie government with a good and an honest neighbourhood Blesse finally our counsells our enterprises and that through Iesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Spirit one God true and coequall Amen Another Prayer to the same purpose MOst mercifull God and heavenly Father wee giue unto thee all thankes for those thy benefits which untill this day thou out of thy Fatherly goodnesse hast bestowed upon us And first of all for that thou hast redeemed us by thy Sonne and hast in thy Word revealed him unto us in whom thou offerest remission of sinnes righteousnesse and everlasting life unto all men that with a penitent heart and true faith embrace it Preserue we beseech thee pure and uncorrupt thine owne holy Word Sacraments in these dangerous times against all Hereticks and false Teachers Especially against the Papists who at this present with many bloudy slaughters and inhumane tyranny doe like ravening Wolues roaring Lyons undeservedly scatter and devoure thy poore Christian flooke Looke downe O Lord upon the miserable condition of thy people refraine the insolency of their enemies hinder thou their bloudy purposes that so they may perceiue that thou thy selfe fightest for thy holy Church nor wilt giue it for a prey unto them Next O Lord pray we for all those Deputies of thine to whom thou hast committed the government of the Cōmon-wealth and the sword of justice For our own King first of all whom thou in mercy hast set over us to be our head and protector Preserue his Majestie from all perills as well secret as open grant prosperitie of successe unto him victory and deliverance against the enemies of his person and Kingdome Defend him Lord with the strength of thy right hand in this present and dangerous expedition which for the safetie of his owne Kingdome and for the obteyning of a good Peace he hath undertaken and graunt that the Warres being brought unto a happie end both himselfe and his whole Army may safely returne againe into their owne Countries Nor lesse earnestly doe wee recommend unto thee our Soveraigne Lady the Queenes Majestie with her royall Daughter Blesse Lord both him and her and keepe them both with thy Fatherly goodnesse and mercy Wee recommend unto thee in like manner the Right Honourable the privie Counsellours and chiefe Magistrates of his Kingdome so governe and direct them all with thy Holy Spirit that they may preferre thy glory before all and with an honest and a good heart study the prosperitie both of King and Kingdome Pray we also for his Majesties Army and Navy and for all his Mettall mynes and all things else which may be beneficiall unto the Cōmon-wealth and commodious unto the Subject Turne away for thy Christs sake what ever may eyther destroy or endanger them

THE DEVOTIONS AND FORMES OF PRAYER DAILY VSED IN THE KING OF SVVEDENS ARMY Being the first part of our intended Booke concerning the SVVEDISH DISCIPLINE Religious Civill and Military The Reason for our publishing this by it selfe wee desire the Reader to looke for in the Epistle LONDON Printed for Nathanaell Butter and Nicholas Bourne 1632. ¶ The Stationer to the Reader Favourable and judicious THat having beene heretofore by promise engaged to giue you all the three parts of the Swedish Discipline wee are heere enforced to present you with the first onely and that dismembred from the other two We humbly desire you to accept of this fayre excuse for it T is done to prevent your being abused by another who ayming as may be suspected more at his owne profit than the benefit of his Reader vpon hope of venting his Booke vnder that most acceptable name of this victorious King is about to thrust these following Prayers vpon the world barely taken and perchance not so literally translated out of the Booke called Arma Suecica One thing or two besides the vselessenesse of the volume he is about to Print it in over-slipped in his Translation wee here thinke fit to tell you of which vpon sight of some of the printed sheetes the Copie having by himselfe beene before sold vnto vs we discovered First That his Translator hath no where observed how many sentences in these Prayers which are taken out of the Common Prayer Booke vsed in the Kingdome of Sweden are the same with those in our English Common Prayer Booke the reason of it being for that both our Common Prayer Booke and theirs were taken out of one and the same Treasury of Antiquitie The second omission of his Translater is this That he hath not beene diligent enough to turne vnto those places of holy Scripture out of which the most of these Prayers are gathered nor hath observed the allowed and best Translation of our Church but done it in his owne phrases And that our Booke hath beene carefull in this poynt wee appeale to the Scriptures quoted in the Margent which is a third thing in which his other Booke is also defectiue As for other differences in performance in the faithfulnesse and literallnesse of Translation that wee wholly referre vnto the Iudgement of the able Readers Thus having made you acquainted with our purpose wee also referre it vnto your discretions either to stay your hands from buying of eyther or those that buy ours to keepe it till next weeke that the other two Parts come out also at which time they may be bound together as was at first intended The second part of the Intelligencer is likewise now in hand which we hope ere long to furnish you with if it pleases God Vale. THE CHRISTIAN PART OF THE KING OF SVVEDENS DISCIPLINE The first Part. IT is not without a mystery I suppose that the old Israelites had an Armory in their Temple they would shew us That these two cannot well be parted And truely me-thinkes that a Temple in an Army is none of the weakest peices of fortification How prevalent an Orator the prayers of devout warriours haue beene with the Lord of Hosts the conquests and examples of the same old Israelites may abundantly informe us How often hath victory and that almost visibly too I am sure sensibly come ryding downe upon the triumphant wings of devout prayer The Tabernacle carried about by that most Christian Emperour Constantine where ever his Campe went and where in stead of a Temple hee celebrated his daily devotions conquered more perchance for him than ten of his heathen Legions If Moses prayes whilest Iosuah fights Exod. 17. Amalek must needes be dung downe This our most pious Conquerour now that he might as neerly as might be resemble that great Hebrew Generall that first of the nine Worthies and that ever-glorious Constantine that first of the Christian Emperours hath not courage enough it seemes to adventure himselfe into the field till he first be impregnably fortified with this holy Spell this whole armour of God Vpon the dayes of the Israelites March when their Camp in the Wildernesse removed and the Arke of God with it Moses had prayers then twice a day at the Rising namely and at the Setting downe of the Arke againe Num. 10.35 had Israel a set forme of prayer And that this religious King might not seeme to fight the Lords Battells without the Lords direction he hath taken order to haue it call'd for by most solemne and frequent prayers twice aday used throughout his whole Leaguer And that not onely when the Campe remoues but when it lyes still too not onely before a battell or a danger as if he were at Sea but even when no enemy is at hand even then he prayes too And not onely commands his Army twice a day but himselfe as I heare uses to set apart many whole dayes to his owne pious privacy and his closest devotions upon which may no man then speake to him because he then speakes with God Behold here are two swords Fighting and Praying and Praying Fighting thus hath the King of Sweden learn'd to conquer It is none of the unpolitikest parts of his Majesties new Discipline that I now present you with which the exemplary pietie of that religious Prince hath taught me to put in the first place of his Discipline seeing in the following Articles of his civill Discipline himselfe giues the first place unto those Articles which concerne God and his service To crosse that Proverbiall Verse therefore which sayes that Souldiers haue neyther Faith nor Religion in them I will here afford you some of those Formes of his daily prayer frequented in every Quarter of his Leaguer as I finde them in the Booke called Arma Suecica Pag 77. ¶ The Prayers In time of our Necessities and for the Christian Church O Almightie and eternall Lord God who delightest not in the death of a sinner but wouldest rather that all should liue and come to the knowledge of the truth we humbly intreate thee by thy Christ thine onely Sonne our Lord that thou wouldest please to bestow thy grace upon all faithfull Doctors and Teachers to the intent they may purely and clearely deliver thy Word and that all such as eyther hate it or with false doctrine corrupt it or by force persecute it thy teachers may be able manfully to resist and so enlighten them that they may bring them to the knowledge of thy selfe Grant mercifull Father thy Holy Spirit unto all Christian and lawfull Magistrates that they may well and peaceably rule their own Subjects and that under them we all leading a quiet and a blamelesse life may with a true faith celebrate the riches of thy grace and with a constant mind in all holinesse and righteousnesse as may be pleasing serue thee the true God and Lord of Lords thorough thy only beloved Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another Prayer to the