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A25409 The private devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes. Late Bishop of Winchester. Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. 1647 (1647) Wing A3150; ESTC R207734 32,173 192

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me an evening there is as of the day so of our life that Evening is old age age hath now surprized me Lord prosper thou that likewise unto me Tarry with me ô Lord for the evening growes upon me Luck 24. 29 And my day is much declined cast me not off now in min age forsake me not now when my strength faileth me Psal. 71. 8 9. But rather let thy strength bee made more perfect in this my weaknes 2 Cor. 12. 9. O Lord the day is vanished and gon so doth this life The night doth now approach so doth death also death without death the end both of our day and of our life is neere at hand Remember this therefore wee beseech thee ô Lord make the end of all our lives Christian-like and acceptable to thee peaceable and if it like thee painlesse translating us among thine elect unto thy heavenly kingdome O Lord thou hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come In the morning at Noone and in the evening I will call I will cry out and thou shalt heare my voyce In the night will I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary and will blesse thee ô Lord Psal. 133. 4. The Lord hath shewed his mercy in the day therfore at night I will sing of him and pray unto the God of my life psal. 42. 9 10. Thus will I praise thee all my life long and in thy Name will I lift up my hands Psal. 63 4 5. O let my prayers be directed as the incense and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou ô Lord my God the God of my Fathers Psal. 144. 20. VVhich hast created the Changes of night and of day v. 22. VVhich givest rest to the weary and refreshest the weake Esa. 40. 29. VVhich givest Songs in the night Job 35. 10. And makest the out-going of the Morning and Evening to praise thee Psalme 65. 9. VVhich hast delivered us from the malice of this day Matt. 6. ult. And cuttest not off our lives like a VVeaver neither from Morning to Evening makest an end of us Esay 38. 12. As we add dayes to our dayes so we add sinnes to our sins Eccles. 5. 8. The just man falls seven times a day Frov. 24. 16. But wee wretched sinners seventy times 7 times Mat. 18. 22. But wee returne to our hearts Esa. 46. 8. And with our hearts we returne to thee Deut. 30. 2. To thee ô Lord wee returne and all that is within us saith Ps. 103. O Lord wee have sinned against thee 2. Sam. 12. 13. But we repent alas wee repent spare us good Lord Luke 17. 4. Be mercifull and spare us Be propitious to us Haue pitty upon us and spare us ô Lord Forgive us the guilt Rom. 13. 19. Take out the staines Psal. 51. 3. 9. Cure the faintnesse in us by reason of our sins psal. 146. 3. and heale our soules O God for wee have sinned against thee psal. 41. 4. Deliver mee from my unavoydable sins psal. 27. 17. Cleanse me from my secret offences psalm 19. 13. And for my Communion with the transgression of others pardon thy servant ô Lord All our good deeds thou hast wrought in us Esay 26. 12. If wee have done any thing well mercifully regard it ô Lord Our sin and our distraction is from our owne selves Hosea 13. 9. Whatsoever wee have done amisse graciously pardon it Thou which givest thy beloved secure rest grant that I may passe this night without feare Psal. 3. 6. Enlighten my eyes that I sleep not in death p. 13. 4. Deliver mee from the mighty feare from the businesse that walketh in the darke psalm 91. 5. Thou which neither sleepest at any time nor slumbrest keepe mee this night ô Lord from al evill chiefly ô Lord keepe and preserve my soule Psalme 121. 4. 7 Visite mee ô God with the visitations of thy Saints open mine eares in the visions of the night Job 33. 15 16. At least let my sleepe be a cessation from sins from labour and let me dream of nought that may offend thee or defile my selfe Prov. 4. 6. Let not my loynes be filled with illusions but let my reynes chasten mee in the night psalme 38. 8. and 16. 7. Let mee remember thee upon my bed and let mee meditate with my heart and search out my spirit Psalme 63. 6. and 77. 6. And when it shall bee time for mee to rise let mee wake with the light to thee ô Lord to thy praise and thy service Rom. 13. 11. Psal. 63. 1. O Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit my soule and my body Thou hast created thou hast redeemed them ô Lord thou God of truth Psalm 31. 5. And with my selfe I commend to thy mercifull protection all those that belong to mee and all that is mine Thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hast bestowed them upon me Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from evil chiefely good Lord keepe and preserve our soules Keepe them ô God keep them all spotlesse and without guilt present them in that day Psa. 121. 7. I will lay me down and sleepe in peace For thou only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 3. 5. and 4. 8. After divine service O Lord thou which hast suffered me this holy day and houre to raise my soule and give praise unto thee and offer up the glory due to thee accept then from my soul this sacrifice sprituall and send into me the grace of thy most sacred spirit ô visit me in thy great goodnesse forgive me all my sins both wilfully and unwillfully committed deliver me from the reward of them that is from everlasting punishment yea and from all distresses in this world change my thoughts into Piety Sanctifie my spirit My soule and my body Oh give me grace to adore and please thee in godlines and holines of life to the utmost end of al my dayes Amen Before thy Approaching the Holy Communion say O Lord I am not worthy nor prepared for thee to come under my sordid roofe for it is wholy desolate and ready to dropp downe quite neither canst thou with me have any fitting place for thy Reposall Mar. 8. 8. But as thou denyest to rest in the Stable and manger of bruit beasts Luk. 2. 7. As thou didst not Disdaine Simon the Kepers house and entertainement Mat. 26. 6. As thou didst not forbid the adulterous Sinner to come and touch thee Luk. 7. 19. Nor did'st abhor her impure and prophane mouth Nor yet the Theeves confession of thee upon the Crosse Luk. 7. 23. Vouchsafe O Lord to receive me likewise an over-worne and most unworthy sinner Amen In approaching the Holy Sacrament O Lord with all thanks wee commemorate the saving passions of thy Christ our Saviour This life-restoring Crosse His precious death His 3. dayes Sepulture His resurrection His ascention to heaven And his sitting on thy right hand His glorious and most Dreadfull returne thence to the
thy grace establish our hearts and save us Ps. 136. 25. 147. 9. 71. 5. Acts 14. 17. Heb. 13. 9. Thou which makest the Evening an end to the day that it may put us in mind of the evening of our life Psalm 104. 23. Grant that we may ever consider that as the day so our life vanisheth Eccl. 8. 13. Grant that we may ever remember the dayes of darknesse which are many that the night commeth when wee cannot worke that so wee be not cast out to utter darknesse And save us Mat. 25. 3c O Lord my God WHose Essence is above all Essence and whose Nature is uncreated whose handywork the whole World is I set thee before mine eyes Ps. 16. 9. I lift up my soul unto thee I worship thee falling down upon my knees I draw neer unto thee and humble my selfe under thy mighty hand I stretch sorth my hands unto thee my soule gapes to thee as the thirsty land I smite upon my Breast and say with the Publican O Lord be mercifull to me a si●●er To mee more sinfull then the Publican be mercifull as to the Publican ô Father of Mercies Psal. 16. 9. 25. 1. 95. 6. 134. 2. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Psal. 143. 6. Lake 18. 13. I beseech thy paternall bowels of compassion despise me not though I be an uncleane worm a dead dog a stinking carkasse Psal. 216. 2 Kings 9. Despise me not the work of thine hands Psal. 138. 8. Despise me not the likeness of thine owne Image though I beare the brands of mine iniquity Gen. 1. 26. Col. 3. 10. Lord if thou wilt thou canst make mee cleane Mat. 8. 2. O Lord say but the word and I shall be cleansed ver. 8. And thou ô Saviour Christ ô Christ my Saviour Saviour of sinners of whom I am chiefe despise me not redeemed by the price of thy precious bloud 1 Tim. 1. 15. Luke 22. 23. Despise not ô Lord but look upon me looke upon me with thine eyes such eyes as thou did'st upon Mary Magdalen at the Feast St. Peter in the high Priests Hall and the Thiefe on the Crosse That with the thief I may call upon thee saying Remember mee O Lord when thou art in thy kingdom Luke 7. 44. 22. 55. 23. 43. 23. 42. With Peter I now weepe bitterly ver. 22. 62. And ô who will give my head a fountaine of teares that therewith I may weep both day and night With Mary Magdalen I may hear thee say thy sins are forgiven thee Lu. 9. 48. And with her I may love thee much because my many and manifold misdeeds are remitted ver. 9. 47. And thou all holy and gracious and life-giving Spirit dspise me not But turne thee againe O Lord at the last and repent thee concerning thy servant For those thy paternall bowels the bleeding wounds of thy Sonne for the unutterable grones of thy holy Spirit O Lord heare O Lord forgive O Lord consider and doe it deferr not for thine own sake ô my God Dan. 9. 19. Morning Prayer BLessed art thou O Lord our God the God of our fathers which hast turned the shadow of death into the morning and hast renewed the face of the earth Am. 5. 8. Ps. 104 30. Which hast made sleep to depart from mine eyes and slumber from mine eye-lids Psal 132. 4. Which hast lightned mine eyes that I sleep not in death Ps. 13. 4. Which hast delivered my soule from the night feares from the pestilence which walketh in the dark psal. 91. 4 5 6. Which makes the out goings of the morning evening to praise thee v. 65. 8. For I laid me downe and slept and rose againe for it was thou O Lord which didst sustaine me psal. 4. 5. For I waked and beheld and loe my sleepe was sweet Ier. 31. 26. O Lord doe a way as the Night so my sins scatter my transgressions as the morning cloud Esa. 44. 22. Make me a child of the light and of the day cause me to walke soberly chastly and decently as in the day time 1 Thes. 5. 5. Rom. 13. 13. O Lord uphold us when wee are fallen into sinne and raise us up when wee are fallen Ps. 145. 14. That wee harden not our hearts as in the provocation or with any deceitfulnesse of sinne Heb. 3. 8. 13. Deliver us also from the snare of the hunter evill alurements crosse words the Arrow which flyeth by day Ps. 91. 3. 6. From the evill of the day preserve me O Lord and me from doing evill in it Mat. 6. 34. The Hymne O Let mee heare of thy loving kindnesse betime in the morning for in thee is my trust Psalme 143. 8. Shew me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soule unto thee Deliver me ô Lord from mine enemies for I flye unto thee for succour vers. 9. Teach me to do thy wil for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit leade me forth into the Land of righteousnesse v. 10. Quicken me ô Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soule out of trouble v. 11. Chase from my mind althoughts without understanding Wisd. 1. 5. Turne away mine eyes that they behold not vanity Psal. 119. 37. Hedge in mine ears with thornes that they listen not to foolish discourses Eccl. 23. 29. Set a watch before my mouth and keep the door of my lips Psal. 14. 3. Let me doe nothing that may be scandalous or scrupulous to my soule 1 Sam. 25. 31. Let the meditation of mine heart be ever acceptable in thy sight Ps. 19. last Let mine eyes behold and let mine eye-lids direct my way before mee Pro. 4. 25. Awaken mine eares in the morning to heare the word of instruction Esa. 50. 4. 5. Let my speech be seasoned with salt that it may edifie and give grace to the hearers Ephes. 4. 29. Col. 4. 6. O Lord prepare thou some good way for mee to walk in Eph. 2. 16. Into thy hands I cōmend my Spirit my soule body thou hast created thou hast redeemed thou hast regenerated thē ô Lord thou God of truth Ps. 31. 5. With my self I commend to thee all that have any relation to me And all that is mine thou ô Lord hast graciously lent them me in thy goodnesse Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from all evil keep our soules good Lord we beseech thee Ps. 121. 7. Keep them all spotlesse and present them guiltlesse in that day Keepe my out-goings and my commings in from this time forth for evermore v. 8. Prosper thou thy servant this day and give him favour in their eyes with whom he meeteth Nehem. 1. 11. O Lord be near at hand to save me ô God make hast to help me Ps. 90. 17. The glorious Majesty of our God be upon us Prosper thou-our worke unto us yea prosper thou our handy worke Let not my dayes be spent in vanity let not my year wast in doing nothing but let one day teach another let
Dreadfull power Exquisite Justice Amiable goodnesse How have I been drawn away by mine owne conconcupiscence that I am become a prey to the devil to be taken of him at his will 1 Tim. 2. last Behold now therefore O Lord I adjudge and professe my selfe most guilty and worthy of eternall punishment yea and of all extreamities here in this world also Gen. 18. 19. Eze. 33. 9. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Behold me O Lord already condemned by mine owne Sentence Tit. 3. 11. Psalme 143. 2. Behold it O good Lord enter not thou into judgement with thy Servant Tit. 3. 11. Ps. 143. 2. Gen. 30. 20. I acknowledge that I am farre lesse then all yea even the least of al thy mercies Luk. 15. 19. That I am not worthy to be made one of thy Hyrelings not the very meanest of them That I am not worthy of the scrapps that fall from thy Table Mat. 15. 15. Nor so much as to touch the hem of thy garment Mat. 9. 21. And now O Lord humbled under thy mighty hand I bend my knees unto thee and fall prostrate on the earth on my face 1 Pet. 5. 6. Eph. 3. 14. Mat. 26. 29. I stretch forth my hands unto thee and my soule is as the land that wanteth water before thee Psalme 146. 6. I dare not so much as lift an eye towards heaven but I smite my brest and from the depth of it doth my soule call and cry out unto thee Luk. 18. 13. Psal. 35. and 79. 9. O for thy names sake for the glory of thy name bee mercifull to my sinne for it is very much for it is exceeding great and for thy mercies thy sweet and tender mercies psal. 25. 10 11. Luke 1. 18. For the greatnesse the multitude the vast multitude the riches the abundance the over abundance of them ps. 69. 16. 119. 156 and 51. 1. and 130. 4. Eph. 1. 6. 1 Tim. 1. 14. Rom. 5. 20. Be mercifull O Lord to me a sinner ô Lord be merfull to me the chiefe of all sinners O remember and consider what my substance is that I am but as grasse or the flower of grasse but flesh a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe Esay 40. 6. Psal. 73. 40. Job 17. 14. But a worme and rottennesse but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. psal. 35. 13. Job 4. 19. Gen. 41. 9. prov. 27. 1. Esa. 38. 13. That I am a stranger and Pilgrim upon the earth that I dwell in an house of clay that my dayes are few and evill that I am here to day and not tomorrow in the morning and not at night now and not anon that I live in a body of sinne and death in a world of corruption and which is set upon mischief or lyeth in wickednesse Rom. 6. 6. 1 pet. 1. 4. 1 Jo. 15. 19. psal. 74. 18. Remember this O Lord and discharge remitt and forgive mee all those my transgressions which as a man bearing about me this flesh and dwelling in such a world I have committed against thee Reprove me not ô Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thy displeasure Psal. 6. 1. For unto thee I confesse my wickednesse ô pardon thou the ungodlinesse of my heart psal. 6. 1. 32. 5 6. 38. 9. All my desire ô Lord is before thee and my groaning is not concealed from thee Pitty me therefore according to thy great mercie and according to the multitude of thy compassions doe away all mine offences psal. 51 1 Rise ô God and have mercy upon me for it is time to have mercy on me yea the time is come psal. 102. 13. For if thou should'st strictly examine our iniquities ô Lord what man were able to subsist psal. 33. 3. Enter not thou into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight no flesh can be righteous psal. 14. 32. O Lord Thou which camest into the world to save sinners save mee which am the chiefest of all Sinners 1 Tim. 1. 15. 24. Thou which takest away the sinnes of the whole world be pleased to take away my sins also 1 Iob. 1. 24. Thou that camest to redeeme that which was lost Lu. 19. 10. Suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed That which was so dear to redeem suffer not to be lost as a thing of no value A Prayer for the performance of the Law I Lift my hand ô Lord to thy Commandements which I have loved open mine eyes and I shall understand incline my heart and I shall affect direct my steps and I shall walke in the path of thy precepts Ps. 119. 48. 18. 36. 133. 1. O Lord God Grant that I May know thee for the true God and knowing it that I may acknowledg thee and no other nor any thing else with or beside thee John 17. Rom. 1. 21. 2. Grant that I may worship adore thee in truth of spirit Jo. 4. 14. 3. In the decent habit and gesture of my body 1 Cor. 14. 40. 4. In the benediction of my mouth Jam. 3. 9. in publique and private 1 Cor. 14. 26. 5. Grant also that I may render honour to my Superiours That I may bee perswaded and ruled by them love to all those which belong to me that I may bee carefull and provident for them Heb. 1. 13. 17. 1. Tim. 5. 8. 6. That I may overcome malice with goodnesse Rom. 12. 21. 7. That I may possess my Vessel in holinesse and honour 1 Thes. 4. 4. 8. That being content with what I have my conversation may bee void of all coveteousnesse Hebr. 13. 5. 9. That I may speak with charity Ephes. 4. 15. 10. That I covet not inordinately nor pursue any covetous desires Rom. 7. ult. Col. 3. 5. Eccles. 8. 30. Good Lord Remove from mee all 1. Atheisme Hypocrisie 2. Idolatry will-worship 3. Perjury and Blasphemy 4. Superstition and profanesse in thy service 5. Stubbornesse and carelesnesse 6. Strife and malice 7. Lust and uncleanenesse 8. Injury and Cosenage 9. Lying and slandering 10. And all wicked desires and base Concupiscence Grant me O Lord thy grace To remember the latter end Deut. 32. 29. To bruise the Serpents head Gen. 3. 15. To cut off occasions of sinne To covenant with my sence 2 Cor. 11. 13. To prevent scandals Iob. 31. 1. To subdue my body Ez. 14. 4. Not to sit idle 1 Cor. 9. 8. To shun wicked company Mat. 24. 6. To consort with the righteous Psal. 26. 4. To select times for prayer 1 Cor. 7. 5. Stopp up my pathes with thornes that I finde not the way to vanity Hos. 2. 6. Hold me in and rayne me with bitt and bridle when I keep not neer thee Psal. 32. 9. And constraine mee to come to thee If inviting will not serve Luc. 14. 34. 39. Vouchsafe O Lord to give me the knowledge and beliefe of thy justice that it may breed in me Feare Humility Repentance Prayer and Fasting Hope Charity Thanksgiving Praise and Almes Confession of Faith Lord