salvation for the glorie of Thy Name O deliver him and be merciful to his sins for Thy Names sake Psal. 79.8 9. Call to remembrance O Lord Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and offenses of his youth but according to Thy mercie think Thou upon him O Lord for Thy goodness Psal. 25.5 6. Cleanse him O Lord from his secret sins Psal. 19.12 From whatsoever he hath offended By Thought Word or Deed. Ignorance or Error Frailtie or Negligence In Excess or in Defect By Leaving Good undon or Doing Evil In Publik or Private By Day or Night Against Thee His Neighbour Own Bodie Before or since his effectual Calling By Himself or by Others Remembred or Forgotten From them all cleanse him O Lord even from them all Lay none of them to his charge Cast them behind Thee Burie them Drown them Scatter them as the mist and as the morning cloud Make them to vanish away and come to nothing And wherinsoever his conscience most accuseth him therin O Lord be Thou most merciful O enter not into judgment with Thy servant If Thou shouldst no flesh should be righteous in Thy fight Psal. 143.2 If Thou Lord shouldst be extreme to mark what is don amiss O Lord who may abide it Psal. 130.3 But good Lord one deep calleth another Psal. 42.9 the deep of our miserie the deep of Thy mercie Where fin hath abounded there let grace over-abound Rom. 5.20 And in and through all fins and offenses O Lord let Thy mercie triumph over Thy Justice S. James 2.13 O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider O Lord and do it P. Dan. 9.19 Delay not O Lord for his spirit waxeth faint Turn not Thy face away from him lest he be like unto them that go down into the pit Psal. 143.7 Be favorable O Lord be favorable For Thy Names sake Truths sake Mercies sake For Thy Many mercies sake Great mercies sake Wonderful mercies sake For Thine own self O Lord Our Creator and Redeemer Lord our Father our God King our Father our God Commendatio Animae Or The Recommending of the soul to God LOrd now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace S. Luke 2.29 Into Thy hands O Lord we commend his spirit for Thou hast redeemed it O Lord Thou God of truth Psal. 1.6 Bring his soul out of prison that it may praise Thee Psal. 142.9 O deliver him from this bodie of death Rom. 7.24 Say unto his soul I am Thy salvation Psal. 35.3 Say unto him This day shalt Thou be with me in Paradise S. Luke 23.43 Let him now feel the salvation of JESUS Let him now feel the Anointing of Christ even the oil of gladness wherwith Thou art anointed Guide Thou him through the vale of the shadow of death Psal. 23.4 Let him see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the living Psal. 27.15 O Lord command his spirit to be received up to Thee in peace O Lord will him to come to Thee S. Matth. 14.28 Lord JESU receive his spirit Acts 7.59 Andopen to him the gates of everlasting glorie Let Thy good Spirit conduct him into the land of righteousness Psal. 143.10 Into Thy holie Hill Psal. 15.1 and heavenlie Kingdom Send Thine Angel to meet him and to bring him into Abrahams bosom S. Luke 16.22 Place him in the habitation of light and peace of joy and gladness Receive him in the armes of Thy mercie and give him an inheritance with Thy Saints in light Colos. 1.12 There to reign with Thy elect Angels Thy blessed Saints departed Thy holie Prophets and glorious Apostles in all joy glorie felicitie and happiness for ever and ever Amen Comfortable Scriptures to be applied to the friends of the deceased partie PRetious in the fight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal. 116.13 I heard a voice from heaven saying Write Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord For they rest from their labors and their works follow them Revel 14.13 A General Confession of sins collected out of the Holie Prophets and Apostles P. Moses WE have sinned O Lord. Thou hast set our faults before Thee and our secret sins in the fight of Thy countenance Psal. 90.8 Return O Lord how long and be merciful toward Thy servants Psal. 90.13 H. Job I have sinned what shal I do unto Thee O Thou Preserver of men Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee that I am become a burthen to myself Job 7.20 That I have offended Thee wo is me Job 10.14 Have mercie upon me O Lord and restore unto me my righteousness again Say concerning me O Lord Deliver him for I have received a reconciliation Job 33.24 26. Yet if Thou kill me will I put my trust in Thee Job 13.15 P. David My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be Thou mercifull unto my sin Psal. 65.3 I have gon astray like a sheep that is lost O seek Thy servant for I do not forget Thy cōmandments Psal. 119.176 We have sinned with our fathers we have don amiss and dealt wickedly Psal. 106.6 For Thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto our sin for it is great Psal. 25.10 My foot hath slipped Let Thy mercie O Lord lift me up Psal. 94.18 P Isai. Behold Thou art angrie for we have sinned We have been as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as a defiled cloth We all fade away as a leaf and our iniquities like a wind have taken us away But now O Lord Thou art our Father we are the clay and Thou art the Potter We all are the work of Thy hands Be not angrie O Lord above measure neither remember our iniquitie for ever Lord we beseech Thee remember we are all Thy people Ch. 64. V. 5 6 8 9. P. Jeremie Lord our iniquities are against us Our rebellions are many we have sinned against Thee Yet deal with us according to Thy Name For Thou Lord art in the midst of us and Thy Name is called upon us O Lord forsake us not O Lord the Hope of Israel the Savior of it in the time of trouble forsake us not Ch. 14. Ver. 7 8 9. P. Daniel We have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and don wickedly Yea we have rebelled and have departed from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments O Lord righteousness belongeth unto Thee but unto us confusion and shame of face because of all the offenses we have committed against Thee Yet compassion and forgiveness is with Thee O Lord our God though we have rebelled against Thee O Lord according to all Thy goodness I beseech Thee let Thine anger and Thy wrath be turned away from me and cause Thy face to shine upon Thy servant O my God incline Thine ear and hear open Thine eies and behold my afflictions For we do not present our supplications before Thee for our own righteousness but for Thy manifold and great mercies O Lord hear O Lord
have mercie upon us Our Father who art in heaven c. O Lord deal not with h. after h. sins Neither reward h. according to h. iniquities O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desires of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our praiers which we make before Thee At such times specially when our greatest and most grievous extremities are readie to oppress us And O Lord graciously hear us that those evils those illusions terrors and assaults which Thine or our enemie worketh against us may be brought to nought and by the providence of Thy goodness may be dispersed that we Thy servants being swallowed up with no tentations may evermore give thanks unto Thee in Thy Holie Church through JESUS Christ our Lord. Amen An humble recognition of humane frailtie and a deprecation of falling from God IN the midst of life we are in death of whom then may we seek for succor but of Thee O Lord who for our sins art most justly displeased with us Yet O Lord most Holie O Lord most mightie O Holie and most merciful Father deliver us not over to the bitter pains of eternal death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not up against us the ears of Thy mercie but spare us O Lord most Holie O Lord most mightie O immortal and most merciful Father Thou most worthie Judg eternal suffer us not in our last hour for any pains of death to fall from Thee Ch. Engl. Office for Burial An affectionate recommendation of the sick person to Gods mercie grounded upon his special relations to God and the sinceritie of his soul. I. WE commend unto Thee O Lord the soul of This Thy servant He is the Work of Thy hands Despise not O Lord the work of Thine own hands the Likeness of Thy Image Suffer not O Lord Thy Image to be utterly defaced the Price of Thy Blood Let not so great a Price be cast away a Christian the Name of Thy Son is called upon him For Thy Names sake be good unto Thy Name He is Thine O save him Psal. 119. 94. Give not over that Thine is into the will of the enemie Though he hath finned yet Thy Name hath he not denied but called upon it and confessed it unto his lifes end And there is no other Name under heaven but Thine wherby he hopeth to be saved Acts 4. 12. Though he hath finned yet he hath not hid his sin Job 31. 33. nor excused it Psal. 141. 4. but hath confessed it and been sorrie for it and wisheth even tears of blood wherwith to lament it Though he hath sinned yet others also have sinned against him whom he from the heart forgiveth and desireth forgiveness of them at Thy gracious hands O stablish Thy word with Thy servant Psal. 119. 38. and let him not be disappointed of his hope Psal. 119. 116. Though he hath sinned yet in Thee he trusteth O suffer him not for ever utterly to be confounded Though he hath sinned yet he seeketh Thee And Thou Lord never failest them that seek Thee Psal. 9. 10. Though he hath sinned yet he cometh to Thee And of them that come to Thee Thou castest none out S. John 6.37 II. O Lord Let not the guiltiness of a sinner more prevail to condemn then the gracious goodness of a most merciful Father to acquit and to pardon O let not the unrighteousness of man make the goodness of God of none effect Rom. 3.3 O Lord do not so remember the unkindness of this Thy Child that therby Thou forget the compassion and kindness of a Father Do not so think upon our sins that Thou therby forget Thine own nature and propertie which is alway to have mercie Ch. Engl. Liturgie Do not so remember our sins that Thou therby remember not Thine own Name which is JESUS a most loving and kind Savior III. Lord If Thy Life in our Life hath not sufficiently appeared yet let not Thy Death lose the full power and effect therof in our death also Suffer not O Lord in both so great a price to perish Lose not O Lord that which Thou hast redeemed since Thou camest to redeem that which was lost S. Matth. 18.11 S. Luke 19.10 That which was so dear to Thee to redeem suffer not to be lost as a thing of no value A Praier for Mercie and Divine assistance to uphold the sick person in his present affliction HAve mercie upon him O Lord consider the pains which he suffereth Thou who only dost deliver from the gates of death Psal. 9.13 Shew Thy marvellous loving kindness Thou that art the Savior of them that put their trust in Thee Psal. 17.7 O keep him as the apple of Thine eie hide him under the shadow of Thy wings Psal. 17. 8. O let Thy merciful loving kindness be his comfort according to Thy word unto Thy servant Psal. 119. 76. He is troubled above measure Psal. 119. 107. O be merciful to him according to Thy goodness O consider his adversitie and deliver him for he is brought very low Psal. 142. 7. His eies long sore for Thy Word saying O when wilt Thou comfort me Psal. 119. 82. His eies are wasted away with looking for Thy health and for the word of Thy righteousness Psal. 119. 123. O think Thou upon him O Lord as concerning Thy word wherin Thou hast caused him to put his trust Psal. 119. 49. O look Thou upon him and be merciful unto him as Thou usest to do to those that love Thy Name Psal. 119. 132. Cast him not away in the time of his weakness forsake him not now when his strength faileth him Psal. 71. 9. In the multitude of the sorrows that are in his heart let Thy comforts O Lord refresh his soul. Psal. 94. 19. O Lord when it oppresseth comfort Thou him P. Isa. 38. 14. O Lord let thy strength be made perfect in his weakness 2 Cor. 12. 9. Let no tentation oppress him but such as is incident to Thy children But as Thou art faithful O Lord so suffer him not to be tempted above that he is able But good Lord with the tentation give an happy issue that he may be able to overcome it 1 Cor. 10. 13. O Lord though he be afflicted on every side yet let him not be distressed though in want of some of Thy comforts yet not of all though chastened yet not forsaken though cast down yet not perish 2 Cor. 4. 8 9. A Praier for the Grace of God and the Pardon of the sins of the sick partie REmember him O Lord with the favor Thou bearest unto Thy children O visit him with Thy salvation That he may see the felicitie of Thy chosen and rejoice with the gladness of Thy Saints and give thanks with Thine inheritance Psal. 106.4 5. O remember not his former sins but have mercie upon him O Lord and that soon for he is come to great extremitie Help him O Lord God of his
Dissimulat peccata propter poenitentiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.4 When He cannot but see yet He forbears is patient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.4 Neh. 9.28 30. Forbears long suffers long many times many years 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. Hos. 6.4 and 11.9 When He can suffer no longer yet stands as over Ephraim asking How shal I staies yet Expectat ut misereatur P. Isa. 30.18 When He can forbear no longer but punish He must He doth it not from the heart Lament 3. V. 33. but against His will When He punisheth He doth it Not suffering His whole displeasure to arise Psal. 78.39 containing Himself and His anger Not according to our deserts Psal. 103. 10. nothing so much Not long it indures but a moment in comparison Psal. 30.5 103.9 and P. Isa. 54.7.8 He thinks everie stripe two P. Isa. 40.2 is quickly wearie In His wrath He remembers mercie P. Hab. 3.2 Repents Him of the evil P. Joel 2.13 Is moved with the sight of our miserie Psal. 106. 43 44. Is soon appeased easily appeased P. Isa. 30. 18. and 55.7 S. Mat. 18.32 Hath mercie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multitudes of it Hath compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bowels of compassion S. Luke 15.20 a parent Psalm 103.13 a mother P. Isa. 49.15 many bowels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. James 5. 11. secundìon Edit Complut Forgives Pardons S. Mat. 18.27 Is reconciled 2 Cor. 5 19. Takes into favor again S. Luke 15.22 23. Receives to grace Rom. 3.25 All have sinned and are defective in giving glorie to God Rom. 3.23 In His Angels He found follie and the stars are not clean in His fight Job 4.18 15.15 25.5 But God hath not made all men for nought Psal. 89.46 Yet if God should be extreme to mark what were don amiss who were able to abide it Psal. 130.3 If He should enter into Judgment with His servants no flesh should be found righteous in His sight Psal. 143.2 None were able to answer one for a thousand No not Job himself Job 9.3 Therefore God hath shut up all under fin that He might have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 He would have all to be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 He would have none to perish but to turn to him by Repentance 2 S. Pet. 3.9 He would not the death of a sinner but that he might turn to Him and live P. Ezech. 33.11 All that 1 know their sin Psal. 51.3 Know it and 2 acknowledg it Psal. 32.5 S. Luke 15.18 Acknowledg it and 3 be sorrie for it Psal. 38.18 Be sorrie for it and 4 be readic to leave it Pro. 28.13 Not only to leave it but 5 to judg themselvs for it 1 Cor. 11.31 P. Ezech. 36.32 1 Cor. 9.27 And to 6 punish themselvs for it 2 Cor. 7.11 By the 1 fruits of Mortification P. Joel 2. 12 13. P. Jonab 3.5 accompanied with 2 Prayer Psalm 32.7 Acts 8.22 3 Alms. P. Isa. 58.7 Pro. 16.6 P. Dan. 4.27 At the 4 estimation of the Priest Levit. 6.6 5 Who may forgive us in the person of Christ. S. John 8.11 and 20.23 2 Cor. 2.10 Which His Mercie is not only for common and ordinarie sinners but for the chief such as Manasses Paul such as David Peter such as Rahab Marie Magdalen such as Jonas The Thief on the Crosse. such as The Corinthian 1 Cor. 5.1 The Corinthians 1 Cor. 6.11 Et haec eratis such as the Jews His Betrayers Murtherers Acts 3.13 14 15. David was a man according to Gods own heart Christ is the Son of David and David for gave Semei 2 Sam. 19.23 and wept for his rebellious son Absolom 2 Sam. 18.33 The Preface or stile of the Law The Lord the Lord Gentle and Merciful Patient and of much mercie who keepeth mercie for thousands and forgiveth Exod. 34.6 7. The Discourse of Elihu Job 33.23 24. If there be a Messenger with Him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightness Then He is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransom Taste and see how gracious the Lord is Psal. 34.8 1 S. Pet. 2.3 His Mercie is sweet Psal. 109.20 His Mercies are many There is a multitude of them Psal. 69.17 5.7 and 51.1 There is plenteous Redemption Psal. 130.7 His Mercies are great Psal. 86.5 119.156 Have a magnitude Great in height Psal. 103.11 108.4 36.5 depth Psal. 42.9 length Psal. 26.3 Psal. 136. There is no end of His salvation Psal. 71.13 Mercie shal be set up for ever Psal. 89.2 His Mercie is over all His works Psal. 145.9 As is His Majestie so is His Mercie Ecclus. 2.18 His propertie is to have mercie P. Isai. 28.21 He is the Father of mercies 2 Cor. 1.3 He is Mercie itself Psal. 59.17 He was so merciful that He forgave their misdeeds and destroied them not Yea many a time turned He His wrath away and would not suffer His whole displeasure to arise For He considered they were but dust Psal. 78.38 39 40. The Lord waiteth that He may have mercie on you P. Isa. 30.18 In the Father of the lost child His Image S. Luke 15.22 Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Heb. 9.22 God hath shut up all under sin that He might have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 Where sin aboundeth there Grace doth over-abound Mercie triumpheth over Justice S. James 2.13 In this GOD set forth His love to us ward that when we were His enemies Christ died for us Rom. 5.8 This is a true saying and of all men worthie to be received that JESUS Christ came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 Christ died once for our sins the just for the unjust that He might offer us unto God 1 S. Pet. 3.18 We have an Advocate with the Father JESUS Christ the righteous And He is the Propitiation for our sins and not for our only but for the sins of the whole world 1 S. John 2.1 2. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance S. Mat. 9.13 Come unto me you that travail and be heavie laden and I will refresh you S. Mat. 11.28 Of them that come to me I will cast none out S. John 6.37 Thou never failest them that seek Thee Psal. 9.10 Spiritual Comforts and Confidence issuing from the contemplation of Gods Goodness WHy art thou so heavie O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God for I shal yet give Him thanks For He is the light of my countenance and my God Psal. 42.6 7 14 15. and 43.5 6. Return then to Thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath been gracious to thee Psal. 116.7 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence In the midst of the troubles that were in my heart Thy comforts have refreshed my soul. Psal. 94.17 19. Nevertheless though I be sometimes
afraid yet put I my trust in the Lord. Psal. 56.3 Nevertheless my soul wait thou stil upon God for of Him cometh my salvation He verily is my hope and my strength He is my defence so that I shal not greatly fall Psal. 62.5 6. Let us go with boldness to the Throne of Grace that we may find mercie in the time of need Heb. 4.16 Devout Ejaculations grounded on the consideration of our Humane Frailtie and the Divine Providence and Mercie I. LORD of life and death of sickness and health all things therto belonging By whose appointment we are born and again by whose appointment we die Our time is in Thy hand Psal. 31. 17. and unto Thee belong the issues of death Psal. 68. 20. Thou that hatest nothing that Thou hast made nor dost ever utterly forsake the work of Thine own hands Thou that art a defense for the oppressed a Refuge in the needful time of trouble Thou that never failest them that seek Thee Psal. 9.9 10. And to whom none ever praieth without hope to be heard Thou that hast promised The poor shal not alway be forgotten that the patient abiding of the meek shal not perish for ever Psal. 9.18 For the comfortless troubles sake of the needie and for the deep sighing of the poor Psal. 12.5 Arise O Lord And men shal know that it is Thy hand and that it is Thou Lord that hast done it Psal. 109.25 II. O Lord whose mercie reacheth to the heavens and whose faithfulness to the clouds Psal. 36.5 and 57.11 Of whose mercies there is neither number nor end The greatness of whose goodness is not shut up under any time Who callest into Thy Vineyard even at the eleventh hour S. Matth. 20.6 7. Who rulest not with rigor but with meekness dost govern the things Thou hast made Thou that killest and revivest that bringest to the gates of death and bringest back again Thou that hatest nothing that Thou hast made That hast shut up all under sin that Thou mightst have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 Lord The Savior and the saving health of all Thy faithful The Fountain of Grace and Goodness The Father of mercies and God of consolation 2 Cor. 1.3 Thou That up holdest all such as are falling and liftest up those that be down Psal. 14.5.14 Thou That healest the broken in heart and givest medicine to heal their sickness Psal 147.3 The comfort of them that be in heaviness The strength of then that be in weakness The health of them that be in sickness Hear O LORD and have mercie Look down from Heaven Behold and visit Visit with Thy salvation FINIS PRAIERS For the Morning Evening H. Communion TRANSLATED Out of the Greek Manual of the Private Devotions of the R. Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews late L. Bishop of Winchester Never before printed LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1648. Morning Praier GLorie be to Thee O Lord Glorie be to Thee Glorie be to Thee who hast given me sleep for the refreshing of my weakness and for the eas of my labors of this flesh subject to weariness That this day and every day may come on perfect holie peaceable healthful and without sin Grant Lord we beseech Thee That an Angel of peace a faithful guide a Guardian of our souls and bodies may pitch a tent about us and ever suggest what is needful for my salvation Grant Lord we beseech Thee The pardon and remission of all sins and of all transgressions Grant Lord we beseech Thee What things are good and profitable to our souls together with peace in this world Grant Lord we beseech Thee That we accomplish the rest of our life in Repentance and godlie Fear in Health and Peace Grant Lord we beseech Thee What things are true what are honest what are just what are pure what are lovelie what are of good report wherin there is virtue wherin there is praise that we may reckon of these things to do them Grant Lord we beseech Thee A Christian end of our life without sin without shame and if Thou think good without pain and a good Apologie at the dreadful and terrible Tribunal of our Lord JESUS Christ Grant Lord we beseech Thee O Being above all Being O uncreated Nature Thou Framer of the whole world I set Thee Lord before me Psal. 16.9 I lift up my soul unto Thee Psal. 25. 1. I fall down on my knees and worship Thee Psal. 95.6 I humble myself under Thy mightie hand 1 S. Pet. 5.6 I stretch forth my hands unto Thee My soul is for Thee as ground without water Psal. 143.6 I smite upon my brest and say with the Publican God be merciful to me a sinner S. Luke 18. 13. To me altogether a sinner To me the chief of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 To me a greater sinner then the Publican be merciful as to the Publican O Father of Mercies I beseech Thee by Thy Fatherlie bowels of compassion Despise me not An unclean worm Psal. 22.6 A dead dogg 2 P. Sam. 9.8 A stinking carcass Despise me not The Work of Thy hands Psal. 138.8 Thine own Image Gen. 1.27 Despise me not Though I bear the brands of mine iniquitie Lord if Thou wilt Thou canst make me clean Lord speak the word only and I shal be cleansed S. Mat. 8.2 8. And Thou O Savior Christ O Christ my Savior Savior of sinners of whom I am chief 1 Tim. 1.15 Despise me not Despise me not O Lord The price of Thine own blood Upon whom Thy Name is called O Lord despise me not But look upon me with those Thine eies with which Thou lookedst upon Marie Magdalen at the Feast Peter in the High Priests Hall The Thief on the Cross. That with The Thief I may humbly call upon Thee saying Lord remember me in Thy Kingdom S. Luke 23.42 Peter I may weep biterly S. Matth. 26.75 And O that mine eies were a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night P. Jer. 9.1 Marie Magdalen I may hear Thee saying Thy sins are forgiven Thee And that with her I may love much because my many and manifold sins are forgiven me S. Luke 7.47 48. And Thou all-holie and gracious and quickning Spirit Despise me not Despise me not Thine own Inspiration Holie thing But turn Thee again O Lord at the last and be intreated to look upon thy servant Psal. 90.13 BLessed art Thou O Lord our God the God of our Fathers Who turnest the shadow of death into the Morning P. Amos 5.8 And renewest the face of the earth Psal. 104. 30. Who hast dispell'd the darkness by the presence of the light Who separatest the Night and bringest in the Day Who hast light'ned mine eies that I sleep not in death Psal. 13. 3. Who hast delivered me from the terrors of the Night and from the Pestilence that walketh in darkness Psalm 91.5 6. Who hast driven
sleep from mine eies and slumber from mine eie-lids Psal. 132.4 Who makest joyful outgoings of the Morning and Evening Psal. 65.8 For I laid me down and slept and rose up again Psal. 3.5 And Thou Lord madest me to dwel in fafetie Psal. 4.9 For I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me P. Jer. 31.26 O Lord blot out as a Night-mist mine iniquities P. Isa. 44.22 Scatter my sins as a Morning cloud Grant that I may become a child of the light and of the Day I Thes. 5.5 That I may walk soberly chastly and honestly as in the Day Rom. 13.13 Vouchsafe to keep me this day without sin Te Deum Uphold me when I am falling and lift me up when I am down Psal. 145.14 That I may never harden my heart as in the provocation Psalm 95.8 with the tentation or deceiptfulness of any sin Heb. 3.13 Moreover deliver me this day From The snare of the Hunter The noisome pestilence The arrow that flieth by day Mischance The Noon-day destruction Psal. 91.3 5 6. Preserve this day from any evil of mine and me from the evils of the day Let not my days consume in vanitie nor my years in trouble Psal. 78.33 Let one day certifie another Psal. 19.2 Let this day add some knowledg or practise to yesterday Psal. 143. 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 Ver. 8. Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I flee unto Thee to hide me Ver. 9. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth Thee for Thou art my God Let Thy loving Spirit lead me forth in the way of righteousness Ver. 10. Quicken me O Lord for Thy Names sake and for Thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble Ver. 11. REmove from my mind thoughts that are without understanding Wisd. 1.5 Inspire good thoughts into me even such as shall be wel pleasing unto Thee Turn away mine eies lest they behold vanitie Psal. 119.37 Let mine eies look after that which is right and mine eie-lids after just things Prov. 4.25 Hedg in mine ears with thorns that they listen not to foolish discourses In the Morning give me an ear to hear with and open mine ears to the doctrine of Thy Oracles P. Isa. 50.4 5. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and a dore with a guard about my lips Psal. 141.3 Let my speech be season'd with salt Col. 4.6 that it may minister grace unto the hearers Ephes. 4.29 Let me do nothing that shal make my heart ake or be a scandal to me 1 Sam. 25.31 But let my doings be such for which Thou maist remember me for good And spare me according to the greatness of Thy mercie Nehem 13.22 31. INto Thy hands I commend my spirit soul and bodie for Thou hast Created Redeemed Regenerated them O Lord Thou God of truth Psal. 31.6 And with myself I commend unto Thee all mine all that belong unto me Thou O Lord hast graciously given them unto Thy servant Genes 33.5 Preserve us O Lord from all evil O Lord I beseech Thee keep our souls Psal. 121.7 Keep us from falling and present us faultless before the presence of Thy glorie S. Jude Ver. 24. at that day 2 Tim. 1.18 O Lord preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth for evermore Psal. 121.8 Prosper I beseech Thee Thy servant this day and grant him mercie in the sight of all he shal meet with Neh 1.11 Haste Thee O God to deliver me Make haste to help me O Lord. Psal. 70.1 O Turn Thee unto me and have mercie upon me give Thy strength unto Thy servant and help the son of Thine handmaid Shew some good token upon me for good that I be not put to shame in the sight of them that hate me because Thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Psal. 86.16 17. Evening Praier HAving passed over this day Lord I give thanks unto Thee The Evening draweth nigh make it comfortable An Evening there is as of the Day so of this Life The Evening of this Life is Old-age Old-age hath seiz'd upon me make that comfortable Cast me not away in the time of age Forsake me not when my strength faileth me Psal. 71.9 Be Thou with me until Old-age and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me P. Isa. 46.4 Do Thou do it do Thou forgive Do Thou receive and save me O Lord. Tarrie Thou with me O Lord for it is toward Evening with me and the Day is far spent S. Luke 24.29 of this my toilsome life Let Thy strength be made perfect in my weakness 2 Corinthians 12.9 THe Day is vanished and gon so doth my Life vanish my Life no Life The Night is coming on and so doth Death Death without Death The end as of the Day so of our Life is at hand We therfore remembring this beseech Thee O Lord that the end of our Life being Christian and acceptable to Thee without Sin without Shame and if it please Thee without Pain Thou wouldst guide us in peace O Lord our Lord gathering us together under the feet of Thine Elect when Thou wilt and as Thou wilt only without Shame and Sin GRant that we may remember the days of darkness that they are many Eccles. 11.8 that we be not cast out into outer darkness S. Matth. 22.13 and 25.30 and that we may remember to prevent the Night by doing some good Judgment is at hand Grant us O Lord that we may make a good and acceptable account at the dreadful and terrible Tribunal of JESUS Christ. IN the Night I lift up my hands toward Thy sanctuarie and bless the Lord Psal. 124.2 3. The Lord hath granted His loving kindness on the Day time and in the Night season will I sing of Him and make my praier unto the God of my life Psal. 42.10 As long as I live will I magnifie Thee on this manner and lift up my hands in Thy Name Psal. 63.5 Let my praier be set forth in Thy sight as the Incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an Evening sacrifice Psal. 141.2 BLessed art Thou O Lord our God the God of our Fathers Who didst create the interchanges of the Day and Night Who givest us occasions of songs in the Night Job 35.10 Who hast delivered us from the evil of this Day Who hast not cut off like a Weaver my Life nor in this Day before Night didst make an end of me P. Isa. 38.12 LOrd as we add days to our days so we add sins to our sins Ecclus 5.5 A just man falleth seven times a day Prov-24 16 but I a wretched sinner seventie times seven times S. Mat. 18.22 wonderfully and horribly O Lord. P. Jerem. 5.30 But I turn from my wicked ways and bewailing them P. Isa. 30.15 I return to my heart P. Isa. 46.8 and turn to
Thee with all my heart Deut. 30.2 O Thou that art the God of them that repent O Savior of sinners And Evening after Evening 1 return with the utmost strength of my soul and out of the deep my soul crieth unto Thee Psal. 130.1 Lord I have sinned against Thee I have finned grievously against Thee Forgiue forgive alas alas wo worth my miserable condition I repent wo is me I repent spare me O Lord I repent wo is me I repent Help my want of Repentance Have pitie spare me O Lord Have pitie Be merciful unto me I said Lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned against Thee Psal. 41.4 Have mercie upon me O Lord after Thy great goodness according to the multitude of Thy mercies do away mine offenses Psal. 51.1 Forgive my guilt Heal my sores Take out the stains Deliver me from shame Rescue me from the tyrannie of sin And make me not an example DEliver me O Lord from my necessities Psal. 25.16 Cleanse me from my secret faults Psal. 19.12 Keep Thy servant also from presumptuous sins Psal. 19.13 Impute not to me the wanderings of my mind Wisd. 4.12 nor my idle words S. Mat. 12.36 Stop the black and filthie inundation of unclean wicked thoughts O Lord my destruction is from myself P. Hos. 13.9 Whatsoever I have don amiss graciously pardon Deal not with us after our sins Neither reward us after our iniquities Ch. Eng. Letanie Mercifully look upon our infirmities and for the glorie of Thy most Holie Name turn from us all those evils and afflictions which to our sins and to us for them are most justly and worthily due ANd O Lord give rest to me that am wearie renew my strength to me that am tired with labor Lighten mine eies that I sleep not in death Psal. 13.3 Deliver me from the terrors of the Night and from the Pestilence that walketh in darkness Psa. 91.5 6. Grant me wholesom sleep and to pass this Night without fear Thou Keeper of Israel who dost neither slumber nor sleep Psal. 121.4 Preserve me this Night from all evil O Lord keep my soul. Ver. 7. Visiting me with the salvation of Thy children Open my understanding in the Visions of the Night H. Job 33.15 16. But if not this for I am not worthie I am not worthie Yet O Lord Thou Lover of men let my sleep be a rest as from labors so from sin Even so O Lord. And sleeping let me not dream of any thing that may Offend Thee defile myself Let not my loins be filled with illusions Psal. 38.7 but rather let my reins chasten me Ps. 16.8 Preserve me without grievous fear from the dismal sleep of sin and lay asleep in me all earthlie and wicked imaginations Give me sweet sleep free from all carnal and diabolical phancies Lord restrein the malice of my never sleeping invisible enemies and the inclinations of my sinful flesh O Thou who madest me Let the wings of Thy mercie shadow me Psal. 17.8 and 61.4 Raise me up in due time in the hour of Praier and grant that I may be earlie up Psal. 63.1 at my Praises and Worship of Thee BLess O Lord Thy Creatures Mankind All in Affliction or Prosperitie Error or Truth Sin or Grace The Universal Church The Eastern Western This among Us. Prelats Clergie Laitie The Governments of the Earth Christian About us Our The King Queen Prince Counsellers Judges Magistrates Officers People Husbandmen Merchants Artificers even to the Laborers Poor All whom Kindred Good turns Ministring in carnal things Charge formerly now Moral friendship Charitie Neighbourhood My Promise Their Desire Want of their own leisure Compassion on them being in extremitie Worthie Acts Good Works Scandal given to Want of any else to pray for them commends to my praiers LOrd into thy hands I commend myself My Spirit Soul Bodie Thou hast created them redeemed them O Lord Thou God of truth And together with myself all mine and all that belongs unto me Thou O Lord hast graciously given them unto Thy servant Gen. 33. 5. Preserve my lying down and my rising up Psal. 139. 1. from this time forth for evermore Psal. 121. 8. Grant that I may remember Thee upon my bed Psal. 63. 7. and search out my spirit Psal. 77. 6. that I may rise again and still be with Thee Psal. 139. 18. I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is Thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safetie Psal. 4. 9. Praiers for the Holy Communion Before the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament O Lord I am not fit nor worthie that Thou shouldst come under the filthie roof of the house of my soul. S. Matth. 8.8 because it is wholy desolate and ruinous neither hast Thou with me a fit place where to lay Thy head S. Mat. 8.20 But as Thou didst vouchsafe to be laid in a Stable and Manger of unreasonable Beasts S. Luke 2.7 As Thou didst not disdeign to be entertain'd even in the house of Simon the Leper S. Matth. 26.6 As Thou didst not reject the Harlot a sinner like unto me coming unto Thee and touching Thee As Thou didst not abhorr her foul and prophane mouth S. Luke 7. 37 38. Nor yet the Thief on the Cross confessing Thee S. Luke 23.43 Even so vouchsafe to admitt me also an over-worn miserable and out of measure sinful creature to the receiving and communicating of the most pure most auspitious quickning and saving Mysteries of Thy most Holie Bodie and Pretious Blood S. Chrysost. Liturgie ATtend O Lord our God from Thy holie habitation and from the glorious Throne of Thy Kingdom and come and sanctifie us O Thou who sittest on high with the Father and art here invisibly present with us come and sanctifie these gifts here presented and those also by and for whom and the end wherto they are brought hither S. Chrysost. and S. Basil's Liturgie And grant us to partake of them In Faith that need not be ashamed Love without dissimulation Rom. 12.9 For the Keeping of the Commandments Stirring up of all spiritual fruits Healing of Soul and Bodie For a Symbol of our Communion Act. 2.42 Memorial of Thy Dispensation S. Luke 22.19 For the Shewing forth of Thy Death 1 Corinth 11.26 Cōmunion of Thy Bodie and Bloud 1 Cor. 10.16 Participation of Thy Spirit 1 Corinth 12.13 Remission of our sins S. Mat. 26.28 For an Amulet against all evil 1 Cor. 5.7 For the Quieting of our Conscience S. Mat. 11.28 For the Blotting out of our Debts Col. 2.14 Acts 3.19 Purging of our Spots Heb. 9.14 Healing of the Infirmities of our Souls 1 S. Pet. 2. 24. Renewing of our Covenant Psal. 50.5 Viands of our Spiritual Life S. Job 6.27 Increas of strengthning Grace Heb. 13. 9. soul-ravishing Comfort Psal. 104.15 Enforcing of our Repentance I Corin 11.29 Inlight'ning of our Understanding S. Luke 24.31 Exercise of our Humilitie S. John 13.11 For A Seal of our Faith 2 Cor. 1.22