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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66403	A manual, or, Three small and plain treatises viz. 1. Of prayer, or active, 2. Of principles, or positive, 3. Resolutions, or oppositive [brace] divinity / translated and collected out of the ancient writers, for the private use of a most noble lady, to preserve her from the danger of popery, by the Most Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Arch-Bishop of York.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1672 (1672)	Wing W2711; ESTC R38653	30,581	162

excellent worth and made to serve God 9. That thou hast no happiness to the peace of Conscience 10. Think how good thy God hath been unto thee 11. Think of the Cross of Christ who there died for thee 12. Of examples of holy men and Saints who lived before thee Walk about your Chamber a turn or two after your Prayers and meditate upon these points seriously and you shall find that temptations to sin will vanish away and leave to assault you The four last things to be first thought upon by all good Christians 1. The day of thy Death thou knowest not how suddenly 2. The day of Judgment that will come certainly 3. The Joyes of Heaven if thou live Religiously 4. The pains of Hell if thou continuest to do wickedly The end of Morning Prayer Evening Prayer to bed-ward O Lord hear my Prayer And let my cry come unto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Even O Lord I do confess to my shame confusion that this day hath been spent by me with less purity and piety than it should have been I have augmented since this morning the score of my sins My thoughts have been polluted my wit prophane and unsanctified my tongue more rash and unbridled than became any one of that rank and calling wherein thou hast set me I have sinned through idleness ignorance slothfulness and malice And this darkness of the night puts me in mind of that eternal darkness my sins have deserved Pardon and forgive me all my transgressions Let this darkness be a fit time unto me of rest and sleep and no opportunity of snares and temptations Send thy Holy Ghost into my heart to free and purifie the same from all rolling motions suggestions of Sathan and from the usual terrours affrightments of the night Preserve this house in safety O Lord and all the people that are therein Let my prayer ascend up unto thy presence as the incense and let this lifting up of mine hands be as an Evening sacrifice through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen Another HAving spent the day we betake our selves to our repose in the night So after the troubles of this present life we shall rest our selves in death Nothing doth more resemble our life than the day our death than sleep our grave than the bed our resurrection than our awaking in the morning Do thou then O God my protector and defender preserve me in my sleep from the incursions and temptations of the devil in my death from the guilt punishments of my sins I have no strength to resist in the one nor merits of mine own to display in the other Look only upon the merits of my Lord Saviour give me a strong and stedfast faith to apply his righteousness to mine own soul In confidence full assurance of whose satisfactions for all my sins I do for this night lie me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord only that maketh me to continue in safety Amen Another ALmighty and everlasting God who makest the light to succeed the darkness give me the grace to spend this night freed from the snares of sin and Sathan and to be here again upon my knees in the morning to give thee thanks for the same through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Meditations When your maid is getting you to bed HE that willingly goes to bed should as willingly go to his grave We willingly put off our cloaths being to put them on again in the morning and should as willingly put off our bodies being to put them on again in the Resurrection 2. After the troubles of the day comes the quietness of the night in the which the King and the swain differ nothing So after this life comes death where poor and rich are alike and equal 3. Here is a fit time especially laid in your bed to fall to your Audite for the day past What evil you have committed by 1. Swearing 2. Lying 3. Taunting 4. Being too angry 5. Vain talking especially of Religion 6. Exceeding in fare or apparel 7. Injuring of another Repent of it Detest it Resolve to do it no more What good you have omitted as Saying grace when you eat Praying Releiving of a poor body Respecting your husband parents Spending some time upon Meditations Works of charity Desire Gods grace to be more wary What good you have performed If you have learned any thing that day If you have done any man good that day If you have kept your private and publick Prayers that day If you have given any Alms that day If you have heard the Word or received the Sacrament that day If you have spent any time upon your Meditations that day Rejoyce in it give God thanks for it When you have run over these accompts and find sleep coming say Into thy hands I commit my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth Amen The end of Evening Prayer Some other Collects For Faith MAn is blinded by fin but thou O Christ by the goodness and mercy of God the Father art become our guide in the way of salvation And yet such is our wretchedness and misery that we stagger for all this sometimes not understanding sometimes not believing many times not applying to our souls with a sure confidence thy promises of salvation set down in the Gospel O miserably blind that we are that can neither see ourselves nor believe our guider and instructer O thou eternal and pure verity vouchsafe so to slide into our hearts that we may be more certainly perswaded of thee thy truth than of those things we see with our eyes hear with our ears and handle with our hands the weak apprehensions of our bodily senses upon which this flesh and blood doth so much depend Appease asswage those rollingthoughts and wandring ●…otions of the flesh that make us to doubt and stagger in those high mysteries of the which we ought most firmly to be fixed resolved Faith is thy gift and therefore work it by the holy Ghost in my heart that all my senses and imaginations may become slaves and captives to the fame Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief O Lord increase my faith Amen Meditations 1. How easily we believe a lewd lying man yet how scrupulous w● are to believe God himsel● 2. We believe a man i● things which nothing concern us we believe no God in matters of our salvation Man is impotent God omnipotent 3. We believe our senses which often delude u● as in all tricks of Legey● demain we distrust Christ who can neither be deceived nor deceive us For the King and the Royal Issue I Humbly beseech thee Almighty God to present with all blessings of goodness our King and His Royal Issue Increase upon them day by day all ●hy

A MANVAL OR Three SMALL and PLAIN TREATISES VIZ. 1. Of Prayer or Active Divinity 2. Of Principles or Positive Divinity 3. Resolutions or Oppositive Divinity Translated and Collected out of the Ancient Writers for the Private Use of a most Noble LADY to preserve her from the Danger of POPERY By the most Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Arch-Bishop of YORK LONDON Printed for William Garret and are to be Sold by Joseph Clark and Ralph Needham in Little-Britain 1672. Certain PRAYERS AND Short MEDITATIONS Translated out of the Writings of St. Augustine St. Gregory St. Bernard Joannes Picus Mirandula Ludovicus Vives Georgius Cassander Charolus Paschalius and others for the private Use of a most Noble Lady Morning Prayer MY Soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning Watch I say before the morning Watch. 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 O Lord assist me with thy Holy Spirit in my Prayers and let my cry come unto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Confession of sins REceive O Lord in the arms of thy mercy thy distr●●sed handmaiden who in remorse and contrition returns unto thee from her sins Because the life of that sinner is not abhorred of thee which is accompanied with sighs and repentance Pardon then O Lord all my offences for thy dear Son's sake Amen A Prayer for the Morning ALmighty God our heavenly Father which hast brought me thy handmaiden to this present morning protect me still with thy mighty power that this ensuing day I may fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that my thoughts words and deeds may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name and the eternal comfort and salvation of mine own soul through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Another O Most sincere and pure Light from whence this light of the day and of the Sun fetcheth his begining Thou which enlightenest every man that cometh into the World Thou Light whom no night or evening can obscure but continuest ever in thy High-noon brightness Thou Word and Wisdom of so great a Father enlighten this morning my soul and understanding that thy weak Hand-maiden may be this day as blinded to the Vanities of the World and quick-sighted only to those things which are pleasing unto thee and leading to the waies of thy Commandements Amen For the Mediation of Christ LOrd Jesus that art not only righteous but righteousness it self and art my Advocate with God the Father justifie thou me thy hand-maiden in the day of judgment because I acknowledge and accuse my self as full of injustice and pollution For it is not upon any action or contrition of mine owne that my soul relies but only upon a faith assurance and bold confidence in thee mine Advocate who livest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Against Temptations GIve me thy Grace O Almighty God so to vanquish and overcome the lusts and temptations of this world that I may triumph with thee over the Devil and his wicked angels in the world to come Amen For Piety I Humbly beseech thee O Almighty God that his desire of reading and ●earing thy sacred Word which by thy Holy Spirit thou hast planted in my heart may by thy grace and mercy be daily renued and augmented unto a perfect fire of zeal and devotion to the honour of thy Name and salvation of mine own soul in Christ Jesu Amen A Prayer for a Noble-woman O Lord Jesus Christ that art so far from contemning Nobility of birth that thy Evangelists have diligently searched out and recorded thine own genealogy give me thy unworthy Hand-maiden the grace that I abuse not by ingratitude this thy favour and mercy But rather as it was first acquired in my Ancestors let it still be preserved in my Person by my continual serving of thee and doing as it shall lie in my power all works of Charity to my Neighbours Give me grace that as thou hast plac'd me in Birth Rank so I may be found in devotion piety lowliness of mind weekness and a religious care of thy worship conspicuous above others And if it be thy gracious Will to make me a Mother of Children and Mistriss of a Family let me appear a pattern and ensample of Devotion and Piety to all that are about me And make me and them so to live in thy fear that we may dye in thy favour through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Wife ALmighty God which hast given me to be a comfort and an helper unto my Husband endue my soul with those Heavenly Graces wherewith I may be most enabled to serve thee and please him Knit our minds as well as our bodies in an indissoluble band of sincere affection Give either of us sanctified hearts zealous towards thee thankful towards our Soveraign sincere loving one towards another Crown withal if it be thy will these chast intentions with thy fructifying grace that we may become the happy Parents of such Olive branches as may one day advance thy Glory in the Church and Common-wealth In a word so incorporate us both by faith in Christ unto thy kingdom of Grace that we may at the last attain unto thy kingdom of Glory Amen A Prayer for one attendant neer the person of a Prince ALmighty God by whose gracious providence it cometh that my Lord and Husband is thus employed in that nearness of attendance upon His Royal Majesty give him grace so to serve thee that he may the better serve him and by making him thy Saint continue him his servant Fill his mind with all wisdom knowledge and other virtues befitting his rank and calling that he may seem no more elected by the King then selected by thee for these employments Make him vigilant careful and industrious in his Masters affairs Make him to accompt it his only happiness to serve thee his only virtue to observe him and all the rest as glittering vanity That after a troublesome but long life in a Kings Court his soul may be carried by the Angels unto thy Court where one day is better than a thousand Crant this for thy dear Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditation Count MIRANDULA his twelve Thoughts or Weapons against all the Temptations of Sin Think 1. THe pleasure thou art tempted unto but short and momentary 2. And even this is attended with loathing and anxiety 3. And yet that for this thou must lose Heaven 4. That thy life is but as a dream and shadow 5. Thy death is suddain and at thy door 6. Thy time of repentance casual and uncertain 7. Thy reward or punishment endless and eternal 8. That thou art a creature of an