Undertakings Going out and Coming in Sitting down and Rising up Praiers Preparatorie to all our Thanksgivings THou O Lord art worthie to be praised and unto Thee shall the Vow be performed Psal 65.1 Worthie art Thou O Lord our Holie God to receive glorie and honor and power Revel 4.11 O Thou that hearest Praier unto Thee shall all flesh come Even my flesh shall come My misdeeds prevail against me O be Thou merciful unto my sins Psal 65.2 3. That I may come to confess to Thee with all Thy Works and with all Thy Saints to bless Thee Thou shalt open my lips O Lord And my mouth shal shew Thy praise Psal 51.15 A Form of Thanksgiving for Temporal and Spiritual Blessings MY soul praiseth the Lord for that He hath don good To all Creatures Mankind To the World Habitable part therof To the States of the World Catholic Church Christianitie To all particular Churches States To our Church State Countrie To the several Orders in either of them The Sacred To the several Persons in those Orders To the King Prince To the Citie wherin I was Born Parish wherin I was Baptiz'd Two Scholes Universitie College wherin I was Brought up To my Familie Kindred To all that have Shewed mercie Administred to me To my Nighbors Friends To all commended to my Praiers For that He hath shewed mercie to me In my Soul Bodie Goods For the Gifts of Nature Grace the World For all things wherin I have Received benefit been successful formerly at present For the good if anie which I ever did For my Health good-Name Sufficiencie Safetie Libertie Quiet Thou hast not cut off as a Weaver my Life but from daie even to night Thou preservest me P. Isai 38.12 Thou hast graciously given me Life Breath until this hour From my Childhood from my Youth upward even untill now to Old age Psal 71.15 16. Thou hast held my soul in life and Thou wilt not suffer my foot to slip Psal 66.8 Delivering me From Dangers Diseases Povertie Servitude Public Shame Evil Accidents Not giving me up to perish in my sins Always waiting for my Conversion Leaving in me a Turning to my heart Remembrance of the * Death Judgment Heaven Hell last ends Some Shame Horror Trembling for my sins past O give me oftner and greater greater and oftner more and more O Lord. Giving me good hopes of the Remission of them by Repentance and by the Works therof thorough the Power of the most Holie Keies and Sacraments in Thy Church So that daie by daie for these Thy benefits which I remember And so also for manie more forgotten by reason of their multitude and my forgetfulness For them bestowed on me Willing Knowing Asking Not Asking Knowing Willing I confess and give thanks to Thee I bless and praise Thee as is meet everie daie And I praie with all my soul and with all my mind I praie Glorie be to Thee O Lord Glorie be to Thee Glorie be to Thee And Glorie be to Thy most Holie Name For all Thy Divine Perfections in them For Thy unspeakable and unexpressable goodness and mercie toward sinners and the unworthie And even toward me altogether the most unworthie of all sinners Yea O Lord For this and for the rest Glorie and Praise and Blessing and Thanksgiving with the Voices and the Harmonie of the Voices of Angels and Men of all Thy Saints in Heaven and of all Thy Creatures whether in Heaven or Earth And under their feet of me an unworthie and miserable sinner Thy poor Creature both now in this Daie and Hour and daily unto my last breath and unto the end of the world and for ever and ever Amen A Letanie to be used upon special occasions of Public or Private Humiliation O Father who didst creäte Destroie not him whom Thou didst creäte O Son who didst redeem Destroie not him whom Thou didst redeem O Spirit who didst regenerate Destroie not him whom Thou didst regenerate Remember not Lord our offenses nor the offenses of our Forefathers neither take Thou vengeance on our sins on Their Mine Spare us good Lord Spare Them Me Spare Thy people and in Thy people Me Thy servant whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy pretious Blood and be not angrie with us for ever Be merciful Be merciful Spare us O Lord And be not angrie with us for ever Be merciful Be merciful Have mercie on us O Lord And be not angrie with us verie sore Not verie sore O Lord. Deal not with me according to my sins Neither reward me after mine iniquities But deal with me according to Thy great mercie And reward me after the multitude of Thy compassions Even according to that great mercie And after that multitude of compassions As thou didst deal with our Fathers in the generations of old By whatsoever is dear unto Thee From all evil and adversitie In all times of necessitie From the evil and adversitie at this present time Stand up O Lord rescue and save me Deliver me O Lord And destroie me not In the Bed of Sickness Hour of Death Daie of Judgment In that terrible and dreadful Daie Deliver me O Lord and save me From Beholding the stern countenance of the Judg Standing on the left hand Hearing that fearful sentence Depart from me S. Mat. 25.41 From being bound in the chains of darkness 2 S. Pet. 2.4 Cast out into outer darkness S. Mat. 25.30 Tormented in the bottomless pit of Fire and Brimstone where the smoke of torments ascendeth up for ever and ever Revel 14.10 11. Be merciful Be merciful Spare us Deliver us O Lord and save us and destroie us not for ever not for ever O Lord. And that this maie not be Remove far from me O Lord * 1 Hardness of heart * 2 Want of Remors after sinning Eph. 4.19 * 3 Obduration of heart S. Mark 3.5 and 6.52 * 4 Setting light by Thy threatnings * 5 A seared Conscience 1 Tim. 4.2 * 6 A Reprobate Mind Rom. 1.28 The sin against the Holie Ghost S. Matth. 12.32 The sin unto Death 1 S. John 5.16 †1. Voluntarie Murther Genes 4.10 2. Unnatural Lusts Gen. 18.20.21 3. Oppression of the Poor the Fatherless and Widows Exod. 22.22 23. and Deut. 15.9 4. Detention of the Wages of the Laborers Deut. 24.15 and S. Jam. 5.4 The Four Crying sins The * Six fore-runners of the Sin against the Holie Ghost From the grievous and terrible Evils of this World From Pestilence Famine War Earth quakes Inundations Great Fires Plague of immoderate Rains Drought Corrupting Winds Blasting Thunder Lightning Tempest Epidemial acute evil Diseases And from sudden Death Good Lord deliver us From pernicious Evils in the Church From Private Interpretations 2 S. Peter 1.20 Innovations in Holie things Strange Doctrines 1 Tim. 1.3 Doting about Questions making endless strifes 1 Tim. 6.4 From Heresies Schisms Scandals Public private Good Lord deliver us From the Deifying of Kings Act. 12.22 the Flattering of People S.
Sin For His Cross in Crucifying all occasions of Sin For His Death in Mortifying the Flesh For His Burial in Burying my bad purposes by good works For His Descent in Meditation upon Hell For His Resurrection in Newness of Life For His Ascension in Setting my affections on things above For His Session in Seeking those better things at His Right hand For His Return in Aw of His Second coming For His Judgment in Judging myself before I com to be judged From the Spirit to receive the Breath of saving Grace To be partaker In the Church of Vocation In the Holie Church of Sanctification In the Cathol Church of Distribution and Communication Of the Holie Mysteries Praiers Fastings Groans Watchings Tears and suffering of afflictions To a firm persuasion of the Remission of my sins To a consident Hope Of Resurrection Translation to Life Eternal O Thou that art the Hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them that remain in the broad sea Psal 65.5 O Thou on whom our Fathers hoped and Thou didst deliver them on whom they trusted and were not confounded Psa 22.4 5. O Thou who art my Hope even from my Youth Psal 71.4 Mothers breasts On whom I have been left from the womb Psa 22.9 10. Be Thou stil and stil my Hope and my Portion in the Land of the living Psal 142.6 My Hope is in Thy Nature Names Types Word Deed. O let me not be ashamed of this my Hope Psal 119.116 O Thou who art the Hope of all the ends of the Earth Psal 65.5 Remember all Thy creatures for good Visit the world with Thy mercies O Thou Preserver of men H. Job 7.20 O Lord the Lover of men Remember all mankind and Thou who hast shut up all in unbelief Rom. 11.32 Have mercie upon all O Lord. O Thou who didst die rise and revive That Thou might'st be Lord both of the Dead and Living Rom. 14.9 Whether we live or die Thou art our Lord v. 8. Whether Living or Dying Have mercie upon us O Lord. O Thou the Helper of the helpless the Refuge in due time of trouble Psal 9.9 Remember all who are in anie necessitie and stand in need of Thy help O Thou the God of Grace and Truth S. Joh. 1.14 Confirm all who stand in Grace and Truth 1 Thessal 3.2 13. and 2 S. Pet. 1.12 Restore all who are sick of Heresie and Sin Gal. 6.1 1 Tim. 6.4 O Thou who art the buckler and horn of salvation through Thy Christ Psal 28.9 Think upon Thy Congregation whom Thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Psal 74.2 Let there be one heart and one soul of all Beleevers Act. 4.32 O Thou who walkest in the midst of the golden Candlesticks Revelat. 2.1 Remove not our Candlestick out of the place thereof Revel 2.5 Set in order the things that are wanting Tit. 1.5 Establish what remain which Thou might'st reject Revel 3.2 O Thou who art the Lord of the Harvest Send forth Laborers sufficiently inabled by Thee into Thy Harvest S. Mat. 9.38 O Thou who art the portion of them who continually attend in Thy Temple 1 Cor. 9.13 Grant that Thy Clergie maie rightly divide the Word of Truth 2 Tim. 2.15 They maie walk uprightly according to the same Gal 2.14 Grant that all they who love Christ maie obeie and submit themselvs to them Heb. 13.17 O Thou the King of all Nations to the ends of the earth Establish all Governments in all the world as being Thine own ordinance Rom. 13.2 though an ordinance among men 1 S. Pet. 2.13 Scatter Thou the people that delight in war Psal 68.30 Make wars to cease in all the world Psal 46.9 O Lord who art the Hope of the Islands and on whom the Isles wait P. Isa 51.5 and 60.9 Deliver this Island and Countrie wherein we dwell from all distress danger and necessitie S. Chrysost O Thou who art the Lord of Lords and Prince of Princes Be mindful of all Princes to whom Thou hast given Right to rule upon earth But above all be mindful of our most Gracious King preserved by Thee Work mightily with Him and prosper Him in all things Speak good unto His soul for Thy Churches and for Thy Peoples sake Grant unto Him a settled peace which maie not be taken away That in His prosperitie we maie lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honestie 1 Tim. 2.2 S. Chrysost O Thou by whom all Powers are ordained and ordered Grant to All that be in eminencie at Court that they maie be eminent in virtue and in the Fear of Thee The Council Thy holie wisdom All that are in power and authoritie over us that they maie have no power to do anie thing against the Truth but for the Truth 2 Corinth 13.8 The Judges Thy judgments that they maie judg all Persons in all Causes without prejudice and partialitie 1 Timoth 5.21 O God of Sabaoth Thou Lord of Hosts Prosper and strengthen all Christian Armies against the enemies of our most holie Faith Grant to All the People of this Kingdom to be subject to their Prince not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake Romans 13.5 Husbandmen Dealers in Cattell Fruitful seasons The Navie and Fishermen Calm seas and happie passage Tradesmen grace not to over-reach one another Artificers and Workmen even to the poorest Beggers to do their work and deal uprightly in their Vocations O God the God not of us alone but also of our seed Bless all the youth among us that they maie grow up in wisdom and stature and favor with God and men S. Luke 2.52 O Thou who commandest us to provide for our own 1 Tim. 5.8 and hatest them who are without natural affection Remember O Lord all my Kindred according to the flesh Rom. 9.3 Grant that I maie speak peace to them and seek their good O Thou who willest us to recompense them who do good to us Remember O Lord for good all whom I have received anie benefit from Preserve them and keep them alive that they maie be blessed upon earth and deliver Thou not them into the will of their enemies Psal 41.2 O Thou who hast taught us that he who provideth not for his own hous is wors then an Infidel 1 Tim. 5.8 Remember according to Thy good pleasure all in my familie Peace be to my house The Son of peace be with all therin S. Luke 10.5 6. O Thou who hast commanded that our righteousness exceed the righteousness of sinners S. Mat. 5.20 Grant O Lord that I maie Love them that love me S. Mat. 5.46 Never forsake mine or my Parents Friends and the Children of those Friends O Thou who hast commanded us to overcom evil with good Rom. 12.21 and to praie for them who despightfully use us S. Mat. 5.44 Be merciful to mine enemies O Lord even as to myself and bring them with me unto Thy heavenlie Kingdom O Thou who graciously respectest the praiers of Thy servants which
forgive me My Thoughts Slips Guilt Falls Sins Transgressions Iniquities Abominations Work in me Carefulness Clearing of myself Indignation Fear Vehement Desire Zeal Revenge 2 Cor. 7.11 Faith 1. THe Deitie Love Power Providence II. Salvation Anointing Adoption Dominion Conception Birth Sufferings Cross Death Burial Descent Resurrection Ascention Session Return Judgment III. Inspiration Sanctification Calling out of the world Sanctifying in the world Communion of Saints H. Mysteries Forgiveness of sins Resurrection Life Eternal BE Thou my Hope O Thou that art the Hope of all the ends of the Earth And of them that remain in the broad sea Psal 65.5 BLess O Lord All Thy Creatures Mankind Compassed with infirmities The Church Catholic Eastern Western British The Bishops Presbyters Clergie People that love Christ All Estates of the World Christian Nighbour Our Godlie Princes Kings Our Counsellers Judges Magistrates Commanders at Land Sea Commonaltie Succession Learning All in the Court Citie Countrie All who anie waie minister To our Souls Bodies Food Raiment Health Things for this Life All whom we are bound to praie for By Nature Good-turns Charge formerly at present Friendship Charitie Nighbourhood Promise Mutual respects All who Find no leasure to praie Are in great want extreme necessitie Psal 121. THe Lord be my Keeper the Lord be my Defense upon my right hand Ver. 5. The Lord preserve me from all evil Yea the Lord keep my soul V. 7. The Lord preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth for evermore V. 8. O Lord Thou knowest how Thou art able and willing to do good to my soul I wretched man that I am Rom. 7.24 neither know how nor am able nor as I ought willing to do it Do Thou O Lord I beseech Thee in Thy unspeakable loving kindness so order and dispose of me as Thou knowest to be best pleasing to Thee and most expedient for me * See The Triumph of Mercie in the Bishops Manual for the Sick GOodness Grace Love Kindness Humanitie Tit. 3.4 Gentleness Meekness 2 Cor. 10.1 Forbearance Long-suffering Rom. 2.4 Manifold Mercies 1 S. Pet. 1.3 Great Mercies Psal 51.1 Compassions Romans 12.1 Multitude of Compassions Psal 51.1 Bowels of Compassions Col. 3.12 Tenderness of Abundant tender Compassions S. Jam. 5.11 In Passing by P. Mich. 7.18 Overlooking Acts 17.30 Conniving P. Isai 57.11 Manie Times Years H. Nehem. 9.28 30. Unwillingly angrie Lament 3.33 Not suffering His whole displeasure to arise Psal 78.39 Not according to my desert Psal 103.10 Not always Psa 103.9 In wrath remembring mercie P. Hab. 3.2 Repenting of the evil P. Joel 2.13 Thinking everie stripe two P. Isa 40.2 Receiving to Pardon Reconciliation Propitiation ☿ ☿ The Planetatie Character or Hieroglyphic of WENSDAIE call'd in H. Scripture the Fourth Daie Gen. 1.19 IN the Morning watches I thought upon Thee O Lord Because Thou hast been my helper Psal 63 7 8. BLessed art Thou O Lord who createdst the Two Lights The Sun Moon The greater lesser And the Stars Genes 1.16 For Light Signs Seasons V. 14. For Spring Summer Harvest Winter For Daies Weeks Months Years And to rule over The Daie Night V. 18. P. Isaiah BEhold Thou art wroth for we have sinned We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses as filthie rags We all fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away But now O Lord Thou art our Father We are the claie we all are the work of Thy hands Be not wroth with us very sore Do not suddenly remember our sins But behold look upon us O Lord we are all Thy people Chapt. 64. V. 5 6 8 9. P. Jeremiah Though our iniquities testifie against us O Lord shew mercie to us for Thy Names sake For our backslidings are manie we have sinned against Thee Yet Thou O Lord art in the midst of us and Thy Name is called upon among us O forget us not O Lord our confidence who savest us in the time of trouble Why art Thou as a Forreiner in the land Or as a Native that comes but to his Inn As one that is fallen into a sleep As a man that is not able to save Chapt. 14. V. 7 8 9. O Lord forgive our iniquities and remember our sins no more Ch 31. V. 34 S. Paul Lord I am carnal sold under sin In me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing For the good that I would I do not but the evil that I would not that I do I consent unto the Law that it is good And I delight in the law after the inner man But I see another law in my Members warring against the Law of my Mind and bringing me into captivitie to the Law of Sin O wretched man that I am who shal deliver me from the bodie of this death I thank God through JESUS Christ Rom. 7. V. 14 16 18 19 22 23 24 25. Because where sin abounded Grace did much more abound Chapt. 5. V. 20. O Lord Thy graciousness leadeth me unto Repentance Rom. 2.4 O give me Repentance That I maie recover myself out of the snare of the Divil who am taken Captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2.25 26. S. Peter The time past of my life is sufficient to have wrought the will of my lusts When I walked in lasciviousness revellings banquetings and in all excess of riot 1 Epist 4. Chap. 3. V. O Lamb of God without blemish and without spot Who redeemedst me with Thy pretious blood 1 Epist 1. Cha. 18. and 19. Ver. For that same Blood have mercie and save me For that Blood and for that Name of Thine beside which there is no other under Heaven given among men wherby we must be saved Acts 4.12 K. David God Thou knowest my simpleness and my faults are not hid from Thee Psal 69.5 Lord all my desire is before Thee and my groaning is not hid from Thee Psal 38.9 Let not them who trust in Thee O Lord God of Hosts be ashamed for my cause Let not them who seek Thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel Take me out of the mire that I sink not O let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters Let not the water-flood drown me neither let the deep swallow me up neither let the pit shut her mouth upon me Psal 69. V. 6 15.16 1 PRide an * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 1 Amorite 2 Envie an * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 2 Hittite 3 Anger a * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 3 Perezite 4 Gluttonie a * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 4 Girgashite 5 Wantoness an * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 5 Hivite 6 Worldlie Carkings a * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 6 Canaanite 7 Lukewarm Carelesness a * The VII Cursed Nations Deut. 7.1 7 Jebusite 1 HUmilitie 2 Mercie 3 Patience 4 Temperance 5 Chastitie 6 Contentation 7 Alacritie and Diligence I
Mark 15.15 Act. 12.3 and 24.27 Prophaness of Saul 1 P. Sam. 15. Scorns of Michal 2 P. Sam. 6.16 Fleshhook of Hophni 1 P. Sam. 2.13 Good Lord deliver us From the Massacre of Athalia 2 Kings 11. Priesthood of Micha Judg. 17.10 Combination of Simon Magus Acts 8.18 and Judas Iscariot S. Matth. 26.15 Doctrine of the unlearned and unstable 2 S. Pet. 3.16 Pride of Novices 1 Tim. 3.6 People that strive with the Priest P. Hos 4.4 Good Lord deliver us From pernicious Evils in the State From Anarchie Multitude of Kings Tyrannie Ashur Jeroboam Rehoboam Gal. +lio Haman From the Dangerous council of Achitophel 2 P. Sam. 16 21. Foolish counsil of Zoan P. Isai 19.11.13 Statutes of Omri P. Mich. 6.16 Judgments of Jezreel 2 Kin. 10.7 Floods of Belial Psal 18.4 Plague of Peor Num. 25. Vallie of Achor H. Jos 7.26 Pollution of Blood Seed Good Lord deliver us From Forreign Invasion Civil Warr Displacing of good and upright Magistrates Exalting of bad and corrupt men into office Good Lord deliver us From an uncomfortable life In Sadness of Spirit Infirmitie of Bodie Ill report Want Danger Servitude Tumults Good Lord deliver us From Death In Sin Shame Torture Distraction Filthiness Violence For Treason From Sudden Eternal Death Good Lord deliver us Hosanna in the Highest Or A Supplication for Spiritual Blessings REmember me O Lord according to the favor that Thou bearest unto Thy people Visit me with Thy salvation That I maie See the felicitie of Thy chosen Rejoice in the gladness of thy people Give thanks with Thine inheritance Psal 106.4 5. For there is a glorie to be revealed 1 S. Peter 5.1 And when the Judg cometh Acts 10.42 Some Shal See His face with joy H. Job 33.26 Be placed on His right hand S. Matth. 25 33. Hear that most sweet voice Come ye blessed V. 34. Be caught up in the Clouds to meet the Lord 1 Thess 4.17 Enter into His joie S. Mat. 25.21 Enjoie the Vision of Him Be ever with Him 1 Thes 4.17 These only only These are blessed among the sons of men O give to me the meanest of them all the meanest place there under their feet under the feet of Thy Elect of the meanest of them And to this end Let me find grace in Thy sight that I maie serve Thee acceptably with reverence and godlie fear Heb. 12.28 But let me find this grace also That I maie not receive that grace in vain 2 Cor. 6.1 Nor fall short of it Heb. 12.15 Much less so neglect it 1 Tim. 4.14 As to fall quite from it Gal. 5.4 But to stirr it up 2 Tim. 1.6 So as to grow in it 2 S. Pet. 3.18 Howsoever to continue still in it Acts 13.43 to the end of my life And O make up the defects of Thy Graces in me Of Faith Increas my little Faith S. Luke 17.5 Hope Confirm my trembling Hope Love Kindle the smoking Flax therof S. Matth. 12.20 Shed abroad in my heart the Love of Thee Rom. 5.5 That I maie love Thee My My Friend in Thee My Enemie for Thee O Thou who givest grace to the humble S. James 4.6 Give me grace to be humble O Thou who never failest them that fear Thee Let my heart rejoice in the Fear of Thee Psal 86.11 secund LXX Let this my Fear be my Confidence H. Job 4.6 Let me Fear one thing only to Fear anie thing more then Thee As I would that men should do unto me so let mee likewise do to them S. Mat. 7.12 Nor let me think of my self more highly then I ought but let me think soberly Rom. 12.3 Give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death Guide our feet in the waie of Peace S. Luke 1.79 That we maie Be like-minded one towards another Rom. 15.5 Rightly divide 2. Timoth 2.5 Uprightly walk Gal. 2.14 Edifie one another 1 Thes 5.11 With one mind and one mouth glorisie God Rom. 15.6 But if anie thing prove otherwise Let us walk by the same rule wherto we have atteined Phil. 3.16 Let us hold fast Order Col. 2.5 1 Corinth 14.40 Decencie 1 Corinth 14.40 Stedfastness Col. 2.5 Hosanna upon Earth Or A Supplication for Temporal Blessings REmember O Lord to crown the Year with Thy goodness Psal 65.11 For the eies of all wait upon Thee O Lord Thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest Thy hand and fillest all things living with Thy gracious bountie Psal 145.15 16. Vouchsafe us therfore O Lord The blessings of Heaven and of the dew from above The blessings of the Springs of the deep from beneath The Returns of the Sun The Conjunctions of the Moon The benefits of the rising Mountaine and of the lasting Hills The fulness of the Earth and of all that breeds therin Deut. 33.13.14 15 16. secund LXX Fruitful Seasons Temperate Airs Plentie of Corn Abundance of Fruits Health of Bodie and Peaceable times Good and Fair Government Wise Counsels Just Laws Righteous Judgments Loial Obedience Due Execution of Justice Sufficient store for life Prosperous Issue Happie Births Good and Fair Plentie Due Breeding Right Institution of children That our Sons maie grow up as the yong plants and that our Daughters maie be as the polished corners of the Temple That our Garners maie be full and plenteous with all manner of store that our Sheep maie bring forth thousands That our Oxen maie be strong to labor that there be no decaie no leading into captivitie and no complaining in our streets Psal 144.12 13 14. ONe thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require that I maie dwell in the House of the Lord all the daies of my life to behold the fair beautie of the Lord and to visit His Temple Psal 27.4 Two things will I require of Thee O Lord denie me them not before I die Remove far from me Vanitie and Lies Give me neither Povertie nor Riches Feed mee with food convenient for me Lest I be full and denie Thee and saie Who is the Lord Or lest I be poor and steal and take the Name of God in vain Pro. 30.7 8 9. Let me learn how to abound and let me learn also how to want And in whatsoever state I am therwith to be content Phil. 4.11 12. And beside what I have never either to desire or exspect anie earthlie transitorie corruptible thing Give me A Holie Life In Godliness Gravitie Puritie All Goodness Cheerfulness of Mind Health of Bodie Good Name Content Safetie Libertie Quiet A Happie Death Eternal Life Evening Praier HAving passed over this daie Lord I give thanks unto Thee The Evening draweth nigh make it comfortable An Evening there is as of the Daie 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 Daie is far spent S. Luke 24.29 of this my toilsom life Let Thy strength be made perfect in my weakness 2 Corinthians 12.9 THe Daie 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 Daie so of our Life is at hand We therefore 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 wee maie remember the daies of darkness that they are manie Eccles 11.8 that we be not cast out into outer darkness S. Mat. 22.13 and 25.30 and that we maie remember to prevent the Night by doing some good Judgment is at hand Grant us O Lord that we maie 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 134.2 3. The Lord hath granted His loving kindness on the Daie 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 creäte the interchanges of the Daie and Night Who givest us occasions of songs in the Night H. Job 35.10 Who hast delivered us from the evil of this Daie Who hast not cut off like a Weaver my Life nor in this Daie before Night didst make an end of me P. Isa 38.12 LOrd as we add daies to our daies so we add sins to our sins Ecclus 5.5 A just man falleth seven times a daie 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 waies 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 I 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 sinned grievously against Thee Forgive 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 Cleans me from my secret faults Keep Thy servant also from presumptuous sins Psal 19.12 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 my self 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 eles 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 feare Thou Keeper of Israel who dost neither slumber nor sleep Psal 121.4 Preserv 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 maie offend Thee defile my self 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 laie 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 91.4 Raise me up in due time in the hour of Praier and grant that I maie 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 All in authoritie and eminencie Counsellors 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 Nighborhood My Promise Their Desire Want of their own leisure Compassion on them being in extremitie Worthie Acts Good Works Scandal given to Want of anie else to praie for them commends to my praiers LOrd into thy hands I commend my selfe My Spirit Soul Bodie Thou hast creäted redeemed them O Lord Thou God of truth Psal 31.6 And together with my selfe all mine and all that belong 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 maie remember Thee upon my bed Psal 63.7 and search out my spirit Psal 77.6 that I maie rise again and still be with Thee Psal 139.18 I will laie me down in peace and take my rest for
it is Thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safetie Psal 4.9 A Praier for all Estates BLess O Lord The World The habîtable part theof The Church Kingdom Throne Altar Council Table Judgment Seat Universities Shops All Infants Children Striplings Youth Men Grown in Years Old men Infirm men The Possessed Fainthearted Sick Prisoners Orphans Widows Strangers All Travailers by Land Water Women with Child giving suck In hard servitude solitude Heavie-laden Praiers for the Holie Communion Before the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament O Lord I am not fit nor worthie that Thou should'st come under the filthie roof of the hous of my soul S. Matth. 8.8 becaus it is wholy desolate and ruinous neither hast Thou with me a fit place where to laie Thy head S. Mat. 8.20 But as Thon didst vouchsafe to be laid in a Stable and Manger of unreasonable Beasts S. Luke 27. As Thou didst not disdeign to be entertain'd even in the hous 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 auspicious 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 Commandements 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 Act. 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. Joh. 6.27 Increas of strenthning Grace Heb. 13.9 soul-ravishing Comfort Psa 104 15. Enforcing of our Repentance 1 Corinth 11.29 Enlightning of our Understanding S. Luke 24.31 Exercise of our Humilitie S. Joh. 13.11 For A Seal of our Faith 2 Cor. 1.22 The Fulness of Wisdom S. John 6.35 A Sufficient Accompt of our Oblations 1 Cor. 16.1 For the Armour of Patience 1 S. Pet. 41. For the stirring up of our Thankfulness Psal 116.11 For Confidence in Praier Psal 116.12 Mutual Inhabitation S. John 6.56 A Pledg of our Resurrection S. Joh. 6.54 An acceptable Apologie at the Bar of Judgment 1 Cor. 11.29 A Testament of our Inheritance S. Luke 22.20 A Type of Perfection S. Joh. 17.23 That we with all Thy Saints who from the begining have pleased Thee maie be partakers of Thy most pure and eternal good things which Thou hast prepared O Lord for them that love Thee in whom Thou art glorified for ever O Lamb of God who takest away the sin of the world S. Joh. 1.29 Take away mine also who am a notorious sinner WEe therefore O Lord in the presence of Thy Holie Mysteries Being mindful of The saving Passions of Thy Christ His life-giving Cross pretious Death three daies Burial Resurrection from the dead Ascension into Heaven Session at the Right hand of Thee the Father glorious and dreadful Return Humbly beseech Thee that we receiving a part of Thy Holie Mysteries with a pure testimonie of our Conscience maie be united to the Holie Bodie and Blood of Thy Christ Let me so receive these Mysteries that I maie be worthie to be ingraffed into Thy Bodie which is the Church That I maie become one of Thy Members and Thou my Head That I may remain with Thee and Thou with me That now not I in my selfe but Thou in me and I in Thee Maie for ever continue in an indissoluble bond of love Wash out the stains of my old fresh sins Never let anie sinful spot abide where so pure Sacraments have entered Through this Sacred Mysterie which I here call to mind Burie me alreadie dead to this world with Thee in Thy Grave These Praiers thus marked are not in the Greek but in the Latin MS. And receiving this Sacrament not unworthily let us procure Christs dwelling in our hearts Ephes 3.17 and be made a Temple of Thy Holie Spirit 1 Cor. 6.19 Even so O Lord. And make not anie one of us guiltie of these Thy dreadful and heavenlie Mysteries nor weak in Soul or Bodie by our unworthie partaking of the same 1 Corin. 11.27 29.30 But grant that to our utmost and last gasp we maie worthily receive the hope of these Thy Mysteries To our Sanctification Illumination Strengthning To the eas of the burthen of our manie sins As a Preservative against all the assaults of the Devil As a Deleterie and Impediment of our evil Customs For the Mortification of our lusts Keeping of Thy Commandements Increas of Thy Divine Grace and Possession of Thy Kingdom After the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament IT is good for me to hold me fast by God and to put my trust in the God of my salvation In the Latin nor in the Greek MS. We have now O Christ our God finished and perfected according to our abilitie the Mysterie of Thy Dispensation For we have had the Memorial of Thy Death seen the Type of Thy Resurrection been filled with Thy endless Life enjoied Thy never failing Dainties Wherof vouchsafe to make us all partakers in the world to come THe good Lord pardon everie one that prepareth his heart to seek the Lord God of his Fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the Sanctuarie 2 Chron. 30.18 19. Special Duties recommended to Christian People 1 WHat shall I do to inherit eternal Life 1 Keep the Commandments S. Matth. 10.17 19. 2 What shal we do 2 Repent and 3 Be Baptized everie one of you Acts 2.37 38. 3 What must I do to be saved 4 Believe on the Lord JESUS Christ Acts 16.30 31. 4 What must we do 1 He that hath two Coats Meats Let him give to him that hath none To the People 2 Require no more then that which is appointed you To the Publicans 3 Do violence to no man neither accuse anie fasly 4 Be content with your wages To the Souldiers S. Luke 3.11.13 14. 1 Knowledg of the Righteousnes of God For Fear Humilitie Repentance Fasting Praiers Patience As a Sacrifice 2 Faith in the Mercies of God For Hope Comfort Thanksgiving Alms Hymns Obedience As an Oblation FINIS