and if I chaunce to fall or slip make me to thincke on thee and be sory with a stedfast purpose of amendmente O Lorde I gene ouer my selfe into thy holy hande desiryng thee for Christes sake that I maye remayne vnder thy mighty protection and strong defence of thy power and that thy holy aungel may alway pitch his tent roūde about me and compasse me alwaies Good lorde geue me ioyfulnes of harte and peace of conscience continual gladnes and consolation in thy worde promises that I may euermore be thanckefull vnto thee and prayse thy name for euer O Lorde thinke vpon all thy people which are straied here and ther from the farthest part of the earthe which be entred into couenaunte with thee and are minded to walke after thy will graunt Oh lorde that we may grow together in loue throughe the knoweledge of thy worde to keepe the vnitie of the spirite through the bonde of peace to the vtter confounding of erroure and al false opinions and to kepe vs cleane from hipocrysy and superstycyon and to make vs stronge in persecution We besech thee fauourably to heare vs good Lorde and graunt our requestes Geue prayse to god I. H. ¶ A Prayer for the forgeuenes of our fynnes and auoydinge of the plague due and at hand for the same O Lorde most mighty and feareful God to all them that hate thee and followe theyr owne waies and seke not to doe thy holy wil we thy poore creatures which labour do desire to do thy wyl do se by thy righteous Iudgemēt of thy word thy fyerce wrath and terrible indignation readye to fall vpon thys realme of Englande for despising of thy Preachers and Messangers and for the vnthanckful receauing yea treading vnderfote of thy most holy word Vnworthy were we of such a iewell therfore worthely was it takē away from vs lesse worthy were wee to haue it restored to vs agayn but now least worthy of al ar we to injoy the benefite therof And now we se thy wrath is kyndled O Lorde who shall be able to quenche it For our partes we do confesse that we be worthy of al the plagues that thou haste deuised agaynste vs yet neuerthelesse we besech thee vnworthelye to be called thy chyldren looke not vpon oure desertes or worthynesse but vpon thy Chryst thy fauourable mercy which thou haddest in the olde tyme vpon thy chyldren of Israell if they repented and turned vnto thee O Lorde thou diddest preserue them kepe them from captiuitie of al other nations and dyddest euer prouide them a faythful gouernour or ruler And furthermore most merciful father although they were destroyed for their wickednes and left but a small people yet neuerthelesse when they tourned vnfaynedly to thee thou euer gauest thē the victory ouer all their enemies so that they might dwel as bretherne together peaceably in their own lande whiche thou gaueste them Thou art the same lorde and thy mercy endureth for euer And nowe O lorde we that seke to do thy wil being but a smal people do beseche the of thy great mercie for Iesus Christes sake our only Peace maker to tourne away thy great wrath and terrible indignatiō which we haue deserued in this realme of Englande shewe thy compassion vpon vs as thou dyddest vppon the children of Israell in the olde time though not for our sakes whiche haue soo wyckedly deserued thy wrath but for thy most mighty and gloryous names sake For if thou shuldest destroy vs and bringe vs vnto desolation as we haue deserued than shuld thy moste mighty name and thy holy worde be euyll spoken of through vs in al the worlde Therfore we beseche thee most mercifull father to chasten and correcte vs not as we haue deserued but accordynge to thy fauourable mercy not in thy furie but with thy fatherly pitis delyuer vs not ouer into the handes of our ennemies neyther take thy holye worde from vs O lorde thoughe of all other we do moste deserue it and haue moste vnreuerently and vnthanckefully abused the same And here we confesse vnto thee all oure iniquities the which are more in numbre thē the heares of our heades and they presse vs so downe that our hartes fayle vs and we dare scarsely presume vnto thee yet neuerthelesse through Christ which is our righteousnes hath pacified thy wrath we are bold to come vnto thee O lord being sory for our faultes euen frō our very hartes desyring thee for his death and passion sake to forgeue vs all our synnes that euer we haue committed either in thought worde or dede O lord we geue ouer oure selues into thy holy hands with al our hartes do desyre to doe what so euer thy good wyll is that wee shoulde doe besechinge thee to assist vs with the grace of thy holy spirit that we henseforth may liue accordyng to that thy most godly and blessed wyll and laboure and studye to serue thee in newenes of lyfe taking vppe thy crosse folowing thy steppes O lord Christe willingly cherefully al the days of our lyfe And furthermore O lord we beseche thee to geue vs grace to be alway thākefull both in hart in our conuersation lyuynge for al the great benefites that we haue receiued at thy hand so that we maye enioy thē to thy glory and our comforte euen as at this presente we render vnto thee moste humble thanckes fyrste for thy goodnes in the worke of our creation secōdly for that when we were fallen into euerlastinge destruction through our consentynge to the subtilte of the ennemie thou of thy great mercy through Iesus christe didst raise vs vp agayn thirdly that it hath pleased thee to suffer thy holy word the foode of our sowles to haue fre passage ones agayne amongest vs and hast geuen vs an harte and a wyl to seeke it to beleue it and to followe it in our liuing and conuersation Moreouer we render vnto thee moste harty thanckes O heauenly father for Elyzabeth oure gracious Queene and Gouernoure whom in muche mercye thou dyddest delyuer with thy myghtye arme from the handes of her ennemyes and from the lyons mouthe and we beseche thee so to worke in her harte that of a thankefulnes towards thee for this her great deliueraunce and thy syncculer blessing consideryng whose minister she is she may sincerly seke and zelously promote thy true honour and glorye buylde vppe thy house confounde thy sworne aduersaries and carefully trauell to brynge thy people committed to her charge remaynyng yet almost in al partes of this realme either in myserable blyndenes and darke ignoraunce or wylfully stubbernly kickynge against the pricke to the true knowledge of the and thy blessed word Make all that are in auctoritie vnder her vpryght faithfull in their callyng fauourers and furtherers of thy holy gospell followers practisers therof mainteyners and defenders of the Preachers and mynisters of the same and suche as in
thee to succoure helpe and comforte all that be in daunger necessitie and tribulacion We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to preserue all that trauayle by lande or by water all women labouryng of chyld al sicke persons and younge chyldren and to shewe thy pytie vpon all prysoners captiues We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to defend and prouyde for the fatherles chyldren and wydowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to haue mercy vpon all men We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it maye please thee to forgeue our enemies persecutours and slaunderers and to tourne their hartes We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to giue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruites of the earth so as in due tyme we maye enioy them We besech thee to heare vs. c. That it may please thee to gyue vs true repentaunce to forgeue vs all oure synnes negligences and ignoraunces and to endue vs with the grace of thy holye spirite to amend our lyues accordyng to thy holy worde We besech thee to heare vs. c. Sonne of God we beseche thee to heare vs. Sonne of god we besech c. O Lambe of God that takest awaye the synnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Our father which art c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euil Amen The versicle O Lorde deale not with vs after our sinnes Aunswere Neither reward vs after our iniquities Let vs praye O God mercifull father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite hart nor the desire of such as be sorowfull mercifully assyste oure prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and aduersities when so euer they oppresse vs and graciousely heare vs that those euils whiche the craft and subtilty of the deuill or man worketh against vs be brought to naughte and by the prouidence of thy goodnes they may be disperied that we thy seruantes being hurt by no persecution maye euermore geue thankes vnto thee in thy holy church thorough Iesus Christ our lorde Amen O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and oure fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble works that thou didst in theyr dayes and in the olde time before them O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy honour Glory be to the father c. As it was in the beginnyng c. Frō our ennemies defend vs O Christ Graciously looke vppon our afflictions Pitifullye beholde the sorowes of oure harte Mercifullye forgeue the synnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our prayers O sonne of Dauid haue mercy vppon vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Graciously heare vs O Christ graciously heare vs O Lord Christ Versicle O Lorde let thy mercye be shewed vpon vs. Aunswere As we do put our trust in thee Let vs praye WE humblye beseche thee O father mercyfully to looke vpon oure infirmities and for the glorye of thy names sake turne from vs all those euyls that we most righteously haue deserued And graunte that in al our troubles we may put oure whole truste and confidence in thy mercye and euermore serue thee in holynes and purenes of liuinge to thy honoure and glory through our onelye mediatour and aduocate Iesus Christe our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer for the Queenes Maiestie O Lord our heauenly Father high mightye Kyng of Kynges Lorde of Lordes the onely Ruler of Prynces which doest frō thy throne behold al the dwellers vpō the earth most hartely we besech thee wyth thy fauour to beholde our mooste gracyous Souerayne Ladye Queene Elizabeth and so replenishe her with the grace of thy holye spyrite that she may alwaye inclyne to thy wyll and walke in thy way Indue her plentifully with heauenlye gyftes Graunte her in health and welth long to lyue strength her that shee maye vanquishe and ouercome all her enemyes And finally after thys lyfe she maye attaine euerlastinge ioy and felicitie Through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen ¶ A prayer for pastours and mynisters of the Church ALmyghty and euerlastinge God which onely woorkest great marvailes sende downe vppon oure Pastours and Mynisters and al congregacions committed to their charge the healthfull spiryte of thy grace and that they may truely please thee Powre vpon them the continuall due of thy blessing Graunte thys O Lorde for the honoure of oure aduocate and mediatoure Iesus Chryst ¶ For rayne yf the time require O God heauenly Father which by thy Sonne Iesus Christ hast promysed to all them that seke thy kyngdome the righteousnes therof all thynges necessary to theyr bodily sustenaunce Sende vs we beseche thee in this oure necessitye suche moderate raine and shewres that we may receaue the fruites of the earth to our comforte to thy honoure through Iesus Christe our Lord. Amen ¶ For faire weather O Lorde God which for the synne of man dyddeste once drowne all the worlde excepte viii persons and afterwarde of thy greate mercye diddest promise neuer to destroye it so agayne wee humblye beseche thee that although we for our iniquities haue worthely deserued this plague of rayne waters yet vppon oure true repentaunce thou wilt sende vs suche weather wherby we may receyue the fruictes of the earth in due season and learne both by thy punyshemente to amende oure liues and for thy clemency to geue thee prayse and glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the time of dearth and famine O God heauenlye father whose gifte it is that the rayne dooethfal the earth is fruitful beastes encrease and fyshes do multyplye Beholde we besech thee the afflyctions of thy people and graunt that the scarcitie and derth which we do now most iustly suffer for oure iniquitie maye throughe thy goodnes be mercifullie tourned into cheapenes and plentye for the loue of Iesus Christ oure lord to whome wyth thee and the holye ghoste be prayse for euer Amen ¶ In the time of warre O Almightie GOD kinge of al Kynges and gouernoure of all thinges whose power no creature is able to resiste to whom it belongeth iustly to punysh synners and to be merciful vnto them that truelye repent Saue and deliuer vs we humbly besech thee from the handes of our enemies abate theyr pryde asswage their malyce and confounde theyr deuises that we beynge armed wyth thy defence maye be preserued euermore from all perylles to glorify thee which art the only giuer of al victory through the merytes of thy onely sonne Iesus Christ our lord Amen ¶ A praier of Chrisostome ALmyghty God which hast geuen vs grace at this time with one accorde to make oure common supplycations vnto thee and doest promyse that when two or thre be gathered together in thy name thou wilt graunt their requestes fulfyl now O lord the desires and peticions of thy seruauntes as may be moste expedient for them grauntinge vs in thys worlde knoweledge of thy trueth and in the worlde to come life euerlastinge Amen FINIS
CERTAYNE GODLY EXARCISES MEDITACIONS AND PRAYERS VERY necessary and profytable for all persons and for all times set forthe by certayne godly lerned men to be vsed dayly as you shal be godly disposed and shall feele nede thervnto And also the Letany dayly vsed in Churches annexed to the ende hereof Ephesians vi i. Timothe ii ¶ Praie alwaies euery where with all maner of praier and that in the spirite lifting vp pure hartes and handes with out wrath or doubtinge ¶ IMPRINTED London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George neere to saincte Dunstons churche by VVyllyam Powell ¶ Vse often and hartye prayer to God knowing that it is no lesse necessary for your soule therby to liue and contynue in godlines then water is for the life of fishe or dew is for the growth of grasse and herbes but if you wyll haue youre praier accepted of god se that you accept his worde For accursed be they sayth Sallomon and their prayer that wyll not heare the worde of god If I behold with fauour any wyckednes saith Dauid in my hart god will not heare me for he heareth no such synners as retainethe styll the purpose to continewe it sinne as hee stoppethe not hys eares to heare the prayers of the pore penitents but often before they pray he graunteth them their hartes desire I B. ¶ Occations to meditate to stirre vp the harte to praier IN your praiers thinke vpon the remission of sinnes promysed by and for Chryste and let there be in your remembraunce some most euidente and playne sentence to inflame stirre vp the mind as this Aske and ye shal haue c. And verely verely I saye vnto you what soo euer you shall aske the father in my name he wyll geue it you c. Asking al spiritual gifts without condicion and all temporall vppon condicion As Christ did Father if it be thy wyl let this cuppe passe frō me c. God commaundeth vs to aske of him We breake his commandment in not askynge We do his cōmaundement in asking of hym He promiseth to vs our askinge He is debtour to vs tyll he fulfill our askinge We make god a liar if we mistrust to obteine our askynge He is glorified in his sonne by giuing vs our askynge He longeth to haue vs aske of him loketh for it at our handes If we therfore turne not oure eares from his lawe but call vpon him wyth a stronge Faythe he will moste gladly geue vs our askynge Because we are necligent in askinge he doth of his fatherly goodnesse by necessities and troubles dryue prouoke vs to aske of hym And because we are ignoraunt in askinge he teacheth vs by his holy spirite sent into our hartes and by the prayer that therfore is called the lordes praier how what we shulde aske of him Let vs therefore in our necessitie and troubles aske of god our father and he for his sonnes sake will geue vs our askinge whose very nature and propertie is to relieue suche as are in necessitie and in deede our necessities are as lowde cryinges in his merciful eares A meditation vpon the Lordes prayer QVr father which art in heauen We gloriousely formed vnto the Image of thy deuine maiestie created by thy gracyouse goodnesse vnto highest honour how be it by our own sinfulnes diffigured with vilenes deseruinge dampnation and yet by Christes death redemed and restored vnto grace to be Citizens with sainctes of the family of God Nowe altogether in Christian vnitie as members of one body we pray desyre and trust to obtayne of thee our heauenly father accordinge vnto thy gracious goodnes mighty power and faithefull promise vnto vs that aske aboundaunce of thy grace That thy name may be halowed That thy diuine power and glorious maiesty may be certainely knowne and reuerently honoured That the hartes of vs men by thy word and prayer maye be sanctified from all sinne and vanity so that we with al that we haue seruing thee in holinesse righteousenesse may so shine afore men vpon earth that they therby may be occasion to honoure thee our father which art in heauen Thy kyngdome come Thy worde be so fruitfully preached amongest vs thy peple that we may be throughly instructed taught to brydle our sensual apetites by natural reason and to submit our wyttes reasons vnto a good godly spirite and to trye our spirites by the true scriptures So that within vs may raigne the kingdome of God which is neither meate nor drink whiche is neither supersticious ceremonies voluptuous pleasures nor vayne glory but righteousnes peace comforte in the holy ghost by the which we now tasting of thy heauenly ioyes may be made frō henceforth wery of al worldly vanities continually loking prayinge for the apperance and comming of thy eternall and euerlasting kyngdom Thy wyll be done in earth as it is in heauen In heauen the angelles of reuerente loue do thy will and commaundement with comfortable courage ioyful pleasure In hel the wicked spirits through malice and enuye repininge and grudging do torment and vexe them selues what so euer they be doinge And vpon earth men being subiect vnto sinne do thinke it a labour and paine to be occupied in any thing that is good and godly Wherfore we pray that the grace of thy heauenly spirite maye so worke in our earthly bodies that we being delyuered from sinne and vanitie may frely delite and take pleasure to do thye wyll and commaundement being men vpon earth as thy glorious aungels do whiche be in heauen Geue vs this day our dayly breade We hauinge great nede not hable of our selues to deserue any thing beseche the of thy fatherly goodnes to geue frely vnto all vs in general So that none be hurt nor hindered seuerally this day when as we crye constrained by present nede not craftely crauing for vayn care against to morow our dayly bread our daily and necessarie foode reliefe both bodely and ghostly And especially so that the spiritual foode of Christes flesh and his bloud by dayely preachinge of the gospell and ministracion of the sacramentes maye replenishe our hartes mindes with continual remembrance of Christes deathe and his passion dayly to be vsed for necessary and spirituall consolation Forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgeue them that trespas against vs. Geue vnto vs that feling and knowing oure owne synfulnesse do nede and desire thy mercifull forgeuenes of oure fautes trespasses which we haue committed against thee so that we frely forgeuing all other that haue offended vs in any thyng what so euer it be may be sure that mercy springyng in thee hathe proceded vnto vs and being graciousely offred of thee hath ben thankefully receaued of vs and beinge charitably vsed of vs towardes other shal most certainly be confirmed and enlarged of thee toward vs So that by free mercy sprynging and proceding from thee al fautes maye be freely forgeuen euen as those