Earth As in Heaven Psal. 119. Give us this day our daily Bread Esa. 55.2 Jer. 15.16 Ps. 65.4 Heb. 5.13 14. Jo. 6. 33. 35. 48. Jo. 6. 3,4 Mat. 6.33 Ro. 13.14 Bread Lu. 26.26 1 Reg. 19. 8. Psal. 6.2 91. 16. Pro. 15. Our Bread Bread Gen. 28. 20. Ps. 30. 7 8 9. Pro. 30. 7 8 9. Our Pro. 20.17 Ours Give Hab. 1. 16. Ps. 104.28 Give Give Give us This day Heb. 3. Gen. 41. Pro. 6. 6. 1 Tim. 5.8 Jo. 16 1◠And forgive us our Trespasses Esa. 27.9 1 Jo. 1.8 1 Jo. 1. 9. Esa. 39.2 Jer. 5. 25. Lam. 3.44 Jo. 9. 31. Forgive Ps. 28.13 Lev. 5. 5. 36. 40. 42. 1 Jo. 1. 9. Ps. 32. 5 2 Sam. 12. 13. Lu. 15.21 18. 10. 7. 48. Jude 6. Our Trespasses or Debts And forgive Deut. 29. 18. Heb. 12. 15. Forgive us Ro. 15.30 Forgive us Act. 7.66 2 Tim. 4. 16. As we forgive c. As we And lead us not into Tentation Gen. 22.1 Job 1. Ex. 15.25.16.4 10. 20. Deut. 8.2 16. 23. 3. 2 Pet. 2.22 1 Pet. 4 2. Mar. 20. 44. 1 Pet. 5.8 1 Cor. 10 33 Jam 1.13 Ecclus. 3. 26. Lead us not Into Tentation But deliver us from evil From evil Ps. 68. 1. 89. 23. 22. 20. 21. 69. 15. 16. From evil From evil Esa. 38.14 Mat. 8. 25 From evil From evil 2 Cor. 11. 14. Deliver us from evil Hos. 7. 16. Esa. 6. 5. Ps. 5. 10. 144. 11. Mat. 7. 22. Ps. 58. 4. Heb. 12. 2. Ro. 3. 15. Jer. 3. 3 Ps. 60. 11. Thine is the Kingdom Ps. 22. 18. 1 Chron. 29. 11. Thine is the Kingdom Ps. 8. 15. Eze. 26.7 1 Tim. 6. 15. Re. 17. 14 Re. 11. 15. Ps. 10.19 Mal. 1. 14 Dan. 2. 21 Ps. 145. 11 Dan. 7. 27 Heb. 1.18 Ps. 10. 16. 1 Tim. 1. 17 Power Ro. 9. 19. Mic. 7. 18. Ps 66. 7. 62. 11. 147. 5. Eph. 1. 19. Exo. 15 6. Col. 1. 11 2 Th. 1.9 And Glory Ps. 138.5 1 Chron. 16. 27. Psal. 8. 1. 113. 4. 148. 13. Ro. 9.23 Ps. 24. 10. Mat. 2. 2 Luc. 2.14 Rev. 5.13 For ever and ever Ps. 10. 16. Rev. 7.12 5. 13. 19. 1. Amen Rev. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 1. 20. Our Father which art in Heaven Psal. 8. Hallowed be thy Name Eph. 1.4 Mat. 5. 16. Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us Psal. 130. Mat. 18. And lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from evil Luc. 1.15 For thine is the Kingdom the Power And Glory For ever and ever Amen Ps. 119 51 94. 12. 119. 18. Rom. 7.18 Ps. 119.52 1 Pet. 5.5 Luc. 8.15 Gen. 6. 8. Heb. 12. 17. 2 Cor. 6.1 Heb. 12. 15. Act. 13.43 2 Pet. 3.18 2 Cor. 7. 11. 2 Pet. 1.5 Luc. 2.21 Phil. 1.23 Ro. 4.16 2 Cor. 1. 10. Mat. 6. 9. Eph. 1. 5. Mat. 25.25 Rom. 13. 13. 1 Tim. 6. 8. Ps. 128.3 Ps. 119 5. 1 Joh. 2.2 Ephes. 6. Ps. 147.9 1 Tim. 6.8 2 Cor. 9.8 Jam. 3.13 Mat. 3.17 Ps. 119.5 Mat. 6.36 Gen. 1.26 Ps. 6. 6. 149. 5. Eph. 5.11 Ps. 10 4◠Repeat the sins thou canst call to mind Ro. 7. 19. Ps. 143.2 2 Cor. 1.3 Eze. 33. 11. Cant. 1.4 2 Pet. 2. 22. Psal. 31.5 Psal. 17.8 Psal. 13.4 Ps. 141.1 55. 10. 〈◊〉 1. Esa. 38.1 Pro. 24.16 Luc. 17.4 Psal. 13.4 Psal. 91.5 Cant. 5. Ps. 139.12 Esa. 14.19 Psal. 71.1 Psal. 4. 9. Psal. 5.5 Jer. 31.33 Psal. 17.8 John 2. Gen. 2. Eph. 6. 6. Col. 3 21. Gen. 2.22 Pro. 31. 1 Pet. 3. Exod. 20. Ps. 128.6 Gen. 3.10 Ps. 124.6 Psal. 25.6 Esa. 38.3 Philip. 7. Col. 3.22 Joh. 14.6 Gen. 28. 20. Tob. 5. Psal. 38. ◠44. 23. 51 11. 69. 18. 40. 14. 38. 21. 119. 31. Psal. 39. 25. 2. 27. 12. 64. 1. Eph. 4.19 Act. 28.27 Pro. 7.13 Esa. 48.4 Tit. 1.16 1 Joh. 5.16 Mat. 12. 32. J◠1. 21. Heb. 12 1. 1 Joh. 2.16 Mat. 6.2 Ecclus. 51 5. Apo. 6.6 Mat. 25. 41. 8. 12. Jude 6. Apo. 20. 10. 14. 11. Luc. 10.33 Levit. 26. 25. Jer. 4.112 Ps. 19.9 1 Chr. 21. 15. Ezech. 9. 2 Chro. 7. 13 14. 1 Kings 8. Dan. 19 8. S. August Heb. 11.1 Joh. 3.16 Acts 4.12 Heb. 5.9 Mar. 1.15 Rp. Latim Ser. 4 7 coram Rege Jam. 2.26 1 Cor. 13. S. Aug. S. Aug. 1 Cor. 13. 2. Heb. 11.6 1 Joh. 3 33 Act. 16.31 Joh. 6.29 S. Greg. S. Aug. Ser. 181. de tempore Heb. 1. 5. Joh. 1.12 Rom. 1.16 Gal. 4. 6. Ephe. 1.5 Esa. 46.4 45.6 Ro. 10.12 Heb. 1. 3. Gen. 17.1 43. 34. 2 Cor. 6. 18. Phil. 3.21 Gen. 1.2 Psal. 33.6 104. 5. Act. 4. 24. Esa. 45.7 Ps. 104.3 Job 33. 4. Job 38. 41. Psal. 36.7 Psal. 8. Mar. 10. 39. 1 Pet. 5 7. Act. 17.28 Sap. 9. 3. Psal. 67.4 Sap. 4. 〈◊〉 81. Mat. 1.21 Heb. 7. 25. Joh. 3.18 Act. 4.12 Act. 5.19 Psal. 45.8 Heb. 1. 9. Esa. 61.1 Joh. 1.14 Heb. 1. 2 Joh. 3.16 Heb. 1. 2. Col. 1. 17. Eph. 1 7. Col. 1.14 1 Pet. 1. 19. 1 Co 6. 20. 7.23 Mat. 1.18 20. Luc. 1.35 S. Greg. Esa. 7.14 Mat. 1.21 Luc. 1.30 Luc. 2. 7. Joh. 1.14 Gal. 4. 4. S. Bern. Esa. 53. 12 1 Pet. 2. 24. 3. 18. Gal. 3. 13 Deut. 21. 23. Phil. 28. Rom. 6.23 Heb. 2. 9. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 55. Mat. 27. 60. Mar. 15. 46. Lu. 23.53 Joh. 19.40 Act. 13.29 Ps. 16.11 S. August Ep. 99. Ps. 16.11 Acts 2.34 1 Cor. 15. 20. Mar. 28.6 Mar. 16.6 Luc. 24.4 Joh. 20. Rom. 6. 3. 4. 25. Ma◠16. 19. Lu. 24.51 Heb. 4.1 Eph. 4 10. Joh. 14.2 Heb. 10. 19. Eph. 2. 6. Joh. 14.16 16. 7. Mar. 16.9 Col. 3.1 Ro. 8.24 Heb. 7.25 9.24 Joh. 14.3 Eph. 5 23. Eph. 1.20 Mat. 24. 30. Mal. 3. 5. Jude 14. Joh. 5.23 Mat. 26. 64. Act. 17.31 1 Thes. 4. 16 17. Lu. 12.12 Joh. 14.26 16. 13 1 Cor. 6. 11. Esa. 11.2 1 Joh. 2.27 Joh. 3. 5. 16. 8. 1 Joh. 2.27 Joh. 16.13 Gen. 20.6 Rom. 8. 26 Joh. 14. 16 Acts 9. 31. Rom. 8. 15 26 2 Cor. 1.22 Eph. 1.13 14. Joh. 14.23 6. 55 56. 1 Joh. 1. 3. 7. Ep. 4. 4. 12. Rom. 8 1 Cor. 1 30. Job 19 25 Joh. 5.28 6. 40. Lu 20.16 Joh. 16 22 17. 3. Apo. 21. 4. 1 Th. 5. 19 Eph. 4 30 Act. 7. 51. Mat. 32.5 Luc. 17.6 Mat. 17. 20. 1 Tim. 1. 5 Eph. 3. 11. Jam. 2.26 Gen. 1. Ecclus 43 Psal. 145. Rom. 1.20 Joh. 17. 5. Gen. 14.18 21. 33. Luc. 1.37 Gen. 18.4 Jer. 23.24 Psal. 13 9. Joh. 21.17 2 Ki. 8.29 Ro. 11.33 Ps. 117.2 Mat. 24. 35. Ps. 111.3 119. 156. 130. 4. 17. 7. 13. 6. Gen. 3. 15 Eus. a. 7. Matthew Mark Luke John Mat. 18. 23. Lu. 18 10 Luc. 15.4 8. Lu. 15.21 Mat. 20 9. Joh. 3.17 12. 47. Luc. 9. 36. Luc. 5. 32. Mat. 9.13 18. 11. Luc. 19.10 Mat. 11.8 Joh. 6.37 Lu. 23. 74 Luc. 43.
root out dissipate ours and establish thine let thy will over-master ours conform our wills to thine Turn our Nill into thy Will In Earth as in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name In Earth as in Heaven Thy Kingdom come In Earth as in Heaven Thy Will be done Let Heaven be the Pattern and Rule to Earth in all things Let us begin to be on Earth as we would be in Heaven hereafter 1. As by thy blessed Angels Oh that we might do thy will and no less thy will now than they that hope to be like them hereafter 2. As thy Saints Who are Heavenly even Heaven upon Earth 3. As the inward Man The Spirit which is from Heaven that professeth it self delighted in doing thy will that complaineth that it is hindred from doing it Oh that the old Adam made of the Earth had been so ready to do it In Earth in all the Earth But especially in this part of the Earth where we live We are Earth and of the Earth let thy will be done in us As in Heaven not as much or as well Nor with equal proportion but likeness Nor in as great measure but with like affectinn willingly readily faithfully Let us imitate though we cannot equal We beg thy grace to do thy will as thy Angels and Saints do it But because many things hinder us we say with Saint Augustine Give us power and ability to do thy commands and then command us what thou pleasest And if our condition in this life will not admit so much yet Lord accept our desires which cry to thee Thy will be done And if our desires be unperfect also yet hear our cry in the Prophets words Our souls have longed to desire thy Laws and Commandements alwayes Here we may consider 1. First The excellent order and method of this Prayer For what ought a Son before all things and with more fervency desire than the Honour of his Father the Prosperity of his Kingdom and Obedience to his Will 2. And in the next place what is more proper to Children than to ask Bread of their Father or what more necessary for them And in this Petition we are 1. To depend wholly upon his Providence 2. To acknowledge him the Giver of it only 3. Lastly We are Patiently to expect it from him In it we consider also 1. What he is to give Bread 2. What manner of Bread Our Bread Daily Bread 3. To whom he is to give it To us 4. When to give it To day There is in us a double Nature or Substance which requires two sorts of Bread 1. The Soul hath her viands to be provided The Bread of Angels The Bread of Heaven the Word the Bread of Life Christ Iesus in the Flesh. Lord give us of this Bread evermore 2. The Body also craveth its sustenance its Bread that is all the necessaries of this life Our Belly is a troublesome Clyent and except it be satisfied likewise it draweth our minds from thee Thou O Father hast promised to add all things if we first seek thy Kingdom Behold we have sought it give us therefore Bread either fine middle sort or course which of them shall seem good to thee And give us that which may feed and not choak us either with the care of them or neglect of Thee Give us frugal sober Bread not dainty fare Bread necessary not superfluous For we are not to take thought for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof In this word Bread are contained all things necessary and conducing to the maintenance and preservation of our lives As Breathing it self Vescitur aura aetherea Sleep to refresh our weary bodies Honest hearts by which we get our maintenance And a competency of estate are all particulars of that which is contained in the word Bread And with Bread give us O Lord The Staff of Bread Health of Body Wholesome Air. Content of Mind Convenient Dwelling Peace in our Dayes and the like Ours as proper to Children by a double right of Prayer Labour Yet so ours as first Thine Thine by gift because thou wilt not because thou art our Debtor Ours for use For neither Thou nor thy Angels need this Bread But we being of corporeal substance need corporeal sustenance We being Travellers need our Viands For our necessity not for superfluity which may profit the soul not hurt the body which may nourish the soul not destroy the body If the LORD will be with me and will keep me in the way that I shall go and will give me Bread to eat and Rayment to put on so that I return in peace then the Lord shall be my God Two things have I required of thee deny me not them before I dye Remove far from me vanity and lies Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me Lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord Or lest I be poor and steal and take the Name of my God in vain When we say Ours we speak not as if it were due to us but of thy bounty given to us and gotten and acquired by our labour according to thine institution Ours by labour For if we be droans if unprofitable burthens to the Earth it is not ours it belongs to others If it be gotten by fraud violence or constraint it is not ours It is surreptitious And that Bread is full of gravel Let us therefore follow our vocations and not make thee associate in our sin by requiring Bread being our selves idle and sloathful or fraudulent and deceitful So ours as if we have more than we need and any thing remain more than is necessary for our estate and condition we impart and communicate it to those which want And if we shall with-hold that which is superfluous from the poor and needy we shall be thieves of that which is our own It is therefore ours so that it may be other mens by and through our hands Give it thou Bless thou the labours of our hands for there are which labour and yet want But when it comes of thy gift a blessing come with it and without thy providence our labours are in vain the rather because we are too prone to sacrifice to our own nets and ascribe the enjoying it to our own labours Therefore open thou thy Barnes open thou thy Treasury For when thou openest thy hand every thing is filled with thy good Except thou give it we shall have no benefit by it it will nourish no more than a stone Give it thou for on thee we depend to day and to morrow and all our life Give it thou not retribute or pay It is no Debt Bread and all other thy blessings are Donatives Give it Thou Break it thou and give it let not us take it our selves For if thou
and sorrow encline thine ear of pity unto me and that right soon and speedily 3 For my dayes which I have mis-spent are consumed away like smoke which for want of substance dissolveth to nothing and my bones which by my broken spirit are dryed up are burnt up as a fire-brand 4 My heart is dejected and smitten with the thought of thy Justice and it is withered with remembrance of thy Judgements like grass without juyce or sap so that in this anguish of Soul I forget and loath to eat my bread 5 By reason of the grievous voice of my groaning sighs and tears I am so consumed away that my bones for want of flesh cleave to my skin and I am nothing but skin and bone 6 I am for shame that I have offended thee become in condition like a Pelican that liveth solitarily in the Wilderness and I am like an Owl not daring to be seen but that avoideth the light and is continually in the Desert shunning the company of other Birds 7 I watch and sleep not for the thought of my sins and am as a Sparrow that caring for no company sitteth alone making grievous lamentation in a mournful note upon the house-top 8 Mine Enemies seeing me thus penitent reproach me with opprobrious speeches all the day continually deriding me and they that while I was their companion in sin applauded me are upon my conversion mad against me and do combine and are sworn to do me mischief and to that end set themselves against me 9 For this cause taking no pleasure in this world I have eaten ashes and fed upon course meat like as it were fine bread and dainty fare and I have mingled my drink with tears weeping and lamenting for my sinnes 10 Because of thine indignation against me for them and thy wrath for my bad life past all this evil and more hath befallen me for thou hast lifted me up very high and from thence hast cast me down that my fall might be the greater 11 My dayes few and evil are passed like a shadow upon a Sun-Dyal that declineth toward the Evening and I that lately seemed to flourish am withered and dryed up like grass without sap for want of thy comfort 12 But thou O Lord which wert and art shalt continue immutable and shalt endure for ever while all transitory things pass and come to nothing and thy glorious works shall be had in remembrance unto all generations even unto the end of the world 13 Thou O Lord who seemest to men to sleep shalt arise in thy strength and have mercy and compassion upon Sion thy Church militant now oppressed with the tyranny of Antichrist for the time to look upon her and favour her is at hand yea the set time which thou hast decreed for her deliverance is or will not be long ere it come 14 For they which be thy true and faithfull Servants take pleasure and delight in her stones their fellow Servants and are glad when they see them prosper and favour and pity the very dust and ruines thereof when they see them under persecution 15 So that when they shall be delivered from their misery the very heathen shall fear and tremble at the Name of the Lord and be converted to him and all the Kings and Potentates on earth which now oppose the truth shall acknowledge thee O Lord to be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and be afraid at the greatness of thy glory and Majesty 16 When the Lord by his almighty power shall build up Sion and repair the ruines of his Church he shall then to the confusion of his enemies appear in his glory which they shall not be able to endure 17 He will then in mercy regard and hearken to the prayer of his poor servants and the destitute of his help and not any longer seem to turn away his face from them nor despise their prayer and earnest supplications 18 This mercy of his shall then be recorded and written as a remembrance for the generations to come even to the end of the world which shall attempt the like against his Church and the people yet unborn that shall succeed and be created in ages to come shall praise and magnifie the Lord which only doth marvellous things 19 For he hath in mercy by sending his Son Christ Jesus looked down from the height of his Sanctuary his holy place even from Heaven his Fathers bosom did the Lord Jesus behold the Earth and had compassion upon all the Sons of men 20 To hear and pity the groaning of the Prisoners such as did groan under the burden of the Law and to loose and set at liberty by his passion and intercession those of the posterity of Adam that are appointed to suffer death for not fullfiling the same 21 To the end that they being so delivered may declare and shew the power and the Name of the Lord which is Jesus the Saviour in Sion his Church and magnifie and extol his praise in Ierusalem his holy habitation 22 When the faithful people which are yet dispersed over the face of the Earth are gathered together and made one Congregation and the Kingdoms of the Earth which are yet in darkness are instructed to serve thee the only Lord of Heaven and Earth 23 He even the Lord in the time of this expectation hath weakned and abated my strength so that I can do no good of my self in the way of this my earthly pilgrimage he hath shortned and cut off my dayes by afflicting me for my sin 24 I said yet in this weakness and anguish of my Soul O my God with-draw not now thy mercy from me and take me not away out of this world in the midst of my dayes the chief time of my strength as for thy years as they are from all eternity so shall they endure throughout all generations even for ever 25 Of old at the beginning of time hast thou of thine own power laid and created the Foundations of the Earth the visible World and all things in it and the Heavens and Firmament thereof are the only work of thy Almighty hands and power 26 They even Heaven and Earth and all things in them shall pass away and perish from the form they now have but thou O Lord the Creator of them shalt endure immutable Yea without all doubt all of them as thou hast decreed shall wax old and consume with age like a garment long worn and as a vesture or garment shalt thou by the sound of the last Trump change and dissolve them and they shall yield to thy power and be changed 27 But thou O Lord art the same alwayes unchangeable and thy years being from all Eternity shall have no end but continue for ever 28 The Children and posterity of thy faithful Servants begotten by the seeds-men of thy Word shall continue in grace in this life and their righteous seed shall stand fast and be established for ever together with
it The Transcendency of the Godhead exceeds not only the usual strength of eloquence but of understanding likewise He is Absolute or Simple Without Composition Without Body Spiritual He is all Eye He is all Ear He is all Hand Invisible Because he seeth all things Because he heareth all things Because he worketh all things He is all Foot because he is every where When you hear him named conceive him to be a substance without beginning or end Simple without mixture Infinite Not to be circumscribed to time or place Whither shall I go from thy presence c. Heaven is my Throne c. Where is the place of my rest Do not I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord The Spirit of the Lord filleth all the world Deus ubique est totus ubique est AEterna stabilitate in seipso manens totus adesse rebus omnibus potest singulis totus God is every where and wholly every where By eternal stability remaining in himself he is wholly in all things and wholly in every thing Immortal I live for ever I honoured him that liveth for ever He only hath immortality Solus Deus est immortalis quia non est per gratiam sed per naturam Eternal Without beginning Thou art God from everlasting Without end Thou art the same and thy years shall not fail He is called the Ancient of dayes Immutable Not to be changed 1. In his Nature Thou shalt endure I am the Lord I change not Every good and perfect gift cometh from the Father of lights with whom is no variableness neither shadow of changing 2. In his Promises and Decrees The counsel of the Lord shall stand My counsel shall stand The immutability of his counsel saith the Apostle God hath promised who cannot lie Non mutatur Deus qui unus atque idem est mutari non potest God is not changed being one and the same uncapable of change Wise. Nothing hid from him The Lord knoweth the wayes of the righteous The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man His wisdom is infinite No searching of his understanding Loe thou knowest all things Known unto God are all his works O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God The Spirit searcheth all things All things are naked and open to his eyes God knoweth all things Holy No evil or iniquity in him Who is like unto thee O Lord glorious in holiness None holy as the Lord. The holy One of Iacob The holy One Of purer eyes than to behold evil Holy Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts He is an Holy God I am Holy saith God himself True 1. In himself Whatsoever is in him is Truth The Lord is the true God It is life eternal to know thee true God c. Let God be true and every man a liar Ye turned from Idols to serve the true and living God 2. In his works Iust and true are thy wayes Righteous in all his works Iust art thou O Lord and righteous are thy judgements 3. In his words The words of the Lord are pure The Truth of the Lord endureth for ever Good Absolutely Not participating from any other 1. In himself 1. There is none good but God Thou art Good 2. Author of all good to others 2. Every good and perfect gift commeth from the Father of lights The Earth is full of his goodness Glorious Ye shall see the glory of the Lord. The glory of the Lord appeared The sight of his glory was like consuming fire The glory of the Lord appeared to all the people The glory of the Lord filled the House of God The whole Earth is full of his glory His glory is above the Heavens Powerful Working all things in all Almighty He doth great unsearchable and marvellous things without number The fabrique of the Universe is the work of his hands The Heavens beautified with Stars The Earth spacious and adorned The Sea Full of variety of his riches The Sea Stored with Fish c. All made of nothing but by his word Thou hast prepared the Light and the Sun Thou in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the Earth Through Faith we understaud that the World was ordained by GOD. Mundus hic est veluti magnus liber divinae Majestatis gloria opera explicans This World may be compared to a great Volume wherein are contained and expressed the works of the Divine Majesty and Glory He is King of Kings Lord of Lords Upholding all the Pillars of the Earth Moving the Heavens Changing the Seasons Dividing the Waters Bringing forth the Winds as out of his Treasury But in this and all other his Attributes Verius cogitatur quam dicitur We may better couceive of them than express them And we speak best of his worth when with a silent admiration we hold our peace according to that of the Psalmist Psal. 65. 1. which St. Hierom hath translated Tibi silet omnis laus DEUS in Sion Yet though the custom of the world is to respect men and things either for the goodness in them or for the benefit which accreweth by them Yet the latter worketh most For let a thing be never so good if it bring no profit it is the less regarded Let us therefore take a view of some other of Gods Attributes and consider whether we have not sufficient cause to serve him for the benefits we reap by him And first of that which cometh by him by the I. Creation In which he made Man and all things else for his service 1. He made him his chief delight He made him after his own Image He made him little lower than the Angels and crowned him with glory and honour putting all things in subjection under his feet This wrought admiration in David When he was not he made him a Man not a Beast but such a Creature as may enjoy Eternity with Him He made the Heaven and rested not He made the Earth and rested not He made the Sun and rested not He made the Moon and rested not He made the Stars and rested not But when he made Man he rested that he might have one Creature whose sins he might remit 2. He made all things for the service of Man For him The Sun riseth and goeth down For him The Moon increaseth For him The Stars arise For him Beasts Fowl and Fish For him Corn and Hearbs For him Hills and Mountains For him Valleys and Fields For him Rivers and Flowers For him Times and Seasons For him Angels and Archangels For him Principalities and Powers For him Thrones and Dominions For him Cherubim
God and our Neighbour Humility of body and soul Perseverance Fervency of Spirit our souls and bodies attending to what we pray for and in due Time and Place praying aright both for temporal and spiritual blessings we shall no doubt by the mercy of God through the mediation intercession and merits of Iesus Christ obtain in his good time all things which shall be needful and expedient for us Prayer divided into parts DEvotions and Prayers are either publick or private 1. Private prayers are whereby every particular Man prayeth to God for those things which he wanteth In which kind of devotion we ought at all times to exercise our selves because at all times we stand in need of Gods particular assistance and therefore we are tyed or limited herein neither to time nor place for whether it be in the night or morning mid-day or evening at home or abroad in the City or Country in our beds or at our work if we call upon him faithfully he will hear us 2. Publick Prayers are whereby the whole Congregation meet in a place Dedicated to Gods honour as well to praise his Name as to pray for those things which shall be needful For although Christians ought to pray privately yet ought they not in the mean time to neglect the publick worship and service of God in the Church For from the beginning it was held and observed as a duty required and therefore before the erection and dedication of Temples and Churches the Patriarchs and holymen erected Altars in certain places where at set times of the day they might offer Sacrifices and publick Prayer to God In the second of Ioel you shall find a set and prescribed Form of Prayer for the Minister to use together with the place and the Congregation that were to assist In the New Testament also our Saviour Christ himself to encourage this holy duty of publick Prayer hath promised his presence amongst those that shall be assembled and gathered together after this manner Therefore whosoever shall neglect these publick Assemblies sheweth and discovereth thereby how little he regardeth Christs company or presence These Prayers are also distinguished into these parts 1. Invocation 2. Confession 3. Thanksgiving Invocation consisteth of 1. Petitions for the good of our own Souls in Spiritual things Bodies in Temporal things 2. Intercessions either in praying for the good of others or against the evil of others 3. Deprecations against evils Spiritual Temporal Confession is threesold 1. Of our Faith 2. Of the Glory of God 3. Of our own Sins Thanksgiving is either 1. For deliverance from evil 2. For benefits received To these may be added Imprecation either 1. Against the enemies of God incorrigible and irreconcileable 2. Against the enemies of our Souls incorrigible and irreconcileable So that these Rules be observed 1. That it be not used for private hate or revenge 2. That we rejoyce not in any mans Destruction 3. That we aim at their Correction The use of the Lords Prayer BEcause that our Saviour Christ hath taught us how to pray and hath put the very words as it were into our mouths which we should use in praying I think it necessary to begin with the same which he hath left unto us 1. In respect of the Excellency of the Author of it who was no less than God 2. In respect of the Perfection of the work it self the Prayer for it comprehendeth in it Petitions for all things which we stand in need of 3. In respect of the Efficacy of this Prayer in working for it cannot choose but prevail and work much with God for none knew the mind and disposition of God better than he which composed it which was God And let it not lose any part of the due praise which belongeth to it in regard of the compendiousness or shortness of it for it deserveth the more honour because though it be short yet it is also copious and plentiful in matter and therefore the more absolute and perfect It is not therefore without cause that the Antients have given so many excellent Attributes to it As the Abridgement of the Gospel and our Faith The Interpretation of our Desires and Hopes The very Bond of Charity And an inexhaustible Treasury Yet let not any Man think that our Saviour prescribed us this Prayer as that we should use no other but be tyed to the very words contained in it but this we must conceive that he made it to bridle our desires that though we make our Petitions and frame them according to our several necessities yet to keep us in compass that we exceed not the limits nor vary from the extent and bounds of this Prayer The Use of it is twofold 1. That we might be instructed by it what is necessary in general to require of God and not without need seeing we being naturally blind in spiritual things know not what is fit to ask and many times we crave those things as Zebedees Children did which are unworthy both of God and our selves and might prove hurtful also to us if they should be granted And therefore under certain general heads he hath bounded the desires of the flesh and taught us after what manner and rule we should square all our Petitions For whatsoever we shall desire against the directions therein contained dis-a-greeth from the will of God and therefore is neither good holy nor profitable 2. That we may be able thereby to conceive frame and make all our Prayers according to our several necessities and after that Petition which sitteth us as our occasions shall alter The Lords Prayer Analysed A Father not a Lord. One being a name of love The other of dignity A Father not a Iudge One being a name of Goodness Comfortable O 〈◊〉 sub quo nomini desperandum The â—â—her of Power Terrible Who is able to resist his Power It is too proud a salutation For how much are we By Nature Dust and Ashes By Sin Bond-slaves to Satan So much are we below him Who then durst be so bold as to call the Father but that Christ did command it For exceeding great is thy Majesty And exceeding great is our Poverty He is exalted above the Heavens and his glory is above all the Earth He humbleth himself when he beholdeth the things in Heaven And we are but worms and leaves driven to and fro with the wind A wind that passeth away and commeth not again Yet we are bold to call thee Father for we come not of our selves thy Son Christ hath taught us the form Take notice of the words they are thy Sons 1. Father of all Creatures In their Creation Preservation Governing 2. Of Mankind which he formed after his own Image Other Creatures are but as a shadow to Man For he endued him with understanding And the Creatures not so To him he gave precepts to order his life To the Creatures only by blind
instinct He was Created in the condition of a Son The rest but as bondslaves 3. Of Christians more especially by Grace Regeneration and Adoption by Iesus Christ his Son A Father but what Father There is no Father like unto thee When my Father and Mother forsake me then the Lord taketh me up Thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us Can a Woman forget the fruit of her womb c. Yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee A most indulgent Father to whom the Prodigal Son arose and went Whom the insolvent servant besought Though thou be a displeased Father yet a Father thou art Though I be a wastful and disobedient Son yet a Son I am Though I have lost the ingenuity of a Son yet thou hast not lost the compassion and love of a Father A Father of Mercies Whom we find so to be By his inciting us to good Confirming us in it Pardoning our sins Delivering us from tentations Reclaiming us from sin Crowning us with blessings 1. If then thou be our Father in are thy Sons How great what manner of Lord hast thou bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God 2. If thou be our Father and we the Sons of God how great is the honour that we are as it were Gods 3. If thou be our Father then are we Brethren to Angels as also to Men. to Saints as also to Mean to Christ as also to men to Himself as also to Poor men And how great ought our love to be Let no man therefore extoll himself above his brethren nor be ashamed to call any man his Brother whom God hath vouchsafed to call Son 4. If thou be our Father how great is our Hope what are we to expect from thee Even all things which a Father giveth to his Children What are we to render unto thee Even all duty and obedience belonging to Children that thou mayest not repent thee nor we be unworthy either of our Creation or Adoption It is not without some reason from our Saviour that the words Mine or I are not to be found in this Prayer Our is a word of charity and unity It is not My Father as if God were any mans peculiar but our Father the Father of all as he properly is through and in Christ. Our prayers are most powerful with God when we express in them a fellow-feeling of the Necessities of our Neighbours and Sympathize with them in their misery This is Charity Let every one of us therefore be as willing and careful to pray for others as well and as heartily as for himself considering that in so doing he prayeth for him whom Charity hath made as himself Christ bare us and all our sins in his body Let us do the like to one another in word and deed For our Selves Necessity compelleth us to pray My Father For our Brethren Charity inviteth us to pray Our Father In these two words Our and Father the Law and Prophets are comprehended In Father the Love of God In Our the Love of our Neighbour And in these two words the sum of the Gospel is contained In Father our Faith In Our our Charity In these words we have a rule and direction to whom to frame our prayers Unto thee shall all flesh come Who have I in Heaven but thee saith King David He is only able to hear us and to grant our desires It is true we have Earthly Fathers but these leave and forsake us Their hands are shortned We call not to them but to thee which art in Heaven Heaven is thy Throne The Heavens declare thy Glory Not that thou art included in the Heavens only for as Solomon said The Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee but as if that were thy Royal Palace where the Elect shall enjoy thy blessed presence Thou art Every where by thy Presence Thou art In Heaven by thy Excellence Thou art in Earth also But they which come to thee must be lifted up higher I have lifted up mine eyes Ultra montes expectare Sursum Corda A word of Hope For if thou be our Father and Lord and King of Heaven then our Hope is that our Inheritance is there also that thou wilt not deny us an Inheritance that hast vouchsafed us the Title of Sons Let us therefore take the wings of the Eagle and be lifted up in our Meditations to Heaven being made heirs thereof Let us look up to Heaven while we are upon Earth Unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. I will lift up mine eyes to the hills whence cometh my help Out of the deep have I called to thee O Lord. A word of Power For thou art in that place from whence at all times thou canst send us Help in danger Good things in need Plagues for our offences And though thou art a Father by thy Love yet art thou in Heaven by thy Majesty and Power Let us not therefore presume upon too much familiarity with him as with a Father but let his word in Heaven keep us in a submiss Reverence For though Father and Son be of near Relation yet a Son of the Earth and a Father in Heaven are of great distance And let us be respective of his awful Majesty and make our petitions to him in fear and trembling in all Humility and Reverence And Let us not be rash with our mouths nor our hearts hasty to utter any thing before him For GOD is in Heaven and we poor Creatures upon Earth which is but his footstool This Petition justly challengeth the first place For being thus intituled and dignified with the honour of Sons we ought primarily to consider our duties what we should render back And what should a Son desire more than the honour of his Father By this word we understand all the Attributes by which God hath manifested himself as his Majesty Iustice Power Truth Mercy Goodness c. Blessed be thou our Lord who hast given this power to men To Hallow Thy Name To Magnifie Thy Name To Glorifie Thy Name Which in it self is Holy Which all thy works in general do sanctifie Which all the unreasonable Creatures do hallow and praise in their kinds Which all reasonable Creatures as Angels and Men do glorifie The Angels and Hosts of Heaven Men that are in Heaven already though In Earth by their works In the Congregations In Afflictions Let us therefore glorifie it also and that not carelesly or slightly but zealously and holily in Thought Word and Profession For the whole scope of our Actions ought to tend to the Glory of GOD only And Lord let thy Name be sanctified by others besides us Dilate this power of sanctifying thy Name communicate it more and more to the Gentiles Make thy Gospel to spread to
the end of the Earth From the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same let thy Name be great among the Gentiles Not unto us Lord not unto us but to thy Name give the glory Thou art worthy O Lord and thou alone to receive honour and glory And His Name ought to be sanctified by us above all things for all other things are for us and we for His glory only Not that God shall get any thing thereby or that He hath need of our sanctifying but in regard of the benefit which will accrew to us by it For this honour will be an honour to him that giveth it And this praise and glory only is profitable to the glorifier It is not so any where or in any thing else He that glorifies God him will God glorifie Him that honours me I will honour saith God Let thy Name therefore O Lord be Hallowed And thine only Let it be Hollowed Inwardly By Word By Us. Outwardly By Profession By all Others Let us not only salute thee in word but imitate thee in deed that we may be fit to glorifie thee and be worthy to be called thy Sons Give us a filial affection The Spirit of Adoption The Grace of Contrition That we may say from our hearts each one of us Father I have sinned I 'am no more worthy to be called thy Son And This humble Confession is one of the wayes to honour God My Son said Iosuah to Achan give glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession unto him And let us also do it by refraining our tongue from irreverent speeches and leading our lives carefully by the rule of Gods Laws So shall we truly hallow his Name So shall we truly glorifie him and say O Lord our God how excellent is thy Name in all the world We praise thee we bless thee we worship thee we glorifie thy holy Name For thou only art holy Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Quaerite primum Regnum Coelorum Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven GODS Name is more precious and dear to him than his Kingdom But after his Name his Kingdom In Name He is alone without us Sole and Singular In his Kingdom He communicates himself and what is his with us In his Will We dedicate our selves wholly to him And therefore in respect of Gods bounty to us this is the chief Petition of our good and happiness For In it we pray First for the comming of Gods Kingdom That GOD may only rule over us Secondly For the destruction and eversion of the Kingdom of Satan That he may have no more dominion over us The Kingdom of GOD is threefold First of Glory Secondly of Grace Thirdly of Power 1. Of Glory hereafter which indeed should be the scope of our desires For we ought so to live here that we may desire without fear the coming of this Kingdom So to be affected at our death that we may joyfully and without fear say Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace So to be affected in our life that we may often say and pray When shall I appear before the Lord I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ. Come Lord Iesus come quickly 2. Of Grace in this life in us That we be not of their minds who said We will not have this man to reign over us But subject us O Lord to this Kingdom that easie yoke of thine that in all things we may be obedient to thee Govern us and reign in us that Satan or Sin reign not in our members If thou be pleased so to rule in us here we shall reign with thee hereafter Cast Satan under our feet 3. Of Power for there are many Rulers in this world which oppose thy Kingdom Arise O Lord and take the Rule into thine own hands Reign thou therefore only over us Govern us within and without For as we are vexed inwardly by our selves with civil warr and domestick tyranny so without also by others And that it may come in us let it come into our Rulers Make them like to thee in their Government Let them rule to thee not to themselves Let thy Kingdom come within them for in thy Kingdom only are proper and fit Laws and Conditions to rule by And because when this Earthly Government is at the best it is laborious and unperfect hasten thy Kingdom of Glory we beseech thee wherein will be no cause of complaint but all things will be absolute and perfect For which all the Creatures together with us earnestly wait even with groans For all the votes and desires of the Old Testament were pitched upon the first coming of Christ and all of the New upon the second looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great GOD and our Saviour Iesus Christ. Let it come to us but not upon us Certainly come it will will we nill we Let it come to us not against us Let us feel the happiness of it O Father in coming not the violence of it in rushing upon us In the mean time let it come to us here though not in the full fruition yet in the certain hope and expectation Say unto your souls I am your salvation It is not Let us do thy will Nor Do thou thy will But Thy will be done Thy absolute and eternal will which none can oppose Which will take effect though all the world resist Which will be done because thou wilt have it done Who hath resisted his will It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks Thy revealed will holy and saving which perswadeth us to be humble in Conversation firm in Faith just and charitable in Works true in Words to love thee with all our hearts as a loving Father to fear thee as a revenging God to prefer nothing before Christ who preferred us before all things and the like This we may contradict Let that be done as much as may be Let both be done Let us shew our obedience to thee here as the Angels do in Heaven All other Creatures obey thy will The Sea passeth not its bounds The Earth alters not its station And all things else are obedient to thy will only Man is disobedient to it Thy will and all thy will without contradiction Thy will and all thy will without exception Thy will and not our will The Lords will be done If the Lord will Thy will be done in all things as well pleasing as displeasing to us Let not us argue or dispute what is profitable what is unprofitable what pleasant what hard to flesh and blood but what thou wilt let it be done Let our blind and perverse will be led by thy most holy will Graft thy will by thy Spirit into ours as into barren stocks If our wills be refractory to thine
From the power of the Dog From the Lyons mouth and the horns of the Unicorns Out of the mire that we sink not From the deep and let not the pit shut her mouth upon us And deliver us not only from him but from his malice also From whatsoever poyson he hath breathed on the Creatures From the enmity of the World Take us not from the world but deliver us from the evil of it From whatsoever is evil in our flesh Deliver us from our selves as we are evil Deliver us also as from the evil of sin so from the evil of punishment From the evils and miseries of this life Especially of the life to come O Lord we are oppressed undertake for us Lord carest thou not that we perish We are brought into bondage by sin Captives to Satan and lyable to thy wrath We are not able to match with our enemies by our own strength Assist us thou and deliver us Deliver us by thy Son and we shall be free He overcame the Devil and the World He overcame them in himself Let him overcome them also in us He overcame the Devil in himself by breaking his head dis-arming him and diminishing his power Let him overcome him in us by giving us the Armour of the Spirit and increasing our strength and grace Deliver us from the evil of sin that it have no dominion over us à parte ante Deliver us from the evil of sin when it hath prevailed over us à parte post And that presently and speedily if that it seem good to thee But if not so soon as we desire yet let thy deliverance come certainly Lest the pit shut her mouth upon us Deliver us from evil especially from that evil that carries with it a shew of good When the Enemy pretends to condemn that which is evil and to approve that which is good From the Devil at Noon-day From Satan transforming himself into an Angel of light From pleasing Errors From sins declining and bending to the right hand savouring of politique wisdom Deliver us O Lords From rebellious hearts From polluted lips Throats like open Sepulchers Tongues talking vanity From evil and lustful eyes From uncircumcised ears Deaf like the Adder From hands slow to good From feet swift to evil From a forehead of brass and a neck of Iron From these and all other evils Deliver us O Lord. Lord be thou our help for vain is the help of man Deliver us so that we may be freed not only freed but free So free from sin that we may be servants to righteousness and so long servants to righteousness that at length we may be adopted into Children heirs and co-heirs with Christ. Thine is the Kingdom The Kingdom is the Lords saith David Two thing are considerable in this Conclusion 1. The Confirmation of our Faith we believe that we are heard of GOD who is able and willing to give what we desire 2. The End whereto we ought to refer whatsoever we desire in our prayers The Praise and Glory of GOD. Thou art a King and wilt hear thy Subjects Thou hast right and authority to bear rule and free command over thy creatures the works of thy hands By thee Kings rule and unto thee must they surrender their Crowns All Potentates are but subordinate to thee thy Vicegerents For though God was pleased to stile Nebuchadnezzar King of Kings as having many petty Kings under him yet is he himself and he only the King of Kings For he ruleth over all as well Kings as others The Kingdoms of the world are become the Kingdoms of the Lord. Thou art the great King as thou speakest thy self Thou removest and sertest up Kings And thy Kingdom is not temporary or of short continuance as other Kingdoms are but it is an everlasting Kingdom Thy Throne endureth for ever The Lord is King for ever aud ever Thou art the King eternal Thou hast power and strength to manage this Kingdom Thou art mightier than our adversaries Who is able to resist thy power This power of thine hath been felt in all ages Who can do like thee or what God is like thee Thou rulest by thy power for ever And this power is proper only to thee Thou hast spoken it and David hath heard it more than once that power belongeth to God And that no small power neither Great is our Lord and of great power Saint Paul calls it the exceeding greatness of his power His mighty power Moses in his Song calls it glorious power So Saint Paul Therefore thou and thou only canst give us what we ask Great is the glory of the Lord. Glory and honour is in his presence He hath set his glory above the Earth and Heavens also He is rich in glory He is the only King of glory And therefore thou expectest of us that we should give glory to thee And O Lord our intent is to glorifie thee We ask these things as meaning and intending to use them to thy glory and say with the Angels and Quire of Heaven Glory be to God in the highest And with all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth and under the Earth and such as are in the Sea Blessing honour and glory and power be to him that sitteth on the Throne And this Kingdom Power and Glory endureth not for a season only but for ever there shall be no end of it Thy Kingdom is everlasting saith David Thy Power everlastiug say and pray the Angels Thy glory is ever also Let us therefore say with those Heavenly people Allelujah Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lord our God Behold O Father we have according to thy Sons directions and form presumed to crave those things which we want We have made our necessities known to thee We stedfastly believe that thou art able to supply our wants We desire of thee that thou wouldst grant us those things which we have craved of thee We look up to thee we sigh and groan and pray thee to confirm our votes and wishes with thy Seal Amen So be it Grant us our Petitions for his sake that sent us to thee and that is a true and faithful witness and in whom all thy Promises are Yea and Amen Honour him in us who deserve of our selves without him no good but much evil at thy hands And say to our Petitions Amen So be it O Almighty LORD and our Heavenly Father whose fatherly power and goodness is seen in the Creation Preservation and Governing of all things and upon whom as a Father we wait and depend for all that is good who art in all places by thy presence but especially in Heaven by thy Excellency
lives end Give me O Lord true compunction of heart and so water it with the dew of thy Heavenly Grace that I may in the bitterness of my Soul with abundance of tears sighs and groans bewail and lament all my hainous and grievous transgressions against thee Give me grace O Lord that I may not boast in any merits or works of mine own or have any confidence in them but let me glory in this alone that I am a Member of that Body of thine which was crucified for me and did sufficiently satisfie for all the Sins of the World If thou O Lord look or expect any merits from me behold I tender unto thee thine own merits the merits of thy Death and Passion which thou hast vouchsafed to make me partaker of by vertue whereof alone I dare boldly appear before thy Tribunal These merits I set between my sins and thy Iustice and otherwise or in any other manner I dare not I will not contend with thee O sweet Iesu I desire thee to offer them to the Father as a propitiatory Sacrifice for all my great and grievous Offences that when my Soul shall depart from this Body it may by the same be freed and delivered from all the judgements and punishments which are due unto it for sin and be carried to that blessed place where there is no sorrow but endless felicity where thou together with the Father and the blessed Spirit livest and reignest for ever Before Prayer O Almighty and everliving GOD Heavenly Father to whom it is manifestly known how inconstant and wandring the minds of men are in any good actions and how easily we suffer our selves to be carried away from the contemplation of thee by diversity of distractions and unseasonable thoughts which take hold of us in the time of our Devotions and Prayers unto thee who also by thine only begotten Son Christ Iesus didst prescribe unto his Disciples a Form of Prayer to be offered up to thee and hast derived the same from them to us Behold me most wretched sinner wholly depraved and corrupt intreating thee by the same Son that for his sake thou wouldst infuse thy Holy Spirit into me which may adopt me into the number of thine Elect that it may teach me how I ought to pray according to thy Holy Will that it may allay all troublesome and wandring thoughts in me while I offer up my prayers and praises unto thee Suffer me not to serve thee with my lips and be absent in heart from thee but create a right Spirit within me that I being sensible of all thy graces and comforts may with joyful and holy zeal perform my duty to thee that so my prayers and desires may appear before thee and in thy Sons Name I may effectually be heard and my petitions may be granted to the glory and honour of thy most holy Name and the endless comfort of mine own Soul through the same our only Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. Before a Sermon O Most loving SAVIOUR I most humbly intreat thee that thou wouldst be pleased at this time to enlighten my understanding and to open my inward ears with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that I may hear that sacred Word with an humble heart and rejoyce in it in the obedience of the Spirit That I may be fully instructed thereby how to do good and avoid evil and bring forth the fruit thereof in my life and conversation That thy Honour and Glory may be thereby increased the Devil and all other the Enemies of my Soul may be vanquished my Soul may be saved and at the last I may appear with boldness before thy Tribunal and receive the reward of a good and faithful servant even his Masters joy everlasting blessedness and that by thy merits only O blessed Saviour Petitions for Temporal Blessings in which we are to desire of God THat he would be pleased to continue unto us The blessing of a good King just and religious To give unto us Magistrates and Iustices upright and careful to see good Laws duly executed Teachers to direct us in the Truth That he would bless us with Length and Goodness of Dayes Health of Body Contentedness of Mind Competency of Estate Food and Rayment Conveniency of Dwelling Wholesomeness of Air. Fruitfulness of Cartel Fruitfulness of Soyl. That he would make us happy In Wedlock In Children In Faithful Friends In Peaceable loving Neighbours In Honest Servants In Skilful Physicians That he would preserve our Goods Good Name Our Senses and Understanding That he would protect us From Trouble From Enemies From Dangers From Losses From Sicknesses That he would give Peace To all Nations Peace To our Land Peace In our private Dwellings Rules to be observed in the Morning WHen thou awakest in the Morning shut and close up the entrance to thy heart from all unclean prophane and evil thoughts and let the consideration of God and goodness enter in When thou art risen and art ready retire thy self to thy Closet or other private place and offer to God the first fruits of the Day and in praying to him and praising him remember 1. To give him Thanks for thy quiet rest received for delivering thee from all dangers ghostly and bodily and for all other his benefits to thee 2. Offer unto him thy self and all things that thou dost possess and desire him to dispose of thee and them according to his good pleasure 3. Crave his Grace to guide thee and to strengthen thee from and against all Tentations that so thou mayest do nothing the day following contrary to his will 4. And Lastly Beg of him according to the Rules before prescribed all things needful for the Soul and Body To which purpose pray as followeth Morning Prayer I Thank thee O Heavenly Father Lord of Heaven and Earth for all thy Blessings which I underservedly have received from thee that thou gavest a being from honest Parents and in that part of the World where thy Son Christ Iesus is purely professed that thou didst endue me with Reason and Understanding and didst also give me perfect Members and Senses that thou hast preserved me ever since my birth vouchsafed me health and liberty and a competency of means to maintain me and those whom thou hast placed under me That thou hast Elected me in thy Love Redeemed me by thy Son Sanctified me by thy Spirit and kept me this night past from all perils of Body and Soul and given me a sweet and comfortable rest O Lord I commend into thy hands my Soul and Body thoughts words and actions and humbly beseech thee that thou wouldst guide and order them all to thy honour and glory and my endless and eternal happiness Enlighten my mind that the darkness and cloudy mists of mine offences being dispelled I may walk before thee in my vocation without offence as in the day clean unspotted and unblameable Give unto me thy Holy Spirit which may bridle
my Soul pure and clean may make his abode in it and adorn it with his manifold graces and Be merciful to me O Blessed Saviour Who when thou shalt at the last day come to judge the quick and dead wilt render to every one according to his works either reward or punishment Give me grace so to pass this Earthly Pilgrimage according to thy Holy Will that at that Day I may be through thy merits thought worthy to be received into thy Heavenly Mansion there to praise and bless thee with the Holy Company of blessed Saints and Angels for evermore and Be merciful to me Amen Prayers for several Persons For a Married Man O Gracious Father Maker and Preserver of Heaven and Earth who in the beginning didst institute Matrimony foretelling the mystical union of the Church with our Saviour Christ Who also in the time of his being upon Earth did honour Marriage with his first Miracle And hast appointed it also for a means whereby Mankind is propagated for a remedy to avoid unlawful Lust and for the mutual Comfort and Consolation of thy Children I humbly intreat thee to give me the assistance of thy Divine Grace that I may live according to thy Commandements with my Wife whom thou hast given for my help and comfort in this World Mortifie in me all unclean dishonest and fleshly Lusts let not the heat of unlawful Concupiscence take hold of me but make me to be fully pleased and satisfied with her love and to love her as Christ loved his Church to cherish and comfort her as mine own body and to have as great a care of her health as of mine own Grant that we may live in peace without debate in unity without discord like the members of one body equally desirous to praise thy holy Name And as thou hast O Lord bestowed many Children upon us give us discreet hearts and understanding minds to bring them up in thy Faith and Fear in a religious honest and civil manner Give them obedient hearts to thee and to thy Commandements and to all that thou requirest of them to be performed in duty towards us their Parents Keep them from those which are ready to seduce them and so lead them in thy Faith Fear and Knowledge that they prove not a curse but a blessing unto us and thereby attain to that blessing which thou hast promised to those which honour and obey their Parents Grant likewise O Lord that I may guide and instruct the Family which is under me in thy fear and in honest and careful manner provide as well for their bodies as their souls And give them the like Grace O Lord to perform their duties in fear and obedience not as eye-servers but in simplicity of heart as in thy sight And give us O Lord a competency of Estate to maintain our Selves Children and Family according to that Rank or Calling wherein thou of thy goodness hast placed us without excess riot or vain-glory and in singleness and pureness of heart with all humility relying upon thy blessed will who knowest better than we our selves what is needful for us To thee be all Honour and Glory now and for ever For a Married Woman O Merciful and Loving Lord God who in the beginning for the propagation of Mankind didst take Eve out of the side of Adam and gave her to him as an helper I give thee humble thanks that thou hast vouchsafed to call me to the honourable estate of Matrimony Give me grace O Lord that I may lead a life worthy thereof that I may love my Husband with a pure and chast love acknowledge him for my Head and truly reverence and obey him in all good things that thereby I may please him and live quietly with him Grant that I be not carried away with the vain fashions of this World but may put on such habits as shall be agreeable and suitable with the estate of my Husband and may become a modest Woman to wear Help me O Lord that I may under him prudently and discreetly guide and govern his Houshold and Family and carefully look that nothing be either carelesly lost or wickedly committed in my House Fit me with those good Graces which the Wise Man described in a Good Woman and Saint Peter in Holy and Sanctified Matrons Give me such care concerning the Education of my Children as belongeth to my part that I may live to see them prosper in this life and afterwards we may all be received to thy Eternal Kingdom through Iesus Christ c. For a Child O Almighty Lord God to whom the Obedience of Children to their Parents is most acceptable and all Disobedience most displeasing who hast promised a Blessing to the Dutiful and threatned a Curse to the Disobedient Children I beseech thee to put away from me the detestable Sin of Disobedience and Rebellion against my Parents and give me grace to observe them with all kind of Duty to obey them in all their just Commands and to be ayding and helpful to them at all time of their need Give me grace to bear all their reproofs and errours patiently and not to grieve them by stubborn and evil courses Let me not be so far deprived of thy Grace that I scoff or deride them though by age or infirmity they shall fail in their Iudgement or Reason but cause me to supply their wants lest that I having plenty and they being in any need or distress I not supplying it or not succouring them their lives to whom I owe mine may be in danger to be shortned Lord forgive all the Offences which I have heretofore committed against them Increase the number of their dayes keep them safe in body and mind let them see their Childrens Children to their Comfort and thy Glory Let them govern us and the rest of their Family with wholesome Discipline and good Example that at the last they may in their due time depart this life in peace and come to thy Kingdom unspotted through Iesus Christ. For a Woman with Child O Blessed Lord God who for the Offence of the first Woman didst denounce and impose an inevitable Curse upon all her posterity namely that they should conceive in sin and be subject to many grievous pains and should bring forth their Children with great danger Asswage I beseech thee of thy goodness the sharpness of that Decree and preserve me that I may overcome and escape this great danger and be delivered of the fruit of my body without peril of death and that it may safely be brought to the Sacred Font of Baptism and be regenerated and ingrafted into the mystical Body of Christ and made partaker of his Death and Passion And as thou hast of thy bounty given bodily life to it and me so grant us both life spiritual and so sanctifie our Bodies and Souls here that hereafter we may live among thy blessed Saints for ever in the
us to pray that we continue and increase in it 4. It puts us in mind of our vow in Baptism to believe in the Trinity Lord I believe Help thou my unbelief In God the Father Wherein I consider First His personal Relation to his natural Son and gracious affection to us in him That in Christ we are all his Sons by grace and adoption As many as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God The Spirit beareth witness with out spirit that we are the Sons of God No more a Servant but a Son Having predestinated us unto the adoption of Children by Jesus Christ. Almighty Secondly His Saving Power That as he is a Father willing to do us good so he is Omnipatent and able to do us good Even to your old age I am he c. I will bear I will carry and deliver you I am the Lord and none else He is Lord over all Upholding all things Almighty Able to subdue all things unto himself Maker of Heaven and Earth Thirdly His Providence in disposing preserving and governing all things 1. By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made He laid the Foundations of the Earth Thou Lord which hast made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is I form the Light and create the Darkness He layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters The Spirit of the Lord hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life 2. He provideth for the Raven his food c. Thou Lord shalt save both Man and Beast They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness c. Over Sparrows He careth for us In him we live move and have our being 3. He ordereth the world according to equity He judgeth the folk righteously and governeth the Nations upon the earth Thy providence O Father governeth all things He ordereth all things sweetly In Jesus A Saviour He shall save his people from their sins He that beleeveth not in him is condemned Neither is there Salvation in any other By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Christ. Annointed With the Oyl of gladness above his fellows The Lord hath annointed me His onely Son Of God the Father The only begotten of the Father His only begotten Son Our Lord. In right of 1 Creation 2 Redemption 1. By whom he made the World By him were all things created 2. In whom we have redemption Redeemed with his precious Blood Bought with a price Conceived by the Holy Ghost Without the help of Man to help the uncleanness of our conception She was found with Child of the Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee Angelo nunciante Spiritu adveniente mox verbum in utero mox intraverbum Caro. Upon the Annuntiation or message of an Angel and the Overshadowing of the Holy Ghost the word presently entred into the VVomb and with the word the flesh Born of the Virgin Mary Made the Sonne of Man that we might be the Sonnes of God To purge the uncleanness of our birth He did not abhor the Virgins womb A Virgin shall conceive She shall bring forth a Son And she brought forth her first born Son c. The word was made flesh And when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman c. S. Bernard saith That God in the assumption of our nature made three mixtures so wonderfull without comparison that never the like were or should be to the end of the world God and Man a Mother and a Virgin Faith and Mans heart Suffered under Pontius Pilate Those things which we should have suffered That we might not suffer them He powred out his soul unto death c. He bare our sins in his own body on the tree He once suffered for sins Was Crucified To take away the Curse of the Law Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us as it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree He humbled himself and became obedient to death even the death of the Cross. Dead To take away the sharpness and bondage of death To satisfie Gods justice for us The wages of sin is death That he by the grace of God should taste death for every one That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil And deliver them who through the fear of death were all their life time subject to bondage O Death where is thy sting Buried To take away the corruption of the grave that we might be assured of his death All agree that he was buried in a Sepulcher They took him from a Tree and laid him in a Sepulcher Descended into Hell Whither we ought to have gone that we might not go thither at all Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell Non immerito creditur It is not without cause that we believe saith Saint Augustine upon this Article And Christ according to his Soul was in Hell the Scripture is plain for it being foretold by the Prophet David and evidently expounded by the Apostles Application of that Text Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell And he concludeth peremptorily with this Question Quis ergo nisi infidelis negaverit fuisse apud inferos Christum Who therefore but an Infidel will deny that Christ was in Hell The third day he rose again from the dead That he might raise with him our nature being the first fruits of them which sleep He is risen He is not here Christ being raised from the dead c. And was raised again for our justification By the Trinity 1. By the Father Acts 2. 24. 3. 15. 4. 10. 5. 30. 10. 40. Ephes. â— 20. 1 Pet. 1. 21. 2. By the Son Joh. 10. 17 18. Rom. 14. 3. By the Spirit Rom. 8. 11. 1 Pet. 3. 18. He ascended into Heaven To prepare us a place whereto we had no right To assure us that our flesh is gone before To send us the Holy Spirit He was received up into Heaven He was parted from them and carried up to Heaven We have a High Priest that is Passed into the Heavens He that descended is the same which ascended far above all Heavens I go to prepare a place for you Having boldness to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Iesus And hath raised us up together and made us sit in Heavenly places together I will pray the Father and he shall give you another
man escape unpunished God will neither be made flexible by favour nor corrupt by gifts Riches profit not in the day of wrath And therefore say not I have sinned what harm hath happened to me For though God be long suffering he will in no wise let thee go unpunished Concerning propitiation be not without fear to add sin to sin And say not His mercy is great he will be pacified for the multitude of my sins for mercy and wrath come from him and his indignation resteth upon sinners We must all appear before his Tribunal and receive according to the thing which every one hath done His Sentence will be so Iust that though in this World we may say Veniet qui malè judicata rejudicabit dies The day will come when there will be a re-view of things ill carried Yet in the case between God and Man then it will not be not be so 3. Being Wise Omniscient Nothing is hid from his all-seeing eyes He beholdeth all our actions He is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart All things are naked and open to his eyes He knoweth our thoughts long before our manifold transgressions and our mighty sins Therefore no hope of Evasion by hiding any thing from him 4. Being Good He will expect our Thankfulness He hath ever been gracious to us heaped many benefits on us And by how much the more beneficial he hath been to us the longer expected our conversion and the oftner admonished us by so much the more rigorously will he deal with us for neglecting these benefits Unto whom much is given of him much shall be required An accompt will be exacted of our Talents received Every man shall be rewarded according to his works He will exact an accompt from us How we have used the Body and Soul given unto us How we have employed our Natural Gifts Temporal Blessings and the rest The signes of his Goodness to us And can we answer one for a thousand Our Iudgement therefore the greater for abusing his Goodness Again If we consider this Iudgement in respect of the Parties lyable to it we shall have greater cause to betake our selves to a more serious consideration of our estates 1. In regard of the Nature and condition of Man A flower Of short continuance A leaf Dry stabble His substance but dust His life but a wind a shadow of no continuance Format us de terra Conceptus in culpa Natus ad poenam Made of earth Conceived in sin Born to suffer punishment In regard that he is sinful and wretched Composed of vanity Every man living altogether vanity Lighter than vanity Shaped in wickedness Conceived in sin Born in uncleanness A child of wrath A vessel of perdition dishonour Unclean like a silthy clout Drinking iniquity like water All have erred Agunt mala quae non licent vana quae non expediunt Faciles ad seducendum Debiles ad operandum Fragiles ad resistendum They do evil which is unlawful and are vain which is not meet Easie to deceive Weak to work Frail to resist So that our entrance into the world is miserable Conversation in it Culpable Dissolution from it Damnable The Consideration of this unworthiness hath terrified all the Saints and Servants of God lest they should fall under this judgement I have sinned what shall I doe saith Iob. How shall I answer O Lord correct me not in thine indignation saith David Correct me O Lord but yet not in thy fury lest I be brought to nothing saith Ieremy In respect of the sentence it self which will be to the good Venite Benedicti Come ye blessed to the bad Discedite Maledicti Depart ye cursed which last sentence is terrible 1. They are cast into eternal torments a punishment sensible for the pain and misery felt 2. They are deprived of the Beatifical vision of God a punishment prejudicial for the Glory lost The first is terrible 1. In regard of the Suddenness and Horrour At the time of the Iudges appearance A consuming fire shall goe before him and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up about him Their visitation shall be in Thunder Earthquake and great noise storm and Tempests and the flame of devouring fire The day of the Lord is very terrible who may abide it A day of wrath a day of trouble and distress c. It shall burn as an Oven and the proud and all that do wickedly shall be stubble They shall behold Above them The Angry Iudge disdaining them Under them The Horrible Pit gaping for them Within them The Worm of Conscience gnawing them About them The World burning Near to them The Devils accusing them Whither then shall a sinner flee It is impossible to be hidden and insufferable to abide If it were terrible for the Israelites to hear Gods voice delivered by an Angel who brought no ill news Insomuch as they said If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more we shall die And to Moses Talk thou with us let not God lest we die What will it be for sinners to hear the Iudge pronounce this heavy sentence Discedite Maledicti 2. In regard of the Accusers 1. The Heaven and the Earth 2. Christ as Iudge Witness I will reprove thee and set before thee the things that thou hast done I will shew thy filthiness I was hungry and ye gave me no meat c. 3. The Angels Their attendants in this life 4. The Devils who attend them for future torments 5. The Books of their Consciences Thine own wickedness shall correct thee and thy turnings back shall reprove thee 6. The Creatures whom they have abused Consider this lest ye howl and weep in your misery In regard of the intollerable paines which follow the Sentence 1. Everlasting Chains of Darkness Vermis corum non morietur They shall weep for ever 2. Sharp Beyond the Fornace seven times heated 3. Various of divers sorts According to the diversity of sinners offences 4. Stinking In the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone 5. Affrighting Tormented by Devils 6. In Bonds not able to stir Bind him hand and foot Held with Cords of his own sin Bind the Tares c. Gathered as Prisoners into a pit Chains of darkness 7. In horrid darkness Prefigured by that of AEgypt A Land of darkness 8. With Company detestable In regard that Hell is a Place of no Order Dilatavit Infernus animam suam aperuit os suum absque ullo termino Hell hath enlarged it self and hath opened his mouth without measure Of no Rest or Comfort But cries vexation weeping and gnashing of teeth Not a drop of cool water to the thirsty Continual mourning sorrow without
iu my Mothers womb that I might come safe into this world and receive the mark and badge of all thine even the Sacrament of Baptism whereby I was cleansed from the guilt of Original sin Amongst a multitude of Infidels dispersed over the face of the Earth thou wouldest have me in the number of the Faithfal even of those to whom so happy a lot hath fallen to be thine regenerated with the water of Baptism From which time I was taken to be thine and that admirable and happy Contract was made between us that thou shouldest be my Lord and I thy Servant thou my Father and I thy Son that thou shouldest perform and shew to me the love of a Father and I to thee the duty of a Son Further O Lord thou didst descend from Heaven to Earth for my sake seeking me in all the ways wherein I had lost my self With thy humanity thou didst ennoble my nature and by thy bonds didst deliver me from bondage Thou didst challenge me from the power of the Devil by delivering thy self into the hands of sinners and didst destroy sin by taking upon thee the form of a sinner With what reverence shall I speak of that other blessed Sacrament which Thou also O Lord hast instituted and ordained for a remedy of all the miseries which have befallen me and the many sins I have committed since my Baptism and for a salve and cure for all my spiritual diseases even the Sacrament of thy most precious Body and Blood And as thou hast bestowed on me all these divine and heavenly blessings so likewise in plentiful manner hast thou heaped on me temporal favours Thou hast from my birth to this hour preserved nourished cloathed and fed me in most abundant manner giving to me the use of all thy creatures for my sustentation Nay what couldest thou have done more for me than thou hast done Or what couldest thou have given me more than thou hast bestowed upon me either of blessings of this world or of the world to come Now having received all these mercies and favours from thee how have I on my part behaved my self in thankfulness to thee for them Have I returned due praise unto thy Majesty for them or carried my self and ordered my life like to one that might any way deserve them O Lord I confess that I have not for such hath been the malice of my heart that instead of shewing my self conformable to thy will I dayly adde sin to sin and iniquity to iniquity heaping up wrath for my self against the day of wrath How can I without tears remember how often thou mightest justly have slain me and yet notwithstanding my sins which call for vengeance no evil hath happened unto me How many souls burn in Hell fire which have sinned far less than I and yet I remain alive What had become of me if thou hadst taken me away with those at the same time How strict had my Iudgement been if thy Iustice had laid hold on me laden with so many sins Who then O Lord hath bound the hands of thy Iustice who hath deprecated for me when I lay thus lulled asleep in the security of my sins What hath pleased thee in me that thou shouldst deal more mercifully with me than with those who in the midst of their dayes in the heat of their youth are taken away from amongst us My sins cryed out against me and thou stoppedst thine ears my offences dayly increased against thee yet thy mercy dayly abounded towards me I sinned thou didst expect me I fled from thee and thou followedst me I was weary in offending thee and thou not weary in expecting me And in the midst of all my sins I ever received many good inspirations and goodly reproofs from thy holy Spirit which checked me in the dissolute course of my life How often hast thou called me with the voice of Love How often hast thou terrified me with threats and fears laying before me the peril of death and the rigour of thy divine Iustice How often hast thou followed me with thy Word preached invited me with thy blessings chastened me with thy scourges compassing me about that I could by no means slee from thee And lastly which is not the least of thy mercies with what patience hast thou waited for my serious Repentance What then O Lord shall I render back to thee for all that thou hast done unto me In that thou hast created me I owe thee all that I am created in that thou hast preserved me and thus long expected my return to thee I owe thee life and all that I am But in that thou hast regenerated sanctified and redeemed me and left those excellent pledges for my salvation I know not what to render unto thee For if the lives of all men and Angels were in my power and that I could offer them unto thee for a sacrifice of praise and thanks yet were it nothing being compared to the least of all thy spiritual blessings bestowed on me VVho therefore will give a fountain of tears to mine eyes that I may lament my great ingratitude and unjust retribution for all these thy manifold blessings heaped upon me Help me thou O Lord and give me grace that I may heartily confess and grievously bewail my hainous offences and transgressions against thee that thou mayest be reconciled to me and in thy abundant mercies shew some pity to me for them I am thy creature O Lord made after thine own Likeness and Image acknowledge thy workmanship for it is thine own In taking away the soyl and filth wherewith it is defiled and stained thou shalt soon perceive it to be thine own handy-work Art not thou a Father of mercies which have neither number end nor measure Although I have shaken off the duty and obedience of a child towards thee yet cast not thou off the love of a Father toward me I beseech thee Although I have done many things whereby thou mightest justly condemn me yet thou hast not lost the means whereby thou mayest mercifully save me If thou forsake me to whom shall I flee who is there to help me besides thy self Acknowledge G Lord a straying sheep Behold I come to thee all wounded thou canst heal me blind thou canst enlighten me full of leprosie thou canst cleanse me and spiritually dead yet thou canst revive me Thy mercy is greater than my sin thy clemency more than my wickedness and thou canst remit more than I can commit Do not then O Lord put me back from thee look not so much upon my sins as upon thy infinite meocies who livest and reignest God of all mercies world without end Another O Almighty Lord God great in thy power and terrible in thy judgements who madest the Heaven the Earth the Sea and all things in them by thy Word whose Power cannot be resisted and whose Mercy is over all thy works All things are under
thy power and rule both in Heaven and Earth Thou shewest mercy on whom thou wilt art pitiful to whom thou pleasest and wouldst not the death of a sinner neither delightest in the destruction of any O God rich in mercy who out of thy extraordinary love to Mankind even when we were thine Enemies didst send thine only Son into the world that every one that believed on him might not perish but have life everlasting Have mercy upon me have mercy upon me according to thy mercy and according to the multitude of thy mercies do away my offenses Holy Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy Son I have turned from thee and have broken all thy Commandements I have not walked aright but have gone after mine own lusts choosing those wayes which thou hast forbidden me to tread in Neither O Lord have I feared thine anger but have been in all things disobedient unto thee and have hardned my heart against thee I have hated instruction and cast thy sayings behind me Truth hath found no place in me and my hands have been the workers of much wickedness I have spoken vainly idlely and wickedly I have brought forth deceit and meditated the way of untruth I have provoked thy wrath against me by accustoming my self to do the work of the flesh and rejecting the good motions of the Spirit Woe unto me rebellious wretch that I have committed these wicked acts against thee so loving so good so gracious a God to the utter destruction of my soul without thy mercy in Christ Iesus In remembrance and confidence whereof O Lord I come to thee and humbly intreat thee that thou wouldest not reject a contrite humble miserable and repentant sinner who at this time earnestly invocateth thy Name Return a little O Lord and be intreated for my manifold sins do not unto me according to the multitude of them neither reward me according to my transgressions Let my humble Prayers sighs and groans come into thy presence and according to thy promises receive me again into thy favour For O Father I am one of those whom thy only Son redeemed with his most precious blood O Lord my soul doth loath my life by reason of my manifold sins and I humble my self under thy mighty hand because I know that in thine anger thou shewest mercy and in time of trouble thou dost forgive offences And behold O Lord that I confess my sins beseeching thee for thy goodness to do unto me according to thy wonted mercy I am confounded and ashamed to lift up mine eyes unto thee because my sins have prevented my prayers and have ascended up to thee before them Against thee O Lord have I sinned and done much evil in thy sight Yet wherefore should I dye in my sins seeing it is not thy pleasure that any sinner should dye but turn unto thee and live For thou art good and gracious and savest those who are altogether unworthy out of the abundance of thy mercy in Christ Iesus the Righteous For although thine anger against sinners is unsufferable and who may abide it Yet thy mercy towards offenders is unsearchable and who can find out the depth thereof or describe it Our Fathers in their troubles cryed unto thee and thou didst deliver them they put their trust in thee and were not confounded And though they by their offences have justly provoked thine anger yet upon their humiliation thou didst remember thy Covenant and ease them of their afflictions O Lord be merciful also unto me for I am miserable and wretched Heal my soul for I have sinned against thee My soul is very much disquieted within me How long Lord will it be ere thou look upon me and deliver it Lighten mine eyes for I have too long slept in death and my sins have too long had dominion over me Return O Lord at the last and be gracious unto me O deliver my soul and have mercy upon me And all my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee To thee be all Honour Praise and Glory World without end Another O Lord Iesus Christ the only Physician of sick souls who in the fulness of God came into this World not to call the just but sinners to Repentance Behold me the most wretched of all sinners who with as much humility as I am able in the confidence of thy great goodness cast my self before the foot-stool of thy Majesty confessing my great and grievous offences And if the Publican in the Gospel durst not lift up his eyes to heaven but stood a far off and smote his brest saying Lord be merciful to me a sinner what shall I doe whose sins surpass the greatest sinners offences For all my inward and outward parts are wholly depraved and nothing that is good remaineth in me And when I look into the book of my conscience I find that I have abominably polluted the garment of innocency which I received at my Baptism I have put all my strength to offend thee with all the members I have For my feet have been swift to evil and flow to good mine eyes open to vanity and shut to that which is truly amiable My hands stretched to covetousness and closed from the works of mercy mine ears ready to hear evil and stopped to the good motions of the Spirit and my soul the noblest part in me which hath eyes to contemplate the glory of thy Majesty I have turned away from the consideration of thy Excellency to the vain and transitory things of this life I have given liberty to whatsoever mine eyes have desired and have not resisted the unclean passions of my heart so that the whole course of my life hath been a continual warfare against the. How often have I returned as a dog to the vomit and as a sow washed to the myre I am that Fool which hath said in his heart there is no God For I have lived so dissolutely that I have made plain demonstration by my behaviour That I believed thou either wert not at all or else couldst do nothing at all Thou O Lord hast often called me and I have neglected thy voice Thou hast expected me and I have abused thy patience Thou hast given me the treasure of a long time to repent and I have consumed it wastefully Thou hast stricken me and I have not been sensible of thy hand Thou hast afflicted me and I have made no use of thy correction Thou didst sweat to make me clean and I still remain in my pollution I am hardned as well with thy punishments as with thy blessings being rebellious to the one and unthankful for the other And what shall I further say but that my heart soul thoughts and body are all impure and defiled and that of all sinners I am the chief unworthy Earth
Name Praise the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his benefits Which forgiveth all thy sin and healeth all thine infirmities Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth hee with mercy and living kindness Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things c. Motives to Thanksgiving IT is not the least part of the Duty of a Christian in the sight of God to be thankful to him for the benefits he daily bestoweth upon us For as God is kind merciful and loving to us so he expecteth that we should render back thanks to him for those blessings which we receive from him For we have nothing else to retribute to him but a thankful memorial of his blessings And this King David well understood when he said What shall I render to the Lord for all the benefits he hath done unto me I will offer to thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving c. As therefore we ought to be diligent in Prayer for those things we want so ought we also to be perpetually thankful for them when we have obtained what we desire And when we have done al that we can we cannot give him due praise and thanks for the least part of that which we daily receive For if we respect that which is past present or to come we shall still meet with matter enough which expresseth his goodness and love to us and exacteth this Duty from us If we consider that which is past then we shall soon perceive that but for him we had not been at all nor been preserved hitherto amongst so many dangers without his protection If that which is present we cannot but acknowledge that by his alone goodness we live and enjoy those blessings wherewith we are loaded beyond desert If that which is to come he is our hope of all good things which we desire or expect either for this life or for the life to come And as God accounteth Thanksgiving a Duty so he taketh it for an Honour done unto him if we perform it He hath so much esteemed of it alwayes even from the beginning that he reputed and accounted it above the rest of the Sacrifices offered unto him Besides we may consider that in the Law God himself instituted a peculiar and special Sacrifice of oblation of thanks For the Feast of the Paschal Lamb was no other thing but an Eucharistical or thankful service in remembrance of the wonderfull deliverance of the Jews from their servitude Our Saviour also instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist for a perpetual remembrance and memorial of all his benefits to Mankind especially of our Redemption by his death Hester established a Feast to preserve a thankfull memory of the Jews deliverance from the plots of Haman And in brief it was generally evermore the practice of Gods Saints to express this Duty as may be seen by many Songs Hymnes Psalms and Prayers of Thanksgiving which are left unto us in the Scriptures as patterns for us to imitate Of Moses and Miriam Of Moses alone Of Deborah Of Hanna Of David in divers places of the Psalms Of good King Ezechias Of Jonas Of the Prophet Habakkuk Of the three Chirldren Of the Angels Of Zachary Of the Blessed Virgin Mary Of the Church And of the Elders And after those examples of necessity we must frame our selves for be sure of this That whensoever praise and thanks shall sail and be wantiug on our parts towards God then presently God will withdraw his hand of mercy and bounty from us Thanksgiving I Thank thee O merciful Father Lord of Heaven and Earth for all thy mercies and favours continually heaped upon me for that thou hast not only created me after thine own Image and likeness and given to me a body with all the parts and members thereof and a soul with all the powers and faculties thereof that with them and by them I might know love and serve thee but that thou hast so graciously preserved both body and soul from time to time from all dangers Thou hast alwayes been my refuge in tribulations and my defence and succour in adversities When I went astray thou didst reduce me into the right away when I offended thee thou didst gently correct me when I was sad thou didst comfort me and when for the grievousness of my sins I was ready to despair thou of thy mercy and compassion didst strengthen me and keep me from utter ruine I acknowledge O Lord thy more than fatherly indulgence toward me from my birth to this present time for unless thou of thy goodness hadst upheld me I had long ere this time been drowned and overwhelmed in the bottomless gulf of my sins But thou hast delivered me from the jawes of the roaring Lyon who hath daily sought to devour me and hast defended me from all his snares and assaults And as thou hast of thy mercy preserved my soul from destruction so thou hast oftentimes delivered my body from the gates of death when many sicknesses and infirmities took hold of me I thank thee also O Lord for all other thy temporal blessings which thou in plentiful manner hast heaped on me as Food Rayment Wealth Possessions and Children For my health and liberty for the prerogative which thou hast given me over all thy creatures in their subjection to my service and use I thank thee also O sweet Saviour for the infinite work of my Redemption and for thy exceeding great love in accomplishing that great work that thou wouldest suffer so many torments sorrows labours and griefs yea so bitter and disgraceful a death even the death of Malefactors to redeem me from a most desperate and certain state of damnation which I most justly have fallen into to a state of glory and immortality which I by no means could have deserved I thank thee also O Lord most holy for all other thy spiritual graces and blessings as my Regeneration Vocation Sanctification for thy blessed Sacraments for my Preservation and hope of Glorification O Lord I am not sufficient to render unto thee condign thanks and praises for all these thy mercies yet accept I humbly pray thee these poor and weak thanks which I offer unto thee according to my bounden duty and service For as there is no hour of my life wherein I do not enjoy thy favours and taste of thy goodness so if my frailty would permit I should spend no time of my life without remembring them and praising and blessing thee for the same Glory be therefore to thee O Lord my Creator Glory be to thee O Iesus my Redeemer Glory be to thee O Holy Ghost my Sanctifier Glory to the high and undivided Trinity whose works are inseparable and whose dominion endureth world without end Another ALmighty and everliving God I humbly thank thy Heavenly Majesty for all thy blessings which thou hast vouchsafed to me poor and sinful
peace in any of these particulars shall fly from thee pursue it with all thy might that thou mayest recover it 15 The provident eyes of the Lord for thy comfort in taking this course are ever fixed upon the righteous to preserve them from all evil and to confirm them in all good and his ears of compassion are alwayes open unto their cry to deliver them from all distress 16 The face of displeasure and the angry countenance of the Lord on the contrary is set and bent against them that forsake good and do evil without remorse of Conscience to cut off and root out not only such wicked persons themselves but the very remembrance of them from the face of the Earth that there shall remain no memorial of them 17 The righteous in their affliction cry and flee unto God for succour and the Lord in mercy heareth their prayer yea and in his good time delivereth them out of all their troubles either by aiding them with spiritual comfort that they faint not under them or by removing their afflictions from them or them from their afflictions by taking them into heavenly joyes 18 The Lord who hath a continual care over his Elect is ever nigh unto them in comfort that are of a broken and humble heart and always saveth such and no other as are of a contrite and bruised spirit that they fall not into desparation 19 Many in number and great in weight are the afflictions and troubles of the righteous for they that will live godly in Christ must suffer persecution but the Lord of his infinite goodness forsaketh him not but delivereth him in due time out of them all that they shall not be able to do him harm 20 He even the Lord keepeth and preserveth all his bones which though the wicked go about to break yet notwithstanding all their attempts not so much as one of them is or shall be broken by them and not only so but the hairs of his head are numbred also 21 Evil on the other side shall slay the wicked and turn them to destruction and they whosoever they be that hate the righteous whom the Lord loveth shall be desolate and deprived of the comfort of Gods holy Spirit 22 The Lord by his power and goodness redeemeth and saveth the soul of every one of his servants from all evil and none of them that put their trust and confidence in him and his mercy shall be left desolate or without consolation Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. Psalm 103. BLess and magnifie the Lord thy Creator O my Soul for all his mercies and favours extended to thee and all that is within me holy and pure give praise unto and bless his holy and great Name 2 Bless the Lord O my Soul I say again as well for thy Creation as for all other his great and glorious works and at any hand take heed thou be not ingrateful to him and forget not nor let slip out of thy remembrance all or any of his benefits as well in forming thee after his own Image as in his continual care and preserving thee from many dangers 3 Who only by his power can and of his meer mercy and goodness forgiveth all thine iniquities pardoneth all thy sins as well actual as original how great soever how many soever as often as with a pure heart and humble spirit thou repentest thee of them Who like a good Physician healeth all thy diseases and thy infirmities by the regeneration and renewing of his holy Spirit in thee 4 Who only redeemeth and saveth thy life from destruction and utter ruine and who instead of taking of just and severe revenge of thee for thy sins crowneth and compasseth thee with loving kindness many blessings and comforteth thee with his tender mercies which are above the rest of his works 5 Who in his providence satisfieth and filleth thy mouth and desire with all good things necessary for thy sustentation so that thy youth by his power is renewed like the Eagles by curing thy weakness and infirmity and making thee lasty and strong 6 The Lord relieveth them that suffer wrong and executeth righteousness and judgement without respect of persons and standeth for all that are unjustly oppressed against those that are too mighty for them 7 He in former times at the publishing of the Law made known his wayes and taught his Commandements unto Moses by whom he gave directions to succeeding ages what they were to follow and what to avoid and his mighty acts were well known unto the Children of Israel by their many and great Deliverances 8 The Lord our God is merciful in forgiving offences and gracious in not imputing our sins unto us he is slow to anger expecting the conversion of sinners and plenteous in mercy exceeding in his love and liberal in his benefits to those that fear him 9 He will not alwayes chide nor be ever displeased with his Children neither will he remember our sins and keep his anger against us for them for ever but in his wrath he will ever be mindful of his mercy 10 He hath not dealt with us nor punished us rebellious wretches after the quality of our sins wherewith we have daily offended his patience nor hath he rewarded nor retributed to us according to the hainousness of our iniquities for he knoweth that if he should strictly enter into judgement with us no flesh could be saved 11 For like as the Heaven is high as we see and far above the Earth so great is his mercy above his justice toward them that fear him and in remorse for their offences truly turn unto him 12 As far also in distance as the East part of the World is situate from the West which by reason of their separation can never come near to each other so far at the least hath he removed and put away our transgressions and sins from us that they never shall come near unto us to do us any harm 13 Like as a tender and compassionate Father pityeth his disobedient Children and upon submission receiveth them again to grace so the Lord who is the Father of mercies pityeth and grieveth to see the afflictions of them that in fear and trembling for their sins return unto him 14 For he the Lord which knoweth all things knoweth also our frame that we consist of flesh and blood subject to corruption and frailty and he withall remembreth and considereth that we are but even dust fashioned out of the Earth and therefore must needs partake and savour of earthly substance 15 As for wretched and frail Man therefore his dayes are but as grass which is green in the morning and before night is cut down and withered and as a fading flower of the field which for a while only in the Spring time is beautiful and afterward in cropt or decayeth even so and in no more assurance is he that in the greatest prosperity flourisheth For after a while in
from the servitude of sin The First Commandement Thou shalt have no other Gods before me HAving as it were setled in our hearts his Authority and Power to prescribe and make Laws unto us his just precept is that We have no other Gods before him 1. Neither by abating any reverence due to him But to worship him with all our heart By acknowledging him to be the only true God By honouring serving and praising him above all things By trusting and relying wholly upon him By expecting all good from him By humbling our selves before him and patiently bearing whatsoever he shall please to lay upon us and subjecting our wills wholly to his 2 Not by attributing any honour to other Gods or Idols or putting any confidence in Saints or Angels Earthly Pleasures Riches Honour or the like lest we offend thereby As Rachel did by asking Children of Iacob As the King of Syria by desiring Ioram to heal Naamans leprosie As Asa by too much trusting to his Physicians As the Fool in the Gospel trusting to his riches Neither secretly in thy heart Nor in the view of God and the World openly Not but that God is every where and seeth into the secret corners of our hearts and is Omniscient but to set a note or brand of impudence upon us for our indignity to him if we shall make open profession of our Idolatry to any false God or Idol in worshipping it or of our excessive love or doting upon any Creature by putting confidence in it neglecting our dependance on God who is only able by his Omnipotency to releive us This Commandement enjoyneth the inward worship of God The Second Commandement Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image AS in the first Commandement God requireth that we worship him only inwardly so in this he forbiddeth all undue and indirect outward worshipping of him and enjoyneth us not to make any resemblance to worship him by because he is a Spirit and is only to be worshipped in Spirit and Truth It consisteth of two parts 1. A prohibition of making any Image representing the Divine Godhead 2. Of exhibiting any worship to any Image And that 1. Because he is incomprehensible cannot be represented in any form visible 2. Because he is able to punish the contemners of his Name And to bless his true Worshippers 1. Therefore we are not to grave or make any Image or resemblance of him For when he gave the Law saith Moses he appeared in no manner of similitude To whom then will ye liken God or to what likeness will ye compare him 2. Neither are we to make the likeness of any thing to worship it For as we ought not to make any resemblance of him so neither when we make the similitude of any thing else the true use of making Pictures and the like being lawful not to worship or attribute any honour to it Not that all Images are hereby forbidden 1. For some in the Old Testament were Typical The Brazen Serpent being the Type of Christ. The two Cherubins on the Ark represented the Majesty of God attended by his Angels c. 2. Some are for Ornament many in the fabrique of the Temple and in the holy Vessels of it 3. Some Historical of stories either out of the Scriptures or of other Writers 4. Some for instruction in the nature of Beasts Cities and Countries Saint Paul saith that the Gentiles changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an Image like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness c. 1. Either by bowing the body uncovering the head or bending the knee to them 2. Or by setting the same in any eminent place to worship them bestowing extraordinary cost on them making Pilgrimages to them or dedicating Altars Lamps or the like to them By this Commination he sheweth his power to punish Offenders and that he is able and all-sufficient to supply our wants likewise Like the jealous Husband who will have no partner in his love And suffereth no Corrival Competitor or Sharer in his Service My Son give me thy heart thy whole heart Punishing them that run after false Gods in many descents even as long as they shall continue in their idolatrous courses Though the Son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father yet this is so odious to him that he will take vengeance of the Idolatrous Generation As of the Iews in general Solomon and others 1. To shew how odious Idolatry is to him 2. To force men who naturally have a love and care to their posterity by this Commination to abstain from it left their issue be plagued Confounded be all they that worship carved Images and that delight in vain Gods The mercy of the LORD is over all his Works is over his Iustice. For whereas he punisheth Idolaters in his Iustice but to three or four generations He is merciful to thousands of those that worship him aright throughout all generations His reward is alwayes greater than his punishment Of his own nature more bent to shew mercy than to execute severity It is his proper work and suitable to his nature to have mercy but he is hardly drawn to punish as being a work altogether unsuitable to his disposition With their whole heart without hypocrisie and do not impart that worship to others which is due to him In obedience walking in his wayes All his Commandements but chiefly this concerning his worship The Third Commandement Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain The scope of which is to shew what reverence is due to God in our Conversation especially in the use or abuse of an Oath THe Name of the Lord which in it self is Holy True and Iust. And therefore we ought not to prophane it or take it in our mouths lightly or upon every small occasion Herein we offend When we blaspheme God either openly or in our hearts When we use his holy Word to any prophane scurrilous or impure end When we commit Perjury When we murmure against him When we leave his Providence and consult with Witches or the like When we swear upon trivial and light causes When we curse or use unlawful Imprecations When we perform not that which we faithfully promise When we in any action of our own detract from Gods glory and attribute and arrogate too much to our selves An Oath is to be ministred when the glory of God is questioned for some weighty matter urgeth it upon the Magistrates command And to be taken by those who are of years of discretion and in their right senses The Lord and Iudge of Heaven and Earth who seeth and observeth all our actions is so far from conniving at this
daily sinned and not repented considering that from the Infernal pit there is no redemption Be thou merciful to me O Lord and save me for thy Names sake and in thy strength deliver and comfort me I know O Lord that thy judgements are just and that thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled Oh let this light affliction which will quickly be gone cause unto me afterward a more excellent and eternal weight of glory In the midst of the sorrows that are in my heart let thy comforts O Lord refresh my soul. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me round about yet thou dost destroy me Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into the dust again Hast thou not powred me out like milk and curdled me like a cheese Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh and fenced me with bones and sinews Thou hast granted me life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit O Lord thou numberest my steps and dost set a watch over my sin My breath is corrupt my dayes are extinct the grave is ready for me I have said to Corruption Thou art my Father and to the Worm Thou art my Mother and Sister Is there not an appointed time to man upon Earth and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hireling My dayes are swifter than a Post they flee away and see no good I know thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all the living Woe is me therefore O Lord that I have sinned What shall I do Whither shall I flee but to thee O Lord my God Be merciful to me in the last day My Soul is very much disquieted within me But Lord I require thy aid and comfort Be mindful O Lord of thy Word wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust and let thy mercy come unto me according to thy Promise For thou art my Maker and I am the work of thy hands Deliver me O Lord from eternal death in that day wherein Heaven and Earth shall be dissolved when thou comest to judge the Earth I am affrighted when I consider that day the day of thy wrath the day of misery that great and exceeding bitter day O Lord in that day where shall I hide my self from the face of thine anger O Lord when thou comest to Iudgement condemn me not I beseech thee but deliver from the Gates of Hell my poor Soul which I commend unto thee Acknowledge then O Lord thy Creature not made by any strange Gods but by thee the true and living God Make my Soul joyful with thy presence and remember not my sins but according to thy great mercy think upon me in that day for the merits of my blessed Saviour Iesus Christ Amen A Prayer for the Sick ALmighty and most merciful Lord God who by the infirmities of this life dost put us in mind of our mortality and by these outward afflictions dost call us to inward Repentance I cry unto thee with my whole heart Rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy displeasure Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed Thou art He O Lord That woundest and healest again that killest and revivest that leadest to the Gates of Hell and bringest back again If this my sickness O Lord be not unto death help me on this my bed of infirmity and strengthen me If thou thinkest expedient rather that I should dye than live do with me according to thy good pleasure and receive my spirit to thy peace which I commend into thy hands who livest and reignest God of all mercy world without end AMEN Or thus O Merciful Lord God who of thy great mercy dost forgive the offences of those who truly repent mercifully look upon me thy poor servant and hearken unto me who humbly crave of thee remission of my sins Renew O Lord in me whatsoever is corrupt and decayed by the Devils malice or mine own frailty Pity my sighs pity my tears pity my groans vouchsafe to be reconciled to me that have confidence in nothing but thy meer mercy O Lord it grieveth me that I have offended thy Majesty and it grieveth me much that I can grieve no more than I do And I humbly pray thee by the Death Passion and Intercession of thy Son Christ Iesus to pardon my offences promising that if I recover my former health thy grace assisting me to abstain from displeasing thy Majesty hereafter I willingly O Lord and freely from my heart for thy sake forgive all offenders and offences against me and I heartily desire all those whom I have any way offended to forgive me O Lord though my natural man trembleth at the thought of death yet I profess that I am willing to dye if it be thy good pleasure I. have received life and all the blessings of this life from thee What shall I render back to thee for them I will willingly receive this Cup of Death and praise thy Name I commend into thy hands my Spirit And whether thou disposest of me to live or dye I resign it to thy good will and disposition and humbly pray thee that if thou seest it good for me to prolong my dayes on Earth that thou wouldest renew my conversation by the direction of thy Holy Spirit that I may pass those dayes in thy fear If thou be otherwise pleased to dispose of me take me I beseech thee into the armes of thy mercy for Iesus Christs sake my only Saviour and Redeemer Or Thus. O God of all Consolation who hast promised to hear all those that faithfully call upon thee and not to reject any that with a contrite heart and penitent soul shall humble himself before thee I humbly intreat thee in the Name and Mediation of thy Son Iesus Christ that thou wouldest be pleased to be merciful to me thy poor servant at this time afflicted with sickness O Lord pardon forget and blot out of thy remembrance whatsoever I have committed against thee in the whole course of my life Seal and confirm unto me by thy Spirit a pardon unto me for all my offences that I may thereby receive such comfort in my soul that I may with all joy and willingness depart out of this life unto thee Let me be certified That there is no condemnation to those which are united and ingrafted into Iesus Christ by Faith That I may be confident That neither my Sins Death the Devil nor ought else can draw me away or separate me from thee And that I may be assured that thy Throne will not be to me a Barr of Severity but a Haven of Safety and a sure Sanctuary and Refuge for me to flee unto Strengthen this Faith in me which may serve as a Buckler to defend me from all tentations and that
Dan. 9.14 Psal. 119. 137. 75. Psal. 12 7. 117. 2. Mat 19. 17. Ps. 119 68 Jam. 1. 17. Psal. 33. 5. Exo. 16.7 10. Exod. 22. 17. Lev. 9. 23. 2 Chro. 5. 14. Esa. 6. 3. Ps. 113.4 Gen. 17.1 43 14. 2 Cor 6. 18. Job 5. 9. Ps. 104.24 Psal. 33.6 74. 17. 102. 25. Heb. 11.3 Clem. Alex Apo. 19. 16. S. August Gen. 1.27 Psal. â— 5 6. â— Ambr. â— Psal. 8. Arist. Mat. 1. 5. Psal. 944 Psa. 91. â— 2 Reg. 6. Ps. 103.13 Esa. 49.15 Jo. 10.11 Esa. 40,11 Eze. 39. 10. Ps. 23.1.2 Wis 14.3 Mat. 10.29 Ps. 147 9. Ps. 145.15 1 Pet. 5 7. Act. 17.28 Ps. 144.5 Pro. 8.17 Joh. 18.21 1 Joh. 4. 10. 19. Esa. 65.1 Ro. 58.10 Jer. 31. 3. S. Bern. Io. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 3.18 Isa. 53.12 Gal. 3. 13. Phil. 2.8 Ps. 111.9 139. 10. Tit. 2.14 1 Pet. 3.20 Ge. 15.16 Ps. 95.10 Act. 13.18 Jonas 3. Exo. 34.6 Ps. 16.15 103. 8. Joel 2.13 Jonas 4.2 Neh. 9.17 Neh. 9.31 Lam. 3.22 Abac. 32. Ezec. 18. 23 32. 33. 11. Ps. 89 33. 103. 10. Lu. 6. 36. 2 Cor. 1.3 Psal. 22.4 Eph. 24. Rom. 5. 20 Ps. 130 7. Luk. 1 78. Ps. 106.43 Ma. 18.27 1 Pet. 1.3 Ps. 97.10 Phi. 2.27 Ps. 79.10 Tit. 3. 5. Pro. 8.12 8. 21. Ps. 97.10 102. 28. Mar. 10. 29 30. Ps. 34.16 Zac. 2. 8 Ps. 34.19 Ecclus. 2. 8. Lam. 3.25 Pro. 5.8.9 Ps. 9. 10. Ps. 1. 31. 1 Thes. 43 Deu. 5.29 Ps. 37.38 Eclus 7.10 Deut. 30. 15. Ps. 37.27 Rom. 7. 12 Ps. 119.75 Apo. 17.7 Psal. 119. Rom. 5.1 Râ—o 16.7 Psal. 112. 165. Isa. 48. 18. 32. 17. Ro. 14.17 2 Cor. 1. 12. Pro. 15. 15 S. Hier. Tully Socrates Byas Ps. 97 11 118. 15. 36. 8. Ro. 8. 18. 1. 20. 5 10 Gal. 5. 5. Act. 10.43 Jer. 31.34 Rom. 12. 12. Ps. 31.11 40. 5. Esa. 30.18 Heb. 10. 35. Phil. 3. 8. Jos. 23.11 Rom. 5.5 Ro. 8. 35. Pro. 10. 8. 1 Reg. 15 22. Exo. 19.8 Psal. 16. 9 10. 84. 2. Luc. 1.48 52. Mat. 5. 5 6. Ps. 80. 5. Pro. 12 2. 10. Psal. 9.18 Ps. 34.14 50. 15. Mat 7. 7. Esa. 58 9. 65. 24. Pro. 3.16 Pro. 43.9 37. 25. Deut. 28.1 2 Cor. 6. 10. Eccl. 1.13 Pro. 14 32 Sap. 4.7 Esa. 57.2 Apoc. 14. 13. 1 Cor. 15 â— Gal. 5.17 Ps. 19.10 110. 19. Eccl. 2.8 10. Levit. 26. Ps. 19.10 1.9 Deut. 30. 11. Mat. 11.30 1 Joh. 5.3 Sap. 7.22 Esa. 40.29 31. Ezec. 11. 19. Deu. 30.6 Gen. 19. Rom. 8.35 Act. 5.41 Eccl. 11.8 Baruch 3. 16. Psal. 14. 3 4. Hosea 4. 1 2. S. Bern 1 Joh. 2. 15 Colos. 3.2 Eccles. 1. 2. Psal. 4. 1. 1 Cor. 2.9 Pro. 3 16. Ps. 112 6. 119. 1. 119. 2. Ps. 37.20 Sap. 14.9 Jer. 5. Esa. 59.2 Num. 14. 18. Exod. 24. 7. 20. 5. Hos. 4. 6â— Deut. 32. 20. Esa. 5. 51 Zac. 11.9 Hos. 5.12 Esa. 42.14 Gen. 3. 19. 7. Num. 16. Levit. 10. 1 Sam. 4. Acts 5. Luc. 23. Esa. 1.15 Job 25. 9. Ps. 66.16 Job 35.12 Pro. 28 9. Esa 59.2 Lam. 3.44 Eze. 8. 18. Sam. 13 4 Esa. 57.20 21. Jam. 4 1 2 Pro. 28.1 Job 15.21 S. Chrysost. S. Aug. S. Ambr. S. Isid. Eccles. 10. 12. 44. 9. Sip. 3. 16. S. Isid. Ps. 100. â— Heb. 10. 22. Psal. 2â— 11 Deut. 13.4 Heb. 4. 11. 16. In regard of Gods Precept Ps. 50.15 Mat. 12.18 Esa. 55.6 Jam. 5.13 1 Thes. 5. 17. Colos 4.2 His Promise Mat. 7. 7. Jo. 16.23 Ps. 91.15 Esa. 65.24 Example of Christ. Mat. 14. 23. 26. 39. Jo. 11 47. Mat. 1.35 The Necessity Rom. 7. 14. The Dignity Ephr. Benefit Exod. 17. 1 Sam. 7. Judith 13. 1 Chr. 5. 20. 2 Chr. 14 20. 2 Kings 19. 15. 2 Chr. 33. 15. 1 Sam. 1. 9. 1 Kin. 18. James 5. Exod. 32. Numbers 21. 7. Jonas 3. 2 Kin. 20. Dan. 3. Dan. 6. Jonas 2. Mat. 8.25 Acts 12. Acts 16. 2 Sam. 24. Luc. 12. Mat. 8. Mat. 9 20. Luc. 18. Mat. 15. 17. Acts 28. 1 Kin. 18. 2 Kin. 14. Mar. 9. Acts 7. Luc. 18. 23. Acts 7. Mar. 26. 36. Mat. 14. 34. Directions how to pray 1 To God only Deu. 9.13 Mat. 4.10 Joh 19.23 4. 21. Psa. 24.8 96. 6.99.2 104. 1 Luc. 11.13 Esa. 40. 10. 12. Psal 66.2 Psal. 17.6 18.6 103. Esa. 46.4 1 Sam. 1. 15. Psal. 25.1 73.25.5.1 77.1 Psal. 22.41 Mar. 14. 23 Esa. 43. 11. 45. 5. In Christ. Heb. 4.14 2 In Faith S. August Mat. 9.23 Jam. 2.5.6 1 Joh. 5.14 Heb. 4.16 3 In Hope Psal. 22.4 1 Chron. 5. 20. 4 In Charity Gal. 5.22 John 14. 21 23. 1 John 5. 22. Mat. 11. 25. 6. 14 15. Tim. 5. 16. 1 Tim. â— 1. Mat. 5. 7. 5 In Humility Gen. 32. 10. Luc. 18. Ps. 51.17 Ecclus. 35. 17. Luc. 1. 52. Esa. 66.2 Ps. 34. 1-â— Luc. 1.48 Gen. 13.2 1 Ki. 8.22 Lu. 18. 13. Ex. 17.11 Dan. 6.01 Act. 7. 60. 9. 40. Ps. 95. 6. Mat. 26. 39. Lu. 22.41 Joh. 11.41 Ro. 6 19â— 1 Cor. 11. 4. 6 In Perseverance Luc. 11.8 18. Ps. 40. 1. Mat. 15. 28. Col. 4. 2. 1 Thes. 4. 17. 1 Ki. 19.4 2 Reg. 2. 11. S. Bern. Luc. 11.9 Ps. 27.14 Ferventy Diligence Attention Prov. â—â— Pro 4.23 Rom. 8. 26. Mat. 6. 6. Ephr. Syr. 1 Sam. 1. Basil serm in Martyr Iulitiam Ecclus. 18 23. The time 1 Th. 5.17 Col. 4. 3. Eph. 6.18 Lu. 11.18 Nu. 28. 3. Ps. 55 18. 119.164 Dan. 6.10 Mar. 1.35 Ps. 63. 1. Act. 2. 15. 10. 9. 3. 1. Ps. 119.62 The place Ex. 20.24 1 Tim. 2.8 Mar. 1.35 Mat. 14. 23. Mat. 26. 36. Gen. 24. 63. Act 10. Ps. 111.1 Acts 3. 1. 22. 17. Mat. 6. 6. To pray aright Jam. 4. 3. Spiritual Blessings Temporal Mat. 6.10 26. 39. Mat. 8. 2. S. Bern. In serm 5. quadrag Ex. 29.39 Joel 2. Mar. 18 20. Mat. 20 21 Our Father Ro. 9. 19. Father Ge. 18.27 Ps. 57.3 113. 4. Job 13.25 Ps. 78.40 Father Gen. 1.26 9. 6. Eph. 1. Jam. 1.18 1 Pet. 3. 23. Father Ps. 27. 12. Esa. 63.16 49. 15. Lu. 15.18 Mat. 18. 26. Father 2 Cor. 1.3 1 Joh. 3.1 Heb. 2.12 Mat 7.11 Our 〈◊〉 1 Pet. Which are in Heaven Ps. 65.2 Esa. 66.1 Mat. 5.34 Ps. 19.1 1 Reg. 8. 27. Jer. 23.23 Esa. 66.1 Ps. 121.1 In Heaven Ps. 25. 1. 121. 1. 123. 1. 131. 1. In Heaven Eccl. 5.2 Esa. 66.22 Hallowed be thy Name Name Ps. 103.2 104. 31. 145. 10. Esa. 43. 9. Ps. 97. 5 6 Isa. 6.2 3. Psal. 103. 20 21. Mat. 5. 16. Ps. 149 1. Job 1 20. Exo. 9.16 Thine Ps. 115.1 Rev. 4.12 1 Sa. 2.30 2 Th. 1.12 Ro. 8. 15. Luc. 15. 18. Jos. 7.19 Psal. 8. 9. Rev. 4. 8. Thy Kingdom come Luc. 2.29 Phil. 1.23 Rev. 22. 20. Luc. 19. 14. Let thy Kingdom come Ro. 8. 18. Esa. 64 1. Lu. 10.34 2. 19. 2 Tit. 13. 2 Tim. 4. 18. Re. 22.20 Come Ps. 35. 3. Thy will be done Ro. 9. 19. Acts 9. 5. Ps. 103.20 Thy will Act. 21.14 Jam. 4.15 In Earth as in Heaven As in Heaven Lu. 20.36 In