untill now For the good which I have received For the good if any which I have done For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits For the promise and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing For my good and honest Parents My kinde and mild Master and Teacher My ever memorable Benefactors My trusty friends My faithfull companions My loving and carefull Wife My obedient and towardly children For all those which have any way furthered and profited me By their writings Sermons Discourses Proverbs Examples Reproofes Injuries For all these and for all other known unknown manifest and secret remembred and forgotten Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered I praise and will praise Blesse Blesse Thanke Thank thee All the dayes of my life What am I Lord or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven which he hath given me to this instant Praises IT is good to sing psalms unto our God For sweete and decent is his praise Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart In the counsell of the Saints and in the Congregation O magnifie the Lord with me and let us elevate his Name Let all his works blesse the Lord in all the places of his Dominion from the Sun rise to the fall thereof Let all that breath praise the Lord Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations and praise him only ô all ye people Give unto the Lord all ye Kindreds of the earth give unto the Lord honor and glory Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Being your offerings and come into his Courts Praise thou the Lord ô Salem and thou ô Sion praise ye the Lord All ye that stand in the Lords house in the courts of the house of our God lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary ô lift them up and praise the Lord My soule praiseth the Lord him will I praise all my life long To my God will I sing whilst I have any being Thou art my God and I will praise thee Thou art my God and I will exalt thee Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens and thy glory above the Earth Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures All man-kinde in generall The Klngdome of the whole world The Catholike Church The Kingdomes and Churches in severall This Church and Kingdome of ours The orders and degrees in each And the particular persons in them Towards this City This Parish wherein I dwell Towards all that are mine Mine Household Kindred Benefactors Friends Wel-willers Towards my poor selfe My soule and body in the gifts of grace Nature The world Now to this present and which shall bee at my time hereafter Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord For indeede it is most due and just Most meet and convenient in all and by all means in all â—indes Times and places To memorize adore confesse praise blesse Magnifie and thanke thee VVhich art the Creator Nourisher Preserver Governour Restorer Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures Their Lord and Father Their King and God The fountain of life and Immortrlity The treasury of eternall blessing VVhom the heavens applaud and the heaven of heavens the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them with them Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high in earth peace and good will among men Blessed and praised and magnified extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord The memoriall mention and remembrance thereof For the faith of the Patriarchs The hope of the Prophets The labours of the Apostles The trueth of the Evangelists The blood of the Martyrs The zeale of the Confessors The study of the Doctors Glory be to thee O Lord glory be to thee Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them In whom wee also glorifie thee Amen Glory and wisedome Honour and Virtue Praise and Riches Blessing Power Thanksgiving and Dominion Holinesse and Salvation be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever and to the Lambe which was slaine Amen Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee for thy judgments are made manifest Praises in Particular COme and harken unto me ô all yee that feare the Lord and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule he hath created me hee hath brought me into life and hath so disposed of mee that I am A living soule and not a sensles thing A Man not a Beast Civill not barbarous Freeborne not a slave Legittimate not a bastard Of honest parentage not of base or Ignominious Of understanding not blockish Sound in sences not blind or deafe Sound in Limbs not lame or maimed Well brought up not forlorne or exposed A Christian not a Pagan Peaceable not quarelsome Cleare of dangers not swallowed up by them Cleere of infamy not wounded in credit Of sufficient estate not forced to flatter or borrow And living in the dayes of PEACE not turmoyled with hurly burly To thee O Lord Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. To an Inheritance Immortall undefiled and never fading reserved in heaven for us which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me so through Christ my consolation aboundeth To thee O Lord The God of my fathers I make my confession to thee I give praise because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee and hast opened thy Word unto me Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood according to the power which worketh in us Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ through out all generations for ever and ever As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this â—â—â— I give my thanks to tâ—â—e ô Lord The Evening approacheth ô blesse that also to
EFFIGIES R. P. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANDREWES QVONDAM EPISCOPI WINTONIENSIS Obyt 1626. AEtatis suae 7â— If ever any merited to be The Universall Bishop this was He Great ANDREWES who ye whole vast Sea did drain Of Learning and distilled it in his brain These pious dropps are of the purest kind Which trickled from ye limbeck of his mind W.M. sculptit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Private DEVOTIONS Of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes Late Bishop of Winchester Lord I have called daily upon â—hee I have stretched out my hands unto thee Psal. 88. 9. London Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church yard An. Dom. 1647. THE STATIONER To the Christian Reader THe life of this Reverend Father was a life of Prayer Five houres in a day he spent in his Devotions and for divers months before his dissolution hee gave himselfe wholy up to converse with God It is most remarkable and may instruct Posterity that when sicknesse had deprived him of his voyce yet his eyes and hands prayed and when both they failed his heart still prayed till it pleased God to accept it as his last Sacrifice This testimony and Character of his holy Pietie wee received from learned Bishop Buckeridge who being well acquainted with his life commended his precious memory to posterity in a funerall Sermon one of the last offices which as men and christians we are wont to pay to Honour and Virtue In the evening of his life hee was seldome seene without these devotions in his hand he penned them in Greeke and in that language presented them to his God the reason it is not for mee to determine whether it were for that the clearest evidences of our salvation are delivered to us in that tongue or whether amongst those fifteene he was Master of he chose this language as the most copious to expresse the fulnesse of his soule It appeares not as yet who translated this manuall of devotions some of his learned Friends to whom the world owes much for the benefit of of this publication informed me that they found them written with his owne hand from whence they had the happiness to transcribe them it is not improbable that wee are indebted to the same hand for the translation to whom we owe the originall since I could never yet learne that any have laid claime thereunto it being no new thing in this ambitious age for men to indeavour to translate fames as well as bookes it may seeme strange in these ex-tempore times for me to send these Set formes to the presse since I am not ignorant how of late it hath been hotly disputed whether it be better to pray to God with consideration or without against this wild fancy I conceived I could not oppose any argument above the example of this learned Doctor of our Church Who though he was so universall in allholy dimensions you may be pleased to observe the reverentiall addresses of his soule in these his approaches to the highest Majesty hee well knew the distance betwixt heaven and earth betwixt God and himselfe which I hope will be a motive to every pious Christian as Salomon saith not to be rash with his mouth Ecles. 5. 2. I must clearely confesse when these Copies came first to my hand I resolved to imprint them in my own heart but considering with my selfe that no man might better excuse the divulging of so usuall a booke then one of my profession and withall that there were divers manuscripts dispersed abroad and the Church might be deprived of this genuine Edition and I of mine owne right I thought this publication absolutely necessary being confident that no man could justly except against this Reverend Author who both abroad at home was acknowledged for his Pietie and learning to have been one of the Oracles of the church much less against these his devotions which are for the most part selected out of the holy Scripture And whereas he freely wrot his controversies and Sermons for the benefit of others these pieces I suppose cannot be too well thought off which he kept peculiar to himselfe having appropriated and consecrated them to his private use for the employment of his owne soule This treasure so piously laid up in his life time I thought good not to keep wrapt up in a napkin from the Publick injoy it thankfully to the glory of that God who kindled these holy fires in his soule and let the memory of the devout Author in spight of ignorance and malice be perpetuated and blessed by after ages as for mee I shall never desire any higher recompence then to be in some measure serviceable to the Church and to be esteemed Your faithfull servant HUM MOSELEY An Index of the heads contained in this Booke A Meditation at your entrance into the Churh before publique worship Pag. 1. The Horolege or Diall of prayer 3 Morning prayer 17 The Hymne 20 A paraphrase upon the Lords prayer 25 A confession of sinne 31 A prayer for the performance of the Law 44 A confession of faith 50 A prayer fâ—r faith 53 A confession of hope 56 Intercession 59 A deprecation or prayer against evill 64 Prayers against evills temporall 69 Against evills in the Church ibid. Against evills politicall 71 Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest 73 Comprecation of temporall blessings Hosanna in Terrenis 77 A Thanksgiving 81 A thanksgiving in particular 92 Praises 96 Praises in particular 105 Evening Prayer 109 A prayer after divine service 119 At the approaching to the holy sacrament 122 In the time of Receiving 124 After the receipt of the Eucharist 129 Mourning and weeping 131 A prayer on the meditation of the great worke of our redemption 132 A meditation on Canticles 5. 10 134 A prayer after the holy Ordidinances on Whitsunday 137 Light from heaven 138 An imprecation against the enemies of the Church 142 Prayer for King Iames after the Sermon of Gowries conspiracy 144 Thanksgiving after the deliverance from the gunpowder treason A prayer for Magistrates Eccleciasticall and civill 150 Before Sermon 151 The forme of bidding of prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after the opening of the Text 152 Another exhortation to prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of his Text EPHE. 6. 18. Pray alwaies with all manner of Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit Confessio In Prayer there are considered The species or kinds As confession of our Sinnes pag. 31 Demerits ibid. Faith p. 51. Hope p. 56. Deprecation page 64. Petition for the aversion of Evills Eternall Internall or Spirituall Externall Comprecation The conferring of blessings Eternall Hosanna p. 73. Internall In Altis p. 69. Externall In Terrenis 77. Retribution of thanks Eucharistica Praise Conf. laudis page 87. The circumstance of persons it being for Our selves called Oratio pag. 25. Others also Intercession pag. 59. Time Place Manner The time of Prayer In generall Alwaies Luk. 18. 11. In
perticular and that Most ordinary twice a day at Morne Even Numb. 18. 3. More extraordinary Twice a day at Morne Noone and Night Psalme 55. 1. Seven times a day Dan. 6. 11. The Horologe 1 Before day Mar. 1. 31. 2 At Sun-rise Psal. 63. 1. 3 At the third houre Act 2. 15. 3 At the sixt or noone 10. 9. 4 At the ninth houre 3. 1. 5 At Sun-set P. 134 6 After it at night P. 134 7 At Midnight Ps. 139. 62 The place of Prayer In generall in every place Exod. 20. 24. In speciall for 1 Tim. 2. 8. Publique Prayer In the Congregation or Temple Psal. 111. 1. Acts 3. 1. and 22. 17. Private Prayer At home Esa. 26. 20. In the Chamber Mat. 6. 6. On the house top or leades Acts 10. 9. Abroade In the Garden Joh. 18. 2. In the field Gen. 29. 63. In the Desert Mar. 1. 35. The manner of Prayer in respect of The Posture Standing Mar. 11. 25. Kneeling Luke 22. 41. Falling on the face Mat. 26. 29. The Gesture Lifting up the eyes Psal. 123. 1. Lifting up of the hands 1 Tim. 2. 8. Smiting the brest Luke 18. 13. Vncovering the head 1 Cor. 11. 4. At your entrance into the Church before publique service say O LORD IN the multitude of thy mercies I wil aproach thine house and I will worship towards thy holy Temple in the reverence of thee Lord hear the voyce of my prayer when I call unto thee when I lift up my hands towards thy Sanctuary Remember these my brethren also which stand about me and pray together with me remember their endeavours their zeale Remember them likewise which for just causes are absent and O Lord have mercy upon them and us according to the abundance of thy goodnesse I have loved the beauty of thine house and the place where thy glory dwelleth that I might hear the voyce of thy praises and publish all thy wonders One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will still intreate That I may dwell still in the house of the Lord and visite his holy Temple To thee O Lord my heart hath said I will seeke the Lord Thee ô my God have I sought thy face And thee will I seeke The Horologe or Diall of Prayer THou which hast put the times and seasons in thine own power Acts 1. 7. Grant that wee may pray unto thee in a fit and acceptable time and save us Mar. 4. 38. 1. Thou which for us men and for our salvation wert borne at Midnight Lu. 2. 7 Grant that we may be daily regenerate by the renewing of thy holy Spirit untill Christ bee perfectly found in us and save us Lu. 3. 5. 2. Thou which early in the morning whilst the Sunne was rising didst rise again Mar. 16. 2. Raise us up daily to newnesse of life prompting us unto those means of repentance which thou best know'st and save us Rom. 6. 4. 3. Thou which at the third houre didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Apostles Acts 2. 15. Take not thy Spirit from us but renew it daily in us and save us Psal. 51. 10. 11. 4. Thou which at the sixth houre and on the sixth day did'st fasten the sins of the world and crucifie them on the same Crosse with thy selfe Mat. 27. 45. Col. 2. 14. Cancell the hand-writing of our sins which is against us and take it cleare away and save us Thou which at the sixth hour did'st let downe the great sheete from Heaven and Earth as a type of thy Church Acts 10. 11. Receive us sinners of the Gentiles into the same and with it take us up into Heaven and save us Gal. 2. 15. Acts 10. 16. 5. Thou which at the ninth houre did'st for us sinners and our sinnes take that bitter and cursed death Mar. 15. 34. Heb. 2. 9. Mortifie in us our earthly members and whatsoever opposeth thy will and save us Col. 3. 5. 6. Thou which at even would'st be taken downe from the Crosse and laid in the Sepulchre Mar. 15. 42. Bury our sinnes in thy grave and with thy righteousnesse cover the evill which we have committed and save us Rom. 6. 4. Thou which late at night gavest to thine Apostles the power of remitting or retaining sinnes Jo. 2. 23. Make us pertakers of that benefit unto remission good Lord and not unto retention and save us Thou which at midnight did'st raise the Prophet David and the Apostle Paul to praise thee Ps. 119. 62. Act. 16. 25. O give us also Songs in the night and make us mindefull of thee upon our Beds and save us Ps. 63. 6. Thou which by thine owne mouth hast foretold the coming of the Bridegroome at midnight Mat. 5. 6. Grant that we may ever have that crye in our eares the Bridegroome cometh and so be never unprepared to meet him and save us Thou which by the Cocke crowing did'st admonish thy Apostle Peter and made him returne to repentance Matt. 26. 74. 75. Grant that wee also weepe bitterly for the things wherein wee have sinned against thee and save us Thou which at the Seventh hour did'st cure the Rulers Sonne of a feaver Jo. 4. 52. If any feaver or sicknesse remaine in our soules take that away also and save us Thou which at the 10. houre would'st have thy Apostle which found thy Sonne to cry with great joy wee have found the Messias Jo. 1. 41. Make us find the Messias likewise and having found him to rejoyce in like manner and save us Jo. 1. 41. Thou which vouchsafest to call those which stood al day idle and with promises of reward to send them even at the 11. houre into thy Vinyard Matt. 20. 6. Shew us the same favour and though wee returne late unto thee as at the 11 houre graciously yet denie not to entertaine us and save us Thou which at Supper time did'st institute the holy mysteries of thy body and bloud Jo. 13. 3. Matt. 26. 20. Make us mindefull and pertakers of them and not to our perdition but to the remission of sinne and our obtaining the legacies of the new Testament and save us Thou which hast foretold thy comming to judgment on a day which wee expect not and in an houre which wee knew not Luk. 12. 46. Matt. 24. 50. Make us ready every day And houre that wee may with joy attend thy comeing and save us Thou which sendest forth the light wch createst the morning and makest the Sun to rise upon thee good bad inlighten the blindnesse of our mindes with the knowledg of thy truth Ps. 43. 3. 74. 16. Eph. 1. 18. Lift up the light of thy Countenance upon us that in thy light we may see light in the light of grace the light of glory and save us Ps. 4. 7. 36. 9. Thou which givest food to all flesh which feedest the young Ravens which call upon thee and hast nourished us from our Childe-hood Fill our hearts with food and gladnesse and with
one night adde knowledge unto another Teach mee good Lord so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisedome From the morning watch untill the evening let Israel trust in thee O Lord A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer O Lord I Have neither knowne thee as I ought might have done neither as I have known thee have I glorified thy name or beene thankefull unto thee and woe is me that I have not But with sorrow I confesse and humbly I crave pardon and would to God I had done it nay would I might now hereafter so know thee and live so holily that both in me and by mee and by others for my sake thy name might be hallowed O let me so serve and so promote thy Kingdome here upon earth in the state of grace that I may attaine unto some place though the lowest even under the feete of thy Saints in Heaven in the state of glory Thy will which is holy and just and good be done by mee thy mercifull and gracious will be done with me me earth as I am As it is in Heaven Give us this day those things which may conduce to our welfare our quiet and our contentment Forgive mee my debts That excessive score of my debts my filthy slips fals my frequent relapses my long long wallowing in abominable pollutions even such as it is a shame to name or repeate these all and those other also which are not so sensible and yet perhaps no lesse grievious and which sinke me full as deep into perdition Out of these depths I cry out unto thee good Lord I beseech thee deliver my soule deliver it from the nethermost hell One deep calleth upon another the depth of my misery on the depth of thy mercie psal. 42. 7. O let thy mercie bee exalted above thy justice let thy goodnesse overcome my wickednesse Jam. 2. 13. Where sin hath abounded let thy grace much more abound Rom. 5. 20. Take away my sinnes take away the cause of my sins my sinns both those which are scandalous and scrupulous to my heart and those also which are not so and yet perhaps far more heynous of which I desire thee ô Lord that I may bee enlightned that so I may bee humbled for them In thy wrath remember mercie and forgive me my sinnes sins of mine owne ends with others sins secret and manifest sins ancient and fresh of the world or of the flesh As thou art most mercifull and indulgent and compassionate O Lord forgive them all even as wee forgive our debters and grant us this also that wee may forgive them and to that end infuse thy charity into our hearts Leade me not neither suffer me to be led nor â—â— enter into temptation but remember commiserate my frailty and weakenesse so often discovered But deliver me from evill from the evill Spirit and his suggestion from the evill in my selfe that is in my flesh and the inticement therof from the evil in the world and the contagion of it From all penall evills which most justly and worthily I have deserved from the evils of the world to come and spare mee there and feare and launce me here rather From the evills of this present world ptty mee Lord for I am but feeble from the malice and evill of this day and of this disease wherewith I now struggle and from the evill ensuing From all manner of evills past present and to come from them all good Lord deliver me and keepe me thy servant for ever Amen Confession of sin TO thee O Lord I confess for if I would I cannot hide it from thee that I also am one of the number for even my life discovereth my guilt O Lord I am a Sinner a branch of the wild Olive tree arising from the roote of bitternesse Job 14. 4. For of uncleane seed was I begotten and in sinne did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 1. And I have sinned I have dealt unjustly I have done wickedly even in thy presence Psa. 106. 6. 51. 2. Impiously have I behaved my selfe in thy Covenant and have cast off thy law 1 King 8. 34. And rejected thy correction oppressed thy spirit and have gon a whoring after mine owne inventions and proceeded from bad to worse and have not feared thee Esa. 5. 24. Pro. 15. 3. Esa 63. 10. Ier. 18. 12. Lev. 25. 43. Nor yet returned Luk. 15. 18. No not when I was called back Pro. 13. 10. Not when I was afflicted Heb. 3. 13. But have waxed hard 1 Kings 16. 33. And have provoked thee And all this thou hast seene Psa. 9. 33. And yet hast held thy peace La. 2. 59. Sam. 49. 21. O God Thou knowest my foolishnesse and my transgresssions are not hid from thee I know it also my guilt is ever more before me Ps. 69. 5. Ps. 51. 3. Job 31. 33. Ps. 141. 4. And I hide not ô Lord Iincline not my heart to such wicked words as to excuse the accusations of my sinnes But against mine owne selfe I acknowledge mine iniquity and all that is within me and all my bones say that I have sinned I have sinned O Lord against thee Psa. 32. 5. 103. 1. 55. 10. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 19. Like a lost sheep I have gon astray and have been as froward as an untamed Heifer nay like a dogg have I returned to my vomit and like a washt Sow have I wallowed in the mire againe and rushed into mine owne destruction like a barbed steed into the battell Psalme 119. vlt. Ier. 31. 18. Pro. 26. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Ier. 8. 6. And now O Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hidden from thee thou know'st Lord my greif because I have thus sinned against thee that I am become tedious to mine own selfe because my sorrow is not greater that earnestly desire of thee a contrite heart unspeakable groanes and teares of bloud Psa. 38. 9. Iob. 7. 20. Psalme 51. 17. Rom. 8. 26. And woe is me for my leanesse for the drynesse of my eyes and the hardnes of my heart Esa. 24. 16. Ier. 9. 1. Rom. 12. 5. Mar. 9. 25. Yet Lord I repent I repent O Lord O doe thou help my want of penitence and still more and more bruise thou rend prick and smite this heart of mine Psa. 51. 17. Ioel. 2. 13. Act 1. 2. 37. Behold O Lord I am angry with my selfe for my foolish unprofittable nay hurtfull dangerous lust 1 Cor. 7. Ps. 73. 22. Luc. 23. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 8. 1 Tim 6. 9. Yea I even loath and abhorr my selfe for the absurdity the foolishnesse the basenesse of it Iob 42. 6. 2 Thes. 3. 2 All the day long my shame is before mine eyes and the confusion of face hath covered me Ex. 5. 12. 13 17. Psa. 44. 15 Alas Alas That I have no more reverenced nor yet feared Ja. 1. 14. Thy Incomprehensible glory Awfull presence
satisfie our poore with bread Psal. â—32 6. Let our Garners be full and abounding with all manner of store let our sheepe bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets And let our Oxen be strong to labour v. 13. Let there bee no decay no leading away into captivity nor no complaining in our streets Two things I desire of thee O Lord deny me not them before I dye Pro. 30. 7 8 9. Vanity and lying words remove farr from me v. 8. Beggery and abundance give me not Give me onely what is needfull for my life least being full I be tempted to deny thee and say who is the Lord verse 9. Or being forced by want I steale so forswear the name of my God Teach me O God to abound to want Phil. 4. 11. that every where and in all things in what condition soever I shal be I may learne to be content v. 12. Thanksgiving LEt all thy workes confess unto thee ô Lord and let thy Saints blesse thee Psal. 34. 96. 103. 107. It is a good thing to praise the Lord and to sing unto thy Name O most high Psa. 91. 1. To declare thy loving kindnes in the morning and thy truth in the night season v. 2. I will exalt thee O God my King and blesse thy Name for ever and ever every day I will blesse thee and extoll thy Name for ever and ever Psal. 145. 1. v. 2. For it is thou which callest the things which were not as if they were and by whom all things are made in Heaven and on Earth visible and invisible Rom. 4. 17. Col. 1. 16. And it is thou which sustainest all things by the word of thy power and by thy ordinance they continue to this day Heb. 13. Psal. 119. 91. for all things serve thee Which leavest not thy selfe without a witnesse in doing good from heaven giving us raine and fruitfull seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladnesse Acts. 14. 17. 1. It is thou which by thy wisdome and power didst thy selfe 2. With thine owne hands make man of the mould of the earth 3. And didst breath into his nostrills the breath of life Acts. 1. 26. 4. And did'st honour him with thine owne Image 5. And did'st give the Angells charge over him Psal. 91. 11. 6. And dost place him over the worke of thy hands Psal. 8. 7. 7. And did'st seate him in the paradise of pleasure Gen. 2. 15. And when he had dispised thy Commandements did'st not yet dispise him but did'st open to him a gate to repentance and life Acts. 11. 18. Giving to him that great and pretious promise of the seed which should save us 2 Pet. 1. 4. It was thou which did'st instruct us 1. By that which is knowne of God 2. By the Law written in our hearts 3. By the services of sacrifices and oblations 4. By the Oracles of the Prophets 5. By the melody of the Psalmer 6. By the wisdome of the Proverbs 7. By the experience of the sacred story It was thou which when the fulnesse of time came didst send downe thy son who emptying himself and taking the forme of a Servant of the feede of Abraham Heb. 12. 6. Being made of a woman and subjected to the Lawe Gal. 4. 4. Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 21. 6. Ga. 4. 4. By his active obedience fulfilled the Law and by his death tooke away the curse thereof Eph. 5. 1. Redeeming by his death and by his resurrection reviving our nature and leaving nothing undone that was needfull to doe that wee might be made partakers of the divine nature who likewise manifested himselfe to be our Saviour in all places by the preaching of the Gospell Rom. 4. last 2 Cor. 2. 14. Bearing witnesse thereunto by divers signes and miracles Heb. 2. 4. By the admired holines of life in his Saints and By their wonderfull patience even to the effusion of their bloud Heb 11 36 37. And by the incredible condition of the whole world to the faith 1 John 5 4. It is thou also which hast made us the Sonnes of Saints and heirs of the same vocation Which hast given thy Church power to be the pillar and foundation of Truth 1 Tim 3 15. It is thou which hast granted to our Church ability to keep that which was committed to her 1 Tim. 6. 20. To teach us the way of peace and to retain certain ordered stedfastnesse and decency Rom. 3. 22. Col. 2. 5. It is thou which hast established the throne of thy Servant our Soveraigne 1 Ch. 17. 13. Which hast instructed our Princes hast taught our Magistrates wisedome Psal. 105. 22. Which hast vouchsafed us pastours according to thine own heart to feed us with knowledge and learning Jer. 3. 15. It is thou which hast made peace in our inclosure and hast satisfied us with the flowre of wheate Psalm 106. 13 14. Which hast strengthned the Barres of our gates and hast blessed our Children among us Which hast turned our swords into Mattocks and our spears into sithes Esay 2. 4. Which hast cloathed our enemies with confusion and hast given us for a blessing for ever and ever and made us glad with the joy of thy Countenance Psal. 21. 7. It is thou which hast brought mee into this life and hast led mee to the lavar of regeneration and renewing by thy holy Spirit and hast revealed to me the paths of life Tit. 3. 5. Psalm 16. 11. Which hast connived at my sins for my repentance Wisd. 11. 12. And hast not crushed me under the hands of mine iniquity Esa 64. 7. Which hast even waited to shew mercy on me Esa. 30. 18. And hast not suffered my heart to harden Rom. 2. 9. But hast left mee in the compunction of heart and memory of my latter end and conscience of my former sins Acts 7. 37. Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 10. 3. Which hast not cut off my life like a weaver in the beginning Psa. 16. 29. nor from morning to night hast made and of us Jo. 20. 22. Which hast not called me away in the middest of my dayes Psalme 102. 25. But hast holden my soule in life and hast not suffered my feete to slip Psalme 66. 9. Therefore for all these benefits and for many more through their multitude and our forgetfulness omitted Glory be to thee ô Lord glory and honour praise and blessing and thankes with the tongues of Angels and men The meanest of thy work by reason of our sin now every houre and every day Even to our latest gaspe To the end of the world and to all Eternity Amen Thankesgiving in particular O Lord my God For my being living endowment with reason For my nourishment preservation ingenuous education For thy gifts to me of nature of the world of grace For my redemption regeneration christian instruction For thy calling of me calling againe often reiterated calling For thy patience long-suffering long long-suffering of these many times these many yeares even