great in the Kingdom of Heaven Deliver me from the Seven deadly sins Pride Covetousness Luxury Envy Gluttony Anger Sloth Grant me the Seven contrary Virtues Humility Liberality Chastity Gentleness Temperance Patience and Devotion for thy mercy sake Amen A PARAPHRASE upon the Objective Hymn of Praise O My God do all thy works praise thee and shall not I shall not I who am the work of thy hands praise thee whose care over me hath been such as if thou hadst nothing else to care for Yet thy providence is so great over all that it becomes our wonder and joy to see thee so particularly careful over every one and so amiable in thy goodness unto all that the more thou takest care for all thy care is so much the greater over every one All the benefit of thy wisdom goodness and providence being guided to the benefit of every person I praise thee therefore O Lord For the Glory of Angels For the Faith of the Patriarchs For the Inspiration of the Prophets For the labours of the Apostles For the truth of the Evangelists For the Zeal of Confessors For the Blood of Martyrs For the Learning of the Fathers For the Study of Doctors For the Industry of all pious Ministers For the Hope Virtue Faith and Zeal of all thy Saints and Servants For all whom I praise and magnifie thy Name O Lord. I also praise thee for the Heavens and all the Glory of them For the glory of the Sun which comes forth as a Bridegroom out of his Chamber rejoycing as a Giant to run his course I praise thee for its Beams whose light and splendor revives mine eye beautifies and quickens all the Earth digesteth Minerals animates the Air enlivens Trees perfects Flowers excites the influences of the Heavens raiseth exhalations dissolveth Ice causeth the Rivers to flow begetting propagating and cherishing all the Creatures which are the life and beauty of this habitable World By it I am warm'd and refresh'd By it I see all thy works in this glorious World By it I am exhilerated and excited to praise thee O thou eternal Sun of Righteousness who didst rise upon us with healing in thy Wings purchasing this glorious light and restoring it to me when by my sins I had forfeited the same O let not this Sun ever behold me doing any work of darkness O thou Eternal Sun who art the Light of this make me to remember that thine Eye which is ten thousand times brighter than the Sun is ever upon me that I may always walk as a child of the light before thee I praise thee O most blessed Lord for the shady glittering and Majestick Light of the Moon For its weaker and milder Beams For all its Revolutions and wonderful effects By which our Days are refreshed and our Nights enlightened By which we know Times and Seasons By which our Air is tempered our Droughts are moistened and all Productions hastened O blessed be thy Name for the precious things put forth by the Sun and for the precious things put forth by the Moon For the blessed Interchanges of our Days to travel and our Nights to rest in for the comfort of our lives continued by their constant Motions and Returns I praise thee for the illustrious Stars in all their order which govern things below by thine appointment while thou governest them in all their ways I praise thee for their powerful and precious influences I praise thee for the Waters above the Firmament and for thy Clouds that drop down fatness For the Coelestial Waters of Repentance which I beseech thee evermore to drop down upon me I praise thee for the winds thou sendest out of thy Treasuries to purifie the Air qualifie the heat and refresh our Spirits by which all living Creatures breathe and live I praise thee for the comfort light and warmth with all other benefits we receive from fire For the blessings of Winter in its healthful Airs wholsome Winds candid Frosts warmer Snows curling Floods and abounding Waters For the verdure life and beauty of the Spring for all the lovely Blossoms knitting Fruits Grain and Grass sweetly growing and springing in the same For the might and beauty of the Summers glory in the fuller growth and increase of all For the blessing of time and happy length of days to contemplate thy Glory and enjoy thy rich blessing in these in all our pleasant Fruits joyful harvests and various delicates of soft Wool Milk Butter Honey Balm and Spices and for all the Refreshments thou givest us in these thy good Creatures I revere thy Majesty which with such terror thou dost manifest to us in the Lightenings I adore thy greatness appearing in the Thunderings Thine Omnipotency in all Thy wonderful Providence over all Thy Goodness to all I praise thee for our Temperate Seasons Autumnal fruits rich and wholsome Wines Oyls and Siders For all the precious things of the Earth For the chief things of the ancient Mountains for the precious things of the lasting Hills For our Stately Woods and lovely Trees which afford us Wine Oyl and Spices fruits both for profit and pleasure yielding Timber also fuel shade and medicine I praise thee for the beauty fragrancy benefit variety and delight of all the curious Flowers the least of them shewing us a God Creator and Preserver For our fruitful Valleys wherein our Corn stands so thick that they laugh and sing thy Praises For the excellent Bread and daily food thou givest us therewith For thy blessings on all our several labours in raising and preparing it For thy continual blessing upon us in our daily use thereof For all the wonders of thy goodness and wisdom comprised in it For all our rich and beautiful Gardens stately Walks fruitful Fields pleasant Pastures rich Meadows Roots and Plants all sorts of Grain for Food Health Pleasure and Medicine I praise thee for all our Mines of Gold Silver Brass Iron Tin Copper Lead and Coal For all the Riches Lustre Virtue Use and Benefit of precious Stones For all our soveraign and wholsome Wells Springs and Fountains marvellous and healing Waters deep Seas and Treasures that lie in the Deep For bounding the Sea by thy Laws which though written in sand stand fast for ever For the magnitude of the Whale and all the wonderful Fishes of the Deep For subduing all things to the service of Man I magnifie thy name for ever For all the Fowls of the Air in all their warbling Melody delightful food pleasure variety and beauty For all the Insects and creeping things that are subject to thy care and providence the provident Ant the industrious and curious Bee in its marvellous working and delicious Honey For all the Beasts and Cattel upon a thousand Hills in all their strength use service food and pleasure But most of all do I praise thee for the Children of Men for the Israel of God for the Priests that serve at thine Altar for all the Spirits and Souls
in tears of blood to ransome me Open the grave of my dull and earthly Soul with thy Almighty power and enliven the dead therein even all my powers and affections that abundance of holy thoughts may rise out of it in thankfulness for thy Passion with multitudes of praises for my Redemption Shake the earth of my Heart with terror at the approach of every sin that I may die rather than commit one known wilful sin against thee more Blessed Lord enclose my Soul now in that Heart of thine which was opened with the Spear for me There I delight to dwell for I have desired it There will I live and suck life and draw Salvation from thee Thy wounded Heart is my Sanctuary my comfort in sorrow my refuge in trouble here let me live and die and be secure for ever I desire nothing but thee I languish after none but thee all satisfaction lies in thee I desire to creep into this hole of the Rock and there to lie close with intimate individual adhaesion to thee with fulness of love and obedience O nourish me in it fill me with that love which made it and I will return it all in thanksgiving and love unto thee Additional Devotions for the Evening O Blessed Jesus by the eye of faith I now behold thee dead upon the Cross for me and see good Joseph of Arimathea thy holy Mother and Saint John coming to take thee down from the same Among whom I also by faith desire to come upon the Ladder of holy Thoughts with the shroud of my Heart to receive thee O give me the myrrh of Mortification The bitter Aloes of sorrow for my sin And the odour of divine Virtues to present and embalm thee with O that I had tears to wash thy sacred body all begored with blood and spittle for me O that I were but gratefully sensible of thine unspeakable love in all thy sufferings As these good men did draw out the Nails all begored with blood be pleased to draw out all the nails of Sin which lie in my body corrupting my poor Soul Fetch out all my corruptions though thou rent and tear me in the cure Thy wounded shoulders and rented hands were ript from the Cross so fast did the bloody nails and thy love above all fix thee thereunto O dear Lord loosen me quite from the World and from every vain affection that would withdraw my Heart from thee O fix the memory of thy Sufferings in my Heart and my Heart fast unto thee As thy Servants took thee down in their Arms vouchsafe to receive me into thine Methinks I see thee laid in thy Mothers lap while they shroud thee Dear Lord I lay down all my affairs in the lap of thy divine Providence desiring to rest sweetly thankfully and most contentedly in all thy dispensations towards me I resign my self my Soul my Estate my Friends and all that I am or have unto thee Thou hast bought and redeemed me to be thine and thine only will I be for ever Make me to spend hours and days in contemplating thee and thy miraculous sweetness to vapor away in acts of Love Adoration and Thankfulness to thee for this thy redeeming love unto me And now dear Lord I see thee taken away to thy burial also and laid in a new Sepulchre O make me a new Heart and take thy repose in the same I see thee buried for me O bury all my sins in the Grave with thee And thou who wert in that night of sorrow before thy death in thine Agony at Prayer for me in the morning condemned the Third hour crucified the Sixth dead and pierced the Ninth hour and taken down from the Cross at Even-song who wast now buried for me have mercy upon me give me grace daily and duly to apply the same unto my Soul as being my only Help Health and Remedy for in thy Merits Death and Passion is my only hope of Salvation Therefore let my life be hid with Christ in God Let me count all things but dung to gain thee For whom have I in Heaven but thee O Lord and there is none upon Earth that I desire in comparison of thee Compline HAving now dearest Lord passed this day in health and safety by thy divine Providence I give thanks unto thee Blessed by thy holy Name for any good I have done or for any evil I have left undone since it was by thy Grace only that I performed any good or did forbear any evil Blessed be thy Name for thy Mercies received for thy Judgments escaped and thy goodness enjoyed this day O let not my days consume in vanity nor my years in trouble but let every day add some knowledg some practice and some virtue to yesterday Holy Father I beseech thee by the Merits of thine only Son to pardon me the sins of this day and take me now and ever into thine Almighty protection O that thou wouldst visit me with the visitation of thy Saints O that thou wouldst shew me the felicity of thy chosen O that thou wouldst open mine eyes in the Visitations of the night O that thou wouldst give me Songs in the night that I might never cease day nor night from praising thee O that while mine Eyes sleep my Heart might always wake unto thee O fill me with love fill me O Lord with the most enflamed love that ever any of thine had unto thee O that I had all the love of all thy Saints and Angels comprised in my Soul to pour it out unto thee Lord thou hast not denied thy blood to redeem my Soul do not O do not deny me thy love to replenish it I desire to empty it of every thing else fill it with thy self for ever That as of thy fulness we have all received of the fulness of my love thou mayst receive such a full obedience and duty that I may be thine and only thine for ever O make me to think upon thee in my Bed and to remember thee when I am waking Let my first and last thoughts yea let all my thoughts be of thee and let thy blessing most blessed God be now and evermore upon me O make me to be early up at my Prayers and Praises unto thee Amen A Prayer for Lent MOst Holy and ever Blessed Lord Jesus who didst fast forty days and fortynights for me and all thine to teach us that Prayer and Fasting were necessary fortifications against the assaults of the Devil and all his Temptations as also to satisfie for all our excesses by Intemperance and for all deficiencies in our Retirements and Prayers I adore thy goodness and humbly implore thy grace and acceptance of my Humiliation before thee these forty days which I now enter into and continue in in memory of and conformity to thee I offer up this holy time in honour and love of thee in imitation of thy Saints in obedience to thy Church in sorrow for my sins as an act of
amend my Life Carry me through all Difficulties And assure unto me by a lively faith and obedience an interest in all thy mercies I praise thee for the comforts of this day in this visible Solemnity For the service of thy Ministers For thy gracious provisions both of learning and maintenance for them For the honour they do unto thee and the service they do unto us For the excellencies of thy Laws and the explications of them by their Ministry And for all the promises of thy holy Gospel O blessed Jesus I praise and magnifie thy name for being the Author of my Joys The Captain of our Salvation The Author and Finisher of our faith Go on I beseech thee to bless and prosper these good works begun in me That I may grow from Grace to Grace and from strength to strength till I appear before God in Glory Lord pardon the iniquity that I have been guilty of even in these holy things Let thy good Spirit bring to my remembrance the good things I have heard and enable me to reduce them all to practice Continue this glorious light of the Gospel to us Give a blessing to the labours of all holy learned painful Ministers Provide graciously for them Give great success and comfort to them and make us all thankful for the graces communicated by them Obedient unto thee true faithful sincere servants unto thee Let us not be Christians in word but in deed Let our zeal to thee be constant Our love infinite And our service indefatigable Let our love to thee be known by our love to one another O let this love be without dissimulation Let all the good things we have learnt this day be exprest in our lives and conversations Amen Look upon Sion the City of our Solemnity thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet Habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall be removed neither shal any of the cords thereof be broken But there the Glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad Rivers and Screams wherein shall go no Galleys with Oars c. For the Lord is our Judg the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King He will save us The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Sion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sighing and sorrow shall flee away DEVOTIONS comprising all our Duties O Lord hear my prayer and let my cry come unto thee I praise thee O Lord for all thy righteous Laws and Commandments I beseech thee give me sincere obedience to them and accept thy Sons obedience for all my transgressions of them I praise thee for thy Creed and for thy holy Gospel I beseech thee give me an understanding and practical faith therein I praise thee for the excellency and fulness of the Lords-Prayer As thou hast given me a rule to pray give me the spirit of prayer to pray by that rule that I may praise thee abundantly for the Lords prayer I praise thee for causing me to be born in a Reformed Church As thou hast graciously placed me in a true Christian Reformed Church give me grace to live according to the Holy Doctrines taught me therein To be a true Reformed Christian in thy true reformed Church And as thou hast commanded me to hear and obey thy Church give me true obedience to her in thee and for thee I praise thee for all the Festivals and Sabbaths of thy Church Give me grace to keep the Holy-days and Festivals appointed with a clear understanding of the Mysteries commemorated in them Give me a sensible feeling of thy mercies in them Unfeigned thankfulness for them Serious meditation and application of them In Union and Communion with thy Saints In imitation of all my Saviours virtues treading in the steps of all thy servants that are gone before us Give me grace also to keep all the Fasting-days appointed with abstinence and penitence with great devotion due Contrition Liberality to the Poor pardon of my Enemies love to all men careful examination of my Conscience and conscionable care to amend my life that for these also I may magnifie thy holy Name I praise thee for all the Order and Decency where-with thou makest the place of thy feet Glorious Make me to observe all the Ecclesiastical Ceremonies and Customs established with understanding and benefit obedience and unity love and conformity without frowardness or contradiction Give me grace to repair to thy Temple as often as I can to delight in thy Worship and to worship thee in the Beauty of Holiness Make me the better for every opportunity thou givest me there Suffer me never to be absent upon any sinful or vain idle or lazy accompt In all my addresses enable me to serve thee acceptably Pray unto thee servently Praise thee heartily Hear thy Word diligently Practise it conscionably O my God I especially praise thee for the benefit of thy holy Sacraments Make me I beseech thee thankfully and reverently frequently and desirously to come to thy Holy Table In memory of thy Passion In thankfulness for thy Mercies For the increase of Virtues and Graces For the extinguishing of all my Vices For the averting of thy Judgments For the obtaining of thy Relief in all my Necessities That I may live more and more in Union and Communion with thee Give thy Gospel and Sacraments free passage among us and let not our sins provoke thee to remove that glorious Light and these saving means of Grace from us Make us mindful of our Vows in Baptism and of our renewed Vows in the Eucharist Give us grace to perform them all Give me grace to serve thee with a true and strong faith a firm hope and perfect love In Fasting Prayers and Alms-deeds For since I have offended thee in Body Soul and Estate I desire to sacrifice all unto thee my Body in Fasting my Soul in Prayer my Estate in Alms. Give me grace I beseech thee To instruct the Ignorant with plainness To correct Offenders with mildness To counsel the Doubtful with prudence To comfort the Afflicted with tenderness To suffer Injuries with patience To forgive Offences heartily To pray for others zealously To my power give me grace to feed the Hungry to refresh the thirsty to cloth the Naked to harbour the Needy to visit and help the Sick to minister to Prisoners and if need be to bury the dead Give me the graces and the blessings of the eight Beatitudes To be poor in Spirit that I may inherit the Kingdom of Heaven To Mourn that I may be comforted To be Meek that I may inherit the Earth So to hunger and thirst after Righteousness that I may be filled To be merciful that I may obtain mercy To be pure in Heart that I may see God To be a Peace-maker that I may be the child of God So to suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake that my reward may be
of the Righteous for all holy and humble men of heart Those Incarnate Cherubims Inflamed Seraphims Strong Powers against Devils Principalities in the midst of contumelies Dominions reigning over all enticements Those Virtues in a miraculous life Those Angels of the Churches and Arch-Angels who by close Communion with thee illuminate and encourage us to serve thee For Ananias Azarias and Misael their courage and miraculous deliverance I praise bless and magnifie thy Name for ever Saying Glory be to the Father c. Thanksgivings for all Persons and Times BLessed art thou O Lord God who sustainest all things by the word of thy Power For by thine Ordinance all things are and do continue Thou givest us Rain and fruitful Seasons and fillest our Hearts with food and gladness With admirable Wisdom didst thou create and dost still govern all things But above all I admire thy Wisdom Power and Goodness shewed unto Man Thou madest him of the mould of the Earth and didst breath into his Nostrils the breath of Life Thou didst honour him and create him after thine own Image giving him a capacious Soul sound Judgment clear Understanding ready Apprehension useful Memory clear Reason a ready and obedient Will so that with these faculties we can by thy Divine aid walk at large in the liberty of our thoughts into all the Regions of Heaven and Earth see thee in all times and before all time in that Eternity wherein thou didst live before Time began to be and in that Eternity also which shall be when Time shall be no more By these powers and faculties of our immortal Souls we can see thee also by thy divine Illumination In all thy works of Grace In thy Government of all Ages And in that most stupendious work of Redemption promised in the beginning and performed in the fulness of time for our Salvation O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the World It is thou who givest us well order'd Passions sound Sences Health of Body strength of Limbs and useful Members Thou givest us peace of Mind and tranquillity of Spirit by which only we can happily enjoy thee and all things in thee It is thou alone who givest thine Angels charge over us to keep us from falls fractures of Bones Dislocations Epidemical and noisome Diseases from the hands of the violent and wicked man Having placed Man in Paradise when he fell from thee even then thou didst not despise him but didst open the gate of Life in the promised seed unto him Thou didst write thy Laws in his Heart and instruct him in the service of Sacrifices Strengthen our faith by the Oracles of the Prophets Enliven our Hearts with the Melody of the Psalms Teach us by the Wisdom of the Proverbs Evidently point out the coming of thy Son by Types and Figures And at last recompence all their long waitings and expectations by sending him unto us Who took our nature upon him and sanctified it in his Incarnation Birth and Life Redeemed us by his Death and Passion Quickened us by his Resurrection Exalted us by his Ascension Intercedeth for us in his Session at the right hand of the Father Sent down his holy Spirit for our Illumination Sanctification and hope of Glory O blessed be thy Name for giving this Lord of Life and this Son of thy Love unto us For thy glorious Gospel Evangelizing him For the prospect and benefit of his Life and Death It is thou most holy Father who with thine only Son freely givest us all things By thee Kings reign and Princes decree Justice Thou instructest all our Rulers and teachest our Senators wisdom Thou givest us Pastors after thine own heart to fill us with the knowledg of thee and feed us with true faith and obedience unto thee Thou bringest down our hearts for sin so that we sometimes fall before our enemies and there is none to help us Again upon our Repentance thou raisest us up and breakest our bonds in sunder For it is thou who castest our cords from us Thou dost not leave us in the hardness of our hearts but givest us preventing grace with which if we co-operate O how sweet and heavenly are the glorious effects thereof Then we feel compunction for our sins shame of them hearty indignation against them and our selves for them then the sense of thy Love of thy Mercies and of our moâ—t base and vile ingrateful abuse of thy mercies throws down all the strong holds of sin in us and fortifies us against them Nay sometimes thou dost send thy grace so forcibly upon us that thou dost even compell us to come in unto thee Though thou delightest O thou lover of men to see thy Voluntary goodness shine in our Souls O would we draw nigh unto thee with what infinite joy dost thou draw nigh unto us But thou wilt not always force us because thou desirest a free obedience and lovest to save us in the best of all possible manners The glory of a sinner voluntarily returning being greater than that of Adams Innocence and causing greater joy in Heaven then there is over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance Blessed magnified highly exalted and honoured be thy Name for putting such a power into our hands of turning unto thee such desires into our Hearts such powerful workings in our Souls that every true penitent is always turning more and more unto thee ever moving to thee and aspiring after thee till by thy grace he be wholly throughly and effectually turned unto thee Finding no true satisfaction but in thee no rest no comfort no peace but in thee Thus by degrees dost thou wean us from the world and wed us unto thee Till at last we are fully accepted pardoned and in Jesus Christ justified and by thy Spirit wholly united unto thee So thirsting for and drinking in thy grace that at last thou givest us full satisfaction in all thy Glories Dearest Lord it is thine own self that workest all our works in us And therefore well mayest thou require all good works from us Thou makest that good ours which first was thine That so in us thy whole goodness might shine For thou alone enablest us to do good and to resist evil Thou teachest us how to abound without abusing thy mercy and how to want without repining at thy justice Thou dost help us to overcome yet crownest us for overcoming O wonder of Mercy miracle of Grace It is thou only dost comfort us in our sorrows support us in our trials and take care of our welfare in all estates Thou givest us Songs in the night of affliction and victory in the day of temptation It is only thou canst qualifie our turbulent tempestuous spirits and give us calmness and serenity therein Who could make our impatient natures contented in the midst of all the storms and tempests of a raging world but only thou It is thou alone dost establish our fickle hearts and fix them fast on
mercy upon me By all thine anguish thou didst feel in the suspension of the divine aid have mercy upon me By the immensity of thy love in this thy most copious Redemption have mercy upon me and fill my Soul with the love of thee By all the barbarous outrages which thou didst endure for me deliver me from all mine Enemies visible and invisible My dearest Lord be thou the only supream love of my heart and the life of my Soul Let thy Virtues be in all my Actions and be thy honour the sole end of all my intentions Let me live in thy Wounds and for ever remain in thy love O my dear Lord Jesus thou heavenly Physitian of all humane nature thou great and glorious and eternal King remember I beseech thee all the bitter pains thou didst endure in all thy sacred members when thou wert hoised up on the Cross for me And let not my Soul be lost which cost thee all those inexplicable pains Make me feelingly and thankfully to remember how all thy precious body was rent and torn thy sacred limbs tortur'd and rackt thy head pierced thy bones disjoynted and all thy body broken for me Let me never forget this love of thine or ever offend thee more From the crown of the head to the soal of the foot thou hadst no part left whole in thee Never suffering like thine Never dolor like thine Never love like thy love Yet wert thou unmindful of all thine own Sufferings and didst pray to thy Father for thy cruel enemies O by this mercy of thine give me love and mercy to all that offend me and do thou now have mercy upon me Grant that I may always have such a devout memory and feeling of thy Passion that it may be a most powerful protection of my Soul against all temptation O thou who hanging on the Tree didst there make satisfaction for the sins of the world have mercy upon all Men. Convert the Obdurate Convince Hereticks Reduce Schismaticks Call in the Jews Bring in the fulness of the Gentiles Make all the Profane to tremble at thy Word Enflame all luke-warm Christians with an holy zeal unto thee Take pity on those who do not pity themselves Bring us all into obedience unto thee O holy Father accept of this propitiatory Sacrifice of thine only eternal Son for the full pacification of thy wrath and for the satisfaction and salvation of all returning sinful penitent and believing Souls Bring all that are ignorant of this thy Sons redeeming love to the knowledg of it and thee Since it is life eternal to know thee O holy Father and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Make all those who are ignorant of the terms of the Gospel to know and embrace the same Bring in all who are out of the Covenant of Grace by sincere faith and unfeigned Repentance into Covenant with thee Convert those in particular whom I am obliged to pray for effectually Keep my Soul for ever from offending thee Let this sweet peace my Saviour hath purchased with his own blood never more be broken between me and thee Let none of my rebellions break it keep me from sin that it never be disturbed O blessed Jesus as there was darkness at the hour of thy Passion over all the Earth untill the Ninth hour deliver me from all the works and from the place of everlasting darkness by thy holy sufferings in this hour Amen O soveraign Lord and blessed Saviour Jesus our only Redeemer Saviour of the World who by the sole motive of thy mercy didst humble thy Soul to the death for our Redemption and ascend to thy Father for the full accomplishment of our peace graciously apply to our Souls the infinite Merits of thy sacred Passion and with thy precious blood cleanse us from all our sins nail them to thy Cross hide them in thy Wounds bury them in thy Grave that they may die in us and we live in thee the life of Grace here and the life of Glory hereafter wherewith the Father and the Holy Ghost thou livest and reignest in the Unity of the Glorious Trinity ever blessed World without end Amen Prayers for the Ninth Hour O Blessed Jesus I come now to commemorate thy holy Death which after all thy pains hanging so tedious a time on the Cross thou didst suffer at the Ninth Hour in full satisfaction for all our sins O by this death of thine have mercy upon me let it kill crucifie and destroy all sin in me let me die unto the World and live henceforth only unto thee At the Ninth Hour was thy Heart pierced with a Spear O transfix my Heart unto thee By that precious Water and Blood shed for me have mercy upon me wash cleanse purifie heal my wounded and defiled Soul Then blessed Jesus did the virtue of the Holy Sacraments flow from thy sacred side the Water by which we are regenerated the Blood by which we are redeemed give me evermore the virtue and benefit thereof Then was thy sacred Soul separated from thy Holy Body O separate me from this evil World and unite me wholly unto thee Then didst thou admit the Thief into Paradise O admit me into thy Heavenly Kingdom For all these stupendious Mercies I praise and magnifie thy Name for ever I beseech thee that the power and effect of all thou hast done for me may be saving to me Make me now to feel the horror of Sin and the sorrow due unto it that hath cost thee thy life and the very last drop of Blood to make atonement for it O that I could comprehend the immense love of my dying Saviour that I might make some grateful return of love unto thee Why should not the sense of thy Weeping make mine eyes to overflow with tears for offending Why should not the Blood which thou didst shed for me make me desirous to shed mine for the love of thee O my dear Lord let thy thirsting brest make mine to thirst and languish after thee inebriate me with the delicious viands of thy grace and love since my Soul can take no satisfaction in any thing but thee O fountain of living Waters to thee I come let me by faith drink up the Water and Blood which flowed from thee As thy Heart was broken for me break mine with sorrow for offending thee proceeding purely from the love I owe unto thee Hide me in thy wounded side till thy Fathers indignation be over past By thy precious Blood save me By thy holy Water cleanse me By thy prevailing death give me life and By thy Resurrection Glory O blessed Jesus what a bill of payment hast thou here discharged what an acquittance hast thou made for me The Rocks did rent the Graves open the Heavens mourn the Earth did shake at thy Passion and shall I evermore make leight of any transgression more O strike the Rock of my hard Heart that it may kindly flow forth in tears for thee as thou didst overflow
World a little before I was by thy Judgments forced to leave it altogether I praise thee for all the Ministry of Angels For my Guardian Angel For all the faithful departed For thy great Graces given to them Their good example given to me For the Suffrages and Prayers of all Saints For my Communion with them and with all those who are at Prayers with me now in this holy hour For the large capacity and extent of my Soul that can be in union with all Ages past present and to come worshipping praising and adoring thee For enabling me so to rejoyce in thy Glories to dilate upon thy Excellencies to delight in thy Service so as if all our affections were united in one holy individual oblation of our Souls and Bodies unto thee As if all Souls were in one and one so in all that we could never more be divided from thee nor cease from the love and service we bear unto thee nor be separated from each other in thee I praise thee for preserving me from all perils and dangers either by day or night For that portion of Health I now enjoy For the contentedness and thankfulness thou givest me in all estates For all the necessaries of this life Healthful dwelling quiet safety plenty of food and raiment For all the retirements and happy opportunities thou givest me of Reading Praying and enjoying thee For assisting me to overcome in any measure any of those great Infirmities I am subject to by nature For all thy gifts of Grace and nature infused or acquired attain'd by study or experience in the world For any good use I make of them For all thy wonderful Mercies to me and mine blessing us in all good things For thy great preservation of us in many dangerous Journeys and deliverances out of very many great troubles which my Soul recounteth unto thee For all these and for all other thy Mercies known or not known manifest or secret willingly or unwillingly received I praise thee I bless thee I give thee thanks and I desire to praise bless and give thee thanks all the days of my life What am I that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me especially in that he hath spared and forborn me until now Holy holy holy thou art worthy to receive Honour Worship and Praise now and for evermore Amen A Prayer for Christmas-Day HOly Jesus who being infinitely higher than the Heavens didst condescend to look on the Earth to come down and visit us with the saving Presence of thine Eternal Godhead clothed with our Manhood in the Virgins Womb let this miraculous grace of thine effect another miracle in me Let it raise me by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost and change me by a new Birth and exalt me to a Divine and Heavenly life that I may forsake the world and live unto thee O thou who didst assume thy Body and Soul for me that we might be members of thy Body and of thy flesh and of thy bones unite me unto thee make me sensible of thee my head fill me with the joy of thy Nativity and give thy self unto me who wast born for me that I may be thine and my beloved mine for evermore O Eternal Glory of the Father vail'd over with mortal flesh remove the vail from off my heart clarifie my understanding and draw me near unto thee that I may know the mystery which was hid from Ages and Generations but is now revealed for our Glory Receive me to thy self make me one with thee and be thou more dear unto me than all the world O thou who didst vouchsafe to dwell in the dark Cloysters of a Virgins womb thou who didst vouchsafe to close thine infinity within the confines of Humane shape and advance our Humanity to the Throne of God Prepare the Temple of my Soul make it bright with knowledg and wisdom come and dwell in my understanding take possession of my will reign within my heart let thy Scepter of Righteousness be exalted over me and become the rule of my thoughts and actions O reign over all the World and let the Righteousness and true Holiness wherein thou delightest prevail and prosper in the Earth let the Souls be saved which thou hast redeemed Amen Amen A Prayer for Easter-Day ETernal Son of the eternal Father who wast a man of sorrows and art now the Lord of Joys look down from Heaven thy dwelling place upon me thy Servant who rejoyce in thy glorious and blessed Resurrection Thou hast broken the Bars of Death and Hell for it was impossible that he that was innocent should be holden of them Thou hast broken down the gates of the prison of the Grave because thou hast satisfied thy Fathers Justice He knew thy ability and therefore he trusted thee with so great a debt He knew thy Power and therefore did commit so weighty an employment to thy sacred Hands O cause me to know thee my Saviour to be the Son of God by this glorious Resurrection Let it quicken me and raise me up who am dead in sins and trespasses Our Surety has paid the debt and is come abroad let all the Earth rejoyce and be glad in him Sing O Mountains and break forth into singing all the valleys in the World for our Redeemer and our Saviour hath conquered Death Hell and the Grave Let the light of his Resurrection transform the World into Heaven and turn the Wilderness into Eden let it restore a better Paradise than the old one unto us Let the power of his Resurrection quicken all the dead in sins and convert all the Kingdoms upon Earth and make them the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ wherein Truth and Peace and Righteousness may reign for evermore O my Soul thy lover and thy friend that was killed dead and buried is alive and he is able to save unto the utmost all them that come to God through him seeing he ever liveth to make Intercession for us He by and for whom the Worlds were made loved thee to the death O let his Love enflame thee and turn thee all into Love and let the love of God which passeth all understanding possess thy Soul and Body for ever Let the Love of Christ constrain thee to forsake iniquity and to esteem nothing easie honourable or delightful but that which is so to him Love all that he loveth hate all that he hateth O Jesus the love and life of my Soul be thou my sovereign Lord and Friend my only treasure and possession be thou my Wisdom and my Glory my Kingdom and my Crown my Life and Blessedness be thou all in all to me Let thy will be my will and thy pleasure mine As thou camest to do the Will of thy Father let it be my meat and drink to do thy Will to glorifie thy Name and finish the work which thou hast given me