was not of this world because â—t was not temporatie but eternall it was not earthly but â—eauenly yet his power being thine thy Kingdome is heere by Creation and Preseruation It is in Heauen by all fulnesse of glorie and â—rayses O let the Kingdome and Scepter of thy word come vnto vs rule and direct our hearts heere on earth that wee may come to thy Kingdome in heauen That heere wee may obey and serue thee in this thy kingdome and heereafter enioy thy happinesse and giue thee glory in in thine euerlasting Kingdom Amen Thy Will bee done in Earth as it is in Heauen Most gracious and glorious Soueraigne â—hy will and thy wisdome are the same â—n wisdome hast thou â—one all things Thy wisdom hath wroght â—ll Thy Word hath â—euealed thy will and â—hy wisedome Thou â—n thy vvonderfull workes of Creation diddest command all things to bee done and it was done Our wills good Lord are weake in that which is good and strong to doe euill In Heauen all things obey thee and vpon earth Man is most disobedient to thy Maiestie The Earth brings foorth fruites for the sustenance of man and man is fertil in bringing forth sinne to thy displeasure and dishonour It is thy will that wee should serue thee but our wilfull desires draw vs from thy seruice So in earth earthly creatures is contention and corruption In Heauen and heauenly minded men is vnitie concord and contentment Heauen giues thee glory Earth yeelds vs fruits The fruits of the earth not well and thankefully vsed turne to the diseases of our bodies foules As thy good will hath wrought all things for our good so good Lord giue vs good wills to doe thy will whilest wee liue heere on earth 〈◊〉 that wee may make iâ— as a foot-step to aâ— scend vnto Heauenâ— Let it therefore bee our chiefest desire to conforme our willes to thy blessed will 〈◊〉 That when our Pilgrimage is passed heere vpon Earth 〈◊〉 and wee haue passed through the vale oâ— miserie thou mayesâ— prouide for vs a resting place in Heauen that wee may bee seated with thy Saints to doe thee seruice and to sing vnto thee perpetuall praises Giue vs this Day our daily Bread THIS Day O Lord as all other daies of our frailâ— and fading life being short and a space wherein we still commit sinne We stand in need of sustenance Our daily bread and food being the meanâ— to maintain our liues we cannot haue it except thou afford it 〈◊〉 and when wee haue it wee doe not afford thee deserued praises Thou hast afforded vs plentie and yet of our thankfulnesse there is great penury Wee ryot in excesse and suffer thy seruants to sustaine wants We haue not onely bread food and rayment but all things necessarie from thy liberall hands and yet wee neither returne thee laud nor to our needie neighbors supply out of the store thou hast sent vs. O Lord as thou hast comforted vs with thy creatures so teach vs to make a right vse oâ— them that wee abusâ— not thy bountie iâ— mispending them noâ— restraine our Chariâ— tie in releeuing thosâ— who are in greatesâ— necessitie accordinâ— to the meanes which in mercie thou haâ— giuen vs. Wee hauâ— need of food for ouâ— Soules and otheâ— things necessarie aâ— well for our liues aâ— for our bodies O giuâ— vs good God thiâ— day and at all other times what is conuenient both for our soules and bodies and therewith graunt vs contentment and moderation that wee may be satisfied with what is sufficient and not seeke things superfluous to abuse or mispend that we haue So wee hauing sufficient may not onely â—ee satisfied but may do good therewith to our owne soules and spare that which may â—ee spared vnto the â—oore forwhom thou hast not prouided And so not onely this day but all the dayes of our liues wee may be good Stewards of thy blessings and true Accomptants of thy earthly and Heauenly Treasures Forgiue vs our Trespasses as wee forgiue them that trespasse against vs. HOW often and continually wee offend thy Heauenly Maiestie thou good God onely that feest all things doest best dilcerâ—e Wee sinne hourely and therfore haue still need of thy pardon Wee often desire it and do more often offend Wee desire it with condition yet we seldome performe the condition How fearefull is our state when wee commit sinnes craue pardon promise to remitt others trespasses and yet neither avoide the euill amend our liues or passe by with pardon the smallest harmes wee haue from our Brethren but seeke release from thee and reuenge against them O good God teach vs to looke backe vnto our former backeslidings euen in this behalfe And if there bee any whose faultes wee haue not remitted done onely against our selues Mooue our hearts to relent and to bee reconciled as farre foorth as may stand with thy glory and the good of thy Church If the cause bee such as may not bee concealed or kept from question Yet let not our particular reuenge be the ground to seeke any mans ruine But so teach and temper our hearts to distinguish betwixt priuate spleene publique Iustice thy glory our owne vaine glory wrath or displeasure as this our daylie prayer or forgiuing others be not made vnfruitfull vnto them or hurtfull vnto our owne soules but by pardoninge their lesser offences thou mayst be moued to pardon our greater sinnes and that for thy sake and the safety of our soules through Iesus Christ our LORD Amen And leade vs not into Temptation But deliuer vs from euill LEade vs not or rather Gracious God suffer vs not to be ledd into temptation we leade our selues our Concupiscence and naturall corruptions leade vs The flesh the World and the Deuill lead vs driue vs vnto temptations What helpe or what hold haue we in our selues good God When that which is without assayles that which is within vs is more ready to be ouercome then to withstand Nay our inward naturall inbred corruptions giues and receiues and therefore canot withstand these assaults Our flesh is pampered and puffed vp with Pride Our lusts rising from our naturall instigations of the flesh and prouocations of others procured by internall inflamations and externall incensements lead vs and ouerwhelme vs with temptations When we good Lord as we are directed desire thee not to leade vs or suffer vs to bee lead into temptation we therein craue thy deliuerances from the frailty of our flesh which cannot resist but ray seth temptations Our Captiuity comes from our selu our Deliuerance from thee Wee are daily hourely and continually assaulted with temptations of lusts when wee doe but see or feele that wherein we delight Of pride when exalted or desiring to bee exalted wee climbe higher then our strength or capacitie can reach vnto or if comming vnto it and comming by vngodly meanes vnto it we fall good Lord from thy grace further and further as at the first wee
times of Peace and Prosperity whilest our Protestant Religion the best because the truest is enioyed and established might by Gods permission and all helping power in these serene and and Sunshining dayes before there come more darkenesse and danger cast off carelessenes of planting Truth supplanting Errors practising of Piety preseruing the publique peace and safetie reforming of things amisse in the Church Common-weale which cannot be done withour more diligence and vigilancie courage prouidence and care especially by setting the chief watchmen in the Church and State more closely to their Stations the one by Doctrine Discipline and Diligence the other by Counsell and CircuÌ„spection to prevent perills and to procure the peace of this our Sion And that this may bee performed I conclude with the ensuing Prayer that being the subiect of this small preceding Treatise A Prayer for the peace and prosperitie of the Kings Maiestie his Dominions and Subiects MOst mighty gracious and merciful God who hast made dost gouerne and preserue the Heauens the Earth and all the Creatures therein coÌ„tained Be mercifull vnto vs most miserable and sinnefull creatures who were ordained for thy seruice and yet doe nothing more or so much as commit sins against thy supâ—came Majestie Wee haue from the highest to the lowest beene polluted with originall sinnes Our great our grieuous and our out-crying sinnes call vnto thee for our destruction and damnanation But because thy Mercy is aboue all thy other workes which yet exceede in greatnesse Wee prostrate our selues before thy Throne of grace beseeching thee for thy Sonnes sake and for thine owne goodnesse sake to saue vs poore sinners who desire to doe thee seruice though hitherto wee haue gone astray and walked in the waies of wickednesse Thou hast planted thy glorious Gospell of truth heere amongst vs we haue professed but wee haue not practised it as we should yet because it is the planting of thine own right hand suffer not our sinnes to pluck vp the same but rather supplant our sinnes and thereby strengthen our states and soules To this end good and gracious God looke vpon thy seruant our Soueraign whom thou hast set ouer vs inlighten his royall heart with thy sauing Graces of knowledg piety couÌ„sell care prouidence for preseruation and aduancement of thy truth and of the people that thou hast committed to his charge Giue him Zeale fortitude power peace and protection against all that are Enemies to true Religion and to those Realmes thou hast appointed him to rule Giue him a discerning heart to discouer and shun all dangers and all that bee dangerous to him and to his Dominions vnite his heart in loue to his people and them in loyalty to him O LORD preserue thy people vnder him in peace Protect them from forrayne power and both him and them from home-bred conspiracies and all other mischieuous machinations Make the Prince his Magistrates and People zealous of thy seruice and glory constant and carefull in keeping thy Commandements couragious for defence of thy Trueth and their Countrey Conscionable and Charitable That so they may bee still thy faithfull seruants and thou their mercifull God So shall thy glorious Gospell and the light of thy Trueth euer remaine amongst vs vntill the comming of thy Sonne Christ Iesus that thou mayest raigne ouer vs and we remaine with thee in eternall Blisse Amen Amen Good Lord. A Prayer for our afflicted Brethren the Protestants beyond the Seas MOst gracious and merciful Father who vsest to chasten thy Children and to correct whom thou louest Haue mercy on those that suffer for mainetenance of thy trueth Their sinnes haue deserued thy punishments and yet we that haue sinned as much if not more haue not suffered so much for our sinnes Thou hast sent thy scourge to let them see their sinnes Thou hast not gone out with their hostes but hast scattered them O Lord yet heale and binde vp their bones which thou hast broken gather them together and now thou hast taught the Princes that their power is in vaine without thy protection and the people that there is no confidence in the arme of flesh giue theÌ„ yet confidence in thy fauour patience in aduersity courage to fight for thy Trueth comfort amidst their calamities O Lord thou doest permit thy people Israel many times after thy long sufferings and their great sinnes to bee ouercome by the Iebusites Amalachites and Philistims The Arke was taken and they cried out the glory of Israel was departed yet thou didst send helpe when there was no helpe nor hope in Man O Lord thou hast executed Iustice and Iudgement yet leaue not thine to their oppressors and when thou hast dealt with them according to thy mercy teach them thy Statutes that they may know thy Testimonies It is time O Lord for thee to worke for the persecutors of the Trueth haue destroyed thy Law The Kings of the earth band themselues and the Princes are assembled together against the Lord and his annointed O yet thou Lord of Hostes breake their bandes in sunder and cast away their cordes And though the waters rage and be troubled yet let thy seruants finde and say the Lord of hostes is with them and the God of Iacob is their refuge And that when thy seruants our persecuted brethren haue receiued comfort and deliuerance they may reioyce in thy mercies sing praises vnto thee and call vnto their neighbors to behold the wonderfull workes thou hast done for them to make it knowen vnto the world It is thou that makest wars to cease It is thou that hast broken the bowe cuttest the speare and burnest the Chatiot in sunder So we pray for them and for one another Beseeching thee to graunt vs these requests For thy Sonnes sake our Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen A Prayer to bee vsed on the Sabbath Day O Lord God of infinite power and prouidence who after thy euer to bee admired and praised worke of creating this World didst ordaine one day of seauen to bee kept as a Sabboth not only to be free from labour and trauell but to be wholly dedicated and kept holy for thy seruice in Prayers and praises to be offered vnto thy Maiestie as an incense and oblation of thankefull acknowledgement of thy most great might and mercies in creating this world and ordayning man to gouerne all creatures therein conteyned in conseruing all these thy Creatures for his vse and him for thy seruice in giuing him light of Knowledge and vnderstanding of thy Word and Commandement and of the things hee should doe or leaue vndone As we receiue these thy blessings and benefits so specially on this day which thou hast selected for thy seruice O Lord settle vs vnto it fit vs for it and grant grace not only vnto vs heere present but to the publicke state and to particular persons in other places not only to rest from labours on this day but to shun sinne to communicate with thy seruants in thy seruice to
the Lords Prayer 1 One intire Prayer framed on all the Lords prayer 45 Seuerall Prayers on the Decalogue or Tenne Commandements 57 Short Meditations for a Christian man to make for the examination of himselfe his conscience course of life 112 A Prayer for the performance of those points 119 The differences in Deuotion and exercises of Religion betwixt the Protestants and Koman Catholiques 124 A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Kings Maiestie his dominions and subiects 142 A Prayer for our afflicted Brethron the Protestants beyond the Seas 149 A Prayer to be vsed on the Sabbath day 156 A Prayer in the time of trouble and affliction 160 A Prayer when publike calamities apprâ—â—â—â— or are doubted 164 A Prayer against the raigning sinnes that a man findes to remaine in himselfe 174 A Prayer necessary to be vsed often 179 A Prayer against pride anger and Enuy. 193 A Prayer after deliuery from sickenes and danger of death 203 A Prayer for the maintenance of Zeale Certaine short Prayers and Meditations vpon the Lords Prayer Our Father which art in Heauen Hallowed be thy Name O Lord God most high â—â—uenly 〈◊〉 hou art our Father by creation Wee are thy Children by Adoption What an honour and happinesse is it to vs miserable Men that thou our mighty God vouchsafest to accept and call vs thy Children Hauing Elected vs thou hast giuen vs a great a glorious and an euerlasting Inheritance Hauing created vs of nothing thou hast yet made vâ—â— Heires yea Possessorâ— of thore then earthly euen heauenly endowments Our earthly mould and our carthly mindes only keepe vs from this heauenly possession Thy mercifull and powerfull prouidence hath prouided it our finnefull and corrupt nature keepes vs from it Thou O gracious Father hast giuen vs the earth and al things in this world to gouerne that we might make vse of it for thy seruice and for our owne sustenance But the louing of this earth and the longing after earthly things keepes vs from aspiring and attaining to thy heauenly Inheritance If as sonnes heere on earth weeâ— could seeke the glory of thee our Fatherâ— in heauen wee should sooner and betteâ— obteine the blessings both of Earth and Heauen If we theâ— could consider wherefore thou hast choseâ— vs for thy children and so shew our selueâ— obedient children iâ— keeping thy heauonlâ— Commandement wâ— should not only find comfort in our owne soules and consciences shunne thy wrath and the shipwrake of our soules enioy thy blessings and avoide thy curses but bee made partakers of that patrimony which thou hast prouided for thine elect children But alas most gracious Father wee make our selues by our dayly and continuall sinnes vnworthy to be called thy sons and most vnworthy to receiue the inheritaÌ„ce of thy children Yet thou hast sent thy only begotten Sonne to suffer death for our sinnes to restore vs thy adopted Sonnes to the inheritance which wee by our fallings and transgressions had forfeited yea to a farre more excellent and heauenly inheritance And yet as disobedient children wee haue againe and againe reuolted from thee as Prodigall Sonnes mis-spent that Patrimony thou hast giuen vs wasted in luxury and lust haue beene forced to feede on huskes after wee haue followed sinne and Satan And that which is worse by our long and obdurated sinnes wee doe as much as in vs lyeth crucifie the Lord of life our elder Brother thy best beloued Son whom thou hast sent and we haue sold him by our mis-beliefes and euill-liuing As Iudas sold him to the Iewes for a fewe Talents or pieces of siluer Thus wee of Children become Rebels and of Freeborne made our selus slaues Yet most mercifull Father fince by thy owne choisethou hast called vs to bee thy Children Haue compassion vpon thy weake fraile and wandring Children bring vs backe from the by-pathes wherein wee haue gone astray Restore vs to innocency and to thy fauour Renewe in vs right spirits Mollifie our stony hearts and giue vs fleshy hearts Set thy feare before our eyes so wee shall by thy strength honour thee Our Father which art in Heauen So wee by thy helpe shall hallow and honour thy hallowed and euer honoured Name Let vs not dishonour thee by cursing swearing or blasphemy Thy Name is as thou art great and glorious It is holy as thou art We cannot hallow it except thou make vs holy who of our selues are most vnholy O sanctifie vs thy Children that wee may hallow thee our Father vpon earth and in heauen with Halleluiahs praise and glory for euer euer Amen Thy Kingdome come THy kingdome O Lord is an euerlasting Kingdome and thy Dominion endureth throughout all ages The earth is thy footstoole thou fittest in the highest Heauen and the Scepter of thy power stretcheth ouer all the earth All things with thee are present as well that is past as that is to come And yet wee poore sinners who stand still in thy presence doe not as wee should seeke thy kingdome that it should come vnto vs or that wee by Faith and Repentance should come vnto thee that wee might inioy thy kingdome We seeke not thy kingdome in thy word to doe thy will we seeke it not in thy workes to glorifie thee our Lord Maker Thou excellest in eminence whereby thy kingdome in heauen and earth is gouerned Yet the kings of the earth conspire against thee and thine Anoynted O make them yet to feele thy high and heauy hand that they may seeke thee and shun the suppression of thy truth Church and people which is a great part of thy kingdom here on earth Thy flock and fold of thy militant Church is heere on earth gather them together shield and shelter them by thy out-stretched Arme that they may make thy kingdome known to be as it is great and glorious O suffer not the sufferings of thy Saints still to continue lest the enemies of thy kingdom grow more proud and presumptuous Thou in thy eternall wisdome and counsell considerest that the chosen children of thy kingdome must be as gold purified in the fire of affliction that so they may manifest the glory of thy kingdome â—y prayers persecutiâ—on patience and deliâ—erance Yet the enemies of thy trueth who seeke their owne glorie by thy dishoâ—our tread downe â—hy vineyard to the ende it may bring forth no more fruit But thy Kingdome â—annot bee destroyed â—hough the members â—hereof may for the â—ime bee defaced Thou canst build vp â—he ruines when man â—annot restore it Shew thy selfe a Defender as thou art a Builder of thine owne Kingdome in the Church and Common weale Shew vs the vvay vnto thy Kingdome Teach vs the trueth teach vs to preserue it and to preferre it as a pillar of thy Kingdome before the safegard of our owne liues So shall thy Kingdome of thy grace come and bee conserued by vs that we may come vnto thy Kingdome of Glorie Thy Son our Sauiour said His Kingdome
fell from it when wee sought not from the sacred Counsels of thy holy Commandements which way wee should walke Our Temptations O blessed resister and restrainer of the Tempter are either sodaine wherein our flesh and frailty easily suffers vs to be surprized or else continued and importunate wherein wee cannot without thy heauenly assistance maintaine the Combate or continue the Conflict In all these wee are weake and thou O Lord art strong strengthen our weakenesse sustaine vs against Sathan Suffer vs not to bee surprized Repulse him by re-uniting thy heauenly Spirit vnto our fraile flesh stregthening vs when we cannot stand and restoring vs when we are fallen O Lord Thou onely art able to deliuer vs from dangers both of body and soule Our temptations comes from both Our naturall corruptions in the body our infused contagions in the soule had neede of thy ayde to defend and deliuer vs from temptations Our deliuerance comes from thee that our prayses and thanksgiuing may returne vnto thee O deliuer saue and defend vs from the suggestions of Sathan Amen For thine is the Kingdome Power Glorie and Dominion THe Kingdoms and Territories of the Earth most mighty Lord are thine in Creation power praise and Dominion It is thine O LORD for thou hast first framed it It is thine for thou dost conserue and presetue it It is thine for thou dost rule and gouerne the Vniuerse Thy Sonne hath said His Kingdome vvas not of this Worlde because he would not rule visibly and temporally but spiritually and eternally Yet thou hast giuen him power in heauen and in earth to redeeme sinners and to saue sinnefull men What Kingdome can bee greater more glorious and firme What power can bee more ample or so beneficiall What glory can shine more in and vnder the firmament of Heauen O therefore by that thy power bring vs vnto this thy Kingdome where wee may haue rest without trouble comfort without contention ioy without end and thou mayest receiue kingdome without resistance Power without diminution Glorie without deniall and Dominion without disobedience To this thy Kingdome by thine owne power bring vs to giue thee glory and to be true subiects of thy dominion for thine owne for thy Sonne and for thy seruants sake Amen One Prayer framed vpon all the parts of the Lords Prayer MOst mightie God most mercifull Father Thou art not onely in Heauen by thy presence but in Heauen and Earth by thy power Thou in thy mercy hast vouschsafed to choose and accompt vs for thy children Wee by our transgressions haue failed to doe the duties of Children Thou art in heauen and beholdest vs We are on earth and are so earthly minded that we cannot behold and confesse as wee should thy Maiesty thy mercie and thy Iustice Thy Name is hallowed and holy yet we take thy name in vaine dishonour it and thereby destroy our own soules Thy Kingdome is already come both in heauen and in the hearts of the Regenerate O graunt vs regenerate hearts that wee may come vnto thee and vnto thy kingdome Thy Will O good and gracious God is that they whom thou hast ordayned to bee Saints in Heauen should bee holy and so serue thee to doe thy will here on earth that they may attaine to thy heauenly inheritance But alas how doe wee transgresse the will breake thy lawes and follow our owne willes O yet here make vs Ministers and fulfillers of thy holy will that hereafter we may bee partakers of thy heauenly possessions Thou giuest vs good Lord dayly bread foode and sustenance wee as we haue neede dayly desire the continuance thereof Wee come with hands to receiue but not with hearts to render pray â—ses for these thy blessings O let our daies to come be as full of thankefullnesse as those past haue bene of vnthankefullnesse Teach vs day by day to desire not onely corporall but spirituall foode holyly to vse and not fleshly to abuse either of both That we may not desire our meat to pamper our bodies and to prouoke them to lust but to liue soberly to take sufficient and to auoide excesse That wee seeke not spirituall foode onely to seeme to be but indeed to be truely religious Our trespasses mosâ— mercifull Father are great infinite and grieuous Wee come to thee and wee cry to thee for forgiuenesse Thou O Lord art ready to remiâ— them vpon our repentance Wee goe oâ— with our sinnes buâ— not with sorrow foâ— hauing committed them with promisâ— of pardon vnto other who haue offendeâ— vs and yet wee for giue not them as wee desire to bee forgiuen This is the cause that wee neither receiue pardon nor amende our sinnefull liues And this is the cause of our present hardnesse of our hearts and will bee of our future greater punishments except thou in thy mercy forget and forgiue our former trespasses make vs able hereafter to amend them and make vs charitable to forgiue the trespasses of our brethren offending vs as we doe thee It is not thou gracious God that leadest vs into temptations but wee are ledd into them by our owne lustes and infirmities wee fall into them by our owne fraileties wee are inuited by the inticements oâ— others and by the subtiltie of Satan Iâ— thou good God dost suffer and noâ— sustaine vs wee noâ— onely receiue buâ— runne headlong into temptations and eueâ— sincke vnder the burthen Before wee know where we stand we fall and can neither withstand nor rise vp againe except thou helpe vs O bee thou our supporter strength Arme our soules our hearts and our consciences so shall wee bee safe vnder thy saluation and bee couered vnder the wings of thy most mercifull protection The euills that come to vs are from the euills that are within vs and are intertained by vs The euill affections of our hearts threaten to pull vpon vs corporall temporall spirituall and eternall punishments O keepe vs from the euill of our offences and sinnes that wee may shunne the euill of punishment for the same that so wee may not feele the weight of thy power and indignation but may here so be subiect obedient to thy Dominion that wee may hereafter enter into the ioyes of that celestiall kingdome which is thine and which thou hast prepared for such as truely serue thee heere and shall bee blessed Saints in heauen Amen Certaine short Prayers and Meditations vpon the ten Commandements I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of Bon dage SInce thou O Lord GOD great and glorious hast brought vs from bondage not onely corporall but from spirituall and eternall captiuitie by sending thy Sonne our Sauiour to suffer for our sinnes Suffer vs not O gracious God to fall againe into worse then the Aegyptian bondage of Idolatry Infidelitie Superstition and Ignorance Teach vs only truely and faithfully to adore thee our euerliuing God and our God that giuest life Let vs not O Lord doubt or distrust of thy power or prouidence
but that our faith may bee firme our hope assured and our confidence in thee alwaies constant to expect the good pleasure in performance of thy gracious promises but that I may loue and honour thee aboue and more then all creatures which are corruptible the workemanship of thy hands and which as they haue their being from thee so they can not bee at all or subsist without thy sustentation As thou art O Lord graunt that wee may honour thee as thou art our God that wee may praise thee World without end Amen Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me THe Heathen O LORD GOD euerlasting giue thy glory vnto stickes stones and other imaginary idle vaine and euill things The Infidels and vnbeleeuers doe either openly or secretly deny thy Deitie and diuine incomprehensible Majestie The ignorant and evill instructed people though they by custome professe somewhat of thy seruice and power yet they know not what it is but either through euill instruction or for want of instruction know not or care not how to keepe thy Commandements O Lord teach them that beleeue amisse the wayes of truth and to amend their errors those that beleeue not touch their hearts make them to tremble at thy terrors and diuine Iustice which yet they feele not and so to entertaine Faith that their soules may be saued Teach vs that professe thy truth to practise it That we may haue none other Gods but thee the True and onely Euerliuing GOD There is none other but onely thou that art good and goodnesse it selfe How then shall wee stand in iudgement before thee who preferre and accompt any any created thing before or in comparison of thee O let our knees and hearts bow downe before thee alone with faith with feare and with acknowledgement Then we shall haue none other Gods but thee neither follow our owne fantasies nor the corrupt doctrine of such as misleade others Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe the Image or likenesse of any thing in Heauen above or in the Earth beneath or in the Waters vnder the Earth For c. AS thy power O LORD is greatest and thy preheminence aboue all thy Creatures in the heauens and in the earth So is thine Honour so precious that thou wouldest not haue it giuen to any thing in heauen or in in earth Yet good Lord our natures are so fraile and our soules so sinfull that wee fancie and frame vnto our selues imaginary worshippe of creatures in Heauen in earth and in the waters by their similitude and likenesse giuing or attributing thy glory to those glowormes being false and fading fantasies of our owne imaginations Since then most mighty Maker and Monarch of heauen and earth thou seest our frailtie to fall and the dishonor of thy Maiestie by false worship by framing the likenesse of any creature to worship O suffer vs not to make to set vp or to adore false Gods to fall before them to place any power or hope in them to trust to our owne policie or power to depend vpon earthly helpes ioyes or delights but to rely onely vpon thy strength good will and pleasure That nothing in heaven aboue in the earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth may carry vs from thy true worship and seruice which is our safety and concernes thy glory to whom be giuen praise without ceasing and Honour without Superstition now and for euer Amen Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine O Lord GOD most mighty and merciful since thy maiestie is so high great and glorious how carefull should wee be to conserue a reuerend and awefull estimation of thy holy name as to honour it in thought word and deed But O most gracious God how carelesse are wee to keep thy holy Commandement How ready by irreligion to blaspheme thy holy Name with oathes curses execrations to abuse thy holy Attributes in forswearing and false accusing to name thee O our good GOD in our mouthes when wee haue thee not in our hearts to dissemble and make Hypocriticall profession of thy holy and true Religion without any care or conscience to put it in practise O most mightie and mercifull God we beseech thee to pardon and passe by our profanenesse in taking thy name in vaine our impiety in blaspheming thy holy name our rashnesse in naming thee without inward reuerence or remembrance of thy power honour and Maiestie our pronesse to mention thy Word Workes and Worship without due premed tation and consideration O teach vs when wee talke thinke or inuocate thy holy name to doe it with conscience faith and seare when we thinke on it to cogitate and call to memory that wee are in thy presence to beleeue that wee are vnder thy power and subiect to thy punishment Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath Day sixe dayes c. SInce thou most glorious God by thine omnipotent power hast created this World and by thy providence for a perpetuall memoriall of this thy most wonderfull Worke hast or dained a Sabbath or seaueth day of rest to bee celebrated and set apart for thy Seruice In which wee should be free from seruile workes and worldly cares O LORD therefore sanctifie vs and so prepare our heartes for this thy seruice that we may make a conscience of performing this thy Precept For this purpose Let vs bee carefull to keepe thy Sabbaothes in publique in the Congregation and Assembly of thy Seruants by Prayer prayses and hearing of thy Word In priuate by Preparation Meditation Conference Consideration of thy Clemencie and Workes of Creation and Preseruation as in deeds of Charitie Mercie and Compassion to the needy For this ende good and gracious GOD fitte and furnish our hearts our wits and our vnderstandings with Zeale Knowledge and Conscience to shake off on this thy holy Sabbaths sloth and slownes to come vnto thine Assemblies and to exercise these religious Duties to cast away worldly cares bodily labours except such as are for necessitie for present preseruation of things ready to perish which cannot bee otherwise preuented or longer deferred and of that which may with most Moderation set forward the religious Exercises and holy Duties of that Day These Graces graunt vs Amen Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy c. O Lord God as thou art the Propagator and Protector of our soules to whom only we should giue diuine Honour so wouldst thou that we should giue to our naturall Parents reuerence obedience sustenance and faithfulnesse which in Iustice is due for the cause of our birth being education and maintenance by them And that we may doe this which thou good God requirest Wee beseech thee remoue from vs Pride selfe-conceite and selfe-loue neglect of our dutie to our Parents and Superiours impatience when they shall exercise authoritie inflict punishment or demaund those things to bee done which we doe dislike or not desire Hardnesse of heart when they stand in neede of our helpe
read thy Word to heare it where it is preached to come vnto thy Congregations and where thy word is not preached to vse all the good meanes wee may for maintenance and increase of knowledge and of conscience by praying reading meditating and conference To this end good Lord teach vs to cast away as all seruile workes so sloth euill and idle company-keeping prophane speeches with other euill actions and thoughts that may either draw vs from our Christian dueties offend thy diuine Maiestie or giue euill example vnto others Make our hearts and Consciences cleane our coÌ„ferences words and workes holy and conuersation vpright and pure So beginning and continuing in thy seruice this day in such sort as thou requirest wee may not onely sanctifie this but all the rest of thy Sabbaths during the remayne of our dayes heere vpon earth vntill wee come to that Sabbath of Sabbaths that eternall rest reioycing and praysing of thy Holy and Blessed Name in the highest Heauens wherein grant vs the assistance of thy holy Spirit and the aide of thy Sonne our Sauiour Christ Iesus Amen A Prayer in the time of trouble and affliction O LORD our God great are our sins and heauie are our visitations yet our chastisments are nothing answerable to our corruption wee haue sinned much and thou hast suffered vs long yet though our sinnes be as redde as scarlet thou hast said and we beleeue that thou wilt make them as white as snow Our sinnes do fester through our owne Corruptions cleanse them O thou the soueraigne sole phisitian of our soules Since thou art pleased to purge vs with some bitter pills that vrge vs to sweat and groane yet more for worldly matters then for the offence of thy diuine Maiestie Make vs therefore first sensible of our sinnes and sorowfull for them And when thou hast purged vs take away thy punishments Cure first our soules then make our bodies and estates sound and safe Yet againe and againe bring vs backe to consider and see from whence all our calamities doe come Deliuer vs if it bee thy blessed will from present and ensuing dangers or else graunt vs patience to vndergoe whatsoeuer thy good pleasure shal be to lay vpon vs Renew vs and then restore vs to thy wonted fauour not for our merits but for the merites and mercies of thy beloued Sonne and our blessed Sauiour Amen A Prayer when publique Calamities approach or are doubted OOr sinnes O Lord haue drawne vpon vs thy heauy displeasure and greater punishments then yet we feele or feare for wee haue multiplied our offences and yet thou hast held backe thy punishing hand wee haue not been allured by thy merits though they be many nor admonished by thy chastisemeÌ„ts sent to draw vs vnto conformity But rather thy long suffering hath made vs more secure hard hearted and negligent This hath caused thee sometimes to send signes of thy fearefull wrath as sickenesse vnseasonable weather want of meanes to maintaine many who heretofore haue liued well Our brethren abroad professing the same Religion suffer many heauy pressuers and are in much perill wee at home though we haue long enioyed the liberty of exercising the Religion wee professe yet our coldnesse and carelessenes in practising besides our many other sins hath hindered the propagation of piety dishonored thy name and indangered the truth O Lord yet at length humble vs in the sight and sense of these our sins Teach vs to learne consider and remember that for such if not for lesse sinnes thou didst consume Sodom draw the deluge ouer the whole earth and destroy almost consume at an instant all the Creatures of the World Yet neither these examples nor our own chastisements haue preuailed to perswade vs vnto true humiliation repentance and amendment of life But now of late when thou hast sent signes in the ayre inundations of waters pestilence pouerty decay of trades and hast found amongst vs a decrease of desire to doe good a desire to deceiue pâ—ide of hart delicious and luxurious liuing periury and perfidious dealing profanation of thy Name Word and Sacraments So that there being little hope of better beliefe or of better liuing when thy sword of Iustice is ready to be drawne the light of trueth in some danger to be diminished and wee to receiue such punishments as we most iustly haue deserued Yet consider wee are the workemanship ordained for thy seruice And though the Axe should be put vnto the tree ready to out of our liues estates and sauing knowledge yet correct but doe not for thy mercies sake confound vs reforme but do not destroy vs Make vs yet new creatures O spare and deâ—iuer vs from the euill daies to come Thou desirest not the death of sinners but rather Conuersion Let vs yet liue to honor thee whom we haue dishonoâ—ed Though long peace and much plenty hath set vs aâ—â—eepe and prouoked vs to much pride and presumption yet let vs with Hezechiah turning to the wall and weeping be repriued from that sentence which our sinnes haue sent out against vs and let vs learne to serue thee and not Sathan So being preserued by thy mercy wee may yeeld Honour and praise to thy eternall Maiestie A Prayer against the raigning sins that a man findes to remaine in himselfe LOrd God how senselesse am I of mine owne sinnes that cannot see nor feele those I daily and continually commit Some are secret and concealed from my self which I know not or cannot conceiue And those though lesse haynous or at the least lesse vnderstood yet too heauy for me to beare Other greater and more grieuous by mee not acknowledged or not repented and amongst many more that I passe ouer without any examination of my selfe or repentance for them Those cleaue most to the corruptions of mine owne nature as pride selfe conceit and other sinnes whereto I am most subiect c. These presse mee most and others too much yet pardon mee O Lord pardon that is past purge me from them for time to come cleanse the corruptions of my nature cure the Contagion that comes by euill company and the inticements of others with whose fashions wits faces or flatteries wee are seduced And for mine owne inward concupiscense which easily sets it selfe on fire O Lord quench it with the cooling and comforting giftes of Grace sobrietie temperance and circumspection Bee thou most gracious God that good Samaritan to poure into my wounded soule the oyle of thy mercy that so these destroyers of my soule being by thee destroyed I may then surely say O Death where is thy sting O Hell where is thy victory and blesse thee who hast blessed mee with thine abundant mercies to whom bee praises and glorie for euer Amen A Prayer necessary to be vsed often O LORD God most mighty mercifull and iust who hast created all things of nothing only by thy power and word who hast preserued all that thou hast made and doest saue all those that
doe faithfully call and trust on thee Wee most miserable and wretched sinners doe confesse vnto thee against our selues to our owne shame and to thy glory that wee were borne and conceiued in sinne that wee haue liued and continued in sinne that our whole liues haue beene nothing else but a heaping vp of sinne and iniquity against thy Holy and Heauenly Maiestie That there is no sinne in his owne nature so heynous or to thee so displeasing but either wee haue committed or else wee haue a pronenesse to commit the same The sinnes of our youth of our riper age and of our later euen of these last time shaue flowed one vpon another and haue polluted our soules defiled our bodies and displeased thy Maiestie so that there is nothing due vnto vs if thou shouldst deale with vs according to our deserts but death and destruction in this life Hell and perdition in the life to come Whither then should we flie for succour and reliefe If we goe vnto Man his breath is in his nostrils that perishing he perisheth If wee goe vnto Angels or to any power in Heauen they haue no power but what they receiueâ— from thee We come therefore vnto thee whose mercy is aboue all thy workes beseeching thee in the multitude of thy mercies to haue compassion on vs. And in that loue which thou shewedst vnto Mankind in sending thy Son to suffer for vs and to saue vs sinners that thou wouldst by his blood death and suffering wash away our sinnes And since thou hast sent him to Redeeme vs suffer vs not to be destroyed O Lord GOD graunt vs penitence and true repentance for our sins past watchfulnesse ouer all our wayes for time to come Care to keepe thy Comman dements strength to withstand the temptations of Satan Humility of heart patience in the times of tryall and aduersitie Constancy in calling vpon thee Feruency in praier Faith in thy promises Assurance of thy loue Assistance in Temptations Deliuerance from dangers of soule and body The right and Sanctified vse of thy creatures Charitie towards our neighbors and contentednes with our estates To this end gracious God take from vs all those things that take vs from thee and giue vs those graces that may make vs to loue thee and declare vs to be intirely beloued of thee Take from vs hardnesse of heart dulnesse and slownes in comming to thy seruice Neglect of those Holy duties thou requirest vs to doe Contempt of thy Commaundements Misbeliefe Vnbeliefe Despaire and doubting of thy mercy Distrust of thy prouidence Giue vs aboue all things Faith stedfaâ—â—ly to beleeue in thee feruour in thy seruice faithfulnesse in maintenance of thy trueth courage to lay downe our liues for the continuance of thy glorious Gospell thankefulnesse for all thy vnspeakable mercies a loue of those that serue thee in sin cerity of heart Liberalitie according to our abilities to those that are in distresse and danger for doing that they ought to do And when thou hast fitted vs for thy seruice and furnished our hearts with thy good graces then send vs the ioy of thy Holy Spirit a detestation of our former euill courses delight in keeping thy Lawes a desire to bee dissolued in thy good appointed time a meditation of our fraile liues and a preparation for our vncertaine deaths And now O blessed Lord wee pray not for our selues alone here present but for thy despised dispersed and distressed flocke throgh the face of the earth It is a little flocke O Lord increase it It is dispersed O Lord gather theÌ„ together into thy fold It is despised distressed Lord succour defend support them Let not the wild Boares destroy thy Vineyard nor the fat Bulles of Basan inuiroÌ„ and ouerwhelme thy chosen ones those that loue thy trueth Thou hast heretofore hedged thy Syon Thou hast mightily and miraculously defended thy chosen Israel Thy hand is not shortned thy power is still the same Let not therefore those that loue not thy trueth or them that loue it say where is now their God Be mercifull to our soueraign to all the Royall Progeny Gouerne the Gouernours of this Land Giue them true wisdome sincere vncorrupt and couragious hearts Innoble the true Nobility with Loyaltie to their Prince and State the leading of a good life and the longing for a better Inspire the Clergie with care and diligence to discharge their duties in their seuerall places Make the Commons of this Kingdome more iust more holy more conscionable in their courses more carefull of the common safety and prosperity of the publike State touch vs all with a zeale of thy feruice and truth an inward reuerence of thy most holy Maiestie a remorse of our former irreligious life That so when wee shall part from this place wee may part from our sinnes but not from sorrow for hauing committed them but may leaue them and leade a better life till wee bee brought from death to that life where sorrow and sin raigneth not where death hath no dominion and where complaints controuersies are not known but haue their ende This life good Lord graunt vs to leade in thy feare and in the ende to inioy that life where ioyes doe last for euer by the mercies of thee our Lord and onely Sauiour Amen A Prayer against Pride anger and Enuy. O LORD God who seest and searchest the secrets of all mens hearts Thou that knowest how subiect I am to Pride Anger and Enuie My heart good Lord is puffed vp with pride it swess with selfe conceipt vaine glory and ostentation I take too much pride of those parts of my Bodie as beautie strength and stature and make my selfe beleeue they are much more faire and fashionable then indeede they are So am I efflated and blowne vp like a bladder with conceit of mine owne knowledg wit vnderstanding and skill making them greater and more goodly vnto my selfe then they are or can bee These foule faults gracious God sometimes I finde in my selfe but nothing so often as I commit them And though now I confesse it yet I haue no power of my selfe to forsake this sinne by which our first Parents fell out of Paradise and we his sinnefull Progeny follow the same steppes and are ready thereby to runne headlong vnto Hell O yet most merciful father clense me from this corruption cure me and I shal be cleane graunt me a lowly penitent and humble heart Teach me to thinke worse of my selfe for my sins then of other men whose faults I know not that I may not thinke so well of my selfe to contemne others O teach me to learne meckenesse of thee my Sauiour who in thy humanitie hast ledde vs to the way of humblenes and meeknesse both of thy precepts and practise Thou hast said learne of me for I am meeke O sweet Sauiour what precept could bee sweeter better or what Example could bee more Holy and perfect If Lucifer an Angel of Heauen could