best and finally desiring nothing but theé who with the father and the holy Ghost art the full and perfect felicity for all euer Amen ⧠A Prayer to the holy Ghost O Holy Spirit worthy of all worship which makest vp the almighty trinity which proceédest from the father and the sonne and art equall to either of them differing from them in only propriety of person which of thy â—nd Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. â— There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire to Elias went vp by a whirlwind c 2. Reg. 2 So after the Lord hâ—d spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of god And they went forth and preached â—c Mar. 16 goodnes forgeuest the sinnes of them that amend which with thy holy breth cleansest mennes mindes comforting them when they be in sorrow cheéring them vp with pure gladnes when they be in heauynes leading them into all truth when they be out of the way kindling in them the fire of charitye when they be a cold knitting them together with the glew of peace when they be at varyance and garnishing and inriching them with sundry giftes which by thy meanes profes the name of the Lord Iesu by whose working all things liue which liue in deéde whose delight is to dwell in the harts of the simple which thou hast vouchsafed to consecrate for temples to thy selfe I beseéch theé maintayne thy giftes in me increase the things dayly which thou hast vouchsafed vpon me that by thy gouernance the lustes of the flesh The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iâ—ssâ— and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Iacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. may dye more and more in me and the desire of the heauenly life more quicken and increase Let me so passe through the misty desert of this world by thy light going before me as I may neither be defiled with Sathans vices nor be intangled with any errors disagreéing from thy truth which the true catholick church hath delyuered vs by the instinct of theé which liuest raignest euerlastingly with the Father and the Sonne Amen * A Prayer to God for his Spirite and grace to pray effectually ETernall and most mercyfull Father we know not our selues neither can easely vnderstand what or how we should pray as we ought But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wifâ— c. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be geuen theâ— to wife for to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6. Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Ioseph her husband being a iust men c Math. 1. Geue vs the Spirit ô Lord to help our infirmytyes which maketh requeste for vs vnto theé with sighes which cannot be expressed I lift vp mine eyes to theé that dwel lest in the heauens Stir vp my hart and mind ô Lord come into me ô spirite of God that I may come vnto theé with hart soule not with mouth and lips only Geue vs thy grace that we may call vpon theé as true worshippers in spirite and truth with the inward attention without hipocrisie and ambition Graunt that I aske nothing of theé but that which may agreé to thy holy will to thy prayse and glory and to the health of my soule â—nd in the â—i moâ—rt the Angell Gabrielâ— was sent froÌ„ God to a citie in Galile naâ—med Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. â—he â—aâ—de of the womâ—n shall â—read vpon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. The Angel sayd to him the Lord is with thee â—hou valyant man â—udges 6 Neither let my praiers ô Lord prescribe the time when and how they should be fulfilled But let me submit my selfe to thy holy will in all things with hope patience and humilitie of hart Thy will be done in earth ô Lord as it is in heauen I will wayt patiently ô Lord for theé that thou mayst incline vnto me and heare my prayer Behold euen as the eies of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a mayd vnto the hand of her maistresse so our eyes will wayt vpon theé ô Lord vntill thou haue mercy vpon vs. â—nd Moyses returned to Iethro his father in law and sayd to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. Aâ—d Mary câ—ose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Iuda 〈◊〉 entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke 1. In his name through faith we come to the throne of thy grace receiuing the spirite of adoption we cry Abba Father StrengtheÌ„ vs O Lord least the vnworthynes of our life withdraw and intice vs from prayer Assist vs therfore O most mercifull father that we may pray euery where lifting vp pure hands without wrath or doubting with supplications prayers intercessions geuing of thanks for our selues and for all men Graunt this through Iesus Christ our Lord who is also at thy right hand and maketh request for vs To whom with theé and thy holy Spirit be all laud and glory Amen When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. * A Prayer for the whole Realm and the body of the Church with the members therof according to their estates degrees Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had coÌ„maunded him c. Gen. 2. Let euery maÌ„ child among you be circumcised That is ye shal circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Ge. 17 And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Iesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiâ—ed c. Luke 2. And forasmuch as thou hast commaunded vs to pray inespecially for kings and Princes and for all such as are set in authoritie that the company of mankind may liue peaceably and quietly vnder them in all godlines and honesty considering how burthensome crownes and scepters are how hard the wealding of them is and how difficult a matter it is to discharge them well whether it be in respect of themselues or of their
my hope is in him because he is my rock and my sauiour and I shall not be remoued In God is my welfare my glory the rock of my strength and my hope is in God. ¶ The lord Come lordings all daunce at my call ¶ The Knight Goe hence sir knight t is almost night We Lordes and Knightes of late Nyw lye in low estate Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake rid my soule out of trouble For I O Lord am thy seruaunt I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handmayd I will offer vnto theé the sacrifice of prayse and pay my vowes vnto theé in the sight of all the people Amen ¶ A Prayer for Gods goodnes and for continuance of the same I Yeald theé thanks and prayse O Lord my God for creating me after thine own Image and likenes For redeming me with thy precious bloud For admitting me into the number of thy children by adoption through the washing of holy baptisme and for feéding me with the sacrament of thy body and bloud Behold the Squire as in a glas For as thou art so he was ¶ The Esquire Esquire the braue It bootes not to craue ¶ The Gentleman Lusty or sad Thou must be 〈◊〉 Also I geue theé prayse and thanks for that thou of thine infinite gracious goodnes hast paciently wayted for my amendement euen from the time of mine ignorant childhoode vnto this houre notwithstanding that I ran losely into innumerable vices I glorifie theé and praise theé for thy often ridding of me from a number of troubles distresses calamities and miseries and for sauing me hetherto froÌ„ the often deserued euerlasting punishments and torments both of body and soule I prayse theé and glorifie theé for thy mercifull geuing of me health of body soundnes of limmes quyetnes of times and working of good things with many other vertues ¶ The Iudge Come on iudge With me to trudge ¶ The iustice Sir Iustice arise â–ª come to my assâ—se Iudge and Iustice sentence haue To ly as Captiues in the graue Dispose and order thou all my thoughts words and deédes according to thy will. Keépe me at all times and in all places wheresoeuer I goe whether it be in prosperitie or aduersitie And in the end bring me to the desired ioyes of the present beholding of theé Amen A generall thanksgeuing O God which excellest in all goodnes and wisdome O heauenly Father which art full of mercy and clemency when I cal to minde the works of thy hands I cannot but wonder at thy great wisdome and infinite goodnes which thou hast shewed towards No law no plea no drift From death can make a shift ¶ Sergeant at law Leaue the Lawes heare my cause ¶ The Attâ—rney 〈◊〉 lead as thou â—ust With me thou must all thy creatures especially towards me Not only in that thou hast geuen me being mouing and life but also in that besides thine other infinite benefites which thou hast distributed in general to all men in the world thou hast bestowed so many particular benefites vpon me as it is vnpossible for me to rehearce them yea or to conceiue theÌ„ Thou hast vouchsafed to deliuer me by the light of thy gospel from the darcknes of error and ignorance or rather to draw me out of the horrible dungeons of death and damnation wherto I was condemned in respect of the corruptnes of my nature and so conueyed me into the kingdome of thy welbeloued sonne who hath geuen him self for my sinnes according to thy good pleasure and euerlasting ordinance Also thou hast receaued me into thy Church among the number of thy childreÌ„ thou ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execuâ—ion I haue a commission Mayors Shirifes do passe with speed And others them in place succeed hast elected and chosen me through thy wonderfull prouidence to be to the glory of thy mercy And thou hast inhonored me with the copartnership of the euerlasting inheritance of thy deér beloued sonne to beé of that royall priesthoode which shall offer the sacrifices of eternall prayse and thanksgeuing to thy holy name in thy heauenly temple now therfore according to dauids saying what shall I reÌ„der to the Lord for all his benefites towardes me I know that al my life ought to be consecrated to continuall thankes geuing to shew forth with his holy people and purchased possession the mighty workes of him that hath called vs out of darckenes to his wonderfull light The cup of deliueraÌ„ce ought not to depart out of my handes nor the new songs therof out of my mouth But Lord graunt me the grace wh c We peace did keep in princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Bailife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest thou didst shew heretofore to Dauid a maÌ„ according to thine own hart Who treating of the same matter and rehersing the recordes of thy goodnes sayd of a truth Lord I am thy seruant and the sonne of thy haÌ„dmaid thou hast broken my boÌ„ds a sunder I will offer vnto theé the sacrifice of thankesgeuing call vpon thy name Euen so say I lord of my selfe and that by thy grace I am thy seruaunt I am thy seruant Thou hast broken my bonds and preserued me and set me in safety Unto theé O king of eternitie immortall and inuisible euen vnto theé O God who only art good and onely wise be honor and glory for euer through Iesus Christ thy sonne our Lord and only Sauiour So be it ¶ The Phisicion By thy wateâ— I do seé thou mâ—st away with me The 〈◊〉 Looke not so hie low thou must lie No arte or medicine can preuayl When death doth purpose â—o assayl ⧠Here beginneth the Letany and Suffrages O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father of heauen haue mercy c. O God the Sonne Redeémer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer c. O God the holy Ghost proceéding froÌ„ the Father and the Sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity threé persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the Death winnes the field â—ll armâ—s must yeeld ¶ The Herauld Herald in thy â—hield beare grasse in greenfield Sergeant at Armes Sergeant see thou sâ—ay â—l glory must away offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sinnes Spare vs good Lord spare thy people whoÌ„ thou hast redeémed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all euil and mischief from sinne from the crafts and assaultes of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord
and the decree DestructioÌ„ was preached to the Niniuites if they repented not this was the condition and the decree Niniue repented and was not destroyed but saued was therfore Gods decree altered no For he decreed their destruction but vpoÌ„ this condition if they repented not Pray therfore if thou be godly that he would geue thee the grace to coÌ„tinue and if thou be sinful pray that he geue thee the grace to repent And thus very well our prayers haue strength to stay Gods wrath his decree remayning immutable because it is threatned but vpoÌ„ a condition if we repent not But whence hath prayer this strength of it self No. For we being iustified through faith haue peace toward God that is the fauor of God through our Lord Iesus Christ. Rom. 5. So that Christ is our mouth whereby we speake to the Father our eyes by which we see the Father our right hand by which we offer to the Father Which Christ except he be our aduocate neither we nor all the saints can haue any thing to doe with god For no maÌ„ coÌ„meth to the father but by him Ioh. 14. Why then are not our prayers alwayes heard hauing continually such a spokesman who hath all power both in heauen and earth Truely because either we aske amisse not according to Gods will and that which is not for vs to receaue or it pleaseth the Lord to defer our requestes for tryall of our faith and patience HereupoÌ„ it was that Dauid sayd Expectans expectaui Dominum With long wayting I waited for the lord and he inclined vnto me and heard my calling Psal. 40. Pray therfore continually with faith loue vnderstanding in the name of Iesus Christ pray for al men at al times in al places and for al things according to Gods wil. Though thou be a sinner though God foreknoweth the hart though his decree be immutable yet pray vnto him in Iesus Christ and he will refresh thee Of this I thought good to admonish thee Christian Reader because it is an easy thing to pray but to pray aright is a thing very difficult Here are prepared for thee zealous and godly prayers some translated out of Latin French some made by the best learned of our time Use theÌ„ as I haue taught thee that they may be to good vse Accuse not mine insufficiency in teaching but amend thine owne imperfection in praying praying that we talke not smoothly walk crookedly but that we may giue to God the father our maker obedience faith to Iesus Christ our redemer and mortification of the flesh to God the holy ghost our comfortor Fare wel in Christ Iesu. R. D. ⧠The Preface or preparation to prayer O Lord my good God and Father blessed be thy name for euer dispose my hart open my lips and guide me by thy holy spirite to a true acknowledgement of all my sinnes that my prayer may be heard of theé in the name of thy Sonne Iesus Christ So be it ¶ A prayer to be sayd at our first waking O God and father of our Lord Iesus Christ whom no man knoweth but by thy specyall gift graunt that vnto the rest of thine exceéding great benefites towards me this which is the greatest that can be bestowed vpon mankind There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Iacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. The birth of blessed Mâ—ry the virgine the mother of Christ c. may be added also namely that as thou hast raysed vp my body from fast and sound sleépe so also thou wilt deliuer my mind from the sleépe of sin and from the darcknes of this world and after death restore the same body to life as well as thou hast called it agayne from sleépe For that which is death to vs is but sleépe vnto theé I pray and beseéch theé that through thy goodnes this body of mine may be a fellow and furtherer of all godlinesse to my soule in this life so as it may also be partner with it of the endles felicitie in the life to come through Iesus Christ thy sonne our lord For whose sake and by whom thou geuest vs all good and holsome thinges to our welfare Amen Another MUch better is the light of the soule and the insight of the Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Ioseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be geuen thee to wife for to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6. minde then the light or eyesight of the body The eyesight of the body euery silly beast hath but the sight of minde none hath but men Yea none haue it but wise men Thou therfore O Lord Iesu Christ which art the greatest of all lights the only true light the light from whence springeth the light of the day and the sonne Thou light which inlightenest euery man y commeth into the world Thou light whereon there commeth no night nor euentide but continuest euer bright and cleére as at midday Thou light wherewithout all things are deépe darcknesse and whereby all things were made lightsome Thou mind and wisdom of the heauenly Father inlighten my minde that being blind in all other things I may seé nothing but that which beloÌ„geth to theé and that I may thereby walke in thy wayes without fantasying or lyking The seede of the woman shall tread vpon the head of the serpent Gen 3. The Angel sayd to him the Lord is with thee thou valyant man Iudges 6 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 the â—ngell Gabriel was sent fro God to a citie in Galile 〈◊〉 Nazareth 〈◊〉 virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. of any other light els Lord I beseéch theé inlighten mine eyes that I may neuer slumber in darcknes least my ghostly enemy say at any time I haue preuayled against him Amen * A prayer at our vprising OUr first father Adam being tumbled down from most excellent and glorious highnes into the dungeon of shame and sinck of all sinne was releéued lifted vp again by thy hand O Sauyour Iesus christ And we likewise should lye wallowing in the same plight for euer if we were not raysed vp by theé Wherfore O most mercifull Redeémer of mankinde like as thou of thy goodnes hast raysed vp this heauy and burthensome body euen so vouchsafe to lift vp my minde to the knowledge and loue of thy highnes Amen And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Iuda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c Luke 1. And Moyses returned
morrow Moreouer because this life hath not one houre certayne whensoeuer the eâ—entide therof commeth the long sleepe of the body groweth vpon me from which we shall not wake till the dead rise agayn at the sound He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Abraham said Lord if I haue now found fauor in thy sight c â–ª Gen. â—1 Nâ—buchadneser aÌ„swered Lo I seâ— foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire Dan. 3 of thine Angels Trumpet I beseech thee lighten thou then the eyes of my minde so as I may not sleepe in euerlasting death by the quenching of my faith but rest in thee to whom euen the dead are aliue Which lyuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen ¶ A prayer to be sayd when we vnclothe our selues to bedward THis body which is become vnhaÌ„some and vnwealdy through sin shal be consumed by litle and litle and deliuered agayne to the earth from whence it was taken There shall the end be of this vanitie which we haue purchased to our selues by our owne folly Now therfore thou O most louing Father which hast set me together Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned agaynst the lord c. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked vpon Myriam and behold she was leprous Num. 12. Iesus sayd Many sinnes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7 dissolue me in such wise as I may feéle my selfe to be dissolued and remeÌ„ber of whom I am ouercome and consider whether I must goe Take me not vnwares and vnprouyded to thy iudgement seat but like as we be willing to put of our clothes which we shall put on agayne when the night is past so let vs not be loth to put of this body which we shall receiue agayn after that the night of this world hath run out his full race Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd at our going into bed WHen the day is ended we geue our selues to rest in the night so when this life is ended we rest in deth Nothing resembleth our life more theÌ„ the day nor death more then sleépe nor the graue more then the bed Uouchsafe therfore O Lord our gouernour When Christ came nere Ierusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. Who shall haue pity then vâ—on thee O Ierusalem or who c. Iere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation their Alars c. 1. Michâ— 1. defender both to shield vs now lying vnable to help our selues from the craftines assaults of our cruell enemy also to call vs then vnto theé when we shal be yet more vnable at the finishing of the race of this life not for our own deserts but for thy own mercy sake that we may liue walk with theé for euer And now let vs so fall a sleép in theé as thou only those exceding great incredible good thinges may in such wise be preseÌ„t alway before vs by the insight of our minds as we may not be absent from theé no not euen in sleép that such dreames may both keép our beds and bodies pure vndefiled and also chere our harts with that blessed ioy of thine In trust wherof I wil fall on sleép and take my rest through our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen A Prayer when we be redy to sleep The women sang by course in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 2â— The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Christ riding to Ierusalem many spred their gâ—â—â—entes in â—he way other cut downe branches of the trees strawed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. â—â— â–ª TAke me into thy protection O Lord Iesu Christ our defender and graunt that while my body slepeth my soul may wake in thee and cheérefully and ioyfully behold the happy gladsome heauenly life wherein thou art soueraine with the Father and the holy Ghost and the Angels and holy soules of men are most blessed fellow Citizens for euer and euer Amen * A preparation or preface to Publick Prayer ALmighty God and heauenly Father I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy feare will I worshippe toward thy holy Temple I haue loued the habitation of thine house and willingly am I present in the congregation of thy Saints praysing and confessing thy holy name Iesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them it is written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a deâ— of theues Luke 10 Is this house become a den of theeues wherupon c. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56 Come let vs fall and bow down before the Lord who hath made vs because he is the Lord our God and we the sheep of his pasture Exalt the Lord our God fall down before his footstoole for he is holy Lord I make my prayer vnto thee in an acceptable time euen in the multitude of thy mercies O God heare me in the truth of thy saluation I will offer to thee a sacrifice of praise and will call vpon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord euen now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lords house euen in the middest of thee O Ierusalem I will run in the way of thy commaundementes when thou shalt inlarge mine hart Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes Open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy lawe When Iosephes brethren saw him a farr of c. Gen. 3 Absolon rose vp early and stode hard by the c. 2. Sam. 15. Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes â–ª and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 1â— Then will I take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy prayse I will sing with the Spirite and in vnderstanding and say Amen * A short speech before the Lords Proyer O Heauenly Father O most merciful God I most wretched sinner am vnworthy to lift vp my hands and eyes vnto thee or to trouble thee with my prayers Neuerthelesse forasmuch as thou hast commaunded all men to pray promised that thou wilt heare vs And moreouer prescribed vs a forme of Prayer in expresse wordes by thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ being
side with his spear so as there remayned not one drop more in thy body But finally thou wast as a bundle of mirhe hanged vp aloft thy tender flesh shrunke the moysture of thy bowels dried vp the marow of thy bones wasted away I beseéch theé O most sweéte Iesu by this most bitter death of thine and by the sheading of thy most precious bloud wound my hart with such repentance ¶ The lord Come lordings all daunce at my call ¶ The Knight Goe hence sir Knight t is almost night We Lordes and Knightes of late Now lye in low estate of my sinnes and ioy of thy loue as my teares may be my foode day and night Turne thou me wholy vnto theé that my hart may dwell with theé continually and my conuersation be acceptable vnto theé And let my life be such through thy goodnes as I may prayse theé for euer with al thy Saints in the life to come Amen Another O Lord Iesu Christ the sonne of the liuing God who for the saluation of the world drankest eyzell and Gall vpon the cros like as at the geuing vp of the Ghost when thou hadst finished all things didst commit thy soule into thy Fathers hāds so do I betake my soul into thy mercifull hands beseeching thee both to preserue it here frō all sinne and in the end to receaue it in peace into the company of thy chosen that are departed that I may Behold the Squire as in a glas For as thou art so he was ¶ The Esquire Esquire the braue It bootes nor to craue ¶ The Gentleman Lusty or sad Thou must be had with thē prayse thee euerlastingly which liuest raignest c. Amen * A prayer vpon the minding of Christes resurrection and ascention O Lord Iesu O good Iesu which diddest vouchsafe to die for my sinnnes and rosest agayn for my iustification I beseéch theé by thy glorious resurrection raise me vp from the graue of al my vices and sinnes and geue me part daily in the first resurrection that I may be made partaker of the second resurrection also O most sweét Iesu which art gone vp into heauē with glorious triumph and sittest at the right hand of thy Father like a most mighty king draw me vp to theé make me to runne after theé for the sweét sent of thine oyntmentes ¶ The Iudge Come on iudge With me to trudge ¶ The iustice Sir Iustice arise come to my assise Iudge and Iustice sentence haue To ly as captiues in the craue make me to run without tyring by thy drawing and pulling of me forward Draw the soul that thirsteth after theé to the riuers of euerlasting suffifanze which are aboue yea verely draw me to thy selfe which art the liuing fountayn that I may so drink of theé according to my capacitie as I may liue for euer My God my life thou welspring of life fill my minde with the streames of thy pleasures ▪ make my hart loue-sick with the sober drunkennes of thy loue that I may forget the things that are vain and earthly and haue theé only in my mind continually Geue me thy holy spirite which is betokened by those waters which thou hast promysed to geue to them that are a thirst Graunt I beseéch theé that I may long with all my hart and labour with all my indeuor to attayne to the place whether we beleéue that thou didst ascend No law no plea ▪ no drift From death can make a shift ¶ Sergeant at law Leaue the Lawes heare my cause ¶ The Attorney Plead as thou lust With me thou must the fortith day after thy resurrection so as I may be conuersant in this vale of misery but with my body and alwayes in heauen with my hart so as my minde may be where thou art euen where thou my incomparable and deér beloued treasure art that I may sing prayses to thy name from this time forth for euermore Amen Another O Brother of oures O naturall sonne of that father whose sōnes thou makest vs by adoption O head of our body we seé that thou art king of heauē forget not thou thy earth wherinto thine inestimable loue of vs did bring theé down Thou frō out of that place geuest hope to vs thy members that we may come thether as thou art exalted already O gard and defence of vs what can now hurt vs so long as ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execution I haue a commission The Mayors and Shirifes doe pas with speed And others them in place succeed we trust in theé Most wretched are they that know theé not and most happy are they that doe euer behold theé Blessed are they that knew theé here in the dayes of the mortalitie of thy flesh But more blessed are they that seé theé in heauen and shall seé theé raigning in the chief goods of thy father O loue and delight of mankind O only hope of vs imbrace vs with thy fauour kisse vs shead thy spirite into our harts and make our minds to run continually vpon theé to our exceéding great comfort Lift vs vp lying flatte vpon the ground open our eyes and lift them vp vnto theé Open thy mouth to call vs and open our eares to heare theé that we setting theé alone before vs for our marck to direct our life by may square out all our doeings words thoughts by theé Amen We peace did keep in Princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Bailife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest ⧠A Prayer to Christ ascending and raigning in glory OH good Christ our first begotten brother and tender harted Ioseph Oh natural sonne of that Father to whom we are made children of adoption through theé Oh our head raigning on high in glory forget not vs thy poore members here on earth wher into abasing thy selfe thou camst down and sufferedst for vs most cruell death Out of this thy throne of maiesty and glory thou putst vs in assured hope and confidence that we also shall attayn to that blessed place whether thou art gon before to take possessiō for vs Oh our strong tower of defence succor what can hurt vs now trusting in theé Most vnhappy are they which are ignorāt of theé Most happy are they which alwayes behold theé ¶ The Phisicion By thy water I do seé thou must away with me The Astronomer Looke not so hie low thou must lie No arte or medicine can preuayle When death doth purpose to assayle Blessed are they which haue known theé here in the dayes of their mortalitie but more blessed are they which seé theé in the heauens and shall seé theé raigning with thy Father in ioyes incomparable Oh Lord the only ioy and comfort of our soules shew vs thy louing countenance imbrace vs with the armes of thy mercy receiue vs O good