untill now For the good which I have received For the good if any which I have done For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits For the promise and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing For my good and honest Parents My kinde and mild Master and Teacher My ever memorable Benefactors My trusty friends My faithfull companions My loving and carefull Wife My obedient and towardly children For all those which have any way furthered and profited me By their writings Sermons Discourses Proverbs Examples Reproofes Injuries For all these and for all other known unknown manifest and secret remembred and forgotten Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered I praise and will praise Blesse Blesse Thanke Thank thee All the dayes of my life What am I Lord or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven which he hath given me to this instant Praises IT is good to sing psalms unto our God For sweete and decent is his praise Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart In the counsell of the Saints and in the Congregation O magnifie the Lord with me and let us elevate his Name Let all his works blesse the Lord in all the places of his Dominion from the Sun rise to the fall thereof Let all that breath praise the Lord Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations and praise him only ô all ye people Give unto the Lord all ye Kindreds of the earth give unto the Lord honor and glory Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Being your offerings and come into his Courts Praise thou the Lord ô Salem and thou ô Sion praise ye the Lord All ye that stand in the Lords house in the courts of the house of our God lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary ô lift them up and praise the Lord My soule praiseth the Lord him will I praise all my life long To my God will I sing whilst I have any being Thou art my God and I will praise thee Thou art my God and I will exalt thee Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens and thy glory above the Earth Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures All man-kinde in generall The Klngdome of the whole world The Catholike Church The Kingdomes and Churches in severall This Church and Kingdome of ours The orders and degrees in each And the particular persons in them Towards this City This Parish wherein I dwell Towards all that are mine Mine Household Kindred Benefactors Friends Wel-willers Towards my poor selfe My soule and body in the gifts of grace Nature The world Now to this present and which shall bee at my time hereafter Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord For indeede it is most due and just Most meet and convenient in all and by all means in all â—indes Times and places To memorize adore confesse praise blesse Magnifie and thanke thee VVhich art the Creator Nourisher Preserver Governour Restorer Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures Their Lord and Father Their King and God The fountain of life and Immortrlity The treasury of eternall blessing VVhom the heavens applaud and the heaven of heavens the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them with them Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high in earth peace and good will among men Blessed and praised and magnified extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord The memoriall mention and remembrance thereof For the faith of the Patriarchs The hope of the Prophets The labours of the Apostles The trueth of the Evangelists The blood of the Martyrs The zeale of the Confessors The study of the Doctors Glory be to thee O Lord glory be to thee Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them In whom wee also glorifie thee Amen Glory and wisedome Honour and Virtue Praise and Riches Blessing Power Thanksgiving and Dominion Holinesse and Salvation be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever and to the Lambe which was slaine Amen Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee for thy judgments are made manifest Praises in Particular COme and harken unto me ô all yee that feare the Lord and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule he hath created me hee hath brought me into life and hath so disposed of mee that I am A living soule and not a sensles thing A Man not a Beast Civill not barbarous Freeborne not a slave Legittimate not a bastard Of honest parentage not of base or Ignominious Of understanding not blockish Sound in sences not blind or deafe Sound in Limbs not lame or maimed Well brought up not forlorne or exposed A Christian not a Pagan Peaceable not quarelsome Cleare of dangers not swallowed up by them Cleere of infamy not wounded in credit Of sufficient estate not forced to flatter or borrow And living in the dayes of PEACE not turmoyled with hurly burly To thee O Lord Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. To an Inheritance Immortall undefiled and never fading reserved in heaven for us which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me so through Christ my consolation aboundeth To thee O Lord The God of my fathers I make my confession to thee I give praise because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee and hast opened thy Word unto me Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood according to the power which worketh in us Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ through out all generations for ever and ever As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this â—â—â— I give my thanks to tâ—â—e ô Lord The Evening approacheth ô blesse that also to
one night adde knowledge unto another Teach mee good Lord so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisedome From the morning watch untill the evening let Israel trust in thee O Lord A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer O Lord I Have neither knowne thee as I ought might have done neither as I have known thee have I glorified thy name or beene thankefull unto thee and woe is me that I have not But with sorrow I confesse and humbly I crave pardon and would to God I had done it nay would I might now hereafter so know thee and live so holily that both in me and by mee and by others for my sake thy name might be hallowed O let me so serve and so promote thy Kingdome here upon earth in the state of grace that I may attaine unto some place though the lowest even under the feete of thy Saints in Heaven in the state of glory Thy will which is holy and just and good be done by mee thy mercifull and gracious will be done with me me earth as I am As it is in Heaven Give us this day those things which may conduce to our welfare our quiet and our contentment Forgive mee my debts That excessive score of my debts my filthy slips fals my frequent relapses my long long wallowing in abominable pollutions even such as it is a shame to name or repeate these all and those other also which are not so sensible and yet perhaps no lesse grievious and which sinke me full as deep into perdition Out of these depths I cry out unto thee good Lord I beseech thee deliver my soule deliver it from the nethermost hell One deep calleth upon another the depth of my misery on the depth of thy mercie psal. 42. 7. O let thy mercie bee exalted above thy justice let thy goodnesse overcome my wickednesse Jam. 2. 13. Where sin hath abounded let thy grace much more abound Rom. 5. 20. Take away my sinnes take away the cause of my sins my sinns both those which are scandalous and scrupulous to my heart and those also which are not so and yet perhaps far more heynous of which I desire thee ô Lord that I may bee enlightned that so I may bee humbled for them In thy wrath remember mercie and forgive me my sinnes sins of mine owne ends with others sins secret and manifest sins ancient and fresh of the world or of the flesh As thou art most mercifull and indulgent and compassionate O Lord forgive them all even as wee forgive our debters and grant us this also that wee may forgive them and to that end infuse thy charity into our hearts Leade me not neither suffer me to be led nor â—â— enter into temptation but remember commiserate my frailty and weakenesse so often discovered But deliver me from evill from the evill Spirit and his suggestion from the evill in my selfe that is in my flesh and the inticement therof from the evil in the world and the contagion of it From all penall evills which most justly and worthily I have deserved from the evils of the world to come and spare mee there and feare and launce me here rather From the evills of this present world ptty mee Lord for I am but feeble from the malice and evill of this day and of this disease wherewith I now struggle and from the evill ensuing From all manner of evills past present and to come from them all good Lord deliver me and keepe me thy servant for ever Amen Confession of sin TO thee O Lord I confess for if I would I cannot hide it from thee that I also am one of the number for even my life discovereth my guilt O Lord I am a Sinner a branch of the wild Olive tree arising from the roote of bitternesse Job 14. 4. For of uncleane seed was I begotten and in sinne did my mother conceive me Psal. 51. 1. And I have sinned I have dealt unjustly I have done wickedly even in thy presence Psa. 106. 6. 51. 2. Impiously have I behaved my selfe in thy Covenant and have cast off thy law 1 King 8. 34. And rejected thy correction oppressed thy spirit and have gon a whoring after mine owne inventions and proceeded from bad to worse and have not feared thee Esa. 5. 24. Pro. 15. 3. Esa 63. 10. Ier. 18. 12. Lev. 25. 43. Nor yet returned Luk. 15. 18. No not when I was called back Pro. 13. 10. Not when I was afflicted Heb. 3. 13. But have waxed hard 1 Kings 16. 33. And have provoked thee And all this thou hast seene Psa. 9. 33. And yet hast held thy peace La. 2. 59. Sam. 49. 21. O God Thou knowest my foolishnesse and my transgresssions are not hid from thee I know it also my guilt is ever more before me Ps. 69. 5. Ps. 51. 3. Job 31. 33. Ps. 141. 4. And I hide not ô Lord Iincline not my heart to such wicked words as to excuse the accusations of my sinnes But against mine owne selfe I acknowledge mine iniquity and all that is within me and all my bones say that I have sinned I have sinned O Lord against thee Psa. 32. 5. 103. 1. 55. 10. 106. 6. Dan. 9. 19. Like a lost sheep I have gon astray and have been as froward as an untamed Heifer nay like a dogg have I returned to my vomit and like a washt Sow have I wallowed in the mire againe and rushed into mine owne destruction like a barbed steed into the battell Psalme 119. vlt. Ier. 31. 18. Pro. 26. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Ier. 8. 6. And now O Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hidden from thee thou know'st Lord my greif because I have thus sinned against thee that I am become tedious to mine own selfe because my sorrow is not greater that earnestly desire of thee a contrite heart unspeakable groanes and teares of bloud Psa. 38. 9. Iob. 7. 20. Psalme 51. 17. Rom. 8. 26. And woe is me for my leanesse for the drynesse of my eyes and the hardnes of my heart Esa. 24. 16. Ier. 9. 1. Rom. 12. 5. Mar. 9. 25. Yet Lord I repent I repent O Lord O doe thou help my want of penitence and still more and more bruise thou rend prick and smite this heart of mine Psa. 51. 17. Ioel. 2. 13. Act 1. 2. 37. Behold O Lord I am angry with my selfe for my foolish unprofittable nay hurtfull dangerous lust 1 Cor. 7. Ps. 73. 22. Luc. 23. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 8. 1 Tim 6. 9. Yea I even loath and abhorr my selfe for the absurdity the foolishnesse the basenesse of it Iob 42. 6. 2 Thes. 3. 2 All the day long my shame is before mine eyes and the confusion of face hath covered me Ex. 5. 12. 13 17. Psa. 44. 15 Alas Alas That I have no more reverenced nor yet feared Ja. 1. 14. Thy Incomprehensible glory Awfull presence
Dreadfull power Exquisite Justice Amiable goodnesse How have I been drawn away by mine owne conconcupiscence that I am become a prey to the devil to be taken of him at his will 1 Tim. 2. last Behold now therefore O Lord I adjudge and professe my selfe most guilty and worthy of eternall punishment yea and of all extreamities here in this world also Gen. 18. 19. Eze. 33. 9. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Behold me O Lord already condemned by mine owne Sentence Tit. 3. 11. Psalme 143. 2. Behold it O good Lord enter not thou into judgement with thy Servant Tit. 3. 11. Ps. 143. 2. Gen. 30. 20. I acknowledge that I am farre lesse then all yea even the least of al thy mercies Luk. 15. 19. That I am not worthy to be made one of thy Hyrelings not the very meanest of them That I am not worthy of the scrapps that fall from thy Table Mat. 15. 15. Nor so much as to touch the hem of thy garment Mat. 9. 21. And now O Lord humbled under thy mighty hand I bend my knees unto thee and fall prostrate on the earth on my face 1 Pet. 5. 6. Eph. 3. 14. Mat. 26. 29. I stretch forth my hands unto thee and my soule is as the land that wanteth water before thee Psalme 146. 6. I dare not so much as lift an eye towards heaven but I smite my brest and from the depth of it doth my soule call and cry out unto thee Luk. 18. 13. Psal. 35. and 79. 9. O for thy names sake for the glory of thy name bee mercifull to my sinne for it is very much for it is exceeding great and for thy mercies thy sweet and tender mercies psal. 25. 10 11. Luke 1. 18. For the greatnesse the multitude the vast multitude the riches the abundance the over abundance of them ps. 69. 16. 119. 156 and 51. 1. and 130. 4. Eph. 1. 6. 1 Tim. 1. 14. Rom. 5. 20. Be mercifull O Lord to me a sinner ô Lord be merfull to me the chiefe of all sinners O remember and consider what my substance is that I am but as grasse or the flower of grasse but flesh a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe Esay 40. 6. Psal. 73. 40. Job 17. 14. But a worme and rottennesse but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. psal. 35. 13. Job 4. 19. Gen. 41. 9. prov. 27. 1. Esa. 38. 13. That I am a stranger and Pilgrim upon the earth that I dwell in an house of clay that my dayes are few and evill that I am here to day and not tomorrow in the morning and not at night now and not anon that I live in a body of sinne and death in a world of corruption and which is set upon mischief or lyeth in wickednesse Rom. 6. 6. 1 pet. 1. 4. 1 Jo. 15. 19. psal. 74. 18. Remember this O Lord and discharge remitt and forgive mee all those my transgressions which as a man bearing about me this flesh and dwelling in such a world I have committed against thee Reprove me not ô Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thy displeasure Psal. 6. 1. For unto thee I confesse my wickednesse ô pardon thou the ungodlinesse of my heart psal. 6. 1. 32. 5 6. 38. 9. All my desire ô Lord is before thee and my groaning is not concealed from thee Pitty me therefore according to thy great mercie and according to the multitude of thy compassions doe away all mine offences psal. 51 1 Rise ô God and have mercy upon me for it is time to have mercy on me yea the time is come psal. 102. 13. For if thou should'st strictly examine our iniquities ô Lord what man were able to subsist psal. 33. 3. Enter not thou into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight no flesh can be righteous psal. 14. 32. O Lord Thou which camest into the world to save sinners save mee which am the chiefest of all Sinners 1 Tim. 1. 15. 24. Thou which takest away the sinnes of the whole world be pleased to take away my sins also 1 Iob. 1. 24. Thou that camest to redeeme that which was lost Lu. 19. 10. Suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed That which was so dear to redeem suffer not to be lost as a thing of no value A Prayer for the performance of the Law I Lift my hand ô Lord to thy Commandements which I have loved open mine eyes and I shall understand incline my heart and I shall affect direct my steps and I shall walke in the path of thy precepts Ps. 119. 48. 18. 36. 133. 1. O Lord God Grant that I May know thee for the true God and knowing it that I may acknowledg thee and no other nor any thing else with or beside thee John 17. Rom. 1. 21. 2. Grant that I may worship adore thee in truth of spirit Jo. 4. 14. 3. In the decent habit and gesture of my body 1 Cor. 14. 40. 4. In the benediction of my mouth Jam. 3. 9. in publique and private 1 Cor. 14. 26. 5. Grant also that I may render honour to my Superiours That I may bee perswaded and ruled by them love to all those which belong to me that I may bee carefull and provident for them Heb. 1. 13. 17. 1. Tim. 5. 8. 6. That I may overcome malice with goodnesse Rom. 12. 21. 7. That I may possess my Vessel in holinesse and honour 1 Thes. 4. 4. 8. That being content with what I have my conversation may bee void of all coveteousnesse Hebr. 13. 5. 9. That I may speak with charity Ephes. 4. 15. 10. That I covet not inordinately nor pursue any covetous desires Rom. 7. ult. Col. 3. 5. Eccles. 8. 30. Good Lord Remove from mee all 1. Atheisme Hypocrisie 2. Idolatry will-worship 3. Perjury and Blasphemy 4. Superstition and profanesse in thy service 5. Stubbornesse and carelesnesse 6. Strife and malice 7. Lust and uncleanenesse 8. Injury and Cosenage 9. Lying and slandering 10. And all wicked desires and base Concupiscence Grant me O Lord thy grace To remember the latter end Deut. 32. 29. To bruise the Serpents head Gen. 3. 15. To cut off occasions of sinne To covenant with my sence 2 Cor. 11. 13. To prevent scandals Iob. 31. 1. To subdue my body Ez. 14. 4. Not to sit idle 1 Cor. 9. 8. To shun wicked company Mat. 24. 6. To consort with the righteous Psal. 26. 4. To select times for prayer 1 Cor. 7. 5. Stopp up my pathes with thornes that I finde not the way to vanity Hos. 2. 6. Hold me in and rayne me with bitt and bridle when I keep not neer thee Psal. 32. 9. And constraine mee to come to thee If inviting will not serve Luc. 14. 34. 39. Vouchsafe O Lord to give me the knowledge and beliefe of thy justice that it may breed in me Feare Humility Repentance Prayer and Fasting Hope Charity Thanksgiving Praise and Almes Confession of Faith Lord