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A19989	A booke of Christian prayers, collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs	Day, Richard, b. 1552.	1578 (1578)	STC 6429; ESTC S121845	90,200	224

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. I Thanke theé O Lord Iesu Christ that it hath pleased theé to geue me good rest this night past And I beseéch theé likewise to prosper me all this day following to the glory of thy name and to mine own soules health And thou which art the true daylight that neuer knoweth any euentide And the euerlasting dayson which quickneth cherisheth and cheéreth all thinges vouchsafe to shine into my minde that I may not stumble into any sinne but by thy guyding come to eternall life Amen Another I Thank theé O holy Lord father almighty and euerlasting God that thou hast vouchsafed to keépe me this night through thy great mercy And I beseéch theé of thine vnmeasurable clemency to geue me grace so to pas this day now comming in all lowlynesse 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. When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought 〈◊〉 her first ●e ●otten sonne and ●rapped him in swa●l●ng clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume 〈…〉 meéknes chastity charitie patience goodnes feare and warynesse as my seruise may please theé through him which shall come to iudge both the quick and the dead the world by fire keépe and preserue me from all euil from all stumbling and geuing of offence from all wilfull sinning and from all the crafts and assaultes of wicked feénds and enemies seéne or vnseéne through our Lord Iesus Christ thine onely begotten sonne To whom be prayse and glory with theé for euermore Amen * A Prayer at the putting on of our Clothes MOst gracious and merciful sauyour Iesus Christ thou knowest how we be borne clothed clogged with the greéuous and heauy burthen of the first man who fell away vnto fleshlynesse through disobedience 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 conceiued c. Luke 2. Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had cōmaunded him c. Gen. 21 Let euery mā child among you be circumcised That is ye shal circumcise the fores skin of your flesh c. Ge. 17 Uouchsafe therefore I beseéch theé to strip me out of the old corrupt Adam which being soked in sin transformeth him self into all incumberances and diseases of the minde that may lead away from theé Rid me also quite and cleane of that his tempter the deceitfull Eue which turneth vs away from the obedience of thy Father Clothe me with thy self O my redeémer and sanctifyer clothe me with thy self which art the second man and hast yealded thy self obedient in all things to God thy father to rid away all lustes of the flesh and to destroy the kingdome thereof through righteousnes Be thou our clothing and apparrell to keép vs warme from the cold of this world For if thou be away by and by all things become noume weake and stark dead Wheras if thou be present they be liuely sound strong and lusty Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and be hold mine hand shal be with thee c. 2. Sam. 3. The Queen of Sa●a bring gifts to Ierusalem to Salomon with a very great tray●e c. 3. Reg· 10. ●here is the king of the Iewes that is 〈◊〉 for we haue 〈◊〉 his starre in the East and are ●ome to worship him When Herode the king heard this he was troubled all Ierusalem ▪ c. Math. 2. And therfore like as I wrap my body in these clothes so cloth thou me all ouer but specially my soule with thine own selfe Amen ❧ A Prayer to be sayd at our first going abroad I Must be fayn to go abroad among the snares which the deuill and his handseruant the world haue layd for me and I cary with me besides the stinges of mine own flesh Guyde me therfore O thou most sure guide be thou my leader thou God of my welfare Defend me O captayn from the traynes and stalles that are layd for me that whatsoeuer thinges I shall meéte with I may make no more accoūt of them then they are worthy of but keép on my way with mine eyes so fast fixed and setled vpon theé alone as I may not deal with any thing further 〈◊〉 the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses ●●re accomplished they brought Iesus to Ierusalem to presēt him to the lord as it is written in the law of the lord Luke 2. God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open al maner matrices among the childrē c. Exo. 13 Anna bare a sonne brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh and the child was young c 1. Sam. 1. forth then it hath respect vnto theé Lord shew me thy wayes and lead me in thy pathes for thy Sonnes sake Amen * A Prayer to be sayd at our returning home O How excellent and ioyfull shall our returning home be into the euerlasting quyet and blessed house of heauen where there is no troble nor incumberance at al. All the mirth and gladnes of this world is but a shadow in comparysō of the pleasures that are there Nothing O Lord is liker to thy holy nature then the minde that is setled in quietnesse Thou hast called vs into that quietnes and peace of thine frō out of the turmoiles of this world as it were from out of stormes into a hauen Which is such a peace as the world cannot geue and as passeth all capacitie of man. Behold thy brother Esau is cōforted agaynst ther meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. 1. Sa. 19· ●rise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c Math. 2 Houses are builded for vs to repair into from the anoyance of the wether from the cruelty of beastes and from the waues and turmoiles of this troublous world Graunt now O most mercifull Father that through thy singular goodnes our bodies may so resort into thē from our outwarde doinges as our mindes may yeald them selues obedyent vnto theé without striuing that they may the better and more quyetly exalt them selues into that souerayne rest of thine aboue Graunt that nothing may disturb and disquyet them here beneath but that all things may be quyet and calme through that peace of thine The peace of Christ be to this house and to all that dwell therin Amen * A Prayer to be sayd

Ioseph thy younger bretheren with the kisse of comfort pour into our harts thy holy spirite pluck vs vp from the earth earthly things open our eyes and lift them vp vnto theé open thy mouth and call vs vnto theé open our eares that we may heare theé so that whatsoeuer we doe speak or thinke it may be directed vnto theé alone our Redeémer Mediator Aduocate Amen Death wins the field All armes must yeald ¶ The Herauld Herald in thy shield beare grasse in green field Sergeant at Armes Sergeant see thou stay Al glory must away ❧ A Prayer at our going to a Sermon MAny and sundry wayes O lord doest thou vtter and shew forth thy light vnto vs in this great darcknes of oures But no way more effectually and plenteously then by thine Apostles and by them that haue succeéded in their charge Great and plentyfull is the haruest as thou thy selfe hast told vs but few are the haruestfolkes For the most part they be all ignorant and ouercast with the cloud of darcknes And as for true preachers that teach as they ought to doe the number of them is very small ¶ The Trūpetor Trumpet geue sound all must to the ground ¶ The Pursiuant Goe sūmon by message to come without baggage All must needes die we need not tell Our message hath been sounded well And vnto this man also graunt the treasure of thy wisedome that he may poure it out vpon vs to our saluation And in vs open thou the windowes and dores of our harts that we may so receiue into vs the wholesome light of thy most holy word as that the good seéde which shall fall into vs be neither choked with bryars thornes and brambles nor burnt vp with drought nor deu●ured by the birds of the ayre but battle as in good ground bring forth plentifull fruit to the prayse honor of thy name Amen A Prayer for knowledge and vnderstanding HEare my prayers O Lord Iesu the euerlasting wisedome of the We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all soldi●rs to deathes band ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my bā●t ¶ The Fife Fife seé thou play to leade them the way Father which geuest vnto childhoode the commoditie of aptnes to learne I pray theé adde the furtherance of thy grace to the forwardnes of nature that I may the sooner and more perfectly learn knowledge and the liberall sciences Howbeit in such wise as they may serue to thy glory so as my minde being furthered by the help of them may attayn to the fuller knowing of theé which is the highest poynt of mans felicitie And also that according to the example of thy most holy childhoode I may dayly prosper more and more in age wisdome and fauor both before God and man to the glory of thy name which liuest and raignest c. Amen A Prayer to be sayd before receuing of the Communion O Father of mercy and God of al consolation seéing all creatures ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy long vyage Death only maketh Captaines quail ▪ And harty souldiers for to fayle do acknowledge and confesse theé to be their gouernour and Lord it becometh vs the workmanship of thine own hands to reuerence and magnifie thy godly maiestie First for that thou hast created vs to thine own Image and similitude but cheéfly because thou hast deliuered vs from that euerlasting death damnation into the which Sathan drew mankind by the meanes of sinne from the bondage wherof neither man nor angell was able to make vs freé But thou O Lord rich in mercy and infinite in goodnes hast prouyded our redemptiō to stand in thine only and wel beloued sonne whom of very loue thou didst geue to be made man like vnto vs in all things sinne excepted that in his body he might receaue the punishment of our transgression by his death to make satisfaction to thy iustice and by Vse gayne of Gold and liue in cost So as by death life be not lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can me perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue no pitie his resurrection to destroy him that was author of death and so to bring agayn life to the world from which the whole ofspring of Adam was most iustly exiled O Lord we acknowledge that no creature was able to comprehend the length and breadth the deépenes and height of that thy most excellent loue which moued theé to shew mercy where none was deserued to promise geue life where death had gotten victory to receaue vs into thy grace when we could doe nothing but rebell against thy maiesty O Lord the blind dulnes of our corrupt nature will not suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites Yet neuerthelesse at the commaundement of Iesus Christ our Lord we present our selues to this his table which he hath left to be vsed in remembrance of his death vntil his comming ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page spent is thine age Pressmen goe play printing must stay We Printers wrote with wisdomes pe● She liues for ●ye we die as men again to declare and witnes before the world that by him alone we haue receaued liberty and life that by him alone thou doest acknowledge vs to be thy children and heires that by him alone we haue entrāce to the throne of thy grace that by him alone we are possessed in our spiritual kingdome to eate and drinke at his table with whō we haue our conuersation presently in heauen and by whom our bodies shall be raysed vp agayn from the dust and shall be placed with him in that endles ioy which thou O Father of mercy hast prepared for thine elect before the foundation of the world was layd And these most inestimable benefits we acknowledge and confesse to haue receaued of thy freé mercy and grace by thine onely beloued sonne Iesus christ For the which therfore we thy congregation moued by thy holy spirite Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siiluer nor golde frō death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By rig●t I must be bold with thee that liuest so old render to theé all thanks prayse and glory for euer and euer Amen Another WHat tongue or what hart can worthely geue theé thankes O Lord Iesu for thine vnspekable loue towards vs Who to the intent to redeéme mankind forlorn diddest vouchsafe to become man and to take all the miseries of our state vpon theé in so much that in the end thou being a pure and vnspotted lamb wast contented to be made a sacrifice for vs vpon the altar of the cros and to abide the punishment due for our sins that thou mightest reconcile vs to thy Father yea and both in life and death thou didst spend geue and bestow thy selfe wholy vpon vs and