The most Reverend Father Father iâ— God Dr. William Laud latâ— Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Metropolitan of aâ—â— England Officium Quotidianum OR A MANUAL OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS BY The Most Reverend Father in God Dr. William Laud late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bâ—s rom 1. 594. The Second Edition LONDON Printed for Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery lane 1663. Et Conversus vivificasti Me Psal. 71. 20. O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul Psal. 66. 14. Pater noster LAEsus est sed tamen Pater qui es in coelis Eminenter noninclusivè Sanctificetur In Me per Me super Me Nomen tuum Patris in Nobis ut simus filii Patris nostri Adveniat regnum tuum Ut destruatur Regnum Peccati per quod regnant Mors Diabolus Fiat voluntas tua sicut c. In me qui sum terra sicut in Sanctis Angelis Panem Et super Coelestem Corporeum nostrum Proprium licitè acquisitum quotidianum c. Pro quotidiana necessitate Et remitte nobis Debita sicut c. Talenta dimitte nobis minuta remittentibus Et ne nos inducas in tentationem Nec facias intrare ductos promosque Sed Libera Nos Ab Authorà Malo Extra Nos Diabolo Mundo Intra à Malo Nos Nobis ipsis a Malo Culpa per gratiam poenae per misericordiam Quia tuum est Omniper Pacem Regnum Absolutum in Se. Potentia Independens ab aliis Gloria Circumfulgens Omnia in Omnibus Tuum Amen Et à Te per Te ad Te in Gloria Salute servorum tuorum Amen Oratio Dominica OUr Father which art in Heaven 1 Hallowed by thy Name 2 Thy Kingdom come 3 Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven 4 Give us this day our daily Bread 5 And forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us 6. And lead us not into Temptation 7 But deliver us from Evil. For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever Amen Symbolum Apostolicum divisum in Articulos 1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth 2. And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried 5. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the Dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father 7. From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead 8. I Believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholike Church The Communion of Saints 10. The forgiveness of sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the life Everlasting Amen OFFICIUM QUOTIDIANUM In Nomine Patris F. Sp. Sti. Amen O Lord I am risen up and fallen prostrate before thee prevent mee I beseech thee in all my doings with thy most gracious favour and further me with thy continual help that in all my works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life Through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God and most merciful father Al-merciful Mercy it self I have erred willingly and strayed willingly nay even from thy wayes more like an untamed heifer then a lost and wandring sheep I have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart I have offended against nay been offended at thy holy most holy lawes I have left undone not done at all those things which I ought to have done And I have done done nothing else but those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health no hope of health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable most miserable sinner the greatest sinner and most unthankful for so great grace Spare me and them all O God which confesse their faults Restore me and them all O God that be penitent that desire to be penitent that wish they were would be glad if they were so that fear they are not enough and are sorry they are no more for this is according to thy promises most gracious most sweet promises declared unto Mankinde in Christ Jesus our Lord. Grant therefore O most mercifull Father for his sake who is our Redeemer Advocate Authour and Finnisher of our faith our Propitiation Righteousness and Justification that I and all penitents may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name and the salvation of our own souls Amen O Eternal God and most merciful Father pardon I beseech thee all the sins Omissions and Commissions thoughts words and deeds by which I have provoked thee to anger from the time of my birth unto this present moment that no one nor all of my sins together may ever be able to cry oftner or louder in thy ears for vengeance then the cry of my prayers may ascend up unto thee for mercy and forgiveness and obtain that they sue for particularly I humble beseech thee forgive unto me my great and clamorous sins such as are c. O Lord against heaven and against thee have I sined and committed foul transgressions in thy sight but I beseech thee wipe them all out of the book of remembrances which thou hast written through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen Give unto me O Lord I humbly beseech thee a wise a sober a patient an understanding a devout a religious a courageous heart Chast and temperate reynes and thoughts A soul full of devotion to do thee service strength against all temptations especially the temptations of c. Through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord I give the humble and hearty thanks increase my thankfulnesse I beseech thee for all benefits and blessings both Spiritual and temporal which in the riches of thy great mercy thou hast liberally poured down upon me but especially Spiritual Lord let me not live but to praise and magnifie thy glorious Name Particularly I give thee most unfeigned thanks for my preservation from the time of my birth unto this present moment for c. for bringing me safe to the beginning of this day in which and all the dayes of my life I beseech thee preserve me from sin and from danger in soul and in body that all my thoughts words and works may tend to the glory and honour of thy Name the good of the Church and the discharge of my duty the salvation of my soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee through Jesus Christ our Saviour and redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee blesse thy whole Catholike Church wheresoever
spread upon the face of the whole earth good Lord purge it from all Atheism Heresie Schism and superstition factious maintenance of groundlesse Opinions that one Faith one Lord one Baptism may in all places be professed as thy Church is and can be but one And grant good Lord that I may be and continue a faithful living and a working member under Christ the head in the Church the body all the dayes of my life and through the hour of my death through the merits and by the Grace of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen O Most Mercifull God bless this particular Church in which I live make it and all the members of it sound in faith and holy life that they may serve thee and thou blesse them through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Lord blesse our most Gracious Soveraign treasure up in him all thy hidden blessings make him and keep him a devout servant to thee a constant Pastour of thy Church and Truth that he may live long and be ful of honourable successe all his dayes in his person in his actions in his Queen in his children in his servants in his people and Crowned with glory after life under him blesse the whole State Ecclesiastical and Civil that righteousnesse and peace may kisse each other and we serve and honour thee for ever Amen Good Lord bless all the places to which thou hast made me have any nearer reference the place where I was borne c. Every Soul contained in any of these All my friends kindred acquaintance Any unto whom thou hast made me any wayes beholding especially my nearer and bosome friends all those c. Lord I beseech thee forgive me and them all our sins and continue us thy servants both in life and death Amen Gracious Father bless my servants and make them thine give them grace to serve thee first then me with faithfulness soberness and dilgence Make me ever willing and in some measure able to repaire unto them the time and the strength which they either have or shall spend to do me service even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord blesse all the afflicted members of the Body of thy Son wheresoever howsoever afflicted send them constant patience and speedy deliverance as seems best to thee and is best for them according to their several wants and necessities whatsoever particularly c. And do unto them according to all those mercies which I would or should desire thou shouldest shew unto my own soul if at any time thou shalt be pleased to make mine estate as theirs is at this present And O Lord be merciful Amen Blessed Father blesse all sorts of men in their particulars mine enemies wish I forgiveness of sins Turn their heart that they may no longer hate thy servant and if they will not be turned deliver me not over I beseech thee into their power And next after the salvation of my soul I humbly beg it deliver me not into the hands of men to the shame and scorne of the world Amen O Domine Jesu da quod Jubes Jube quod vis facias animam meam paratam in adventum tuum veni quando vis Des mihi ad minimum sufficientem si placet pacatissimam patientiam veni quo modo vis O tu qui salus es omnium sperantium in te Et in super interpone obsecro O Domine Jesu Mortem Crucem Passionem Meritum Sanguinem tuum inter Judicium tuum animam meam Nunc semper pracipuè in hora Mortis meae Quae Mors obnixé precor nunquam sit subitanea nunquam adveniat inveniat me imparatum Nunquam it a adveniendo saeviat quin ut retineam Fidem spem Charitatem Memoriam intellectum sanum usque ad Extremum halitum Et esto mihi in Deum Protectorem Des Peccatis meis Misericordiam veniam Ecclesiae Pacem Concordiam Mihi Peccatorum primo Gratiam in hâc vita Gloriam in futura Ita Ita venias Domine Jesu miserere Mei Amen Lord here I am do with me as it seemeth best in thy own eyes only give me I humbly beseech thee a penitent and a patient spirit to expect thee Amen Lord make my service acceptable to thee while I live and my soul ready for thee when I dye Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. I. O Lord by thy mercy I am risen out of my grave where I might have slept in death but that thou preserved'st me Make it I beseech thee a resurrection to grace in this life and to glory in the life to come through Jesus Christ who merited both for us Amen This day by the resurrection of thy Son our blessed Saviour was made holy to us Give me that grace that I may keep it holy unto thee through Jesus Christ Amen O send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me and bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling that I may go unto the Altar of thee O my God even the God of my Joy and Gladnesse and give thanks unto thee Amen Psal. 43. 3 4. Almighty and everlasting God who governs all things both in heaven and earth mercifully hear my prayers for my self and all thy people and grant us thy peace even all the dayes of our life even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almighty God I humbly beseech thee give me grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the Armour of light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visite us in great humility that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and the dead I with all thy faithful servants may rise up to the life Immortal through him who liveth and raigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Blessed God which hast caused all holy Scripture to be written for our learning grant unto me and all Christians that we may in such wise read hear mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort thereof we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Lord I humbly besech thee raise up thy power and come amongst us and with great might succour us that whereas by our sins we are sore let and hindered thy bountiful grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen Lord let thy Angels tarry round about me and deliver me that I may taste and see how gracious thou my God art and how blessed the man is that trusteth in thee through Jesus
for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dyeth neither shall his Pomp follow him But ever make me afraid to offend thee Amen Psal. 49. 16 17. Mine eyes long sore for thy Word saying when wilt thou comfort me Lord comfort me for I am become like a Bottle in the smoak yet let me not I beseech thee forget thy Law even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 119. 82. O Lord God which seest that I put not my trust in any thing that I do mercifully grant that I may be desended against all adversities through Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Lord which hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth send thy holy Ghost and pour into my heart that excellent gift of charity the very bond of peace and all vertues without the which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee grant this for thy onely Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord fill me with grace that I may fulfill all the service I owe thee through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord God spare I beseech thee who shall raise up Jacob for he is small Spare him therefore O Lord spare thy people spare me Say unto my soul Thou hast repented of the evil intended and it shall not be Amen Amos 7. 2 5. Lord when I am asleep let me not be made afraid but let my sleep be sweet that I may be enabled to serve thee Amen Prov. 3. 24. Grant I beseech thee most mercifull Father that I which for my evil deeds am worthyly punished may by the comfort of thy grace be mercifully relieved through Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour Amen Consider and Hear me O Lord my God Lighten my eyes that I sleep not in Death Amen Psal. 13. 3. O Lord thou hast proved and visited my heart in the night season Thou hast tryed me O blessed Father purge me that thou mayest find no wickednesse in me through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal. 17. 3. O Lord hear me that seven times a day I may praise thee and be acquainted with that great peace which they have which love thy law Amen Psal. 119. 164. O Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto me thy humble servant that by thy holy Inspiration I may think those things that are good and by thy mercifull guiding may also perform the same through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen II. POnder my words O Lord Consider my Meditations O hearken unto the voyce of my calling My King and My God for unto thee will I make my prayer My voyce shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up But make me to remember that thou arâ— God and hast no pleasure in wickednesse neither shalâ— any evil dwell with thee Amen O Lord bless me and I will sing unto thee and praise thy Name and be telling of thy salvation from day to day Amen Psal. 96.2 O Lord let Counsell preserve me and understanding keep me deliver me from the evil way and from the man that speaketh forward things and from all such as leave the wayes of righteousnesse to walk in the wayes of darknesse even fot Jesus Christ his sake Amen Prov. 2. 11. O Lord I know the way of Man is not in Himself It is not in man that walketh to direct his owne steps Therefore O Lord I beseech thee make me know my way and direct my steps to thy honour and my owne salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Jerem. 10. 23. Be not wrath with me O Lord but spare me and have mercy upon me for thou wilt be merciful unto thy Creature O Lord I and my fathers have all had the same sickness but because of us that are siners thou shalt be called Merciful through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen 2 Esdras 8. O Lord Guide me here with thy Counsel and after that receive me into Glory For whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee O Lord preserve me in those longings towards thee Amen Psal. 74. 24. O Lord take from me the way of lying and cause me to make much of thy Law that I may chuse the way of truth and lay thy judgements before me that I may stick unto thy Testimonies and run the way of thy Commandements when thou hast set my heart at liberty Amen Psal. 119. 26. O God the strength of all them that trust in thee mercifully accept my prayers and because the weaknesse of mans nature can doe no good thing without thee Grant me the help of thy Grace that in keeping of thy Commandements I may please thee both in will and in deed through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord thou art just and all thy wayes are mercy and truth thou judgest truly for ever remember me and look upon me punish me not according to my sinnes or my Ignorances or my Fathers that have sinned before thee Deal not with me according to my sins but as seemeth best unto thee O Lord my strength and salvation Amen Job 3. 2 3 6. Lord I acknowledge my wickedness and the iniquity of my Fathers we have sinned against thee O Lord be merciful Amen Jer. 14. 20. Lord I beseech thee mercifully to hear me and as thou hast given me an hearty desire to pray so grant that by thy mighty aid I may be defended both in soul and body through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord be gracious unto me and give me an heart to worship thee and to do thy Will and open my heart in thy Law and send me peace Hear my prayer and be reconciled to me and never forsake me in the time of trouble for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 2 Mach. 1. 3 4 5. Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest to thy people O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the Felicity of thy Chosen and rejoyce in the gladness of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance Amen Psalm 106.4 O God the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy encrease and multiply upon me thy mercy that thou being my Ruler and Guide I may so passe through things Temporal that I lose not the things AEternal Grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Grant O Lord that I may live in thy fear and die in thy favour rest in thy peace rise in thy power raign in thy Glory for thy beloved Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Hear O Lord Consider my complaint hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips and prevent me in Mercy before
Lord I beseech thee grant that thy grace may alwayes prevent and follow me and make me continually to be given to all good works through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Have mercy upon me O God after thy great goodnesse and according to the multitude of thy mercies do away my offences wash me throughly from my wickednesse and cleanse me from my sins For I acknowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me But let not this Evening take from me the light of the Sun of Righteousnesse Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen O Domine Exaudire dignare Preces meas in Beneplacito tuo Inimicum ab Actibus meis Cogitationibus virtute tuâ expelle Multiplica mihi fidem Guberna Mentem Spirituales Cogitationes concede super stratum vigilanti et ad Beatitudinem tuam producito Per Jesum Christum filium tuum salvatorem nostrum Amen Lord I beseech thee give me grace to avoid the Infections of the Devill and with a pure heart and mind to follow thee the onely true GOD Amen Lord I offer up unto thee my Evening sacrifice thy Sacrifice even a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart which thou wilt not despise in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Domine Supplex te Oro Respice Me purga mentem meam Cogitationes meas ab impuris Concupiscentiis ab omni Inquinamento Carnis spiritus ab omni Diabolica Operatione Per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Domine Inestimabilem Misericordiam tuam clementer ostende simul exue Me à Peccatis quae Commisi Eripe Me à Poenis quas merui Per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum Amen O God for as much as without thee I am not able to please thee grant that the working of thy mercy may in all things direct and rule my heart through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord give me that grace that I may remember thee upon my bed and think upon thee when I am waking Thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow of thy wings I will hope to passe through the darknesse of this night in the comfort of Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen Psal. 63. 6. O Lord make my eyes prevent me the night watches that I may be occupied in thy words Amen Psal. 119. 148. O Lord thou which hast made the night for man to rest in as well as the day to labour Grant O dear Father that I may so take my bodily rest that my soul may continually watch for my deliverance out of this mortal life And that my sleep be not excessive after the Insatiable desires of the flesh but sufficient to releive and maintain Nature to live and serve thee in all sober and godly Conversation through the ayd and assistance of Jesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour Amen V. O Hold thou up my goings in thy pathes that my footsteps slip not Amen Psal. 17. 5. Subveni Domine meus Jesu Et Accingere Gladium tuum circa Femur Potentissime Omnium Potentissime egredere Occide Me in Me ut vivam in te desinant Inimici persequi me Amen O God thou art my God early will I seek thee My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is O satisfie this thirst with the freshest waters of comfort in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal. 63. 1. O Lord have mercy upon me I have waited for thee Be thou my arm in the morning and my help in the time of trouble that I may exalt thy name which dwellest on high that I may live in the stability of thy times and that thy fear may be my treasure even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Esay 33. 1 5 6. O Almighty God and mercifull Father grant I beseech thee that as I do believe thy only Son our Lord to have ascended into the heavens so I and all thy faithfull servants may in heart and mind thither ascend and with thee continually dwell Amen O God the King of Glory who hast exalted thy only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph into thy Kingdome in heaven I beseech thee leave neither thy Church nor my poor self comfortless But send us thy Holy Ghost to comfort us and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before who liveth and raigneth with thee One God world without end Amen Hear my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my petition take heed unto me and hear me how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed Give me strength and comfort in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal. 55. 1. O God the proud are risen against me and the Congregation of factious men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes But thou Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth O turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me shew some token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal. 86. 14. Assist me mercifully O Lord in these my supplications and prayers and dispose my way towards the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life I may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O deliver me from them whose words are softer then butter when they have war in their hearts and from them whose words are smoother then oyl while they are very swords Lord I cast my burthen upon thee that thou mayest sustain me and not suffer me to fall for ever Amen Psal. 55. 22. Blesse me O Lord when thou chastenest me and teachest me in thy laws that thou mayest give me patience in time of adversity till the pit be digged up for the ungodly O Lord fail me not neither forsake me for I am part of thy inheritance through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal. 94. 12. Almighty and Merciful God of thy bountiful goodnesse keep me from all things that may hurt me that I being ready both in body and soul may with a free heart accomplish those things that thou wouldst have done through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O AEterne Deus quandiu hîc in terris sum supplex Oro In quantum terrena mihi serviunt doceant me esse Dominum suum sed à Te constitutum In quantum molesta sunt doceant me servire tibi Domino meo Cui dum non obtempero illa in vindictam justam molesta esse solent ut sive illa mihi serviant sive non Ego