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The private devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes. Late Bishop of Winchester.
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Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
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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
satisfie our poore with bread Psal. â—32 6. Let our Garners be full and abounding with all manner of store let our sheepe bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets And let our Oxen be strong to labour v. 13. Let there bee no decay no leading away into captivity nor no complaining in our streets Two things I desire of thee O Lord deny me not them before I dye Pro. 30. 7 8 9. Vanity and lying words remove farr from me v. 8. Beggery and abundance give me not Give me onely what is needfull for my life least being full I be tempted to deny thee and say who is the Lord verse 9. Or being forced by want I steale so forswear the name of my God Teach me O God to abound to want Phil. 4. 11. that every where and in all things in what condition soever I shal be I may learne to be content v. 12. Thanksgiving LEt all thy workes confess unto thee ô Lord and let thy Saints blesse thee Psal. 34. 96. 103. 107. It is a good thing to praise the Lord and to sing unto thy Name O most high Psa. 91. 1. To declare thy loving kindnes in the morning and thy truth in the night season v. 2. I will exalt thee O God my King and blesse thy Name for ever and ever every day I will blesse thee and extoll thy Name for ever and ever Psal. 145. 1. v. 2. For it is thou which callest the things which were not as if they were and by whom all things are made in Heaven and on Earth visible and invisible Rom. 4. 17. Col. 1. 16. And it is thou which sustainest all things by the word of thy power and by thy ordinance they continue to this day Heb. 13. Psal. 119. 91. for all things serve thee Which leavest not thy selfe without a witnesse in doing good from heaven giving us raine and fruitfull seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladnesse Acts. 14. 17. 1. It is thou which by thy wisdome and power didst thy selfe 2. With thine owne hands make man of the mould of the earth 3. And didst breath into his nostrills the breath of life Acts. 1. 26. 4. And did'st honour him with thine owne Image 5. And did'st give the Angells charge over him Psal. 91. 11. 6. And dost place him over the worke of thy hands Psal. 8. 7. 7. And did'st seate him in the paradise of pleasure Gen. 2. 15. And when he had dispised thy Commandements did'st not yet dispise him but did'st open to him a gate to repentance and life Acts. 11. 18. Giving to him that great and pretious promise of the seed which should save us 2 Pet. 1. 4. It was thou which did'st instruct us 1. By that which is knowne of God 2. By the Law written in our hearts 3. By the services of sacrifices and oblations 4. By the Oracles of the Prophets 5. By the melody of the Psalmer 6. By the wisdome of the Proverbs 7. By the experience of the sacred story It was thou which when the fulnesse of time came didst send downe thy son who emptying himself and taking the forme of a Servant of the feede of Abraham Heb. 12. 6. Being made of a woman and subjected to the Lawe Gal. 4. 4. Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 21. 6. Ga. 4. 4. By his active obedience fulfilled the Law and by his death tooke away the curse thereof Eph. 5. 1. Redeeming by his death and by his resurrection reviving our nature and leaving nothing undone that was needfull to doe that wee might be made partakers of the divine nature who likewise manifested himselfe to be our Saviour in all places by the preaching of the Gospell Rom. 4. last 2 Cor. 2. 14. Bearing witnesse thereunto by divers signes and miracles Heb. 2. 4. By the admired holines of life in his Saints and By their wonderfull patience even to the effusion of their bloud Heb 11 36 37. And by the incredible condition of the whole world to the faith 1 John 5 4. It is thou also which hast made us the Sonnes of Saints and heirs of the same vocation Which hast given thy Church power to be the pillar and foundation of Truth 1 Tim 3 15. It is thou which hast granted to our Church ability to keep that which was committed to her 1 Tim. 6. 20. To teach us the way of peace and to retain certain ordered stedfastnesse and decency Rom. 3. 22. Col. 2. 5. It is thou which hast established the throne of thy Servant our Soveraigne 1 Ch. 17. 13. Which hast instructed our Princes hast taught our Magistrates wisedome Psal. 105. 22. Which hast vouchsafed us pastours according to thine own heart to feed us with knowledge and learning Jer. 3. 15. It is thou which hast made peace in our inclosure and hast satisfied us with the flowre of wheate Psalm 106. 13 14. Which hast strengthned the Barres of our gates and hast blessed our Children among us Which hast turned our swords into Mattocks and our spears into sithes Esay 2. 4. Which hast cloathed our enemies with confusion and hast given us for a blessing for ever and ever and made us glad with the joy of thy Countenance Psal. 21. 7. It is thou which hast brought mee into this life and hast led mee to the lavar of regeneration and renewing by thy holy Spirit and hast revealed to me the paths of life Tit. 3. 5. Psalm 16. 11. Which hast connived at my sins for my repentance Wisd. 11. 12. And hast not crushed me under the hands of mine iniquity Esa 64. 7. Which hast even waited to shew mercy on me Esa. 30. 18. And hast not suffered my heart to harden Rom. 2. 9. But hast left mee in the compunction of heart and memory of my latter end and conscience of my former sins Acts 7. 37. Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 10. 3. Which hast not cut off my life like a weaver in the beginning Psa. 16. 29. nor from morning to night hast made and of us Jo. 20. 22. Which hast not called me away in the middest of my dayes Psalme 102. 25. But hast holden my soule in life and hast not suffered my feete to slip Psalme 66. 9. Therefore for all these benefits and for many more through their multitude and our forgetfulness omitted Glory be to thee ô Lord glory and honour praise and blessing and thankes with the tongues of Angels and men The meanest of thy work by reason of our sin now every houre and every day Even to our latest gaspe To the end of the world and to all Eternity Amen Thankesgiving in particular O Lord my God For my being living endowment with reason For my nourishment preservation ingenuous education For thy gifts to me of nature of the world of grace For my redemption regeneration christian instruction For thy calling of me calling againe often reiterated calling For thy patience long-suffering long long-suffering of these many times these many yeares even