given to our heavenly Father by whose liberality our bodies here are not onely refreshed but also most mercifully hath given us his onely Son our Saviour Iesus Christ to feed our wounded soules with his precious bodie and blood shed on the Crosse which is the lively bread meat and drinke to every true faithfull penitent soule wherefore let us continually praie for grace that wiâ—h his heavenly food we may spiritually be made strong in all good and godly workes as lively members of Iesus Christ to whom be all power honour and glory now and ever world without end Amen Grace after Meat O Lord God Almighty and most dear Father thou hast not onelie given unto us meat and drinke to sustaine these our mortal bodies but thou hast likewise given unto us thy blessed word which is the onely food of our immortall soules through our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to whom therefore with thée and the Holy Ghost be all honour praise and thanks for ever and ever Amen Grace after Meat O Lord which art the Creator of all creatures and hast prepared food for them according to the nature of their Creation we most heartily thanke thee for these thy creatures which at this time we haue received in thy name beséeching the O Father that as our bodies are now by these gifts refreshed our soules may be also nourished with the food of everlasting life in thy most holy Testament confirmed with the blood and death of Iesus Christ thy sone our Saviour To whom with thée and the holy Ghost be al honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace after Meat O Most gracious God and louing Father in Christ Iesus who by thy mightie power and marcifull goodnesse hath created â—s of no thing and given us a perfect beaing and having lost all happinesse hast restored us to grace through thy mercy and now at this time hy thy mighty providence presently fed us for which thy name bee blessed and praised both now and for evermore Amen Grace after Meat THanks bee unto the O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of Heaven for giving us our food in due season for opening thy mercifull hand and stlling us with thy blessing And we beseech thee for thy Sonnes sake Iesus Christ not onely to preserve us alway from abusing the same but also to send us thy grace that we may ever be thankfull unto thée therefor Amen Grace after Meat THanks be unto thee O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of Heaven for certifying us by thy blessed word that all kinde of meat is cleane And we beseech thee send us thy grace that we may alway thankfully receive the same not onely without superstition or serupulosity of conscience but also without grieving or offending our brethren and so to walke in the way of Godly live and charity that with our meat we never destroy him for whom thy Sonne Iesus Chrih died as well as for us Grace after Supper THanks bee unto thée O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of Heaven for ordaining thy creaturs to be the food and sustenance unto our bodies and hast sanctified them by thy blessed Word We beseech thee make us to increase in stedfastnesse of thy Faith in perfect knowledge of thy Truth and in continuance of Prayer unto thee that to us also they may be sanctifiod and holy and that we may ever thankfully receive them to the glory of thy holy Name Amen Grace after Meat THe God of peace and love vouchsafe alwaies to dwell with us thou Lord have mercie upon us who having satisfied our hungry appetites with corporall food the nourishment of our weak bodies wilt be pleased also to féed our soules with the blessed tast comfort of thine eternal word that we being made members of that body of which Christ Iesus thy son is head may â—earve thee in all truth faithfulnesse both to the end and in the end Amen Grace after meat THe God of peace and love vouchsafe alway to dwell with us and thou Lord have marcy upon us glory honovr praise be given to thee O Lord which hast fed us from our tender age and givest sustâ—nance to every living thing replenish our hearts with joy gladnesse that we alwaies having sufficient may be rich and plentifull in all good works through our Lord Iesus Christ So be it Grace after Meat WE thank thee O most mercifull Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ for the gifts wherewith we have refreshed our hungry bodies and like as thou hast now given us meat needfull to the comfort and heaith of our bodies so we beseech thée al waies to give us thy word that it may ever be to the comfort and health of our soules which livest and rainest with the Father and the holie Ghost world without end Amen Grace after Meat WHatsoever you de in word or deod do all in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ giving thanks unto God the Father by him to whom all blessing glory wisedome thanks honour power and might be rendred forevermore Amen Grace after Meat WE thank thée O heavenly Father that of thy abundant goodnesse hast this day sent us food in due season to nourish these our more all bodies with beséeching thée also of thine infinite mercy to pardon and forgive all our offences which we have commited against thy divine Maiestie that we may this night rest in thée with quiet Conscience abiding thy holy hand in the morning to raise us to do the thing which shall be pleasant in thy sight to thy glory and our soules health Grant this O Father for thy dearely beloved Sonnos sake Iesus Christ our ever lasting Saviour To whom with thée and the holy Ghost be all honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace after Meat WEe render thee all laud and praise most loving Father for thy gracious favour in feeding our bodys at this present with sufficent nurishment and for all other thy gracious comforts communicated unto us whereby wee are refreshed and cherished so that through thy mercie we are enabled the better to serve thee and glorifie thy name and made more apt to follow our callings which thou hast appointed us for which we returne thee all praise and thanks now at this time and for evermore Amen This Prayer may be joyned to any Grace whatsoever GOd save his universal Church God comfort all that are comfortless and continue his Gospel amongst us and send us Peace and Truth in Christ Iesus our Lord and only blessed Saviour and God forgive us all our sinnes Amen Here follow divers Fruit-Full GRACES in Meeter Grace before Meat ALmighty Lord and eternal King Which made the Heavens and every thing Grant unto us that perfect be To tast the food that here we sée As things â—repar'd for natures need For thou O Lord hast so decreed And to be thankfull for the same Praising for aie thy holy name Preserve the universall Church
whose hand is life death I wretched sinner unworthy of thy benefits most humbly beseech thee to blesse me and with thy holie Angell assist me this night which hast made me of earth doest nourish me by thy creaturs pardon me which have so offened thée in thought word and deed and grant me grace hereafter to feare thy wrath and heavy displeasure for thy blessed Sons sake our Lord and onelie Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. O Lord succour us shew me the light of thy countenance in thee my soule trusteth and my heart rejoyceth O give me understanding and I will kéep thy Law yea I will keep it with my whole heart Encline my heart unto thy testimonies then shall I praise and magnifie thy blessed name for ever According to the greatnesse of thy mercies O God forgive me my sinnes Remember not the number of my sinnes but according to the multitude of thy mercies deliver me from the paines due to them Grant this O Saviour for thy mercies sake Teach me to number my daies that I may apply my heart to learn thy wisdome and so strengthen me with thy holie spirit that I swerve not from thy law Deale not with me as I have deserved but call to remembrance thy render mercies which have been ever of old and cast me not from thee in thy heavie displeasure least I be consumed and brought to nought Heare me for thy mercies sake Vnto thée I wretched sinner do come craving of thée thy mercie Incline therefore thine eare unto my casting and consider the request of my heart Lighten me thy servant with the bright lamp of thy holie Spirit thereby to subdue the bodie of sin with all the lusts thereof that I may be made obedient in will and mind to thy holie Lawe Dear Saviour to whom it is most easie to do all things then for me to thinke any one good thought give power unto thy servant that I may with a strong Faith vanquish and subdue whatsoever may cause me to rebell against thy blessed will Excéeding true it is that Every one that saith Lord Lord shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 7.21 Strengthen me therefore thy servant I beséech thée with the Power of thy right hand against all the maliciousnesse of the old wily Serpent Replenish my heart with thy wisdome and comfort my soule with thy sweet comfortable and healthfull promises and let thy mercies heale mine infirmities Yet once again I call upon the in these my meditations O let thine ear be open to heare the Prayers which I thy servant make unto thee this day and grant that I may alwaies aske of thée in such sort as thou requirest to the honour praise and glory of thy name to the furtherance of thy word the profit of my nieghbour and to my consolation and comfort through the merits of thy bitter death and passion Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was was in the beginning is now c. SAve us O Lord waking and kéepe us sléeping that we may watch in Christ and rest in peace Amen When you are ready to goe into your Bed Say I Go to Bed as to my Grave God knoweth when I shall wake My trust is that my Lord and God will mercy on me take When you are lying down in your Bed Say I Lie down in the name of the Father and of Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Amen FINIS
Iesus who ever blesse us and these his gifts that both our eating and drinking and speakin may redound to the glory of God through the merit of Iesus Christ our Lord and onelie Saviour Amen Grace before Meat O Almighty and everlasting God which by thy â—oreknowledg doest see the beginning middest and end of all the works of thy holy hand and didest make Man according to thine owne Image and brethedst into him an immortall foule and gavest him understanding to know thee to be his God and Creator of all things in heaven and earth and didest ordaine Man to be Lord over the workes of thy hands and to receive all things necessary for the sustentation of his mortal bodâ— of thy goodnes with thanks giving we moâ—t humbly beséech thee of thy mercifull goodnesse to blesse and satisfie us with thy holy presence that we may be the more moved to be thankfull unto thee for all the good gifts which we recâ—ived at thy mercifull hand through Iesus Christ our onely Saviour To whom with thée O Father and the holy Ghost be all honour praise and glory for ever and ever Amen Grace before Meat O Father of mercy and God of all consolation which hast created us for thy glory and these â—â—y good Creatures for our use blesse and sanctifie them we beseech thée that by the moderate recâ—ived thereof our bodies may be nurished and thy name ever more and more praised through Iesus Christ our onely Lord and blessed Saviour Amen Grace before Meat O Iesus Christ the Sonne of God that for our sakes didst die and sheddest thy most precious blood for the forgivennesse of our sins blesse thou our Meat and Drink which we purpose to receive in thy name and assist us O Lord with the grace of thy holy spirit to amend our lives that according to thy holy and pure Gospell we may live to thy glorie and profit of our Brethren And when the dayes of this our Pilgrimage shall be ended grant us to rest in thy peace that we may at the day of Iudgment hâ—ve joyfull resurrection unto everlasting life through thy most precious death which art the onelie Sonne of God and our everlasting Saviour To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace before Meat O Mercifull Lord Iesus Christ which didst â—ake five Loaves and two Fishes and lifting up thine eies unto heaven didst distribute them unto the people and they all did eat and were satisfied being aboue five thousand men beside women and children we beseech thée how to blesse these gifts which we are about to receive at the hands and us allso that they may be to the comfort and health of our bodies and we may for them and all other thy benefits bée evermore thankfull unto thee To whom with the Faâ—er and the holie Ghost be all honour and glorie for ever Amen Grace before Meat THe eies of all things dâ— look up and trust in thée O Lord thou givest them meat in drie season thou oâ—enest thy hand and filles with thy blessing everie living thing good Lord blesse us and all these thy gifts which we are about to receive of thy bounteous liberalitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grace before Meat THe God of all â—ower who hath caled from death the great Pastor of the Sheep the Lord Iesus comfort and defend the Flock which he hath redeemed by the blood of his eternall Testament Increase the number of true Preachers represse the rage of obstinant and cruell â—iraâ—â—s mitigate and lighten the hearts of the ignorant release the paines of such as be afflicted but especially those that suffer for the testimonie of a good Conscience And finally confound Satan by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ Amen Grace before Meat THy Name O Lord be praised for all the benifits that thou most graciously dost bestow upon us for féeding our feble bodies when they are hungry with plenty of thy good Creaturs and strengthening the imperfections of our members by vertue of thy mighcy power so that all and everie part of us are hereby made apt and fit to follow our callings And like continuall thanks be given unto thee O Lord for all thy merciefull blessings thou vouchsafe to bestow upon us in preserving us both bodie and soule even from the beginning of the world to this present and from all these casualities and temtations which we are incident unto through the frailtâ— of flesh and imperfection of nature which graciâ—us gifts we acknowledge to have received of thy mercifull goodnes and for the merit of our Lord and Saviour In whose name we render â—hée all â—oâ—er praise and thanks from this time forth for ever more Amen Grace before Meat WHether ye eat or drink or whatsoeveâ— ye do else let all be done to the praisâ— of God whom we beséech to blesse us with oâ—â— meat and drink through Christ our Lord Amen Grace before Meat CHrist which at his lest Supper gave him selfe unto us promising his body to be crucified and his blood to be shed for our sinnes blesse us and our meat Amen This prayer may be annexed to the end oâ— every Grace especially those which be the shortest GOd preserve his Church God blesse thâ— Nobility and the Commons God defenâ— the favourers of the Gospell and make us alâ— faithfull in the same God send the Gospell 〈◊〉 joyfull and frée passage throughtout the world thaâ— euery one may live uprightly in their calling tâ— the glory of God through the meâ—its of our Lorâ— and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Godly GRACES to be said after Meales Grace after Meat ALL Glory honour and immortall praise be given unto thee O eternall God the which hast fed us wretched sinners even from our Creation in our Mothers womb We be begotten conceived and borne in sin O Lord have mercy upon us we beseech thée forgive us our sins illuminate our hearts and assist us with thy holy spirit to consider that we receive all things needfull both for our soules and bodies even at thy hand and to give thée most heartie thanks and continuall praise for ever world without end Amen Grace after Meat FAther of bounty and God of our strength from whose liberall hand we have received this nourishment of our earthly bodies grant that the fulnesse thereof may not breed in us a dulnesse of spirit or neglect of thankfulnesse but that we may be more and more inflamed to serve thée and bring forâ—h the fruits of a lively Faith by our thanksgiving through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Grace after Meat GRant O most mercifull Father that our hunger thurst being satisfied with the muderate use of these thy good gifts and Creatures sanctified with thy holy word we may both in body and mind be apt and able to doe good works to the glory of thy most holy name Amen Grace after Meat HOnour and praise be