which are in Heauen haue mercie vpon me and be thou my mercifull mediator for me vnto thy Father that I may be saued O holy Ghost God conqual with the father the sonne haue mercie vpon me worke thy diume power in me thorow thy gracious mipiration Drame me vnto Iesus Christ that I may finde fanour and be saued Amen The second part As concerning my bodie that I bequeathe vnto the earth from whence it came My Consission I Knowledge and confese with all my heart that I am a sinner yea such a sinner as hath neede of the grace mercie and fauour of God My faith ioyned with hope I beleeue that the Lord will haue mercie vpon me for he hath first made me and if it shall please him he may saue me This I beleeue whether I liue or dye I am the Lords My hope I Hope that I shall find both grace and mercie for my sinnes of God the Father euen for Iesus Christes sake in him I beleeue he is my redeemer he liueth for euer and euer He maketh intercession for sinnes So this I know that now I am a corruptible body but I hope through Christ to rise an vncorruptible body Now a mortall bodie but through Christ and his merites I hope to haue though now an earthly bodie then an heauenly bodie For as many as shall be saued shall shine in the kingdome of God as bright as the Sunne This my faith and hope I lay vp in my minde the mind of my Soule trusting onely to be saued thorowe the merites of Iesus Christ God and man which is in Heauen From whence we looke againe the which shall change our vile bodie and make it like his owne most glorious bodie whereby he is ablel to subdue all things vnto himselfe O Christ haue mercie vpon mee thou hast redeemed mee O Christ saue me A Prayer for the Sicke OH how sicke am I My weakenesse increaseth more and more Lord be mercifull vnto me and giue mee grace pacientlie and thankefullie to beare the crosse and in the middest of this my sickenesse alwaies to say Thy will O heauenly Father bee done and not mine Another Prayer for the Sicke O Lorde Iesus Christ which art the onely health of all men liuing and the euerlasting life of them which dye in thy faith I wretched sinner giue submic my selfe wholy to thy most blessed will And I being sure that the thing cannot perish which is committed vnto thy mercie most humbly beseech thee O Lord to giue me grace that I may now willinglie leaue this fraile wicked flesh in hope of the resurrection which in better wise shall restore it to me againe I beseech thee O most mercifull Iesu Christ that thou wilt by thy grace make strong my soule against all temptations and that thou wilt couer and defend my with the Buckler of thy mercie against all the assaults of the Diuell I see and acknowledge that there is in my selfe no helpe of life and fasuation 〈◊〉 my considence hope and trust i◠in thy most mercifull goodnesse I haue no merites 〈◊〉 good workes which I may alleage before thée Of sinnes and euill works alas I see a grace heape but through thy mercie I trust to be of the number of them to whom thou wilt not impute their sinnes but take and accept me for righteous and iust and to be the inheritour of euerlasting glorie Thou O most mercifull Lord waste borne for my sake Thou diddest suffer both hunger and thirst for my sake Thou diddest preach and teach thou diddest pray and fast for my sake Thou didest all good woorkes and deedes for my sake Thou sufferedst most greeuous paynes and torments for my sake And finally thou gauest thy most precious body to dye and thy most blessed blood to be shed on the Crosse for my sake Now most mercifull Sauiour let all these things profite me which thou freely hast giuen me which hast giuen thy selfe for me let thy blood cleanse and wash away the spottes and foulenesse of my sinnes Let thy righteousnes hide and couer my vnrighteousnesse Let the merites of thy passion and blood be the satisfaction for my sinnes Giue me Lord thy grace that my faith and perswasion in thy blood wauer not in me but euer be firme and constant that the hope of thy mercie and life euerlasting neuer decay in me that Charitie waxe not colde in me finally that the weakenesse of my flesh be not ouercome with the feare of death Graunt me also O most mercifull Sauiour that when death hath shut vp the eyes of my bodie yet the eyes of my Soule may still behold and looke vnon thee and that when death hath taken away the vse of my tongue and speech yet that my heart may crye and say vnto thee O Lord into thy hands I giue and commit my soule Lord Iesu take my Spirit A thankes giuing to God for the departure of the faithfull out of this vvorld O How can we most louing Father render vnto thee sufficient thankes for thine inestimable goodnesse toward thy faithfull seruants Whom thou calling out of this wetched world vouchsafe to place in thy heauenly Ringdome among the glorious companie of thy holy Angels and blessed Saints O full precious is the death of the faithfull in thy sight Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord. For they are at rest from their painfull trauels and labour The soules of the righteous are in thy hand O God and the paine of death shall not touch them In the sight of the vnwise they appeare to dye but they are in peace They shine as the sparkes that runne through the red bush They glister as the shyning heauen They are as the starres world without end They are as the Angels of God They are clad with white garments and haue golden Crownes vpon their heads Tey doe seruice day and night before the glorious Throne of thy Diuine Maiestie They neither hunger nor thirst any more neither doth the Sunne or any heate fall vpon them for the Lambe which is in the middest of the Throne gouerneth them and leadeth them vnto the liuing fountaine of waters They followe the Lambe whithersoeuer he goeth They haue such ioyes as eye hath not seene nor eare hath heard neither is there any heart able to thinke them infinite and vnspeakeable are thy treasures O Lord which thou hast layde vp for them that depart in thy faith For these thy fatherly benefites toward the soule of the faithfull and for that it hath pleased thee to call this our Christian brother from this vale of miserie vnto thy heauenly kingdome we giue vnto thee most heartie thankes humbly beseeching thee that thou wilt take like care for vs and so gouerne vs with thy holy Spirit both in sicknesse and in health that we may liue a good and godly life in this present world and whensoeuer it shall be thy good pleasure to call vs hence we may with strong faith
prisoners of the Diuell and yet thou vouchsafest to release and forgiue vs the whole number of our deadly iniquities and couered all haynous offences Notwithstanding therefore we are now also very vngratefull and such as be not worthie of thy gracious benefits our earnest request is that thou wouldest withould thy selfe from thy wrathful indignation Surely thou art iustly angry with vs but for the glorie of thy name represse this furie which is stirred vp by reason of our grieuous sinnes and lead vs into the siraite way of perfice health for as much as it appertaineth not to thy louing kindnes to be alwaies offended with thy faithfull seruants or to contiuue thy heauie wrath and sierce indignation vnto many generations Deale with vs after thy olde accustomed maner not according to our leand deserts scatter abroade our cruell enemies and put them to flight whome thou being prouoked through our great default wouldest that wée should feele Thou which in thy great wrath dost kill and being pacified quickened again shew thy mercie and sauing health like as thou hast set destructioÌ„ before our eles to the intrut thou wouldest both terrifie and chastice vs. Graunt that we which haue heretofore been maruellous rebellions and very stubborne may euer hereafter giue obedient care to these â—â—â—ngs which thou â—pâ—akest and willest vs to doe Let thy â—nspeakeable louing mercie and famous truth be linked in vs together and vouchsafe that peace and righteousnesse may with an vndissoluble band sticke fast in our hearts that when as thou hast deliuered vs from the hands of the most outragious Antichrist and his cruell champions we may yeeld vnto thee the plentifull fruites of holinesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer vpo the xiij Psalme O Lord how long wilt thou forget me for euer O good God how long wilt thou hide thy gracious countenance from me How long shall I be carried and tossed about with heause and trouble some cogitations and thoughts How long shall my heart wither and drie vp with sorrowe But now O my Lord God consider me regarde me with the eyes of thy mercie he are mee O Lord lighten mine eyes and my vnderstanding O my God least I be blinded with the reprobate and superish in my sins I beseech thee most humbly let not my enemies glorie and triumph among themselues as though they had wonne the victorie let them not rise vp against me as if I were vanquished grant me Lord that my hart may â—â—â—orâ—â— to thy saluationâ— so that with own voyce I may sing praises and render thankes to thee for that through thy helpe A aut redeemed and brought againt into ioye after my gricuous transgressions and sorrows Amen A Prayer vpon the xiiij Psalme O Lord delier me from al impietie and vnrighteousness deliuer me from my blind ignorance that I may earnestly séeke thâ—â— for we be al generally borne in calamiâ—â—e and forgetfulnesse and there is not one man which can vnshackle or deliuer him selfe by his owne propper strength and vertue there is no help but only by thy grace and power O Lord graunt that I may call vpon thee with an vnfained hart whensoeuer I shall be tempted by these aduersaries Let stedfastnesse of faith alwaies goe before me let me not be troubled with feare of any thing saue only of thy iudgements let all my trust defence and fortresse be in thee O Lord Send O good God from thy celestiall Syon that only protector which shall deliuer thy people from the horrible captiuitie of a troublesome conscience so that we may reidyce in him without ceasing So be it A Prayer vpon the xv Psalme O Lord purge me againe and iustifie me through faith from mine offences that I may dwell in thy aberuacle and continue blessed in thy holy Mountaine Graunt me O Lord this benefit that I may confesse thy truth without hypocrisie with an vpright hart Grant me that I deceiue no person neither by wrong to circumuent any creature Keepe me from flattering the peruerle and wicked men that I may loue and obey those which loue God in renerence whatsoeuer occasion the wicked take thereby to slaunder me let me not be trouble some or burdenous to any man but that I may serue all with vnfained affection to edifie my brethren thorow faith in Iesus Christ Amen A moditarion vpon the Lords Prayer OVr Father which art in heauen We being gloriously formed vnto the image of thy diuine maiestie created by thy gracious goodnes to most high honor how beit through sin dissigured with vilenes deseruing damnatieÌ„ and yet by Christs death redeemed and restored vnto grace to be Citizens with saints of the samilie of God now altogether in Christian vnitie as members of one bodie we pray desire and trust to obtaine of thee our heauenlie father according vnto thy gracious goodnesse mightie power and faithfull promise vnto vs that aske abundance of thy grace That thy name may be halowed That thy diuine power and glorious maiesty may be certainly known and reuerently honoured That the hearts of vs men by thy word and praier may be sanctified from all sin and vanitie so that we with all that we haue seruing thee in holinesse and righteousnesse may so shine afore men vpon earth that they may thereby be occasioned to honour thee our Father which art in heauen Thy kingdome come That thy worde may be so fruitfullie preached amongst vs thy people that we may be throughly instructed and taught to bridel our sensuall appetites by natural reason and to submit our â—â—â—s and reasons vnto a godly spirite and to trie our spirits by the true Scriptures So that within vs may raigue the kingdome of God which is neither meate nor drinke which is neither supersticious ceremoutes voluptuons pleasures nor vaiur glorie but righteousnesse peace and comfort in the holy Ghost by the which we now tasting of thy heauenlie ioyes may be made from henceforth wearie of all worldlie vanities continuallie looking praying for the appearance and comming of thy eternall and euerlasting kingdome Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heauen In Heauen the Angels of reuerent loue do thy will and commoundement with comfortable courage and ioyfull pleasure In hell the wicked Spirits thorowe malice and enuie repining and grudging doe torment and vexe themselues whatsoeuer they bee doing And vpon earth men being subiect vnto sinne doe thinke it is a labour and paine to be occupied in any thing that is good and godly Wherefore we pray thee that the grace of thy heauenly spirit may so worke in our earthly bodies that wee being deliuered from sinne and vanitie may freelie delight and take pleasure to doe thy will and commandement here on earth as thy glorious Angels doe in heauen Giue vs this day our dailie bread We hauing great néed and not able of our selues to deserue any thing beseech thee of thy fatherly goodnes to giue freely vnto vs all so that none be
hurt nor hindered this day when we crie vnto thee constrained by present neede not greedilie crauing through vaine care against to morrow our dailie Bread our daily and necessarie foode and reliefe both bodily and ghostlie and espeiallie so that the spirituall foode of Christs flesh and his blood by dailie preaching of thy Gospell and the ministration of the Sacraments may replenish our heart and mindes with continuall remembrance of his death and passion dailie to be vsed for our necessarie and spirituall consolation Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. We feeling and knowing our own sinifulnes doe desire thy mercifull forgiuenes of our faultes and trespasses which we haue committed against thee so that we freely forgiuing al other that haue offended vs in any thing whatsoeuer it be may be sure that mercie springing in thee hath proceded vnto vs being graciously offered of thee hath bin thankfully receiued of vs and being charitably vsed of vs towards other shall most certainly bee confirmed and enlarged of thée towards vs so that by free mercie springing procéeding from thee all faults may be freely forgiuen Euen as those which other haue committed against vs so likewise those which we haue done against thee And leade vs not into temptation Suffer not the Deuill by the abuse of thy benefites to leade vs Cap\tiues into deceitful and damnable temptation drawing vs by daintie meates vnto greedie Gluetonie by money and rithes vnto vnsatiable couetousnes and by wealth and prosperity vnto pride and vaine-glorie and by all thy godly and gracious gifts vnto euery diuelish and abominable sinne But deliuer vs from euill Deliuer our goods from abuse our bodies from corruption our soules from damnation Deliuer vs by Christ Iesu from the bondage of sinne vnto the libertie of the Gospell so that from the danger of the diuell and all his temptation traming and inticing towards danmation we being deliuered may serue thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of our life For thine is the kingdome the power and glory for euer and euer Amen For such is thy riches and regiment power and authoritie praise and excellencie that whatsoeuer treasures lands and possessions might wisdome and superioritie dignitie honour and maieslie hath been is or shall be in any persons times and places the same of equitie dutie and necessitie begin continue and ende so as the Eternitie Veritie and Maiestie of thy onely kingdome power and glorie may best appeare and be knowne to be far past all creatures ability vnderstanding or capacitie in thee onely Lorde God of truth without beginning change or decay eternally yea euery other kingdome power and glory be but slender shadowes and shewes seruing for this transitoric time to make vs more mindfull and desirous of thy eternall kingdome power and glorie By reason whereof out hope and the promise of eternall saluation and glorie in Christ be Amen that is to say most certaine So be it ALmightie and euerlining God vouchsafe we beseech thée to graunt vs perfect continuance in thy liuely faith augmenting the same in vs daylie till wée growe to the full measure of our perfection in Christ whereof wée make our coufession saying The Crede of the Apostles I Beleeue in God the father Almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord. Who was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary Suffered vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from death He ascended into heauen And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almightie From thence shall he come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beléeue in the holy Ghost The holy eathelike Church The communion of Saints The forgiuenesse of sinnes The resurrection of the bodie And the life euerlasting Amen The Confession of the Christian faith I Beleeue and confesse my Lord God eternall infinite vnmeasurable incomprehensible and inuincible one in substance three in person Father Sonne and holy Ghost who by his almightie power and wisdome hath not onely of nothing created heauen earth and all things therein contained and man after his own Image that he might in him be glorified but also by his Fatherly prouidence gouerneth maintaineth preserueth the same according to the purpose of his will I beléeue also and confesse Iesus Christ the only Sauiour and Messias who being equall with God made himselfe of no reputation but tooke on him the shape of a seruant and became man in all things like vnto vs sinne except to assure vs of mercy and forgiuenesse For when through our Father Adams transgression we were become Children of perdition there was no meanes to bring vs from that yoke of sin and damnation but onely Iesus Christ our Lord who giuing vs that by grace which was his by nature made vs thorow faith the Children of God who when the fulnesse of time was come was conceiued by the power of the holy Ghost borne of the Virgine Mary according to the flesh and preached on earth the Gospell of saluation till at length by tyrannie of the Priests he was giltlesse condemned vnder Pontinus Pilaie then President of Iurie and most slaunderously hanged on the Crosse betwixt two theeues as a notorious trespasser where taking vpon him the punishment of our sinnes he deliuered vs from the curse of the lawe And for as much as he being onely God could not feele death neither being only man could ouercome death hee ioyned both together and suffered his humanitie to be punished with most cruell death feeling in himselfe anger and seuere iudgement of God euen as if he had been in the extreame torments of hell and therefore cried with a loude voyce My God my God why hast thou for saken me Thus of his free mercie without compulsion he offered vp himselfe as the onely sacrifice to purge the sins of all the world so that all other sacrifices for sin are blasphemous and derogate from the sufficiency hereof The which death albeit it did sufficiently reconcile vs to God yet the scriptures commonly do artribute our regeneration to his resurrection for as by rising again from the graue the third day he conquered death euen so the victorie of our faith standeth in his resurrection and therefore without the one we cannot feele the benefite of the other For as by death sinne was taken away so our righteousnesse was restored by his resurrection And because he would accomplish al things and take possession for vs in his kingdome he ascended into heauen to enlarge the same kingdome by the aboundant power of his spirit by whom we are most assured of his continuall intercession towards God the Father for vs. And although he be in heauen as touching his corporall presence where the father hath now set him on his right hand committing vnto him the administration of all things as well in Heauen aboue as in the Earth
thee for them that put their trust in thee amongst whom account me for thy mercies sake Againe this eternall life and the place appoynted for them that be thy seruants all men doe graunt to be with thee because thou art euery where therefore eternall life is euery where For they by thy word doe knowe that in almuch as no man can see thee and liue this eternall life and thy blessed presence is most pleasant and had in fruition after in an other world whereunto by corporall death they dodepart and are translated to a place aboue them where thou dwellest in a light whereunto no man can approach Abrahams bosome they reade was aboue as the place of the wicked was alowe and beneath Helias was caught vp into Heauen and thy Sonne our deare Sauiour prayed that where he is those also might be which thou haddest giuen him and might see his glorie Now here deare Fatehr we learne by thy ppirit was ascended and taken vp in his very bodie into heauen whether Stephen looking vp and saw thy Christ standing on thy right hand to whom he prayed Oh Lord Iesus receiue my spirite Graunt I beseech thee gracious God and Father that I may haue a cleane heart more and more to see thee and so in spirit to see and looke often vpon this place whither bring me at the length in bodie also I humbly pray thee Now what a thing this euerlasting life is no man is able to conceiue much lesse able to vtter For the peace of God which is eternall life passeth all vnderstanding The eye hath not seene the eare hath not heard neither can mans heart conceiue those things which thou deare God hast prepared for them that loue thee Whatsoeuer therefore can be spoken or imagined of the kingdome of the clearnesse ioy and felicitie of the same is nothing in comparison as we may see by the Prophets which because they could not otherwise vnder corporall things haue shadowed the same so that the confidence of eternall life what a thing it is can in no wise be tolde Howbeit somewhat we may be brought into some sight of it by earthly things to thinke on this sort If God hath giuen heere so many things in a strange place how many are the great good things that be at home If in a prison are so many mercies how many are they in the Palace If the wicked haue so many benefites what is the siore prepared for thy seruants Oh Lord If thy Children finde such comforts in the day of teares and mourning what shall they finde in the day of the Marriage If which beastes men being haue the vse of innumerable blessings Oh how many are the blessings which they shall enioy with thy Angels and with thee thy selfe O deare God when they shall see thee and haue the fruition of thee in whom is fulnesse without lothing of all good and faire things so that nothing can be more desired and that for euermore This thy children doe not see as they now beleeue it I say that euen in their bodies they shall see it for euer as Iob said They beleeue that they shall see thee and their owne eyes behold thee when these our corporall eyes our bodies being raysed shall doe their duties Such a knowledge of thee they beleeue to haue as shall not be onely intellectuall and by faith as now it is but euen a full sight and fruition yea a coniunction and fellowship with thee Now they see but in a glasse euen in a darke speaking but then they shall see face to face For faith though it be the substance of things hoped for and a certaine darke sight of thee yet it may not be compared to the reward of faith and glorious sight which we shall see in the life to come when faith and hope shall cease Now thy children knowe that they be thy Sonnes though it yet appeare not what they shal be We know say they that when our Christ God and man shall appeare then shall we be like vnto him for we shall see him euen as he is Oh great prerogatiue to see Christ is he is Which is not to be considered so much for the manhood as for the godhead it selfe as Paule doth also write that when all things are subiect vnto the sonne then shall he be subiect vnto thee deare Father also so that God may be all in all And therefore Christ our Sauiour prayed for vs that we might knowe thee the only true God not that our Christ thy Sonne is not with thee the true coequall and substantiall God but that we might knowe how that after the iudgement such a mysterie of his mediatorship shall not be in heauen as it is now in earth Then thou blessed Trinitie God the Father God the Sonne and God the holy Ghost shall be all in all thou shalt be the ende of our desires thou shalt be looked vpon with out ende thou shalt be loued without loathing thou shalt be praised without wearinesse Although lothsomnes be wont to followe fulnesse yet our fulnesse in the contemplation of thy pleasures shall bring with it now kynd at all of lothsomnesse Societie of ioyes shall be in the beholding of thee Pleasures are on thy right hand for euer We shal be satisfted when we arise after thine Image I meane in the resurrection Oh deare father show thy selfe vnto vs and we aske no more Oh graunt vs with thy Saints in euerlasting life to praise with perpetuall praises thy holy name Happie then and happie againe were we if that day were come that we might sing with thy Angels Elders and innumerable thousands a newe song and say thou Christ Iesus which wast staine art worthie to receiue power and riches and wisedome and strength and honour and glorie and blessing In this blessed life all kind of maladies griefes sorrowes and euils be sarre away and all full of all kind of myrth ioy and pleasure Oh that we might see now a little with Saiut Iohn that holy Citie nowe Ierusalem descending from Heauan prepared of God as a Bride trimmed for her husband Oh that we might now something heare the great voyce speaking out of the throne behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and he shall be vnto them their God he wil wipe away all teares from their eyes and death shall be no more nor weeping nor crying nor sorrowe for the former things are gone A prayer of death and the commoditie it bringeth WHat other thing do wee daylie in this present life then heape sinne vpon sinne and hoorde vp trespasse vpon trespasse So that this day is worse alwayes then yesterday by increasing of dayes so sinnes and therefore thy indignation good Lord against vs but when we shall be let goe out of the prison of this bodie and so taken into thy blessed companie then shall we be in most safetie of immortalitie and saluation
then shall come vnto vs no sickenesse no neede no payne no kinde of euill to soule or bodie but whatsoeuer good we can wish that shall we haue and whatsoeuer we loath shall be farre from vs. O deare Father that we had faith to behold these things accordingly Oh that our hearts were perswaded thereof and our affections inflamed with the desire of them Then should we liue in longing for that which now we must lothe O helpe vs and graunt that we being ignorant of things to come and of the time of our death which to thee is certaine may so liue and finish our iourney here that we may be readie and then depart when our departing may make most to thy glorie and our comfort through Christ What is this life but a smoke a vapor a shadow a warfare a bubble of water a word grasse a flower That thou shalt dye it is most certaine but the time no man can tell when The longer in this life thou doest remaine the more thou sinnest which will turne to thy more paine By cogitation of death our mynds be often in a manner oppressed with darkenesse because we doe but remember the light of the bodie forgetting the light of the minde and for thy resurrection Hereto remember the good things that after this life shall ensue without wauering in certeintie of faith and so shall the passage of death be more desired It is like a sayling ouer the Sea to thy home and countrie It is like a medicine or purgation to the health of soule and bodie it is the best Phisition it is like to a womans trauaile For as the childe being deliuered commeth into a more large place then the wombe wherein it did lye before so mysoule being deliuered out of the bodie commeth into a much more larger and fayrer place euen into heauen A deuout prayer to be said daylie O Almightie and eternal God which vouchsafest that we as it were heaueuly Children should euery one of vs call thee our heauenly Father Graunt that among vs be purenesse and example of innocent life thy most holy name may be sanctified that all other Nations beholding our goodnesse and vertuous deedes that thou workest in vs may be stirred to hallowe and glorifie thee Graunt O Lord that the kingdome of thy grace and mercie may reigne continually in our hearts so that we may be worthie to be partakers of the Realme of glorie and maiestie Graunt that vnto the very death we refuse not to followe thy diuine will and that we according to the example of the celestiall Citizens agreeing together quietly vnited in spirite all controuersie in opinions layd apart the lustes of the flesh being subdued and the flattering assaultes of the world and the Deuill ouercome neuer wrastle against thy most holy will but obey it in al things Graunt O Lord for our bodie needefull sustenaunce that we may the more freely serue thee Giue vs we beseech thee O mercifull Father that Hearuenly bread the bodie of thy Sonne Iesus Christ the very foode and health of our soules giue vs the bread of thy diuine precepts that we may truely walke and liue after them Giue vs the bread of thy heauenly word which is the strong fortresse and sure defence of our Soules that we being well fed and silled with this foode may worthily runne to the celestiall feast where as is no hunger Graunt O Lord that we paciently beare and susfer our enemies and such as hurt vs and willingly to forgiue the offences committed against vs that so we may finde the Lord in forgiuing vs our trespasses milde and mercifull Graunt O Lord that we be not vtterly led into temptation that there by we should be lost But in all perilles of temptation and in the middest of the stormie tempests and tribulations let vs thy children perceiue and feele thy fatherly succour readie to helpe vs least that we be ouercome with the naughtie craftes and deceites of the tempter should be drawne into euerlasting destruction but when we be well assayed approoued and purged with the fire of temptation then let vs finish our course and so well and valiantly fight that we may for euermore liue with thee in that heauenly Citie where and against the which no manner temptation canpreuaile Finally graunt most mercifull Father that we through thy benigne goodnesse may be deliuered from all euils present and to come both in bodie and soule and that at the last that yoke of that foule feend being shaken off we may possesse the heritage of the heauenly kingdome which thy Sonne with his precious blood bought for vs thy children and there fore euer to haue the fruition of celestiall delectations accompanied with Angels and blessed Saints through the helpe benignitie and grace of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to whom and to thee our father and to the holy Ghost be all glorie and honour now and euer Amen Another Prayer O Heauenly father God almightie I pray and beseech thy mercie beningly to behold me thy vnworthy seruant that I may by thy gift of thy holy Spirit feruently desire thy kingdome that I may knowne thy will and worke thereafter Giue me O Lord wisdome Make me constant patient and strong in thee Keepe me Lord from the sleightie inuasion of the olde wilie Serpent Defend me from the counsailes and cursings of euill tongues let thy mightie arme be my shield against all the malignitie of the wicked world Remember not O Lord myne offences instruct prepare me to repent and to be sorie for my sinnes Make me to loue iustice and hate wrong to doe good and abstaine from all euils that I may be worthie to be called thy child To thee be honour and glorie for euer and euer Amen A deuout Prayer LORD hearken to my wordes consider the thought of my heart Behold how lowde I crye vnto thee let my iust prayer enter into thy cares which vnfeignedly commeth from my heart Heare me Lord for I am poore and destitute of mans helpe Take care for my Soule saue me thy Seruant which wholy trust in thee haue mercie vpon me O Lord for I will neuer cease crying to thee for helpe For thou art milde and more mercifull then any tongue can expresse as often as aduersitie assayleth me I will crye and call for helpe vnto thee I will call vpon thee in the day time and in the night my cry shall not be hid from thee O thou God of the heauens and maker of the waters and Lord of all creatures heare me a poore sinner calling vpon thee and putting my whole trust in thy mercie Haue mercie vpon me for thy manifold mercies sake forgiue me al myne offences Amen The Letanie O God the father of heauen haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father c. O God the sonne redeemer of the world haue mercie vpō vs miserable sinners O God the sonne c. spare vs good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast