hast translated us into the kingdome of the Son of thy love Have mercy on us Who without accepting of persons judgest every man according to his work Have mercy on us Be merciful and spare us O Lord. Be merciful and hear us O Lord. Be merciful and deliver us O Lord. From all evil and from the power of Satan Deliver us O Lord. From anger hatred and malice from the imminent mischiefs of sin and from everlasting death Deliver c. By thine infinite wisdome whereby thou seest the most secret things by thine endless power by which out of nothing thou createdst all things by thy infinite goodness whereby thou filledst all things by thy gracious providence whereby thou sweetly governest and disposest all things and by thine eternal charity wherewith thou lovest the world Deliver us O Lord. In the day of Judgment Deliver us O Lord. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord. That thy name may be always and every where sanctified that thy Kingdome may come into us that thy Will may be done in and by us in earth as it is in heaven by the holy Angels We beseech thee to hear us That thou would'st vouchsafe to give us this day our dayly bread to forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and to defend us under the shadow of thy wings and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil We beseech thee to hear us That our works may so shine before men that they may glorify thee our Father which art in heaven We beseech thee to hear us That what we faithfully ask may effectually be obtained We beseech thee to hear us O Father in the name of thy Son We beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away sins Have mercy c. O Lord our Protector behold us And look upon the face of thy Christ Remember us O Lord with thy good pleasure And visit us with thy Salvation Convert us O Lord God of Hosts Shew thy face and countenance upon us and we shall be saved O Lord hear our Prayer And let our cry come unto thee See the Prayer Pag. 277. LITANIES to God the Son O God the Father of heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the world Have mercy on us O God the Holy Ghost Have mercy on us O Sacred Trinity one God Have mercy on us O only begotten Son of God who art in the bosome of thy Father the beloved Son of God in whom the Father is well pleased in whom the fulness of the Trinity inhabiteth bodily Have mercy on us Arm of God upholding all things by the word of thy power God by whom all things were made and without whom nothing was made Father of the world to come Have mercy on us The splendor of eternal light the brightness of the glory of God and the express image of his person whom he hath appointed Heir of all things Have mercy on us Wonderful Counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of peace in whom are hid all the treasures of Wisdome and Knowledge the way the truth and the life the Sun of Justice and bright Morning-Star Have mercy on us The Alpha and Omega the beginning and end the first and the last who art who wast and art to come the Heir of all things the beginning and first-born of every creature Have mercy on us The Word made Flesh full of grace and truth Immanuel our God seen on earth and conversant with men the Messias the expectation of all Nations Have mercy on us The true light which enlightenest every man that cometh into the world the righteous branch of God truth sprung out of the earth Have mercy on us The great Prophet that was to come upon the earth mighty in word and deed before God and all the People Have mercy on us The anointed of God by the Holy Ghost with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows Have mercy on us O Son of God who emptiedst thy self taking upon thee the form of a servant who wast sent to preach the Gospel to the poor to heal the broken in heart and to publish freedome to the captives Have mercy on us O Son of Man meek and humble in heart who camest to seek and save Sinners that were lost who camest not to be ministred unto but to minister a man of sorrows and acquainted with infirmities Have mercy on us O Son of God made obedient to thy Father even to the death of the Cross that wast led like a sheep to the slaughter and dumb before the shearers the good Shepherd that layedst down thy life for thy sheep Have mercy on us Who lovedst us and washedst us from our sins in thy own blood on whom was laid by thy Father the iniquities of all Have mercy on us Who truly barest our infirmities and by whose stripes we were healed who wast wounded for our trangressions and broken for our offences Have mercy on us O immaculate Lamb slain from the beginning of the world who takest away the sins of the world the propitiation for our sins the author and finisher of our faith the Mediator and Angel of the New Testament the faithful and true Witness Have mercy on us The Stone which the Builders refused and yet made the head of the corner who wast delivered for our offences and didst rise again for our justification who art the resurrection and the life and the first-born from the dead Have mercy on us Who art made unto us by God wisdome justice sanctification and redemption the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls the Apostle of our profession and High-Priest of good things to come Have mercy on us Our Peace who hast made of two one Nation who hast made us Kings and Priests to God and the Father the Bridegroom of the Church beloved fair and ruddy chosen amongst thousands Have mercy on us Who art ascended above all Heavens a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedech an High-Priest holy innocent unspotted and separate from Sinners one Mediator betwixt God and Men the Man Christ Jesus Have mercy on us Who sittest at the right hand of his Majesty in the highest at whose Name every knee doth bow both of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth to whom a Name is given above all Names Have mercy c. The Head of all Principalities and Powers the Lord of Lords and Prince over the Kings of the earth who hast the keys of hell and death who are constituted by God Judge of the living and the dead Have mercy on us Be merciful and spare us O Lord. Be merciful and hear us O Lord. From all evil Deliver us O Lord. By thy eternal generation of the Father by thy Nativity in the fulness of time of thy Mother the Blessed Virgin Mary by thy most holy life and conversation and by thy death and most bitter
pag. 107. 1 Concerning Good and Evil Ibid. 2. Concerning Truth and Error § 45. p. 114. 5. Industry and a Vocation § 58. p. 127. 6. Contentedness and Indifferency § 60. p. 132. 2. Towards your Neighbour Civil § 62. p. 136. 1. Justice Ibid. 1. Doing no Wrong Ibid. 2. Doing all Right § 63. p. 136. 2. Mercy § 66. p. 137. 1. Doing no Hurt Ibid. 2. Doing all Good § 67. p. 140. Of Alms and Deeds of Charity § 68. p. 140. A Catalogue of the many several ways of shewing Charity p. 144. 1. To the Soul § 71. Ibid. 2. To the Body § 72. p. 146. 3. To the Estate of our Neighbour p. 148. Several sorts of Charities more Vniversal p. 148. 3. Toward God Religious § 75. p. 152. 1. Loving him Ibid. 2. Believing and hoping in him § 76. p. 154. 3. Worshipping him § 77. p. 155. 1. With Prayer and in this Ibid. 1. For our Selves with 1. Confession Ibid. 2. Thanksgiving § 78. p. 156. 3. Petition § 79. p. 156. 4. Praise § 80. p. 157. 5. Resignation § 81. p. 158. 2. For others with Intercession § 82. p. Ibid. Benefits of Prayer § 84. p. 159. 1. The great power of Prayer with God And the Conditions to make it effectual § 85. p. Ibid. 2. The Benefit of the exercise of Prayer upon our selves § 89. p. 164. IV. Counsels and Directions concerning several Religious Exercises P. 165 1. Concerning Prayer and in this Conc. § 90. p. 165. 1. Preparatives to Prayer Ibid. 2. Corporal reverence in Prayer p. 166. 3. Guard of the Eyes § 92. p. 167. 4. Encitement of a suitable Passion § 93. p. Ibid. 5. Imagination of God's Presence § 94. p. 168. 6. Recollection of mind and senses in Prayer § 95. p. 170. 7. Heightning and enlargement of the affections § 96. p. 171. 8. Imaginary place of address § 113. p. 186. 9. Frequency of Prayer § 118. p. 189. 10. Ejaculations in the intervals of Prayer § 119. p. 191. 11. Recitation of Psalms § 120. p. Ibid. 12. Length of Prayer § 121. p. 192. 13. Repetitions § 124. p. 194. 14. Importunity in Prayer § 125. p. 195. 15. Liberty of Expression in Prayer § 126. p. Ibid. 16. Ways of enlarging Prayer § 127. p. 196. 17. Particularizing in Prayer § 128. p. 199. 18. Colloquies to be used in Prayer § 129. p. 200. 19. Scripture-Expressions § 130. p. 201. 20. Advantages to Prayer from § 131. p. Ibid. 1. Publick Assemblies and Communion of Saints Ib. 2. Holy Places § 132. p. 202. 3. Holy times § 133. p. 203. 4. Holy Persons § 134. p. 204. 2. Concerning Meditation § 135. p. 205. Meditation practised four ways By § 136. p. Ibid. 1. Imagination Ibid. 2. Reasoning § 137. p. 206. 3. Affections § 138. p. Ibid. 4. Resolutions § 139. p. 207. Several Subjects of Meditation § 141 p. 208. 3. Concerning Examination of Conscience § 142. p. 211. 4. Conc. Reading the Scriptures and pious Books § 143. p. 212. 5. Concerning using of pious Discourse and Company § 144. p. 215. 6. With the Celebration of the Eucharist § 145. p. 215. The necessary duty and great benefit thereof § 146. p. 216. As being 1. The most effectual intercession to God made on earth Ib. 2. The Seal of the new Covenant and the Christians perpetual Sacrifice § 147. p. Ibid. Sacrifice 1. Propitiatory § 148. p. Ibid. 2. Impetratory § 149. p. 217. 3. Federal § 150. p. 217. 4. Eucharistical § 151. p. 218. 5. The Christians Passover § 152. p. 219. 6. A duty of Homage for the use of God's Creatures § 153. p. Ibid. 7. The Symbol of our Resurrection and Immortality § 154. p. 220. 8. The Symbol of our Christianity § 155. p. Ibid. 3. The danger and loss in neglecting the frequent use of these Holy Mysteries § 156. p. 221. 4. The danger of using them unworthily and without due preparation § 157. p. 222. 2. Passive Suffering Evil § 158. p. 223. 1. Christian Patience Ibid. Advices concerning behaviour before and in Sickness § 159. p. 225. 2. Christian Fortitude § 161. p. 227. Considerations conc the Good of Evils § 164. p. 230. Certain HEADS on Seven Principal Subjects of MEDITATION 1. On Sin § 167. p. 232. 2. On Sickness Death and the day of Judgment § 168. p. 233. 3. On the Extreme and Eternal Torments of Hell § 170. p. 244. 4. On the unspeakable Joys of Heaven § 171. p. 245. 5. On the Benefits to man in General and our selves in particular of God the Father § 172. p. 255. 6. On the several Offices and Benefits to mankind of Jesus Christ our Lord § 175. p. 259. 1. Law-giver and Apostle Ibid. 2. Exemplar § 176. p. Ibid. 3. Mediator § 177. p. Ibid. 4. Sacrifice § 178. p. 260. 5. Redeemer § 179. p. Ibid. 6. Second Adam § 180. p. 261. 7. High-Priest and Intercessor § 182. p. 262. 8. King § 183. p. 263. 9. All these to all Ages § 184. p. 264. 7. On the several Offices and Benefits to mankind of the Holy Spirit § 184. p. 265. 8. The love and power of the Father and the Son § 185. p. 265. 9. The Spirit of Promise § 186. p. Ibid. 10. The Spirit of Regeneration § 187. p. 266. 11. The Spirit of Illumination § 188. p. 267. 12. The Spirit of Love § 189. p. 268. Toward God Ibid. Toward our Brethren § 190. p. 268. 13. The Spirit of Corporal Purity and Mortification § 191. p. 268. 14. THe Internal Intercessor and Advocate § 192. p. 269. 15. Internal Comforter § 193. p. Ibid. 16. The Spirit of Obsignation and Vnction § 194. p. 270. 17. The Spirit of Miracles and wonderful Works § 195. p. Ibid. 18. The Internal Seed of Immortality § 196. p. 270. LITANIES 1. To the Sacred Trinity p. 273 2. To God the Father p. 277. 3. To God the Son p. 280. 4. To God the Holy Spirit p. 285. 5. Of the Blessed Eucharist p. 292. 6. Of the Life and Death of our Saviour Jesus Christ p. 300. 7. Of the Blessed Virgin p. 307. 8. Of the Holy Angels p. 311. 9. Of all Saints p. 317. 10. Of Penitents p. 324. 11. For the Sick and those that are Dying p. 333. 12. For the Dead p. 340. 13. Of Christian Virtues p. 344. DOXOLOGIES A Doxology to the Blessed Trinity p. 353. A Doxology concerning the Ways of God's Providence p. 355. CONSIDERATIONS Exciting to HOLY LIVING 1 Concerning our present and future Condition I. Concerning our present and future Condition Consider 1. OUR future Condition immutable and eternal 2. Our present very short in nature by casualties yet shorter Hoc modicum longum nobis videtur quoniam adhuc agitur cum finitum fuerit tunc sentiemus quam modicum fuerit 3. Death ordinarily seizing us at such a time when less than at other expected Luk. 12.38 39 40. Matt. 25.5 24.50.44 Rev. 3.3 Eccl. 9.12 Luk. 21.35 1 Thes 5.2 3. Luk. 17.26.28 Jam. 4.13 14. And the
fervore labora Sic erit lora brevis labor ille levis 26. Therefore always entertaining besides Prayer another continual and daily employment for as no vocation may be entertained that very much or wholly hinders our devotions so neither are our devotions amongst so many other Christian duties and interests to be made our whole vocation §. 119. Ejaculations in the Intervals of Prayer 27. In the intervals of set times using continually short versicles of Devotion pious ejaculations and aspirations to God for one is always thinking on what he most loves and these ejaculations belonging to any part of Prayer i. e. thanking or praising or confessing or petitioning c. And let these oblations continually ascend from the Altar of your Soul even whilst you follow your worldly affairs stealing as it were from them into the temple of your heart to worship God and to fan and keep in there the fire of your Devotion 28. Taking occasion from any thing that occurs to your senses to bless God and to use those called occasional meditations See Introd Part. 2.13 cap. Digr A Collection of some Exemplary Forms §. 120. Reciting of Psalms 29. Committing to memory Psalms altered to your purpose or other Hymns which may be continually ready to be offered to God in your Soul now the temple of his Spirit as God required concerning the law Deut. 6.7 when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way when you lye down and when you rise up and when you put on your cloaths when in impertiment company when at meals c. to prevent evil thoughts vain discourse or attention to it intemperate eating to divert any temptation to recover your self out of a passion c. Eph. 5.19 20. Col. 3.16 Jam. 5.13 the saying of which will put the mind into devotion when they find it not so 30. Many times the Soul is more affected with them when sung or used in verse 31. At a set time of the day saying such a Psalm fitted for your purpose which needs to take up no time almost from your employment and will renew in you the Spirit 32. For better fitting them for your purose Omitting transposing some verses Joyning some parts of several Psalms into one Changing David's professions into petitions As for I love Let me love c. Changing the present or preter tense into the future and è contra Making universals every where particulars as for we our us I me my Using your praises c rather in the second than third person and discoursing not only of God but with him as O Lord thou art rather than the Lord is which causeth to you more reverence and attention to what you say and minds you more of God's presence Applying to Christ and the Church and their triumphs or troubles all said of David and Sion And to your and the Church's spiritual enemies flesh or its lusts world and devil all his deprecations against his foes doing this also in your mind whenever you hear them read Furthering your self with some of a several devotion according to the several parts of Prayer i. e. for Confession for Thanksgiving for Doxology for Aspiration c. §. 121. Length of Prayer 33. As tasking your self to set times so at every of these times to a large proportion thereof measured by a glass clock or watch indispensably to be bestowed on this holy exercise This time of Prayer being the chief and most proper season of all good thoughts and holy inspirations and strong resolutions to Piety 34. And this set and large proportion of time Both because so all festination and sudden riddance of a set form which most are liable-to in this so burthensome-accounted duty may be prevented And also because much hesitancy dulness unpreparedness coldness evagation of thoughts hardly yet diuerted from our last employments do accompany the beginning of Prayer but much tenderness and consolation and complacency and incalescence of holy affections arise from the continuance of it long meditation of God as it were irresistibly kindling and then inflaming our passions towards him For which reason it is said motto pict vale il fin d'oratione ch'il principio So that who makes hast to end their Prayers entertain only the pain and toil but forbear to tast the sweetness and benefit thereof See several ways for enlarging Prayer below §. 122. Digr 1. Of the exceeding small number of those minutes of the day which are ordinarily spent in this negotiation of our Salvation and intercourse with Heaven And of the gross abuse of that text Matt. 6 7. urged in general by slothful and carnal Christians against all repetitions and long Prayers notwithstanding the known contrary practice of our Saviour who continued whole nights in Prayer and rose a great while before day to pray c. and of the Saints See Luk. 6.12 Mark 1.35 Luk. 2.37 1. Tim. 5.5 Act. 12.12 comp 6. Eph. 6.18 1. Thess 5.17 c. Digr 2. That Holy men have recommended an hours time to be spent in it the half of which seems the least that may be for those of less practise herein to perform them with any considerable devotion It being observed that any extraordinary visitations and consolations of the Spirit happen not but after long time of Prayer unless only to those who have a long time exercised themselves in this divine duty Digr 3. That to those in whom the love of God is perfectly formed Prayer is the chiefest pleasure of their life nor do they force themselves to lengthen but to restrain the time spent therein nor to heighten their passions therein but to abate them And the vehement desire of this perpetual converse with God makes company eating the necessary exercises and recreations of the Body c. that hinder them from it very painful to them §. 123. 35. One long time of Prayer better than many short ones 36. A short time better spent in some one head of Prayer than in hastily running through all for devotions continually flitting are frigid and languishing and so often changing of the fewel hinders the enkindling of the passions nor have they that earnestness and importunity with them which is required in this wrestling with God Yet where is a sterility in thinking on any subject there is a necessity to change it 37. Avoiding taedium and wearisomeness of mind if any happen before our time expired by change of our meditations and of our posture or by spending part of our time in meditation recitation of Psalms c. part in prayer or part in a set form and part in mental prayer and abiding in that wherein we are most affected §. 124. Repetitions 38. Often using Repetition especially in set forms of Prayer by which if we passed over any thing slightly the first time we may better remind it the second or if at first any thing said do much move us we may the longer continue the same passion A great help
forewarned us like a thief at a time when we are asleep and think less of it than at other times we do Now this imagined great distance still from our death chiefly ariseth from every ones reckoning his own end only from deficiency of nature which yet not one of 1000 dyes of and not from accidental distempers when as most commonly this our lamp goes out either choaked with its own nourishment or violently extinguished by some external accident before its Oyl is half consumed And since nothing is more common then example of this in others on every side what self love and dotage is it to promise our selves a better destiny till we also surprized become the like example to others 23. And consider likewise and think with your self how many are dying in that very time you are thinking and meditating of it 24. 2 When this time shall come your impotency and unfitness from your fears your pains and many times the want of your senses that will then be to order either the matter of your Soul or of your worldly affairs to do any thing with sufficient devotion or prudence and also your friends at that time hiding from you as much as they can the danger of your sickness Nay your self perhaps when decumbent under the stroke of death yet removing it a far off still and certainly presuming being loath to imagine the worst of a recovery only because some few so sick have not dyed of whom your unkind friends will not be wanting to mind you also because your self formerly have recovered 25. For exciting your resolutions and affections Indeavour to make the same judgment of things for the present and to have the same opinion now of your sins of the world and its pleasures and its cares and your designs in it and what you imagine you should in such a case at such a time purpose now resolve upon 26. Prepare your self for that terrible and dreadful hour in some of those Duties set down before 27. Avoid not but use and seek out all the sad memorials of death that may be as visiting Hospitals the sick sore and putrifying dying persons hearing their speeches their groans looking on the skeletons of the dead frequenting funerals Making many reflections on the passing of time decays of your own Body or other mens c. Remembring often Eccl. 7.2 3 4. Repeating often the 90 Psalm Recalling to mind and keeping a Catalogue sometimes to be reviewed of your friends and acquaintance deceased Considering what they were did are Thus much for Sickness and Death §. 169. For Consideration of the General day of Judgment some more particulars may yet be added Consider 1. That that is the proper day of justice and wrath as the present is of Grace and Mercy See Rom. 2.5.8 9. 2. Thes 1.7 8. Rev. 11.18 6.16 Luk. 18.7 2. Cor. 5.11 God's justice upon sin by Christ's Mediation being delayed till that time that many might come to repentance 2. Pet. 3.9 and these his present temporal punishments being inflicted chiefly not for vengeance but for other ends either for their good that suffer or other mens that behold it Therefore the present called our day Luk. 19.42 2. Cor. 6.2 wherein our free will doth as it pleaseth That the day of the Lord 2. Pet. 3.10 1. Thes 5.2 wherein removing this free power we yet enjoy God will gather out of his Kingdome all things that offend and all that do iniquity and cast them into the furnace Matt. 13.41 2. The dreadful signs that shall be then of God's wrath and the terribleness of the appearance of that day beyond all other terrors and the alteration of Heaven and Earth and putting out of the Sun before the sitting in judgment Rev. 20.11 comp 12. tho not till after the resurrection 1. Thes 4.16 See 2. Pet. 3.10.12 Psal 18.7 c. Nahum 1.3 c. Esai 30.27 c. Matt. 24.29 c. Rev. 20.11 Joel 3.2.12 c. to 17. Zechariah 14.4 Luk. 21.36 3. As the Bodies of the righteous raised in great beauty and glory so those of the wicked in great filthiness and deformity 4. The horrible fear and trembling of the wicked then living Matt. 30. Luk. 21.25 26. Rev. 1.7 6.16 11.18 Rev. 1.7 this day coming upon them when full of sin and security Matt. 24.12.38 Luk. 18.8 21.35 1. Thes 5.3 2. Thes 2 3. And of the Souls of the formerly dead then being brought out of their prisons 1. Pet. 3.19 and reunited to their loathsome companion the Body Now to be sentenced together with the devil to eternal torments whom also we may suppose deprecating as the Devils Luk. 8.31 5. The confidence and joy of the righteous then living and of the Souls of the dead then coming out of the place of rest and bliss and reunited to their Bodies their Bodies carefully gathered up and brought together by the Angels and such as they are described 1. Cor. 15.42 c. 2. Thes 1.10 both these being then caught up in the clouds and having their ascension like our Saviour's and meeting the Lord coming in his Glory with his Blessed Angels to Judgment in the air 1. Thes 4.17 Luk. 21.28 1. Jo. 2.28 1. Cor. 7.7 2 Tim. 4.8 Tit. 2.13 1. Thes 5.4 2. Pet. 3.12 whom we may suppose singing together as in Rev. 19.6 7 8. 6. A particular appearance and examination of all the Sons of Adam assembled together Sodom and Gomorrah in Abraham's time then confronting Corazin and Bethsaida in Christ's time c. And every one giving account of himself to God the Counsels of all their hearts being made manifest and secrets divulged Rom. 14.10.12 1. Cor. 4.5 Matt. 10.15 Rev. 20.12 Rom. 2.16 Ecclesiastes 12.14 7. Books kept containing all mens works then brought forth and opened Rev. 12.20 In which how many sins never thought of for Repentance shall be then brought to our Remembrance for Condemnation And besides them a peculiar Book of life called also a Book of remembrance Mal. 3.16 being not of actions but only of names i. e. of those who have here served and pleased God that none of them might be forgotten or unrewarded in that day All the rest who are not writ in that happy book being abandoned to eternal destruction Exod. 32.32 33. Phil. 4.3 Rev. 3.5 20.15 Luk. 10.20 Jo. 10.28 29. 8. The manifestation at that time of God's just judgment the manner whereof is set down by St. Paul Rom. 2. from 6. to 17. verse which shall be upon no other point but down-right according to works Rom. 2.6 Rev. 20.12 Matt. 16.27 c. In which works words Matt. 12.37 Jud. 15. and thoughts Rom. 2.16 are contained According to works either those that men have persevered in without any repentance of them at all or where any repentance of them hath been which cancels all the work before it Ezech. 18.21 22. according to the works done after it whether these be good or whether they be evil which being evil
or approve you according to your doings 2. Making you most gracious promises upon obedience to his will and following his counsels and again grievously threatning you upon contempt of his laws and these promises And using all possible means your liberty being reserved and your will not forced to wean and fright you from the ways of death and allure you to the ways of life 3. Redeeming you after that in your natural condition you became dis-obedient when without strength Rom. 5 6 when a sinner ver 8. when an enemy ver 10. from sin death satan hell into whose cruel hands you were fallen by his own Son Him that was brought up with him his dayly delight Prov. 8.30 sent out of his own bosome Jo. 1.18 Even by him God that made the world to be given up to death to be hanged on the tree for you and in your stead Remitting all your Sin gratis for his sufferings without requiring of you so strict an account for offences how grievous soever committed in the time past before you were by the receit of the stronger iluminations of his Spirit converted unto him 4. Calling you by being born according to his good pleasure in a Christian Common-wealth to Grace i. e. To the hearing of his holy word To the use and benefit of his holy Sacraments the sure pledges of his love and seals of the future performance of all his promises of remission of sin of increase of Grace c. _____ To the guidance and assistance of his holy Clergy To the Example of many holy Saints 5. Having long patience and forbearance with you whilst notwithstanding these you continued still vicious ready to be reconciled whenever you would return unto him and with all patience waiting for your repentance and himself practising most exactly towards you all the rules of long-suffering and forgiveness which he hath enjoyned you towards others 6. In your Conversion preventing you with his Grace regenerating and making you a new Creature after the image of his Son by infusing into you a new principle the Spirit which remains in you during your whole life and sufficiently enabling you in all the parts of holiness if you be not wanting to it on your part 7. Giving you day by day many illuminations divine inspirations and admonitions and by his Grace in you making you capable of and rewardable with new mercies unto you 8. Ordaining you after a few days spent here on earth to an immortal condition and unconceivable joys in heaven and to have this your vile Body after its corruption raised again in great glory and beauty §. 174. 9. Affections and Resolutions Such as these 1. Admiring his Goodness Your Ingratitude 2. Sorrow for ever having offended him 3. Re-loving him 4. Indeavouring hereafter to serve him 5. Suffering any misery for him 6. Imitating his goodness to you in yours to others c. For Considerations are easily multiplied §. 175. VI. HEADS for Meditation on the Several Offices and Benefits to Mankind of Jesus Christ our Lord extracted out of the larger Discourse of our Saviour's Benefits Consider 1. The world being full of ignorance and sin Jesus Christ 1. Law giver and Apostle The Truth the holy one of God in the fulness of time anointed by the Father and sent into the world A new Law-giver ministring not the letter of the law but the Spirit An Apostle preaching the Gospel Remitting Sins Conferring the Holy Ghost having the Keys of and admitting some into and shutting others out of the Kingdome of Heaven And who before his necessary departure ordained others by succession of Ordination to be continued to the world's end Sending them as the Father sent him delivering over his doctrine and delegating his authority and embassy and keys unto them and unto the end of the world from heaven assisting their Ministry Matt. 28.20 Appellations relating unto this Office Shepherd Pastour Bishop 1. Pet. 2.25 1. Pet. 5.4 §. 176. 2. After thus teaching the Way of life Christ the Exemplar and Pattern to mankind in his life and death The Way 2. Exemplar of all obedience to God's commands and of all suffering for righteousness sake which God hath here required And in his Resurrection and Ascension of the reward which God hath for hereafter promised §. 177. 3. God's former Covenant of Works being found unprofitable unto us 3. Mediatour upon the breach thereof now liable to God's wrath and eternal death Jesus Christ the Mediator of a new Covenant and Testament founded in remission of sins reconciling sinners to God Sealing this Covenant with his Blood the blood of the New Testament Luk. 22.20 and ratifying this Testament with his death and after his Resurrection having put into his own hands by the Father the donation of the rewards promised to those that keep the conditions of this Covenant §. 178. 4. God's justice not pardoning Sin gratis Christ the Sacrifice 4. Sacrifice the lamb of God the true sin-offering for the world expiating our guilt and our passover delivering us sprinkled with his blood Heb. 12.24 from the destroying Angel And our peace-offering by eating whereof we have Communion with God with his Son and all that is his with the Saints and all that is theirs Lastly by eating whereof being the Bread of Life our Souls and Bodies are preserved unto everlasting life as in paradise they should have been by the tree of life §. 179. 5. Man being indebted to God's justice by him unsatisfiable and in bondage to sin 5. Redeemer to the law to death and to Satan the grand Executioner of God's justice and Prince of this lower world Jesus Christ the Redeemer by paying a ransome freeing us from our debt and by making a conquest delivering us out of our slavery By whom we are freed already from the dominion of sin from the condemnation of the law from the chains of Satan from the approach of death eternal from the hurt and therefore from the fear of death temporal that being now only a passage to happiness But when the good time is come shall be by the same Redeemer yet more perfectly freed from all these than as yet we are namely from any adherence or possibility of sin from any temptation of Satan from being restrained to any law from being capable of any mortality through Jesus Christ our Lord. §. 180. 6. God making a Covenant with the first Adam made of the earth involving his seed 6. Second Adam The Life 1. Cor. 15.45 and he by his pride transgressing it so both losing the reward and bringing death both on himself and his posterity Jesus Christ the second Adam descending from heaven assuming our nature entring a Covenant involving his seed fulfilling it by walking a contrary way to the first i. e. by humility and so receiving the reward for himself and for his seed Both the holy spirit and immortality which were lost by the first Adam being now in their due time
judge the living and the dead Give rest to the Souls of the Faithful departed O Lamb of God at whose presence the earth shall be moved and the heavens melt away Give rest to the Souls of the Faithful departed O Lamb of God in whose blessed book of Life their names are written Give eternal rest to the Souls of the Faithful departed The Antiphon DEliver us O Lord and all thy Faithful in that day of terror when the Sun and Moon shall be darkned and the Stars fall down from heaven in that day of calamity and amazement when heaven it self shall shake and the Pillars of the earth be moved and the glorious Majesty of Jesus come with innumerable Angels to judge the world by fire Deliver us O Lord in that dreadful day And place us with thy blessed at thy right hand for ever O Lord hear our Prayers And let our Supplications come to thee ALmighty God with whom do live the Spirits of the perfect and in whose holy custody are deposited the Souls of all those that depart hence in an inferior degree of thy grace who being by their imperfect Charity rendred unworthy thy presence are detained in a state of grief and from thy beatifical sight as we bless thee for the Saints already admitted to thy glory so we humbly offer our Prayers for thy afflicted servants who continually wait and sigh after the day of their deliverance Pardon their sins supply their unpreparedness and wipe away the tears from their eyes that they may see thee and in thy glorious light eternally rejoyce Thro Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Eternal God who besides the general precepts of Charity hast commanded a particular respect to parents kindred and benefactors grant we beseech thee that as they were the instruments by which thy providence bestowed on us our birth education and innumerable other benefits so our Prayers may be a means to obtain for them a speedy delivery from any privation of bliss which they may suffer for their sins and a free admittance to thy infinite joys Thro Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen MOst wise and merciful Lord who hast ordained this life as a passage to the future confining our Conversion to the time of our Pilgrimage here and reserving for hereafter the state of punishment and reward vouchsafe us thy grace who are yet alive and still have opportunity of reconcilement to thee so to watch over all our actions and correct every least deviation from the true way to Heaven that we be neither surprised with our sins uncancelled nor our duties imperfect but when our Bodies go down into the grave our Souls may ascend to thee and dwell for ever in the mansions of eternal felicity Thro Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen The LITANY of Christian Virtues O God the Father of Heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the world Have c. O God the Holy Ghost Have mercy on us O Sacred Trinity one God Have mercy on us O Lord just and good and a rewarder of all those that seek thee diligently Have mercy on us Who createdst our first Parents in innocency and holiness after thine own image and gavest a testimony to the offerings of just Abel Have mercy on us Who savedst in the Ark from the Flood Noah a Preacher of Justice and deliveredst from the Fire just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked Have mercy on us Who gavedst the Promise to Abraham found faithful after many trials Have mercy on us Who deliveredst Jacob endued with a wonderful patience and confidence in adversities from all evils and gavest a joyful end to thy servant Job that pattern of patience Have mercy on us Who rewardest the singular modesty and chastity of Joseph with the rule over Aegypt Have mercy on us Who choosest Moses the meekest man upon earth to be Ruler over thy people and electedst Joshuah notable for valour and constancy to lead thy people into the land of Promise Have mercy on us Who gavest the Priesthood to the Sons of Levi for their great courage in vindicating thine honor and deliveredst from all dangers the Prophet Elias for his incomparable Zeal for thy true worship against the false Prophets and at length took'st him up into heaven Have mercy on us Who set'st Samuel Judge over thy people a lover of Justice and free from bribes And liftedst up David a man after thy own heart in the faithful service of thee to be King of Israel Have mercy on us Who replenishedst Solomon humbly begging Wisdome of thee both with it and many other Graces And adornedst Daniel and his Companions being singularly temperate and sober with wisdome and beauty Have mercy c. Who chosest the Blessed Virgin Mary adorned with singular chastity humility obedience and all other Virtues to be the Mother of thy Son Have mercy on us Who sentest John Baptist a fore-runner of thy Son a Preacher of penance and of great austerities and abstinence Have mercy on us Who sentest JESUS Christ thy only begotten Son into the world the pattern of all Holiness that we should follow his example Have mercy on us Who hast chosen us in him before the foundations of the world that we also should be holy and unblameable in thy sight Have mercy on us Who hast predestinated us that we should be made conformable to the image of thy Son and hast created us in him to good works which thou hast ordained that we should walk in them Have mercy on us Who hast redeemed us from our vain conversation by the precious blood of Christ and hast regenerated us by thy word unto a lively hope of an eternal inheritance Have mercy on us O Jesu who knewest no sin neither was guile found in thy mouth but appearedst to take away the sins of the world Have mercy on us JESUS who barest our sins in thy body on the Cross that we being dead unto sin may live unto Justice and Holiness Have mercy on us Who hast delivered us out of darkness into light from the power of Satan into thy Kingdome and hast bestowed upon us the remission of sins and an inheritance amongst thy Saints Have mercy on us Who promisedst thy Disciples that forsook all for thee twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel who committedst unto St. Peter notably confessing and loving thee the feeding of thy sheep Have mercy on us Who vouchsafest to St. John notable for chastity the singular priviledge of thy love Have mercy on us Who sendedst thy holy Spirit whereby divine Charity is spread abroad in our hearts Have mercy on us Be merciful and spare us O Lord. Be merciful and grant unto us O Lord The virtue of humility and patience spiritual poverty and meekness longanimity and obedience to those that are set over us Grant unto us O Lord A quiet mind and contented with our present condition true peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Grant us c.
with Grace seasoned with Salt that we may know how to answer every man and our discourse such as may some-way edify and minister Grace to the hearers that this busy member being defiled with no filthy or vain communication here may be the more hallowed in the world to come to sing Hallelujahs Doxologies and Thanksgivings for ever and ever to the Blessed Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen A DOXOLOGY to the Blessed Trinity GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Glory be to the most holy and eternal Son of God the blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the world the Advocate of Sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and eternal Spirit of God that searcheth all things even the depths and hidden things of God the Holy Ghost the Advocate the Comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All glory and thanks all honour and power all love and obedience be to the blessed and individual Trinity one God Eternal It is most just and right to praise and to glorify to worship and adore to give thanks and to magnify thee the great Maker of all Creatures visible and invisible the Treasure of all good temporal and eternal the Fountain of all life mortal and immortal the Lord and God of all things in heaven and earth the great Father of thy servants the great Master of thy children The Heavens and the Heaven of Heavens and every Power therein the Sun and the Moon and all the Stars of the Sky the Sea and the Earth the heights above all the depths below Jerusalem which is from above the Congregation celestial the Church of the first born written in the heavens the Spirits of the Prophets and just men made perfect the Souls of Apostles and all holy Martyrs Angels and Archangels Thrones and Dominions Principalities and Powers the Spirits of Understanding and the Spirits of Love with never ceasing Hymns and perpetual Anthems cry out night and day and let the humble voice of thy servants also be heard amongst them saying Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts heaven and earth are full of thy glory The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesseth thy providence the Sea manifests thy power and every Spirit and every understanding Creature celebrates thy greatness for ever and ever Especially thy miserable creature Man is bound to praise thee because thou mad'st him according to thy own Image because thou gav'st him the riches and the rest of Paradise and when he fell and broke thy easy Commandment thou didst not despise his folly nor leave him in his Sin but didst chastise him with thy Rod and restrain him by thy law and instruct him by thy Prophets and at last by the coming of the second person God the Son into the world did'st renew and repair this thy broken Image for which praised be the Lord God Almighty good and gracious dreadful and venerable holy and merciful to the works of thy hands Hosannah blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosannah in the highest for ever and ever Amen A DOXOLOGY concerning the Ways of God's Providence § 1 O The depth of thy Knowledge and Wisdome O God! how unsearchable are thy Judgments and thy Ways past finding out O Lord how great are thy works how deep are thy thoughts Who can utter thy mighty Acts O Lord Who can shew forth all thy Praise Even from the Creation thy Power delighteth to manifest it self in high and difficult matters and thou walkest contrary to the wisedome of men Thy whole work is to do wonders and by these thou being invisible in person declarest thy presence on the earth Thou bringest light out of darkness good out of evil and strength out of weakness Content and satiety out of poverty and glory and honour out of humility True wisdome and knowledge out of holy simplicity and self-disesteem the greatest consolations and joys out of adversities and sufferings Thou makest thy foolishness to be wiser then men and thy weaknes stronger then men By the foolish things of this world thou confoundest the wise and by the weak things of the world thou confoundest things that are mighty By the base and despised and things that are not thou bringest to nought things that are On the contrary thou bringest scorn and contempt out of the highest of pride ambition and glory covetousnes and unsatiableness out of plenty and abundance Extreme folly out of secular wisdome and cunning and sudden want out of ill gotten wealth Distraction out of the fulfilling our desires and sighing and mourning out of secular joys and pleasures Thou delightest to take the wily in their own craftiness and to deceive the deceivers To make his own net that he hath hid to catch himself and himself to fall into the same destruction he hath prepared for others Thou lovest to judge men by their own self-condemnation and to make the guilty pronounce sentence upon himself To punish men by their faults and to make their own way and not thy power to overthrow them Out of deep security and confidence thou bringest adversity and trouble and death when men think most enjoying life When they say Peace behold a sudden destruction and in the midst of War behold a sudden Peace Thou shewest strength with thy arm O Lord and scatterest the proud man in the imaginations of his heart Thou puttest down the mighty from their seat and dost exalt the humble and meek Thou fillest the hungry with good things and the rich thou sendest empty away Thou makest him who disperseth his goods to the poor to abound in wealth and those who heap them up to suffer penury The Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the strong nor Bread to the wise nor Favour to the skilful nor Riches to the Understanding but as thou distributest them O Lord to those who depend on thee § 2 The way by which thou appointest man to be happy is that which humane reason judgeth contrary to it Here repeat the Preface and which seemeth to render him most unhappy By his abondoning all things he comes to possess all things and by his desire of nothing he attains to want nothing By his being careful for nothing but the serving of thee he becomes provided of all things by thee and in his flying from the world the good things thereof follow him To cross and forsake his own will he finds the way to true tranquility of mind and to forsake his own reason with dependance on thee the way to true wisdome To be careless of and to lay down his life for thy sake the surest way to save it whilst others by seeking to preserve do lose it By his humility he attaineth to honour and in voluntary poverty he findeth content He taketh pleasure in infirmities in necessities in