untill now For the good which I have received For the good if any which I have done For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits For the promise and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing For my good and honest Parents My kinde and mild Master and Teacher My ever memorable Benefactors My trusty friends My faithfull companions My loving and carefull Wife My obedient and towardly children For all those which have any way furthered and profited me By their writings Sermons Discourses Proverbs Examples Reproofes Injuries For all these and for all other known unknown manifest and secret remembred and forgotten Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered I praise and will praise Blesse Blesse Thanke Thank thee All the dayes of my life What am I Lord or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven which he hath given me to this instant Praises IT is good to sing psalms unto our God For sweete and decent is his praise Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart In the counsell of the Saints and in the Congregation O magnifie the Lord with me and let us elevate his Name Let all his works blesse the Lord in all the places of his Dominion from the Sun rise to the fall thereof Let all that breath praise the Lord Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations and praise him only ô all ye people Give unto the Lord all ye Kindreds of the earth give unto the Lord honor and glory Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Being your offerings and come into his Courts Praise thou the Lord ô Salem and thou ô Sion praise ye the Lord All ye that stand in the Lords house in the courts of the house of our God lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary ô lift them up and praise the Lord My soule praiseth the Lord him will I praise all my life long To my God will I sing whilst I have any being Thou art my God and I will praise thee Thou art my God and I will exalt thee Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens and thy glory above the Earth Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures All man-kinde in generall The Klngdome of the whole world The Catholike Church The Kingdomes and Churches in severall This Church and Kingdome of ours The orders and degrees in each And the particular persons in them Towards this City This Parish wherein I dwell Towards all that are mine Mine Household Kindred Benefactors Friends Wel-willers Towards my poor selfe My soule and body in the gifts of grace Nature The world Now to this present and which shall bee at my time hereafter Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord For indeede it is most due and just Most meet and convenient in all and by all means in all â—indes Times and places To memorize adore confesse praise blesse Magnifie and thanke thee VVhich art the Creator Nourisher Preserver Governour Restorer Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures Their Lord and Father Their King and God The fountain of life and Immortrlity The treasury of eternall blessing VVhom the heavens applaud and the heaven of heavens the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them with them Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high in earth peace and good will among men Blessed and praised and magnified extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord The memoriall mention and remembrance thereof For the faith of the Patriarchs The hope of the Prophets The labours of the Apostles The trueth of the Evangelists The blood of the Martyrs The zeale of the Confessors The study of the Doctors Glory be to thee O Lord glory be to thee Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them In whom wee also glorifie thee Amen Glory and wisedome Honour and Virtue Praise and Riches Blessing Power Thanksgiving and Dominion Holinesse and Salvation be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever and to the Lambe which was slaine Amen Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee for thy judgments are made manifest Praises in Particular COme and harken unto me ô all yee that feare the Lord and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule he hath created me hee hath brought me into life and hath so disposed of mee that I am A living soule and not a sensles thing A Man not a Beast Civill not barbarous Freeborne not a slave Legittimate not a bastard Of honest parentage not of base or Ignominious Of understanding not blockish Sound in sences not blind or deafe Sound in Limbs not lame or maimed Well brought up not forlorne or exposed A Christian not a Pagan Peaceable not quarelsome Cleare of dangers not swallowed up by them Cleere of infamy not wounded in credit Of sufficient estate not forced to flatter or borrow And living in the dayes of PEACE not turmoyled with hurly burly To thee O Lord Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. To an Inheritance Immortall undefiled and never fading reserved in heaven for us which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me so through Christ my consolation aboundeth To thee O Lord The God of my fathers I make my confession to thee I give praise because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee and hast opened thy Word unto me Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood according to the power which worketh in us Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ through out all generations for ever and ever As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this â—â—â— I give my thanks to tâ—â—e ô Lord The Evening approacheth ô blesse that also to
me an evening there is as of the day so of our life that Evening is old age age hath now surprized me Lord prosper thou that likewise unto me Tarry with me ô Lord for the evening growes upon me Luck 24. 29 And my day is much declined cast me not off now in min age forsake me not now when my strength faileth me Psal. 71. 8 9. But rather let thy strength bee made more perfect in this my weaknes 2 Cor. 12. 9. O Lord the day is vanished and gon so doth this life The night doth now approach so doth death also death without death the end both of our day and of our life is neere at hand Remember this therefore wee beseech thee ô Lord make the end of all our lives Christian-like and acceptable to thee peaceable and if it like thee painlesse translating us among thine elect unto thy heavenly kingdome O Lord thou hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come In the morning at Noone and in the evening I will call I will cry out and thou shalt heare my voyce In the night will I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary and will blesse thee ô Lord Psal. 133. 4. The Lord hath shewed his mercy in the day therfore at night I will sing of him and pray unto the God of my life psal. 42. 9 10. Thus will I praise thee all my life long and in thy Name will I lift up my hands Psal. 63 4 5. O let my prayers be directed as the incense and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou ô Lord my God the God of my Fathers Psal. 144. 20. VVhich hast created the Changes of night and of day v. 22. VVhich givest rest to the weary and refreshest the weake Esa. 40. 29. VVhich givest Songs in the night Job 35. 10. And makest the out-going of the Morning and Evening to praise thee Psalme 65. 9. VVhich hast delivered us from the malice of this day Matt. 6. ult. And cuttest not off our lives like a VVeaver neither from Morning to Evening makest an end of us Esay 38. 12. As we add dayes to our dayes so we add sinnes to our sins Eccles. 5. 8. The just man falls seven times a day Frov. 24. 16. But wee wretched sinners seventy times 7 times Mat. 18. 22. But wee returne to our hearts Esa. 46. 8. And with our hearts we returne to thee Deut. 30. 2. To thee ô Lord wee returne and all that is within us saith Ps. 103. O Lord wee have sinned against thee 2. Sam. 12. 13. But we repent alas wee repent spare us good Lord Luke 17. 4. Be mercifull and spare us Be propitious to us Haue pitty upon us and spare us ô Lord Forgive us the guilt Rom. 13. 19. Take out the staines Psal. 51. 3. 9. Cure the faintnesse in us by reason of our sins psal. 146. 3. and heale our soules O God for wee have sinned against thee psal. 41. 4. Deliver mee from my unavoydable sins psal. 27. 17. Cleanse me from my secret offences psalm 19. 13. And for my Communion with the transgression of others pardon thy servant ô Lord All our good deeds thou hast wrought in us Esay 26. 12. If wee have done any thing well mercifully regard it ô Lord Our sin and our distraction is from our owne selves Hosea 13. 9. Whatsoever wee have done amisse graciously pardon it Thou which givest thy beloved secure rest grant that I may passe this night without feare Psal. 3. 6. Enlighten my eyes that I sleep not in death p. 13. 4. Deliver mee from the mighty feare from the businesse that walketh in the darke psalm 91. 5. Thou which neither sleepest at any time nor slumbrest keepe mee this night ô Lord from al evill chiefly ô Lord keepe and preserve my soule Psalme 121. 4. 7 Visite mee ô God with the visitations of thy Saints open mine eares in the visions of the night Job 33. 15 16. At least let my sleepe be a cessation from sins from labour and let me dream of nought that may offend thee or defile my selfe Prov. 4. 6. Let not my loynes be filled with illusions but let my reynes chasten mee in the night psalme 38. 8. and 16. 7. Let mee remember thee upon my bed and let mee meditate with my heart and search out my spirit Psalme 63. 6. and 77. 6. And when it shall bee time for mee to rise let mee wake with the light to thee ô Lord to thy praise and thy service Rom. 13. 11. Psal. 63. 1. O Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit my soule and my body Thou hast created thou hast redeemed them ô Lord thou God of truth Psalm 31. 5. And with my selfe I commend to thy mercifull protection all those that belong to mee and all that is mine Thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hast bestowed them upon me Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from evil chiefely good Lord keepe and preserve our soules Keepe them ô God keep them all spotlesse and without guilt present them in that day Psa. 121. 7. I will lay me down and sleepe in peace For thou only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 3. 5. and 4. 8. After divine service O Lord thou which hast suffered me this holy day and houre to raise my soule and give praise unto thee and offer up the glory due to thee accept then from my soul this sacrifice sprituall and send into me the grace of thy most sacred spirit ô visit me in thy great goodnesse forgive me all my sins both wilfully and unwillfully committed deliver me from the reward of them that is from everlasting punishment yea and from all distresses in this world change my thoughts into Piety Sanctifie my spirit My soule and my body Oh give me grace to adore and please thee in godlines and holines of life to the utmost end of al my dayes Amen Before thy Approaching the Holy Communion say O Lord I am not worthy nor prepared for thee to come under my sordid roofe for it is wholy desolate and ready to dropp downe quite neither canst thou with me have any fitting place for thy Reposall Mar. 8. 8. But as thou denyest to rest in the Stable and manger of bruit beasts Luk. 2. 7. As thou didst not Disdaine Simon the Kepers house and entertainement Mat. 26. 6. As thou didst not forbid the adulterous Sinner to come and touch thee Luk. 7. 19. Nor did'st abhor her impure and prophane mouth Nor yet the Theeves confession of thee upon the Crosse Luk. 7. 23. Vouchsafe O Lord to receive me likewise an over-worne and most unworthy sinner Amen In approaching the Holy Sacrament O Lord with all thanks wee commemorate the saving passions of thy Christ our Saviour This life-restoring Crosse His precious death His 3. dayes Sepulture His resurrection His ascention to heaven And his sitting on thy right hand His glorious and most Dreadfull returne thence to the
satisfie our poore with bread Psal. â—32 6. Let our Garners be full and abounding with all manner of store let our sheepe bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets And let our Oxen be strong to labour v. 13. Let there bee no decay no leading away into captivity nor no complaining in our streets Two things I desire of thee O Lord deny me not them before I dye Pro. 30. 7 8 9. Vanity and lying words remove farr from me v. 8. Beggery and abundance give me not Give me onely what is needfull for my life least being full I be tempted to deny thee and say who is the Lord verse 9. Or being forced by want I steale so forswear the name of my God Teach me O God to abound to want Phil. 4. 11. that every where and in all things in what condition soever I shal be I may learne to be content v. 12. Thanksgiving LEt all thy workes confess unto thee ô Lord and let thy Saints blesse thee Psal. 34. 96. 103. 107. It is a good thing to praise the Lord and to sing unto thy Name O most high Psa. 91. 1. To declare thy loving kindnes in the morning and thy truth in the night season v. 2. I will exalt thee O God my King and blesse thy Name for ever and ever every day I will blesse thee and extoll thy Name for ever and ever Psal. 145. 1. v. 2. For it is thou which callest the things which were not as if they were and by whom all things are made in Heaven and on Earth visible and invisible Rom. 4. 17. Col. 1. 16. And it is thou which sustainest all things by the word of thy power and by thy ordinance they continue to this day Heb. 13. Psal. 119. 91. for all things serve thee Which leavest not thy selfe without a witnesse in doing good from heaven giving us raine and fruitfull seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladnesse Acts. 14. 17. 1. It is thou which by thy wisdome and power didst thy selfe 2. With thine owne hands make man of the mould of the earth 3. And didst breath into his nostrills the breath of life Acts. 1. 26. 4. And did'st honour him with thine owne Image 5. And did'st give the Angells charge over him Psal. 91. 11. 6. And dost place him over the worke of thy hands Psal. 8. 7. 7. And did'st seate him in the paradise of pleasure Gen. 2. 15. And when he had dispised thy Commandements did'st not yet dispise him but did'st open to him a gate to repentance and life Acts. 11. 18. Giving to him that great and pretious promise of the seed which should save us 2 Pet. 1. 4. It was thou which did'st instruct us 1. By that which is knowne of God 2. By the Law written in our hearts 3. By the services of sacrifices and oblations 4. By the Oracles of the Prophets 5. By the melody of the Psalmer 6. By the wisdome of the Proverbs 7. By the experience of the sacred story It was thou which when the fulnesse of time came didst send downe thy son who emptying himself and taking the forme of a Servant of the feede of Abraham Heb. 12. 6. Being made of a woman and subjected to the Lawe Gal. 4. 4. Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 21. 6. Ga. 4. 4. By his active obedience fulfilled the Law and by his death tooke away the curse thereof Eph. 5. 1. Redeeming by his death and by his resurrection reviving our nature and leaving nothing undone that was needfull to doe that wee might be made partakers of the divine nature who likewise manifested himselfe to be our Saviour in all places by the preaching of the Gospell Rom. 4. last 2 Cor. 2. 14. Bearing witnesse thereunto by divers signes and miracles Heb. 2. 4. By the admired holines of life in his Saints and By their wonderfull patience even to the effusion of their bloud Heb 11 36 37. And by the incredible condition of the whole world to the faith 1 John 5 4. It is thou also which hast made us the Sonnes of Saints and heirs of the same vocation Which hast given thy Church power to be the pillar and foundation of Truth 1 Tim 3 15. It is thou which hast granted to our Church ability to keep that which was committed to her 1 Tim. 6. 20. To teach us the way of peace and to retain certain ordered stedfastnesse and decency Rom. 3. 22. Col. 2. 5. It is thou which hast established the throne of thy Servant our Soveraigne 1 Ch. 17. 13. Which hast instructed our Princes hast taught our Magistrates wisedome Psal. 105. 22. Which hast vouchsafed us pastours according to thine own heart to feed us with knowledge and learning Jer. 3. 15. It is thou which hast made peace in our inclosure and hast satisfied us with the flowre of wheate Psalm 106. 13 14. Which hast strengthned the Barres of our gates and hast blessed our Children among us Which hast turned our swords into Mattocks and our spears into sithes Esay 2. 4. Which hast cloathed our enemies with confusion and hast given us for a blessing for ever and ever and made us glad with the joy of thy Countenance Psal. 21. 7. It is thou which hast brought mee into this life and hast led mee to the lavar of regeneration and renewing by thy holy Spirit and hast revealed to me the paths of life Tit. 3. 5. Psalm 16. 11. Which hast connived at my sins for my repentance Wisd. 11. 12. And hast not crushed me under the hands of mine iniquity Esa 64. 7. Which hast even waited to shew mercy on me Esa. 30. 18. And hast not suffered my heart to harden Rom. 2. 9. But hast left mee in the compunction of heart and memory of my latter end and conscience of my former sins Acts 7. 37. Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 10. 3. Which hast not cut off my life like a weaver in the beginning Psa. 16. 29. nor from morning to night hast made and of us Jo. 20. 22. Which hast not called me away in the middest of my dayes Psalme 102. 25. But hast holden my soule in life and hast not suffered my feete to slip Psalme 66. 9. Therefore for all these benefits and for many more through their multitude and our forgetfulness omitted Glory be to thee ô Lord glory and honour praise and blessing and thankes with the tongues of Angels and men The meanest of thy work by reason of our sin now every houre and every day Even to our latest gaspe To the end of the world and to all Eternity Amen Thankesgiving in particular O Lord my God For my being living endowment with reason For my nourishment preservation ingenuous education For thy gifts to me of nature of the world of grace For my redemption regeneration christian instruction For thy calling of me calling againe often reiterated calling For thy patience long-suffering long long-suffering of these many times these many yeares even
sinnes To weare our colours that wee his he in our red that wee in his white So wee finde Apoc. 7. our robes are not onely washed cleane but dyed a pure white in the blood of the Lambe Yea hee dyed and rose againe both in our colours that we might die and rise too in his he in mount Golgotha like to us that we in mount Tabor might bee like to him His Prayer after the holy Ordinances on Whit-Sunday O LORD wee have heard thy word the outward meanes and received the inward wee began with one sacrament baptisme wee end with the other the Eucharist we began with that where wee heard of him and wee end with the other where wee may and shall I trust receive him and Almighty God grant wee may so receive him at this good time as in his good time wee may bee received by him thither whence he this day came of purpose to bring us even to the holy places made without hands which is his heavenly kingdome which God the Father who prepared it God the Sonne who purchased it To whom three Persons c. Lights from Heaven THere are seaven lights whereof God is the father acknowledging theÌ„ all for his children and to his children will vouchsafe them in their order 1. The light of nature for rebelling against which al that are without Christ suffer condemnation Salomon calles it the candle of the Lord searching the very bowells Pro. 20. 25. which though it be dimme and not perfect yet good it is though lame yet as Mephibosheth it is Regia proles of the blood Royall 2. There is the light of Gods Law Lex Lux saith Salomon totidem verbis Pro. 6. 23. and his father calls it a Lanthorne to his feet nay in the 19. Psalme what he saith at the fourth verse of the sonne at the eight hee saith of the Law of God lights both 3. The light of prophecie as of a candle that shines in a darke place 2 Pet. 1. 19. 4. There is the wonderfull light of the gospell so Saint Peter calls it the proper light of the day 1 Pet. 2. 9. the tongues that descended so many toÌ„gues so many lights for the tongue is a light brings to light what before was hidin the heart 5. And from these other is the light of grace whereby God which commandeth the light to shine out of darknesse hee it is that shineth in our hearts by the inward anoynting which is the oyle of this Lampe 2 Cor. 4. 6. the light of his holy Spirit chasing away the darknes both of our hearts and mindes 6. There is the light of comfort of his holy spirit a light sowen for the righteous here in this life 7. There is the light of glory where the Saints shall reape light where God dwelleth and where wee shall dwell with him even the inheritance of the Saints in light where the righteous shall shine as the Sun in the kingdome of their father the Father of lights Moses Candlestick with seven stalks lights in each of them Gal. 1. 12. Mal. 13. 43. The imprecation against the Enemies of the Church THe Serpents curse be upon them and let their heads be trod to peeces they that are Sions malignant enemies Oh Lord let them be as grasse upon the house top as those that perish at Endor and become dung for the earth let them be as stubble scatterd or wax melted smoak driven no man can tell whither let them perish perish as Sisera and Oreh as Absalon Jaels bammer on their heads Gideons Axe on their necks Joabs Dart in their hearts one nay three one for the enemies of God another for the enemies of mankind a third for the enemies of Sion Psal. 12. 1. Let their sword goe throw their owne hearts and their mischeife light upon their owne heads Amen His Prayer for King James after his Sermon of Gowries Conspiracy EUen so Lord let it be set up thy mercy for ever for ever stablish the truth of this thy Covenant with thy servant our Soveraigne that it may never faile him as not this day so not at any other time let thy hand be still upon him and thine arme about him for ever between him and his harmes violence and hurt never come neere him the sinnes of wickednesse be ever farr from him let them be non proficients all the sort of them that study to practise this wicked lesson never loose thou him nor suffer him to be lost ever finde him good Lord to succour and save him and let thy right hand finde out his enemies to smite and plague them with the same blowes thou didst smite and with the same plagues thou didst power on those of this day the destiny of this day come on them all and for him Let his anoynting still be fresh on him and his Crowne still flourish on his head let him all the day walke in the light of thy countenance and at night rest in the covering of thy wings this day as once it did so let it rise prosperous and happy to him this day and all days that he that wee all may sing thy mercies and set forth thy truth all the dayes of our life heare us ô Lord and grant it for thy Sonnes sake our Saviour Amen His Thankesgiving for the deliverance from the Gunpouder-Treason O God with all the powers thou hast destributed in our Soules the breath of life thou hast breathed into our nostrilles the tongues thou hast put into our mouthes behold all these shall breake forth and confesse and blesse and thanke and praise and magnifie and exalt thee and thy mercy for ever yea every mouth shall acknowledge thee every tongue be the trumpet of thy praise every eye lookeup and every knee bow down to thee and all hearts shall feare thee and all that is within us even our bowells those our bowells that but for thee had flowne wee know not whether even our bones those bones that but for it had been â—â—iâ—er'd bone from bone one from another all shall say who is like unto thee O Lord in mercy who is like unto thee glorious in holiness fearefull in prayses doing wonders wonders of mercy as this day upon us all to bee held by us and our posterity in an everlasting remembrance glory be to thee O Lord glory bee to thee and glory to thy mercy yea super omnia yea most glorious of thy great and high perfection glory bee to thee and glory to it to it in thee and to thee for it and that by all thy workes in all places and at all times and of all thy workes and above them all by us here by the hearts and lungs of us all in this place this day for this day for the mercy of this day for the mercy of it above all mercies and for the worke of this day above al the works of it not this day only but all the dayes of our life even as long as thy