say vnto you Sweare not at all neither by heauen for it is Gods seate nor yet by the earth for it is his footestoole neither by Ierusalem for it is the ciite of the great King neither shalt thou sweare by thy head because thou caust not make one white hayre or a blacke But let your communication be yea yea and nay nay for whatsoeuer is more then that commeth of euill Eccl. 24. The man that vseth much swearing shall be filled with iniquitie and the plague shall not be out of his house Zachar. 5. The Prophet saith that the curse of God shall rest in the house of fhim that sweareth falsty and consume it with the Timber and stones thereof iiij Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt doe no maner of worke thou thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruant and thy mayd seruant thy cattell and the straunger that is within thy gates for in sixe daies the Lord made heauen and earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lord blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it Christ Matth. 12. It is lawfull to doe a good déede on the Sabboth day Matth. 2. For the sonne of man is Lord euen of the Sabboth day The Lord saith by his Prophet Esay Esay 26.58 hebrewes 4. That his Sabboth is hallowed and kept when we rest and cease to doe our owne wayes when we in word thought and déede fulfill his wil and not ours and when we suffer him to do his workes in vs. That at the last wee may come to that Sabboth and true rest euen eternall life which Christ the Lord of the Sabbath hath obtained for vs by his blood The second Table v. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee Christ Matth. 15. Honor thy Father and Mother that is the first Commandement that hath any promise that thou maiest be in good estate and liue long on the Earth By this Commandement Christ teacheth vs not only to haue our Father and Mother in reuerence and to obey them as he himselfe was so subiect vnto his mother he Virgine Mary But also to minister vnto their necessities Match 15. Marke 7. Eccles 3. He that feareth the Lord honoureth his Father and Mother and doth them seruice as it were vnto the Lord himselfe Honor thy Father in deede and word and in all patience that thou mayst haue Gods blessing and his blessing shall abyde with thee at the last The blessing of the Father buyldeth vp the houses of the children But the mothers curse rooteth the foundation c. vj. Thou shalt doe no murther Christ Math. 5. Ye haue heard how it was said vnto them of the old time Thou shalt not kill Whosoeuer killeth shall be in daunger of iudgement But I say vnto you whosoeuer is angrie with his Brother shall be in dauger of iudgement Whosoeuer sayth to his brother Racha shall bee in daunger of a Counsell But whosoeuer sayth thou foole shall bee daunger of hell fire Item yee haue heard how it is sayd thou shalt loue thy neighbours and hate thyne enemies But I say vnto you loue yor enemies blesse them that curse you doe good to them that hate you pray for them that doe you wrong and persecute you that ye may be the children of your Father which is in Heauen For he maketh the Sonne arise on the euill and on the good and sendeth his rame on the iust and on the vniust vij Thou shalt not commit adulterie Christ Matth. 5. Ye haue heard how it was said to them of the olde time Thou shalt not commit adulterie But I say vnto you that whosoeuer looketh on a wife lusting after her hath committed adultlerie with her alreadie in his heart 1. Cor. 6. knowe yee not that your bodies are the members of Christ Shall I now take the members of Christ and make them the members of an Harlot God forbid Doe you not know that he which coupleth himselfe with an Harlot is become one body For they saith he shall be two in one flesh But he that is ioyned vnto the Lord is one spirit Flee fornication Euery sinne that a man doth is without the bodie but he that is a fornicatour sinneth against his owne bodie Either knowe ye not how that your bodies are the tempses of the holy Ghost which dwelleth in you whom you haue of God and how that you are not your owne For ye are dearely bought therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in your Spirites which are Gods Hebr. 13. Let wedlocke be had in price in all poynts and let the Chamber be vndefileld for whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge viij Thou shalt not steale Christ Matth. 10. Steale not Detraude no man Matth. 5. If any man wil sue thee at the law and take thy coate from thee let him haue thy cloake also Giue to him that asketh and from him that would borrow turne not away 1. Corin. 6. Now is there vtterly a faulte among you because ye goe to lawe one with another Why rather suffer ye not wrong Why rather suffer yee not your selues to be robbed Nay yee your selues doe wrong and robbe and that the brethren Ephes 4. Let him that did steale steale no more but let him rather labour with his hands same good thing that he may haue to giue him that needeth jx Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour Christ Mark 10. Beare no false witnesse Matth. 13. I say vnto you that of euery idle worde which men shall haue spoken they shall giue accounts at the day of Iudgment Ephes 4. Wherefore put away lying and speake euery man the truth to his neighbour for as much as we are members one of another Let no filthie communication proceede out of your mouthes but that which is good to edifie with all when neede is that it may haue fauour with the hearerse Let al bitternesse fiercenesse and wrath roaring and cursed speaking be put away from you Ephe. 5. Let not frithinesse foolish talking nor iesting which are not comely be once named among you but rather giuing of thanks x. Thou shalt nor desire thy neighbours house thou shalt not desire thy neighbours wife nor his mayde nor his Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is thy neighbours Christ Math. 7. Whatsoeuer ye would men should do to you euen so do ye to them Marke 7. To loue a mans neighbour as himselfe is a greater thing then all burnt Offerings and Sacrifices Matth. 14. Be not ouercome with iust for the care of this world and the deceitfulnesse of riches choke the word Hebrewes 13. Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse and bee content with that ye haue alreadie 1. Tim. 6. Godlinesse is great
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
heigot of that most excessent loue which moued thee to shew mercie where none was deserued to promise and giue life where death had gotten the victorie to receiue vs into thy grace when we could do nothing but rebel against thy maiestie O Lord the blind dulnesse of our corrupt nature will nto suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites yet neuerthelesse at the commaundement of Iesus Christ our Lord we present our selues to this thy Table which hee hath left to bee vsed in remembrance of his death vntill his comming againe to declare and witnesse before the world that by him alone we haue receiued libertie and life that by him alone thou doest acknowledge vs to be thy children and heires that by him alone wee haue entraunce to the trone of thy grace that by him alone we are possessed in our Spiritual kingdome to eate and drinke at his Table with whom we haue our conuersation present in Heauen and by whom our bodies shall be raised vp againe from the dust and shall be placed with him in that endlesse ioy which thou O father of mercie hast prepared for thine elect before the foundation of the world was laid And these most inest imable benefits we acknowledge and confesse to haue receiued of thy free mercie and grace by chine onely beloued sonne Iesus Christ For the which therefore we thy congregation moued by the holy Spirice render to thee all thankes praise and glorie for euer and euer Amen ¶ A thankes giuing after the receiuing of the holy Communion MOst mercifull father we render to thee all praise thankes honour and glorie for that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercy to graunt vs miserable sinners so excellent a gift and treasure as to receiue vs into the fellowship and companie of thy deare sonne Iesus Christ our Lord whom thou hast deliuered to death for vs and hast giuen him vnto vs as a necessarie foode and nourishmēt vnto euerlasting life And now we beséech thée also O heauenly father to graunt vs this request that thou neuer suffer vs to become so vnkind as to forget so worthie benefites but rather imprint and fasten them sure in our hearts that we may grow and inicrease dayly more and more in true faith which continually is exercised in all manner of good workes and so much the rather O Lord confirme vs in these perillous dayes and rages of Sathan that we may constantly stand and continue in the confession of the same to the aduauncement of thy glorie which art God ouer all things blessed for euer Amen A comfortable Prayer O Lord God almigbtie and Father most mercifull there is none like thee in heauen or in earth which workest all things for the glorie of thy name and the comfort of thine elect Thou diddest once make man ruler ouer all thy creatures and placed him in the garden of all pleasure but how soone alas did he in his felicitie forget thy goodnesse Thy people Israel also in their wealth did euermore run astray abusing thy manisld mercies like as all flesh contimually rageth when it hath gotten libertie and externall prosperitie But such is thy wisedome adioyned to thy mercies deare Father that thou seekest all meanes possible to bring thy children to the sure sence and liuely feeling of thy fatherly fauour And therefore when prosperitie will not serue then sendest thou aduersitie graciously correcting all thy Children whom thou receiuest into thy houshold Wherfore I wretched and miserable sinner render vnto thee most humble and heartie thankes that it hath pleased thee to call me home to thy folde by thy fatherly correction at this present whereas in presperlite and aduersitie I did neglect thy greace offered vnto me For the which negligence and many other grieuous sinnes where of I now accuse my selfe before thee thou mightest most iustly haue giuen me vp into a reprobate minde and induration of hart as thou hast done others But such is thy goodnesse O Lorod that thou séemest5 to forget al my offences and hast called me of thy good pleasure from all idolatrie to professe thy name and to suffer some Crosse amongst thy people for thy truth and Gospel sake and so to be thy witnesse with the Prophets and Aposties yea with thy dearely beloued sonne Iesus Christ our head to whom thou doest being heere fashion me like that in his glorie I may also be like him when he shall appeare O Lord God what am I vpon whom thou shouldest shewe this great mercie O most louing Lord forgiue me my vnthankefulnesse and all my sinnes for Iesus Christes sake O heauenly Father increase thy holy Spirit in me to teach my heart to crye Abba deare Father assure me of thy eternall election in Christ to reueale thy will more and more towards me to confirme mee so in thy trueth that I may liue and dye therein and that by the power of the same Spirite I may boldlie giue an account of my faith to all men with humblenesse and meekenesse to the glorie of thy most holy name Thorowe Iesus Christ our Lor and onely Sauiour So be it A meditation for a vvoman vvith childe and specially vvhen she entreth in to trauell O Almightie and mercifull Father which of thy bountifull goodnesse hast fructified my wombe and of thy gracious blessing hath created mee a reasonable creature I most heartily thanke thee not only for this thy gracious gift but also for that thou hast at all times since I conceiued preserued me from all perils both of soule and bodie and hast so moderated all my nips pinches throwes and pangs that I haue hetherto right well escaped them I acknowledge O Lord iustly for our sinfull transgression of thy commaundements thou saidst vnto the first woman and in her to vs all I will increase thy sorrowe when thou art with childe with paine shalt thou bring forth thy children And our paines therefore that we suffer in this behalfe are none other thing but a worthie Crosse layde vpon vs by thy godly ordinance to the which with heart and minde I humbly submit me trusting surely and being fully perswaded in my faith that thou callest none into perrill and daunger but both thou canit and wilt at conuenient season deliuer them Thou most gracious GOD hast commaunded vs in all our trouble to call vpon thee for ayde and helpe and not only hast commaunded vs but also of thy mercifull goodnesse hast promised to vs good deliuerance saying Call vpon mee in the time of trouble and I will deliuer thee O good Lord how greatly doe these words comfort my hart and sustaine my sillie soule Who would not greatly reioyce that knoweth certainely almighty God to be present with him in his trouble Saith not God thus Or euer they cal saith he I shall aunswere them while they are yet but thinking how to speake I shal beare them and in the Psalme I am with him saith God in his trouble out of which I
TO THE READER THrough two fieldes Christian Reader the way is directed the one full of Briers hath the perfest Path to Saluation the other more pleasant to the vicious minde leades to endlesse misorie church with aduice and shun with discretion And to me thy vnknown frtend lend I pray thee us friendly iudgment as I shall wish for thy prosporous estate farewell Januarie hath 31. daies The Moone 30. The day is 10. houres The night is 14. houres 1 A ¶ The Cyrcumcision of Christ. 2 b On which day Noe being in the Arke vpon the waters began to see the tops of the high Mountaines 3 c 4 d 5 e 6 f ¶ The Epiphany 7 g The 10. day Nabuchadonozor assieged noce againe Ierusalem 2. King 15. 8 A 9 b 10 c The 11. day Noe fortie dayes after he had seene the toppes of the Mountaines sent out the Rauen and after that the Doue which returned Gen. 8. 11 d 12 e 13 f 14 g 15 A 16 b Ezechias in his extreme sicknes was healed by God his life was prolonged by 15. yeares 17 c 18 d 19 e 20 f The Sunne to the wonder of all the world returned his course backward by 10. degrees 4. King 20. Esd 38. 21 g 22 A 23 b 24 c ¶ The midde vvinter 25 d The conuersion of S. Paul 26 e Iacob fled frō his brother Esau wēt to his vnckle Laban where after 7. yeares he maried Lea and Rachel by them and their handmayds had the 12. Patriarks Gen. 29 27 f 28 g 29 A 30 b 31 c Februarie hath 28. daies The Moone 29 The day is 10. houres The night is 14. houres 1 d  2 e ¶ The purification of Mary 3 f  4 g  5 A  6 b The holy man Iohn the Baptist being sent of God as a messenger or tidings bringer of our health and saluation began to prepare the way against the comming of Christ Mark 1. 7 c 8 d 9 e 10 f 11 g 12 A 13 b Our Sauiour and redeemer Iesus Christ after he was Baptised of Iohn in Iordan began to preach and spread abroade the kingdome of God Mark 1. 14 c 15 d 16 e 17 f 18 g 19 A The 18. day Noe put out once again the Doue which brought an Olyue branch 20 b 21 c 22 d  23 e  24 f ¶ S. Matthy Apos̄tle 25 g  26 A The Doue was sent the third time and returned no more to Noe. 27 b 28 c March hath 31. dayes The Moone 30. The day is 12. houres The night is 12. houres 1 d  2 e  3 f The third day the temple of lerusalem was wholy finished consecrated 1. Esd 6. And that was 500. and 15. yeares before the birth of our Lord 4 g 5 A 6 b 7 c 8 d 9 e  10 f The tenth day Christ was on the other side of Iordan where he was aduertised of Lazarus sicknesse 11 g 12 A 13 b 14 c The 13. day the Fast of Hester was celebrated because that day was appointed to pat the lewes to death Hester 3. 15 d 16 e 17 f 18 g 19 A The 16. day Lazarus was raysed vp againe Iohn 11. 20 b 21 c The 20. day Christ made his entrance into Ierusalem 22 d 23 e The 24. day he made his Supper and was taken 24 f 25 g ¶ The annunciation of Mary 26 A The 25. day was crucified 27 b The 26. day he rested in the Sepulchre 28 c 29 d The 27. day he rose again from death 30 e 31 f  Aprill hath 30. dayes The Moone 29. The day is 13. houres The night is 11. houres 1 g Noe vncouered the Ark. Gē 8 2 A The Tabernacle was prepared by Moses Exod. 40. 3 b 4 c Iesus Christ the 8. day after his resurrection appeared againe to the Apostles which were affembled where S. Thomas was present 5 d 6 e 7 f 8 g 9 A The 10. the people of Israel went ouer Iordan drie footed Ios 34. 10 b 11 c 12 d The 13. day Assuerus gaue out proclamation 10 put all the lewes within his kingdome to death Hester 3. 13 e 14 f 15 g 16 A The 14. day was the celebration of the Passeouer 17 b 18 c The 15. day the people came our of Aegypt Exo. 12. 19 d 20 e The 18. day the people went ouer the red Sea drye footed and Pharao was drowned with all his hoast 21 f 22 g 23 A 24 b  25 c ¶ S. Marke Euangelist 26 d The 22. day the people came to Mara the waters wherof of they could not drink wherefore they murmured Exod. 5. 27 e 28 f 29 g 30 A May hath 31. dayes The Moone 30. The day is 16. houres The night is 8. houres 1 b ¶ Philip and Jacob. 2 c The Ascension of Christ into heauen fortie dayes after his resurrection Matth. 16. 3 d 4 e 5 f God commaunded Noe to carrie victuals into the Arke Gen. 6. 6 g 7 A 8 b ¶ Terme beginneth 9 c They which haue not celebrated the Passcouer in the first moneth did celebrate the 14. day Num. 19. 10 d 11 e 12 f 13 g The 14. Ezechias did first celebtate the Passeouer Par. 30 14 A 15 b The 15. the Children of Israel murmured after flesh God sent thē plēty of quailes This was the 30 day after the departure frō Aegypt Exo. 16 16 c 17 d 18 e 19 f 20 g The 16. God made Manna to raine downe Exo. 16. 21 A 22 b The 17. day Noe entred into the Arke Gen. 7. 23 c 24 d The 20. day the people departed from mount Sina Numb 9. 25 e 26 f 27 g The 22. day fire from aboue consumed a part of the hoast of Israel Num. 12. 28 A 29 b 30 c The 27. day Noe came forth of the Arke 31 d June hath 30. dayes The Moone 30. The day is 16. houres The night is 8. houres 1 e This day this children of Israel came to mount Sina and went thence the third moneth where they taried almost a yeare Exod. 9. 2 f 3 g 4 A 5 b 6 c The 6. day the temple of Diana in Ephesus was burned the yeare before Iesus Christ 54. which temple was accounted the most excellent of all the heathen Churches 7 d 8 e 9 f 10 g 11 A 12 b 13 c  14 d  15 e  16 f  17 g The 23. day of the moneth King Assuerus gaue out Proclamation in fauour of the Iewes against Haman and his conspiracie Hester 8. 18 A 19 b 20 c 21 d 22 e 23 f  24 g ¶ S. John Baptist. 25 A  26 b The Arke of Noe was lifted vp this day by the waters of the flood Gen. 8. 27 c 28 d 29 e ¶ S. Peter the Apostle 30 f  July hath 31. dayes The Moone 30. The day is 15. houres The night is 9. houres 1 g The 9. of this moneth the citie of
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