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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

safety O hide us under the Shadow of thy Wings keep us from all those Dangers which increase upon us when our Spirits are in heaviness and our Bodies bowed down with infirmities II. Stand thou evermore at our right hand and aid us so with the power of thy Grace that our Temptations and Enemies may at no time molest and disturb us Grant that our Souls in thy good time may depart out of the Prison of the Body with joy and not with grief and enter into thine eternal Joy to reign with thee for evermore Amen Meditations for Thursday Night O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before Thou art about my Bed and about my path and spiest out all my ways For lo there is not a Word in my Tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me II. Such Knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence If I climb up into Heaven thou art there If I go down to Hell thou art there also If I take the Wings of the Morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the Sea III. Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me If I say peradventure the Darkness shall cover me then shall my Night be turned into day Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike For my Reins are thine thou hast covered me in my Mothers Womb. The Prayer INfinite art thou O Lord in Wisedom and omnipresent in all places thou fillest Heaven and Earth with Majesty and the effects of thy Glory Hell feels thy Mighty power but thou communicatest to us thy poor Creatures thy boundless Mercy II. And O Lord as thou art present with us so we humbly beseech thee be President amongst us teach us thy Holy Laws and so guide us by thy Golden Rule and Divine Precepts that we wander not in the darkness of our own Errors but in thy Light whom no Clouds can overcast nor Darkness eclipse Preserve us O Lord from falling into utter darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth Meditations for Friday Morning I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy Works and that my Soul knoweth right well My Bones are not hid from thee though I am made secretly and fashioned beneath in the Earth Thine Eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy Book were all my Members written Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them II. How dear are thy Counsels unto me O God! O how great is the Summe of them If I tell them they are more ●n number than the Sand When I awake up I am pre●ent with thee Wilt thou not slay the Wick●d O God Depart from me ●e bloud-thirsty Men. For they speak unrighte●usly against thee and thine Enemies take thy Name in ●ain III. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am not grieved with those that ri●● up against thee Yea I hate them right sor● even as though they we●● mine Enemies Try me O God and se●● the ground of my heart Prove me and examine m● thoughts Look well if there be a● way of Wickedness in m● and lead me in the way ev●● lasting The Prayer O Lord thy Works are marvell● for thou hast done great thi● for my Soul it is thou that hast 〈◊〉 med me in the Womb and thy 〈◊〉 der care hath preserved me to 〈◊〉 moment Teach me to hate and hor all iniquity und to love Counsells as my dearest Treasure we may be as fearfull of committing Sins in Secret with that circumspection as in the Eye of the World II. Lead me in thy Truth and guide me in the Paths of a Holy Life that I may examine my self strictly of what Sins I stand guilty off and earnestly repent of those offences Make me to shun all wicked ways and conduct me into the way everlasting through Christ our Lord Amen Friday Noon's Meditations O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best Member I have Awake thou Lute and Harp I my self will awake right early I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the People I will sing praises unto thee among the Nations II. For thy Mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds Set up thy self O God above the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me III. God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sic●em and meet out the Valley of Succoth Gilead is mine and Mana●se● is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Juda is my Law-giver Moab is my Wash-pot over Edom will I ●ast out my Shoe upon the Philistines will I triumph III. Who will lead me into the strong City and who will bring me into Edom Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our Hosts O help us against the Enemy for vain is the help of Man Through God we shall do great Acts and it is he that shall tread down our Enemies The Prayer EArly O my God to thee will I make my Prayer and Supplication for thy Mercy in extent is greater than the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth for ever be thou exalted in thine own strength and magnifie thy power and thy never-failing Mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our Enemies temporal and spiritual II. Leave us not nor forsake us O God who art our strong Tower and Defence for in vain is Man's help unless thou strengthen us fortifie us and go forth with our Hosts to Battel that we being defended and armed by thee may perform Acts great and good fighting thy Battels and place our Confidence in thy Righteousness only and thy Salvation Amen Meditations for Friday Evening IN Jury is God known his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling in Sion There he brake the Arrows of the Bow the Shield the Sword and the Battel Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the Robbers II. The proud are robbed they have slept their sleep and all the Men whose hands were mighty have found nothing At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the Chariot and Horse are fallen Thou even thou art to be ●cared and who may stand ●n thy sight when thou art angry Thou didst cause thy Judgments to be heard from Heaven the Earth trembled and was still III. When God

ours but God's Is it God's Battel we are to fight let not sloth then seize upon us or a supine Carelessness take hold of us but let us quit our selves like Men and fight 1 Sam. 4. 9. securing to our selves that Religion the Light of that glorious Gospel God hath given us not forgetting to take the Prophet Jeremiah's Counsel in the 6. w●ap of his Prophecy ver 16. pe●nd ye in the way and see and ask 〈◊〉 the good old paths where is the good way and walk therein and you shall find rest unto your Souls The well compacted Hedge of our Laws was trodden down let us therefore be diligent and repair those breaches our Sins have made by our earnest Supplications to the Throne of Grace so true is that Maxime Inter Arma silent Leges The Voice of Law cannot be heard for the noise of Drums and the threatning Cannon O let Policy now amongst us ever give place to Piety and now let me exhort the chiefest amongst us beseeching you to let your private Affections be swallowed up in the common Cause as small Rivers lose their Name in the Ocean That practice of Pompey deserveth well your observation and imitation who when his Soldiers would needs leave the Camp threw himself down at the narrow Passage and bid them goe but they should tread first upon their General So let your pious Resolutions and valiant Examples stir up the Courage of our weak Brethren expose your selves to the worst of dangers and endure the bru●●t that they may not desert you may it be your Glory in after Ages to be loudly proclaimed that you were the Champions of the Lord to fight his Battel that you stood in defence of your Religion against gross Idolatry that you promoted Peace against bloudy Persecution and rather choose to endure Affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a Season In our Duty in Matters of Religion we are no farther to walk after Ruler's Commands than they walk after God's Fatherly power is the rise of all Authority and yet our Saviour tells us He that loves Father or Mother more than him is not worthy of him Mat. 10. 37. Parents must be honoured but God preferred it is as true in regard of Regal as Paternal Authority the Instances of the Hebrew Midwives Exod. 1. 17. the three Worthies and Daniel are obvious to all Dan. 3. 18. 6. 10. That Epithete that was given to B●c●n of Doctor Resolutus in this Case well becomes every Christian. It was a just Resolve of Luther in divine Matters Cedo nulli and a remarkable Speech of the Apostles Acts 4. 19. 5. 29. That we ought to obey God rather than Men it is true when the supream Authority enjoins what God inhibits we must patiently undergo the punishment inflicted but not willingly walk after the Commandment prescribed It was a pious Speech of King Henry the Eighth to Sir Thomas More when he made him Chancellour Look first at God then at me St. Augustine's Rule is excellent The Supream Power hath a Superiour in Heaven for fear of one we must contemn the other the one may threaten the Prison but the other has ordained Hell In a word neither must Princes leave the People to their own Will nor the People conform themselves to the Prince's Will but both to God's Will in Matters of Religion lest otherways both Prince and People be consumed But O Lord we have sinned against thee and as the Prophet David says Psal. 76. 7. Who can stand in thy sight when thou art angry no Bounds could keep us from Sinning and therefore God's Wrath knows no Bounds in punishin●… our Transgression was above Measure so God's Judgment is without Measure It is St. Chrysostom's Note concerning that fiery shower which God rained upon Sodom That as the Sodomites inverted the course of Nature to seek Woman in Man so God changed the Order by showring down Fire instead of Water Thus doth the Almighty's Justice ever proportion the Smart to the Fault so that here we may at once behold the greatness of our Sin in the punishment and the fitness of the punishment to the Sin Invasion and being Besieged by Romish Adversaries for our neglecting God's Commands which ought to be our Rule and despising of his Goodness which should lead us Sinners to Repentance But as the Water that is poured on the Earth can never be gathered up again so let us pour out all our Sins and God will not pour out all his Wrath let us speedily cast away the filth of our Transgressions and he will soon stop the current of his Indignation let us cheerfully reform and he will willingly assist us let us repent of our provocations and he will bring us out of this Calamity may this our great work be wisely and speedily accomplished and by the Divine Assistance and our weak endeavours faithfully performed that the power of Religion may be advanced the Name of God honoured the fury of our Enemies suppressed the Hearts of Gospel-Friends comforted and which is above all and beyond all Christ over Antichrist in the purity of his Gospel among us and our Posterity for ever Which God of his infinite Mercy grant us to whom be ascribed as most due all Honour Power and Glory Adoration and Subjection now and for evermore The Prayer afterwards BLessed Lord who a●t our Strength Hope and Fortress our Castle and Deliverer our Defender in whom we trust how the Heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine Hand from above deliver us and take us from the great Waters from those Miseries and Afflictions which come upon us by reason of our Sins and from the Condition of Mortality and from the hand of strange Children whose right hand is a right hand of Wickedness Give us O Lord Victory and Peace and all the Blessings belonging to it with which thou usest to adorn and bea●tifie the Dwellings of the Righteous that we may be happy in the continual descent of thy Favours but above all that our happiness may consist in being thy People and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so happy a Union through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer for the preservation of our most gracious Soveraign Lord King William in his Royal Undertaking to Subdue Ireland and for his safe Return to England O Most mighty God the great Creatour of the World and the Preserver of all Mankind preserve we beseech thee our most gracious Soveraign Lord King William whom thou hast made the happy Instrument of our mighty Deliverance Let thy Blessing accompany him in his Journey and Voyage protect him from all Dangers visit him as thou didst Moses in the Bush Joshua in the Battel Gid●on in the Field and Samuel in the Temple Let the Dew of thy never failing Mercies fall upon his Head and give him the blessing of David and Solomon II. Be unto him an

Helmet of Salvation and cover him with thy Grace as with a Buckler against the Face of his Enemies dissipate and scatter all those which shall oppose him as the Dust before the Wind and as the Clay in the Streets direct him in all his Counsels to the end that being blessed with Success in this great Design he may employ all that great Power which thy Omnipotence shall ●ntrust him with to the Honour of thy Holy Name the establishment and Advancement of the True Religion and to the Peace and Happiness of thine and his People and the perfect Deliverance of our poor Distressed Brethren in Ireland that they may rejoice together with us and triumph in thy Praise III. Grant him in this Enterprize a good Event that he may Return home with Joy and Victory Let his Reign be prosperous and his days many let Peace and Love and Holiness let Justice and Truth and all Christian Vertues flourish in his Time Let his People serve him with Honour and Obedience and let him so duly serve thee here on Earth that he may hereafter everlastingly Reign with thee in Heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen THE CONTENTS WHen we first awake Pag. 1. A Prayer for the Morning 2. A Prayer for the Evening 3 Sunday Mornings Meditations 5 The Prayer 10 Sunday Noons Meditations 12 The Prayer 13 Sunday Nights Meditations 14 The Prayer 16 Monday Mornings Meditations 17 The Prayer 19 Monday Noons Meditations ibid. The Prayer 21 Monday Nights Meditations 22 The Prayer 23 Tuesday Mornings Meditations 24 The Prayer 25 Tuesday Noons Meditations 26 The Prayer 27 Tuesday Nights Meditations 28 The Prayer 29 Wednesday Mornings Meditations 30 The Prayer 32 Wednesday Noons Meditations 33 The Prayer 34 Wednesday Nights Meditations 35 The Prayer 36 Thursday Mornings Meditations 37 The Prayer 38 Thursday Noons Meditations 39 The Prayer 41 Thursday Nights Meditations 42 The Prayer 43 Friday Mornings Meditations 44 The Prayer 46 Friday Noons Meditations 47 The Prayer 49 Friday Nights Meditations 50 The Prayer 52 Saturday Mornings Meditations 53 The Prayer 55 Saturday Noons Meditations 56 The Prayer 57 Saturday Nights Meditations 58 The Prayer 59 Ejaculations upon several Occasions out of the Holy Scriptures IN the Morning 61 At going forth 62 Beginning a good Work ibid. In good Inspirations ibid. At Church ibid. Before Reading ibid. Speaking 63 When you go about worldly Affairs ibid. Before Eating ibid. After Eating 64 In Prosperity ibid. Adversity ibid. Troubles ibid. Galumnies 65 Praises ibid. Against vain hope ibid. Pride ibid. Covetousness ibid. Luxury ibid. Envy 66 Gluttony ibid. Anger ibid. Sloth ibid. Rules of Faith ibid. Acts of Faith ibid. Hope ibid. Charity 67 Against Worshipping of Idols ibid. Popish Tradition 68 Praying to Saints 69 Antichrist ibid. Divine Breathings of the Soul towards the Evening 70 A Prayer for a Family that may serve for Morning or Evening 71 A Prayer before the Communion 74 At Receiving the Bread 75 At Receiving the Cup ibid. A Prayer after the Communion 76 for the Church 77 for the King and Queen 78 for the Royal Family ibid. for the High Court of Parliament ibid. for the Clergy 79 for Friends 80 for a Family ibid. for a Friend 81 for Peace ibid. in time of the Plague 82 for a City ibid. for Grace ibid. for Enemies ibid. for the Afflicted 8● for Travellers ibid. for the Fruits of the Earth ibid. A Prayer against Temptations 84 For Misbelievers and Sinners ibid. For Temporal Necessities ibid. Against Tempests 85 For Women in Travel ibid. For the Sick ibid. For Prisoners 86 For the Dying ibid. A Prayer before Study ibid. When the Bell Tolls for a dying Person 87 A concluding Prayer 88 King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery 89 A Prayer for God's Mercies upon their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg 90 A Prayer for Mercy to the whole Nation 92 A short account of the Massacre in Ireland 93 An abstract of their Popish Tortures and Cruelties 97 Bishop Usher's Prophecy concerning Rome's Downfal 103 Thanksgivings for God's wonderful Deliverances A Thanksgiving for our Deliverances from the Spanish Invasion 121 From the Powder Treason November the 5th 1605. 122 For our Deliverance from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power 123 For the relief of London-Derry in Ireland 124 For the Gifts of God 125 To God for all his Benefits 126 A Prayer before the following Discourse 128 Christian Courage in Affliction a Discourse by way of Advice to the Besieged in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and valiant Commander Col. Walker 131 The Prayer afterwards 150 A Prayer for the preservation of our most gracious Saveraign Lord King William in his Royal Vndertaking to Subdue Ireland and for his safe Return to England 151 FINIS In the Morning In the Evening