with us for ever Be mercifull be merciful ô Lord and pitty us and be not angry with mee to my ruine Deal not with me ô Lord according to my trangressions neither reward thou me according to my sinnes But according to thy mercy deale thou with me And according to the multitude of thy compassions reward me According to that great mercy of thine And according to that exceeding multitude of thy compassions By whatsoever is deare and acceptable to thee From all evill and misfortune at all times of necessity Rise up Lord defend and save me preserve me good Lord and destroy me not But most especially in the time of extremity in the houre of death in the day of judgment in that fearefull day good Lord deliver me From beholding the sterne countenance of the Judge Apo. 6. 6. From my standing on the left hand Mat. 25. 41. From hearing that terrible sentence depart from me you wicked Mat. 8. 12. From being bound in the chaines of darknesse Jude 5. 6. From casting out into utter darknesse Mat. 8. 12. From being thrust into the bottomles pit of fire and Brimstone where the smoake of the fire ascendeth up for ever Be mercifull O Lord spare me Have pitty O Lord and deliver me And confound me not for ever And to this end and purpose from a blinded and a hardned heart tending to impenitence Eph. 14. 19. From a wanton and brasen face tending to impudence Acts. 28. 27. From a seered conscience Pro. 7. 13. From a reprobate mind Esa. 48. 4. From the sin unto death Tit. 1. 16. And against the holy Ghost Jo. 5. 16. Mat. 12. 13. Be mercifull good Lord and deliver me Prayers against Evills Temporall FRom all evill and misfortune and all perrillous accidents in this world From the pestilence Famine and Warre From great fires inundations Earthquakes From excessive Raine drought and mil-dew From al blastings lightning and Thunder From Temptations Stormes infectious diseases and sudden death Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us Against evills in the Church FRom all Innovations private interpretations difference in doctrine contending about vaine and fruitles questions endles desputations and controversies Heresies both publique and private Schismes Scandalls From the pernicious flattering of Princes Acts. 12. 22. The partiality of Saul 1 Sam. 14. 18. The contempt of Michal 2 Sam. 6. 16. The Preisthood of Micha Judg. 17. 10. The flesh-hook of Hophni 1 Sam. 2. 16. The fraternity of Symon Magus and Judas Iscariot Act. 8. 17. Mat. 26. 17. From such as are corrupted in minde unstable and unlearned 1 Tim. 6. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 16. From the arrogance of young Schollers 1 Tim. 36. And from People that contradict their Minister speaking according to the word of God Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us Hos. 4. 4. Against evills Politicall FRom Anarchie or want of Kings From the multitude of Princes From Tyranny From Princes like Ashur Jeroboham Roboam From the cruell insolency of Hamon 2 Sam. 15. 31. From the councellors of Zoan Esa. 14. 11. From the perillous counsell of Achitophel 1 Kings 21. 13. From the Judges of Jesrael From the Lawes of Omri Micha 6. 16. From the Torrents of Belial Psa. 18. 4. The plague of Per◠Num. 25. 5. The vale of Achor Josh. 7. 26. From effussion of blood deadly feind Treason Forraign invasion Civill Warr For the displaceing of good Magistrates and the raising of evill be mercifull good Lord and deliver us From whatsoever may make against the tranquility of our Soules The health of our bodies our estates our libertie or our credit Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest REmember me O Lord in the favour which thou bearest to thy People and visite me with thy salvation that I may see the felicity of thy chosen And rejoyce with the gladnesse of the Saints And give thanks with thine Inheritance For certainly there is a glory to be revealed hereafter And when the judge commeth some shal behold his joyfull countenance Job 33. 16. And be placed on his right hand Mat. 25. 32. And here that most sweet voyce come yee blessed v. 34. And be taken up to meet Christ in the Clouds 1 Thes. 4. And enter into his joy his full joy Mat. 25. 21. His joy which shall never be taken away v. 22. And enjoy that beatificall vision of him And remaine with him for evermore And they onely onely they of all the sonnes of men are blessed To grant me the vilest of men the meanest place there a place even under their feet under the feet of thine elect and of the lowest among them and to this purpose Let me finde grace in thy sight that I may obtaine the grace to serve please thee with feare and reverence Gen. 6. 8. Heb. 12. 8. And give me yet a second grace that I may not receive that grace in vaine 2 Cor. 6. 1. So farre forth as to neglect it or to be wanting to it 1 Tim. 4. 14. Heb. 12. 15. But that I may stirr it up rather so as to encrease in it and to remaine therein to my lives end 1 Tim. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 18. Acts. 13. 43. And O Lord supply thou the defects of thy graces in me helpe my weake faith confirme my faint hope enflame the smokeing flax of my charity And kindle it so in my heart that I may learne to love thee first above all and my friends in thee any Enemies for thee and thy sake As I would have men to deale with me so give me grace to deale with them One thing onely let mee feare that is to feare any thing more then thee And let my heart so rejoyce in the feare of thee That this feare of mine may be my hope Lastly thou which givest grace to the humble Give me so much grace as to be humbled Comprecation of temporall blessings Hosanna in Terrenis REmember O Lord to crowne the years with goodnesse and let thy providence distill plenty For the eyes of all things waite upon thee ô Lord and thou givest them foode in due season Thou openest thy hands and fillest every Creature with thy blessing Psal. 145. 15. Vouchsafe us therefore ô Lord the blessing of the heavens and of the dew from above and of the fountaines of the deepe beneath Deut. 33. 13. 14. The precious things returned by the Sun and the precious fruits put forth by the Moone v. 15 The choicest things of the ancient mountains and the precious things of the lasting hills the precious things of the earth and fulnes thereof O make peace within our borders And fasten thou the Barres of our gates v. 19. But cloath our enemies with confusion and blesse our children among us Let our Sonnes grow up as the young plants and our Daughters be as the polished corners of the Temple v. 144. 12. Lord blesse our victualls with increase and fill us with the floure of wheate and
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
last Iudgment And wee beseech thee that with the sincere witnesse of our conscience receiving part of these thy holy Mysteries wee may be therewithall incorporated into the sacred body of thy Sonne and so communicating worthily may dwell in him and he again in us and be his members as he is our head and become Temples of his holy Spirit And ô good Lord scoure out the staines of my old and fresh sins and let not such foule spots continue there where thy pure Sacrament shall have entered but ô Lord make not any of us guilty of these most dreadful and celestial mysteries nor weake or feeble either in Soul or body for our receiving them unworthily But grant that to our last gaspe wee may retaine the hope and comfort of this ever blessed Sacrament of thine In the time of Receiving ATtend O Lord from thy most sacred dweling and from the throne of glory in thy kingdome and come and hallow it ô thou which visitest on high with the the Father and yet invisible art present with us come neere and consecrate these guifts of thine and all those both by whom and for whose sake and the end also to which they are consecrated And yet that we may so participate of these thy mysteries that they may prove to us according to thy institution The monuments of our Lords dispensation and a memoriall of his sacrifice and the meanes of renewing our covenant with thee Act. 2. 4. Luk. 22. 18. 2 Cor. 11. 26. Pet. 5. 1. 5. According to the manner of receiving by eating and drinking The Soules food for our strength and nourishment 1 Cor. 10. 2. Her medicine to purge and to restore her Heb. 9. 14. According to the effects ô Lord let them like seales confirme our pardons to us To the remission of our transgressions and cancelling of all our debts and sins Mat. 26. 28. Col. 2. 14. Let them take out the staines that sin leaves in us and cure the weaknesse in our soules bred by it Heb. 9. 14. Esa. 6. 7. 1 Pet. 2. 14. Let them keep from us the destroying Angell as did the lambs bloud in the Passeover Doe thou by them communicate to us the body and bloud of Christ and knitt us unto him that we may participate his Spirit 1 Cor. 10. 16. and verse 12 13. Let them like Conduit-pipes convey to us the graces of that most holy Spirit Hebr. 13. 19. 1 Cor. 12. 13. That so they may enlighten our darke mindes and pricke our hearts with the compunction of true repentance and cherish our weak faith and prop our hope and become bands to us of Charity occasions to us of our liberty and the awaker of all our thankfulnesse Luke 24. 31. 1 Cor. 11. 20. John 13. 35. Psalm 116. 12. And let them arme us against transgression to the encrease of all effectuall grace and the augmentation of our Consolation and the tranquility of our Conscience 1 Pet. 4. 1. Hebr. 13. 9. Psalm 104. 15. 1 Cor. 11. 28. That even we together with the rest of all the Saints which ever have been gracious in thy sight may bee partakers of those incorruptible and everlasting gifts prepared by thee for all that love thy blessed Name In whom thou art and ever shalt be glorified After the receipt of the Eucharist IT is good for me to adhere to God to place the hope of my salvation in thee ô Lord ô Christ our God Wee have now finished all within our performance that concernes this Mysterie of thine owne dispensation For wee have had memoriall of thy death And have had an earnest of eternall life and tasted these thy most sweet delicacies Whereof there can bee no satiety And ô good Lord let it stand with thy pleasure to grant that to us in the World to come Amen The LORD bee mercifull to every one that prepareth his heart to seeke the Lord of our Fathers though he be not prepared according to the cleaness of thy redemption 1 Cor. 30. 19. Mourning and weeping OH that my head were full of water and mine eyes fountaines of teares Jeremiah 9. 1. Hee which turneth the flint stone into a springing well vouchsafe mee gratiam Lacrymarum some small portion of the grace of repentance that though weepe I cannot yet wish and pray for it I may at least complaine and bemoane my selfe as the Prophet My leanenesse my leanenesse woe is me my drynesse my drynesse woe is mee the transgressors have oâ—fended the transgressors have grievously offended Esay 24. 16. Grievously offend I can grievously lament I cannot my drynesse my drynesse woe is me but I humbly beseech thee my mercifull God and Father in default of my contrition to accept of the strong crying and bitter teares which in the dayes of his flesh thy blessed Sonne in great agonie shed for mee A Prayer on the meditation of the great worke of our redemption O Lord which hast set before us thy Passion and Throne one to awake our love the other to quicken our hope that we may this day and ever lift up our eyes and heads that wee may this day and ever carry them in our eyes and hearts looke up to them both so looke that wee may love the one and waite and hope for the other so love and so hope that by them both we may move and that swiftly even runne to him and running not faint but so constantly runne that wee faint not finally to attaine the happy fruition of himselfe and of the joy and glory of his blessed throne that so wee may finde and feele him as on the Crosse the Author so there the finisher of our faith by the Son our Lord Jesus Christ Amen A meditation on Canticles 5. 10. THe Spouse in the Canticles askeing of her Beloveds colours saith of him my Beloved is white and red white of his own proper so he was when he shewed himself in kind transfigured on the mount his apparrel then so white no Fuller in the earth could come neer it Math. 17. 2. Mar. 9. 3. white of himselfe how comes hee red then not of himselfe but for us that is our naturall colour wee are born polluted in our owne bloud it is sinnes colour that for shame that for shame is the colour of sin our sins saith Esay Ch. 1. are as Crimson of as deep dye as any purple this the true tincture of our sins the Edomites colour right for Edom. is red The tincture of our sinne originall dyed in the Wool and then again of our sins actuall died in the cloath too twice dryed so was Christ twice once in his owne againe in his enemies Right dibaphus a perfect full colour a true purple of a double dye his too So was it meete for crimson sinners to have a crimson Saviour a Saviour of such a colour it behooveth us to have Comming then to save us off went his white on went our red Laid by his owne righteousnesse to bee cloathed with our