I beleeve in the Father one God Word Spirit In the Father THat by his infinite power all things were created In the Sonne That by his goodnesse and his love Mankinde was redeemed to which purpose the world became flesh And was Conceived and Borne Suffered and was Crucified Dyed and was buried Descended rose againe Ascended and sate at the right hand of God from whence he shall returne reward every one according to his worke In the Holy Ghost That by his illumination and his sacred inspiration his elect people are called out of the whole world to the beleife of the truth and to holinesse of conversation In whom wee are made partakers of the communion of Saints and the remission of sinnes in this present world And in whom we faithfully expect the resurrection of the flesh and life eeverlasting in the world to come This I beleeve Iob. 11. 26 O Lord helpe thou my unbeleife Mar. 9. 24. But above and before all I beleive that thou wert Christ the son of the living God Mat. 16. 16. Prayer for Faith ANd ô Lord grant that I may love thee as a Father for thy indulgence adore thee as Almighty for thy power and by good works commend my Soule unto thee as a faithfull Creatour 1 Pet. 4. Grant also that I may receive From Jesus Salvation Anoynting From Christ From the onely begotten Son Adoption  That I may worship and serve him in faith For his conception For his Nativitie in humilitie For his sufferings in patience For his Crosse in my crucifying all occasions to sin For his death in the mortification of my flesh For his Sepulture in burying my bad purposes by good works For his descent in my meditation upon hell For his resurrection in newnesse of life For his ascention in my contemplation of heavenly things For his Session in my choice of the better part on the right hand For his returne in the feare of his second comming For his future judgement in the judging of my selfe before I come to be judged And grant me further the inspiration of saving grace from thy most holy Scepter that I may participate of vocation Sanctification in the holy Catholique Church And that I may have my Communion in The Mysteries The grounds The watchings The prayers The Teares The Fastings and all the sufferings of the Saints To my firme perswasion of the remission of my sins and to the confident hope of my Resurrection and translation to life eternall Confession of Hope O Thou which art the Hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them which remaine afar off in the Seas Psal. 65. 6. Thou upon whom our Fore-fathers did depend v. 22. 4. And thou deliveredst them upon whom they only relyed and were not confounded v. 5. Thou which art my hope from my youth from the breasts of my Mother and to whom I have beene intrusted from the very wombe v. 9. 10. Bee thou my hope still and still ever and ever and my portion in the land of the Living I hope on thy Nature thy Name thy Word thy Practise O let mee not bee confounded by this hope of mine Tou Lord shalt save both Man and Beast Psal. 36. 7. How excellent is thy mercy ô God therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow dow of thy wings v. 39. 8 And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee My soule fainteth with longing for thy salvation Psal. 119. 81. Yet have I good hope because of thy Word O think upon thy Servant as concerning thy Word wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust v. 49. Why art thou so full of heavinesse ô my soule and why are thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God for I wil yet praise him which is the helpe of my countenance and my God Psal. 42. 14 15. Against hope I will believe in hope Rom. 4. 18. And though hee slay mee yet will I trust in him Iob 13. 15. Intercession HEar our prayers good Lord we beseech the for thy creatures For healthfull times seasons fruitfull Peacefull For man-kind for the succour and comfort of all that are in distraction of minde In sickenesse in poverty in perplexity For the sobriety and thankfulnesse of all that are in minde quiet sound in body in estate wealthy and free from all trouble For the conversion of all Turks Jewes Pagans Atheists For all Christians They which continue in truth grace may be established That they which wander in errour and sin may be reduced into the right For al churches throughout the whole world their unity and confirmation For this Church of ours that the defects thereof may be supplyed that al Heresies and scandals both publique and private may be removed that the Clergy may deliver the Word sincerely and walke in it uprightly For the Laity that they be not overweined with their own understanding but rather be perswaded by the instruction and obedience to the authority of their Superiours For all Common-wealths their establishment and tranquility for this Realm of ours for all Incorporations in it for this City that they may be freed and preserv'd from all danger and distresse For our King and his Queene and for their safety and prosperity For the Councell and their prudence For the Judges and their uprightnesse For our forces and their fortitude For the Communalty and their temperance and holy simplicity For our Husbandmen Merchants Artificers Even to the baser Tradesman even to the Beggars For our Posterity now springing up for the good education of the Issue Royall the young Nobility Gentry of all Students and learners in the Universities in the Innes of court in Schooles and Trades that as they grow in years so they may encrease also in wisedome and in favour both with God and men For all such as are recommended to our prayers By nearnesse of Kindred and affinity By beneficense towards us Morall friendship Christian charity Familiar neighbourhood Fellowship in Household Or mutuall promise For those that are in their last extreamity or in any eminent danger For those which have undertaken any great work for the glory of thy Name or the peace of the Church For those which are bountiful towards any holy designes or towards the poo And lastly but most especially for all those whom in word or in deed I have any wayes at any time wronged Deprecation or Prayer against evills O Father of Heaven which hast created us O Sonne of God which hast redeemed us O sacred Spirit which hast regenerated us Remember not our offences nor the transgressions of our Fore-fathers Neither take thou vengeance for their sinnes and â—ine upon me But spare us good Lord spare thy people in thy people thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with us for ever Be mercifull be merciful O Lord and spare us and be not angry
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
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