the World to come III. I believe that thou wast conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Blessed Virgin Mary without spot of sin thereby to cleanse us from all sin IV. I believe that thou didst suffer what otherwise we must have suffered for ever That thou wast crucified to set us free from the Curse of the Law That thou didst Dic and thereby take away the sting of Death That thou wast buried in the Grave and hadst the Victory over it to assure us that our Bodies shall not corrupt there for ever V. I believe that thou didst descend into Hell to triumph over it and to free us from the fear of ever coming into that Place That the third day thou didst rise again from the dead in our Nature the First-fruits of them that are asleep in their Graves who are thereby assured that they also shall not sleep there for ever VI. I believe that thou didst ascend up into Hea bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and ever seek thy Honour and Glory Good Lord I beseech thee to hear me That it may please thee to have mercy upon all Men. Good Lord I beseech thee to hear me That it may please thee to save and preserve our most Gracious King and All his Royal Family Good Lord I beseech thee to hear me That it may please thee to reduce them that have gone astray from thy ways to comfort them that are in sorrow to relieve them that are in need and tribulation and to amend all our Lives according to thy Holy Word Good Lord I beseech thee to hear me O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the World Have mercy upon me and grant me thy Peace Amen RULES AND PRAYERS FOR THE AFTERNOON Advertisements Rules and Advertisements I. AFter this you may pass the rest of the Day in what lawful Recreations or imployments you judge to be meet for you II. Spend some while before Night in Reading and read with attention but let your Books be chosen with advice and care for your instruction and knowledge in all good things and specially for your Spiritual Benefit V. If you have the Government of a Family take special heed that they live not disorderly or idlely to the offence of Almighty God and the scandal of others VI. And forget not as often as you can to be present and to assist at the publick Offices and Divine Services of the Church there to attend and perform the Homage and Worship of Almighty God and to be instructed in his holy Word for that is a Duty and a Service most highly pleasing to him VII Remember and you will much help your self if you remember it that you are continually in the presence of God and ought to live continually in his fear and in obedience to his Commandments VIII Upon all occasions offered to you exercise your Charity and let not the day pass you without some good work done by you either of real Honour to God or of real Charity to them that want it After-Noon After-Noon retire you self a while and use the Psalm Lesson Hymn and Prayers following UNto thee I lift up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the Heavens my Soul waiteth still upon thee that thou mayest bless me O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee do I make my Prayers Shew Thou me the way that I should walk in and teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue and I will make a covenant with mine eyes that they behold not vanity O let not my footsteps erre from the path of thy Commandments But let my delight be in walking after the Precepts of thy Law Thy Law is an undefiled Law converting the Soul and giveth light unto the eyes Keep thy Servant from all presumptuous sins that they may not get the dominion over me and cleanse thou me from all my secret faults That so I may be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my Strength and my Redeemer Glory be to the Father The Lesson IF sinners entice thee do not thou consent unto them These things doth the Lord abhor A prood look and a lying tongue an heart that deviseth wickedness and mischief a false witness that speaketh not the truth and whosoever soweth discord among others In the multitude of words there will be sin Keep innocency and do the thing that is right for that will bring a man peace at the last Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus and confess him to be the Lord who was obedient to the Death of the Cross for the Redemption of Mankind unto the Praise and Glory of God the Father The Hymn WHO more can crave Than God for me hath done To free a Slave That gave his only Son Bless'd be that Hour when he repair'd our loss I never will Forget my Saviour's Cross The Prayers I. O God who knowest the frailties and infirmities of my weak nature and in the midst of how many Dangers I live being continually subject to the deceits of the World the Flesh and the Devil and having no Power of my self to help my self mercifully look upon me and because I cannot continue in safety without thy Succour preserve me evermore by thy help and Goodness and keep me both outwardly in my Body and inwardly in my Soul that among the sundry and manifold Dangers of this World my Heart may be set to attain everlasting Salvation and my Affections may surely there be fixed where true Joys are to be found through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. O God the strength of all that trust in thee mercifully accept these my humble Supplications and Prayers and grant me the help of thy grace that I may please Thee both in Will and Deed and obtain thy Peace all the days of my Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. ALmighty and everliving God I give Thee most humble thanks for that Thou hast vouchsafed favourably to call me to the knowledge of thy Grace and Faith in Thee Increase this Knowledge and confirm this Faith in me evermore Give me the comfort of thy Holy Spirit and multiply upon me thy manifold Gifts of Grace the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and Ghostly Strength the Spirit of Knowledge and true Godliness and fulfil me O Lord with the Spirit of thy holy Fear through Christ our Lord. Amen PRAYERS AT NIGHT AND BED-TIME Retire your self again AND when you have thought upon all the day past how you have spent it that is what good or evil Actions you have done and what bad inclinations you have resisted or amended asking God pardon for all your offences use these Prayers The Psalm and Prayers LEt my Prayer be set forth in thy sight O Lord as the Incense And the lifting up of my Hands be as
the Cross and that my Soul may be washed by his most precious Bloud there shed for me and that He may abide with me for ever Amen II. Faith I believe Lord help mine unbelief I Believe that God our heavenly Father did of his tender mercy give his only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the Cross for the Redemption of the world I believe that he made there by the Oblation of himself once offered a perfect Sacrifice and satisfaction for our sins I believe that this Sacrament was ordained for the continual remembrance of that his Death and Sacrifice and for the benefits we all receive by it I believe that I shall here partake of the spiritual Food and most precious Body and Bloud of Christ the Bread of Life that came down from Heaven the Bloud that hath been carried up into the holy places and the Cup of Eternity For they that eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup shall live for ever The Prayer O My God what are we that thou so regarded us to give thy self for us to give thy self to us to be one with us that we may have life in us even life immortal which will quicken us and raise us up at the last day O my Lord I am not worthy not worthy the least of thy Mercies how much less of this which is the greatest greater than the World greater than the Heavens greater than all the Treasures of Heaven and Earth but I beseech Thee look upon me in the Greatness of thy Mercies not weighing my Merits but pardoning mine offences Amen III. Charity THis is a Sacrament of Love and this is thy Commandment that we should love one another even as thou hast loved us for we being many are one Body whereof Christ our Lord is the Head The Prayers O Thou Blessed and undivided Trinity whichteachest us that all our doings without Love and Unity are nothing worth send into all our hearts that most excellent gift of Charity and inflame our Souls with the Celestial Fire of thy Love that living together in unity of Spirit and the bond of Peace among our selves we may perfectly love Thee and worthily magnifie thy Holy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen A Litany Privately to be used before the Receiving of the Holy Communion O God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost God the most holy blessed and glorious Trinity Have mercy upon me O Thou immaculate Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the World Have mercy upon me O Christ the Eternal Son of the Father the Redeemer and Preserver of Men the Bread and Life of the World the Author and finisher of our Faith the Great Mystery of Godliness the Word that was made Flesh to save thy Servants from their Sins Have mercy upon me Save me O God for I come unto Thee in the multitude of thy Mercies and in thy Fear will I fall down and worship Thee in thy Holy Temple that Thou mays Have mercy upon me Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender Mercies and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and frailties of thy Servant but Spare me O Lord Spare me for thy goodness an Have mercy upon me From my unworthiness to receive thy blessed Body and Bloud by which thou hast redeemed me from all carnal vain and earthly Imaginations in this thy Holy Sacrament from all misbelief and incredulity of thy Word from all defects of Sanctity Love and Charity from all my Sins and Iniquities Good Lord deliver me By that fervent ardor of Goodness and Charity wherewith thou camest down from Heaven by thy blessed Cross and Passion and by the mysterious institution of this thy Holy Sacrament Good Lord deliver me By thy most sacred Body which was broken crucified by thy most precious Bloud which was shed poured forth for the Sins of the World Good Lord deliver me O Lord God I beseech thee to hear me and that it may please thee to give us all true Faith and Repentance with devout humility and Reverence rightly and duly to celebrate this thy holy Sacrament in memory of thy most hallowed true and propitiatory Sacrifice with a firm faith to receive thy blessed Mysteries to give thanks unto thy Name O Lord I beseech thee to hear me That it may please thee to accept this our bounden duty and service our Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving the Memorial that we now make of thine own death and Sacrifice which was once offered for us and to grant that by the Merits and Power thereof we and all thy Servants may receive remission of our sins and be filled with thy Grace and Heavenly Benediction O Lord I beseech thee to hear me O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father thou that takest away the Sins of the World Receive my Prayer When you are ready to receive the Holy Sacrament in each kind do it with the greatest reverence and devotion that you may yet without all affectation and singularity lifting up your hands and your heart to God And after you have Received lift up your hands again and say devoutly with your self while others receive I. BLessed art Thou O Lord Blessing and Honour and Glory be unto thee O thou Lamb of God for evermore Amen II. This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes III. I will magnifie thee O Lord and will praise thy Name for ever and ever IV. All thy Works praise thee O Lord and thy Saints give thanks unto thee V. Happy are those Servants whom when their Lord cometh he shall find thus doing VI. Salvation and Blessing and Honour be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne of Heaven now and for ever Amen A Thanksgiving after the Holy Communion BLessed art Thou O Lord God and blessed be thy Holy Name for ever who hast now vouchsafed to feed me with the Bread of Life and hast given me to drink the Cup of Eternity the holy and heavenly Mysteries of the Body and Bloud of my Saviour thereby assuring my Soul of thy favour and goodness towards me for the sealing of my Faith for the pardon of my Sins for the obtaining of my Peace and all other Benefits of Christ's blessed Passion I now most humbly beseech thee to assist me with thy Heavenly Grace that I may continue thine for ever and be made a Temple of thy Holy Spirit and that having now Christd welling in me by faith I may accomplish the rest of my life in Repentance and Godly fear in mortifying my own sinful desires and in keeping thy Holy Commandments For which end guide me with thy Power enlighten me with thy Word and quicken me with thy Spirit Elevate my Senses compose my Manners and order my Conversation aright for thou art able to do abundantly above all that I can ask or think by which thy great and bountiful goodness towards me thou wilt glorifie thy Name in
me and bring me at last to thine Eternal Kingdom of Glory through him who is the King of Glory my blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Heb. 13. THe God of Peace who brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus Christ the great Shepherd of his Flock through the Bloud of his everlasting Testament make me perfect in every good work to do his Will and that which is well-pleasing in his sight through the same Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be Glory for ever Amen PRAYERS UPON Sundry Occasions PRAYERS When you are upon a Journey I. THe Almighty Lord be now and evermore my defence to bless me and preserve me from all evil in my going out and my coming in and give his Angels charge over me to keep me in all my ways II. IF God will be with me and keep me in this way that I go so that I come to my home in Peace then shall I give Thanks and pay my Vows unto him III. O God who knowest us to be set in the midst of many dangers grant that by thy mighty aid I may be defended from all things that may hurt me either in Body or Soul through Christ our Lord. Amen IV. DIspose and Govern the way of thy Servant O Lord and further me with thy gracious and continual help that in all my doings begun continued and ended in Thee I may glorifie thy holy Name and keep my self by thy most mighty protection in the ways of thy Laws and paths of thy Commandments for the attainment of everlasting rest and peace in thy heavenly Kingdom through Christ our Lord. Amen V. SHew me thy ways O Lord and teach me thy Paths for I lift up my Soul unto thee Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my Salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long Amen PRAYERS In the time of any sudden danger or distress I. ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon me and in this time of dangerand necessity stretch forth thine hand to succour and defend me through Christ our Lord. Amen II. THe Almighty Lord who is a strong Tower of defence against all the Perils Assaults and Tribulations of this World be now and evermore my Aid and Protector through Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour Amen III. FRom Lightning and Tempest from all Evil and Mischief and from sudden death Good Lord deliver me PRAYERS In the time of sickness and affliction I. SAve me O King of Heaven and hear me when I call upon thee for I am in affliction and heaviness Thou art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in the needful time of trouble look down from Heaven and visit me with thy Salvation II. I Know that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it and â—hy doings are always just but thou art also good and gracious and of great mercy to them that call upon thee Thou upholdest all them that are fallen and liftest up those that be down II. I Know that of very faithfulness thou hast caused me to be troubled that I might call upon thy Name IV. ANd now Lord what is my hope Truly my hope is even in Thee For thou art the hope of all the ends of the Earth the aid of all that need the help of all that fly to thee for Succour O turn thee unto me and shew me the light of thy Countenance that I may be made whole and give thanks unto thy Name V. O God favourably with mercy hear my Prayers and grant that all those things which I suffer for my sins I may well pass and overcome by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen VI. O Do well unto thy Servant that I may live and keep thy Commandments VII MErcifully O Lord look upon mine Infirmity and for the glory of thy Name turn from me all those Evils that I most righteously have deserved and grant that in all my troubles I may put my whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy Honour and Glory through our only Mediator and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditations in the time of Sickness upon the great Mercies of God I. WHen we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we may not be condemned with the world II. REfuse not the correction of the Almighty it is the Lord let him do what seems good in his own eyes III. AS it pleaseth the Lord so cometh every thing to pass Blessed be the Name of the Lord. IV. GOD is the Lord of Life and Death of sickness and of health by whose appointment we were born and by whose commandment again we must die our time is in his hand and to him belong the issues of Death V. GOD is meek and gentle ready to accept our sorrow and repentance for sin VI. HE is exceeding slow to anger and not easily provoked he seeth our sins and makes as if he saw them not he many times over-looketh them and by his long-suffering passeth them by as loth to see them VII WHen he cannot but see yet he forbears and is patient Forbears long suffers long many times many years VIII WHen he can suffer stay no longer but punish he must he doth it against his will and when he is angry he containeth himself in it and suffereth not his whole displeasure to arise IX HE is angry but not according to our deserts nothing so much He is angry but not long it endures but a little while and in his wrath he thinketh upon mercy he thinks every stripe two and is quickly weary he repents him of the evil and is soon appeased X. HE will have none to perish but have all to be saved he willeth not the death of a sinner but that he should repent and live XI NOt of any sinner not of Manasses not of Rahab not of Mary Magdalen not of Saint Paul who was once a chief sinner XII FOr Christ came into the world to save sinners and of them that come unto him he casteth none out A Thanksgiving after Recovery from Sickness I. O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy Servant according to thy great Goodness and Mercy Before I was troubled I went astray but now I will take heed to my ways that I swerve not from thy Precepts It is good for me that I have been in trouble that I may learn to obey thy Commandments II. RIghteous art thou O Lord and true are thy Judgments Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me but my sure trust hath been in thy Mercy O let my Soul live and it shall praise thee and thy Judgments shall help me III. I Will always give thanks unto the Lord his Praise shall be ever in my mouth O Lord my God I cried unto Thee and thou hast healed me Thou hast turned my heaviness into
joy and girded me with gladness therefore will I sing of thy Praise without ceasing and give thanks unto Thee for ever IV. I Sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me out of all my trouble for the Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him and delivereth them The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his Ears are open unto their Prayers V. WHat reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me I will take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will offer to Thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving evermore praising Thee and saying O Holy Lord God Almighty Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Honour and Glory and Power for thou hast created all things and for thy Wills sake they are and were created VI. BLessing and Honour and Glory and Thanksgiving and Power and Might be unto the Lord our God for ever and ever AMEN THE END THE LAST WORDS OF THE Reverend Pious and Learned Dr. HAMMOND Being Two PRAYERS FOR THE Peaceful Re-settlement OF THIS CHURCH and STATE LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty 1679. Prayers for the Church and State Prayer I. O Blessed Lord who in thine infinite mercy didst vouchsafe to plant a glorious Church among us now in thy just judgment hast permitted our sins and follies to root it up be pleased at last to resume thoughts of Peace towards us that we may do the like to one another Lord look down from Heaven the habitation of thy Holiness and behold the Ruines of a desolate Church and compassionate to see her in the dust Behold her O Lord not only broken but crumbled divided into so many Sects and Fractions that she no longer represents the Ark of the God of Israel where the Covenant and the Manna were conserved but the Ark of Noah filled with all various sorts of unclean Beasts and to compleat our misery and guilt the Spirit of Division hath insinuated it self as well into our Affections as our Judgments that Badge of Discipleship which thou recommendedst to us is cast off and all the contrary wrath and bitterness anger and clamour called in to maintain and widen our breaches O Lord how long shall we thus violate and defame that Gospel of Peace that we profess how long shall me thus madly defeat our selves lose that Christianity which we pretend to strive for O thou which makest men to be of one mind in an house be pleased so to unite us that we may be perfectly joyn'd together in the same mind and in the same judgment And now that in Civil Affairs there seems some aptness to a composure O let not our Spiritual Differences be more unreconcileable Lord let not the roughest winds blow out of the Sanctuary let not those which should be Embassadors for Peace still sound a Trumpet for War but do thou reveal thy self to all our Eliah's in that still small Voice which may teach them to echo thee in the like meek treating with others Lord let no unseasonable stiffness of those that are in the right no perverse obstinacy of those that are in the wrong hinder the closing of our wounds but let the one instruct in meekness be thou pleased to give the other repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth To this end do thou O Lord mollifie all exasperate minds take off all animosities and prejudices contempt and heart-burnings and by uniting their hearts prepare for the reconciling their Opinions And that nothing may intercept the clear sight of thy truth Lord let all private and secular Designs be totally deposited that gain may no longer be the measure of our Godliness but that the one great and common concernment of truth and peace may be unanimously and vigorously pursued Lord the hearts of all men are in thy hands O be thou pleased to let thy Spirit of Peace overshadow the minds of all contending Parties and if it be thy will restore this Church to her pristine state renew her daies as of old let her escape out of Egypt be so entire that not an hoof may be left behind but if thy Wisdom see it not yet a season for so full a deliverance Lord defer not we beseech thee such a degree of it as may at least secure her a being if she cannot recover her Beauty yet O Lord grant her Health such a foundness of Constitution as may preserve her from dissolution Let thy providence find out some good Samaritans to cure her present Wounds and to whomsoever thou shalt commit that important Work Lord give them skilful hands and compassionate hearts direct them to such applications as may most speedily and yet most soundly heal the hurt of the Daughter of Sion and make them so advert to the Interests both of Truth and Peace that no lawful condescension may be omitted nor any unlawful made And do thou who art both the wonderful Counsellor and Prince of Peace so guide and prosper all Pacifick endeavors that all our distractions may be composed and our Jerusalem may again become a City at unity in it self that those happy Primitive days may at length revert wherein Vice was the only Heresie that all our intestine contentions may be converted into a vigorous opposition of our common Enemy our unbrotherly Feuds into a Christian Zeal against all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ Lord hear us and ordain Peace for us even for his sake whom thou hast ordained our Peace maker Jesus Christ our Lord. Prayer the II. O Most gracious Lord who dost not afflict willingly nor grieve the childrenof men whosmitest not till the importunity of our sins enforce thee and then correctest in measure we thy unworthy Creatures humblyacknowledge that we have abundantly tasted of this patience and lenity of thine To what an enormous height were our sins arrived ere thou beganst to visit them when thou couldest no longer forbear yet mastering thy Power thou hast not proportion'd thy vengeance to our crimes but to thy own gracious design of reducing and reclaiming us Lord had the first stroke of thy hand been exterminatings our guilts had justified the method but thou hast proceeded by such easie and gentle degrees as witness how much thou desired'st to be interrupted and shew us that all that sad weight we have long groaned under hath been accumulated only by our ownincorrigibleness T is now O Lord these many years that this Nation hath been in the furnace and yet our dross wastes not but increases and it is owing only to thy unspeakable mercy that we who would not be purified are not consumed that we remain a Nation who cease not to be a most sinful and provoking Nation O Lord let not this long-suffering of thine serve only to upbraid our obstinacy and enhance our guilt but let it at last have the proper effect on us melt our hearts and
lead us to repentance And O that this may be the day for us thus to discern the things that belong to our Peace that all who are yea and all who are not cast down this day in an external humiliation may by the operation of thymighty Spirit have their souls laid prostrate before thee in a sincere contrition O thou who canst out of the very stones raise up Children unto Abraham work our stony flinty hearts into such a temper as may be malleable to the impressions of thy grace that all the sinners in Sion may tremble that we may not by a persevering obstinacy seal to our selves both temporal and eternal ruine but in stead of our mutinous complainingat the punishments of our sins search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord. O be thou pleased to grant us this one grand fundamental mercy that we who so impatiently thirst after a change without us may render that possible and safe by this better and more necessary change within us that our sins may not as they have so often done interpose and eclipse that light which now begins to break out upon us Lord thy Dove seems to approach us with an Olive Branch in her mouth Oh let not our filth and noisomness chase her away but grant us that true repentance which may attone thee and that Christian Charity which may reconcile us with one another Lord let not our breach either with thee or among our selves be incurable but by making up the first prepare us for the healing of the latter And because O Lord the way to make us one Fold is to have one Shepherd be pleased to put us all under the conduct of him to whom that charge belongs bow the hearts of this People as of one Man that the only contention may be who shall be most forward in bringing back our David O let none reflect on their past Guilts as an Argument to persevere but repent and to make their return so sincere as may qualifie them not only for his but thy Mercy And Lord be pleased so to guide the hearts of all who shall be intrusted with that great Concernment of setling this Nation that they may weigh all their deliberations in the Balance of the Sanctuary that Conscience not Interest may be the ruling principle and that they may render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's that they may become healers of our breaches and happy Repairers of the sad Ruines both in Church and State And grant O Lord that as those sins which made them are become National so the repentance may be National also and that evidenc'd by the proper fruits of it by zeal of restoring the rights both of thee and thine Anointed And do thou O Lord so dispose all hearts and remove all obstacles that none may have the will much less the power to hinder his peaceable restitution And Lord let him bring with him an heart so intirely devoted to thee that he may wish his own Honour only as a means to advance thine O let the Precepts and Example of his blessed Father never depart from his mind and as thou wert pleas'd to perfect the one by suffering so perfect the other by acting thy will that He may be a blessed Instrument of replanting the power in stead of the form of Godliness among us of restoring Christian vertue in a profane and almost barbarous Nation And if any wish him for any distant ends if any desire his shadow as a shelter for their riots and licentiousness O let him come a great but happy defeat to all such not bring fewel but cure to their inordinate appetites and by his example as a Christian his Authority as a King so invite to good and restrain from evil that he may not only release our temporal but our spiritual bondage suppress those soul and scandalous Viceâ— which have so long Captivated us and by securing out inward provide for the perpetuating our outward peace Lord establish thou his throne in righteousness make him a signal instrument of thy glory and our happiness and let him reap the fruits of it in comfort here and in bliss hereafter so that his earthly Crown may serve to enhance and enrich his heavenly Grant this O King of Kings for the sake and intercession of our Blessed Mediator Jesus Christ THE END