World have mercy upon him Save and deliver him Oh GOD the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son haver mercy upon him strengthen and comfort him Oh Holy blessed and glorious Trinity have mercy upon him Remember not Lord our offences call not to minde the offences of his forefathers but spare him good Lord spare thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and bee not angry with him for ever From thy wrath and heavy indignation from the guilt and burden of his sins from the dreadfull sentence of the last Judgement Good Lord deliver him From the sting and terrour of Conscience from the danger of impatience distrust or despaire from the extremity of sicknesse anguish or agony that may any way withdraw his minde from thee Good Lord deliver him From the bitter pangs of eternall death from the gates of hell the power of darkenesse the illusions and assaults of our Ghostly enemy Good Lord deliver him By thy manifold and great mercies by the manifold and great mercies of Jesus Christ thy Son his Agony and bloody sweate strong crying and teares bitter Crosse and Passion mighty Resurrection glorious Ascension effectuall and most acceptable intercession mediation By the graces and comforts of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver him For thy names sake the glory of thy name thy loving mercy thy truths sake thine owne selfe In this time of his most extremity in this his last and greatest need in the houre of death and at the day of Jndgement Good Lord deliver him Deliver him O Lord from all danger and distresse from all paines punishments both bodily and ghostly Amen As thou diddest deliver Noah from the flood so save and deliver him Lot from the fire of Sodome so save c. Isaac from present death so save c. Iob fnom his tentations so save c. Moses from the hand of Pharoah so save c. Daniel from the Lyons den so save c. Ionas from the belly of the Whale so save c. And as thou hast delivered all thy blessed Saints and servants from all their terrors and torments so deliver his soul and receive it to thy mercy We sinners do beseech thee to heare us good Lord That it may please thee to remember him with the favour thou bearest unto thy people and to visit him with thy salvation We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to save and deliver his Soule from the power of the enemy lest as a Lyon he devoure it and teare it in peeces if there be none to helpe We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to be mercifull and to forgive all his sinnes which by the malice of the devill or by his owne frailty hee hath at any time of his life committed against thee We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to lay to his charge what in concupiscence of his eyes in pride of life vanity or superfluity he hath committed against thee We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to lay to his charge what in carnall desires of the flesh in lust or in the uncleane passions therof hee hath committed against thee We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to lay to his charge what in the fiercenesse of his wrath in the eagernesse of an angry spirit hee hath committed against thee We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to lay to his charge what in vaine and idle words in the loosenesse and slipperynesse of the tongue he hath committed against thee We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to make him partaker of all thy mercies and promises in Christ Jesus We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to vouchsafe his soule the state of joy blisse and happines with all thy blessed Saints in thy heavenly Kingdome We beseech thee c. That it may pleasethee to grant his body rest and peace and a part in the blessed resurrection of life and Glory We beseech thee to heare us good Lord Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare us O Lord God Lamb of God Sonne of the father that takest away the sinnes of the world have mercy upon him thou that takest away the sins of the world grant him thy peace Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the father have mercy upon him Lord have mercy upon him Christ have mercy upon him Lord have mercy upon him Our father which art in heaven c. Oh Lord deale not with him after his sinnes Neither reward him according to his iniquities O God mercifull father that despisest not the sighings of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers which wee make before thee at such times specially when our greatest and grievous extremities are ready to oppresse us And O Lord graciously heare us that those evills those illusions terrours and assaults which thine and our enemy worketh against us may bee brought to naught and by the providence of thy goodnesse bee dispersed that we thy servants beeing swallowed up with no tentations may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord 11. Severall choyce expressions of prayer to be used for the sicke party In the midst of life we are in death of whom then may we seeke for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sinnes art most justly displeased with us Yet O Lord most holy O Lord most mighty O holy and most mercifull father deliver us not over to the paines of Eternall death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not up against us the cares of thy mercy but spare us O Lord most holy O Lord most mighty O immortall and most mercifull father Thou most worthy Judge eternall suffer us not in our last houre for any terrour of death to fall away from thee We commend unto O Lord the soule of this thy servant He or she is the worke of thine hands Despise not O Lord the worke of thine owne hands The likenesse of thine Image Suffer not O Lord thine Image to be utterly defaced The price of thy blood Let not so great a price be cast away A Christian man or woman the name of thy Son is called upon him For thy names sake be good unto thy name Thine O save him Give not over that which thine is to the will of the enemy Though he have sinned yet thy name hath hee not denyed but called upon it and confessed it unto his lives end and there is no name under heaven but thine wherein he expecteth salvation Though he have sinned yet he hath not hid his sinne nor excused it Psal. 141.4 but acknowledged it and beene sorry for it and wisheth even teares of blood wherewith to lament it Though he have sinned yet others also have sinned against him which from the heart he forgiveeth and
call to minde any persons in particular whō you have so offended 8. Severall parts of prayer to be used by the sicke party taken out of Scripture ANd now O Lord what is my hope truely my hope is in thee Psal. 39. 7. Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them that remaine in the broad sea Though hee kill mee yet will I trust in him Ioh. 13. 15. Though I walk through the vale of the shadow of death yet will I feare none evill Psal. 23. 2. 4. Lord thou knowest whereof wee bee made thou remembrest we are but dust Psal. 103. 14. Call to minde we are but flesh a winde that passeth away and commeth not againe Psa. 78. 39. Remember Lord of what time I am what our substance is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought Psal. 89. 47. Lord considermy complaint for I am brought very low Let my present misery more prevaile to moove compassion than my sinnefull life past to provoke thine indignation Lord how long wilt thou be angrie with thy servant that prayeth Behold Lord I shew the lowlinesse of a suppliant shew not thou to me the rigour of a Judg. Ne quaeso premat Sententia Iudicis Quem sic submittit Petitio supplicis O deliver not thine owne inheritance over into the will of thine enemy Psal 119. 94. I am thine O save me I am thine carest thou not that I perish Mar. 4. 38. Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine hand-maid Psal. 116. 16. Thine unprofitable evill servant yet thy servant Thy lost unkind child yet thy child Luk. 15. Though I have not shewed to thee the duty and affection of a child yet doe not thou cast from thee the naturall kindnesse and compassion of a Father I commend my selfe into thy hands as unto a faithfull Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. Receive O Lord thine owne creature not made by any strange god but by thy selfe the onely true and living God despise not O Lord the worke of thine owne hand Psal. 138. ult. Lord I am created to thine owne Image and likenesse Gen. 1. 26. Suffer not O Lord suffer not thine Image to bee utterly defaced but renue it againe in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes. 4. 24. I commend my selfe into thine hands for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth Psal 31. 5. Behold Lord I am the price of thy blood of thy most pretious blood 1 Cor. 6. ult. Suffer not so great a price to perish Suffer not that to be cast away that thou hast so deerely bought O Lord thou camest downe from heaven to redeeme that which was lost suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed Behold O Lord thou art in the middest of us thy name is called upon us we are called by thy name Christians Dan. 9. 19. For thy names sake be mercifull unto us Psa. 25. 11. Spare thine own name in us Psal. 19. 9. And doe not good Lord so remember our sinnes that by remembring them thou forgettest thine owne name Lord we call upon thy name there is no name under heaven wherein we can be saved but onely it Act. 4. 12. Though we be unfaithfull yet thou art true and canst not deny thine owne name 2 Tim. 2.13 I commend my selfe into thine hands as to my true and onely sanctifier Lord I have beene the Temple of thy holy spirit 1 Cor. 3.16 Though it hath beene polluted by my frailty yet Lord destroy it not But dedicate it hallow it anew and sanctifie it to thee yet once againe make an Encaenia of it Spare us good Lord spare thine owne handiwork thine own Image thine owne name the price of thine owne blood in us The good Lord bee mercifull unto every one that prepareth his heart to seeke the Lord God the God of our Fathers though he be not according to the cleannesse of the Sanctuary 1 Chron. 30.19 Behold O Lord ae bruised Reed O breake it not smoaking flax yet O Lord quench it not Esa. 42.3 Mat. 12. 20. Lord I have never denied thy name but confessed it ever and in the confession and invocation of it I desire to spend my last breath and to depart this life Lord I have desired to feare thy Name Neh. 1. 11. My soule hath beene desirous to long after thy Commandements Psal. 119.20 Lord I doe acknowledge my wickednesse and I am sorrie for my sinne Psal. 38.18 Lord I beleeve help thou mine unbeleife Lord I hope verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the Living Psal. 27.13 Let not this hope confound me nor make me ashamed Psa. 119.16 Lord I freely forgive whomsoe'r I have ought against those poore pence or mites they owe me Mat. 18.28 Lord I held my peace and opened not my mouth at thy chastisements because it was thy doing O Lord Psal. 39.9 Lord I seeke thee and thou never failest them that seeke thee Psal. 9. 10. I come unto thee and of them that come unto thee thou castest none out Ioh. 6.37 Neverthelesse though I be sometime afraid yet put I my trust in thee Psal. 56.3 O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be put to confusion Psal. 71 1.31.1 O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from them that seeke after my soule and deliver me lest hee devoure my soule like a Lion and teare it in peeces whiles there is none to helpe Psal. 7.1,2 The snares of death compassed me round about the overflowings of ungodlinesse made me afraid Psal. 18.4 The sorrow of death overtooke me and the paines of hell gat hold upon me Psal. 18.5 I have found trouble and heavinesse and I wil call upon the name of the Lord Psal. 116.3 O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soule Psa. 116 4. Heare my voyce O Lord out of thy holie Temple let my complaint come before thee let it enter even into thine cares Psal. 18.6 Send downe from on high and deliver me take me out of many waters Psal. 18.16 Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our Lord is mercifull Psal. 116.5 The Lord preserveth the simple I am in misery but hee will thinke upon me Psal. 116.6 Turne againe then to thy rest O my Soule for the Lord hath regarded thee Psal. 116.7 Psalme 22. verse 1. My God my God looke upon mee why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint ver. 2 3. O my God I cry in the day time and thou hearestnot and in the night season also I have audience yet thou continuest holy O thou Worship of Israell ver. 4. Our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou diddest deliver them 5. They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 9. But thou wert he that tookest mee out of my Mothers wombe 10. Thou wert my hope when I
thy holy hill and Heavenly Kingdome Psal. 15. Send thine Angell to meete him and to bring him into Abrahams bosom Luke 16. Place him in the habitation of Light and peace of joy and gladnesse Receive him into the armes of thy mercy and give him an inheritance with thy Saints in light there to raigne with thine elect Angels thy blessed Saints thy holy prophets and glorious Apostles in all joy and glory felicity and happinesse for ever and ever 13. Scriptures to be applyed to those who survive when the party is departed Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal. 116. I heard a voyce from Heaven saying Write Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them Moses Wee have sinned O Lord thou hast set our faults before thee and our secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance Psal. 90.8 Returne O Lord how long and bee pacifyed towards thy servants Psa. 90. 13. Iob. I have sinned what shall I doe unto thee O thou preserver of mankind why hast thou set mee as a marke against thee that I am become a burden to my selfe Iob 7. 20. Have mercy upon mee O Lord and restore unto me my righteousnesse againe Say concerning me Lord deliver him for I have received a Reconciliation Iob 33. v. 24 That I have offended thee woe is me Iob 10.15 Yet if thou kill mee I will put my trust in thee Iob 13.15 David My misdeeds have prevailed against me Psal. 65. 3. O bee thou mercifull unto my sinne ibid. I have gone astray like a sheepe that is lost O seeke thy servant for I do not forget thy Commandements Psalm 119. ult. Wee have sinned with our Fathers wee have done amisse and dealt wickedly Psal. 105. For thy names sake O Lord bee mercifull unto our sinne for it is great Psal. 25. My foote hath slipped let thy mercy O Lord lift me up Psal. 94. Esay Behold thou art angry for we have sinned we all have beene as an uncleane thing and all our Righteousnesse as a defiled cloath Wee all fade as a leafe and our iniquities like a winde have taken us away But now O Lord thou art our Father wee are but as clay and thou art our Potter wee all are the worke of thy hands Be not angry O Lord above measure neither remember our iniquities forever Lord we beseech thee remember wee are thy people Jeremy Lord our iniquities are against us our rebellions be many we have sinned against thee Yet deale thou with us according to thy name for thou Lord art in the middest of us and thy name is called upon us O Lord forsake us not O Lord thou hope of Israell the Saviour of it in the time of trouble forsake us not Daniel Wee have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and done wickedly yea we have rebelled and have departed from thy precepts and from thy Commandements O Lord righteousnes belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion and shame of face because of all the offences wee have committed against thee Yet compassion and forgivenesse is with thee O Lord though wee have rebelled against thee O Lord according to thy goodnesse I beseech thee let thine anger and thy wrath bee turned away from us and cause thy face to shine upon thy servant O my Lord incline thine eare and heare open thine eyes and behold my affliction for wee doe not present our supplications before thee in our owne righteousnesse but for thy manifold and great mercies O Lord heare O Lord forgive consider and doe it O Lord deferre not for thine owne sake O my God Ionas O Lord in following lying vanities I have forsaken mine owne mercy for the which I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes Ion. 2.4 Yet I remember thee O Lord yet will I look againe towards thy holy Temple O Lord heare and have mercy The Prodigall Child Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne But forgive mee and make me one of the meanest of thy hired servants Luke 15. 28. Lord bee mercifull unto me a sinner Jesu Master have mercy upon us Have mercy upon mee Lord thou Son of David Mat. 15. O Lord helpe me O Lord even the little whelps eate of the crums of thy Table Paul O Lord I am carnall and sold under sinne and in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good The good things I doe not which I would the evill that I would not that doe I. Though I consent to the Law according to the inner man yet I feele another Law in my nature rebelling against the Law of my minde and leading me captive to the Law of sinne O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this bodie of death Rom. 7.14 But this is a true saying and by all meanes worthy to bee received That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners whereof I am chiefe Peter We have spent the time past of our life after the lust of the heathen walking in wantonnesse lust surfetting uncleannesse and other excesses 1 Pet. 4. But thou hast redeemed us O Lord by the precious blood of Christ the undefiled Lambe 1 Pet. 1. Have mercy upon us in that name besides which thou hast given none under heaven whereby wee must be saved Act. 4. Iohn If we say wee have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If our heart condemne us not God is greater then our heart knoweth all things But wee confesse our sinnes and confessing them we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sinnes Iames In many things we offend all But Lord let thy mercy triumph over thy Justice 14. A forme of Confession according to the tenne Commandements 1. 1. I have not studyed to know and seeke thee as I ought 2. Knowing thee I have not glorified thee nor beene thankefull to thee especially not for thy chastisements 3. I have doubted of thy promises and not trusted to thy helpe 4. I have made flesh mine arme and have hoped for prosperity from man rather then from thee 2. 1. I have touching thee been full of roving imaginations and evill thoughts 2. I have not worshipped thee in spirit and truth 3. I have not performed the duty of invocation with that reverence which I should 4. I have drawne neere unto thee with my lippes but my heart hath beene farie from thee 3. 1. I have not with due regard taken thy name into my mouth 2. I have with rash oathes and eager execrations oft abused it 3. I have not given occasion to others to sanctifie thy name but have caused it to bee evill spoken of through mine evil dealing 4. I have not duely regarded and reverenced those things wheron thy name is imprinted 4. 1. I have not spared to absent my selfe from thy holy
to perish Lord carest thou not that I perish Mar. 4.33 Which wilt that all men be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 That no man perish 2 Pet. 3.9 Lord I am thine therefore save me Psal. 119.94 Despise not the worke of thine owne hands Wis. 10.4 Thy servant and sonne of thy hand-maid Psal. 116.15 Thy servant a prodigall Mat. 18.27 yet a Servant First Thy Sonne the price of thy Sons blood that I might be adopted Though I have forgotten the duty of a Son yet remember thou the love of a Father Though I am a wicked prodigall Son yet I am a Son Luk. 15.17 I am called by thy name Dan. 9.19 Thou art not ashamed to be called my God Heb. 11.16 We are Christians thy Christs ransomed ones we are called by his name Spare thy worke spare thy name the price of thy blood though thou spare not us Secondly But I am a sinner and God heareth not sinners Iob. 9.20 Yet consider I beseech thee of what I am made Remember that I am but flesh a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe Psal. 78.39 Consider our frame remember wee are but dust Psal. 103.14 Fraile dust Light wind Corruptible flesh Lord wilt thou breake a leafe driven to and fro wilt thou pursue the dry stubble Iob 13.24 Wilt thou hunt after a flea 1 Sam. 24.15 Thirdly thy Creature But miserable humble Spare me being humble David spared railing Shimei 2 Sam. 19.19 And David was a man after thine owne heart Act. 13. 22. Spare me therefore O Lord Behold we have heard the Kings of Israel are mercifull let us therfore put sackcloath on our loynes and ropes upon our heads and goe to the King of Israel and say Let my soule live 1 King 20.31,32 It may be he will save us Is any King of Israell mercifuller then thou Thou Lord sparedst Ahab which sould himselfe to doe wickednesse because he humbled himselfe 1 King 21. 27. Spare mee also How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people Psal. 80. 4. Lord I cover not my sinne as Adam Iob 31.33 I doe not extenuate and lessen my sinnes I freely confesse I have sinned Wrought wickednesse Transgressed Beene rebellious But I condemne my selfe 1. Cor. 11. 31. Call it often to mind Confesse it Punish my selfe for it Spare me O Lord Accept the sacrifice Of a broaken spirit Contrite heart Troubled mind Afflicted reines Wounded Conscience I have sinned against thee Fourthly but Lord thou wilt have pitty on some hast thou made man for nought Shall thine enemy say thou hast made us to kill us because thou hatedst us thou hast made us for to be destroyed or that thou couldest not save us Num. 14. 15. Remember this that the enemy hath reproached O Lord that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name Psal. 74. 18. As also that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 23. If thou wilt contend the most holy cannot answer for one of a thousand Iob. 9. 3. Neither the infant of a day old nor the starres are pure in his sight yea he hath found folly in his Angels Iob. 25. 3. If thou O Lord shouldest marke iniquities who should stand Psal. 130. 3. If thou enter into judgment no man shall bee justified And what shall become of thy great name of the riches of thy mercy of the blood of thy Sonne Gal. 2. 21. Shall he dye to no purpose Let the world rather perish then thou shouldest not multiplie thy mercies upon us Be it farre from us Thou hast included all under sinne that thou mightest have mercy on all All which desire to acknowledge your sins and the misery due for them returne to the Lord with your whole heart All those thou hast loved in thy beloved Not small sinners But Manasses and Paul That in them thou mightest manifest the excellency of thy mercy and open a gate of hope The chiefe of sinners Fifthly wherefore spare me desiring to returne into thy favour For what profit is there in my blood when I goe downe into the pit Psal. 30.9 In death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thankes Psal. 6.5 Shall thy wonders be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the Land of forgetfulnesse Ps. 88. 12. Verily the grave cannot praise thee death cannot celebrate thee they that goe downe into the pit cannot hope for thy truth Esay 38. 18. 19. The living the living shall praise thee as I doe this day I shall not dye but live and tell the workes of the Lord Psal. 118. 17. Sixtly But if I have knowne thee O Lord and thy dealings thou art good to them that are good and deserve wel gracious to strangers and mourners merciful to the bad and them that deserve ill Here I Insist When thou canst not for any one for anything yet for thine owne sake thou pardonest sinnes Esay 43. 44. I may come so easily Seaventhly David the prophet adventureth thus to pray Be mercifull unto mee according to thy Law Psal. 119.24 As if the Law set forth thy mercy and indeed so it doth The very Law from thy mouth soundeth The Lord raigneth the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sinne Exod. 34.6 And by this very word thy servant Moses besought thee to spare thy people Num. 14.15 Eightly the Prophet Isaiah Habakkuk presume to call mercy thy work as if to punish were strange to thee and belonged to another Esa. 28 20. Hab. 3.2 Neither doe the Law and the Prophets onely but nature it selfe but the direction of the Holy Ghost teach Iob this If there bee a messenger with him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightnesse then he is gracious unto him and faith Deliver him from going downe into the pit I have found a ransome Iob 33. 23. He shall pray unto God and he will be favourable O taste and see that the Lord is gracious Blessed is the man that trusteth in him Psal. 34.8 His mercy is good Psa. 109.21 tender Psa. 69.16 better than life Psal. 63. 3 The mercy of God is Great Psal. 5.7 Manifold Psal. 51.1 Abundant 1 Pet. 4. 10. Large Psal. 130.6 Broad to the East Psa. 86.5 To the West Psal. 119. 156. Deepe as a pit Psal. 103 12. High to the heavens above the heavens Psal. â—2 9 36.5 Eternall every way Psa 25.6 103.17 13.6 His mercy is above all his workes Psal. 145.9 Above our sins Ro. 5.20 Above his Justice Iam. â— 13 According to his greatnesse so is his mercy his salvation infinite Psal. 71. I know no end thereof He is the father of mercy It is naturall to him God is called mercy it selfe Psal. 59.10 Oh happy name under which no man may despaire Aug. Great is the pit of my sins but more the deepe of Gods mercies Chrysost. First
A MANVAL of directions for the Visitation of the sicke wth sweete Meditations Prayers to be vsed in time of sicknesse by Lancelot Andrewes late Bishop of Winchester LONDON Printed for Samuel Cartwright at the hand Bible in Duck-lane 1642 A MANVALL OF Directions for the visitation of the sicke with sweete Meditations and Prayers to be used in time of sicknesse Whereunto is added a Short confession of the Faith with a forme of Thankesgiving and Prayers for Morning and Evening BY LANCELOT ANDREVVES late Bishop of Winchester LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Samuel Cartwright and are to be sold at the signe of the hand and Bible in Ducke-Lane 1642. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sir EDWARD LITTLETON KNIGHT Baron Littleton of Mounslowe Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of ENGLAND AND One of his Majesties most Honorable Privy COVNCELL Grace Peace be multiplyed Right Honorable MAY it please you in these troublesome daies of ours to behold the man who though with open mouth he telleth not all things that every one hath done Yet by lively example teacheth what every one ought to be ready to doe Even for Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty His Person whilest hee lived wanted not the love and favour of a King to advance him to dignity let not this Posthume worke of his lacke your Honors protection and patronage to keepe it from indignity A Midwives care reacheth no further than the safe bringing the Infant into the world the maintenance and protection thereof she commendeth to the Father and other Friends This Orphan by my meanes hath happily seene the Light but wanting a Father as being deceased before his birth I presume to commend its defence and tuition to your Honour as a friend your Lordshippes selfe to the gracious protection of the Lord who grant you ever the continuance of your honour to you and your posterity for ever So prayeth Your Honours humbly devoted I.G. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER COurteous Reader I shall not neede I conceive to use many words by way of Preface The Authour of this Manuall and his former Workes have beene of such note and esteeme amongst us as that I doubt not but it may justly be said concerning them even to most men which Jehu of the Prophet that annointed him to be King over Israel 2 King 9.11 Ye know the man and his communication For this how like it is the rest of its Brethren I leave you to judge and yet I doubt not but some way may be made to your more willing entertainment of it by telling you it was conceived about that time the Reverend Authour was Parson of Saint Giles Creplegate and used by him in his ordinary Visitation of the sicke To this let me adde the love of publique good not respect of private profit hath moved him to fit this to the Presse who otherwise would never have seene his name in Print and now desireth the praise of the worke may be given to the right Author resting Yours in the Lord I.G. Inquiries to be made by the Minister The Parties THe Sex 2 The Age The condition of life 1 Whether learned structed 2 Sound in minde memory 3 The sense of heariâ—â— perfect 1 whether patient unquiet 2 Cheerefull of dejeâ—â— 3 If being well found comfort 1 Reading 2 Hearing 3 Repeating any particulars Whether any mateâ—â— all point whereof to admonished To take occasion out of â—is owne words VVHat man is hee that liveth and shall not see death Psal. 89.48 It is appointed for all men once to dye Heb. 9 27. I am a stranger and sojourner with thee as all my Fathers were Psal. 39 12. Wee have here no abiding City Heb. 13.14 The night commeth when no man can doe any worke Ioh. 9.4 Where the tree falleth whether to the North to the South there it â—â—eth Eccles. 1.1.3 A MANVALL for the SICKE 1. Comfortable Scriptures to be used to the sicke party Esay 54.10 THe Mountaine may remove and the Hills may faldown but my mercies shall not depart from thee nor the covenant of my peace come to nothing saith the Lord that hath compassion on thee Heaven and earth shal passe but my Word shall not passe All the promises of God are in him Yea and Amen In whom wee have most great and precious promises that we should be partakers of the Divine Nature Ieremy 31.18 I have heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou trast corrected me and I was chastised as an untamed Heifer convert thou me and I shall be converted for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I had converted I repented I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea confounded because I did beare the reproach of my youth Since I spake to him I still remember him therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have compassion on him saith the Lord I will visite their iniquity with a rod and their sinne with secourges nevertheles my mercy will I not take from him nor suffer my truth to faile Prov. 3. 11,12 My sonne refuse not the chastisement of the Lord neither be grieved with his correction for the Lord correcteth him whom he loveth even as the father doth the child in whom for all that he delighteth Ioh. 5. 17,18,19 Behold blessed is the man whom God correcteth therefore refuse not thou the correction of the Almighty For he maketh the wound and bindeth it up he smiteth and his hands make whole againe He shall deliver thee in sixe troubles and in the seaventh the evill shall not come nigh thee Heb. 12. 5. Forget not the consolation that speaketh unto you as unto children If you indure chastening God offereth himselfe unto you as unto a sonne for what sonne is it whom the Father chasteneth not If therefore yee bee without correction whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sonnes Moreover wee have had the fathers of our bodies which corrected us and yet wee gave them reverence should we not much rather bee in subjection to the father of Spirits that wee may live For they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their owne pleasure but he chasteneth us for our profit that we might bee partakers of his holinesse Now no chastening for the present seemeth joyous but grievous yet afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse unto them which are thereby execised Wherefore lift up your hands which hang downe and your weake knees Ioh. 16.22 And you now are in sorrow but I will see you againe and your heart shall rejoyce and your Joy shall none bee able to take from you Esa. 54. 7 8. For a little while have I sorsaken thee but in great compassion will I gather thee For a moment in mine anger I hid my face from thee but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Modicum videbitis me A
little time and yee shall see me Psal. 94. 12.13 Blessed is the man whom thou chastisest O Lord and teachest him thy Law that thou mayst give him rest in the dayes of evill 1 Cor. 11. 31. But when wee are judged we are chastened of the Lord because we should not bee condemned with the world They that sow in teares shall reape in joy Psal. 129.5 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but hee hath not given me over unto death Psal. 118.18 Iam. 1. 2 4. My brethren count it exceeding joy when you fall into divers afflictions knowing that the trying of the faith bringeth patience and let patience have her perfect worke that you may bee compleate intire taking nothing Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted Mat. 5.4 When I am weak then am I strong 2 Cor. 12. 10. 2. Ejaculations for the sicke CAst me not away in the time of my weakenesse forsake me not when my strength faileth me Though I be afflicted on every side yet let me not be distressed though in want of some of thy comforts yet not of all Though chastened yet not forsaken though cast downe yet not perished As mine outward man doth weare and decay so let mine inward man renew dayly O let this light affliction which will quickly be over cause unto me a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory In the middest of the sorrowes that are in mine heart let thy comforts O Lord refresh my soule My flesh and my heart fayleth but bee thou the strength of my head and my portion forever Psa. 73. 26. Thou O Lord up-holdest all such as are falling and liftest up those that be downe Thou healest the broken in heart and givest Medicine to heale their sickenesse As thou art faithful O Lord so suffer me not to be tempted above that I am able But good Lord give me an issue with the Temptation that I may be able to beare it 3. Heads of comfort to be administred from the consideration of God Christ God A creator {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and so faithfull 1 Pet. 4. ult. A possessor or owner {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I am thine part of thy possession Gen. 14. 19. A Redeemer at large {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Psal. 130. 7. A Redeemer {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as of the same flesh and blood Iob. 19.25 26. I. Christ a Mediator 1. Betweene God and us his Priesthood and Sacrifice A Lyon 2. Betweene us and Satan his Kingdome and conquest II. A Lambe 1. Betweene us and sinne his Innocence 2. Betweene us and our Concupisence his Charity III. 1. Betweene us and the punishments due to our sinne his passion and blood-shedding satisfaction 2. Betweene us and our conscience and the Judgement of God his Advocate-ship IIII. 1. Betweene us and our want of Righteousnesse his absolute and compleate obedience 2. Betweene us and our want of desert of the eternall Reward his Merit V. Betweene us and our want of sorrow in repenting his Agony bloody sweate These Recount Shew Offer Set betweene 4. Things to be recommended to the sicke such as are Prayer Almes Repentance Faith Love Hope Wel-doing Prayer PRay unto the Lord if happily this may be forgiven thee Act. 31. 6. Almes Blessed is the man that considereth the poore and needy Psal. 41.1 By mercy and truth are sinnes cleansed or forgiven Prov. 12. Breake off thine unrighteousnesse by mercy to the poore Dan. 4. 14. They shewed the Garments which shee had wrought with her own hands Act. 9. 39. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luk. 13. 5. 2. Without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 3. If I have all faith and no love it profiteth me nothing 1 Cor. 13.2 4. We are saved by hope Rom. 8. 24. 5. Hope thou in the Lord and bee doing good Psal. 37.3 And they shall come forth that have done good to the resurrection of life Iob. 5.29 Make you friends of the unrighteous Mammon that when you must hence they may receive you into everlasting Tabernacles Luk. 16.9 5. Propositions and inferences to be made to the sicke 1. YOu are perswaded that no sicknesse or Crosse commeth by chance unto any 2. But you beleeve that it is God that fendeth them without whose providence they fall not on us 3. You acknowledge God to be most wise and to suffer nothing to befall us but what is expedient it so should 4. Therefore God having sent this his visitation now to you at this time that it is expedient for you thus to be sicke Say I know O Lord that thy judgements are just and that thou of very faithfulnesse hast caused me to bee troubled Psal. 119.75 1. You know and confesse that God to al but Christian men especially carryeth the asfection of a father towards his children 2. You know also that a father whether he maketh much of his childe or whether hee chasten him continueth a father in both and loveth him in the one no lesse than in the other 3. Thinke the same of God touching your selfe that while he gave you good dayes he loved you and that now he sendeth you some evill he loveth you also and would not have sent these evills but to be a cause unto you of greater good that being cal'd home by them you might be at perfect peace with him Say Before I was troubled I went wrong but now shall I learne thy word Psal. 119. 67. 1. You are not onely to take it patiently I held my peace and opened not my mouth because it was thy doing Psal. 39.9 It is the Lord let him doe what seemeth him good in his own eyes but 2 even to give him thankes for it as for an wholesome medicine the Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away as it pleaseth the Lord so is it come to passe blessed be the Name of the Lord I will take the cup of Salvation and give thankes to the Name of the Lord 3. Especially for that we in the time of our health forgetting him yet he is so mercifull that he giveth us not over with the world but for all wee have grieved his holy Spirit and fallen from grace he visiteth us againe and offereth it afresh unto us 4. That if his will had not beene to have shewed mercy by his chastisement hee could and would suddenly have taken you away with a quicke destruction and not given you this time to bethinke your selfe and to seeke and sue to him for grace Say When I am judged I am chastened of the Lord that I might not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11.32 Gods very punishment is a part of his mercy Psal. 89.31 It is the great mercy of the Lord that we are not suddenly consumed Lam. 3. 22. For giving you a time and space O tarry thou the Lords leasure be
the Lord did I make my supplication 2. I powred out my complaint before him and shewed him of my trouble 3. When my spirit was in heavinesse thou knewest my path 4. I looked also on my right hand and loe there was none to helpe me 5. I had no place to flie unto and none was able to deliver my Soule 6. I cryed unto thee and said thou art my hope and my portion in the Land of the Living O consider my complaint for I am brought very low 9. Bring my soule out of prison that I may give thankes unto thee which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the righteous resort unto my company Psal. 141.8 Mine eyes looke unto thee O Lord In thee is my trust O cast not out my soule Psal. 88. 1. O Lord God of my salvation I have cryed day and night before thee 2. O let my prayer come into thy presence Incline thine eare unto my calling 3. For my soule is full of trouble my life draweth nigh unto the Grave 9. Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out mine hands unto thee 10. Dost thou sher wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up againe and praise thee 11. Shall thy loving kindnesse bee shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12. Shall thy wonderfull workes be knowne in the darke or thy righteousnesse in the Land where all things are forgotten 13. Unto thee doe I crie Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14. Lord why abhorrest thou my soule and why hidest thou thy face from me 15. I am in misery and like unto him that is at the poynt to dye from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled minde 16. Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the feare of thee hath undone me Psal. 141. 1. Lord I will call upon thee haste thee unto me and consider my voyce when I cry unto thee 2. Let my prayer be set forth in thy presence as the incense let the lifting up of my hands bee as an evening sacrifice Psal. 79. 5. Lord how long will thou be angry for ever and shall thy Jealousy burne like fire 8. Oh remember not mine old sinnes but have mercy upon me for I am come to great misery 9. Help me O god of my salvation for the Glory of thy Name Oh deliver me and be mercifull unto my sinnes for thy names sake Psal. 143. 6. Lord I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul gapeth unto thee like a thirsty Land 7. Heare me O Lord and that soone for my spirit waxeth faint hide not thy face from me lest I become like unto them that goe downe into the silence Psal. 13. 1. How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me 2. How long shall I seek Counsel in my soule and be so vexed in my spirit how long shall mine enemies triumph over mee 3. Consider and heare me O God lighten mine Eyes that I sleepe not in death Psal. 30. 6. In my prosperity I said I shall never be removed thou Lord of thy goodnes had'st made my state so strong 7. Thou did'st turne away thy face from me and I was sore troubled 8. Then cryed I unto the Lord and gat me to my God right early 9. What profit is there in my blood if I goe downe into the pit Shal the dust give thanks unto thee or shal it declare thy truth 10. Heare me O Lord and have mercy upon me and be thou my helper Psal. 77. 1. I will cry unto the Lord with my voyce yea even unto God will I cry with my voyce and hee shall hearken unto me 2. In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not In the night season my soule refused Comfort 3. When I am in heavinesse I will thinke upon God when my heart is vexed I will complaine 4. Thou holdest mine eyes waking and I am so feeble that I can scarce speake 5. I have considered the dayes of old and the years that are past 6. I call to remembrance my songs and in the night I commune with mine owne heart and search out my spirits 7. Will the Lord absent hinselfe for ever and will he be no more intreated 8. Is his mercy cleane gone for ever is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore 9. Hath God forgotten to be Gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure 10. And I said it is mine owne infirmity but I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most High O God there is no strength in us neither doe we know what to do but onely we lift up our eyes unto thee 2. Chron. 20.12 O Lord how long wilt thou looke upon this This thou hast seene Lord hold not thy tongue then go not farre from me O God Psal. 35.17.22 Save me O God for the waters are come even unto my soule Psal. 69.1 Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him Psal. 68. 1. Lord it oppresseth me answer thou for me Esay 38. 14. Thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God Psa. 38.15 9. A Prayer to be used by the Minister O Lord it is a great presumption that one sinner should dare to cōmend another to thy divine Majesty especially the greater the lesse and who would not feare to undertake it but only that thy Commandement it is by thy holy Apostle when any is sick that the Minister should be called for that they should pray for the sick party and that their prayers thou wilt receive and save and forgive the sinnes of the party so prayed for And now behold O Lord we that are no way meete but unworthy utterly unworthy to sue for ought for ourselves charitie and compassion so binding us are enforced to become suitors to thee for others Even O Lord for this thy servant ready to depart this world To thee we hope to thee we desire to thee we intreat and pray in all meek manner and even from the bottom of our hearts O Lord that which justly thou mightest deny to our unworthinesse deny not we beseech thee to thine owne gracious goodnesse O Lord forgive us our sinnes our great and grievous sinnes oft and many times committed long and many yeares most wretchedly continued that so we may be meete to pray for others that so we may make our prayers unto thee in an acceptable time Graciously looke upon our afflictions pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sinnes of thy people Favourably with mercy heare our prayers Both now and ever vouchsafe to heare us O Christ Graciously heare us O Christ Graciously heare us O Lord Christ 10. A Letany to be used for the sicke OH God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon him or her keepe and defend him Oh God the Sonne Redeemer of the