any time since hee had his being he hath either thought or said or done amisse doe it away deare LORD as though it had never beene and drowne it for ever in the bottomelesse sea of thine owne mercy Thou hast promised by thy Prophet Isa. 44. 22. that thou wilt put away the transgressions of thy people like a cloud and their sins as a mist. Now we pray thee let the inflamed heate of thy everlasting love shed thorow the bloody wounds of thy Son and shining through the Sonne of righteousnesse upon his soule disperse and dissolve into nothing all his iniquities transgressions and sins Thou hast promised by thy Prophet Micah 7. 19. That thou wilt cast them all into the bottome of the Sea Now blessed LORD GOD we pray thee as that mighty host of Pharaoh sunke into the red Sea like a stone so that neither Sonne of man nor Sun of Heaven ever saw their faces any more so let all his sins bee swallowed up for ever in the red sea of CHRIST JESVS his blood that they never show their faces againe to his shame discomfort or confusion Thou hast told us with thine owne mouth that thou inhabitest eternity and dwells in the high and holy place and yet with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to give life to them that are of a contrite heart we humbly intreate thee for CHRIST JESUS his sake that thou wouldest make good this promise to this thy servant to the utmost sweetnesse and comfort thereof O blessed LORD GOD let thy glorious presence shine into his heart with all those sweet refreshings with which thou art wont to fill those happy soules which depart in thy favour and at peace with thee Let the pretious deservings and saving blood-shed of CHRIST JESVS appeare fresh unto the eye of his faith And let the blessed Angell ministring Spirits to thy chosen at thy appointed time carry his soule with peace and comfort into the bosome of thy glory O LORD he is now going the way of all flesh and his habitation is remooving from him like a Shepheards tent Helpe now LORD in this time of need Comfort him wee beseech thee with all the strength of Heaven Thou hast within the rich treasury of thy mercy thine own tender hearted bowells of compassions the unvaluable blood shed of thy deare Sonne the unutterable comforts of thy good Spirit the pretious promises of life and all the joyes of Heaven and he hath a poore soule that hungers and thirsts and longs for thy mercy and favour before all the world O LORD our GOD wee humbly pray thee crown that soule of his with them all Let thine own omnipotent hand encompasse him let the strong arme of the Sonne of GOD mightily protect him from all infernall power let the Spirit of all comfort raise in his heart those heavenly raptures and sweet exultations of spirit which are wont to fill the soules of them which are ready to lay hold upon a crowne of life let thy blessed Angels at thine owne time carry his soule into the bosome of Abraham there to raigne with thee in rest and joy thorow all eternity A Prayer in time of Plague O LORD our GOD remember us wee pray thee in mercy concerning that heavie and sore judgement of the Plague of Pestilence that fearefully walketh in darknesse and wasteth at noone day which thy just wrath hath kindled in the chiefe City of this Kingdome Wee pray thee good Father to blesse us with care and wisedome to meete thee now at first with truly remorsefull and repentant hearts both for our own personall sinnes and the crying abhominations of the times Let us seeke thee with fervency and truth in daies of humiliation and fasting and cry mightily unto thee that so turning al unto thee with unfained repentance and sincere resolution to amend thou maist in mercy heale our Kingdome and turne thine indignation away from us A Prayer in time of Plague MOst gratious GOD sith by thy good providence we are met together at this time solemely to humble our selves and afflict our soules in thy glorious presence and before thy pure eye we humbly beseech thee to give unto every one of us spirituall ability and the saving assistance of thy Holy Spirit that we may all doe it unfainedly fruitfully effectually in the name of JESVS CHRIST O Most mighty and blessed LORD GOD our ever loving Father in JESVS CHRIST We poore wretches thy unworthiest servants do heere humbly prostrate our selves our soules and bodies before thy Throne of grace acknowledging from our hearts that we are the vilest of all Thy Creatures by reason of our manifold and hainous sins we are defiled and polluted in every power and part both of body and soule to the very heart roote and from the beginning of our being we laid at first a bloudy foundation with Adam in Paradise which utterly undid all mankinde and had our hands in that horrible rebellion which brought all mischiefs and miseries all sinne and sorrow upon all the sonnes and daughters of Adam from the Creation to the end of the world yea and all those Hellish woes and tortures which shall lie upon damned soules everlastingly O LORD strike our hearts with remorse for This sin of which we take so little notice that we may bee humbled for it all the daies of our life Wee came into this world very sinkes of all impurity concupiscence and filth we brought with us understandings starke blinde in all heavenly things wills stubborne froward rebellious to every good word and worke Memory sinfull and defiled hard and stony hearts raging and bedlam passions earthly and sensuall thoughts and imaginations dead and guilty consciences eyes full of Adultery wantonnesse and wandrings eare open to all rotten and ribald talke tongues set on fire by hell hands full of iniquity feete ready to carry us to all manner of villany and vanity even bodies and soules ingrafted into the cursed communion of the Divell and wicked spirits by reason of that originall corruption and crookednesse which we drew from the loines of our sinfull Parents And this hereditary masse of naturall filth lurkt in our natures like venome and poison which made us odious and abominable in thy sight before wee were able to sin when wee had power to serve the Divell it broke out upon us into as many fearefull transgressions and abominable lusts as could possibly proceed from so empoysoned a fountaine And since that time good Lord thou knowest we have borne our selves like Traytors and rebells against thy holy Majesty we have actually transgrest all thy blessed Lawes and Commandements every manner of way in thought word and deed fearefully wounding our consciences greeving thy good spirit and treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath O Lord wee have grievously sinned against Thee by contempt of thy Word The crying sinne of this place by Atheisme ignorance profanenesse
owne glory out of the hands of thy creatures whosoever they be Glorifie thine owne selfe and refresh and cheere up thy children Prosper thy Gospell amongst us grant it a free and comfortable passage send it where it is not keepe and prosper it where it is let thy blessings ever follow it and thy mighty power uphold it Oppose thy selfe against them that oppose against it and let them know that it is thine owne glory that is in hand and that they set themselves against the mighty GOD of Heaven and Earth Disburden thy Church wee pray thee of all ignorant factious and scandalous Ministers and plant in their roomes men of care and conscience sensible of the great charge they have undertaken truly fearing thee and holding it their greatest comfort in this world to save the soules of men Blesse we pray thee our Prince and people Magistrates and Ministers all degrees and estates from the highest to the lowest Sanctifie and furnish every one of them with all needfull graces fit both for the faithfull discharge of those particular places wherein thou hast set them and that they may doe thee the best and utmost service they can possibly Direct and guide with the Spirit of wisedome all his Counsellors that they may chiefly and principally advise those things which may make for the advancement of thy glory and comfort of thy children Be mercifull to all Christian Families to this familie here present continue thy grace and mercy upon it and let thy loving kindnesse and comforts of salvation never depart from it Remember in mercy and love all mourners in Sion Comfort all those that are any waies afflicted binde up the broken and contrite heart with thy sweetest comforts Give strength and life of grace to those that are babes in CHRIST recover those that are fallen preserve those that stand uphold those that are declining continue all in their first love c. and increase in every one of them daily more and more christian resolution zeale and forwardnesse that they may glorifie thee in all their courses farre more then ever they have done heretofore Lastly we pray thee be mercifull to all those whom thou hast made in more speciall manner the instruments of thy goodnesse and favour unto us all that thou hast bound unto us with any bond of nature of friendship or any way made deare unto us Those who remember us in their prayers or commend themselves to our most unworthy supplications LORD we pray thee bee mercifull unto them let the light of thy countenance shine upon them put Religion thy feare and love every day more and more into their hearts and soules and let the comforts of godlinesse ever rest upon them And grant that wee may all with one minde heart and soule love feare reverence and glorifie thy great Name that so after a few daies spent religiously in this vaine and wretched world wee may live and raigne with thee everlastingly in the glorious and endlesse pleasures of the life to come Heare us c. Another Morning Prayer O LORD we beseech thee gratiously to accept this our Morning sacrifice of prayers and thankes-giving that we poore wretches offer unto thee the GOD of all glory and Majesty LORD take from us all dullnesse of heart all wicked and wandring thoughts put into our soules the spirit of prayer with affection zeale and fervency that wee may rightly and reverently call upon thy great and glorious Name O Eternall GOD most mighty and most fearefull which dwellest in the highest Heavens and with thy wise providence directest all things â—o an excellent end Thou which art to the wicked and rebellious wretches a terrible Judge and consuming fire but to the humble and repentant sinners a strong tower of defence and their everlasting reward We the unworthiest of all thy creatures though the most noble by Creation for they in their kindes and severall conditions doe thee honour and service but wee whom thou hast plac'd in this world for a more excellent glorifying of thee have not onely made our selves more vile then the basest creatures and more sencelesse in thy service then the beasts that perish but have even conspir'd with Hell Satan and all the powers of darknesse to blaspheme and dishonour thy great Name to profane thy Sabbaths to breake all thy holy Lawes and Commandements Wee O LORD thus wretched and unworthy are here ashamed and confounded in thy presence for our iniquities are increased over our heads and our trespasses are growen up unto the heaven and so grievous are they that if thou shouldest require but the least of them at our hands Satan would chalenge us for his and we should never see thy face againe nor the Heavens nor the Earth nor all the goodnesse which thou hast prepared for man The thoughts of our hearts rise up in judgement against us for whereas they should be meditating of thy mercies and goodnesse of honouring thee in our vocations whereas they should be knit fast unto thy blessed Word O LORD they are for the most part idle wicked entising and full of the corruption of our raging concupiscence The vanity of our talke condemneth us for whereas our words should be spent in defending thy honour and truth in reprehending the horrible sinnes of those amongst whom wee live in giving grace to those that heare us they are for the most part full of profanesse worldlinesse and lying The wickednesse of our deeds cry continually for vengeance and curses upon us for besides our many and grosse sins even our best actions are fearefully infected with privy pride and hypocrisie whereas they should wholy and principally bee directed to thy honour and glory they are fouly stained and corrupted with by-respects of credit pleasure or profit In hearing thy blessed Word which wee should count the very crowne and garland of all our delights we feele in our selves great want of due preparation reverent attention meditation and practise In our prayers that inestimable comfort of a regenerate soule wee are grievously vexed with dullnesse wearinesse and by-thoughts In all other good duties of obedience to thy holy Commandements we want that courage zeale and spirituall wisdome which those excellent mercies thou hast vouchsafed us require at our hands O LORD for thy great mercies sake forgive us these great sinnes When we looke upon the vilenesse of our soules by reason of these many transgressions we see nothing before our eyes but thy heavy wrath and everlasting curse the torments of hell and endlesse confusion but yet herein standeth our comfort wee know that to them which truly thirst after thy kingdome which is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the HOLY GHOST which faithfully desire to serve thee in sincerity though they bee encompassed with many weakenesses Thou art a Father of infinite mercies and everlasting compassions and wilt passe by many infirmities of thy deare children Wee humbly therefore beseech thee most gracious Father to bury all our
Prayer for a Familie O LORD our GOD we pray thee bee mercifull unto us stirre up we beseech thee our dull hearts out of a true sence of our sinnes and miseries and a lively faith in CHRIST JESVS and his pretious deservings to lift up our soules in prayers and praises unto thee O LORD how are we bound to magnifie thy great Name for all the loving kindnesse and great mercies vouchsafed us for preserving us this night past from the ills and dangers which no doubt have befallen many of our brethren as good by nature as our selves for refreshing our fraile bodies with quiet rest and sleepe and bringing us in health in strength and vigour of body to see the light of this day for that it hath pleased thee to reveale unto us the mysteries of godlinesse and some measure of saving truth which thou hast hid from many thousands of the greatest and wisest of the world For that thou hast preserv'd us from many fearefull transgressions and excesses of iniquity to which our corrupt nature would otherwise have led us For giving us the being of reasonable creatures and being borne in this blessed time and part of the world when and where thy glorious Gospell is on foot for the continuance of our health and strength of body for the usefullnesse and vigour of the powers of our soules and sences of which for abusing them we have deserv'd ere this to have beene fearefully deprived For our ingenuous and godly education for our Christian company and good counsell we have many times by thy mercies enjoyed For thy Word and Sacraments the glorious meanes of our conversion and continuance in grace For many gracious mercies by which thou hast laboured gently and fairely to draw us unto thee For those judgements which thou hast sent to humble us and to bring us to repentance For the inlarging of our time for storing our selves with Grace and comfort against the day of our visitation For our freedome from many miseries crosses and vexations which befall other our brethren better then our selves For that it hath pleased thee by thine everlasting decree out of thine owne boundlesse goodnesse and blessed pleasure to save us from many thousand others which perish everlastingly and to make us heires of endlesse happinesse as we are verily perswaded in the world to come For preventing and following us with thy saving graces O LORD we pray thee to open our eyes daily more and more to see and acknowledge these thy great and undeserved mercies upon us and to enlarge our hearts sincerely and feelingly to magnifie thy great Name for the same And as wee humbly intreate thee upon the knees of our soules for pardon and remission of all other sinnes so especially for our monstrous and harefull ingratitude for thy great and many mercies towards us most wicked and sinfull creatures We are ashamed and confounded that so much favour and mercy and long forbearance should bee extended to such rebellious and carnall wretches as we are For besides that naturall pollution we drew from the loines of our sinnefull parents wee have heapt up a great measure of actuall sinnes since we had the use and exercise of reason and power and ability to sinne O LORD our GOD wee humbly beseech thee to give us a full sight of them all and a true sence of thy great wrath indignation against them Let us have remorse and compunction in our hearts and consciences for them all in our affections a perfect hate and detestation of the least corruptions and infirmities And bee thou pleas'd gracious Father thorowly to purge and wash our soules with the precious blood of thy deare Sonne deliver us quite wee beseech thee from the guilt horrour and damnation due unto them And grant that hereafter wee may walke conscionably and carefully in all our waies that we suffer no more our poore soules to bee stained with these foule pollutions we have formerly delighted in Wee confesse and acknowledge to our shame and confusion that wee have many times vowed betwixt thee and our owne soules that wee would watch more carefully over our owne hearts least they should breed and nourish profane idle and wandering thoughts and imaginations over ourtalke least wee should offend with our tongue that wee would be more zealous and faithfull in the duties of our calling in sanctifying thy Sabbaths receiving thy Sacraments hearing thy Word in Christian conference company meditation and all other holy duties but alas all these good purposes have beene but as the morning dew we have even in short time broken our vowes growne cold againe dull and formall to the much greefe of thy good Spirit and discomfort of our owne soules Now LORD wee pray thee deale mercifully with us in this point forgive our many frailties and infirmities herein and at length thorowly sanctifie us draw our affections from the false glory and sinfull pleasures of this vaine world and fasten them there where true sound and lasting comfort is to be enjoyed Give us wise and understanding hearts that we may see and perceive those things that belong to thy glory and the salvation of our own soules and sanctified wills and holy affections to follow and pursue them with all earnestnesse zeale and fervency of spirit Let us even this day get some ground against Satan and forwardnesse in the course of Sanctification Let us store our selves with some new godly purposes and holy resolutions to doe thy will and keepe thy righteous commandements Fill our hearts daily more and more with all saving graces and the virtues of CHRIST JESVS Cause us perpetually to keepe in minde and consider that we are but as pilgrims and strangers here in this world that wee must shortly depart hence and never returne againe but presently come to judgement and receive an everlasting reward according to our workes Weaken wee beseech thee daily more and more the power of sinne in us let us feele it decay and loose its hold and haunt in us and strengthen in us the power of grace the new man and all spirituall comforts Neither pray wee for our selves onely but for all thy deare children fellow heires with us of everlasting happinesse in what part of the world soever they be LORD we pray thee to be continually present with them with all thy comforts and mercies let thy good Spirit leade them into all truth let the wings of thy providence and protection stretch over them all And such as yet lie in profanesse and under the shadow of death hasten their conversion reveale unto them the glorious comforts of grace and let the powers of darknesse hold them no longer LORD be mercifull unto this sinnefull Kingdome wherein we live and enter not into judgement with the horrible rebellions and fearefull abominations thereof Stay the rage of prophanesse that fearefully overflowes in all places to thy great dishonour and griefe of thy children Stop the crying sinnes of the time and recover thine
as those whom the Plague hath consumed Wee beseech thee make us wise by their afflictions and so informe us in thy feare that we may frame the rest of our life in all holy obedience according to thy will Lastly most gracious LORD wee humbly beseech thee to take us this day under the shadow of thy wings Let thy Omnipotency be a brazen wall unto us let thy mighty hand and stretched out arme encompasse us let thy carefull providence watch over us and thy blessed Angels pitch about us And sith wee now enter into the affaires of this day let not we beseech thee the delights benefits and honours of this life ensnare our soules or make a breach into our consciences for these weake and carnall comforts will never follow us unto the darke places but when wee shall sit downe in the dust and say unto corruption thou art our father and to the worme thou art our mother and sister then they will all leave us nay they will turne to worme-wood and bitternesse Sanctifie we beseech thee our thoughts knit them fast unto thy holy Word and the necessary businesses of our vocation Keepe we pray thee in a sanctified moderation all the affections of our hearts and stirre our passions that none of them breake out upon us either to dishonour thy Majesty disquiet our owne consciences or disgrace our Christian carriage Let all our words be seasoned with grace religion and charity Let every action into which we shall enter this day or ever hereafter be just and lawfull and in them blesse us with sincerity of heart with a godly end and good meanes O LORD we beseech thee give us the spirit of judgement that wee may discerne betweene the short span of this wretched life and the length and breadth of immortality that wee never esteeme the pleasures of sinne for a moment before eternall and everlasting joyes but even count the best things of this world as dung as vanity and nothing nay as worse then vanity and lesse then nothing for the winning of CHRIST JESVS and that excellent waight of glory laid up in Heaven for all thy servants Worke in our hearts wee beseech thee a perfect detestation even of our sweetest and lest sinnes let us ever looke upon them in their true nature and greatest ouglinesse as accompanied with thy heavie displeasure and fearefullest judgements that wee may loath them as a Serpent and so cease for ever to offend thee in them And whereas wee are every day afresh to enter combat not with flesh and blood but with the Prince of darknesse the rulers of the ayer the spirituall craftinesse and pollicies of hell vouchsafe us wee beseech thee the compleate armour of true Christians The brest-plate of righteousnesse the helmet of salvation the sword of the Spirit but above all the shield of faith that wee may manfully fight against our corruptions that we may quench all the fiery darts of Satan tread the malicious Serpent under our feete and at our last and greatest fight in godly triumph and through the might and merits of our Captaine JESVS CHRIST may say with gladnesse and joy O death where is thy sting O hell where is thy victory And in the meane time for as much as every day wee step neerer our grave and approach neerer unto thy presence and that great and fearefull judgement before thy throne even for our idle words and wandring thoughts give unto us we beseech thee every day a new grace a new strength in the course of regeneration more full assurance of the remission of our sins till with a wise heart we have such a feeling of the glory of GOD and of eternall life that wee make up our account with the world and bee at a point with all that is under the Sun And sith at that day we must answer not onely for the sinnes of our owne persons but for many sins of those that depend upon us if we labour not to bring them unto GOD for sinnes committed by our ill example for sinnes that we have seene and heard in others and have not grieved religiously reprehended them LORD we beseech thee give us an exact and precise care over all our waies over our generall calling of Christianity and those particular callings wherein thou hast placed us And let us never be hindered or discouraged in any good thing by the profane and malicious reproaches of wicked and carnall men and the many oppositions of Satan and the rather because to us it is a blessed marke that we are translated out of darknesse into light and that we will not runne with them unto the same excesse of ryot but to them it is a token of perdition For why should we good LORD for the vaine and unjust censures of mortall wretches turne from thee for this little inch of time and hereafter receive everlasting confusion A Generall forme of Prayers and praise LORD prepare our dull and unprepared soules to powre out our petitions with humility zeale and reverence unto thy great Majesty LORD make our hearts as mountaines of myrrhe and Incense to send up prayses and thankes-giving to the Sanctuary where thy honour dwelleth MOst mighty and most glorious God thou that inhabitest eternity and dwellest in the light that no man can attaine unto at whose terrible presence the mountaines melt away and the Angels hide their faces yet our most gracious and mercifull Father in CHRIST JESVS vouchsafing from the height of Heaven to looke upon us vile wormes and dust with the eye of tender compassion wee thy wretched and sinnefull servants heires of corruption children of wrath sonnes of disobedience doe in the name and mediation of thy deare Sonne our blessed Saviour prostrate our selves before thy throne of grace and mercy-seate begging and craving at thy hands pardon and remission for all our sins LORD they are most grievous and manifold most horrible and intollerable To the originall corruption of our sinfull nature wherein we were conceived we have added all kindes of actuall transgressions All the time before our calling wee gave our selves to wantonnesse to worke all uncleannesse even with greedinesse we drunke up sinnes like water and fed upon iniquity as the horse-leach on corrupt bloods we drew iniquitie with cords of vanity and sinne as with cart-ropes All our thoughts words and deeds were menstruous filthy and abhominable nothing but a slavish service of the world the flesh and the divell since our calling when we should have beene most pure sincere and sanctified we have sinned grievously although not notorious to the world yet horribly before thine eyes in privy pride hypocrisie dullnesse security want of zeale and forwardnesse in thy service nay LORD we have had many fearefull backslidings into our grossest sinnes c. so that now they are become as many in number as the Starres in Heaven as great as the mountaines as red as scarlet for CHRIST JESVS his sake for thy infinite mercies sake and for
strive after saving grace the power of religion and true godlinesse that so for a few and evill daies we stand wisely and resolutely for thy honour and truth and with comfort and courage running the race of sanctification may bee provided and furnished with assurance of glory clearenesse of conscience strength of faith against the day of our visitation that when we shall lie downe upon our deaths-bed and wee know not how soone we may be able to meete with the fearefull temptations of our sinnefull flesh the fiery darts of Satan to encounter with the pangs of death and terrours of the grave and so passe with joyfullnesse and triumph to those glorious mansions of light and blessed immortality with thee in the highest heavens Lastly Gracious Father for this present holy businesse we have now in hand we humbly beseech thee to let thy blessings bee mightily upon thy Word at this time that it may pierce and enter through to the dividing asunder of the soule and the spirit of the joynts and the marrow and to discover the very thoughts and intents of the heart Keepe we pray thee out of our hearts and heads all troubles cares wandrings humours passions prejudice distractions deadnesse or whatsoever other cursed let shall be suggested by the divell or our owne wicked hearts So sanctifie unto our soules this holy ordinance of thine that we may handle and heare it with all feeling power and reverence as the Word of thee the true and everliving GOD and as that by which we must be judged at that last dreadfull day Make it to be a Word of conversion and enlargement to all them that are yet in the snares of the divell waies of death but of strengthening encouragement and comfort to those that are already thine that so by thy mercifull blessing it may prove unto every one of us the savour of life unto life and thy mighty power unto us for salvation and that for the LORD CHRIST JESVS his sake In whose glorious Name and mediation we beg these and all other needfull blessings concluding in his owne prayer Our Father c. O LORD heare us in these our weake requests and grant them unto us and all other things necessary for us for our bodies our soules our callings or this present action and for every member of thy Church wee beg them all in the name and mediation of CHRIST JESVS thy Sonne and our onely SAVIOVR to whom with thee and the holy Spirit be all praise and power and might and dominion and thankesgiving ascribed at this time and evermore hereafter Amen BLessed are all they that heare the Word of GOD beleeve it and doe it The grace of our LORD JESVS CHRIST and the love of GOD the Father in him and the most comfortable fellowship helpe and communion of GOD the HOLY GHOST be with us all blesse us preserve us and keepe us and every member of his Church in faith a good quiet and peaceable conscience the rest of this day and evermore hereafter Grace before meate LORD GOD who hast created all things for the use and comfort of man and man for thy owne glory Make we beseech thee these thy creatures wholesome for our bodies and us thankfull for them for CHRIST JESVS his sake A Prayer before Sermon MOst holy and righteous LORD GOD we humbly and heartily thanke thee for our preservation this night past pardon wee beseech thee unto us the sinnes thereof And now prepare and sanctifie us for a right and comfortable serving of thee in this morning sacrifice and holy duties we take in hand Illighten our mindes and inlarge our hearts by thine owne good Spirit that wee may rightly conceive of the great mystery of grace and true meaning of thy holy Word that we treasure it up in our memories with an holy greedinesse and after walke by the strength thereof with all fruitfullnesse and power in all thy waies all the daies of our life and that for thy CHRIST his sake A Prayer after Sermon O LORD our GOD thou clearely seest and beholdest from Heaven what hearts we now bring into thy glorious presence from the businesse of this day how full of earthlinesse deadnesse listlesnesse and unfitnesse to speake unto thee Wee pray thee for CHRIST his sake to possesse quicken and sanctifie them by thy blessed Spirit that they may bee ever feeling and fruitfull in these holy exercises Make us every day more and more wise with all thy Saints and elect children unto our eternall salvation in the right understanding beleeving and obeying of thy blessed Word and great mystery of godlinesse in JESVS CHRIST our LORD An Evening Prayer most usefull in time of warre or invasion O LORD our GOD high and mighty great and fearefull which dwellest in the highest Heavens and light that no man can attaine unto which by thy great power hast created Heaven and Earth and all things therein contained and by thy wise providence directest every thing unto an excellent end If thou shouldest deale with us in justice wee deserve to bee plagued with all the horrible and fearefull plagues of Egypt in this world and hereafter to be perpetually damned both in body and soule in the lake of hell fier where there is nothing but endlesse woe weeping and gnashiâ—g of teeth If there bee any sinne we have not committed it was because we wanted meanes opportunity enticement temptation or something not for want of a sinfull disposition in us If thou shouldest deale with us as we have dealt with thee wee should bee presently damned eternally If thou shouldest be as carelesse of us as we have beene of thee and the salvation of our soules we should never see thy face in Heaven O LORD fright our heart with a true sight and sence of all our sins O LORD perswade our hearts that since thou didst not curse and damne us when we lay wallowing in horrible sinnes thou wilt not now cast us away when wee are converted c. Thou wilt rather pitty us for our infirmities then condemne us for them Perswade our soules by that good experience we have had of thy goodnesse that thou wilt be our GOD for ever Let us not so much feare and abhorre the punishment and guilt of sin but also the power and tyranny whereby we are enforced to offend so loving and so gracious a Father Give us soundnesse of knowledge purity of heart holinesse of life contempt of the world conquest over our sinnes the comforts of thy blessed Spirit a joyfull expectation of our deliverance from sin and sorrow The spirit of meeknesse and wisedome the spirit of courage and constancy the spirit of love and joy and of a sound mind Let us be just in our dealings conscionable in our callings mercifull courteous Let us so comprehend the glorious state to come that we may bee willing to bee dissolved and to bee with CHRIST LORD grant that in the middest of a darke world we may see the
brightnesse of thy Heavenly Kingdome and in this weake tabernacle of small continuance we may know the dwelling place which wee shall have for ever in the resurrection of the just Thou that hast the issues of death in thy hand I beseech thee in mercy set before mine eyes alwaies the remembrance of thy judgement seate and my last end whereby I may be daily stirred up to consider in what great danger I stand through the horrible punishments due unto my sins Set before us the shortnesse of our owne life the vanity of all things we enjoy the excellent waight of glory prepared for all those that love thee the plagues of the wicked that great account we must make at our death that great and terrible day that having these things in our sight wee may not put our hands to any iniquity O LORD at this time goe out with the Armies of thy Saints and that fight thy battells in the whole Christian world Pardon we pray thee and passe by all their and our sinnes Helpe us to repent to renew covenant with thee and to feare before thee that they may more cheerefully couragiously and successively defend their righteous cause But infatuate we beseech thee the counsells and strike faintnesse into the heart of al them that lift their hearts or swords against the kingdome of Jesus Christ. And now find out and call to account the blasphemies idolatries cruelties and insolencies of thine and our adversaries and all the blood of the Martyrs of JESVS CHRIST which they have spilt as water upon the ground And if they will not returne unto thee returne it now O LORD GOD of recompences into their bosomes in fury and in jealousie Make them like a wheele c. Psal. 83. 13. Thou hast promised ever to helpe thy people in the needfull time of trouble even now LORD is the season for thy succour And therefore we pray thee for JESVS CHRIST his sake to stirre up thy selfe like a man of warre against all those boisterous and railing Rabsakees that band and combine themselves to put out the glory of Israels or any of thine anointed And give us LORD in the meane time pittifull compassionate and fellow-feeling hearts over the wofull calamities and miseries of thy people in these parts that we may powre out our hearts more fervently unto thee and give thee no rest untill for thine owne names sake thou become glorious in giving deliverance and victory unto thy poore humble servants that trust in thee alone and call upon thy name O LORD of Hosts GOD of Israel which dwellest betweene the Cherubims thou art very GOD alone over all the kingdomes of the earth thou hast made the Heavens and the Earth Encline thine eares O LORD and heare Open thine eyes O LORD and see the blasphemies and bloody desolations which thine and our enemies have cruelly brought upon thine owne people O LORD put on the garments of thy just indignation for clothing O LORD tread downe our enemies in thy wrath and make them drunken in thine indignation and bring downe their strength to the earth O LORD we are all as an uncleane thing and all our righteousnesse as filthy rags and wee all do fade as a leafe and our iniquities like the winde have taken us away Rise up O LORD and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before thee Returne O LORD to the many thousands of Israel Numb 10. 35. Let thy people eate up the Nations their enemies and bruise their bones and shoote them through with their arrowes Numb 24. 8. That in our songs of praise and solemne thankes giving hereafter thy whole Church may joyfully sing and say It was not our owne arme or our own sword O Lord God of Hoasts that did save us but thy right hand and thy holy arme and the light of thy countenance because thou didst favour them Psal. 44. 3. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us deale with us according to thy Name for our rebellions are many we have sinned against thee O thou hope and holy one of Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble why art thou as a stranger in the Land as one that passeth by to tarry for a night c. Ier. 14. 9. See Daniels Prayer Dan. 9. 4. c. O Lord God destroy not the people of thine inheritance O Lord our God thou art God of gods and Lord of lords a great God mighty and terrible which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward c. Deut. 10. 17. c. with all reverence and lowlinesse of spirit we acknowledge adore and onely rely upon thy greatnesse thy mighty hand and stretched out arme Deut. 11. 2. And finally we most humbly thanke thee for that it hath pleased thee to keepe us this day and all the daies and times of our lives beseeching thee that thou wouldest receive us this night into thy holy keeping that we may have quiet rest not of bodies alone but of our bodies also resting from all those things that are contrary to thy most holy will attending whilst thou raisest us up in the morning to doe all those things that thou hast appointed us Grant that we laying our bodies downe to rest may be thereby put in mind of our long rest of death that as we do now lay downe our bodies in bed so we may be thereby admonished that hereafter they shall bee laid downe in the grave to be consumed to dust earth and ashes from whence they were taken that we having this before our eyes may bee stirred up in mind warily to walke in this our pilgrimage not knowing when the time shall be of our departure but alwaies to be found ready with our lamps of pure faith clearely burning that we may be accepted to meere the Bridegroome when our Saviour shall call us to judgement at the last day LORD we deserve that thou shouldst leave us to the vilenesse of our owne hearts and to the corruptions we nourish in them and sith wee have so often neglected and abused those good meanes which thou hast ordained for our comfort and salvation wee even deserve that thou shouldest take them quite from us or turne them to be curses unto us we deserve that thou shouldest say to the ignorant be ignorant still to the filthy be filthy still to the malicious be malicious still c. till we have fild up the measure of our iniquiries so that at length thou mightest have a full stroke at our destruction c. The Preachers Prayer GRant that thy Word may bee delivered according to the true meaning of thy Word as it is left unto us by thy holy Prophets and Apostles that it may be divided with conscience wisdome and discretion with all plainenesse and evidence to the capacity of those that are most simple amongst us And blesse we beseech thee our conceptions and memories that we conceive a right use of those things that shall be delivered
unbeliefe distrust of thy providence carnall security pride hypocrisie By fearelissnesse and forgetfullnesse of thy great Majesty Love of this world and putting from us the evill day by impatiency discontent inward Idolatry in preferring some Creature before the mighty LORD of Heaven and Earth By the grosse neglect or wicked abuse of all the parts and kinde of thy Divine Worship Pretious and powerfull are those heavenly Ordâ—nances of thine Thy Word preached or read prayer meditation conference vowes fasting use of good bookes good company and the like some of those have been utterly neglected by us others quite mard by formality and sloth We have highly dishonoured thy Majesty by taking thy great name in vaine in want of due esteeme and an holy use of thy Titles Attributes Ordinances Creatures Workes of justice and mercy abroad in the world We have fearefully polluted thy Sabboths and profaned all thy Ordinances upon those blessed daies And as we have thus wickedly neglected thy Worship and Service in the first place so wee have beene justly given over to beare our selves wretchedly and unworthily towards our brethren we have behaved our selves unthankfully to our Superiours proudly to our Equals unmercifully to our Inferiours Though it may bee we have kept our hand from the grosse act of murder yet LORD thou know'st our tongues have beene swords and our hearts full of blood We have beene defiled with all manner of abominable lusts in our inward parts Our noble spirits that can never die have been basely chained downe to the earth and kept in a wicked and dunghill slavery and bondage to the world and worldly things In our tongues we have beene guilty of a world of wickednesse But above all our hearts have beene restlesse fountaines of all ill innumerable litters and swarmes of vaine vile filthy Thoughts affections and desires have continually bred in them very thorough-faires have they beene for Satans impure suggestions to walke up and downe in in regard of malicious thoughts very slaughter-houses in regard of uncleane lusts very stewes and brothel-houses in regard of the heate of boyling concupiscence very hot-houses and as the Prophet Hos. 7. 4. speakes like a bakers Oven And LORD our GOD these are but the heads of our sins The branches streames and particulars are infinite able to sinke us into the bottome of ten thousand hells And that which makes our sinnes a great deale more sinfull wee have wretchedly and stubbornely committed them against many meanes of sanctification against the ministery of thy Word against many Sermons and gratious invitations against the motions of thy Spirit the checks of our conscience the light of our knowledge against our vowes and promises Thy many fatherly corrections great mercies and miraculous patience Good LORD wee beseech thee to open our eyes that wee may see the length and breadth the height and depth of this our wofull misery The least of all our sins without repentance may justly bring upon us all manner of plagues and judgements in this world dispaire and horror upon our beds of death and everlasting misery and torment in the world to come What height of horror then and depth of hell doe all our fearefull pollutions and provocations all our life long deserve at thine hands Now good LORD our GOD helpe us and for the blood of CHRIST give unto every one of us before thee this day true and saving repentance unfained godly sorrow for them all Let them all now come into our mindes and be represented to the eye of our conscience as so many fiery Scorpions out of which except we take as it were the stings by turning from them while it is called to day they will sting hereafter with everlasting horrour Let us looke upon them as upon so many foule feinds sin made the glorious Angels damned spirits how foule then doe they make us who are sons and daughters of Adam Let us behold them as so many foule and bloody instruments of CHRIST his death and cruell cut-throats to our owne soules c. Let us cast our eye also upon thy pure eye and infinite indignation against sin by considering how in thy fierce wrath thou threwest downe so many glorious Creatures from Heaven How thou cast Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit out of Paradise drownedst the whole world Cursedst Sodome and Gomorrah as it were with hellish flame upon earth into ashes cast off thine owne people who had beene so deare unto thee puts sometimes a guilty enraged conscience even into an hell above ground and hast created and provided the never dying worme and unquenchable fire even all the torments in hell for impenitent sinners O LORD let these considerations of the foulenesse of our sinnes and the fearefullnesse of the curse due thereunto but above all the beholding of JESVS CHRIST dying and bleeding upon the crosse make every one of our hearts to breake and burst and bleede within us for them all That wee may heartily and abundantly mourne over him whom wee have pierced with them And then most mercifull Father we humbly beseech thee be graciously pleased to open upon us the blessed fountaine for sin and for uncleanenesse even the blood of that Immaculate Lambe JESVS CHRIST the holy and the Righteous Breake thine own sweete Name which is to forgive iniquity transgression and sin as a sweete perfume upon our broken hearts and let our poore soules cast themselves for ever with a lively and fruitfull faith into the armes of JESVS CHRIST for everlasting safety and for ever cleave to all the promises in thy blessed Booke as to the surest Rocke and let the soundnesse of the Truth of this our cleaving unto Christ be hereafter testified and manifested by an hearty abandoning of all sin by all the workes of piety justice mercy and truth by a sincere respect to all thy Commandements by a fruitfull partaking of all thy Holy Ordinances by a spirituall performance of all Christian Duties by a constant growing in all heavenly graces and comfortable going on in the path that is called Holy unto our dying Day And LORD our GOD we being thus sincerely humbled truly comforted and reconciled unto thee in the face of Christ we humbly beseech thee to enable us by thy might to cry mightily unto thee for pardon and reformation of the sins of this Kingdome which are many and hainous and have provoked thee many a yeare and to prevaile with Thee in Christs Name for favour and mercy upon all our deare brethren and sisters that are now groaning under thy visiting hand Good LORD wee beseech thee upon this occasion and blessed opportunity strike through the heart of every one in this land with a true remorse and godly sorrow both for his owne personall sins and all the crying abominations of the time That so we all turning unto thee with unfained repentance and sincere resolution to amend thou mayest in mercy command thine Angell to cease from striking heale our land and
thorowly even to the bottome of my heart and beginning of my being for besides that I came into this world loaden with an heavie burden and confused Babell of crookednesse and corruption in every part both of soule and body thou knowest what a cursed confluence of all manner of pollutions filthinesse uncleanenesse strange abomination abominable lusts and every villanous corruption that is wont to spring out of our impoysoned nature made my poore soule a very sinke and Sodom before I was converted Reckon up here unto GOD particulars out of abundance of feeling with a plentifull and sincere confession and then goe on Thus O LORD thou knowest when thou very mercifully at the first didst call and knocke at my heart by the Ministery of thy Word with what stubbornenesse reluctancy and delaies I withstood the worke of thy blessed Spirit for the salvation of my owne poore soule How loath I was to open the eyes of my understanding to let in the heavenly light of that holy truth which onely could make mee gracious here and glorious in thy Kingdome hereafter And when thou hadst something conquered the hardnesse of my heart so that in some measure I saw the hatefullnesse of my sin and felt the horror of thy wrath for them O LORD thou knowest I did not so grieve sorrow and take on as so great and grievous a sinner ought to have done I did not mourne for them as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo I was not sorry for them as one is sorry for his first borne I was not throwne downe into the dust and into the place of Dragons and into that depth of humiliation which the villany and variety of my many most horrible transgressions farre as much as the sins of the vilest wretch that ever lived upon earth required at my hands Nay and when after the sence and acknowledgement of my vile and damnable estate I saw the blood and merits of my blessed Redeemer to be the onely meanes to save me from out of hell I did not feele in my selfe that hunger and thirst that panting and longing those groanes supplications and strong cries for that soveraigne and saving Plaister to heale my wounded soule as mine owne misery and the excellency of my CHRIST should have moov'd me unto And when at length it pleased thee upon thy owne free mercy to offer unto my sorrowfull and sinnefull soule thy deare Son and all his pretious sufferings my unbeleeving and naughty heart did not embrace and lay hold upon him with that fastnesse and faithfullnes as the certainty of thy promises the truth and sweetnesse of thy mercy most plentifully revealed in thy Word doe straitly enjoyne mee Thus LORD even every step of my passage out of nature into Grace out of corruption into Christianity and the snares of the divell into the kingdome of Christ was as thou knowest fearefully hindred with the hardnesse of my own corrupt heart and fowly polluted with the lusts and rebellions of my sinfull nature Nay and that which grieves me the most and should justly make my heart even to bleede within me since I gave my name unto religion came into the communion of Saints and entred the waies of new obedience I have beene dragd back by the cruell pollicie of Satan and the accustomed yeeldingnesse of my sensuall dispositions into some vile and hatefull abominations of the daies of my vanity and time of unregeneration and also overtaken with some new knowne scandalous sins to the grieving of thy good Spirit the grievous wounding of my conscience and the disgracing of my profession I have beene very slack and slow and faint-hearted in promoting thy glory furthering good causes and performing holy duties I have beene very dull and cold cowardly and formall in all the waies of godlines and my Christian warfare in respect of many Christians who have not neere beene so great sinners before they were converted or receiv'd the thousand part of those favours from thee as I have done I have beene too heavie heartlesse and uncomfortable in my profession conferences godly exercises and practises of grace I have not so rejoyced as I ought in all the good things which thou hast done for me I have not walked so cheerefully towards a crowne of life as formerly towards the damnation of hell Nay LORD and even in those things wherein I should have the greatest comfort when I examine my naughty and deceitfull heart I finde nothing but confusion of face Even my prayers hearing and reading the Word receiving the Sacrament meditations conferences c. are so mingled with temptations worldly thoughts by-respects deadnesse and drowsinesse of spirit so mard with privie pride and secret hypocrisie that I cannot remember them without griefe of heart neither dare I thinke upon them without prayer for the pardon of their imperfections I finde great matter of humiliation in the best of them and I know thou mightest there also finde much matter of damnation if thou shouldest deale with me as I have deserved O LORD my GOD this is my state nay and indeed a thousand times worse and more wofull yet then I or the tongue of an Angell can make it And I have nothing in the world to say for my selfe I have none to goe unto either in Heaven or in Earth but onely to intreate my blessed Redeemer to speake unto thee in my behalfe to make intercession for me with his glorious merits and pretious blood-shed and to flee unto those melting bowells of thy Fatherly compassions and tender-heartednesse with which thou art wont to meete and fall upon the neck of every humbled sorrowfull and broken-hearted sinner I do therefore beseech thee mercifull LORD upon the bowed knees of my sin-grieved heart to pardon and put away all my many horrible hainous and abominable sins in the pretious blood of thine own deare Son It is onely the pretious blood of that spotlesse Lambe which hath power and force to turne the deepest staine of scarlet and crimson sins into the whitenesse of snow wooll And there was never poore sinfull wretch had more need of the multitude of thy mercies and abundance of that saving blood to doe away the multitude of my sins and to wash purge and rinze my filthy and polluted soule I pray thee therfore for Christ Jesus his sake for thy holy names sake for thine infinite mercies sake and for thine own Covenants sake to make good unto me the true sweetnesse utmost comfort of all those gracious promises of life which ere flowed from thy free mercy through the Passion of thy Son upon any poore soule who sought thee with truth of heart truly lov'd the glory of thy name I strangely deceive mine owne heart if I doe not hunger and thirst for thy favour and pleased countenance more then for all the treasures of the earth the glory of the whole world Make mine heart I pray thee as thou wouldst have it and then
be a Sun shield unto it and crowne it with al the comforts of Heaven as thou hast promised then seale unto it for ever the sure mercies of David the salvations of the life to come And I beseech thee also to be so loving and mercifull to my longing spirit so tender-hearted and kinde to my trembling heart that I may feele in my conscience the sprinkling of the blood of thy Son for the appeasing of it that my poore soule may sensibly know what great things thou hast done for it and that thou art reconciled unto it for ever in Christ Jesus Above all things fill my heart with the joyfull feeling of thy mercies in the pardon of my sins that so my quieted soule may sweetly sleepe and solace it selfe everlastingly in that peace which passeth all understanding and in the bosome of thy compassions And for the time to come I pray thee to help me more and more to renew increase my repeÌ„tance to better inlarge my obedience and put to thine owne holy hand to strengthen every grace thou hast given me O Lord my God I could never yet get neere that hand hatred over my sins as I have infinitely desired I beseech thee now at length let mee feele thy speciall comfortable power mightily assisting me in this holy businesse The sins of my youth have beene most hatefull execrable and abominable both to God and man nay and I have been guilty of many horrible villanies which have beene only knowne to thy All-seeing eye and mine owne corrupt conscience I pray thee blessed Lord for thy Christ his sake to worke in my heart godly sorrow true loathing sound repentance and humiliation for them all in some good measure answerable and proportionable to their heighnousnesse and excesse Oh grant mee that happinesse that I may look back upon all those fowle pollutions and sinfull vanities of my unregenerate time without either sensuall delight or slavish horror even with a sincere hatred and heavie mourning Let me see them without any despairefull feare being assured they are done away with the blood of thy Son as though they had never been without any secret delight lest I renew and multiply their guilt grievousnes upon my poore soule which they have too fearefully wounded already And Lord I pray thee also put quickning life power and feeling into my heart and affections in the performance of every holy duty which is the very heart and soule of a pleasing sacrifice and service unto thee Increase in me an holy feare reverence respect to all thy Commandements Cause and continue in me a sincere universall and constant obedience unto them all that not from any slavish feare private end or by-respect but for conscience sake a soule-like feare of thee and love of thy glory And if at any time as it is ordinary with Gods children it shall please thee to exercise me with any crosse disgrace slander discouÌ„tenance losse of goods disease of body terror of soule or the like I pray thee ever sweeten sanctifie them unto mee by thy blessing grant that I may ever obediently with all peace of heart patience of spirit submit to thy will wisedome therein being fully assured that to me which am in Christ the sting curse and poyson of them is most certainely pulled out by the Passion of thy Son And resting ever upon thy sweet pretious promises that thou having given me Christ Jesus will never deny me any truly needfull and and comfortable thing while the world stands And that all things even the rage of Satan the malice of men the miseries of this life nay even the sins of my soule in an holy sence by thy blessings shall turne unto my everlasting good Add I pray thee daily more and more strength and life and new degrees unto all these graces which it hath pleased thee in some measure to plant in my soule of thy owne free mercy and for the mediation of thy Son Increase my knowledge in the great mystery of grace my reliance and trust in thee as one most powerfull mercifull and true my hope and patient expectation of thy presence and assistance in all things that are to come my love of thee thy Word thy children and all things that belong unto thee my zeale courage for thy glory and truth good causes and good men feare of thy great name humblenesse and lowlinesse of minde The Spirit and power of Prayer Patience and contentednesse in all troubles and trials c. or what other holy virtue thou hast in great mercy vouchsafed unto me Grant I pray thee and give me grace to imploy and improove them all to the utmost for the best advantage in procuring thee glory good unto thy Church and comfort unto mine owne soule Blesse I pray thee and be mercifull to all creatures and to the whole world Draw if it be thy blessed pleasure Turks Infidels Jewes to the light and acknowledgement of thy saving truth and the salvation of their soules Blesse our King specially and principally and all his Dominions Roote out of them wee pray thee all ignorance profanesse popery pride oppressions and all the workes of the divell Purge we humbly and earnestly beseech thee this Church and Kingdome wherein wee live and that mightily and speedily from all disorders sedition faction corruptions which any way dishonour thy Majesty vex thy children or hinder a free and glorious passage of the Gospell of thy Sonne Blesse the people committed to my charge my owne Family my friends my goods house cattell and all things that any waies belong unto mee Remember I beseech thee with speciall love and tender-heartednesse all thy deare children whersoever they be especially those who desire my prayers for them and have made the troubles of their soules knowne unto me I pray thee for thy Christ his sake let them fare the better for the poore prayers of thy weake and unworthy servant Gratious Lord I praise and magnifie from the ground and bottome of my heart thy glorious name and the sweetnesse of thy mercy for that golden chaine of comfortable providence which thy mercifull hand hath linkt together for my good ever since I was borne Thou gavest mee a most loving and kinde Father a very skillfull and learned Schoole-master worthy and ingenuous education c. Thou preservedst me mightily and almost miraculously from mayming or suddaine death Thou followedst mee bountifully with thy favours at the University and didst infinitely above all hope and expectation raise up variety of meanes from time to time for my maintenance there c. Thou broughtst me at length fairely easily and uncorruptly into this place and pastorall charge I now injoy Thou hast given me out of thine own free immediate mercy a deare and loving Wife incomparably the fittest for me that could have beene found upon the face of the whole earth But above all the comforts which thou hast brought unto my poore soule by my Booke have beene most unspeakeable and glorious Blessed for ever be thy glorious name therefore c. In a word I am verily perswaded there was never wretch upon earth that receiv'd so many mercies favours and comforts from thee and return'd so little thankefullnesse service and obedience unto thee O Lord my God forgive I pray thee the infinite disproportion of thine immeasurable bountifullnesse to me and my most weake imperfect and sinfull obedience service unto thee O forgive it forgive it for Christ Jesus his sake c. FINIS 1 Sam. 13. â—4 Acts 13. â—2 Juxta cor â—â—um q. d. Qui praeceptum divini consiâ—â—â— exequiâ—ur virtute devotionis Greg. Mag. Expos lib. 5. in 1 Reg. Cap. 13. Devotio est pius humilia affectus in DEVM humilis ex conscientia infirmitatis pro priae pius ex consideratione divinae clementiae Aug de Spir. Anima Cap 50. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dixit Arist. Rhet lib. 3 cap. 2. â—lloigne quâ— divinitùs ad Altare venerit deinceps custodito omnia erant accendenda quae in tabernaculo accendi oportebaÌ„t Aug. Quest. Super Levit. lib. 3. â— 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LXX Oratio pro pauâ—ere Tremel â—un Iâ—te Psalmus in principio vocem Prophetae continet ex persona peccatoris Hier. Quod slenâ—es dicaâ—â—s nos qui pro peccatis 〈◊〉 his verâ—iculis â—doâ—emur Arnob.