and backsliding to our former ways do again cancel our repentance and bring the account also of all our former sins repented of upon us See Ezech. 18.24 2. Pet. 2.20 Matt. 18.23 c. where as the Lord forgave to the servant upon submission many talents so upon his mis-behaviour after this he recalled him to account for every farthing of those talents before remitted See Matt. 5.26 Now these our works shall be judged according to the several talents that have been promulgated to us and which we have lived under whether it be that of Christ or that of Moses Where note that the law of Moses for a great part of it not only Morals but Ceremonials was revealed to the holy race from the beginning See The Benefits of our Saviour who may be said therefore to have been from the beginning under the law or under the Gospel only obscured by types or that of Nature Under one of which all the Sons of Adam have lived For it must always be some law received that worketh wrath Rom. 15. Jo. 9.41 because where no law is there is no transgression Therefore See Rom. 1.21 comp 18.24 how wrath was wrought against the Heathen upon a law Some therefore at that day shall be judged by the law and the words of Christ our Lord and by the New Testament See Jo. 12.48 Some by the law of Moses and the Old Testament See Rom. 2.12 Jo. 5.45 The rest by that of nature which is written in their hearts See Rom. 2.12 comp 14. which law to be given to and in all men the Apostle there proves from the testimony of Conscience and reflex thoughts in all men sometimes accusing sometimes excusing them which necessarily presupposeth a law Rom. 2.15 So that every one at that day is condemned for evil works committed not only against the power of that light and knowledge which had it not been their own default they might have acquired but against that light and knowledge which they actually were possessed of and did not walk according to it All condemned for those things which when they did their Conscience accused them for ill doing and therefore which when they did they might have forborn for conscience accuseth for none else and which some others living under the same law Suppose a Socrates or a Seneca did upon like temptations forbear So that all in that day are condemned ex ore suo Meanwhile though extra Christum there will be no Salvation no reward yet that Judgment shall be more tolerable by much for some offenders than for others for those who lived under Moses's Law than for those under Christ's Heb. 2,3 10.28 29. for those under the law of nature than those under Moses's for much shall then be required of him to whom much is here given and who knew not so much of his Lord's will and so committed things worthy of stripes shall be in that day beaten with few stripes See Matt. 10.15 11.22.24 Luk. 12 48. Act. 17.30 14.16 Matt. 3.10 Heb. 2 3. Jo. 15.22 Which law of nature and light given had any one entirely observed he should have been saved i. e. freed at least from all punishments as respecting his own actions though he would have stood guilty still of original uncleanness and must have incurred the same Condemnation with unbaptized infants though he had not been rewarded with any supernatural beatitude upon the vertue of the first Covenant Yet so it is that though for the single Acts of sin for some time those who live under this law have power to abstain yet through the depravation of nature and contagion of ill Example and in so much temptation reason not being always able to be vigilant without the help of supernatural Grace it could not be that any one at all times should perfectly abstain from all i. e. should do all which possibly he might 9. In this Judgment the righteous after that those whose works have been less pure have first endured the severe trials of the purifying sire of that day 1. Cor. 3.15 first absolved and separated by our Saviour from the wicked and placed on his right hand Matt. 25.32 33. then receiving their approbation and praise of God 1. Cor. 4 5. for all their righteous works and sufferings and embraced and acknowledged by the Lord Jesus for his sheep for his Brethren before his Father and all his holy Angels Luk. 12.8 Rev. 3.5 and all the world and so admitted every man according to the proportion of his labour and service here Luk. 19.17 to the reward and Crowns and Kingdome promised i. e. to be partakers with Christ of his Kingdome over all things See Matt. 24.47 Rev. 3.21 In which Kingdome first taking their places and set on thrones as mercy in that day also will prevent Judgment they shall judge with Christ the rest of the world and that not only men but Angels 10. The General 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and self conviction of the wicked in that day Matt. 22.12 Rom. 2.15 comp 16. especially shame and confusion of those that have professed the name of Christians who pleading this name Luk. 13.26 shall be denied by our Saviour before his Father and the holy Angels that he ever knew them for any of his followers and then he shall be ashamed of them as they of him here See Mark 10.38 Matt. 7.23 1. Jo. 2.28 3.16 c. Dan. 12.2 11. The dreadful sentence Matt. 7.23 25.41 And the outcries of that day and the woful separation the most joined being then parted asunder according to their contrary deserts Matt. 24.40 the cursed with weeping and gnashing of teeth to see others in the Kingdome they might so easily have acquired and themselves thrust out Luk. 13.38 descending into the abyss and land of forgetfulness Luk. 8.31 Psal 88.12 as the blessed with our Saviour ascending and being now filled with the perfection of despair and left to God's anger and indignation and vengeance which vengeance having been gathered together in all ages is now to be poured out in full measure upon all the sin that ever hath been committed since the beginning of the world and especially upon all the violence and wrong done to all his Saints by the executing now of all the Curses of the Holy Scriptures upon his and their Enemies 12. The holy Saints and Angels no more pitying no more praying for these miserables no more acknowledging any more alliance unto them but exceedingly approving Christ's justice and praising God's vengeance and triumphing in the destruction of his and their enemies like those Rev. 11.17 18. 16.5 6. 19.1 2. God himself also laughing at and having them in derision Psal 37.13 Prov. 1.26 and sending them into a land of eternal forgetfulness 13. After all these Consider the Paucity of the saved gathered from Matt. 7.13 14. Luk. 13.24 1. Cor. 9.24 2. Tim. 2.5 lawfully i. e. observing strictly the conditions upon which the Crown is given Matt. 22.14 Rom. 9.27 1.
many times things of the greatest consequence and no external sins occur so often as those of the tongue knowing that there are two fountains within us of our thoughts and speeches Nature and Grace or the Spirit and their Dictates contrary and nature commonly preventing the other in her Suggestions and our second our better thoughts Weigh thy words in a ballance and make a door and a bar for thy mouth Prepare what to say and then shalt thou be heard bind up instruction and then make answer Ecclesiasticus 28.25 33.4 And The words of such as have understanding are weighed in a ballance Ecclesiasticus 21.25 And The heart of the Righteous studieth to answer saith the wise man Prov. 15.28 And lastly Seest thou a man saith he that is hasty in his words there is more hopes of a fool than of him Prov. 29.20 6. Not speaking verbously but as much as you can contracting your sense If silence ordinarily makes none less talk makes fewer oversights Let thy speech be short comprehending much in few words and be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his peace Ecclesiasticus 32.8 And A fool is known by multitude of words Ecclesiasticus 5.3 7. Not speaking vehemently or passionately but so as it may be accompanied with and mastered or checked by your judgment which much passion clouds and troubles Not using your self to exaggerate any thing to hyberbolize and exceed the truth though a common custome but moderating your expressions and rather speaking the least Not delivering things with much asseveration by this as it were to add more weight and authority to your words which if there be any fault in what we say makes it much greater All these things savour of pride self-love vain glory men-pleasing and the contrary of discretion moderation and humility For this often remembring our Lord's holy Lesson Matt. 5.37 Let your Communication be yea yea nay nay and his note upon it Quod autem his abundantius est a Malo est Iterated also by St. James 5. c. 12. v. with this Caveat least you fall into condemnation i. e. some guilt or other condemnable 8. Avoiding much ceremony and dissimulation and compliance the later corruptions of Christian simplicity When our words swerve from our hearts our actions again do so from our words and so we only fall at last into the more shame and confusion Avoiding these I say so far as this may expose you to any temptation or peril of offending God your best your highest friend and always one of your company not professing your self to be what you are not which is lying or what you ought not to be which is disloyalty to God to be loyal to your Friend Nihil deformius quam Scenam in vitam transferre especially for a Christian Membra Christi Templa Spiritus Sancti Filii Dei Nolite fieri servi hominum 1. Cor. 7.23 If we have so little esteem for the world within why shew we so much without or any further than Christian duty and charity obligeth us for God's sake See Jo. 5.41.44 12.43 Rom. 12.2 Jud. 1.6 v. Jam. 1.10 1. Cor. 7.22 2. Cor. 11.20 1. Cor. 9.19 St. Paul's becoming omnia omnibus was only omnia licita and not this done on any terms but first being a perfect Saint and running no hazard in using these licita ut plures lucrifaceret But we that are unperfect may not venter so far when we hazard instead of gaining others the losing our selves 9. 1 In company forbearing the relating or inquiring after news stories other-mens affairs impertinent and no way concerning us distractions of the mind and commonly ending in censure and detraction especially concerning great persons and publick Magistrates of whom we ought to think and speak with great reverence Carefully avoiding the first engagement in such discourses easilier wholly abstained from than discreetly moderated See 1. Tim. 5.13 1. Pet. 4.15 Psal 73.9 Meddle not with many matters for in medling much thou shalt not be innocent Ecclesiasticus 11.10 And If thou hast heard a word let it dye with thee and be bold it will not burst thee 9. 2 Forbearing any presaging of future events and reverencing in all things God's Counsels and Providence which often works contrary to probable conjectures and likeliest appearances of things 10. Not speaking reprehending or contradicting and disputing in your own or others anger or when you or they are any other way distempered 1. Not in your own anger because then you are apt to make a false judgment of things neither will your reprehension or contradiction be performed with that moderation and discretion it should be Nor if it be so yet doth it appear so to or hath the same weight with the reprehended because they see you angry but stay a little in silence and let your passion cool and by and by things will have another appearance and faults seem now of a less magnitude than they did before so that he who resolves not to find fault in his anger will much seldomer find fault and when he doth will do it more moderately and his reproof be more justly proportioned to the Sin 2. Nor replying or reprehending in anothers anger For neither then do their errors faults or oversights appear to them so great as they are and besides your reproofs at such time receive ill answers from them and these serve to kindle anger in your self also where there was none before But when their passion is cooled they more clearly see the greatness of their fault and so more profitably and patiently receive your reproof and counsel Much caution therefore hath the wiseman given concerning this passion The discretion of a man saith he deferreth his anger and it is his glory to pass over a transgression Psal 19.11 And He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his Spirit than he that takes a City Prov. 16.32 14.29 And on the other side A fool's wrath is presently known Ps 12.16 11. Not contending and striving in words with any one for any thing but abstaining from second answers and replies though most reasonable after that by some resistance made the person at that time seems indisposed and imagining that we look after victory hath shut the Gate to Reason It is not passion but gentleness on truth's side that overcomes passion on the other and in such meekness the victory is only deferred not lost And this to suffer our selves to be overborne when Reason is on our side rather than contend especially in truths not so necessary to be maintained is an act of great mortification and humility and whilst you yield to another the getting a great victory over your self and we shall receive that praise from God which we willingly for peace-sake lose with men Yielding to all the world as much as you can in point of opinion and doing their will sooner than your own 12. Not
speaking any thing tending directly or indirectly to your own praise in earnest or in jest for greater matters or for trifles and such things as are by you thought contemptible For many times there lies herein a feather of vain glory tho not discerned by us and many times to others it appears and gives offence Not doing this I say unless when some extraordinary good may come thereby and then delivering the matter spoken with much moderation apology and humility acknowledging the true author of it and qualifiing it with relating your faults always immediately repelling any praise given you by others God being only to be praised so long as he is the Author of all Good So generally speaking little of your self in any kind of your business of your sufferings c. savouring of self-love and tedious to others But upon any good occasion given despising vilifying condemning your self especially when commended from which thing you will find much benefit and were it worth any thing or might you seek for it more reputation and a great deal more esteem with those that hear you 13. Not vindicating or justifying your self when receiving from your company some slight defamations and affronts nor excusing your self when blamed and that as you think unjustly because self-love may blind you not to see a true fault or if it doth not yet some other way you deserve more blame than that laid on you to which for mortification sake you may apply it always remembering the most admirable silence of our Lord in the questioning of his most innocent life This practice will incourage your friends the more to mind you of your faults And God undertakes our Justification when innocent much more effectually than we can do it when we for humility peace and good Example desist from it 14. Speaking of particular persons as little as may be a thing seldome done without some wrong to them It being more pleasant to speak of other men's faults than virtues because by the one we seem to our selves advanced by the other depressed Whether it be to friend or foe talk not of other men's lives saith a wise man But rather when there is occasion to speak of any vice speak what you have to say of it in general and without application to persons or else in the first person I or We speaking evil of no man absent though a truth though a truth well known Excusing any as much as you can when evil spoken of from their ignorance good intentions strong temptations or the like Always signifying an unwillingness to hear them ill spoken of which may perhaps discourage and rectify the Relator men usually forbearing to speak what they think doth not please or at least may preserve your own innocence Making no comparisons between persons for seldome is the one of them praised but that the other is depressed Especially speaking always reverently of holy things and persons and generally of all persons in authority being our publick Parents and Benefactors for whom we are obliged particularly to pray 1. Tim. 2.2 and who to us are in the place of God Taking heed of censuring their actions which being publick are more talked of and so we here to stand more upon our guard and the true circumstances of them by inferiors many times little understood and as being the actions of persons above us apt to be maligned and envyed and mis-related Remembering the terribledoom of those in 2. Pet. 10.11 and Jude 8 9. who are not afraid to speak evil of Majesty and Dignities when as God's Officers and Ministers the Angels themselves for all their higher place forbear to do it 15. As much as you can abstaining from secular discourse and guiding or diverting it to or at least mixing it with something of Piety of Spiritual matters which matters most concern all persons whatever of God's honor and praise in some or other of his Attributes his wisdome mercy justice providence omnipotency to several of which every action in the world that we can talk of hath some near relation Knowing that the glorifying God on this manner is one of the chiefest ends of God's Creation of us and Ordination of them Remembring the Apostle's Exhortation Let such speech proceed out of your mouth as is good to the edifying of Faith that it may minister Grace to the Hearers and contristate not the Holy Spirit of God that continually inspires such good motions into you Eph. 4.29 30. by talking secular impertinencies And again Let the Word of Christ dwell in you abundantly in all wisdome teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord and whatsoever ye do in word or work do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him Col. 3.16 17. And Non stultiloquium aut scurrâ—litas quae ad rem non pertinet sed magis gratiarum actio Domine totus mundus plenus est Te nescimus loqui de Te vel ad Te. Recommendation of Silence 16. Lastly in much company so far as it may consist with your duty and charity accustoming your self to Silence not caring to be accounted therefore stupid or ignorant melancholick or unsociable by which Silence we escape many sins of the tongue and keep more calm our passions and an entire peace within our selves as being free from others contradictions pax animi silâ—ntium Tace paulisper tumultus animi cito pertranseunt whereby we better examine the cogitations and fancies that are continually springing within us before they pass the gate of our lips and judge many fit to be suppressed and stifled in the conception whereby we better hearken to the internal whispers and motions of God's Spirit and uningaged can better discern the value of others discourse Lastly holding our peace furnisheth the Soul with good thoughts and is the way not to want that which may be said profitably and to purpose 17. In Silence not suffering your mind to lye idle or to dwell too much in your ear where the discourse of others is not pertinent For he that will be dumb must also be deaf or to wander whither it listeth to other matters no less vain than those you avoid but keeping it at work and putting your self in another and better company I mean conversing in your heart with God who is still with us when we turn unto him and goes not from us at all but as we recede from him Reciting in your mind some Psalms or other ready devotions which will presently stop the course of your passion or your ears from your Companion 's impertinencies To which purpose are those Scripture-Exhortations of praying continually with perseverance always in all things giving thanks rejoycing always i. e. in the Lord singing and making Melody in our hearts to the Lord not quenching the Spirit 1. Thes 5.16 17 18 19. Phil. 4.4 Eph. 6.18 Col. 4.2 Eph. 5.20
acquiring Christian perfection §. 90. 1. Concerning Prayer Concerning Preparatives to Prayer 1. BEfore your appearing before God in Prayer clearing your self as God hath commanded so far as it is in your power from your sins towards your Neighbour and quitting all his toward you In satisfaction either already performed to him or seriously promised to God where injuring and in forgiveness presented likewise then to God where injured Matt. 5.23 24. 1. Tim. 2.8 Mark 11.25 Jam. 3.9 10. 2. Performing your devotions either when fasting or very temperate and at some reasonable distance from your meals and sometimes also preparing your self son them by some acts of mortification Nothing is so opposite to devotion and the Spirit as intemperance strong drink and excess in diet See Eph. 5.18 Act. 10.30 Matt. 17.21 Luk. 1.15 Psal 35.13 Dan. 10.1 2. 12. Act. 13.2 3. 3. 1 Not coming to them with your mind and thoughts already tired out and spent in other business which accordingly must needs be less serviceable to you in this your greatest duty and some little time before them if you can deserting other employments 'T is beneficial before you go to Prayer to read something pious or if you please to read some Prayer before praying so to retire your mind from secular thoughts and dispose it to Divine 3. 2 When you go to Prayer with an hour-glass measuring your time and taking some Book of Devotion or Saints life with which you use to be much affected to lye by you and for this also chusing a place of Prayer convenient for light and reading and when sterilities and dulness or much distraction of thoughts assault you reading so long till something affect you This hath been the practice of many great Saints And he who useth this stome will go much more chearfully to this spiritual exercise and spend longer time in it having these Arms about him to repel the ordinary disturbers of it 4. In the morning performing your Devotions first whilst the mind is clear and not engaged in other thoughts 5. In the Evening last when the mind hath for that day taken her leave of all other business and that so your time of Prayer also may not be limited by them 6. Since for every day you perform and renew them applying your Prayers Confessions Petitions c. more chiefly to the occurrences of the present day as that of our Lord Give us this day c. which will make your Requests as being for things near at hand more affectionate and your endeavours that day in the seconding of your Prayers and rendring them not frustrate more vigilant and earnest 7. Using all humble reverence of the Body Corporal Reverence in Prayer c where opportunity yet not confining your self for all the time of Prayer to any one posture thereof after it begins to be painful or tedious whilst you retain the same humility and devotion in all nor omitting the substance of the Duty of Prayer for being hindered perchance of such circumstances Freely expressing also and venting the holy passions of your mind and of the Spirit by the exterior indications and effects thereof As by sighing groaning weeping c. §. 91. Digr 1. Of the great impression the behaviour of the Body makes upon the Soul And that the devotion is much increased by the body's humiliation and the more if this sometimes varied Digr 2. Of the several postures and deportments of the body used by holy men in the time of Prayer As Standing up Prostration and falling on the face and lying on the ground Contemplating the heavens therefore going up to the house top to pray Lifting up casting down the eyes Lifting up spreading forth the hands Smiting of the breast Bowing down of the head Bowing baring the knee kissing the ground Covering the Body with sackcloth or raggs Sighing groaning weeping §. 92. Guard of the Eyes 8. In all places and business where you would enjoy a greater recollection of your mind and thoughts but especially in the service and meditations of God publick or private keeping a strict guard over your eyes which having liberty to wander the mind is filled with many fancies and very difficulty fixed Custodia Oculorum Custodia Cordis §. 93. Exciting of a suitable Passion 9. Striving before hand to excite in your self a passion suting to the particular act of your devotion As great sadness in confession of sin Great humility and lowliness and self-abjection in petitioning Chearfulness and joy in thanking and praising The passion of love in oblation and resignation c. Compassion in Intercession And observe that our intention much helpeth the production of such passion by the lively presentation of such an object to our mind as viz. Death Corruption Hell Heaven Light Glory Musick c. usually excites it the affections being thus subject to the understanding and the will as well as in other respects these faculties are to them Praying before to God to give you such a passion whereby you may be helped to do such a duty Not entertaining at the same time of prayer a contrary passion though it be very pious for so neither can it be so well prosecuted §. 94. Imagination of God's presence 10. In the time of Prayer Imagining God or our Saviour not a far off but present by or within Ps 16.8 you so speaking and discoursing with him hearkning to and attending upon him as one that is present in the innermost part of your soul and heart as indeed if our eyes were but opened as were those of Elisha and his Servant we should see him in all things and in our selves and all things and our selves also in him for these are both one compassing us round as the air or the light doth and again throughly penetrating all things and us as the light doth the air or the fire the glowing iron Omnia implendo continens continendo implens Austin and see our selves again moving in him as fishes or spunges in the Ocean or Atoms in a Sun-beam See Acts 17.27 28 For if the whole earth be but as a small point to the Sun how much less are we to God! But above all creatures more specially we should see him dwelling in the hearts of the faithful therefore called his Temple See 2. Cor. 6.16 1. Cor. 6.17.19 or see them dwelling in him for where things are perfectly united these two expressions are the same and promiscuously used See 1. Jo. 4.13 6.56 Rom. 8.10 comp 2. Cor. 5.17 1. Cor. 1.30 comp 2. Cor. 5.21 See him there speaking to the Soul and visiting it with frequent inspirations the signs of his presence and the interior language wherein God speaks to us and therefore is there to be attentively hearkened to by us Luk. 17.21 Jo. 16.32 8.29 Heb. 11.27 1. Jo. 14.13 4.16 As for those words in the Lords Prayer which art in Heaven they are not mentioned to direct the petitioner to him as a far off but to magnify to
Cor. 1.26 Matt. 19.23 24. 1. Cor. 9.27 1. Jo. 5.19 Joel 2.32 Zech. 13.8 9 spoken of the last times Luk. 13.27 And this also may be gathered from the small number of those saved in the flood and in the destruction of Sodome Types of the last destruction of the world and of the wicked 2. Pet. 2.5 6. comp 9. Matt. 24.38 And of those entring into the earthly Canaan 1. Cor. 10.5 a type of the Heavenly So in the Parable of the Seed Matt. 13. which was not sown every where where sown only one part of four fructified And experience shows most part of the world to be unbelievers of Christians wicked Luk. 18.8 21.35 14. For exciting affections meditate on 2. Pet. 3.11 1. Pet. 1.17 c. Luk. 21.36 §. 170. III. HEADS for Meditation on the Extreme and the Eternal Torments of HELL Use some of the Considerations p. 7 8. 27 28. p. 9. Digr §. 171. IV. MEDITATIONS on the unspeakable Joys of HEAVEN 1. Consider here that the greatest Saints and also our Lord himself have set before them this Contemplation as a most effective motive to encourage them against all present labours and hardships Inclinavi cor meum ad faciendas justificationes tuas in aeternum propter retributionem saith Holy David Psal 118. and Moses esteemed the rebuke of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Aegypt for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward saith the Apostle of Him Heb. 11.26 And our Lord saith the same Apostle Ibid. 12. c. 2. v. for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross having despised the shame And Rejoyce saith our Lord Matt. 5.12 to his Disciples and be exceeding glad for your reward is very great in Heaven And again In this rejoyce not that the Spirits are subdued unto you but rather rejoyce because your names are written in the Heavens Luk. 10.20 2. Consider to ascend by degrees in the survey of this future bliss according as the Scripture in many fair Metaphors and Similitudes hath represented it unto us first at the resurrection the contemptible dust of these our vile bodies wherever scattered and dispersed by the four winds carefully gathered together again by God's holy Angels He shall send his Angels and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other Matt. 24.31 The harvest is the end of the world the reapers be the Angels Matt. 13.39 Raised again by the love and affection to us Of our omnipotent and dearest Saviour And this is the Fathers will That of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day c. And I will raise him up at the last day Jo. 6.39 40. And of God his and our Father For if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also which sleep by Jesus will God bring with him 1. Thess 4.14 Raised again by the sound of the Trumpet signifying our Lord's approach before or together with the change that shall be of the Saints also then living who then shall be caught up into the air and saved from the last flood of Fire that shall destroy the world as righteous Noah and his Sons were from the flood of Water that destroyed it See Matt. 24.36.40 41. comp Luk. 17.37 2. Pet. 3.6 7 12. 1. Thess 4.16 1. Cor. 15.52 2. Thess 2.1 These bodies then not built of corruptible flesh and blood Now this I say That flesh and blood cannot possess the Kingdome of God 1. Cor. 15.50 See 1. Cor. 6.13 But made like unto the Angels of God in heaven Matt. 22.30 Act. 6.15 Raised not in dishonour but in glory 1. Cor. 15.43 not in weakness but in power Immortal Spiritual 1. Cor. 15.44 Celestial vers 40. being an house of God An house from heaven 2. Cor. 5.2 bearing the image of the heavenly 1. Cor. 15.49 Fashioned like unto the Son of God's glorious body Who will reform our vile body that it may be configured to his glorious body Phil. 3.21 Glorious not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but holy and unspotted Eph. 5.27 Like our Saviour whatever his Glory is 1. Jo. 3.2 Sons of God in a glory and fashion suitable to this Title Luk. 20.36 by being then Sons of the Resurrection And Adoption and Redemption of our Body saith the Apostle which as yet we groan and wait for Rom. 8.23 2. Cor. 5.2 These Eagles gathered together where our Lord is and our Bodies caught up as his was in the clouds to meet our dearest Lord in the highest regions of the air and so to be ever with him 1. Thess 4.17 Descending with him coming to Judgment and there after our receiving an Absolution before the Tribunal of Christ through the application of his merits to all his members informed with his Spirit and after the sentence Venite Benedicti sitting together with him or standing about his Throne in his passing Judgment upon the wicked Angels and Men. 1. Thess 4.14 Matt. 19.28 1. Cor. 6.2.3 2. Thess 1.1.8.10 Now all things made new Rev. 21.5 A new earth and a new heaven wherein inhabiteth no more sin but all purity and justice created for them 2. Pet. 3.13 And this new world enlightened by the glory of God himself Rev. 21.23 We here made partakers of the lot of the Saints in Light Col. 1.12 Admitted to have fellowship with all the just men that ever were consummated and made perfect Heb. 12.22 Coming to the general Assembly and Church of the first born Heb. 12. Made fellow-citizens c. Eph. 2.29 Sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Matt. 8.11 To an innumerable company of Angels To Jesus the Mediator Heb. 12.24 Now making up altogether the measure of the stature of the fulness and compleatment of our Saviour's Body Eph. 1.23 4.13 To see him now as he is 1. Jo. 3.2 To God the Judge of all Heb. 12 23. To behold the face of God Matt. 5.8 Apoc. 22.4 Then to enter into a restored life Matt. 18.8 Life eternal everlasting In which life to enjoy rest from our labours Rev. 14.13 A perpetual Holy-day and Sabbath Heb. 4.9 to be comforted Luk. 16.25 having all tears wiped away from our eyes Rev. 7.17 21.4 Where there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying nor pain Rev. 21.4 No hungring nor thirsting any more They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more no more death neither sorrow nor crying nor pain quoniam priora transierunt And the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains of water Rev. 7.16 17. 21.4 There to have our knowledge perfected 1. Cor. 13.12 And our Appetite satisfied Satiabor cum apparuerit Gloria tua Psal 17.15 To be rewarded with an open Matt. 6.4 full 2. Jo. 8. great Matt. 5.12 exceeding great Gen. 15.1 Reward pressed down and running over Which all the afflictions of
who healest the broken in heart and bindest up their wounds God of the Fatherless and Judge of the Widows which loosest the Prisoners and openest the eyes of the blind Have mercy on us The Lord God that killest and makest alive who sendest to the grave and bringest back again who increasest the nations and destroyest them who enlargest the nations and straightenest them Have mercy on us God who takest no pleasure in iniquity with whom is no accepting of persons terrible in thy Counsels concerning the Sons of men the strong and jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children Have mercy on us God whose anger none can withstand the just Judge strong and long-suffering and a consuming fire Have mercy on us The Lord who liftest up the meek and humblest the wicked down to the ground who hast power to cast body and soul into Hell who takest the wily in their own craftiness and scatterest the counsel of the wicked Have mercy on us The Lord compassionate long-suffering of great mercy and truth our Protector and exceeding great Reward Have mercy on us Be merciful and spare us O Sacred Trinity Be merciful and hear us O Sacred Trinity From all evil Deliver us O Lord. From all pride and loftiness of mind from gluttony and surfeiting and all intemperance Deliver us O Lord. From envy hatred and malice from luxury and uncleanness from sloth and inordinate heaviness and anxiety Deliver us O Lord. By the Eternity of thy Glory and Majesty by the infiniteness of thy power by the abundance of thy goodness by the unspeakable greatness of thy love and mercy and by the abysse of thy justice and judgments Deliver us O Lord. In the day of Judgment Deliver us O Lord. We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That we may adore our Lord God and serve thee only in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives We sinners beseech Thee to hear us That we may never take thy holy Name in vain that we may keep holy the Festivals of thy Church in exercises of religion and devotion We sinners beseech Thee c. That we may obey and reverence with due honor our Parents Prelates Superiors and all thou hast set over us We sinners beseech thee to hear us That we injure no man's life good name or honor out of anger hatred or envy We sinners beseech thee to hear us That we keep our hearts clean from all inordinate lustings of the flesh and impure affections That we hurt none by stealing damage or any other wrong through cousinage or violence That we never speak a ly or bear false witness against our Neighbour nor covet his goods We sinners beseech thee to hear us That we love thee O God with all our heart with all our soul and with all our strength and that we do to others as we would should be done to our selves We c. That thou wouldest make us grow in all grace that we despise not the riches of thy bounty patience and long-suffering We sinners beseech thee to hear us That we present our bodies a living and holy Sacrifice well-pleasing to Thee that at length we may attain to that kingdome which thou hast prepared for us from the beginning of the world We sinners beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Pacify thy Father towards us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world By thy merits and sufferings redeem us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Send thy holy Spirit into us O Blessed Trinity hear us O Adored Sacred Trinity hear us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. Blessed art thou O God the God of our Fathers Praise-worthy and glorious for ever All the Angels and Saints bless thee Praise and magnify thee for ever Bless we the Father Son and Holy Ghost Praise him and exalt him for ever O Lord hear our Prayers And let our cry come unto thee Let us pray ALmighty and everlasting God from whom descends every good and perfect gift mercifully grant that the serious consideration of thy incomprehensible Majesty may beget in us profound humility and constant obedience and the frequent meditation of thy infinite goodness may move our wills to love thee above all things that we may here in reverence to thy word believe what we do not see and may hereafter in the blissful Vision of thy glory see what now we cannot comprehend thro Jesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth one God world without end Amen The LITANY to God the Father O God the Father of Heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the world Have mercy on us O God the Holy Ghost Have mercy on us O Sacred Trinity one God Have mercy on us O Father which art in Heaven Father of Glory whose face the holy Angels behold continually in heaven who hast life in thy self Have mercy on us Father of whom are all things who hast made us after thine own Image and gavest us dominion over the rest of thy Creatures Have mercy on us Father of our Lord Jesus Christ from whom all paternity is called and derived in heaven and in earth Have mercy on us Who art well pleased in thy Son who lovest him and hast given all things into his hands And who by a voice from heaven didst glorify Him Have mercy on us Who so lovedst the world that thou gavest thy only begotten Son that we should have life by him and would'st have thy Son take upon him the form of a Servant to redeem us that were in bondage Have mercy c. Who by thy Son hast predestinated us into the Adoption of Sons and hast elected us in him before the foundation of the world that we might be holy and unspotted before thee Have mercy on us Who would'st have us conformable to the Image of thy Son and hast called us into Fellowship with him and hast made us acceptable in thy beloved Son without whom none cometh to the Son unless thou O Father drawest him Have mercy on us O Father who sendest out thy Spirit and they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth who fillest the world with thy spirit and givest it to them that ask it of thee Have mercy on us Father of lights from whom every good and perfect gift descendeth who hidest thy mysteries from the wise and revealest them to little ones Have mercy on us Father of mercies and God of all consolation by whom all the hairs of our head are numbred who comfortest us in all our tribulations and hast blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places Have mercy on us Who out of thy abundant charity hast vouchsafed to make us partakers of the inheritance of thy Saints and
passion Deliver us O Lord. By thy glorious resurrection and ascension by thy coming to judgment by thy coeternal glory with the Father Deliver us O Lord. We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That we may learn of thee who wast meek and humble in heart that we may deny our selves and take up our Cross and follow thee We beseech thee to hear us That we lay not up treasures for our selves on earth but in heaven that we may lose our lives in this world that we may preserve them to eternal life and fear not those that can kill the body only but him that can throw both Body and Soul into hell-fire We sinners beseech c. That we freely and willingly take up thy easy yoke and light burthen that with all diligence we put out to usury our talents we receive from thee and receiving thy word into honest and good hearts may bring forth much fruit with patience We sinners beseech Thee c. That whatsoever we would that men should do unto us we do so unto them that we judge none rashly but love one another and do good to those that hate us We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That being uncertain of the hour of death and thy coming to judgment we endeavour to watch and be always ready that we seriously provide to give up the account of our Stewardship We sinners beseech Thee c. That persevering thro thy grace unto the end we may be saved We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That asking the Father in thy name we may be worthy to be heard according to thy promise We sinners c. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Spare us c. Hear us c. Have mercy upon us Every day will we repeat thy perfections O glorious Jesus that every day we may grow in esteem of thee every day will we attentively reckon over thy mercies that every day we may still increase in thy love We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. All that we have and are we received from thy grace All we desire and hope we expect in thy glory O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplication come unto thee Let us pray ALmighty God and most merciful Saviour the light of this world and glory of the next vouchsafe we beseech thee to illuminate our understandings enflame our Wills and sanctify all the faculties of our Souls that whilst with our lips we recite thy praises we may inwardly with our hearts adore thy person and admire thy goodness and conform our lives to thy holy example till at length by frequent meditation on the bliss thou hast prepared for us hereafter we break off our affections from all irregular adherence to this world and place them intirely on the enjoyment of thee who with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest one God world without end Amen See the other Litany and Commemorations below LITANIES to God the Holy Spirit O God the Father of heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the world Have mercy on us O God the Holy Ghost Perfecter of the Elect Have mercy on us O Sacred Trinity one God Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son who art the intimate love communion and complacency of the Father and the Son Have mercy on us Who art the finger strength and power of God the omnipotent worker of what the Father decrees and the Son the Word of God commands Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit by whose inspiration the holy men of God formerly spake Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit by whose admirable vertue the Incarnation of our Lord was wrought in the Virgins womb and who descendedst in the likeness of a Dove upon our Blessed Saviour Have mercy on us O Blessed Spirit who at Pentecost appearedst resting upon the Disciples in cloven tongues of fire and with whom the Apostles being replenished boldly confessed and preached our Saviour Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit the Promise of the Father and the Son who descendedst to abide with us and in us here on earth in the absence of our Lord until his second coming Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who having cast out the strong one Satan and possessed his house vouchsafest to inhabit in our persons as the Son of God in our nature and to make us thy Temples Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who finishest the internal work of our Salvation by our Sanctification as the Son of God did the external by our Redemption Have mercy on us Who descendedst to glorify our Lord to bring to our remembrance testify and confirm all his heavenly doctrine to us Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit the Paraclete abiding with us for ever our Intercessor and Advocate here on earth within us to the Father as the Son now is for us in heaven Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who art the Seed of God in us by whom we are born again and made new creatures partakers of the Divine nature and Sons of God Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit the earnest and first fruits and pledge of our future inheritance the foretast of the good word and promise of God and of the power of Christ's Kingdome and of the World to come Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit the Spirit of Adoption by whom we cry Abba Father bearing witness to our Spirits that we are the Sons of God and by whom we are sealed to the day of Redemption Have mercy on us O Blessed Spirit the Seed of Immortality in our corruptible bodies by whose vertue and power after sown in dishonour they shall be raised again in glory Have mercy on us O Blessed Spirit who guidest and preservest the Church of God in all truth illuminating its Doctors strengthening its Martyrs and perfecting its Saints Have mercy c. O Holy Spirit the bond of the mystical union between Christ our Head and us his Members and between all the fellow-members making them all of one heart and one soul as being all actuated by one and the same Spirit Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who enlightenest and leadest us into all truth by whom the Charity of God is poured forth in our hearts who writest the laws of God within us and inclinest our wills not out of servile fear but love and choice to obey his commands Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who helpest our infirmities we not knowing what to pray for as we ought and makest intercession for us with groans that cannot be uttered Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who knowest all the hidden things of God and makest intercession according to his will and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth there the mind of the Spirit Have mercy on us O Holy Spirit who revealest the mysteries of Religion the secrets of men's hearts and things to come Have mercy on us
world to come we never be seduced by our own or any evil Spirit but inspired continually and lead by thee may be ready to every good work and relish those things which are hidden from the world Purify our minds by thy holy inspirations exhilarate them when sad with thy chast and innocent joys lead them when going astray into all truth inflame them when cold with the fire of thy charity and unite them when disagreeing by thy bond of peace Finally be thou the tye whereby we may love the Father and the Son and the sweet fruition unto us of the Father and the Son with whom we worship and adore thee in the unity of the same God-head for ever and ever Amen LITANIES of the Eucharist O God the Father of heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the world Have c. O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son Have mercy on us O Sacred Trinity one God Have mercy on us O Father who openest thy hand and fillest with thy blessing every living thing Father to whom the eyes of all things look up and thou givest them their meat in due season Have mercy on us Who feddest Abraham the Father of the Faithful with bread and wine by the hand of Melchisedech thy Priest Have mercy on us Who appointedst to the Israelites the Paschal Lamb in remembrance of their deliverance from bondage under Pharaoh Have mercy on us Who feddest them travelling thro the wilderness with Manna from heaven the food of Angels and didst also severely punish them loathing that Manna Have mercy on us O Father who hast given us thy only begotten Son the true Bread from heaven Have mercy on us Jesu that heavenly Bread who descendedst from heaven and givest life unto the world the Word made flesh and inhabiting in us Have mercy on us Jesu who bestowedst thy self upon us at thy birth for our Brother at thy table for food at thy death for our ransome and at last in thy kingdome for our reward Have mercy on us Jesu who pitying the multitude not having what to eat didst miraculously multiply the five loaves for many thousands Have mercy on us Jesu who invitest all that labour and are heavy burthened to come unto thee that thou may'st refresh them Have mercy on us Jesu who at thy departure out of this world unto the Father left us a lasting monument of thy love in the Sacrament of the Eucharist Have mercy on us Jesu who institutedst this Sacrament for a dayly Sacrifice and pure Oblation of thy self unto God thy Father unto the end of the world Have mercy on us O spotless Lamb of God that wast slain from the beginning of the world Have mercy on us O Living Bread born in Bethlehem the House of Bread who gavest thy own flesh for the life of the world Have mercy on us Jesu the true food which lasteth to eternal life to whom whosoever cometh shall never hunger and in whom whosoever believeth shall never thirst Have mercy on us Jesu whose flesh and blood whoso eateth and drinketh shall never dye but hath life eternal and dwelleth in thee and thou in him and thou wilt raise him up at the last day Have mercy on us Jesu who in this blessed Sacrament givest us our dayly bread and the cup of blessing our Viaticum in the house of death and who hast prepared a table in my sight against all that trouble us Have mercy on us Jesu the tree of Life planted in the midst of Paradise whose fruit gives Immortality to those that eat it Have mercy on us Jesu the Paschal Lamb without spot eaten in remembrance of our deliverance from the bondage of Satan Have mercy on us Jesu the heavenly Manna that containest all sweetness food of Angels and bread of Pilgrims eaten by us in the wilderness of this world whilst we travel towards the heavenly Canaan Have mercy on us Jesu the true Vine which makest fruitful and nourishest with thy heavenly juice every branch abiding in thee Have mercy on us Jesu the mystical Pelican who feedest thy young ones with the blood of thy own breast the good Samaritan who pourest celestial wine and oyl into our wounds Have mercy on us Jesu an High Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedech who offerest unto us bread and wine even thy own self Have mercy on us Jesu the good Shepherd who feedest thy sheep with thy flesh and blood Have mercy on us Be merciful O Jesu and spare us From receiving thy body and blood unworthily and to condemnation from all neglect in coming to thy living table from all prophane irreverence and negligence whilst we draw near to thine Altar Be merciful O Jesu and spare us From hungring and thirsting after earthly things from all sin and from everlasting death Be merciful O Jesu and spare us By that exceeding great purity and innocence thou requirest in all them that approach this Sacrament signified by thy washing thy Disciples feet Be merciful O Jesu c. By that enflamed charity wherewith thou institutedst that Divine Sacrament Be merciful O Jesu and spare us By thy Body broken for us on the Cross and bestowed on us in this Sacrament Be merciful O Jesu and spare us In the day of Judgment Deliver us O Lord. We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That we may never waver in our faith and belief of the words of thy mouth who art truth it self and an omnipotent God with whom every word is possible We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That we may with all thankfulness adore thee in this blessed Sacrament and worthily commemorate thy Passion so full of charity and that our faith devotion and reverence thereto may dayly be increased We sinners c. That through a true confession of all our sins thou wouldst bring us to a more frequent receiving hereof so that at length as the Hart pants after the rivers of waters our souls may thirst after thee the living God present in this venerable Sacrament We beseech thee to hear us That thou would vouchsafe to turn in unto us miserable sinners to heal our souls which are sick unto death that by this celestial bread they may be sustained and satisfied with the fulness of thy house and inebriated with the rivers of thy bounty We sinners bessech Thee c. That in the strength of this food we may walk through this Wilderness to thy holy Mountain We sinners c. That thou wouldst wash us throughly from the filth of our sins when we desire to partake of thine Altar so that we may approach thereto with longing and gladness and not without a Wedding-garment We sinners c. That at the hour of our death thou wouldst comfort and arm us with this heavenly Viaticum We sinners c. That we may receive thee into our hearts with love and fear that thereby we may be made worthy to
us Holy Mary whose voice made St. John Baptist leap in his Mother's Womb who when being found great with Child barest patiently the purpose of putting thee away Pray for us Holy Mary a Virgin conceiving and bringing forth a Son Immanuel who in one receivedst many Sons and thereby wast made the Mother of us all Pray for us Holy Mary that was turned out of the Inn and laid'st the Saviour of the world in a Manger Pray for us Holy Mary who at the Circumcision of thy only Son gavedst him that sweet and amiable Name JESUS Pray for us Holy Mary who most thankfully presentedst in the Temple that ever Blessed Jesus as a most precious Oblation to God his Father Pray for us Holy Mary that fled'st into Aegypt with thy new-born Babe and thy Husband St. Joseph Pray for us Holy Mary who soughtst thy lost Son three days sorrowing and with great joy foundst him in the Temple so early employed in his Father's business Pray for us Holy Mary who laidst up in thy heart all thou heardst spoken of thy Son Pray for us Holy Mary whose life was intirely dedicated to the constant serving of Jesus with the tenderness of a Mother the duty of a Handmaid and religion of a Votary Pray c. Holy Mary whose Soul was pierced as with a Sword at the crucifying of thy Son Pray for us We beseech thee By thy eternal Election to be the Mother of God Pray for us By the sweetness of thy love whereby thou embracedst thy Infant Son and suckledst him with thy Virgin Breasts Pray for us By the joy of the Angels rejoycing at the Nativity of thy Son Pray for us By the affections of love joy gratitude admiration and praise which thou conceivedst at the beholding of so many Miracles wrought by him Pray for us By all the hardships fears troubles and discommodities which thou didst undergo at Bethlehem in thy flight into Egypt and return from thence to Nazareth Pray for us By the sorrow of a heart of a Mother wherewith thou followedst thy Son going to Mount Calvary by the Sword of most bitter sorrow which pierced thy Soul standing by the Cross of thy Son Pray for us By that joy conceived at the Resurrection of thy Son and which now thou enjoyest for ever Pray for us We beseech Thee That thou wouldest vouchsafe to commend and reconcile us to thy Son Pray for us We c. That thou would'st help comfort and protect us like tender Sons with thy Motherly and most prevalent Intercessions Pray for us We c. That in all our necessities and straits especially at the hour of our deaths thou wouldst obtain for us the clemency of thy Son Pray for us We c. O Son of the B. Virgin which takest away the sins c. Have mercy on us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy on us O Lamb of God that takest c. Have mercy on us Our Father c. Hail MARY full of Grace c. Blessed is the Womb that bare thee and the Breasts that gave thee suck Blessed are they that hear thy Word and faithfully in their lives observe it O Lord hear our Prayers And let our supplications come unto thee MY Soul doth magnify the Lord and my Spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour Because he hath regarded the humility of his hand-maid Holy Virgin all generations shall call thee Blessed For he that is mighty hath done to thee great things and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed strength in his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imaginations of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalted the humble He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He hath holpen his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy As he spake to their Fathers Abraham and to his seed for ever Let us pray DEfend O Lord with the protection of peace thy servants trusting in the merits of Jesus and the patronage of the Blessed Virgin his Mother and keep us from all our enemies and from all dangers Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant to thy servants O Lord to enjoy continual health of body and mind and that by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary we may be delivered from present sorrows and obtain eternal felicity thro Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God and most merciful Father who gavest thy only begotten Son to be born of an humble Virgin that we might be advanced to the adoption of thy children favourably regard the imperfect Prayers of thy servants which we here present unto thee by the efficacious intercession of the blessed Virgin Mary and grant that as her Purity is exalted by thee to the highest degree of glory so her Charity may obtain for us the especial assistance of thy grace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty Eternal God who didst so prepare the Body and Soul of the glorious Virgin Mary by the eo-operation of the Holy Ghost that it became a worthy habitation for thy Son Grant that in whose commemoration we rejoyce by her pious and prevalent intercession we may be delivered both from present evils and everlasting death thro Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen LITANIES of the Holy Angels O God the Father of Heaven Have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of the World Have c. O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son Have mercy on us Holy Mary Mother of God and Queen of Angels Pray for us Holy Angels who standing before the high and mighty Throne of God sing continually Holy Holy Holy Pray for us Holy Angels who always behold the face of God in Heaven and serve before his Throne and who always obey his word and do his will Pray for us Holy Angels who have committed to you from God the care and custody of Man ministring Spirits sent forth to minister to them who shall be heirs of Salvation Pray for us Holy Angels Governors of Provinces Protectors of Kingdomes Defenders of the Church Conservators of the Elect Pray for us Holy Angels carrying up the prayers and services of men to God and bringing down God's blessings unto men Pray for us Holy Angels that excel in strength restraining the power of evil Spirits and malice of wicked men Pray for us Holy Angels that rejoyce in the Conversion of any one Sinner that doth penance Pray for us St. Michael Prince of the heavenly Host who castedst out of heaven the Dragon with his Apostate Angels mighty Prince who always standest to help the people of God Pray for us St. Michael the Receiver of the Souls of the faithful and Conducter of them into Paradise Pray for us St. Gabriel who revealedst to Daniel the sacred Visions who warredst against the Prince of the Persians for the people of
God who publishedst to Zachary the birth and office of St. John Baptist and sent from God to the Blessed Virgin wast the happy Messenger of the Incarnation of the eternal Word of God Pray for us St. Raphael one of the Seven which assist before our Lord the holy conducter of Tobias the restorer of sight and powerful expeller of evil Spirits Pray for us Holy Seraphin who with a burning coal purified the lips of Esaias Pray for us Holy Cherubin who wast set to keep the way of the Tree of Life Pray for us O Holy Angels who in executing judgment on Sodom deliveredst just Lot vexed with their filthy conversation Pray for us Holy Angels who ascended and descended upon Jacob's Ladder Pray for us Holy Angel who deliveredst Jacob from all evil Pray for us O Angel of God who in smiting all the first born of Egypt passedst over the houses of the Israelites who conductedst them into the land of Promise and deliveredst the Law unto Moses Pray for us O Prince of the Host of God who wast sent to aid Joshuah and who destroyedst of the Assyrians warring against God's people an hundred fourscore and five thousand in one night Pray for us Holy Angel who when Daniel was cast into the Lyon's Den shuttedst up their mouths that they might not hurt him Pray for us Holy Angels who joyfully sung Glory to God on high at the Birth of the Saviour of Mankind Pray for us Holy Angels who ministred to our Lord when anhungred in the Wilderness Pray for us Holy Angel who comfortedst our Lord in his Agony Pray for us Holy Angels who first declared the joyful news of our Lord's Resurrection Pray for us O ye Angels of God who brought out of prison and set at large the Apostles and St. Peter and struck with an ignominious death proud Herod not giving Honor to God Pray for us Holy Angels who carried the Soul of Lazarus into Abraham's Bosome Pray for us O Holy Angels who shall come with our Saviour in his Majesty to judgment and at the end of the world shall gather the Elect from the four winds and separate the wicked from amongst the just and gather all scandals out of the Kingdome of Christ Pray for us O all ye Orders of Blessed Spirits Angels and Arch-Angels Vertues and Thrones Dominions Principalities and Powers Cherubin and Seraphin Pray for us O Christ who art placed above all Principalities and Powers and Thrones and Dominions and every name that is named not only in this world but that to come Have mercy on us From all dangers By thy Holy Angels Deliver us O Lord. From the temptations snares and illusions of the devil By thy Holy Angels Deliver us O Lord. From all filthy and unclean cogitations and suggestions By thy Holy Angels Deliver us O Lord. From all filthy and unclean cogitations and suggestions By thy Holy Angels Deliver us O Lord. From the counsels and malice of wicked men and all evil company By thy Holy Angels Deliver us O Lord. From sudden and unprovided death By thy Holy Angels Deliver us O Lord. We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That thou wouldst spare us and give thy Holy Angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways We sinners c. That thou wouldst direct and govern thy Church and grant to all Christian Societies unity peace and concord by the Ministration of thy Holy Angels We sinners c. That thou wilt be pleased at the hour of death to guard us with the defence and protection of thy Holy Angels We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That thou wilt be pleased to transport our Souls when they depart out of our bodies into the heavenly mansions by their ministry We sinners beseech thee to hear us That thou wouldst grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed in the blessed Society of thy Holy Angels We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. O Lamb of God that takest away c. Our Father which art Heaven c. A Hymn PRaise our Lord from the Heavens praise our Lord from the heights Praise our Lord all ye his Angels praise him all his Hosts Bless our Lord all ye Angels of his powerful in strength doing his will fulfilling his word O all ye Powers of our Lord bless ye our Lord ye ministring Spirits that do his will Bless our Lord O my Soul and forget not all his Benefits Who hath delivered thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with mercy and tender compassion For he hath given his holy Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder the young Lion and Dragon shalt thou trample under feet He shall send his Angels round about them that fear him and deliver them Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Before the Angels will I sing praise unto thee I will adore towards thy holy Temple and praise thy Name O Lord. O Lord hear our Prayers And let our cry come unto Thee Let us pray O Eternal God who in thy wonderful providence hast made the Angels ministring Spirits and sendest them in mission for the good of thine Elect behold with pity the temptations and dangers to which the frailty of our nature is perpetually exposed and give thy holy Angels charge to bear us in their hands and cover us under the shadow of their wings that being guided thro the desert of this life by their safe conduct we may enter at last into the land of Promise and rejoyce for ever in their blessed Society thro Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty and everlasting God who madest us thy unworthy Servants after thy own Image and hast deputed thy holy Angels for our Keepers Grant unto thy Servants that by their defence and custody we happily pass thro all dangers of Body and Soul and after this life ended attain to everlasting joys together with them thro Jesus Christ Amen WE beseech you O Angelical Spirits our faithful Guardians and Keepers direct and guide us by the divine Bounty committed to your care and protection this day and for ever in the way of peace prosperity and safety defend us likewise from every evil spirit and dangerous temptation until we arrive to the blessed Vision in our heavenly Country and there together with you and all the Saints praise the common Saviour of us all for ever and ever Amen O Holy Michael the Arch-angel Prince of the Host of Heaven who standest always for the help of the people of God who foughtest with the great Dragon that old Serpent and threwest him out of Heaven and valiantly defendest the Church of God so that the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it We beg of thee from the
Adam after his fall to the acknowledgment of his fault and who upon Moses's Prayer forgavest the transgressions of thy people against thee From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us Who frequently restoredst the Israelites after they had sinned when turning unto thee being penitent out of the hands of their enemies From thy great wrath c. Who puttedst away David's sin confessing and doing penance in sackcloth and fasting who sparedst Ahab humbling himself and doing penance From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us Who heardst Manasses repenting and restoredst him to his Kingdome who heardst Jonah crying unto thee out of the belly of the Whale after he had run away from thee who pardonedst the Ninevites doing penance in fasting sackcloth and ashes From thy great wrath c. JESU Son of the living God who camest into this world to save sinners the good Shepherd who camest to seek and to save that which was lost From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us Who being to redeem the world sent'st John the Baptist the Preacher of Penance and gavest him to be a wonderful pattern thereof in the severity of his diet and raiment From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us JESU who tho thou knewest no sin yet was frequent in fastings watchings and other acts of Penance From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us Who declaredst the Publican acknowledging his guilt with sorrow and humbly beating his breast to be justified who calledst the Publicans and Sinners and not the Just to repentance and broughtest Salvation to the houses of Matthew and Zacheus being penitent From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us Who deliveredst those that were afflicted with diseases by Satan first forgiving their sins who by the example of the Prodigal Son returning to his Father hast given poor sinners great hopes of pardon and forgiveness From thy great wrath good Lord deliver us Who mercifully absolvedst the Woman taken in Adultery and who forgavest much to Mary Magdalen a Sinner because she loved much From thy great wrath c. Who by graciously looking upon Peter after he had denied thee thrice broughtst him to confession of his Sin and bitter tears of Penitence and who miraculously calledst St. Paul when a great Persecutor and making havock of thy Church From thy great wrath c. Who didst bear our sins in thy Body upon the Cross and wast made a propitiation for us From thy great c. We confess unto thee O Lord our transgressions and the transgressions of our fore-fathers by which we with them have offended thee and walked contrary to thy commandments Be merciful and spare us O Lord. Behold we were conceived in sin and in iniquity did our Mothers bring us forth and as we have multiplied our days so have we multiplied the number of our transgressions Be merciful and spare us O Lord We have sinned by our vain thoughts and the unlawful desires of our hearts the idle and wicked words of our lips by our wicked works and our whole life spent unprofitably Be merciful and spare us O Lord. We have sinned against thee by unthankfulness for thy benefits by impatience under thy chastisements and our care to fulfil our own sinful lusts more than thy holy commandments Be merciful and spare us O Lord. We have sinned against our brethren not doing to others as we would have them do to us Be merciful c. We have sinned against our selves by preferring the profits of this present world before our eternal happiness Be merciful and spare us O Lord. We have sinned by deferring our Conversion and putting off our good purposes of amending our lives by exposing our weak nature to new temptations by neglecting many opportunities of doing good and even our best endeavours have been full of imperfections Be merciful and spare us O Lord. We have sinned by not improving those talents thou hast bestowed upon us by loosing our precious time and neglecting the means thou hast afforded us for the promoting of our Salvation Be merciful and spare us O Lord. Our iniquities have multiplied over our heads and our transgressions have grown up to the heavens to thee O Lord belongeth mercy and forgiveness but unto us shame and confusion of face Be merciful and spare us c. Just art thou O Lord in all the evils that have befallen us for thou hast dealt righteously with us but we have done wickedly and our destruction is from our selves Be merciful and spare us O Lord. Be merciful and spare us O Lord. From all Evil Deliver us O Lord. From all Sin Deliver us O Lord. From all profaness and contempt of Sacred things from all Superstition and Hypocrisy from Idolatry and worshiping of thee according to our own fancy from rash swearing perjury and cursing Deliver us O Lord. From neglect in coming to and irreverence in celebrating thy holy service Deliver us O Lord. From disobedience to our Superiors and doing injuries to our Neighbour from anger and contention from cousining and fraud from lying and back-biting Deliver us O Lord. From all wicked desires from wanton thoughts filthy concupiscences and uncleanness from lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes Deliver us O Lord. From pride covetousness and luxury from envy anger and gluttony from sloth in things concerning our eternal Salvation and all other mortal sin Deliver us c. From all impatience and murmuring against the righteous Dispensations of thy Divine Providence Deliver c. From all Schism and Heresy from presuming on our own judgments from all seducing of others into sin Deliver us O Lord. From relapsing into those sins of which we have once repented from hardness of heart and security of an evil conscience Deliver us O Lord. From the sight of the angry Judge from being placed at thy left hand and hearing that fearful sentence Deliver us O Lord. From the worm that dies not and the fire that is unquenchable from the bitter pains of eternal death from the gates of hell and power of darkness Deliver us c. By the paternal bowels of God the Father by the bloody wounds of God the Son by the ineffable goodness of God the Holy Ghost Deliver us O Lord. By that Name besides which there is no other given under heaven by which we can be saved by the blood of the New Testament and propitiation for the whole world Deliver us O Lord. We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord. That thou wouldst vouchsafe to bring us to true Penance and that we may always bear in memory in the bitterness of our Souls the ill spent years of our forepast life We sinners beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst be pleased to enlighten our minds to the finding out of our secret sins and of such as formerly known are now forgotten by us We sinners c. That we may duly perform the penances enjoyned us by our Ghostly Fathers and that we may judge our selves and so escape thy
Temperance and modesty sobriety and chastity a true love of thee and our neighbours the contempt of our selves and the things of this world bounty and compassionate affections Grant us O Lord Diligence and constant vigilancy a hunger and thirst after Holiness zeal and fervour of spirit Christian fortitude and perseverance to the end Grant us c. We sinners beseech Thee to hear us O Lord That being reconciled to God by the death of Christ we may present our selves holy unspotted and unblameable before him that we may walk worthy of God in all things well-pleasing fruitful in good works and increasing in the knowledge of God We sinners c. That whatsoever we do in word or deed we may do all to the glory of God that we make not void thy grace or receive it in vain We sinners beseech Thee to hear us That we be careful to sanctify our Lord Jesus Christ always in our hearts that we seek not our own things but before all the things of Jesus Christ We sinners c. That looking up to Jesus who suffered we be not wearied and faint in our minds but considering the conversation of the Saints imitate their faith and patience We sinners beseech Thee to hear us That as his Souldiers we entangle not our selves in the things of this world but having food and raiment we be content therewith We sinners beseech Thee to hear us That by good works we make our faith and election sure that we do good whilst we have time and faint not for that we shall reap in due season We sinners c. That we forbear one another in love being careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace that we bear one another's burthens and so fulfil the law of God We sinners beseech Thee c. That being strengthened in all virtue thro the power of his grace we give thanks to God with all patience and long-suffering We sinners beseech Thee to hear us That waiting for the coming of our Lord we be careful to be found in him pure and unspotted in peace that we may receive the end of our faith even the salvation of our Souls and in the mean time work out our Salvation with fear and trembling We sinners beseech Thee c. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Increase our Faith O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Infuse Hope O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Enkindle Charity O Christ hear us Christ give Ear unto us Our Father which art in Heaven c. Let us pray IN flame O Lord our reins and heart with the fire of thy holy Spirit that we may serve thee with a chast body and please thee with a pure heart O Most gracious Lord vouchsafe we beseech thee to direct and order all our thoughts words and works according to thy blessed will and to the praise of thy great Name conform them according to the perfect example of thy most holy life and conversation Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen O God which justifiest the ungodly we humbly beseech thy Majesty graciously to defend with thy heavenly grace and assist with thy continual protection us thy servants relying on thy mercy that constantly running in the course of virtue we may at length receive the crown thereof and by no temptations be withdrawn from serving thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Father of mercies and God of all consolations propitiously regard the frailty of our condition and by thy grace strengthen our endeavours that thro thy mercy we may at length obtain plenary remission of our sins constancy in thy holy service and the reward promised to perseverance thro Jesus Christ thy only Son our Lord. Amen Concerning our SPEECH For Governing our Words O Almighty Judge of men who hast declared that for every idle word we must give account in the day of Judgment and by our words we must be justified or condemned and hast taught us by thy Holy Scriptures that he that keepeth his tongue keepeth his life and that if any offend not in word the same is a perfect man We beseech thee to set a continual watch before our mouth and keep the door of our lips that we may ever take heed unto our ways that we offend not in our tongue that unruly member which defileth the whole Body and setteth on fire the whole course of Nature O Lord protect and deliver thy servants by thy restraining Grace and by thy fear from the many evil and bitter fruits of this so small a member from blasphemy swearing or taking thy name in vain from lying slandering backbiting and speaking evil of our neighbour from railing reviling flattery tale-bearing or disclosing secrets from vain-glory and boasting from praising our selves or disparaging others from ostentation of our own science and wit from all filthy and corrupt communication from jesting foolish froward and idle words and unprofitable discourse And Thou who hast given this Member c. Thou knowest O Lord who knowest all our infirmities how slippery a member the Tongue is and how liable we are to some abuse of it which we are necessitated so often to use and have so often occasions ministred unto us of using it amiss which also it is not in another's power easily to restrain Grant that we may employ our uttermost endeavours to prevent the manifold evils thereof that we may not desire to speak where we may without loss be silent nor utter any thing which becomes not thy servants for fear of seeming stupid or ignorant melancholick or unsociable make us swift to hear and learn but slow to speak not intermedling in every discourse nor speaking at all times what we know but what is necessary remembring that a prudent man concealeth knowledge and that there is more hopes of a fool than of one hasty in his words And good Lord endue with such peaceableness and calmness of spirit that we may never passionately contend or dispute to maintain an unnecessary truth or to vindicate a small right or to justify our selves in slight defamations or affronts but may follow the pattern of thy most admirable silence O Lord even in the questioning of thy most innocent life and on all occasions vilifying and humbling our selves may in our hearts give the glory only to Thee Who livest and reignest c. But thou who hast given this member to thy creature Man as a special instrument of thy Praise grant that we may zealously employ it to promote thy glory and when ever occasion is given to vindicate thy honor to joyn in thy praises and to give thanks and to speak good of thy Name O Lord open thou our lips and let our mouth ever shew forth thy Praise And be pleased also so to sanctify us in our worldly converse that our Speech may be always