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Devotions for the helpe and assistance of all Christian people in all occasions and necessities.
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Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Hatton, Christopher Hatton, Baron, 1605-1670.
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beg of thee mercy for my soul strengthen it with thy grace against all temptations let thy loving kindnesse defend it as with a shield against all the violences and hostile assaults of Sathan let the same mercy be my guard and defence which protected thy Martyrs crowning them with victory in the midst of flames horrid torments and most cruell deaths There is no help in me O Lord I cannot by my own power give a minutes rest to my wearied body but my trust is in thy sure mercies I call to mind to my unspeakable comfort that thou wert hungry and thirsty and wearied whipt and crown'd with Thornes and mock'd crucified for me O let that mercy which made thee suffer so much make thee do that for which thou sufferedst so much pardon me and save me Let thy merits answer for my impieties let thy righteousnesse cover my sinnes thy bloud wash away my staines and thy comforts refresh my soul As my body growes weak let thy grace be stronger let not my faith doubt nor my hope tremble nor my charity grow cold nor my soul be affrighted with the terrors of death but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death eternall and when my tongue failes let thy spirit teach my heart to pray with strong cryings and groanes that are unutterable O Let not the enemy do me any violence but let thy holy mercies and thy Angels repell and defeat his malice and fraud that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joyes of eternity in the fruition of thee my life my joy my hope my exceeding great reward my Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen V. For a dying Person in or neare the agonies of death MOst mercifull and Blessed Saviour have mercy upon the soule of this thy servant remember not his ignorances nor the sins of his youth but according to thy great mercy remember him in the mercies and glories of thy Kingdome Thou O Lord hast open'd the Kingdom of Heaven to all beleivers let the everlasting gates be open'd and receive his Soul let the Angells who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner triumph and be exalted in his deliverance and salvation Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy incarnation life and sanctity passion and death resurrection and ascension and of all the prayers of the Church of the joy of the elect and all the fruits of the blessed communion of Saints and dayly adde to the number of thy beatified servants such as shall be saved that thy comming may be hastned and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled and the glory of thee our Lord Iesu be advanced all the whole Church singing prayses to the Honour of thy name who livest and raignest ever one God world without end Amen VI O Most mercifull Iesu who didst dye to reredeem us from death and damnation have mercy upon this thy servant whom thy hand hath visited with sicknesse of thy goodnesse be pleased to forgive him all his sinnes and seal his hopes of glory with the refreshments of thy holy Spirit Lord give him strength and confidence in thee asswage his pain repell the assaults of his Ghostly enemies by thy mercies and a guard of holy Angels preserve him in the unity of the Church keep his senses intire his understanding right give him great measure of contrition true faith a well grounded hope and abundant charity give him a quiet and a joyfull departure let thy ministring spirits convey his soule to the mansions of peace and rest there with certainty to expect a joyfull resurrection to the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore Amen VII A Prayer for the joyes of Heaven O Most glorious Iesu who art the portion and exceeding great reward of all faithfull people thou hast beautified humane Nature with glorious immortality and hast carried the same above all Heavens above the seat of Angels beyond the Cherubims and Seraphims placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity that we may live in thy feare and die in thy favour Prepare our soules with heavenly vertues for heavenly joyes making us righteous here that we may be beautified hereafter Amen A MORNING PRAYER In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Eternall son of righteousnes who camest from the bosome of thy Father the Fountain of my glorious light to enlighten the darknesses of the world I praise thy Name that thou hast preserved me from the dangers of this night and hast continued to me still the opportunities of serving thee and advancing my hopes of a blessed eternity Let thy mercies shine brightly upon me and dissipate the clouds and darknesses of my spirit and understanding rectifie my affections and purifie my will and all my actions that whatsoever I shall do or suffer this day or in my whole life my words and purposes my thoughts and my intentions may be sanctified and be acceptable to thy divine Majesty Amen II. GRant that my understanding may know thee my heart may love thee and all my faculties and powers may give thee due obedience and serve thee Preserve me this day from all sin and danger from all violences and snares of mine enemies visible and invisible let thy holy feare be as a bridle to my distemperatures and thy love so enkindle and actuate all mine endeavours that no pleasure or allurements of the world may draw me from thy service nor any difficulty or temptation may be my hinderance let the profound humility and innocence of my blessed Saviour keep from me all pride and haughtinesse of minde all self-selfe-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and hurtfull dissimulation and let the graces of the holy Ghost take so absolute possession and seizure of my soule and all it's faculties that I may tread down and cast out the spirit of intemperance and uncleannesse of malice and envy of idlenesse and disdaine that I may never despise any of thy creatures but my selfe that so being little in mine own sight I may be great in thine Amen III. CLoth my soule with the wedding garment the habits of supernaturall Faith and Charity that I may believe all thy holy promises and revelations without all wavering and love thee my God with so great devotions and affections that neither life nor death prosperity nor adversity temptations within nor without may ever disunite me from the love of thee but that I may have the most intimate adhesion to thy glories and perfections of which my condition in this world is capable Make me to choose vertue with the same freenes of election entertaine it with as little reluctancy keep it with as much complacency actuate it with as many faculties serve it with as much industry as I have in time
Sacrament that it may be unto me life and pleasantnesse and holy nourishment and that I may be firmely and indissolubly united to thy mysticall Body and may at last see clearly and without a vaile thy face in glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen II. I Adore and blesse thy glorious Majesty O blessed Iesu for this great dignation and vouchsafing to me that thou art pleased for all the infinite multiplication of my sinnes and innumerable violations of thy holy Law still to give thy selfe unto me to convey health and grace and life and hopes of glory in the most blessed Sacrament I adore thee O most righteous Redeemer that thou art pleased under the visible signes of Bread and Wine to convey unto our soules thy holy Body and Bloud and all the benefits of thy bitter Passion O my God I am not worthy thou shouldest come under my roofe but let thy holy Spirit with his purities prepare for thee a lodging in my soule Thou hast knocked often O blessed Iesu at the doore of my heart and wouldest willingly have entred behold O Lord my heart is ready to receive thee cast out of it all worldly desires all lusts and carnall appetites and then enter in and there love to inhabit that the Devill may never returne to a place that is so swept and garnished to fill me full of all iniquity O thou lover of soules grant that this holy Sacrament may be a light unto mine eyes a guide to my understanding and a joy to my soule that by its strength I may subdue and mortifie the whole body of sin in me and that it may produce in me constancy in Faith fulnesse of wisedome perfection and accomplishment of all thy righteous commandments and such a blessed union with thee that I may never more live unto my selfe or to the world but to thee onely and by the refreshment of an holy hope I may be lead through the pathes of a good life and persevering piety to the communion and possession of thy Kingdome O blessed Iesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen III. O Lord God who hast made all things of nought producing great degrees of esâ—ence out of nothing make me a new creature and of a sinfull man make me holy and just and mercifull that I may receive thy precious Body devoutly reverently with meeknesse contrition and great affection with spirituall comfort and gladnesse at thy mysticall presence Feed my soule with Bread from Heaven fill me with charity conform me to thy wil in all things save me from all dangers bodily and ghostly assist and guide me in all doubts and feares prepare and strengthen me against all surreptions and sudden incursion of temptations cleanse me from all staines of sin and suffer nothing to abide in me but thy selfe onely who art the Life of soules the Food of the Elect and the joy of Angels Give me such a gust and holy relish in this Divine nutriment that nothing may ever hereafter please me but what savours of thee and thy miraculous sweetnesse Teach me to loath all the pleasures and beauties of this life and let my soule be so inebriated with the pleasures of thy Table that I may be comprehended and swallowed up with thy love and sweetnesse let me thinke nothing but thee covet nothing but thee enjoy nothing but thee nothing in comparison with thee and neither do nor possesse any thing but what leades to thee and is in order to the performance of thy will and the fruition of thy glories Transfixe my soule O blessed Jesu with so great love to thee so great devotion in receiving the holy Sacrament that I may be transformed to the Fellowship of thy sufferings and admitted to a participation of all the benefits of thy Passion and to a communion of thy graces and thy glories I desire to be with thee dissolve all the chaines of my sin and then come Lord Jesus come quickly Let my soule feed on thee greedily for thou art the spring of light and life the Fountaine of wisedome and health a torrent of divine pleasure and tranquillity the Authour of peace and comfort enter into me sweet Jesu take thou possession of my soule and be thou Lord over me and all my faculties and preserve me with great mercy and tendernesse that no doubting or infidelity no impenitence or remanent affection to a sin no impurity or irreverence may make me unworthy and uncapable of thy glorious approach Let not my sinnes crucifie the Lord of life again let it not be said concerning me the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table that this holy Communion may not be unto me an occasion of death but a blessed peace-offering for my sinnes and a gate of life and glory Grant this O blessed God for his sake who is both Sacrifice and Priest the Master of the Feast and the Feast it selfe even Iesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen A Prayer after receiving the consecrated Bread I Give thankes unto thee Almighty and eternall God that thou hast not rejected me from thy holy Table but hast refreshed my soule with the salutary refection of the Body of thy Son Iesus Christ Lord if I had lived innocently and had kept all thy Commandments I could have had no proportion of merit to so transcendent a mercy but since I have lived in all manner of sin and multiplied provocations against thy Divine Majesty thy mercy is so glorious and infinite that I am amased at the consideration of its immensity Go on O my deare God to finish so blessed a redemption and now that thou hast begun to celebrate a marriage and holy union between thy selfe and my soule let me never throw off the wedding garment or stain it with the pollutions of deadly sin nor seek after other lovers but let me for ever and ever be united unto thee being transformed into thy will in this life and to the likenesse of thy glories in the life to come who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen After receiving the Cup O Iust and deare God who out of the unmeasurable abysses of wisedome and mercy hast redeemed us and offered life and grace and salvation to us by the reall exhibition of thy Son Iesus Christ in the sacrifice of his Death upon the altar of the Crosse and by commemoration of his bitter agonies in the holy Sacrament Grant that that great and venerable sacrifice which we now commemorate sacramentally may procure of thee for thy whole Church mercy and great assistance in all trials deliverance from all heresies schismes sacriledge and persecutions to all sicke people health and salvation redemption for captives competency of living to the indigent and necessitous comfort to the afflicted reliefe to the oppressed repentance to all sinners softnesse of