But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Apostle's Creed divided into Articles 1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth 2. And in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried 5. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty 7. From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead 8. I believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints 10. The Forgiveness of Sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the Life Everlasting Amen An Advertisement CONCERNING The Division of the Hours of PRAYER IT appeareth both by the Histories of the Jews and by plain Observations out of the New Testament that the space of the Day from the Morning to the Evening was solemnly divided into four equal parts which they called Hours to wit the First the Third the Sixth and the Ninth The First Hour comprehended the whole space from the Sun being risen about six of the clock in the Morning after our account till Nine or thereabouts The Third Hour began from thence and lasted till High-noon with us The Sixth from thence to our three of the clock after Noon The Ninth from that hour to the Vespers or Evensong about six in the evening or Sun-set And what was done in any part of these four spaces was indifferently taken and said to be done in that Hour whereunto every space of time was allotted In which respect St. Mark chap. 15. 25. saith It was the Third Hour when they crucified Christ and yet St. John chap. 19. 14. saith It was about the Sixth Hour before he was yet crucified Nor is there any contradiction at all between these two Evangelists St. Mark understanding the last part of the Third Hour which was now at the very end and St. John meaning that it was now near upon the beginning of the Sixth Hour which was immediately to follow the ending of the Third and the beginning of the Sixth being both one and the same point of time THE DAILY OFFICE OF A CHRISTIAN The Office for every day In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen O Lord I am risen up and fallen prostrate before thee Prevent me I beseech thee in all my doings with thy most gracious Favour and further me with thy continual Help that in all my Works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain Everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God and most merciful Father all Merciful Mercy it self I have erred wittingly and strayed willingly nay run from thy ways more like an untamed Heifer than a lost or wandring Sheep I have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart I have offended against nay been offended at thy holy most holy Laws I have left undone not done at all those things which I ought to have done And I have done done nothing else but those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health no hope of health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable most miserable sinner the greatest sinner and most unthankful for so great Grace Spare me and them all O God which confess their faults Restore me and all them that be penitent that desire to be penitent that wish they were would be glad if they were so that fear they are not enough and are sorry they are no more For this is according to thy Promises most pretious most gracious most sweet Promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. Grant therefore O most merciful Father for his sake who is our Redeemer Advocate Author and Finisher of our Faith our Propitiation Righteousness and Justification that I and all Penitents may hereafter live a Godly Righteous and Sober Life to the Glory of thy holy Name and the Salvation of our own Souls Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father pardon I beseech thee all the Sins Omissions and Commissions Thoughts Words and Deeds by which I have provoked thee unto anger from the time of my Birth to this present moment That no one nor all of my sins together may ever be able to cry oftner or louder in thine Ears for Vengeance than the Cry of my Prayers may ascend up unto thee for Mercy and for Forgiveness and obtain that they sue for Particularly I humbly beseech thee forgive unto me my Great and my Clamorous sins such as are c. O Lord against Heaven and against Thee have I sinned and committed foul Trangressions in thy sight but I beseech thee wipe them all out of the Book of Remembrances which thou hast written through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen GIve unto me O Lord I humbly beseech thee a wise a sober a patient an understanding a devout a religious a courageous Heart Chaste and temperate Reins and Thoughts A Soul full of Devotion to do thee service strength against all Temptations especially the Temptations of c. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks increase my thankfulness I beseech thee for all Benefits and Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal which in the riches of thy great Mercy thou hast liberally poured down upon me but especially Spiritual Lord let me not live but to praise and magnifie Thee and thy glorious Name Particularly I give thee most unfeigned thanks for my preservation from the time of my Birth to this present moment for c. For bringing me safe to the beginning of this day in which and all the days of my life I beseech thee preserve me from sin and from danger in Soul and in Body that all my thoughts words and works may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name the good of thy Church the discharge of my Duty the salvation of my Soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee through Jesus Christ our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee bless thy Holy Catholick Church wheresoever spread upon the face of the whole Earth Good Lord purge it from all Atheism Heresie Schism Superstition factious maintenance of Groundless Opinions that one Faith one Lord one Baptism may in all places be uniformly professed as thy Church is and can be but one And grant good Lord that I may be and continue a faithful living and a working Member under Christ the Head in that Church the Body all the days of my life and at the hour of my death through
Up Lord why sleepest thou Awake and be not absent from us for ever Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our miserie and trouble For our soul is brought low even unto the dust our bellie cleaves unto the ground Arise O Lord and help us and deliver us for thy mercies sake Amen In thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness Bow down thine ear to me make haste to deliver me Be thou my strong rock and house of defence that thou mayest save me Be also my guide and lead me for thy Names sake Amen O God the enemie crieth so and the ungodly cometh on so fast that they threaten to overbear me they are minded to do me some mischief so maliciously are they set against me My heart is disquieted within me and the fear of death is fallen upon me Fearfulness and trembling and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me And I said O that I had wings like a Dove that I might flie away and be at rest that I might make haste to escape the stormie wind and tempest But be thou my helper and I will magnifie thee O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O be thou my help in trouble for vain is the help of man Amen Gracious Father the life of man is a warfare upon earth and the dangers which assault us are diversly pointed against us I humbly beseech thee be present with me in all the course and passages of my life but especially in the services of my Calling Suffer no malice to be able to hurt me no cunning to circumvent me no violence to oppress me no falshood to betray me That which I cannot foresee I beseech thee prevent That which I cannot withstand I beseech thee master That which I do not fear I beseech thee unmask and frustrate that being delivered from all danger both of soul and bodie I may praise thee the deliverer and see how happie a thing it is to make the Lord of Hosts my helper in the day of fear and trouble Especially O Lord bless and preserve me at this time from c. that I may glorifie thee for this deliverance also and be safe in the merits and the mercies of Jesus Christ my onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord thou hast fed me with the bread of affliction and given me plentie of tears to drink I am become a very strife to my neighbours and mine enemies laugh me to scorn But turn thee again thou God of Hosts shew me the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen Help me O Lord my God O save me according to thy mercie and then the World shall know that this is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Amen Lord Jesus Amen If my delight had not been in thy Law I should have perished in my trouble O continue my delight Amen In Misery and Adversity LOrd turn thee unto me and have mercie upon me for I am desolate and in miserie The sorrows of my heart are inlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles Look upon mine adversitie and miserie and forgive me all my sins through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Hear my crying O God give ear unto my Prayer From the ends of the earth whither soever thou shalt cast me I will call upon thee when my heart is in heaviness O set me upon the Rock that is higher than I to be my hope and a strong tower against my oppressors Amen Save me O God for the waters are entred into my Soul I stick fast in the deep mire where no stay is I am come into deep waters and the streams run over me They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head and they which would destroy me causeless are mightie O let not these water-floods drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindness is great turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies Hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble but draw near unto my soul and redeem it for Jesus Christ his sake Amen My soul melteth away for very heaviness comfort thou me according to thy Word Amen O Lord trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me patience good Lord that for all this my delight may be in thy Commandments Amen Against Reproach O Lord my sins have made me a rebuke to my neighbours and to be laughed to scorn of them that are round about me O suffer me not longer to be a by-word among the people My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face hath covered me The voice of the slanderer and blasphemer hath overtaken me And though all this be come upon me suffer me not O Lord to forget thee or to behave my self frowardly in thy Covenant through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Destroy their tongues O Lord and divide them for I have seen crueltie and strife in the Citie But I will call upon thee O Lord and thou wilt save me Amen O Lord send down from heaven and save me from the reproof of them that would swallow me Send out thy mercie and truth for my soul is among Lions I lie among the children of men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword O deliver me and I shall magnifie thy Name for ever Amen I am become a Monster to many but thou art my sure trust O be my Anchor for ever Amen O remember Lord the rebuke that thy servant hath and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people O remember me Amen Against Fraud and Deceit O Lord watch over thy servants for my familiar friends whom I trusted have laid wait for me Be thou merciful unto me O Lord and deliver me from them that even in this I may know thou favourest me that mine Enemies are not able to triumph against me Amen Exalt thy self O God above the heavens and thy glorie upon all the earth For men have laid a net for my steps they have pressed down my soul they have digged a pit before me Lord I desire not that they should fall into the midst of it themselves but I beseech thee keep me out and deliver me for thy mercie sake Amen Mine enemies lay wait for my soul and take counsel together They pursue me out of an opinion that thou O God hast forsaken me But go not far from me O God my God haste to help me Amen O Lord the proud have digged pits for me they persecute me falsly O be thou my help They had almost made an end of me upon earth yet suffer me not I beseech thee to depart from thy Commandments for Jesus Christ
where any thing is amiss reform it where it is right strengthen and confirm it where it is in want furnish it where it is divided and rent asunder make up the breaches of it O thou holy One of Israel Amen O merciful God since thou hast ordered me to live in these times in which the rents of thy Church are grievous I humbly beseech thee to guide me that the divisions of men may not separate me either from thee or it that I may ever labour the preservation of Truth and Peace that where for and by our sins the Peace of it succeeds not thou wilt yet accept my will for the deed that I may still pray even while thou grantest not because I know thou wilt grant it when thou seest it fit In the mean time bless I beseech thee this Church in which I live that in it I may honour and serve thee all the days of my life and after this be glorified by thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou hast brought a Vine out of Egypt and planted it thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land O why hast thou broken down her hedge that all which go by pluck off her Grapes the wild Boar out of the Wood rooteth it up and the wild Beasts of the Field devour it O turn thee again thou God of Hosts look down from Heaven behold and visit this Vine and the place of the Vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the Branch that thou madest so strong for thy self Lord hear me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord except thou buildest the House their labour is but lost that build it and except thou O Lord keep the Citie the Watchman waketh but in vain It is but lost labour to rise early and take late rest and to eat the bread of carefulness if thou bless not the endeavours that seek the peace and the welfare of thy Church Therefore O Lord build thy Church and keep it and take care for it that there may be no lost labour among the Builders of it Amen O Lord our God the great the mighty and the terrible God O thou which keepest covenant and mercie let not all the trouble seem little before thee that hath come upon us upon our Priests upon the Houses built and dedicated to thy Name upon the Maintenance for them that serve at thy Altar upon our Kings State and People since that day of Affliction Thou are just in all that is brought upon us For thou hast done right but we have done wickedly Yet O Lord have mercie and turn to us again for Jesus and his mercies sake Amen For the Commonweal O Lord thou which bringest the counsels of the Heathen to nought and makest the devices of the People to be of none effect and castest out the counsels of Princes when they have offended thee have mercie upon this Kingdom forgive the sins of this People turn thee unto them and bless them that the World may say Blessed are the People whose God is the Lord Jehovah and blessed are the Folk that he hath chosen to him to be his Inheritance Lord hear and grant for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Lord bless this Kingdom that Religion and Virtue may season all sorts of men that there may be Peace within the Gates and Plentie within the Palaces of it In Peace I beseech thee to preserve it that it corrupt not In War so defend it that it suffer not In Plentie so order it that it riot not In Want so pacifie and moderate it that it may patiently and peaceably seek thee the onely full supply both of Men and States that so it may continue a Place and a People to do thee service to the end of time through Jesus Christ our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Lord according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger be turned away from this Citie and thy People and cause thy face to shine upon whatsoever is desolate therein for Jesus Christ his sake Amen For the Kingdom of England O Almightie Lord God bless this Kingdom and grant that Health Chastitie Victorie and all Virtue may abound therein with Thanksgiving to God the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost And may this Blessing remain upon this Kingdom and upon all the Inhabitants thereof through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For House and Family * O Lord I beseech thee visit this Habitation and keep away from it all the snares of our ghostly Enemie Let thy holy Angels dwell in it and let them preserve us in peace and health and let thy Blessing be upon us for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For government of the Tongue LEt the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be always acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen Lord keep my tongue from evil and my lips that they speak no guile that so I may eschew evil and do good seek peace and ensue it Amen O Lord give me the mouth of the righteous that it may be exercised in wisdom and that my tongue may be talking of judgment Amen Lord I have said in thy grace I will take heed unto my ways that I offend not in my tongue Give me O give me that grace that I may take this heed that I may keep my mouth as it were with a bridle especially when the ungodly is in my sight be it never so much pain or grief unto me Hear me and grant even for Christ Jesus sake Amen Let the freewil-offerings of my mouth please thee O Lord and teach me thy Judgments Amen O Lord set a watch before my mouth and keep the door of my lips and let not my heart be inclined to any thing that is evil Amen O Lord set a watch before my mouth and a seal of Wisdom upon my lips that I fall not suddenly by them and that my tongue destroy me not Amen Against Temptations O Lord as thou art faithful so suffer me not I beseech thee to be tempted above that I am able but give an Issue with the Temptation that I may be able to bear it Amen * O Almighty God have respect unto my Prayers and deliver my heart from the temptations of ill thoughts that by thy mercie I may become a fit habitation for thy holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O God who makest all things work together for good to those that love Thee inflame my heart with such an inviolable sense of thy love as may never be shaken by the force of any Temptation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most merciful God grant me constancie in thy Faith and firmness in thy Love that I may retain both entirely and may never be turned from them by any Temptations through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For a
Now that I am fallen into such sins as these who shall raise me up again O Lord thou art my God in thee is my trust be thou my Saviour according to the bowels of thy compassion and be merciful to me according to the greatness of thy mercie and reward me not according to my works but turn thy self to me and turn me to thee Forgive me all the sins that I have committed against thee and save me for thy mercies sake and where sin has abounded there let thy Grace abound much more so shall I praise and glorifie thee all the days of my life For thou art the God of those that repent and the Saviour of sinners Glorie be to thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SUNDAY O Lord by thy mercie I am risen out of my Grave where I might have slept in death but that thou preservedst me Make it I beseech thee a Resurrection to Grace in this life and to Glorie in the life to come through Jesus Christ who merited both for us Amen This day by the Resurrection of thy Son our blessed Saviour was made Holy to us give me that Grace that I may keep it Holy to thee through Jesus Christ. Amen O send out thy Light and thy Truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy Hill and to thy Dwelling that I may go unto the Altar of thee O my God even the God of my joy and gladness and give thanks unto thee Amen Almightie and everlasting God who governest all things both in Heaven and Earth mercifully hear my supplications for my self and all thy People and grant us thy peace all the days of our life even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie God I humbly beseech thee give me Grace to cast away the works of darknefs and to put on the Armour of Light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Christ Jesus came to visit us in great humilitie that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majestie to judge both the quick and the dead I with all thy faithful servants may rise up to the life immortal through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Blessed God which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning grant unto me and all Christians that we may in such wise hear read mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort thereof we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Lord I humbly beseech thee raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us that whereas by our sins we are sore let and hindered thy bountiful Grace and Mercie through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glorie World without end Amen LOrd let thine Angels tarrie round about me and deliver me that I may taste and see how gracious thou my Lord art and how blessed the man is that trusteth in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I will wait for thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy Temple and there will I praise thee Amen Lord let me behold thee in thy Sanctuarie and there see thy Power and Glorie For thy loving kindness is better than life therefore my lips shall praise thee Thus will I magnifie thee all my life and lift up my hands in thy Name O satisfie me with that Riches of Mercie which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O how amiable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soul hath a desire and a longing to enter into the Courts of thee O Lord my heart and my flesh rejoyceth in thee O merciful God Amen Lord I humbly beseech thee to hear and accept my Prayers for my self and for thy people which call upon thee and grant that we may perfectly know what things we ought to do and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie and everlasting God mercifully look upon all my infirmities and in all dangers and adversities stretch out thy right hand to help and defend me through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen God thou which knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailtie we cannot always stand upright Grant I most humbly beseech thee to me the health of bodie and Soul that all those things which I suffer for sin I may by thy help well pass and overcome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord the Sun is at height for this day upon me but lift up the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Make all darkness and spiritual shadows short upon me and shorter in me through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret sins keep me also O Lord from presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me And keep me innocent from the great offence I humbly beseech thee Amen Blessed are they that dwell in thy House they will be alway praising thee Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy ways Lord thus bless the heart of thy servant for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Most holy adorable and long-suffering Trinitie for thou art indeed long-suffering who bearest so long with those that divide thee O holy Trinitie who hast long since vouchsafed me the honour to be thy Worshipper and Proclaimer unfeigned O holy Trinitie whom every man must one day acknowledge either by illumination or by punishment I pray thee make and accept even those also to be thy Adorers who now blaspheme thee that not one even of the least of these may perish And this though on condition that I lose some part of thy favour for I dare not say what the Apostle does Grant this by and for the merits of Jesus Christ our Redeemer Amen ALmightie God who through thine onely begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome Death and opened to us the gate of Everlasting Life I humbly beseech thee that as by thy special Grace preventing me thou dost put into my mind good desires so by thy continual help I may bring the same to good effect through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmightie God who hast given thine onely Son to die for our Sins and to rise again for our Justification give me Grace so to put away the leven of Malice and all Wickedness that I may always serve thee in pureness of living and in truth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God who hast given thine onely Son to be unto us both a Sacrifice for sin and an Example of
incomparable is the multitude of thy Bowels and unspeakable is the mercie of thy Goodness through which thou bearest with my sins Wherefore O King whom we can never praise enough O thou long-suffering Lord magnifie the wonders of thy mercie upon me a sinner discover in me the power of thy kindness shew forth the goodness of thy most merciful favour and receive me a Prodigal returning unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God how I receive the Bodie and Bloud of my most blessed Saviour Jesus Christ the price of my Redemption is the very wonder of my soul yet my most firm and constant belief upon the words of my Saviour At this time they are graciously tender'd to me and my Faith Lord make me a worthie Receiver and be it unto me as he hath said Amen Lord I have received this Sacrament of the Bodie and Bloud of my dear Saviour His mercie hath given it and my faith received it into my soul. I humbly beseech thee speak mercie and peace unto my Conscience and enrich me with all those Graces which come from that precious Bodie and Bloud even till I be possessed of Eternal Life in Christ. Amen * O thou that sittest on high with the Father and art here invisibly present with us come and sanctifie these thy gifts here present and those also by whom and those for whom and the end for which they are offered up Amen MUNDAY POnder my words O Lord consider my Meditations O hearken unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my Prayer My voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my Prayer unto thee and will look up But make me remember that thou art God and hast no pleasure in wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee Amen O Lord bless me and I will sing unto thee and praise thy Name and be telling of thy salvation from day to day Amen O Lord let Counsel preserve me and Understanding keep me Deliver me from the evil way and from the man that speaketh froward things and from all such as leave the ways of Righteousness to walk in the ways of Darkness even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I know the way of man is not in himself It is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps Therefore O Lord I beseech thee make me know my way and direct my steps to thy honour and my own salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen BE not wroth with me O Lord but spare me and have mercie upon me for thou wilt be merciful unto thy creature O Lord I and my Fathers have all had the same sickness but because of us that are sineers thou shalt be called merciful through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord guide me here with thy Counsel and after that receive me into Glorie For whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon Earth that I desire in comparison of thee O Lord preserve me in those longings after thee Amen O God take from me the way of lying and cause me to make much of thy Law that I may chuse the way of Truth and lay thy Judgments before me that I may stick unto thy Testimonies and run the way of thy Commandments when thou hast set my heart at libertie Amen O God the strength of all them that trust in thee mercifully accept my Prayers and because the weakness of mans nature can do no good thing without thee grant me the help of thy Grace that in keeping of thy Commandments I may please thee both in will and in deed through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou art just and all thy ways are mercie and truth thou judgest truly for ever remember me and look upon me punish me not according to my sins or my ignorances or my Fathers which have sinned before thee deal not with me according to my sins but as seemeth best unto thee O Lord my strength and my salvation Amen Lord I acknowledge my wickedness and the iniquitie of my Fathers we have sinned against thee O Lord be merciful Amen Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy People whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious Bloud and be not angrie with us for ever Amen Lord I beseech thee mercifully to hear me And as thou hast given me an heartie desire to pray so grant that by thy mightie aid I may be defended both in soul and in bodie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I beseech thee accept the Prayers that I offer thee give what I ask forgive what I fear for thou through thy Christ art the onely hope of sinners and through him I hope for pardon of my sins Amen O Lord be gracious unto me and give me an heart to worship thee and to do thy Will and open my heart in thy Law and send me peace hear my Prayers and be reconciled to me and never forsake me in the time of trouble for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy People O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the felicitie of thy chosen and rejoyce in the gladness of thy People and give thanks with thine Inheritance Amen O God the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiplie upon me thy mercie that thou being my Ruler and Guide I may so pass through things temporal that I finally lose not the things eternal Grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Grant O Lord that I may live in thy fear die in thy favour rest in thy peace rise in thy power raign in thy glorie for thy onely beloved Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen HEar O Lord consider my complaint hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips and prevent me in mercie before the Evening of my days close up upon me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord I pray thee let not my weakness distract me but let my speech be of that alone in which the salvation of my soul consists and let me never break forth to that degree both of folly and wickedness as to wish to be a Judge of thy Omnipotence and of thy Sacraments and suffer me not to exalt my weak opinion above either the divine determination of thy Infinitie or that belief of thy Eternitie which has been revealed to me Amen * Lighten our darkness I beseech thee O Lord and by thy mercie keep off all the snares and dangers of this whole night from me and from all thy faithful from
our souls more especially but even from our bodies also through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God which hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass mans understanding pour into my heart such love towards thee that I obeying thee in all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that I can desire through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ENcline thine ear unto me O Lord and hearken unto my words Shew thy marvellous loving kindness thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee Keep me as the apple of thine eye and hide me under the shadow of thy wings even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I cry unto thee let my Prayer be set forth in thy sight as Incense and the lifting up of my hands be an Evening-Sacrifice even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for joy and in my song will I praise him Amen O Lord of all power and might who art the author and giver of all good things graft in my heart the love of thy Name increase in me true Religion nourish me with all goodness and of thy great mercie keep me in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd let me know my end and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and my age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanitie For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord I give and offer up unto thee my self and all that is mine my actions and words my repose and silence onely do thou preserve and guide me and direct my hand mind tongue to things that are honest and acceptable to thee and withdraw me from any thing from which it were better to abstain by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen TUESDAY LOrd preserve me that neither this day nor any day of my life I may walk in the counsel of the ungodly stand in the way of sinners or sit down in the seat of the scornful but that my delight may be in thy Law O Lord and my exercise in it day and night Amen * O Sun of Righteousness Father and Original cause of all things when we are influenc'd from above by thee we receive new life when we are cherisht by thy blessed beams we grow up in Grace when we are inflamed by thy love we are made perfect when we are forsaken of thee we perish O thrice-happie are they upon whom thou arisest with the dew of mercie O Lord Jesus bless me with thy light and scatter the clouds of my ignorance and the thick darkness of my sins that I may not go astray from the way of thy Commandments but follow thee unto Light eternal through thee thy self my onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Lord thou art my Assurance I humbly beseech thee preserve my foot from taking even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord give me I beseech thee the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful that I who cannot be without thee may by thee be able to live according to thy will through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I lift up my soul to thee my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me Shew me thy ways O God and teach me thy paths Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee is my hope all the day long Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and offences of my youth or my riper age but according to thy mercie think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness and the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen Almightie God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves keep me I beseech thee both outwardly in my bodie and inwardly in my soul that so I may be defended from all adversitie which may happen to my bodie and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt my soul through Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen HEarken unto my voice O Lord now I cry unto thee have mercie upon me and hear me My heart hath talked of thee Seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation Amen At evening morning and at noon-day will I pray and that instantly Lord hear my voice O deliver my soul in peace from the practices that are against me Amen Let thy merciful ears O Lord be open to the Prayers of me thy humble servant and that I may obtain my Petitions make me to ask such things as shall please thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd let me not be confounded for I have called upon thee O how plentiful is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sons of men Lord I trust in thee have mercie upon me My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me Where is now thy God But let them have no cause to say it any more even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen ALmightie God which shewest to all men that are in errour the light of thy truth to the intent that they may return into the way of Righteousness grant I beseech thee unto me and all them that are admitted into the Fellowship of Christs Religion that we may eschew those things which are contrarie to our Profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord my Saviour in whose power it is to remit sins I beseech thee say unto me Loose thee from thy chains come out of the bonds of thy sins and when thou sayest it loose those cords of my errours wherewith I am entangled and bound for though I am the most wicked of all men and to be abhorred by reason of my continuance in sins yet when thou commandest I shall be free from them
Amen Lord give me grace that I may dwell under the defence of the most highest and that I may abide under thy shadow O thou Almightie for thou art my hope and my strong hold in thee will I trust through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God thou which declarest thy Almightie power most chiefly by shewing mercie and pitie give unto me abundantly thy grace that I running to thy promises may be made partaker of thy heavenly treasure through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God thou art my hope and strength a very present help in trouble confirm me that I may not fear though the earth be moved and the hills carried into the midst of the sea though the waters thereof rage and swell and the mountains shake at the tempest of the same O be in the midst of my soul and I shall never be moved Amen O Lord look upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to do to those that fear thy Name Order my steps in thy Word and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me Amen Almightie God give unto me I beseech thee a full increase of Faith Hope and charitie And that I may obtain that which thou dost promise make me love that which thou dost command through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd I call upon thee in the day of my trouble in the night of my heaviness O deliver me and I will glorifie thee Amen O Lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing And grant that thy correction may amend me and make me thine through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * Look on me also O Lord Jesus that I may call to mind my own sins and wash away my offences with tears grant me I beseech thee the tears of St. Peter I would not have the joy of a sinner That I may obtain this turn thee O Lord and look upon me and grant the same Cock may waken even me a most miserable sinner that being delivered I may sing unto thee for ever and ever Amen O eternal God and merciful Father grant I humbly beseech thee that I may love all those things which thou commandest and desire that which thou dost promise that amongst the sundrie and manifold changes of the world my heart may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen WEDNESDAY O Lord I have sinned and dealt wickedly nay offended in all thine Ordinances Let thy wrath turn from me for I am weak and hear my prayers and deliver me for thine own sake and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Gracious Father without thee I can do nothing but sin nor can I confess it to have pardon but by thee I was conceived and born in sin And though thou didst wash me from that in the laver of Baptism yet I have since defiled my self again and by many grievous actual sins have made my self a sinner above all other men considering the great measure of grace that thou hast given me Lord increase thy grace and by it weaken first and then cut off my resistance that I may see and confess and hate and forsake all my sins and find mercie and salvation in the merits of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen O Lord early this morning do I crie unto thee for in thy Word is my trust Hear me O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust O shew me the way that I should walk in this day and all the days of my life for I lift up my soul unto thee in the mercies of Jesus Christ. Amen DEliver me O Lord from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain But Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee and there let it still continue acceptable in Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Lord look upon me in mercie in the greater mercie because the Calling and Place I am in must give a stricter account to thee Look therefore upon me O Lord but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Cross of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the Bloud of Christ not till I have hid my self in the Wounds of Christ that so the punishment which should else overtake me may pass over me then look and say unto my soul I have forgiven thee and by the work of thy mercie in my soul make me feel it through Jesus Christ our onely Lord and Saviour Amen * O Lord who bringest the great Flocks to perfection and increasest the little ones by thy Grace comfort me abundantly according to the exceeding greatness of thy bountie and feed and preserve my Flock together with my self through Jesus Christ the chief Shepherd and our onely Saviour Amen O Lord plead thou my cause with them that strive with me and fight against them that fight against me Bring forth the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me Say unto my soul I am thy Salvation Even so Amen Give ear O Lord unto my Prayer and ponder the voice of my humble desires In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me Amen Deliver my soul O God from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue Amen Keep me O Lord thy poor humble servant with thy perpetual mercie And because the frailtie of man without thee cannot but fall preserve me ever by thy help and lead me to all things profitable to my salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord give me such Grace as I may seek thee while thou mayest be found and call upon thee while thou art near that I may detest and forsake the wickedness of my ways and the unrighteousness of my own imaginations that I may return unto thee and thou have mercie upon me in Jesus Christ my onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen Teach me thy ways O Lord and I will walk in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy Name Amen Lord I beseech thee grant that thy Grace may alway prevent and follow me and make me continually to be given to all good works through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen HAve mercie upon me O God after thy great goodness and according to the multitude of thy Mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me But let not this Evening take from me the light of the Sun of Righteousness Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen * Vouchsafe O Lord to hear my Prayers According to thy good pleasure drive out the Enemie
my life from them that go down into the pit Sing praises unto the Lord O my soul and give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his holiness Amen O my soul be joyful in the Lord and rejoyce in his Salvation All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poor and him that is in miserie from him that spoileth him Amen I will give thanks unto thee O Lord according to thy righteousness and I will praise thy Name O Lord most high O Lord thou art high and terrible a great King over all the Earth thou hast subdued the people under us and the Nations under our feet therefore will I sing praises unto thee O God who art greatly to be exalted Amen Thy Vows are upon me O my God I will render praise unto thee for thou hast delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling that I may yet walk before thee O my God in the light of the living and bless thee Amen * Thanks be to thee O God thanks be to thee O true and undivided Trinitie O Veritie one and three O Unitie three and one Thanks be to thee O God the Father who hast both manifested thy Son unto me and given him to be my Teacher O grant likewise that he may be so for ever according to thy mercies of old time Amen My heart is readie O Lord my heart is readie I will sing and give praise yea I will praise thee among the people and I will sing unto thee among the Nations O let thy Mercie which is great unto the Heavens and thy Truth which reacheth unto the Clouds embrace me and preserve me to thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works I will be glad and rejoyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy Name O thou most highest For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the Throne that judgest right Lord continue to be my defence against the oppressor and my refuge in due time of trouble that I may ever rejoyce in thy Salvation Jesus Christ. Amen My trust is in thee O God and my heart is joyful in thy salvation I will sing unto thee O Lord because thou hast dealt so lovingly with me yea I will praise thy Name O Lord most highest Amen O praise the Lord with me ye that fear him magnifie him all ye of the Seed of Jacob. My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation and my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear thee Amen What profit is there in my bloud when I go down to the pit Shall the dust give thanks unto thee or shall it declare thy truth Hear O Lord and have mercie upon me Lord be thou my helper Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness therefore will I sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Amen I will alwaies give thanks unto thee O Lord thy praise shall ever be in my mouth My soul shall make her boast of thee O my God and the humble shall hear thereof and be glad For I sought thee O Lord and thou heardest me and didst deliver me out of all my fear even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Let my mouth be filled with praise and with thy glorie every day Amen O Lord who is like unto to thee For thou hast shewed me great troubles and adversities but thou wilt I hope return and quicken me thou wilt return and take me out of this depth Amen I will thank thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for ever For great is thy mercie towards me and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost Hell O deliver it still for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I give thee humble and heartie thanks for the measure of knowledge which thou hast given me of thy truth for giving me a love to it and thy Church for quieting my soul in the midst of thy Churches distractions for the measure of rest and repose which thou hast given me in thee whereas no true content is found without thee Lord I give thee humble thanks likewise for the temporal blessings which thou hast heaped on me the favour of my Leige Lord and Soveraign the place to which thou hast raised me the means which thou hast given me to do good Lord I cannot name all thy blessings how shall I thank thee for them Lord I will thank thee for them by honouring thee in them O give a heart to desire all this and grace to perform it that my sins may be forgiven me and that I may be thine through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O praise the Lord for he is gracious O sing unto his Name for it is lovely I will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will worship towards thy holy Temple and praise thy Name and that because of thy loving kindness and truth for thou hast magnified thy Name and thy Word above all things Lord give me grace to obey thy Word and to honour thy Name for ever in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In Prosperity LOrd this is the time of fear keep thy servant from presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me That though my sins be many and great yet I may be innocent from the great offence even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord make me worthie of the place to which thou hast raised me in thy Church that all my endeavours may be to make Truth and Peace meet together In this course give me understanding to discover my enemies and wisdom to prevent them a heart to love my friends and carriage that may bind them Lord make me love thy Church and the place where thine honour dwelleth that as thou hast honoured me above many others so I may honour thee above all and spend whatsoever is acceptable in the poor remainder of my life to serve thee in thy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord turn away mine eyes that they behold not vanitie and quicken thou me in thy way Amen * O merciful Lord when thou hast prevailed with thy self for alas we never live so as to be worthie to prevail with thee to give us seasonable weather plentiful crops and peaceful times that enrich us with all good things and abundance of increase even above our wishes O suffer me not to be corrupted through so great prosperitie of happie events lest I should altogether forget thee and my self too but increase also my humilitie and my thankfulness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In time of
Anointed of the Spirit That he was conceived and born to cleanse us from the filthiness of our Conception and Birth That he suffered what we ought to have suffered most unspeakable torments that we might escape them That he was crucified dead and buried that we may not be afraid to undergo the same things for his sake That he descended to that dismal place whither we must have gone that he might wholly excuse us from it That he rose again ascended and sitteth in that place where we had no portion that even we also might inherit it That he shall come to judge the World that he may take us up into his glorie I believe that he is come By his Conception and Birth the Purifier of our Nature By his Suffering on the Cross Death and Burial the Redeemer of our Bodies By his Descent a triumphant Conqueror over Hell and Death By his Resurrection the first Fruits of them that sleep By his Ascension our Forerunner gone to prepare a place for us By his Session at the right hand of God the Intercessor or our Advocate By his second coming to Judgment the Finisher of our Faith Thus Instead of the I behold Destroyer Jesus a Saviour Tormenter A Mediator Accuser An Advocate Slanderer An Intercessor Enslaver A Redeemer Sting of the Serpent Christ the Anointed But I believe also the Quickning and Sanctifying Power of the Holy Ghost A Power that works Inwardly and invisibly openly and outwardly effectually as the Wind that bloweth where it listeth By Reproof by Compunction of the heart by Doctrine by Admonition as an Advocate as the Comforter as a Witness by Diffusion of Charitie by Illumination of Knowledge I believe also The mystical Bodie of this Holy Spirit consisting of those that are called out of the whole world unto belief of the Truth and Holiness of life The mutual fellowship of the members of that Bodie The remission of sins in this present time and the hope of a future Resurrection and of our translation to the life eternal * O Lord give me Faith not such Faith as would make the Law of none effect But such Faith as Works by Love Is powerful in working Overcomes the World And besides a most holy Faith That I may love thee as a Father and fear thee as the Almightie That I may commit my soul unto thee in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator That Christ may be formed in me and that I may be conformed unto his Image That I may give him thanks for those things which he has suffered for me that I may suffer together with him that I may suffer for him whatsoever he shall see good That for his Cross Death and Burial I may revenge crucifie kill burie my sins which caused all these That for his descent into Hell I may descend thither whilst I live here by frequent meditations upon it That I may be made conformable to his Resurrection by my rising again to newness of life And to his Ascension by meditating upon and seeking after those things that are above That I may be also mindful of his Session at Gods right hand whensoever I want any gift of heavenly consolation and as often as I am cold in my Devotions And that I may never forget his second coming at the day of Judgment O that I may alwaies think I hear the noise of the last Trumpet sounding and that I may pray without ceasing till I am placed at the right hand Amen Preparatory Meditations for Death O Lord quicken and comfort my soul for I have sinned against thee Lord I call to mind all the years of my life past in the bitterness of my soul for my sin My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be thou merciful unto my sin O for thy Names sake be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen Namely and especially O Lord be merciful unto me c. Herein O Lord be merciful unto thy servant O Lord lay not these nor the rest unto my charge O let the depth of my sin call up the depth of thy mercies of thy grace Lord let it come that where my sin hath abounded grace may superabound Lord I believe help thou my unbelief O Lord though thou kill me yet will I put my trust in thee Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil For I hope verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living O let this Cup pass from me nevertheless if it may not pass from me but that I must drink of it thy will be done Thou art the Lord do what seemeth good in thine own eyes For I will take it as the Cup of Salvation and give thanks to thy Name O Lord. O Lord grant that all the daies of my appointed time upon earth I may wait when my changing shall come O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave and keep me secret until thy wrath be past and appoint me a time in which thou wilt remember me Say unto my soul O say it now I am thy Salvation Command my spirit whenever thou wilt command it to be received up to thee in peace O bid me come unto thee say unto me This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Lord thus and now let thy servant depart in peace that mine eyes may see thy Salvation O Lord thou blessed Trinitie three Persons and one God have mercie upon me I commend my self into thy hands as to a faithful Creator Lord receive thine own Creature not made by any strange God but by thee the onely living and true God Despise not O Lord the work of thine own hands I am created to thine own Image and likeness O suffer not thine own Image to be defaced but renew it again in righteousness and true holiness I commend my self into thy hands as to a most gracious Redeemer for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth O Lord I am the price of thy Bloud of thy most precious Bloud O suffer not so great so unvaluable a price to perish O Lord thou camest down from Heaven to redeem that which was lost suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed I commend my self into thy hands as to my most blessed Comforter O Lord I am wearie and heavie laden and I come to thee to be refreshed by thee Behold O Lord I have been the Temple of thy holy Spirit I have I confess strangely polluted it yet destroy me not but dedicate me anew and sanctifie me to thy self yet once again O Lord I wear thy Name 't is thy Name that is called upon me For thy Names sake therefore be merciful unto me O spare Lord if not me yet thine own Name in me And do not so remember my sin O Lord do not as that in remembring it thou forget thine own Name I have desired to fear thy Name to love and to honour thy Name
sins of the world have mercie upon me in this heavie Charge Amen At the laying of the first Stone of a Chappel O Lord merciful and gracious this thy People are preparing to build a place for thy Service Accept I humbly beseech thee their present Devotion and make them perfect both in their present and future dutie that while thou givest them ease to honour thee they may with the greater alacritie go on in thy Service And now O Lord I have by thy mercie and goodness put to my hand to lay the first Stone in this Building 't is a Corner-stone make it I beseech thee a happie Foundation a durable Building Let it rise up and be made and continue a House of Prayer and Devotion through all Ages that thy People may here be taught to believe in Jesus Christ the true Corner-stone upon whom they and their souls may be built safe for ever Grant this for the merit of the same Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all Power Majestie and Dominion this day and for ever Amen Vpon Admission into the Church GOd who of his mercie hath given you grace to give your self to his Church preserve and keep you in his Truth free both from Superstition and Prophaneness The Lord bless and keep you The Lord make his face shine upon you and be merciful unto you The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace in Conscience and constancie in Truth And by the power of Ministration committed to me by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I re-admit you into the Fellowship of his Church in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen For the Duke of Buckingham GRacious Father I humbly beseech thee bless the Duke of Buckingham with all spiritual and temporal blessings but especially spiritual Make and continue him faithful to his Prince serviceable to his Countrie devout in thy Truth and Church a most happie Husband and a blessed Father filled with the constant love and honour of his Prince that all thy blessings may flow upon himself and his Posteritie after him Continue him a true-hearted friend to me thy poor servant whom thou hast honoured in his eyes Make my heart religious and dutiful to thee and in and under thee true and secret and stout and provident in all things which he shall be pleased to commit unto me Even so Lord and make him continually to serve thee that thou mayest bless him through Jesus Christ our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O most merciful God and gracious Father the Prince hath put himself to a great Adventure I humbly beseech thee make a clear way before him Give thine Angels charge over him be with him thy self in mercie power and protection in every step of his Journey in every moment of his time in every Consultation and Address for action till thou bring him back with safetie honour and contentment to do thee service in this place Bless his most trustie and faithful servant the Lord Duke of Buckingham that he may be diligent in service provident in business wise and happio in counsels for the honour of thy Name the good of thy Church the preservation of the Prince the contentment of the King the satisfaction of the State Preserve him I humbly beseech thee from all envie that attends him and bless him that his eyes may see the Prince safely delivered to the King and State and after it live long in happiness to do them and thee service through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O most gracious God and merciful Father thou art the Lord of Hosts all victorie over our Enemies all safetie against them is from thee I humbly beseech thee go out with our Armies and bless them Bless my dear Lord the Duke that is gone Admiral with them that wisdom may attend all his Counsels and courage and success all his Enterprizes that by his and their means thou wilt be pleased to bring safetie to this Kingdom strength and comfort to Religion victorie and reputation to our Countrie And that he may return with our Navie committed to him and with safetie honour and love both of Prince and People Grant this for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O merciful God thy Judgments are often secret always just At this time they were temporally heavie upon the poor Duke of Buckingham upon me upon all that had the honour to be near him Lord thou hast I doubt not given him rest and light and blessedness in thee Give also I beseech thee comfort to his Ladie Bless his Children uphold his Friends forget not his Servants Lay open the bottom of all that irreligious and graceless Plot that spilt his bloud Bless and preserve the King from danger and from securitie in these dangerous times And for my self O Lord though the sorrows of my heart are inlarged in that thou gavest this most honourable Friend into my bosom and hast taken him again from me yet blessed be thy Name O Lord that hast given me patience I shall now see him no more till we meet at the Resurrection O make that joyful to us and all thy faithful servants even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Anniversaries O Eternal God and merciful Father with whom do rest the souls of them that die in thy faith and favour have mercie upon me and grant that my life may be a preparation to die and my death an entrance to life with thee As upon this day it pleased thee to take my dear Father to thy mercie when I was yet young O Lord he was thy servant thy meek humble faithful servant and I assure my self he is in rest and light and blessedness Lord while I am here behind in my pilgrimage shower down thy grace upon me Thou hast been more than a Father to me thou hast not suffered me to want a Father no not when thou hadst taken him from me O be pleased to be a Father still and by thy grace to keep me within the bounds of a Sons obedience Thou hast given me temporal blessings beyond desert or hope O be graciously pleased to heap spiritual blessings on me that I may grow in faith obedience and thankfulness to thee that I may make it my joy to perform dutie to thee And after my painful life ended bring me I beseech thee to thy joys to thy glorie to thy self that I and my Parents with all thy Saints and Servants departed this life may meet in a blessed glorious resurrection ever to sing praises and honour to thee in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * Have regard unto thy servant O my God and be merciful to me according to the bowels of thy mercie Behold I am become a reproach to thy Name by serving my own ambition and the sins of other men And though the
perswasion of others moved me to do this thing yet my own Conscience cried aloud against it I beseech thee O Lord by the mercies of Jesus enter not into judgment with thy servant but hearken to his bloud that pleads for me and let not this Marriage divorce my soul from thy embraces O how much better had it been for me if I had been but duely mindful of this day rather to have suffered Martyrdom with thy first Martyr for denying the vehement importunitie of those my friends who were either too unfaithful to me or else too ungodly I flattered my self with hope that this sin should have been hid in darkness but loe the night presently vanished and the day it self was not more apparent than I that committed it Thus it pleased thee O Lord for the abundance of thy mercie to cover my face with confusion that I might learn to seek thy Name O how grievous to me still even at this day is the remembrance of this my sin even after those so many and so often-repeated prayers which I have poured out before thee from my sorrowful and troubled spirit O Lord have mercie hear the prayers of thy most dejected and lowly servant Spare me O Lord and forgive me all those sins which brought in this and which followed upon it For I confess O Lord that yet once again and upon the very same day of the returning year for want of due caution still and sufficient humiliation I fell into another grievous sin I was stoned again not for my sin but by it Now O Lord raise me up again entirely that I may no longer lie dead in my sins but grant that I may live and living may rejoyce in thee through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen O merciful God thou hast shewed me much mercie and done great things for me and as I was returning instead of thankfulness I wandered out of my way from thee into a foul and a strange path There thou madest me see both my folly and my weakness Lord make me ever see them ever sorrie for them O Lord for my Saviours sake forgive me the folly and strengthen me against the weakness for ever Lord forgive all my sins and this and make me by thy grace thy most true humble and faithful servant all the days of my life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most merciful Father whither shall I turn my self who both in my going out and coming in have sinned against thee I a Prodigal departed like the Prodigal into a far Countrie and riotously wasted my substance which thou gavest me There first of all I grew sensible that all I had was consumed and my self not worthie of any better companie than the Swine and yet neither that filthie life nor the famine of thy Grace did so much as make me think of returning to a better temper But now at my return from this unhappie Journey behold O Lord thy Judgments overtake me a Fire catches hold of the roof under which I was for God saw and delayed not long but a fire was kindled in Jacob and there came up heavie displeasure against Israel My wickedness no doubt it was which threatned this conflagration to the Colledge and to my self For whilst I was busily employed about putting out the fire I was within very little of being destroyed by it when loe thy mercie O Lord rescued me from the flames almost by miracle For whilst a friendly hand of one that stood by thrust me away with a kind of violence the very same instant at that very place where I intended to take up my standing the fire that had been a while pent in broke out the stairs sunk down all in flames and if the fire had found me there I had also perisht O my sins which I never can bewail enough O thy mercies O Lord which I can never sufficiently extol O Repentance that never was more necessarie for me O thy Grace O Lord which I ought to implore with all Humilitie and without ceasing I arise O Lord my Father and loe I come my pace indeed is but slow and 'tis unsteadie but yet I come and I consess I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthie to be called thy Son Let me be what thou wilt O Lord so I may be but thine Wash away my sins in the bloud of thy Son that I may be thine And grant I beseech thee that as the terror then so now the remembrance of that fire may daily burn up in me all the dregs and relicks of my sins that I may grow more circumspect for the future that a better fire of Charity and of Devotion may inflame me with the love of thee and with hatred of sin through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most merciful Lord glorified be thy ever blessed Name for behold whilst I was attending on the King according to my Place unmindful of thee and of the misfortunes that are incident to mankind and having too much confidence in my self by an unhappie leap in the road I fell to the ground mistaken ground and broke a Tendon I was helpt up into a Coach and came to Hampton The torment I had was such as the Nerves are wont to feel and so great that the very anguish of it had certainly cast me into a violent burning Fever but that a vast quantity of Bloud flowed out and so delivered me from that fear It brought me very low and I went lame for almost two years I am sensible of some weakness by it still but immortal thanks be unto thee O thou ever-blessed Trinity thou hast given me the use of my legs perfectly enough and hast establisht my goings beyond all mens expectation Direct them now O Lord in the ways of thy Commandments that so I may never halt between thee and a false Worship nor between thee and the World but that I may walk uprightly and run the way of thy Testimonies when thou hast enlarged my heart I pray thee therefore set my heart at liberty without delay and confirm my steps in the paths of thy righteousness by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O eternal God and my most merciful Father as this day the fury of the enraged multitude was fierce upon me and my house to destroy me and to pillage it it pleased thee in mercy to preserve both and bring some of them to shame and punishment I have sinned many ways against thee O Lord and this was a loud call of thine and a merciful to bring me to repentance which I beseech thee give me grace to hear and obey But what I have done to hurt or offend them that should stir up this rage against me I know not Lord in thy mercie look down upon me fill my heart with thankfulness for this great deliverance and suffer me not to forget it or the Examination which
I took of my self upon it And as for them and their like let them not have their desire O Lord let not their mischievous imaginations prosper against me nor their furie lay hold upon me lest they be too proud and lest I end my wearie days in miserie Yet forgive them O Lord for they know not why they did it And according to thy wonted mercie preserve me to serve thee and let the same watchful Protection which now defended me guard me through the remainder of my life And this for thine own goodness sake and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen O eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee look down upon me in this time of my great and grievous affliction Lord if it be thy blessed will make mine Innocencie appear and free both me and my Profession from all scandal thus raised on me And howsoever if thou be pleased to trie me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me full patience proportionable comfort contentment with whatsoever thou sendest and an heart readie to die for thy Honour the Kings Happiness and this Churches Preservation And my zeal to these is all the sin humane frailty excepted which is yet known to me in this particular for which I thus suffer Lord look upon me in mercie and for the merits of Jesus Christ pardon all my sins many and great which have drawn down this Judgment upon me and then in all things do with me as seems best in thine own eyes and make me not onely patient under but thankful for whatsoever thou dost O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O eternal God and merciful Father after long imprisonment I am now at last called to answer I most humbly beseech thee to strengthen me through this Tryal to preserve the patience with which thou hast hitherto to blessed me through this affliction Suffer no coarse language or other provocation to make me speak or do any thing that may mis-become my person mine age my calling or my present condition And Lord I beseech thee make me able to clear to the world that Innocencie which is in my heart concerning this Charge laid against me Grant this O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O merciful Lord I have had a long and a tedious Tryal and I give thee humble and heartie thanks for the wonderful strength that I have received from thee in the bearing up of my weakness Lord continue all thy mercies towards me for the storm gathers and grows black upon me and what it threatens is best known to thee After a long Tryal I am called to answer in the House of Commons and that not to Evidence but to one single man's report of Evidence and that made without Oath What this may produce in present or in future thou knowest also O Lord furnish me with patience and true Christian wisdom and courage to bear up against this drift and send not out thy storms to beat upon me also but look comfortably upon me to my end in and through the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen Prayers upon sundry Publick Occasions MOST gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most Religious and Gracious King at this time assembled that thou wouldest be pleased to bless and direct all their Consultations to the preservation of thy Glorie the good of thy Church the safetie honour and welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms Lord look upon the humilitie and devotion with which they are come into thy Courts And they are come into thy House in assured confidence upon the merits and mercies of Christ our blessed Saviour that thou wilt not denie them the grace and favour which they beg of thee Therefore O Lord bless them with that wisdom which thou knowest necessarie to speed and bring great designes into action and to make the maturitie of his Majesties and their Counsels the happiness and the blessing of this Commonwealth These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen O eternal God and our most gracious Father thou art the Lord of Hosts and the strength of all Nations is from thee If thou keepest not the Citie the Watchman waketh but in vain And no Victorie can wait upon the justest designes upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies if thou teach not their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steadie hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them which go and remain in the broad Sea Lord at this time we need thy more special Assistance both by Land and Sea and sor the mercie of Christ deny us neither Be with our Armies and the Armies of our Allies and Associates by Land be with our Navie at Sea Be not from the one nor from the other in power and in great mercie until thou hast brought them back with honour and a setled Peace Lord turn our Enemies sword into their own bosom for we sought Peace and ensued it and while we did so they did more than make themselves readie to battel We are thy servants truly and heartily sorrie for our sins Lord forgive them and then we will trust upon thee that thou wilt pour down all thy Blessings upon this and all other designes and actions of this State undertaken for thy glorie the honour of our most gracious King CHARLES and the peace and welfare of this Church and Commonwealth Grant this we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Advocate Amen Most gracious God we humbly beseech thee pardon and forgive all our many great and grievous transgressions We may not hope thou wilt take off thy punishments until thou hast forgiven our sins We may not think thou wilt forgive our sins until our humiliation and repentance come to ask forgiveness We have been too slow to come and now thou hast apparell'd thy Mercie in Justice to force us to thee Lord we believe but do thou increase our Faith our Devotion our Repentance and all Christian Vertues in us At this time the Vials of thy heavie displeasure drop down upon us and while we smart under one Judgement thou threatnest the rest The Pestilence spreads in our Streets and so as if it sought whom to devour No strength is able to stand against it and it threatens to make Families nay Cities desolate While the Pestilence eats up thy People we hear the sound of War and the Sword calleth for such as it would devour In the mean time the Heavens are black over us and the Clouds drop leanness and it will be Famine to swallow what the Pestilence and the Sword shall leave alive unless thou send more seasonable Weather to give the Fruits of the
Earth in their season Our sins have deserved all this and more and we neither do nor can denie it We have now hither to go but to Mercie We have no way to that but by the All-sufficient merit of thy Son our blessed Saviour Lord for his merit and mercies sake look down upon us thy distressed servants command thine Angel to stay his hand and remember that in death we cannot praise thee nor give thanks in the Pit Go forth with our Armies when they go and make us remember that all our strength and deliverance is in thee Clear up the Heavens over us and take not from us the great plentie with which thou hast crowned the Earth but remember us O thou that feedest the Ravens when they call upon thee Lord we need all thy mercies to come upon us and thy mercies are altogether in Christ in whom and for whose sake we beg them of thee who livest and reignest in the unitie of the Spirit one God world without end Amen O eternal God and most merciful Father we humbly beseech thee be merciful unto us and be near to help us in all those extremities which our sins threaten to bring upon us Our Enemies are strengthened against us by our multiplied Rebellions against thee And we deserve to suffer whatever our Enemies threaten But there is mercie with thee that thou mayest be feared O Lord shew us this mercie and give us grace so to fear thee as that we may never be brought to fear or feel them And whensoever thou wilt correct us for our sins let us fall into thy hands and not into the hands of men Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Redeemer Amen O eternal God and most gracious Father we have deserved whatsoever thy Law hath threatned against sinners Our contempt of thy Divine Worship is great and we hear thy Word but obey it not Forgive us O Lord forgive us these and all other our grievous sins Give us light in our Understanding readiness and obedience in our Will discretion in our Words and Actions true serious and loyal endeavours for the peace and speritie of Jerusalem the unitie and glorie of this Church and State that so we may love it and prosper in it and be full of grace in this life and filled with glorie in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O most merciful God we give thee praise and thanks for the wonderful ceasing of the late raging Pestilence in the chief Citie of this Kingdom and other places Lord shew us yet farther mercie and look upon all parts of this Land with tender compassion Keep back the destroying Angel that he enter not into places that are yet free nor make farther waste in those which are alreadie visited Comfort them that are sick preserve them that are sound receive them that die to mercie that living and dying they and we may continue thy faithful servants through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O most gracious God and loving Father we have felt thy manifold mercies no Nation more and we have committed sins against thee few Nations greater Enter not into judgment with us O Lord but for Christ and his mercie sake pacifie thine anger and save us from the malice and crueltie of our Enemies They are our crying sins that have called them upon us Let it be an addition to thy wonted mercie to restrain their furie To this end Lord put thy bridle into their mouths and thy bit between their teeth Frustrate their designes and let them find no way in our Seas nor any path in our Flouds but scatter them with thy tempest and follow them with all thy storms that we being delivered by thy hand may bless and honour thy Name devoutly serving thee all our days through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou gracious Governour of all the Kingdoms of the Earth Look down we beseech thee in mercie upon this Realm and upon all other Reformed Churches Save and deliver us and them from the hands of all such as threaten our destruction Protect the person of our gracious Soveraign direct his Counsels go forth with his Armies be unto him and to us a wall of brass and a strong tower of defence against his and our Enemies that so we being safe through thy mercie may live to serve thee in thy Church and ever give thee praise and glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O eternal God and merciful Father all peace strength of Kingdoms is from thee and lineal Succession is thy great blessing both upon Princes and States the great means to preserve unitie and confirm strength We therefore give thee humble and heartie thanks as for all thy blessings so especially at this time for thy great mercie and loving kindness to our dread Soveraign his Royal Queen and this whole State in giving her Majestie hope of her long-desired Issue thereby filling their and our hearts with gladness Lord go along with thine own blessings to perfect them Be with her in soul and in bodie preserve her from all dangers Keep her safe to and in the hour of Travel that there may be strength to bring forth her Joy and our Hope And make her a joyful Mother of many Children to the glorie of thy great Name the happiness of his Majestie the securitie of this State and the flourishing of the Church and true Religion amongst us Grant this even for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O eternal God and merciful Father since lineal Succession is under thee the great securitie of Kingdoms and the very life of Peace we therefore give thee most humble and heartie thanks for the great blessing which thou hast again begun to work for our gracious King CHARLES and this whole State in giving the Queens Majestie further hopes of a desired and happie Issue And as we give thee humble and heartie thanks for this so we pray thee to perfect this great blessing thus begun to preserve her from all dangers and to be with her by special assistance in the hour of Travel Lord make her a happie Mother of successful Children to the increase of thy glorie the comfort of his Majestie the joy of her own heart the safetie of the State and the preservation of the Church and true Religion among us Grant this even for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O most merciful God and gracious Father thou hast given us the joy of our hearts the contentment of our souls for this life in blessing our dear and dread Soveraign and his vertuous Royal Queen with a hopeful Son and us with a Prince in thy just time and his to rule over us We give thy glorious Name most humble and heartie thanks for this Lord make us so thankful so obedient to thee for this great mercie that thy goodness may delight to increase it
that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sowre herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sowre herbs as well as the Lamb And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hands that gathered them but look up onely to him who instituted that and governs these For men can have no more power over me than what is given them from above S. John 19.11 I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness and infirmity of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of red Wine might pass from me S. Luke 22.42 But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred good People that when Gods servants were in this boisterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my resolution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I the Imaginations which the People are setting up Nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboam's Calves in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercie open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blind lead the blind and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch S. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by thought word and deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges for if they proceed upon proof by valuable Witnesses I or any other Innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of the Sentence lie heavie upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not onely the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows Before these S. John Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd woman And St. Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many examples great and good and they teach me patience For I hope my Cause in Heaven will look of another dye than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not onely that I go the way of these great men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as soul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against S. Paul Acts 25. 8. for he was accused for the Law and the Temple i. e. Religion And like that of St. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i. e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say Do I then compare my self with the integrity of St. Paul and St. Stephen No far be that from me I onely raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is memorable that St. Paul who helped on this Accusation against St. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself St. John 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our Place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come And see how just the Judgement of God was They crucified Christ for fear lest the Romans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by honour and dishonour by good report and evil report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in his Kingdom and that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the Many could not or would not do Justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger many an innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well-meaning