confidence in the bloud of thy blessed sonne our Lord Sauiour Christ Iesus Geue vs grace to repent vs of our sinnes vnfainedly to craue remission of them vncessantly to embrace thy holy word and coÌ„maundements sincerely to expresse them in our lyuinge effectually whereby we maye walke vprightly in our conuersation with sure and certaine hope of resurrection to eternall life by the merites of Christ Iesus that we may be founde wakinge and watchinge for his coÌ„ming when he shall come to iudge the worlde wyth equitie and to reward euery man according to the works of his bodie Graunt vs grace most mercifull father to behaue our selues so vprightly in this lyfe that theÌ„ we may be made pertakers of thy kingedome wyth thy elect there to liue in eternall ioy and filicitie worlde without end Amen FINIS The Letany O God the father of heaueÌ„ haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father c. O God the Sonne redéemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne c. O God the holy Ghoste proceding from the Father and the Sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie thrée persoÌ„s and one God haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed glori c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neyther take thou vengeance of our sinnes spare vs good Lord spare thy people whome thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all euell and mischiefe from sinne from the craftes and assaultes of the Deuill from thy wrath and from euerlastinge damnation Good Lord deliuer vs. From blindnessâ— of hart from pride vayne glory hipocrisie from enuy hatred and malice and all vncharitablenesse God Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceites of the worlde the flesh the Deuill Good Lord deliuer vs. From lightning teÌ„pest from plague pestileÌ„ce famine from battayle murther from sodaine death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and pryuie conspiracie froÌ„ all false doctrine and herisie from hardnesse of hart and contempt of thy worde commaundement God Lord deliuer vs. By the mistry of thy holy incarnation by thy holy natiuitie and circumcision by thy baptisme fastinge temptatioÌ„ Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agony bloudy sweat by thy Crosse Passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious Resurrection and AscentioÌ„ and by the comming of the goly Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In all time of our tribulation in all time of our welth in the houre of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners doe beséeche thée to heare vs O lord God and that it maye please thée to rule and gouerne thy holy Church vniuersally in the right way VVe besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to kepe strengthen in the true worshiping of thée in righteousnesse and holynesse of lyfe thy seruaunt Elizabeth our moste gracious Quéene and gouernour VVe beseech thee to c. That it maye please thée to rule hur hart in thy faith feare and loue and that she may euermore haue affiaÌ„ce in thée and euer seke thy hoor and glory VVe beseech thee to c. That it may please the to be her defender keper giuing her the victory ouer all her enemies VVe besech the to That it maye please thée to illuminate all Bishops Pastours and Ministers of thy Church with true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy worde and that both by their preaching and lyuing they may set it forth shew it accordingly VVe besech thee to That it maye please thée to indue the Lords of the counsell and all the Nobilitie with grace wisdome and vnderstanding VVe besech thee to c. That it may please thee to blesse and kepe the Magestrates geuing them gâ—ace to excetute iustice and to maintayne truth VVe besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to blesse and kepe all thy people VVe besech thee to c. That it maye please thee to geue to all nations vnitie peace and concord VVe besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to geue vs an hart to loue dread thée and diligently to liue after thy coÌ„mauÌ„demeÌ„ts VVe besech thee to c. That it maye please thee to geue all thy people encrease of grace to heare meekely thy worde and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruitis of thy spirite vve besech thee to c. That it may please thée to bring into the way of truth all such as haue erred are dceaued VVe besech thee to c. That it may please thee to strengthen such as doe staÌ„d and to comfort and helpe the weake harted and to rayse them vp that fall and finally to beate downe Sathan vnder our féete VVe besech thee to c. That it may please thee to succour helpe and comfort all that be in daunger necessitie and tribulation VVe besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to soccour helpe and coÌ„fort all that be in daunger necessitte and tribulation vve besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to preserue all that trauaile by land or by water all women labouringe of child all sicke persons younge children and to shew thy pitie vpoÌ„ al prisoners captiues vve besech thee to c. That it may please thee to defend and prouide for the fatherlesse Children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed vve beseche thee to c. That it maye please thée to haue mercy vpon all men vve besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to forgeue our enemies persecutours and flaunderers and to tourne their hartes vve besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to geue preserue to our vse the kindly fruites of the earth so as in due time we maye enioye them vve besech thee to c. That it maye please thée to geue vs true repentaunce to forgeue vs all our sinnes negligences and ignoraunces and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite toamend our liues accordinge to thy holy word vve besech thee to c. Sonne of God we besech thée to heare vs. Sonne of God we be c. O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of that world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our father which art in c. And lead vs not into c. But deliuer vs from euell The versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes The
neuer at all otherwise enclined that then you woulde vouchsafe to take this booke in hand and turning to any title whatsoeuerâ— may serue your tourne to apply the prayer folowing vnto your present purpose But perchaunce you will say that there are alredy extantâ— diuers sundry bookes of prayers which haue bene set fourth by men of greater vnderstaÌ„ding riper iudgement then I and therfore it was a needeles and superfluous trauaile to wade any furthar in that matter Indede Madame I graunt that ther are many praier bokes published but yet I am of this opinion that if there were ten tymes as many yet there were not to many For the common prouerbe is Bâ—num quo â—â—oÌ„munius eo melius The more common a good thinge is the better it is And therefore will I hardly be perswaded that my laboure could anye way haue bene better employed then in suche causes as concerne the aduauncement of Gods glory and the propagation of vertue VVell such as it is I haue presumed to offer vnto your honoures iâ—dgement with assured hope that you will deeme of it as your noble nature hath ben alwaies enclined to iudge of them that attempt the like enterprises that you will accept it as a sure tokeÌ„ and testimonie of his loyall affection and readie dutie that would thinke himselfe happie to bee accoumpted but as the least in the number of those that woulde be allwayes at your Ladiships commaundement Thomas Achelley Morning Prayer O Almighty and moste mercifull Father who of thine vnspeakeable loue and pitie toward the disobediente and loste children of Adam when wee were caried awaye thorough sinne and ignoraunce to damnation folowing Sathan after the blind and vnbrideled lusts of the fleshe diddest reconcile vs to thee by grace and adopcion in Christ Iesus the righteous and immaculate Lambe by faith and sure confidence grounded on the merites of his death whereby we are redeemed from the eternall prison of death and damnation haue mercy vpon vs mosâ—e mercifull louing Father so quicken our dul and heauy mindes by the inspiration of thy holy spirite that we maye shake of this dead sleepe continualy watch in thee abandoning the worckes of darcknes and walking in the worckes of light whereby we may be worthy to walk in this holy vocation where vnto thou haste called vs and with thine elected sainctes to sing prayses vnto thee and at all seasons times to glorify thy holy name And among all other benefites which thou of thy free mercy doste dayly and hourely most aboundantly bestow vpon vs we yeeld thée mortall thankes for that thou haste vouchsaâ—ed to presâ—rue vs both this night and all the time and dayes of our life vnder the shadowe and protection of thy winges keeping our eyes waking in thée without any idle dreames or phantasies that might disturbe our mindes from the meditation of thy grace and haste safely brought me to the beginning of this daye from the drousy graue of my bed which manifestly resembleth in lying downe my death and in rysing vp a manifest tipe and figure of my resurrection Therfore sith thou of thy mercy haste raysed me vp from this earthly reast wherein my mortall body and corrupt nature hath ben partly recreated from the laboures trauayles which I dayly sustayne in this terestrial pilgrimage vouchâ—aâ—e also I beséech thee to direct me with thy holy spirite both this day and euer that all my doinges maye tend to thy glory and to the commoditie of my neighbouâ— And graunt most merciful Father that the residue of my whole life froÌ„ heÌ„ceforth may he gided happly vnder thy tuition whereby all maner of darkenes misbeliefe infidelitie carnall lustes and affections may be vtterly chased driuen out of my hart and that I may be iustified saued both body and soule through a right and perfect fayth in Christ Iesu and so walke in the light of thy most holy word coÌ„maundements all the dayes of this my fraile and transitory being Arme vs with thy grace most mercifull father and strengtheÌ„ vs by thine assistaunce to vanquishe the power of the sinfull flesh and Sathan that hauing victory in the end we may ioyfully triumphe in thy saluation that art the God of our strength and might Endue our blynde hartes with thy heauenly spirite that being strong in fayth although â—éeble in the flesh we may so rule the bridle of our course both now and euer from henceforth that we sleepe not in sinne as the vnbeleuers doo which haue no hope of resurrection in Christ Iesu but folowing the motion of their owne common sence are so linked and tyed to the ground that their grosse capacitie is not of force to loke vp and to be holde the brightnes of thy diuinitie which art God from the beginning for euerlasting world without ende To whome with the sonne the holy Ghost be al honor and glory for euer euer Amen A Prayer for Euening O Almighty and moste mercifull Father maker of heauen and earth with all that is therein whose works are insercheable whose mercy is inâ—â—nite whose power is aboue the Cloudes of heauen we beséech thee of thy accustomed fatherly piety and pittie that thou wilte vouchsafe to be our watche man this night and euer to gard vs from all our enemies both bodily or ghostly that endeuour to disturb the externall rest of our body or to assalt the infernall Closet of our Conscience with any sinful suggestions or deuilish deuises of Sathan our mortall foe and deadly aduersary We acknolege and confesse moste mercifull Father that of our selues we are not worthy to lifte vp our eyes towarde heauen much lesse to presume in presenting oureselues before thy deuine maiestie with confidence that thou wilte heare our prayers or incline to our petitions if we call to remembraunce the vnworthines of our own merites and desertes for we are nothing else but a lumpe of sinne conceaued and borne in iniquity folowing the right path of our naturall imbecilitie and weakenes in Adam euer more prone and apt to folowe the filthy appetite of our own desire like vnbrideled Colts and reiecting the holsome discipline and instructions of thy most holy wil and commaundements Our own consciences accuse vs and our own sinz beare witnes against vs that we are nothing else but miserable wretches subiect to corrupcion clothed with iniquity and not of our selues able to thinck as muche as one good thought so that wée are not able to abide the extremitie of thy straighte iudgement knowing that by the worckes of the flesh we are condemned to deth yet quickned in the spirite and iustified by grace in Christ iesu Wee knowe most merciful Father that thou art a righteous Iudge such a one as visiteth the sinz of the Fathers vpon the Children to the thirde and fourth generation and doest not Iustify the synners and them that walk in the waye of iniquitie but punishest the falts of al such
sectes and contrarieties in religion while the carnall professors of thy name in cloake of preteÌ„ded holines set forth mainteine such beggerly traditions as the appetite of theire grosse phantasie leadeth them vnto shaking of the sweete yoke of thine vndefiled law wresting the letter thereof to serue the dissolute motion of their carnall cogitations mainteining in stéede of thy pure sincere word the fleshly cerimonies of their own deuise and inuention whereby it commeth to passe that so great dissention raigneth now adayes in the world and that so many sectes schismes and heresies are daylye sette a broach in euery place to the vnspekeable perturbation of the course of thy word and vtter subuersion of diuers common wealthes whiche oughte chiefly to be mainteined by the vniform consente and iudgement touching the worde and by the perfecte band of Amity concerning temporall causes But now wheras men set aside the ryght rules and or dinaunces of thy blessed worde plantinge in steed thereof orders and tradicions of their own imaginations howe can it come to passe that christian peace and vnity of spirite should dwell among vs Therefore graunt O most mercifull Father that wee thy pore dispersed shepe which haue so long ben tossed and turmoyled with tempests of this tumultuous times may at the last by the direction of thine heauenly Spirite bee reduced into one foulde acknoweleging thee our moste louing shepehearde and mercifull Father thy sonne Iesus Christe our onely sauiour and Mediatour to thy diuine maiesty the holy ghost our comforter whyche by the mouth of thy sonne Iesus Christ thou didst promise to send vnto vs which spirite assureth our spirites that we are pertakers inheritours and fellow Citizens of that heauenly Ierusalem whiche thou promysedst to all them that vnfainedly walke in thy statutes and trust onely to be saued by the blood and passion of thine onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ our Messias the onely redâ—emer of all mankinde Remoue O moste mercifull Father from our eyes the darcke shadow and vayle of ignoraunce that abandoning al the dregges of erronious sectes heretical schismes we may be gathered all together into the vnitie of thy word and confesse that there is but one eternall God and one heauenly Father which thou arte and one Fayth one Baptisâ—e which we all professe that call vpoÌ„ thy name Graunt also most merciful father the we whose minds opinioÌ„s are noted most repugnant and contrary in fayth may he altogether covnited into one iugement opinion in religion which maye bee grounded onely vppon the foundations of thy Prophâ—tes and Apostles Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone And sith ther is but one fayth which directeth vs into the waye of saluation graunt we beséech thée that by the operation of thy holy spirite we may be brought to such an agréement and vniformity in Religion that we maye glorify thée our heauenly Father with one onely spirite and generall consente of conscience whereby wee maye be reduced from the captiuitie of eternall ignoraunce and be made al the shéepe of thee our most mercifull and bountifull shéepheard To whome with c A thankes geuing for restoring of the Gospell VVE render vnto thée most mercifull Father immortall thankes for that thou hast vochsafed to send thine onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ into the world to take our shape and nature vpoÌ„ him and to submit himselfe to the bitter passion of the Crosse to redéeme vs wretched sinners which before were thrales and bonde slaues to the horrible sormente of euerlasting damnation O what condigne thankes are we able to render vnto thée that in the least respect may be able to counter payse thy fatherly kindnes and loue which thou daily sheweâ—t vnto vs most myserable and wretched sinners Thou hast sent thy Christ our Sauioure to redeeme vs from the bondage of sinne death and damnation and that not with Gold nor Siluer but with his most preciâ—use bloode once offered vpon the Crosse to paye our generall raunsome The promises which thou diddest make to our ' forefathers in figures and shadows thou hast openly performed to vs in the open sight of the whole worlde in sending that Mâ—essias to take our sins vpon him to be scourged for our offâ—nces and to beare the burthen of our iniquities â–ª Againe thou hast manifested to vs the perfect pathwaye of saluation by the mouth of thine onely begotten son Iesus Christ and that not in figures nor shadowes but in expresse wordes saying Hoc fac viues do this and thou shalt liue which to our forefathers thou declaredst couertly and in the darke shadowes of secrete misteries and that not by thy sonne Iesus Christ but but by thy prophets which were men mortall as we be and were inferioure to thy sonne both in diuine power and also in dignity of person For how muche the seruaunt or bondman is inferiour to the heyre so much are the Prophets inferiour to thy sonne and heyre Christ Iesus whom our mortal eyes haue séene of late dayes personally here in the earth and reasoned with him face to face euen at his owne mouth haue learned what is the will of thée our moste louing Father and moste mercifull creatoure And moreouer because it was thy good pleasure to take awaye the presence of thy sonne from mankinde as concerning the fleshe we yeld thée moste harty thankes that thou wouldest vouchsafe to seÌ„d down thine heauenly spirite into the hartes of all thy sonnes Apostles which spirite informing their spirites of thy diuine will prouoked them by writing to reuele thy promises of saluation whereof thy sonne preached vnto the posterity of all ages for euermore wherâ—y both we that now liue and the remnaunte of all future yeres may lerne to direct their steppes as with a true line or rule into the waye of thy commaundementes And sith in recompence of all these thine vnspeakeable benefits thou requirest no other sacrafice but thankes giuing with contrition of harte therefore with vncessaunt prayers wee will magnify thy holy name recordiÌ„g thine innumerable benefites with Psalmes of thankes geuing in the midest of the congregation for euer not doubting but thou of thine infinite goodnes wilt accept the thanks which we yelde to thy dyuine Maiestie as procéeding from the very bottom of our vnfained hartes To thée most mercifull Father with thy son Iesus Christ and the holy ghoste be all honour and glory for euer Amen A Prayer for abolishing of Superstition O Eâ—ernall and moste mercifull Father who by thy diuine wisedome diddest lay the foundations of heauen and earth with the Sea and al that is therin haue mercy compassion of thy pore flock dispersed through the whole erth for the constant profession and testimony of thy heauenly worde and deliuer them at laste from the tirrany of Pharao the terrible persecutoure of thy poore members And because that in all Landes many departe into voluntary exile whose conscience cannot sustayne to sée thy true
corruption and of a most frayle nature And thou how can I that am but earthe and ashes coÌ„ceaue the meaning of thy diuine mistries surely by no meanes except the motion of thy spirite direâ— myne vnconstant and wauering mynde in the right way of truth and vnderstaÌ„ding whereby I may be alwayes inflamed to meditatâ— vpon thy promises contained in thy holy Ghospell wherein thou hast promysed euerlastinge lyfe to all those that with a stedfast fayth beleue that by the meanes of Iesus Christ his passioÌ„ they haue obtayned frée remission of their sinnes To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and euermore Amen A prayer agaynst the aduarsaries of the truth ALmighty and most mercifull Father which art the way the truth and life deliuer me from the hands of them that imagine mischieffe and thinke vpon deceyt all the daye longe whose tongues are more sharp theÌ„ a two edged sworde and the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes Beholde most mercyfull Father from thy heauenly throne thy vineyard which the Boare rooteth vp and neuer suffreth the tender branches to spring aboue the ground but as fast as they bud fourth he spoiles them not sufferinge the same to attayne to their full maturitie perfect ripenes Aryse O Lord and reuenge thyne owne cause how long shall thy Ielozy sléepe for euer O remember the afflictions of thy seruantes that are oppressed with the tyranny of Pharao and ouerladen with the intollerable burthen of the Egiptian taskes Thou séest our misery and thraldome and how we are euery day in daunger to be 〈◊〉 of the enemy And for thy sake onely doe we suffer reproch al the day long A ryse therefore O Lorde like a mighty man of warr and as a stout gyant refreshed with wine Looke downe and behould howe thy stocke is scattered abroade by meanes of the outragiousnes of the wolf who continually séeketh to roote out and vtterly to extingush the name of Israell Take Armes in hand and strike in thynâ— owne cause and confounde thyne enemyes wyth the fire of thy heauy displeasure So shall thy poore dispersed â—locke bâ— reducâ—â— againe at last into one fould and 〈◊〉 continuall prayses to thee the author of our libertie and our auenger To whome with the Sonne and the holy Ghost be all honor and glory c. A thankes geuing to God for his benefites VVE render vnto thée most merciful father immortall thankes for the manifould dayly benefits which thou of thy mercie without any desert of ours hast most abouÌ„dantly poured vpon vs since the time it pleased thée to inspire into vs the breath of lyfe framinge our corrupt bodyes in forme of thine own likenes placing vs in thy pleasant Paradise there to remayne in most happy and fortunate estate if through the subtill allurementes of Sathan our ghostly enimie we had not transgressed thy commaundements We thanke thée also most mercyfull Father for that wheÌ„ we were condemned by our owne transgression in our great Grandfather Adam thou of thy Fatherly loue and naturall compassion that thou haddest on mankinde didest send down thy onely begotteÌ„ Sonne Iesus Christ to take our corrupt Nature vpon hym and to humble himselfe to the shamefull death of the Crosse thereby to redeme vs wretched sinners from the bondage of hell whether for our disobedience we were iustly condemned and to pay the raunsome of our offences whereby thy wrathe that was worthyly inflamed against vs might be appeased and we lost sheepe at last recoÌ„cyled to thee our pitifull pastoure most mercifull Father We yeld thée also immortall thankes moste mercifull Father for that it hathe pleased thee to reueale thy holy Gospell vnto vs by thy Sonne Iesus Christ whereby we might obtaine remission of our sinnes and through faythe might haue a sure confideÌ„ce that by the merites of Iesus Christ hys passion we are deliuered from the intolerable cursse of the lawe and are made partakers of that heauenly kingdome prepared for vs since the foundation of the world For these thy most bountifull gyftes and all other thy benefites dayly and hourely powred vpon vs we hartely thanke thée most louing and mercifull Father Beseching thée that thou wilt geue vs grace through the operatioÌ„ of thy heauenly spirit in our myndes so to order our life and conuersation that wee walke in true holines and sincerity of hart behauing our selues so circumspectly in this wretched world that at the last day we may bée found faltles and be receaued into the number of theÌ„ to whome this ioyfull sentence shal be pronounced Come ye blessed of my Father possesse the kingedome whiche was prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde To which kingdome we besech thée most mercyfull Father for the merites of thine onely soÌ„ne our Sauiour Iesus Christ to bring vs speedely out of this vale of misery and sorowe where with the societie of the elect we may singe prayses to thée our moste mercyfull Father worlde without ende To whome with thy Sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour and the holy Ghost three in vnitie and one in trinitie bee all honour glory power dominion and might from thys time fourth for euermore A prayer to God the Father O Almighty and moste mercifull God the Father eternall which haste bene from the beginninge and so shalt remayne world with out end Thou that createst all liuing creatures and last of all man breathinge the breath of lyfe into them by a naturall instinct and disposition euery thinge to folowe his owne kind sauing man only aboue al the rest whome thou hadest formed after thine own image and indude hym wyth reason more then naturall wherby hée might discerne the good from the euill and learne to eschewe suche thinges as might be hurtfull vnto him Euen he I say aboue all the rest transgressed the commaundementes of thy Maiestie inclining to his owne lustes and affections without any regarde or feâ—â—e of thée his onely Lorde maker Whereby hee was expelled out of the garden of Eden that place of pleasure where once thou hadest placed him But Oh what thankes shall we yeld vnto thée most mercifull and louynge Father that didâ—est vouchsafe of thy méere mercy and Fatherly loue toward vs to sende downe thyne onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ to be our redeemâ—r and Sauiour to deliuer vs out of the mouth of hell whither our owne deserts had worthely condemned vs we will singe a Psalme of thankes geuing and worship toward thy holy temple For what other reward are we able to geue vnto thée that maye in any respect worthely counter vaile the least sparke of thy Fatherly pyttie and kindenes surely none For of our owne selues we are not able so much as to thinke a good thought wythout the motion of thy spirit much lesse to doe any suche good déede that might be aunswerable to the innumerable multitude of thy benefites alwayes besâ—owed vpon vs Accept therefore most mercifull Father our sacrifice of
thankes geuing bowe downeth neeare to our huÌ„ble petitâ—ons that procedeth from vnâ—â—yned lippes And sith it hath pleased thy diuine Maiestie to giue vp thy onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ to the deathe of the Crosse for our redeÌ„ption vouchsafe O Lord so to direct our myndes in the way of thy coÌ„maundemeÌ„ts that we may partly seeme worthy of the inestimable price of so great a benefite as the raunsome of our iniquitie hath cost and kepe the eyes of our mynds alwaies waking that we fall not a sléepe in sinne as they doe which haue no hope of resurrection from the dead Engender in our hartes the true zeale of thin vndefiled word and religion that we maye bee alwaeis meditatinge vpon thy promises not founde idle nor vnprouided when the good man of the house shall come but that we may be found wakinge in thée with plenty of oyle in our lampes as the fyue wise Uirgins had â–ª O drawe vs neere vnto thee by the operation of thy heauenly grace heare our prayers forgeue vs our offences coÌ„fort vs in our afflicâ—tions forgeue our enemies as we hope to haue forgeuenes of all our sinns at thy haÌ„ds by the meriâ—es of our Sauiour Iesus Christ let not myne enemies triumph ouer me nor the roaring Lyon deuour me but protect me alwayes most mercifull Father vnder the shadow of thy winges that I may strongly constantly withstand his inuasions by the vndoubted hope and confidence that I haue reposed in thy mercy And graunt that I maye die in thy true fayth and rest with thee in thy euerlasting kingdome To whome with thy Sonne Iesus Christ and the holy Ghoste be all honour and glory for euer euer A prayer to God the Sonne O Most mercifull Iesu and onely Sauiour of all maÌ„kynde whose loue to vs all was so pure and vnfayned that thou didest not denie to take our flesh vpon thee and to submit thy selfe to the death in offeringe vp thyne owne bodey as a swéete smelling sacrifize to appease the indignatioÌ„ of thy father who was worthyly inflamed for the transgression and breach of his holy coÌ„maundements O swéete Iesu the onely author of our saluation our most louing mediatour to thy Father haue mercy vpon me and cast me not away whome thou with thy pressious bloud haste â—edéemed O reiect me not for I am the price of thy passion thou with the effusion of thy most pretiouâ— bloud halfe payd the raunsome of mine iniquitie and made a full aâ—d perfect satisfaction for my offences O then looke downe vpon my miseries consider my distresse Behold the hell that tormeÌ„teth my conscience as ofte as I call to remembrance my lyfe so wickedly past and the innumerable multitude of my sinnes which are moe in number theÌ„ the heares of my head or the sandes of the Sea. Geue me grace to repent my wicked lyfe with Mary Magdelen and to wash thy feete wyth the moysture of my teares and lamentation Geue me grace to be sory for my sins and to wéepe with Peter to crye with the thefe that hanged on the right side at the time of thy passion Lorde remember me when thou coÌ„mest into thy kingedome O geue me grace to call my selfe to remembraunce to examine mine owne conscience to recount the number of my sinnes and to cast my selfe flat prostrate at the féete of thy mercy bewayllinge my sinfull lyfe with many a riuer of teares to acknowledge mine own wickednes vnto thée to craue remissioÌ„ of my faultes and by the continuall teares of repentaunce to recouer thy fauour againe and to die ther in Geue me grace to leade a new lyfe to put of the person of Adam and to bée regenarate and new borne in thée my Lord and Sauiour Geue me grace swéet Iesu to cry Peccaui with Dauid and vnfaynedly to lament my sinnes Geue me grace swéet Iesu to returne againe with the prodigall or lost Sonne and to crye Father I haue sinned agaynst heauen and against thée and I am no more worthy to be called thy Sonne make me as one of thy hyred seruaÌ„ts O swéete Iesu haue mercy vpoÌ„ me and forgeue me my sinnes renew a right spirit within me wash me wyth Isope and I shal be made whyter then Snowe for vnto thée belongeth mercy and with thée is plentifull redemption O thinke not vpon the offences of my youth wherein I haue raunged to much at randon lyke an vnbrideled coult neglecting the way of vnderstandinge and loathing the path of thy coÌ„maundemeÌ„ts I acknowledge fréely that if thou sholdest deale with me according to iustice I haue deserued euerlasting death neyther should I be able to abide thy sharpe iudgemeÌ„t but should sinke downe into the bottoÌ„les dungeoÌ„ of eternall damnation But hauinge a sure and certayue confidence fixed on the ancer or hould of immoueable fayth I vndoubtedly beléeue that by thy merites I am made partaker of euerlasting lyfe being fréely iustified with absolute remision of all my sinnes synce the first houre of my Natiuitie Which fayth I ground neyther on the merites of any mortall man neyther vpon any Romish Pardons or Indulgences but onely vpoÌ„ thée my Lord and Sauiour who with thy most precious blodsheding hast payde the price of my iniquitie and suffered thy glorious body to be mangled and torne for my transgression Geue me grace swéete Iesu so to order the reste of my lyfe as becoÌ„meth a true Christian to doe walkyng in the light of thy holy Gospell eschewing the workes of darkenes behauinge my selfe obediently to my superiors louingely to my felowes and conrtiousely to myne inferiors bearinge no grudge in my conscieÌ„ce offering wronge to no man but paciently to sufier iniuries without desire of reuenge forgeueinge euery man whatsoeuer hée hathe donne against me as I my selfe would desire to be forgeuen of thée my swéet Sauiour and onely redéemer Geue me grace swéete Iesu to perseuer in my faith till the end that all myne actions may be donne in the name of Iesu and all my thoughts vpon Iesu both at my down lying and vp rysinge all the terme of my lyfe and at the very instant of death when I fetche the laste gaspe my mynd may be withdrawen with no idle or phantastical cogitations but continually excercised in the meditation of the sweete and comfortable name of Iesu iesu iesu To thee swéete Iesu with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honor and glory for euermore Amen A prayer to God the holy Ghost O Holy and blessed spirite which being true euer lastinge God wyth God the Father and God the Sonne procéedest from theÌ„ both coequall in deytie and dignitie of person which art the onely comforter of them that trauayle in this earthly Pilgrimage and by thy heauenly wisdome directest them that right way to attaine to heauenly vnderstandinge of the will of god Quicken most holy sprite by thy heauenly breath the myndes of them that afore were dead through sinne make mery the
that I may returne with as good and perfect helth both of bodie and soule as I take my iourney so will I prayse thée in the congregation of the righteous with a Psalme of thankes geuing to thy name for euer and euer Amen A prayer to be sayde when ye make a voyage by sea O Almightie Lorde and most mercifull Father maker of al thinges who by thine insearcheable wysedome dyddest create that mightie globe of the world the heauens earth sea and all things els therin conteyned vouchsafe I beseeche thée to be mine aide and defence in this daungerous viage whiche I haue presumed to take reposing mine only trust and confidence in thy mercie to be deliuered and preserued from all maner daungers and ieopardies that may happeÌ„ either vpon the sea or on the drye lande Thou knowest most mercifull Father that all those that trauayle by sea are subiect to the hazarde of diuers calamities eyther to be tossed at the pleasure of the winde and waues either to be dashed violently vpon the mayne rockes or to sticke in the quicke sandes or to be dispoyled both of lyfe and goodes by the tyrannie of Pyrates But yet what crosse or affliction so euer happen vnto me I muste acknowledge fréely that it is but a iust punishmeÌ„t for mine offences because from the firste house of my natiuitie I haue been more apt and prone to folowe the filthy appâ—tite of mine own desires then to exercise myself in the trâ—e way of thine vndefiled lawe Notwithstanding what crosse soeuer thou shalt thinke good to lay vpon me yea although I were deuoured of the waues and swallowed downe into the deapth of the Whales bellie yet wil I not dispaire of thy mercie for thou art the same God for euer thy right hand is not shortned neyther is the greatnesse of thy power diminyshedde WheÌ„â—onas lay thrée dayes and thrée nyghtes in the Whales bellie yet diddest thou at last deliuer him safe and sounde and sent him to preach thy name to the great citie of Niniue Thou art yet the same God thou wast at the time neither is thy power abridged at all Although I were neuer so shaken with wyndes turmoyled with tempestes tossed with the waues yea although I were vtterlye deuoured of the Whale yet art thou able to deliuer me from all these daungers yea from the very iawes of death To thée therfore do I make my supplicatioÌ„s to thée do I powre foorth my prayers for thou onely art the castle of my comfort my bulwarke my watchman my keeper my defender the sure rocke and hope of my saluation To â—hee only it belongeth to direct my course safelye into the haueÌ„ to protect and saue me froÌ„ the crueltie of the water to leade me forth to briÌ„g me in to be my onely stay defence whether I sléepe or wake liue or die sincke or swim vpon the waters as wel as vpoÌ„ the land briefly in all places in al times and seasons Thou knowest most merciful father that this trade is not of my deuising nor yet procéeding of any humaine inuention but thou of thy mere mercy didst reueale the mysterie therof to thy seruaunt Noe in commaundyng hym to frame an Arke that myght fléete vpon the floods wherin he and his familie onely were saued when all the worlde els for the greatnes of iniquitie perished altogether and were vtterly confounded in the waters Graunt therfore most mercyfull Father that this voyage whiche I haue presumed to take onely vppon a sure fayth affiaunce in thy mercy may turne me to no damage or misfortune but that I may be safely conducted both foorth and home agayne by thy merciful protection and assistance So wyl I yéelde thee immortal prayses for thy fatherly benefites and my tongue shal recorde the workes of thy glory for euer euer Yet Father not my wyll but thy wyll be fulfilled To thée with thy sonne Iesus Christ and the holy Ghoste thrée persons and one God be all honour and glory for euermore Amen A prayer for Munday mornyng I Render vnto thée immortall thankes most mercyfull Father for the swéete sléepe and comfortable rest that thou of thy mercy hast geuen me this night to recreate my wery limmes of the continuall labours and trauayles whiche I was borne to susteyne And for as muche as thou hast commaunded me by thy holye worde to redeeme the time and alwayes to be exercised in some good worke and neuer to spende the tyme in idlenesse I most humbly beseche thee that thou wylt vouchsafe to looke vpon me with the eyes of thy mercy and by the illumination and inspiration of thy heauenly spirite so to direct all my counsayles laboures and studies that beyng replenished with thy grace I may so spende this day according to thy most blessed wyl and ordinaunce that I may circumspectly shunne and eschewe all suche wayes as may prouoke or kyndle thy displeasure agaynst me or that in anye respect maye tende to my neyghboures daÌ„mage Geue me grace to remoue the vayle of vanitie out of my hart that I maye alwayes haue thy feare before myne eyes lyuing honestly and vprightly in my callyng aboundyng in all maner good workes proceding from a sounde and vncorrupt fayth that my conuersation maye be founde pure before thée without either spot or blemishe my liuing maye be temperate modest with mediocritie aâ—d not sauouring of anye incontinencie or immoderate superfluitie whereby all my doinges maye be acceptable before thy diuine maiestie to the prayse and glorye of thy moste blessed name Styrre vp my mind continually to haue thy promises and benefites in remembraunce that all my thoughtes and cogitations may be exercised in the consyderation of them and not fallyng backewarde to my wonted iniquitie as the dogge vseth to returne againe to his vomite or the sowe that hath bene cleane washed to wallowe agayne in the myre Geue me continuall quietnesse of minde without anye vexation or sting of conscience that I maye haue some taste and féeling of thy euerlasting ioyes that these dregges chaffe of the worlde maye séeme lothsome and fylthy vnto me in comparison of those heauenlye pleasures that are prepared for the elect since the foundation of the worlde To which ioyes we besech thée most mercyfull father to bryng vs for Iesus Christe his sake To whom c. A prayer for Munday euening ALmyghtie moste mercyful Father whiche at the creatour of all thynges diddest by thy heaueÌ„ly wisdome ordayne the daye for man to trauayle in and to exercise him selfe in the laboures parteyning to the trade of his vocation and the night for vs to reâ—â— from our dayly laboures and to refreshe our fraile bodyes with some sweete and naturall sleepe whereby we myght be the better enabled euery man to laboure in his calling and profession according to thy holy wil and commaundements Uouchsafe we beseeche thée moste merciful father that we thy poore pylgrimes that dayly trauayle in runnyng this our earthly