Sonne of God and acceptable to al Angels and Archangels vouchsaife to remember vs we intreate thee with what praiers we are able that he who hath geuen victorie of thy laboures vnto thee wil bestow pardon of sinnes vpon vs. O Agnes a true ornament the bright image of shamfastnes o noble Virgin I besech thee fauour my praiers Agnes o happie Virgin o new glory noble inhabitant of the heauenly towre bow downe thy face adorned with a double Diademe vpon our vncleanes Thou shynest as a bride heauen aske for me fauour those which honour thee O holie blessed Paula help with thy praiers the decaying old age of thy worshipper thy faith and workes associate thee to Christ being present thou shalt more easily obtaine what thou askest THE OLD LITANIES vsed within the first 600 yeares cited by Wallafridus Strab. l. de rebus Ecclesiast 28. de lit agend S. Amalar. l 2. de eccl offic c. 28. Cermonial antiq tit Lytan and others Chapter 9. LOrd haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O God the Father of heauen haue mercie vpon vs. O God the Sonne Redemer of the world haue mercie vpon vs. O God the holy Ghost haue mercie vpon vs. O holie Trinitie one God haue mercie vpon vs. O holie Marie pray for vs. O holie Mother of God pray O holie Virgin of virgins pray O holie Michael pray O holie Gabriel pray O holie Raphael pray O al holie Angels Archangels of God pray O al holie orders of blessed spirits pray O holie Iohn Baptist pray O al holie Patriarches Prophets pray S. Peter pray S. Paul pray S. Andrew pray S. Iohn pray S. Iames pray S. Mathew pray S. Bartholomew pray S. Symon pray S. Thadeus pray S. Mathias pray S. Barnabas pray S. Marcke pray S. Luke pray O al holie Apostles and Euangelistes pray for vs. O al holie Disciples InnoceÌ„tes pray for vs. S. Stephen pray S. Linns pray S. Cletus pray S. Clement pray S. Fabian pray S. Albane pray S. Cosmas pray S. Damian pray S. Primus pray S. Faelician pray S. Dionise with his felowes pray S. Victor with his felowes pray O al holy Martyrs pray S. Siluester pray S. Leo pray S. Ierome pray S. Augustine pray O al holy Confessors pray O al holy Monkes Erâ—miâ—eâ— pray S. Marie Magdaleine pray S. Marie of Egipt pray S. Margaret pray S. Scholastica pray S. Pernel pray S. Genouefs pray S. Praxedes pray S. Sotheris pray S. Prisca pray S. Thecla pray S. Afra pray O holy Virgins pray O al holy Sainctes of God men women pray for vs. Of honour reuerence to the holie bodies and other Reliques of Sainctes Chapter 10 WE honour the vessels of the bodies of Sainctes and repay vnto them memory as it were reward and wages of their vertue magnanimitie of mind The noble reliques are pulled forth of their vnnoble sepulchre The Trophes of victorie are shewed vnto heaueÌ„ Let the triuÌ„phant victims succede vnto the place where Christ is the Sacrifice But he who suffered for al vpon the Altare These redemed by his passion vnder the Altare This place I had appointed for my selfe for it is worthie a priest should rest there where a Preist accustomed to offer Sacrifice But I yeald the right hand portion to the holy victims This place beloÌ„ged to Martyrs therfore let vs burie the sacred reliques carrie them into worthie houses and celebrate the whole day with faithful deuotion O thrice and four times o 7. times happie that Citizen who celebrateth thee nearhaÌ„d the seate of thy bones who may lay himself downe neare them who sprincleth the place with teares who presseth his brest vpon the earth who offereth vowes in secret O blessed Apostles what thankes shal we render vnto you who haue laboured so much for vs. O Peter I remember thee and I am amased O Paule I cal thee to mind rauished in mind I am oppressed with teares For what I may say or what I may speake beholding your afflictions I know not O peter thou maist ioy to whom it was geuen to enioy the Crosse of Christ Ioy thou also o Paule whose head was cutte of with a sword Let that sword be to me for a crowne and the nailes of Peter for pretious Stones infixed in my Diademe O who wil graunt vnto me to be rolled about the bodie of Paule to be fastened to his sepulchre to see the dust of that bodie fulfilling the thinges which as yet were wanting in Christ bearing the signes of his woundes O double renoumed we besech thee by thy handes blocke of thy prison by those potsheardes by which thou gainedst conquest by which we that come after with reuerence kisse thy bedde haue mercy vpon our praiers Here Christ verily was crucified for our sinnes and if thou wouldest deny it this place apparant disproueth thee Blessed is this mount Golgatha in which now for him that was crucified wel make ioy in him and the whole globe of the earth is filled with wood of the Crosse by parcels When wil that day be that it may be lawful for vs to enter into the Sepulchre of our Sauiour to wepe in the Sepulchre of our Lord and then to licke the wood of the Crosse and in mount Oliuet with our Lord ascending to be lifted in desire and mind Praier for one in particular deceased Chapter 11. GOd of his mercie forgeue to the departed out of this life al sinnes by humane frailtie and weaknes committed and bring him into light and the Countrie of the liuing into the bosome of Abraham Isaac and Iacob into the Place voide of al greife sadnes and groaning Let vs pray for al that rest in Christ that our gentle God who hath receiued his soule wil forgeue him al offence being merciful vnto him wil place him in the Region of the godly and blessed in the bosome of Abraham Isaac Iacob with al that haue pleased him from the beginning of the world and performed his wil where there is no sorow sadnes or sighing God of Abraham God of Isaac and God of Iacob God not of the dead but of the liuing because the soules of al do liue with thee and the spirits of the Iust are in thy handes and torment shal not touch them for al that are sanctified are vnder thy hand Looke thou also now vpon this thy seruant whom thou hast receiued into the other life and pardoÌ„ him whatsoeuer he hath offended in Assigne geÌ„tle Angels vnto him and place him in the bosome of Patriarches Prophets and Apostles and al that from the beginning of the world haue pleased thee where there is no sorow nor horror but the felowship of the godlie and such as reioyce and the blessed Countrie of the iust beholding the glorie of thy Christ by whom to thee be glorie honour worship
geue rest and good memorie to all hauing societie with vs to my father and to my mother to my maister who brought me vp O most holy Virgin Mother of God pray for al seruantes of God men and women both liuing and departed out of this life Praiers preparatorie before receiuing the most blessed Sacrament of the Altare Christs true bodie bloud Chapter 13. I Doe not ioy in corruptible nourishment nor in the pleasures of this life I desire the bread of God the bread celestial which is the flesh of Christ the Soune of God and drink I desire his bloud which is life euerlasting O diuine and sacred Misterie vouchsaif to open tne couerings of signifying signes which are about thee and apparantly appeared and replenish the eyes of our vnderstanding with a singular and manifest brightnes of thy light When thou receiuest the holy meate and that incorrupted banquet when thou dost enioy the bread and cuppe of life thou dost eate and drinke the bodie and bloud of our Lord Then our Lord entreth Vnder thy roofe and thou therfore humbling thy self imitate the Centurion and say O lord I am not worthie that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe O Lord our God the heauenly bread life of al I haue sinned against heauen and before thee and I am not worthie to be made partaker of thine immacuate misteries but as a merciful God make me worthie of thy grace that without condemnation I may be partaker of thy holy bodie pretious bloud to forgeuenes of sinnes and life euerlasting O Lord who dwellest aboue the Cherubim and lookest downe vpon thy people and inheritance blesse thy seruants and their children graunt a portion to them that come to receiue of thy miraculous Table for purging of their mind and remission of sinnes vnion of the holie Ghost and health of soule and bo die inheritance of the Kingdome of heauen Amen Tast and see that our Lord is bountiful who distributed into partes not diuided and bestowed vpon the faithful is not consumed for remission of sinnes and life euerlasting now euer world without end O Lord God almightie we besech thee to driue away from our thought the darke assaultes of sinne make our mindes ioyfui with the brightnes of thy holie Spirit that being increased with the knowlege of thee we may worthily participate of those good thinges which are proposed vnto thee of the immaculate body and pretious bloud of thine onely begotten Sonne our Lord and God Sauiour Iesus Christ Forgeue vnto vs al shew of sinnes by thy manifold vnsearchable goodnes by the grace and mercies and gentlenes of thine only begotten Sonne with whom to thee be honour Rule with the most holie and good and quitning Spirit O Lord our God who out of the aboundance of thy grace hast bestowed vpon vs al thinges Thou geuest vnto vs more then we demand more boūtifully then we vnderstand thou dealest with vs stretch forth o Lord thy inuisible hand and blesse thy seruantes and handmaides and clense them from al spotte of flesh and spirit and vouchsaife vs to be made partakers of the body of thine only begotten Sonne that with puritie and holines humble we may offer our praiers to thee and vnto thine only Sonne our Lord Iesus Crist to thy most holy Spirit to be adored world without end Amen O our God let vs not be guilty of the Body Bloud of Christ thy Sonne nor sicke in mind or bodie because vnworthie we participate the sacred Mysteries but rather graunt vnto vs that vntil our last breath we may please thee and be accompted worthie to receiue the sauing Sacraments of our Lord and Redemer Iesus Christ nor to be vnworthie of his bodie and purging bloud but meete to receiue thē that by them being strenghned clensed and perfected we may worthily besech thee by that praier which thy only begotten Sonne hath taught vs that we may crie with a pure heart and say Our Father which are in heauen halowed be thy name O high Preist and true Bishop Iesus Christ who hast geuen for vs wretched sinners thy flesh to eate and thy bloud to drinke cause me by thy grace alway to beleue and vnderstand to thinke and firmly hold to say and esteme of so great a misterie that which is pleasing vnto thee and profitable for my soule O holy bread o liuely bread bread bewtiful pure bread which did descend frō heauen and geuest life to the world come into my heart and cleanse me frō al vncleannes of bodie and soule enter into my soule heale it within and without Be thou a perpetual saluation of my bodie and soule Driue back from me the enemies which lye in waite for me Let them depart from thy presence that I being both without and within defended by thee may come by ◠ready path to thy kingdome where thinges are not handled with misteries as in this time but we shal see thee face to face when thou shalt deliver thy kingdomes to God the Father God shal be al in al. Then thou shalt fil me with thy self with a meruelous fulnes that I shal neither hunger nor thirst for euer Who with the Father and holy Ghost liuest reignest world without end Amen O Lord make me worthie by the Intercession of the vnspotted our Lady Mother of God and euer Virgin Marie that without condemnation I may receiue thy immaculate guist to remission of sinnes to life euerlasting purgation of euil cogitations for illustration of thy commandements O Lord Iesus Christ Sonne of the liuing God who by the wil of thy Father the holy Ghost cooperating hast reuiued the world deliuer me by this thy sacred body and bloud from al mine iniquities and al euils cause me alwaies to cleaue to thy commandemens and suffer me neuer to be seperated frō thee who with the same God the Father and holie Ghost liuest and reignest world without end Amen O Lord my God graunt vnto me so to receiue the Bodie and Bloud of thy Sonne our Lord Iesus that by it I may deserue to haue forgeuenes of al my sinnes and be replenished with thy holy Spirit o our God who liuest reignest world without end Amen Haile for euer o most sacred flesh of Christ for euer the greatest sweetnes O Lord I am not worthy thou shouldest enter under my roofe but only say the word my soule shall be cured O Lord I am not worthie thou shoudest enter under my roofe but only say the word my soule shal be cured O Lord I am not worthie thou shoudest enter under my roofe but only say the word my soule shal be cured The Bodie Bloud of our Lord Iesus Christ preserue my bodie and soule vnto euerlasting life Amen After receiuing of the bodie of Christ I come to the Chalice of
thy faith workes associate thee to Christ That Praiers Sacrifice suffering persecution for Christ Almes-deedes and other good workes done in grace are meritorious Chapter 2. O Lord we reuerence the memory first of the glorious alwaies Virgin Marie Mother of God and our Lord Iesus Christ Also of the blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter and Paul Andrew Iames Iohn Thomas Iames Philip Bartholomew Mathew Simon and Thadee Linus Cletus Clemens Xistus Cornelius Ciprian Laurence Chrisogonus Iohn Paul Cosmas Damianus and of al thy Sainctes by whose merites and praiers vouchsaife to graunt that in al thinges we may be defended by the helpe of thy protection O God almightie we besech thee that by the intercession of B. S. Iohn Baptist we may be defended That he may obtaine indulgence and fauour for vs that we may be helped by his merits that by his patronage meriting it we may haue increase of securitie Graunt we besech thee that thy familie by the intercession of thy forerunner blessed Iohn Baptist may be freeed from al sinnes and merite to come to him whom he foretold O most gentle God by the praiers of the Mother of God euer a Virgin and the heauenlie armie and company of Angels Cherubins Seraphines Prophets Martyrs godlie Rulers by the intercessions of holie Religious people supplications of al the blessed haue mercie on me thy creature O God mercifully heare vs grauÌ„t that by the merites of blessed Peter his coapostle Paule we may obtaine the glorie of eternitie O God almightie we besech thee that blessed Andrew thy Apostle may obtaine help for vs. Let vs be protected by his merites O Lord it is worthie and iust right and helping to saluation humblie to pray thee that thou o eternal Shepheard wilt not forsake thy flocke but wilt keepe thy people with continual protection by thy blessed Apostles that it may be gouerned by the same Rulers who being the vicars of thy work thou hast appointed Pastours to rule it O God grauÌ„t to thy seruantes that by the merites of thy Sainctes Abdon and Sennen making intercession for vs we may deserue to be deliuered from al aduersities O Lord let the intercession of blessed Hermes thy Martyr not cease to pacifie thy iustice and make our seruice deuout vnto thee O Lord by the intercession of thy Sainctes Cornelius and Ciprian turnâ— from vs al euils which we iustly deserue We humbly besech thee o God omnipotent that by the intercession of B. George thy Martyr thou wilt graunt vs worthilie to serue thee O Lord cleanse vs from al guilt of our sinnes by the intercession of blessed George thy Martyr Graunt o Lord that the guiftes which we offer may be to the helpe of our saluation the merite of blessed Anastasia making intercession for vs. O God we besech thee that by the intercession of blessed Cecilie we may deserue to receiue the benefites of thy guift O God graunt vs to be helped by the merites of blessed Saturninus thy Martyr O twice renowmed be present now receiue the humble wordes of them that pray vnto thee and be an effectual oratour for our offence at the throne of the Father We besech thee by thy self by that prison the increase of thy 〈◊〉 by thy bondes flames hookes the block of thy prison by those potsheardes by which thou obtained victory by which we that come after thee with reuerence kisse thy bedde haue mercy on our praiers that Christ being pacified wil not impute our sinnes vnto vs. O most laudable and excellent spirits openly propose the infinite mercy of God praying the bountiful gentle God that by your intercession he wil vouchsaife to admitte al the afflictions and sicknes calamities which in al my life I haue suffered for a recompence of my sinnes and release pardon of the condemnation and greauous tormentes which I haue iustly deserued accompt them in their steade and place Of the Communion of the Church 〈◊〉 with the Triumphant by Praier honour to the Saincts there by vs on earth their patronage vnto vs and first of the most B. Virgin Marie Chapter 3. O Virgin vouchsaife that I thy seruant may praise thee Haile most bright most bewtiful vessel of God Haile Ladie Marie fuf of grace Haile among women most blessed Virgin Haile most shyning starre from which Christ went forth Haile most glorious light Mother and Virgin Haile Ladie higher then al. Haile song of the Cherubins and Himne of Angels Haile peace ioy and saluation of the world Haile gladnes of mankind Haile praise of the Fathers and honour of the Prophets Haile bewtie of Martyrs and crowne of Sainctes Haile glorie of the godlie Haile most excellent ornament of the heauenlie holies Haile most worthie miracle of the world Hail tree of life ioy and pleasure Haile quiet Hauen and deliueresse of those that be troubled Haile the helper of them that be in daunger Haile â—â—ouâ—â— of grace and consolation Haile refuge of sinners Haile hope of al that be vertuous and afflicted with aduersities Haile Queene and defence both of men and women Haile most glorious Mediatrix of the world Haile doare of heauen Haile opening of the gates of Paradise Haile key of heauens the kingdome of Christ O immaculate vnspotted vncorrupted chast Virgin Spouse of God our Ladie only hope of the dispaired help of the oppressed and most speedie aide of those that runne vnto thee and refuge of al Christians admitte my praier most vile vttered with vncleane lippes and also intreate thy Sonne my Lord and God with thy motherly gentlenes that he may also open vnto me those most merciful bowels of his pietie and setting aside mine innumerable sinnes conuert me to penance and graunt me truly to fulfil his commandementes O merciful gentle and bountiful Ladie be alwaies present vnto me in this life an earnest protectiâ—â— and helper driuing backe mine enemies inuasions and bringing me to saluation and in the last moment of my life kepe my wretched soule driuing farre from it the vgsome sight of wicked diuels in the terrible day of Iudgment deliuering me from euerlasting damnation lastly making me heire of that inaccessible glorie of thy Soone and God Which by thine intercession and fauour I besech thee againe and againe most holie Ladie Mother of God that I may obtaine by thy grace mercie and gentlenes of thine only begotten Sonn our Lord and God and Sauiour Iesus Christ As thou art the Mother of the most merciful God so mercifully receiue me a sinner be present with me o merciful gentle bountiful Virgin O immaculate and blessed Mother without sinne of thy Sonne God of al pure sound most sacred we praise thee we blesse thee as ful of grace who broughtest forth Christ We al prostrate ourselues to thee we al besech thee Deliuer vs o vnspotted from al
necessitie from al temptations of the diuel Be our Reconciliatrix and Aduocate in the hour of Iudgment Deliuer vs from the fire to comand darknes and vouchsaif vs the glorie of thy Sonne for thou art the most holie hope of Christians with God To whom be honour world without end Amen O holie and immaculate Virgin Marie Mother of God and Mother of our Lord Iesus Christ vouchsaife to make intercession for me to him whose Temple thou deseruedst to be I besech the Intercession of blessed Marie the Virgin that my praier may be effectual O holie Mother of God Virgin Marie pray for vs. O Queene of heauen and Ladie of earth euer most holie Virgin Mother of God our Lord Iesus Christ pray for vs and daily yea continually make intercession for me thy seruant and for al the holy Church of God for remission of sinnes purging of vices for increase and perfection of vertues for the peace and health of the faithful people for the fruictes of the earth for the stabilitie of the Church the order of Sainctes and for al seruantes of God men and women both liuing and departed that by thy praiers and holie merites God almightie may take mercie on a people ful of sinnes here and for euer Haile o Queene Mother of mercie life sweetenes and our hope al haille We that are the banished children of Eue do crie vnto thee To thee we sigh groaning and weping in this vale of teares Therfore o thou our aduocate turne those thy merciful eyes vnto vs and shew vnto vs after this exile blessed Iesus the fruite of thy wombe O merciful o ful of pitie o sweete Virgin Marie Pray for vs o holie Mother of God That we may be made worthie of the promises of Christ Harken o daughter of Dauid Abraham and incline thine eare to our praiers and forgeat not thy people We crie vnto thee o most holie Virgin remember vs and render vnto vs for this litle speech great guiftes out of the riches of thy graces thou who art ful of grace We vse these wordes for thy praise If at anie time Himne if at anie time praise be offered vnto thee either by vs or anie creature to thee I say our gracious Ladie Queene Mistris Mother of God Arke of the Sanctuarie Al orders of Angels and earthly thinges pronounce thee blessed We exalt thee with a great and lowde voice saying Haile gratious our Lord is with thee o Mistris and Ladie and Queene and Mother of God make intercession for vs. O venerable Virgin chast most happy adorned with the garment of immortalitie accompted as a Goddesse be mercifuly present to my praiers receiue my petitions O Ladie graunt that I may so depart forth of this life that hauing thee so great a gouernesse of it I may alwaies find thee for me a most acceptable Patronesse to thy Sonne Suffer me not to be deliuered ouer as it were to be crucified and exposed to the scorne of him that is the sworne enemie plague of al mortal men O maiden equalled by none in grace Mother and Virgin comly aboue al virgins and the greatest who excedest al orders of heauenly inhabitantes Queene Ladie the good of mankind be alwaies a frend to mortal men and to me euerie where the greatest saifguard O thrice blessed Mother o light of virgins which inhabitest the most glorious Temple of heauen free from the stianes of mortalitie now thou art adorned with the stoale of immortalitie harkē gently from aboue to my wordes and I besech thee o Virgin receiue my praiers It is worthy and iust to glorify thee Goddes Mother alwaies most blessed wholly vndefiled Mother of god more honourable then the Cherubins and incomparably more Glorious then the Seraphins which without corcorruption hast brought forth God verily we magnify thee Goddes Mother O glorious Mother of God who brought forth true God pray vnto him to saue our soules O Mother of God because thou art more excellent then al creatures we which are not able to praise thee worthily do freely besech thee haue mercie vpon vs. Haile ful of grace our Lord is with thee Haile organe of ioy by which the condemnation of our offence is purged and ful cōpensation of true ioy is made Haile truly blessed Haile illuminated Haile magnificent Temple of Diuine glory Haile consecrated Palace of the King Haile bride chamber in which humanitie was espoused to Christ Haile elected to God before thou wert borne Haile Goddes Reconciliation with men Haile treasure of life which neuer fadeth Haile heauen celestial Tabernacle of the sunne of glory Haile most ample feild of God whom none other place but thou alone could comprehend Haile holie virginal earth of which the new Adam by an vnspeakable framing was formed which should restoare the old Adam to saluation Haile Marie ful of grace our Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe for thou hast brought forth the Sauiour of our soules It is worthie it is worthie that we cal thee who art trulie blessed the Mother of God alwaies blessed euerie way irreprehensible the Mother of our God more honourable thē the Cherubins and more glorious then the Seraphins who without corruption hast brought forth God the word We truly magnify thee the Mother of God o ful of grace to thee euerie creature maketh ioy the companie of Angels and mankind thou who art the sanctified Temple the spiritual paradise the glorie of virgins of whom God receiued flesh and became a child our God who is before the world for he made thy belie his Throne and thy wombe more spacious and large then the heauens them selues To thee o ful of grace euerie creature doth gratulate glorie to thee O holie Marie Mother of God pray for vs I say sinners Amen O Mother of God Queene of heauen doare of paradise Ladie of the worlde begin praiers for my sinne Amen O my blessed Ladie and defence of mankind the harbour and protection of them that flee vnto thee I know o my Ladie Mother of God that I haue greatly offended thee For who o my Ladie hath hoped in thee and was ashamed or what man hath faithfully asked thy help able to al thinges hath at anie time bene forsaken verly no man at anie time Wherfore I a sinner also and wicked person aske thy euer-during fountaine from which cures do flowe to our soules be merciful vnto me Of the same praying vnto and honouring this most blessed Virgin Marie Chapter 4. HAile ful of grace our Lord is with thee He that said Let light be made let the firmament and the rest of the workes of wonderful creation be made Haile Mother of immeasurable ioy Haile new Arke of glory in which the spirit of God descending rested Arke in which rested the sanctification of new glorie Haile ornament of al Prophets and
Prophets behold how she is afflicted whom you haue tuned forth with Prophetical praise O you Apostles be you intercessors for her whom to gather together you haue runne about al the world O you holie prophets who foretold the coming of God in our flesh you Martyrs who with the slaughter of your bodies shedding of your bloud haue geuen testimonie to the Lambe that was killed and is aliue I humbly besech you to be present with me The Infantes protomartyrs in the order of Sainctes acquainted with the diuine secrets by their familier nearenes vouchsaife to intreate the mercie of God for our laboures O most blessed Martyrs who for our Sauiour and the loue of him haue frely and perfectly sustained tormentes therfore are more familiarly ioyned to God We intreate you that you wil vouchsaife to make intercession to our Lord for vs wretches and sinners and polluted with the filthines of negligence that the grace of Christ may com vpon vs to illustrate our heartes with the beame of his holy loue O most blessed men o most glorious Martyrs of God help me a wretch with your praiers that I may obtaine mercie in that hour when the secrets of men shal be manifest Stande before the Throne of the Maiestie of God for me that by your praiers I may deserue to be saued and with you to enioy eternal blessednes I aske the Sainctes by their intercession to obtaine vnto me the goodwil of God I aske and besech that by the Intercession of al Sainctes I may obtaine the help of God I besech those Sainctes whose life I have written that they wil not despise me liuinge farre from their spiritual companie but draw me lying beneath and lift me vp to the toppe of vertue ioyne me with them that I may not only praise the riches of others but my selfe may haue some occasion of praise glorifying the Sauiour of al both in deede and word and thought O Sainctes arise and kepe vs humble sinners in peace Of praier and honour vnto some Sainctes on particular deceased before the Passion of Christ Chapter 7. O Father Abraham pray for me that I be not driven from the boundes which I have greatly desired O blessed Iob who liuest for euer with God and remainest a conquerour in the sight of the King our Lord pray for vs wretches that the dreadful mercie of God defend vs in al tribulations and deliuer vs from al oppressions of the diuel and number vs among the iust inrol vs with those that are saued and cause vs to rest with them in his kingdome where we may continually magnify him with his Sainctes Amen O blessed Iob be a guide vnto vs forsake vs not vntil thou haue directed vs vnto the plaine way in which we may trauaile saifly not erre from truth The Protomartyrs which haue the first place in the order of Sainctes and acquainted with diuine secrets by their most familiar nearnes vouchsaife to entreate the clemency of God for our laboures whom to this day deadly Herode persecuteth with whose bloud and death the diuel delighteth Therfore these translated from their cradles to heaueÌ„ are made Senators of the heauenly Capitol and Iudges there obtaining pardon for some without desâ—ruing O Baptist I besech thee graunt vnto me the hope of my Praier and as thou art a voice preserue vnto me sure stable the senses of the instrumentes of voice O Rachel Rachel my Mother behold Ioseph thy Sonne whom thou hast loued what hath chanced vnto him Behold he is ledde captiue as a malefactor O Rachel receiue thy sonne O mother receiue me o my mother heare the mourning and bitter scriking of my heart mine eyes can no longer sustaine teares neither my life sufficeth to such lamentations and groaninges Of praier and honour vnto Sainctes in particular deceased after the Passion of Christ Chapter 8. THe most blessed Apostle Peter vouchsaife by his praiers to helpe our praiers fastings and almes Blessd Peter and al Sainctes that haue bene present with vs in manie tribulations vouchsaife to help our praiers with the merciful God through Christ our Lord. Amen O Peter from whence may I cal thee to teach me what thou didst think when thou didst weepe from whence I say may I cal thee from heaueÌ„ where thou art among the Queares of Angels or froÌ„ thy graue also because thou thinkest it no iniurie to be there froÌ„ whence our lord arose teach vs what thy teares did profitt thee O Peter Paul pray for vs continually we besech you performe your promises for these are your couenantes of one of you this come with me let vs not faint in good thinges and of the other that I wil studie after my death to make mention of you Therfore do not forgeat your agreed couenantes but you which are immediatly present to the B. Trinitie without beginning aske for vs al thinges belonging to saluation O holy Paul Doctor of the Gentiles and al you holie Apostles lament together with vs. We prostrate aske by him who promoted you lowly fishers to the highest Apostolical dignitie that you do not despise your wretched sinners O Paul excellent Doctor instruct our maners and endeuour to translate vs in minde into heauen O S. Paul who hast receiued the Crowne pray and make intercession for vs that our soules may be deliuered by the multitude of the mercies of Iesus Christ and his holy name O S. Andrew cherish vs which be fainting haue care of vs that by the victorie of the Crosse we may go to the countrie of heauen O verily worthily more holy Apostle the shyning head of Spaine be a defendour patrone and saifguard to vs from heauen driue away from vs siknes sore and sinne Be fauourable that by heauenly help we may possesse Ioy obtaining the kingdome may be adorned with eternal glorie that by thee we may escape hel O Euangelist o blessed Iohn speak vnto vs some great and notable thing O Aposte open vnto vs the wel of life graunt now that we may draw from thy fountaines O ornament of Martyrs and glory of Sainctes defend and kepe this company without harme by thy praiers O most holie driue-backe the cruel diuels with the dart of thine intercessions O holie Lawrence thou hast a double mansion one of thy bodie on earth and an other of thy soule in heauen There thou art a chosen Citizen of the vnspeakable citie wearest a celestial Croune aboue in the euerlasting Court I seeme to see a man glittering with illustrious pretious stones whom the heauenly Rome hath chosen vnto her for an eternal Consul What power is bestowed vpon thee and what great office is giueÌ„ vnto thee is expressed by the ioies of the Romanes whose petitions thou yeldest vnto what anie man doth humbly aske he prosperously obtaineth They aske they
thankes and adoration in the holie Ghost for euer Amen O Lord of life and death o keeper and benefactor of our soules receiue the soule of C. whom we commend to thy wisdome by which al thinges are done and hereafter in time conuenient also receiue vs and gouerne vs in our flesh so long as is profitable for vs O Lord who kepest litle ones and sauest those that trust in thee geue vnto thy perfect seruant that rest which thou hast prepared for thy Sainctes Let his soule returne thither frō whence it came where it can feele no sting of death where it may know that this death is not the end of mā but of sinne For in that he is dead he is dead to sinne that there may now be no place for sinne Amen O Lord we commend vnto thee the soule of thy seruant that being dead to the world he may liue to thee And the sinnes which by frailtie of worldly conuersation he hath committed blotte thou out with the pardon of thy most merciful pietie by our Lord. Amen In the name of our Lord Iesus his soule and al soules of the faithful deceased by the mercie of God rest in peace without end Amen Our Lord raise him vp againe to euerlasting life and be merciful vnto vs. Our Lord place him in the bosome of Abraham and be merciful vnto vs. Of praier Sacrifice Almes and other good deedes for al true faithful deceased Chapter 12. Opardoner and clenser o forgeuer blotter out and forgeating our manie and great sinners withou nūber and the sinnes of al thy faithful people pardon o God and haue mercy vpon vs. Remember vs o Lord God in the mercies that are from thee and remember our soules and the soules of our fathers and brethren and instructours and of our deceased Finally of al faithful deceased children of thy holy and glorious Church O Lord God geue rest to their soules and bodies and sprincle the dew of thy miserations vpō their bones O Christ our King take compassion and be merciful vnto vs them O thou my God who geuest rest to the dead and raisest againe those that be buried receiue the soules of thy seruants which we haue remembred and place them o my Lord in the blessed mansions of the house of thy Father with Abraham and Isaac and Iacob thy frendes and with al Sainctes that haue performed thy wil in the true faith and of thy Father and thy holy Spirit for euer Amen O Lord geue euerlasting rest vnto al which haue gone before vs in the faith of Christ O Lord remember haue mercy vpō shew fauour to the soules which rest pacify illuminate them associate them vnto thy Sainctes in the kingdom of heauen make them worthie of thy loue Let vs bring forth our praiers asking of the pietie of our Lord that he wil vouchsaife to place the soules of them that rest in the bosome of Abraham admitte them vnto the part of the first Resurrection O Lord graūt our oblation be grateful and acceptable for the rest of the soules of them which are deceased before vs. Because while we are in this world oftentimes we be deceived err both vnwillingly and voluntary we make memorie both of the lust and sinners that are deceased for sinners beseching the mercie of God O God have respect vnto vs and remember al that are deceased in hope of the Resurrection and life euerlasting and cause them to rest where the light of thy countenence is seene O Lord as merciful remember thy seruantes pardon whatsoeuer thinges they in their life haue offended in We Offer vnto thee this reasonable dutie for the faithful deceased for our Brethren and Sisters by the intercession of Patriarches Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors al Sanctes O Lord remember our deceased Princes Bishops Kinges and al that are dead in the true faith O Lord remēber al men and women thy seruantes brethren and sisters and al the faithful deceased and resting in the signe of the true faith O Lord remember al those that sleepe in hope of Resurrection of euerlasting life and refresh them where the light of thy countenance doth visit O Lord remember al thy seruantes which haue gone before vs with the signe of faith and rest in the sleepe of peace O Lord we besech thee to graūt vnto them and to al that rest in Christ a place of refreshing and peace Euerlasting God we humbly besech thee that thy seruant to whom thou hast geuen the gouernmēt of thy Church being now deliuered from the prison of flesh and ioyned to the Prelates of Apostolick dignitie may deserue to obtaine the reward of eternal life My praise and my life God of my heart I besech thee for the sinnes of my mother heare me by the medicine of our woundes which hanged vpon the Crosse sitting at thy right hand maketh intercession to thee for vs. I know that she delt mercifully and with al her heart forgaue offences to them that had offended her Therfore forgeue thou also her debts if she hath incurred any by so manie yeares after the water of saluation O Lord forgeue her forgeue her I besech thee enter not into iudgment with her Let her rest in peace together with her husband O Lord our God remember the soules of the orthodoxal and true beleuers frō Abel the iust vnto this day Cause them to rest in the land of the liuing in thy Kingdome and delightes of paradise in the bosome of Abraham Isaac and Iacob our holy fathers from whence is banished sorow sadnes and groning where the light of thy countenance doth rule and shine continually O Lord Creatour of bodies soules remember at thy heauenly Altare al those that are departed forth of this wretched world and refresh them in thy Tabernacle ful of bewtie Passe them ouer beyond the horrible mansiōs of torment and place them in thy light-some Tabernacles Deliuer them from want of light from darknes take them forth of tribulation and greife let thy countenance appeare peaceable unto them neither seuerly examine their former life But whether in word or work as men in flesh they haue sinned forgeue and abolish their errours O holy Father we besech thee for the soules of the faithful departed that they may haue eternal saluatiō perpetual health ioy and comfort euerlasting O Lord make an end of our sinnes graunt ioy to the afflicted deliuery to captiues health to the sicke and rest to the dead O Lord our God geue rest to the soules of the faithful departed in thy holy Tabernacles in thy Kingdome graūting vnto them the good thinges of thy promises which the eye hath not seene and the eare hath not heard and haue not ascended into the heart of man which thou o God hast prepared for them who loue thy name O God
his bloud prostrate in maner of Adoration and worship saying Amen Of Praiers Thankes after receiuing of this most blessed Sacrament of the Altar which is Christs true Body Bloud Chapter 14. HAuing receiued the pretious Body and pretious Bloud of Christ let vs geue thankes to him who hath made vs worthie to receive his holy Misteries And we aske that they be not to vs for iudgment but saluation for the profit of our soule and body for preseruation of godlines for remission of sinnes to life of the world to come O Lord God omnipotent Father of Christ thy blessed Sonne the hearer of them which rightly cal vpon thee who knowest the intercessions of the silent Let vs geue thankes vnto thee for that thou hast made vs worthie of the participation of thy holie Misteries which thou hast geuen vnto vs for confirmation of thinges wel knowne for keping of pietie for remission of sinnes because the name of thy Christ is called vpon ouer vs and we are reconciled vnto thee Thou who hast seperated vs frō Communumcatinge with the vngodly ioyne vs with those that be consecrated vnto thee confirme vs in truth by the coming of the holy Ghost reueale thinges which we know not fulfil thinges which are wanting strengthen thinges knowne defend Preistes vnspotted in thy seruice preserue kinges in peace Magistrates in iustice the ayre in holsōnes the fruites in fertilitie the world in perfect prouidence Represse warring Nations conuert them that erre sanctifie thy people conserue Virgins kepe the married in faithfulnes strengthen the ignorant bring infantes vnto ripe age confirme nouices instruct Cathecumens and make them worthy to be admitted to thy Misteries and gather vs al together into the Kingdome of heauē in Christ Iesus our Lord with whom to thee and the holie Ghost be Glorie Honour and Worship for euer Amen O Lord Iesus I besech that this thy Sacrament be vnto vs to life that it be to vs for remission of sinnes for thy Passion was celebrated for vs. Thou didest drinke gaule for vs that al bitternes of the aduersary might dye in vs. Also for vs thou didest drinke vineger that our wearines might be comforted Thou wert spitted vpō for vs that thou mightest sprincle vs with immortal dew Thou wast stricken with a brittle reede to make firme our brittlenes to euerlasting life eternitie Thou wast crounned with thornes to croune those which beleue in thee with the euerflorishing Laurel of thy loue Further thou wast wrapped in a Syndon to inuest vs with a certaine enwrapping of thy vertue Thon wouldest be put in a new Sepulchre to reforme new grace a new world vnto vs. I desire this Eucharist be vnto vs to life the bowels of mercie and grace of saluation health of our soules Amen O Lord fil our mouth with thy praise replenish our lippes with ioy that we may praise thy glory and al the day thy magnificence We geue thankes vnto thee o Christ our God because thou hast vouchsaifed vs to be made partakers of thy body and bloud to remission of sinnes and life euerlasting O God who for thy manifold and vnspeakable bounty hast condescended to the infirmitie of thy seruantes vouch saifed to make vs partakers of this heauenly Table condemne not vs sinners for receiuing thine immaculate mysteries but bountifully preserue vs in sanctification of thy holy Spirit that we being made holy may obtaine part inheritance with al Sainctes which from eternitie haue bene accepted of thee in the light of thy countenance by the mercy of thine only begotten Sonne our Lord and God and Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord thou hast geuen vnto vs sanctification and receiuing of the most holy bodie and pretious bloud of thine only begotten Sōne our Lord Iesus Christ Bestow vpon vs also the grace of thy good holy Spirit and preserue vs without offence in faith lead vs into perfect adoption and Redemption into those future eternal fruitions Amen Blessed be God that blesseth sanctifieth the receiuing of his holy liuely and immaculate Misteries now euer world without end Amen We geue thankes to thee o our God we exalt thee the Father omnipotent merciful praise thee Creatour of the world and adore thee abounding with mercie and grace because thou hast taken mercy vpon vs and cleansed vs and blotted forth our sinnes and vouchsaifed vs the receiuing of thy holy liuely Sacraments which euen the Angels desires to behold Therfore let their swetnes vnto vs a cleansing their participation for remission of sinnes before committed by vs and for a medicine of those in which we are yet conuersant Finally for an auoiding and defence against those which hereafter may be cōmitted by vs and for ioy and exultation with Sainctes who from the beginning haue pleased thee We geue thankes vnto thee o most gentle Lord Redemer of our soules because at this present thou hast made vs worthy of thy heauenly and immortal Mysteries Direct thou our way kepe vs in feare defend our life strengthen our goinges by the praiers and intercessions of the holy glorious Mother of God and alwaies Virgin Marie O God he thou exalted aboue the heauens and thy glory ouer al the earth now and euer world without end Amen O Lord my God Father Son holy Ghost cause me alwaies to seeke loue thee and by this holie Communion which I haue receaued neuer to depart from thee because thou art God and besides thee there shal be none other for euer Amen Being refreshed with the body and Bloud of Christ we praise thee o Lord Alleluya Alleluya Alleluya The Body of our Lord Iesus Christ which we haue receiued and his holy bloud which we haue drunke adhere fast vnto our bowels o euerlasting almighty God that it come not vnto vs to iudgment nor condemnation but profit to saluation and remedie of our soules vnto life eternal Amen O Christ Iesus who hast effected an euening Sacrifice by the Crosse in the euening of the world vouchsaif to make vs new Sepulchres for thy Bodie Amen Of Sacramental Confession a due preparatiō before receiuing the most blessed Sacrament of the Altare Chapter 15. THere is yet an other hard and laborious remission of sinnes by penance when the sinner doth wash his couch with teares is not ashamed to tel his sinne to the Preist of our Lord seeke remedie according to that I will pronounce against me mine iniustice to our Lord and thou hast forgeuen the wickednes of my heart Graunt o Lord as thou hast geuē vnto to thy Preistes the preisty office in thy holy Church so we besech thy goodnes and clemencie o louer of men that they may absolue vs thy seruantes al bowing downe their heades before thy sight in this thy holy Sacrifice I confesse to God almightie to the Blessed Marie euer Virgin to the blessed
our commō Lord with great charge and carefulnes O good Shepheard gentle Peter receiue the praiers of them that pray vnto thee and by authoritie committed vnto thee Vntye the bandes of our sinne The confession of Peter obtained plainly a worthie rewarde because he had seene the Sonne of God in man Blessed is this man who was praised to haue fixed his eyes and seene more thē a thing humane not beholding that which was of flesh and bloud but perceiuing by the reuelation of out heauenly Father the Sonne of God and iudged worthy who should first acknowledge that which was in the Christ of God O happy foundation of the Church in naming of thy new name and a rock worthie of the building by that Rock which should dissolue the infernal lawes and gates of hel al the cloisters of death O blessed porter of heauen gates to whose wil the Keyes of the euerlasting entrie are committed whose terrestrial Iudgment preuenteth the authoritie in heauen that what thinges on earth are bound or loosed obtaine the condition of the same decree in heauen O God who didest bestow vpon S. Peter thine Apostle the Keyes of the Kingdome of heauen geue vnto him the high Preistly power of binding and loosing graunt that by the help of his intercession we may be deliuered from the bandes of our sinnes By how much you more feare the maker of al thinges so much more you may loue his Church to whom it was said Thou art Peter and vpon this rocke wil build my Church the gaites of hel shal not preuaile against it I wil geue vnto thee the keyes of the Kingdome of heauen what soeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth shal be bound also in heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt vnbind on earth shal be vnbound in heauen From whence it is not doubtful vnto vs with how stronge a loue you bind your selues to him by whom you desire to be vnbound from al the bandes of sinnes Therfore I besech he may be the keeper of the Empyre a Protector to you on earth an Intercessor for you in heauen Let it be lawful for no man without daunger of his state to violate either the diuine constitutions or the Decrees of the Apostolike Sea We pray that by S. Peter these thinges be obserued for euer We with al our Nobles the whol Senate and my Lordes and al people subiect to the Romane glory of the Empyre haue Iudged profitable that as S. Peter semeth to haue bene constituted the Vicar of the Sonne of God on earth so also the Popes which are Successors of the same prince of the Apostles obtaine power of principalitie more then the terrene meeknes of our Emperial serenitie graunted from vs and our Empyre choosing vnto vs the same Prince of the Apostles and his successors to be firme Patrons with God Pray that the Ecclesiastical honour be not euacuated in our daies nor at any time the Romane Sea which by our Lordes inssitution is the head of al Churches may want or be spoyled of her priuileges in any place O Lord God almightie who by the mouth of thine only begotten Sonne our Lord God and Sauiour Iesus Christ hast said to our Father Peter Thou art a Rocke and vpon this Rock wil I build my Church and the gates of hel shal not preuail against it to be shaked and I wil geue vnto thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of heauen whomsoeuer thou shalt binde vpō earth shal be bound in heauen whomsoeuer thou shalt vnbind on earth shal be vnbound in heauen Let thy seruantes and handmaides be vnbound from the mouth of the holy Trinitie the Father the Sonne and holie Ghost and also from my mouth thy seruant a sinner ful of offences What diuersitie of orders and degrees belongeth to true Preisthood Vowes Virginitie Chastitie al degrees of the Church Chapter 18. O Lord remember thy holy and only Catholicke and Apostolicke Church from the endes of the earth vnto the last endes therof is diffused and al thy people and al thy foldes O Lord God omnipotent we pray besech thee to preserue the most holy and most blessed high Preist Pope N. and most reuerend Bishop N Preserue them vnto vs many yeares peaceably executing holy preisthood for thy holy and blessed wil rightly administring the word of truth with al orthodoxal Bishops Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Lectors singers Lay people O Lord remember the orthodoral Bishops Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Lectors singers Monkes perpetual Virgins Widowes Lay people liuing in al places O Lord who didest breath vpon the faces of thine Apostles say vnto them Receiue the holy Ghost so breath vpon vs thy seruantes standing round about in the entrance of the holy ministerie Bishops Preistes Deacons Lectors Singers and Lay people with al fulnes of the Catholicke and Apostolicke Church O Lord remember our fathers and brethren which are dead in the true Faith Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Lectors Monkes liuing in perpetual chastitie Let vs pray for al Bishops Preistes Deacons Subdeacons Acolythites Enorcistes Lectors Ostiaries Confessors Virgins Widowes and for al the holy people of God Let vs pray vnto our Lord for those which liue in Virginitie and Chastitie in Monasteries and in venerable Mariage and for our holy fathers brethren that be exercised in mountaines in caues holes of the earth Let vs besech our Lord praying for our brethren which haue vowed glorious Virginitie in body minde that the spirit of mercy may prosecute them euen to the consummation of their purpose O Lord behold sacred Virgins and voluntarie chast persons the pretious Margarites of thy Church that with an equal estimation they may keepe their bodies and spirit with an inuiolate conscience of chastitie by Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou hast shewed vnto me that I am thine for which I neuer tooke wife that I might wholly intend to thee lest the vse of coniugal loue might diminish or custome dissolue the grace of thy Temple You Virgins haue you only Christ in your praiers before your eyes and his father you being illuminate by the holie Ghost God graunt I may enioy your sanctitie as of Iesus the sonne of Naue as of Melchizedech as of Elizeus as of Iohn Baptist as of that beloued Disciple as of Timotheus as of Titus as of Euodius as of Clement which ended this life in puritie O King of Virgins and louer of chastitie and integritie with the heauenly dew of thy blessing quench in my body the nurishment of burning lust that the tenure of chastitie of bodie and soule remaine in me Mortify in my members the prickes of flesh al lasciuious motions and geue vnto me true and perpetual Chastity with the rest of thy guiftes which please thee in truth that I may be able to offer vnto thee the sacrifice of praise with a chast