And I now desire to depart this life in the Invocation and Confession of thy Name Lord I confess it and call upon it O come Lord Jesu Amen O Lord I have sinned 1. But I have not denied thee O never let the Enemie prevail with me to denie thee 2. But I believe O Lord increase my Faith and let me never be confounded 3. But I hope and what is my hope but in thee alone receive me O Lord according to thy Word and let me not be disappointed of my hope 4. But I have prepared and directed my heart to seek thee and though I am not purified according to the purification of the Sanctuarie yet O Lord Jesu quench not the smoaking flax nor break the bruised Reed 5. But I bear thy correction patiently and I hold my tongue because thou Lord hast done it 6. But I forgive those that have trespassed against me and thou hast promised forgiveness to him that forgives them 7. But I cast my self upon thee O withdraw not thy self from me and in no wise cast me out when I come unto thee 8. But I desire to depart confessing unto thee and calling on thy Name Wherefore not for my sake O Lord nor for any thing that belongs to me but for thine own sake for thy Names sake for the glorie of thy great Name and for thy Truths sake for thy many great and wonderful mercies sake for the sake of Christ the Mediator and of the Holy Ghost the Comforter receive me that am returned to my self and returning unto thee Amen And therefore O Lord my God I shew forth I offer I commemorate Between thee and me Christ the Priest the Lamb the Sacrifice Between me and Satan Christ a King a Lion a triumphant Conqueror Between me and sin Christ's Innocencie in his Life Between the punishment of me and my sins Christ's Satisfaction Passion and Bloud shedding Between me and my want of Righteousness Christ's Righteousness and unsinning Obedience Between me and my unworthiness to be rewarded Christ's Merits Between me and my want of sorrow for my sins Christ's Tears and bloudie sweat Between me and my want of fervencie in Prayer Christ's Intercession Between me and my own Conscience or the Accusation of Satan Christ the Advocate Between me and my Concupiscence Christ's Love Let it be acceptable unto thee O Lord for the same Christ's sake Amen O Lord I have sinned But I do not cover my sin I do not excuse it I willingly confess it I reflect on it in the bitterness of my soul. I abhor my self for the sins I have committed against thee O give me grace that I may judge and take vengeance on my felf that I may not depart this most miserable life without forgiveness O Lord I have not onely sinned but provoked thee with many and grievous sins yet I beseech thee remember that I am but flesh even a wind that passeth and cometh not again * And the mercie of my blessed Saviour can avail more towards the salvation of me a sinner than my iniquitie can do to my destruction Amen * O Lord Jesus in thee there was found no cause of death and yet didst thou suffer death for me I have deserved death give me grace O Lord that I may not fear to die and that I may be prepared for it Amen * O Lord Jesus for those bitter pains which thou didst endure on the Cross for me a most miserable Creature and especially at that hour when thy most pretious soul went forth from thy blessed body I beseech thee have mercy on my Soul when she takes her flight and bring her unto life eternal Amen Absolution OUr Lord Jesus Christ who hath lest power to his Church to Absolve all sinners which truly repent and believe in him of his great mercie forgive thee thine offences And by his Authoritie committed to me I Absolve thee from all thy sins In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Consecrations Ordinations O Lord I am now at thy Altar at thy work keep me that I lay not my hands suddenly upon any man lest I be partaker of other mens sins but that I may keep my self pure in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord give me grace that as oft as they shall come in my way I may put them in remembrance whom I have ordained that they stir up the gift of God that is in them by the putting on of my hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grant O Lord I beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy Governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee let thy continual mercie cleanse and defend thy Church And because it cannot continue in safetie without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee keep thy Houshold the Church in continual godliness that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in good works to the glorie of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For his Episcopal Charge * O God the Pastor and Governor of all thy faithful people look down in mercie upon me thy servant whom thou hast been pleased to appoint chief Pastor of the Church of Canterbury grant I most humbly beseech thee that I may profit those whom I am set over both by my Doctrine and my Example that I together with my Flock committed to my charge may come at last to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O my God my most merciful Father let thy grace work so in me that I may be truly humble in the refusal of every great Office and yet obedient to undertake it that I may be faithful in the possession and courageous in the administration of it that I may be watchsul in ruling them earnest in correcting them servent in loving them patient in bearing with them prudent in governing them That in behalf of those who are under my care I may wrastle with God when he has a Controversie with them and stand in the gap when he is angrie through the faith and merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen O Lord as the rain cometh down from Heaven and returns not thither but waters the Earth and makes it bud and bring forth that it may give seed to the sower and bread to him that eateth So let thy Word be that goeth out of my mouth let it not return to me void but accomplish that which thou wilt and prosper in the thing whereto thou hast sent it that the people committed to my charge may go out with joy and be led forth in peace to thy freshest waters of comfort in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Son of God thou which takest away the
sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen O Lord Almightie I acknowledge and confess I am not worthie to lift up mine eyes to Heaven much less to present my self before thee with any confidence that thou shouldest hear my Prayers and grant my Requests if I consider my own deserving For my Conscience accuses me and my sins witness against me and thou art a just and an upright Judge and wilt not justifie any sinner in his transgressions O Lord suffer me not to be swallowed up of death and desperation but in the multitude of thy mercies pardon me O Lord for thy goodness sake For though I am a worm and no man yet thou art my Creator and I am the Work of thy Hands yea thou art my Father and I thy Son Thou my Shepherd and I one of thy stragling Flock Thou my Redeemer and I one of thy People whom thou hast dearly bought Thou my God and I thy Creature O correct me not in thine anger O Lord neither punish me according to my deservings but remember my weakness as well as my sin and have mercie upon me for my dearest Saviour's sake Jesus Christ. Amen Almightie and everlasting God which hatest nothing that thou hast made and forgivest the sins of all them that are penitent create and make in me a new and contrite heart that I may worthily lament my sins and acknowledge my wretchedness and obtain of thee the God of all mercie perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie and everliving God which art always more readie to hear than we to pray and usest to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon me most miserable sinner the abundance of thy mercie forgiving me those things whereof my Conscience is afraid and giving me that which my Prayer dares not presume to ask Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Grant I beseech thee merciful God to me thy sinful but humble servant pardon and peace that I may be cleansed from all my sins and serve thee with a quiet mind through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I befeech thee free me from all my offences and by thy bountiful goodness deliver me from the bands of all those sins which by my ignorance frailtie or wilfulness I have committed Grant this even for Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist my Prayers that I make before thee in all my troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress me and graciously hear me that those evils which the craft and subtiltie of the devil or man worketh against me be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness so dispersed that I thy poor servant being overcome by no temptation nor hurt by any persecution may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord of thy great goodness I beseech thee give me true repentance and forgive me all my sins negligences and ignorances and indue me with the grace of thy holy Spirit that I may amend my life according to thy holy Word through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God whose nature and propertie is ever to have mercie and to forgive receive my humble Petitions And though I am tied and bound with the chain of my sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercie loose me and that for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * Give ear O Lord I beseech thee to the Prayers of thy humble servant and spare me who confess my sins unto thee and grant me of thy mercie both pardon and peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Almightie God who broughtest waters out of the hard rock bring forth out of my stonie heart the tears of Contrition and give me grace so to bewail my sins that I may obtain forgiveness of them by thy mercie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men I acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness which I have from time to time most grievously committed by thought word and deed against thy divine Majestie provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against me I do earnestly repent and am heartily sorrie for these my misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto me the burden of them is intolerable Have mercie upon me have mercie upon me most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ his sake forgive me all that is past and grant that I may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life to the honour and glorie of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God and my most merciful Father who of thy tender mercie hast promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with heartie repentance and true faith turn unto thee have mercie upon me pardon and deliver me from all my sins confirm and strengthen me in all goodness and bring me to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most holy Lord most merciful God let it suffice me to have been a sinner hitherto to have despised thee to have indulged the unclean motions of the flesh now at this time by thy inspiration I make a vow to return from mine iniquities Assist me O Lord and grant I may fulfil it in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Confessions * O Lord in many things I have offended and done wickedly and have grieved thy holy Spirit I have provoked to wrath the bowels of thy mercie by thought word and deed by night and by day in publick and in private deliberately and by surprize O if thou shouldest set my sins in the sight of thy countenance O if thou shouldest call me to account for my sins those sins which are unpardonable in themselves those which I have committed against my own knowledge O what shall I do whither shall I flie But O Lord rebuke me not in thy furie nor chasten me in thine anger Have mercie upon me not onely because I am weak but also because I am the work of thy hands I beseech thee enter not into Judgment with thy servant for if thou Lord shalt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it whosoever may yet most certainly I shall not For I am a sea of sin and am not worthie so much as to look up to Heaven by reason of the multitude of my sins which cannot be numbered evil speakings injuries c. and besides a thousand other abominable passions there are from which I have not refrain'd my self For with what wickedness am I not defil'd to what sins am I not inslav'd I am altogether become an unprofitable servant to thee my God and to all mankind
But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Apostle's Creed divided into Articles 1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth 2. And in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried 5. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty 7. From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead 8. I believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints 10. The Forgiveness of Sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the Life Everlasting Amen An Advertisement CONCERNING The Division of the Hours of PRAYER IT appeareth both by the Histories of the Jews and by plain Observations out of the New Testament that the space of the Day from the Morning to the Evening was solemnly divided into four equal parts which they called Hours to wit the First the Third the Sixth and the Ninth The First Hour comprehended the whole space from the Sun being risen about six of the clock in the Morning after our account till Nine or thereabouts The Third Hour began from thence and lasted till High-noon with us The Sixth from thence to our three of the clock after Noon The Ninth from that hour to the Vespers or Evensong about six in the evening or Sun-set And what was done in any part of these four spaces was indifferently taken and said to be done in that Hour whereunto every space of time was allotted In which respect St. Mark chap. 15. 25. saith It was the Third Hour when they crucified Christ and yet St. John chap. 19. 14. saith It was about the Sixth Hour before he was yet crucified Nor is there any contradiction at all between these two Evangelists St. Mark understanding the last part of the Third Hour which was now at the very end and St. John meaning that it was now near upon the beginning of the Sixth Hour which was immediately to follow the ending of the Third and the beginning of the Sixth being both one and the same point of time THE DAILY OFFICE OF A CHRISTIAN The Office for every day In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen O Lord I am risen up and fallen prostrate before thee Prevent me I beseech thee in all my doings with thy most gracious Favour and further me with thy continual Help that in all my Works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain Everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God and most merciful Father all Merciful Mercy it self I have erred wittingly and strayed willingly nay run from thy ways more like an untamed Heifer than a lost or wandring Sheep I have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart I have offended against nay been offended at thy holy most holy Laws I have left undone not done at all those things which I ought to have done And I have done done nothing else but those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health no hope of health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable most miserable sinner the greatest sinner and most unthankful for so great Grace Spare me and them all O God which confess their faults Restore me and all them that be penitent that desire to be penitent that wish they were would be glad if they were so that fear they are not enough and are sorry they are no more For this is according to thy Promises most pretious most gracious most sweet Promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. Grant therefore O most merciful Father for his sake who is our Redeemer Advocate Author and Finisher of our Faith our Propitiation Righteousness and Justification that I and all Penitents may hereafter live a Godly Righteous and Sober Life to the Glory of thy holy Name and the Salvation of our own Souls Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father pardon I beseech thee all the Sins Omissions and Commissions Thoughts Words and Deeds by which I have provoked thee unto anger from the time of my Birth to this present moment That no one nor all of my sins together may ever be able to cry oftner or louder in thine Ears for Vengeance than the Cry of my Prayers may ascend up unto thee for Mercy and for Forgiveness and obtain that they sue for Particularly I humbly beseech thee forgive unto me my Great and my Clamorous sins such as are c. O Lord against Heaven and against Thee have I sinned and committed foul Trangressions in thy sight but I beseech thee wipe them all out of the Book of Remembrances which thou hast written through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen GIve unto me O Lord I humbly beseech thee a wise a sober a patient an understanding a devout a religious a courageous Heart Chaste and temperate Reins and Thoughts A Soul full of Devotion to do thee service strength against all Temptations especially the Temptations of c. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks increase my thankfulness I beseech thee for all Benefits and Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal which in the riches of thy great Mercy thou hast liberally poured down upon me but especially Spiritual Lord let me not live but to praise and magnifie Thee and thy glorious Name Particularly I give thee most unfeigned thanks for my preservation from the time of my Birth to this present moment for c. For bringing me safe to the beginning of this day in which and all the days of my life I beseech thee preserve me from sin and from danger in Soul and in Body that all my thoughts words and works may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name the good of thy Church the discharge of my Duty the salvation of my Soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee through Jesus Christ our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee bless thy Holy Catholick Church wheresoever spread upon the face of the whole Earth Good Lord purge it from all Atheism Heresie Schism Superstition factious maintenance of Groundless Opinions that one Faith one Lord one Baptism may in all places be uniformly professed as thy Church is and can be but one And grant good Lord that I may be and continue a faithful living and a working Member under Christ the Head in that Church the Body all the days of my life and at the hour of my death through
the Merits and by the Grace of the same Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Merciful God bless this Particular Church in which I live make it and all the Members of it sound in Faith and holy in Life that they may serve thee and thou bless them through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd bless our most gracious Soveraign treasure up in him all thy hidden Blessings make him and keep him a devoted Servant to thee a constant Patron of the Church and Truth that he may live long and be full of honourable success all his days in his Person in his Actions in his Queen in his Children in his Servants in his People and crown'd with Glory after life and in that good time that shall be best both for Him and Us make him a joyful Father of happy and successful Children Under him bless the whole State Ecclesiastical and Civil that Righteousness and Peace may kiss each other and we serve and honour thee for ever Amen GOod Lord bless all the places to which thou hast made me have any near Reference the place where I was born c. every Soul contained in any of these All my Friends Kindred Acquaintance any unto whom thou hast made me any way beholding especially my nearer and my bosom-Friends Dr. c. all those c. Lord I beseech thee forgive me and them all our sins and continue us thy Servants both in Life and Death Amen GRacious Father bless my Servants and make them thine Give them Grace to serve thee first then me with Faithfulness Soberness and Diligence Make me ever willing and in some measure able to repay unto them the time and the strength which they either have or shall spend to do me service even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord bless all the afflicted Members of the Body of thy Son wheresoever howsoever afflicted send them constant Patience or speedy Deliverance as seems best to thee and is best for them according to their several wants and necessities whatsoever particularly c. And do unto them according to all those mercies which I would or should desire thou shouldst shew to my own Soul if at any time thou shalt be pleased to make my Estate as theirs is at this present And O Lord be merciful Amen BLessed Father bless all sorts of men in their Particulars mine Enemies with the Forgiveness of sins Turn their hearts that they may no longer hate thy Servant and if they will not be turned deliver me not over I beseech thee into their power And next after the Salvation of my Soul I humbly beg it deliver me not into the hands of men to the shame or scorn of the World Amen * O Lord Jesus give me to do what thou commandest and command what thou wilt Prepare my Soul against thy coming and come when thou wilt Give me if it please thee a most serene Patience but at least as much as is sufficient for me and come how thou wilt O thou that art the Saviour of all that hope in thee And moreover I beseech thee O Lord Jesus interpose thy Death Cross Passion Merit and Bloud between thy Judgment and my Soul now and ever and especially in the hour of my death Which Death I earnestly beg may never be sudden may it never come and find me unprepared and when it comes never let it rage so but that I may retain Faith Hope and Charity a sound Memory and Understanding even to the last gasp And be thou my Defender O God Grant mercy and pardon to my sins to thy Church Peace and Concord to me the chief of Sinners Grace in this life and Glory in the life to come So even so come O Lord Jesus and have mercy upon me Amen Lord here I am do with me as seems best in thine own eyes onely give me I humbly beseech thee a Penitent and a patient spirit to expect thee Amen Lord make my Service acceptable to thee while I live and my Soul ready for thee when I die Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The daily Examination of Conscience * O My Soul 1. Hast thou given God thanks for the Benefits which thou hast received 2. Hast thou prayed for the assistance of Gods Grace that thou may'st know thy sins and cast them out 3. Hast thou call'd thy self to an account for the sins thou hast committed this present day by thought word and deed in every hour since thou hast been awake 4. Hast thou begg'd pardon for thy offences and hast thou purpos'd through Gods Grace to amend them Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for ever World without end Amen A daily Prayer O Lord forgive me all my sins that are past O Lord strengthen me against all Temptations especially the Temptations of c O Lord fill my heart with thankfulness and I do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for the great deliverance of me from the rage and fury of the Multitude O Lord let the same wings of thy merciful protection be spread over me all the days of my life O Lord give me a faithful a patient a penitent a persevering heart in thy service that so I may with comfort daily nay hourly expect when my Change shall come So Amen Lord Jesus Amen For the King O Lord grant the King a long life that his years may endure as many ages Furnish him with wise and safe Counsels and give him a heart of courage and constancy to pursue them O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness for him that they may preserve him so will I always sing Praises unto thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord hear the King in the day of his trouble that thy Name O God of Jacob may defend him Send him help from thy Sanctuary and strength out of Sion Grant him his hearts desire and fulfil all his mind Set his heart firm upon thee and upon other things but as they are in and from thee that we his Servants under thee may see with joy that thou helpest thine Anointed and that thou wilt hear him from thy holy Heaven even with the wholsome strength of thy right hand And O Lord close not mine eyes till I see thy favour shine out upon him even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen For the Church O Lord we humbly beseech thee to keep thy Church and Houshold continually in thy true Religion that they which do lean onely upon hope of thy heavenly Grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power And that I may humbly and faithfully serve thee in this thy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Gracious Father I humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholick Church fill it with all Truth in all truth with all Peace Where it is corrupt purge it where it is in error direct it where it is superstitious rectifie it
Now that I am fallen into such sins as these who shall raise me up again O Lord thou art my God in thee is my trust be thou my Saviour according to the bowels of thy compassion and be merciful to me according to the greatness of thy mercie and reward me not according to my works but turn thy self to me and turn me to thee Forgive me all the sins that I have committed against thee and save me for thy mercies sake and where sin has abounded there let thy Grace abound much more so shall I praise and glorifie thee all the days of my life For thou art the God of those that repent and the Saviour of sinners Glorie be to thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SUNDAY O Lord by thy mercie I am risen out of my Grave where I might have slept in death but that thou preservedst me Make it I beseech thee a Resurrection to Grace in this life and to Glorie in the life to come through Jesus Christ who merited both for us Amen This day by the Resurrection of thy Son our blessed Saviour was made Holy to us give me that Grace that I may keep it Holy to thee through Jesus Christ. Amen O send out thy Light and thy Truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy Hill and to thy Dwelling that I may go unto the Altar of thee O my God even the God of my joy and gladness and give thanks unto thee Amen Almightie and everlasting God who governest all things both in Heaven and Earth mercifully hear my supplications for my self and all thy People and grant us thy peace all the days of our life even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie God I humbly beseech thee give me Grace to cast away the works of darknefs and to put on the Armour of Light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Christ Jesus came to visit us in great humilitie that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majestie to judge both the quick and the dead I with all thy faithful servants may rise up to the life immortal through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen Blessed God which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning grant unto me and all Christians that we may in such wise hear read mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort thereof we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Lord I humbly beseech thee raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us that whereas by our sins we are sore let and hindered thy bountiful Grace and Mercie through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glorie World without end Amen LOrd let thine Angels tarrie round about me and deliver me that I may taste and see how gracious thou my Lord art and how blessed the man is that trusteth in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I will wait for thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy Temple and there will I praise thee Amen Lord let me behold thee in thy Sanctuarie and there see thy Power and Glorie For thy loving kindness is better than life therefore my lips shall praise thee Thus will I magnifie thee all my life and lift up my hands in thy Name O satisfie me with that Riches of Mercie which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O how amiable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soul hath a desire and a longing to enter into the Courts of thee O Lord my heart and my flesh rejoyceth in thee O merciful God Amen Lord I humbly beseech thee to hear and accept my Prayers for my self and for thy people which call upon thee and grant that we may perfectly know what things we ought to do and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie and everlasting God mercifully look upon all my infirmities and in all dangers and adversities stretch out thy right hand to help and defend me through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen God thou which knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailtie we cannot always stand upright Grant I most humbly beseech thee to me the health of bodie and Soul that all those things which I suffer for sin I may by thy help well pass and overcome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord the Sun is at height for this day upon me but lift up the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Make all darkness and spiritual shadows short upon me and shorter in me through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret sins keep me also O Lord from presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me And keep me innocent from the great offence I humbly beseech thee Amen Blessed are they that dwell in thy House they will be alway praising thee Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy ways Lord thus bless the heart of thy servant for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Most holy adorable and long-suffering Trinitie for thou art indeed long-suffering who bearest so long with those that divide thee O holy Trinitie who hast long since vouchsafed me the honour to be thy Worshipper and Proclaimer unfeigned O holy Trinitie whom every man must one day acknowledge either by illumination or by punishment I pray thee make and accept even those also to be thy Adorers who now blaspheme thee that not one even of the least of these may perish And this though on condition that I lose some part of thy favour for I dare not say what the Apostle does Grant this by and for the merits of Jesus Christ our Redeemer Amen ALmightie God who through thine onely begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome Death and opened to us the gate of Everlasting Life I humbly beseech thee that as by thy special Grace preventing me thou dost put into my mind good desires so by thy continual help I may bring the same to good effect through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmightie God who hast given thine onely Son to die for our Sins and to rise again for our Justification give me Grace so to put away the leven of Malice and all Wickedness that I may always serve thee in pureness of living and in truth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God who hast given thine onely Son to be unto us both a Sacrifice for sin and an Example of
godly life give me Grace that I may always most thankfully receive that inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life even for the same thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen LOrd give me that Grace that I may hold me still by thee and abide patiently upon thee That I may not grieve my self at the man whose way doth prosper nor against him that doth after evil counsels That I may leave off from wrath and let go displeasure lest I fret my self and be moved to do evil Amen * The Lord grant that here in me and for me he may be a consuming fire And O that my heart may be kindled with this fire that it may be an eternal light to me lest my soul burn in it unto everlasting punishment through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord make me like a green Olive-tree in thy House for I trust in thy tender mercie for ever And I will always praise thee for that thou hast done and hope in thy Name for ever Amen O Lord I beseech thee make me remember how much more than other men I have need to call upon thee My charge is great and my strength little O give me Grace to come often before thee and to ask that help which thou art readier to give than I to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Have mercie upon me O Lord Consider the troubles which I suffer of them that hate me O thou which didst lift me up from the gates of death Amen O Lord increase in me Faith and Devotion replenish my heart with all goodness and by thy great mercie keep me in the same Give me godly zeal in Prayer true humilitie in Prosperitie perfect patience in Adversitie and continual joy in the Holy Ghost even for Jesus Christ his sake my onely Lord and Saviour Amen O God who hast taught the hearts of thy faithful People by sending to them the Light of thy holy Spirit grant me by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoyes in his holy comfort through the ments of Christ Jesus our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unitie of the same Spirit one God World without end Amen ALmightie and everlasting God who hast given unto thy servants Grace by the confession of true faith to acknowledge theGlorie of the eternal Trinitie and in the power of the Divine Majestie to worship the Unitie I humbly beseech thee bless me also that I may live in the stedfastness of this Faith and through it be evermore defended from all Ghostly and Bodily dangers for thy mercies sake who 〈◊〉 and reignest one God world without end Amen O My God incline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and see O Lord forgive O Lord consider and do it for thine own sake O my God and for my Saviour Jesus Christ his sake Amen Lord let me not be afraid though one be made rich or though the glorie of his house be increased For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pomp follow him But ever make me afraid to offend thee Amen Mine eyes long sore for thy Word saying When wilt thou comfort me Lord comfort me for I am become like a bottle in the smoak yet let me not I beseech thee forget thy Law even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord God which seest that I put not my trust in any thing that I do mercifully grant that I may be defended against all Adversitie through Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Lord which hast taught us that all our doings without Charitie are nothing worth send thy Holy Ghost and pour into my heart that most excellent gift of Charitie the very bond of Peace and all Vertues without the which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee Grant this for thy onely Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord fill me with Grace that I may fulfil all the service which I owe thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God spare I beseech thee who shall raise up Jacob for he is small Spare him therefore O Lord spare thy People spare me Say unto my soul thou hast repented of the evil intended and it shall not be Amen Lord when I am asleep let me not be made afraid but let my sleep be sweet that I may be enabled to serve thee Amen Grant I beseech thee most merciful Father that I who for my evil deeds am worthily punished may by the comfort of thy Grace be mercifully relieved through Jesus Christ our onely Lord and Saviour Amen COnsider and hear me O Lord my God Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death Amen O Lord thou hast proved and visited my heart in the night-season thou hast tried me O blessed Father purge me that thou mayest find no wickedness in me through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord hear me that seven times a day I may praise thee and be acquainted with that great peace which they have that love thy Law Amen O Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto me thy humble servant that by thy holy inspiration I may think those things that are good and by thy merciful guiding may also perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen Entrance into the Church LOrd I will come into thy house upon the multitude of thy mercies and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy Temple O bless me that I may Amen Hear the voice of my humble Petitions O Lord when I crie unto thee in this place when I hold my hands towards the mercies sent of thy holy Temple even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings O Lord hear our desires and give an heritage unto those that pray unto thee and fear thy Name Amen O my God I will go into thy Gates with thanksgiving and into thy Courts with praise I will be thankful unto thee and speak good of thy Name For thou Lord art gracious thy mercie is everlasting and thy truth endureth from Generation to Generation Amen O Lord I love the habitation of thy House and the place where thine Honour dwelleth O shut not up my soul with impenitent sinners but give me plentie of thy Grace even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen In the Holy Sacrament * FOrgive me O Lord whatsoever I have transgrest against thee from the time of my infancie even to this very moment whether against knowledge or through ignorance at home or abroad sleeping or waking in thoughts words or deeds whether occasion'd through the fierie darts of our ghostly Enemie or by the unclean desires of my own
heart have mercie upon me and grant me pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God and most merciful Father give me I beseech thee that grace that I may duely examine the inmost of my heart and my most secret thoughts how I stand before thee Lord I confess all my sins and my unworthiness to present my self at thine Altar But thou canst forgive sin and give repentance do both gracious Father and then behold I am clean to come unto thee Lord make me a worthie Receiver of that for which I come Christ and remission of sin in Christ And that for his own mercie sake and thine Amen O Lord into a clean charitable and thankful heart give me Grace to receive the blessed Bodie and Bloud of thy Son my most blessed Saviour that it may more perfectly cleanse me from all dregs of sin that being made clean it may nourish me in Faith Hope Charitie and Obedience with all other fruits of spiritual life and growth in thee that in all the future course of my life I may shew my self such an ingrafted member into the Bodie of thy Son that I may never be drawn to do any thing that may dishonour his Name Grant this O Lord I beseech thee even for his merit and mercie sake Amen O Lord God hear my Prayers I come to thee in a stedfast Faith yet for the clearness of my Faith Lord enlighten it for the strength of my Faith Lord increase it And behold I quarrel not the words of thy Son my Saviour's blessed Institution I know his words are no gross unnatural conceit but they are spirit and life and supernatural While the World disputes I believe He hath promised me if I come worthily that I shall receive his most precious Bodie and Bloud with all the benefits of his Passion If I can receive it and retain it Lord make me able make me worthie I know I can no more die eternally than that Bodie and Bloud can die and be shed again My Saviour is willing in this tender of them both unto me Lord so wash and cleanse my Soul that I may now and at all times else come prepared by heartie Prayers and Devotion and be made worthie by thy Grace of this infinite Blessing the Pledge and Earnest of Eternal Life in the merits of the same Jesus Christ who gave his Bodie and Bloud for me Amen Almightie God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of my heart by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit that I may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O God the Father of Heaven who hast delivered thy onely begotten Son to death for us O God the Son Redeemer of the World who by thy precious Bloud hast cleansed us from our sins O God the Holy Ghost the Comforter who by thy Grace dost visit and establish the hearts of thy Saints O most holy high eternal happie ever blessed Trinitie O good Father holy Son loving Spirit by whose operation we receive our Being by whose love we obtain Grace and in contemplation of whom we hope for Glorie whose Majestie is unspeakable whose Power is incomparable whose Goodness is inestimable O thou that art the Lord both of Quick and Dead I adore thee I call upon thee and with the utmost affection of my heart I bless thee now and for evermore Amen * O Lord Jesu grant us while we live Mercie and Grace guide us thy Servants by thy perpetual Light grant to thy Church Truth and Peace grant me a most wretched sinner Repentance and Forgiveness Amen * O Lord I pray thee correct those that are in errour convert the unbeliever increase the Faith of thy Church root out of it all Heresies discover and confound her secret designing Enemies and break in pieces those that are openly fierce violent and impenitent through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O merciful Father let my Benefactors obtain eternal Rewards in Heaven for the benefits which they have bestowed upon me on Earth I pray thee also that thou wouldest vouchsafe to bring me together with those whom I have prayed for or whom I am bound to pray for and together with all the People of God into thy Kingdom that there we may appear in Righteousness and be fully satisfied with thy Glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O Lord how long wilt thou be angrie with thy servant that prayeth O Lord give me Grace and Repentance and thou canst not be angrie with my Prayer O Lord I am thine save me and deliver me not into the will of mine enemies especially my ghostly Enemies O Lord I am thy servant thy unprofitable wastful servant yet thy servant O Lord set my accounts right before thee and pardon all my mis-spendings and misreckonings O Lord I am thy son thy most unkind prodigal run-away son yet thy son O Lord though I have not retained the love and dutie of a son yet do not thou cast off I humbly beg it the kindness and compassion of a Father O Lord in thy Grace I return to thee and though I have eaten draugh with all the unclean Swine in the World in my hungrie absence from thee yet now Lord upon my humble return to thee give me I beseech thee the Bread of Life the Bodie and Bloud of my Saviour into my soul that I may be satisfied in thee and never more run away from thee even for Jesus Christ his sake that gave himself for me Amen * O merciful God who hast made all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made nor wouldest the death of a sinner but rather that he should be converted and live have mercie upon all Jews Turks Infidels and Hereticks and take from them all ignorance hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and so fetch them home blessed Lord to thy flock that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites and be made one Fold under one Shepherd Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Spirit one God World without end Amen * As I must one day appear and answer at thy dreadful Tribunal where there shall be no respect of persons so at this time ere the day of Judgment overtakes me I prostrate my self before thy holy Altar and being burdened by my own Conscience I lay open my evil thoughts and ungodly deeds before thee and thy glorious Angels I beseech thee O Lord regard my lowliness and forgive me all my sins which are more in number than the hairs of my head For what evil have I not design'd in my heart but many and most abominable things have I committed in very deed For I am guiltie O Lord of Envie Gluttonie c. All my Senses and all my Members have I polluted But
incomparable is the multitude of thy Bowels and unspeakable is the mercie of thy Goodness through which thou bearest with my sins Wherefore O King whom we can never praise enough O thou long-suffering Lord magnifie the wonders of thy mercie upon me a sinner discover in me the power of thy kindness shew forth the goodness of thy most merciful favour and receive me a Prodigal returning unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God how I receive the Bodie and Bloud of my most blessed Saviour Jesus Christ the price of my Redemption is the very wonder of my soul yet my most firm and constant belief upon the words of my Saviour At this time they are graciously tender'd to me and my Faith Lord make me a worthie Receiver and be it unto me as he hath said Amen Lord I have received this Sacrament of the Bodie and Bloud of my dear Saviour His mercie hath given it and my faith received it into my soul. I humbly beseech thee speak mercie and peace unto my Conscience and enrich me with all those Graces which come from that precious Bodie and Bloud even till I be possessed of Eternal Life in Christ. Amen * O thou that sittest on high with the Father and art here invisibly present with us come and sanctifie these thy gifts here present and those also by whom and those for whom and the end for which they are offered up Amen MUNDAY POnder my words O Lord consider my Meditations O hearken unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my Prayer My voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my Prayer unto thee and will look up But make me remember that thou art God and hast no pleasure in wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee Amen O Lord bless me and I will sing unto thee and praise thy Name and be telling of thy salvation from day to day Amen O Lord let Counsel preserve me and Understanding keep me Deliver me from the evil way and from the man that speaketh froward things and from all such as leave the ways of Righteousness to walk in the ways of Darkness even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I know the way of man is not in himself It is not in man that walketh to direct his own steps Therefore O Lord I beseech thee make me know my way and direct my steps to thy honour and my own salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen BE not wroth with me O Lord but spare me and have mercie upon me for thou wilt be merciful unto thy creature O Lord I and my Fathers have all had the same sickness but because of us that are sineers thou shalt be called merciful through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord guide me here with thy Counsel and after that receive me into Glorie For whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon Earth that I desire in comparison of thee O Lord preserve me in those longings after thee Amen O God take from me the way of lying and cause me to make much of thy Law that I may chuse the way of Truth and lay thy Judgments before me that I may stick unto thy Testimonies and run the way of thy Commandments when thou hast set my heart at libertie Amen O God the strength of all them that trust in thee mercifully accept my Prayers and because the weakness of mans nature can do no good thing without thee grant me the help of thy Grace that in keeping of thy Commandments I may please thee both in will and in deed through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou art just and all thy ways are mercie and truth thou judgest truly for ever remember me and look upon me punish me not according to my sins or my ignorances or my Fathers which have sinned before thee deal not with me according to my sins but as seemeth best unto thee O Lord my strength and my salvation Amen Lord I acknowledge my wickedness and the iniquitie of my Fathers we have sinned against thee O Lord be merciful Amen Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy People whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious Bloud and be not angrie with us for ever Amen Lord I beseech thee mercifully to hear me And as thou hast given me an heartie desire to pray so grant that by thy mightie aid I may be defended both in soul and in bodie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I beseech thee accept the Prayers that I offer thee give what I ask forgive what I fear for thou through thy Christ art the onely hope of sinners and through him I hope for pardon of my sins Amen O Lord be gracious unto me and give me an heart to worship thee and to do thy Will and open my heart in thy Law and send me peace hear my Prayers and be reconciled to me and never forsake me in the time of trouble for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy People O visit me with thy salvation that I may see the felicitie of thy chosen and rejoyce in the gladness of thy People and give thanks with thine Inheritance Amen O God the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiplie upon me thy mercie that thou being my Ruler and Guide I may so pass through things temporal that I finally lose not the things eternal Grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Grant O Lord that I may live in thy fear die in thy favour rest in thy peace rise in thy power raign in thy glorie for thy onely beloved Son's sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen HEar O Lord consider my complaint hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips and prevent me in mercie before the Evening of my days close up upon me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord I pray thee let not my weakness distract me but let my speech be of that alone in which the salvation of my soul consists and let me never break forth to that degree both of folly and wickedness as to wish to be a Judge of thy Omnipotence and of thy Sacraments and suffer me not to exalt my weak opinion above either the divine determination of thy Infinitie or that belief of thy Eternitie which has been revealed to me Amen * Lighten our darkness I beseech thee O Lord and by thy mercie keep off all the snares and dangers of this whole night from me and from all thy faithful from
Pestilence DEliver me O Lord from all my offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish Take I humbly beseech thee thy plague away from thy people for we begin to be consumed by means of thy heavie hand And for Jesus Christ his sake lay neither me nor mine under this uncomfortable disease Amen O Lord deliver me from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilence O defend me under thy wings and keep me safe under thy feathers that I may not be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day for the pestilence that walketh in the darkness nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day Though thousands fall beside me and ten thousands at my right hand yet let it not come near me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord thou art my hope I beseech thee let no evil happen unto me neither let any plague come nigh my dwelling but give thine Angels charge over me to keep me in all my waies O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O let the sorrowful sighing of them whom thou hast visited come before thee and according to the greatness both of thy power and mercie preserve thou them that are appointed to die even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy humble servant that I and my Family which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness from this and all other infection both of soul and bodie that so we may live both to serve and to praise thee to the glorie of thy great Name through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Almightie God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercie didst save the rest have pitie upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sickness and mortalitie and like as thou didst then command thine Angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God who hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavie and long-continued Visitation and in the midst of that Judgment remembring mercie hast redeemed us from death we offer up unto thee our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast now delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee And here I offer up unto thee most merciful Father in the name of all thy people all possible praise and thanks and shall ever magnifie thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In Old Age. O Lord cast me not off in the time of mine Age forsake me not now my strength begins to fail me Amen Forsake me not O God in mine old age now I am gray-headed until I have declared thy strength unto this Generation and thy power to all them that are to come Amen O Lord though thou hast shortned the daies of my Youth yet cover me not with dishonour Hide not thy self from me for ever but remember how short my time is and make me remember it O Lord. Amen O Lord teach me to number my daies that I may apply my heart unto wisdom Amen O Lord hide not thy face from me in the time of trouble for my daies are consumed away like smoke and my bones are burnt up like a fire-brand My daies are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grass Thou O Lord hast brought down my strength in my journey and shortened my daies But O my God take me not away but in the timeliness of my age that I may continue to serve thee and be faithful in thy service till thou remove me hence Amen For the Sick and Afflicted O Let the sorrowful sighing of the Prisoners come before thee and according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou them that are appointed to die even for Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In time of Sickness O Lord the sorrows of death compass me and the snares of it are readie to overtake me When thou wilt dissolve my Tabernacle thou alone knowest therefore in this my trouble I will call upon thee my Lord and will complain unto my God O be with me at the instant of my death and receive me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth O Lord thy hand is heavie upon me day and night and my moisture is become like the drought in Summer I acknowledge my sin unto thee O Lord and my unrighteousness have I not hid O Lord be merciful unto me Amen O Lord hear my prayer and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my Fathers were O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Amen * O Lord in the midst of life we are in death from whence or of whom do we seek for succour but of thee O Lord who yet art justly displeased with us for our sins O holy and mightie O holy and merciful Saviour deliver me not into the most bitter pains of eternal death O cast me not away in the time of my sickness forsake me not when my strength faileth me Before thee O Lord is all my desire and my groanings are not hid from thee Thou knowest O Lord all the secrets of my heart I beseech thee shut not the ears of thy mercie to my prayers But spare me O Lord most holy O God most mightie O holy and most merciful Saviour thou most worthie Judge eternal suffer me not at my last hour for any terrour of death to fall from thee Amen O Lord Jesus my Saviour O Lord the snares of death compass me round about the pains of hell get hold upon me I have found trouble and heaviness but will call upon thy Name O Lord O Lord deliver my soul. Deliver my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling that I may walk before thee in the land of the living Amen Thou O Lord hast chastened and corrected me but not given me yet over unto death Open me the gates of righteousness that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord. Amen There is no health in my flesh by reason of thy wrath neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin Yet O Lord be merciful unto me and heal me even for thy Names sake Amen O Lord I give thee humble and heartie thanks for the great and almost miraculous bringing of me back from the bottom of my Grave What thou hast further for me to do or to
that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it he instituted a Passeover for them A Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sowre herbs Exod. 12. 8. I shall obey and labour to digest the sowre herbs as well as the Lamb And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the herbs nor be angry with the hands that gathered them but look up onely to him who instituted that and governs these For men can have no more power over me than what is given them from above S. John 19.11 I am not in love with this passage through the Red Sea for I have the weakness and infirmity of flesh and bloud plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour Vt transiret calix iste that this Cup of red Wine might pass from me S. Luke 22.42 But if not Gods will not mine be done And I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter into this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred good People that when Gods servants were in this boisterous Sea and Aaron among them the Egyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of bloud as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace Dan. 3. And I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my resolution is as theirs was They would not worship the Image which the King had set up nor will I the Imaginations which the People are setting up Nor will I forsake the Temple and the Truth of God to follow the bleating of Jeroboam's Calves in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercie open their eyes that they may see the right way For at this day the blind lead the blind and if they go on both will certainly into the ditch S. Luke 6. 39. For my self I am and I acknowledge it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by thought word and deed And yet I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any one sin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges for if they proceed upon proof by valuable Witnesses I or any other Innocent may be justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of the Sentence lie heavie upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not onely the first Archbishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance in Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows Before these S. John Baptist had his head danced off by a lewd woman And St. Cyprian Archbishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting sword Many examples great and good and they teach me patience For I hope my Cause in Heaven will look of another dye than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not onely that I go the way of these great men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as soul as it is made looks like that of the Jews against S. Paul Acts 25. 8. for he was accused for the Law and the Temple i. e. Religion And like that of St. Stephen Acts 6. 14. for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i. e. Law and Religion the Holy Place and the Law ver 13. But you will say Do I then compare my self with the integrity of St. Paul and St. Stephen No far be that from me I onely raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is memorable that St. Paul who helped on this Accusation against St. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here 's a great clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees laid against Christ himself St. John 11. 48. If we let him alone all men will believe on him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our Place and the Nation Here was a causeless cry against Christ that the Romans would come And see how just the Judgement of God was They crucified Christ for fear lest the Romans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared And I pray God this clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in For the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by honour and dishonour by good report and evil report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of 1. And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraign He hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery But on my Conscience of which I shall give God a present account I know him to be as free from this Charge as any man living And I hold him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in his Kingdom and that he will venture his life as far and as freely for it And I think I do or should know both his affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England 2. The second particular is concerning this great and populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the great Court of the Kingdom the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the Many could not or would not do Justice but at their appointment a way which may endanger many an innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well-meaning