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A66950	The Protestant's crums of comfort containing I. Prayers and meditations, with ejaculations for every day in the week, and other occasions. II. Thanksgivings for deliverances from Popery, tyranny, and arbitrary power. III. The rebellion in Ireland, and massacre of Paris. IV. The learned Bishop Usher's prophecy, concerning Ireland, and the downfall of Rome. V. Advice to the late besieged in London-Derry, under that reverend divine and valiant commander, Coll. George Walker. Illustrated with pictures suitable to each particular occasion.	Walker, George, of Londonderry.	1690 (1690)	Wing W342; ESTC R219333	41,249	189

arose to Judgment and to help all the meek upon Earth The fierceness of Man shall turn to thy praise and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain Promise unto the Lord your God and keep it all ye that be round about him bring Presents unto him that ought to be feared He shall refrain the spirit of Princes and is wonderful among the Kings of the Earth The Prayer GReat is thy Name O Lord and thy dwelling in the highest Heavens give a deep impression of a dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our Hearts Let thy threatnings and judgments which descend from Heaven and are executed upon stubborn and disobedient People make us loath Sin or the thoughts of it and shun all the occasions and alluring baits of it II. O let thy continued mercies and loving kindnesses be ever in our remembrance and make our Hearts still full of smoothness and tranquillity that we may not fear the rigour of man or the cruel wrath of those whose spirits thou canst refrain lest we be hindred in our duty towards thee but let us so fear to offend thee that we may press forwards from fear to love from apprehensions of thy wrath to the sense and comfort of thy mercies Meditations for Saturday Morning UNto thee O God do we give thanks yea unto thee do we give thanks Thy Name also is so nigh and that do thy wondrous works declare When I receive the Congregation I shall judge according unto right The Earth is weak and all the Inhabitants thereof I bear up the Pillars of it II. I said unto the Fools Deal not so madly and to the Ungodly set not up your Horn. Set not up your Horn on high and speak not with a stiff Neck For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South And why God is the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another III. For in the hand of the Lord there is a Cup and the Wine is red it is full mixt and he poureth out of the same As for the dregs thereof all the ungodly of the Earth shall drink them and suck them out But I will talk of the God of Jacob and praise him for ever All the Horns of the ungodly also will I break and the Horns of the Righteous shall be exalted The Prayer GReat Judge of the whole Universe from whom proceeds all promotion and punishment extend thy Mercy now upon us at the hour of Death and in the day of Judgment when thou shalt judge all the Society of Men and Angels according to Right II. O Give us thy powerful Grace that we may expect thy coming in Humility and perfect Charity and not be puft up and exalted in our Fancies and Imaginations but may submit to thy Will with Meekness and Holy Obedience that when thou shalt pour forth thy Wrath upon the Ungodly we may not be numbered amongst them but partake of those Mercies thou hast provided for those that love and fear thee Amen Meditations for Saturday Noon HAst thee O God to deliver me make hast to help me O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my Soul Let them be turned back-ward and put to confusion that wish me Evil. Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame that cry over me There There II. But let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy Salvation say always The Lord be praised As for me I am poor and in misery Hast thee unto me O God Thou art my Helper and my Redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying The Prayer THou O God art our Deliverer Helper and Redeemer have mercy upon us and all those which serve thee in Sincerity and Truth help us O God against those that seek to destroy our Souls Let our delight be to wait for thy Salvation and to trust in thy never-failing Mercies that our Feet being guided by thy direction we may remain safe under thy Providence II. Suffer us not O thou who art a God of Power and great Glory to be a Prey to our Enemies but dissipate and scatter them as offensive Clouds to the light of thy Gospel Strengthen our Weakness by thy Power pardon our Sins by thy Mercies and justifie our Souls by thy free Grace that we may now and evermore with the humble Addresses of Devotion give thee Praise not only with our Lips but in our Lives through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditations for Saturday Night GOD be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his Countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon Earth thy saving Health among all Nations Let the People praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee II. O let the Nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the Folk righteously and govern the Nations upon Earth Let the People praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the Earth bring forth her Encrease and God even our own God shall give us his Blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the World shall fear him The Prayer O God thou great Governour of all Mankind and judge of the whole Earth have mercy upon us and bless us Thou makest the resplendent Beams of thy unwearied Sun to shine and cast his Lustre upon all corners of the habitable World bestowing his Light both on the Good and Bad. II. Let the blessed Light of thy bright Countenance spread it self to all Nations and to all People Lighten all our Darknesses with the radiant Beams of thy Divine Favour teach thy ways to all People and give thy saving Health to all Nations that all may joyn with one consent to fear thee and praise thy Name for evermore Amen EJACULATIONS UPON Several Occasions Out of the Holy Scriptures In the Morning MY Voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord Early in the Morning will I direct my Prayer unto thee and will look up Psal. 5. 3. My days are like the days of an Hireling Untill the day break and the shadows flie away Job 7. 1. Cant. 4. 6. At going forth The Lord preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth and for evermore Psal. 121. 8. O hold thou up my goings in thy Paths that my Footsteps slip not Psal. 17. 5. Beginning a good Work In the volume of the Book it is written of me I delight to do thy Will O my God yea thy Law is within my Heart Psal. 40. 7 8. In good Inspirations The Lord God hath opened my Ear and I was not rebellious against him Isa. 50. 5. At Church O how amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of Hosts Psal. 84. 1. Before Reading Speak Lord for thy Servant heareth 1 Sam. 3. 9. Speaking My Heart is inditing a good Matter I speak of the things which I have made touching the King Psalm 45. 1.

same IX It is well seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and my King goest in the Sanctuary The Singers go before the Minstrels follow after in the midst are the Damsels playing with the Timbrels Give Thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the Congregations from the ground of the Heart There is little Benjamin their Ruler and the Princes of Juda● their Counsel the Princes of Zabul●n and the Princes of Napthali X. Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us For thy Temples sake at Jerusalem so shall Kings bring Presents unto thee When the Company of the Spear-men and multitude of the Mighty are scattered abroad among the Beasts of the People so that they humbly bring pieces of Silver and when he hath scattered the People that delight in War Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt the Morians Land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God The Prayer MOst gracious God who art ● Father of the Fatherless and pleadest the Cause of the Wido● have Mercy upon thy holy Catholick Church and since her Lord is ●scended up on high even to his heavenly Mansions leave us not alone comfortless but send thy holy Spirit into our hearts that by his assistance we may escape spiritual and the bitterness of the temporal II. Send a gracious showre even the Dew of thy divine Favours to refresh our weariness in this Calamity make thy People as Doves innocent and chast and adorn them with the Beauty of inward Sanctity Let all Kings Princes and Rulers of the Earth confess thy Name and thy honour that thy Gospel extending forth into all Lands Peace and all thy Blessings may follow it and thy praise be encreased from Generation to Generation through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Sunday Noons Meditations SIng unto God O ye Kingdoms of the Earth O sing Praises unto the Lord Who sitteth in the Heavens over all from the beginning Lo he doth send forth his Voice yea and that a mighty Voice Ascribe ye the Power to God over Israel his Worship and strength is in the Clouds O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy Places even the God of Israel he will give strength unto his People blessed be God II. O clap your hands together all ye People O sing unto God with the voice of melody For the Lord is high and to be feared he is the great King upon all the Earth He shall subdue the People under us and the Nations under our Feet He shall chuse out an Heritage for us even the Worship of Jacob whom he loved III. God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the Trump O sing Praises sing Praises unto our God O sing Praises sing Praises unto our King For God is the King of all the Earth Sing ye Praises with understanding The Prayer O Lord God Celestial King who reign●st Potentate in all the World thou art exalted above all Creatures and art to be feared in all the Dominions of the Earth let the Seed of thy glorious Gospel be planted in all parts of the habitable World that thy saving Health may be known unto all Nations II. Let thy Grace pull down all the strong Holds of Sin and Satan that any ways oppose thy Holy Name and Word subdue all thy People unto thee and the Nations under thy Feet so that we that are thy People and Sheep of thy hands may become one Sheepfold under one Shepherd Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and Saviour Meditations for Sunday Night I will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy Name for ever and ever Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to be praised there is no end of his Greatness II. One Generation shall praise thy Works unto another and declare thy power As for me I will be talking of thy Worship thy Glory thy praise and wondrous Works So that Men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous Acts and I will also tell of thy greatness The Memorial of thine abundant Kindness shall be shewed and Men shall sing of thy Righteousness III. The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great Goodness The Lord is loving unto every one and his Mercy is over all his Works All thy Works praise thee O Lord and thy Saints give thanks unto thee They shew the glory of thy Kingdom and talk of thy power That thy power thy glory and mightiness of thy Kingdom might be known unto Men. Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and thy Dominion endureth throughout all Ages The Prayer MOst mighty God marvellous worthy art thou to be praised and of thy greatness there is no end give us sanctified Hearts and Lips that we may express thy Righteousness and magnifie thy glory Worship and wondrous Works II. All the Earth praises thee O Lord and thy Saints give Thanks unto thee Make us religious and sincere before thee and to lay aside all Hypocrisie Protect us O Lord by thy hand of Providence that we fall not and raise us up when we are down III. Give us spiritual and temporal Meat in thy o●n due time for our Souls and Bodies that we being filled abundantly with thy Mercies here we may have our hearts desire fulfilled and satisfied hereafter among such as fear thee and praise thy holy Name for evermore Amen Monday Mornings Meditations THE Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down For he shall deliver the Poor when he cryeth the Needy also and him that hath no helper He shall be favourable to the Simple and Needy and shall preserve the Souls of the Poor He shall deliver their Souls from wrong and falshood and dear shall their bloud be in his sight II. There shall be a heap of Corn in the Earth high upon the Hills His Fruit shall shake like Li●anus and he shall be green in the City like Grass upon the Earth His Name shall endure for ever his Name shall remain under the Sun among the Posterities which shall be blessed through him and all the Heathen shall praise him III. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the Earth shall be filled with his Majesty Amen The Prayer O Eternal God thou that defendest the Children and Poor but pu●ishest the wrong doer have mercy upon thy People under affliction extend thy Mercy and compassion from ●ne Sea to another even unto the Worlds end II. Make thy People who love thy Name flourish and subdue their Enemies under them that neither ●alshood nor wrong may any ways ●p●ress them Bless them with Peace ●nd Tranquillity and satisfie them with thy Righteousness and Salvation through thy Mercy O blessed ●esu Amen Mōnday Noon's Meditations NOT unto us O

Body Mind or Estate especially those who suffer Persecution for enjoying the Light of thy Gospel and fly into this Land for Succour Hear us O Lord for them and thy whole Church and hear Christ for us all in whose Name and Word we further call upon thee saying Our Father c. A Prayer before the Communion O Merciful Jesu who diedst an ignominious Death upon the Cross for my Sins and didst bequeath in thy last Will and Testament this holy Sacrament for my Souls Nourishment My Sins O Lord are great but I lament my Uncleanness and renounce my Unworthiness II. I come not to thy Holy Table because Worthy but Necessitous I come to be made clean and purged from my Dross and Filthiness thy Body and Bloud can make me Clean thy Merits can make me a worthy Receiver and here is a Conveyance of thy blessed Body and Bloud in this Holy Sacrament Give my Sins thy Pardon my Soul thy Heavenly Grace and what thou dost convey seal unto me for thy alone sake my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen At receiving the Bread Blessed Jesu as thou hast given thy Flesh to be the Bread of Life and Salvation so vouchsafe to work in me by a lively Faith that I receiving the same may evermore continue in thee and thou in me Amen At receiving the Cup. Lord grant that as thy Bloud was shed to wash me a poor Sinner so grant that it may through a lively Faith take effect in me that I may become a fit Member of thee and live and die in thee for ever A Prayer after the Communion GLory Honour and Praise be given unto thee O Lord most Holy for all thy Mercies bestowed upon me I have now been partaker of Bread and Wine Lord make me partaker of thy Body and Bloud The one turns to the Nourishment of my Body but the other with thy Grace is the Nourishment of my Soul II. O let not thy precious Bloud be shed in vain for my Sins but let my hearty Repentance with thy Grace fully purge me from all Uncleanness I have this day been put in mind of the benefit by Christ's Death let me every day learn to die unto Sin and live the Life of the Righteous that at last I may become a new Creature Unto thee O Father my Creator and Preserver unto thee O Christ my Redeemer and Justifier unto thee O Holy Ghost my Sanctifier and Instructer be ascribed all Honour Power and Glory now and for evermore Amen For the Church WE beseech thee O Lord graciously to accept the Prayers of thy Church that she being delivered from all Adversity and Errour may serve thee in safety and freedom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the King and Queen O Lord we beseech thee Bless our Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary by thy Gracious Appointment our supream Governours enrich them with all increase of Vertues whereby they may be able to eschew Evil and to follow thee the Way the Truth and the Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Royal Family We beseech thee O Lord to Bless Catherine the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Grant that they may walk in the ways of thy Holy Commandments all the days of their Lives through Christ our Lord. Amen For the High Court of Parliament O Lord Bless the great Council of the Nation direct The joyfull Coronation of King William and Queen Mary at Westminster Abby April the 11th 1689. April ●he 11th 1689. Their Majesties went from 〈…〉 c-hall to Westminster 〈…〉 Heralds being ready 〈…〉 Peers in the Lords House and the P●eresses in the Painted Chamber so that 〈…〉 even in the Morning The● Majesties and the wh●… Proceeding were conducted to Westminster-hall where a Throne being erected 〈…〉 Majesties took Their Sea● and after the Ceremon● was ended the Proceeding began from Westminster-Hall to the Abby where bein●…d in Order the Lord ●ishop of London began ●…th the Recognition which ended with an universal Acclam●tion of Joy then the 〈…〉 of St. Asaph and Ban●r sung the L●●t●ny 〈…〉 ended the Communion Service began the Epistle taken out of the 1. Pet. 2. 〈…〉 17. read by the Bishop o● Carlisle the Gospel 〈…〉 22. 16. 22. read by the Bishop of St. Asaph then followed the Sermon by the 〈…〉 of Salisbury whose Tex● was 2. Sam. 23. 3. 4. 〈…〉 God of Israel said the Roc● of Israel spake c. S●●mon being ended T●… Majesties took the Oath a●d were solnmnly anoi●…nd 〈…〉 Crowns placed on their Heads by the Lord Bishop of London assisted by 〈…〉 Lord Bishop of Rochest● upon which the Dr●…t the Trumpets sounded the great Guns were fired yet were drowned in a man●…y the loud Shouts and ●…lamations of the Peopl●… Many other Royal Ceremonies ●as used too tedious to insert in this narrow 〈…〉 About Eight in the Eve●ing Their Majesties r●…d to White-hall and prosper all their Consultations grant that what they do may be to the advancement of thy Glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Sovereign Lord and Lady and their Kingdoms that all things may be so well ordered and firmly settled by their good endeavours upon the best and surest Foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us for all Generations These and all other Necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg for thy Son's sake our Saviour Amen For the Clergy Almighty and everlasting God who by thy Spirit dost sanctifie and govern the whole Body of thy Church Graciously hear our Prayers for all those whom thou hast Ordained and called to the publick Service of thy Sanctuary that by the help of thy Grace they may faithfully serve thee in their several degrees through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Friends I beseech thee O Lord for all those to whom I am indebted for my Birth Education Instruction Promotion their Necessities are known unto thee thou art rich in all things reward them for these Benefits with Blessings both Temporal and Eternal For a Family Almighty and Everlasting God send down thy Holy Angel from Heaven to visit protect and defend all that dwell in this House through Christ our Lord. For a Friend Almighty and Everlasting Lord God have Mercy upon thy Servant N. and direct him by thy Goodness into the way of Eternal Salvation that through thy Grace he may desire those things which please thee and with his whole Endeavour perform the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. For Peace O God from whom all Holy Desires all good Counsels and all just works do proceed give unto us thy Servants that Peace which the World cannot give that both our Hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the Fear of our Enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the

Persecutions that ●…ere coming upon the Chur●…es of Christ which would ●…e so sharp and bitter that ●…e contemplation of them ●…d fetched those Tears from ●…s Eyes and that he hoped ●…e should not live to see it ●…ut possibly she might for it ●…as even at the door Therefore take heed says he that y●… be not found sleeping The same things he also r●…peated to the Lady Bysse 〈…〉 Wife to the Lord Chief B●…ron of Ireland but addin●… this Circumstance That 〈…〉 they brought back the King 〈…〉 might be delayed a little longer but said he it will s●r●… come therefore be sure to look th●… you be not found unprepared for it To conclude in the Wor●… of Dr. Bernard speaking 〈…〉 this excellent Person No●… howsoever I am far fro●… heeding of Prophecies ye●… with me it is not improbabl●… that so great a Prophet s●… sanctified from his Youth 〈…〉 so knowing and emine●… throughout the univers●… Church might have at som●… special times more than o●…dinary Motions and Impu●…ses in doing the Watch-man 〈…〉 part of giving warning o●… Judgments approaching The Spanish Inv●ion 1558. Gun powder Treason Nov 5. 1605. The Arrival of the Prince of Orange Nov. 5. 1688. The Thanksgiving for the Deliverance from the Spanish Ar●ada was August 7. 1558. their Fleet was 150 Ships and 65 Galleons which were to join the Duke of Parma who had 32 Ships of War 70 Flat-bottoms and 2●0 Boats which lay in Newport Haven with 2000 empty Cas●s to cho●k Havens and make Bridges To this Design the Pope contribute● a Million of Gold November the 5 1605. was our great Deliverance from the Hellish Powder-Plot and ●e miraculous finding of it out was by a Letter sent to the Lord Mounteagle to advise him to take care of himself for the Parliame●● should receive such a Blow and not see who hurt them The Con●ir●●ors were Everard Digby Knight Robert Catesby Esq Ambrose Rockwood Esq Francis Tresham Esq Robert VVinter Esq Tho. Piercy Gent. Tho. VVinter Gent. John VVright Gent. Christ. Wright Gent. John Grant Gent. Robert Keys Gent. G●y Fa●x and Bates Catesby's Man Provisions for this horrid Design was 36 Barrels of Powder 500 Faggots and 1900 Billets November the 5. 1688 was our happy Deliverance from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power by the Arrival of the Prince of Orange who landed with a considerable Army at Brixam Key in Devonshire where the whole Country congratulated him and brought Plenty of Provisions and Necessaries for the S●diers Thanksgivings for God's wonderful Deliverances From the Spanish Invasion WE laud and magnifie thy holy Name for this wonderfull Deliverance wrought for our Ancestors which were surrounded with fear of Roman Slavery and Popish Usurpation which would have destroyed both Queen and Kingdom when their Gallies and Ships came to assault us with murthering Pieces and Instruments of Cruelty which none but Satan and themselves could invent as Whips to scourge us Seals to mark us and Fetters to manacle us II. They were full of Pride calling themselves Invincible and had hemm'd us in on every side trusting in their own Arm of Flesh and pursuing our ruine and destruction then O Lord thou didst awake as one out of sleep and as a Giant refreshed with Wine and smotest our Enemies in the hinder parts putting them all to confusion Blessed be thy Name for this and all other Mercies bestowed upon us and grant that we may never want thankfull Hearts to praise thee From the Gun-Powder Treason November 5th 1605. Blessed Lord whose Eye of Providence watched over us and didst discover to us those hellish Contrivances which were laid in the dark but not hid from thine All-seeing eye Rome's Factors were then busie in contriving to blow up the Bodies of our King and Nobles with a most barbarous and unnatural invention II. What had they done to them to be adjudged to so strange a Death and what had they done for thee to be so graciously preserved as we consider their inhumanity in laying their cruel project so we must acknowledge thy Goodness in revealing the same to whom be glory now and for ever Amen For our Deliverance from Popery Tyranny and Arbitrary Power O Eternal God who hast wrought so great a Deliverance to all thy People by raising up happy Instruments for thy Glory and our Peace and Safety even thy Servants our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady K. William and Q. Mary who like Moses stood in the Gap between us and Pharaoh's Cruelties II. Thou hast delivered us O Lord thou God of Mercy when we were even ready for destruction Tyranny and what else their Roman Malice could invent or slavish yoke have imposed upon us but blessed be thy holy Name that thou hast snatched us as a Brand out of the Burning and hast restored those good Laws and Liberties which our Forefathers l●ave enjoyed teach us to prize value this great Mercy that all Nations may say happy are the people that are in such a Case yea happy is the People whose God is their Lord. For the Relief of London-Derry in Ireland O Lord of Heaven and Earth who didst in thy great Mercy remember thy poor Servants when they were in trouble and besieged round about being in great necessity s ●race the Duke of Sc●●mberg The Valiant Governour Walker The Siege of London-derry 1688. The Irish and French Forces being leaded by the late King James laid close Siege to London-derry at which time Collonel Lundy and others 〈◊〉 driven away by fear they were destitute of a Governour the Town then consisting of about Nine thousand Fighting men they 〈◊〉 chose Col. VValker their Governour and preserved the Place couragiously enduring great extremity but at last they were supplie● with Provisions by way of the River and the Besiegers after great loss sustained drew off and left them August the 13th His Grace 〈◊〉 Duke of Schombergh l●nded his Forces in Ireland near Carrickfergus and reduced divers Places to obedience causing the French and Irish Army to retrea● Not long after Governour Walker safely arrived in England and waited upon their Majesties at Hampton-Court with an humble Address from the Governours Officers Clergy and Gentlemen in the City and Garison of London-Derry at which time His Majesty was pleased as a Mark of his Royal ●ounty to order him Five thousand Pounds with this Assurance That it should not at all lessen his Kindness to him and his Family for want of Food and other Necessaries thou didst in thy due time send them Relief and Succour else they had perished in their Affliction II. And what can we render O Lord sufficient for these things our best thanks we can pay O God are less than the least of all thy Mercies yet in the mean time we desire to acknowledge thine abundant Goodness and loving Kindness to us and to praise thy Name for evermore For the Gifts of God I yield thee all humble and hearty Thanks O mercifull God that by the