the euerlasting sonne of the Father Thou about to deliuer man didest not abhorre the virgins wombe Thou hauing ouercome the sting of death hast opened for beleeuers the kingdome of heauen Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father Thou art beleeued to be the Iudge that shal come We therefore beseech thee succoure thy seruants whoÌ„ thou hast redeemed with thy pretious bloud Make vs with thy Sainctes to be rewarded with glory O Lord saue thy people and blesse thy inheritance And gouerne them and extoll them for euer Euery day we blesse thee And we praise thy name for euer and for euer and euer Vouchsaife o Lord this day to keepe vs without sinne Haue mercy vpon vs o Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Let thy mercy o lord be vpon vs euen as we haue hoped in thee In thee o Lord I haue hoped let me not be confounded for euer The Hymne of the Angels Luc 2. with the additioÌ„ by S. Hilarius ANd with the Angel there was a multitude of the heaueÌ„ly army praysing god and saying glory in the highest to god on earth peace to men of good wil. We praise thee we blesse thee we adore thee we glorifie thee we geue thakes vnto thee for thy great glory O Lotd god heauenly King God Father omnipotent O Lord onely begotteÌ„ sonne Iesus Christ O Lord god Lambe of god soÌ„ne of the Father who takest away the sinnes of the world haue mercy vpoÌ„ vs. Who takest away the sinnes of the world receaue our prayer who sittest at the right haÌ„d of the Father haue mercy vpon vs. Because thou alone holy thou alone lord thou alone most highest o Iesus Christ with the holy Ghost in glory of god the Father Amen A prayer desiring pardon and grace by Christes passion out of S. Isaac l. de contemptu mundi c. 29. O Lord that didest weepe ouer Lazarus and poure forth the teares of thy coÌ„passioÌ„ on him receaue the teares of my bitternesse heale my passions with thy passions cure my wounde with thy woundes cleanse my bloud with thy bloud and mingle with my body the sweete odour of thy quickning body Let that gawle which was geueÌ„ to thee to drink by thy enemies make my soule sweete from the bitternesse which the enimy aduersary haith drunke vnto me Let thy body that was stretched forth vpon the wood of the Crosse lift vp to thâ—e my mind which by the deuils is drawne downeward Thy head which thou leanedst downe on the tormentes of the Crosse lift vp my head that is buffeted of my enemies Thy most holy handes crucified with nailes raise me vp to thee from confusioÌ„ of perditioÌ„ as thy most sacred mouth haith promised Thy face which receaued buffetinges and spittinges vpon it make cleane my face defiled with cursed iniquities Thy soule which thou gauest vp first being on the Crosse bring me to thee in thy glory I haue not a sorowful heart to seeke thee I haue not repentaÌ„ce nor compunctioÌ„ that bring againe childreÌ„ to their inheritance O Lord I haue not entreating teares my mynd is darkned with worldly thinges nor can looke vnto thee with greefe and my heart is withered for multitude of temptations and can not be warmed with teares of thy sweetnesse But o Iesus Christ the treasure of good thinges geue vnto me perfect repentance a sorowful heart That thereby I may hasten with my soule to seeke thee for without that which is al goodnesse I shal be an AlieÌ„ Therefore o Iesus Christ geue me thy grace The Father which from eternity without tyme begott thee renew in me the light of thy image I haue forsakeÌ„ thee do not thou forsake me I haue gone out from thee goe thou forth to seeke bring me into thy pastures number me among the sheepe chosen in thy sight and place me with them in the portion of the riches of thy sâ—crets whose habitacle is a clensed heart in it let be seene the brightnes of thy reuelations which are the consolation and refreshing of those which haue laboured for thee in tribulations and al kinde of afflictions of which graunt we may be worthie by the grace and holinesse of our Sauiour then and in the world to come Amen Augustine l. med cap. 11. With al our heart and mouth we confesse praise and blesse thee god the Father vnbegotten thee the onely begotten Sonne thee holy Ghost comforter holy and indiuided Trinity praise be to thee world without end Amen Other meditations and praysinges of god for the morning as opportuni tie is or for varietie Direction out of scripture IN the middest of the Church I wil Ps 21. see Ps 34. 83. 112. 116. c. praise thee You that feare our Lord praise him al you seede of Iacob glorify him Al Nations praise our Lord al ye people praise him because his mercy is confirmed vpon vs and the truth of our Lord remaineth for euer Reioyce and praise together you deserts Is 52. see c. 49. et Zach. 2. of Ierusalem because our Lord haith comforted his people redemed Ierusalem Our Lord haith prepared his holy arme in the eyes of al Nations and al the endes of the earth shal see the saluation of our god Daughter of Syon praise o Israel cry Sophon 3. out for ioy and reioice in al thy heart daughter of Ierusalem our Lord haith taken away IudgmeÌ„t haith ouerthrone thine enemies the King of Israel is lord in the midst of thee thou shalt not feare euil any longer At midnight Paule and Silas praying Act. 16. did praise god Direction out of S. Basile l. quaes diffuse explicat quaest 37. WE ought to preuent the morning and rise to praier lest the day find vs sleeping and in bed according to him that saith Mine eyes haue preuented the morning Ps 118. that I might meditate thy wordes of which thinges they must at no time be negligent whose purpose is to liue agreably to the glory of god and his Christ A Meditation before praier out of S. Nilus lib. de oratione PRaier is a communication of the minde with god Therefore in what state ought the minde to be that it may be stretched forth to his Lord. If Moyses when he endeuored Exod. 3. to come to the Bush which he saw was forbiden vntil he loosed the showes of his feete how must not he that wil see and conuerse with him which excedeth al sense and cogitation cast away froÌ„ him selfe al troubled knowledg Thou caÌ„st not pray purely if thou be entangled with earthly thinges and businesse and burdened with daily cares As he which is is bound can not runne so the mind that serueth passions can not behoulde the place of spiritual praier for it is drawne hither and thither with troubled cogitations and haith no fixed setled state If thou consider thy condition thou wilt rather weepe protesting thy self a wretch by the example of Isay because Is
in earth Peace to men of good will Let vs not be wiser Ro. 12. then we ought to be wise but to be wise to sobriety hating euil cleeuing vnto good louing charity of fraternity one with an other Instant in praier thinking the same together If it may be as much as is in you hauing peace with al men Careful to kepe the vnity of spirit in the bonde of peace Eph. 4. Eph. 6. By al praier and obsecration praying at al time in spirit and in it watching in al instancy and obsecration for al that be holy that at length we may hope the heauenly bedewed teares of holy praiers may quench or slake at the least that raging and consuming fire which the poysened blases of polluted mouthes rotteÌ„ fuel oâ— defiled liues haue blowne kindled and mantayned to flame so longe God of his rnfinite mercy grauÌ„t that with one consent and one mouth we Ro. 1â— may honour him for which I shal euer pray and so rest Your louing best wishing CouÌ„try-man R. B. OF MEDITATIon and Praier in generall OF Meditation out of holy Scriptures Deut. 6. 11. THe wordes which I commaund vnto thee this day shall be in thy heart thou shalt meditate vpon them sitting in thy house walking on thy â—ournay sleeping and when thou risest Ios 1. Let not the volume of this law depart from thy mouth but thou shalt meditate in it daies nightes that thou may keepe and doe al thinges that are writen in it ps 1. Blessed is the maÌ„ which haith not gone in the counsel of the vngodly haith not stoode in the way of sinners nor sit in the chaire of â—estilence but his wil is in the Law of our Lord in his Law he wil meditate day night ps 118. O Lord how haue I loue dthy Law it is my meditation al the day How vpon what a ChristiaÌ„ ought to meditate out of S. Ciprian lib. de Spectacul VAine pernitious and sacrilegious spectacles are to be auoyded by Christians We must be careful to keepe our eyes and eares Quikly we accustome our selues in wickednes which we heare for the minde of man being inclined to vice what wil it doe when it haith corrupt examples That which falleth of it self how wil it doe if it be pricked forward We must haue our mind retyred from these thinges A Christian if he wil haith bettermatters to behould He haith true profitable pleasures if he recollect him self And to omit those which he can not yet perceaue he haith the bewty of this world to consider and wonder at Let him contemplate the rysing of the Sunne and againe the setting thereof in order causing the daies and nights the globe of the moone by increase and waine designing the courses of times The multitude of starres shyning from the high heauen with their speedy motion the partes of the whole yeare deuided by turne and the daies them selues with the nights digested by the spaces of houres the vast greatnesse of the earth poised with mountaines the riuers with their springes flowing from them the ayre extended in the middest geuing lyfe to al thinges somtime raine from the coÌ„densed cloudes otherwhile fairnesse of wether renewing his rarity and in al these their proper inhabitants fowle in the ayre fish in the waters men vpon earth Let these and such other workes of God be spectacles for the beleuing Christians to meditate vpon What Theater framed by the handes of man is comparable to these works Though it be builded vp with great heapes of stones they are but the crusts of hilles and though their beames do glister gilded with gould yet they are inferiour to the shyning of the starres He wil neuer woÌ„nder at the workes of man whosoeuer knoweth him self to be the childe of God He casteth him selfe downe from the toppe of his nobilitie who can meruel at any thing after God Let a Christian I say attend to hâ—ly Scriptures there he shal finde thinges to behold worthy of Faith He shal find god ordeyning his world amonge the rest of liuing creatures making that admirable and excellent framâ— of man He shal vew the world in sâ—nnes rewardes for the godly and PunishmeÌ„ts for the impious seas dryed vp for the people and againe wateâ—â— geuen out of the rock for the people Haruests coming from heauen and not from the flâ—uâ—â—s Riuers brydling their violenâ—e to geue drye passage In some Faith wrastâ—ing with fire wilde beastes conqâ—ered by Religion and turned into meekenesse And he shal sce soules recalled from death it sâ—lf And amonge al these he shal beholde a greater spectacle the deuil that had triumphed ouer al the world lying vnder the feete of Christ O how bewtiful a spectacle to contemplatâ— is this how deâ—ightfull how necessary for a maÌ„ alwaies to behold his hope and open his eyes to his saluation This is a spectacle which may be seene though our eyes be lost this is a spectacle which neither Pretor nor Consul sheweth but he that is alone before al thinges eueÌ„ he from wheÌ„ce are al thinges the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ to whom be praise and honour world without end Amen Of praier of the excellency thereof out of the holy Scriptures prou 15. THe Lord is farre from the wicked and he wil heare the praiers of the iust These thinges saith our Lord my house Is 56. Mat. 21. shal be called the house of praier to al nations Aske and it shal be gâ—uen you seeke Marc. 11 Luc. 19. Math. 7. you shal finde knock it shal be opened vnto you for euery one that asketh receiueth and that seeketh fyndeth and to him that knocketh it shal be opened It behoueth alwaies to pray and not to Luc. 18 be weary Pray without intermission In al thinges geue thankâ—s for this is the 1. Thes 5. 1. Tim. 2. wil of god in Christ Iesu in al you I desire thereforâ— first of al thinges that Obsecrations Praiers Postulations Thankes geuings be made for al men for Kinges and al that are in preeminence that we may leade a quiet and peaceable life in al piety chastity for this is good and acceptable before our Sauiour god who wil al men to be saued and to come to the knowledge of truth What Praier is and the dignity thereof out of the Fathers first S. Gregory Nyssene IT behoueth alwaies to pray neuer to be weary for by praier we come to be with God But he that is with God is seperated from the aduersary Praier is the defence protection of chastity moderation of anger appeasing and suppressing of pride a rooting out of the settled remembrance of iniuries a putter to flight of enuy taking away of iniustice correction of impiety Praier is a right constitution of Iustice and lawes in a citye strength of a Kingdome victory in warre security in peace reconciliation of the disagreeing consernation of the
of Preface at Masse the brethâ—en saying Sursum corda Let our heartes be vpward that when the people answeareth Habemus ad Dominum We haue them vnto our Lord they may be admonished to think oÌ„ nothing but our Lord. Let your breast be shut against the aduersary and open to god alone Let it not suffer the enemy of god to come into it in time of praier for he often times sodainly creepeth and entreth in and craftily decâ—iuing calleth our praiers from god that we may haue one thing in heart and an other in voice when not onely the sounde of the word but the minde and sense ought to pray with pure intention vnto our Lord. And what a sluggishnesse is it to be carried away with foolish prophane cogitations when thou entreatest our Lord as though there were any thinge which thou rather shouldest think on then that thou speakest with god How doâ—st thou desire to be heard of God when thou hearest not thy self Wilt thou haue god to remember thee when thou askest thou remembrest not tâ—y self This is not to beware of the enemy this is when thou praiest vnto god by negligence of praier to offende the maiestie of God Where and with whom we may pray out of S. ClEment Rom. IF because of misbeleuers we can not goe to the Church but the wicked occupy the place thou must flee from that place because it is prophaned by them For as the preists do sanctify holy thinges so the impious defile them If the true beleuers can not assemble together neither at home nor in the Church let euery one by them selues singe reade pray or two or three gathered together For Where there be two or three gathered together in Mat. 16. my name there am I in the middest of them Let not the godly pray neither at home with an heritike for what society is there â— Cor. 6 betwene light darknesse Times of praier out of S. Ierome ALthough the Apostle biddeth vs alwaies to pray and to those 1. Thes 5. that be holy sleepe it self is a Praier yet we ought to haue deuided houres of praying that if peraduenture we be detained with any work the time it self may admonish vs to do our dutie There is no man that is ignorant of the thirde hour sixt hour ninth hour morning also and euening Let vs not go to meate except we pray nor depart from the table before we geue thankes to our creatour We must rise twice or thrice in the night meditate such thinges as we can say by memory out of the Sctiptures When we go forth of our lodging let vs be armed with praier wheÌ„ we come forth of the streete let praier meete with vs before we sit downe Let not the body take rest before our soule be fed At euery action at euery going forward let our hand make the signe of the Crosse PRAYERS AND ME ditations in particular and first vpon our Lordes Praier The salutation of the Angel to our B. Lady the Creede of the Apostles With the Primatiue Catholick introduction to all praier before them AL whatsoeuer you do in word or work al tbinges in the name of Col. 3. our Lord Iesus Christ geuing thankes to god the Father by him God forbid that I should glory but in the Gal. 6. Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ The Crosse is made on the forhead of Ieron in c. 9. Ezech. the Christians and signed by often framing it with our hand In the name of the Father and of the Missa Ethiop ascribeâ—â—â— S. Mathew Apostle Mozar in Miss S. Iacobi S. Ephrem de panopl. Sonne and of the holy Ghost Amen Humble thy self vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt thee in the kingdome of heauen which our Sauiour haith promised to the humble But in stead of a sheild defend thy self with the signe of the Crosse signing therwith al thy members thy heart Signe thy affections thy going in thy going forth in al times Thy sitting downe and rysing vp thy bed and whatsoeuer thinges thou passest by First signe them in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost for that armour is most forcible no man can euer hurt thee if thou shalt be defended with it For if any man carry with him the signe of aÌ„ earthly King no man dareth to hurt him how much more can or ought we that beare such a signe of the heauenly Emperour feare any man Neuer omitt to be signed and thou shalt destroy the snares which the deuil haith laide for thee S. Ephrem ser de sanct â—râ— dom The Crosse triumpheth which all nations people Tribes and tongues adore in which let vs glory with blessed Paule saying God forbid I should Gal. 6. glory but in the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ by whom the world is crucified vnto me and I to the world Let vs paint and engraue on our gates forheades eyes mouth in al our partes this viuificant signe Let vs be adorned and armed with this inuincible armour of Christians For it is the vanqueresse of death hope of the world light of the endes of the whole earth Opener of Paradise profligatrix and destructresse of heresies the strength of the orthodoxal Faith a great and sauing custody perpetual glory of the right beleuers of the Church Therfore o christian omit not to beare about al daies and nightes houres and moments and in al places this armour doe nothing without it but whether thou sleepest or wakest or eatest or drinkest or trauailest or sailest or passest waters or dost any other thing euer signe arme al thy members with this sauing and quickning signe of the Crosse and thou shalt neuer be affraid of the day feare or the arrow flying in the day psal 90. or businesse walking in darknes froÌ„ ruine noone-time denil If thou shalt be assisted with this defence euil thinges shal not come vnto thee scourge shal not approch thy tabernacle For so soone as they see this signe presently al aduersary powers terrified depart and goe away This signe haith quashed the errour of Idoles this haith sanctifyed the whole world this haith driuen away darknesse and restoared light this haith gathered together the nations from the east and west and north and south and ioyned them together in Charity into one Charity into one Faith into one baptisme This signe is the impregnable bulwarke of true beleuers What mouth or what kinde of tongue shal be able worthily to praise this victorious armour of the great King Christ our God Of praier and espechally our Lordes praier out of holy Scripture WHen you pray you shal not Mat. 6. Luc. 11. be as hipocrites which loue to stand praying in Synagogues corners of streetes that they may be seene of men Amen I say vnto you they haue receaued their reward But when thou shalt
Ep. 3. IT greatly behoueth al men that are called by the Christian name truly to beleue and acknowledg the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost one God and Lord and with al their The duty of â— Christian mind and al their heart and al their power to loue him and their neighboures as them selues and to be instructed to perfect Doctrine to accoÌ„plish these thinges For faith and Charity are â—he foundation of al Goodnesse Heb. 11. and without Faith no man can can please god Therefore Christ being risen from death ascended into heauen after the holy Ghost was sent the Apostles hauing the knowledg of tongues bestowed vpon them being yet together coÌ„posed the Symbole which the true beleuing Church now holdeth euery one of them saying what he thought That when they should depart one from an other they might preach this rule throughout al natioÌ„s Wherefore so they taught proposing a suÌ„me of the whole Catholick faith in which both the integrity of our beleefe and the equality of one god omnipotent that is the holy Trinity is declared the mistery of the Incarnation of the Sonne of god who for the saluation of mankind descending froâ— his Father in heauen vouchsaifed to be borne of a Virgin and by what meanes when he suffered death how being buried he arose and in his flesh it self ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of the Father and shal come to be our Iudge and how he bestowed remission of sinnes to them that be regenerate in holy baptisme the refurrection of mankind in the same flesh for the life to come For Symbole in greeke is called in latin a Collection And this the said Apostles amonge them selues by the holy Ghost as before is said for the good of vs. It is also named a signe because by this he that truly beleueth is knowne Therfor esaluatioÌ„ of their soules euerlasting life is by good workes prepared to al that beleue the thinges contained in the fore said Symbole An other Meditation vpon the same out of S. Maximus Episc Thaur hom de tradit Symboli WHen among our Fathers as the booke of Iudges maketh mention certaine Tribâ—s of Israel fel to ciuil warres among them selues and because of the like habit of one people there could be no distinction to know the souldiers by that Tribe which had the iustest cause of war because it worthily by the help of god presumed of victory ordained to it self a signe in a secret speach that those whom one liknesse of armour coÌ„founded the mistery of their watch-word might distinguish Which example as I suppose the blessed Apostles imitating deliuered the mistery of the Symbole to the Church of God which they armed against the malice of the deuils fury that because vnder one name of Christ there would be a difference of beleuers the signe of the Symbole might make distinction betwene the true faithful and the misbeleuers And he that was a stranger from faith and enemy of the Church might appeare either as one not baptised that knew it not or as an heritik that had corrupted it A Meditation necessary for a direction to al professing Christ crucified vpon that word of our Creede Crucified Ciril Hieros Catech. 4. Illumin MAny others haue bene crucified but what other that was crucified is there whose inuocation expelleth deuils Therefore let vs not be ashamed of the Crosse of Christ But if any man doth hide it signe thou thy self openly in thy fornead with the Crosse that the deuils seeing thâ— signe of the King may with trembling fleâ— faâ—re of Make this signe when thou eatest when thou drinkest and sitting and standing and speaking and walking breifly in al thy businesse An other of S. Ephrem ser de cruce Dâ—mini DOminus regnauit a Ligno Our Lord haith â—eâ—gned from the tree The Crosse ruleth which al Nations adore Tâ—e Câ—â—sse is the hope of christians the Resurrection of the dead staffâ— of the lame comfort of the poore bridle of the riche subuersion of the proud The Crosse the triumph against deuils a father of orphanes and pupils counseler of the iust comfort ease of the afflicted kâ—eper of infantes head of men crowne of old men a light to them that sitt in darknesse magnificence of Kinges freedom offeruantes wisdom of the vnlearned philosophy of the barbarous The Crosse the preaching of the Prophets companion of the Apostles glorifying of Martyrs shamfastnesse of virgins ioy of Preistes The Crosse fouÌ„dation of the Church and security of the world destruction of the temples of Idols scandal of the Iewes strength of the weake medicine of the sâ—ck food of the hungry and fountain of the thirsty This it is which fastned in the midle Mat. 27. Marc. â—5 of the earth in the place of caluary presently budded forth the best branch of grapes of our life This planted in Luc 23. Io. 19. Phil. 2. Eph. 4. the midle of the earth most prudently haith comprehended the endes of the world On this Christ our God being exalted ledde agaiue captiuity captiue which was detayned by the tyrant beneath In that Christ destroyed the most deuouring belie of hel and stopped the working and wyde open gaping mouth of the deuil He being seene death did tremble and quake for feare and dismissed al free which from the first man vnto that time it had held vnder her rule and tyranny Another of S Chrisostome aduer gent. demonst c. et hom 55. in Matth. THe Crosse which was cursed which was abominable a signe of death is made a thing more noble then Diademes and Crownes For the head is not so adorned with a kingly crown as with the Crosse which is more worthy then any ornament that which in former times al so much abhorred now they so much seeke to haue the signe thereof It is now found in euery place with Princes subiects men women Virgins the maryed bound and free Al men oftentimes signe them selues therewith making it on our noblest member for it is daily figured on our forhead as vpon a piller So it shyneth on the holy Table so in the ordinations of Preists so againe with the body of Christ in the Mistical supper Meruelous is this grace no man is ashamed of it no man bluÌ„ssheth at it thinking that it haith bene the signe of a cursed death but al men are more adorned with it then with â—rownes of Diademes or many Iewels and chaines beset with precious stones Hieronimus Ep. 128 ad Fabiol Exod. 28. Thou shalt make a plate of the purest gold c fastning it on the forhead c. THat which in times past was demoÌ„strated in the golden plate is shewed in the signe of the Cross Then the signe according to the saying of Ezechiel was fastned on the forhead of them that mourned now we that beare the Crosse do say O Lord the light of thy coâ—ntenance is signed Hier. inc 9. Ezech. vpon vs. Kâ—l
haue sought my soule they shal enter into the lower partes of the earth they shal be geuen ouer into the handes of the sword they shal be made the portions of foxes But the King shal reioyce in God all shal be praised that sweare in him because the mouth of them which speak wicked thinges is stopped Glory be to the Father to c. As it was in the beginning c. The prayer of Manasses 2. paral vlt. O Lord omnipotent god of our Fathers Abraham and Isaac and Iacob and the iust fâ—ede of them who hast made heauen and earth with al their bewty who hast tyed the sea with the word of thy precept who hast concluded the depth and signed it with thy terrible and laudable name whom al thinges do feare and tremble before the face of thy power because the magnificence of thy glory is importable the anger of thy thretning ouer sinners vnsustentable Truly great and inuestigable is the mercy of thy promise because thou art Lord most high bountiful long suffering and much merciful and sorowful for the malices of men O Lord thou according to the multitude of thy goodnesse hast promised peace and remission vnto them that haue sinned against thee and in the multitude of thy mercies hast decreed repentaÌ„ce for sinners to saluation Therefore thou Lord god of the iust hast not appointed penance for the iust Abraham Isaac and Iacob those that haue not sinned against thee but hast appointed penance for me a sinner because I haue sinned aboue the number of the sandes of the sea o Lord mine iniquities are multiplied multiplied are mine iniquities I am not worthy to behould and looke vp to the highnesse of heauen for the manifoldnesse of mine iniquities I am crooked with a great iron chaine that I may not lift vp my head and respiration is not in me because I haue stirred vp thine anger and done euil before thee I haue not done thy wil and haue not kepte thy commaundements I haue erected abominations and multiplied offences and now do bow the knee of my heat beseching goodnesse of thee I haue sinned o Lord I haue sinned and do acknowledg mine iniquities Wherefore I aske entreating thee Forgeue me o Lord forgeue me destroy me not together with mine iniquities neither being angrye for euer reserue euil thinges for me neither condemne me vnto the lowest places of the earth because thou art God God I say of those that repent and shew al thy goodnesse towardes me because thou wilt saue me vnworthy according to thy greate mercy and I wil praise thee al the daies of my life because al the power of the heauens praise thee to thee is glory world without end Amen A Praier of King Salomon prou 30. I Haue asked two thinges of thee deny them not vnto me before I dye Set vanity and lying wordes farre from me Geue me not beggerlinesse and riches geue onely thinges necessary for my liuing lest peraduenture being filled I may be prouoked to deny thee may say who is our Lord Or compelled by want may steale forsweare the name of my God A Praier of Esdras 1. Esdr 9. O My God I am confounded I am ashamed to lift vp my face to thee because our iniquities are multiplied ouer our head and our sinnes haue growne euen vnto heauen from the daies of our fathers yea and we our selues also haue sinned greeuously vnto this day Tobias 3. O Lord be mindful of me and take not reuenge on my sinnes neither remember mine offences nor the offences of my parents Sap. 9. O God of my Fathers and Lord of mercy who hast made al thinges with thy word by thy wisdome hast ordained man to rule the creatures which thou hast made And that he might dispose the world in equity and iustice and iudge Iudgment in direction of heart graunt vnto me wisdome the assistresse of thy seates reiect me not froÌ„ thy seruants for I am thy serâ—ant and sonne of thy handmaid a â—an infirme and of smal time and too little to vnderstand thy Iudgment and Lawes Ecclesiast 36. O God of al haue mercy vpon vs and haue respect vnto vs and shew the light of thy coÌ„miserations to vs and shew thy feare vpon Nations which haue not sought thee that they may know there is no God but thou may declare thy worthy thinges Ierem. 10. O Lord I know that the way of man is not his owne neither is it of maÌ„ that he may walk direct his goinges Correct me o Lord but with iudgment and not in thy fury lest thou peraduenture bring me againe to nothing Poure forth thine indignation vpon Nations that haue not knowne thee and vpon Countries that haue not called vpon thy name O Lord expectatioÌ„ of Israel al which Ier. 17. forsake thee wil be confounded they which goe backe from thee wil be written in the earth because they haue forsaken the vaine of liuing waters our lord Heale me o lord and I shal be healed saue me and I shal be saife because thou art my praise I besech thee o Lord god great and Dan. 9. terrible keeping couenant and mercy to those that loue thee and kâ—â—pe thy commandementes we haue sâ—med we haue wrought iniqiuty and â—one wickedly and gone away and dâ—parted froÌ„ thy commaundementes anâ— iudgmeÌ„tes We haue not obeyed thy seruantes the Prophets which haue spoken in thy name to our Kinges to our Princes to our Fathers and to al the people of the land O Lord iustice is to thee but to vs confusion of face o Lord confusion of face vnto vs to our kngies to our Princes Fathers who haue sinned But to thee Lord â—ur gâ—d mercy propitiatioÌ„ because we haue gone back froÌ„ thee haue not heard the voice of the Lord our god that we might walke in his law O our God heare the paier of thy seruant his petitions Ieremias in orat cap. 5. lament O Lord remember what haith chanced vnto vs and haue respect vnto our reproach Our inheritance is conuerted to aliens and our houses vnto straungers We are made pupils without fathers or mothers as widowes But o Lord thou shalt remaine for euer thy state from generation to generation Why wilt thou forgeat vs for euer Wilt thou long time forsake vs O lord conuert vs vnto thee and we shal be conuerted Baruch 2. O Lord looke downe vpon vs ftom thy holy house and incline thine eare and heare vs. Open thine eyes and see because the dead that be in hel whose spirit is taken from their bowels wil not geue honour and iustification to our Lord. But the soule which is sad for the greatnesse of euil goeth crooked weak fainting eyes and an hungry soule doth geue glory and iustice to thee our Lord. And now o Lord omnipotent Cap. 3. god of Israel a soule in distresse troubled spirit cryeth vnto thee o Lord heare