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The private devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes. Late Bishop of Winchester.
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Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
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untill now For the good which I have received For the good if any which I have done For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits For the promise and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing For my good and honest Parents My kinde and mild Master and Teacher My ever memorable Benefactors My trusty friends My faithfull companions My loving and carefull Wife My obedient and towardly children For all those which have any way furthered and profited me By their writings Sermons Discourses Proverbs Examples Reproofes Injuries For all these and for all other known unknown manifest and secret remembred and forgotten Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered I praise and will praise Blesse Blesse Thanke Thank thee All the dayes of my life What am I Lord or what is my Fathers house that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven which he hath given me to this instant Praises IT is good to sing psalms unto our God For sweete and decent is his praise Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart In the counsell of the Saints and in the Congregation O magnifie the Lord with me and let us elevate his Name Let all his works blesse the Lord in all the places of his Dominion from the Sun rise to the fall thereof Let all that breath praise the Lord Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations and praise him only ô all ye people Give unto the Lord all ye Kindreds of the earth give unto the Lord honor and glory Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name Being your offerings and come into his Courts Praise thou the Lord ô Salem and thou ô Sion praise ye the Lord All ye that stand in the Lords house in the courts of the house of our God lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary ô lift them up and praise the Lord My soule praiseth the Lord him will I praise all my life long To my God will I sing whilst I have any being Thou art my God and I will praise thee Thou art my God and I will exalt thee Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens and thy glory above the Earth Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures All man-kinde in generall The Klngdome of the whole world The Catholike Church The Kingdomes and Churches in severall This Church and Kingdome of ours The orders and degrees in each And the particular persons in them Towards this City This Parish wherein I dwell Towards all that are mine Mine Household Kindred Benefactors Friends Wel-willers Towards my poor selfe My soule and body in the gifts of grace Nature The world Now to this present and which shall bee at my time hereafter Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord For indeede it is most due and just Most meet and convenient in all and by all means in all â—indes Times and places To memorize adore confesse praise blesse Magnifie and thanke thee VVhich art the Creator Nourisher Preserver Governour Restorer Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures Their Lord and Father Their King and God The fountain of life and Immortrlity The treasury of eternall blessing VVhom the heavens applaud and the heaven of heavens the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them with them Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabboth Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high in earth peace and good will among men Blessed and praised and magnified extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord The memoriall mention and remembrance thereof For the faith of the Patriarchs The hope of the Prophets The labours of the Apostles The trueth of the Evangelists The blood of the Martyrs The zeale of the Confessors The study of the Doctors Glory be to thee O Lord glory be to thee Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them In whom wee also glorifie thee Amen Glory and wisedome Honour and Virtue Praise and Riches Blessing Power Thanksgiving and Dominion Holinesse and Salvation be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever and to the Lambe which was slaine Amen Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee for thy judgments are made manifest Praises in Particular COme and harken unto me ô all yee that feare the Lord and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule he hath created me hee hath brought me into life and hath so disposed of mee that I am A living soule and not a sensles thing A Man not a Beast Civill not barbarous Freeborne not a slave Legittimate not a bastard Of honest parentage not of base or Ignominious Of understanding not blockish Sound in sences not blind or deafe Sound in Limbs not lame or maimed Well brought up not forlorne or exposed A Christian not a Pagan Peaceable not quarelsome Cleare of dangers not swallowed up by them Cleere of infamy not wounded in credit Of sufficient estate not forced to flatter or borrow And living in the dayes of PEACE not turmoyled with hurly burly To thee O Lord Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. To an Inheritance Immortall undefiled and never fading reserved in heaven for us which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me so through Christ my consolation aboundeth To thee O Lord The God of my fathers I make my confession to thee I give praise because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee and hast opened thy Word unto me Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood according to the power which worketh in us Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ through out all generations for ever and ever As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this â—â—â— I give my thanks to tâ—â—e ô Lord The Evening approacheth ô blesse that also to