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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

safety O hide us under the Shadow of thy Wings keep us from all those Dangers which increase upon us when our Spirits are in heaviness and our Bodies bowed down with infirmities II. Stand thou evermore at our right hand and aid us so with the power of thy Grace that our Temptations and Enemies may at no time molest and disturb us Grant that our Souls in thy good time may depart out of the Prison of the Body with joy and not with grief and enter into thine eternal Joy to reign with thee for evermore Amen Meditations for Thursday Night O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before Thou art about my Bed and about my path and spiest out all my ways For lo there is not a Word in my Tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me II. Such Knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence If I climb up into Heaven thou art there If I go down to Hell thou art there also If I take the Wings of the Morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the Sea III. Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me If I say peradventure the Darkness shall cover me then shall my Night be turned into day Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike For my Reins are thine thou hast covered me in my Mothers Womb. The Prayer INfinite art thou O Lord in Wisedom and omnipresent in all places thou fillest Heaven and Earth with Majesty and the effects of thy Glory Hell feels thy Mighty power but thou communicatest to us thy poor Creatures thy boundless Mercy II. And O Lord as thou art present with us so we humbly beseech thee be President amongst us teach us thy Holy Laws and so guide us by thy Golden Rule and Divine Precepts that we wander not in the darkness of our own Errors but in thy Light whom no Clouds can overcast nor Darkness eclipse Preserve us O Lord from falling into utter darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth Meditations for Friday Morning I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy Works and that my Soul knoweth right well My Bones are not hid from thee though I am made secretly and fashioned beneath in the Earth Thine Eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy Book were all my Members written Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them II. How dear are thy Counsels unto me O God! O how great is the Summe of them If I tell them they are more ●n number than the Sand When I awake up I am pre●ent with thee Wilt thou not slay the Wick●d O God Depart from me ●e bloud-thirsty Men. For they speak unrighte●usly against thee and thine Enemies take thy Name in ●ain III. Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee And am not grieved with those that ri●● up against thee Yea I hate them right sor● even as though they we●● mine Enemies Try me O God and se●● the ground of my heart Prove me and examine m● thoughts Look well if there be a● way of Wickedness in m● and lead me in the way ev●● lasting The Prayer O Lord thy Works are marvell● for thou hast done great thi● for my Soul it is thou that hast 〈◊〉 med me in the Womb and thy 〈◊〉 der care hath preserved me to 〈◊〉 moment Teach me to hate and hor all iniquity und to love Counsells as my dearest Treasure we may be as fearfull of committing Sins in Secret with that circumspection as in the Eye of the World II. Lead me in thy Truth and guide me in the Paths of a Holy Life that I may examine my self strictly of what Sins I stand guilty off and earnestly repent of those offences Make me to shun all wicked ways and conduct me into the way everlasting through Christ our Lord Amen Friday Noon's Meditations O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best Member I have Awake thou Lute and Harp I my self will awake right early I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the People I will sing praises unto thee among the Nations II. For thy Mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds Set up thy self O God above the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me III. God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sic●em and meet out the Valley of Succoth Gilead is mine and Mana●se● is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Juda is my Law-giver Moab is my Wash-pot over Edom will I ●ast out my Shoe upon the Philistines will I triumph III. Who will lead me into the strong City and who will bring me into Edom Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our Hosts O help us against the Enemy for vain is the help of Man Through God we shall do great Acts and it is he that shall tread down our Enemies The Prayer EArly O my God to thee will I make my Prayer and Supplication for thy Mercy in extent is greater than the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth for ever be thou exalted in thine own strength and magnifie thy power and thy never-failing Mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our Enemies temporal and spiritual II. Leave us not nor forsake us O God who art our strong Tower and Defence for in vain is Man's help unless thou strengthen us fortifie us and go forth with our Hosts to Battel that we being defended and armed by thee may perform Acts great and good fighting thy Battels and place our Confidence in thy Righteousness only and thy Salvation Amen Meditations for Friday Evening IN Jury is God known his Name is great in Israel at Salem is his Tabernacle and his Dwelling in Sion There he brake the Arrows of the Bow the Shield the Sword and the Battel Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the Robbers II. The proud are robbed they have slept their sleep and all the Men whose hands were mighty have found nothing At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the Chariot and Horse are fallen Thou even thou art to be ●cared and who may stand ●n thy sight when thou art angry Thou didst cause thy Judgments to be heard from Heaven the Earth trembled and was still III. When God

Merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour In the time of Plague Let thy Anger cease O Lord and be appeased for the inquity of thy People as thou hast sworn by thy self O Holy God Holy and Strong Holy and Immortal have Mercy upon us For a City Compass this City O Lord with thy Protection and let thy Holy Angels guard the Walls thereof O Lord mercifully hear thy People For Grace Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto us thy humble Servants that by thy Holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Enemies O God the lover and preserver of Peace and Charity give unto all our Enemies thy true Peace and Love and Remission of Sins and mightily deliver us from their Snares through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the Afflicted O Almighty God the Afflicted Soul the troubled Spirit crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have Mercy for thou art a merciful God For Travellers Assist us mercifully O Lord in our Supplications and Prayers and dispose the way of thy Servants towards the Attainment of Everlasting Salvation that among all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life they may ever be defended by thy most Gracious and ready Help through Christ our Lord. For the Fruits of the Earth O God in whom we live move and have our Being open thy Treasure in the due Season and give a Blessing to the works of thy Hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Against Temptation Almighty God which doth see that we have no Power of our selves to help our selves keep us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all Evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ. For Misbelievers and Sinners Almighty and Everlasting God who desirest not the Death of a Sinner mercifully look upon all that are deceived by the subtilty of Satan that all evil Prejudice laid aside they may return to the Unity of thy Truth and Love For Temporal Necessities Replenish those O Lord we beseech thee with Temporal Nourishment whom thou hast refreshed with thy Blessed Sacraments Against Tempests Drive spiritual Wickedness from thy House O Lord and preserve it from the malignity of tempestuous Weather For Women in Travel O Lord of thy abundant Goodness and Mercy help thy Servants who are in great pains and perils of Child-birth that being delivered out of their present Danger they may glorifie thy holy Name who art blessed for evermore For the Sick O God the only refuge of our infirmities by thy mighty power relieve thy sick Servants that they with thy gracious Assistance may be able to give Thanks unto thee in thy Holy Church through Jesus Christ. For Prisoners O God who deliveredst thy Apostle Peter from his Chains and restoredst him to Liberty have pity upon thy Servants in Captivity release their Bonds and grant them Freedom and Safety Accept of the hearty Repentance of those that are appointed to dye and save their Souls for his Merits who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God VVorld without end For the Dying Father of all Flesh and God of all Spirits receive the Souls which thou hast redeemed with thy bloud returning to thee A Prayer before Study O unspeakable Creatour who out of the Treasure of thy VVisdom hast ordained Hierarchies of Angels and hast placed them above the highest Heaven in a wonderfull order and disposed them sweetly for all parts of the VVorld thou the true Fountain and incomprehensible Principle of Light and VVisdom vouchsafe to illuminate the Darkness of my Understanding with a Beam of thy Light remove the Darkness wherein I was born Sin and Ignorance thou who makest the Tongues of Infants Eloquent loosen my Tongue and pour forth the Grace of thy Spirit upon my Lips give me acuteness to apprehend capacity to retain subtilty to interpret aptness to learn readiness to speak direct my beginning farther my progression and perfect my conclusion When the Bell tolls for a Dying Person O gracious God be with this Person in the holy operations of thy Grace and in the yearnings of thy tenderest Mercies in the dreadfull Moment when the Soul shall depart from the Body and conduct this thy dying Creature through the Valley of the Shadow of Death unto the Land of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A concluding Prayer Almighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine Ears to us who have now made our Supplications and Prayers unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy VVill may be effectually obtained to the relief of our Necessities and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be with us now at the hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched Life and take me among thy chosen Howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen's sake send me Life and Health that I may truly serve thee II. O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine inheritance O Lord God Save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy True Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name Amen For God's Mercies upon Their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg O Most powerfull and great God mighty in Battel fearfull in praises doing wonders thou hast done mighty things already for us whereof we rejoice O be pleased still to continue thy undeserved Mercies towards us and accomplish what thou hast already begun for us Go forth we humbly beseech thee with our Armies against those who would make a Prey of thy People II. Protect and guide our great Governour and Commander whose Commission is to fight thy Battel Guide him and Counsel him in all his Undertakings and cover his head in the day of Battel cause those that hate thy Name and People to flee before him and scatter them as the dust before the Wind Crown him with Victory and great Success that at the last he may return home in Peace and Safety to thy Glory their Majesties Comfort his own Satisfaction and all the Nation 's happiness this we beg for the Merits of Jesus Christ Amen For Mercy to the whole Nation