hands establish thou Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keepe the doore of my lips Ps. 141. 3. Let my speech be alway with grace seasoned with salt that I may know how to answer every man Col. 4. 6. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength my redeemer Psal. 19. 14. Lord prosper our going out and coming in now and ever Amen Evening Prayer By night lift up your hands in the sanctuary and blesse the Lord Psal. 134.3 Evening and morning and at noone will I pray and cry aloud and thou Lord wilt heare my voyce Psal. 55. 17. The Lord will command his loving kindnesse in the day time and in the night his song shall bee with me and my prayer unto the God of my life Psal. 42. 8. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as Incense the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou O Lord Who makest the day and night and givest rest unto the weary Who givest songs in the night and makest the out-goings of the morning and evening to rejoyce Psal. 65. 8. Who deliverest us from the arrow that flyeth by day and from the devill that walketh at noone day Psal. 91. 4. Who hast not cut off like a weaver my life and from day unto night wilt not make an end of us Es. 38. 12. Lord as one day succeedeth another so have we added one sinne to another A just man falleth seven times riseth up againe but the wicked shall fall into mischiefe Prov. 24. 16. This day hath both Massah and Meritah But we returne unto thee and all our bones cry out we repent Luk. 17. 4. Let not the sonne set in thine anger Lord thou hast done all our good workes for us whatsoever hath beene well done accept favourably Lord sinne and destruction proceede from us Pardon us wherein we have offended Accept of the good we doe Forgive what we doe amisse Blessed art thou O Lord Who givest thy beloved sleepe and makest them that feare thee to rest quietly Psal. 127 2. Deliver us from the terrour by night and from the pestilence that walketh in darkenesse Behold hee that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleepe Ps. 121. 4. Lord deliver us from evill Lord preserve my soule Lord I sleepe but my heart waketh Visit me with thy salvation and shew me thy visions by night Let my sleepe be a cessation from sinne as well as labour that so by dreames I may neither offend thee nor pollute my selfe Make me to remember the darkenesse hideth not from thee but the night shineth as the day Psal. 139. 12. Make me when sleepe departeth from mine eyes to remember thee that I may keepe thy statutes Make me to commune with mine owne heart upon my bed in the night to search mine owne waies not to neglect the chastning of my reines What is right what more right how I may be more pleasing to thee better usefull to men Thou that compassest my paths bed and reiues With a cleare lanthorne to see thee with a darke Lanthorne to see thee Make me thinke long sleepe to be the sleepe of death and my bed to be a grave whose stuffing is wormes and covering dust I will lay me downe and take my rest for thou Lord makest me dwell in safety Psal. 4. 9. Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit because thou hast redeemed mee O Lord God of truth 1. Pet. 4. 1. FINIS The Contents contained in this Booke 1 Comfortable Scriptures to be used to the sicke party 2 Ejaculations for the sicke 3 Heads of comfort to be administred from the consideration of God Christ 4 Things to be recommended to the sicke such as are Prayer Almes Repentace Faith Love Hope Well-doing 5 Propositions and inferences to be made to the sicke 6 Questions to be urged to the sicke and Scriptures to be propounded in answer of them 7 Questions to be added farther upon answer of the former 8 Several parts of prayer to bee used by the sicke party taken out of Scripture 9 A Prayer to be used by the Minister 10 A Letany to be used for the sicke 11 Severall choyce expression of prayer to be used for the sicke party 12 The commendation of the Soule to God immediately before the departure 13 Scriptures to be applyed to those who survive when the party is departed 14 A forme of confession according to the ten Commandements 15 Severall remembrances of Gods mercy 16. Expressions of Gods Mercy fit to be used to him in Prayer A confession of the faith A confession of sinnes A forme of Thankesgiving Another Morning Prayer Evening Prayer FINIS
face to shine Dan. 9.17 Lord be mercifull to me a sinner Lord heare me and that soone for my spirit faileth me A forme of Thankesgiving Prayse is comely I was formerly unworthy let me not now bee unthankefull The Soule that blesseth shall be made fat When ye shall have eaten and are satisfyed ye shall praise the Lord your God for that good land which hee hath given you Blessed bee the Lord God of Iethro Let us sing unto the Lord God of Israel Thou art my god I will magnifie thee and praise thee Another Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us againe unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1.3 Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people Luk. 1.78 Blessed he God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and God of all comfort which comforteth us in all our tribulations 2 Cor. 1.3 I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the Congregation Psal. 111.1 I will praise the Lord for I am fearefully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth right well Psal. 139. 14 15. My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy booke all my members were written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them Psal. 16. Thine hands have made and fashioned mee together around about Thou hast powred mee out like milke and cruddled me like cheese Iob 10.8,9,10 Thou hast cloathed me with skinne and flesh and hast fenced mee with bones and sinewes Thou hast granted mee life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit Iob 10.11,12 I will blesse the Lord who hath given me counsell Psal. 16.7 I am not worthy of the least of thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant For with my staffe I passed over this Iordan and now I am become two Bands Gen. 32.10 O blesse our God yee people and make the voyce of his praise to be heard which holdeth our soule in life and suffereth not our feete to be moved Psal. 68.8,9 For thou Lord hast made mee glad through thy work I will triumph in the workes of thy hands Psal. 92.4 Blesse the Lord O my Soule and all that is within me blesse his holy name Psal. 103.1 Blesse the Lord O my Soule and forget not all his benefits v. 2. Who forgiveth thee all thine iniquities who healeth all they diseases v. 3. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with loving kindnes and mercy v. 4. Who satisfyeth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renued like the Eagle v. 5. Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackecloath and girded me with gladnesse Psal. 30.11 To the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord I will give thanks unto thee for ever v. 12. Thou which hast shewed mee great troubles quicken me again bring me up againe from the depths of the earth Psal. 71.20 My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soule which thou hast redeemed Psal. 71.23 My tongue also shall talke of thy righteousnes all the day long v. 24. Lord God who is like unto thee Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen Psal. 72.18 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore Psal. 113.2 Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place Ezek. 3.12 Honour and glory Rev. 4.9 And Power v. 11. And Wisdome Re. 5.12 And Strength And Blessing v. 13. And Salvation Re. 7.10 And Thankesgiving And Praise To the blessed and individuall Trinity now and ever Amen Another That I Have any being Live Have reason That I Am civill Am a Christian Am of honest parentage Am of a right minde Sense Members Am borne freely Am brought up with learning For deliverance from Danger Disgrace Trouble For Health For A competent estate For Redemption For Regeneration For Instruction For Vocation For Thy patience For My repentance For Hope of pardon For Prevention For Healing For Benefits which wee have received For That wee have done any good For Present comfort For Future hope For Good and honest Parents For Masters For Benefactors For Good friends For Children For Faithfull Servants For all that have beene presidents to me By Writing By Preaching By Discoursing By Prayers By Examples By Reproofes By Injuries For these and all other things Knowne or unknown Manifest or hidden Remembred or forgotten I doe and will praise thee I doe and will blesse thee I doe and will thanke thee all the dayes of my life Morning Prayer Lord the day is thine and the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the Sunne Psal. 74.16 They continue this day according to thine ordinances for all are thy servants Psal. 119. 91. Evening and morning and at noone will I pray and cry aloude and thou Lord wilt heare my voyce Psal. 55. 17. My voyce shalt thou heare in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and looke up Psal. 5. 3. Blessed art thou O Lord Who turnest darkenesse into light and renuest the face of the earth Psal. 104. 30. Who deliverest us from the terrour by night and from the pestilence that walketh in darkenesse Ps. 91. 5. Who makest sleepe depart from mine eyes and slumber from my eye lids Psal. 132. 4. Blot out O Lord as a thicke cloud my transgression and as a cloud my sinnes Esay 44.22 Make us children of light and children of the day 1. Thes. 5. 5. Grant that we may walke soberly and wisely as in the day Vouchsafe O Lord to keepe us this day without sinne Preserve us from the arrow that flyeth by day and from the devill which walketh at noone day Deliver us from the snare of the Hunter and bitter words preserve us from the malice of this day This day let salvation and peace be unto this house Cause me to heare thy loving kindenesse in the morning for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift up my soule unto thee Psal. 143 8. Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies I flie unto thee to hide me Teach me to doe thy wil for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the Land of uprightnesse Psal. 143.10 Let thy worke appeare unto thy servants and thy Glory unto their children Psal. 90.16 Establish thou the worke of our hands upon us yea the workes of our
A MANVAL of directions for the Visitation of the sicke wth sweete Meditations Prayers to be vsed in time of sicknesse by Lancelot Andrewes late Bishop of Winchester LONDON Printed for Samuel Cartwright at the hand Bible in Duck-lane 1642 A MANVALL OF Directions for the visitation of the sicke with sweete Meditations and Prayers to be used in time of sicknesse Whereunto is added a Short confession of the Faith with a forme of Thankesgiving and Prayers for Morning and Evening BY LANCELOT ANDREVVES late Bishop of Winchester LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Samuel Cartwright and are to be sold at the signe of the hand and Bible in Ducke-Lane 1642. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sir EDWARD LITTLETON KNIGHT Baron Littleton of Mounslowe Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of ENGLAND AND One of his Majesties most Honorable Privy COVNCELL Grace Peace be multiplyed Right Honorable MAY it please you in these troublesome daies of ours to behold the man who though with open mouth he telleth not all things that every one hath done Yet by lively example teacheth what every one ought to be ready to doe Even for Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty His Person whilest hee lived wanted not the love and favour of a King to advance him to dignity let not this Posthume worke of his lacke your Honors protection and patronage to keepe it from indignity A Midwives care reacheth no further than the safe bringing the Infant into the world the maintenance and protection thereof she commendeth to the Father and other Friends This Orphan by my meanes hath happily seene the Light but wanting a Father as being deceased before his birth I presume to commend its defence and tuition to your Honour as a friend your Lordshippes selfe to the gracious protection of the Lord who grant you ever the continuance of your honour to you and your posterity for ever So prayeth Your Honours humbly devoted I.G. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER COurteous Reader I shall not neede I conceive to use many words by way of Preface The Authour of this Manuall and his former Workes have beene of such note and esteeme amongst us as that I doubt not but it may justly be said concerning them even to most men which Jehu of the Prophet that annointed him to be King over Israel 2 King 9.11 Ye know the man and his communication For this how like it is the rest of its Brethren I leave you to judge and yet I doubt not but some way may be made to your more willing entertainment of it by telling you it was conceived about that time the Reverend Authour was Parson of Saint Giles Creplegate and used by him in his ordinary Visitation of the sicke To this let me adde the love of publique good not respect of private profit hath moved him to fit this to the Presse who otherwise would never have seene his name in Print and now desireth the praise of the worke may be given to the right Author resting Yours in the Lord I.G. Inquiries to be made by the Minister The Parties THe Sex 2 The Age The condition of life 1 Whether learned structed 2 Sound in minde memory 3 The sense of heariâ—â— perfect 1 whether patient unquiet 2 Cheerefull of dejeâ—â— 3 If being well found comfort 1 Reading 2 Hearing 3 Repeating any particulars Whether any mateâ—â— all point whereof to admonished To take occasion out of â—is owne words VVHat man is hee that liveth and shall not see death Psal. 89.48 It is appointed for all men once to dye Heb. 9 27. I am a stranger and sojourner with thee as all my Fathers were Psal. 39 12. Wee have here no abiding City Heb. 13.14 The night commeth when no man can doe any worke Ioh. 9.4 Where the tree falleth whether to the North to the South there it â—â—eth Eccles. 1.1.3 A MANVALL for the SICKE 1. Comfortable Scriptures to be used to the sicke party Esay 54.10 THe Mountaine may remove and the Hills may faldown but my mercies shall not depart from thee nor the covenant of my peace come to nothing saith the Lord that hath compassion on thee Heaven and earth shal passe but my Word shall not passe All the promises of God are in him Yea and Amen In whom wee have most great and precious promises that we should be partakers of the Divine Nature Ieremy 31.18 I have heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou trast corrected me and I was chastised as an untamed Heifer convert thou me and I shall be converted for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I had converted I repented I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea confounded because I did beare the reproach of my youth Since I spake to him I still remember him therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have compassion on him saith the Lord I will visite their iniquity with a rod and their sinne with secourges nevertheles my mercy will I not take from him nor suffer my truth to faile Prov. 3. 11,12 My sonne refuse not the chastisement of the Lord neither be grieved with his correction for the Lord correcteth him whom he loveth even as the father doth the child in whom for all that he delighteth Ioh. 5. 17,18,19 Behold blessed is the man whom God correcteth therefore refuse not thou the correction of the Almighty For he maketh the wound and bindeth it up he smiteth and his hands make whole againe He shall deliver thee in sixe troubles and in the seaventh the evill shall not come nigh thee Heb. 12. 5. Forget not the consolation that speaketh unto you as unto children If you indure chastening God offereth himselfe unto you as unto a sonne for what sonne is it whom the Father chasteneth not If therefore yee bee without correction whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sonnes Moreover wee have had the fathers of our bodies which corrected us and yet wee gave them reverence should we not much rather bee in subjection to the father of Spirits that wee may live For they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their owne pleasure but he chasteneth us for our profit that we might bee partakers of his holinesse Now no chastening for the present seemeth joyous but grievous yet afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse unto them which are thereby execised Wherefore lift up your hands which hang downe and your weake knees Ioh. 16.22 And you now are in sorrow but I will see you againe and your heart shall rejoyce and your Joy shall none bee able to take from you Esa. 54. 7 8. For a little while have I sorsaken thee but in great compassion will I gather thee For a moment in mine anger I hid my face from thee but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Modicum videbitis me A
Spirit Fourthly The holy Catholique Church The mysticall body of Christ the head and them which the Spirit hath called out of the whole world To the beleife of the divine truth To a holy conversation To the mutuall participation of all the members of the body To the Communion of Saints and remission of sins in this world and hope of Resurrection and translation to life eternall in that to come I beleeve Lord supply the defects of my Faith That I may love thee the Father Reverence thee the Almighty That I may commit the keeping of my Soule to thee as to a faithfull Creator 1 Pet. 4. That I may ever give thankes to thy word and onely begotten Sonne as the purger of our nature in our conception and Birth As the Redeemer of our persons By his Passion By his Crosse By his Death As the triumpher over hell in his Descension over death his Resurrection As our forerunner in his Ascension As our Advocate in his Intercession As the Repairer of our Faith in his second comming That Christ may bee formed in us That wee may be conformed to his Image in good workes Conception in Faith Birth in humility For his Passion-sake to have sympathie with him as suffering for us To suffer for him when it shall please him to have an antipathie with sin as the cause of his Passions To Revenge sin in us To Crucifie sin in us To Mortifie sin in us To Burie sin in us To make us conformable to his Descension into hel by our often comming there by meditation To his Resurrection rising againe to newnesse of life To his Ascension seeking and labouring after those things that are above To his Judgment judging our owne selves that we may not be condemned with the world To make us remember when wee are cold in prayer and want any grace or heavenly comfort Thy Seate Thy Appearing Thy Intercession To make us never forget when wee burne through concupiscence and sinfull lust His dreadful and fearefull tribunall and often to thinke on the last trumpe That for thy Christ his sake the onely begotten of thee the Father wee may receive thine anointing the grace of Sanctification the unspeakeable gift of the Holy Ghost In a happy conjunction flowing knowledge fervent prayer diffusion of charity That I may not quench the Spirit or resist him or make him sad or at any time dishonour him That we may be called in thy catholick Church living members both by now and holy affection That we may be common partakers of holy persons actions prayers Liturgies or publique service to the full assurance of remission of sinnes Hope of Resurrection and translation to life eternall Lord increase my Faith as a grain of Mustard seed Not a dead Faith Not a temporary Faith Not a hypocritical Faith Destroying the Law But working by charity co-operating with good works subservient to vertue A living Faith A pure Faith A holy Faith Amen A Confession of sins Lord I confesse I was borne in iniquity and in sinne did my Mother conceive me Psal. 51.7 A roote of bitternesse A vine of Sodome A spawne of Vipers A wild Olive branch A son of wrath A vessel of wrath 1. A rebellious heart like a deceitfull bow 2. A mouth like an open sepulchre full of folly 3. Polluted lips 4. A tongue a world of wickednesse 5. Eyes full of adultery 6. Vncircumcised eares like a deafe Adder 7. A whorish forehead like brasse 8. A hard necke like an iron sinew 9. Hands slow to good 10. Feete swift to evill Whatsoever I have done either was a Spiders web or Basiliskes egge I have sinned before the Lord Thee the Lord and done this evill in thy sight I am by nature corruption a worme very dust By sin a slave of Satan and most vilde firebrand of hell I have sinned sins many in number more than there are drops of water in the Sea starres in Heaven haires on my head Of many kindes In many places on every greene field under every greene tree Often reiterated at severall turnes as a Fountaine casteth out her waters Ier. 6.7 Till they became habituall as skarlet Esa. 1.18 I sold my selfe to doe wickednesse 1 King 21.25 Till they became naturall like a Leopards spots or Ethiopians skinne I have sinned large sins Esa. 57.8 hard sins Ier. 30. 14. Great in quantity v. 15 Long from my Mothers wombe Psal. 24.11 Thicke cords of vanity Esa 5. 18. Deepe heavy as a burden Lead Psa. 38. 4. Having their cry reach to heaven I have sinned heinous sinnes because fruitelesly vainely for a handfull of corne for a peece of bread because with greedinesse Ephes. 4.19 One sin after another because with a whores forehead Ier. 3. 3. Because deceitfully Gal. 2.18 Iam. 4. 10. Because even to offence because I have been unthankfull Rom. 1.21 As a dog to the vomit as a sow to the wallowing in the mire 2 Pet. 2.22 But deliver mee from them O Lord because thou art righteous and upright are thy judgements Psal. 119.137 I eate the fruit of a lye For what fruite have I now of those things whereof I am ashamed Rom. 6.21 Broken cisternes which can hold no water Ier. 2. 13. My dayes are passed away in thy wrath my yeares are as a tale that is told Psal. 90.9 Thou hast given me up to a reprobate minde to doe the things that are not convenient Rom. 1.28 There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sinne Psal. 38.3 Adde hither the confusion that is continually before me and the shame of my face that hath covered me Psal. 44.15 Moreover my troubled minde and feare because of thy judgements Lastly bitternesse worse than of death both because I have forsaken God and am forsaken by him Woe be to me revolter that I have done these things See O Lord how vilde I am become even abhorring my owne selfe I waste for very griefe What shall I say or how shall I open my mouth what shall I answer seeing I have done these things Esa. 38.15 To which of the Saints may I flee Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7.24 Since I can neither say or doe more I will lift up mine eyes toward thee Though I bee unworthy to looke towards thee yet I will looke towards thee Out of the deepe have I called to thee O Lord Lord heare my prayer Psal. 130.2 If thou beest strict to observe what is done amisse Lord who shall be able to abide Enter not into judgement with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shal no man living be justifyed Psal. 143.2 I appeale therefore O Lord from thee to thee From thee being Just to thee being Mercifull From the throne of justice to the throne of grace From thee being a Judge to thee being a Father in Christ Accept O Lord this humble appeale Suffer me not