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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

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 Ilustrated with Pictures sutable to each particular Occasion London Printed by W. W. for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane 1690. Defenders of y e Protestant Religio● Q. Elizabeth K. William K. James Q. Mary II. of Sam. XXIII v. 3. He that ruleth ore men must be just ruling in y e fear of God Licensed December 16th 1689. To the Honourable The Lady P. T. Madam WHere true Piety inhabites Charity always ●ims a Priviledge in ●owning Religious Actions ●d like the good Samaritan ●ords the Oil of relief to the ●ounds of the distressed Such tender Compassion al●●ys attends the Great and ●st of whom Madam you ● a perfect Pattern your ●…nty has been unlimited to 〈…〉 distressed and afflicted to 〈…〉 Fatherless and the Widow ●…t even Commiseration it self has been your daily delight and practice Divine Souls like yours can never be free from humbl● Addressers which creates ● Pr●sumption in me to lay th●… Tract at your La●●ships Door where I humbly conceive yo● will honour it so far as 〈◊〉 take it into your Closet That Heaven may prosp●… you with length of days here and reward you with a Cro●… of Glory hereafter is t●… hearty Prayer of Madam Your most obedient Servan● G. W. THE Protestant's Manual OF PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS When we first awake O God thou art my God early will I seek thee I will sing of thy power ●…d will praise thy Mercy becomes in the Morning for ●…ou hast been and wilt be 〈…〉 defence and refuge in the ●…y of my Trouble A Prayer for the Morning O Eternal God whose Providence has protected m● the night past brought me t● the beginning of this day defend me O Lord in the same by thy Almighty power an● grant that this day I fall into n● Sin neither run into any kin● of danger but that all m● doings may be ordered by th● Governance to do alway● that which is righteous in th● sight through Jesus Christ. II. I praise thy Name th●● thou hast still continued to 〈◊〉 the opportunity of servin● thee and advancing my hop● of a blessed Eternity preser●●●● me this day from all violence and snares of my Enemies visible and invisible keep me from all pride self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and dissimulation and let the graces of thy holy Spirit take an absolute possession of my Soul and all its faculties that I may finally tread down Satan under my Feet all this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Evening ALmighty God I praise and magnifie thy holy Name for thy preservation of me this day and all the days of my Life for unless thy Mercy had withheld me I had committed more and more grievous Sins and had been overwhelmed by thy just wrath and severest judgments Pardon O Lord I beseech thee the Sins and Offences of my Youth and the irregularity of all my Actions either in thought word or deed II. Let thy Heavenly Grace be present with me that though my Body sleep yet let my Soul be vigilant lest I sleep in Sin and be forgetfull of my Duty towards thee let thy goodness and loving kindness never slip out of my remembrance but so unite my heart unto thee with fervent Charity that whatever I do may redound to thy glory III. Grant that whether I sleep or wake live or dye I may never lose the light of thy Countenance but evermore live in thy favour that escaping from the Darkness of this World I may at last arrive at the Land of everlasting Peace and happiness to behold thy power and glory Amen Meditations for Sunday Morning LEt God arise and let his Enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoak vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the Fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God But let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce before God let them also be merry and joyfull II. O Sing unto God and sing Praises unto his Name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an Horse praise him in his Name yea and rejoyce before him He is a Father of the Fatherless and defendeth the Cause of the Widows even God in his holy Habitation He is the God that maketh Men to be of one Mind in an House and bringeth the Prisoners out of Captivity but letteth the Runnagates continue in scarceness III. O God when thou wentest forth before the People when thou wentest through the Wilderness The Earth shook and the Heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sina● also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel Thou O God sentest a gracious Rain upon thine in heritance and refreshed'st i● when it was weary Thy Congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy Goodness prepared for the Poor IV. The Lord gave the Word Great was the Company of the Preachers Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the Household divided the spoil Though ye have li●n among the Pots yet shall ye be as the Wings of a Dove that is covered with silver Wings and her Feathers like Gold V. When the Almighty scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon As the Hill of Basan so is God's Hill even an high Hill as the Hill of Basan Why hop ye so ye high Hills this is God's Hill in which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever VI. The Chariots of God are Twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy Place of Sin●i Thou art gone up on high ●hou hast led Captivity Captive and received Gifts for Men yea even for thine Enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them VII Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us He is our God even the God of whom cometh ●alvation God is the Lord by whom we escape Death God shall wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy Scalp of such a one as goeth on s●ill in his wickedness VIII The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan Mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the Sea That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine Enemies and that the Tongue of thy Dogs may be red through the

Helmet of Salvation and cover him with thy Grace as with a Buckler against the Face of his Enemies dissipate and scatter all those which shall oppose him as the Dust before the Wind and as the Clay in the Streets direct him in all his Counsels to the end that being blessed with Success in this great Design he may employ all that great Power which thy Omnipotence shall ●ntrust him with to the Honour of thy Holy Name the establishment and Advancement of the True Religion and to the Peace and Happiness of thine and his People and the perfect Deliverance of our poor Distressed Brethren in Ireland that they may rejoice together with us and triumph in thy Praise III. Grant him in this Enterprize a good Event that he may Return home with Joy and Victory Let his Reign be prosperous and his days many let Peace and Love and Holiness let Justice and Truth and all Christian Vertues flourish in his Time Let his People serve him with Honour and Obedience and let him so duly serve thee here on Earth that he may hereafter everlastingly Reign with thee in Heaven through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen THE CONTENTS WHen we first awake Pag. 1. A Prayer for the Morning 2. A Prayer for the Evening 3 Sunday Mornings Meditations 5 The Prayer 10 Sunday Noons Meditations 12 The Prayer 13 Sunday Nights Meditations 14 The Prayer 16 Monday Mornings Meditations 17 The Prayer 19 Monday Noons Meditations ibid. The Prayer 21 Monday Nights Meditations 22 The Prayer 23 Tuesday Mornings Meditations 24 The Prayer 25 Tuesday Noons Meditations 26 The Prayer 27 Tuesday Nights Meditations 28 The Prayer 29 Wednesday Mornings Meditations 30 The Prayer 32 Wednesday Noons Meditations 33 The Prayer 34 Wednesday Nights Meditations 35 The Prayer 36 Thursday Mornings Meditations 37 The Prayer 38 Thursday Noons Meditations 39 The Prayer 41 Thursday Nights Meditations 42 The Prayer 43 Friday Mornings Meditations 44 The Prayer 46 Friday Noons Meditations 47 The Prayer 49 Friday Nights Meditations 50 The Prayer 52 Saturday Mornings Meditations 53 The Prayer 55 Saturday Noons Meditations 56 The Prayer 57 Saturday Nights Meditations 58 The Prayer 59 Ejaculations upon several Occasions out of the Holy Scriptures IN the Morning 61 At going forth 62 Beginning a good Work ibid. In good Inspirations ibid. At Church ibid. Before Reading ibid. Speaking 63 When you go about worldly Affairs ibid. Before Eating ibid. After Eating 64 In Prosperity ibid. Adversity ibid. Troubles ibid. Galumnies 65 Praises ibid. Against vain hope ibid. Pride ibid. Covetousness ibid. Luxury ibid. Envy 66 Gluttony ibid. Anger ibid. Sloth ibid. Rules of Faith ibid. Acts of Faith ibid. Hope ibid. Charity 67 Against Worshipping of Idols ibid. Popish Tradition 68 Praying to Saints 69 Antichrist ibid. Divine Breathings of the Soul towards the Evening 70 A Prayer for a Family that may serve for Morning or Evening 71 A Prayer before the Communion 74 At Receiving the Bread 75 At Receiving the Cup ibid. A Prayer after the Communion 76 for the Church 77 for the King and Queen 78 for the Royal Family ibid. for the High Court of Parliament ibid. for the Clergy 79 for Friends 80 for a Family ibid. for a Friend 81 for Peace ibid. in time of the Plague 82 for a City ibid. for Grace ibid. for Enemies ibid. for the Afflicted 8● for Travellers ibid. for the Fruits of the Earth ibid. A Prayer against Temptations 84 For Misbelievers and Sinners ibid. For Temporal Necessities ibid. Against Tempests 85 For Women in Travel ibid. For the Sick ibid. For Prisoners 86 For the Dying ibid. A Prayer before Study ibid. When the Bell Tolls for a dying Person 87 A concluding Prayer 88 King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery 89 A Prayer for God's Mercies upon their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg 90 A Prayer for Mercy to the whole Nation 92 A short account of the Massacre in Ireland 93 An abstract of their Popish Tortures and Cruelties 97 Bishop Usher's Prophecy concerning Rome's Downfal 103 Thanksgivings for God's wonderful Deliverances A Thanksgiving for our Deliverances from the Spanish Invasion 121 From the Powder Treason November the 5th 1605. 122 For our Deliverance from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power 123 For the relief of London-Derry in Ireland 124 For the Gifts of God 125 To God for all his Benefits 126 A Prayer before the following Discourse 128 Christian Courage in Affliction a Discourse by way of Advice to the Besieged in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and valiant Commander Col. Walker 131 The Prayer afterwards 150 A Prayer for the preservation of our most gracious Saveraign Lord King William in his Royal Vndertaking to Subdue Ireland and for his safe Return to England 151 FINIS In the Morning In the Evening

Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the Praise for thy loving Mercy and for thy Truths sake Wherefore shall the Heathen say Where is now their God As for our God he is in Heaven he hath done whatsoever pleaseth him II. Their Idols are Silver and Gold even the Work of Mens hands They have Mouths and speak not eyes have they and see not They have Ears and hear not Noses have they and smell not They have hands and handle not Feet have they and walk not neither speak they through their Throat They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their Trust in them III. But thou House of Israel trust thou in the Lord He is ●●eir succour and defender Ye House of Aaron put your Trust in the Lord He is ●heir helper and defender The Lord hath been mind●ull of us and he shall bless ●…s Even he shall bless the ●ouse of Israel he shall bless ●●e House of Aaron He shall bless them that ●…ar the Lord both small and ●…reat The Prayer ALmighty God whose Dwelling is in the highest Heavens and ●st whatsoever pleaseth thee both in heaven and on Earth give Grace 〈…〉 beavenly Father that in all our ●…ubles and calamities we may put 〈…〉 who le Trust in thee who art our ●…y succour defender and deliver II. Let us evermore praise thy holy Name and never ascribe to our selves any Honour and Glory or Thank● of any good Action or prosper o● Success but to thee alone who a●● the Author and Giver of all good things Keep us from Idolatry from worshipping vain Imagination● and any thing which is contrary to t●● Gospel Bless us in all our way● that when we go from hence we 〈…〉 inherit thy Kingdom Amen Meditations for Monday Night I Will lift up mine Eyes un● the Hills from when cometh my Help My Help cometh even from the Lord which hath ma● Heaven and Earth II. He will not suffer thy Fo● to be moved and he th● keepeth thee will not sleep Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor ●●eep III. The Lord himself is thy Keeper The Lord is thy Defence upon the right hand So that the Sun shall not ●urn thee by day nor the Moon by night IV. The Lord shall preserve thee ●●om Evil Yea it is even he ●hat shall keep thy Soul The Lord shall preserve thy ●oing out and thy coming in ●●om this time forth for evermore The Prayer O GOD from whence cometh all our Help and Succour pre●…ve us by thy Power and Providence ●…at nothing either by day or night ●…ay molest our Peace or disturh our ●afety suffer not the Vanities of ●…e one to allure us nor the Terrours 〈…〉 the other to amaze and affright us II. Let our Feet be immoveable an● fixed upon the Rock and Foundation Christ Jesus and so dispose of o● going out and coming in that ● may not swerve from thy Commandments but walk according to t● Holy Rule in all things who art o● Lord and Saviour Meditations for Tuesday Morning THey that put their Tr●… in the Lord shall be ev●… as the Mount Sion which m●… not be removed but stande●… fast for ever The Hills stand about Jerusalem even so standeth t●… Lord round about his Peop●… from this time forth for ev●… more II. For the Rod of the Ungo●… cometh not into the lot of t●… Righteous lest the Righteous out their hands unto Wickedness Do well O Lord unto ●hose that be good and true of Heart As for such as turn back un●o their own wickedness the ●ord shall lead them forth with the Evil-doers but ●eace shall be upon Israel The Prayer MErciful God our only Trust and Confidence and whosoever ●usteth in thee shall not be removed ●●t stand fast for ever let thy Pow●● and Glory stand round about us ●nd all thy Holy People like Hills ●…r our Protection and Safety that ●…e may be sheltered from our Enemies II. Permit us not to put our hands to Wickedness neither let us partake 〈◊〉 the Lot of the Ungodly whom thou or dainest for Destruction B●… let us receive that Blessing which o●… Lord and Saviour hath left 〈…〉 Church even the Peace of God t●… Father Son and Holy Ghost 〈…〉 whom be all Honour and Glory Wor●… without end Amen Meditations for Tuesday Noon WHen the Lord turned again the Captivity 〈…〉 Sion then were we like unt●… them that dream Then was our Mouth fil●…ed with Laughter and o●… Tongue with Joy II. Then said they among th● Heathen the Lord hath do●… great things for them Yea the Lord hath do●… great things for us already whereof we rejoyce III. Turn thou our Captivity O Lord as the Rivers in the South They that sow in Tears shall ●eap in Joy He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth ●orth good Seed shall doubt●ess come again with Joy and ●ring his Sheaves with him The Prayer GRacious God who hast promised Life and Salvation to thy cho●en Servants and hast wrought ●ighty things for them already ●hereof they rejoyce Deliver us we ●eseech thee from the Slavery and ●etters of Sin and Misery dissipate ●nd scatter all our Enemies which ●ay close Siege to us seeking to destroy us II. Fill our Hearts with Con̄t●ition ●or having trespassed against thee teach us that Divine Art of Self denial to mo●tifie our Affection 〈◊〉 our Lust and extinguish a●●●●shly Temptations that when th● great Harvest shall come ●e may 〈◊〉 admitted as Fellow Labourers 〈◊〉 work in thy Spiritual Kingdom through Jesus Christ. Amen Meditations for Tuesday Night OUT of the Deep have called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my Voice Oh let thine Ears conside● well the Voice of my Complaint II. If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done a● miss O Lord who may a● bide it For there is Mercy with thee therefore snalt thou b● feared I look for the Lord my Soul doth wait for him in his Word is my Trust. III. My Soul flieth unto the Lord before the Morning Watch I say before the Morning Watch. O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is Mercy and with him is plenteous Redemption And he shall redeem Israel from all his Sins The Prayer O Blessed Lord who with thy most precious Blood didst pay ●ur Ransom to purchase for us Freedom and Salvation With thee ●here is Mercy and plenteous Redemption O let the height of that Mercy ●ake us out of the bottomless Pit of ●in and Misery II. Be not extream O Lord in marking out what we have done amiss in our Life time but rather blot out th● Hand-writing which is against us And as thy boundless Mercy pardon● what is past so let the sweetness of i● create thy Fear in our Hearts that we may never more dare to offend s● gracious and merciful a Saviour a● thou art to us Grant this O Lord I beseech thee for thy alone sake Amen Meditations for

Wednesday Morning DEliver me O Lord from the Evil Man and preserve me from the Wicked Man Which imagine mischief i● their Hearts and stir up stris● all the day long They have sharpened their Tongues like a Serpent Adders Poyson is under their Lips II. Keep me O Lord from the Hands of the Ungodly preserve me from the wicked Men which are purposed to overthrow my going The Proud have laid a s●are for me and spread a Net abroad with Cords yea and set Traps in my way III. I said unto the Lord thou art my God hear the Voice of my Prayers O Lord. O Lord God thou strength of my Health thou hast covered my Head in the day of Battle IV. Let not the Ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous Imagination prosper lest they be too Proud Let the mischief of their own Lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about A man full of Words shall not prosper upon the Earth Evil shall hunt the wicked Person to overthrow him The Prayer O Lord God the Strength of all those that depend upon thee deliver us from evil and wicked Men that neither their Examples may corrupt us nor their Counsels misguide us or their Mischief disturb our Safety II. But do thou O Lord cover our Heads in the day of Battle and Strife against all our Bodily and Ghostly Enemies that though they pursue us to overthrow us yet we may be safe on Earth under thy Favour and Almighty Protection and at the last being removed from all Fears and Dangers we may appear in thy sight amongst the Righteous for evermore Meditations for Wednesday Noon HEar my Prayer O Lord and consider my Desire Hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake And enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no one living be justified II. For the Enemy hath persecuted my Soul he hath smitten my Life down to the ground he hath laid me in the Darkness as the men that have been long dead Therefore is my Spirit vexed within me and my Heart within me is desolate III. Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works Yea I exercise my self in the works of thy Hands I stretch forth my Hands unto thee my Soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty Land The Prayer MOst Righteous Judge and dear Redeemer hear us for thy Truth and Mercies sake free us from the hainous Guilt of all our Sins and renounce those Punishments due to us for the same II. Enter not at any time into Judgment with us for in thy sight no Flesh can be justified by its own worthiness Fortifie our Souls with the Holiness of a lively Faith which worketh by Charity that at last we enter into thy Holy of Holies even Life Everlasting Amen Meditations for Wednesday Night HEar me O Lord and that soon for my Spirit waxeth faint Hide not thy Face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in thee is my Trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my Soul unto thee II. Deliver me O Lord from mine Enemies for I flie unto thee to hide me Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the Land of Righteousness III. Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy Righteousness sake bring my Soul out of trouble And of thy goodness slay mine Enemies and destroy all them that vex my Soul for I am thy Servant The Prayer BOW down thine Ear O Lord and hear my Complaint support my weak Spirit with thy Heavenly Grace which is sufficient for me Hide not the light of thy Countenance from me but replenish me with the Beams of thy Mercy and Goodness II. Direct me in the way that I should walk in instruct me to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken my Soul in thy Paths which lead to Life Eternal and so continue the Conduct of thy Blessed Spirit to me that it may never depart from me till I am brought out of this temporal World and am safely arrived at thy Spiritual Kingdom Amen Meditations for Thursday Morning PRaise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any Being will I sing praises unto my God O put not your trust in Princes nor in any Child of Man ●or there is no help in them For when the Breath of Man goeth out he shall turn again to his Earth and then all his Thoughts perish II. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the Hungry III. The Lord looseth Men out of Prison the Lord giveth Sight to the Blind The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the Righteous The Lord careth for the Strangers he defendeth the Fatherless and Widow as for the way of the Ungodly he turneth it upside down The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer GReat God who art King for everlasting world without end vouchsafe us thy Grace and assist us with thy ready help that we may fix all our hopes in thee for thou alone art able to grant Deliverance II. Lord feed our Souls and satisfie us with thy Salvation when we hunger and thirst after thee revenge our Cause when we suffer wrong and heal our back-slidings Enlighten our Darkness that we walk not in the shadow of Death and let thy hand of Providence take care of us in all our necessities that when our life is expired and we return to that Earth from whence we were taken we may reign with thee for evermore Meditations for Thursday Noon I Cryed unto the Lord with my Voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication I poured out my Complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble When my Spirit was in heaviness thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me II. I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no Man that would know me I had no place to flie unto and no man cared for my Soul I cried unto thee O Lord and said thou art my Hope and my Portion in the Land of the Living III. Consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O deliver me from my Persecutors for they are too strong for me Bring my Soul out of Prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the Righteous resort unto my Company The Prayer THou art our Place O Lord to flee unto and the only Sanctuary wherein is