Word and in Tongue but expressed by our careful study to glorifie thee our God in all our Words and Works through Jesus Christ our Lord. Save thy Universal Church c. THE END THE TABLE WHat Prayer is and the parts of it pag. 1 2 3 4 5 Ejaculations at uprising p. 7 A Morning Prayer for a private Person ibid. When you depart Home p. 9 Ejaculations for the Evening p. 10 An Evening Prayer for a private Person p. 11 Ejaculations on several Occasions When you awake in the Night p. 13 When the Clock strikes ibid. When you intend any Business or Iourney ibid. When thou art Persecuted p. 12 Upon some sudden fear ibid. Upon any disorderly thoughts ibid. Upon any occasions of sadness ibid. Upon any diffidence ibid. When thou performest any good Work p. 15 When thou art provoked to Anger ibid. For thine Enemies ibid. Upon any Deliverance or Mercy received ibid. Upon any Loss or Adversity p. 16 When you hear the Bell Toll for one Departed ibid. Upon thought of thy Sins ibid. When thou art weary of the Cares and Vanities of this World ibid. Meditations for Sunday p. 17 A Prayer for Sunday Morning p. 18 Sunday Noon p. 20 Sunday Night p. 21 Mondays Meditations p. 23 A Prayer for Monday Morning p. 25 A Prayer for Monday Night p. 27 Tuesdays Meditations p. 28 A Prayer for Tuesday Morning p. 30 A Prayer for Tuesday Night p. 31 Wednesdays Meditations p. 33 A Prayer for Wednesday Morning p. 34 A Prayer for Wednesday Night p. 36 Thursdays Meditations p. 37 A Prayer for Thursday Morning p. 39 A Prayer for Thursday Night p. 40 Fridays Meditations p. 42 A Prayer for Friday Morning p. 44 A Prayer for Friday Night p. 45 Saturdays Meditations p. 47 A Prayer for Saturday Morning p. 48 A Prayer for Saturday Night p. 50 Meditations on the Lords Supper p. 51 A Prayer before the Communion p. 53 An Ejaculation before receiving the Bread p. 54 An Ejaculation before receiving the Cup p. 55 A Prayer after the Communion ibid. A Prayer before hearing the Word p. 57 A Prayer after hearing the Word p. 58 A Prayer for necessary Blessings of this life p. 59 A Thanksgiving for Gods Benefits p. 60 A Prayer for Wisdom p. 61 A Prayer for Defence against our Enemies p. 63 A Morning Prayer for a Family p. 64 A Collect for the Day p. 68 An Evening Prayer for a Family ibid. A Collect for the Night p. 72 Prayers for several Persons The Husbands Prayer p. 73 The Wives Prayer p. 75 The Childs Prayer p. 76 The Widows Prayer p. 77 The Orphans Prayer p. 78 A Prayer for a Young Man or Maid p. 79 The Servants Prayer p. 80 A Prayer for the Fruits of the Earth p. 81 A Prayer for seasonable Weather p. 82 A Thanksgiving after a good Harvest p. 83 A Prayer for a Woman with Child p. 84 A Prayer for a Woman near the time of her Travail p. 85 The Midwives Prayer before Deliverance p. 86 A Thanksgiving after Deliverance p. 88 A Prayer for one near any Temptation p. 89 A Prayer for one Afflicted in Mind p. 92 A Prayer to be used in behalf of one troubled in Mind p. 95 Meditations for the Sick p. 97 A Prayer to be used by a Sick Person p. 100 A Prayer to be said by the Friends of the Sick p. 103 Another Prayer to be used by those that are about the Sick p. 106 A Prayer to recommend the Soul to God when it is departing p. 108 A Prayer for a Soul departing p. 109 An Act of Resignation when a Friend is deceas'd p. 109 A Meditation after Recovery from Sickness p. 111 A Thanksgiving after Recovery from Sickness p. 113 A Prayer before a Iourney p. 114 A Thanksgiving after a Iourney p. 116 A Prayer before a Voyage p. 117 A Thanksgiving after a Voyage ibid. A Prayer in a Storm p. 120 A Thanksgiving after a Storm p. 122 A Prayer in time of Thunder and Lightning p. 123 The Mariners Prayer p. 125 The Soldiers Prayer p. 126 The Magistrates Prayer p. 128 A Prayer of a Debtor in Prison p. 129 A Prayer of a Malefactor in Prison p. 131 A Submission to the Sentence of Death p. 132 A Preparation for Death p. 134 A Prayer for pardon of Sin p. 135 Additional Devotions A Prayer for Christmass Day p. 141 For New-years Day p. 142 For Twelfth-Day ibid. For ash-Ash-Wednesday p. 143 On Good-Friday p. 144 On Easter-Day p. 145 Upon Ascension-Day p. 146 On Whitsunday p. 147 Upon Trinity-Sunday p. 148 Upon any Apostles Day p. 149 For the Church p. 150 A Prayer for the King and Queen ibid. For the Royal Family p. 151 For the Clergy ibid. For the High Court of Parliament p. 152 For the Navy and Army p. 153 For Gods people in General p. 154 A Thanksgiving for our Deliverance from the Spanish Invasion p. 155 For our great Deliverance from the Powder Treason and from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power ibid. For the haypy success of Their Majesties Arms in reducing of Ireland and for His Majesties safe return to England p. 157 A Prayer for Charity p. 158 To renounce the World and to affect Spiritual things p. 159 A Conclusive Prayer p. 160 The Blessing p. 161 Graces before Meat p. 161-2 Graces after Meat p. 163-4 FINIS
the Children of Men thou hast provided all Creatures the Fowls of the Air Fish in the Sea and Beasts of the Field to furnish his Table cloath his Nakedness and serve his Necessities The Earth thou Createdst to sustain him the Waters to wash and cool him the Air to breath him the Fire to warm him the Flowers to refresh him the Herbs to cure him the Fruits to nourish him the Mines to enrich him the precious Stones to adorn him and the glorious Luminaries of Heaven the Sun and the Moon to light him the one in the Day and the other in the Night and both to measure his time to direct his Husbandry to divert him in his Peregrinations to ripen his Fruits and to encrease his Stores I CANNOT plead Ignorance of thy Deity for the Heavens declare thy Glory and the Firmament sheweth thy Handy-work I cannot pretend Ignorance of thy Law for thou hast put thy Word into my Mouth and written thy Law in my Heart nor I cannot affirm that I never heard of the Light of thy Gospel for the Light came into the World and shined in the Darkness and the Darkness comprehended it not but Men love darkness rather than light because their Deeds are evil FOR which thou mightest most justly have cast us into utter Darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of Teeth but there is mercy with thee that thou maist be feared there is Balm in Gilead to cure our deadly Wounds there is Unction in Christ and Salvation in Jesus out of his precious side he opened to all the Inhabitants of the Earth a Fountain for Sin and all Uncleanness whereby we might be Purified even as he is pure A Prayer for Wednesday Morning O ETERNAL God who art of Infinite Majesty look down from Heaven the Habitation of thy Holiness upon me thy unworthy Servant thou art a God of Power and canst relieve me of Goodness and wilt in thy good time mercifully help me O Lord the Fountain of thy Mercy can never be dryed up nor the Merits of my Saviour diminished O therefore Bath my Soul in them that being Sanctified and Justified I may appear in thy sight more pure and white than the Snow in Salmon I BLESS thy Name for keeping me this Night past and bringing me to the beginning of this Day let thy Eyes always attend upon me prosper preserve cherish guide and govern me in all my Studies Actions and Employments so that I may spend this day and the remainder of my life according to thy blessed Will Grant O Lord that whatever I do it may be acceptable in thy sight to the Glory of thy most Holy Name the peace of my Conscience and the Salvation of my own Soul TO this end be thou O Lord my God and my Guide my Protector and Defender Keep me unspotted of the World teach me to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Soberly towards my self Righteously towards my Neighbour and Piously towards thee my God repenting truly of my Sins and serving thee in holiness and righteousness all my daies that in life thou mayst be my God in death my deliverer and after death my Eternal rewarder Amen A Prayer for Wednseday Night O MOST glorious God I do here at this time with the good Samaritan return to give thee thanks for all thy Mercies and Blessings bestowed on my soul and body in things Spiritual and temporal for my Election before all time my Creation in the beginning of time and my Redemption in the fulness of time I praise and glorifie thee for thy preservation of me this day and that thou hast yet spared me and hast given me Liberty and a gracious opportunity once more to call upon thee LORD I acknowledge and confess that thou mightest have taken me away in the midst of my Sins and in the very act of Committing them but thou hast dealt more merciful with me Keep me O Lord this Night from fear and danger and from all noysome Dreams and from all hinderances of sweet repose which thou hast appointed for the refreshing of wearied Nature SEAL unto me a full and a free Pardon of all my Sins of what Nature or quality soever they be whether they be Sins of omission or Commssion of knowledg ignorance weakness or wilfulness O Lord deal not with me according to the magnitude and multitude of them but for thine infinite Mercies blot them out of thy Book of remembrance and Cast them out of thy sight into the bottomless Sea of thy Compassion that they may never rise in this Life to shame me nor in the Life to come to Condemn me Amen Meditations for Thursday LOrd Teach me of what Spirit I am or should be even of that which descended upon thy Son in the likeness of a Dove without gall By this Spirit mortifie in me the Lusts and affections of the Flesh such as envy wrath and revenge by the still small voice in which thou discoursest with Elias let me obâ—erve that thou art not in the fire of my rage nor in the storm of my Passion but in the soft gale of Grace Thou didst on this day replenish the Sea and Rivers with Fish and the Ayr with Fowls in Shapes admirably various and in number almost infinite stir me up by this Consideration to admire thy power and Wisdom in thus enriching this vast and seeming solitude BLESSED Lord who this day madest the Waters fruitful let thy Spirit move upon the waters of my Tears that they may abound in the fruits of Repentance and be blessed in the encrease of Spiritual Consolation This day thou Commandest the Fowls to fly through the Ayre lift up my Soul from ths Earth with the wings of Faith and hope that She may mount up towards Heavenâ— Make me light and cheerful after my heavy Sorrows and afflictions and though I have been as if I had layen among the Pots yet I may be by the Grace of thy Spirit like that Dove whose wings are Silver and her feathers like Gold FOR my light and momentary Afflictions are no way worthy the Glory that shall be revealed unto me hereafter And for the present what are Afflictions or Crosses or Persecutions but the common lot of thy Children when I am thus chastned I am Judged of thee that I may not be Condemned of the World How can I ever forget thee who rememberest me at all times and in all places Amen A Prayer for Thursday Morning O LORD God who dwellest in that light which no mortal Eye can approach yet beholdest in Mercie the Sons and Daughters of Men thou makest the outgoings of the Morning full of thy Glory and causest the Sun to shine upon the just and the unjust mercifully chasing away the darkness of the Night and shadow of Death I praise thy holy Name that thou hast vouchsafed me to pass this Night in rest and quietness and hast brought me safe to the beginning of this day I HUMBLY beseech
known unto God LONDON Printed in the Year 1692 ADDITIONAL DEVOTIONS A Prayer for Christmass Day O BLESSED Lord who as upon this day took our Nature upon thee and wast born of a pure Virgin keep me from defiling my self with sinful pollutions or abasing or enthralling it to Satan let thy Spirit quicken me thy Flesh nourish me thy Wisdom guide me thy Grace sanctifie me Let thy holy Ghost of whom thou wast conceived beget thee in me by the Immortal Seed of thy Word let my Faith conceive thee my Profession bring thee forth my Love embrace thee and Devotion entertain and continually keep thee with me un-thy second coming Amen A Prayer for New Years Day O Lord who this day wast Circumcised and Bleddest for my sins have pity and compassion who with weeping Eyes and a bleeding heart come unto thee beseeching thee that those drops of blood which fell from thee this day may satisfie for the sin of my unworthy Birth and as thou hast begun a new Year begin in me a new reformation make me I beseech thee a clean heart and renew a right Spirit within me let me now cast off the old Man and put on the new and from this day to the end of my life walk in newness of life that I may become a fit guest to be admitted into the new Heaven where dwelleth Righteousness and to be entertained at thy Table and drink new Wine with thee in thy Heavenly Kingdom for evermore A Prayer for Twelfe Day O GOD thou light of all the World who guidedst the Heathen Sages by a Star to seek after thee give me Grace to hearken to the more sure Word of Prophesy in thy holy Scripture till the day dawn and the day-star arise in my heart the Star guided them till they approached thy presence so O Lord let the light of Faith guide me in all the Paths of this Life even till I come to behold thee not in a poor Stable littered with straw and dung but in a celestial Palace founded upon Pearls and built with Saphyrs not receiving a present of Gold which fades away but wearing a never fading Crown of Glory not having a quantity of Frankingense or Myrh in thy hand but a golden Censor full of Sweet odours which are the praises of thy Saints and Angels amongst which I beseech thee offer up the Prayers of me a Sinner that I may become a Saint thy Heavenly Kingdom Amen A Prayer for ash-Ash-wednesday O ETERNAL God who dist fast forty dayes in the wilderness accept of my humiliation these forty days and grant that I may not only fast from accustomed Meats but that all my senses may be restrained from their usual affections of this World let no object delight me till I behold my sins removed like a mist and the light of thy Countenance shine upon me Let no sound or voice delight my Ear till I hear thee by thy Spirit speak peace to my Conscience and say unto my Soul I am thy Salvation Let no other pleasures take hold of me till with the lower Herbs of Sorrow and anguish I have Eaten the Christian passover the flesh of thee that Immaculate lamb slain from the beginning of the World Hear me O belssed redeemer and as thou wrotest in dust when thou tookest the woman in a adultery So I beseech thee write my sins in dustand bury them all in the ashes of oblivion Amen A Prayer on good Friday O MOST Merciful and Gracious Lord God who by thy obedience unto Death even the Death of the Cross didst become the Sacrifice of the whole universe the magnificent example of patience the Lord of Life the good shepherd laying down thy Life for thy sheep and the only Mediator between God and Man let thy bleeding wounds heal thy precious blood cleanse thy shameful death make me to live and thy holy Spirit make me to work righteousness all my dayes that I may by thy aid and example obey my Heavenly father with all my powers and faculties reason and affections with my Soul and Body time and Estate in prosperity and in adversity that I may bear my Cross patiently do thy work cheerfully and be ready to benefit mankind with great Charity and industry that being a follower of thy Life and a partaker of thy death I may receive a part in the Resurrection of the just in thy inheritance for evermore Amen A Prayer on Easter Day O MOST glorious redeemer thou didst pass from a painful life to an Ignominious death and from the bitterness of it to the darkness of the Grave and by thy Divine power didst raise thy self from thence to Life I give thee thanks for thy infinite love to me and all Mankind I acknowledg thee to be my Lord and confess thee to be my God I adore thy Majesty and rejoyce in thy Mercies I humbly pray thee to enable me with thy Spirit to believe all thy Doctrines and obey all thy Commandments that after a holy and religious life spent in doing honour to thy holy Name I may be a partaker of thy holy Resurrection passing from death to life from the darkness of the Grave to the light of Heaven from an imperfect duty to the perfection of holiness in the fruition of the joyes of God in thy Heavenly Kingdom Amen A Prayer upon Ascension Day O BLESSED Jesus thou didst ascend to thy holy Father and didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers thou hast espoused thy Church unto thy self with the Everlasting circles of thy providence with thy Love and with thy Care with thy Word and with thy Spirit thy promises and thy holy intercession thou hadst a feeling of my infirmiteis and art my Merciful high Priest making intercession for me for ever O be thou pleased to represent all my wants and supply them and excuse all my infirmities pity all my Calamities pardon my Sins and send down thy holy Spirit of Grace into my heart that though I wander here upon Earth yet my Conversation may be in Heaven where let my inheritance be for ever Amen A Prayer on Whitsunday O GOD the Father of all Spirits who didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Church in the day of pentecost and hast promised that he shall abide with thy Church for ever let thy holy Spirit lead me into all truth defend me from all Sins enrich me with his gifâ—s refresh me with his Comforts rule in my heart for ever Conduct me with his truth and lead me in the way Everlasting that living by thy Spirit and walking in him I may by him be Sealed up to the day of my redemption O let thy Spirit witness to my Spirit that I am thy Child and make me to be so for ever through Jesus Christ my Redeemer who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen A Prayer upon Trinity Sunday O HOLY Blessed and glorious Trinity the Angels are amazed in the