A MANVAL OF PRAIERS VSED BY THE FATHERS OF THE PRIMAtiue Church for the most part within the foure first hundred yeares of Christ al before the end of the sixt hundred yeare diuided into seueral Chapters Wherin by the very praiers of the Apostles and their successors here related without anie word or sillable added or altered al the cheifest questioÌ„s now in controuersie are inuincibly proued for the holy doctrine of the present Roman Church by which we are instructed how to beleeue and what to practise in deuotion By R. B. P. Simb Apostol I beleeue the holy Catholicke Church With Licence 1618. TO OVR MOST REnowmed Queene Anne And al her Right honorable and other Ladies MOST GRATIOVS QVEENE RIght noble and other worthy Ladies as by place of dignitie you are honorable in this world and honour is that which many of you enough if not to much affect to haue and being had continue as careful to encrease and feareful not to loase it So seeing you consist as al men and women doe of two portions the cheif and best by nature immortal and the other after a short life and death to be cloathed with immortalitie and al honors and pleasures here be fading mortal and no obiects of delight for creatures immortal It is wisdome in time for al that loue and desire honor to prouide how to ioyne honor immortality together for most sure it is that both you and al humane kinde shal be immortal and if we seeke not here for a better honour then this which is mortal we shal remaine without honour and be in dishonour for euer And al who haue or claime title vnto honour must also render true and due honour to euerie one more honourable in degree For to render honour is the vrgent and bynding law of God Nature and Nations But they which be often honourable in this world are not alwaies so strictly bound for accepting or seeking honour And because I do not doubt but manie or most of you are expert enough in the second case of admitting honour vnto your sâ—â—ues and as negligent or ignorant in the former so generally commanding precept of performing honour office and dutie I haue to condemne ignorance wilfulnes and al vaine euasions perused the bookes of armorie of the best and most anutient Heraldes in the Religion of Christ next vnder him his holie Apostles their happie successors the practises of Apostolick and al Churches with the learned vertuous Fathers of this sacred Primatiue vnspotted Church of the first second third fourth fift and none after the sixt hundred yeare after Christ and out of them gathered together and set downe in this breife Summarie of true honour To whom when where how and what honour these most diuine and honourable persons yelded vnto others nor by anie priuate inference or exposition of mine owne but in the very wordes praiers them selues without anie sillable added or altered by which those holie Churches Fathers publikly professed and proposed to al posterities that inward faith which they beleued and also that office dutie and honor which they and al good ChristiaÌ„s owe and ought to render That except anie men or women naming them selues Christians wil be so impious Antichristians to condemne these most holie guides and Pastors in the kingdome of Christ and now by these professions of their faith performinges of dutie and honour glorious and happie Sainctes in heauen and our most B. Sauiour Redemer him self Christ Iesus to be a seducer the cheifest controuersies of this time in Religion being in this short Treatise by these inuincible Argumentes and authorities demonstratiuely proued made euident and adiudged for the most sacred doctrine of the present Romane Church wil haue an end the wilful and obstinate inuincibly refuted the ignorant truly instructed the vniustly persecuted truly rewarded and pitied most sacred preisthood and Sacrifice by many so prophanly vsed wil here thus proued appeare most reuerent holy and glorious To be breife what homage honour dutie loue pitie compassion or releife we owe and must render to the Church Triumphant Militant or patient that we may truly with the other Articles of our holie Creede beleue and confesse the holie Catholicke Church the Communion of Sainctes they are here thus manifestly and vndeniably determined and al cheifest matters now called into question so decided Diuers praiers of this subiect I haue wholly here omitted being alreadie lately published in my Manual of Meditations and Prayers And in some few CoÌ„trouersies though of least momeÌ„t because their praiers do not belong to al estates for which this booke is published I haue bene silent The cause why I principally dedicate it to you is not to make you patrons of the praiers of Sainctes and their holie faith but to make them Patrones vnto you not to constitute you Iudges of the honour which is due to the High Queene and Ladie in Heauen but to make you ladies there nor to make your vnlearned sexe vmpeare ouer the whole Church of God but to procure you to be true members of that holie companie forth of which there is no saluation not because I woud exclude your Lordes whom I duly honour but to haue it presented to them by you and you in knowing and performing the true honours and duties here remembred to be more honourable both to them and others and them by this and your example to learne and do the honours and duties they owe to others Neither do I omitte the inferiour of your kind to be grateful vnto you though the vertuous among you I honour with double honour that liue in state But because vertue or vice is often learned from the higher I wish you the first and you therin to be imitated and made a Rule And so in al dutie I shal euer rest Your Maiesties dutiful subiect and Ladiships true seruaÌ„t and frend R. B. P. The Table of the contentes The first Chapter containeth praiers concerning Iustification which is not by faith alone The 2. Chapter Iustification and merite of Almes Sacrifice suffering persecution Praiers of Sainctes other good deedes in grace The 3. Chapter of the Communion of the Militant Church with the Triumphant in honour praier protection and first of our B. Ladie S. Marie the Mother of God The 4. Chapter of the same The 5. Chapter of Praier and honour to the holie Angels and their Protection The 6. Chapter of praier and honour to al the Sainctes in heauen in general their protection The 7. Chapter to Sainctes in particular deceased before the Passion of Christ The 8. Chapter of praier honour vnto and the patronage of Sainctes in particular after the Passion of Christ The 9. Chapter the old Lytanies of the Church The 10. Chapter Reuerence of holie Reliques The 11. Chapter praiers for one departed out of this life The 12. Chapter praiers for al faithful deceased The 13. Chapter praiers before receiuing the B. Sacrament
necessitie from al temptations of the diuel Be our Reconciliatrix and Aduocate in the hour of Iudgment Deliuer vs from the fire to comand darknes and vouchsaif vs the glorie of thy Sonne for thou art the most holie hope of Christians with God To whom be honour world without end Amen O holie and immaculate Virgin Marie Mother of God and Mother of our Lord Iesus Christ vouchsaife to make intercession for me to him whose Temple thou deseruedst to be I besech the Intercession of blessed Marie the Virgin that my praier may be effectual O holie Mother of God Virgin Marie pray for vs. O Queene of heauen and Ladie of earth euer most holie Virgin Mother of God our Lord Iesus Christ pray for vs and daily yea continually make intercession for me thy seruant and for al the holy Church of God for remission of sinnes purging of vices for increase and perfection of vertues for the peace and health of the faithful people for the fruictes of the earth for the stabilitie of the Church the order of Sainctes and for al seruantes of God men and women both liuing and departed that by thy praiers and holie merites God almightie may take mercie on a people ful of sinnes here and for euer Haile o Queene Mother of mercie life sweetenes and our hope al haille We that are the banished children of Eue do crie vnto thee To thee we sigh groaning and weping in this vale of teares Therfore o thou our aduocate turne those thy merciful eyes vnto vs and shew vnto vs after this exile blessed Iesus the fruite of thy wombe O merciful o ful of pitie o sweete Virgin Marie Pray for vs o holie Mother of God That we may be made worthie of the promises of Christ Harken o daughter of Dauid Abraham and incline thine eare to our praiers and forgeat not thy people We crie vnto thee o most holie Virgin remember vs and render vnto vs for this litle speech great guiftes out of the riches of thy graces thou who art ful of grace We vse these wordes for thy praise If at anie time Himne if at anie time praise be offered vnto thee either by vs or anie creature to thee I say our gracious Ladie Queene Mistris Mother of God Arke of the Sanctuarie Al orders of Angels and earthly thinges pronounce thee blessed We exalt thee with a great and lowde voice saying Haile gratious our Lord is with thee o Mistris and Ladie and Queene and Mother of God make intercession for vs. O venerable Virgin chast most happy adorned with the garment of immortalitie accompted as a Goddesse be mercifuly present to my praiers receiue my petitions O Ladie graunt that I may so depart forth of this life that hauing thee so great a gouernesse of it I may alwaies find thee for me a most acceptable Patronesse to thy Sonne Suffer me not to be deliuered ouer as it were to be crucified and exposed to the scorne of him that is the sworne enemie plague of al mortal men O maiden equalled by none in grace Mother and Virgin comly aboue al virgins and the greatest who excedest al orders of heauenly inhabitantes Queene Ladie the good of mankind be alwaies a frend to mortal men and to me euerie where the greatest saifguard O thrice blessed Mother o light of virgins which inhabitest the most glorious Temple of heauen free from the stianes of mortalitie now thou art adorned with the stoale of immortalitie harkē gently from aboue to my wordes and I besech thee o Virgin receiue my praiers It is worthy and iust to glorify thee Goddes Mother alwaies most blessed wholly vndefiled Mother of god more honourable then the Cherubins and incomparably more Glorious then the Seraphins which without corcorruption hast brought forth God verily we magnify thee Goddes Mother O glorious Mother of God who brought forth true God pray vnto him to saue our soules O Mother of God because thou art more excellent then al creatures we which are not able to praise thee worthily do freely besech thee haue mercie vpon vs. Haile ful of grace our Lord is with thee Haile organe of ioy by which the condemnation of our offence is purged and ful cōpensation of true ioy is made Haile truly blessed Haile illuminated Haile magnificent Temple of Diuine glory Haile consecrated Palace of the King Haile bride chamber in which humanitie was espoused to Christ Haile elected to God before thou wert borne Haile Goddes Reconciliation with men Haile treasure of life which neuer fadeth Haile heauen celestial Tabernacle of the sunne of glory Haile most ample feild of God whom none other place but thou alone could comprehend Haile holie virginal earth of which the new Adam by an vnspeakable framing was formed which should restoare the old Adam to saluation Haile Marie ful of grace our Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruite of thy wombe for thou hast brought forth the Sauiour of our soules It is worthie it is worthie that we cal thee who art trulie blessed the Mother of God alwaies blessed euerie way irreprehensible the Mother of our God more honourable thē the Cherubins and more glorious then the Seraphins who without corruption hast brought forth God the word We truly magnify thee the Mother of God o ful of grace to thee euerie creature maketh ioy the companie of Angels and mankind thou who art the sanctified Temple the spiritual paradise the glorie of virgins of whom God receiued flesh and became a child our God who is before the world for he made thy belie his Throne and thy wombe more spacious and large then the heauens them selues To thee o ful of grace euerie creature doth gratulate glorie to thee O holie Marie Mother of God pray for vs I say sinners Amen O Mother of God Queene of heauen doare of paradise Ladie of the worlde begin praiers for my sinne Amen O my blessed Ladie and defence of mankind the harbour and protection of them that flee vnto thee I know o my Ladie Mother of God that I haue greatly offended thee For who o my Ladie hath hoped in thee and was ashamed or what man hath faithfully asked thy help able to al thinges hath at anie time bene forsaken verly no man at anie time Wherfore I a sinner also and wicked person aske thy euer-during fountaine from which cures do flowe to our soules be merciful vnto me Of the same praying vnto and honouring this most blessed Virgin Marie Chapter 4. HAile ful of grace our Lord is with thee He that said Let light be made let the firmament and the rest of the workes of wonderful creation be made Haile Mother of immeasurable ioy Haile new Arke of glory in which the spirit of God descending rested Arke in which rested the sanctification of new glorie Haile ornament of al Prophets and
preseruer of bodies abandoner of diuels and lightner of euerie creature then I besech thee vouchsaife to be present a faithful Patrone of my soule O most holie Michael illustrate my inward senses and illuminate the internal eye of my soule and strengthen my heart tossed with the waues of this life and my mind bended downe to earthly things lift it vp ward to heaueÌ„ly wisdoÌ„ and strengthen my weak handes against mine enemies expert in warr fortify my feeble feete that they forsake not the path that leadeth to heauen and cure the rest of the greifes of my miseries and laboures O Michael both in deede and name I pray thee and so much as I am able besech thee that when I shal depart forth of this life thou wilt appeare ioyful pacified and shrowde me vnder the honoured couering of thy winges being deliuered from the narrow darke places of hel lead me into the roomes of the wonderful Tabernacle leading me euen to the house of God O most heauenlie and excellent Angel Gabriel o Gabriel obtainer and geuer of true gladnes I often request and besech thee that thou wilt lâ—uing visit me oppressed with great sicknes and fil me with celestial vertue and ioy of minde and being freed from the tormentes of Belial and dangers both of visible and not visible enemies by thine authoritie and intercession to God ioyne me to the companie of the iust Sainctes and at last settle me in those places which flow with al delghtes O heauenly spirits I desire to aske and earnestly besech you that when as the last gaspe of my life I shal be compelled to goe forth of this earthen vessel and you are to weigh in a balance al mine actions and take accompt of al things which openly or secretly I haue designed that then either al of you or at least they whom God shal send forth of your order to receiue mine vnhappy wretched soule wil shew your selues pleased geÌ„tle vnto me those weightes which I with my wicked deeds haue desperatly burdened you wil happily vnloade and by al meanes and skil as the ministers of our only mercicul God disburden When the day of confundation cotheth and the end of the world shal be when the heauens shal tremble and the firmament shake and the dreedful Iudge approach and you going before his coming shal runne ouer the boundes endes of the earth to gather together al mortal men that are dead from the beginning of the world and set them before the vncorrupt Iudge for euery one to yeld accompt of euerie deede euerie thought and conceipt of minde Then I besech you and wil neuer cease to the end of my life to besech you who behold al thinges and performe the publicke ministeries of God with authoritie then I say then I besech you be mercifully present with me and as the Princes of the most excellent King spare me a wretch and vnhappie by your intercession to God deliuer me from that doleful and angrie sentence that sendeth into euerlasting fyre And contrariwise make me with al my partakers kinsfolkes whose names and calling he knoweth who knoweth al thinges partaker of that ioyful pleasaÌ„t state life that is voide of al sorow and wanteth nothing and lastly pronounce me heire of that ioy which neuer endeth Of praier and honour to al the blessed Sanctes in heaven in general Chapter 6. O House of God shyning and bewtiful I haue loued thy comlines and the dwelling place of the glorie of our Lord my possessor and maker Let my pilgrimage sigh vnto thee day and night Let my heart be open vnto thee my minde intende thee my soule desire to come vnto the felowship of thy blessednes I speake to him who made thee to possesse me in thee because he hath made me and thee And speake thou aske thou him to make me worthie of the participation of thy glorie I wil begin to throw downe my self vpon my knees and pray vnto al Saincts to succour me who dare not aske God for the exceding greatnes of my sinne O ye Sainctes of God with exceding sorow teares and weping I besech you that you wil fal downe before his mercies for me a wretch Amen O al you heauenly Citizens make intercession and pray for me a wretch and your vnworthie seruant And also for al the holie Church of God that we may be made worthie of the promises of Christ that by your praiers we may be ioyned to your blessed felowship for euer O happie Sainctes of God who haue now passed ouer the troublesome sea of this mortalitie are come to the Hauen of euerlasting quietnes securitie and peace and deserued to be fellowes of the heauenly powers you are secure of your selues be careful for vs. I besech you by him that hath chosen you who hath made you such of whose contemplatioÌ„ you now reioice with whose bewtie you are now filled by whose immortalitie and vnchangeablenes you are become immortal and vnchangeable be mindful of vs wretches yet in the sea of this life tossed with waters fownd about vs. Make intercession pray for vs wretches and verie negligent sinners constantly and without ceasing that by the armes of your praiers we may be carried to God We sail as you know by this great vast sea where the great wahle is readie to deuoure those that passe by where there be daungerous places Scilla and Charibdis with many others in which men vnwares and doubtful in faith do suffer ship wrackes wherfore in al thinges we want your help we are carried on the tree and by the Crosse of our Lord hope to passe ouer to harbour Let the aduerse partes flee away by the sight of the signe of Christ Al you armie of the heaueÌ„ly couÌ„try pray that by your merits by your praiers we may with our shippe saife marchandise preserued happily enter into the hauen of eternal glorie where you are where you reioyce where you reigne with God with out end We besech the Sainctes that we be not seperated from thee if we do not deserue to be cloathed with glorie yet that we be not excluded from pardon I besech the intercession of the Apostles O holy Quiers of Patriarches Prophets Apostles Euangelistes Martyrs Confessors Preistes Leustes Monkes Virgins and al the iust I presume to ask you by him who hath chosen you and of whose sight you ioy that you wil vouchsaife to pray to God for me a sinner that I may be deliuered from the iawes of the deuil and from euerlasting death O Apostles Martyrs and Prophets Preistes Confessors and iust men and holie women who haue wel ended your combat kept your faith being faithful to our Sauiour pray for vs that our soules may be saued Amen O you Patriarches of whom the Church which now laboureth on earth is descended make intercession for it O you holie
Sonne of God and acceptable to al Angels and Archangels vouchsaife to remember vs we intreate thee with what praiers we are able that he who hath geuen victorie of thy laboures vnto thee wil bestow pardon of sinnes vpon vs. O Agnes a true ornament the bright image of shamfastnes o noble Virgin I besech thee fauour my praiers Agnes o happie Virgin o new glory noble inhabitant of the heauenly towre bow downe thy face adorned with a double Diademe vpon our vncleanes Thou shynest as a bride heauen aske for me fauour those which honour thee O holie blessed Paula help with thy praiers the decaying old age of thy worshipper thy faith and workes associate thee to Christ being present thou shalt more easily obtaine what thou askest THE OLD LITANIES vsed within the first 600 yeares cited by Wallafridus Strab. l. de rebus Ecclesiast 28. de lit agend S. Amalar. l 2. de eccl offic c. 28. Cermonial antiq tit Lytan and others Chapter 9. LOrd haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O God the Father of heauen haue mercie vpon vs. O God the Sonne Redemer of the world haue mercie vpon vs. O God the holy Ghost haue mercie vpon vs. O holie Trinitie one God haue mercie vpon vs. O holie Marie pray for vs. O holie Mother of God pray O holie Virgin of virgins pray O holie Michael pray O holie Gabriel pray O holie Raphael pray O al holie Angels Archangels of God pray O al holie orders of blessed spirits pray O holie Iohn Baptist pray O al holie Patriarches Prophets pray S. Peter pray S. Paul pray S. Andrew pray S. Iohn pray S. Iames pray S. Mathew pray S. Bartholomew pray S. Symon pray S. Thadeus pray S. Mathias pray S. Barnabas pray S. Marcke pray S. Luke pray O al holie Apostles and Euangelistes pray for vs. O al holie Disciples InnoceÌ„tes pray for vs. S. Stephen pray S. Linns pray S. Cletus pray S. Clement pray S. Fabian pray S. Albane pray S. Cosmas pray S. Damian pray S. Primus pray S. Faelician pray S. Dionise with his felowes pray S. Victor with his felowes pray O al holy Martyrs pray S. Siluester pray S. Leo pray S. Ierome pray S. Augustine pray O al holy Confessors pray O al holy Monkes Erâ—miâ—eâ— pray S. Marie Magdaleine pray S. Marie of Egipt pray S. Margaret pray S. Scholastica pray S. Pernel pray S. Genouefs pray S. Praxedes pray S. Sotheris pray S. Prisca pray S. Thecla pray S. Afra pray O holy Virgins pray O al holy Sainctes of God men women pray for vs. Of honour reuerence to the holie bodies and other Reliques of Sainctes Chapter 10 WE honour the vessels of the bodies of Sainctes and repay vnto them memory as it were reward and wages of their vertue magnanimitie of mind The noble reliques are pulled forth of their vnnoble sepulchre The Trophes of victorie are shewed vnto heaueÌ„ Let the triuÌ„phant victims succede vnto the place where Christ is the Sacrifice But he who suffered for al vpon the Altare These redemed by his passion vnder the Altare This place I had appointed for my selfe for it is worthie a priest should rest there where a Preist accustomed to offer Sacrifice But I yeald the right hand portion to the holy victims This place beloÌ„ged to Martyrs therfore let vs burie the sacred reliques carrie them into worthie houses and celebrate the whole day with faithful deuotion O thrice and four times o 7. times happie that Citizen who celebrateth thee nearhaÌ„d the seate of thy bones who may lay himself downe neare them who sprincleth the place with teares who presseth his brest vpon the earth who offereth vowes in secret O blessed Apostles what thankes shal we render vnto you who haue laboured so much for vs. O Peter I remember thee and I am amased O Paule I cal thee to mind rauished in mind I am oppressed with teares For what I may say or what I may speake beholding your afflictions I know not O peter thou maist ioy to whom it was geuen to enioy the Crosse of Christ Ioy thou also o Paule whose head was cutte of with a sword Let that sword be to me for a crowne and the nailes of Peter for pretious Stones infixed in my Diademe O who wil graunt vnto me to be rolled about the bodie of Paule to be fastened to his sepulchre to see the dust of that bodie fulfilling the thinges which as yet were wanting in Christ bearing the signes of his woundes O double renoumed we besech thee by thy handes blocke of thy prison by those potsheardes by which thou gainedst conquest by which we that come after with reuerence kisse thy bedde haue mercy vpon our praiers Here Christ verily was crucified for our sinnes and if thou wouldest deny it this place apparant disproueth thee Blessed is this mount Golgatha in which now for him that was crucified wel make ioy in him and the whole globe of the earth is filled with wood of the Crosse by parcels When wil that day be that it may be lawful for vs to enter into the Sepulchre of our Sauiour to wepe in the Sepulchre of our Lord and then to licke the wood of the Crosse and in mount Oliuet with our Lord ascending to be lifted in desire and mind Praier for one in particular deceased Chapter 11. GOd of his mercie forgeue to the departed out of this life al sinnes by humane frailtie and weaknes committed and bring him into light and the Countrie of the liuing into the bosome of Abraham Isaac and Iacob into the Place voide of al greife sadnes and groaning Let vs pray for al that rest in Christ that our gentle God who hath receiued his soule wil forgeue him al offence being merciful vnto him wil place him in the Region of the godly and blessed in the bosome of Abraham Isaac Iacob with al that haue pleased him from the beginning of the world and performed his wil where there is no sorow sadnes or sighing God of Abraham God of Isaac and God of Iacob God not of the dead but of the liuing because the soules of al do liue with thee and the spirits of the Iust are in thy handes and torment shal not touch them for al that are sanctified are vnder thy hand Looke thou also now vpon this thy seruant whom thou hast receiued into the other life and pardoÌ„ him whatsoeuer he hath offended in Assigne geÌ„tle Angels vnto him and place him in the bosome of Patriarches Prophets and Apostles and al that from the beginning of the world haue pleased thee where there is no sorow nor horror but the felowship of the godlie and such as reioyce and the blessed Countrie of the iust beholding the glorie of thy Christ by whom to thee be glorie honour worship
thy faith workes associate thee to Christ That Praiers Sacrifice suffering persecution for Christ Almes-deedes and other good workes done in grace are meritorious Chapter 2. O Lord we reuerence the memory first of the glorious alwaies Virgin Marie Mother of God and our Lord Iesus Christ Also of the blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter and Paul Andrew Iames Iohn Thomas Iames Philip Bartholomew Mathew Simon and Thadee Linus Cletus Clemens Xistus Cornelius Ciprian Laurence Chrisogonus Iohn Paul Cosmas Damianus and of al thy Sainctes by whose merites and praiers vouchsaife to graunt that in al thinges we may be defended by the helpe of thy protection O God almightie we besech thee that by the intercession of B. S. Iohn Baptist we may be defended That he may obtaine indulgence and fauour for vs that we may be helped by his merits that by his patronage meriting it we may haue increase of securitie Graunt we besech thee that thy familie by the intercession of thy forerunner blessed Iohn Baptist may be freeed from al sinnes and merite to come to him whom he foretold O most gentle God by the praiers of the Mother of God euer a Virgin and the heauenlie armie and company of Angels Cherubins Seraphines Prophets Martyrs godlie Rulers by the intercessions of holie Religious people supplications of al the blessed haue mercie on me thy creature O God mercifully heare vs grauÌ„t that by the merites of blessed Peter his coapostle Paule we may obtaine the glorie of eternitie O God almightie we besech thee that blessed Andrew thy Apostle may obtaine help for vs. Let vs be protected by his merites O Lord it is worthie and iust right and helping to saluation humblie to pray thee that thou o eternal Shepheard wilt not forsake thy flocke but wilt keepe thy people with continual protection by thy blessed Apostles that it may be gouerned by the same Rulers who being the vicars of thy work thou hast appointed Pastours to rule it O God grauÌ„t to thy seruantes that by the merites of thy Sainctes Abdon and Sennen making intercession for vs we may deserue to be deliuered from al aduersities O Lord let the intercession of blessed Hermes thy Martyr not cease to pacifie thy iustice and make our seruice deuout vnto thee O Lord by the intercession of thy Sainctes Cornelius and Ciprian turnâ— from vs al euils which we iustly deserue We humbly besech thee o God omnipotent that by the intercession of B. George thy Martyr thou wilt graunt vs worthilie to serue thee O Lord cleanse vs from al guilt of our sinnes by the intercession of blessed George thy Martyr Graunt o Lord that the guiftes which we offer may be to the helpe of our saluation the merite of blessed Anastasia making intercession for vs. O God we besech thee that by the intercession of blessed Cecilie we may deserue to receiue the benefites of thy guift O God graunt vs to be helped by the merites of blessed Saturninus thy Martyr O twice renowmed be present now receiue the humble wordes of them that pray vnto thee and be an effectual oratour for our offence at the throne of the Father We besech thee by thy self by that prison the increase of thy 〈◊〉 by thy bondes flames hookes the block of thy prison by those potsheardes by which thou obtained victory by which we that come after thee with reuerence kisse thy bedde haue mercy on our praiers that Christ being pacified wil not impute our sinnes vnto vs. O most laudable and excellent spirits openly propose the infinite mercy of God praying the bountiful gentle God that by your intercession he wil vouchsaife to admitte al the afflictions and sicknes calamities which in al my life I haue suffered for a recompence of my sinnes and release pardon of the condemnation and greauous tormentes which I haue iustly deserued accompt them in their steade and place Of the Communion of the Church 〈◊〉 with the Triumphant by Praier honour to the Saincts there by vs on earth their patronage vnto vs and first of the most B. Virgin Marie Chapter 3. O Virgin vouchsaife that I thy seruant may praise thee Haile most bright most bewtiful vessel of God Haile Ladie Marie fuf of grace Haile among women most blessed Virgin Haile most shyning starre from which Christ went forth Haile most glorious light Mother and Virgin Haile Ladie higher then al. Haile song of the Cherubins and Himne of Angels Haile peace ioy and saluation of the world Haile gladnes of mankind Haile praise of the Fathers and honour of the Prophets Haile bewtie of Martyrs and crowne of Sainctes Haile glorie of the godlie Haile most excellent ornament of the heauenlie holies Haile most worthie miracle of the world Hail tree of life ioy and pleasure Haile quiet Hauen and deliueresse of those that be troubled Haile the helper of them that be in daunger Haile â—â—ouâ—â— of grace and consolation Haile refuge of sinners Haile hope of al that be vertuous and afflicted with aduersities Haile Queene and defence both of men and women Haile most glorious Mediatrix of the world Haile doare of heauen Haile opening of the gates of Paradise Haile key of heauens the kingdome of Christ O immaculate vnspotted vncorrupted chast Virgin Spouse of God our Ladie only hope of the dispaired help of the oppressed and most speedie aide of those that runne vnto thee and refuge of al Christians admitte my praier most vile vttered with vncleane lippes and also intreate thy Sonne my Lord and God with thy motherly gentlenes that he may also open vnto me those most merciful bowels of his pietie and setting aside mine innumerable sinnes conuert me to penance and graunt me truly to fulfil his commandementes O merciful gentle and bountiful Ladie be alwaies present vnto me in this life an earnest protectiâ—â— and helper driuing backe mine enemies inuasions and bringing me to saluation and in the last moment of my life kepe my wretched soule driuing farre from it the vgsome sight of wicked diuels in the terrible day of Iudgment deliuering me from euerlasting damnation lastly making me heire of that inaccessible glorie of thy Soone and God Which by thine intercession and fauour I besech thee againe and againe most holie Ladie Mother of God that I may obtaine by thy grace mercie and gentlenes of thine only begotten Sonn our Lord and God and Sauiour Iesus Christ As thou art the Mother of the most merciful God so mercifully receiue me a sinner be present with me o merciful gentle bountiful Virgin O immaculate and blessed Mother without sinne of thy Sonne God of al pure sound most sacred we praise thee we blesse thee as ful of grace who broughtest forth Christ We al prostrate ourselues to thee we al besech thee Deliuer vs o vnspotted from al