healthy body make my soul more cheerfull to serve thee How unfit sicknesse is to doe thee service and how many wayes it may come let me sadly consider that in my health I may goe about my happinesse and in my sicknesse have the comfort of a well-employed health and at my death the assurance of eternall life by that employment Lord since thou givest me the best of thy blessings let me give thee the first of my years the strength of my youth not my decrepite dayes that come sicknesse or health life or death I may be Thine ever a child of blisse and heire of immortality by the merits of him who is the Sonne of thy Love Jesus Christ Amen Daily Prayers Friday-Service Against the Vanity of Wit Morning Prayer Psal 36. 94. Lessons 2 Sam. 17. or Prov. 3. Lukc 10. Evening Prayer Psal 90. 111. 2. Lessons Jer. 4. Ecclcs 2. 1 Cor. 3 or 2 Tim. 3. Jam. 3. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Wit I Thanke thee O Lord for the blessing of my Reason For the power of it by which thou hast made me a man not a beast and the use of it by which thou hast made me of understanding not an ideot I beseech thee let me not marre what thou hast made My wit to delude my will and it to draw my soule from thee lest I foole my selfe of the end for which I was made and an Ideot get to Heaven before me As I have the wit let me have the wisdome to know thee and with my understanding the conscience to feare thee without which the most wise is but a foole before thee Ftom a wit to contrive mischiefs and to compasse designes of vanity from skill to use the arts of sinne and finde the wayes of death and hell Good Lord deliver me From an Atheists wit to dispute against thee and Religious acts which binde the soule unto thee and cunning to maintaine acts of vice and villanie Lord keepe me that it find neither roome nor favour in me that such wickednesse be not charged upon me Let me be a foole on earth to be a Saint in Heaven even theirs who thinke Sanctitie a simplenesse Devotion a dulnesse and thy Feare a folly And from pride of understanding and scorne of the simple who have little to my much let this preserve me that thou canst make my much to be little if I so provoke thee bereaving me of my wits by a sicknesse or a phrensie Wisdome of God from all this save me Deare Jesus Amen! Daily Prayers Saturday-Service Against the Vanity of Friends and Favour Morning Prayer Psal 38. 41. 11. 5. 39. Lessons Esth 6. or Job 6. or Pro. 19. Luk. 1. Act. 7. Evening Prayer Psal 88 89. 106. Lessons Micha 7. Eccles 9. James 1. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Friends and Favour O Lord Friends are Jewels and so thou hast taught us to value them yet as men that may be false or will be fickle our trust must not be in them Some are not more friends to my person then my prosperity And those that are now most friends with me may prove bitter enemies against me Let me therefore seeke to have my Conscience thy Angels and Selfe for friends that will never faile me and let thy will be mine O God that all these friendships may be for me O thou great Friend of mankind who by thy bloud didst make falne man friends with God by thy Holy Spirit make me fit for all these friendships And Lord let me not value mans with thy favour They can give me honour but not a Crowne of Glory Wealth but not Heaven Their hands are too short Yea in sicknesse and distresse they cannot reach health or quiet to my body or my conscience And though their power be ever lesse then my wants it may be often greater then their wills O Thou Unchangeable Majestie The everlasting lover of them that feare thee let me be one that thou maist ever favour me Let me not care for mans cloud so the light of thy countenance shine upon me Let my sinnes never hide that light from my soule I beseech thee Sun of righteousnesse let some beame of thy love ever come unto me Lord Jesus say Amen Amen! Daily Prayers Services upon other subjects and particular occasions Advertisement to the devout Reader touching these Services FOr those services in the fourth Week which may not be so proper for all as that of Honour Beauty Strength those here which are of more Cōmon concernment may be used in their stead as the Service against Malice Revenge Impatience The rest as occasion and discretion guides thee and devotion finds most beneficiall for thee Wherein the Authour gives thee thou mayest take thy choice And if thou wilt make these serve for a fift Weeke doe as shall most please and profit thee A Service of the pleasures of piety for Sunday or other day Morning Prayer Ps 4. 30. 32. or 33. 97. Lessons Deut. 16. or Isa 29. or 35. 61. 65. Joh. 16. Evening Prayer Psal 16. 36. or 126. 132. Lessons Heb. 3. or Mat. 3. or 8. Phil. 4. ¶ A Prayer to have the pleasures of Piety RAvish my heart O Lord with the joyes of thy Saints and cause me to see the felicity of thy chosen O! What are the pleasings of sense to the solaces of a Soule or the delights of the flesh to the raptures of Spirit And in what but in thee O God can my immortall Soule take repose or my Spirit finde rellish thou art the Soveraign good In thee is the Crown of joy All in the world is nothing to thee woe without thee And how can my Soule rejoyce in thee but in the favour which thou hast to those that feare thee and those multitudes of mercies which proceed from thy favour to those that are in holy league and peace with thee Lord make me one of thy Saints that I may have some of those joyes which none but those that feele know and those that know cannot utter And give me I beseech thee some taste of those holy pleasures which may encourage me more and more to seek to be a Saint O Lord of those shoures of hidden Manna which daily fall upon Soules greatly devout indeed let some crums and drops come to me who truly desire to be so and whilst others take pleasure to swim in sensuality let me be satisfied with those drops Let sinfull contents be my hate because they banish them and sensuall my scorne because below them Let me joy in the goods of the earth as my common portion but triumph in thy favour as my great Inheritance and in the duties of thy service and feare as the wayes to thy favour To the harvest of joy in Heaven Lord at last bring me and to live more comfortably on earth in thy feare the First-fruits of thy Spirit give me and a love and care and conscience of thy feare encrease ever in me God
as if made for nothing but thy lust and the dunghill Thou wilt therefore be condemned for thy injury to him thy self and them To a gluttony of torments starved body and soul without crumb or Luk. 16. 23 drop of comfort for thy short pleasures to paines long and lasting for ever Consider this 2. There is a Cloath a Meat a Drink an Art an Office that will help if thou have it Do thou then endeavour it 1. The Coat is Christ Of particular Rom. 13. 13 14. virtue to expell Gluttony 2. The Meat is his Word and Sacrament To which to have an holy Appetite is to lose the Job 6. 27. sensuall and to digest it to loath it 3. The Drink is his Spirit with Eph. 5. 18. which the soul drunk keepes the body sober The greater excesses of good the lesse of it surfets 4. The Art is his Pionry to undermine Dan. 4. 27. gluttony by works of Charity Giving the maintenance of thy lust to the poor So thou shalt at once starve thy Job 29. 15 and 31. 16. sinne and feast thy Conscience And God and Christ himself will come to the feast Mat. 15. 35 Luk. 14. 13. 5. The Office is to keep his Table Which Frugality covers and Temperance takes away His Example Command wil make thee able and Prayer will get the blessing of both And sooner if for his sake thou eat and delight in sober company and leave Gluttons for Saints Wednesday-Service Against Lasciuiousnesse and Luxury Morning Prayer Psal 106. Lesson Ezek. 16. or 2 Sam. 12. Prov. 7. Joh. 8. to v. 42 evening-Evening-Prayer Psal 51. Lesson 2 Sam. 12. 1 Cor. 6. or Heb. 13. ¶ Prayer against Lasciviousnesse LOrd keepe me from all filthinesse of flesh and Spirit that before men and thee who discernest both I may appeare pure and undefiled a chast Spouse to thee not to be tempted to any acts or lusts of uncomelinesse or unworthinesse which be ill in thy eyes that are ever upon me O let me be pure and holy in all manner of conversation as thou art holy that in the great day of tryall thou maist not disclaime me but owne me and take me to thy glory for the merits of thy Holy One and Undefiled Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Lasciviousnesse 1. GEnerally The sin of unchastity is vaine foule fearefull and prevailing For 1. The more lust is served the lesse satisfied a Ezek. 16. 28. 2. It 's called particularly filthinesse and uncleannesse b Apoc. 17 14. It is sacrilegiously to make the Body c 1 Cor. 6. 18 19 Gods Temple a Stewes and that is the vilest filthinesse d 1 Cor. 3. 17. 3. It is a short pleasure for everlasting paine e Heb. 11. 24. yet this fire is the end of that fleshlinesse f 1 Cor. 6. 9. Heb. 13. 4. Apoc. 21. 8. Besides a foule conscience it wounds health honour state wasting the balsame of life blessing of wealth and oyntment of a good reputation g Prov. 5. 8 9 10. Pro. 6. 26. 32. 33. Job 31. 9 10. c. 4. It is a strong lust in the assault and commonly gets the victory Nature concurring with the strength h Pro. 7. 21 2 Sam. 11. 2 5. The holy Martyrs could no more be tempted by pleasures then tortures But 2. Particularly In a married condition it is every way worse 1. Not onely Damnation in another world i Apoc. 21. 8. but present Death k Joh. 8. 5. Levit. 20. 10. in this by the Law of God and man too in many places 2. It tends to the confusion of mankinde Incest c. l Gen. 38. 16. 3. The dumbe creatures are true to their Mates 3. The cure of both is the same To kill the sinne 1. In the Egge Stifle the first thoughts and motions of lust m Mat. 5. 28. no Bird but was first an Egge 2. In the hatching Take heed of the things that beget and nourish lust Covenant with the eyes n Job 31. 1 against lascivious Persons Pictures gestures stop the o Pro. 7. 21. eares against lustfull Songs Discourses Devices Keepe the heart p Pro. 6. 255 from being idle and the body from excessive sleeps and meats and drinks or such as are knowne to be provocative q Pro. 23. 33. Temperance Sobriety are great friends to Chastity 3. Tempted Thinke that thy keepers eyes are upon thee with Joseph that God sees thee r Gen. 39. 9. and will judge thee s Prov. 5. 20 21. Thou wilt blush if but a child behold thee Thursday-Service Against Pride Morning Prayer Psal 73. 131. Lessons Isa 14. Luk. 18. to v. 19 or Acts 12. Evening Prayer Psal 86. 138. Lesson Jâ—r 13. Jam. 4. or 1 Pet. 5. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Pride LOrd keepe me from the sinne of Pride which threw Angels out of Heaven and Man out of Paradise lest it cast me headlong into the depths of thy displeasure and barre my soule of both O let me who am nothing but a miserable body and soule a lump of sins and woes let me never exalt my selfe before or against thee Without whose goodnesse but one minute my flesh would fall to the earth and my spirit lie in hell for ever without thy mercy Preserve by these thoughts an humble spirit in me such as thou maist respect on earth and hereafter advance unto thy glory Even for his sake who so abased himselfe for my pride Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen! Daily Prayers Remedies against Pride 1. KNow what Pride is A sinne abhominable as that which is 1. Gods hate Others sinnes fly God but this flyes at God * S. Greg. and God at it a 1 Pet. 5. 5. 2. Mans bane It went before the fall of Angels b Jude v. 6. Isai 14. and Adam c Gen. 3. 5 6. and doth goe before destruction d Prov. 16. 18. 3. Christs scorne In his birth life death all humility nothing of pride much against it 2. Know what we are and there is no cause of pride 1. Not for our Ills. And our 1. Bodies are Baggs of phlegme and choler poore and vile e Phil. 3. 21. 1. I am quickened dust and shall be dead f Gen. 3. 19. 2. One worme was my begining and many will be my end and much woe betweene g Job 25. 6 Job 19. 26. 2. Soules be Cages of uncleane lusts and errours h Gen. 6. 5 Nests of Serpents and Vipers i Isa 49. 4 5. 3. Bodies and Soules both have what should humble us 1. My body is subject to a thousand sicknesses and sorrowes but my soule to ten thousand times more sins and wounds and weaknesses and falls k Rom. 7. 24. Psal 19. 12. Psal 40. 12 2. A Grave will be the end of my Body l Psal 49. 14. and Hell without pardon the end of a sinning Soule
of all grace and comfort I beseech thee for his sake who came to save me my Hope my Joy my Jesus Amen A Meditation of the pleasures of Piety ASsemble your selves you Epicures Masters of delights and Professors of all the Arts of Pleasure take Counsels and make Musters of all your powers and wits with all your Students Agents in delectable things and devices One Saint and Servant of God is Commander and Possessour of more joyes than you all 1. Joyes of another Quality than yours faire and pure even the poorest extracted out of the grossest earthly goods as Elixars and Essences Defecate from your dregs of guilt and stings of Conscience A Tun-full of yours is not worth a Viall of theirs Psal 4. 6. Eccles 1 2. Prov. 14. 13 a whole Barrel of your Pitch below a Box of their Balsome 2. And contend you not in Quantitie with them their numbers exceed yours as much as their excellencies Their joyes are Two to one to yours Yours are Psal 4. 6. Jac. 1. 12. for good of this life their 's for ill as well as good And Three to one for goods Yours are for temporall spirituall you doe not tast eternall you cannot hope they have Temporall in hand Spirituall in heart Eternall in eye Nay Ten hundreds thousands to one Yours is from Finite good their 's from Infinite And which multiplies that to ten thousand times ten thousands of millions and more Yours is for time and theirs of that Eternall You are then out-vied every way Yours are the joyes of Servants of Mat. 25. 13 Slaves Theirs the Lords Yours are Heb. 11. 25. Drops theirs Oceans yours Moments Isa 12. 3 theirs Eternities Above them Psal 36. 9. is the spring of heavenly joyes within Isa 30. 10. 1 Pet. 4. 8. Joh. 15. 11. Deut. 12. 7. Jer. 11. 15. them seas of holy solaces about them rivers of Earthly pleasures below them the pudles of your carnall contentments They drinke water pure from the spring and rock and therefore loathe your chanel joyes and even for that drinke it in both more pure and more To all these Territories of joyes have the Saints good rights and it is Phil. 4. 4. Deut. 28. 47. Prov. 1◠10 Psal 17. 14 both their shame and sinne if they doe not take and keep possession Which you cannot judge who are strangers both to their joyes and hearts Nor match who are pent up to your single sole poore pension of worldly-pettie transitory pittances Prince of Epicures enter the lists now with a Prime Servant of Almighty God Summe up all thou canst possesse or imagine of joyes and give in thy totall one of his least figures is more the summe infinitely Have what Solomons braine and state can Eccles 1 2. command of delights adde what Cleopatra's wanton wits and friends can devise of daliances an Ephrem from his Cell a Catherine from her Oratorie shall beat all your great Minions and baffle all your multitudes of joies You have a sense-full of joyes they a soule-full When your eyes run over with laughter your heart is not full Prov. 14. 13. their hearts are so full that they run all over Their Raptures are more great than hearts can hold One prayes God to withdraw a while his heart is too Recede Domine parūper quia vasculū cordis mei ferre nequit little a vessell to containe Him the other cries out to Him the multitude of his joyes overwhelme her O Epicure be a Saint and thou shalt find what thou doest else in vaine seek Obruor multitudine gaudiorum tuorum Domine as thy chief good Joy above all thy joyes in qualitie quantitie height depth bredth length pure as christall great as God high as heaven deep as the heart broader than earth long as eternitie But O Saint be not thou an Epicure if delight draw thy heart thou losest so much in delectation as Religion and abatest thy Soule so much of solace as God of service Believe it if thou wouldst have joy in life and at death for the goods and ills of this life both body and soule-goods enough on earth and more in heaven the only way is to be as thou shouldst be and continue as thou art not an Epicure but a Saint Service against Malicee for Monday or other day Morning Prayer Psal 7. 10. Lesson Prov. 24. Mat. 5. v. 43. evening-Evening-Prayer Psal 35. 62. Lesson Levit. 19. 1 Cor. 5. or Tit. 3. 1 Pet. 2. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Malice O Thou Divine Goodnesse keep me from Malice the very Soule of Satan and proper sinne of the Devill Thou O God art Love He then is Hatred and if malice be in me I shall be as he is one whom unlesse thou hatest thy selfe thou canst not love From such a detestable and damned disposition Lord deliver me Let not Satans brand be on my brest and his soule in my body lest being marked for him he seize me as his owne and take me and carry me from thee body and soule Lord stamp thy love on my heart that I may be sealed for thee and as thy owne claimed by thee And since this is the Cognisance of thine to love one another let me not weare his Badge in a visible malice to any that all may know that I am thine A Child of thy Family a Dove of thy Flock a Lamb of thy Fould without gaule or mind to doe mischief to any Delighting like thee to do good to all Even for his sake who did wish and doe evill to none Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against malice 1. IT is a Toad swelling with venome in the heart to God who is love a 1 Joh. 4. 8. 1 Joh. 1. 12. more odious because like the Devil most abominable The Devils heart in mans body 2. To cast keep out this venome of the Serpent 1. Consider 1. Men are mortall their enmities therefore should not be immortall b Eph. 4. 26. 2. Men are mutable Whom now I hate I may hereafter need as in Joseph c Gen. 42. 6. and Jeptha d Jud. 11. 7. 3. Men are amiable e Prov. 8. 31. all after Gods image and bought by Christs blood f Gen. 9. 6. 4. No man is the Christians enemy g Heb. 2. 9. Rom. 14. 15 as God he hates the sinne not the man h Mat. 5. 44. 5. If there be antipathie in nature it must be mastered by grace i Gal. 5. 24. which must doe miracles to nature 2. Beware 1. Of Anger That if it kindle it continue not to be wrath and so coole into malice k Ephes 4. 26. 2. Of men of Malice set upon mischiefe l Prov. 4. 15. 16. Service against Revenge for Thursday or other day Morning Prayer Psalm 94. Lessons Deut. 32. vers 35. or 1 Sam. 24. Luke 18. Evening Prayer Psal 18. v. 47. Lessons 1 Sam. 25.
SACRED PRINCIPLES SERVICES and SOLILOQUIES OR A Manual of Devotions Made up of Three Parts I. The Grounds of Christian Religion and the Doctrine of the Church of England as differing from the Now-Roman II. Daily and Weekly Formes of Prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures Meditations and Rules to keep the Soule from the Common Roads of Sin and carry it on in a mortified Course III. Seven Charges to Conscience Delivering if not the whole Body the main Limbs of Divinity which is the Art not of Disputing but Living Well Grande est esse Christianum non videri Hier. LONDON Printed by J. G. for JOHN CLARK and are to be sold at his Shop under Saint Peters Church in Cornhill 1650. To the Reader TO thy Conscience not wit are these Devotions written And if so read thy Soule may grow if not wiser better by them The Author looks at Heat in Devotion as metle in a blind steed his first care therefore is to help thee to a good Sight in Religion and that he doth by the light of his Principles But because most miscarry by going and running against their light in wicked and erroneous wayes more pains are taken to prevent and rectifie such miscarriages To Elevate thy Soule and Aide it in good Desires and Endeavours for Grace against Sinne thou hast his Prayers and Services And to awake thy Conscience and warme thy Heart to all Duety Desired and Directed to is the Cry and work of the Soliloquies And albeit he will prohibit none to read the Book though for Curiosity more then Conscience and rather as a New then Prayer-booke because even so they may take benefit by it as Saint Austin did by Saint Ambrose's Sermon yet he would have thee know that it is Calculated chiefly for the Meridian of their minds who fall to their Prayers not by fits but Courses and read Books not to passe the time away but well Taking them in hand not as Recreations of their thoughts but Businesse of the mind And usiing them not as good Companions in Solitude but Guides and Helps to Heaven-wards That this may be so to thee is his Aime Thank God if it be thy Issue He prayes that for thee whosoever thou art Having an Amen for Nazianzens Vote Utinam nemo pereat and a Heart for the Prayer his Mother hath taught him That it may please God to have mercy on all men And if for his Name that Charracter please thee much good doe it thee So he is and hopes he ever shall be Thine in the Common Saviour Philo-Christianus THE Particulars conteined in this Manuall of Devotions OF Religion in Generall pag. 1. The Grounds of Christian Religion pag. 2 The Grounds of Protestant Religion 6 How to be satisfied and setled amidst the Doubts and Divisions about Religion 6 Rules of Devotion and Prayers for Morning 20 for Evening 21 1. Daily Prayers 23 Prayer For Grace 28 39 Prayer For Peace 28 39 Prayer For Health 29 40 Prayer For Friends 30 40 Prayer For Kingdom 31 41 Prayer For Church 33 43 Prayer For Catho Church 33 43 Particular Prayers Prayer Of a Husband 45 Prayer Of a Wife 46 Prayer Of a Parent 47 Prayer Of a Child 48 Prayer For a Family 49 Prayer For Issue 50 For Women with Child 51 Against Miscarriage 52 For a Women in Travail 52 After Deliverance 53 After Christning 54 Prayer For Birth day 55 Prayer For New-years-day 56 Prayer Of a Widow 56 Prayer For the Fatherlesse 57 Prayer Against suddain Death 59 Prayer For a Voyage by Sea 60 After it 60 At Return to Sea 61 At Return Home 62 After a Storme 63 Prayer For one in a Journey 65 After it 65 Prayer For a Souldier 66 Morning 67 Evening 68 Before Fight 68 After Fight 69 For one Wounded 69 Prayer For the Sick 73 For Deliverance 73 For Patience 74 Against the Plague 76 For one Infected 77 For one Recovered 78 Prayer For one Dying 80. 81 Rules of Devotion and Prayers for Sunday Morning 110 Evening 111 Weekly Prayers for Severall Dayes Sunday Prayer against The Flesh 89 Munday Prayer against The Devill 92 Tuesday Prayer against The World 95 Wednesday Prayer against Suddain Death 97 Thursday Prayer against Hypocrisie 99 Friday Prayer against Inconstancy 101 Saturday Prayer against Impenitence 104 3. Monthly Prayers for the severall Days of the Week for four Weeks 1. First Weekes Prayers Sunday Prayer On the Joyes of Heaven 11â— Monday Prayer Vpon the Miseries of Earth 116 Tuesday Prayer Against the Vanities of it 119 Wednesday Prayer Against Villanies of it 132 Thursday Prayer About Death 126 Friday Prayer About Judgement 130 Saturday Prayer Against Hell 134 2. Second Weekes Prayers against seven common Sinnes Sunday Prayer against Neglect of Gods Service 138 Monday Prayer against Procrastination 140 Tuesday Prayer against Presumption 143 Wednesday Prayer against Desperation 145 Thursday Prayer against Swearing 149 Friday Prayer against Lying 152 Saturday Prayer against Slandering 155 3. Third Weeks Prayers against the Seven commonly called Deadly Sinnes Sunday Prayer against Ildenesse 158 Monday Prayer against Covetousness 161 Tuesday Prayer against Gluttony 168 Wednesday Prayer against Luxuy 175 Thursday Prayer against Pride 178 Friday Prayer against Anger 182 Saturday Prayer against Envie 185 4. Fourth Weekes Prayers against seven Vanities of the most valued things in the World Sunday Prayer against the Vanity of Pleasures 188 Monday Prayer against the Vanity of Honours 190 Tuesday Prayer against the Vanity of Riches 192 Wednesd Prayer against the Vanity of Beauty 194 Thursday Prayer against the Vanity of Strength 196 Friday Prayer against the Vanity of Wit 198 Saturday Prayer against the Vanity of Friends and favour 200 Prayers in eight other Services Prayer For Pleasures of Piety 203 Prayer Against Malice 209 Prayer Against Revenge 212 Prayer For a Penitent 215 216 220 Prayer Against Impatience 223. 225 Prayer On the Passion 230 Prayer For the H. Communion Before it 251. 253 At it 255 After it 257. 259 Prayer Deprecating Judgments 295 Prayer For an end of War 297 Prayer For blessing on those who seek Peace 297 Prayer For Friends in Danger and Distresse 298 Prayer For Conversion of one in an ill Course 299 Prayer For preservation of the Church 299 Prayer For Mercy to the Nation 302 A Charitable Prayer for these Miserable Times 35 Prayer A Prayer against the Temptations of the Times 37 Thanksgivings Generall for Gods Mercies 84 Deliveranees 87 Particular Thanksgivings For Recoveries of Sicknesse 75 Particular Thanksgivings After a Journey 65 Particular Thanksgivings After a Storme 62 63 Particular Thanksgivings After Child-birth 53 Particular Thanksgivings For Birth day 55 Particular Thanksgivings For a Friend Preserved 88 Particular Thanksgivings For Recovery of the Plague 78 Particular Thanksgivings For one Departed 82 Meditations upon Tenne severall Subjects viz. 1. Of the Joyes of Heaven 113 2. Of the Miseries of the World 117 3. Of the Vanities of it 120 4. Of the Villanies of it 124 5. Of
mayest as soone find it in Hell God is not in that heaven onely seek and solace thy self in the waies of God that 's heaven on earth indeed both a glimpse of the glorie above and a light to find heaven where it is in heaven and from the goods of the world raise up thy thoughts to a better blisse Say if so well on earth how much better in heaven so let it be not thy myrrour of blisse but perspective Not thy chaire but foot-stoole to take a better sight flight to thy Throne so thou shalt at once walke on earth and goe to heaven yea thou shalt divide thy selfe betwixt both Bodie to earth and Soule to heaven And God will in that day blessedly unite what thou dost devoutly divide and keep with him in heaven for ever both Bodie and Soule 2. Meditation see Soliloquie p. Monday-Service Of the Miseries of this World Morning Prayer Psal 120. 129. 137. Lesson Gen. 47. or Job 14. Luk. 21. or Act. 20. Evening Prayer Ps 39. 42. or 84. 102. Lesson Lam. 3. Rom. 7. Then after this following Collect the Daily Prayers ¶ Monday Collect touching the Miseries of Earth O Lord with us is miserie with thee is mercy on earth all ill in heaven all good O for thy mercies sake support me in all my miseries and deliver me from my sins the cause of them all And of thy goodnesse I beseech thee raise up my heart to covet and seek the good of heaven that my hold and hope of it may comfort me against all the ills of the earth Let the bitternesse which I feele below win me from this evill world and whet in me a holy appetite to the pure sweets and joies which be above And in thy good time fill my Soule with those blessed Solaces I beseech thee even for his blessed merits and mediation sake who is my onely joy hope in heaven and earth Jesus Christ my deare Redeemer and Advocate Amen Meditation of the Miseries of the World WHy so much wedded to the world when woe is her Dowrie entailed as a Portion by God Gen. 3. 17. on Adam and thee if his Son since he forfeited with his Allegiance his Paradise and thine by his default Earth ever since brings forth woes as Job 5. 7. fire sparks Within thee or without thee for thy self or others In Bodie or Soule woods will as soone want leaves as the world faile thee of woes thou art heire to all Inheritour at least of some never secure from any because alwaies in griefe or feare of all And least blest too when most secure most unhappy when least miserable bliss in this life being the greatest curse because the portion of a man markt out for everlasting unhappiness Psal 17. 14. Alas what a purchase is a little fickle worldly bliss with woes all and everlasting after it not without some in it My heart if thou hast so mis-caried in thy choice let this divorce the mariage love earth when thou art fond of woe and not afraid of hell Thou wilt find good Alimonie after this divorce Thou wilt live more well and die much better for it Thou wilt entertaine death as a deliverance from her ills whose goods thou scornest And receive and read a Summons to thy end not as an Archest and call to judgement but an Acquittance from calamitie Thou wilt eye heaven as thy harbour of rest and be weary of the world as a sea of trouble Thou wilt study to steer thy course by the Card and Compass of the Infallible word and rule to know and goe the right way to heaven So good is the Worlds wormwood above her honey for the souls health if we take and taste it right And even our miseries are made great mercies because good medicines for that happy health Did earth afford sinfulfalne man one Paradise he would scarce looke for two Now that he finds a Purgatorie of it it drives him to the true Paradise and bring him sooner to those joies by the hastening of those woes which hie more to heaven when most heavie on earth Tuesday-Service Against the Vanities of the World Morning Prayer Psal 4. 39. or 37. 102. 104. Lessons Eccl. 1. 2. or any Chap. of it Mat. 16. or Lu. 12. Evening Prayer Psal 52. 62. Lessons Eccles 3. 4. c. Hab. 2. 1 Tim. 6. Then the Daily Prayers after this folowing Tuesday-Coll against the vanities of the world O Lord who hast made this world for me and me for another let me not be caried away with the vanities of that world which cannot content my Soule and will not continue with me O! let my heart be fixed on higher things never to be moved with worldly vanities that when this world shall end to me or I to it I may enjoy those honours and joyes and goods which shall never end with thee thy Angels and Saints in a better world through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then Daily Prayers Meditation of the Vanities of the World THe World is a shop of Vanities Honours Riches Pleasures the chief Commodities the Devil Master of the shop and Man his miserable Customer The common price is our Souls which we give him to get them and yet possesse nothing lesse worse than nothing by all we get which is the vainest of that vanitie of vanities O Man be not thou so vile and vaine why doth transitory good take thee who hast an Immortall Spirit why doth sensible joy carry thee away who hast a faculty for the highest intellectuall good capacity of Eternitie Alas thou wilt as soone fill a sive with water as thy Soule with the Isa 55. 2. world and couldst thou give her a fill of it a short time would to thy greater losse and grief run it all out again Let the world then be not thy Idol but thy scorne Believe it if worldly good be thy Deity her glory profit and delight thy Trinity they will not fill but faile and vex thy heart and so give thee for blisse a triple infelicity vexation is their fullest satisfaction and their end not thy content but torment It is infinite eternall goodnesse which must give man of an immortall Spirit content In that Deity is his rest and his felicity in that only Trinity Let God then be as he is thy Throne the world as it should be thy footstoole By her good climbe up to God get thus up Abundance of good here seems brave what is all indeed in heaven what is substance when the shew is such what to have all things when so valued to have nothing what blisse is to be found in the Trinity of uncreated goodnesse when so much is fancied in the Three poorpetty created Goods of that revised devised and fond-imagined Godhead What if thou hast senses by which they wooe and court thy love Hath not thy Soule a power to guide and governe those Handmaids O Man thy senses are in thy Soule Monster if thou
feast Fiends That makes thee dread the sight of Death as Hell and the thoughts of it as Devils because there are Devils and Hell which thou deniest but dost dread none hath more horrour for them then thou who saiest thou hast no such Faith See more Soliloquie p. So end the Seven Services for the first Week Seven Services for the 2d. Week Sunday-Service Against neglect of Gods Service Morning Prayer Psal 5. 27. 42. Lesson Gen. 28. or Jor. 7. to ver 17. Mat. 11. Evening Prayer Psal 95. 122. Lesson Eccles 5. 1 Cor. 11. or Heb. 6. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Neglect of Gods Service O Lord Thou hast devoted a Time and Place to thy worship and holinesse becometh thy house for ever Make me ever carefull to pay thee then and there the dues and duties of Religion which I owe thee Solemnly waiting on thy Majestie amongst thy Sâ—rvants in thy Court and Sanctuary Lâ—t me be diligent in thy service and râ—verend at it That as thy Saints and Angels in heaven incessantly serve thee I may with thy Saints on earth constantly worship thee till we all come together for ever to adore thee Even for his sake whose meat and drinke it was to serve thee Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Neglect of Gods Service 1. GOd wil find no time to save us if we find no day to serve him a Psal 2. 11 12. Act. 26. 20. 2. Have we six in a Week and shall not God have one day b Exod. 20. 9. 3. Publique worship is the Pillar of Religion and high service of Almighty God c Gen. 4. 26. 4. If every one take away his stone we shall pull down the Pillar to the ruine of Religion d Lam. 2. 5. In the Church we are before Gods face as well as Mans e Psal 95. 6. It is both a Scandall to man f 1 Cor. 11. 22. and Scorne to God g Eccles 5. 1 2. to be irreverent in the Church to dare and jeer God to his face 7. The truest Picture of the Saints with God in Heaven is a Congregation devout at Gods Worship on Earth h Apoc. 4. 10. 8. We cannot doe better then to goe to Heaven nor worse then to doe any thing ill or unseemly in it i Gen. 28. 17. 9. The Devils misbehaviour in Heaven cast him into Hell k Jud. v. 6. 10. He that laughs in the Church is tickled by the Devill * Risus in Ecclesia Diaboli opus est Monday-Service Against Procrastination Morning Prayer Psal 95. 7. Lesson Prov. 1. Mat. 25. to 14 or 24. to 36. or Act. 24 Evening Prayer Psal 4. 90. Lesson Eccles 8. Apoc. 21. ¶ Prayer against Procrastination LOrd keepe me from the delayes of holy and necessary duties Make me to consider how many art now perishing in Hell for neglecting the times of thy gracious visitations on earth That whilest the Spirit of grace and life blowes on me I may improve that breath to purchase my selfe an estate in the life of glory and immortalitie Even for his sake who lingred no time to shed his bloud to save me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen! Remedies against Procrastination 1. IT is unworthy God He calls to day a Psal 95. 7. and you will come to morrow The Devill shall have the floure b Levit. 2. 1. of age and God the bran 2. It is unsafe for man The Adventure of an immortall soule upon two great uncertainties to come Having my breath c Prov. 25. 1. James 4. 13. and Gods Spirit d Joh. 3. 8. If either fail I am lost for ever And God knowes Innumerable soules are thus lost * Coesarius Inuumerabiles animoe siâ— periêre 3. It is unwise The house of my soule is set on fire e Isa 2. 18. with guilt to day and will quench it to morrow I fall into the puddle f 2 Pet. 2. 22. of sin this week and will rise the next 4. It is uncomfortable For the longer I keepe off from God 1. Gods acceptance is more doubtfull He is for first fruits g Levit. 2. 12. and firstlings 2. Mans performance is more difficult Because Satan hath the greater power over me h 2 Tim. 2. 26. and sinne in me i Prov. 5. 22. By the strength of Custome k Jer. 12. 23. which it is a miracle to conquer * S. Bern. 3. Repentance hath a greater taske more spots to wash l Isa 1. 16. knots to loose m 2 Pet. 2. 20. roots to digge n Jer. 4 5. foes to kill o 1 Pet. 2. 21. Sinne in time of a Child growes a Gyant for strength and Lust spawnes like a fiâ—h in number If it be now ten strong next yeare it will be an hundred and the next yeare a thousand c. 4. The best fruit of sinne is repentance p 2 Cor. 7. 8 9. the rest is shame q Rom. 6. 21 23. and death 5. It is unprofitable at best For the lesse seed the lesse harvest r 2 Cor. 9. 6. The lesse good â— the lesse glory s Rom. 2. 7. And the more Springs and opportunities I lose the more seed-times of good t Gal. 6. So I reap lesse comfort of what is past u Isa 38. 3. and reward to come x Luk. 19. 16. Tuesday-Service Against Presumption Morning Prayer Psal 7. 19. Lesson Deut. 29. or Levit. 26. Mat. 24. Evening Prayer Psalm 68. Lesson Eccles 8. 1 Thes 5. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Presumption KEepe me O Lord from carnall security If I fall into sin let me not lie in it out of a Presumption of thy mercy but do thou awake me to repentance and raise me in thy goodnesse And since repentance is not in my power make me fearfull to fall into sin in hopes of thy grace and mercy and more afraid to lie in it if I fall lest I sleep without feare till some Suddaine judgment awake me and present the horrour of eternall death before me From a lethargy in sin O thou Holy Physitian of soules preserve now and ever Deare Saviour I beseech thee Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Presumption 1. IT is the Devils lullabie to sleepe out the time of Salvation as did the five foolish Virgins a Matth. 27. 7. 2. It is the Devils high way to desperation b Prov. 1. 28. 3. None but a poysonous spirit will suck the strength of sin out of the flower of mercy c Eccles 8. 11. Isa 10. 2. 4. It is to make quarrels amongst Gods Attributes in the confidence of mercy to put contempt on justice d Rom. 2. 4 5. It is to leave the soul at last without all hope of succour and sanctuary because guilt dares not fly to offended justice e Gen 3. 10. Apoc. 6. 16. and hath no refuge else but abused mercy f Rom. 2. 4.
6. Gods best Saints have been fearing men and shall sinners be presumers See it in Job g Job 9. 28. David h Psal 119 20. Paul i 1 Cor. 9. 27. and others 7. I presume of that which is not mine but Gods life k James 4. 14 15. and grace l 2 Tim. 2. 25. without either of which I am undone for ever m Eph. 2. 5 and yet I provoke God without whose mercy I can have neither n Rom. 2. 5 8. Who wil give his head a mortall wound o Isa 1. 6. in hope to finde a soveraign balme yet I give my soule certaine wounds in hope of uncertaine remedies p Jer. 51. 8 9. Wednesday-Service Against Desperation Morning Prayer Psal 103. 44. Lesson Jer. 3. or Mic. 27. Luke 7. Evening-Prayer Psalm 130. 147. Lesson 2 Chron. 33. 1 Tim. 1. 1. Prayer against Desperation LOrd keep me from despairing of thy mercy Let me not seek at once to destroy my soul and my Saviour by believing my sinnes to be so great as thy mercy cannot pardon or my conscience so foul as his Bloud will not purge Preserve me from all sins O Lord but from this above all I beseech thee for his sake who is the hope of Israell and of all that dwell in the ends of the earth Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Prayer against Desperation O Lord I have been a great offendour but let me not be a dâ—sperate sinner I have most wickedly provoked the eyes of thy glory but let me not more wickedly shed the bowels of thy mercy Thy Law hath been cast behind my back but O let not thy bloud be trampled under my foot Thou keepest the gate of mercy open let not me shut it upon me Thou hast not yet cast me in keep me from leaping into the pit of perdition Though guilts and staines have made me black as a fiend yet am I not in hell out of which there is no Redemption Dear Saviour with thee is mercy and plenty for the whole world of sinners much more for one though the greatest sinner of the world Revive that soule with thy grace which thou didst ransome with thy bloud Rescue that poore soul by thy mercy for which thou hast satisfied in thy justice Wash off my staines break off my bonds pull off the chaines of Satan deliver me from my sinnes That I may live an Example of thy mercy a Comfort to poor penitents a Joy to the Angels a Companion to the Saints and Servant to thy Majesty So be it dear Saviour Amen Amen Letany Daily Prayers Remedies against Desperation 1. THe sinne of Hell In the dead and damned not fit for them that live on earth a Eccles 9. 4. Psal 42. 11. Jer. 18. 12. who may be in a state damnable but not condemned without hope to be saved then the Judge would not let them live b Jud. 13. 23. 2. The sin against Heaven Not a treason against God but a murder of the Godhead In which Judas sinned more then in his Treason * Saint Hierome 3. The sinne on earth capable of a cure two wayes by Consideration and Caution 1. Consider 1. If I have a world of sin to damn me God hath a Sea of mercy to drown it c Mic. 7. 18. 2. No stains or guilts can make my Soul so much vile but Christs bloud is more precious d Ro. 5. 9. Heb. 9. 13 14 1 Pet. 1. 19. 1 Joh. 1. 7. 9. 3. The Remedy of Repentance e Isai 1. 16. Acts. 2. 38. by the power of that mercy and vertue of that bloud hath cured most damned and desperate sinnes and sinners David's f Psal 51. Psal 32. 5. 2 Sam. 12. 13. Peters g Mat. 26. 75. Manasseh h 2 Chron. 33. 12. Magdalen i Luk. 8. 2. Luk. 7. 37. 47. Paul k 1 Tim. 1. 13. and others 2. Beware before of the sin of 1. Presumption From which precipice of false hope are the most fatall fearful falls into despair l Job 11. 10. 2. Under the temptation to despair take heed of concealing the conflict for wo to me if when I have my selfe and the Devill my foe I have no man of God to friend Violent ends and deaths had beene m Prov. 28. 13. Act. 16. 27 30. cured by such confessions Thursday-Service Against Swearing and Taking Gods Name in Vaine Morning Prayer Psal 15. 99. Lessons Zachary 5. or Mal. 3. Mat. 5. v. 33. Evening Prayer Psal 50. 111. Lessons Eccles 9. James 5. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Swearing and taking Gods Name in vaine O Lord Holy and Reverend is thy Name let me not dare to prophane it Angels therefore dread and adore thee and shall I despise thee Thou Lord wilt take an account of all idle words if then thy Titles be prostituted at my vaine pleasure and made to fill my idle discourses how shall I answer thee Keep my tongue from such customes O Lord and let Care watch my lips that I get not such a tongue And let thy Feare guard my heart that no such words move thence to my lips What is past pardon I beseech thee in thy mercy what is to come prevent in me by thy grace for Jesus his sake Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Swearing and taking Gods Name in vaine 1. THere is much ill in this sinne 1. Against the Creator GOD. It is 1. Petty Blasphemy at least The Jewes stopt their eares at it and dare Christians open their mouths for it a Act. 7. 55. 2. Petty Treason A lifting up the tongue against Divine Majestie and wounding it and bringing it to contempt b 2 Kings 19. 22. 3. Grand ingratitude to God For my tongue made for his glory c Psal 55. 8. to do him dishonor And the Names Members of Christ to be made instruments of sinne d 1 Cor. 6. 15. 2. Against the Creature 4. Grand rebellion Man the tongue of the Creatures to praise God makes then Mutes to his Glory e Psal 19. 1. and guilty of his despising and daring God and himself worse then them all 2. There is great danger in it The Law sayes it goes not guiltlesse f Exod. 20. 7. The Gospel sayes of Condemnation g Jam. 5. 12. 3. There is no profit credit or pleasure in it a meer-pure sin without motive to excuse it 4. Custome aggravates it That I dare get and keep an habit against Heaven 5. I may use meanes to lose as well as get this custome * Socrates by stones cured his ill speech 1. For Gods Names O Lord Jesus Christ use other words O strange O rare O me c. with as good sense and lesse sin 2. Punish thy slips Bite tongue Give an almes Say Lords Prayer Friday-Service Against Lying Morning Prayer Psalm 34. 52. 63. Lesson Prov. 6. or 12. Job 8. Verse 44. Evening Prayer Psalm 59. 101. Lesson
man from growing to the height of piety to SuÌ„ma Philosophia Chrys thanke God for Adversity making him as a Dwarfe of Hell giving Him if not Bans and Blasphemies Frets for Thanks 4. A Sinne which throws a man into the Depths of iniquity Tutor to despaire and Factor for Apostasie Luk. 8. 15. Heb. 12. 1. Lam. 5. 7 8. 5. A Sinne which opens a gap to all Temptation and Womb for all wickednesse Mother of all mans miscarriage Mat. 13. â—1 Malum impatientia est boni Tert. and mischiefe An Enemy to Heaven and Auxiliary to Hell 6. A Sinne which weakens and wastâ—s the Soule Breaking downe the Prov. 25. 28. wall of her strength Putting her shoulder out of joynt and body out of Luk. 21. 19. temper 7. A Sinne which weakens and worries life Depriving it of a Calme Lam. 3. 26 of Conscience in a Tempest of trouble Making the shelter that should be the more devouring storme and man Prov. 18. 14 flesh and spirit swallowed up in the misery of both 8. A Sinne so forbidding man to improve life to the best to die a Martyr that it allowes it not well to live Jam. 1. 20. â— a Saint This Sinne of so execrable and formidable a quality will be avoided or left if we shall 1. Know and believe Gods Providence Job 1. 21. Lam. 3. 39 Lam. 3. 22 governes all and well and our Sins deserve all ill and worse Sooner if we 2. See and Consider Calamity is a 1 Cor. 10. 13 Common lot from which Saints Jam. 5. 10. Heb. 5. 8. and Princes have no priviledge No not He that was King of Saints Kings Especially if we 3. Mind and study Christs Crosse A Present Cure No Water so bitter which this Wood wil not sweeten * Exo. 15. 23. no Meat which will not down with his Vinegar and Gall. No thing so hard which his Passion makes not easie a Bern. nullus cibus tam amaris qui si recordatione aceti fellis Christi temperâ—tur non statim fiat dulcior b Greg. Nihil tam aurum c. Luk. 23 41 Mat. 27. 46. Isa 53. 5 6 2 Pet. 2. 24 Mark 12. 50. Have in mind Who Suffered on it an Innocent man and God too God-man What more than all Mankind ever did or could beare Why for thy particular Guilts in the generalls of all Mankind How with a cheerfull Spirit and submissive Soule And if not for sinne for shame thou wilt have out of heart Impatience No such Physick to heale thy frets No such Booke to Teach no such Pulpit to Preach Patience Nor any Receipts Lessons Sermons more effectuall than those in that Course Book and Pulpit By the worke of his Spirit they will be so if thence we shall have grace to 4. Kill and Preserve What doth quicken and strengthen Impatiency in us And wil beget and nourish that life which will not let it quicken 1. Self-love and Pride give that Sinne life strength That 's the Womb this Father of it Deny my self and Mat. 16. 24. I will take up my Crosse love my self and I shall not endure it To crosse the flesh is the way to beare a Crosse And Humility will make me stoop and take it on Pride fume and throw it off or fret to Mat. 11. 29. have it on Not to be Proud is the way to be Patient And sooner 2. By Innocence Hope and Love which will give Patience a life 1. Innocency makes a quiet mind Isa 57. 21. as Guilt a troubled And Repentance helps to it since man once cast out comes not to a perfect state of innocence Martyrs therefore Penitents are the greatest Patients Because those are kept these wash't innocent 2. Hope makes a strong heart It Heb. 6. 19. anchors it in the storme and upholds it under evil Else it would drowne in griefe or breake and fall with misery 3. Love of God endures all for Him and much more especially from Him It looks as at the Heb. 2. 9. Joh. 18. 11. Scourge the Hand and takes the chastening quietly because a Fathers rod. Service of the Passion fit for Friday or Wednesday Morning Prayer Psal 22. Lessons Isa 53. or 63. Mat. 26. or Mark 14. Luke 23. John 13. Evening Prayer Psal 84. 112. Lessons Zach. 11. 12. Ephes 1. Col. 1. ¶ Collect or Prayer of the Passion O Incomprehensible Goodnesse Mercy who didst send thy owne Sonne to a Crosse to bring me to thy Crowne and at the price of a most bloody Passion to purchase my salvation O let this love be ever in my heart and the fruits of it abound with me in all holy carriage and conversation Make me therefore to hate my sinne more than death which made thy Son to die And let neither goods nor honours nor liberty nor life be deare unto me for my Saviours sake who made me so to live Lord let me sacrifice all that I have and am to thee who gavest thy Deare selfe a Sacrifice for me Let me thirst to shed my blood and die for thy truth and let it be my meat and drink all my daies to doe thy will and live to thy glory That I may at last by the merits of thy pretious blood and passion dwell for ever with thee with thy blessed Saints and Angels giving all lauds and worship and honour to thee even for ever and ever Amen Daily Prayers Letanie Ten Commandements Epistle Tit. 2. or Heb. 9. Gospel Mat. 26. or Joh. 3. Prayer for Catholique Church A Meditation of the Passion of Christ O Christ Thy Passion makes me full of all Passions I am in Love and Hate I have my Longings and Loathings I take Joy and Grief I cherish Hope and Feare I am Incen'st and Ravisht 1. I am in love And with whom but Thee O Jesus I am Enamoured Amor meus crucifixus est c. of thy Person God-man Sonne of God! The Beauty of Heaven and Earth Center of all Created and Increated Excellency Mirror of the Heb. 1. 2. Col. 2. 3. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 12. 1 Cor. 11. 3 7. Godhead Wonder of Angels Glory of Mankind I am Enflamed with thy Love why so much too much O Lord Was it not enough to leave a Throne for my sake but Thou must lie in a poore Cratch stand at a base Nimius amor Pillar hang on a Cursed Crosse not for thy self but me by my birth lust life a beast a Villaine a Malefactor to my God! Thou didst write thy love to Lazarus Legible in thy teares shall I not read it in thy wounds Saw they Joh. 11. 36. it in thy Dripping Eye shall not I in thy Bleeding Side They in the Hot-water thou didst bestow on his Dead Body and not I in thy Reaking Blood shed for my Damned Soule * O duri indurati obdurati c. quos non emollit tanta