But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Apostle's Creed divided into Articles 1. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth 2. And in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord. 3. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried 5. He descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead 6. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty 7. From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead 8. I believe in the Holy Ghost 9. The Holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints 10. The Forgiveness of Sins 11. The Resurrection of the Body 12. And the Life Everlasting Amen An Advertisement CONCERNING The Division of the Hours of PRAYER IT appeareth both by the Histories of the Jews and by plain Observations out of the New Testament that the space of the Day from the Morning to the Evening was solemnly divided into four equal parts which they called Hours to wit the First the Third the Sixth and the Ninth The First Hour comprehended the whole space from the Sun being risen about six of the clock in the Morning after our account till Nine or thereabouts The Third Hour began from thence and lasted till High-noon with us The Sixth from thence to our three of the clock after Noon The Ninth from that hour to the Vespers or Evensong about six in the evening or Sun-set And what was done in any part of these four spaces was indifferently taken and said to be done in that Hour whereunto every space of time was allotted In which respect St. Mark chap. 15. 25. saith It was the Third Hour when they crucified Christ and yet St. John chap. 19. 14. saith It was about the Sixth Hour before he was yet crucified Nor is there any contradiction at all between these two Evangelists St. Mark understanding the last part of the Third Hour which was now at the very end and St. John meaning that it was now near upon the beginning of the Sixth Hour which was immediately to follow the ending of the Third and the beginning of the Sixth being both one and the same point of time THE DAILY OFFICE OF A CHRISTIAN The Office for every day In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen O Lord I am risen up and fallen prostrate before thee Prevent me I beseech thee in all my doings with thy most gracious Favour and further me with thy continual Help that in all my Works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain Everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God and most merciful Father all Merciful Mercy it self I have erred wittingly and strayed willingly nay run from thy ways more like an untamed Heifer than a lost or wandring Sheep I have followed too much even altogether the absurd devices and brutish desires of my own heart I have offended against nay been offended at thy holy most holy Laws I have left undone not done at all those things which I ought to have done And I have done done nothing else but those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health no hope of health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable most miserable sinner the greatest sinner and most unthankful for so great Grace Spare me and them all O God which confess their faults Restore me and all them that be penitent that desire to be penitent that wish they were would be glad if they were so that fear they are not enough and are sorry they are no more For this is according to thy Promises most pretious most gracious most sweet Promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. Grant therefore O most merciful Father for his sake who is our Redeemer Advocate Author and Finisher of our Faith our Propitiation Righteousness and Justification that I and all Penitents may hereafter live a Godly Righteous and Sober Life to the Glory of thy holy Name and the Salvation of our own Souls Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father pardon I beseech thee all the Sins Omissions and Commissions Thoughts Words and Deeds by which I have provoked thee unto anger from the time of my Birth to this present moment That no one nor all of my sins together may ever be able to cry oftner or louder in thine Ears for Vengeance than the Cry of my Prayers may ascend up unto thee for Mercy and for Forgiveness and obtain that they sue for Particularly I humbly beseech thee forgive unto me my Great and my Clamorous sins such as are c. O Lord against Heaven and against Thee have I sinned and committed foul Trangressions in thy sight but I beseech thee wipe them all out of the Book of Remembrances which thou hast written through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen GIve unto me O Lord I humbly beseech thee a wise a sober a patient an understanding a devout a religious a courageous Heart Chaste and temperate Reins and Thoughts A Soul full of Devotion to do thee service strength against all Temptations especially the Temptations of c. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks increase my thankfulness I beseech thee for all Benefits and Blessings both Spiritual and Temporal which in the riches of thy great Mercy thou hast liberally poured down upon me but especially Spiritual Lord let me not live but to praise and magnifie Thee and thy glorious Name Particularly I give thee most unfeigned thanks for my preservation from the time of my Birth to this present moment for c. For bringing me safe to the beginning of this day in which and all the days of my life I beseech thee preserve me from sin and from danger in Soul and in Body that all my thoughts words and works may tend to the honour and glory of thy Name the good of thy Church the discharge of my Duty the salvation of my Soul in the day of my appearance and account to be made before thee through Jesus Christ our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee bless thy Holy Catholick Church wheresoever spread upon the face of the whole Earth Good Lord purge it from all Atheism Heresie Schism Superstition factious maintenance of Groundless Opinions that one Faith one Lord one Baptism may in all places be uniformly professed as thy Church is and can be but one And grant good Lord that I may be and continue a faithful living and a working Member under Christ the Head in that Church the Body all the days of my life and at the hour of my death through
And I now desire to depart this life in the Invocation and Confession of thy Name Lord I confess it and call upon it O come Lord Jesu Amen O Lord I have sinned 1. But I have not denied thee O never let the Enemie prevail with me to denie thee 2. But I believe O Lord increase my Faith and let me never be confounded 3. But I hope and what is my hope but in thee alone receive me O Lord according to thy Word and let me not be disappointed of my hope 4. But I have prepared and directed my heart to seek thee and though I am not purified according to the purification of the Sanctuarie yet O Lord Jesu quench not the smoaking flax nor break the bruised Reed 5. But I bear thy correction patiently and I hold my tongue because thou Lord hast done it 6. But I forgive those that have trespassed against me and thou hast promised forgiveness to him that forgives them 7. But I cast my self upon thee O withdraw not thy self from me and in no wise cast me out when I come unto thee 8. But I desire to depart confessing unto thee and calling on thy Name Wherefore not for my sake O Lord nor for any thing that belongs to me but for thine own sake for thy Names sake for the glorie of thy great Name and for thy Truths sake for thy many great and wonderful mercies sake for the sake of Christ the Mediator and of the Holy Ghost the Comforter receive me that am returned to my self and returning unto thee Amen And therefore O Lord my God I shew forth I offer I commemorate Between thee and me Christ the Priest the Lamb the Sacrifice Between me and Satan Christ a King a Lion a triumphant Conqueror Between me and sin Christ's Innocencie in his Life Between the punishment of me and my sins Christ's Satisfaction Passion and Bloud shedding Between me and my want of Righteousness Christ's Righteousness and unsinning Obedience Between me and my unworthiness to be rewarded Christ's Merits Between me and my want of sorrow for my sins Christ's Tears and bloudie sweat Between me and my want of fervencie in Prayer Christ's Intercession Between me and my own Conscience or the Accusation of Satan Christ the Advocate Between me and my Concupiscence Christ's Love Let it be acceptable unto thee O Lord for the same Christ's sake Amen O Lord I have sinned But I do not cover my sin I do not excuse it I willingly confess it I reflect on it in the bitterness of my soul. I abhor my self for the sins I have committed against thee O give me grace that I may judge and take vengeance on my felf that I may not depart this most miserable life without forgiveness O Lord I have not onely sinned but provoked thee with many and grievous sins yet I beseech thee remember that I am but flesh even a wind that passeth and cometh not again * And the mercie of my blessed Saviour can avail more towards the salvation of me a sinner than my iniquitie can do to my destruction Amen * O Lord Jesus in thee there was found no cause of death and yet didst thou suffer death for me I have deserved death give me grace O Lord that I may not fear to die and that I may be prepared for it Amen * O Lord Jesus for those bitter pains which thou didst endure on the Cross for me a most miserable Creature and especially at that hour when thy most pretious soul went forth from thy blessed body I beseech thee have mercy on my Soul when she takes her flight and bring her unto life eternal Amen Absolution OUr Lord Jesus Christ who hath lest power to his Church to Absolve all sinners which truly repent and believe in him of his great mercie forgive thee thine offences And by his Authoritie committed to me I Absolve thee from all thy sins In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Consecrations Ordinations O Lord I am now at thy Altar at thy work keep me that I lay not my hands suddenly upon any man lest I be partaker of other mens sins but that I may keep my self pure in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord give me grace that as oft as they shall come in my way I may put them in remembrance whom I have ordained that they stir up the gift of God that is in them by the putting on of my hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grant O Lord I beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy Governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee let thy continual mercie cleanse and defend thy Church And because it cannot continue in safetie without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I beseech thee keep thy Houshold the Church in continual godliness that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in good works to the glorie of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For his Episcopal Charge * O God the Pastor and Governor of all thy faithful people look down in mercie upon me thy servant whom thou hast been pleased to appoint chief Pastor of the Church of Canterbury grant I most humbly beseech thee that I may profit those whom I am set over both by my Doctrine and my Example that I together with my Flock committed to my charge may come at last to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O my God my most merciful Father let thy grace work so in me that I may be truly humble in the refusal of every great Office and yet obedient to undertake it that I may be faithful in the possession and courageous in the administration of it that I may be watchsul in ruling them earnest in correcting them servent in loving them patient in bearing with them prudent in governing them That in behalf of those who are under my care I may wrastle with God when he has a Controversie with them and stand in the gap when he is angrie through the faith and merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen O Lord as the rain cometh down from Heaven and returns not thither but waters the Earth and makes it bud and bring forth that it may give seed to the sower and bread to him that eateth So let thy Word be that goeth out of my mouth let it not return to me void but accomplish that which thou wilt and prosper in the thing whereto thou hast sent it that the people committed to my charge may go out with joy and be led forth in peace to thy freshest waters of comfort in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Son of God thou which takest away the
I took of my self upon it And as for them and their like let them not have their desire O Lord let not their mischievous imaginations prosper against me nor their furie lay hold upon me lest they be too proud and lest I end my wearie days in miserie Yet forgive them O Lord for they know not why they did it And according to thy wonted mercie preserve me to serve thee and let the same watchful Protection which now defended me guard me through the remainder of my life And this for thine own goodness sake and the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen O eternal God and merciful Father I humbly beseech thee look down upon me in this time of my great and grievous affliction Lord if it be thy blessed will make mine Innocencie appear and free both me and my Profession from all scandal thus raised on me And howsoever if thou be pleased to trie me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me full patience proportionable comfort contentment with whatsoever thou sendest and an heart readie to die for thy Honour the Kings Happiness and this Churches Preservation And my zeal to these is all the sin humane frailty excepted which is yet known to me in this particular for which I thus suffer Lord look upon me in mercie and for the merits of Jesus Christ pardon all my sins many and great which have drawn down this Judgment upon me and then in all things do with me as seems best in thine own eyes and make me not onely patient under but thankful for whatsoever thou dost O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O eternal God and merciful Father after long imprisonment I am now at last called to answer I most humbly beseech thee to strengthen me through this Tryal to preserve the patience with which thou hast hitherto to blessed me through this affliction Suffer no coarse language or other provocation to make me speak or do any thing that may mis-become my person mine age my calling or my present condition And Lord I beseech thee make me able to clear to the world that Innocencie which is in my heart concerning this Charge laid against me Grant this O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O merciful Lord I have had a long and a tedious Tryal and I give thee humble and heartie thanks for the wonderful strength that I have received from thee in the bearing up of my weakness Lord continue all thy mercies towards me for the storm gathers and grows black upon me and what it threatens is best known to thee After a long Tryal I am called to answer in the House of Commons and that not to Evidence but to one single man's report of Evidence and that made without Oath What this may produce in present or in future thou knowest also O Lord furnish me with patience and true Christian wisdom and courage to bear up against this drift and send not out thy storms to beat upon me also but look comfortably upon me to my end in and through the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen Prayers upon sundry Publick Occasions MOST gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most Religious and Gracious King at this time assembled that thou wouldest be pleased to bless and direct all their Consultations to the preservation of thy Glorie the good of thy Church the safetie honour and welfare of our Soveraign and his Kingdoms Lord look upon the humilitie and devotion with which they are come into thy Courts And they are come into thy House in assured confidence upon the merits and mercies of Christ our blessed Saviour that thou wilt not denie them the grace and favour which they beg of thee Therefore O Lord bless them with that wisdom which thou knowest necessarie to speed and bring great designes into action and to make the maturitie of his Majesties and their Counsels the happiness and the blessing of this Commonwealth These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen O eternal God and our most gracious Father thou art the Lord of Hosts and the strength of all Nations is from thee If thou keepest not the Citie the Watchman waketh but in vain And no Victorie can wait upon the justest designes upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies if thou teach not their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steadie hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them which go and remain in the broad Sea Lord at this time we need thy more special Assistance both by Land and Sea and sor the mercie of Christ deny us neither Be with our Armies and the Armies of our Allies and Associates by Land be with our Navie at Sea Be not from the one nor from the other in power and in great mercie until thou hast brought them back with honour and a setled Peace Lord turn our Enemies sword into their own bosom for we sought Peace and ensued it and while we did so they did more than make themselves readie to battel We are thy servants truly and heartily sorrie for our sins Lord forgive them and then we will trust upon thee that thou wilt pour down all thy Blessings upon this and all other designes and actions of this State undertaken for thy glorie the honour of our most gracious King CHARLES and the peace and welfare of this Church and Commonwealth Grant this we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Advocate Amen Most gracious God we humbly beseech thee pardon and forgive all our many great and grievous transgressions We may not hope thou wilt take off thy punishments until thou hast forgiven our sins We may not think thou wilt forgive our sins until our humiliation and repentance come to ask forgiveness We have been too slow to come and now thou hast apparell'd thy Mercie in Justice to force us to thee Lord we believe but do thou increase our Faith our Devotion our Repentance and all Christian Vertues in us At this time the Vials of thy heavie displeasure drop down upon us and while we smart under one Judgement thou threatnest the rest The Pestilence spreads in our Streets and so as if it sought whom to devour No strength is able to stand against it and it threatens to make Families nay Cities desolate While the Pestilence eats up thy People we hear the sound of War and the Sword calleth for such as it would devour In the mean time the Heavens are black over us and the Clouds drop leanness and it will be Famine to swallow what the Pestilence and the Sword shall leave alive unless thou send more seasonable Weather to give the Fruits of the
sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen O Lord Almightie I acknowledge and confess I am not worthie to lift up mine eyes to Heaven much less to present my self before thee with any confidence that thou shouldest hear my Prayers and grant my Requests if I consider my own deserving For my Conscience accuses me and my sins witness against me and thou art a just and an upright Judge and wilt not justifie any sinner in his transgressions O Lord suffer me not to be swallowed up of death and desperation but in the multitude of thy mercies pardon me O Lord for thy goodness sake For though I am a worm and no man yet thou art my Creator and I am the Work of thy Hands yea thou art my Father and I thy Son Thou my Shepherd and I one of thy stragling Flock Thou my Redeemer and I one of thy People whom thou hast dearly bought Thou my God and I thy Creature O correct me not in thine anger O Lord neither punish me according to my deservings but remember my weakness as well as my sin and have mercie upon me for my dearest Saviour's sake Jesus Christ. Amen Almightie and everlasting God which hatest nothing that thou hast made and forgivest the sins of all them that are penitent create and make in me a new and contrite heart that I may worthily lament my sins and acknowledge my wretchedness and obtain of thee the God of all mercie perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie and everliving God which art always more readie to hear than we to pray and usest to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon me most miserable sinner the abundance of thy mercie forgiving me those things whereof my Conscience is afraid and giving me that which my Prayer dares not presume to ask Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Grant I beseech thee merciful God to me thy sinful but humble servant pardon and peace that I may be cleansed from all my sins and serve thee with a quiet mind through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I befeech thee free me from all my offences and by thy bountiful goodness deliver me from the bands of all those sins which by my ignorance frailtie or wilfulness I have committed Grant this even for Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist my Prayers that I make before thee in all my troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress me and graciously hear me that those evils which the craft and subtiltie of the devil or man worketh against me be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness so dispersed that I thy poor servant being overcome by no temptation nor hurt by any persecution may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord of thy great goodness I beseech thee give me true repentance and forgive me all my sins negligences and ignorances and indue me with the grace of thy holy Spirit that I may amend my life according to thy holy Word through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God whose nature and propertie is ever to have mercie and to forgive receive my humble Petitions And though I am tied and bound with the chain of my sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercie loose me and that for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * Give ear O Lord I beseech thee to the Prayers of thy humble servant and spare me who confess my sins unto thee and grant me of thy mercie both pardon and peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Almightie God who broughtest waters out of the hard rock bring forth out of my stonie heart the tears of Contrition and give me grace so to bewail my sins that I may obtain forgiveness of them by thy mercie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men I acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness which I have from time to time most grievously committed by thought word and deed against thy divine Majestie provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against me I do earnestly repent and am heartily sorrie for these my misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto me the burden of them is intolerable Have mercie upon me have mercie upon me most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ his sake forgive me all that is past and grant that I may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life to the honour and glorie of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God and my most merciful Father who of thy tender mercie hast promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with heartie repentance and true faith turn unto thee have mercie upon me pardon and deliver me from all my sins confirm and strengthen me in all goodness and bring me to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most holy Lord most merciful God let it suffice me to have been a sinner hitherto to have despised thee to have indulged the unclean motions of the flesh now at this time by thy inspiration I make a vow to return from mine iniquities Assist me O Lord and grant I may fulfil it in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Confessions * O Lord in many things I have offended and done wickedly and have grieved thy holy Spirit I have provoked to wrath the bowels of thy mercie by thought word and deed by night and by day in publick and in private deliberately and by surprize O if thou shouldest set my sins in the sight of thy countenance O if thou shouldest call me to account for my sins those sins which are unpardonable in themselves those which I have committed against my own knowledge O what shall I do whither shall I flie But O Lord rebuke me not in thy furie nor chasten me in thine anger Have mercie upon me not onely because I am weak but also because I am the work of thy hands I beseech thee enter not into Judgment with thy servant for if thou Lord shalt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it whosoever may yet most certainly I shall not For I am a sea of sin and am not worthie so much as to look up to Heaven by reason of the multitude of my sins which cannot be numbered evil speakings injuries c. and besides a thousand other abominable passions there are from which I have not refrain'd my self For with what wickedness am I not defil'd to what sins am I not inslav'd I am altogether become an unprofitable servant to thee my God and to all mankind
suffer thou alone knowest Lord give me patience and courage and all Christian resolution to do thee service and grace to do it And let me not live longer than to honour thee through Jesus Christ. Amen For the Sick * O God by whose appointment the moments of our life run out I bessech thee receive my prayers for thy sick servants in whose behalf I most humbly beg the assistance of thy mercie that their health being restored to them they may return thanks to thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen At the Visitation of the Sick * ARe you perswaded 1. That no sickness or cross comes to any one by chance or at all adventures 2. But that they come from God without whose providence no bodie is afflicted with diseases 3. And that God being most wise never will suffer any thing to befal us but when it is expedient to be so 4. And that this sickness or cross which God has now sent upon you is therefore expedient for you 5. And moreover that God has the assection of a Father towards us And that a Father whether he be indulgent to his Children or whether he correct them is a Father alike in both and that he does the latter with no less kindness nay perhaps with greater than he does the former 6. That for a long time he has bestowed good things upon you and though now he gives you evil things yet he would not have brought the evil upon you but onely to be the occasion of greater good that is that you may return to him 7. That 't is an effect of his gracious favour that notwithstanding you have so often rejected him yet he does not leave you so but does visit you at last and seek after you again Now if this be the Case submit your own Will in this matter to the Divine Will a Sacrifice which is of all others next to that of Christ himself the most acceptable unto God * Do you confess 1. That you have not lived so well as you ought nay that you lived ill and that you have often and grievously sinned 2. Is there any particular sin besides or above the rest or are there any sins that lie heavie upon your Conscience so that you need the benefit of a peculiar Absolution 3. Have you any scruple about those things which appertain to Faith or Religion 4. Do you call to mind the past years of your life in the bitterness of your soul 5. Would you wish to feel greater bitterness for them than you are now sensible of and would you be glad if you felt more and are you grieved that you feel no more 6. Do you desire to have your minde enlightned concerning those things which you are ignorant of or which you have forgotten that you may repent of them and does it also repent you that either you do not know them or have forgotten them 7. Do you purpose if you live to judge your self and to take vengeance upon your self for your offences 8. Do you purpose if you live to amend your life and to avoid both the means and the appearances of those sins which you have lived in 9. Do you solemnly promise thus much 10. And do you desire to be freely admonisht of this your promise Do you believe 1. Those matters that are contained in the Articles of the Christian Faith once delivered to the Saints 2. And that you cannot be sav'd unless you do believe them 3. Do you rejoyce and give heartie thanks to God for that you were born in this Faith that you have liv'd in it and that now you shall die in it 4. Do you your self desire and would you have us in your name humbly to beg of God that this Faith in him may not decay in you and especially that it may not fail when you are just at the point of death 5. Do you desire also that the fruit this of your Faith and chiefly of yourFaith in the death of Jesus Christ may not be lost at your death how much soever it may have been lost in your life-time 6. If your sense should fail or if your pain or weakness should bring you to that pass that any expressions should fall from you that are contrarie to Religion or its precepts would you have them be accounted as not spoken by you and do you renounce them as none of yours Do you forgive 1. Those that any manner of way have offended you as freely as you your self would be forgiven 2. And do you desire of God that he also would forgive them 3. And do you forgive them the satisfaction they are bound to make you upon account of those things wherein they have offended you whether in word or deed 4. Will you have thus much signified in your name to those that have offended you that you for your part have forgiven them all their injuries 5. Would you be readie to forgive them if they had done you more and greater mischiefs 6. Would you be glad if you had more enemies to forgive that so God might bestow on you a more plentiful remission of your own sins * 1. IF you your self have offended any others do you beg pardon of them likewise and desire that they may forgive you 2. Whom do you chiefly remember that you have offended and would you have thus much made known to them in your name 3. Forasmuch as no forgiveness is to be hop'd for of sins against the eighth or ninth Commandment of God's Law unless restitution be made are you readie to restore Goods to those whom you have wronged in their Estates and repair the credit of those whom you have injured in their good Name and that without fraud or delay 4. And now at last can you call to mind who these are The Apostles Creed paraphras'd * OLord I believe help thou my unbelief I believe that thou the Father Son and Holy Ghost art one God I believe That of thy unlimited goodness and power thou didst create the Heavens and the Earth That of thy unbounded love thou hast gathered together in one all things in Christ Who was made Flesh and was conceived Was born suffered was crucified Dead buried descended Rose again ascended sitteth Shall return shall reward I believe That by the power and operation of thy holy Spirit thou hast called thy Church out of all the world unto Holiness That in it we are made partakers of all good things and of forgiveness of sins That in it we expect the Resurrection of the Flesh and life everlasting * LOrd I believe O supply thou my want of Faith I believe The affectionate kindness of the Father The saving power of the Almightie The wisdom of the Creator in the preservation government and consummation of the world The great mysterie of Godliness that for us men and for our salvation God was manifested in the flesh even the Lord Jesus the Son of the Father the
Anointed of the Spirit That he was conceived and born to cleanse us from the filthiness of our Conception and Birth That he suffered what we ought to have suffered most unspeakable torments that we might escape them That he was crucified dead and buried that we may not be afraid to undergo the same things for his sake That he descended to that dismal place whither we must have gone that he might wholly excuse us from it That he rose again ascended and sitteth in that place where we had no portion that even we also might inherit it That he shall come to judge the World that he may take us up into his glorie I believe that he is come By his Conception and Birth the Purifier of our Nature By his Suffering on the Cross Death and Burial the Redeemer of our Bodies By his Descent a triumphant Conqueror over Hell and Death By his Resurrection the first Fruits of them that sleep By his Ascension our Forerunner gone to prepare a place for us By his Session at the right hand of God the Intercessor or our Advocate By his second coming to Judgment the Finisher of our Faith Thus Instead of the I behold Destroyer Jesus a Saviour Tormenter A Mediator Accuser An Advocate Slanderer An Intercessor Enslaver A Redeemer Sting of the Serpent Christ the Anointed But I believe also the Quickning and Sanctifying Power of the Holy Ghost A Power that works Inwardly and invisibly openly and outwardly effectually as the Wind that bloweth where it listeth By Reproof by Compunction of the heart by Doctrine by Admonition as an Advocate as the Comforter as a Witness by Diffusion of Charitie by Illumination of Knowledge I believe also The mystical Bodie of this Holy Spirit consisting of those that are called out of the whole world unto belief of the Truth and Holiness of life The mutual fellowship of the members of that Bodie The remission of sins in this present time and the hope of a future Resurrection and of our translation to the life eternal * O Lord give me Faith not such Faith as would make the Law of none effect But such Faith as Works by Love Is powerful in working Overcomes the World And besides a most holy Faith That I may love thee as a Father and fear thee as the Almightie That I may commit my soul unto thee in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator That Christ may be formed in me and that I may be conformed unto his Image That I may give him thanks for those things which he has suffered for me that I may suffer together with him that I may suffer for him whatsoever he shall see good That for his Cross Death and Burial I may revenge crucifie kill burie my sins which caused all these That for his descent into Hell I may descend thither whilst I live here by frequent meditations upon it That I may be made conformable to his Resurrection by my rising again to newness of life And to his Ascension by meditating upon and seeking after those things that are above That I may be also mindful of his Session at Gods right hand whensoever I want any gift of heavenly consolation and as often as I am cold in my Devotions And that I may never forget his second coming at the day of Judgment O that I may alwaies think I hear the noise of the last Trumpet sounding and that I may pray without ceasing till I am placed at the right hand Amen Preparatory Meditations for Death O Lord quicken and comfort my soul for I have sinned against thee Lord I call to mind all the years of my life past in the bitterness of my soul for my sin My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be thou merciful unto my sin O for thy Names sake be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen Namely and especially O Lord be merciful unto me c. Herein O Lord be merciful unto thy servant O Lord lay not these nor the rest unto my charge O let the depth of my sin call up the depth of thy mercies of thy grace Lord let it come that where my sin hath abounded grace may superabound Lord I believe help thou my unbelief O Lord though thou kill me yet will I put my trust in thee Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil For I hope verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living O let this Cup pass from me nevertheless if it may not pass from me but that I must drink of it thy will be done Thou art the Lord do what seemeth good in thine own eyes For I will take it as the Cup of Salvation and give thanks to thy Name O Lord. O Lord grant that all the daies of my appointed time upon earth I may wait when my changing shall come O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave and keep me secret until thy wrath be past and appoint me a time in which thou wilt remember me Say unto my soul O say it now I am thy Salvation Command my spirit whenever thou wilt command it to be received up to thee in peace O bid me come unto thee say unto me This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Lord thus and now let thy servant depart in peace that mine eyes may see thy Salvation O Lord thou blessed Trinitie three Persons and one God have mercie upon me I commend my self into thy hands as to a faithful Creator Lord receive thine own Creature not made by any strange God but by thee the onely living and true God Despise not O Lord the work of thine own hands I am created to thine own Image and likeness O suffer not thine own Image to be defaced but renew it again in righteousness and true holiness I commend my self into thy hands as to a most gracious Redeemer for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth O Lord I am the price of thy Bloud of thy most precious Bloud O suffer not so great so unvaluable a price to perish O Lord thou camest down from Heaven to redeem that which was lost suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed I commend my self into thy hands as to my most blessed Comforter O Lord I am wearie and heavie laden and I come to thee to be refreshed by thee Behold O Lord I have been the Temple of thy holy Spirit I have I confess strangely polluted it yet destroy me not but dedicate me anew and sanctifie me to thy self yet once again O Lord I wear thy Name 't is thy Name that is called upon me For thy Names sake therefore be merciful unto me O spare Lord if not me yet thine own Name in me And do not so remember my sin O Lord do not as that in remembring it thou forget thine own Name I have desired to fear thy Name to love and to honour thy Name