to whom we should approoue our loue by all christian dueties heere Lorde wee stand deepely charged of much guiltines howe vnduetifull to our parents Princes Gouernours Teachers pastors and all our betters not carefullie praying for them nor procuring them what honour and good that wee can in our callinges nor carrying humble mindes toward our equalles or inferiors We haue beene impacient full of vnnaturall affections malicious contentious yea howe vncharitable haue we beene in iudging others in taking vnkindnes at euery occasion not forgiuing nor forbearing when quarrels haue rysen but are too readie to gyue occasion and to prouoke to displeasure we haue not laboured for peace as it became vs. Howe vnstayed vnchaste and intemperate haue our words affections been how vniust haue wee beene in our thoughtes and meaninges not studying for trueth and equity in loue but through couetous affections haue sometimes intruded into the commodities of others How haue we not spared the name of our brethren not touched with the tender regarde of their credite sometime hearing beleeuing and publyshing of slaunders and vntruethes against our neyghboures or els by reuealing the vttermost agaynste them haue russhed agaynst theyr good name Yea Lorde we haue hurte manie by our example and haue not doone that good which we myght haue doone to our brethren nor made conscience of offences against them All these thinges O deere Father argue vs guiltie and presse vs by increasing the euidence of our accusation but if we should O lord stand to rippe vpp our wants in thy seruice we should not know where to beginne nor where to ende they are so infinite In a word Lord we haue broken the holie league of our obedience neglected thy worship not fearing louing nor trusting in thee as we ought wee haue not soughte to thee in our needes nor harkened to thy word in the ministrie therof we haue dishallowed thy name transgressed al thy lawes and made hauocke of thy heauenly statuts all our life hath beene a dishonour vnto thee and nowe O Lord euen our God what remayneth for vs in thy iustice if thou shouldest measure vs by our selues but euen thy fearefull curse and banishment from thy presence so as thou mightest throwe vs downe to hell and shewe the power of thy wrath vpon vs by heaping on vs all thy fearefull plagues and curses writtē in the law against transgressors If wee shoulde looke to the heauens they can not helpe vs yf wee looked downe to the earth no comfort can be founde if we seeke for men to be our aduocates they all stand condemned with the sons of Adam if wee sue to Angels it booteth not for thou hast founde follie in them if we shoulde pleade Lawe with thee loe the sentence of death alreadie is passed against vs if wee resort to thy diuine maiestie there terror dismayeth vs thou art iust and canst not away with iniquitie and we Lorde what are wee to stand in thy sight whether then shal we flie from thy presence and wher shal we be reskued from the terrour and guilt of our sinnes and the feare of thy iudgments Beholde Lorde thy deere sonne Christe Iesus that immaculate Lambe he is our redeemer and sauiour our iustifier our aduocate who as a louing Samaritane hath salued our woundes satisfyed thy Lawe borne thy curse for vs and stepping out betweene vs thee hath payd the raunsome of all our trespasses in him wee knowe thou canst not bee displeased with vs. O Lord heauenlie father wee therefore most humblie pray thee for his sake to be mercifull vnto vs in pardoning all our sinnes and turning all these iudgements from vs which we confesse wee haue deserued to be executed vpon our soules and bodies for wee acknowledge thou mightest iustlie plague vs for that we haue not vsed the faculties and powers of our soules mindes to thy glory our wits and wisedome haue warred against thee and wee haue spent our counsels in vayne thinges so as thou mightest depriue vs of our wittes and possesse vs with follie and madnes or throw vs vppe to errors and stronge illusions because wee haue not beleeued thy trueth thou mightest also with drawe from vs the vse of our members which wee haue too long lette out to Satan and vncleanenes and haue not serued thee in our sences and members as wee ought And whereas thou hast heaped benefites infinitelie vpon vs haste trusted vs with life health wealth prosperitie and peace wee haue beene vnthankfull for them abused them so as thou mightest Lord turne our life into death our wealth into woe our health into dangerous sicknes and diseases our prosperitie into aduersitie our peace into warre our plenty into scarcitie dearth so punish the earth for our sins as thou hast by some pettie iudgements begun oft to call vs to repentance but we haue not regarded neither bene fittes nor scourges can mooue vs to humble and tame vs except thou O Lord put to thine hand O deere Father suffer vs not to sinne in hardnesse of hart and in vnkindnes towards thy maiestie or against the meanes offers of grace but touch vs we pray thee with a true remorse of conscience for our sinnes which we heere vnfaynedlie cōfesse before thee frame our harts to true repentaunce accept this Sacrifice of our confessyon sorrow for our iniquities pardon all our sinnes burie them in the graue of thy Sonne forget and forgiue them and cause vs to turne vnto thee for we are ashamed of our selues and abhorre our selues repenting vs of all our sinnes from our harts wherfore Lord heare O Lord forgiue O Lord consider and shew mercy receiue vs vnto fauour for wyth thee onelie is mercy and compassyon thou onelie forgiuest sinnes we renounce our selues wholie and all our owne worthines wee appeale from all others to thee alone therfore accept of vs in thy beloued son Christ Iesus renue vs by thy spirit guyde vs in thy wayes sanctifie vs in thy trueth keepe vs in awe that we may spende all our time in thy seruice doing dueties to thee our brethren in our callings all our life that so we feeling of thy grace working in vs vnto sanctification and a newe life may gather assuraunce of the full forgiuenes of all our sinnes and so with comfort and ioy finish our christian course giuing good example to our brethren and glorifying thy name vppon the earth and finallie may praise thee in the heauens without all corruption in perfect holines and so be glorified with all thy saintes through Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen A forme of prayer O Lorde our moste gracious good and mercifull Father we thy seruants the work manshyp of thy handes fall downe before thy high maiestie humblye acknowledging our manifolde and heynous sinnes whereby wee haue broken thy holie Lawes and iustly deserued euen eternall death condemnation at thy handes VVe doo heere most instantly vpon the knees of our harts sue vnto thy
Lord thou most mightie God of all power soueraigntie who hast made the heauens and the earth the sea all deepe places we thy poore seruants doo humbly throwe downe our selues before thy high maiesty acknowledging all our manifolde and heynous sins crauing entirely pardon and forgiuenes of them all for thy sonne Christe Iesus his sake namelie our vnpreparednesse to thys so holie a duetye of Prayer intreating thy good Maiesty to behold vs in thy fauour and to receiue vs into thy blessed protection that sith wee are by thee assigned our labours in the mightie deepes that in the sweat of our browes with danger of our liues we should therin trauell for our lawfull maintenaunce it may please thy good maiestie to prosper the worke of our handes to guide vs in all our actions to defende vs from all dangers eyther of ennemies seeking our life or goods or of the merciles songs and swallowing sandes or of stormie wyndes and raging tempestes or of any other distresse whatsoeuer that betydeth such as trauell therein Thou mightest ô Lord we confesse take aduauntage to make our voyages fishings vnprosperous to spoile our goods to betray vs vnto enemies to swallow vs vppe in the bottomlesse Gulfe of the Seas because wee haue not feared thee with reuerence haue not obeyed thy worde haue beene carelesse of thy seruice vnthankfull for our former deliueraunces successe distrustfull of thy prouidence repyning at thy hand in our losses forgetfull of thy great and maruailous workes we haue gathered iniquity and haue beene stayned with the corrupt manners of other natyons haue blasphemed thy name passed our daies in ryotte forgotten thee vpon the shoare though lately come out of feareful daungers wee haue beene wanton stubborne and vnruly so as we haue freighted our Vessels more with sinne vanity vngodlines then with goods or lading so as it is maruaile wee haue not suncken in the rolling seas and descended down to hel but that thy mercie hath kept vs. But ô Lorde euen our God thou that tamest Leuiathan and smitest the heads of the dragons of the deepe smite our stony hearts with the liuely sense of our sinnes humble vs vnto repentaunce turne thy displeasure from vs deal not with vs according to our transgressions but according to thy mercies we appeale to the throne of thy grace wash vs in the bloode of thy sonne from all our sinnes renue our harts dailie to thy will to the obedience of thy word that we may make conscience to heare it with reuerence when we may for ó Lorde in this one thing thou hast abridged those that farre trauaile on the Seas into diuers countries of the dailie vse of the ministrye of thy word and sacraments which other enioye tarrying at home which is some pettie iudgmēt of thine to hūble vs make vs more carefull O lord stir vs vp therefore to the reading of thy word in our trauelling to such other exercises carefullie and faithfullie that we may be zealous of thy glorie thankfull for thy mercies daily benefits confident to trust in thy prouidence in all estates patient in troubles without murmuring watchful ouer our selus that we be not defiled with the corruptions of other places yea Lord teach vs to auoid all swearing dronkennes ryot exces fornication idolatry contēpt iniury deceit lying quarrelling and all vncleanes that both when we are on the seas on the shoare we may feare glorifie praise thy most holy name gouerne vs ó lord in our deedes words in our gouernment as also our cōpany that they may obey be subiect to al christian discipline that so thou mightest prosper vs in al our affairs increasing the fruit of our labors defending vs frō our enemies frō robberies losses al daūgers finally bring vs safely to the port Hauen of our desire ó lord make vs truely thankfull vnto thee for our former deliuerances benefits and if euer thou shalt crosse vs by any los hindrance or afflictiō for our sins hūble vs therin let vs acknowledg thy hād therin with thankfulnes patience that we may therby be spurred forward to the reforming of our liues Bee thou with vs on the boystrous ô Lord in thy name wee hoyse our sayles and launche foorth into the depe be present with vs in our troubles and dangers heare vs deliuer vs when we call vpon thee for great are the daungers that we sayle in euerie way but thou art our God we trust in thee oh saue vs guide vs protect vs deliuer vs that wee may still liue to prayse thee VVe commit Lord our selues our shyps our goods and liues into thy hand both this day or night and euer heereafter to bee preserued at thy pleasure and let vs neuer forget all thy maruailous works O Lord wee praye thee blesse all our freendes and kyndred on the land our wyues parents children masters families or whomsoeuer that are tyed to vs by anye band of freendship or nature in the Lord. Finally Lord wee pray thee frame our soules to all duties of holines towards thy maiesty increasing all true fayth feare and loue in vs towardes thee inflaming our hartes with all christian loue to our brethren for thy sake These things if thou shalt performe vnto vs O Lord our God wee shall neuer forget to praise and magnifie thy holy name therefore These things ô lord with all other graces necessarye for vs for thy whole church for all nations people and for all our brethrē and for all degrees wee hūbly craue the same at thy maiesties hande in the name mediation of thy son Christe Iesus saying as hee hath taught vs. Our father which art in heauen hallowed he thy name c. O Lord increase our fayth and obedience toward thee and thy worde Amen
patience confidence and hope vnto the ende that as thou haste giuen vs a desire to holde out which is a pledge of our continuaunce so thou maist stil vphold vs with the tast of the ioyes to come that in Christ we may abide vnto the ende so as nothing may seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christe Iesus our Lord. O Lorde therefore giue vs grace in our prosperitie to mortifie our affections bothe from sinne and the world that it make vs not vnfitt for the yoke and vnrulie Thou knowest Lord the desire of our soules O performe these thinges vnto vs for Iesus Christ his sake VVe further pray thee O Lorde to be president and gouernour of vs and our families directing vs sincerelie in all thy wayes that we giue not euill example either in worde or deede not raging in our affections ruling by them but moderate thou our affections and speeches in all our domesticall gouernment that wee may rule ouer them in thy name beeing neyther too seuere nor too remisse that so man and wife with theyr families may liue togeather religiously soberlie and peaceably wyth freer vse of prayer and other holy exercises O LORDE blesse our Seruauntes chyldren wyth obedient and duetifull hearts to thy maiestie and vnto vs for thee beeing without murmuring vnfaithfulnes replying or stubborne answeres but peaceable lowlie and tractable Bannish from them all swearing lying pryde cursed speaking slaundering ryot and all intemperancie And though by our sinnes thou mightest take aduauntage to throwe out our children to thy curse and to with holde thy grace froÌ„ them yet pardon thou our sinnes for thy mercies sake and continue thy graces to vs and to our posterity after vs to many generations O Lorde because also nothing can prosper without thy blessinge though wee care and toyle blesse thou therefore and prosper all the affayres of our lawfull callinges this day and euer heereafter that we may see daylie a comfortable issue of our labours for we resigne vp all our affayres and the successe thereof vnto thee labouring in them vnder thy prouidence And now Lorde we praye thee for our neighbours rounde about vs and for the congregation where we enioy the felowshippe of this life with other ritch graces of thine O Lord blesse them all and eache familie and person both olde and young husbands and wyues parents and chyldren masters and seruauntes gouernors and people that eache of these in their callinges being furnished with meete graces from thee may discharge a good conscience therin in thy feare Blesse O LORDE the Magistrates of our towne endue them with wisedom courage faithfulnes the feare of thy name and all graces necessarie that they executing iudgment and iustice thy glorie may bee aduaunced the people may of conscience obey sinne may bee supplanted and godlines with trueth may happilye flourish among vs. Blesse O lord wee pray thee our ministers of thy word that they may abound with al necessary graces fitte for that waighty calling let vs imbrace them in our hartes as messengers sent by thee for our saluation Gyue vnto them strength faithfulnes grauitie wisedome iudgment patience and courage in dooing thy wyll that they may wade comfortablie and with a good conscience through all daungers make their labours fruitfull in the hearts of the people conuert or confounde all that rise vp against wholesome doctrine reforme the disobedient keepe them in thy trueth that are called increasinge their faith and obedience and gather home daielie some soules into thy folde that the people being turned vnto thee thou maiest haue praise Preserue O Lorde this our Towne from inward perrills of the soule and outward of the body bee thou our watchman and tower of defence froÌ„ al enimies that our sins betray not our peace kepe vs by sea by land in blessed safety let vs not forget to praise thee for it coÌ„tinue thine holy ordinance of teaching ô Lord among vs euermore let vs neuer want that blessed soueraine meanes of our saluation and giue vs grace hartily reuerently faithfully to regarde thy seruants thy heaueÌ„ly doctrin brought by theÌ„ so as both they we may in our lyues expres the fruit of thy word feeling effectually the power therof coÌ„uerted into our soules to the thorow reforming of the whole maÌ„ that we may stand assured of thy mercy pardon of our sins through faith may be multiplied with al spiritual graces directed kept coÌ„tinued to the ende in al happy waies so as our own soules may reape perfit coÌ„fort others may be edified turned vnto thee thy self maist receiue glory honor eternal praise in Christ Iesus and now lord we most earnestly intreate thee for our whole lande principallye for our moste gracious Queene Elizabeth ô lord giue her a long a prosperous a godly a happy raign ouer vs coÌ„founding all her enemies safegarding her royall person enritching her soule with all heauenlye graces vnto saluation that she gouerning happilie on earth may raigne euerlastingly in heauen with thee Blesse her right honourable Counsellers and all inferiour Magistrates directing their counsels consultations and gouernments to the aduauncing of thy glory and the good of thy Church Blesse all the Ministers of thy holie worde that they may sincerely discharg a good conscience in their places to the edifying of thy church through loue Yea we pray thee for all our whole land and people of all degrees pardon their sinnes leade them in thy trueth that they may in peace and godlines serue thee all their lyfe Finallie Lord we pray thee for all nations kindreds and tongues where thy name is professed for all christian Magistrates and Rulers that thou wylt blesse and defende them and keepe them in thy trueth from all their ennimies cause the light of thy holie Gospell to shyne to all nations that they being turned to thee thou mayst haue praise comfort the comfortles helpe the helples bee a father to the fatherles and a husbande to the wyddowes ende the miserie of the afflicted confound al enimies of thy church and giue to thy people euerlastyng peace in Christ Iesus These graces with all other els necessarie for vs and thy whole Church we humbly craue at thy maiesties hand in such manner as hee hath taught vs saying Our Father which art in Heauen c. A forme of thanks-giuinge WE render most humble and hartie thankes in Iesus Christ vnto thy diuine maiestie ô lord our God for thy great mercies and auncient louing kindnes towards vs thy whole church alwayes expressed namely lord for thy inestimable euerlasting loue whereby thou hast chosen vs freelie in Christ Iesus vnto saluation before the foundations of the worlde wâ—â—e layde as also for thy goodnes whereby thou hast created vs to the likenes of thine owne Image and whereas wee and the whole race of mankind through sinne and transgression were fallen from thee into a desperate and hellish condition of