Morrice sonne to M. Morrice Attourney of the court of Wardes who thinking euer of sodaine death died suddenly in Milforde Lane Sep. 12. 1604. at the age of 23 yeares Twise twelue yeares not fully tolde a wearied breath I haue exchanged for an happy death My course was short the longer is my rest God takes them soonest whom he loueth best For he that 's borne to day and dyes to morrow Looseth some daies of rest but moneths of sorrow VVhy feare we death that cures all sicknesses Author of rest and end of all distresses Other misfortunes often come to grieue vs vs. Death striks but once that stroke doth relieue vs. He that thus thought of death in lifes vncerteÌ„ty Hath doubtles now a life that brings eternity Liue for to learne that die thou must And after come to iudgement iust A Communicant instructed AT LONDON Printed for William Cotten 1606. A Communicant prepared to the Lordes Table Question MY good auditor after all these instructions concerning praier and pietie are you not desirous to receiue the Lordes supper Answ Yea sir I am desirous with all mine heart if you shal thinke me fit for so holy a banquet Quest What must you doe to bee a fit guest 1. Sam. 16.6 Psal 27. 1. Cor. 21. Ans Samuel bids me to santifie my selfe Dauid bids mee to wash mine hands in innocencie Paul bids mée to examine my selfe and so to eate of that bread and after to drink of that cuppe Quest Howe doe you proue this examination to be néedefull Ans 1. If the Iewes durst not eate the pascall Lambe without it I must not eate of the Lambes Supper without it 2. I must neither pray nor heare Gods word before I sée in what estate I am 3. I come in the best sort I can to the feast of any great man in this world 4. He that came without his wedding garment was examined how hée came thither Math. 22.12 5. If I eate and drinke vnworthily I eate and drinke mine owne damnation 1. Cor. 11.29 Quest What things are required of him that will come a fit guest to the Lords table Ans Thrée things The first what I must doe before I come 2. What I must doe when I am come 3. What I must doe after I haue bin partaker of that holy supper Quest What things are required of you before you come Ans Two things First I am bound to examine my selfe 2. I am bound to pray meditate of diuers things Quest What is examination An. It is a triall of my selfe howe I stand in the grace of God Quest What learne you out of this that a man must examine himselfe before he come to this table An. First that children are not capable of this banquet 2. That ignorant persons must not approach to this table 3. That madde people are not to bee admitted to this feast 4. That such as intend to liue in their sinnes must not dare to approach vnto this communion Quest Wherein stands this examination An. In fiue things 1. I must examine what knowledge I haue 2. What faith I haue 3. What repentance I haue 4. What obedience I haue 5. What loue I beare to my brethren Quest Wherein standes the examination of your knowledge An. In two things 1. What general knowledge I haue 2. What knowledge I haue in particular Quest Wherein consists generall knowledge Ans In three things whereof the 1. is What knowledge I haue of God 2. What knowledge I haue of my selfe 3. What knowledge I haue of the couenant of grace Quest what knowledge must you haue of God Ans I must know him to be such an one as he hath reuealed himselfe in his word to wit one inuisible and indiuisible essence and three truely distinct persons namely the Father begetting the Sonne begotten and the holy ghost procéeding from the father and the sonne Quest Must you knowe nothing els of God Answ Yes I must knowe that hee is creator and gouernour of all things a most wise vnderstander and knower of all thoughts most holy iust and mercifull to his creatures that hee is eternall without either beginning or ende and that he is present in all places Quest What must you know concerning your selfe Ans That by nature I am stained wholly with originall sinne so that my mind is full of blindnes will of frowardnes affections of peruersenes my conscience of guiltines so that therby by I am subiect to the curse of God in life in death and after death Quest What things are you subiect to in life Ans By reason of this sinne in my soule I am subiect to madnes in my body to diseases in my goods to losse 〈◊〉 in my name to reproach Quest What are you subiect to in death Ans To the separation of the soule from the body Quest What are you subiect to after death An. To be tormented for euer with the deuill and his angels and to be cast away from the presence of God Que. What must you know concerning the couenant of grace An. That Christ Iesus hath deliuered me from this misery who béeing very God became man to die for my sinnes and rose againe for my iustification Quest What particular knowledge is required of you An. I must know the nature and vse of this sacrament Quest What then is the Lords Supper An. It is a Sacrament wherein by the vse of bread and wine those that are ingrafted into Christ are nourished to life Quest What learne you out of this definition An. 1. That he cannot eate the Lords body who is not of the Lords body 2. That a man must come withall cheerefulnesse to this banquet and not to feare it as a man would doe poyson Quest Tell me now what is the outward matter of this sacrament An. Bread and wine by which are signified Christs bodie crucified and his blood powred out Quest Is not the bread wine turned into the body blood of Christ Ans No for these reasons 1. Christ instituted this supper before he was crucified 2. Then he must haue giuen his dead bodie with his liuing hands 3. The bread after consecration 〈◊〉 distributed into partes but the whole body of Christ is receiued of euery seuerall communicant 4. The bread is the communion oâ— Christs body and therefore not the very body 5. This were to make the body oâ— Christ of bakers bread 6. The bread and wine will corrupt being kept after consecration 7. We sée and taste onely bread and wine 8. Else the wicked should eate Christs body and so must haue eternall life 9. This takes away the nature of a sacrament wherein there must be a signe and the thing signified 10. It destroyes the nature of Christs body making it aliue dead in heaâ—uen vpon earth glorified vilified and in many places at one time Quest But yet may not this be done by a miracle An. Priests haue no promise to worke miracles nowe a daies and
name thy kingdome come thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our daily bread and forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespas against vs and lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glory for euer and euer amen Euch. Why is this praier called the Lords praier Phil. 1. Because Christ Iesus our Lord set downe the same b Math. 6.9 2. Because we cannot pray vnles Christ teach vs c Luk. 11.1 Euch. How many partes hath this praier Phil. Fowre 1. a preface 2. Petitions 3. a reason 4. a Seale Euch. Which is the Preface Phil. Our father which art in heauen Our Father which art in heauē where God is described by two such properties as wée must haue in our minds when wee pray vnto him as 1. That he is our louing Father d Esa 63.16 2. That he is our almighty God in heauen e Vers 15. Euch. Do you here pray to the Father onely Phil. No but to the whole trinity yet as the first person is the fountaine of the deity wee pray to the father by the sonne through the holy ghost Euch. What doth this word Father teach you Phil. 1. That I must not call vpon him as my Iudge but my father f Lu. 15.18 2. that in Christ I am his sonne g Gal. 3.26 3. That hee will denie mee nothing conuenient h Mat. 7 7· 4. That I may boldly come vnto him i psal 50 1◠5. That none can pray vnto him but his children k Vers 16. 6. That I must euer behaue my selfe as gods childe l Eph. 5.8 7. That I must pray only to God m Mat. 4.10 8. And lastly that I must come vnto him by Christ n Ioh. 14.13 Euch. Why doe you say our Father and not my father Phil. To teach me 1. that I must hold ech member of the church as my brethren o gen 13.8 2. That I must pray aswell for others as my selfe p Iam 5 16 3. that I must loue almen as brethren q 1. Ioh. 4.21 4. The dignity of each Christian hauing God to his father r 1. Sam. 18 2◠5. Gods loue to mée in making mée his child ſ 1. Ioh. 3.1 Euch. Why saie you that God is in Heauen Phil. Because there he sheweth him selfe chiefely to the saints t Eccle. 21.24 and from thence hee manifesteth himselfe to man u Psal 57.3 Euch. Is not God euery where Phil. Yes for his essence is euery where x prou 5.21 and he filleth both heauen and earth y Eph. 4.10 Euch. How many heauens are there Phil. Three 1. The ayre in which we breath z Gen. 1.26 2. the skie in which are the starres a Deu. 1.10 3. the heauen of heauens in which Christ the Angels Saints departed are b 1. kin 8.27 Euch. What learne you by this that God is in heauen Phil. 1. That he is therefore able to graunt my requests c 1. kin 8.30 2. That I may pray with confidence vnto him d psal 123.1 3. That in prayer my heart must be in heauen e 1. king 8.48 ps 25.1 4. That I must vse all reuerence in praier f Eccl. 5.1.2 5. That one day I shall come to heauen g phil 3.21 6. That I must looke for all graces from heauen h Ier. 1.17 7. That by pilgrimages I néed not séeke to God i psal 145.18 Euch. How many petitions are there in the Lords praier Phil. Sixe whereof the first thrée concerne God the other concerne our selues and of the last thrée one onely is for things corporall the other two are for thinges spirituall 1. Pet. 1.3 Euch. What learne you out of this order I learne 1. Gods great fauour to me who will admitte me to aske for my selfe 2. His great loue that he will heare me asking for others 3. My duety that I must desire especially Gods glory 4. That I must oftner craue things spirituall then corporall Euch. Which is the first petition Hallowed be thy name Phil. Hallowed be thy name Euch. Why is this set in the first place Phil. 1 Because it is first in the intent of the god who made all for his owne glory k pro. 15.3 2. Because it is first in the intent of the godly who doe all so Gods glory l Ioh. 15.8 Euch. What is the vse of this order Phil. That whether wee eate or drinke or whatsoeuer we do else wée may doe al to the glory of GOD. 1. Cor. 10.31 Euch. What meane you by these words Hallowed be thy name Phil. By Gods name I vnderstand his titles as God Christ Lord and such like his properties as his Iustice Mercy Prouidence and such like his word as the Scriptures read and preached his Sacraments as Baptisme and the Lords supper his Workes as Creation Preseruation and the like And by Hallowing I meane that god in all these may haue due reuerence done vnto him of all the people that belong vnto him Euch. What wantes do you bewaile in this petition Phil. First I bewaile mine owne and others pride of heart that we labour more for our owne credit then Gods glory f Luk. 18.11 2. Our hardnesse of heart that wée cannot as we ought see Gods glorye in his creatures g Mar. 6.52 3. Our vnthankfulnesse that wee praise him not as wée ought for his many fauours towardes mankind aboue all other creatures h psa 51.15 4. Our impiety that in our liues we dishonor god i psal 119.136 Euch. What then do you pray for in this petition Phileuches I pray that GOD by mée and all men may bée glorified in the reuerend speaking of his name holy meditation of his properties diligent hearing of his words often receiuing of the Sacrament and dayly admiting of his workes And in a worde that wee may knowe in minde acknowledge in heart loue in trueth speake with Tongue do in our actions both naturall ciuile and religious all such things as God may be glorified by Euch. What doe you pray against Phil. I pray against all ignorance errour vanity of minde infidelity profanenes Atheisme worldlines security and all blasphemous spéeches false dealing scoffing idolatry superstition sorcery sacriledge simonye periurie persecution impenitencie vnreuerend vsing of Gods worde Sacramentes or workes and in a word against all such disorder in mans life as may any way obscure the Glory of God Euch. What doe you here giue God thankes for Phil. That it hath pleased him to glorifie his great name in all the former and hath giuen mee and many others grace of his méere mercie to glorifie his name in that which before I praied for Euch. Why doe you vse in this and other petitions this order First to bewaile Secondly to pray for
made the nourishment of my body so Christes body and blood is made the nourishmente of my soul Yea I must feele the power of christe to mortify the corruption of my nature by his death to quicken mee in newnes of life by his resurrection and to giue me power to fight against my dedly aduersaries the world the flesh the deuill Is there nothing to doe for you after you haue receaued this holy sacrament Yes I must obserue these three thinges First I must giue god thanks for so great a benefyt 1 cor 11. â—6 2. I must look to receiue by it increase of faith repentance to rise from sin to receiue power against the deuill 3. If I feele this present comforte to bee thankful for it if not I must know that it is because I haue not prepared my selfe or because my faith is weak or because I liue in some secret sin wherefore I must goe to god acknowledge my fault desire paron and comfort for the same Now the Lord grant me this grace so to be partaker of his sacramental table that I may be partaker of his heuenly table through Iesus christ my lord alone blessed sauior Amen Ille non edit Corpus Christi qui non est de corpore christi August He cannot eate the body of Christ that is not of the body of christ Accede panis est non venenuÌ„ mala res non est sed malus accipit Idem Come it is bread not poyson the thing is not euil but an euil person receiues it A godly praier for morning or Euening MOst high and mighty God and in thy sonne Christ Iesus our mercifull louing and gracious father thou hast commaunded vs to come vnto thee and vpon the knees of our hearts we do come vnto thee humbly entreating thee before wee begin to remoue far from vs all such impediments as vsually Satan casteth vpon this exercise and so to quicken vs vp by the spirit of supplication that in feare and reuerence of thy great name in faith and confidence of thy gratious assistanâ—… and in a seeking desire of the supplye of our wants wee may put vp and powre out our supplications vnto thee that as the messengers of our soules they may signifie our wants as the petitioners of mercy they may sue for our pardon and as proclaimers of thy grace they may declare our thankfulnes for all those mercies which we haue receiued and al those iudgements which we haue escaped O Lord our God we do here in thy prefence blessed are we that we may come to thy presence acknowledge and confes that wee are of our selues most wofull wicked and cursed creatures The corruption of our natures the iniquities of our liues doe generallie beare witnes against vs. But more particularly we confesse that our hearts are full of infidelity by reason whereof we do not as wee ought either depend vpon thy prouidence for the things of this life or beleeue thy promises for the life to come Dost thou visit vs we are impatient dost thou deny vs our desires in this world we are neuer contented with our estate Wee are full of doubt for the life to come and full of distrust for the things of this life We are glued too much to this wicked world and as though we said in our harts there is no god our mindes are greatly estranged from thee And alas miserable wretches that we are we delite in doing our own willes it is not meate and drinke to vs to do thy will In the pride of our hearts wee exalte our selues aboue thee and our brethren and boaste our selues as though we had receued nothing from thee We put away from vs the euill day and liue as though we should neuer die We walke on in the hardnesse of our heartes and by reason of the abundance of vainglory we rather seeke praise of men then thy glorye Our soules are so filled with loue to our selues that wee preferre our owne pleasure peace and liberty before thy maiesty or the loue of our brethren yea hypocrisie is so rooted in our soules that we content our selues with a profession of piety and labor not for the power of Gdlinesse And as for our liues they abound with actuall transgressions againste euery one of thy ten commandements hauing broken the same ten thousand times we Lord haue liued in contempt of thy prouidence committing Idolatry with thy creatures taking thy glorious name in vaine and prophaninge of thy moste holy sabaths we euen we who shoâ—… haue been vpright haue disregarded our betters enuied our brethren defiled our soules with vnchast desires labored to be rich by vnlawfull meanes disgraced our neighbors Iduged after that which was none of ours Wee haue herd thy worde O Lorde but wee haue not beleeued it wee haue knowen thy words but haue not practised it We haue come to thine hous without reuerence approached to thy table without repentance and practised many sinnes without remorse Do wee any good we please our selues too much doe we any euill we feare thee too little we are weary of praying when wee talke with thee wee are carelesse in hearing when thou speakest to vs. If we reade thy sacred and holy worde it is not sweet vnto vs as the hony combe but we delight more euen in vngodlye bookes Yea O Lorde the pampering of our bellies the pride of our apparell the negligence in our calling the mispending of our time our vaine conference at tables our wandring eies our wanton lusts our ambitious mindes our couetous desires our vngodlye speeches our lasciuious eares our censuring of our brethren our sin in recreations our vnwillingnes to labor our vnfaithfulnes in life our forgetfulnes of death and our abuse of thy mercies especialy in Christ do testify against vs that wee haue sinned against heauen and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy children Are we ashamed at this and reclaimed from it no Lorde we are not ashamed But howsoeuer it hath pleased thee to vse many meanes as partly by thy word partly by thy spirit and partly by thy mercies partly by thy iudgments to the end we might be reclaimed from our crooked waies yet we haue contemned thy word the ministery of saluation grieued thy spirit the earnest of our inheritance abused thy mercies the pledges of thy loue forgotten thy iudgments the messengers of thy wrath Enter not into iudgement with vs thy seruants O lord for then shal no flesh liuing be iustified in thy sight Be mercifull vnto vs in forgiuing sins past be gratious vnto vs in preuenting sinnes to come Correct vs O Lord but with mercy not in thy iudgement for then shal we be consumed and brought to nought Open our blind eies that wee may come to a particular knowledge of our particular sinns especially such as we ar most giuen vnto Soften our hard and stony harts that we may sigh and grone
vnder the burden of them make vs good god displeased with our selues because by sin wee haue dishonored thy maiesty Stir vp our dead dul harts that we may hunger after Christ his righteousnesse and after euery drop of his precious bloud In that son of thine looke on vs thy seruants and for his merits righteousnes vouchsafe good God mercifullie and freelie to doe awaye all our offenses Wash them away in his bloud and by the puritie of his spirite clense our hearts from the pollution and impuritie of them all say vnto our soules thou art our saluation let thy spirite in our hearts crie Abba Father Teach vs O Lord thy way and we shall walk in thy trueth O knit our hearts vnto thee that we may feare thy name And because through corruption in our harts and sin in our liues our faith is feeble and our confidence small we do humbly beseech thee to strengthen our faith by the daily meditation and particular application of thy mercifull promises made vnto vs in thy son Christ that neither in the dangers of this world nor the trobles of conscience nor in the hour of death wee may fall from thee Gratious father expell out of our hearts all carnall confidence the vnderminer of our faith teach vs in the spirit of tru humility to deny our selues to rely only vpon thee the merit of christ in the mater of our saluation And because it is not enough to com vnto thee by praier to sue vnto thee for pardon but al that ar in christ must be new creatures therfore we cal vpon thee for the spirit of regeneration mortify therby the corruptions of our flesh quicken vs thereby in the inner mā By the powr of Christs deth let vs dy vnto sin by the power of his resurrectiō let vs rise to righteousnes newnes of life let the one as a corrosiue eat vp the dead flesh of vngodlines the other as a spur stir vs vp to holines Illuminatour minds that we may know thy will giue vs spiritual vnderstāding to discern good euil Sanctify our memories to tresure vp good things purify our consciences to haue peace in thee reform our wils to doe thy wil let al our affections be ordered aright Teach vs to fear thee continually whersoeuer we ar to neglect al things in regard of christ to loue thee our brethren for thy sake to be zealus of thy glory to be greeued at our other sins ioyful when we cāpleas thee Let our bodies the instruments of sin be euer heerafter clensed by thy spirit that they may bee temples for that spirit to dwel in keepe our eies from beholding vanitie our eares from harkning to variety our mouths frō speking blasphemy our hands frō committing of iniquity our bodies from the action of adultery Let our light so shine before mē that they seeing our good works may glorify thee our heauenly father Make vs to remember that as we are sons wee must depend vpon thee as we ar seruants wee must obey thee and as we are christians we ought to walk worthy of our vocatiō and calling And because we haue al som particular calling either of rule or seruice or trust or fauor make vs from the highest to the lowest Faithful in our callings to remēber that a day wil come in which we must giue an accompte vnto thee of all our actions doon in this flesh whether they be good or euill Take away from vs all oportunity of sinning make vs euer thankful that we liue so as wee want allurementes to many sinnes Cause vs to see how deformed sin is in it selfe to what confusiō it is like to bring vs Lord make vs to fly the very occasiōs of sin to resist the beginnings of al tēptation let not a night pas ouer our heads in which we examin not howe wee haue spent the day neuer let vs come into any company wherin we may not not doe or receiue som good Keep vs that we fashiō not ourselues to this world but rather imitate the fashion of the moste godly in our callings Let vs neuer count any sin to be a little one because that our sauior died for the least And because we liue in dangerous times wherin many ar withdrawne from the profession of thy trueth Lord giue vs harts neuer to entertain any such doctrine which cannot be warranted out of thy word nor to admit of any such teachers as goe about to withdraw vs frō obedience to our gouernors if any one fal into any sin let vs restore such an one with the spirit of meeknes cōsidering our selues that we also may be tempted We further acknowledge most gracious God that our life is a war-fare vpon earth our enemies are sinn Satan the flesh Lord helpe vs in this spitituall combat are we weak be thou strong ar we tempted with the tēptation giue an issue may we be ouercom tech vs to watch ouer our own harts waies is there any one ◅une which we are weak to resist in the act of temptation giue vs power to resist it that by this means we may haue as iust cause to praise thee in our cōquests as we haue many reasons to hūble our selues in our foyles We see also most all seeing God that none cā liue godly in this world but they must suffer persecutions either Ismaell wil reuile them with a reproachful tongue or Esau wil pursue them with a blody sword what now must we do in these days of trial whether shal we come for helpe but to thee To thee therfore must wee come O Lord our god crauing wisdom to forsee prouidence to preuent patience to beare harts to be prepared for this fierytrial that by the denial of our selues distasting the worlde liking of heauen and heauenly things wee may make a good vse euen of the least affliction Confound in euery on of vs the cursed workes of the diuel Increase in vs dayly the giftes of thy spirit Fit vs for such calings in which thou hast or wilt place vs make vs to referre the strength of our bodies the giftes of our minde our credit in this world what so euer grace thou hast alredy or wilt hereafter bestow vpon vs to the glorye of thy name the good of thy church the eternal saluacion of our own souls And howe soeuer we liue heer in this Babilon of the world lord let our conuersation be euer in heauē that whether we eat or drink or what soeuer we do else wee may heare alwayes this voice soūding in our eares arise you dead come vnto iudgment Many other things haue we to beg for our selus that our ignorāce knoweth not to aske or forgetfulnes remēbers not to ask hear vs for thē in thy beloued son And giue vs leaue now good god to pray to thee for others Ther ar no christiā peple at
pardon and forgiuenes of all our sinnes this day at this time and heretofore committed against thée with a blessing vpon thy church and children euery where as well as though we had named them thorough Christ our Lord and onelye Sauiour Amen A thanksgiuing for our late deliuerance from that vnnaturall conspiracie against our King and State ALmighty Lord GOD father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our most Gratious and mercifull Father many are thy mercyes towards vs and that our soules know right well And as we cannot be ignorant of them vnles we be senselesse soe wee may not be forgetfull vnles we be thankelesse By thée our lot is fallen into a good soile and by thée we haue a goodly inheritance by thée are our bodies deliuered from sicknesse and by thée are our soules deliuered from sin by thée our names are not a reproch vnto our enemies and by thée our estates are not a prey vnto the Idolatrous Thou euen thou hast don great things in our land thy right hand amongst vs hast brought mighty things to passe What is it O Lord that thou hast not done vnto this vine of thine English Israel and what couldest thou doe more for it then thou hast Thou hast planted it by thy hand placed it in thy vineard hedged it by thy prouidence garded it by thine Angells watred it by thy spirit pruyned it by thy rodds supported it by thy power committed it to thy husbandmen beautified it by thy mercies and fructified it by thine aboundance not of sower but swéete grapes The wilde boore of the woods can neuer roote it vp the beasts of the forest shall neuer deuour it Lord continew still to visit this vine which without thy visitation must be fruitles and strengthlesse Thou hast cast out the heathen and planted vs in thou hast subdued our enemies and made vs the mirror of the whole world Thou hast giuen vs thy Sonne to be our Sauiour thy word to be our instructor thy Spirit to bée our sanctifier thy preachers to bee our monitors thy sacraments to be our seales and Kings to be our nursing Fathers and Quéenes to bee our nursing Mothers When our enemies came against vs thou subduest them when our light was extinguished thou oldest set vp a greater 1588. Q. Elizabeth K. Iames. 1603. when the plague was amongst vs thou calmest it and when our Countrie was to be betraied thou wast our deliuerer What shall we render vnto thée for all these fauours or what can we render for all these mercies O our soules praise the Lord and all that is within vs praise his holy name O our soules praise the Lord and let vs neuer forget his benefitts Wee Lord had bin blowen vp with the powder of rebellion had not the power of thy prouidence watched ouer vs. We therefore our Princes Nobles Clergy Commons our Wifes Children Seruants and al are héere before thy Maiesty this day now render vnto thée for more we cannot and more thou desirest not the sacrifice of praise the calues of our lipp◠for this wonderfull deliuerance shewed vnto our Gracious King and Country Lord teach vs therby to bée thankfull vnto thée obedient to our gouernours frequent in praier feruent in the spirit and zealous in good workes least a worse thing hereafter happen vnto vs. Make vs to detest Popery the poyson of Authority Iesuits the bellowes of sedition Papists the plotters of rebellion and to thinke better of our Christian Brethren and this not new but most auncient religion of ours by which wee are taught Pietie to God Loialty to Gouernours Peace to the Church reuerence of superiority charity to our inferiours amity to our equalls loue to our enemies patience in tribulation thankfulnesse in prosperity faithfulnesse in our calling honesty to al. And séeing of late thou hast deliuered our backs from whipping our liberty from seruing our soules from dying our country from consuming our King and Estate from a suddaine blowing vp Lord wée pray thée that the meditatiō of this mercy may neuer depart out of our minds but that wee may bée thankful vnto thée for mercies receiued and fearfull of thée for iudgements escaped Teach vs to pray vnto thée alone who canst heare graunt our requests to kéepe our country from inuasion our Church frō dissention our houses from infection our State from alteration and people from the cruell mercies of the Italian Popedom whose faith is fancie whose force is fraud whose trust is treason whose obedience is hipocrisie whose lawes are traditions whose pardōers are priests whose sauiour is the Pope whose god is an Idol whose seruice is ceremonies whose glorie is their shame and whose end is damnation except they repent Let the Sunne of the Ghospell be neuer eclipsed the Light of thine Israel neuer be extinguished the hope of our happinesse neuer bée subuerted Nor the branches of our vine euer cut off Thus we thy people and shéepe of thy pasture shall haue iust occasion to praise thy great name in the face of thy congregation from this time forth foreuermore Lord kéepe in our Kinge the Spirit of Maiestie in our Quéene the Spirit of Chastitie in our Prince the Spirit of Pietie in our Nobles the Spirit of Loialtie in our Councellers the Spirit of Prudencie in our Clergie the Spirit of Vigilancie and in vs all the Spirit of Fidelytie and as for such as wish euill to this Sion of ours the Honour of thy name the Pallace of thy pleasure the Place of thy protection and the Wounder of the world if they béelong to thée giue them hearts to repent and to returne to vs if not or euer their pottes bée hotte with thornes let indignation vexe them as a thing that is rawe Euen soe let all thine Enimies perish O Lord. And vnlesse their Children bée better then the Parents as the Prophet prayeth deliuer them vp to famine let them droppe by the force of the sword let their wiues be robbed of their children and be widdowes and let their husbands be put to death let their confederate young men be slaine by the sword let them be ouerthrowne in the day of thine anger and let none be left to make lamentation for them and to say O my brother O my sister Lord roote all Cananites out of this land of the liuing that such as feare thee may dwell safely Blessed be the Lord God of our saluation for euer and euer and let all the people say Amen Amen 1. Sam. 12.24.25 Now therefore feare yee the Lord and serue him in the truth withall you hearts and consider how great thing he hath done for you But if you do wickedly ye shall perish both ye and your King He that eateth and drinketh and letteth grace passe Sitteth downe like an Oxe and riseth like an Asse Grace before meat WE acknowledge and confesse this fauour of thine eternall God and gratious Father that it pleaseth thy maiestie to giue vnto vs so
many oportunities to meete together we beseech thee to blesse vs and our méeting at this time and all thy good creatures prouided for vs and graunt that we may vse them soberlie as in thy presence and receiue them thankfully as from thine hand to the glory of thy name the good of our bodies and the future saluation of our soules through Christ our Lord and alone blessed Sauiour Amen Grace before meate ALmighty Lord God and our mercifull Father we beséech thy Maiesty to bée good vnto vs in the pardon and forgiuenesse of our sinne past by the assistance of thy good and holy Spirit to preuent all them that are to come to watch ouer vs as thou hast done by thy special prouidence to direct vs continually by thy holy word to blesse vs in the vse of all thy good creatures that nowe we shall receiue from thy bountifull hand giuing strength to them to nourish vs and giuing hearts vnto vs to bée thankefull vnto thée for the same And graunt that whether wée eate or drinke or whatsoeuer wée doe else wée may doe all to the glory of thy most holy name through Christ thy Sonne and our onely Sauiour Amen Grace after meate VVE beséech thy Maiestie eternall God and gracious Father to make vs truly and vnfainedly thankful vnto thée for all those mercies that we haue receiued and for all those iudgements that we haue escaped both temporall concerning this life and eternall concerning that life to come for thy gracious prouidence this day past for our comfortable peaceable chearfull méeting together in thy feare at this time and for all thy good creatures bestowed vpon vs for the comforting refreshing of these féeble and weake bodies of ours Now we humbly intreate thée that as thou hast fed them with that food which is conuenient necessary for the same so it would please thée to féed our soules with that food which perisheth not but endureth to eternall euerlasting saluation so as we may séeke so to passe through these thinges temporall that finally wee loose not things eternall Blesse with vs thine vniuersall Church our Kings and Quéenes Maiesty the Prince their Realmes O Lord continue thy truth peace among vs with the pardon and forgiuenesse of all our sins this day at this time and heretofore committed against thée through Christ our Lord and blessed Sauiour Amen Another after meat O Lord of eternall glory who half elected vs in the loue of a Father redeemed vs by the obedience of thy Sonne sanctified vs by the operation of thy spirit preserued vs hitherto by thy gratious prouidence instructed vs many times by thy good holy word and now at this present and often heretofore most graciously and bountifully refreshed comforted vs with thy good creatures with the mutuall societie comfort one of another hast bestowed many other good blessings and benefits vpon vs as health of body peace of conscience and abundance of thy good creatures which thou hast denied to many of thy seruants deare children which deserue the same as well as our selues thy maiesties name bee blessed and praised of vs and thy whole church both now and for euermore Amen Serenissimo Regi Iacobo Franciscj Bertj Carmen gratulatorium PApa quid effrendis quid frendis Roma superbaÌ„ Quod nunc te faciat dic mihi nunc quid habes Bella quid Arma Minae quid Bellarmine tonasti Quid nostros sic tu mordicus ore premis Quid parsone canis tu personale Britanne Siccine relligio fulta cruore tua Sanguine placari diuos animisque litandum Anglorum stulti creditis vnde fides Vana fides falsa fides hac luditur arte Nescia plebs vera religione fâ—ui Sperastis sine spe sed spem deusipse fefellit Etquam sperastis non fuit atra dies Non fuit atra dies quam fex haec vestra papalis Stuxerat in vestrum concidit illa caput Nil ficti factique dei nil lignea virgo Et nil sanctorum saxea turba valet Non ea nostra voco vis haec Romana valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite vos alios Ludite vos alios non hijs deludimur Angli Relligio vestra est san guinolenta nimis Aspicite ô ciues et vos generosa propago Dicite non veros credilis esse lupos Credimus et mentes si non dementia fallat Hic iterum talis non metuenda dies Sume animum gladiumque tibi viresque Iacobe Pugnabit pro te qui titus ipse deus Sume animos gladios nostras accipe vires Quod magis est nostram sume Iacobe fidem Same animos animasque simul tesospite nostrum Quicquid erit nostrum non erit omne tuum Omne tuum pia vota preces adiungimus istis Qua possis multo fortior esse fidem His fortis satis esse potes his vtere pennis Ne te decipiat Roma cruenta caue FINIS