Iesus christ our lorde and Sauiour So be it Afther that thou hast praied on this maner seīg that we be all sinners it shal be expedient if thou hast conuenient leasure therunto to confesse thy selfe on this maner vnto God the father The confessyon of our synnes vnto God the father O Almightie God ād heauenlie father / maker of heauen and earth / I confesse my selfe vnto the / euen from the very harte / that I am a miserable / wretched and abhominable synner Ande haue wickedlie transgressed all thy holy commaundementes / and the diuine preceptes of thy Godlie will The synnes alas which I haue cōmitted in my flesh against the are so great and so excedingly encreased / that they are no lesse innumerable then the sandes of the sea And they thrust me downe euen as an intollerable burden In these wicked synnes oh lorde God haue I hitherto walked according to the wil of the prince of the world / whiles I dyd that that was pleasaunt to the flesh ande euell lustes / thorough vayne thoughtes / the blindnes of my harte / the outwarde pretence of Godlynes and fained faith This came to passe Ah wretche that I am because that I dyd neuer aernestly stryue against the suggestiōs of Sathan / nor the concupiscences or desyres of the world / nor yet the lustes of my flesh But fylthilie obeied them a thousād tymes more / than the admonicions of thy holie spirite O lorde my God It came to passe also / that I dyd set nought by thy Godly counsell / despised thy holie name / and feared thy vengeaunce and heauy displeasure nothing at all But what soeuer I haue in this behalf offended thy moost Godly maieste / it sore repēteth me / ād the faulte greueth me euē vnto the very harte And if it were not o moost mercifull father that thou haddest layde vp mercy in the bowelles / bloude ād woundes of Iesus Christ thy sonne ande our lorde / for so manie as vnfainedly repent and trulie beleue be their synnes neuer so great and manie / I shulde see none other waye / but throwe my selfe downe headlong through desperation into the bottomles pit of hell But for as moche as thou haste sett thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ / to be our mediatour and mercie stocke And haste promised grace / mercy and forgiuenes of synnes to as many as aske it in his name / through faith in his bloude Therfore in this tyme of grace and mercye / I myserable synner come nowe vnto the / ande desire the my lorde God that thou wilt graunt me / thorowe that our lorde Iesus Christ / a right ande true faith And for his sake / forgiue me all my synnes / and make me to walke dayly more and more in a newe harte / and in the frutes of the holy ghoost / that I maye vtterly despise all the vngodly lustes of this worlde / and that I maye be founde continent / pure of liuing temperate / good rightuous / honest / diligent in all goodnes / meke / mercifull / modest / humble and ready to forgiue soche as offend me / euen from the very harte And so lyue all the dayes of my lyue accordyng to thy dyuine wyll and true feare That I maye die to the world / to all sinne and to my selfe And with a good confydence and mery harte / loke for the comminge of the lorde / ād my sauiour Iesus Christe To whome with the and the holy ghoost / be all honour ande glorie for euer and euer So be it Thou mayest if thou wilt after thy confessyon / saye the lordes prayer called the Pater noster And so commending thy selfe vnto God fall to some honest ād vertuous exercyse / according vnto thy calling But what so euer thou doest / do it with purenes of harte / and with synglenes of eye Yea so do it / as though God were present / and loked vppon the / as vndoubtedly he doth The prayer to be sayde when thou goest to bedde O God the almightie lord / by whose ordre ande wyll the night ande darknes do nowe approche / wherin we shal giue our selues to quiet and slepe We moost instauntly desyre the / that thou graciously receaue vs into thy tuicion ande kepinge / that the prince of darkenes do not hurte vs with his terrous and feares And although we must slepe / because of oure feblenes / yet let oure harte and minde wacche vnto the. Go thou before vs / and shewe vs the waye as a piller of fyre / that we maye followe the so well in rest / as in busynes ande occupations of this lyfe And graunt that we be not founde in thy syght / children of nyght ād darkenes / but of daye and lyght / through Iesus Christ our lorde So be it An other Prayer THys our mortall body / whiche through synne daylye decayeth ād diminissheth / must at the last altogether perish ād become earth / wherof it is come and made ād then shall our vanitie / whiche we through our owne ignoraunce / haue made vnto our selues / take an ende But moost mercifull creatour and maker of all thinges / vouchsafe so to breake / deuide and dyssolue me / thy poore creature who am gathered / knyt and made of the / and graunt that I maye alwayes haue in minde / thy dissolution / and of whome I am knit together / hauing an eye to what place I must go to thintēt that I / not being prepared / be no brought without nuptiall or brydall garment / before thy iudgement seate For like as whē the daye is ones past / we giue our selues to rest / euē so must we / this life being ended / rest in the death Nothing is more lyke vnto life / then the daye / ande nothing more like vnto death / then the night And nothing so lyke the graue or sepulchre as the couche bedde or bedsteade Thus / good keper ād defēder frō all euell / graūt vs / nowe lying in impotencie and feblenes / of our selues / that / through the / we maye be preserued this night from all the assaultes of the deuell of hell AMEN Whan thou goest to thy labour or worke Prayer O Moost kinde and gentle heauenly father / thou knowest / and hast also taught vs / howe great the weakenes of mā is / so that man without thy Godly helpe can do nothing Thus vouchsafe to sēde vs thy holie spirite / that he may strengthen / stirre ande moue our vnderstanding and reason / in all thinges that we this daye outwardely shall go aboute and take in hande / or of that we inwardlie shall thinke or haue in minde / to the intent that it may all be done to thy glorie / ād to the proffyt of our neighbour So be it Whan a man is bounde towardes anye Iourney Prayer THys our lyfe / most mercifull lorde / is nothing els but a pilgrimage and through fare / for we haue here
giue the an euel reporte / aÌ„d so thou be faine to heare thy shame of euery man Eccl. 4â— Eccl. 26. b Thou shalt not holde thy doughter to whoredome / that the laÌ„de fal not to whoredom / aÌ„d waxeful of wickednesse Leuit. 29. If thy doughter be not shamefaste / holde hee strayghtly / least she abuse her self thorowe ouermoch lyberté Beware of all the dyshonestie of hereyes Deut. xxiij Num. xxv Deu xxij c Mich. 1. b Eccle. xxij There shal be no whoore amonge the doughters of Israell / neither whorekeper amonge the doughters of Israell A misnurtered sonne is the dishonour of the father A folish doughter shal be litle regarded And she that commeth to dishoneste bringeth her father in heauynes A doughter that is paste shame / dyshonoureth both her father and her husbaÌ„d Collos iij. c Ye fathers / rate not your children / least they be of a desperate minde Prou. xiij c Psal xâ—iij Hebr. xij b Psal xxxiii Ephe. vi a He that spareth the rodde / hateth hys sonne / but who so loueth him / holdeth hiÌ„ euer in nurtoure Ye fathers / prouoke not your children vnto wrath / but bring them vp in the nurtoure and information of the lorde Prou xxiij and xiij c Eccl. xxx a Witholde not correction from the childe for if thou beatest hym with the rodde / he shall not dye therof Thou smitest him with the rodde / but thou delyuerest his soule from helle Let the elder men be sober honest / dyscrete / sounde in the fayth in loue / in pacience Tito ij 2 Let the olde womeÌ„ shewe them selues as it becommeth holynes / that they be no false accusers / not geuen to moche wyne / that they teache honest thinges / that they enforme the yong women to be soberminded / to loue theyr husbandes / to loue their chyldren / to be discrete / chaste / huswiflye / good / obedient vnto theyr husbandes that the worde of God be not euell spoken of Genes iij. â— Let the yongmen lykewyse be sober Howe youth shall obey their elders / honouring them in the feare of the lorde ephes vj. a Collos iij. exod 20. b Ye childreÌ„ obeye your elders in the lorde / for that is right Honoure thy father / and thy mother / that is the fyrst coÌ„maundement that hath any promys / that thou maist prosper aÌ„d lyue longe vppon earth Tito jj a Lett the yongemen be sobermynded i Petr. ij Ye yonger submitte your selues vnto the Elder eccl vij c and iij. a Honoure thy father from thy whole harte / ande forgett not the sorrowfull trauayle that thy mother had with the. RemeÌ„bre that thou wast borne thorowe them / ande howe canst thou recompense theÌ„ the thiÌ„ges that they haue done for the Tobi. iii e Holde thy mother in honoure all the dayes of thy lyfe Tobi. iiii a For thou oughtest to remembre / what ande howe great parelles she suffred for the in hyr wombe My sonne / care ande bewyse / so shall thyne harte prosper in the waye Prouer. 23 Let not thyne harte be gelous to followe synners but kepe the styll in the feare of the Lorde all the daye loÌ„ge Prouer. 22 Kepe no company with wine bibers and riottous eaters of flesh / for soch as be droÌ„kards aÌ„d riotours shall come to pouerte / ande he that is geueÌ„ to moch slepe / shall go with a ragged coate Geue eare vnto thy father that begatte the / and despise not thy mother whan she is olde The lorde will haue the father honoured of the children / aÌ„d loke what a mother coÌ„maundeth her childreÌ„ to do / he wil haue it kept Eeccel iiii Exod. 20 â— Deut. v â— Who so honoureth his father his synnes shal be forgeuen him aÌ„d he that honoureth his mother / gathereth treasure to gether Who so honoureth hys father shall haue ioye of his owne children / and whan he maketh hys prayer he shal be hearde He that feareth the lorde / honoureth his father and mother / and doth them seruice / as it were vnto the lorde hym selfe Honoure thy father in dede / in worde aÌ„d in all pacyence / that thou mayste haue his blessyng / for the blessyng of the father / buildeth vp the houses of the childreÌ„ / but the mothers curse / rooteh oute the foundacions Genes xxvi â—nâ— iiâ—â— deut xxâ— iij My sonne / make moche of thy father in his age / and greue him not as longe as he lyueth And if his vnderstanding faite / haue pacience with him / and despise him not in thy strength He that forsaketh his father / shall come to shame / ande he that defieth his mother as cursed of God Pro. xix d He that hurteth father / or shutteth oute his mother / is a shamefull ande an vnworthy sonne Leuit. xix Thou shalt rise vp before a graye head / and shalt geue reuerence vnto the aged Howe the Master aÌ„d mastres ought to vse theÌ„ selues towardes theyr / seruauntes He that delycately bringeth vp his seruaunt from a chylde shall make hym hys master at length Prou. xxix Whereas thy seruaunt worketh truly / intreate hym not euell / nor the hyresynge that is faithfull vnto the. Eccl. vij c Loue a dyscrete seruaunt as thine owne soule The fodder / the whippe ande the burden belongeth vnto the asse / meate correction and worke / vnto the seruauntte If thou lett thy seruaunt labour / thou shalt find rest / but if thou let him go Idel / he shall seke lyberte The yoke aÌ„d the whippe bowe downe the necke / but tame thou the euel seruauÌ„t with bandes and correction Set hym to worke / for that beloÌ„geth vnto him and becommeth hym well If he be not obedient / bind his fete / but do not to moch vnto hym in any wyse / aÌ„d without discretion do nothing If thou haue a faithfull seruaunt / let hym be vnto the as thine owne soule / for in bloude hast thou gotten hym / if thou entreatest him euel / and kepest him harde / he will ronne awaye from the. Col. iij. c Ye masters / do vnto your seruauntes that whyche is iust ande equall / ande knowe that ye also haue a master in heauen thes 6. a. eccle 33. d Collo ij c Ye masters / put awaye your threateninges / and knowe that theyr GOD / is your God also / neyther is there any respect of parsones with hym Be not as a lion in thyne owne house / destroying thy housholde folkes / and oppressynge them that are vnder the. Who so euer worketh any thynge for the / Immediatly gyue him his hyre / and loke that thy hyred seruauntes wagis remayne not by the ouer night Tobi. iiij c Deut. 24. c The workemans labour shall not byde with the / vnto the mornyng Leuit. 19. c Tobi. iiij a He that defraudeth the labourer of his hyre /
wyne / and experte to set vp dronkennes Pro. xxiij Where is wo wher is sorrowe where is strife where is brawling where are woundes without cause where be reade eyes Is it noâ— amonge those that be euer at the wine / and seke oute where the best is / and occupie them selues to drinke oute gâ—bâ—eâ—s glases aÌ„d cuppes Loke not thou vppon the wine howe read it is / aÌ„d what colour it is iÌ„ the glasse It goeth doun softlie / but at the last it biteth like a serpent / aÌ„d stingeth like an Adder And when a man is dronk / he casteth his eyes vnto straunge women / ande dothe muse vppon froward thinges Luk. 21. c Rom. 13. b Take hede vnto your selues / that your hartes be not ouerladen with excesse of eating and with dronkennes Wyne is maruelous stronge and ouer commeth them that drinke it / it deceaueth the minde aÌ„d bringeth both the poore maÌ„ and the kinge to dotage aÌ„d vanite iii. Esdras ij Prou. xx a Thus doth it with the boÌ„dman aÌ„d with the free / with the poore and riche It taketh awaie their vnderstanding and maketh them careles and merie / so that none of them remembreth any heauines / dette or duetie It causeth also a man to thinke that the thinge which he doth / is honest and good / and remembreth not in what auctorite he is / and that he ought not to do soche thinges Moreouer whan men men are drinkinge / they forget all freÌ„dship / all brotherly faythfulnes and loue But as sone as they are droÌ„ken / they drawe oute the swearde / and will fight And whan they are laide downe from the wine / ande so rysen vp againe / they can not tell what they did Wyne is a voluptuous thinge / ande dronckennes causeth sedicion / who so deliteth therin / shall neuer be wyse Prou. xx a Ephe. b. b Be not thou a wyne bebber / for wyne hath destroied many a man Prou. 21. a Ephes v. b O howe well content is a wise man with a litle wine The fyre proueth the harde yron / euen so doth wine proue the hartes of the proude / whan they be dronken eccle xxxjd Prou. xxxj 1. Timo. 5. Wyne soberly dronken / quickeneth the life of man If thou drinkest it measurably / thou shalt be temperate Wyne was made from the beginniÌ„g to make meÌ„ glad and not for dronkennes Wine measurably dronken / is a reioycing for the soule and body But if it be dronken with exces / it maketh bitternes and sorrowe vnto the minde Dronkennes fylleth the minde of the foolish / with shame ande ruine / dimynissheth the strength / aÌ„d maketh wouÌ„des Ephe. v â— Be not droncken / for therin is excesse Exhortation vnto all synners generally Ezech. xviij Deut. xiiij 4. Reg. 14. The same soule that sineth / shal die The childe shall not beare the fathers offence / nether shal the father beare the childes offence But the rightuousnes of the rightuous shal be vpoÌ„ hiÌ„ selfe / aÌ„d the wickednes of the wicked shal be vppoÌ„ hiÌ„ self also ii Para. 25. Iere iii. 18. a But if the vngodly will turne awaye from all his synnes that he hath done / and kepe all my commaundementes / and do the thinge that is aequall aÌ„d right / doutles he shall liue ande not dye And I will thinke no more vppon all his synnes that he did before ezech 18. a For I haue no pleasure in the death of a synner saith the lord God but rather that he conuert and lyue A generall exhortation vnto all men Thou shalt reprehend thy brother whan he synneth / least his offence come ouer all Leuit. 19. c Be ye all of one mynd / one suffer with an other / loue as bretheren / be pitifull / be curteous i Petr. iij. b Recompense not euel for euell / neyther rebuke for rebuke / but cotrary wise / blesse / and knowe that ye are called therto / euen that ye shuld be heires of the blessinge For who so listeth to liue / and wolde faine see good dayes / let him refraine his soÌ„g from euell / and his lippes that they speake no gile Genes xii Math. xv Let him eschue euell / ande do good Let him seke peace and ensue it For the eyes of the lorde / are ouer the rightuous / and his eares are open vnto their prayers But the face of the lorde beholdeth them that do euell Finis A right goodly rule howe all faithfull christians shall occupie and exercise them selues in their daily prayers ¶ Luke xxij Math. vj. ¶ Christ teacheth vs in his Gospell saying Praye that ye fall not into temptation IMPRINTED at Ippeswych by Anthony Scoloker Dwellyng in S. Nycholas Parryshe Anno. 1548. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum Howe a man shall behaue him selfe in the morning when he ryseth When thou risest in the morninge / loke that thou with all humblenes of minde / knele downe / ande lifting vp thy harte / thy handes ande thyne eyes into heauen / vnto God the father almightie / praie on this manner The prayer for the morning O Almyghtie aÌ„d moost geÌ„tle God we thanke the for the swete slepe and comfortable reste / that thou hast geuen vs this night And for as moche as thou hast commaunded by thy holy worde / that no maÌ„ shuld be ydle / but all waies occupied iÌ„ vertuous exercises / euerye maÌ„ according to his calling We most humbly beseche the / that thine eyes maye attend vppon vs / dayly defende vs / in sorowe succour vs / cherish comforte ande gouuerne all our councels / studies and labours In soche wise that we maye so speÌ„de this daye / according to thy moost blessed will / without hurtinge of our neighbour / that we maye diligentlie and warelye eschue and auoide all thinges that shulde displease the / set thy alwayes before oure eyes / liue in thy feare / and euer worke that that maye be fouÌ„de acceptable before thy diuine Maieste / vnto the praise of thy moost holye name / through Iesu Chryst our lorde So be it An other prayer for the Mornyng SEeyng that thou O heaueÌ„ly father act that one ande alone almightie God / which art in euerie place / beholdest the councels / deuises and workes / yea / the very thoughtes of all men / and geuest to euery one according to theyr dedes We beseche the that for as moche as thou haste moost graciouslye preserued vs this night we may not speÌ„d this daye after oure owne minde aÌ„d pleasure which is alwaies euell and wicked but earnestly loke vppon / and dyligentlye followe thy fatherlie wil / thine euerlastiÌ„g couÌ„sel / thy healthful worde aÌ„d thy pleasure which is alwaies good / parfect aÌ„d holie / and fulfyll the same with good harte / that thy diuine name may alwayes be saÌ„tified / both nowe and euer of vs miserable synners through thy derely beloued sonne