establisht in my union and Communion with Christ and his Church And enable me to discerne the body of the Lord Jesus put me into an holy extasy of heavenly longing after Christ And whilst he descendeth unto me in that holy reflection let me ascend unto him in heavenly devotion Let not my soul be satisfied with any thing but my Jesus Give me thy Christ O God take what thou wilt from me give me my Jesus and do what thou wilt unto me for in him I shall be sure of thy tender love let that love do what it will Thou bidst me love thee do what I will I say unto thee love me and do what thou wilt wound me chasten me kill me so that thou love me I aske nothing of thee but thy Christ and thy Love Oh my God I am undone I am lost for ever I am a fire-brand of hel it had been better for me that I had been a Toad a Serpent a Worm a dead clod of clay that I had never lived that I had never been conceived or born if thou shouldst with-hold my Jesus from me But if I have him I have thee and heaven and Angells and the world and life and all Oh my God give me my Jesus and give thy self unto me in him make me to give my self unto thee in him And oh make room for thy Christ in my Soule turn out the world and the flesh sin turn me out of my self that there may be room for my Jesus that my heart may be as a large upper-room furnished for my heavenly Saviour to keep his Passeover in my Soul Let it be a large room for my great Jesus let my heart contain him for whom the whole world is too little extend the grasp of my affections O God make me unsatiable in an holy covetousnesse after Christ and the more I taste of him the more I enjoy him the more make meto desire him And let my heart be an upper-room not an Earthly but an Heavenly minde For the entertainment of my heavenly Jesus for he can dwell no where but in an heavenly place Yea let his presence in my heart turn my heart into heaven for it is his presence that maketh heaven and this is the heaven of heavens it self Oh let all earthly things be vile unto me now that I look for my heavenly Jesus Give me an holy pride an holy ambition greatness of spirit that I may look upon all the things of this world as unworthy of my thoughts since my Jesus is pleased to think upon me to call for my heart and to come unto me Oh let my soul be a well furnisht room furnisht with all the furniture of heavenly love and of all thy heavenly Graces for the entertainment of my Glorious Jesus Yet withall give me an humble heart that I may put no trust at all in my self or in any thing that is in me or that can be or hath been perform'd by me But cast me down into an holy despair of my self and of all righteousnesse Wisdome Strength or Worthinesse or comfort in my self that I may trample my self as filthy sinfull dung under my feet before thee and cast my self down at the feet of thy mercy relying only upon thy goodness thy Christ for my acceptance and for my salvation Help me O God in the examination and in the reformation of my sinns Help me in the triall and in the exercise of thy graces that knowledg may be saving faith found and repentance true and love unfained and thankfullnesse sincere and reverence awfull and desire enflamed my soul truly humbled That thou mayest exalt me in the greatness of thy mercy and feed my soul with the riches of thy goodness and the delicates of thy heavenly joyes that I may returne refreshed with thy favour and enlightened beutified with thy truth holiness like Moses out of the Mount and strengthened with the might of thy strength from the holy table of thy Son Through the same thy dear Son and our blessed Saviour our Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer when the Bread and Wine is brought to the Table OH most Glorious God we praise thee we blesse thee we glorify thy sacred name here prostrate in our souls and bodys before thee we desire to present unto thee the homage of our thankfull hearts for thy great and wonderfull mercy that thou hast been pleased to shew unto us miserable sinners that lay in the Jaws of hell under the sentence of condemnation to eternal death for our sins in sending thy dearly beloved and only begotten Son Christ Jesus to become man for us and to offer up his precious Body and Blood upon the Crosse to be a Sacrifice unto thee for our sins where by he hath made an eternal 〈…〉 to practise it diligently to the benefit of my Soul and to the glory and honour of thy holy Name Prepare my heart for all holy approaches unto thy holy Table for the time to come Make me frequent and humble sincere and fervent in prayer Help we to follow and imitate all good patterns and holy examples which thou settest before me in thy Son and in thy Saints and preserve me from the contagion of all evill society Make me an ensample of all vertue unto others make me daily and hourely to grow in grace and forgetting those things that are behinde to presse toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus making it my great and onely businesse to serve thee my God and to set forward my self and others unto salvation Help me to give all diligence to make my Calling and Election sure and to pass my so journing here in feare Keep me within the bounds of that Calling to which thou hast called me that I may walk quietly obediently industriously chearefully and conscionably therein and as much as in me lieth live peaceably with all men Suffer me not to give offence or scandal unto any by the uncharitable or imprudent use of that liberty thou hast given me but grant unto me and all that have now received with me and to all that name the name of the Lord Jesus that we may depart from iniquity and walke in love and meeknesse in all humility and righteousness and holinesse before thee That we may be blamelesse and harmlesse as the children of God without rebuke in the midst of this untoward and perverse generation Help me and all of us to profit under all thy dispensations to be patient and confident in adversity to be humble and temperate and thankful and merciful in prosperity and in whatsoever state we are therewith to be content Make us holy to thee obedient to Magistrates all those whom thou hast set over us regardfull of thy Ministers esteeming them very highly for their workes sake conscionably respectfull to all our relations Make us just and loving and peaceable and comfortable towards one another
that he may stand with joy and comfort before the Tribunal of thy Sonne Christ Jesus and receive the blessed sentence of everlasting life and salvation give him a saving sight and sense of his sinns that he may mourn for them from the bottom of his heart and offer unto thee the sacrifice of a broken and contrite spirit which thou O God wilt not despise grant him that godly sorrow that worketh Repentance unto salvation not to be repented of let nothing be so grievous unto him as that he hath sin'd against thee his mercifull and gracious God the God of his life and of his being and of all the blessings and comforts that ever he hath enjoyed The God that didest not spare thine own Sonne but gavest him up to dye for him enable him to confesse his sins unto thee that he may mouth for his sinns and finde pardon from thee affect him with a perfect hatred against sin that he may hate it above death hell it self Help him to loath himself for all those offences that he hath committed against thee make him vile in his own eyes that he may be dear precious in thy sight and give him a true love unto thy Lawes and Commandements that it may be the joy of his heart to do thy heavenly will in all things and let the sense and horrour of the corruptions of his nature and the wickednesse of his life not drive him from thee but let it drive him unto thee that he may fly for refuge into the bosome of that rich mercy that thou hast opened unto him in the Lord Jesus Christ Help him to reforme every thing that is amisse and to give himself up wholly unto thee to seek thy glory and to do thy heavenly will in all things purge and cleanse his soul from all evill thoughts ungodly affections distempered passions from all sinfull inclinations whatsoever and fill him full of holy thoughts of heavenly meditations devour affections and good inclinations toward thee his God wean him from the world and from all the vanities thereof and from all the sinfull pleasures of the flesh that he may set his affections wholly upon thee and upon things that are above where Christ Jesus sitteth at thy right hand seal unto him his pardon in the blood of thy Sonn by the inward testimony and grace of thy spirit let thy spirit of adoption cry Abba father in his heart strengthen his faith unto an holy and comfortable assurance of his interest in Christ crucified and in all thy mercies towards thy people in him make him to know that though he is a miserable sinner in himself yet the Death and Passion of thy Son hath satisfied thy Justice for all his iniquities and that though he hath no righteousnesse of his own to plead unto thee yet the righteousnesse of thy Son is his Justification in thy sight Oh Transcribe the promises of thy holy Gospel upon the Table of his heart that they may be unto him the sure evidence of his eternal inheritance in heaven Oh let the Mediation and Intercession of thy Sonne Christ Jesus at thy right hand prevaile with thee for all those mercies and graces and heavenly blessings that are needfull for him And let the sense of thy great mercies toward him and of thy great love unto him in the Lord Jesus his Saviour enflame his soul with an holy and fervent love unto thee that he may love thee with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his minde and with all his strength that he may love thee above his life and above his soul and that he may be willing to part with all that is dear unto him for thee that nothing may be dear unto him in respect of thee That he may love thee in all thy perfections in all thy mercies and all thy works in all thy dispensations in all thy corrections that thou art pleased to lay upon him Help him to discover thy tender mercy and Fatherly loving kindnesse unto his Soul shining forth unto him through all the clouds of that sickness and affliction that is or shall be upon him from thy hand and to taste thy sweetnesse in all the bitternesse of his trouble give him some comfortable relishes of those incomprehensible joyes and delights that are in thee that as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so his soul may long and thirst and faint and languish after thee make him sick of love toward thee which is the only true health of his Soul Blessed God furnish thy servant with true Christian love charity to all thy people for thy sake Help him to forgive al that have wronged him to love his enemies to blesse them that curse him to do good to them that hate him to pray for them that despightfully use him and persecute him Give him reconciled affections to all with whom he hath had any difference make him desirous to do good unto all and as much as in him lyeth to live peaceably with all men Direct him and incline him readily willingly to seek reconciliation and to make satisfaction in case he hath done wrong or given any just cause of offence unto any Help him to settle his estate according to the rules of prudence righteousnes and charity to shew mercy to the poor as thou enablest him and to order all his affairs with discretion Bind him up in the Communion of thy Church and in the fellowship of a spiritual love and of a heavenly life with thy people give him tender affections towards thy Church and to those that are thine in faith and holinesse that he may be known to be thy disciple by his love unto thy people Give him patience to submit unto thy chastisements that he may bear them with a christian minde make him with a child like affection to accept of thy correction and to kiss every rod wherewith thou smitest him for his good give him an heart wholy resigned up unto to thy heavenly pleasure that he may refer himself entirely unto thee to choose for him and to deal with him as thou knowest to be most expedient that he may entrust thee as his merciful father reconciled to him in Christ and as the alwise and all sufficient God with his life and soul and all his happiness and with all his relations and concernments And deal with him in all things tenderly and graciously according to those bowells of compassion that thou bearest to thy people Be thou health unto him in all his sicknesse strength unto him in all his weaknesse comfort unto him in all his distresse life unto him in death it self stand by him in all temptations and trials to keep him from fainting and to give him the victory in Christ Jesus that he may obtain the Crown of thy heavenly glory Binde up Satan and all his spiritual enemies that they may not be able to hurt him make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and
excellency and perfection The Angels are amazed at the brightnesse of thy glory The Devils tremble at the dreadfulness of thy Majesty what am I that I should approach unto thee Oh my God Thou art a holy God and of purer eyes than to behold iniquity Thou canst haveno communion with Belial thou canst have no fellowship with unrighteousnesse And I am a base wretched unholy unthankful sinner overspread from top to toe soul and body with a leprosy of sin and my very righteousnes are as filthy rags Thy Angels thou chargedst with folly and the Stars are not pure in thy sight and how shall I then appear before thee or draw near unto thee Oh my God thou art all light and I am a cloud of darknesse Thou art a wise God and I am a foolish and simple creature so blinde that I can neither bear thy light nor discover my own blindeness as I ought to do and how then shall my darkness endure the beams of thy heavenly light and not be confounded at thy unsupportable brightness Oh my God I am a poor a weak feeble worm trodden under foot and trampled bruised in the dirt and mire of corruption by mine own sins and wickednesses thou art a strong a powerfull and an Almighty God that artable with a look of thine to frown me into no thing and into hell that art able with one thought of thine to think me to destruction how then dare my weakness and nothingnesse approach unto thy Grace invisible strength and not expect to be crushed into nothing undone And yet O Lord now thou callest me I am about to come unto thee and what shall I say or doe O God how am I perplexed with severall sears if I come not when thou callest I am in danger to provoke thy wrath by dispising thy Authority if I come I may seem to be in danger to incense thine anger by offending against thy Majesty I may justly he afraid to come by reason of my sin and yet O Lord if I forbear to come this will encrease my sin And in so great a strait that I am in what can thy poor sinfull creature do Oh my God I am undone know not what to do unles thou help me To thee therefore I come O Lord desiring to receive thy heavenly Councel and advice that I may obey thy authority that I may not faile of thy mercy Othou that hast called me unto thee let thy compassion pitty my vileness let thy mercy pardon my sinfulnesse let thy grace cleanse my filthinesse let thy wisdome enlighten my darkness let thy strength support my weakness Pardon me by thy mercy that I may receive thy grace fit me by thy grace that I may receive thy mercy Let thy spirit be thy holy Harbinger to provide entertainment for thy Son and my heavenly Lord Christ Jesus in my soul that he may come and make it the Sanctuary of his holiness Adorne me O God with the wedding garment of the righteousnesse of thy Son the holiness of thy spirit that all my nakedness may be covered and my great deformities may be hid from thine eyes Purge away all the polutions of my heart life that thou mayest not be offended at me nor in ty displeasure cast me out Fill me with heavenly desires toward my Lord Jesus with holy meditations of the wonders of thy love with holy devotions to the excellency of thy glory Send a beam of thy light from heaven into my heart that I may be illuminated thereby to the right understanding of those great mercies thou offerest unto me vailed with the cloud of thy divine mysteries and that I may understand my Saviours heavenly language in the Sacrament both in the mysterious signs what he speaks in them in the mysterious words what he speaks of them That I may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent which is eternal life That I may know the power of his sufferings And that I may be able to comprehend what 's the breadth and the length and the depth and the height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge That I may know them so as to be enflamed by them Oh let thy heavenly beams be contracted upon my heart and shine upon it through the burning glass of thy love in this Sacrament That all the light may burne and that all my knowledg of thee and of thy misteries may be turned into love unto thee for they only know thee indeed that love thee For if any man love God he knoweth God or rather is known of him And as thy holy Prophet when he was exalted into a sight of thy Majesty was there by stricken down into an humble sense of his own vileness and iniquity as with a flash of thy heavenly lightening bringing with it a thunder bolt of humiliation that broke his heart as it were in pieces and made that lamentation of his gush out at a breach of his wounded soul Woe is me for I am undone for I am a man of uncleane lips and dwell among a people of uncleane lips for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts So let the sight of thy Glory cast me down into a sense of mine own vileness and iniquity strike an holy terrour into my soul and lay me in the dust at the apprehension of my sins send a thunderbolt of grace from heaven and dash my heart in pieces with contrition for mine offences that I may be undone in my self that so I may be made up again in thee smite the rock of my hard heart with the rod of thy holy fear that the water of repentance may flow out even that pretious heart wate of penitent tears and Godly sorrow for all my transgressions Make me to sow in tears that I may reap in joy and let the apprehension of thy love to me and the heat of my love to thee and my Jesus imprint he impression of his wounds upon my soul that they may wound me first and then heal me and let that love affect me with a perfect hatred against sin and against my self for sin for my sin against thee my great my glorious my gratious God my Maker my Saviour and the God of all my mercies against those sins of mine that have been the Traitors and Murderers of my Dear Saviour and let the sense of thy pardon of my great and manifold sins would me yet the more for them make me to mourn more for pardoned sin than for sin as exposing unto judgement Oh let thy mercy soften me more than thy wrath and make me out of love with all things that engage or move me into sin out of love with the world with the flesh and with my self with my own corrupt and sinfull heart and inclinations that have been so often the factours and the snares of Sathan to my soul that so I may be
set free from all earthly affections and fixed upon thee and upon things that are above and give up my heart and my life wholy to serve and glorify thee my God in a holy and a heavenly conversation which is the true state of Conversion help me to confesse my sins with sorrow and to reforme with joy and to make restitution where I have done wrong as thou givest oportunity and ability and where either are wanting let not will be wanting nor thy acceptance be wanting unto my sincere desires and endeavours Help me to accuse my self that thou mayest acquit me to judge condemn my self that thou mayest absolve me help me to exercise an holy revenge upon my self that thou mayest spare me help me to endeavour a redress of all scandals that I have given to reduce those whom I have seduced or with whom I have complied in any evill way and seal unto me thy pardon in the blood of Christ by the inward testimony of thy sanctifying spirit and let the reformation of mylife be an evidence unto me of the forgiveness of my sins which is the authentick seal of thy Spirit giving the impression of thine own Image Grant me a lively saving faith to believe thy Gospel and all thy Heavenly truthes that thou hast revealed in thy holy Word and to subdue and bring down all mine own thoughts apprehensions imaginations and affections thereunto that I may trust in the Lord with all mine heart and not lean unto mine own understanding Convince me O Lord of that great article of faith that my Jesus is thy Christ and the Son of the living God which is the rock upon which thou buildest thy Church and the gates of hell shal not prevail against it that I may not believe it by relation onely from men but by revelation from thee being wrought unto a full perswasion thereof by the arguments of thy spirit by the holy Prophecies that went before of him in the Old Testament which were all fulfilled in him in the New by the wonderfull miracles which he did by the descending of the Holy Ghost upon him in the visible form of a Dove by the voice from Heaven declaring him to be thy well beloved Sonne in whom thou art well pleased which voice was sent from thy heavenly Throne after his baptisme and at his tranfiguation by the holiness of his life the excellency of his Doctrine by the wonderfull sending of his Holy Spirit upon his Disciples in the likeness of fiery tongues and those excellent and wonderfull gifts that were bestowed upon them by the dreadfull judgment that fell upon the Jews for Crucifying him and reviling the Gospell by the blood of thy victorious Martyrs who sealed thy heavenly truth by their constancy in their sufferings and cruell deaths which they chearfully under went for the Testimony thereof and by the wonderfull wayes whereby thou hast carried on and maintained thy Church and Gospell against all the wisdome and power of the world that was against it Convince my Soul O Lord of that great truth by these arguments and by the experiment of the work of thy Grace in my Soul that I may firmly believe it and rely upon it for my falvation and that I may believe infallibly that this my Saviour by his death and passion hath satisfied for my sins that he hath justified me by his righteousness and that by his mediation he prevails with thee for obtaining of spiritual blessings all mercies needful for me and for the bring home of the fruit and benefit of that redemption which he hath wrought for me unto me bring a penitent sinner Give me faith to lay hold upon the Sacramental promise that I may come with a full and assured expectati on to receive thy Sons body crucified and his blood shed upon the Cross for my sins with all the benefits of his death and passion and of that great Redemption he hath wrought for me truly and really conveyed and applied and sealed to my soul in that thy holy Ordinance Let me take thy heavenly mysteries as thine earnest to oblidge me to serve thee and as thy pledges to assure me of thy love unto me and of my Interest in thy Christ and my Jesus unto my salvation And let my Faith work by Love that in the sense of thy great goodness offered and given unto me in Christ Jesus-I may love thee and thy Christ above all and with all my heart and soul mind and strength Let me think nothing too much to do or suffer for the who didst not think it too much to give thy son thy beloved son to suffer and die for me Enflame me with holy love unto all people that I may give up my self to them to serve them in love make me to own them in al their concernments to pitty them in all their miseries to be ready to relive them in all their wants to comfort them in all their distresses to counsel them in al their perplexity to pardon all their miscarriages towards me to bear their infirmities to study their good to love brotherly fellowship to delight in thy Sts. and holy ones and to walk comfortably chearfully together with them in thy holy worship and service Let not any poisoned dart of rancour or envy or malice or heart burning toward any rankle or feaster my soul But make us al up more more into the mistical body of thy Son that we may keep the unity fo the spirit in the bond of peace that we may be all one in thee as thou and thy Son Christ Jesus are one And let the Peace of God which passeth all nnderstanding rule in our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Give me a thankfull sense and sweet relish of thy great mercy in that great redemption thou hast wrought for my soul by thy blesed Son That I may have an high esteem of thy love in giving thy son for me to be a sacrifice for my sins upon the Cross and in giving him unto me to be the nourishment life of my soul in the Sacrament Oh make me to receive him from thee there with a gratefull soule to return thee the devout and thankfull homage of my heart Strike me into an holy amazment at the wonders of thy great mercy toward me in him to poure out my soule in the praises of thy name to embrace thee in thy Christ and my Jesus with all the dearest affections of my heart to devote and consecrate my self unto thee to be a sacrifice of praise unto thee in the whole course of my life and conversation to rejoyce in the mercy and the loving kindenesse of my God Affect me with an awfull Reverence toward the greatnesse of thy Majesty with whō I there come to renew my Covenant toward the excellency of thy sonne whom I come to receive into my soul Toward the holiness of thy spirit by whom I come there to be
and all thy people sober and chast and undefiled in our selves Make us alwayes mindefull of thy presence with us wheresoever we are or whatsoever we do and to walk before thee as it becometh us in thy sight and as having to do with thee our God in all things Keep us alwayes in the sense of our frailty and of our uncertaine condition and continuance in this world that we may live every day as if it were to be our last and to labour to make our accounts even with thee daily Make us to be often thinking upon the houre of death the day of judgment the paines of Hell and the joyes of Heaven let the dread and aw of eternity be ever upon our Souls Teach us how to carry our selves prudently and innocently in these dangerous times that we may be wise as serpents and harmlesse as Doves and direct us in all the changes that are or shall be upon us in this world to walk inoffensively in thy presence and herein to exercise our selves to have alwayes a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Suffer us neither through sinfull fears to desert our duties or to comply with wickednes or to forsake thy righteousnes or yet imprudently rashly or unadvisedly to cast our selves into any unnecessary dingers and whensoever through our frailty we shall fall into any sinne as what man is he that sins not Oh our God let us not rest in sin nor perish in our iniquities but be thou alwayes ready with thy mercy and grace to raise us up again and to give us repentance unto Salvation Grant all these blessings to me and all thy people And make us all the better for ever for this our approach unto thee this day Through that thy blessed Son whom thou hast given us to be our Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer of Intercession for the sick to be used by those that are with him or that come to visit him OH Eternal God and our most Gracious Father in Christ Jesus That art the God of health and the God of life and the God of all mercy compassion in thy hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind thou woundest and thou healest thou bringest to the grave and bringest back again thou turnest man to destruction and again thou sayest Come again yo children of men thou doest whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and Earth and in things under the Earth And as for us O Lord we are all the workes of thy hand and we are in thy hands at the clay in the hands of the Potter that thou mayest do with us whatsoever pleaseth thee Whilst thou preservest us we live when thou takest away our breath we dy and turn again unto our dust and then all our thoughts perish and after death commeth Judgement wherein we must render an account unto thee our God for the whole course of our lives and conversation and receive from thee according to that which we have done in the body whether it be good or whether it be evill Have mercy O Lord have mercy we beseech thee upon us all thy poore weake fraile sinfull and mortall creatures give us not up unto utter ruin and destruction but grant us thy grace that we may so walke before thee both in sicknesse and in health that we may have comfort in our deaths and look downe wee humbly beseech thee with the eyes of thy tender pitty and compassion upon this thy servant that is here before thee under the visitation of thy heavenly hand it is thou that hast wounded him and it is thou onely that canst heal him it is thou that hast brought him down it is thou onely that canst raise him up and we know Oh Lord that thou art able to do all things all means will be helplesse without thee and thy blessing But thou art able to make the weakest meanes to become beneficiall unto thy people and to help them by thine own power and goodnesse in all they want and in all the failings of outward help Thy word O God is an al sufficient remedy There is no disease so desperate but thou canst Cure it there is no wound so deadly but thou canst heal it thou wert able to raise the Rulers Daughter from the bed when she was in the gripes of death The Widdowes sonne from the beer when he was upon his journey to the grave thou wert able to raise Lazarus out of the Grave when he had bin foure dayes dead and buried And thou art the same God still the same in power and the same in mercy thou hast as open an Eare and as compassionate a heart and as able a hand to hear pitty and help thy poor people as ever thou hadst When Physicians can do nothing and when medicines can do nothing and when Angels can do nothing and when all the creatures are at a stand and when the strength of nature faileth yet there is help and comfort in thee and thou makest the extremities of thy people the opportunities of thy power and goodness To thee therefore O Lord we come beseeching thee to glorify the power of thy mercy in restoring this thy servant to his former health and strength if it be thy blessed will that he may live to praise and glorifie thy name To amend his life to increase in knowledge and grace to do good amongst thy people to make his calling and election more and more sure unto himself against his departure out of this world and that he may have strength of Body and vigorous soundness of his faculties powers to come before thee in the holy Assemblies of thy people and to enjoy the benefit of thy heavenly and publique ordinance Do it Lord if it be thy blessed will speak but the word and thy servant shall be whole Direct him unto the use of those means which thou knowest to be most expedient and let thy blessing be above all means unto him Or if thou hast otherwise determined in thy wisdome and if it be thy heavenly pleasure by this sicknesse to put a period unto the dayes of this his earthly pilgrimage O Lord thy heavenly will be done but let it be done in great mercy and compassion Do nothing in wrath nothing in indignation for Christ Jesus his sake Sanctify this thy visitation unto thy servant that it may be a meanes to prepare him for thy kingdom let the sicknesse of his Body be unto the health of his soul that whether he live he may live unto the Lord and whether he dye he may dye unto the Lord and whether he live or dye he may be the Lords Help him to improve that time that is yet remaining unto him in this world in the best manner to thy glory and to his eternal good make him seriously to minde the things that belong unto his everlasting peace and so to make up his accounts with thee
as outward strength decayeth so let spiritual strength continually increase in him as outward comforts fade vanish let spiritual comforts appear be cleared up more and more unto him and when thou shalt be pleased to call him out of this wretch'd world make him willingly cheerfuly to yield him self up into thy hands and send thine holy angells with a commission of mercy from thy mercy-seat to translate his soul to thy heavenly glory thorow Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer to be used when we hear a Passing-Bell Toll or have any other notice of a Soul ready to depart OH Mercifull God Thou Father of all pitty and compassion open the bowels of thy Tender mercy unto this Soul that seems now ready to depart and to be now entring into the Ocean of Eternity Thou knowest O Lord the state and condition thereof and how it is disposed and prepared for a dissolution O Lord take it not out of this world untill thou hast weaned it from the world that it may have a free passage through thy mercy unto thy eternal mansions of Blessed nesse If thou knowest it may stand with thy Glory and may make for his salvation bring it back from this gate of Death and let it continue in the body and restore this person yet if it be thy blessed wil unto health and strength or if thou shalt be pleased to take this soul hence ô Lord wash it clean from iniquity by the blood of Christ and adorn it with the robe of his perfect righteousness and give it the benefit of the Intercession of thy Son Quicken repentance strengthen Faith raise up in it an holy flame of heavenly love to thee that may carry it up as a sacrifice to the throne of thy Glory Binde it up in the holy peace and Communion of thy Church by the bond of holy love and Christian charity to all thy people Grant patience and strength and spiritual comfort to convey it safe through the pangs torments of dissolution Let not the Enemy have any power to hurt it but take it into thy keeping and into the guard of thy grace and mercy Binde up Sathan and all spiritual adversaries and send thine Angels with a commission of Mercy to convey this Soul unto the habitation of thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this OGracious God be with this person in the holy operations of thy grace and in the yearning of thy tenderest mercies in the dreadfull moment when the Soul shal depart from the body conduct this thy dying creature through the valley of the shadow of death unto the Land of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this IN the midst of life we be in death of whom may wee seek for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sins art justly displeased Yet O Lord most Holy O God most mighty O Holy and mercifull Saviour remember the work of thy hands and the purchase of thy blood give not up this thy departing Creature unto the bitter pain of eternal Death Lord remember now thy great mercy and thy Bloody Sufferings and death and let thy Bowels melt in tender compassion towards this person in this great extremity Shut up Hell and open Heaven O Lord destroy not Oh Lord forsake not O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternal suffer not this person at the last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee Amen A Prayer for the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland proper for all tmes OH most Gracious God who doest Rule and Govern all things who increasest the Nations and destroyest them who enlargest them again look down I beseech thee with the eye of thy tender pitty and compassion upon these poore miserable and sinfull Kingdoms that have now lain for these many years under the load of thy heavy displeasure against them for their sins and are at this time in the mouth of so great ruin and destruction if we be not relieved by thy heavenly mercy O Lord we must all needs confess that our iniquities have been and are still very great against thee and in the very midst of the flames of thine indignation against us we have multiplied our rebellions against thee our God as if we would even bid defiance unto thine anger and dare thee to doe thy worst against us And that blood that bath been wickedly shed in these Nations cryes aloud for vengeance against us so that it were most just in thee to make the ruins of these three Kingdomes the standing monuments of thy displeasure against sinne unto all the rest of the Nations of the world But I humbly beseech thy divine Majesty to pitty a poore perishing people Hear not O Lord the cry of our sins neither heare the cry of that blood that cryes for vengeance but hear the cry of that blood that cryes for mercy even of the blood of thine own dear Son Christ Jesus That speaketh better things than the blood of Abel and hear the Cryes and the Prayers of thy people that call upon thee for Mercy O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord humble and convert us and these whole Nations unto thee O let it be thy pleasure to deliver us make hast O God to help us help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy name Oh deliver us and be mercifull to our sins for thy name sake leave us not to become a prey unto our own iniquities nor to the wicked interests of men But be thou pleased so to over-rule all the publick motions and consultations and all the confusions and distactions that are upon us or shall befall us that whatsoever men shall contrive or designe that whatsoever they shall act or enterprise all things may be drawn in by thy wisdome and thy providence to the advancement of thy glory of the Gospel and Kingdome of thy son amongst us to the restoring of a righteous and lawfull Government in the state of an holy and orderly discipline and ministry in the Church and to the establishment of all these nations in holinesse and truth in righteousnesse and peace and prosperity before thee and help us O God without the shedding of any more innocent blood and without any more bloody confusions and distractions if it be thy blessed will grant this O Lord though we be most unworthy for the worthiness and merrit of thy deare sonne and our onely Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer for the restoring of our afflicted Soveraign O Most Gracious Glorious God Thou King of Kings and Lord of Lords who hast established and ordained Kings and Princes in the world to be thy substitutes in the Rule and Government of thy people As thou hast appointed thine Ordinances of Government for the good and safety of thy people So we beseech thee be thou the Protectour of thine own ordinances and therein of thy peoples