hatefull violations of thy love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull people O my God O my Love I earnestly pray that thy love may so prevail over our hearts that we may sadly lament and abhor all these abominations and may never more provoke thee The Second Commandment O my God O my Love I know the true Love of thee is incommunicable to any but thee and therefore I renounce and detest and bewail as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy love and to thy glory All making of Idols or false Gods or of graven Images with intent of worshipping and bowing down before them All representations and picturing of thee O my God by visible likenesses of things in Heaven or in Earth All corporeal shapes which are infinitely unsutable to thy invisible and spiritual nature and derogatory from thy adorableness All Idolatry and Religious invocation of Creatures All sacrilege and prophanations of thy House and of things sacred All abuse or disesteem or carelesness of thy Word and contempt of thy Ministers All superstitious or unlawfull rites superfluities or mutilations irreverence or indecencies in thy publick worship by which thou art any way dishonoured All resting in mere outward observances or refusing to give thee bodily worship and to fall down before thee All the least tendencies to any of these impieties From all these and the like violations of thy incommunicable Love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull people c. as p. 39. O my God O my Love imprint on my soul an Awfull Love of thy Majesty that I may worship thee in spirit and in truth and in a manner worthy of thee O my God O my Love make me so tender of the Honour of thee my Beloved that I may shew a due regard to all the parts of thy worship That with lowest humiliation of soul and body whenever I appear in the presence of infinite-Love I may fall down and adore thee O my God O my Love O may I always enter thy house the habitation of unbounded Love with recollected thoughts compos'd behaviour becoming reverence and sincere intentions of Love O my God O my Love O may I ever frequent the publick Prayers and approach thine Altar with fervent and heavenly affections with holy impatience for the blessings of thy Love O my God O my Love O may I always reade and hear thy Word the heavenly register of thy Love with a serious attention an inflamable heart and a particular application and ever learn from it some lesson of thy Love O my God O my Love for thy dearest sake give me grace to pay a religious veneration to all sacred persons or places or things which are thine by solemn dedication and separated for the uses of Divine Love and the communications of thy grace or which may promote the decency and order of thy worship or the edification of faithfull people O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of thy love our souls may be continually employed to praise and to love thee c. as p. 39. Thou O my God O my Love art a jealous God jealous of thy own Honour and of the chastness of my Love O let me never run after other Loves or commit spiritual Adultery against thee to provoke thee to anger Thou O my God O my Love dost visit the iniquities of the Fathers upon the children Thou when thy jealousie burns like fire against Idolaters and those that rob thee of thy worship art wont to punish them in their very posterity with temporal evils and with spiritual too when their children tread in their steps for then thou makest their Father's sins occasions of hastning or of increasing thy judgments though thou always sparest the children that repent O let thy just indignation against violating thy Worship deter me and all that profess thy Name from such violations Thy jealousie O my God O my Love falls heavy upon them that hate thee but how is it possible for any one to hate thee who art infinite love and yet alas all that are enemies to thy Divine Worship all that exalt any lust any creature into thy Throne to ascribe their happiness to sacrifice their esteem and zeal and affections and to offer up Sovereign Honours to it what do they doe but love false Gods and hate thee and are therefore hated by thee O Lord God to hate thee is the proper character of Devils and Lucifer himself cannot sin beyond that utmost extremity of evil the hatred of thee and my heart is full of horrour and grief to think that ever those that bear thy Image and daily subsist by thy love should turn themselves into Devils and this World into a Hell by hating thee O boundless Love turn them O turn them into men again and then they cannot chuse but love thee Glory be to thee O my God who shewest mercy to them that love thee and keep thy Commandments Love and Obedience always go together and entail a blessing on the posterity of thy Lovers O keep me always one of that happy number O let me ever love and obey thee Glory be to thee O Lord God whose Love is more diffusive than thy Anger they vengeance extends but to the third or at most the fourth generation thy mercy unto thousands and the more diffused thy Love is the more powerfully it moves us to praise and to love thee The Third Commandment O my God O my Love thy Name is thy own glorious and amiable self thy Divine Nature and Perfections and Works most worthy to be ador'd most worthy to be lov'd and therefore I will always adore and love thy Name O my God O my Love may I ever have awfull thoughts of thee may I never mention thy venerable Name unless on solemn and just and devout occasions may I never mention it on those occasions without acts of love and adoration O my God O my Love to love and to glorify thy Name is the great end of our Creation which is still more enforced by our Redemption O let it be the greatest busineâ—â— of my whole life to love and to glorifie it all the possible ways I can by my mouth by my conversation by my publick confession of thee before men even to death whenever thou art pleas'd to call me to it by engaging all I can to glorify and love thee O happy life O blessed death which is spent and expires in glorifying in loving thee O my God O my Love
deny'st me deny me not a broken and a contrite heart O that my head were waters and my eyes fountains of tears that I might weep much and love much having much to be forgiven Lord hear me help me save me for thy own gratious promise sake for thy own tender mercies sake for the merits and sufferings of Iesus thy beloved in whom thou hast made Penitents accepted Amen Amen Q. Having repented of the violations of your Baptismal Vow shew me how you will renew it A. I shall doe it after this manner I have sinned O Lord God I have sinned and done evil in thy sight but I repent I turn to thee I confess and forsake my wickedness and am sorry for my sins It grieves me O most amiable Goodness it grieves me that ever I offended thee With all my heart O my God do I now renew the Sacred vow which alas alas I have so often violated O Lord God I do for the future Renounce the devil that Arch-rebel against thee with all his Apostate-Angels I renounce all his worship all his impious suggestions delusions and temptations for which he is called the tempter and all the ways of consulting him which ungodly men have taken I renounce all his works all those sins of the Spirit all pride and malice and envy all treachery and lying revenge and cruelty all tempting others to Sin hatred to Holiness and Apostasie which are his daily practice and are truly diabolical I utterly renounce O Lord God the pomps and vanity of this wicked world all covetous desires of honour riches and pleasure all sinfull excesses in things lawfull I renounce Lord all evil customs all evil companions all that is vain or wicked in the world all that friendship with the world which is enmity with thee all things that may alienate my heart from thee I renounce O Lord God all worldly comforts and possessions all my natural relations and my own life whenever they stand in competition with my duty to thee I utterly renounce O Lord God all the sinfull lusts of the flesh all the inordinate desires of my own corrupt nature of my own carnal mind which is enmity with thee I Renounce Lord all fleshly lusts which war against thee and against my own Soul all sloth and idleness and intemperance and lasciviouâ—ness all filthiness of flesh and spirit which render us unclean in thy sight O Lord God I utterly Renounce all things that may any way displease thee from them all let it be thy good pleasure to deliver me I know Lord that Sin is the utmost abomination to thy purity the most audacious outrage to thy Adorable Majesty the perfect contradiction to thy Deity and therefore I utterly renounce and abhor it I know Lord that Sin exposes us to all the Vials of thy wrath and to vengeance eternal I know it sets the Sinner at the extremest distance and opposition and defiance to thee and therefore I utterly renounce and abhor it I know Lord I cannot love thee but I must hate evil and therefore I renounce and detest it Turn thou me O Lord God and so shall I be turned Turn O Lord the whole stream of my affections from sensual love to the love of thee O my God let thy heavenly love be the constant byass of my Soul O may it be the natural spring and weight of my heart that it may always move towards thee Thy love O my God shall hereafter be the sole rule and guide of my life I will love thee and love whatever thou lovest and hate whatever thou hatest I will believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith and I will keep thy Holy Will and Commandments and waâ—â— in the same all the days of my life All this O my God I own my self bound to believe and doe and though of my self I am impotent to all good yet by thy help I will perform it and I heartily thank thee O heavenly Father who out of mere compassion to my Soul hast call'd me to this state of salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Glory be to thee O Lord who hast indulg'd me this opportunity of repentance Glory be to thee who hast wrought in me this Will to renew my Baptismal vow O my God I humbly I earnestly pray unto thee to give me continual supplies of thy grace that I may continue in thy love unto my lives end that being faithfull to death I may receive the Crown of life O Lord God I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments My heart is empty and disengag'd and longs for thee my heart is entirely devoted to thee Enter O my God possess it with thy gratious presence and fill it with thy love Lord for thy tender mercies sake restore me to thy favour to all the graces and privileges of my Baptism of which I have been spoil'd by my sins Lord make me a living member of thy Church the mystical body of thy Son O my God unite me inseparably to Christ my Head and from thence let his gratious influences be ever streaming into my soul Father I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy Son But I return with the Prodigal O let thy paternal bowels yearn on me and gratiously receive me Lord send thy Spirit of Adoption into my heart to instill true filial affections that I may again be own'd by thee for thy Child and call thee Father and share in the blessings of thy Children and at last become an Inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven O heavenly Father accept my imperfect repentance compassionate my infirmities forgive my wickedness purifie my uncleanness strengthen my weakness fix my unstableness and let thy love ever rule in my heart through the merits and sufferings and love of the Son of thy love in whom thou art always infinitely pleas'd Amen This Office may be us'd in times of devout Retirement or on the Lord's day or in Affliction or Sickness but especially before the Holy Eucharist Q. Rehearse the Articles of your Belief A. I. I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth II. And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord III. Who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Uirgin Mary IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried He descended into Hell V. The third day He rose again from the Dead VI. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty VII From thence he shall come to iudge the quick and the dead VIII I believe in the Holy Ghost IX The Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints X. The Forgiveness of Sins XI The resurrection of the body
bodily Sufferings O almighty Love were intolerable but yet thy inward were far greater I grieve I love I melt all o'er when I hear thee on the Cross crying out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Ah sinfull Wretch that I am how infinite and unconceivable were the inward Dolours and Agonies thou didst undergo for us Sinners when thou didst tread the Winepress of thy Father's wrath alone when it pleas'd thy own most beloved Father to bruise thee and to put thee to grief when the iniquities of the whole World were laid on thee and my numerous sins increast thy load and heightned thy torment when thy own Deity withdrew all consolation from thee when God offended by our sins did afflict thee in the day of his fierce anger no sufferings no love was ever like unto thine for me no grief no love but thy own should exceed mine for thee For whom O unutterable goodness didst thou suffer the extreme bitterness oâ— sorrow but for the vilest of all thy Creatures sinfull man and for me one of the worst of Sinners and therefore I praise and love thee For what end didst thou suffer O most ardent Charity but to save Sinners from all things that were destructive the Curse of the Law the Terrours of Death the Tyranny of Sin the Powers of Darkness and Torments Eternal to purchase for us all things conducible to our Happiness Pardon and Grace Consolation and Acceptance and the everlasting Joys and Glories of the Kingdom of Heaven and therefore I praise and love thee Out of what motive didst thou suffer O boundless Benignity but out of thy own preventing love free mercy and pure compassion and therefore I praise and love thee When no other Sacrifice could attone thy Father's Anger O thou the beloved Son of God and reconcile Divine Justice and Mercy together but the Sacrifice of God incarnate who as man was to die and to suffer in our stead as God was to merit and make satisfaction for our sins 't was then that thou O God the Son didst become Man the very meanest of Men didst take upon thee the form of a Servant and didst on the Cross shew us the mystery and the Miracle of Love God crucified for Sinners and Sinners redeem'd by the bloud of God O thou propitious Wonder God incarnate on the Cross by what Names shall I adore thee all are too short too scanty to express thee Love onely nothing but Love will reach thee thou art Love O Jesu thou art all love O tenderest O sweetest O purest O dearest Love soften sweeten refine love me into all Love like thee By the love of thy Cross O Jesu I live in that I will onely glory that above all things will I study that before all things will I value by the love of thy Cross I will take up my Cross daily and follow thee I will persecute and torment and crucify my sinfull Affections and Lusts which persecuted tormented and crucify'd thee and if thy love calls me to it I will suffer on the Cross for thee as thou hast done for me How illustrious and amiable were thy Graces amidst all thy Sufferings O thou afflicted Jesu I admire and I love thy profound Humility unwearied Patience Lamb-like Meekness immaculate Innocence invincible Courage absolute Resignation compassionate love of Souls and perfect Charity to thy Enemies O my Love I cannot love thee but I must desire above all things to be like my Beloved O give me grace to tread in thy steps and conform me to thy Divine Image that the more I grow like thee the more I may love thee and the more I may be lov'd by thee And Buried He descended into Hell I believe O crucified Lord that thou wast really dead and that there was a separation of thy Body and Soul That thy side was mortally wounded and pierced with a Spear on the Cross and thy sacred Body was buried to assure us of thy death All love all glory be to thee I believe O pierced O wounded Love that thy Soul in the state of separation did descend into Hell to vanquish Death and all the Spirits of darkness in their own Dominions and therefore I adore and love thee Glory be to thee O thou great Champion of Love who didst for our sakes singly encounter all our ghostly Enemies who didst thy self taste of death that thou mightst take away the sting of death who didst wrestle with principalities and powers and all the force of Hell that we might share in thy Victory for which wonderfull Salvation I will always praise and love thee The third day he rose again from the dead I believe O Almighty Love that according to the Types and Prophecies which went before of thee and according to thy own infallible predictions thou didst by thy own power rise from the dead the third day All love all glory be to thee Glory be to thee who didst lie so long in the Grave to undergo the full condition of the dead and to convince all the world thou wert dead and didst rise so soon that thou mightst not see corruption or retard our joy All love all glory be to thee He ascended into Heaven I believe O Victorious Love that thou after thy conquest over Death and Hell didst ascend in triumph to Heaven that thou mightst prepare Mansions for us and from thencâ— as Conquerour bestow the gifts of thy conquest on us and above all the gift of thy Holy Spirit that thou mightst enter into the Holy of Holies as our great High-priest to present to thy Father the sweet-smelling Sacrifice of his crucified Son the sole propitiation for Sinners and therefore all Love all glory be to thee Glory be to thee O Jesu who didst leave the world and ascend to Heaven about the 33 d year of thy age to teach us in the prime of our years to despise this world when we are best able to enjoy it and to reserve our full vigour for Heaven and for thy Love O thou whom my Soul loveth since thou hast left the world what was there ever in it worthy of our Love O let all my affections ascend after thee and never return to the earth more for whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none â—pon earth that I desire in comparison of thee And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty I believe O Triumphant Love that thou now sittest in full and peacefull possession of bliss and at the right hand of God that thy humane Nature is exalted to the most honourable place in Heaven where thou sittest on thy throne of glory ador'd by Angels and interceding for Sinners and therefore all love all glory be to thee Glory be