Beleeve In the Father Affection and Good-will Almightie Saving Power Creätor Providence To Preserve Govern Perfect the World In JESUS Salvation Christ Anointing The onlie Son Adoption To Our Lord Service is due In His Conception the purging of our unclean Conception Birth Birth the purging of our unclean Conception Birth Sufferings that what we should we might not Cross the Curse of the Law Death the sting of Death Burial eternal corruption in the Grave is taken away In His Descent that whether we should go we might not Resurrection as the First-fruits of them that sleep Ascension to prepare a place for us Session to appear and make intercession for us Coming again to take to Himself those that are His. Judging to render to everie one according to his works In the holie Ghost Power from on high Outwardly and Invivisibly but Powerfully and Manifestly converting unto Holiness The Church The Mystical Bodie of them who are called out of the whole world to a Corporation according to Faith Holiness The Communion of Saints the Members of that Bodie A mutual Participation in the Holie Mysteries To a Full persuasion of the Remission of sins Hope of Resurrection Translation to Life Eternal MY Trust is in Thy mercie for ever and ever Psal 52.9 How excellent is Thy mercie O God! Psal 36.7 If I have anie Hope it is in Thy mercie Let me not bee ashamed of this my Hope Psal 119.116 †WE beseech Thee O Lord remember all for good Have mercie upon all O Lord Be reconciled to us all Settle the multitudes of Thy people in peace Dissipate all Scandals Ceas all Warrs Stop all rising Heresies O God our Savior and the Hope of all the ends of the Earth Psal 65.5 Grant unto us Thy Peace and Love Remember to crown the year with Thy goodness Psal 65.12 For the eies of all wait upon Thee and Thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest Thy hand and fillest all things living with Thy gracious bountie Psal 145.15 16. Remember Thy Holie Church from one end of the world unto the other And give Peace unto her whom Thou hast purchased with Thy precious blood And establish her unto the consummation of the world Remember all who bring forth fruit and do good works in Thy Holie Churches Them also who are mindful of the Poor and Needie Reward them with Thy rich and heavenlie gifts Give them For Earthlie Heavenlie Corruptible Incorruptible Temporal Eternal Blessings Remember them who lead their lives In Virginitie Chastitie and Mortification Them also who in honorable Marriage in Pietie and the Fear of Thee Remember everie Christian soul who being in anie Affliction Trouble Agonie stands in need of Thy mercie and help Remember our Brethren who are in Captivitie Prisons Bonds Bitter Servitude Giving Conversion to all who go astraie Health to the Sick Deliverance to the Captives Remember all Pious and Faithful Kings to whom Thou hast given a Right to reign upon earth And chiefly O Lord Remember our most Gracious King preserved by Thee Establish his Throne Subdue to him all his enemies Speak good to his soul for Thy Churches and all Thy Peoples sake Give him long Peace which maie not be taken away That under his happie Government we maie lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honestie 1 Tim. 2.2 Remember O Lord all Principalities and Powers and all that be in place at Court Those who are of the Counsel Or in the Seats of Judgment And all that fight Thy battels for us by Land or Sea Furthermore be graciously pleased O Lord to remember The Holie Fathers of the Church Venerable Presbyterie and all the Clergie who rightly divide the Word of Truth 2 Tim. 2.15 and walk uprightly according to the same Galat. 2.14 Remember O Lord our Brethren who are present and join together in praier with us in this holie hour Remember their Devotion and their Zeal Remember them also who upon good caus are absent And have mercie upon them and us according to the multitude of Thy mercie Fill our garners with all good Preserve our married people in peace and concord Cherish up all Infants Instruct the Youth Strengthen the Aged Comfort the Faint-hearted Gather the Dispersed Bring back again them that are gon astraie Unite them to the Holie Church Catholic Church Apostolic Church Deliver all that are possessed with unclean spirits Sail with all that go by Sea Travail with all that go by Land Take care of the Widows Defend the Orphans Set the Captives at Libertie Heal the Sick Remember O God all who are question'd at the Bar of Justice condemn'd to the Mines and Gallies who are in Banishment anie other Affliction Necessitie Distress Need of Thy great mercie who Love Hate us All recommended to us Thy unworthie servants to be remembred in our Praiers Remember O Lord our God all Thy People and pour upon them all the riches of Thy mercie giving to all their desires tending to salvation Remember O God all whom we through ignorance forgetfulness or multitude of names have not remembred Thou knowest the condition and name of everie one Thou knowest everie one from his Mothers womb For Thou O Lord art the Helper of the Helpless Hope of the Hopeless The Savior of them who are tossed with Tempests The Haven of them who sail The Physician of them who are sick Be Thou all to all Thou who knowest everie one His Desires Habitation Wants O Lord deliver this Citie and all the Countrie wherein we dwell From Pestilence Famine Earth-quakes Inundations Fire Sword Forreign Invasion and Civil Insurrections Appeas the Schisms of the Churches Abate the Insolencies of the Heathen And receiv us all into thy Kingdom owning us for children of the Light And grant unto us Thy Peace and Love O Lord our God Remember O Lord our God all Spirits and all Flesh whom we have remembred and whom we have not remembred O Lord make the end of our Life Christian acceptable to Thee and if Thou think good without Pain in Peace gathering us together under the feet of Thy Elect when Thou wilt and as Thou wilt only without Shame and Sin †Collected out of the Liturgies of SS James Basil and Chrysost THe Glorious Majestie of the Lord our God be upon us Prosper Thou the work of our hands upon us O prosper Thou our handie-work Psa 90.17 LOrd be Thou Within me to strengthen me Without me to Keep me Above me to Protect me Beneath me to Uphold me Before me to Direct me Behind me to Reduce me Round about me to Defend me BLessed be Thou O Lord God of Israël our Father for ever and ever To Thee O Lord belongeth Majestie Power Glorie Victorie Strength Confession For Thou art Lord over all in Heaven and on Earth 1 Chron. 29.10 Everie King and Nation trembleth at Thy presence P. Isa 64.2 Thine O Lord is the Kingdom and Exaltation over all Things Dominion Riches
P. Jerem. 31.26 O Lord blot out as a Night-mist mine iniquities P. Isa 44.22 Scatter my sins as a Morning-cloud Grant that I maie becom a child of the Light and of the Daie 1 Thes 55. That I male walk soberly chastly and honestly as in the Daie Rom. 13.13 Vouch safe to keep me this daie without sin Te Deum Uphold me when I am falling and lift me up when I am down Psal 145.14 That I maie never harden my heart as in the provocation Psa 95.8 with the tentation or deceiptfulness of anie sin Heb. 3.8 13. Moreover deliver me this daie From The snare of the Hunter The noisom Pestilence The arrow that flieth by daie Mischance The Noon-daie destruction Psal 91.3 5 6. Preserve this daie from anie evil of mine and me from the evils of the daie Let not my daies consume in vanitie nor my years in trouble Psal 78.33 Let one daie certifie another Psal 19.2 Let this daie add som knowledg or practise to yester daie Psal 143. O Let me hear Thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in Thee is my trust shew Thou me the waie that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto Thee Ver 8. Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I flie unto Thee to hide me Ver. 9. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth Thee for Thou art my God Let Thy loving Spirit lead me forth in the waie of righteousness Ver. 10. Quicken me O Lord for Thy Names sake and for Thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble Ver. 11. REmove from my mind thoughts that are without understanding Wisd 1.5 Inspire good thoughts into me even such as shal be wel pleasing unto Thee Turn away mine eies lest they behold vanitie Psal 119.37 Let mine eies look after that which is right and mine eie-lids after just things Prov. 4.25 Hedg in mine ears with thorns that they listen not to foolish discourses In the Morning give me an ear to hear with and open mine ears to the doctrine of Thy Oracles P. Isa 50.4 5. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and a dore with a guard about my lips Psal 141.3 Let my speech be season'd with salt Col. 4.6 that it maie minister grace unto the hearers Ephes 4.29 Let me do nothing that shal make my heart ake or be a scandal to me 1 P. Sam. 25.31 But let my doings be such for which Thou maist remember me for good And spare me according to the greatness of Thy mercie H Nehem 13.22 31. INto Thy hands I commend My Spirit Soul Bodie Thou hast Created Redeemed Regenerated them O Lord Thou God of truth Psal 31.6 And with my self I commend unto Thee all mine and all that belong unto me Thou O Lord hast graciously given them unto Thy servant Gen. 33.5 Preserve us O Lord from all evil O Lord I beseech Thee keep our souls Psal 121.7 Keep us from falling and present us faultless before the presence of Thy glorie S. Jude Ver 24. at that daie 2 Tim. 1.18 O Lord preserve my going out and my coming in from this time forth for evermore Psal 121.8 Prosper I beseech Thee Thy servant this daie and grant him mercle in the sight of all he shal meet with H. Neh. 1.11 Haste Thee O God to deliver me Make haste to help me O Lord Psal 70.1 O Turn Thee unto mee and have mercie upon me give Thy strength unto Thy servant and help the son of Thine hand-maid Shew som good token upon me for good that I be not put to shame in the sight of them that hate me because Thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Psal 86.16 17. ☉ ☉ ☉ The Planetarie Character or Hieroglyphic of SUNDAIE call'd in H. Scripture the First Daie Gen. 1.5 the First Daie of the Sabbaths 1 Cor. 16.2 and the LORDS Daie Revel 2.10 BY the tender mercies of our God the Daie-spring from on high hath visited us S. Luke 1.78 Glorie be to Thee O Lord Glorie be to Thee who createdst the Light to enlighten the world Gen. 1.2 The Visible Light The Beam of the Sun The Flame of Fire The Daie and Night The Evening and Morning The Intelligible Light That which is Known of God Rom. 1.19 Written in the Law S. Luk 10.26 The Oracles of the Prophets The Melodie of the Psalms The Instruction of the Proverbs The Knowledg of Histories The Eternal Light without anie Evening God is the Lord who hath shewed us Light keep an Holie-daie full crowding up even to the horns of the Altar Psal 118.27 By Thy Resurrection raise us unto newness of life affording unto us the means of Repentance O God of peace who didst bring again from the dead the Lord JESUS Christ the great Sheepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting Testament Make us perfect in everie good work to do His Will working in us that which is wel-pleasing in His sight through JESUS Christ to whom be glorie for ever and ever Amen Heb. 13.20 21. O Thou who upon This Daie didst send down Thy most Holie Spirit upon Thy Disciples withdraw not the same again from us but renew it daily in us Psal 51.10 11. who call upon Thee MErciful and gracious Lord long-suffering and of great pitie I have sinned Lord I have sinned against Thee O wretched man that I am Rom. 7.24 I have sinned against Thee O Lord I have greatly and grievously sinned and that by giving heed to vanitie and lies P. Jonas 2.8 I conceal nothing H. Jos 7.19 I pretend no pretenses Psal 141.4 I give glorie unto Thee O Lord this daie H. Jos 7.19 I confess my sins against my self In verie deed I have sinned against the Lord and thus and thus have I don H. Jos 7.20 O what have I don P. Jerem. 8.6 and Thou hast not punished me as my sins have deserved H. Job 33.27 And now what shal I saie or how shal I open my mouth What shal I answer for I even I have don it I am without anie pretense all * excuse * Rom. 2.1 I am condemned of my self Tit. 3.11 My destruction is from my self P. Hos 13.9 To Thee O Lord belongeth righteousness but to me confusion of face P. Dan. 9.7 And Thou art just in all that is come upon me for Thou hast don right but I have don wickedly H. Neh. 9.33 And now what is my hope Art not Thou O Lord Surely my hope is from Thee Psal 39.7 Surely I have hope of salvation Surely Thy loving kindeness vanquisheth the multitude of my sins O remember upon what I subsist Ps 89.46 That I am The Work of Thy Hands The Image of Thy Countenance The Price of Thy Blood Called by Thy Name A Sheep of Thy Flock A Son of Thy Covenant O despise not the work of Thine own hands Psal 138.8 Despise not Thy Image and Likeness Hast Thou made me for nought Psal 89.46 Even for nought if Thou destroie me And what
Undertakings Going out and Coming in Sitting down and Rising up Praiers Preparatorie to all our Thanksgivings THou O Lord art worthie to be praised and unto Thee shall the Vow be performed Psal 65.1 Worthie art Thou O Lord our Holie God to receive glorie and honor and power Revel 4.11 O Thou that hearest Praier unto Thee shall all flesh come Even my flesh shall come My misdeeds prevail against me O be Thou merciful unto my sins Psal 65.2 3. That I may come to confess to Thee with all Thy Works and with all Thy Saints to bless Thee Thou shalt open my lips O Lord And my mouth shal shew Thy praise Psal 51.15 A Form of Thanksgiving for Temporal and Spiritual Blessings MY soul praiseth the Lord for that He hath don good To all Creatures Mankind To the World Habitable part therof To the States of the World Catholic Church Christianitie To all particular Churches States To our Church State Countrie To the several Orders in either of them The Sacred To the several Persons in those Orders To the King Prince To the Citie wherin I was Born Parish wherin I was Baptiz'd Two Scholes Universitie College wherin I was Brought up To my Familie Kindred To all that have Shewed mercie Administred to me To my Nighbors Friends To all commended to my Praiers For that He hath shewed mercie to me In my Soul Bodie Goods For the Gifts of Nature Grace the World For all things wherin I have Received benefit been successful formerly at present For the good if anie which I ever did For my Health good-Name Sufficiencie Safetie Libertie Quiet Thou hast not cut off as a Weaver my Life but from daie even to night Thou preservest me P. Isai 38.12 Thou hast graciously given me Life Breath until this hour From my Childhood from my Youth upward even untill now to Old age Psal 71.15 16. Thou hast held my soul in life and Thou wilt not suffer my foot to slip Psal 66.8 Delivering me From Dangers Diseases Povertie Servitude Public Shame Evil Accidents Not giving me up to perish in my sins Always waiting for my Conversion Leaving in me a Turning to my heart Remembrance of the * Death Judgment Heaven Hell last ends Some Shame Horror Trembling for my sins past O give me oftner and greater greater and oftner more and more O Lord. Giving me good hopes of the Remission of them by Repentance and by the Works therof thorough the Power of the most Holie Keies and Sacraments in Thy Church So that daie by daie for these Thy benefits which I remember And so also for manie more forgotten by reason of their multitude and my forgetfulness For them bestowed on me Willing Knowing Asking Not Asking Knowing Willing I confess and give thanks to Thee I bless and praise Thee as is meet everie daie And I praie with all my soul and with all my mind I praie Glorie be to Thee O Lord Glorie be to Thee Glorie be to Thee And Glorie be to Thy most Holie Name For all Thy Divine Perfections in them For Thy unspeakable and unexpressable goodness and mercie toward sinners and the unworthie And even toward me altogether the most unworthie of all sinners Yea O Lord For this and for the rest Glorie and Praise and Blessing and Thanksgiving with the Voices and the Harmonie of the Voices of Angels and Men of all Thy Saints in Heaven and of all Thy Creatures whether in Heaven or Earth And under their feet of me an unworthie and miserable sinner Thy poor Creature both now in this Daie and Hour and daily unto my last breath and unto the end of the world and for ever and ever Amen A Letanie to be used upon special occasions of Public or Private Humiliation O Father who didst creäte Destroie not him whom Thou didst creäte O Son who didst redeem Destroie not him whom Thou didst redeem O Spirit who didst regenerate Destroie not him whom Thou didst regenerate Remember not Lord our offenses nor the offenses of our Forefathers neither take Thou vengeance on our sins on Their Mine Spare us good Lord Spare Them Me Spare Thy people and in Thy people Me Thy servant whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy pretious Blood and be not angrie with us for ever Be merciful Be merciful Spare us O Lord And be not angrie with us for ever Be merciful Be merciful Have mercie on us O Lord And be not angrie with us verie sore Not verie sore O Lord. Deal not with me according to my sins Neither reward me after mine iniquities But deal with me according to Thy great mercie And reward me after the multitude of Thy compassions Even according to that great mercie And after that multitude of compassions As thou didst deal with our Fathers in the generations of old By whatsoever is dear unto Thee From all evil and adversitie In all times of necessitie From the evil and adversitie at this present time Stand up O Lord rescue and save me Deliver me O Lord And destroie me not In the Bed of Sickness Hour of Death Daie of Judgment In that terrible and dreadful Daie Deliver me O Lord and save me From Beholding the stern countenance of the Judg Standing on the left hand Hearing that fearful sentence Depart from me S. Mat. 25.41 From being bound in the chains of darkness 2 S. Pet. 2.4 Cast out into outer darkness S. Mat. 25.30 Tormented in the bottomless pit of Fire and Brimstone where the smoke of torments ascendeth up for ever and ever Revel 14.10 11. Be merciful Be merciful Spare us Deliver us O Lord and save us and destroie us not for ever not for ever O Lord. And that this maie not be Remove far from me O Lord * 1 Hardness of heart * 2 Want of Remors after sinning Eph. 4.19 * 3 Obduration of heart S. Mark 3.5 and 6.52 * 4 Setting light by Thy threatnings * 5 A seared Conscience 1 Tim. 4.2 * 6 A Reprobate Mind Rom. 1.28 The sin against the Holie Ghost S. Matth. 12.32 The sin unto Death 1 S. John 5.16 †1. Voluntarie Murther Genes 4.10 2. Unnatural Lusts Gen. 18.20.21 3. Oppression of the Poor the Fatherless and Widows Exod. 22.22 23. and Deut. 15.9 4. Detention of the Wages of the Laborers Deut. 24.15 and S. Jam. 5.4 The Four Crying sins The * Six fore-runners of the Sin against the Holie Ghost From the grievous and terrible Evils of this World From Pestilence Famine War Earth quakes Inundations Great Fires Plague of immoderate Rains Drought Corrupting Winds Blasting Thunder Lightning Tempest Epidemial acute evil Diseases And from sudden Death Good Lord deliver us From pernicious Evils in the Church From Private Interpretations 2 S. Peter 1.20 Innovations in Holie things Strange Doctrines 1 Tim. 1.3 Doting about Questions making endless strifes 1 Tim. 6.4 From Heresies Schisms Scandals Public private Good Lord deliver us From the Deifying of Kings Act. 12.22 the Flattering of People S.
Mark 15.15 Act. 12.3 and 24.27 Prophaness of Saul 1 P. Sam. 15. Scorns of Michal 2 P. Sam. 6.16 Fleshhook of Hophni 1 P. Sam. 2.13 Good Lord deliver us From the Massacre of Athalia 2 Kings 11. Priesthood of Micha Judg. 17.10 Combination of Simon Magus Acts 8.18 and Judas Iscariot S. Matth. 26.15 Doctrine of the unlearned and unstable 2 S. Pet. 3.16 Pride of Novices 1 Tim. 3.6 People that strive with the Priest P. Hos 4.4 Good Lord deliver us From pernicious Evils in the State From Anarchie Multitude of Kings Tyrannie Ashur Jeroboam Rehoboam Gal. +lio Haman From the Dangerous council of Achitophel 2 P. Sam. 16 21. Foolish counsil of Zoan P. Isai 19.11.13 Statutes of Omri P. Mich. 6.16 Judgments of Jezreel 2 Kin. 10.7 Floods of Belial Psal 18.4 Plague of Peor Num. 25. Vallie of Achor H. Jos 7.26 Pollution of Blood Seed Good Lord deliver us From Forreign Invasion Civil Warr Displacing of good and upright Magistrates Exalting of bad and corrupt men into office Good Lord deliver us From an uncomfortable life In Sadness of Spirit Infirmitie of Bodie Ill report Want Danger Servitude Tumults Good Lord deliver us From Death In Sin Shame Torture Distraction Filthiness Violence For Treason From Sudden Eternal Death Good Lord deliver us Hosanna in the Highest Or A Supplication for Spiritual Blessings REmember me O Lord according to the favor that Thou bearest unto Thy people Visit me with Thy salvation That I maie See the felicitie of Thy chosen Rejoice in the gladness of thy people Give thanks with Thine inheritance Psal 106.4 5. For there is a glorie to be revealed 1 S. Peter 5.1 And when the Judg cometh Acts 10.42 Some Shal See His face with joy H. Job 33.26 Be placed on His right hand S. Matth. 25 33. Hear that most sweet voice Come ye blessed V. 34. Be caught up in the Clouds to meet the Lord 1 Thess 4.17 Enter into His joie S. Mat. 25.21 Enjoie the Vision of Him Be ever with Him 1 Thes 4.17 These only only These are blessed among the sons of men O give to me the meanest of them all the meanest place there under their feet under the feet of Thy Elect of the meanest of them And to this end Let me find grace in Thy sight that I maie serve Thee acceptably with reverence and godlie fear Heb. 12.28 But let me find this grace also That I maie not receive that grace in vain 2 Cor. 6.1 Nor fall short of it Heb. 12.15 Much less so neglect it 1 Tim. 4.14 As to fall quite from it Gal. 5.4 But to stirr it up 2 Tim. 1.6 So as to grow in it 2 S. Pet. 3.18 Howsoever to continue still in it Acts 13.43 to the end of my life And O make up the defects of Thy Graces in me Of Faith Increas my little Faith S. Luke 17.5 Hope Confirm my trembling Hope Love Kindle the smoking Flax therof S. Matth. 12.20 Shed abroad in my heart the Love of Thee Rom. 5.5 That I maie love Thee My My Friend in Thee My Enemie for Thee O Thou who givest grace to the humble S. James 4.6 Give me grace to be humble O Thou who never failest them that fear Thee Let my heart rejoice in the Fear of Thee Psal 86.11 secund LXX Let this my Fear be my Confidence H. Job 4.6 Let me Fear one thing only to Fear anie thing more then Thee As I would that men should do unto me so let mee likewise do to them S. Mat. 7.12 Nor let me think of my self more highly then I ought but let me think soberly Rom. 12.3 Give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death Guide our feet in the waie of Peace S. Luke 1.79 That we maie Be like-minded one towards another Rom. 15.5 Rightly divide 2. Timoth 2.5 Uprightly walk Gal. 2.14 Edifie one another 1 Thes 5.11 With one mind and one mouth glorisie God Rom. 15.6 But if anie thing prove otherwise Let us walk by the same rule wherto we have atteined Phil. 3.16 Let us hold fast Order Col. 2.5 1 Corinth 14.40 Decencie 1 Corinth 14.40 Stedfastness Col. 2.5 Hosanna upon Earth Or A Supplication for Temporal Blessings REmember O Lord to crown the Year with Thy goodness Psal 65.11 For the eies of all wait upon Thee O Lord Thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest Thy hand and fillest all things living with Thy gracious bountie Psal 145.15 16. Vouchsafe us therfore O Lord The blessings of Heaven and of the dew from above The blessings of the Springs of the deep from beneath The Returns of the Sun The Conjunctions of the Moon The benefits of the rising Mountaine and of the lasting Hills The fulness of the Earth and of all that breeds therin Deut. 33.13.14 15 16. secund LXX Fruitful Seasons Temperate Airs Plentie of Corn Abundance of Fruits Health of Bodie and Peaceable times Good and Fair Government Wise Counsels Just Laws Righteous Judgments Loial Obedience Due Execution of Justice Sufficient store for life Prosperous Issue Happie Births Good and Fair Plentie Due Breeding Right Institution of children That our Sons maie grow up as the yong plants and that our Daughters maie be as the polished corners of the Temple That our Garners maie be full and plenteous with all manner of store that our Sheep maie bring forth thousands That our Oxen maie be strong to labor that there be no decaie no leading into captivitie and no complaining in our streets Psal 144.12 13 14. ONe thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require that I maie dwell in the House of the Lord all the daies of my life to behold the fair beautie of the Lord and to visit His Temple Psal 27.4 Two things will I require of Thee O Lord denie me them not before I die Remove far from me Vanitie and Lies Give me neither Povertie nor Riches Feed mee with food convenient for me Lest I be full and denie Thee and saie Who is the Lord Or lest I be poor and steal and take the Name of God in vain Pro. 30.7 8 9. Let me learn how to abound and let me learn also how to want And in whatsoever state I am therwith to be content Phil. 4.11 12. And beside what I have never either to desire or exspect anie earthlie transitorie corruptible thing Give me A Holie Life In Godliness Gravitie Puritie All Goodness Cheerfulness of Mind Health of Bodie Good Name Content Safetie Libertie Quiet A Happie Death Eternal Life Evening Praier HAving passed over this daie Lord I give thanks unto Thee The Evening draweth nigh make it comfortable An Evening there is as of the Daie so of this Life The Evening of this Life is Old-age Old-age hath seiz'd upon me make that comfortable Cast me not away in the time of age Forsake me not when my strength faileth me Psal 71.9 Be thou with me until Old-age and even to hoar hairs do