dryuen by thy commaundement and trusting to thy promyses I pray They appointed vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer and from that tyme Iudas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister Now on the first day of the feast of vnleaâ—ened bread c. Math. 26 Iudas sayd Come let vs sell him to the Ismalites c. Gen. 37 So Ioseph was brought down into Egypt and Potipher c. Gen. 30 vnto thee in the name of my Lotd with all the godly vpon earth saying as he hath taught vs Our Father which art in heauen c. * A Prayer to God the Father The foolish virgines came also sayng Lord Lord c. Math. 25. The great Dragon that old serpent was cast out c. 〈◊〉 12. Iesus knowing all thinges that should come went forth and said vnto them â—home seeke ye They answered him Iesus of Nazareth Iesus aunswered I 〈◊〉 he Iudas also c. Iohn 18. And because we haue diuers hard incouÌ„ters to indure against the world the deuill his ministers and the flesh which we beare about vs we beseéch theé euen with sighes that thy kingdome may come That like as in heauen all thinges submit them selues to thy maiesty with trembling so also thy Spirite may raign in our harts making vs to acknowledge theé the king of all kinges then the which nothing can be either greater or better They appointed vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer and from that tyme Iudas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread c. Math. 26 Ioab tooke â—bâ—er aside peaceably and smote him vnder the ribbe that he dâ—â—d c. 2. Sam. â— Simon to redeme Ionathan sendeth mony and the children to Triphon c. 1. Macha 13. When 〈◊〉 the father of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father he told his two brethren c Gen. 10 〈◊〉 is mocked of little children crying vnto him Come vp thou baldhead c. â— â—eg 2. 〈…〉 Christ 〈◊〉 his face â—nd buâ—feted him 〈◊〉 Prophecy â—â—to vs O Christ who is he that smote thee Peter sate without in the hall and a maid c Math. 26. The meat that geueth life in deéde is the knowledge of theé by thy holy Scriptures the grace of thy spirit whereby we grow vp in theé through dayly increase of vertue in the inner man vntill we be fully men growen according to the full measure of thine only begotten sonne Iesus christ By thy word thou begatest vs when we were nothing by the same hast thou be gotten vs agayn vnhappely borne of Adam and by the same doest thou feéde and cherish vs now agayn begotten For that is the heauenly bread that is the new wine wherwith all the blessed spirites are continually and happely fed which dwelling in thy house doe prayse theé for euer and euer 〈◊〉 let Barrabas lose vnto theÌ„â—nd scourged Iesus and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldiours of the gouernour toke Iesus in to the common hall c. Math. 27. The plowers plowed vpon my backe and furrowes long did cast c. Psal. 131. Sathan smote Iob with sore voyles froÌ„ the sole of his foot c. Iob. 2. When thou â–ª art done all thy duety stere downe that thou mayst receue a crown c. Eccle. 22. 〈◊〉 sayd vnto Dauid who art thou that criest to the king c. 1 Sam. 26 And the souldiâ—rs plattâ—â—â—owne oâ— thorne â—pon his â—ead an 〈◊〉 in his 〈…〉 and bowed their knees before â—im and mocked â—im saying God 〈◊〉 c. Math. 2 â–ª * Another in Iesus Christ our Redeemer by S. August Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude saying I am innocent of the death of this iust man looke you to it Then answered all the people c. Math. 27. Iezabell sent a messenger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me c. 3. Reg. 19. Then the king commaunded and they brought Daniell and cast c. Dan. 6. I Call vpon thee O God I cal vpon thee because thou art nigh to all them that call vpon thee in truth Thou art the truth teach me I besech thee in thy mercy O holy truth teach me to call vpoÌ„ thee in truth For how I should so doe I know not Teach me therefore I most humbly beseech thee O most blessed truth For wisdome without thee is folishnes to know thee is perfect knowledge Instruct me with thy diuine wisdome teach me thy Lawes For I beleeue that he is most happy who is instructed by thee and taught thy law I haue a desire to call vpon thee which I pray thee that I may doe in verity What is it to call vpon truth in truth but to call vpon the Father in the Sonne Truly most holy Father thy word is the truth and the beginning of thy Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne c. Gene. 22. 〈…〉 was there gathering sticks â–ª and Eliah called her and said c. 〈…〉 And Iesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Golgotha where they cruciâ—â—ed him and 〈◊〉 other with him 〈…〉 side one and Iesus in the midst of them c. Iohn â—â— word is truth For this is the beginning of thy word that thy word was in the beginning In the beginning it selfe I worship thee O thou principall beginning in the very word of truth I cry to thee most perfect truth In the which O thou the very same truth teach and direct me For what is sweeter then to call vpon the Father in the name of his only begotten Then to moue the father to compassion by mention of his sonne Then to pacifie the king by name of his welbeloued child For by this meanes the offender is released from pryson the captiue set at liberty By this meanes they that haue receaued the sorrowfull sentence of death are wont to purchase not only pardon but vnhoped fauour if they pleade the loue of the welbeloued Sonne By this meanes seruants that And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie there they crucified him and the euil doers one on the right hand and the other on the left c. Luke 23. Tubulraim wrought 〈◊〉 euery craft of brasse and iron c. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw and fasted on a tree c. doe trespasse escape their masters punishment when his louing Sonne is their Intercessor Euen so O almighty Father I pray thee for the loue of thy omnipotent Sonne draw my soul out of pryson that it may confesse vnto thy name Deliuer me from the chaynes of sin I beseech thee by thy coeternall and only Sonne and most mercifully restore me to life by the mediation of thy most pretious sonne sitting at thy right hand For what other Intercessor I should appoint I know not but him who is the propitiation for our sinnes who sitteth at thy right
and came into a place named Golâ—â—otha where theâ— crucified him 〈…〉 therwith 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 the most of 〈◊〉 c. â—ohn 1â— Abraham tooke the wood of â—he burnt offring â–ª and layd â—t vpon Isaac his sonne c. 〈◊〉 â—â— Behoâ—d the wiâ—ow was there gathering sticks â–ª and Eliah called her and said c. 〈…〉 cry of thy whole church being in peril Behold how many thousaÌ„d meÌ„ cry out Lord saue vs or els we perish The tempest hath ouercome all cunning of man nay rather we seé that the indeuour of such as goe about to helpe it doth turne to the contrary There neédeth thy voyce O Lord Iesu say no more but tempest be still and by and by the wished calmenes will shew it selfe The Lord would haue spared the innumerable thousands of wicked people that were in Sodome and Gomorra if he could haue fouÌ„â— but ten righteous among them all Now there are many thousands which loue the glory of thy name and which long to behold the beauty of thy house and wilt thou not at their intreatance release thine anger and remember thy old mercies wilt thou not through thy heauenlye cunning turne our foolishnes to thine Tubultaâ—â— wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron c. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw and tasted on a tree c. And when they were come to the 〈◊〉 which 〈…〉 Caluaâ—â—e there they crucified him and the euil do 〈◊〉 one on the right hand and the other on the left c. Luke 23. own glory wilt thou not turn the wicked folkes euill doinges to the benefit of thy church for thy mercy is wont to be then redyest at hand when things are so far past recouery as no strength or policie of man can help them Thou being the only author and maintayner of peace art only he that maketh thinges at one though they be neuer so much at oddes Thou didst dispose the olde Chaos wherein the seédes of al things lay confused and turmoyling among them selues without any order or comlynesse and by wonderfull order knit the thinges together in euerlastinge league which striue together by nature But how much more shamefull a Chaos is it where ther is no loue no faith no keéping of couenants no reuerence of lawes no awe of such as are in authoritie no consent of opinions but euery man singes his own song as One of the souldiours with a speare pearced his side â–ª â— forthwith ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recordâ— is true And he that c. Iohn 10. With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water c Exo. 17 in a black sanctus Among the compasses of the Skyes there is no disagreément the Elements doe keép euery one his place and euery of them execâ—â—â—eth his own office And wilt thou suffer thy spouse for whose sake all things are created to goe to wrack by continuall discord Wilt thou suffer wicked spirits the authors of discord to execute tiranny in thy kingdome vnpunished Wilt thou suffer that strong fellow whom thou hast once thrust out to get possession of thy tents agayne When thou dwelledst as a mortal maÌ„ among men the deuils fled away at thy voyce We beseéch theé O Lord send thy Spirite into the hartes of all them that profes thy honorable name to driue from them the wicked spirits which are the scholemasters of ryot couetousnes ambition lechery vengeance and discord and that I may Assone as the sunne was downe Iosue commaundeth that they c. Iosu. â— Then they arose and went all night and toke the body c. 1. Sam. 13 Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the â—ock and rolled a great â—tone to the dore c. Math. 27. vse the prophets own wordes a cleane hart create in vs O God our king and renue thy holy Spirite in our bowels take not thy holy spirit from vs Geue vs againe the gladnes of thy saluatioÌ„ and strengtheÌ„ thy spouse and thy spouses shepheards with a principall spirite By this spirit hast thou set things in heauen and earth at one by this spirite hast thou assembled and knit so many tongues so many nations and so many sundry sorts of men into the one body of thy church which cleaueth vnto theé her head by the same spirit If it may please theé to renue him in all mennes harts these outward calamities wil by and by cease or if they cease not yet shall they at least wise turne to the behoofe of them that loue theé Set this confusion in order O Lord and let thy spirit spread forth it selfe vpon the waters of wauering opinions He layd it in a tomb â—ewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the preparing of the Saboth the Saboth drue on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. â—hen Ioseph was come to his brethren they stript â—im c. Gen. 37. So they tâ—ke vp Jonas and â—ast him into the sea and the sea c. Ionas And forasmuch as thy spirit which according to the saying of the prophet contayneth all thinges hath also the knowledge of the voyce in him graunt that as all which dwell in thy house haue but one law one baptisme one God one hope one spirit so also there may be but one voyce among all them that professe thy catholick truth At thy going vp into heauen thou after the maner of such as triumph diddest scatter abroad diuers rewards from aboue geue giftes vnto men bestow sundry presents of thy spirite among them Renue now again thine old bouÌ„teousnes from aboue geue the same thinges to the Church now drooping which thou gauest to her at her first florishing forth Geue vnto her Princes the awe of theé that they may so gouern the common weale as though they should shortly yeald an account of euery The wepeth continually in the night and her teares c. Lamen 1. Call me not Naomi but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen c. Ruth 1. â—here was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the sepulchre The next day that followed the day of preparing the hie priestes and Pharises c. Math. 27. thing to theé the king of all kinges Geue them of the wisdome which is alwayes about thy throne that they may seé what is best to be done and perform it in their deédes Geue vnto the shepheards whom thou hast vouchsafed to put in thy roomth the gift of prophesy that they may interprete the misticall scriptures not by mannes reason but by thy inspiration Geue them the threéfold charity which thou diddest demaund of Peter when thou gauest him charge to feéde thy flock Geue them the loue of
â—aue no care our selues continually to craue it and earnestly endeuer by wel doing to keép it Amen * A Prayer for fayth EAsily yea to easely O Lord do we beleue man which is euill vntrue and ignorant but hardly â–ª and slowly do we beleue theé which art God exceéding good most sothfast and most wise We beleue men in the things that can do vs no good but we beleue not theé in the care of our saluation Man is able to do nothing but thou art able to do al things We can find in our harts to follow our seÌ„â—es which are so oft deceiued and yet we doubt of theé O God which canst neither deceiue nor be deceiued O how great is our vnthaÌ„kfulnes and ignorance Alas how is man blinded of his own sin But thou O Christ through the pitifulnes and compassioÌ„ ¶ The Baronnesse â–ª Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death 〈◊〉 behold of thy Father art appoynted as a guid in this our blindnes and as a schoolemaster to our rudenes yet notwithstanding the greuousest inconuenience in this blindnes and ignorance is that trembling and staggaring still from time to time eyther we conceaue not the excellent and most wholsome precepts of our good scholemaister or els we stand wauering and doubting of the truth of theÌ„ Blind wretch how wilt thou scape the vengeaÌ„ce that is prepared for theé if thou shrinke away from him seéing thou neither knowest the way thy selfe nor beleéuest him that sheweth it theé O Christ which art the pure euerlasting truth vouchsafe to shead thy selfe so into our harts that as thou and all thy sayinges are most true so we may take them for more certayne then the things which we seé with our eyes Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Duches and Prince ¶ The â—uâ—ges wife Madame or iustice wife I am come to ende thy life â—he Lawyeâ—â— wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward theé not with pain or handle with our hands which are but sences of the body that may and do deceiue vs notwithstanding that the foolish beastly flesh do trust so much to them Asswage and settle these motions of the flesh which driue vs from time to time to the altering of the thing that ought to be alwayes most firme fast setled in our minds Faith is a gift of thy inlightening O Christ therfore shead it mercifully and bouÌ„tifully in such wise into our harts as these faulty eyes of oures may be inforced to behold it euen loth and vnwilling though they be Lord I beleéue but yet help thou mine vnbeleéfe Lord increase our faith Amen A Prayer for trust in God THe ground of mans decay was his trusting of himselfe and the beginning of his rysing agayne was The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fine Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarlet And yet art but my varlet Behold vs here that sometime were gay How now we lye dead all wrapped in clay his distrusting of him selfe and his trusting to God. O most excellent and singular wise guid which leadest all them the rightest and nearest way to euerlasting blessednes which trust theé truely and vnfaynedly Graunt that as we be blind and weak in very deéd so we may take our selues so to be that we take not vp on vs to shift for our selues but let our looking be to seé theé alone and let our inabling of our selues be no further but to desire to follow theé going afore vs to come to theé wheÌ„ thou callest vs to obay theé as thou guydest vs and to betake our selues wholy vnto theé that thou who only knowest what way to goe mayst lead vs to the attaynement of our desires that way which we wold neuer haue set foote into of our own accord Amen Riches nor treasure auayle nothing For death to earth all doth bring Merchantes wife Braue neuer so nice daunce after my deuice ¶ Citizens wife Tricke and trim put of your hood I am come to do you good * A Prayer to be sayd for the feare of God. GRaunt Lord that being taught by thy commauÌ„dements I may serue theé with feare and reioyce before theé with trembling in all things standing in awe of theé least thou happen to be angry and I perish out of the right way For the feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome ⧠A Prayer for loue towards Christ. THe ground of all happines is to loue thee which art most excelleÌ„tly good and the perfection of happines is to be knit vnto thee which art most excellently good as we may become all one with thee for that is the very end of loue Therfore do we begin our blessednes here by louing thee and Riche mans wife Though thou haue siluer and golde Yet art thou within my â—olde Young woman Fine prety in the wast Come with me in hast As death in this world hath the victory So by death we hope to enter Gods glory we finish it in heauen by being knit vnto thee O most louing Christ would God we were so far in loue with thee that beyng swallowed vp and altogether consumed in thee we were one with thee euen as thou and thy Father art one so as we were no more our selues but thou nor any more men but after a sort Gods as we beyng oll one thing with God which is the highest and most perfect blessednes For God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Now therfore I am aliue or rather not I But Christ in me To him therfore be all thanks and prayse for euer Amen A Prayer to be sayd for cleanes of hart MOst merciful Iesu Christ who being made in the likenes of sinfull flesh hast born our sinnes in thy Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally ¶ The Mayde Fresh galant gay All must with me away ¶ The Damosell Fine proper neate And all is but wormes meate body to wipe away all our naughtines by thy death and to make vs clean and new creatures acceptable vnto god Scoure vs from the spots which we by our sinnes doe dayly cast vpon the whitenes that we haue gotten by theé And when thou hast so cleansed vs let thy grace maintayn vs still in the same cleanes that we may be worthy to be called thine both in profession name Lord cleanse me from my secret sinnes and beare with thy seruant in his other sinnes Amen Another A Clean hart create in me O god and renue a right spirite within my bowels Let my hart be made vndefiled through thy inrighteousing that I may not be put to shame Amen ¶ Farmers wife Cease thy labour and paine For I am thy riches and gainâ— HusbandmaÌ„s wife Toyle no more I say For heÌ„ce I must away Time to liue time to dy God
Behold vs here that sometime were gay And now lie dead all wrapped in clay Riches nor treasure auayl nothing For death to earth all doth bring Merchantes wife Braue neuer so nice daunce after my deuice 〈…〉 wife â—ricke and trim â—ut of your hood â— am come to d◠〈◊〉 good * A Prayer in desire of the life to come IN the life to come we must not thinke to inioy any one benefite alone as we do here but al good things and all at once euen as many as are possible to be thought or not thought For we shall inioy theé O God who alone art all in all things And loue shal make vs one with theé and so we shall be as it were certayn Gods. O when shall we haue an end of this misery and a beginning of that ioy when shal I cease to liue among such as are euil spitefull cumbersome and enemilike and begin to liue with Christ who is Riche mans wife Though thou haue siluer and golde Yet art thou within my holde Young woman Fine prety in the wast Come with me in hast â—s death in this world hath the victory So by death we hope to enter Gods glory curteous good frendly and loueth me most deérely This body of mine is but a pryson to my soule Yea and that a most darck and lothsome one This world is but a banishmeÌ„t and this life but sorow wretchednes But where as thou art there is our home our freédome and our endles blisse Twitch our mindes from time to time to the remembraunce of so great happynesse Sheade into our harts the desire of so great good things and therfore cheéfly to be coueted Settle our mindes and geue them euen here some tast of thy ioyes wherby we may lothe and abhor these things wherinto we runne with such headinesse imbracing them fast betweéne our armes and laying hold on theÌ„ with both our hands that we may shun and hold scorne of these so harsh and bitter things couet nothing so much as the sweétnes of thy company O death how bitter is thy sting That poore and rich to earth doth bring ¶ The Mayde Fresh galant gay All must with me away ¶ The Damâ—sell Fine proper neate And all is but wormes meate whereunder al good thinges are contayned Amen * The feare of the Iudge and Iudgement day O Lord and God of Gods reuenger of wickednes I know that thy comming will be manifest I am certayn thou wilt not alwayes keépe silence when fire shall burne before thy face and a mighty tempest shall rage in thy sight when thou shalt cal the heauen from aboue and the earth from beneath to seuere thy people Behold in the presence of so many thousands of people mine iniquitie shall be discouered my sinnes shal be opened in the sight of so many Angels and not my misdeédes only but thoughts and words Before so many Iudges shall I stand helplesse as haue excelled me in good workes By so many euidences shall I ¶ Farmers 〈◊〉 Cease thy labour and paine For I am thy riches and gain Husbandmas wife â—oyle no more I say For heÌ„câ— I must away Time to liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally be cast as haue geuen me example of good life With so many witnesses shal I be coÌ„uinced as haue admonished me with holesome counsell and by their vertuous deédes haue bene paterns for me to imitate O my Lord I haue not what to alleage I finde nothing what I should aunswere And being now in this greuous danger my coÌ„science vexeth me the secrets of my hart wound me couetousnes heÌ„meth me in pride accuseth enuy consumeth concupiscence enflameth exces corrupteth me rauine defameth me drunkennes dryeth me vp slaunder renteth me in peéces ambition supplanteth rapine sharpely rebuketh dissention cutteth a sunder anger disturbeth lightnes maketh me dissolute faintnes weakneth me hipocrisie deceueth flattery breaketh me fauour lifteth me vp but malice doth goare The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me Countrrywoman Away with butter cheése For thy life thou must leese The Nurse Geue such no more For I am at the dore Behold O my deliuerer froÌ„ this wrath full generation behold with whom I haue liued euer since my birth day after whom I sought with whom I kept fayth and promise The life which I loued condemneth me which I commended disdaineth me These be my frends in whom I did repose my selfe the gouerners whom I obayed masters whoÌ„ I serued counsellers whom I did credite Citizens with whom I dwelled domistical fellowes with whom I was familiar Alas my king and my God that I haue so long soiorned among theÌ„ Woe is my light that I haue dwelled with the inhabitaÌ„ts of Cedar And seéing that holy Dauid sayd long how much more miserable wretch that I am may I say to long hath my soule dwelt among them O God my streÌ„gth no fleshe shall be iustified in thy sight My help is not in the children of men Thus death hath brought all things to nought Set thy mercy aside whom shalt thou finde iust when thou iudgest And except thou iustifie the sinner in thy mercy who shall be found pure whom thou mayest glorifie For I beleue O my sauing health that which I haue heard which of thy mercy to bryng me to repentance the sweét lippes of thy mouth hath spoken that no man can come to me except my father who sent me draw him For truly thou hast instructed me and most fauorably with thy instructioÌ„ hast reformed me I besech theé almighty father in thy beloued sonne with all the strength of my hart and minde I besech theé O welbeloued sonne of god I beseéch theé O most holy and most coÌ„fortable spirite of God so leade me that I may hasten to the sweéte smelling fauoure of thy precious balmes Amen Come ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome prepared for you Matâ—â—5 Depart from me ye 〈…〉 euerlasting 〈…〉 is prepared for 〈◊〉 Math. 25. The conclusion O Lord Iesus Christ thou king of kings the great counsell and wisedome of the father O thou the greate Shephearde of thy Pasture O thou righteous Iudge of all Iudges preserue our Queen Elizabeth long to liue with thy pore Church of England in health and wealth to thy good pleasure and will. Blesse thou the wisedome and pollicy of her counsayle to the strengthening of the same thy Church the tranquilitie of our Queene and Country inspire the Ministers of thy blessed Gospell with thy holy spirite that they may be sauery salt to season and bright lights to the way of saluation Rayse vp faythfull distributers of right and iustice to the poore commons of this Realme diligent and carefull magistrates to execute the lawes aright as they will answere before thy tribunall seate at the day of iudgement Finally to euery of vs thy poore sheepe let thy mighty hand outstretched arme O Lord God father