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A79564	The church catechism, analysed, explained, and improved The first part. Wherein, I. The text is set down whole, and entire. II. It is broken into questions, and answers in the very words of the catechism. III. The terms of it are explained, and such short questions and answers added, as are occasioned by it, and seem needful to the discovery of its true meaning, and use. At the end is added matter, and direction for all acts of devotion for morning and evening, mostly in the words of the catechism. The whole accomodated to the capacity, and use of them, that are yet to learn it, and recommend to the rich, to bestow among the poor.		1683 (1683)	Wing C3993A; ESTC R229600	26,096	48

Articles of the Christian Faith Q. Which is the third thing that they promised for you at your Baptism 16. A. Thirdly They did promise for me and vow that I should keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and that I should walk in the same Commandments of God all the days of my life Q. How long did they promise that you should do these three things 17. A. They promised that I should do thus all the days of my life from my Baptism to my Death §. IV. Of our owning and promising to perform the Baptismal Vow Q. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thée 18. A. Yes verily and by Gods help so I will and I heartily thank our heavenly Father that hehath called me to this state of Salvation through Iesus Christ our Saviour and I pray unto God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Q. You think then that as they have promised for you so you are bound to believe and to do 19. A. Yes verily I do think that I am bound to believe and to do as they then promised for me And by Gods help so I will Q. What will you by Gods help do 20. A. First by Gods help I will renounce the Devil and all his works I will renounce the pomps and the vanities of this wicked world and I will renounce all the sinful lusts of the flesh Secondly by Gods help I will believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly I will by Gods help keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and I will walk in the same Commandments of God all the days of my life Q. Do you promise to do these things without Gods help or with it and by it 21. An. I said that by Gods help I will believe and do these things Q. If then you were duly Baptized upon such Promises and Vows and if you do truly take upon you to believe and do as was then promised for you into what state are you thereby brought 22. A. I am thereby brought into a state of Salvation wherein I may be saved Q. Ought you not to be thankful from your heart to God who hath brought you into this happy estate of Salvation 23. A. Yes and I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of Salvation Q. Through whom for whose sake and by whose means hath God called us to this state of Salvation 24. A. Through Jesus Christ our Saviour for his sake and by his means Q. Do you not need Gods Grace to inable you to continue in this happy state and will you not pray unto God to give it you 25. A. Yes and I pray unto God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same state of Salvation to my lives end §. V. The twelve Articles of the Creed Q. You told me that by Gods help you would believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith Therefore Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief 26. A. I. I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth II. And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord. III. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary IV. He 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 right hand of God the Father Almighty VII From thence he shall come to judge 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 XII And the life everlasting Amen Q. Which is the first Article of our Belief 27. A. I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth Q. What do you profess to believe in this first Article 28 A. In the first Article I profess 1. That God is 2. That he is the Father Almighty 3. That he is the maker of Heaven and Earth And that I believe in him as such Q. Which is the second Article of the Christian Faith set down in the Creed 29. A. And I believe in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord. Q. What do you profess to believe in the second Article 30. A. In the second Article I profess 1. That Jesus is the Christ 2. That Jesus Christ is the only Son of God the Father 3. That he is our Lord. And that I believe in him as such Q. Which is the third Article of the Creed 31. A. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Q. What do you profess to believe in the third Article 32. A. In the third Article I profess to believe 1. That Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit 2. That he was born of Mary 3. That Mary his Mother was a Virgin at his Birth Q. Which is the fourth Article of the Belief 33. A. He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell Q. What do you profess to believe in the fourth Article 34. A. In the fourth Article I profess to believe 1. That Jesus Christ suffered dreadful Sufferings under Pontius Pilate when Pontius Pilate was Governour of Judaea and by his order 2. That he was then crucified nailed to a Cross 3. That he was dead that he died on that Cross 4. That he was buried 5. That he descended into Hell that his Soul went into the invisible state where Souls departed were Q. Which is the fifth Article of our Creed 35. A. The third day he rose again from the dead Q. What do you profess to believe in the fifth Article 36. A. In the fifth Article I profess to believe 1. That Jesus Christ arose again from among the dead 2. That he arose again upon the third day after his death and burial Q. Which is the sixth Article of the Creed 37. A. He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty Q. What do you profess to believe in the sixth Article 38. A. In this sixth Article I profess to believe 1. That our Lord Jesus Christ did after his rising from the Dead ascend and go up into Heaven 2. That he hath his seat and abode now there 3. That he sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty that he is in highest Place Power and Authority next unto God the Father Q. Which is the seventh Article 39. A. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead Q. What do you profess to believe in this seventh Article 40. A. In this seventh Article I profess to believe 1. That Jesus Christ shall come again from thence that is out of Heaven 2. That he shall come thence to judge men 3. That he shall judge all men both the quick and the dead that is both those that

THE Church Catechism Analysed Explained and Improved The First Part. WHEREIN I. The Text is set down whole and entire II. It is broken into Questions and Answers in the very Words of the Catechism III. The Terms of it are explained and such short Questions and Answers added as are occasioned by it and seem needful to the discovery of its true meaning and use At the end is added Matter and Direction for all Acts of DEVOTION for Morning and Evening mostly in the Words of the Catechism The whole accommodated to the capacity and use of them that are yet to learn it and recommended to the Rich to bestow among the Poor Train up a Child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Prov. 22.6 Children obey your Parents in the Lord for this is right And ye Fathers provoke not your Children but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Ephes 6.1,4 Jesus said to Simon Peter Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me more than these Feed my Lambs John 21.15 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls as they that must give account Hebr. 13.17 London Printed for Robert Gifford 1683. CONSIDERATIONS Proposed to those that use this Book TRain up a Child saith the wisest of men by the direction of the Spirit of wisdom in his way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it where I. The life of man in this world is represented as a Way which when walked in assuredly brings the Traveller t●… and lodges him in the Place to which it leads II. A Charge is laid upon every one whom it concerns to train up those under their care even while Children in the right Way wherein they should go III. Assurance is given to incourage so needful a Practice that he that is indeed trained up in the right way will not depart from it but follow it till he arrive at the desired end Let it then in the fear of God be duely considered 1. That all and every one in whom we are concerned are passing apace on each in his way to a certain fixed end and unrepealable state being immortal Spirits that must never die 2. That according as the way they walk in and the course of life they pursue is right or wrong so will they infallibly be brought to an end either of full perfection and entire happiness with God in the most happy Place among the most happy Society in the most felicitating enjoyments and imployments to all eternity or of deplorable wretchedness and misery with Devils in endless easeless and remediless torments which in other words is called a being judged according to their works a receiving the things done in the Body whether good or evil a saying to the Righteous come ye Blessed and to the Wicked go ye Cursed 3. That there is a tremendous danger of missing the right way or departing from it Which will quickly appear when we have observed that the uninstructed faculties are so prone to act that Children begin to walk and take some way before they are able to know chuse or walk in the right That they are depraved by Nature ill Nurture and worse Education inclined to take the wrong ways into which they are misled by unexperienced Sense fo●lish Informations and bad Examples and strongly habituated to these they have been used to That they are apt to mistake or forget or reject true Directions and obnoxious to abundance of false That there are thousands of By-ways and turnings to the right hand and to the left That our Travellers companions will oft be his seducers many going the Broad-way that leads to destruction who will early prejudice him against the narrow Way and the few that find it or pursue him with Scoffs and Affronts which he must persevereingly encounter that he will be daily exposed to a thousand Solicitations of the Devil the World and the Flesh That there are many stumbling Blocks in the way and even his Fellow-travellers will oft be a scandal and a discouragement to him All which and much more evidence the mighty hazard of being seduced and make it no marvel that God should concern himself and the wisest Man to warn us to train him up in the way wherein he should go 4. That therefore if we have not devested our selves of common humanity natural affection and Christian compassion towards those lovely Images of God the dear purchase of the Blood of Christ and the peculiar charge of the Sanctifying Spirit sacred to the Holy Trinity in Baptism the Children of God the Members of Christ and the Heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven the hopeful Members of our Church our State and our Families which are entrusted to our care and be not resolved persidiously to leave them to apparent ruine and perdition we will bestir our selves for them and conscientiously obey the Charge training every one of them up in the way that he should go no care no pains surely can be thought here too much 5. That to train up imports no less than these three necessary things I. To present to them a full and fair prospect of the designed Place and the way to it keep open their eyes to view it and carry a Light before them a Lamp to their feet furnish them with true and never-failing directions to find the right and shun the wrong way and acquaint them with all the dangers in their Travel that a Voice may ever accompany them saying this is the way walk in it II. To conciliate their Affections to the blessed end and the way to it to get within them reach their hearts and possess them with a vigorous sense of their concernment therein to enamour them and make them in love with the way of life to excite their fears of missing it to enkindle their desires confirm their hopes of certain success and to ascertain their consent to walk yea to run with patience the race that is set before them and To hate every false way III. Actually to engage them to walk in the way excite and assist their powers anticipate their straying form their steps and early enter them into the way appoint them such easie Stages as they are able to travel furnish them with all the helps and provisions necessary to the Journey remove the affrightments and Stumbling-stones out of it see that they constantly follow their directions and the footsteps of the great and good that have gone before them so recall them when gone astray raise them when fallen encourage them when desponding refresh them when spent strengthen them against difficulties in a word so hedge in their Paths by a constant strict but gentle discipline so conduct them go before them and inure them to the Journey that their feet may certainly be guided into the ways of peace and that they may walk and not faint run and

not be weary yea run not as at uncertainty but so that they may infallibly obtain and finish their course with joy Till these three things are joyntly done the man is not trained up in his way to the neglect of these especially the two last we ought to impute the may miscarriages in our education and teaching few having skill and patience to engage their Will and assure their Practice and some good men have been deterred from the last by a very bad Opinion that to assist those that otherwise can't proceed with written forms of sound words though taken even from the Scriptures themselves is to quench the Spirit and prevent his holy Operations when indeed to refuse his inspired helps given for that very purpose is the only thing that does so 6. That they are thus to be trained up while Children while flexible and governable and conscious of their inability to direct their own way and of their dependance on their Guides before they are prejudiced or otherwise employed before they are seduced vitiated and accustomed to evil courses before they have cast themselves out of the conduct of their Teachers forfeited the aids of Gods Spirit and made their return impossible or next to it 7. That the Text not only asserts that God would have those under our care to be but supposes them by grace put into a capacity of being so trained up in the right way that they shall never depart from it and indeed God hath not nor will be wanting for his part having done and being ready to do all that that can be expected from the greatest power and goodness guided by the most comprehensive wisdom towards the bringing such Creatures to an happy end None are neglected in the daily administration of grace and to him that heareth more shall be given and whosoever hath the intrusted Talents to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance so that nothing can make them miscarry but the wilful neglect of the Guides or the guided receiving the Grace of God in vain and not duly applying that which is the Power of God to the Salvation of mens Souls 8. That therefore it depends upon us that have the charge of Children Pastors Parents Masters and Sureties and upon our skill and fidelity what they shall be what further grace or hardness shall be their lot what benefit or harm the Church the State and our Families shall have by them what comfort they shall have here what assurance of heart and where they shall be to all eternity When you have throughly weighed these things try if you can remain unaffected with the Case indifferent or neglectful of the welfare of those whom God hath trusted to your care and the Church returned from Baptism into your hands to train up but if through your perfidiousness or carelesness they perish remember that they indeed shall die in their sins but their blood their blood I say God will require at your hands But O how happy are they that meet with wise and faithful Guides and how shall they that turn many to righteousness shine as the Stars for ever and ever These considerations prevailed with me to endeavour among other things tending this way the making this Catechism which I am obliged to teach upon more accounts than one as useful to the ends of it as I was able and first to fit it to the capacity of the meanest with all the plainness and condescention I could designing to add a Second Part and then a Third each adapted to the case of Proficients keeping in both to this Ground-work in all which I submit my self to the wiser judgments of those above me in the mean time leaving this to the candor and conscientious use of those Pastors Teachers Masters and Parents who have not a better at hand I turn to God to implore his Pardon for what is amiss and his Blessing upon what may be useful in it March 10. 1682 3. THE Church Catechism Analysed Explained and Improved §. I. An Occasion taken to bring in a Discourse of Baptism Qu. WHat is your Name 1. Ans N. or M. Qu. Who gave you this Name 2. Ans My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Member of Christ the Child of God and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. What persons gave you your Name 3. Ans My Godfathers and Godmothers gave me my Name Q. What are Godfathers and Godmothers 4. Ans My Godfathers and Godmothers are those that presented me to God in Baptism and were Sureties for me promising that I should be taught and engaged to perform the Covenant made at my Baptism Q. When gave they you this Name 5. Ans They gave me this Name in my Baptism when I was Baptized §. II. What the Benefits of Baptism are Q. What were you made in your Baptism 6. Ans In my Baptism I was made First a Member of Christ Secondly The Child of God And thirdly An Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. Were you not a Member of Christ before you were Baptized 7. A. No but in my Baptism I was made a Member of Christ Q. Were you not a Child of God before you were Baptized 8. A. No but I was made a Child of God in my Baptism Q. Were not you an Heir of the Kingdom of Heaven before you were Baptized 9. A. No but in my Baptism I was made an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven §. III. The Vow and Covenant made at Baptism Q. Was there not a Promise made for you in your Name before you were received to Baptism 10. A. Yes there was a Promise made then for me and in my Name Q. What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then promise for you 11. A. They did promise and vow thrée things in my Name First that I should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanity of this wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh Secondly that I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly that I should kéep Gods holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of my life Q. How many things did your Sureties promise for you at your Baptism 12. A. They did promise and vow three things Q. Did they promise those three things in their own name and for themselves or in your name and for you 13. A. They did promise and vow them in my Name for me not for themselves Q. Which is the first thing that they promised and vowed in your Name 14. A. First they promised and vowed in my Name that I should renounce the Devil and all his Works and that I should renounce all the pomps and vanity of this wicked world and that I should renounce all the sinful lusts of the flesh Q. Which is the second thing that they promised in your Name 15. A. Secondly they did promise and vow in my Name that I should believe all the

then shall be alive and those that shall then be dead Q. Which is the eighth Article of your Creed 41. A. I believe in the Holy Ghost Q. What do you profess to believe in the eighth Article 42. A. In the eighth Article I profess 1. That there is an Holy Ghost or Spirit 2. That this Spirit is Holy halloweth and sanctifieth the elect people of God 3. That I do believe in him as the Holy sanctifying Spirit Q. Which is the ninth Article in the Creed 43. A. I believe the Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints Q. What do you profess to believe in the ninth Article 44. A. In the ninth Article I profess to believe 1. That there is one Church of Christ 2. That this Church is Holy made up of Saints separated and consecrated to God in Baptism 3. That this Holy Church is Catholick comprehending all Christians in all Nations Times and Places 4. That there is and ought to be a Communion of these Saints or Christians sacred to God in Christian fellowship in mutual love and all good offices towards one another Q. Which is the tenth Article of the Creed 45. A. I believe The forgiveness of Sins Q. What do you profess to believe in this tenth Article 46. A. In this tenth Article I profess to believe 1. That the sins of men stand in need of forgiveness 2. That there is forgiveness of the sins of all those that truly repent and believe Q. Which is the eleventh Article of the Creed 47. A. I believe The Resurrection of the Body Q. What do you profess to believe in the eleventh Article 48. A. in the eleventh Article I profess to believe That the bodies of all men that die shall be raised again to life at the last day Q. Which is the Twelfth Article 49 A. And the Life Everlasting Q. What do you profess to believe in this Twelfth and last Article of your Creed 50 A. In this Twelfth Article I profess to believe That there is and shall be an Everlasting Life of the Righteous in Heaven and of the Wicked in Hell for ever Q. What meaneth Amen at the End 51 A. Amen signifieth So be it and So it is And therefore I say Amen So it is All these things are certainly true and I believe them to be so And so let it be they are excellently good and I am duely affected towards them and will live and act suitably to them Q. What doest thou chiefty learn in these Articles of thy Belief 52 A. First I learn to believe in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly In God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind Thirdly In God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect People of God Q. Why say you That by the Articles of your Belief you chiefly learn these three things 53 A. I say chiefly because there are other things besides these that I learn and profess in the Creed but these three are the chief Q. First Whom do you profess to believe in 54 A. First I profess to believe in God the Father Q. What hath God the Father done 55 A. He hath made me and all the world Q. Secondly Whom do you learn to believe in 56 A. Secondly I learn and profess to believe in God the Son Q. Who is meant by God the Son 57 A. Jesus Christ is God the Son Q. What hath God the Son done hath he not redeemed all the world 58 A. God the Son hath redeemed me and all mankind not Angels nor Devils nor Beasts Q. Thirdly In whom do you learn to believe 59 A. Thirdly I learn and profess to believe in God the Holy Ghost Q. What doth God the Holy Ghost do Doth he not sanctifie all the World or at least all Mankind 60 A. No but he sanctifieth me and all the Elect People of God and no other Q. If then you learn to believe in God the Father and in God the Son and in God the Holy Ghost do you not learn to believe in three Gods 61 A. No but I believe in the Father and Son and Holy Ghost and these three are one God §. VI. The Ten Commandments Q. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you That you should keep Gods Commandments Tell me how many there be 62 A. Ten. Q. Which be they 63 A. The same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thée out of the Land of Egypt out of the House of Bondage Q. Who spake these Ten Commandments 64 A. God spake these Ten Commandments Q. Where are these Ten Commandments written down 65 A. They are written in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus Q. What did God say before he spake the Ten Commandments 66 A. God spake to the Nation of Israel saying I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage and slavery And therefore keep thou all the Commandments of him who is the Lord thy God and hath redeemed thee from Egyptian slavery Q. Which is the First Commandment 67 A. I. Com. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me Q. What doth God require in this First Commandment 68 A. In the First Commandment God requireth That his redeemed People have him for their God Q. What doth God forbid in the S●… Commandment 69 A. In the First Commandment God forbiddeth them to have any other God but him Q. Which is the Second Commandment 70 A. II. Com. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my Commandments Q. What doth God forbid his People in the Second Commandment 71 A. In the Second Commandment God forbiddeth his People To make any graven image or any likeness of any thing in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water below the earth to bow down to them or worship them Q. What doth God say to afrighten them from bowing down and worshipping the image or likeness of any thing 72 A. He saith For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and worship images Q. What doth he say to encourage them to keep this Commandment 73 A. To encourage his People to keep this Commandment he saith And I shew mercy to thousands in them that love me and keep my Commandments particularly who keep this Commandment and do not worship Images Q. Which is the Third

slothfulness intemperance uncleanness c. O God! be merciful to me a Sinner I then also promised to believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith But O how shamefully have I neglected duly to consider them Openly to own and profess them And Conscientiously to live suitably to them Yea farther I vowed to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same Commandments of God not now and then but all the days of my life from my Baptism to my death But O my God I confess with sorrow and shame that I have too often resisted thy Holy Will and disobeyed thy Commandments and have not made Conscience to keep them nor walk in them all the days of my past life Dispose my mind O my God! to true Repentance and so for Jesus Christ's sake graciously forgive the sin of thy servant Inable me Conscientiously to renew my Covenant with God and give me grace sincerely to keep it Then lift up thy Heart thy Eyes and thy Hands towards Heaven and say I do verily think that I am bound To renounce the Devil and all his Works The Pomps and Vanity of this wicked World And all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh And here before God and his Angels I renounce them all And that I am bound to believe and profess all the Articles of the Christian Faith And to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments and to walk in the same all the days of my life And by thy help O God so I will And because I know that I am not able to do these things of my self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace therefore I now will call for it by diligent Prayer Then say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into Temptation But deliver us from Evil. For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for Ever and Ever Amen Then add O my Lord God our heavenly Father the Giver of all Goodness I beseech thee to send thy Grace to me and to all People that we may worship thee serve thee and obey thee as we ought to do And I pray unto thee that thou would'st send us all things that be needful for our Souls and Bodies And that thou would'st be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins And that it would please thee to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily that neither our souls nor bodies be harmed And that thou would'st keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly Enemy the Devil and his Instruments and from everlasting Death And this I trust O Lord thou wilt do of thy mercy and goodness through our Lord Jesus Christ and therefore I say Amen so be it Then rising up you may consider with your self thus How patient how good and gracious is my Lord Who hath prolonged my life and good estate to this day Who hath provided me plenty of good things and yet allow me the means of grace and aids of his Spirit Who hath entrusted me with one day more to strengthen my faith to repent of my sins to serve my God to do good to my Neighbour and to work out my own salvation in with fear and trembling What manner of person ought I to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness Satan is malicious and cunning The World tempting evil Company inticing My flesh weak and deceitful But God's Eye is upon me The love of Christ constrains me I am under the Promises and Vows of Baptism My Soul and its eternal state lies at stake God's glory my Neighbour's good and my own welfare are deeply concerned in my carriage this day I shall be judged according to this days works Hell is open and gapes for the unfaithful and wicked breakers of God's Covenant Eternal Glory is before me the assured reward of faithful perseverance in well-doing Grant O Lord that I may this day truly do my duty in that state of life unto which thou hast called me Then read a Psalm and a Chapter in your course and when you have thought what work you have to do that day sit down on your knees and say O Lord my heavenly Father Almighty and Everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same by thy mighty power and grant that this day I may fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance and I may do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen §. II. EVENING DEVOTIONS I Advise thee my dear Child as ever thou wouldest be truly Religious and happy when the day is done before thou art drowzy and unfit for such a work to get alone and having composed thy thoughts with reverence fall down on thy knees and say O Lord my heavenly Father thou hast safely brought me to the latter end of this day and hast defended me in the same by thy mighty power and hast kept me by thy grace from falling into many sins and from running into many kinds of danger and hast sent me all things needful for Soul or Body for all which I humbly and heartily thank thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. And I beseech thee to give me thy grace to help me to consider what I have done this day and to praise thee for what I have well done and to see confess and repent of what I have done amiss therein Amen Then take a view of all thou hast done that day and consider what duty to God to men or to thy self thou hast omitted and what thou hast thought or said or done amiss and say If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us but if we confess our sins with a due sense of them hearty sorrow for them and utter detestation of them and so forsake them God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness Then fall again on thy knees and say O God the Father Who hast made me and all the World have mercy on me a miserable sinner O God the Son Who hast redeemed me and all mankind have mercy upon me a miserable sinner O God the Holy Ghost Who do'st sanctifie me and all the elect People of God have mercy upon me a miserable sinner I confess before thee O Lord that I have been too negligent of my duty towards thee in not believing in thee not fearing thee not loving thee with all my heart and with all my mind and with all my soul and with all my strength but have over-loved other things besides thee O how have I neglected to worship

thee the great God in Spirit and Truth To give thee thanks for all thy mercies to put my whole trust in thee to call upon thee to honour thy holy Name and thy Word and to serve thee truly this and other days of my life Convert me O my God more to thee and forgive me I have also uncharitably and unjustly neglected my duty to others not loving my Neighbour as my self not doing to all men as I would they should do unto me I am bound to love honour and succour my Father and Mother to honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under Him I should have submitted my self to all my Governors Teachers spiritual Pastors and Masters I should have order'd my self lowly and reverently to all my Betters But the Lord knows I have failed in these Duties How oft have I hurt others by word or deed How oft have I been untrue and unjust in my Dealing How oft have I wretched sinner born malice and hatred in my heart I promised to keep my hands from picking and stealing and my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering others and to keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity But God and my Conscience witness that I have fail'd in these things Too oft have I coveted and desired other mens Goods and through sloth have neglected to learn and labour truly to do my duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased God to call me Prevail with me O my God to amend and forgive my sin for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Then rising up read a Psalm or Chapter or both taking good heed as to the Word of God and pray God you may be bettered by it Then fall again on thy knees and say Be merciful to me O Lord take the care of me refresh me with good rest and by thy great mercy defend me from all perils and dangers of this Night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen God the Father Son and Holy Ghost whose I am and whom I serve into whose Name I was baptized and to whose Faith Fear and Love I am devoted direct sanctifie and govern my heart and body enlighten my mind engage my will and enliven all my powers in the ways of my duty and in the works of his commandments guide bless and prosper me here and bring me to the heavenly Kingdom Amen Bless O Lord God I beseech thee my Sovereign Lord the King and all that are put in Authority under Him Bless the Pastors of thy Church the Ministers of thy Word and Sacraments Bless my honoured Parents my Brothers and Sisters and all the rest of my Kindred my Teachers spiritual Pastor and Master all my Benefactors and good Friends yea mine Enemies Bless this Family and all in it all my Neighbours and Companions with all Blessings bodily and spiritual temporal and eternal through Jesus Christ Amen The Grace of my Lord Jesus Christ the Love of God my Father and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with me now henceforth and for ever Amen Grace before Meat O God in whom I live and move and have my being bless thy good Creatures I beseech thee to my use and me to thy service through Jesus Christ Amen Grace after Meat The God of all Power Grace and Glory who hath created me redeemed me sanctifieth me and hath at this time graciously fed me his holy Name be blessed and praised for ever and ever Amen Pag. 4. lin 20. for truely baptized read duely THE END