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whose liuely image I do acknowledge in my selfe for I am he that hath most vniustly forsaken thee my louing father and haue riotously consumed my substance and by obeying the appetites of my flesh haue disobeyed thy commandements and by breaking of them haue fallen into the most filthie prison of sinne being brought to extreame miserie out of which I know none other that can helpe me but onely thou my Almighty God whom I haue forsaken Receiue therefore O Lord mercifully the humble that desireth pardon of thee whom thou hast so patiently looked for euen vntill this present houre Alas I am not worthy to lift vp mine eyes vnto thee nor once to call thee father but for so much as thou art a true father in deed may it please thee to view me with thy fatherly compassionate eyes for thy onely sight is powerfull to raise the dead and it is that which causeth all those that wander out of the way to returne againe to themselues For this repentance and sorrow for my sinnes I had not had if thou hadst not beheld me with thy mercies eye When I went wandring afarre off from thee thou didst looke downe euen from heauen vpon me and didst open mine eyes that I might see my selfe and take a view how full fraught I was with infinite sinnes and euen at this instant thou commest to receiue me againe giuing me knowledge and mindfulnesse of mine innocencie which I haue lost I do not request thy most sweete embracings and kisses nor the rich garment that was wont to cloth me neither yet the ring of mine ancient dignitie I sue not to be receiued againe into the state and dignitie of thy sonnes but thou shalt do very much for me in case it may please thee to number me amongest thy bondslaues and so to marke me with thy signe and to fetter me with thy chaines that I may neuer after runne away from thee Againe it shall neuer grieue me to be in this life one of the most abiect slaues in thy house so that I may neuer be separated from thee Suffer me not gracious Lord to runne the erring steps that I haue formerly done for thou didst consecrate me for thy temple and I made my selfe an habitation for the Diuell Thou gauest me armour and didst bind me to be thy true knight and I haue gone traiterously to thy enemies side vsing thine owne weapons against thee thou didst espouse my soule vnto thee in perpetuall charitie and I haue proued disloyall following the loue of vanities more then thy truth and esteemed a creature more then the Creator But now Lord incline thee vnto me I beseech thee O father of mercy graunting me the fauour of thine onely begotten Sonne and the remedie of his most grieuous passion and death graunt me also thy holy spirit that it may cleanse my heart and confirme it in thy grace any fauour that through mine ignorance I do neuer runne againe into my late banishment from whence thy louing kindnesse hath called me backe but that I may continue in thy obedience euen from this present houre of my repentance vnto the last houre of my transitorie life To thee O my Lord be perpetuall glorie honour power and dominion world without end OF THE THREE SORTS OF MEN ALL DIVERSLY affected in things concerning God Men are either OPEN WICKED Licentious and prophane liuers professed enemies of the Law of the Lord Iob 21.14.15 These are borne but after the flesh therefore sauour they onely the things of the flesh and remaine as they are by nature childrē of wrath Ioh. 3.6 1. Cor. 2.16 Ephe. 2.3 These are neither chosen of God nor called being neither of the Church nor in the same Psal 11.5 Reu. 22.14 1. Cor. 5.12 In these sinne daily increaseth inwardly and outwardly till righteousnesse in thē be vtterly extinct Psal 36.1.2.3.4 To these the law if it be sent cometh in tables of stone for such is the nature of hearts but they receiue it not the tables are broken before they come at them for these dance as it were about the golden calfe of their owne impietie know not what is become of Moses they breake and violate all Exod. 32. Yet vnto such the Law is giuen and lieth vpon them as a curse and condemnation 1. Tim. 1.9 Deut. 27.15 26. These keepe not the Law neither are they kept by the Law but breake forth into all sinne and wickednesse Iob 24.13 c. Psal 73.8 9. These hate the Law and professe their hatred Psal 2.3 Iob 22.17 These are naked yet without shame though all men see their filthinesse they hide it not Ier. 6.15 and 8.12 These call not vpon God Psal 14.4 These accustomed to do euill neither change ●hemselues nor ●heir actions Ier. 13.23 These are strangers not children ●or yet seruants ●n the houshold ●f faith Ephes 2.12 Psal 58 3. These go not out ●o meete the ●ridegroome ●either come to ●●e wedding ●●ough they be ●uited Mat. 22. ●5 These are ●●rknesse both before God and the world Pro 4.19 These though sicke vnto death yet like the mad man possessed of diuels Mar. 5 2 3 c. which raued and felt not nor di●cerned his owne miserie they seeke no remedie for their disease Prouerb 14.16 23.34 35. These do the euill which they loue and would do Iob 20 12.13 Prou 2.14 These expect no saluation either by themselues or by any other Isa 22.13 These die by Moses sword as the Idolaters Exod 32. the Madianites Numb 31. the Amorites Sihon Ogh and the like These both shall perish and be punished with euerlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord their portion shall be with the diuels in the lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death Mat. 25.30.41 24.51 Iob 13.16 2. Thes 1.8.9 Reue. 20.10.13.15 The wicked shall turne into hell Psal 9.17 The reioycing of the wicked is short the ioy of Hypocrites is but a moment Iob 20.5 HYPOCRITES Outwardly rel●gious but inwardly wicked hating Gods Law and the true righteousnesse Isay 29.13 Mic. 3.11 These seeme to be renewed and born againe of the Spirit they are inlightned boast of heauenly grace yet continue they stil in their old naturall corruption vnwashed from their filthinesse Heb. 6 4. Isa 65.5 Ioh. 8 41.22 Pro. 30.12 These are called but not chosen are in the Church for a while but not of it Mat. 22.14 1. Ioh. 2.19 In these righteousnesse increaseth outwardly but sin liueth inwardly and aboundeth Isa 1.11 c. Ier. 3.4.5 To these God giueth the stonie tables and they receiue them but Moses face so shineth that they cannot looke vpon him vnlesse he veile his countenance They outwardly keepe the law rest therein they also teach others to keepe it yet are themselues transgressors of it the inward power and end thereof they cannot see Exod. 34.29 30 c. 2. Cor. 3.13 14. Rom. 2.17 22 23 c. These though they keepe not the Law yet
Father grant me pardon of all my sinnes through the death of thy beloued Sonne Iesus Christ make me to please thee alone grant me to be thy gratefull sonne heire increase in me that iustice whatsoeuer which is giuen me and granted from heauen that I may continue and end my life in the same increase in me that faith which thou hast giuen me kindle my loue of thee and make it more apparent that by thy helpe and the presence of thy grace and the accomplishment of thy holy wil I may obtaine euerlasting life which thou hast promised vs to the end I may praise thee and giue thee thankes in thy kingdome for euer and euer Amen A Prayer to God the Sonne O Thou maker and redeemer of mankind Iesus Christ who saidest I am the way the truth and the life the way in doctrine precept and examples the truth in promises the life in reward I pray thee by thy vnspeakable charitie wherewith thou daignest to imploy thy selfe wholly for our saluation suffer me neuer to wander from thee who art the way neither euer to distrust in thy promises who art the truth and performest whatsoeuer thou doest promise neither to repose or relie on any other thing because thou art eternall life than which there is nothing more to be desired neither in heauen nor in earth By thee haue we learned the true and ready way to eternall saluation lest we should wander any longer in the Labyrinthes of this life Thou didst teach vs exactly how to beleeue what to do what to hope and in whom we ought to rest by thee we haue learned how vnhappie we were borne through our first father Adam by thee we haue learned that there is no hope of saluation except by faith in thee Thou hast taught vs that thou art the onely light that shinest to all men in the desart of this wolrd cōducting them through the night of their minds from the Egyptian darknesse to that blessed Land which thou promisest vnto the meeke and such as follow thy humility For in vs was nothing but vtter darknesse who neither could see our calamity neither know from whence to seeke the remedie of our misery thou daignedst to enter into the world vouchsafedst to take vpon thee our nature that thy doctrine might disperse the cloud of our ignorance that by thy precepts thou mightst direct our feete in the way of peace by the examples of thy life thou didst limit out a path for vs to immortality and beating it with thy steps thou madest it of a tedious and rough an easie and beaten way So becamest thou vnto vs a way that knoweth no errour in which lest we should be wearied thy bounty with great assured promises vouchsafed to assure vs for who could be wearied that thinketh how in following thy footsteps there is an heritage of eternall life prepared for him Therefore whilst we are in this iourney thou wouldest in stead of a staffe be an assured hope vnto vs whereby we might be sustained Neither was thy goodnesse cōtented herewith but acknowledging the frailty of our natures in the meane space with the comfort of the holy Spirit thou repairest our courages to the end that we may more willingly run vnto thee And as thou being made a way vnto vs driuest away all errour so becoming our truth thou takest away al distrust Finally being made life vnto vs thou giuest heate vnto those that are dead in sinne a life through thy holy Spirit which quickeneth all things vntill all mortality laid aside in the resurrection we may alwaies liue with thee and in thee by reason that thou art vnto vs all in all things For it is eternall life to know the Father and the Sonne and the holy Ghost to be one true God Wherefore I beseech thee O most mercifull Father to increase faith in me who am thy vnworthie seruant lest at any time I wauer in thy celestiall doctrine increase obedience in me lest I swerue from thy precepts increase constancy that walking in thy waies I neither be allured by the inticements of Satan nor deiected by his terrors but that I may perseuere in thee who art rhe true way to my liues end Increase my faith that possessed of thy promises I may neuer waxe slow in the study of godlinesse but forgetting those things I haue left behind me I may alwaies striue and endeuour for more perfection Increase thy grace in me that daily more and more being mortified my selfe I may liue and be incouraged by thy holy Spirit fearing nothing but thee than whom there is nothing more amiable glorying in none but in thee who art the true glorie of all the Saints wishing nothing but thee than whom there is nothing better desiring nothing but thee who art full and perfect felicitie with the Father and the holy Ghost world without end Amen A prayer to God the holy Ghost HOly Spirit our Aduocate who on Whitsunday didst descend vpon thy Apostles filling their bosomes with charitie grace and wisedome I pray thee by that thy vnspeakable mercie and liberalitie that thou wilt vouchsafe to fill the secrets of my soule with thy grace and water my inward heart with the vnspeakable sweetnesse of thy loue Come holy Ghost from heauen send a beame of thy light Come thou Father of the poore come thou giuer of gifts come thou light of hearts come thou gracious comforter thou sweete guest of my soule my pleasant refresher Come thou Physition of those that faint come thou purger of eies come thou strēgth of the fraile come thou remedie of sinnes come thou doctor of the humble come thou destroyer of the proud come thou excellent ornament of all vertues come thou onely saluation of the dying Come my God adorne a bed for thee in which I may worthily entertaine thee with all thy riches and mercies fill me with the gifts of thy wisdome illuminate me with the benefit of vnderstanding gouerne me with the gift of counsell confirme me with the gift of fortitude instruct me with the gift of science wound me with the gift of pietie and pierce my heart with the gift of thy holy feare O sweet louer of cleane hearts burne inflame all my bowels with the sweete fire of thy loue that being inflamed they may be carried rauished into thee who art the center and finall end of all my good ô sweete louer of ●oly soules since thou art not ignorant that I can do nothing of my selfe nor by my selfe stretch out thy fauorable hand ouer me grant that I may forsake my selfe flie vnto thee mortifie extinguish and dissolue in me whatsoeuer is displeasant vnto thee that in all things thou mayest conforme me vnto thy will that my life hereafter may be a perfect sacrifice in thy sight or rather an offering which may wholly be consumed in the fire of thy loue O who shall giue me the grace that I may at least attaine this chiefe good Looke vpon me ô Lord looke vpon me and see here this thy poore creature my soule sighing after thee day and night how she thirsteth after God when shall I come and appeare before the presence of thy grace When shall I enter into that admirable place of thy Tabernacle that I may attaine th● house of my God When wi●● thou fill me with the light of th● countenance When shall I b● satiate with the presence of thy glory When shall I by th●● meanes be deliuered from a●● temptations and when shall ouercome this frailty of my mo●talitie O eternall fountaine o● light bring me backe againe 〈◊〉 the Abysse of eternall goodnesse by whom I am created that ●ere I may know thee euen as I am knowne of thee and may so loue thee as I am loued by thee that I may see and enioy thee in the societie of all the elect euen as thou also hast seene me from euerlasting Amen FINIS