chant it as cheerfully in September the beginning of Winter as in March the approach of the Summer why should not we thinke I give as cheerfull entâ—rtainment to the hoary Haires of ouâ— ages Winter as to the Primroses of our youths spring why not to the declining Sunne in adversity as like Persians to the rising Sunne of prosperity I am sent to the Ant to learne industry to the Dove to learne innocencie to the Serpâ—nt to learne wisdome aâ—d why not to this Bird to lâ—arne Equanimity and patience aâ—â— to keep the same tenoâ— of my mindâ—â— qâ—â—etness as well at the appâ—â—acâ—â— of calamitous Winter as of the Spring of hâ—ppinâ—ssâ— And since the Romans constancâ—e is so commended who changed not his countenancâ— with his changed Fortunes why shâ—uld not I with a Christian resolution hold a steddy cou se in all weatâ—ers and though I be â—orced with crosse Winds â—o shift my Sayles and catch at side Winds yâ—t skilfully to steare and keep on my course by the Cape of good hope till I arrive at the haven of eternall happinesse And now to conclude Meditation is a busie search in the Store-house of Fantasie for some Ideas of matters to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some formes of words or actions in which search when I have used my greatest diligence I finde this in conclusion that to meditate on the best is the best of Meditations and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions A Morning Prayer O Most gracious God and loving Father we heartily thanke thee for all thy loving kindnesses so abundantly shewed upon us for our Election Creation Redemption mercifull Vocation Justification Sanctification and continuall preservation and for our assured hope of our Glorification in the world to come We praise thy gracious goodnesse for so mercifully preserving us this night past and delivering us from all dangers both of soule and body for that thou hast given us so sweet and comfortable rest and hast brought us to the beginning of this day And as thou hast safely preserved us unto this present houre from all dangers of this life so we beseech thee to continue this thy favour towards us this day and the whole course of our life suffer us not by vaine alurements of this world to be drawne away into sinne and wickednesse assist us with thy Grace and holy Spirit that we spend not our times vainely or idely but that we may alwaies be diligently exercised in the duties of our Calling to the benefit of our Brethren and discharge of our Conscience Grant that in all our consultations words and workes we may ever have thee present before our eyes through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen An Evening Prayer O Most gracious Lord God and loving Father we heartily thanke thee for all thy mercies blessings benefits and preservations so abundantly shewed towards us We doe praise thy glorious goodnesse for so mercifully preserving us this day past and delivering us from all perills and dangers both of body and soule for prospering and preserving us in health and prosperity for giving us all things necessary for this present life as health food and apparrell and other convenient things needfull this gracious goodnesse of thine we beseech thee O Lord to continue towards us for ever And here O Lord God we offer up unto thee our selves and ours our soules our bodies we recommend our lives our meanes and all we have unto thy gracious preservation and protection in assurance that that cannot perish which is committed unto thee keep us this night in safety and grant good Lord that our bodies may sleep and ouâ— souâ—es may watch for the commiâ—g of our Saviour thy Son Jesus Christ thaâ— so our soules and bodies may be more apt and able to serve thee in that estate and Calling wherein thou hast thought good to place us we doe confesse and acknowledge O mercifull God that we are most miserable and wicked sinners as well by originall corruption of Nature as by the course of our evill and naughty life we have and doe daily breake and transgresse thy most holy Law and Commandements both in thought word and deed By the meanes of this sinne and corruption we doe continually deserve most just condemnation and to be for ever cast out of thy presence yet such is thy goodnesse towards us thou wouldest not suffer us thus to perish in our sins but hast sent thine owne deare Sonne Christ Jesus to take upon him whatsoever is due to us and to reconcile and makâ— us one with thee againe In him therefore and thorow him we come unto thee beseeching thee for his sake that we feeliâ—g the grievâ—usnesse of our siâ—nes and groaning under the burthen of them may finde the release and â—ase of them in that we through thy â—â—â—y Spirit stedfastly belâ—eve that Christ hath borne the burthen of them even for us Grant O Lord that we being assured hereof in our conscience may through thy holy Spirit be renewed with more graces and hate detest and abhorre all manner of sinne and study to live in all things according to thy blessed Will during our whole life Grant this O deare Father for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for remission of sins O Lord glorious ever-living loving everlasting Father I wretched sinner presume once againe after my sinne to returne home unto thee requesting begging praying and desiring of thy heavenly Majesty that thou wilâ— look downe upon me I confesse were it not for the hope of thy mercy anâ— the hold of thy comfort and the renewing graces which sometimes I feele from thee and that sweet taste and feeling of thy good gifts and thy heavenly Word I should sinke in despaire for my sinne is alwaies before me if I go they follow me if I run they fly after me if I look back they stare upon me if I go forward they meet me if I turne to the right hand they terrifie me if to the left hand they torment me If I look down to earth Hell is ready to devour me now have I no way but to look up to thee Lord be thou then hore ready to receive me help me good God save me deare Father succour me sweet Redeemer assist me mercifull Creator that my prayers may be so fervent so zealous so affectionate towards thee that they may draw down thy mercies upon me powre down thy blessings shower down thy graces open thy hand of mercy restore joy and comfort to my heavie and laden soule wash away my sins wipe away mine iniquity heale my infirmities purge my wicked minde of all evill thoughts pardon all misdeeds and wicked dealings renew the good Spirit of heâ—venly graces restore the joyes of thy holy comsorts upon me O Lord let me have some feeling some taste some scent some glimmering of thy glorious presence Let me feele some comfort finde some joy have some rest good Lord let
their defects and publish them not abroad be ready to praise and slow to reprehend He that esteemes or vaâ—â—s himself to be wise think him a foole and him that doth assume the name of learned whosoever tryes him shall find him nothing but bare words The better learned learn more their want And more to doubt their own sufficiency And virtuous men are never arrogant These are the fruits of my Philosophy To mortifie carnall affections WHensoever a man doth covet any thing immoderately straight way his mind is out of quiet The proud and covetuous be ever vexed but he which is poor and meek in spirit liveth in great ease he which doth not mortifie the inordinate affections of his mind may easily be carried away to wickednesse and with trifling things be overcome He that is weak wordly and carnall can no wayes withdraw himself from earthly desires And therefore when he resisteth them it griveth him when he is contraried he fretteth and if he fulfill his mind he sinneth and by and by doth wound his Conscience because he followeth his desires which instead of that peace which he looked for brings continuall disquietnesse wherefore the true quietnesse of mind iâ— attained not by following but by resisting wicked affections and remaineth in him which is fervent and godly zealous not in carnall and wordly men Against vain glory IT is a vain thing to trust either in man or in any other Creature be not ashamed to be in subjection to others not if thou be poor in this present life depend not upon thy self but put thy confidence in the Lord. Do thy part and God will blesse thy indeavour Trust not to thine own knowledge neither do thou repose any confidence in the wit of man but only in the Lord which exalteth the humble and bringeth down the proud Glory thou neither in thy riches if thou have much not of thy friends if they be mighty but in the Lord who both giveth all things and gladly would give himself before all things Be thou proud neither of thy beauty or highnesse for a little sicknesse doth both deform the one and consume the other Like not over well of thy self if thou have a good wit least thou offend God thereby which gave whatsoever good thing thou hast by nature Think not thy self better then other men least God who knoweth what is in man condemn thee utterly for thy arrogant conceit dost thou well take heed of pride God judgeth not as man doth for that commonly doth displease him which pleaseth man If thou hast any goodnesse in thy self think that another hath more so shalt thou alwayes retain the true modesty of mind To debase thy self even under all men can never hurt thee but to prefer thy self afore one man may easily condemn thee The humble man is alwayes in quiet but the haughty minded fumeth commonly with indignation What Company to use OPen not thy heart to every man but communicate thine affaires to the wise and godly acquaint thy self with reverend old men and delight not much in the company of youths and strangers flatter not the wealthy and take heed of the mighty joyn thee to thy equalls which are godly and do that which is honest and for the publike wel-fare be familiar with no woman unlawfully but generally commend as many as are good wish to be familiar but with God only and his holy Angels and utterly avoid the company of some men Have peace with all men but not familiarity many times it falleth out that we love a stranger through the report of others whom afterwards we hate having tryed his conditions and many times we displease others by our lewd beheaviour whom we thought we should please right well if we had but their acquaintance Of Obedience IT is greatly for our behoofe to live under others not as we list ouâ— selves and at more ease live Subjects then Rulers Many obey for fear rather then for love and grudgingly noâ— gladly but such can never have the liberty of mind before they obey botâ— for Conscience and for the Lords sake wheresoever thou comest never looâ— to live at ease unlesse thou keep thy seâ—â— within thy calling and obey thy superiours The opinion and change of places hath deceived many a man everâ— man by nature would follow his owâ— mind and favoureth such as are of his own opinion but if we fear God we will sometimes change our mind for quietnesse sake for who is so wise thaâ— he knoweth all things Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion but willingly give eare to the judgement of others And albeit thou stand in a good matter yet if it be thought more expedient to have it otherwayes alter thy mind and thou shalt do betâ—â—â— I have heard many times that it is easier yet better to hear and take then â—o give Councell And he bewrayeth his pâ—ide more which will stick in an opinion though it be good if wiser then himself through deeper judgement and Circumstances would have it altered Against idle meetings SHun the common meetings of meâ— as much as thou canst for to talk oâ— worldly matters doth greatly huâ— us mean we never so well the reasoâ— is we are easily drawn away with vanity And for my part I have wisheâ— many times that I had been both silent and absent now if any would examine the cause why so gladly wâ— chat and prate together seeing we seldom speak without offence to God and hurt to our Conscience he shaâ—â— find the answer to be for comfort anâ— recreation sake For the more earnestly we desire a thing or the more certainly we know any evill to be towards us the more vehemently wâ— love to talk and think thereof albeit to small profit or purpose for this outward comfort doth not a little hinder the inward consolation wherefore we are to watch and pray that we spend not our time idly And if we will or must of necessity speak let our speech be good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers To babble much we should not use both because the custome thereto is nought and for that in many words there cannot want iniquity But godly speech greatly availeth to a vertuous life especially where men of like minds and spirit are coupled together in the Lord. How to come to quietnesse in mind to a godly life WOuld we not meddle with other mens doings and sayings we might live at great ease and quietnesse but how is it possible we should be quiet which busie our selves with other mens matters that touch us not and pick occasion to go abroad and little or seldom keep at home blessed are the meek for they have much rest In ancient time many attained to singular perfection and were zealous and how so They mortified their earthly Members we loose the bridle to all beastly desires and care altogether for temporall trash seldom if at all do we subdue our
solaces in theâ—â— dayes of tears what joy shall there bâ—â— in that day of marriage if our goale 〈◊〉 containe so great matters what shaâ—â— our Countrie and Kingdome doe O my Lord and God thou art a greâ—â— God and great is the multitude of thâ— magnificence and sweetnesse And 〈◊〉 there is no end of thy greatnesse nâ— number of thy wisdom nor measure 〈◊〉 thy benignity so is their neither â—nd numbers nor measure of thy rewarâ— towards them that love and faithfully serve thee Hitherto St. Austin Anotheâ— way to conjecture of this felicity is to consider the great promises which Goâ— maketh in the Scriptures to honor and glorifie man in the life to come whosoever shall honour me saith God I will gloryfie him And the Prophet David as it were complaineth joyfully that Gods friends were so much honoured by him which he might with much more cause have said if he had lived in the new Testament and had heard that promise of Christ that his Servants should sit down and banquet and that himself would serve and minister unto them in the Kingdom of his Father But now to come to that point of this felicity which doth appertain to the soul as the principal part it is to be understood that albeit there be many things that do concur to this felicity for the accomplishment perfection of happynesse yet the fountain of aâ—l is but one onely thing called by Divines the sight of God that maketh us happy This only sight of God is our happinesse If we would enter into these considerations no doubt but we should be more inflamed with the love of this felicity prepared for us then we are and consequently should strive more to gain it then wâ— do And to the end thou mayst conceive some more feeling in the matter gentle Reader consider a little with me what a joyfull day shall that be at thy house when having lived in thâ— fear of God and archieved in his service the end of thy peregrination bâ— the meanes of death to passe froâ— misery and labour to immortality anâ— in that passage when other men begin to feare thou shalt lift up thâ— head in hope according as Christ promiseth for that the time of thy salvation cometh Tell me what a day shall that be when thy soule stepping forth of prison and conducted to the Tabernaclâ— of Heaven and shall be received theâ— with the honourable Companies anâ— Troopes of that place with all thosâ— blessed spirits mentioned in Scriptureâ— as Principalities Powers Vertueâ— Dominations Thrones Angels Archangels Cherubines and Seraphines also with the holy Apostles anâ— Disciples of Christ Patriarks Prophets Martyrs Innocents Confeâ—sors and Saints of God All which shall triumph at thy Coronation and glorification What joy will thy soule receive at that day when shee shall be presented in the presence of these States before the Seat Majestie of the blessed Trinity with recitall and declaration of all thy good works and travels suffered for the love service of God When there shall be laid down in that honourable Consistory all thy vertuous deeds al thy labors that thou hast taken in thy calling all thy almes all thy prayers all thy fasting all thy innocence of life all thy patience in injuries all thy constancie in adversities all thy temperance in meats all thy vertues of thy whole life When all I say shall be recounted there al commended all rewarded shalt thou not see now the value profit of a vertuous life shalt thou not confess that gainful honorable is the service of God Shalt thou not now be glad bless the hour wherein first thou resolvedst thy self to leave the service of the world to serve God Shalt thou not think thy selfe to be beholden to him that perswaded thee unto it Yes verily But yet more then this when as being so neere thy passage here thou shalt consider into what a port and haven of security thou art come and shalt looke backe upon the dangers which thou hast passed and wherein other men are yet in hazzard thy cause of joy shall greatly be increased For thou shalt see evidently how infinite times thou wert in danger to have perished in that journey if God had not held his provident hand over thee Thou shalt see the dangers wherein other men are the death and damnation whereinto many of thy friends and acquaintance have fallen the eternall paines of Hell incurred by many that used to laugh and be merry with them in this world All which shall augment the felicity of this thy blessed estate And now for thy selfe thou mayest be secure thou art out of all danger for ever and ever There is now no more need of feare of watchings of labour of care thou mayest lay down all armour now better then the Children of Israel might have done when they had gotten the Land of promise for there is no more Enemy to assault thee there is no wily Serpent to beguile thee All is peace all is rest all is joy all is security Thy onely exercise must be now to rejoyce to tryumph to sing Hallelujah to the Lambe which hath brought thee to this felicitie and will keep thee in the same world without end But now to draw towards an end in this matter though there be no end in the thing it selfe let the Christian Reader consider whereto he is borne and whereof he is in possibilitie if he will He is born heire apparent to the Kingdome of heaven a Kingdome without end a Kingdome without measure a Kingdome of blisse the Kingdome of God himself he is borne to be joynt heire with Jesus Christ the Sonne of God to raigne with him to triumph with him to sit in judgement with him to judge the very Angels with him What more glory can be thought upon except it were to become God himselfe All the joyes all the riches all the glory that heaven containeth shall be powred out upon him who wil not esteeme of this royall Inheritance Especially seeing that now we have so good opportunity to the obtaining thereof by the benefit of our redemption and grace purchased to us therein Tell me now Gentle Reader why wilt thou not accept of this his offer Why wilt thou not accompt of this his Kingdome Why wilt thou not buy this glory of him for so little a labour as he requireth There is not the wickedest man in the world but taketh more travell and pains in going to Hell then the most painefull servant of God in obtaining of heaven Follow thou not their folly then deare brother for thou shalt see them suffer greevously for it one day when thy heart shall be full gald thou hadst no part among them Let them goe now and bestow their time in vanitie in pleasures in delights of the world Let them build Pall ces purchase Dignities and peeces and patches of ground together Let them hunt after Honours and build Castels in the Ayre the day will
in being righteous as he is righteous that is by casting off the old man which is corrupt thorow deceivable lusts and to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse This casting off and putting on doth teach us that there is in us something that befits us not to retaine if we will be the true Sonnes of God not by reputation amongst men but by imputation in Christ What is to he cast off and what is to be put on is plainely expressed in the Apostles words namely to cast off all deceivable lusts which includeth all things forbidden and to put on righteousnesse which implyeth a spirituall indowment of all heavenly graces among which none is of that singular force vertue and effect as is zealous and hearty prayer in faith unfained which none can effectually make but such as have put on this new man For the old man knoweth not how to pray being clothed with corruption and blinded with the mist of ignorance The new man onely shaped in holinesse knoweth to whom when in whom for what and how to pray all which circumstances are duely to be considered in Prayer and yet none of these doth the naturall man that is the olde man truely apprehend and consequently the lip-labour that he pretendeth to bestow in prayer is not onely not profitable but sinfull To pray unto God with the lips for any corporall benefit and yet to have tâ—e eye of the heart fixed in confidence upon naturall meanes is a kind of spirituall Adultery For what man is he that having a wife outwardly affable using words of love unto him and yet her heart set upon another man will not think her a faithlesse and unchaste wife And is God lesse jealous thinke wee who craveth our hearts when we shall worship him in words and outward shew of works when our Consciences cannot but tell us that we aske that of God which we inwardly believe more probably and possible to be obtained by meanes without him Is not this a fasilfying of our faith and dissembling of our prayers Is not this a manifest breach of the Law that sayes we shall have no other Gods but JEHOVAH As also not to take his Name in vaine as they doe which call upon him with their lips their hearts farre from him God requireth not our prayers because he hath neede of them as a service beneficiall or profitable unto him but because we have need of his graces and blessings and that he loveth us in his beloved Sonne he willeth us to pray unto him for every spirituall and corporall blessing And although it be true that he knowes whereof we have need yet in common reason he that wanteth and disdaines to ask he is not worthy to receive that whereof he hath need And heavily it will befall them who having received so many blessings at Gods hands are no whit the more moved to love him And so many threats for their unbeliefe and ingratitude and yet not moved to feare him Will they not be drawne then from their deceiveable vanities Will they rather then for lesse then an Aple or a messe of Pottage disclaime their Birth-rights and lose that Kingdom and Crowne so dearely purchased for the faithfull Nay were losse of it all it were not so horrible If a man missing the good promised could avoid the danger threatned it would something mittigate the dispairing Conscience and ease the troubled minde If after death there were neither life nor death If a man might have no being nor feele nor endure torment though he had no comfort it were a kinde of ease to the carnall minde that knoweth no other heaven then the profits and pleasures of this life Nor feareth other Hell then the misery penury and afflictions of the same But the case is otherwise They that misse the Kingdome of heaven by not beleeving the promises of God by not praying unto God for direction in the course of their lives may assure themselves though they seeme not yet to beleeve it that there remaines for them and attends them the god of darknesse and the Angel of Horrour and of Torment But possesse thou me my sweet Soveraigne and raigne in my body by obedience to thy Lawes and in my soule by confidence in thy promises Frame my tongue to praise thee my knees to reverence thee my strength to serve thee my desires to covet thee and my heart to love and imbrace thee And as thou hast formed me according to thine Image so frame me according to thy will And as thou hast made me a vessell by the stampe of thy creation to serve thee here on Earth so make me a vessell of Honour by the priviledge of thy grace to serve thee in thy everlasting Kingdom sweet Father I beseech thee Comfortable Sentences for such that are afflicted COme and let us returne unto the Lord for he hath torne and he wâ—ll heale us he hath smitten and he will bind us up Hos 6.1 I know O Lord that thy judgements are right and that thou in faithfulnesse hast afflicted me Psal 119.75 We have had the fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence spall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our Spirits and live for they verily for a few dayes did chastice us after their owne pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakâ—rs of hâ—â— holinesse Heb. 29.10 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation make way to escape that yee may be able to beare it 1 Cor. 2.3 For his anger endureth but a moment in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night but joy commeth in the morning Psal 30.5 He will not alwaies chide neither will hâ— keep his anger for ever Psal 103.9 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous least the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity Psal 125.3 For yet a very little while and mine anger shall cease in their destruction Esa 10.25 Come my people enter into thy Chambers and shut the doores about thee hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be over-past Esay 26.20 For a small moment have I forsaken thee but in great mercies will I gather thee in a little wrath I hid my selfe from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy redeemer Esay 54.7 8. For I will not contend for ever neither will I be alwaies wroth for the Spirit should faile before me and the Soules which I have made Esay 57.16 For I am mercifull saith the Lord thy redeemer and I will not keepe anger for ever Jer. 3.12 So will I make my fury towards theâ— to rest and my jealousie shall depart froâ— thee and I
given both in Heaven and Earth Arise then thou Lord to whom the Kingdomes doe belong and shew thy selfe and let not the man of the Earth any longer exalt himselfe least he be too proud and least he ascribe to himselfe or to his graven Images or vaine Idols the conquest that thou shalt see and suffer over thy people Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the praise For the honour of thy Name arise before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses before Great Britaine Ireland and other Countries that call upon thy Name arise and shew thy selfe for us for on thee only doe we call We call on thee to save us and our Forces and thy people now in more danger how and in what manner and at what time fully to declare thy Salvation we referre to thy heavenly wisedome only in the meane time that it may please thee to sanctifie and save to preserâ—e and provide for them and us and all thine both in Field and City Protect and defend deliver us and ours at home and abroad And thou great Sheheard of Israel be pleased to take downe more and more that Man of Sinne that hath and would exalt himselfe against thee Asswage then the malice of those that are enemies to us or to any of thy people and evermore confound all their devices that we being armed with thy defence may ever more and more give praise to thee which art the only Author of our peace and Giver of all victory And all this good Lord for us for them and all thine not for our merits but for thy great Mercy sake and for the Truth sake of thy gracious Promises in Jesus Christ our Lord and only Advocate and Redeemer To whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and glory now and for ever-more Amen A Prayer before Sermon O Most gracious God assist me I humbly beseech thee in this my good purpose and zeale and give me grace at this present time godly to enter into thy service Deare Father assist me with thy holy Spirit and drive away all vain and idle cogitations out of my minde that I may heare thy Word to my Soules comfort grant that it may take deepe roote in my heart and bring forth plentifully to the honour of thy blessed Name to the comfort of my Soule and the good example of my Brethren who seeing my good workes may glorifie thee my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen A Prayer before the receiving of the Sacrament O Most sweet lover of all Mankinde Lord and Saviour I beseech thee for thy bitter Passion sake to remove from me all pride envie and detraction wrath malice and impatience and all other sicknesses and diseases of the Soule and plant good Lord in my heart and minde true meeknesse charity temperance and modesty with all such other vertues and preservatives unto the Soule And mortifie in me good Lord all uncleane motions carnall desires and inordinate affections and revive in me the love of vertues and the perpetuall exercise thereof so that at this time and at all times I may worthily receive this holy and blessed Sacrament unto thine honour and glory and my soules endlesse joy and comfort Amen A Prayer after receiving of the Sacrament JN most humble and most hearty manner with most due reverence I thank thee good Lord most holy Father and everlasting God thaâ— by the bounty of thy mercifull grace wouldest vouchsafe thus to refresh and feed my Soule through faith with the benefit of the Death and Passion of thy Sonne our Lord God and Saviour Iesus Christ And I beseech thine infinite goodnesse that this the Sacrament of this thy Death and Passion which I most unworthy wretch have now received may never come hereafter in Iudgement and Condemnation unto me for mine evill merits and deservings but rather good Lord it may come to the profit and comfort of my body and to the salvation of my Soule unto the life everlasting Amen A Prayer at the houre of death O Heavenly Lord God wee poore wretches being overcome with griefe come all here attending thy good pleasure with this sick Servant of thine O Lord incline to heare our Prayers and his complaints unto thee be now O Lord present and send thy good Angels and Spirit to attend us be with us O Lord and comfort this sick person and now if the time be come of his departure grant O Lord he may depart with godly comfort and joy everlasting into thy Kingdome Ease O Lord his griefs mittigate his paines asswage his sorrowes anâ— give him a lively touch of thy heavenly comfort put by all worldly thoughts and beat downe all bad suggestions let nothing but good come in his minde and grant that he may to the last gaspe of breath breath out still some comfort of thy helpe and grant when he hath done his last to finish this mortall life then he may with Lazarus be carried into Abrahams bosome O Lord forgive him O Lord receive him O Lord protect him O Lord succour and save him and now and for ever grant he may rest with thee in eternall glory Heare us good Father for this our Brother and doe for him and us according to thy Fatherly mercy in Jesus Christ to whom we commend him with these our prayers for him and all his and our occasions in thaâ— prayer which thy blessed Sonne hath taught us Our Father which art c. FINIS Novemb. 29. 1648. Imprimatur John Downham