heart have mercie upon me and grant me pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God and most merciful Father give me I beseech thee that grace that I may duely examine the inmost of my heart and my most secret thoughts how I stand before thee Lord I confess all my sins and my unworthiness to present my self at thine Altar But thou canst forgive sin and give repentance do both gracious Father and then behold I am clean to come unto thee Lord make me a worthie Receiver of that for which I come Christ and remission of sin in Christ And that for his own mercie sake and thine Amen O Lord into a clean charitable and thankful heart give me Grace to receive the blessed Bodie and Bloud of thy Son my most blessed Saviour that it may more perfectly cleanse me from all dregs of sin that being made clean it may nourish me in Faith Hope Charitie and Obedience with all other fruits of spiritual life and growth in thee that in all the future course of my life I may shew my self such an ingrafted member into the Bodie of thy Son that I may never be drawn to do any thing that may dishonour his Name Grant this O Lord I beseech thee even for his merit and mercie sake Amen O Lord God hear my Prayers I come to thee in a stedfast Faith yet for the clearness of my Faith Lord enlighten it for the strength of my Faith Lord increase it And behold I quarrel not the words of thy Son my Saviour's blessed Institution I know his words are no gross unnatural conceit but they are spirit and life and supernatural While the World disputes I believe He hath promised me if I come worthily that I shall receive his most precious Bodie and Bloud with all the benefits of his Passion If I can receive it and retain it Lord make me able make me worthie I know I can no more die eternally than that Bodie and Bloud can die and be shed again My Saviour is willing in this tender of them both unto me Lord so wash and cleanse my Soul that I may now and at all times else come prepared by heartie Prayers and Devotion and be made worthie by thy Grace of this infinite Blessing the Pledge and Earnest of Eternal Life in the merits of the same Jesus Christ who gave his Bodie and Bloud for me Amen Almightie God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of my heart by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit that I may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O God the Father of Heaven who hast delivered thy onely begotten Son to death for us O God the Son Redeemer of the World who by thy precious Bloud hast cleansed us from our sins O God the Holy Ghost the Comforter who by thy Grace dost visit and establish the hearts of thy Saints O most holy high eternal happie ever blessed Trinitie O good Father holy Son loving Spirit by whose operation we receive our Being by whose love we obtain Grace and in contemplation of whom we hope for Glorie whose Majestie is unspeakable whose Power is incomparable whose Goodness is inestimable O thou that art the Lord both of Quick and Dead I adore thee I call upon thee and with the utmost affection of my heart I bless thee now and for evermore Amen * O Lord Jesu grant us while we live Mercie and Grace guide us thy Servants by thy perpetual Light grant to thy Church Truth and Peace grant me a most wretched sinner Repentance and Forgiveness Amen * O Lord I pray thee correct those that are in errour convert the unbeliever increase the Faith of thy Church root out of it all Heresies discover and confound her secret designing Enemies and break in pieces those that are openly fierce violent and impenitent through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O merciful Father let my Benefactors obtain eternal Rewards in Heaven for the benefits which they have bestowed upon me on Earth I pray thee also that thou wouldest vouchsafe to bring me together with those whom I have prayed for or whom I am bound to pray for and together with all the People of God into thy Kingdom that there we may appear in Righteousness and be fully satisfied with thy Glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O Lord how long wilt thou be angrie with thy servant that prayeth O Lord give me Grace and Repentance and thou canst not be angrie with my Prayer O Lord I am thine save me and deliver me not into the will of mine enemies especially my ghostly Enemies O Lord I am thy servant thy unprofitable wastful servant yet thy servant O Lord set my accounts right before thee and pardon all my mis-spendings and misreckonings O Lord I am thy son thy most unkind prodigal run-away son yet thy son O Lord though I have not retained the love and dutie of a son yet do not thou cast off I humbly beg it the kindness and compassion of a Father O Lord in thy Grace I return to thee and though I have eaten draugh with all the unclean Swine in the World in my hungrie absence from thee yet now Lord upon my humble return to thee give me I beseech thee the Bread of Life the Bodie and Bloud of my Saviour into my soul that I may be satisfied in thee and never more run away from thee even for Jesus Christ his sake that gave himself for me Amen * O merciful God who hast made all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made nor wouldest the death of a sinner but rather that he should be converted and live have mercie upon all Jews Turks Infidels and Hereticks and take from them all ignorance hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and so fetch them home blessed Lord to thy flock that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites and be made one Fold under one Shepherd Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Spirit one God World without end Amen * As I must one day appear and answer at thy dreadful Tribunal where there shall be no respect of persons so at this time ere the day of Judgment overtakes me I prostrate my self before thy holy Altar and being burdened by my own Conscience I lay open my evil thoughts and ungodly deeds before thee and thy glorious Angels I beseech thee O Lord regard my lowliness and forgive me all my sins which are more in number than the hairs of my head For what evil have I not design'd in my heart but many and most abominable things have I committed in very deed For I am guiltie O Lord of Envie Gluttonie c. All my Senses and all my Members have I polluted But
sins of the world have mercie upon me in this heavie Charge Amen At the laying of the first Stone of a Chappel O Lord merciful and gracious this thy People are preparing to build a place for thy Service Accept I humbly beseech thee their present Devotion and make them perfect both in their present and future dutie that while thou givest them ease to honour thee they may with the greater alacritie go on in thy Service And now O Lord I have by thy mercie and goodness put to my hand to lay the first Stone in this Building 't is a Corner-stone make it I beseech thee a happie Foundation a durable Building Let it rise up and be made and continue a House of Prayer and Devotion through all Ages that thy People may here be taught to believe in Jesus Christ the true Corner-stone upon whom they and their souls may be built safe for ever Grant this for the merit of the same Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all Power Majestie and Dominion this day and for ever Amen Vpon Admission into the Church GOd who of his mercie hath given you grace to give your self to his Church preserve and keep you in his Truth free both from Superstition and Prophaneness The Lord bless and keep you The Lord make his face shine upon you and be merciful unto you The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace in Conscience and constancie in Truth And by the power of Ministration committed to me by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I re-admit you into the Fellowship of his Church in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen For the Duke of Buckingham GRacious Father I humbly beseech thee bless the Duke of Buckingham with all spiritual and temporal blessings but especially spiritual Make and continue him faithful to his Prince serviceable to his Countrie devout in thy Truth and Church a most happie Husband and a blessed Father filled with the constant love and honour of his Prince that all thy blessings may flow upon himself and his Posteritie after him Continue him a true-hearted friend to me thy poor servant whom thou hast honoured in his eyes Make my heart religious and dutiful to thee and in and under thee true and secret and stout and provident in all things which he shall be pleased to commit unto me Even so Lord and make him continually to serve thee that thou mayest bless him through Jesus Christ our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O most merciful God and gracious Father the Prince hath put himself to a great Adventure I humbly beseech thee make a clear way before him Give thine Angels charge over him be with him thy self in mercie power and protection in every step of his Journey in every moment of his time in every Consultation and Address for action till thou bring him back with safetie honour and contentment to do thee service in this place Bless his most trustie and faithful servant the Lord Duke of Buckingham that he may be diligent in service provident in business wise and happio in counsels for the honour of thy Name the good of thy Church the preservation of the Prince the contentment of the King the satisfaction of the State Preserve him I humbly beseech thee from all envie that attends him and bless him that his eyes may see the Prince safely delivered to the King and State and after it live long in happiness to do them and thee service through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O most gracious God and merciful Father thou art the Lord of Hosts all victorie over our Enemies all safetie against them is from thee I humbly beseech thee go out with our Armies and bless them Bless my dear Lord the Duke that is gone Admiral with them that wisdom may attend all his Counsels and courage and success all his Enterprizes that by his and their means thou wilt be pleased to bring safetie to this Kingdom strength and comfort to Religion victorie and reputation to our Countrie And that he may return with our Navie committed to him and with safetie honour and love both of Prince and People Grant this for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O merciful God thy Judgments are often secret always just At this time they were temporally heavie upon the poor Duke of Buckingham upon me upon all that had the honour to be near him Lord thou hast I doubt not given him rest and light and blessedness in thee Give also I beseech thee comfort to his Ladie Bless his Children uphold his Friends forget not his Servants Lay open the bottom of all that irreligious and graceless Plot that spilt his bloud Bless and preserve the King from danger and from securitie in these dangerous times And for my self O Lord though the sorrows of my heart are inlarged in that thou gavest this most honourable Friend into my bosom and hast taken him again from me yet blessed be thy Name O Lord that hast given me patience I shall now see him no more till we meet at the Resurrection O make that joyful to us and all thy faithful servants even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Anniversaries O Eternal God and merciful Father with whom do rest the souls of them that die in thy faith and favour have mercie upon me and grant that my life may be a preparation to die and my death an entrance to life with thee As upon this day it pleased thee to take my dear Father to thy mercie when I was yet young O Lord he was thy servant thy meek humble faithful servant and I assure my self he is in rest and light and blessedness Lord while I am here behind in my pilgrimage shower down thy grace upon me Thou hast been more than a Father to me thou hast not suffered me to want a Father no not when thou hadst taken him from me O be pleased to be a Father still and by thy grace to keep me within the bounds of a Sons obedience Thou hast given me temporal blessings beyond desert or hope O be graciously pleased to heap spiritual blessings on me that I may grow in faith obedience and thankfulness to thee that I may make it my joy to perform dutie to thee And after my painful life ended bring me I beseech thee to thy joys to thy glorie to thy self that I and my Parents with all thy Saints and Servants departed this life may meet in a blessed glorious resurrection ever to sing praises and honour to thee in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * Have regard unto thy servant O my God and be merciful to me according to the bowels of thy mercie Behold I am become a reproach to thy Name by serving my own ambition and the sins of other men And though the
where any thing is amiss reform it where it is right strengthen and confirm it where it is in want furnish it where it is divided and rent asunder make up the breaches of it O thou holy One of Israel Amen O merciful God since thou hast ordered me to live in these times in which the rents of thy Church are grievous I humbly beseech thee to guide me that the divisions of men may not separate me either from thee or it that I may ever labour the preservation of Truth and Peace that where for and by our sins the Peace of it succeeds not thou wilt yet accept my will for the deed that I may still pray even while thou grantest not because I know thou wilt grant it when thou seest it fit In the mean time bless I beseech thee this Church in which I live that in it I may honour and serve thee all the days of my life and after this be glorified by thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou hast brought a Vine out of Egypt and planted it thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land O why hast thou broken down her hedge that all which go by pluck off her Grapes the wild Boar out of the Wood rooteth it up and the wild Beasts of the Field devour it O turn thee again thou God of Hosts look down from Heaven behold and visit this Vine and the place of the Vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the Branch that thou madest so strong for thy self Lord hear me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord except thou buildest the House their labour is but lost that build it and except thou O Lord keep the Citie the Watchman waketh but in vain It is but lost labour to rise early and take late rest and to eat the bread of carefulness if thou bless not the endeavours that seek the peace and the welfare of thy Church Therefore O Lord build thy Church and keep it and take care for it that there may be no lost labour among the Builders of it Amen O Lord our God the great the mighty and the terrible God O thou which keepest covenant and mercie let not all the trouble seem little before thee that hath come upon us upon our Priests upon the Houses built and dedicated to thy Name upon the Maintenance for them that serve at thy Altar upon our Kings State and People since that day of Affliction Thou are just in all that is brought upon us For thou hast done right but we have done wickedly Yet O Lord have mercie and turn to us again for Jesus and his mercies sake Amen For the Commonweal O Lord thou which bringest the counsels of the Heathen to nought and makest the devices of the People to be of none effect and castest out the counsels of Princes when they have offended thee have mercie upon this Kingdom forgive the sins of this People turn thee unto them and bless them that the World may say Blessed are the People whose God is the Lord Jehovah and blessed are the Folk that he hath chosen to him to be his Inheritance Lord hear and grant for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Lord bless this Kingdom that Religion and Virtue may season all sorts of men that there may be Peace within the Gates and Plentie within the Palaces of it In Peace I beseech thee to preserve it that it corrupt not In War so defend it that it suffer not In Plentie so order it that it riot not In Want so pacifie and moderate it that it may patiently and peaceably seek thee the onely full supply both of Men and States that so it may continue a Place and a People to do thee service to the end of time through Jesus Christ our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Lord according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger be turned away from this Citie and thy People and cause thy face to shine upon whatsoever is desolate therein for Jesus Christ his sake Amen For the Kingdom of England O Almightie Lord God bless this Kingdom and grant that Health Chastitie Victorie and all Virtue may abound therein with Thanksgiving to God the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost And may this Blessing remain upon this Kingdom and upon all the Inhabitants thereof through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For House and Family * O Lord I beseech thee visit this Habitation and keep away from it all the snares of our ghostly Enemie Let thy holy Angels dwell in it and let them preserve us in peace and health and let thy Blessing be upon us for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For government of the Tongue LEt the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be always acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen Lord keep my tongue from evil and my lips that they speak no guile that so I may eschew evil and do good seek peace and ensue it Amen O Lord give me the mouth of the righteous that it may be exercised in wisdom and that my tongue may be talking of judgment Amen Lord I have said in thy grace I will take heed unto my ways that I offend not in my tongue Give me O give me that grace that I may take this heed that I may keep my mouth as it were with a bridle especially when the ungodly is in my sight be it never so much pain or grief unto me Hear me and grant even for Christ Jesus sake Amen Let the freewil-offerings of my mouth please thee O Lord and teach me thy Judgments Amen O Lord set a watch before my mouth and keep the door of my lips and let not my heart be inclined to any thing that is evil Amen O Lord set a watch before my mouth and a seal of Wisdom upon my lips that I fall not suddenly by them and that my tongue destroy me not Amen Against Temptations O Lord as thou art faithful so suffer me not I beseech thee to be tempted above that I am able but give an Issue with the Temptation that I may be able to bear it Amen * O Almighty God have respect unto my Prayers and deliver my heart from the temptations of ill thoughts that by thy mercie I may become a fit habitation for thy holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O God who makest all things work together for good to those that love Thee inflame my heart with such an inviolable sense of thy love as may never be shaken by the force of any Temptation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most merciful God grant me constancie in thy Faith and firmness in thy Love that I may retain both entirely and may never be turned from them by any Temptations through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For a
good Journey * O Lord I deserve not the guidance of a Star to guide me yet I beseech thee grant me a good Journey seasonable Weather and a happie return that thy holy Angel being my Companion and Protector I may arrive happily to my Journeys end and back again to my own home and at last to the Port of everlasting Salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * Be present with me O Lord and preserve thy Servant be thou my Upholder when I am in slipperie places and be thou my Haven when I am in danger of shipwrack that by thy guidance I may finish this Journey prosperously and at length return in safetie to my own place through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * Give ear O Lord to my Supplications and so dispose the way of thy Servant that amidst all the changes and chances of this life and this way I may ever be defended by thy most gracious help through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord save me thy servant who put my trust in thee send me help from thy holy place and defend me out of Sion Be thou unto me a strong tower from the face of my Enemie Let the Enemie have no advantage over me nor the Son of Wickedness approach to hurt me O make my Journey prosperous to me thou that art the God of my Health O Lord hear my Prayers and let my Crying come unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Rain O God heavenly Father whose gift it is that the Rain doth fall the Earth is fruitful Beasts increase and Fishes do multiply send us we beseech thee such moderate Rain and showers that we may receive the Fruits of the Earth to our comfort and to thy honor through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Fair Weather O Lord God who for the sin of Man didst once drown all the World except eight persons and afterward of thy great mercie didst promise never to destroy it so again we humbly beseech thee that though we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a Plague of Rain and Waters yet upon our true repentance thou wilt give us such Weather whereby we may receive the Fruits of the Earth in due season and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives and for thy Clemencie to give thee praise and glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In Fasting O Lord the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me up and the rebukes of them which rebuked thee are fallen upon me Therefore I wept and chastned my self with fasting and that was turned to my reproof I put on sackcloth also and they jested upon me they that sate in the gate also spake against me and the drunkards made songs upon me But Lord I make my Prayer unto thee and I hope in an acceptable time O hear me in the multitude of thy mercies which are in Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen In Lent O Lord which for our sake didst fast fortie days and fortie nights give us grace to use such abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness to thy honour and glorie who livest and raignest one God with the Father and the Holy Ghost Amen The Fast of the four Ember-weeks ALmightie God the giver of all good gifts who of thy divine Providence hast appointed divers Orders in the Church give thy Grace I humbly beseech thee to all those which are to be called to any Office and Administration in the same and so replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine and innocence of life that they may faithfully serve before thee to the glorie of thy great Name and the benefit of thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Earnest Prayer STir up I beseech thee O Lord the wills of thy faithful People that they plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works may of thee be plenteously rewarded through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In time of Afflictions Perils and Adversities IF I find favour in thine eyes O Lord thou wilt bring me again and shew me both the Ark and the Tabernacle and set me right in thy service and make me joyful and glad in thee But if thou say O for Jesus his sake say it not I have no pleasure in thee behold here I am do with me as seemeth good in thine own eyes Amen O Lord though I be afflicted on every side let me not be in distress Though in want of some of thy comforts yet not of all Though I be chastned yet let me not be forsaken Though I be cast down let me not perish And though my outward man decay and perish yet let my inward man be renewed daily even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord whatsoever thou shalt lay upon me I will hold my peace and not open my mouth because it is thy doing and my deserving Amen O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant according to thy Word For before I was troubled I went wrong but now have I prayed that I may keep thy Law And it is good for me that I have been in trouble that so I may learn still to keep it better in the mercies of Jesus Christ. Amen I know O Lord that thy Judgments are right and that thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort according to thy Word unto thy Servant even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord Almightie O God of Israel the Soul that is in trouble and the Spirit that is vexed crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have mercie for thou art merciful and have pitie upon me because I have sinned before thee For thou endurest for ever but unless thou have mercie I utterly perish Have mercie therefore even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord remember thy promise that the poor shall not always be forgotten nor the patient abiding of the meek perish for ever Amen Lord I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercie for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my Soul in Adversities Amen Have mercie upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness yea my soul and my bodie My strength faileth me because of mine iniquities and my bones are consumed I am even become like a broken Vessel For I have heard the blasphemie of the multitude and fear is on every side But my hope hath been and is in thee O Lord thou art my God save and deliver me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Why art thou so full of heaviness O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God that I may yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance O my God my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee Amen
sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen O Lord Almightie I acknowledge and confess I am not worthie to lift up mine eyes to Heaven much less to present my self before thee with any confidence that thou shouldest hear my Prayers and grant my Requests if I consider my own deserving For my Conscience accuses me and my sins witness against me and thou art a just and an upright Judge and wilt not justifie any sinner in his transgressions O Lord suffer me not to be swallowed up of death and desperation but in the multitude of thy mercies pardon me O Lord for thy goodness sake For though I am a worm and no man yet thou art my Creator and I am the Work of thy Hands yea thou art my Father and I thy Son Thou my Shepherd and I one of thy stragling Flock Thou my Redeemer and I one of thy People whom thou hast dearly bought Thou my God and I thy Creature O correct me not in thine anger O Lord neither punish me according to my deservings but remember my weakness as well as my sin and have mercie upon me for my dearest Saviour's sake Jesus Christ. Amen Almightie and everlasting God which hatest nothing that thou hast made and forgivest the sins of all them that are penitent create and make in me a new and contrite heart that I may worthily lament my sins and acknowledge my wretchedness and obtain of thee the God of all mercie perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie and everliving God which art always more readie to hear than we to pray and usest to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon me most miserable sinner the abundance of thy mercie forgiving me those things whereof my Conscience is afraid and giving me that which my Prayer dares not presume to ask Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Grant I beseech thee merciful God to me thy sinful but humble servant pardon and peace that I may be cleansed from all my sins and serve thee with a quiet mind through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord I befeech thee free me from all my offences and by thy bountiful goodness deliver me from the bands of all those sins which by my ignorance frailtie or wilfulness I have committed Grant this even for Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist my Prayers that I make before thee in all my troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress me and graciously hear me that those evils which the craft and subtiltie of the devil or man worketh against me be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness so dispersed that I thy poor servant being overcome by no temptation nor hurt by any persecution may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord of thy great goodness I beseech thee give me true repentance and forgive me all my sins negligences and ignorances and indue me with the grace of thy holy Spirit that I may amend my life according to thy holy Word through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God whose nature and propertie is ever to have mercie and to forgive receive my humble Petitions And though I am tied and bound with the chain of my sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercie loose me and that for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * Give ear O Lord I beseech thee to the Prayers of thy humble servant and spare me who confess my sins unto thee and grant me of thy mercie both pardon and peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Almightie God who broughtest waters out of the hard rock bring forth out of my stonie heart the tears of Contrition and give me grace so to bewail my sins that I may obtain forgiveness of them by thy mercie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men I acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness which I have from time to time most grievously committed by thought word and deed against thy divine Majestie provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against me I do earnestly repent and am heartily sorrie for these my misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto me the burden of them is intolerable Have mercie upon me have mercie upon me most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ his sake forgive me all that is past and grant that I may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life to the honour and glorie of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God and my most merciful Father who of thy tender mercie hast promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with heartie repentance and true faith turn unto thee have mercie upon me pardon and deliver me from all my sins confirm and strengthen me in all goodness and bring me to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most holy Lord most merciful God let it suffice me to have been a sinner hitherto to have despised thee to have indulged the unclean motions of the flesh now at this time by thy inspiration I make a vow to return from mine iniquities Assist me O Lord and grant I may fulfil it in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Confessions * O Lord in many things I have offended and done wickedly and have grieved thy holy Spirit I have provoked to wrath the bowels of thy mercie by thought word and deed by night and by day in publick and in private deliberately and by surprize O if thou shouldest set my sins in the sight of thy countenance O if thou shouldest call me to account for my sins those sins which are unpardonable in themselves those which I have committed against my own knowledge O what shall I do whither shall I flie But O Lord rebuke me not in thy furie nor chasten me in thine anger Have mercie upon me not onely because I am weak but also because I am the work of thy hands I beseech thee enter not into Judgment with thy servant for if thou Lord shalt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it whosoever may yet most certainly I shall not For I am a sea of sin and am not worthie so much as to look up to Heaven by reason of the multitude of my sins which cannot be numbered evil speakings injuries c. and besides a thousand other abominable passions there are from which I have not refrain'd my self For with what wickedness am I not defil'd to what sins am I not inslav'd I am altogether become an unprofitable servant to thee my God and to all mankind
our souls more especially but even from our bodies also through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God which hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass mans understanding pour into my heart such love towards thee that I obeying thee in all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that I can desire through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ENcline thine ear unto me O Lord and hearken unto my words Shew thy marvellous loving kindness thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee Keep me as the apple of thine eye and hide me under the shadow of thy wings even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I cry unto thee let my Prayer be set forth in thy sight as Incense and the lifting up of my hands be an Evening-Sacrifice even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for joy and in my song will I praise him Amen O Lord of all power and might who art the author and giver of all good things graft in my heart the love of thy Name increase in me true Religion nourish me with all goodness and of thy great mercie keep me in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd let me know my end and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and my age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanitie For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord I give and offer up unto thee my self and all that is mine my actions and words my repose and silence onely do thou preserve and guide me and direct my hand mind tongue to things that are honest and acceptable to thee and withdraw me from any thing from which it were better to abstain by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen TUESDAY LOrd preserve me that neither this day nor any day of my life I may walk in the counsel of the ungodly stand in the way of sinners or sit down in the seat of the scornful but that my delight may be in thy Law O Lord and my exercise in it day and night Amen * O Sun of Righteousness Father and Original cause of all things when we are influenc'd from above by thee we receive new life when we are cherisht by thy blessed beams we grow up in Grace when we are inflamed by thy love we are made perfect when we are forsaken of thee we perish O thrice-happie are they upon whom thou arisest with the dew of mercie O Lord Jesus bless me with thy light and scatter the clouds of my ignorance and the thick darkness of my sins that I may not go astray from the way of thy Commandments but follow thee unto Light eternal through thee thy self my onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Lord thou art my Assurance I humbly beseech thee preserve my foot from taking even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord give me I beseech thee the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful that I who cannot be without thee may by thee be able to live according to thy will through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I lift up my soul to thee my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me Shew me thy ways O God and teach me thy paths Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee is my hope all the day long Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old O remember not the sins and offences of my youth or my riper age but according to thy mercie think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness and the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour Amen Almightie God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves keep me I beseech thee both outwardly in my bodie and inwardly in my soul that so I may be defended from all adversitie which may happen to my bodie and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt my soul through Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen HEarken unto my voice O Lord now I cry unto thee have mercie upon me and hear me My heart hath talked of thee Seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation Amen At evening morning and at noon-day will I pray and that instantly Lord hear my voice O deliver my soul in peace from the practices that are against me Amen Let thy merciful ears O Lord be open to the Prayers of me thy humble servant and that I may obtain my Petitions make me to ask such things as shall please thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd let me not be confounded for I have called upon thee O how plentiful is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sons of men Lord I trust in thee have mercie upon me My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me Where is now thy God But let them have no cause to say it any more even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen ALmightie God which shewest to all men that are in errour the light of thy truth to the intent that they may return into the way of Righteousness grant I beseech thee unto me and all them that are admitted into the Fellowship of Christs Religion that we may eschew those things which are contrarie to our Profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord my Saviour in whose power it is to remit sins I beseech thee say unto me Loose thee from thy chains come out of the bonds of thy sins and when thou sayest it loose those cords of my errours wherewith I am entangled and bound for though I am the most wicked of all men and to be abhorred by reason of my continuance in sins yet when thou commandest I shall be free from them
by thy might from my thoughts and deeds Increase my Faith govern my mind grant me spiritual thoughts whilst I lie waking on my bed and conduct me to thy bliss through Jesus Christ thy Son and our Saviour Amen O Lord I beseech thee give me grace to avoid the infections of the Devil and with a pure heart and mind to follow thee the onely true God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd I offer up unto thee my Evening-Sacrifice thy Sacrifice even a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart which thou wilt not despise in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord I humbly pray thee look upon me and cleanse my mind and my thoughts from unclean motions and from all filthiness of the Flesh and Spirit and from every work of the Devil through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord graciously shew forth thy unspeakable mercie and both free me from the sins I have committed and deliver me from the punishments I have deserved through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God for as much as without thee I am not able to please thee grant that the working of thy mercie may in all things direct and rule my heart through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord give me that grace that I may remember thee upon my Bed and think upon thee when I am waking Thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow of thy wings I will hope to pass through the darkness of this night in the comfort of Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Lord make mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I may be occupied in thy Words Amen O Lord thou which hast made the night for man to rest in as well as the day to labour grant dear Father that I may so take my bodily rest that my soul may continually watch for my deliverance out of this mortal life And that my sleep be not excessive according to the insatiable desires of the flesh but sufficient to relieve and maintain Nature to live and serve thee in all sober and godly conversation through the aid and assistance of Jesus Christ my onely Lord and Saviour Amen THURSDAY O Hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not Amen * Help me my Lord Jesu and gird thy sword about thy thigh O thou most Mightie Go forth O thou most powerful of all Kill me in my self that I may live to thee and let my Enemies cease to persecute me Amen O God thou art my God early will I seek thee My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and drie land where no water is O satisfie this thirst with thy freshest waters of comfort in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord have mercie upon me I have waited for thee Be thou my arm in the morning and my help in the time of trouble that I may exalt thy Name which dwellest on high that I may live in the stabilitie of thy times and that thy fear may be my treasure even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Almightie God and merciful Father grant I beseech thee that as I do believe thy onely Son our Lord to have ascended into the Heavens so I and all thy faithful Servants may in heart and mind thither ascend and with thee continually dwell Amen O God the King of glorie who hast exalted thine onely Son Jesus Christ with great triumph into thy Kingdom in Heaven I beseech thee leave neither thy Church nor my poor self comfortless but send us thy Holy Ghost to comfort us and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone is before who liveth and raigneth with thee one God world without end Amen HEar my Prayer O God and hide not thy self from my petition Take heed unto me and hear me how I mourn in my Prayer and am vexed Give me strength and comfort in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God the proud are risen against me and the Congregation of factious men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes But thou Lord God art full of compassion and mercie long suffering plenteous in goodness and truth O turn thee then unto me and have mercie upon me shew some token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Assist me mercifully O Lord in these and all other my supplications and prayers and dispose my ways towards the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life I may ever be defended by thy most gracious and readie help through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Deliver me from them whose words are softer than butter when they have war in their heart And from them whose word are smoother than oyl while they are very swords Lord I cast my burthen upon thee that thou mayst sustain me and not suffer me to fall for ever Amen Bless me O Lord when thou chastenest me and teachest me in thy Law that thou mayst give me patience in time of adversitie till the pit be digged up for the ungodly O Lord fail me not neither forsake me for I am part of thine Inheritance in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie and merciful God of thy bountiful goodness keep me from all things that may hurt me that I being readie both in bodie and soul may with a free heart accomplish those things that thou wouldest have done through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Eternal God I humbly beseech thee that whilst I am on Earth as far as earthly things serve me they may remember me that I am their owner but by thy appointment and so far forth as they offend me let them teach me to serve thee my Lord whom when I do not obey they are wont to become offensive for just vengeance that whether they serve me or not yet I may always serve thee in and through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Hold not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me and they have spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause But I give my self unto prayer Lord forgive them and hear me Amen O God which art the author of peace and lover of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect freedom defend me and all thy servants in all assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * TEach me O my Lord Jesus and instruct
me that I may learn from thee what I ought to teach others concerning thee Amen Deliver me O Lord from the man that is evil and preserve me from the cruel man which imagines mischief in his heart and stirs up strife all the day long The proud have laid a snare for me and spread their net abroad with cords and set traps in my way Lord keep me from treacherous hands and preserve me that though they purpose yet they may not be able to overthrow my goings even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed give unto me and all thy servants that Peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen HAve mercie upon me O God have mercie upon me for my soul trusteth in thee and in the shadow of thy wings will I trust till these and all other my afflictions be over-past O send out thy mercie and truth upon me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O merciful Lord who comest not in to the proud heart humble thou my soul. O thou who art seen by those onely that are pure in heart give me true puritie of heart O Lord I am athirst for thee give me the pledge of the Inheritance which is to come give me at least a drop of thy heavenly showers to refresh my thirst for I burn with Love Neither do I beg this for my own merits for I am most unworthie so much as to tast it but for thy mercies and the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Almightie God vouchsafe I beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both my heart and bodie in the waies of thy Laws and in the works of thy Commandments that through thy mightie protection both here and ever I may be preserved by night and by day in bodie and in soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen O Lord I crie unto thee hearken unto me O God Thou holdest my eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak And in the night season my soul refuseth comfort yet even then give me grace especially that I may commune with mine own heart and search out my spirits and compose them in thee that I may rise to serve thee Amen Grant O Lord to me that am lying down to sleep rest both of bodie and soul. Preserve me from the dismal sleep of sin from all the black defiling pleasures of the night Quench the fierie Darts of the evil one which he aims craftily against me Subdue the Rebellions of my flesh and lay asleep in me all earthly and worldly thoughts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon my infirmities and for the glorie of thy Names sake turn from me and the rest of thy servants all those evils which we most justly have deserved And grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercie and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glorie through our onely Mediator and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FRIDAY * O Great God Almightie God God of infinite goodness whom we ought to believe and apprehend to be inviolable and incorruptible O thou Trinitie in Unitie whom the Catholick Church adores I that have experienc'd thy mercie in my self do most humbly entreat thee that thou wouldest not suffer those men to differ from me in thy Worship with whom I have perfectly agreed in all conversation from my Childhood and suffer thou not either me or them to wander from thy truth and salvation which is in Christ Jesus Amen Lord I will call upon thee and early shall my prayer come before thee Lord do not abhor my soul neither hide thy face from me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Lord make me to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name for thou never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast love Grant this even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie and everlasting God which of thy tender love towards man hast sent our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the Cross that all mankind should follow the example of his great humilitie mercifully grant that I may both follow the example of his patience and be made partaker of his resurrection through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God I humbly beseech thee graciously to behold thy Familie for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked men and to suffer death upon the Cross who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Almightie and everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole bodie of the Church is governed and sanctified receive these my supplications and prayers which I offer up before thee for all estates of men in thy holy Church that every member of the same in his vocation may truly and devoutly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen * 'T Is now long O Lord that I have been striving against Heresies and I am almost tired Come my Lord Jesus thou most mightie Warrier thou Captain of the Armies of the Lord who hast overcome the Devil and the World lay hold on the shield and buckler and stand up to help me Amen Deal with me O God according to thy Name for sweet is thy mercie O deliver me for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me Lord save my soul. Amen Mine eyes are ever looking unto thee O Lord O pluck my feet out of the net Amen Almightie God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name I beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to me now that in his Name I make my prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which I have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of my necessitie and to the setting forth of thy glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Remember not my old sins but have mercie upon me and that soon for I am come to great miserie Help me O God of my salvat io n deliver me and be merciful unto my sins for thy Names sake Amen Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the praise and that for thy loving mercie and for thy truths sake Amen * O thou Father Son and Holy Ghost one God who hast declared unto us
the Unitie of the Deitie and hast revealed the undivided glorie of the onely ever-blessed Divinitie and demonstrated the perfect eternitie of thy Trinitie grant me I beseech thee Faith and Obedience in this life and Glorie in the life to come by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Redeemer Amen O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angrie with thy poor servant that prayeth O turn me again O God shew the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen * Glorie be to thee glorie be to thee O Lord How great is the depth of thy mercie how great the abundance of thy patience Behold how some that have been raised from a mean and obscure degree to honour and renown under pretence of thy Name how they abuse their honour and use it against thee the Donor they are unjust and assume to themselves what they should not dare against thy most holy Mysteries they use their utmost to thrust out men of approv'd integrity that profligat men may with the greatest fecuritie and licentiousness put all things into confusion Arise O Lord and help thy Church and suffer not my soul to come into their counsels through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I will crie day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thine ear unto my calling for my soul is full of trouble and my life draws nigh unto the pit O let not thine indignation lie too hard upon me neither vex me with all thy storms but remember of what mould thou hast made me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord let me have no idle contention about words but let me constantly profess the Faith without delays Preserve in me I beseech thee an unblemished reverence to thy Faith and grant me this restimonie of my Conscience whilst I have my being that I may alwaies retain that Profession which I made at the Sacrament of my new Birth when I was baptized in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost That I may acknowledge thee the Father and together with thee may adore thy Son and may merit thy holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord be merciful unto me and I will sing praises unto thy Name yea I will tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season O bless me and fulfil all thy works of grace in me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * Grant me O Lord a watchful mind and sober thoughts a pure heart and pleasant sleep and free from all diabolical phancies And raise me again O Lord at the hour of prayer that I may adhere firmly to thy precepts and keep an entire remembrance of thy Judgements Amen LOrd remember thy promise unto thy servant wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust That thy statutes may be my songs in the house of my pilgrimage and that I may remember thy Name in the night-season Amen * Into thy hands O Lord I commend my soul and bodie for thou hast created and redeemed them O Lord thou God of truth And together with my self I commend unto thee all that is mine for thou Lord hast graciously bestow'd them on me according to thy good pleasure Cause me therefore O Lord both to lie down and sleep in peace for it is thou onely makest me to dwell in safetie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord and maker of all things O God the Father and Governour of thine O thou disposer of Life and Death O thou preserver and benefactor of Souls O thou that makest all things and changest them by the creating Word which framed them both seasonably and wisely according to the depth of thy Wisdom and Providence govern thou my life in the flesh as long as shall be most expedient for me and thy Church And in thy good time receive me I beseech thee as one prepared not surprized so as I may not flie thee at the last day nor come with an unwilling mind like one forcibly broke off and snatcht away from this world but that I may go readily and chearfully to that most blessed and eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord to whom be glorie for ever and ever Amen * O Lord my God call me that I may come to thee fix me that I may not leave thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SATURDAY O Lord I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercie in the morning for thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of my trouble Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my defence and my merciful God Amen The glorious Majestie of thee O Lord my God be upon me prosper thou the work of my hands upon me O prosper thou my handie-work Amen O Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy Commandments from me for thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellors Lord continue that favour to me that so they may ever be Amen O Lord our heavenly Father Almightie and everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same with thy mightie power and grant that this day I fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O My soul wait thou still upon my God for my hope is in him he is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall So Amen Lord Jesu Amen O Lord God be merciful unto every one that prepares his whole heart to seek thee O Lord God the God of his Fathers though he be not according to the Purification of the Sancturie Amen O Lord I walk in the midst of trouble I beseech thee refresh me Stretch forth thy hand upon the furie and the cunning of mine Enemies that thy right hand may save me O make good thy loving kindness towards me and despise not I beseech thee the work of thine own hands Amen I deal with the thing that is lawful and right O give me not over unto mine Oppressors Amen O make me thy poor servant still to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie God the Fountain of all Wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking I beseech thee to have compassion upon my infirmities and those things which for my unworthiness I dare not and for my blindness I cannot ask vouchsafe to give me for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ
Anointed of the Spirit That he was conceived and born to cleanse us from the filthiness of our Conception and Birth That he suffered what we ought to have suffered most unspeakable torments that we might escape them That he was crucified dead and buried that we may not be afraid to undergo the same things for his sake That he descended to that dismal place whither we must have gone that he might wholly excuse us from it That he rose again ascended and sitteth in that place where we had no portion that even we also might inherit it That he shall come to judge the World that he may take us up into his glorie I believe that he is come By his Conception and Birth the Purifier of our Nature By his Suffering on the Cross Death and Burial the Redeemer of our Bodies By his Descent a triumphant Conqueror over Hell and Death By his Resurrection the first Fruits of them that sleep By his Ascension our Forerunner gone to prepare a place for us By his Session at the right hand of God the Intercessor or our Advocate By his second coming to Judgment the Finisher of our Faith Thus Instead of the I behold Destroyer Jesus a Saviour Tormenter A Mediator Accuser An Advocate Slanderer An Intercessor Enslaver A Redeemer Sting of the Serpent Christ the Anointed But I believe also the Quickning and Sanctifying Power of the Holy Ghost A Power that works Inwardly and invisibly openly and outwardly effectually as the Wind that bloweth where it listeth By Reproof by Compunction of the heart by Doctrine by Admonition as an Advocate as the Comforter as a Witness by Diffusion of Charitie by Illumination of Knowledge I believe also The mystical Bodie of this Holy Spirit consisting of those that are called out of the whole world unto belief of the Truth and Holiness of life The mutual fellowship of the members of that Bodie The remission of sins in this present time and the hope of a future Resurrection and of our translation to the life eternal * O Lord give me Faith not such Faith as would make the Law of none effect But such Faith as Works by Love Is powerful in working Overcomes the World And besides a most holy Faith That I may love thee as a Father and fear thee as the Almightie That I may commit my soul unto thee in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator That Christ may be formed in me and that I may be conformed unto his Image That I may give him thanks for those things which he has suffered for me that I may suffer together with him that I may suffer for him whatsoever he shall see good That for his Cross Death and Burial I may revenge crucifie kill burie my sins which caused all these That for his descent into Hell I may descend thither whilst I live here by frequent meditations upon it That I may be made conformable to his Resurrection by my rising again to newness of life And to his Ascension by meditating upon and seeking after those things that are above That I may be also mindful of his Session at Gods right hand whensoever I want any gift of heavenly consolation and as often as I am cold in my Devotions And that I may never forget his second coming at the day of Judgment O that I may alwaies think I hear the noise of the last Trumpet sounding and that I may pray without ceasing till I am placed at the right hand Amen Preparatory Meditations for Death O Lord quicken and comfort my soul for I have sinned against thee Lord I call to mind all the years of my life past in the bitterness of my soul for my sin My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be thou merciful unto my sin O for thy Names sake be merciful unto my sin for it is great Amen Namely and especially O Lord be merciful unto me c. Herein O Lord be merciful unto thy servant O Lord lay not these nor the rest unto my charge O let the depth of my sin call up the depth of thy mercies of thy grace Lord let it come that where my sin hath abounded grace may superabound Lord I believe help thou my unbelief O Lord though thou kill me yet will I put my trust in thee Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil For I hope verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living O let this Cup pass from me nevertheless if it may not pass from me but that I must drink of it thy will be done Thou art the Lord do what seemeth good in thine own eyes For I will take it as the Cup of Salvation and give thanks to thy Name O Lord. O Lord grant that all the daies of my appointed time upon earth I may wait when my changing shall come O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave and keep me secret until thy wrath be past and appoint me a time in which thou wilt remember me Say unto my soul O say it now I am thy Salvation Command my spirit whenever thou wilt command it to be received up to thee in peace O bid me come unto thee say unto me This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Lord thus and now let thy servant depart in peace that mine eyes may see thy Salvation O Lord thou blessed Trinitie three Persons and one God have mercie upon me I commend my self into thy hands as to a faithful Creator Lord receive thine own Creature not made by any strange God but by thee the onely living and true God Despise not O Lord the work of thine own hands I am created to thine own Image and likeness O suffer not thine own Image to be defaced but renew it again in righteousness and true holiness I commend my self into thy hands as to a most gracious Redeemer for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth O Lord I am the price of thy Bloud of thy most precious Bloud O suffer not so great so unvaluable a price to perish O Lord thou camest down from Heaven to redeem that which was lost suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed I commend my self into thy hands as to my most blessed Comforter O Lord I am wearie and heavie laden and I come to thee to be refreshed by thee Behold O Lord I have been the Temple of thy holy Spirit I have I confess strangely polluted it yet destroy me not but dedicate me anew and sanctifie me to thy self yet once again O Lord I wear thy Name 't is thy Name that is called upon me For thy Names sake therefore be merciful unto me O spare Lord if not me yet thine own Name in me And do not so remember my sin O Lord do not as that in remembring it thou forget thine own Name I have desired to fear thy Name to love and to honour thy Name
the Merits and by the Grace of the same Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Merciful God bless this Particular Church in which I live make it and all the Members of it sound in Faith and holy in Life that they may serve thee and thou bless them through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen LOrd bless our most gracious Soveraign treasure up in him all thy hidden Blessings make him and keep him a devoted Servant to thee a constant Patron of the Church and Truth that he may live long and be full of honourable success all his days in his Person in his Actions in his Queen in his Children in his Servants in his People and crown'd with Glory after life and in that good time that shall be best both for Him and Us make him a joyful Father of happy and successful Children Under him bless the whole State Ecclesiastical and Civil that Righteousness and Peace may kiss each other and we serve and honour thee for ever Amen GOod Lord bless all the places to which thou hast made me have any near Reference the place where I was born c. every Soul contained in any of these All my Friends Kindred Acquaintance any unto whom thou hast made me any way beholding especially my nearer and my bosom-Friends Dr. c. all those c. Lord I beseech thee forgive me and them all our sins and continue us thy Servants both in Life and Death Amen GRacious Father bless my Servants and make them thine Give them Grace to serve thee first then me with Faithfulness Soberness and Diligence Make me ever willing and in some measure able to repay unto them the time and the strength which they either have or shall spend to do me service even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord bless all the afflicted Members of the Body of thy Son wheresoever howsoever afflicted send them constant Patience or speedy Deliverance as seems best to thee and is best for them according to their several wants and necessities whatsoever particularly c. And do unto them according to all those mercies which I would or should desire thou shouldst shew to my own Soul if at any time thou shalt be pleased to make my Estate as theirs is at this present And O Lord be merciful Amen BLessed Father bless all sorts of men in their Particulars mine Enemies with the Forgiveness of sins Turn their hearts that they may no longer hate thy Servant and if they will not be turned deliver me not over I beseech thee into their power And next after the Salvation of my Soul I humbly beg it deliver me not into the hands of men to the shame or scorn of the World Amen * O Lord Jesus give me to do what thou commandest and command what thou wilt Prepare my Soul against thy coming and come when thou wilt Give me if it please thee a most serene Patience but at least as much as is sufficient for me and come how thou wilt O thou that art the Saviour of all that hope in thee And moreover I beseech thee O Lord Jesus interpose thy Death Cross Passion Merit and Bloud between thy Judgment and my Soul now and ever and especially in the hour of my death Which Death I earnestly beg may never be sudden may it never come and find me unprepared and when it comes never let it rage so but that I may retain Faith Hope and Charity a sound Memory and Understanding even to the last gasp And be thou my Defender O God Grant mercy and pardon to my sins to thy Church Peace and Concord to me the chief of Sinners Grace in this life and Glory in the life to come So even so come O Lord Jesus and have mercy upon me Amen Lord here I am do with me as seems best in thine own eyes onely give me I humbly beseech thee a Penitent and a patient spirit to expect thee Amen Lord make my Service acceptable to thee while I live and my Soul ready for thee when I die Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The daily Examination of Conscience * O My Soul 1. Hast thou given God thanks for the Benefits which thou hast received 2. Hast thou prayed for the assistance of Gods Grace that thou may'st know thy sins and cast them out 3. Hast thou call'd thy self to an account for the sins thou hast committed this present day by thought word and deed in every hour since thou hast been awake 4. Hast thou begg'd pardon for thy offences and hast thou purpos'd through Gods Grace to amend them Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for ever World without end Amen A daily Prayer O Lord forgive me all my sins that are past O Lord strengthen me against all Temptations especially the Temptations of c O Lord fill my heart with thankfulness and I do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for the great deliverance of me from the rage and fury of the Multitude O Lord let the same wings of thy merciful protection be spread over me all the days of my life O Lord give me a faithful a patient a penitent a persevering heart in thy service that so I may with comfort daily nay hourly expect when my Change shall come So Amen Lord Jesus Amen For the King O Lord grant the King a long life that his years may endure as many ages Furnish him with wise and safe Counsels and give him a heart of courage and constancy to pursue them O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness for him that they may preserve him so will I always sing Praises unto thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord hear the King in the day of his trouble that thy Name O God of Jacob may defend him Send him help from thy Sanctuary and strength out of Sion Grant him his hearts desire and fulfil all his mind Set his heart firm upon thee and upon other things but as they are in and from thee that we his Servants under thee may see with joy that thou helpest thine Anointed and that thou wilt hear him from thy holy Heaven even with the wholsome strength of thy right hand And O Lord close not mine eyes till I see thy favour shine out upon him even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen For the Church O Lord we humbly beseech thee to keep thy Church and Houshold continually in thy true Religion that they which do lean onely upon hope of thy heavenly Grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power And that I may humbly and faithfully serve thee in this thy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Gracious Father I humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholick Church fill it with all Truth in all truth with all Peace Where it is corrupt purge it where it is in error direct it where it is superstitious rectifie it
Pestilence DEliver me O Lord from all my offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish Take I humbly beseech thee thy plague away from thy people for we begin to be consumed by means of thy heavie hand And for Jesus Christ his sake lay neither me nor mine under this uncomfortable disease Amen O Lord deliver me from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilence O defend me under thy wings and keep me safe under thy feathers that I may not be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day for the pestilence that walketh in the darkness nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day Though thousands fall beside me and ten thousands at my right hand yet let it not come near me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord thou art my hope I beseech thee let no evil happen unto me neither let any plague come nigh my dwelling but give thine Angels charge over me to keep me in all my waies O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen O let the sorrowful sighing of them whom thou hast visited come before thee and according to the greatness both of thy power and mercie preserve thou them that are appointed to die even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy humble servant that I and my Family which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness from this and all other infection both of soul and bodie that so we may live both to serve and to praise thee to the glorie of thy great Name through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Almightie God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercie didst save the rest have pitie upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sickness and mortalitie and like as thou didst then command thine Angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God who hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavie and long-continued Visitation and in the midst of that Judgment remembring mercie hast redeemed us from death we offer up unto thee our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast now delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee And here I offer up unto thee most merciful Father in the name of all thy people all possible praise and thanks and shall ever magnifie thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In Old Age. O Lord cast me not off in the time of mine Age forsake me not now my strength begins to fail me Amen Forsake me not O God in mine old age now I am gray-headed until I have declared thy strength unto this Generation and thy power to all them that are to come Amen O Lord though thou hast shortned the daies of my Youth yet cover me not with dishonour Hide not thy self from me for ever but remember how short my time is and make me remember it O Lord. Amen O Lord teach me to number my daies that I may apply my heart unto wisdom Amen O Lord hide not thy face from me in the time of trouble for my daies are consumed away like smoke and my bones are burnt up like a fire-brand My daies are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grass Thou O Lord hast brought down my strength in my journey and shortened my daies But O my God take me not away but in the timeliness of my age that I may continue to serve thee and be faithful in thy service till thou remove me hence Amen For the Sick and Afflicted O Let the sorrowful sighing of the Prisoners come before thee and according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou them that are appointed to die even for Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In time of Sickness O Lord the sorrows of death compass me and the snares of it are readie to overtake me When thou wilt dissolve my Tabernacle thou alone knowest therefore in this my trouble I will call upon thee my Lord and will complain unto my God O be with me at the instant of my death and receive me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth O Lord thy hand is heavie upon me day and night and my moisture is become like the drought in Summer I acknowledge my sin unto thee O Lord and my unrighteousness have I not hid O Lord be merciful unto me Amen O Lord hear my prayer and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my Fathers were O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Amen * O Lord in the midst of life we are in death from whence or of whom do we seek for succour but of thee O Lord who yet art justly displeased with us for our sins O holy and mightie O holy and merciful Saviour deliver me not into the most bitter pains of eternal death O cast me not away in the time of my sickness forsake me not when my strength faileth me Before thee O Lord is all my desire and my groanings are not hid from thee Thou knowest O Lord all the secrets of my heart I beseech thee shut not the ears of thy mercie to my prayers But spare me O Lord most holy O God most mightie O holy and most merciful Saviour thou most worthie Judge eternal suffer me not at my last hour for any terrour of death to fall from thee Amen O Lord Jesus my Saviour O Lord the snares of death compass me round about the pains of hell get hold upon me I have found trouble and heaviness but will call upon thy Name O Lord O Lord deliver my soul. Deliver my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling that I may walk before thee in the land of the living Amen Thou O Lord hast chastened and corrected me but not given me yet over unto death Open me the gates of righteousness that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord. Amen There is no health in my flesh by reason of thy wrath neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin Yet O Lord be merciful unto me and heal me even for thy Names sake Amen O Lord I give thee humble and heartie thanks for the great and almost miraculous bringing of me back from the bottom of my Grave What thou hast further for me to do or to
suffer thou alone knowest Lord give me patience and courage and all Christian resolution to do thee service and grace to do it And let me not live longer than to honour thee through Jesus Christ. Amen For the Sick * O God by whose appointment the moments of our life run out I bessech thee receive my prayers for thy sick servants in whose behalf I most humbly beg the assistance of thy mercie that their health being restored to them they may return thanks to thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen At the Visitation of the Sick * ARe you perswaded 1. That no sickness or cross comes to any one by chance or at all adventures 2. But that they come from God without whose providence no bodie is afflicted with diseases 3. And that God being most wise never will suffer any thing to befal us but when it is expedient to be so 4. And that this sickness or cross which God has now sent upon you is therefore expedient for you 5. And moreover that God has the assection of a Father towards us And that a Father whether he be indulgent to his Children or whether he correct them is a Father alike in both and that he does the latter with no less kindness nay perhaps with greater than he does the former 6. That for a long time he has bestowed good things upon you and though now he gives you evil things yet he would not have brought the evil upon you but onely to be the occasion of greater good that is that you may return to him 7. That 't is an effect of his gracious favour that notwithstanding you have so often rejected him yet he does not leave you so but does visit you at last and seek after you again Now if this be the Case submit your own Will in this matter to the Divine Will a Sacrifice which is of all others next to that of Christ himself the most acceptable unto God * Do you confess 1. That you have not lived so well as you ought nay that you lived ill and that you have often and grievously sinned 2. Is there any particular sin besides or above the rest or are there any sins that lie heavie upon your Conscience so that you need the benefit of a peculiar Absolution 3. Have you any scruple about those things which appertain to Faith or Religion 4. Do you call to mind the past years of your life in the bitterness of your soul 5. Would you wish to feel greater bitterness for them than you are now sensible of and would you be glad if you felt more and are you grieved that you feel no more 6. Do you desire to have your minde enlightned concerning those things which you are ignorant of or which you have forgotten that you may repent of them and does it also repent you that either you do not know them or have forgotten them 7. Do you purpose if you live to judge your self and to take vengeance upon your self for your offences 8. Do you purpose if you live to amend your life and to avoid both the means and the appearances of those sins which you have lived in 9. Do you solemnly promise thus much 10. And do you desire to be freely admonisht of this your promise Do you believe 1. Those matters that are contained in the Articles of the Christian Faith once delivered to the Saints 2. And that you cannot be sav'd unless you do believe them 3. Do you rejoyce and give heartie thanks to God for that you were born in this Faith that you have liv'd in it and that now you shall die in it 4. Do you your self desire and would you have us in your name humbly to beg of God that this Faith in him may not decay in you and especially that it may not fail when you are just at the point of death 5. Do you desire also that the fruit this of your Faith and chiefly of yourFaith in the death of Jesus Christ may not be lost at your death how much soever it may have been lost in your life-time 6. If your sense should fail or if your pain or weakness should bring you to that pass that any expressions should fall from you that are contrarie to Religion or its precepts would you have them be accounted as not spoken by you and do you renounce them as none of yours Do you forgive 1. Those that any manner of way have offended you as freely as you your self would be forgiven 2. And do you desire of God that he also would forgive them 3. And do you forgive them the satisfaction they are bound to make you upon account of those things wherein they have offended you whether in word or deed 4. Will you have thus much signified in your name to those that have offended you that you for your part have forgiven them all their injuries 5. Would you be readie to forgive them if they had done you more and greater mischiefs 6. Would you be glad if you had more enemies to forgive that so God might bestow on you a more plentiful remission of your own sins * 1. IF you your self have offended any others do you beg pardon of them likewise and desire that they may forgive you 2. Whom do you chiefly remember that you have offended and would you have thus much made known to them in your name 3. Forasmuch as no forgiveness is to be hop'd for of sins against the eighth or ninth Commandment of God's Law unless restitution be made are you readie to restore Goods to those whom you have wronged in their Estates and repair the credit of those whom you have injured in their good Name and that without fraud or delay 4. And now at last can you call to mind who these are The Apostles Creed paraphras'd * OLord I believe help thou my unbelief I believe that thou the Father Son and Holy Ghost art one God I believe That of thy unlimited goodness and power thou didst create the Heavens and the Earth That of thy unbounded love thou hast gathered together in one all things in Christ Who was made Flesh and was conceived Was born suffered was crucified Dead buried descended Rose again ascended sitteth Shall return shall reward I believe That by the power and operation of thy holy Spirit thou hast called thy Church out of all the world unto Holiness That in it we are made partakers of all good things and of forgiveness of sins That in it we expect the Resurrection of the Flesh and life everlasting * LOrd I believe O supply thou my want of Faith I believe The affectionate kindness of the Father The saving power of the Almightie The wisdom of the Creator in the preservation government and consummation of the world The great mysterie of Godliness that for us men and for our salvation God was manifested in the flesh even the Lord Jesus the Son of the Father the
perswasion of others moved me to do this thing yet my own Conscience cried aloud against it I beseech thee O Lord by the mercies of Jesus enter not into judgment with thy servant but hearken to his bloud that pleads for me and let not this Marriage divorce my soul from thy embraces O how much better had it been for me if I had been but duely mindful of this day rather to have suffered Martyrdom with thy first Martyr for denying the vehement importunitie of those my friends who were either too unfaithful to me or else too ungodly I flattered my self with hope that this sin should have been hid in darkness but loe the night presently vanished and the day it self was not more apparent than I that committed it Thus it pleased thee O Lord for the abundance of thy mercie to cover my face with confusion that I might learn to seek thy Name O how grievous to me still even at this day is the remembrance of this my sin even after those so many and so often-repeated prayers which I have poured out before thee from my sorrowful and troubled spirit O Lord have mercie hear the prayers of thy most dejected and lowly servant Spare me O Lord and forgive me all those sins which brought in this and which followed upon it For I confess O Lord that yet once again and upon the very same day of the returning year for want of due caution still and sufficient humiliation I fell into another grievous sin I was stoned again not for my sin but by it Now O Lord raise me up again entirely that I may no longer lie dead in my sins but grant that I may live and living may rejoyce in thee through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen O merciful God thou hast shewed me much mercie and done great things for me and as I was returning instead of thankfulness I wandered out of my way from thee into a foul and a strange path There thou madest me see both my folly and my weakness Lord make me ever see them ever sorrie for them O Lord for my Saviours sake forgive me the folly and strengthen me against the weakness for ever Lord forgive all my sins and this and make me by thy grace thy most true humble and faithful servant all the days of my life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most merciful Father whither shall I turn my self who both in my going out and coming in have sinned against thee I a Prodigal departed like the Prodigal into a far Countrie and riotously wasted my substance which thou gavest me There first of all I grew sensible that all I had was consumed and my self not worthie of any better companie than the Swine and yet neither that filthie life nor the famine of thy Grace did so much as make me think of returning to a better temper But now at my return from this unhappie Journey behold O Lord thy Judgments overtake me a Fire catches hold of the roof under which I was for God saw and delayed not long but a fire was kindled in Jacob and there came up heavie displeasure against Israel My wickedness no doubt it was which threatned this conflagration to the Colledge and to my self For whilst I was busily employed about putting out the fire I was within very little of being destroyed by it when loe thy mercie O Lord rescued me from the flames almost by miracle For whilst a friendly hand of one that stood by thrust me away with a kind of violence the very same instant at that very place where I intended to take up my standing the fire that had been a while pent in broke out the stairs sunk down all in flames and if the fire had found me there I had also perisht O my sins which I never can bewail enough O thy mercies O Lord which I can never sufficiently extol O Repentance that never was more necessarie for me O thy Grace O Lord which I ought to implore with all Humilitie and without ceasing I arise O Lord my Father and loe I come my pace indeed is but slow and 'tis unsteadie but yet I come and I consess I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthie to be called thy Son Let me be what thou wilt O Lord so I may be but thine Wash away my sins in the bloud of thy Son that I may be thine And grant I beseech thee that as the terror then so now the remembrance of that fire may daily burn up in me all the dregs and relicks of my sins that I may grow more circumspect for the future that a better fire of Charity and of Devotion may inflame me with the love of thee and with hatred of sin through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O most merciful Lord glorified be thy ever blessed Name for behold whilst I was attending on the King according to my Place unmindful of thee and of the misfortunes that are incident to mankind and having too much confidence in my self by an unhappie leap in the road I fell to the ground mistaken ground and broke a Tendon I was helpt up into a Coach and came to Hampton The torment I had was such as the Nerves are wont to feel and so great that the very anguish of it had certainly cast me into a violent burning Fever but that a vast quantity of Bloud flowed out and so delivered me from that fear It brought me very low and I went lame for almost two years I am sensible of some weakness by it still but immortal thanks be unto thee O thou ever-blessed Trinity thou hast given me the use of my legs perfectly enough and hast establisht my goings beyond all mens expectation Direct them now O Lord in the ways of thy Commandments that so I may never halt between thee and a false Worship nor between thee and the World but that I may walk uprightly and run the way of thy Testimonies when thou hast enlarged my heart I pray thee therefore set my heart at liberty without delay and confirm my steps in the paths of thy righteousness by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O eternal God and my most merciful Father as this day the fury of the enraged multitude was fierce upon me and my house to destroy me and to pillage it it pleased thee in mercy to preserve both and bring some of them to shame and punishment I have sinned many ways against thee O Lord and this was a loud call of thine and a merciful to bring me to repentance which I beseech thee give me grace to hear and obey But what I have done to hurt or offend them that should stir up this rage against me I know not Lord in thy mercie look down upon me fill my heart with thankfulness for this great deliverance and suffer me not to forget it or the Examination which