Father Almighty though thou fillest all places yet thy Glory is most manifested in Heaven and there thy Majesty does most Illustriously dwell and to thy Throne there are we to lift up our hearts when we Pray O let my soul fly up to thee when I pray in Heavenly Thoughts and Desires and Love O let me savour nothing of the earth whenever I treat with thee in Heaven Glory be to thee O Gratious Lord who in the Petitions of thy most Divine Prayer hast taught us for what we are to Pray for all blessings Temporal and Eternal for all things lawful and acording to thy will Glory be to thee O Jesu who in ranking the Petitions for Spiritual blessings first hast taught us to seek Heaven in the first place grant Lord that I may always beg thy blessings in their due order that I may pray for blessings Spiritual with holy violence with importunity and resolution not to be denyed as being the proper ingredients of thy Love and absolutely necessary to my eternal welfare and for Temporal with Indifference and Resignation to thy will since I may Love thee and be eternally happy without them Hallowed be thy Name O Lord God may Thy Name thy own Glorious and Amiable self have a Love and Honour separate and incommunicable May thy infinite Goodness and Greatness be for ever by all Men and all Angels Confest and Admired and Adored and Magnified both in Private and Publick in our Hearts our Mouths and our Lives All Creatures share in thy Goodness O God O let all Creatures help us to Glorifie thy Name O may every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Thy Kingdom come O thou King of Kings may Thy Kingdom of Grace the Church Militant the Catholick Seminary of Divine Love come to its utmost Evangelical perfection in this life O may thy Gospel Lord be dayly propagated Unbelieving Nations Converted and the number of thy Saints augmented Grant O Lord God that thy true Religion thy Word thy Conveyances of Grace all the Holy Institutions Laws and Governours fixt by thee in thy Spiritual Kingdom may be Loved and Honoured and Obeyed and that thy faithful Subjects may be protected against all the malice of wicked men or the powers of darkness O my God let it be thy good Pleasure to put a period to sin and misery to infirmity and death to compleat the number of thine Elect and to hasten thy Kingdom of Glory that s and all that wait for thy Salvation may in the Church Triumphant eternally Love and I Praise thee Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven O my God thy Will and thy Commands are most Holy Iust and Good and condescending to our weakness and by no means grievous O give me Grace Conscientiously to observe them Thy blessed Angels O Lord always behold thy Face in Heaven They have the Beatifick Vision of thy incomparable Amiableness they cannot but unalterably choose thee they must needs to their utmost capacity Praise and Love thee they cannot possibly offend thee they ever perfectly obey thee and are always upon the Wing at thy Command Lord give me Grace in imitation of the blessed spirits above to set thee always before me O six my serious Contemplation on thee Ravish my soul with a lively sense of thy infinite Amâ—ableness O vouchsafe me one short glimps of thy Goodness O may I once tast and see how Gratious Thou art that all things besides thee may be tastless to me that my desires may be always flying up towards thee that I may render thee Love and Praise and Obedience Pure and Chearful Constant and Zealous Universal and Uniform like that the Holy Angels render thee in Heaven Give us this day our dayly Bread Glory be to thee O Heavenly Benefactor who openest thy hand and fillest all things living with plenteousness O let it be thy good pleasure to give me and all the wait on thy Beneficent Love our food in due season Give us Bread and all that is comprehended by it Health Food Raiment and all the necessaries of Life Give us O Heavenly Father Dayly Bread nothing to gratifie our Luxury but such a competence as thy Divine wisdom sees fittest for us Give us O bountiful Creatour Dayly Bread this day Teach us to live without covetous anxiety for to morrow with a fiducial dependance on thy Fatherly Goodness and to be content and thankful for the present portion thy Love has indulged us O merciful Lord give us Our Bread that which is our own Bread by honest Labour or a lawful Title and grant that we may never eat the Bread of Idleness or of deceit Do Thou Lord Give us our Bread for unless thou givest it we cannot have it and together with our Bread give us thy blessing otherwise our very Bread will not nourish us Above all O Lord God give us the Bread of Life the Bread that came down from Heaven the Body and Blood of thy most Blessed Son to feed our Souls to Life eternal Blessed Jesus O that it might be my meat as it was thine to do the will of thy Heavenly Father And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us For thy own inâ—inite mercies sake and for the Merits of the Son of thy Love Forgive me and all penitent sinners Our trespasses our sins Known or Secret of Omission or Commission which are the vast debts we owe to thy vindictive justice Forgive us O Lord as we forgive all them even our greatest Enemies that tâ—â—esâ—â—ss against us their trespasses which are infinitely inconsiderable in comparison of our trespasses against thee Glory be to thee O Lord who to teach us Charity hast made our forgiveness the condition of obtaining Thine O Easie O Gratious condition of Pardon who would not forgive his Brother a few pence in this Life to have ten Thousand Talents forgiven in the next O let my love Lord learn from thine not only to forgive my Enemies but to be Zealous also to do them good And lead us not into temptation O Lord God thou seest how our Ghostly Enemies the World the Flesh and the Devil are every moment soliciting inticing alluring or tempting us to evil O be merciful to us save and help and deliver us Thou seest O my God how infirm I am and how ready my own deceitful heart is to surrender it self to the Tempter and I know that Satan cannot tempt me without thy permission O lead me not if it be thy good pleasure suffer me not to fall into violent or lasting Temptations that may endanger my perseverance I know O heavenly Father that to be tempted is no sin for thy own beloved Son God incarnate was tempted to the most horrid of all Sins to fall down and worship the very
if you can get time and convenience say them all and I dare assure you that all the three Forms of Prayer which I commend to you will not in all take up a quarter of an hour and certainly that Person has very little sense of his Duty very little concern for his immortal Soul very little Honour for God or value for Heaven who will not spend one quarter of an hour in the space of four and twenty hours in the Service of God and the Salvation of his own Soul I do by all means exhort you to give your Servants a few Minutes leisure at Noon to Pray after your Example and to use your Children to do the same for they will soon be able to say the Lords Prayer and two or three Ejaculations and teach them to say these at Noon as well as at Morning and at Night and 't is incredible to think how much good this Practice will do them and what great comfort you your selves will reap from the early Devotion of your Children To further this Devotion in your Children instead of Idle Tales and Songs which pollute their Souls and when they come to be serious will cost them great pains to unlearn You must teach them short Psalms by heart which will exercise their Memories and Piety both together and as you teach the Psalms to your Children I exhort you to learn them your selves You cannot imagine the great benefit of learning Psalms by heart for when you are under any Temptation or are in any Affliction or when you lye waking in the Night or when you are Sick these Psalms will come into your mind and the Devout repeating them will yield you most seasonable Consolations The very Common People in the first and purest Ages of the Church were so sensible of the Spiritual advantages of learning Psalms that they learn'd the whole Psalter by heart and sang or said the Psalms in their Shops and at the Plow insomuch that St. Iames makes it the proper expression of Christian mirth Iamâ— 5.13 If any be merry let him sâ—â—g Psalms This is the way to store your own and your Childrens minds with Ejaculations or short Prayers for all Occasions which I advise both Old and Young to accustom themselves to because it is the true way of Praying without ceasing and it is a kind of Prayer most easie and may be used at any time of the day or in any place and is one of the most efficacious means in the World to keep us in Gods favour 〈◊〉 is of all things most desirable Ejaculations At going out or coming in Lord bless my going out and my coming in from this time forth for evermore Psal. 121.8 At Meals Lord grant that whether I eat or drink or whatever I do I may do all to thy Glory 1 Cor. 10.31 At Work Prosper thou the work of my hands O Lord O prosper thou my handy work Psal. 90.17 In the Shop or Market Lord give me grace to use this World so as not to abuse it 1 Cor. 7.31 Lord grant that I may never go beyond or defraud my brother in any matter for thou art the Avenger of all such 1 Thess. 4.6 In temptation or danger O God make speed to save me O Lord make haste to help me At any time of the day Wherever I am whatever I do Thou Lord seest me O keep me in thy fear all the day long Prov. 23.17 Lord give me grace to keep always a conscience void of offence towards thee and towards men Acts 24.16 Lord teach me so to number my days that I may apply my heart to Wisdom Psal. 90.12 O let my mouth be filled with thy Praise that I may sing of thy Glory and Honor all the day long Psal. 71.7 All love all glory be to thee O God who didst first love me Unto him that lov'd us and wash'd us from our â—â—ns in his own Blood be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen Rev. 1.5 O blessed Spirit shed abroad the love of God in my heart Praise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me Praise his holy Name Psal. 103.1 Praise the Lord O my soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any being I will sing Praises unto my God Psal. 146.1 You that have Families I do further exhort that besides your private Prayers you would offer up to God a Morning and Evening Sacrifice in your Families and that every one of you would take up the Holy Resolution of Ioshua As for me and my House we will serve the Lord Iosh. 24.15 And the Prayers I advise you to use are taken out of the Common Prayer as being most familiar and of greatest Authority withall If any of your Family are gone abroad to their Work before the rest can be ready call that little Congregation about you that is at home and you that are present pray for those that are absent and by this means those that are absent upon necessary Employments will share in the blessings for which you pray Morning Prayer for a Family Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord our Strength and our Redeemer O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our Prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves we give thee humble thanks for thy preservation of us this day past or this night past and for all the blessings thou daily vouchsafest us and we beseech thee to keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God whose Kingdom is everlasting and power Infinite have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the heart of thy chosen Servant James our King and Governor that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy Honor and Glory and that we and all his Subjects duly considering whose Authority he hath may faithfully serve honor and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance through Iesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth ever one God World without end Amen Unto thy gracious mercy and protection O Lord do we commit our selves this day or this night and all our
to thee O Love enthron'd thy Resurrection Ascension and Session are all signal instances of thy love and earnests of our future felicity the entire purchase of thy love All our hopes of Heaven our Resurrection Ascension and Glorification depend on and are derived from thine and are all the trophies of thy love to us and therefore I will ever praise and love thee From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe O Glorified Love that from thy Throne at God's right hand where thou now sittest thou wilt come again to judge the world attended with thy holy Angels All glory be to thee I believe O thou adorable Judge that all mankind shall be summon'd before thy awfull Tribunal All the Dâ—ad who shall be wak'd out of their Graves when the Angel shall blow the last Trump and all that are then Quick and alive shall then appear before thee All glory be to thee I believe Lord that I and all the world shall give a strict account of all our thoughts and words and actions that the Books will be then opened that out of those dreadfull Registers we shall be judged that Satan and our own Consciences will be our accusers O let the last Trump be ever sounding in my ears that I may ever be mindfull of my great accounts and that I may neither speak nor doe nor think any thing that may wound my own Conscience or provoke thy Anger or make me tremble at the awfull day I know O thou adorable Judge that Love onely shall then endure that terrible Test that Love onely shall be acquitted that love onely shall be eternally blest and therefore I will ever praise and love thee Glory be to thee O thou beloved Son of God to whom the Father has committed all Iudgment How can they that love thee O Jesu ever despond though their love in this life is always imperfect when at last they shall have love for their Judge Love that hath felt and will compassionate all their infirmities and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe in the Holy Ghost I believe in thee O thou Spirit of God the third Person in the most adorable Trinity I believe O blessed Spirit that thou art the Lord that thou art God eternal and omniscient a Person distinct from both the Father and the Son eternally proceeding from both and equally sent by both and joint-authour with both of our Salvation and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe O blessed Spirit that thou art Holy essentially Holy in respect of thy own Divine Nature and being essentially Holy art infinitely Amiable and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe O blessed Spirit that thou art personally Holy that thou art the Authour of all internal Holiness and all internal and sanctifying Grace that thou art the principle of all spiritual life in us and therefore all love all glory be to thee Glory be to thee O Love Incarnate for sending the Spirit in thy stead and for promising it to our Prayers all love all glory be to thee Glory be to thee O Spirit of Love for shedding the love of God abroad in our hearts for filling all that love thee with exuberance of joy and consolation all love all glory be to thee O thou blessed Spirit the Comforter purifie my Soul and infuse thy love into it and consecrate it to be thy Temple and fix thy Throne immovably there and set all my affections on fire that my heart may be a continual Sacrifice of Love offer'd up to thee and the flame may be ever aspiring towards thee The Holy Catholick Church I believe O blessed and adorable Mediatour that the Church is a Society of persons founded by thy love to Sinners united into one Body of which thou art the Head initiated by Baptism nourish't by the Eucharist govern'd by Pastours commission'd by thee and endow'd with the power of the Keys professing the Doctrine taught by thee and deliver'd to the Saints and devoted to praise and to love thee I believe O holy Jesus that thy Church is holy like thee its authour holy by the original design of its Institution holy by baptismal dedication holy in all its administrations which tend to produce holiness and though there will be always a mixture of good and bad in it in this world yet that it has always many real Saints in it and therefore all love all glory be to thee I believe Lord this Church to be Catholick or Universal made up of the collection of all particular Churches I believe it to be Catholick in respect of time comprehending all ages to the worlds end to which it is to endure Catholick in respect of all places out of which Believers are to be gather'd Catholick in respect of all saving Faith of which this Creed contains the substance which shall in it always be taught Catholick in respect of all Graces which shall in it be practised and Catholick in respect of that Catholick War it is to wage against all its ghostly enemies for which it is called Militant O preserve me always a true Member of thy Catholick Church that I may always inseparably adhere to thee that I may always devoutly praise and love thee Glory be to thee O Lord my God who hast made me a member of the particular Church of England whose Faith and Government and Worship are Holy and Catholick and Apostolick and free from the extremes of Irreverence or Superstition and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of thy Church Universal and which teaches me Charity to those who dissent from me and therefore all love all glory be to thee O my God give me grace to continue stedfast in her bosome to improve all those helps to true Piety all those means of Grace all those incentives of thy Love thou hast mercifully indulged me in her Communion that I may with primitive affections and fervour praise and love thee The Communion of Saints I believe O King of Saints that among the Saints on Earth whether real or in outward profession onely there ought to be a mutual catholick participation of all good things which is the immediate effect of catholick Love Thou O God of Love restore it to thy Church I believe O thou God of Love that all the Saints on Earth by profession ought to communicate one with another in evangelical Worship and the same holy Sacraments in the same Divine and Apostolical Faith in all Offices of corporal and spiritual Charity in reciprocal delight in each others Salvation and in tender sympathy as members of one and the same Body O God of Peace restore in thy good time this catholick Communion that with one heart and one mouth
and expressive of thy Love Thou art Iesus our Saviour because thou camest into the World on purpose to save us from our sins All Love all Glory be to thee O be thou ever Jesus to me O let me feel the kind force of that sweet name in which I and all sinners do reade our danger and our deliverance our guilt and our salvation O most benign Jesu He well deserves to be accursed that does not love thee Who Lord can ever hope to share in thy Salvation who does not love thee his Saviour Christ. I believe O mercifull Jesus that thou art Christ the true Messias the Anointed of the Lord the promised seed which was to bruise the Serpent's head long expected by the Fathers foretold by the Prophets represented by Types which were all fulfilled in thee O thou the desire of all Nations All Love all Glory be to thee I believe that thou O Jesus wert Anointed with the Holy Spirit that all his Gifts and Graces were poured out and diffused like a sweet ointment on thy soul without measure thou art altogether lovely O Christ and of thy fulness we all receive All Love all Glory be to thee I believe O thou Anointed of God that as Kings and Priests and Prophets were heretofore anointed with Material oil so by thy Heavenly Anointing thou wast Consecrated to be our Prophet our King and our Priest and in all those three Offices to manifest thy love to us and therefore all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O Christ our Prophet who didst teach and reveal and interpret thy Father's Will and all saâ—ing truth to the World Glory be to thee O Christ our King who dost give Laws to thy People dost govern and protect us and hast subdued all our Ghostly Enemies Glory be to thee O Christ our Priest who dost bless us who didst offer thy self a sacrifice and dost still make intercession for us Our Redemption our Illumination our Support is wholly from thy Love O thou Anointed of God All Love all Glory be to thee His onely Son I believe that thou O most Adorable Jesus art the Son of God by ineffable generation thou didst from Eternity derive thy Godhead from the Father thou art the brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person All Love all Glory be to thee Thou O blessed Jesu art the onely Son of God the onely begotten Son full of Grace and Truth Thou art the onely beloved Son in whom thy Father is well pleased 't is onely in thee and for thee that Sinners have Hope and therefore all Love all Glory be to thee Thou art equal to thy Father O Jesu in amiableness and in love to us and art equally to be loved by us and therefore all Love and Praise be to the Father that eternally begat and to the Son eternally begotten Our Lord. I believe O thou eternal Son of the Father that thou art the great and true God Iehovah our Righteousness God above all blessed for ever and mighty to save All love all Glory be to thee I believe O Lord Jesus that thou didst make and dost sustain all things by thy Power and that thou art to be honoured by Men and by Angels as thy Father is honoured All Love all Glory be to thee I believe O thou King of Kings and Lord of Lords that thou art the Lord and the Authour of the new Creation as well as of the old that thou art more peculiarly Lord of us Sinners by purchase O that I and all that own thy Dominion may for ever love and revere and obey so powerfull and gratious a Lord Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost I believe O most condescending Majesty that when thou didst stoop so low as to assume our frail Nature the Holy Ghost came on thy sacred Mother and that the Power of the Highest did overshadow her and that she did conceive and lodge thee in her Womb where thou who fillest Heaven and Earth wert about nine months for our sakes imprison'd and therefore all love all glory be to thee Born of the Uirgin Mary I believe O most adorable Humility that thou wast at last born into the World that thou having onely God for thy Father and Mary a pure Virgin for thy Mother whom all Generations do call Blessed both thy Conception and Birth were perfectly immaculate that being without sin thy self thou mightest be a fit sacrifice to attone for us Sinners who being born of unclean Parents were all by nature unclean and therefore all love all glory be to thee O immaculate Lamb of God who takest away the sins of the World I believe O blessed Saviour that the two Natures of God and of Man were in thee so mysteriously united without either change or confusion that they made in thee but one Person but one Mediatour one Lord Thou O Eternal Word didst become flesh and didst dwell among us on purpose to save us and therefore all love all glory be to thee Suffered I believe O adorable Love that thy whole life was made up of sufferings and that for sinfull men and in particular for me O let me never cease to adore and love thee It was for us Sinners O tenderest Love that in thy very infancy thou wast circumcis'd and design'd by Herod for slaughter and forc't to fly into Egypt and therefore I praise and love thee It was for us Sinners that thou O afflicted Love wert all thy life-long a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief that thou wast persecuted and revil'd despis'd and rejected and hadst not where to lay thy head and therefore I am bound to praise and love thee It was for us Sinners that thou O compassionate Love when thou tookest on thee our nature wast toucht with a feeling of our infirmities and wast in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin that thou mightest the more affectionately pity the weak and succour the tempted and therefore I praise and love thee It was for us Sinners that thou O beneficent Love didst go about doing good preaching repentance publishing the glad tidings of salvation sending thy Disciples confirming thy heavenly Doctrine by many glorious Miracles and illustrating it by a God-like example all thy life is full of attractives of sweetest love and pity to us Sinners which kindly and forcibly constrain us to praise and love thee O most exuberant Love how amiable are all thy Graces O fill my heart with thy love and transform me into thy likeness that I may all my life-long imitate thy perfect obedience unspotted Holiness unchangeable Resolution universal Charity uninterrupted Devotion contempt of the
hatefull violations of thy love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull people O my God O my Love I earnestly pray that thy love may so prevail over our hearts that we may sadly lament and abhor all these abominations and may never more provoke thee The Second Commandment O my God O my Love I know the true Love of thee is incommunicable to any but thee and therefore I renounce and detest and bewail as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy love and to thy glory All making of Idols or false Gods or of graven Images with intent of worshipping and bowing down before them All representations and picturing of thee O my God by visible likenesses of things in Heaven or in Earth All corporeal shapes which are infinitely unsutable to thy invisible and spiritual nature and derogatory from thy adorableness All Idolatry and Religious invocation of Creatures All sacrilege and prophanations of thy House and of things sacred All abuse or disesteem or carelesness of thy Word and contempt of thy Ministers All superstitious or unlawfull rites superfluities or mutilations irreverence or indecencies in thy publick worship by which thou art any way dishonoured All resting in mere outward observances or refusing to give thee bodily worship and to fall down before thee All the least tendencies to any of these impieties From all these and the like violations of thy incommunicable Love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull people c. as p. 39. O my God O my Love imprint on my soul an Awfull Love of thy Majesty that I may worship thee in spirit and in truth and in a manner worthy of thee O my God O my Love make me so tender of the Honour of thee my Beloved that I may shew a due regard to all the parts of thy worship That with lowest humiliation of soul and body whenever I appear in the presence of infinite-Love I may fall down and adore thee O my God O my Love O may I always enter thy house the habitation of unbounded Love with recollected thoughts compos'd behaviour becoming reverence and sincere intentions of Love O my God O my Love O may I ever frequent the publick Prayers and approach thine Altar with fervent and heavenly affections with holy impatience for the blessings of thy Love O my God O my Love O may I always reade and hear thy Word the heavenly register of thy Love with a serious attention an inflamable heart and a particular application and ever learn from it some lesson of thy Love O my God O my Love for thy dearest sake give me grace to pay a religious veneration to all sacred persons or places or things which are thine by solemn dedication and separated for the uses of Divine Love and the communications of thy grace or which may promote the decency and order of thy worship or the edification of faithfull people O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of thy love our souls may be continually employed to praise and to love thee c. as p. 39. Thou O my God O my Love art a jealous God jealous of thy own Honour and of the chastness of my Love O let me never run after other Loves or commit spiritual Adultery against thee to provoke thee to anger Thou O my God O my Love dost visit the iniquities of the Fathers upon the children Thou when thy jealousie burns like fire against Idolaters and those that rob thee of thy worship art wont to punish them in their very posterity with temporal evils and with spiritual too when their children tread in their steps for then thou makest their Father's sins occasions of hastning or of increasing thy judgments though thou always sparest the children that repent O let thy just indignation against violating thy Worship deter me and all that profess thy Name from such violations Thy jealousie O my God O my Love falls heavy upon them that hate thee but how is it possible for any one to hate thee who art infinite love and yet alas all that are enemies to thy Divine Worship all that exalt any lust any creature into thy Throne to ascribe their happiness to sacrifice their esteem and zeal and affections and to offer up Sovereign Honours to it what do they doe but love false Gods and hate thee and are therefore hated by thee O Lord God to hate thee is the proper character of Devils and Lucifer himself cannot sin beyond that utmost extremity of evil the hatred of thee and my heart is full of horrour and grief to think that ever those that bear thy Image and daily subsist by thy love should turn themselves into Devils and this World into a Hell by hating thee O boundless Love turn them O turn them into men again and then they cannot chuse but love thee Glory be to thee O my God who shewest mercy to them that love thee and keep thy Commandments Love and Obedience always go together and entail a blessing on the posterity of thy Lovers O keep me always one of that happy number O let me ever love and obey thee Glory be to thee O Lord God whose Love is more diffusive than thy Anger they vengeance extends but to the third or at most the fourth generation thy mercy unto thousands and the more diffused thy Love is the more powerfully it moves us to praise and to love thee The Third Commandment O my God O my Love thy Name is thy own glorious and amiable self thy Divine Nature and Perfections and Works most worthy to be ador'd most worthy to be lov'd and therefore I will always adore and love thy Name O my God O my Love may I ever have awfull thoughts of thee may I never mention thy venerable Name unless on solemn and just and devout occasions may I never mention it on those occasions without acts of love and adoration O my God O my Love to love and to glorify thy Name is the great end of our Creation which is still more enforced by our Redemption O let it be the greatest busineâ—â— of my whole life to love and to glorifie it all the possible ways I can by my mouth by my conversation by my publick confession of thee before men even to death whenever thou art pleas'd to call me to it by engaging all I can to glorify and love thee O happy life O blessed death which is spent and expires in glorifying in loving thee O my God O my Love
my heart shall ever be jealous of thy Name I can have no true love no real concern for thee if I do not to the utmost of my power assert and vindicate the Name of my Beloved whenever I hear it dishonour'd O my God O my Love fix in my Soul an habitual pure intention of thy glory in all my actions that whether I eat or drink or whatever I doe I may doe all to the glory of my Beloved Oaths O my God O my Love fill me with a religious awe of Oaths in which the honour of thy beloved Name is so highly concern'd I know O great Iehovah that in an Oath I solemnly invoke thee as a Witness to attest the truth of what I swear as a Judge to punish me if I swear falsly Far be it from me O Lord God ever to swear and in swearing to invoke thee unless upon inducements lawfull and important when thy Glory the Command of my Superiours the visible good of my Neighbour the ending of strife or my own Innocence obliges me to it O Lord God whenever I am duly call'd to an Assertory Oath grant I may swear in truth in righteousness and in judgment Whatever lawfâ—â—â— Promissory Oaths I â—â—ke Lord give me grace 〈◊〉 iously to perform them though to my own hinâ—â—ance Uows The glory of thy most beloved Name O great Iehovah next to the truth of our Oaths we invoke thee to attest is câ—â—cern'd in the sincerity of those Vows we oâ—â—er thee â—o accept O do thou therefore create in me a serious sense of the religiousness of Vows that my Vows may not dishonour thee O my God O my Love whenever I voluntarily vow a Vow to thee give me grace to vow with all the due caution I can that I may vow those things onely which are lawfull and acceptable to thee and which thou hast put in my power that I may vow with deliberation and ghostly advice and on weighty and considerable occasions onely and with a design of glory and thankfulness and love to thee O my God O my Love give me grace faithfully to perform all the Vows I make to thee especially my Baptismal Vow and all my repeated Vows of amendment in which I have so often vow'd to glorify and love thy Name O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy name that in all these and in all other possible instances of thy Love our Souls may be continually employed to praise and to love thee O my God O my Love who is there that knows thy great thy beloved Name can ever in the least dishonour it O my God O my Love I renounce and detest and bewail as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy love and to thy glory All taking of thâ— Name in vain All use of it on trivial occasions and without holy awe All abuse of it in impious Jests in Charms or Curses or Imprecations or telling Fortunes or exploratory Lots all irreverent thoughts of thy Name profaneness and blasphemy All denying thee by my works or refusing publickly to confess thee when call'd to it or tamely enduring to hear thee dishonour'd All heathenish or customary or rash Oaths or swearing in ordinary communication or by any Creature All breaking of lawfull Oaths Perjury false-swearing and invoking thee O God of truth to attest a lye sins most destructive to publick Faith and Society and to our own Souls and most dishonourable and hatefull to thee All hasty or unlawfull or superstitious or impossible Vows all breaking those that are regularly made All the least tendencies to any of these impieties From all these and the like hatefull violations of thy Love and from that vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and deliver all faithfull People O great Iehovah thou art jealous for thy glorious and beloved Name and without a particular and serious repentance thou wilt not hold him guiltless that taketh it in vain thou wilt pour on him the vials of thy wrath thy wrath eternal and yet thy ever blessed Name is alas alas daily hourly blasphemed O Apostate Infamous World wherein Infinite Goodness is so oft blasphem'd were not thy Name Love O Lord as well as Iehovah thou hadst long agoe aveng'd thy self of the blasphemous World with a vengeance worthy of God Glory be to thee O Long-suffering Love for thy forbearance efficacious of its self to convert the whole World did the World but seriously consider it O Almighty Love thou canst as easily diffuse thy Love over the World as thou didst at first diffuse Light O let thy Fear and thy Love so universally affect the Age that thy great and beloved Name may be universally ador'd and lov'd The Fourth Commandment Glory be to thee O my God O my Love who in compassion to humane weakness which is not capable of an uninterrupted contemplation of thee such as the Saints have above hast appointed a solemn day on purpose for thy remembrance Glory be to thee O my God my Love for proportioning a seventh part of our time to thy self and liberally indulging the remainder to our own use O my God O my Love let me ever esteem it my privilege and my happiness to have a day of rest set apart for thy service and the concerns of my own Soul to have a day free from distractions disengaged from the World wherein I have nothing to doe but to praise and to love thee Lord grant that I may not onely on thy day give thee due worship my self but may give rest and leisure also to my Family to all under my charge to serve thee also to indulge ease to my very Beasts since good men are mercifull even to them Glory be to thee O blessed Spirit who on the first day of the week didst descend in miraculous gifts and graces on the Apostles O descend upon me that I may be always in the spirit on the Lord's day O my God O my Love give me grace on thy day to worship thee in my Closet and in the Congregation to spend it in doing good in works of necessity devotion and charity in prayer and praise and meditation O let it ever be to me a day sacred to Divine Love a day of heavenly rest and refreshment Thou O my God O my Love didst ordain the Jewdaical Sabbath as a shadow of the true Gospel-sabbath O may I every day keep an Evangelical Sabbath and rest from my sins which are my own works while I live here and may I celebrate an eternal Sabbath with thee in Heaven hereafter O my God O my Love for the like purposes of Piety and of thy Glory give me grace to sanctify the Feasts
all goodness and sweetness all gentleness and long-suffering Fill me full of good wishes and compassion of liberality in Alms-giving according to my abilities and of readiness to succour and relieve and comfort and rescue and pray for all whom thy love or their own necessities or miseries or dangers recommend to my charity O let thy love thou God of Love make me peacefull and reconcilable always ready to return good for evil to repay injuries with kindness and easie to forgive unless in those instances where the impunity of the criminal would be injustice or cruelty to the publick O thou lover of Souls let thy love raise in me a compassionate zeal to save the life the eternal life of Souls and by fraternal and affectionate and seasonable advice or exhortation or correptions to reclaim the wicked and to win them to love thee O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull love c. as p. 51. The Seventh Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce c. as p. 52. All adultery and violations of my neighbour's bed in the gross act robbing him of that he loves best All adultery and unchastity of the eye or the hand All the kinds and degrees of lust fornication pollution of our own bodies and works of darkness which it is a shame to mention All things that provoke or feed lust impure company discourse songs books or pictures All lascivious dresses or dances or plays all idleness or luxurious diet All the excesses or abuses of lawfull Marriage all unreasonable jealousies and all things that lessen the mutual kindness or alienate the affections of those that are married All the least tendencies to any of these impurities From all these c. as p. 52. O my God my Love let thy purest love who art Purity it self create in me a perfect abhorrence of all impurity that I may purifie my self as thou Lord art pure I know O Lord that I can never be partaker of the Divine Nature unless I escape the pollution that is in the world through lust O do thou therefore cleanse me from all filthiness of flesh and spirit that I may perfect holiness in thy fear Give me grace to possess my vessel in sanctification and honour and to keep thy Temple holy that thy Spirit of Love may always there inhabit O my God let my love be chast to thee chast to my self chast to my neighbour O my God may thy Love set a strict guard on my Senses turn away mine eyes stop mine ears bridle my tongue and restrain my hand from all uncleanness Lord give me grace to fly all incitements or opportunities or instruments of defiling either my neighbour or my self To beat down my body and to bring it into subjection O my Love let me live ever watching or praying or profitably employ'd or busied in thy love that I may leave no room if possible for any unclean Spirit to enter into my Soul and tempt me O my God O my Love let thy all-powerfull love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of duty our lives may be continually employ'd to love thee and for thy sake to love our neighbour and to excite our neighbour to love thee O thou God of Love who hast ordain'd the marriage state for the cure of our passion and the comfort of our life and hast made it the embleme of that Divine Love and Union thou art pleas'd to bear towards thy Church Let the force of thy mystical love teach us to love each other and both of us to love thee O thou who hast made us one flesh make us but one Soul also let our love be mutual constant and inviolate full of compliance and condescensions and Sympathy and forbearance towards each other Fill us O God of Love with reciprocal care and zeal and charity for each others happiness temporal and eternal and with a delight in each other exclusive of all loves but thine Lord give us grace to keep our marriage always honourable and our bed undefiled let the affectionate authority of the one and the submissive sweetness of the other produce an entire friendship and harmony of dispositions and fervent intercessions for each other Give us O Lord an unafflicting foresight of our parting here and a passionate longing to be beatified near each other in neighbouring mansions above that from thenceforth our love to each other and to thee may be coeternal with thine The Eighth Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce as p. 52. All kinds of stealing by open Robbery Violence or Invasion All Oppression or Extortion or Rapine vexatious Law-suits or griping Usury All fraud in Trade and Contracts false Weights and Measures and Coin All concealing the defects of our own Goods or depretiating those of our neighbour All making haste to be rich or taking advantage of the ignorance or necessity of the persons we deal with All withholding our neighbours dues or detaining the hire of the Labourer All borrowing and not paying injurious keeping the goods of others and refusing to make restitution All bâ—each of Trust or removing Land-marks wastfull prodigality avaritious gaming or idle begging All outrages to the Fatherless the Widow and the Stranger All the least tendencies to any of the these acts of injustice From all these and the like hatefull violations of thy Love and of the Love of my neighbour and from the vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and all faithfull people O my God O my Love let the love of thy eternal and amiable justice teach me a steddy justice in giving all men their due since I cannot love my neighbour if I am unjust to him Lord give me grace to use my neighbour as my friend as my self to buy and sell by just Weights and Measures and to be content with moderate gain To pay debts and wages and conscientiously to make restitution for injuries or wrongs or for goods unlawfully gotten Teach me O my God to use this world so as not to abuse it to receive and manage all thy temporal blessings with thankfulness to thee sobriety to my self and charity to all besides Make me ever O my God upright and faithfull in Trusts and Trade and Agreements diligent and honest in my station and Calling and according to my ability willing to lend and remit to my poor neighbours Whenever O my God I am forc'd to go to Law O let me ever contend more for right than victory and in all prosecutions preserve a charitable and an equitable disposition O my God O my Love let thy all-powerfull love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that
generality of the World and therefore all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O all-powerful Love by whose inviâ—â—ble Grace we in Baptism die to sin to all carnal Affections renouncing and detesting them all and resolving to take no more pleasure in them than dead persons do in the comforts of life O may I ever thus die to Sin Glory be to thee O Jesu who from our death to Sin in our Baptism dost raise us to a new Life and dost breath into us the breath of Love 'T is in this Laver of regeneration we are born again by Water and the Spirit by a new Birth unto righâ—eoâ—â—ness that as the natural Birth propagated sin our spiritual Birth should propagate Grace for which all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O most indulgent Love who in our Baptism dost give us the holy spirit of Love to be the principle of new Life and of Love in us to infuse into our Souls a supernatural habitual Grace and ability to obey and love thee for which all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O compassionate Love who when we were conceived and Born in Sin of sinful Parents when we sprang from a root wholly corrupt and were all Children of Wrath hast in our Baptism made us Children of thy own Heavenly Father by Adoption and Grace When we were Heirs of Hell hast made us Heirs of Heaven even joynt Heirs with thy one self of thy own Glory for which with all the powers of my Soul I adore and love thee I know O dearest Lord that I am thine no longer than I Love thee I can no longer feel the saving efficacy of my Baptism than I am faithful to my Vow I there made no longer than I am a Penitent no longer am I Christian if I name the name of Christ I am to depart from Iniquity O do thou give me the Grace of True Repentance for all my Sin for my original Impurity and for all my actual Transgressions that I may abhor and â—â—rsake them all wound my Soul with a most affectionate sorrow for all the Injuries and Affronts and dishonours I have offered to infinite Love Glory be to thee O most liberal Jesu for all those exceeding great and pretious Promises of Pardon and Grace and Glory which thou hast made to us Christians in the Sacrament of Baptism O may I ever stedfastly believe O may I ever passionately Love may I ever firmly rely on thy superabundant Love in all these Promises for which I will ever adore and love thee Glory be to thee O sweetest Love who in my infancy didst admit me to holy Baptism who by thy preventing Grace when I was a little Child didst receive me into the evangelical Covenant didst take me up into the arms of thy Mercy and bless me Glory be to thee who didst early dedicate me to thy self to prepossess me by thy Love before the World should seize and defise me Ah Gratious Lord how long how often have I polluted my self by my Sins But I repent and deplore all those Pollutions and I consecrate my self to thee againâ—t O thou most reconcileable Love pardon and accept me and restore me to thy Love O let the intenseness of my future Love not only Love for the time to come but retrieve all the Love I have lost Glory be to thee O tenderest Jesu who when by reason of my Infancy I could not promise to repent and believe for my self didst mercifully accept of the promise of my Sureties who promisâ—â— both for me as thou didst accept for good to the Paralytick the charitable intentions of those that brought him to thee and of the Faith of the Woman of Canaan for the Cure of her Daughter for which merciful acceptance all Love all Glory be to thee O my God my Lord the promise which was made by my Sureties for me I acknowledg that as soon as I came to a competent Age I was bâ—â—â—d my self to perform and I own and renew my Obligation I promise O my Lord with all the force of my Soul to Love thee O do thou ever keep me true to my own promise â—â—ce thou art ever â—â—alterably true to thine for which I will ever adore and love thee Q. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained A. For the continual remembrance of the Sacrifice of the death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby Q. What is the outward part or sign of the Lords Supper A. Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received Q. What is the inward part or thing signified A. The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lords Supper Q. What are the benefits where-we are partakers thereby A. The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the body and bloud of Christ as our bodies are by the bread and wine Q. What is required of them who come to the Lords Supper A. To examin themselves whether they repent them truly of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men Glory be to thee O crucified Love who at thy last Supper didst ordain the Holy Eucharist the Sacrament and Feast of Love It was for the continual remembrance of the Sacrifice of thy death O blessed Jesu and of the Benefits we receive thereby that thou wast pleased to ordain this sacred and awful Rite all Love all Glory be to thee Ah dearest Lord how little sensible is he of thy Love in dying for us who can ever forget thee Ah wo is me that ever a Sinner should forget his Saviour and yet alas how prone are we to do it Glory be to thee O Gracious Jesu who to help our memories and to impress thy Love deep on our Souls hast instituted the blessed Sacrament and commanded us Do this in remembrance of me O Jesu let the Propitiatory Sacrifice of thy Death which thou didst offer upon the Cross for the Sins of the whole World and particularly for my Sins be ever fresh in my remembrance O blessed Saviour let that mighty Salvation thy Love has wrought for us never slip out of my mind but especially let my remmbrance of thee in the Holy Sacrament be always most lively and affecting O Jesu if I love thee truly I shall be sure to frequent thy Altar that I may often remember all the wonderful Loves of my Crucified Redeemer I know O my Lord and my God that a bare remembrance of thee is not enough O do thou therefore fix in me such a remembranâ—e of thee as is suitable to the infinite Love I am to remember Work in me all the holy and heavenly affections as become the remembrance of a Crucified