of GOD and regard to your owne soules and the life that is to come apply your selves chiefly above all things to read and heare GODS Word Marke diligently therein what his will is you shall doe and withall endevour apply your selves to follow the same Blessed is he that readeth Revel 1.3 and they that heare the words of this Prophecie and keepe those things which are written therein 3. Hearing the Word preached EArly in the morning Jesus came into the Temple Ioh. 8.2 and all the people came unto him and he sate downe and taught them In the day time Jesus was teaching in the Temple Luk. 21.37 and at night he went out and aboad in the Mount that is called the Mount of Olives 38. And all the people came early in the morning to him in the Temple to heare him Acts 13.44 The next Sabbath day came almost the whole City of Antiochia together to heare the word of God preached by Paul and Bâ—rnabas Acts 8.5 Then came Philip into the City of Samaria preached Christ unto them 6. And the people gave heed unto those things which Philip spake with one accord Acts 17.11 The Jewes of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the Word with all readinesse of minde and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Wickliff That the hearing of the Word and Law of GOD is commmanded to the people it is evident both by the old and new Law Take opportunity to heare preaching and to prove Grashop by the Scriptures that which is taught The first Bayne and principall meanes to uphold a Christian life in godlinesse is the Word of GOD read preached and heard as the Lord prescribeth Where there is a good order of teaching Idem with diligence skill love and plainnesse we must be attentive and reverent in hearing As drinke is pleasant to them that be dry Hom. de leg Scriptur and meat to them that be hungry so is the reading hearing searching and studying of the holy Scriptures to them that bee desirous to know God or themselves and to doe his will Bayne The ordinarie preaching of the Word is a singular meanes provided for the perfecting of GODS elect and for their growing in a Christian life 4. Sacraments Eccles Ang. CHrist hath ordained in his Church two Sacraments onely as generally necessary to Salvation that is to say Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. Cosler A Sacrament is an outward and visible signe of a divine invisible grace instituted by Christ by vertue whereof the receiver obtaineth grace and sanctification In Sacraments Bellar. both the matter and words must bee instituted by GOD and are not alterable by man either by addition or diminution They are therefore called Sacraments August because one thing is seene in them and another thing understood That which is seene hath a bodily kinde forme and shew but that which is understood hath spirituall fruit Wee must not consider Idem what they be but what they signifie It is a dangerous matter Idem to take the signe in stead of the thing that is signified The holy Eucharist or Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of our Lord. Mat. 26. AS they were eating Jesus tooke bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to his disciples and said Take eat this is my body Ibidem And he tooke the cup and gave thankes and gave it to them saying Drinke yee all of it Ibid. For this is my Blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins In stead of the Flesh Beda and Blood of the Lambe Christ hath ordained the Sacrament of his Body and Bloud in the figure of bread and wine Neither doe wee receive them as common bread Iust Mart. nor as common drinke The bread which is of the earth Iren. receiving the invocation of God is not now common bread but the Eucharist consisting of two things earthly and heavenly Christ taking bread Tertul. and distributing it to his disciples made it his body saying this is my Body that is to say this is a figure of my body It is evident Bertram that the bread and wine are figuratively the body and bloud of Christ By the commandement and Isidor authority of Christ we call it the Body and Bloud of Christ because that though it bee made of the fruits of the earth it is yet notwithstanding sanctified and so become a Sacrament GODS Spirit working invisibly therein Bertram That body wherein Christ suffered was his proper and true body having no mysticall or figurative matter in it But this latter is a mysticall body shewing one thing outwardly in figure and inwardly representing another thing through the understanding and apprehension of faith Eccle. Angl. The body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Supper onely after an heavenly manner And the meane whereby the body of Christ is received in the Supper is Faith To beleeve in Christ Aug. is the eating of the Bread of Life prepare not your mouths prepare your hearts This is to eat that living bread to beleeve in Christ Clem. Alex. that is to say with love to cleave fast unto him This is to drinke the bloud of Jesus Idem to be made partaker of his immortality This is therefore Aug. to eat that meat and drinke that drinke To dwell in Christ and to have Christ dwelling in us A remembrance of the death and passion of our Saviour Christ. 1 Cor. 11. THe LORD JESUS the same night in which he was betrayed tooke bread Ibid. And when hee had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this doe in remembrance of me Ibid. After the same manner also hee tooke the cup when hee had supped saying This cup is the new Testament in my bloud this doe as oft as yee drinke it in remembrance of me 1 Cor. 11. For as often as yee eat this bread and drink this cup yee doe shew the Lords death till he come The Sacrament of the Lords Supper was ordained for the continuall remembrance of the sacrifice of the death of Christ Eccles Ang. and the benefits which we receive thereby This bread and this cup Bertram which is called the body and blood of CHRIST doe lively represent or set out the remembrance of the Lords passion or dâ—ath even as himselfe hath said in the Gospell Luke 22. Do this in remembrance of me which the Apostle Paul expoundeth saying 1 Cor. 11. As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye shew the Lords death till hee come Our Lord gave unto his disciples Walfrid Strab. the SacrameÌ„t of his body and Bloud in the substance of bread and wine
and therin taught them to celebrate the memory of his most blessed Passion Ammon Having taken the bread then afterwards the cup of wine and testified it to bee his Body and Bloud he commanded them to eat and drinke thereof forasmuch as it was the memoriall of his future passion and death Worthy Receivers 1 Cor. 11. BUt let a man examine himselfe and so let him eat of that Bread and drinke of that Cup. Ibid. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not discerning the LORDS body They which are of a cleane conscience upright in heart Chrysost moral and of an unreprovable life may alwaies come to this Table but they which are not so may not once approach unto it S. Augustine thus speaketh Alcinnus I like well of your humility that you presume not to approach to the Body and Bloud of Christ But it were better you would depart from your iniquities and being made cleane by repentance would take the Body and Bloud of Christ Hee is a worthy receiver Cyprian that remembring the benefit of Christ his passion lifteth up his heart unto the living God with his heart unto the living God with comfort abhorreth all bitter drinks of sinne and all savour of carnall pleasures is to him as sharp and soure vineger And the sinner being converted receiving the holy mysteries of the Lords Supper giveth thankes unto GOD and boweth down his head knowing that his sinnes be forgiven and that he is made cleane and perfect and his soule which GOD hath sanctified he rendreth to God againe as a faithfull pledge and glorieth with S. Paul saying Now is it not I that live but it is Christ that liveth in me Cyprian The worthy eating is our dwelling in him and our drinking is as it were our incorporating in him being subject to him in obedience joyned to him in our wils and united in our affections Foure things most requisite Eccle. Angl. to make us meet partakers of the holy mysteries To repent us truly for our sinnes past To have a lively and stedfast faith in Christ our Saviour To amend our lives and be in charity with all men To give most humble and hearty thankes to GOD the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ Vnworthy Receivers Eccl. Ang. THe wicked and such as be void of a lively faith although they doe carnally and visibly presse with their teeth as S. Augustine saith the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ but rather to their condemnation doe eat and drink the signe or Sacrament of so great a thing Aug. Outwardly they have the Sacrament of Christs body but the thing it selfe inwardly in their hearts they have not And therefore they eat and drink their owne judgement Idem Neither Heretike nor such as professe a true faith in their mouths and in their living shew the contrary are to bee accompted among the members of Christ Therefore it may not be said that any of them doe eat the body of Christ As corporall meat Chrysost finding the belly possessed with evill humours doth more offend and hurt and helpe nothing at all So also this spirituall food finding a man polluted with sinne will rather destroy him not by its owne nature but by the Receivers corruption For he that hath yet a will to sinne August I account him rather more burthened by receiving the Eucharist than cleansed Therefore albeit a man doe moderate sinne purposing not to sinne hereafter yet let him make satisfaction by teares and prayers when hee intendeth to communicate trusting in the mercy of God who upon godly confession of his iniquity useth to pardon Then let him approach unto the Eucharist safely and without feare Transubstantiation Eccl. Ang. TRansubstantiation or the change of the substance of bread and wine in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by holy writ but it is repugnant to the plaine words of Scripture overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament and hath given occasion to many superstitions The mysticall signes Theodoret. after consecration depart not from their owne nature for they abide still in their former substance figure and forme and may bee seene and touched as before Touching the substance of the creatures Bertram they abide the same after consecration as they were before Before the bread be sanctified wee call it bread Chrysost but when GODS grace hath sanctified it by meanes of the Priest it is delivered from the name of bread and is reputed worthy the name of the LORDS body although the nature of bread remaine still Hee honoured the visible Theodoret. signes with the name of his body and bloud not changing the nature but adding grace to nature Idem For he would have the partakers of the divine mysteries not to respect the nature of those things which are seene but to beleeve the change which is done by grace Scot. We cannot be brought to determine transubstantiation either by any plaine place of Scripture or sentence of Ancient father Cyril For like as when hee was conversant here in earth as man yet then he filled heaven and did not leave the company of Angels Even so being now in heaven with his flesh yet he filleth the earth and is in them that love him by the power of his divinity Although Christ be corporally in heaven Gre. Valen. Ies yet he is received of the faithfull communicants in this Sacrament truly both spiritually by the mouth of the mind through a most neere conjunction of Christ with the soule of the Receiver by faith And also sacramentally with the bodily mouth receiving not Christ according to his locall presence but bread and wine as seales and signes of the promise of redemption in his body and blood According to his body Greg. Naz. hee is within the limitation of place according to his Spirit and Godhead he is without the limitation of any place To be received in both kinds Eccl. Ang. THe cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the lay people for both the parts of the Lords Sacrament by Christs ordinance and commandement ought to be administred to all Christian men alike Vasques Ies Each kind in this Sacrament as it is a part of the Sacrament hath a divers signification by it selfe And each kind in this Sacrament doth worke its owne effect by it selfe Durand The bread signifieth the body and not the bloud and the wine signifieth the bloud and not the body Alex. Hales Whole Christ is not contained under each kind by way of Sacrament but the flesh onely under the forme of bread and the bloud under the forme of wine In the Primitive Church Durand all present at the Communion did participate of the
THE SINNERS Sanctuary ISA. 7.55 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord and hee will have mercy upon him and to our God for hee will abundantly pardon HIERON The Lord doth neither performe the good things which he promised to the Saints if they returne to iniquities nor the evils which hee threatned to sinners if they returne unto salvation By THOMAS PACKER his Majesties Servant LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for Edward Blackmore and are to be sold at his shop in S. Pauls Church yard at the signe of the Angel 1638. TO THE CHILDREN of Men. ROM 3.23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God COme now Isa 1.18 and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crymsin they shall be as wooll Have I any pleasure at Ezec. 18.23 all that the wicked should die saith the Lord God and not that hee should returne from his waies and live 31. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby yee have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will ye die O house of Israel 1 Sa. 12.23 I will teach you the good and the right way 24. Onely feare the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for cōsider how great things he hath done for you Wee must serve the Lord our God Deu. 28.47 with joifulnesse and with gladnesse of heart for the abundance of all things Trust in the Lord with all thine heart Pro. 35. and leane not unto thine owne understanding In all thy waies acknowledge him 6. and hee shall direct thy paths Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust Psal 40.4 And be not conformed to this world Rom. 12.2 but be yee transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good that acceptable and perfect will of God Augustin Doe not understand that thou maist beleeve but beleeve that thou maist understand understanding is the reward of Faith Iohn 11.40 Jesus saith unto Martha Said I not unto thee that if thou wouldest beleeve thou shouldest see the glory of God Act. 18.27 When Apollos came into Achaia hee helped them much who had beleeved through grace Isa 7.9 If ye will not beleeve surely yee shall not bee established We beeleve and know Ioh. 6.69 that thou art Christ that Sonne of the living God Teach me good judgement and knowledge Psal 119.66 O Lord for I have beleeved thy Commandements It belongeth to every private man to judge of the doctrine of religion Brentius for satisfaction of his owne conscience and to discerne the truth from falshood That Religion which Lipsius is sincerely taken out of the holy Scriptures is the true and Christian Religion Andrad For they containe the most ample Canon that is the rule and square of Piety Faith and Religion August They have delivered unto us that there is but one God and one Christ one Hope and one Faith one Church and one Baptisme Ferus They are the sole rule of veritie and whatsoever differs or contradicteth the same it is error and cockle with what shew soever it commeth forth They are all plaine to him that understandeth Pro. 3.5 and right to them that finde knowledge All those things which appertaine to faith Aug. and direction of life are laid downe plainly in the holy Scriptures They are manifest to them Epiphan who repaire unto them with a religious heart Let not our Religion therefore consist in our fantasies for any truth Aug. whatsoever it be is better than any thing that can of our own head be devised Aug. Godly humility doth more easily finde out the Maker of the stars than proud curiosity the order of the starres Booke of nature into the book of Grace The depth of Predestination and the manner of Regeneration are difficult points of divine mysteries which a studious Divine an illuminated spirit cannot find out Ibidem Let us religiously adore these things by faith and not curiously search into them by reason further than Gods Word doth allow This is the perfection of the regenerate August If they acknowledge themselves to be imperfect The doctrine of the holy Ghost doth not encourage curiositie Bernard but inflameth charitie When the soule is overcome by the fever Chrysost or fiery heat of imaginations then it questioneth but when it is sound and in good temper it reasoneth not but faithfully beleeveth As zeale must erect our discretion Bernard that wee run not too slowly So discretion must direct our zeale that we run not too fast Aug. God will reveale wisdome onely to such as walke continually in the way of peace not in the way of precisenesse Harsnet Tell me what is not contained in the ten Cōmandements which of a Christian is to bee performed Lactant. When God opened his truth unto us he would have us know those things only which it behooved man to know for obtaining life But of those things which appertained to curious profane desires he spake not that they might bee hidden Why then doest thou seeke those things which thou canst not know neither art thou more blessed if thou knowest them Grace teacheth a man to put his knowledge in practice Harsnet He desires to be taught Idem that he may walke not that he may talke as too many doe Adde to your faith vertue 2 Pet. 1.5 and to vertue knowledge 6. And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse 7. And to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charitie 8. For if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ Luther in Luke 6. Let us first repose Faith in God alone and then let us direct our works to the benefit of our neighbour As many as will not follow God Idem in Ephes 5. and walke in love and I shew forth their faith by their works are neither the sons of God nor heires of his kingdom What doth it profit Ia. 2.14 my brethren though a man say hee hath faith can faith save him The end of the Commandement is Charity 1 Tim. 1.5 out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeined By faith which is conceived Haymo in the heart professed with the mouth and adorned with good works the just man liveth eternally Cyprian Life is here lost or wonne everlasting salvation is here provided for by the due worshipping of God and the fruits of faith Epiphan For in the age to come after a mans death there is
are no vessels for Christ to dwell in Humilitie is a signe of worth but pride Bernard of emptinesse and vanity If the minde be constantly directed to GOD Greg moral whatsoever in this life is bitter unto us through patience wee account it pleasant Let a man looke into his heart Aug. and see if he have Charity and then let him say I am borne of GOD. Charity is a desire of the minde to love GOD for himselfe Idem and to love our neighbour for GOD. It is the stay of wisdome Idem the fruit of Faith the riches of the poore and the life of them that are dying Luther A Christian life consisteth in this that we deale with faith and with the heart in things apperteyning to GOD but use our life and works towards our neighbour Ephes 2. For wee are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordeined that we should walke in them Hom. de fid oper There is one work in which be all good works that is faith which worketh by charity If thou have it thou hast the ground of all good works Luther GOD will have works done freely not that wee may merit any thing therby but that we may doe them to the profit of our neighbours and witnes our sincere faith by them Aug. No man doth good works to receive grace by them but because he hath first received grace therefore consequently he doth good works Behold Iohn 5. thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing happen unto thee Which penance wee shall never be able to fulfill Hom. de poenit without the speciall grace of him that saith Ioh. 15.5 without me ye can doe nothing It is therfore our parts Hom de poenit if at least wee bee desirous of the health and salvation of our own soules most earnestly to pray to our heavenly father to assist us with his holy spirit that we may bee able to hearken to the voice of the true Shepheard and with due obedience to follow the same Let us heare the conclusion of the whole matter Eccl. 12. feare God and keepe his commandements for this is the whole duety of man His assurance of Salvation Iohn 3. HE that beleeveth on the Sonne hath everlasting life 1 Pet. 1. Whom having not seene ye love in whom though now yee see him not yet beleeving ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory Ibidem Receiving the end of your Faith even the salvation of your soules Bish Fisher If wee will enter into heaven we must not come with a double heart or wavering faith but with that which is altogether without doubting and most certain Hillar The LORD will have us hope for the Kingdome of Heaven without any doubting for otherwise there is no justification of faith if faith be uncertaine The just living by faith Fulgent saith confidently I beleeve to see the goodnesse of the LORD in the land of the living We have hope Heb. 6. as an Anchor of the soule both sure and stedfast and which entreth into that which is within the Vaile Because ye are sons Gal. 4. GOD hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Wherefore thou art no more a servant but a son Ibidem and if a son then an heire of God through Christ Wee leave not a sinner in Stapleton the middest of wavering doubtfulnesse but we place him in good and firme hope when once his conscience witnesseth with him that he hath truely repented Aug. There is a kind of glorying in thy conscience when thou knowest thy faith is sincere thy hope certain thy love without dissembling Altisiodor Wee may discerne we are in grace by our good desire comfort of minde and good works Bernard The spirit by faith revealeth to a man the eternall purpose of God concerning his future salvation which revelation is nothing else but the infusion of spirituall grace whereby the deeds of the flesh are mortified and the man prepared to the kingdome of heaven Gods truth and his power Vdall is the cause of our assurance of salvation his truth because we doe not doubt but he will keepe his promise his power because all things are possible to him Herein we looke not upon our own worthines Idem for then we must needs doubt but upon him that promised who will faithfully performe God hath promised to thee Aug. O man that thou shalt live for ever dost thou not beleeve it Beleeve it beleeve it for that which he hath already done for thee is a greater matter than that which he hath promised These things have I writâ—en unto you that beleeve on the name of the Sonne of God 1 Ioh. 5. that yee may know that yee have eternall life and that ye may beleeve on the name of the Son of GOD. Rom. 15 Now the GOD of hope fill you with all joy and hope in beleeving that yee may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost Gods mercy Lam. 3. IT is the LORDS mercy that we are not consumed because his compassions faile not Psal 103. Hee hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Lam. 3. But though hee send affliction yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies Psal 103. For as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them that feare him This is the glory of man Hieron that hee may know and understand that GOD is the LORD who giveth mercie and justice upon the earth The omnipotency of God excelleth two waies Hieron in granting mercy to the penitent and punishing such as continue in sin according to their desert Hee rejoyceth not of his owne gaine Chrysost but of our salvation hee is not grieved for his owne displeasure but for our destruction When hee punisheth Idem and taketh vengeance he doth it not with passionate anger but with all unspeakable clemency with the affection of an healer not of a destroyer How rich art thou O Lord GOD in mercy how great in justice how bountifull in grace Bernard Thou beholdest the humbie with favour the Innocent thou judgest righteously savest sinners mercifully Kempis dial inter Deum peccator de imitat Christi si 4. cap. 18. Although a sinner do abide still in the flesh yet doe I receive him into my favour so that he is not to feare the utter confusion for his sins coÌ„mitted but rather to thanke praise God that old things bee passed away and that all things are become new Ibid. So gracious and mercifull am I that alwaies I am more ready to forgive than thou art to begge forgivenesse at my hands more ready to
cup because all the Apostles did so our Lord saying unto them Drink ye all of this Wee have understood Gelas Pap. that some having onely received a portion of Christs body doe abstaine from the cup of his sacred bloud But sith they are moved by a fond superstition which I know not thus to abstaine either let them receive the whole Sacrament or bee put from all together for there can bee no division of this Sacrament and high mystery without great sacriledge Ignat. I exhort you to imbrace one faith one manner of preaching and use of the Sacrament of the LORDS Supper for the flesh of the LORD JESUS is one and his bloud one that was shed for us There is one bread also broken for all and one cup distributed unto all The Prayer before receiving the Communion ALmighty GOD Eccle. Angl. Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of of all things Judge of all men we acknowledge and bewaile our manifold sinnes and wickednesse which wee from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word and deed against thy divine Majesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us We doe earnestly repent and be hartily sory for these our misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most mercifull Father for thy Sonne our Lord Jesus Christs sake forgive us all that is past And grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newnesse of life to the honour and glory of thy holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Prayer after receiving the Communion O Lord Eccl. Angl. our heavenly father wee thy humble servants intirely desire thy fatherly goodnesse mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ and through faith in his bloud wee and all thy whole Church may obtaine remission of our sinnes and all other benefits of his passion And here we offer and present unto thee O Lord our selves our soules and bodies to be a reasonable holy and lively sacrifice unto thee Humbly beseeching thee that all we which bee partakers of this holy Communion may bee fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction And although wee bee unworthy through our manifold sins to offer unto thee any sacrifice yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service not weighing our merits but pardoning our offences through Jesus Christ our Lord by whom and with whom in the unity of the holy Ghost all honor and glory be unto thee O father Almighty world without end Amen A Prayer before reading the holy Scriptures O Gracious GOD Grashop and most mercifull father which hast vouchsafed us the rich and pretious jewell of thy holy word Assist us with thy spirit that it may be written in our hearts to our everlasting comfort to reforme us to renew us according to thine owne image to build us up and edifie us into the perfect building of thy sonne Christ Jesus sanctifying and increasing in us all heavenly vertues Grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for faith MOst mercifull and loving Father I beseech thee for Christ Jesus sake to strengthen and increase my faith that I may goe forward in all godlinesse And grant O Lord that my faith may bee builded upon the rock Christ Jesus that I be not carried away with every blast of vain doctrine but through faith in thee I may be as an invincible fortresse to my enemy the Devill so that he may never prevaile against me Also Lord I pray thee let not my faith bee an idle faith but a working faith that daily proceedeth from one good work to another and in the end to life everlasting there to reigne with thee world without end Amen For Repentance MAke cleane my heart O most gracious God with the water of thy heavenly grace from all the staines and corruptions of sin wherby it appeareth most vile and loathsome in thy sight Sprinkle it with the hysop of unfained repentance and compunction that being washed in the most cleare fountaine of thy grace I may become whiter than snow and evermore serve thee in holinesse and purenesse of life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A short and effectuall Prayer I Most humbly beseech thee O most gracious God and loving Father to take from me the sway of mine owne affections Incline mine heart wholly to the obedience of thy heavenly will Suppresse and quench in me all desires whatsoever that may alienate and withdraw me to wander from the way of thy testimonies Grant unto mee evermore the assistance of thy holy Spirit to conduct and bring me to the inheritance of thy everlasting kingdome for the love of thy onely Son our Saviour Jesus CHRIST Amen The generall Confession ALmighty Eccl. Angl. in liturg and most mercifull Father I have erred and strayed from thy waies like a lost sheep I have followed too much the devices and desires of my owne heart I have offended against thy holy Lawes I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and have done those things which I ought not to have done And there is no health in me but thou O LORD have mercie upon me miserable offender Spare thou mee O GOD which confesse my faults restore thou mee that am penitent according to thy promises declared unto man-kind in Christ Jesu our Lord And grant O most mercifull father for his sake that I may hereafter live a godly righteous and a sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen A Prayer for the Morning O Lord Eccles Ang. in Liturg. our heavenly father Almighty and everlasting GOD I most humbly thanke thee for thy great mercy and goodnesse in keeping and preserving me from all perils and dangers this night past and bringing me safely to the beginning of this day Defend me O Lord in the same with thy mighty power And grant that this day I fall into no sinne neither run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may bee ordered by thy governance to doe alwaies that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our father which art in heaven hallowed c. A Prayer for all times O Almightie Lord Eccles Ang. Ibid. and everliving God vouchsafe I beseech thee to direct sanctifie and governe both my heart and body in the waies of thy Laws and in the works of thy commandements That through thy most mighty protection both here and ever I may be preserved in body and soule through our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer before going to bed O Eternall and ever-living GOD I render unto thy divine Majestie most humble and hearty thankes for thy mercifull preservation of mee this day from the hands of mine
enemies Beseeching thee of thy fatherly goodnesse and mercy to remit and pardon all mine offences which in thought word and deed I have committed against thy holy Laws and Commandements Furthermore I humbly beseech thee that by thy most gracious protection I may bee defended and preserved this night from all perils and dangers both of body and soule that mine eyes may sleep quietly my body rest securely and my soule ever watch unto thee constantly so that I never consent to the temptations and allurements of Satan but by the continuall direction and assistance of thy heavenly grace I may come to thine eternall glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father which art in heaven hallowed c. A Psalme of contrition and confession Psal 38. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure Ibidem I am troubled I am bowed downe greatly I goe mourning all the day long 22. I am powred out like water and all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it is melted in the middest of my bowels 31. I am forgotten as a dead man out of minde I am like a broken vessell 41. Lord be mercifull unto me heale my soule for I have sinned against thee 38. All my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee For I will declare mine iniquity Ibid. I will be sorry for my sinne The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken 51. and a contrite heart O Lord thou wilt not despise O GOD 69. thou knowest my foolishnesse and my sinnes are not hid from thee I have gone astray 119. like a lost sheep seeke thy servant for I doe not forget thy commandements I acknowledge my transgressions 51. and my sin is ever before me Against thee Ibidem thee onely have I sinned and done this evill in thy sight There is no soundnesse in my flesh 38. because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin Ibidem For mine iniquities are gone over my head as an heavy burthen they are too heavy for me Ibidem My wounds stinke and are corrupt because of my foolishnesse 40. Innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to looke up they are moe than the haires of mine head therfore may heart faileth me A Psalme for remission Psal 51. HAve mercy upon me O God according to thy loving kindnesse according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions Wash mee thorowly from mine iniquity Ibid. and cleanse me from my sinne Purge me with hysop Ibid. and I shall be cleane wash me I shall be whiter than snow For thy name sake O Lord 25. pardon mine iniquity for it is great Remember not the sins of my youth Ibid. nor my transgressions according to thy mercy remember thou mee for thy goodnesse sake O Lord. Turne thee unto me Ibid. and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and afflicted Looke upon mine affliction and my paine Ibid. and forgive all my sins O keepe my soule Ibidem and deliver me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee 39. Deliver mee from all my transgressions make me not the reproach of the foolish 31. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant save me for thy mercy sake 51. Hide thy face from my sins blot out all mine iniquities Ibid. Create in me a cleane heart and renew a right spirit within me Ibid. Cast mee not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me 141. Mine eyes are unto thee O Lord God in thee is my trust leave not my soule destitute A Psalme for mercy and direction Psal 69. HEare mee O Lord for thy loving kindnesse is good turne unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies Remember O Lord 25. thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse for they have beene ever of old Be mercifull unto mee 86. O Lord for I cry unto thee daily Shew mee thy waies 25. O Lord teach me thy paths Lead me in thy truth Ibid. and teach me for thou art the God of my salvation on thee doe I wait all the day O send out thy light 43. thy truth let them leade me let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy tabernacles Cause me to heare thy loving kindnesse in the morning 143. for in thee doe I trust cause me to know the way wherin I should walke for I lift up my soule unto thee Ibid. Teach me to doe thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the land of uprightnesse 40. With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me O Lord let thy loving kindnesse and thy truth continually preserve me 119. Order my steps in thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me 86. Teach me thy way O Lord I will walk in thy truth unite my heart to feare thy name 39. Lord make mee to know mine end and the measure of my daies what it is that I may know how fraile I am A Psalme of confidence in Gods mercie Psal 23. THe Lord is my shepherd I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in greene pastures Ibidem he leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soule Ibidem he leadeth mee in the paths of righteousnesse for his Names sake Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare none evill Ibidem for thou art with me thy rod thy staffe they comfort me I will abide in thy Tabernacle for ever 61. I will trust in the covert of thy wings Because thou hast been my helpe 63. therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce For thou hast beene a shelter for me 61. and a strong tower from mine enemies I will come into thy house 5. in the multitude of thy mercy in thy feare will I worship towards thine holy Temple 62. My soule wait thou onely upon God for my expectation is from him Ibid. He only is my rock and my salvation he is my defence I shall not be moved 40. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust A Psalme of praise Psal 104. I Will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God whiles I have my being 7. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse I will sing praise unto the name of the Lord most high 8. O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glorie above the Heavens I will give thee thankes in the cōgregation 35. I will prais thee among much people I will worship towards thy holy Temple 138. and praise thy name for thy loving kindnesse and for thy truth for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name I will extoll thee my God 145. O King and I will blesse thy name for ever and ever Every day will I blesse thee Ibid. and I will praise thy name for ever and ever My mouth shall speake the praise of the Lord Ibid. and let all flesh blesse his holy name for ever and ever The Lord liveth 18. and blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted 28. Blessed be the Lord because hee hath heard the voyce of my supplications 41. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting Amen Amen ECCLES 12.12 OF making many books there is no end and much study is a wearinesse of the flesh 13. Let us heare the conclusion of the whole matter feare GOD and keepe his Commandements for this is the whole duty of man Collectanea T. P. FINIS Imprimatur SA BAKER Iunii 30. 1637.