and came into a place named Golâ—â—otha where theâ— crucified him 〈…〉 therwith 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 the most of 〈◊〉 c. â—ohn 1â— Abraham tooke the wood of â—he burnt offring â–ª and layd â—t vpon Isaac his sonne c. 〈◊〉 â—â— Behoâ—d the wiâ—ow was there gathering sticks â–ª and Eliah called her and said c. 〈…〉 cry of thy whole church being in peril Behold how many thousaÌ„d meÌ„ cry out Lord saue vs or els we perish The tempest hath ouercome all cunning of man nay rather we seé that the indeuour of such as goe about to helpe it doth turne to the contrary There neédeth thy voyce O Lord Iesu say no more but tempest be still and by and by the wished calmenes will shew it selfe The Lord would haue spared the innumerable thousands of wicked people that were in Sodome and Gomorra if he could haue fouÌ„â— but ten righteous among them all Now there are many thousands which loue the glory of thy name and which long to behold the beauty of thy house and wilt thou not at their intreatance release thine anger and remember thy old mercies wilt thou not through thy heauenlye cunning turne our foolishnes to thine Tubultaâ—â— wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron c. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw and tasted on a tree c. And when they were come to the 〈◊〉 which 〈…〉 Caluaâ—â—e there they crucified him and the euil do 〈◊〉 one on the right hand and the other on the left c. Luke 23. own glory wilt thou not turn the wicked folkes euill doinges to the benefit of thy church for thy mercy is wont to be then redyest at hand when things are so far past recouery as no strength or policie of man can help them Thou being the only author and maintayner of peace art only he that maketh thinges at one though they be neuer so much at oddes Thou didst dispose the olde Chaos wherein the seédes of al things lay confused and turmoyling among them selues without any order or comlynesse and by wonderfull order knit the thinges together in euerlastinge league which striue together by nature But how much more shamefull a Chaos is it where ther is no loue no faith no keéping of couenants no reuerence of lawes no awe of such as are in authoritie no consent of opinions but euery man singes his own song as One of the souldiours with a speare pearced his side â–ª â— forthwith ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recordâ— is true And he that c. Iohn 10. With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water c Exo. 17 in a black sanctus Among the compasses of the Skyes there is no disagreément the Elements doe keép euery one his place and euery of them execâ—â—â—eth his own office And wilt thou suffer thy spouse for whose sake all things are created to goe to wrack by continuall discord Wilt thou suffer wicked spirits the authors of discord to execute tiranny in thy kingdome vnpunished Wilt thou suffer that strong fellow whom thou hast once thrust out to get possession of thy tents agayne When thou dwelledst as a mortal maÌ„ among men the deuils fled away at thy voyce We beseéch theé O Lord send thy Spirite into the hartes of all them that profes thy honorable name to driue from them the wicked spirits which are the scholemasters of ryot couetousnes ambition lechery vengeance and discord and that I may Assone as the sunne was downe Iosue commaundeth that they c. Iosu. â— Then they arose and went all night and toke the body c. 1. Sam. 13 Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the â—ock and rolled a great â—tone to the dore c. Math. 27. vse the prophets own wordes a cleane hart create in vs O God our king and renue thy holy Spirite in our bowels take not thy holy spirit from vs Geue vs againe the gladnes of thy saluatioÌ„ and strengtheÌ„ thy spouse and thy spouses shepheards with a principall spirite By this spirit hast thou set things in heauen and earth at one by this spirite hast thou assembled and knit so many tongues so many nations and so many sundry sorts of men into the one body of thy church which cleaueth vnto theé her head by the same spirit If it may please theé to renue him in all mennes harts these outward calamities wil by and by cease or if they cease not yet shall they at least wise turne to the behoofe of them that loue theé Set this confusion in order O Lord and let thy spirit spread forth it selfe vpon the waters of wauering opinions He layd it in a tomb â—ewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the preparing of the Saboth the Saboth drue on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. â—hen Ioseph was come to his brethren they stript â—im c. Gen. 37. So they tâ—ke vp Jonas and â—ast him into the sea and the sea c. Ionas And forasmuch as thy spirit which according to the saying of the prophet contayneth all thinges hath also the knowledge of the voyce in him graunt that as all which dwell in thy house haue but one law one baptisme one God one hope one spirit so also there may be but one voyce among all them that professe thy catholick truth At thy going vp into heauen thou after the maner of such as triumph diddest scatter abroad diuers rewards from aboue geue giftes vnto men bestow sundry presents of thy spirite among them Renue now again thine old bouÌ„teousnes from aboue geue the same thinges to the Church now drooping which thou gauest to her at her first florishing forth Geue vnto her Princes the awe of theé that they may so gouern the common weale as though they should shortly yeald an account of euery The wepeth continually in the night and her teares c. Lamen 1. Call me not Naomi but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen c. Ruth 1. â—here was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the sepulchre The next day that followed the day of preparing the hie priestes and Pharises c. Math. 27. thing to theé the king of all kinges Geue them of the wisdome which is alwayes about thy throne that they may seé what is best to be done and perform it in their deédes Geue vnto the shepheards whom thou hast vouchsafed to put in thy roomth the gift of prophesy that they may interprete the misticall scriptures not by mannes reason but by thy inspiration Geue them the threéfold charity which thou diddest demaund of Peter when thou gauest him charge to feéde thy flock Geue them the loue of
deliuer vs. From all blindnes of hart from pride vayn glory and hipocrisie from enuy hatred and malice and all vncharitablenes Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceites of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs ¶ The TruÌ„petor â–ª Trumpet geue sound all must to the ground ¶ The Pursuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without baggage All mâ—st needs dye â–ª we need not tell Our message hath bene sounded well From lightnings and tempests from plague pestilence and famine from battayl and murther and from sodayn death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from al hardnes of hart and contempt of thy word and commaundement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mistery of thy holy incarnatioÌ„ by thy holy natiuitie and circumsition by thy baptisme fasting and temtatioÌ„ Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buryall by thy glorious resurrection and ascention and by the coÌ„ming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all souldyers to deathes hand ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„ner ¶ The Fife Fâ—fe seé thou play to leade them the way In all time of our tribulation in all time of our welth in the hour of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners â—oe beseéch theé to hear vs O Lord God and that it may please theé to rule and gouern thy holy church vniuersally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please theé to keép streÌ„gthen in true worshiping of theé in righteousnes and holynes of life thy seruant Elizabeth our most gracious Queéne and gouernour We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to rule hir hart in thy faith feare loue and that she may euermore haue affiance in theé euer seéke thy honor and glory We beseech thee c. ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy long vyage Death only maketh captaines quayl And harty soldyars for to fayl That it may please theé to be her defender and keéper geuing her the victory ouer all her enemies We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to illuminate al Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the church with true knowledge vnderstanding of thy word And that both by their preaching liuing they may set it forth shew it accordingly We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to indue all the Lords of the counsel and all the Nobilitie with grace wisedome and vnderstanding We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to blesse and keépe the Magistrates geuing them grace to execute Iustice and to maintayn truth We beseech thee c. Vse gayn of gold and liâ—e in cost So as by death life be noâ— lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can â—e perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue â—o pitie That it may please theé to bles keépe all thy people We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue to all Nations vnitie peace and concord We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue all thy people increase of grace to heare meékly thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruites of the spirite We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to bring into the way of truth al such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to strengthen such as doe stand to comfort and helpe the weak harted to rayse them vp that fall and finally to beate down Sathan vnder our feéte We beseech thee c. ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page â–ª spent is thine age Let printing stay and come away We Printers wrote with wisdomes pen She liues for aye we die as men That it may please theé to succor help and comfort all that be in danger necessitie and tribulation We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to preserue all that trauail by land or by water al women labouring with child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitie vpon all Prisoners and Captiues We beseech thee c. it may please theé to defend and prouide for the fatherles children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to forgeue our enemies persecutors and slaunderers Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By right I must be bold â–ª with theé that â—â—â—uest so old and to turne their harts We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enioy them We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to giue vs true repentance to forgeue vs all our sins negligences and ignorances and to indue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite to amend our liues according to thy holy word We beseech thee c. Sonne of God we besech theé to heare vs. Sonne of God we c. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I â—aue store No one deuise no aâ—t no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foyle O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our father which art in c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euil Amen ¶ The versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Answere Neither reward vs after our iniquities Let vs pray In song in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in clay ¶ The Musicâ—oÌ„â— Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away O God mercifull Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite hart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that we make before theé in all our troubles and aduersities when so euer they oppresse vs And graciously heare vs that those euils which the craft and subtiltie of the deuill or man worketh against vs be brought to naught and by the prouidence of thy goodnes they may be dispersed that we thy seruants being hurt by
best and finally desiring nothing but theé who with the father and the holy Ghost art the full and perfect felicity for all euer Amen ⧠A Prayer to the holy Ghost O Holy Spirit worthy of all worship which makest vp the almighty trinity which proceédest from the father and the sonne and art equall to either of them differing from them in only propriety of person which of thy â—nd Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. â— There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire to Elias went vp by a whirlwind c 2. Reg. 2 So after the Lord hâ—d spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of god And they went forth and preached â—c Mar. 16 goodnes forgeuest the sinnes of them that amend which with thy holy breth cleansest mennes mindes comforting them when they be in sorrow cheéring them vp with pure gladnes when they be in heauynes leading them into all truth when they be out of the way kindling in them the fire of charitye when they be a cold knitting them together with the glew of peace when they be at varyance and garnishing and inriching them with sundry giftes which by thy meanes profes the name of the Lord Iesu by whose working all things liue which liue in deéde whose delight is to dwell in the harts of the simple which thou hast vouchsafed to consecrate for temples to thy selfe I beseéch theé maintayne thy giftes in me increase the things dayly which thou hast vouchsafed vpon me that by thy gouernance the lustes of the flesh The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iâ—ssâ— and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Iacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. may dye more and more in me and the desire of the heauenly life more quicken and increase Let me so passe through the misty desert of this world by thy light going before me as I may neither be defiled with Sathans vices nor be intangled with any errors disagreéing from thy truth which the true catholick church hath delyuered vs by the instinct of theé which liuest raignest euerlastingly with the Father and the Sonne Amen * A Prayer to God for his Spirite and grace to pray effectually ETernall and most mercyfull Father we know not our selues neither can easely vnderstand what or how we should pray as we ought But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wifâ— c. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be geuen theâ— to wife for to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6. Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Ioseph her husband being a iust men c Math. 1. Geue vs the Spirit ô Lord to help our infirmytyes which maketh requeste for vs vnto theé with sighes which cannot be expressed I lift vp mine eyes to theé that dwel lest in the heauens Stir vp my hart and mind ô Lord come into me ô spirite of God that I may come vnto theé with hart soule not with mouth and lips only Geue vs thy grace that we may call vpon theé as true worshippers in spirite and truth with the inward attention without hipocrisie and ambition Graunt that I aske nothing of theé but that which may agreé to thy holy will to thy prayse and glory and to the health of my soule â—nd in the â—i moâ—rt the Angell Gabrielâ— was sent froÌ„ God to a citie in Galile naâ—med Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. â—he â—aâ—de of the womâ—n shall â—read vpon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. The Angel sayd to him the Lord is with thee â—hou valyant man â—udges 6 Neither let my praiers ô Lord prescribe the time when and how they should be fulfilled But let me submit my selfe to thy holy will in all things with hope patience and humilitie of hart Thy will be done in earth ô Lord as it is in heauen I will wayt patiently ô Lord for theé that thou mayst incline vnto me and heare my prayer Behold euen as the eies of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a mayd vnto the hand of her maistresse so our eyes will wayt vpon theé ô Lord vntill thou haue mercy vpon vs. â—nd Moyses returned to Iethro his father in law and sayd to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. Aâ—d Mary câ—ose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Iuda 〈◊〉 entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke 1. In his name through faith we come to the throne of thy grace receiuing the spirite of adoption we cry Abba Father StrengtheÌ„ vs O Lord least the vnworthynes of our life withdraw and intice vs from prayer Assist vs therfore O most mercifull father that we may pray euery where lifting vp pure hands without wrath or doubting with supplications prayers intercessions geuing of thanks for our selues and for all men Graunt this through Iesus Christ our Lord who is also at thy right hand and maketh request for vs To whom with theé and thy holy Spirit be all laud and glory Amen When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. * A Prayer for the whole Realm and the body of the Church with the members therof according to their estates degrees Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had coÌ„maunded him c. Gen. 2. Let euery maÌ„ child among you be circumcised That is ye shal circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Ge. 17 And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Iesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiâ—ed c. Luke 2. And forasmuch as thou hast commaunded vs to pray inespecially for kings and Princes and for all such as are set in authoritie that the company of mankind may liue peaceably and quietly vnder them in all godlines and honesty considering how burthensome crownes and scepters are how hard the wealding of them is and how difficult a matter it is to discharge them well whether it be in respect of themselues or of their
subiects 〈◊〉 is the king of the Iewes that reâ—orne â–ª for we haue â—ene his starre in the â—ast and are come to â—orship him â—heâ— Herode the king â—eard this he was â—roubled all Ieruâ—alem c. Math. â— Abner said to Dauid make couenant with me and be hold mine hand shal be with thee c. â— Sam. â— The Queen of Saba bring gifts to Ierusalem to Salomon with a very great trayâ—e c. 3. â—eg· 10. O Lord our good God thou hast set her vp to raigne ouer thy people geue vnto her thy handmaid and to al other princes thy seruants geue them wisdome and vnderstanding to iudge thy people and to discerne betweéne good and bad that they may not be vnprofitable and much lesse hurtfull in so holy a vocation God sayd to Moses sanctify vnto me all the first borne that open al maner matrices among the childreÌ„ c. Eâ—o 1â— Anâ—â— bare a sonne bâ—ought him into the house of â—he Lord in â—iloh and the child was young c. 1. Sam 1. 〈…〉 â—uriâ—â—cation after â—e 〈◊〉 of Moses â—ere accomplished 〈…〉 Iesus to Ierusalem to preseÌ„t him to the lord is it is written in the law of the lord Luke â— Also I pray vnto theé O Sauyour and father of truth for all those whom thou hast ordayned to be true Shepheards to thy faithfull and to whom thou hast coÌ„mitted the charge of mens soules and the dealing forth of thy holy gospell Guid them by thy holy spirite that they may be found faithfull and diligent in their holy vocation Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt and be there till I bring thee word for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him So he arose toke the babe his mother c Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esan is coÌ„forted against thee meaning to kill thee Gen. 27. Michaell spake vnto Dauid If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow c. â— Sa. 19. Let it please theé to make a general deliuerance and restitution of thy churches through the wholl world by sending forth laborers into thy haruest able and sufficient men to gather the poore stray sheépe together vnder the sheéphooke of the great shepherd of our soules thy sonne Iesus Christ. Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pâ—eces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 12 The Philistines â—nde Dagon fallen downe before the ark of the Lord c. 1. Sam. 5. He shall breake downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Osc. 10. As touching their hearers vnto such as profes thy name already geue true perseuerance in faith charitie and all good works to the glory of thy name to the health of their own soules And as touching the residue which walk as yet in the vanity of their own mindes touch thou their harts and geue them inlightned eyes that all of them may yeald them selues to serue and please theé Finally ô God of all coÌ„fort I beseéch theé haue pitie vpon the miseries and afflictions of all thy creatures in generall of the nations whom thou visitest with pestilence war or famine of the persons whom thou smitest with pouerty imprisonment sicknes banishment or other thy rods whether it be in their bodies or in their mindes and specially of thy chosen that suffer for the testimony of thy gospell Herode caused all male children to bâ— sâ—aine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes theroâ— from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c Mar. 2. Sâ—ul sayd to Doeg â–ª 〈◊〉 thou and fall vpon the priestes and Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. â—a 22 Athalâ—a seing her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kings seed But Iehosheba c. Reg. 11. God spake to Iacob get thee out of this countrey Iacob toke all his gooddes and cattell c. Gen. â—1 Dauid asked counsel of the Lord saying Shall I go vp into any cities of Iudah c. 2. Sam. 2. The Angel sayd to Ioseph Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of â—â—â—rael for they are dead which sought the babes life Then he arose and toke the babe c. Mat. â— * Another prayer for the church and all the states thereof by Iohn Foxe And Iesus when hâ— was baptised camâ— straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and Iohn saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math. 3. Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea c. Exodus 14. They cutte down a branch with one cluster of grapes and bears vpon c. Num. 13. Esau selleth his byrth â—â—ght for a mâ—sse of pottage c. Gen. 25. The woman seyng the tree to be pleasaunt tooke of the fruit c. Gen. 3. The tempter 〈◊〉 to Christ saying If thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made bread But he aunswering sayd it is written Man shal not liue by bread only c. Math. 4. Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes â–ª and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 15. â— certayne man was diseased 38. yeâ—res when Iesus saw him lie and knew c. Iohn â— â–ª And in the 〈…〉 of the night Iesus went vnto them walking on the sea c. Math. 14. But here alack commeth another mischief as great or greater then the other For the Turk with his sword is not so cruell but the bishop of Rome on the other side is more fierce and bitter against vs stirring vp his bishops to burne vs his confederates to conspire our destruction setting kinges against their subiects and subiects disloyally to rebel against their princes and all for thy name He that is without fault let him cast the first stone c. Iohn â— Iesus seyng their fayth sayd to the sick of the paulsey sonne c. Math. 9. And he tooke the v. loaues and two fishes and looked vp to heauen and blessed and brake and gaue the loaues to his disciples and the disciples c. Math. 14. Amongest vs Englishmen here in England after so great stormes of persecution and cruell murther of so many martires it hath pleased thy grace to geue vs these Alcyon dayes which yet we inioy and beseéch thy mercifull goodnes stil they may continue Christ cried with a loud voyce Lazaruâ— come forth Then he that was dead came forth â—ound hand â— foote with bandes and his face was bound with a napkin Iesus said vnto them c. Iohn 11. Helâ—as stretched himselfe vpon the childe and the Lord heard the voyce of Helâ—as c. â— Reg. 17. Heâ—â—â—ens comming into the house and behold the childe was dead and he stretched c. 4. Reg. 4. Abraham said Lord if I
reioyce me the vnitie c. Ecclesâ—asticus 25. The 〈◊〉 of the proud is bloudshed Ecclesi 27. Loue nourisheth with ioy Herod murthereth infants Christian sousdior harnised Hell Temptation ouercome Put on the whole armore c. Ephe. 6. Stand â—ast in the faith c. 1. Cor. 16. Wisedome is better then gold Sardanapalus an imprudent king Geue vnto vs also which are subiects thankefull harts to thee faithfull to her in thee and charitable towards all men that all which liue vnder her gouernmeÌ„t Counsellers Ministers and euery other in their place and calling may be throughly sactified in holines to liue before thee VnderstaÌ„ding reacheth the heauen Ignorance is as a beast Vnderstanding is a welspring of life c. Prouerb 16 Be ye not like horse and Mule. which c. Psalme 32. ⧠A Prayer for the Ministers of Gods word LEt thy Priestes O Lord be clothed with righteousnes and let thy Saints reioyce Poure out thy spirite of wisdome and vnderstanding vpon the Ministers of thy word that they may know the misteries of thy holye will. Geue them the gift of vtterance that they may set forth the aboundant riches of thy gospel Write thy lawes in their hartes and thy testimonies in their bowels that they may leade thy people into all truth rule thy church with discretion Make them good work Goe to the 〈◊〉 O thou Slouggard c. Prouerb 6. The Slouthfull man hideth his hand in his c. Prouerb 26. Industry gathereth reward Sloth bringeth sleep men faithfull shepherds and wise builders that they may mende the broken walles of Ierusalem feéde the flockes of thy sheépe with the bread and water of life husband thy vineyard dresse it in due season repair thy holy sanctuary and bring in the vessels dedicated to the seruice of the lord And finally shine with such light of holy and pure conuersation before men as they may edefie no les by example of life then by instruction of teaching To the intent that meÌ„ beholding their modesty meéknes sufferance patience and other vertues wherwith thou hast indued them to the benefite of thy Church may be wonne to thy gospell euen by the holynes of their conuersation and be compelled to confesse to the glory of thy name that thou doubtlesse liuest raignest workest and dwellest in them Amen Memory is a treasure house Obliuion is as a graue Wherfore I put you in remembrance c 2. Tim. 1. I am counted amoâ—g them that goe down c. Psal. 88. * A Prayer to be sayd for all Magistrates THey that are in authoritie ouer vs are as the helme in a ship as the eye in the body and as the mind in the soule and therfore thou O Lord hast commaunded vs to further them with our seruis or succor and our prayers For great is the profit that we receiue by good princes and magistrates and great is the harme which they doe being otherwise Wherefore it is to be wished that they might be good godly vertuous and nobleminded Besides this great is the burthen which they beare in gouerning well forasmuch as they must make an account therof vnto theé whereas we in the meane while are freé from that danger Unto theé therfore O Lord Iesu Christ do we make our supplications Dauid executed right and iustice c 2. King. 2. Thy princes are rebellious and companions c. Esay 1. Iustice â—udgeth rightly Tyranny oppresseth â—ight for them euen vnto theé which art the perfect pattern for all Rulers to follow and imitate as who being most singularly good and wise canst neither erre nor doe any thing amisse Graunt we beseech thee that all those whoÌ„ thou hast ordayned as Shepheards of thy sheép to rule thy people vnder theé and specially that our most gracious soueraine Lady Elizabeth and her most honorable Counsell together with all her Nobilitie Clergie inferior Magistrates and vnder Officers may be so inlightened with the brightnes of thy light so guided by the direction of thy spirite and so inflamed with the loue of theé and of thy people committed to their charge as they may in all cases espy the truth minister right equitie iustice with mercy alwayes hauing their eyes vpon theé to follow and execute the things which thou hast Strength shewed in the arme Holofernes slayne by Iudith He girdeth me with strength c Psalme â—8 He sayd he would burne vp c. Iudith 6. commaunded and not which they theÌ„selues list so as they drawing all together by one line according to the pattern which thou hast set before theÌ„ may wel and throughly performe their charge to thy glory and we obediently yealding our selues to their godly commaundements may leade a holy and quyet life vnder them likewise to the glory of thy name Amen ⧠A Prayer of Children for their Parents LOrd God whose will it is that next thy self we should yeald most honor to our fathers and mothers forasmuch as among the dueties of naturall loue it is not the least to sue vnto thy goodnes for the welfare of our Parents I beseéch theé preserue my Father and Mother with all their household Dauid tooke a good courage to him c. 1. Reg. 2. I desire that you faynt not c. Ephe. 3. Courage is bould in Christ. Cowardice faynteth in tryall first in the loue of thy Religion and next in safety from all incumberance and greéfe both of body minde And vnto me graunt that they may not haue any trouble by my meanes And finally that I may inioy the fauor of them they the fauor of theé which art the soueraign father of all Amen ⧠A Prayer for charitie or loue towards our neighbours LOrd inlighten and instruct our mindes that we may esteéme euery thing as it is worth yet not make the lesse reckning of theé sith nothing can be made better then thou And secondly let vs make account of man then whom there is nothing more excelleÌ„t among the things of this world Make vs to loue him next theé either as likest our selues or as thy child and therfore our brother or as one ordayned Temperance watcheth and bridleth Intemperance ouercommeth the hart A wholesome sleepe commeth of c. Eccle. 31. For tables are so full of vomit c. Esay 28 to be a member of one selfe same Countrey with vs. And cause vs also euen here to resemble the heuenly kingdome through mutuall loue where all hatred is quite banished and all is full of loue and coÌ„sequently ful of ioy and gladnes AmeÌ„ Another SOften our harts O Lord that we may be moued no lesse at the necessities and greéfes of our neighboures then if they concerned our selues or the cases that touched vs nearest and let vs think them to befall euen to our dearest frends Let vs pitie them as our selues and in their common aduersitie let vs also communicate with theÌ„ by compassion that as we would haue pitied our selues for the like cause so we
words but also in dedes of purpose that we should follow thine example We pray theé therfore to shead in to vs the spirit of thy mildenesse that we may patiently suffer both the euill will and the euill speéch and the euill doings of our enemies as we hear say thou diddest and as we dayly perceiue that thou doest still Let vs nether requite wrong in deéd nor take vpō vs to reuenge our selues Charitie visiteth the sick I was sick ye visited me Math. 25. Let it not greue thee to visit the sick Eccle. 7 in words nor wish or desire any such thing in hart or minde but let vs be so farre of from all reuenge as we may euen doe them good and help them to the vttermost of our power and with earnest prayer and supplication craue good things of theé for them namely that thou vouchsafe to geue thē a good minde and al other things which thou knowest to be for their welfare profit commoditie and soul health so as we may be thy children in deéde which bestowest thy bounteousnes not only vpon the good and thankful but also vpon the wicked and vnthankfull and also thy kindly disciples which prayed thy father to forgeue their most vnrighteous tormentors Amen * Another MOst mercifull and louing Father which hatest not any of the Charitie visiteth prisoners I was in prison and ye came Math. 25. Onesiphorus oft refreshed me was not 2. Tim. 1. thinges which thou hast made but sufferest and bearest with mennes misdoinges winking at them to prouoke them to repentance We beseéch theé most humbly euen with all our harts to poure out vpon our enemies with bountifull hand whatsoeuer thinges thou knowest may doe them good and cheéfly a sound and vncorrupt minde wherthrough they may know theé and seéke theé in true charitie with their wholl hart and loue vs thy children for thy sake Let not their hating of vs turne to their harme neither let vs in any wise hurt them seéing that we cannot doe them good for want of abilitie Destroy thē not O father for their hatred towards vs but saue them at our intreatance for them Lord we desire their amendment and not their punishment Separate them not from vs by punishing Sight Let thine eyes behold that is right Prouerb 4. them but ioyne and knit them to vs by thy fauorable dealing with them And seéing we be all ordayned to be Citizens of the one euerlasting Citie let vs begin to enter into that way here already by mutuall loue which may bring vs right forth thether through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen * A confession of our sinnes O Lord my God euerlasting and almighty Father I acknowledge and confesse before thy holy and high Maiestye that I was bread and borne in sinne and corruption and that since my birth I haue not ceased nor doe cease dayly to transgresse thy commaundements In respect whereof I cannot escape ruine and destruction according to thy rightfull iustice Notwithstanding forasmuch as I am sory that I haue offended theé and doe condemne Hearing The eare of ielosy heareth all thyngs Wisdome 1. both my self and my sinne and forasmuch as it hath plesed theé to loue vs euen when we were thine enemies and for assurance therof to giue vs thy only and welbeloued sonne our Lord Iesus Christ to be a mediator aduocate betweéne theé and vs promising vs that we shall obtayn whatsoeuer we aske of theé in his name Uouchsafe O most louing God and mercifull Father to pardon and forgeue me in his name and for his sake and not only to cleanse my hart from all vanitie and vncleannes but also to gouern and guid me by thy holy spirit in all my wayes that I may liue according to thy holy and heauenly cōmaundements all the dayes of my life to the glory of thy name through the same thy wel beloued Sonne So be it Taste The mouth tasteth the meats Iob. 34. * A Prayer for remission and forgeuenes of sinnes SO huge is the heape of our sinnes and in so sundry wise haue we offēded O righteous and holy lawmaker that vnles we lift vp our mindes to the considering of thy goodnes we must neédes despaire Theé we displease to theé doe we bid battail through our wicked deédes To theé do we profes enmitie euen to theé which art almighty which hast no neéd of any thing whom nothing can hurt and yet art thou the party that doth first offer peace and attonement Because nothing hapneth oftner to vs thē to fall into this disease we haue neéde of nothing so much as of the medicine of thy mercy and thou doest alwayes offer it vs redely and set it before vs. Smelling Geue a swete smell as incense c. Eccle. 39. Wherfore graunt we beseéch theé O most mild and kindharted Father that we may both discern our diseases and know the remedies of them and seéke them as it becommeth vs at thine only hand who art wont to graunt them so easely at our requestes for the loue of thine only sonne Iesus Christ Amē Another MOst mercifull and gratious father I beseéch theé let not other mennes naughtines hurt me but rather let their goodnes further me thou art the terrible ielious God which reuengeth the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate theé and againe on the other side art treatible and mild insomuch that thou shewest mercy vnto thousands in them Touching Touch no vncleane thing 2. Cor. 6. that loue theé and keép thy commaundements Adde this also as an increasement of thine exceding great goodnes that the faults of my forefathers in the flesh light not vpon my head but that the weldoing of thy sōne Iesus Christ who is our father may succor me Be not angry with me for their sakes that begate this body of mine but let me feéle theé fauourable to me for Iesus Christes sake who hath begotten my soule new again Amen Another Esay 2. 19. Math. 24. Mark. 13. Luke 17 The sun shall be darkned the moone shal lose hir light the starres shall fal from heauen Two men shall be in the field the one receaued the other shall be refused Alas how sore are we nouseled in sinne by custome in so much that as now we can almost doe nothing els and yet we perceiue not when we do amisse O how small an account doe we make of it We lie wallowing vp on the ground in dirt and dung and yet we neuer strayne our selues so much as to lift vp our heads that we might not rot as we lye What father would forbeare vs so often in breaking his commaundements Yet not withstāding thou O God doest bear with vs and winkest at our sinnes and thy goodnes and long sufferance allure vs to amendement To thee therefore be glory and prayse for euer and euer Amen Two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be receaued the
into thy presence O Lord and let thy hand saue me Loe here the man that was caught of theéues wounded and left half for dead as he was going towards Iericho Thou kinde harted Samaritane take me vp I haue sinned to to much in my life and done euil in thy sight From the sole of my foote to the crown of my hed there is no souÌ„d peéce in me Hadst not thou helped me by thy dying vpon the crosse my soule should haue gone to hell as it hath deserued But I O mercifull Iesu am a peéce of thy so deare raunsome Thou Vnderstanding is a welspring of life c. Prouâ—â—b 16 Be ye not like horse and Mule which c. Psalme 32. VnderstaÌ„ding reacheth the heauen Ignorance is as a beast hast shed thy precious bloud for me refuse me not I am the sheép that is gon astray O good shepheard seéke me out and bring me home to thy fold agayne that thou mayst be iustyfied in thy sayinges For thou hast promised me that in what houre soeuer a sinner doth figh for his sinnes he shal be safe I am sory I acknowledge mine iniquities and mine offences are alwayes in my sight Of a truth I am not worthy to be called thy sonne because I haue sinned against heauen and against theé Make me to heare of ioy and gladnes Turne thy face away from my sinnes and blot out all mine offences For thy singular mercies sake cast me not away from thy sight Deal not with me according to my sins neither reward me according to mine iniquities but help me O God of my welfare and for the honor of thy name delyuer me deal Industry gathereth reward Sloth bringeth sleep Goe to the Pismere O thou Slouggard c. Prouerb 6. The Slouthfull man hideth his hand in his c. Prouerb 26. fauourably with me according to thy good pleasure that I may dwell in thy house all the dayes of my life prayse theé for euer and euer with them that are there Amen Another MOst gentle master Iesu christ how oft haue I transgressed the rule of thy doctrin How oft haue I despised thy commaundements O holy Lord When thou badst me returne I returned not â–ª WheÌ„ thou didst threaten I was not afrayd When thou didst deale mildly and gently with me I becam the curster Aboue seuenty times seuen times haue I sinned against heauen and in thy sight who shall wash away so great filth who shall scrape of this daubaken dung Whatsoeuer Peter say thou Wherfore I put you in remembrance c. 2. Tim. 1. I am counted among them that goe down c. Psal. 88. Memory is a treasure house Obliuion is as a graue must be fayn to wash vs thy selfe for we be not able to wash our selues but in al things that we doe we haue neede of thy mercifull washing The traytor Iudas was admitted to eate with thee at thy table but he was shut out from this healthful washing and in the end could not be washed for defacing the honor of his apostleship with cursed couetousnes Howbeit forasmuch as with thee is the well of life and the bottomles poole of all compassions that euer haue been vouchsafe that we whom thou hast washed in baptisme whom thou hast washed with thine own bloud and whom thou washest still from time to time by forgeuing our dayly sinnes may be remoued from the puddles of this world and from the mire of this present life to the most pleasant kingdom of thy glory Iustice iudgeth rightly Tyranny oppresseth â—ight Dauid executed right and iustice c 2. King. 2. Thy princes are rebellious and companions c. Esay 1. where there is neither scab nor sorenesse of eyes neither issue of bloud nor vncleanes of body nor any need of more washing because the substance of thy brightnes shall be fully incorporate into our bodies according to thy promyses which thou must needes fulfill And therfore goe through with the good worke which thou hast begun and bring it to perfection according to thy good pleasure Amen * Another BOw downe thine eares to my words O Lord and harken to my cry Harken to the voyce of my prayer my king and my God haue mercy vpoÌ„ me and heare my prayer Upon the multitude of thy compassions will I enter into thy house and worship towards thy holy temple Lord rebuke He girdeth me with strength c. Psalme 18. He sayd he would burne vp c. Iudith 6. Strength shevved in the arme Holofernes slayne by Iudith me not in thy rage neither chastise me in thine anger For thine arowes stick fast in me and thy hand lyeth heauy vpon me There is no health in my flesh at the sight of thy displeasure There is no ease in my bones at the sight of my sinnes For mine iniquities are gone ouer my head and lye heauy vpon me like a sore burthen Haue pity vpon me according to thy great mercy and according to the multitude of thy compassions wipe away my sinnes Wash me more and more from mine vnrighteousnes and clense me from my sinne For I acknowledge mine vnrighteousnes and my sinne is alwayes in my sight Greatly haue I sinned against theé and done euil in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy sayings and ouercome when thou art iudged Behold I was conceiued in wickednes and my mother bred me Courage is bould in Christ. Cowardice faynteth in tryall Dauid tooke a good courage to him c. 1. Reg. 2. I desire that you faynt not c. Ephe. 3. in sinne Turn thy face away from my sinnes and wipe out all my iniquities A clean hart create in me O God and renue a right spirit in my bowels Thrust me not out of thy presence neither take thou thy holy spirite from me Geue me the comfort of thy sauing health agayn and strengthen me with a principall spirit For thou Lord art good and pitifull and of much mercy to them that call vpon theé Thou O lord God artful of mercy and compassion flow to wrath but full of pitie truth Therefore shall the righteous prayse theé and sinners shall be conuerted vnto theé Amen Another I Am gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy seruant O Lord for I am not vnmindfull of thy commaundements Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant A wholesome sleepe commeth of c. Eccle. 31. For tables are so full of vomit c. Esay 28 Temperance watcheth and bridleth Intemperance ouercommeth the hart O Lord for no man liuing shall be iustified in thy sight Who knoweth all his sins Cleanse me from my secret sinnes and for other mennes sinnes beare with thy seruant Call to minde thy compassions O Lord and thy mercies which haue been from euerlasting Remember not Lord the misdeedes and offences of my youth Be mindfull of me according to thy mercy for thy goodnes sake O Lord for it is exceeding great Make thy mercies yet more wonderfull O thou that sauest theÌ„ which
enioy the feare of thy loue Amen A Prayer for spirituall ioy LOrd Iesu the redeémer and comforter of mankind which hast by thy holy Spirite prepared far greater pleasures then the world knoweth of for such as refuse the false pleasures of this world for thy sake tempering the troubles of this life with inward and ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call â–ª to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execution I haue a commission Mayors Shirifes do passe with speed And others them in place succeed secret solaces and after a sort renuing from tyme to tyme a certayne forecast of the blessednes to come to the intent that being cheéred and refreshed we should come running to theé with gladder hartes I beseéch theé graunt that the anoynting of thy holy spirit may often driue from me all irksomnes of aduersities and cheére vp my minde with healthful gladnes euen as he anoynted theé with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes in respect of thy humayn nature when thou wast here vpon earth which liuest and raignest with the father and the same holy Spirite for euer and euer Amen A Prayer to be sayd in the time of sicknes MOst mercifull Redeémer thou art alwayes mercifull who art We peace did keep in Princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Baâ—â—ife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest alwayes the sauiour whether thou doest send health or sicknes wealth or aduersitie ioy or sorow For it is of great mercy when by outward afflictions as it were by bitter but yet wholesom medicines thou doest heale the inward diseases of the soule and by temporary troubles which doe last but for a short time doest prepare vs to eternal ioyes which indure for euer And thy selfe O gracious sauiour passing into thy glory through the gretest afflictioÌ„s of this world hast troden out to vs by thy steps that way to true perfect felicity in the which no humble and true seruant ought eyther to disdayne or to shrinke to follow after his Lord and master so going before him But for so much as without theé we can doe nothing that good is I beseéch theé to indue me with thy heauenlye grace that I may take vp willingly ¶ The Phisicion By thy water I do seé thou must away with me The Astronomer Looke not so hie low thou must lie No art or medecine can preuayle When death doth purpose to assayle obediently this crosse which thou hast appointed vnto me and follow after theé and that I may drinke of as it were this medicinable cup though bitter vnto the flesh which thou the heauenly phisition doest offer vnto me paciently without grudging or murmuring against theé And that I may with thy faithfull seruant Iob and with vnfayned lips and hart say The Lord hath geuen the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lord so is it come to passe blessed be the name of the Lord. For if I haue receaued gladly youth health riches honor and ioy at thy hands O Lord why should I refuse paciently to take age sicknes aduersity sorrow at thy hands also These things be in deéd very greuous vnto frayle nature and flesh but thou my Lord though most perfectly innocent Death wines the field all armes must yeald ¶ The Herauâ—d Herald in thy shield beare grasse in green field Sergeant at Armes Zergeant see thou stay al glory must away infinitely hast suffered more greéuous things for me who haue so oft deserued hel But yet thou knowest the frailty of our humane condition nature wherfore I besech theé as thou pourest sharp wine into our wounds to bite away the corruption of our sinnes so after the example of the mercifull Samaritane set forth in thy holy gospell to resemble thy selfe vnto the sharpe wine of thy correction the supplying oyle of thy merciful comfort whereby I may be able to suffer things which otherwise are intollerable vnto me And if it be thy pleasure to increase sorow vpon me increase also thy grace and gift of patience in me and turne these worldly and bodely afflictions to the profite of my soule by my acknowledging of thy iustice in punishyng me worthely and thy mercy in correcting me gratiously euen like as a Father ¶ The TruÌ„petor Trumpet geue sound all muâ—â— to the ground ¶ The â—ursiuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without â—agâ—age All must needes diâ— we need not tell Our message hath bin sounded wel hath pitie vpon his children when he beateth them and by my submitting of my own will vnto thy holy will and patiently taking of this thy proouing and trying of me whether I loue theé or no may offer that sacrifice of obedience which is acceptable vnto theé And when thy Fatherly pitie shall be contented with thy meéke chastising of me then I beseéch theé send calme after this tempest quietnes after this trouble and ioy after this sorrow that I may render thanks vnto theé for double causes both that thou hast first corrected and amended me an vnprofitable seruant and afterward hast taken away the bitternes of affliction with the softnes of thy comfort In the one hauing regard of necessitie in the other not forgetting my infirmitie and in both as in all things alwayes remembring thy mercy vnto the which We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all soldyars to deathes band ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„nâ—r ¶ The Fifâ— â–ª Fife seé thou play to leade them the way I doe commende and betake my selfe both body and soule now and for euer Unto theé with the father and the holy Ghost one God of most excellent maiesty be all praise honor and thanksgeuing for euer and euer Amen Another LOrd Iesu the onely health of theÌ„ that liue the only life of them that dye I yeald and geue ouer my self wholy to thy most holy will whither it please thee that this silly soule shall abide any longer in the lodge of my body to serue the or that thou wilt haue it to depart out of this world For inasmuch as I am sure that the thing wich is committed to thy mercy cannot perish I will willingly put of this fraile and wretched flesh of mine verely in hope of the resurrection ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy â—ong vyage Death onely maketh Captaynes quaile And harty souldiers for to fayle which shall render it to mee in farre better plight I beseech thee strengthen my soule with thy grace agaynst all temptations and agaynst all Sathans assaults gard me with the shield of thy mercy whereby thou madest all thy martires inuincible in old tyme agaynst all horrible torments and cruell kinds of death I see there is no defence in my self all my trust is in thy vnspeakable goodnes I haue no desert
earth we came to earth we shall For sinne by death hath made vs thrall the mind And the more gentlenes that is vsed towards this most vnkind and leud bondseruaÌ„t the body so much the worse and more wicked doth it become If we follow it it caryeth vs into destruction turning vs away from God to it own earthlines and rottennes O how vnseémly an incounter is this wherin the flesh being matched against the Spirite that is to say the bondslaue against his Lord striueth with him for victory and prehemineÌ„ce sometime getting the vpper hand so as his master is not able erewhiles to represse his boldnes malapertnes and lustines because he bare with him to long and to often But thou O Lord Christ to whom all power is geuen both in heauen and earth which camest to vndo the works of the deuill which onlye art able to make the thing cleane which is conceiued The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto me The Creeple Be thou poore or disesed Thou must with me be pleased The poore woman To thou neuer o poore Thou must enter at my â—ore of vncleane seéde Reforme our vnderstanding and will Cleanse our harts Circumcise our mindes Wash our soules Stablish thy freé and mighty spirite in vs Subdue vs wholy to thy good pleasure And restore vs the state by thy goodnes which we haue lost through our own naughtines so as our flesh may be in subiection to the spirite and our affections be made obedient to right and vncorrupted reason Or at least wise that although the flesh rebell and fight against the spirit yet the power of y minde may be so strong â–ª and the strength of our reason so mighty through thy grace as they may get the vpper hand in all incounters and finally ouercome all assaultes to the praise of the working of thy holy spirit Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd against the deuill The Infant Loe this little hart I strike with my dart The Foole. Of foolish and fond I break the bond No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be bold IEsus Christ our Lord God our shield our fortres our strong rock our only defence thou knowest and it greeueth vs to feel with how great force and perilous pollicie that olde enemy of oures the wily serpent that beguiled our first parents in paradise the roaring Lyon that goeth about night and day seeking whom he may deuoure That destroyer waster and accuser of the saynts the deuill commeth vpon vs to assayl vs thou knowest how small or rather no power at al we haue of our selues to withstand him so that vnlesse thou succour vs he will easely deceaue vs by his craftynes ouerthrow vs by his mightynes and rend vs in peeces by his cruelty But we know that if thou doe but shew thy selfe to him aloof thou shalt driue him away with thine only looke For thou hast ouercome Emperors and kings we did raigne But now the earth doth vs detayne The Emperor Of Monarch Emperor I am the conqueror ¶ â—he king Keisar or king I must theé bring him by thy death thou hast bound him disarmed him and spoyled his house thou hast bereft him of all lordship and power thou hast crushed his head thou hast cast down hys throne and dispossessed him of hys kingdome thou hast led away captiuity captiue thou hast cancelled the obligation that he had of oures and nayled it to thy crosse and finally thou hast tryumphed ouer him in our nature to our benefite and behoofe We therfore being weake feeble naked vnarmed vnskilfull ignorant and of no forecast but yet thy members through thy grace beseech thee which art strong almighty only wise and prudent vouchsafe to defend maintayn preserue vs continually from that merciles dragon Be thou our eye our eare our hand our loads man guide and captayn Set thy selfe ¶ The Duke Duke though thou be daunce after me ¶ The Marques Marques of state match with thy mate Dukes and Marques we hauâ— bene Nought â—ow but â—oâ—es are to be seen in our defence against this our vnappeasable aduersary disappoynt his practises confound his deuices break his bow knap asunder his speare ouerthrow his holds quench his fiery darts put his armies to flight and geue thy seruants the vpper hand of him and his or rather ouercome thou him and his in vs and by vs. Doe but aduaunce the standard of thy crosse in our harts and thou dryuest him out of the field Vnder this baÌ„ner dare we march boldly against him assuring our selues that by the power thereof thou wilt delyuer vs from the hands of our enemies and of all that hate vs so as we may serue thee in holynes and righteousnes all the dayes of our life Which we beseech thee to graunt vs for thy mercies sake to the euerlasting honor of thy most holy name Amen We Earles and Barons were sometime Now wrapt in lead are turnd to flime ¶ The Baron Barons of nobilitie sweare to me fealty ¶ The Vicount Earle or Vicount geue thy account ⧠A Prayer to be sayd of a woman with Child THy wisedome and power shine forth in all thy workes O Lord but yet much more greater more manifest and more wonderfull are they in the shaping of man Of how small beginning doest thou make so marueilous a liuing thing sheading a soule into it whose originall is from heauen to the intent he should long to returne thether as into his countrey ¶ The Archbishop Archb. Metropolite theé thy Prouince I visite ¶ The Bishop Bishops graue old are sheép of my fold Bishops we haue taught the lore That all must enter deathes dore O most gracious workman let thy pitifulnes amend the thing which our sinfulnes hath marred and eyther abate my payne that I may not haue neéde of so great strength tendance cunning or els increase my strength power and courage that I may be able to ouercome all the payn of my trauell Amen * A Prayer to be sayd of such as be vnder the Crosse. HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for euer how long wilt thou hide thy face from me Both sheep and shepheard all must dye We taught the same the same we try ¶ The Doctor Doctor diuine at last thy reading houre is past ¶ â—he Preacher Preach no more â—bout thy glas is run out Unto theé O Lord haue I cryed all the day long haue I stretched out my hands vnto theé Wilt thou worke wonders among the dead or shal the dead arise praise theé shall any man shew thy mercy in the graue or thy truth in destruction Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darck or thy righteousnes in the land of forgetfulnes Why doest thou thrust back my soul O Lord and hide thy face from me no man is mindful of theé in death and who will prayse theé in the graue Be stil before God O my soule for
hand pleading for vs Behold my Aduocat with thee O God the father Behold the chief Bishop who nedeth no other bloudy expiatioÌ„ for that he shineth imbrued with his own bloud Behold the holy welplesing Sacrifice With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water c Exo. 17 One of the souldiours with a speare pearced his side forthwith ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true And he that c. Iohn 19. offered vp and receaued in al sweetnes Behold the immaculate Lamb which lay still before the shearers who being buffeted spit at and opprobriously rayled at opened not his mouth Behold he who sinned not toke our sinnes vpon him and with his stripes healed our infirmities ⧠A Prayer to God the Sonne O Lord Iesu Christ the maker and redemer of mankind which hast sayd that thou art the way the truth and the life the way by doctrin precepts and examples the truth in promises and the life in reward I beseéch theé for thine vnspekable loues sake where through thou hast vouchsafed to imploy thy selfe wholy in the sauing of vs Suffer me not at any time to stray from theé which art the way Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane lâ—nnen câ—oth and laâ—d it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock 〈◊〉 rolled a great â—one to the dore c. Math. 27. Assone as the sâ—â—ne was downe Iosuâ— commaundeth that theâ— c. Iosu. 8 Then they arose and went all night and tokâ— the body c. 1. Sam. 1â— nor to distrust thy promyses which art the truth and performest whatsoeuer thou promysest nor to rest in any other thing then theé which art the way beyond which there is nothing to be desired neither in heauen nor in earth By theé we haue learned the sure and redy way to true saluation to the inteÌ„t we should not wander any longer vp and down in the mazes of this world Thou hast taught vs throughly what to beleue what to doe what to hope and wherin to rest We haue learned of theé how vngratiously we be borne of the first Adam We haue learned of theé that there is no hope of saluation but by beleéfe in theé and that thou art the only light which shineth before vs all as we iorney through the wildernes of this world through the night of our own harts from the darcknes of Egipt to that blessed land which thou hast promysed When Ioseph was come to his brethren they stripâ— him c. Gen. 37. So they toke vp Ionas and cast him into the sea and the sea c. Ionas He layd it in a tomb 〈◊〉 out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the â—reparing of the Saboth the Saboth â—râ—e on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. to the meéke and to such as follow the footsteps of thy mildnesse For in vs there was nothing but deép darcknes in so much that we could nether seé our own wretchednes nor where to seéke remedy for it But thou vouchsafing to come down into the earth to take our nature vpon theé of purpose to driue away the mist of our ignoraunce with the light of thy doctrine and to direct our feéte into the way of peace by thy precepts and hast paued vs the way to immortality by thy example and of abushy and rough way made vs a playn and smooth way by treading it out with thine own footsteps Thus art thou which canst no skill of error become our way wherein to the intent we should not faint thy goodnes hath vouchsafed to stay vs vp with many great and sure promyses For who can tire when he remeÌ„breth that For feare of him the kepers were astonied became as dead men But the Angell sayd to the women Feare not for I know you seeke Iesus which was crucified c. Math. 2â— Samson arose at midnight and toke the dores c. Iâ—dicum 16 And the Lord spake vnto the fish and it cast out Ionas c. Ionas 2. if he walk in thy footsteps the inherytance of the heauenly life is prepared for him Therfore it is thy will that hope should be as a sure staffe to holde vs vp as long as we be in this iorney And thy goodnesse was not contented with that but forasmuch as thou knoest the weaknes of our flesh thou refreshest our strength from time to time with the comfort of thy Spirit to the intent we may come running cherefully vnto theé And as thou being become our way puttest aside all cause of straying so being the truth puttest away al cause of distrust finally being become our life thou giuest vs grace to be dead here vnto sin to liue through thy spirit wh c quickneth all things vntill that in the resurrection when all mortalitie shall be rid quite and clean away we shall liue with theé and in theé for euer at which time God shall be all in all The king said vnto Daniell O Daniel the seruaunt c. Daniel 6. When I had past a litle from them then I found him c â–ª Cant. â— Iesus appâ—aâ—ed first to Mary Magdalenâ— out of whom he had â—ast 〈…〉 she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned c. Mar. 1â— For it is euerlasting life to know the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost to be the one true God whom we seé now by faith but as through a glasse and in a riddle but as then we shall behold his glory at hand and be transformed into the same Image And therefore I beseéch theé ô most mercifull Sauiour increase thy seruants faith that I may neuer stagger in thy heauenly doctrine increase mine obedience that I may neuer swarue from thy commaundements and increase my constancy that walking in thy steps I may neither be intised with Sathans allurementes nor discouraged with his terriblenes but hold out to the death in theé which art the true way increase my faith that trusting to thy promyses I may neuer faint in the indeuour of godlines but forget the things that I haue left behind me and go alwayes Iesus said to Thomas put thâ— finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faythlesse c. Iohn 20. And Iacob called the name of the place Pâ—inâ—ll c. Gen. 32. 〈◊〉 aunswered he Lord be with vs why then c. Iud. 6. forward to more perfection Increase thy grace in me that being dead euery day more then other in my selfe I may be aliue and led by thy Spirite fearing nothing but theé then whom nothing is more amiable glorying in nothing but only in theé who art the true glory of all the saints coueting nothing but theé who art of all things the