mée iudging mée according vnto the same I were not able to suffer or abide it but must needes perish and be damned for euer So little helpe comfort or sucour is there either in me or in any other creature whatsoeuer Only this is my cōfort O heauenly father the thou diddest not spare thy only dearely beloued Son but diddest giue him vp vnto the most bitter most vile and slaunderous death of the Crosse for mee that so hee might in his obedience pay the ransome for my sinnes satisfie thy iudgement still and pacifie thy wrath recōcile mée vnto thée againe purchase mée thy grace and fauour and euerlāsting life Wherefore through the merites of his most bitter death and passion through his innocent bloudshedding I beséech thee O heauenly Father that thou wilt vouchsafe to bee gracious mercifull vnto mee to forgiue and pardon me all my sinnes to lighten my heart with thy holy Spirit to renew confirme and strengthen mee with a right and stedfast faith and to enflame mee in loue towardes thee and my neighbour for thy sake that I may henceforth with a willing and a glad heart walke as it becommeth mee in the obedience of thy most godly and most blessed Commandements and so glorifie and praise thée euerlastingly and also that I may with a frée conscience a quiet spirit in al manner of temptations afflictions and necessities and euen in the very pangs of death boldly faithfully say I beleeue in God the Father almighty maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the virgin Mary Suffered vnder Ponce Pilate Was crucified dead and buried Hée descended into hell The third day hée rose againe from the dead Hee ascended into Heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almightie from thence he shal come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beléeue in the holy Ghost The holy Catholike Church The communion of Saints The forgiuenesse of sinnes The resurrection of the bodie And the life euerlasting Amen But O Lord heauenly Father to comfort my selfe in afflictions temptations with the assured féeling of these Articles of the Christiā faith it is not in my power for faith is thy gift And therefore forasmuch as thou wilt be praied vnto and called vpon for it I come vnto thée to pray and beséech thée both for that for al my other necessities bodily and spirituall euen as thy dearely beloued sonne our Sauiour Christ Iesus himselfe hath taught vs and from the very bottome of my heart I cry and say vnto thée Our Father which art in heauē halowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will bée done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our dailie bread And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. And lead vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glorie for euer and euer Amen vnto the lappe of thy pitie For loe thou art my hope and trust in whom I onely repose my selfe hauing in thee ful confidence and faith so that now I may say with a very faithfull heart trusting in thy mercie I beléeue in thee O God the Father in thee O God the Sonne and in thee O God the holy Ghost thrée persons and one true and also verie God besides whom I acknowledge none other God in heauen aboue nor in earth beneath And yet I poore sinner cannot but accuse my selfe vnto thee deare Father that I haue fore and grieuously offended thy almightie goodnesse and Maiestie in the committing of mine exceeding grieuous and manifold sins and wickednes For I haue not kept the least of thy most godly and blessed commaundementes like as thy righteousnes may require indéed doth demād the same of me I haue not I say honoured thee like my God dread thée like my Lord loued thée like my father nor trusted in thee like my creator my sauiour Thy holy and dreadful name vnto which al glory honour belongeth haue I vsed in vaine I haue not sanctified the Sabboth day with workes which bee acceptable to thée nor instructed my neighbour in vertue accordingly I haue not honored my parents nor bin obedient vnto thē through whom as by an instrumēt thou hast wrought my comming into this world The high powers and rulers which receiue authoritie of thee I haue not willingly obeyed I haue not kept my heart pure and cleane from malice and manslaughter yea had not thy grace and mercy defended mee the better I should haue committed the verie deede also I likewise am not pure from theft nor from adulterie nor frō false witnesse bearing but haue in my heart and mind wished and desired my nighbours goods and thinges I haue followed the great Prince of this Worlde Sathan which hath been a lyer from the beginning in concupiscence of the flesh in pride of liuing in deceiptfulnes in lecherie in hatred and also enuie in backbiting in despaire and also misbeléefe And as I haue abused my will vnderstanding which are faculties and powers of my soule so my senses also which thou hast giuen mee to vse to thy glorie and my neighbours good and mine own lawfull delight I haue misused and mispent in hearing séeing smelling tasting and feeling also things that I should not or else suffring thē to be too violētly caried to things I might haue vsed But in what manner soeuer that I haue offended and sinned against thy eternall Maiestie for no man knoweth throughly his sinnes as the Prophet witnesseth whether it hath béen by day or else by night yea euen from my childhood vnto this day were it in workes wordes or thoughts secretly or openly O my mercifull God I am sorie for it euen from the very bottome of my heart yea my soule mourneth for very sorowe most mercifull Father that I am not a thousand times more sorie than I am howbeit in token of great repentance though all hearts bée knowne well enough vnto thée I doe knocke strike my breast and say in bitternesse of heart and soule Lord GOD the Father Sonne and holy Ghost haue mercie Spare mee of thine infinite mercie deare Lord now and all the daies of my life let me bee made partakers of thine abundant grace in such sort that I may chaunge my sinfull life and put thou out of mee the olde man with al his concupisences and lustes graunting mee grace dayly to die vnto the world and that the world may bée crucified vnto mee and I so dayly goe forward in newnes of life Strengthen mee O Lord in a true humble heart in sound loue hope and trust in thée giue my soule grace to desire in thée onely to reioyce and repose my selfe that I may vtterly renounce and forsake the vaine assistance of this world so that thou mayst finde me readie to méete
wretchednesse faithfully to call for helpe of thée Yea good Lord giue me grace to order my life and the workes of my body soule with actuall intent to please thée that through thy merites and mercie at the end I may obtaine the reward of thy infinite ioy and eternall felicitie Let the water and bloud which can from thy blessed heart bee powerfull to wash my soule from sinne and iniquitie and to purchase mee abundāce of thy grace faithfully to serue thée O my Lord my might my life my light lead me féede me and spéede me in the pilgrimage of this mortalitie graunt me O Lord by the merits of thy passion and power of thy most excellent and glorious godhead whatsoeuer thy Wisedome knoweth most expediēt for me which howsoeuer in my miserable life I am most vnworthy of yet vouchsafe them vnto me all the time of my pilgrimage but specially at the houre of death when I shall be accused before thée haue mercie on mee breake my froward heart and make it obedient to thée Preserue me also good Lord from sodaine and vnprouided death and of thy owne singular grace and goodnesse graunt mee these supplications in this prayer which now I haue made to thée according to thy will Yea by thine owne mediation purchase for mee and bestow vpon mee a holy life and blessed ending and grant I beséech thée after my bodily death euerlasting life with endlesse blisse and felicitie thorow thy merites and bitter passion O Lord Iesu who with the Father and the holy Spirit liuest and raignest euer one God world without end Holy Trinitie one very God haue mercie on me Amen A deuout prayer to our Lord Iesu Christ O My soueraigne Lord Iesu the very sonne of almightie God and of the most cleane and glorious virgin Marie who sufferedst bitter death for my sake and all mankind and diddest rise againe the third day I beseech thée Lord haue mercie vpon me that am a wretched sinner but yet thy creature and for thy precious passion saue mee and kéepe me from al perils bodily and ghostly and specially from all things that might turne to thy displeasure And with all my heart I thanke thee most mercifull Lord for thy great mercies that thou hast shewed me in the great dangers that I haue béen in as well in my soule as in my body and that thy grace and endlesse mercie hath euer kept me spared me and saued me from the houre of my birth to this present time For these I say and al other thy mercies I humblie thanke thée Lord Iesus Christ further desiring thée that thy mercie may preserue me alway And I crie thée mercie with all my whole heart for my great offences for my great vnkindnes for all my wretched and sinfull life and for this in particular that I haue not or cannot leade my selfe as becommeth thy seruant I thanke thée also with all my heart my most gracious Lord for the benefites and graces that thou hast giuen mee so largely in this world afore many other of thy creatures vpon whom if it had béene so thy good pleasure thou mightest a thousand times better haue bestowed them than vpon me But most gracious Lord I wot and knowledge verily that it commeth of thée wherefore with all my heart I thanke thee continually crying and saying all honour praise and glorie bee vnto thée O Iesu with the Father and the holy Ghost for euer and euer Amen Another prayer for an householder O Lord GOD almightie most mercifull and heauenly father thorough Christ I fréely confesse that thou art my life my soule and my bodie yea al the good which I haue and all whatsoeuer is mine hast thou giuen vnto me that of thine owne singular grace and goodnes Now sith of thee I haue receiued it and in me there is corruption to abuse it make vpright and order thou O Lord God of heauen all that is in my house And teach mee and mine to handle and guide all these outward things after thy godlie will we being thereby more and more prouoked to loue thée and in thée and for thée euery one of vs to profit another I say vnto thée I beléeue Lorde helpe my vnbeléefe And yet in this weakenes I cannot but intreate thée not to forsake me nor my wife my children nor any of my householde Defend vs Lord from sin before thée from shame in the world and from sicknes in our selues according to thy good pleasure Send vs thy holy Angell to guide and guarde vs that so wee may be defended in the whole course of our liues and may be lead forth the right way so as we may not talke doe or thinke any thought against thy holy commaundements and will but thereafter to liue worshipping thée and praising thée for euermore thorough Christ Iesus our Lord thy onely welbeloued Sonne Amen Blessed be the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Let vs praise him and exalt him world without end Amen An other Prayer ALmightie GOD our heauenly Father in Iesus Christ wée vnfeinedly confesse before thée that thy mercie and goodnes towards vs is infinite and without measure It is thy mercie and no goodnes that is in vs or of vs which mooued thée to send into the worlde thine onely begotten and eternall Sonne to take our nature vpon him and therein to worke the mysterie of our redemption and saluation as thou hadst appointed and spoken before by the mouthes of all thy Prophets which were from the beginning And likewise it was thy blessed will thy mercie and goodnes towardes vs that thy heauenly Sonne did suffer persecution trouble and aduersitie was betraied of his owne friend and disciple Iudas traiterously taken caried awaie to bée falsly accused and vniustly condemned to bee cruelly beaten scourged and finally with most scornefull rebukes to be put to the most painfull shamefull death that could bée deuised All this O heauenly Father was doone through thy mercy and blessed will for our sakes that not only to answere and satisfie thy iust wrath and anger which we had deserued and dayly doe deserue both for the offences of our first parents our actuall transgressing of thy holy commādements but also to restore vs againe to thy grace and fauour to indue vs with thy heauenly gifts that wée might serue thée in holynes and righteousnes all the dayes of our life And finally to make vs by the benefite of thy dearely beloued Sonnes passion and also through the price of his most precious bloud partners with him of his infinite and vnspeakeable glory and blisse in heauen Wherefore O heauenly Father wee béeséech thée powre vppon vs thy holy spirit and make vs in our hearts clearely to sée comfortably to féele and most stedfastly to beléeue this thine infinit gracious goodnes shewed and giuen vnto vs in thine owne sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ and with this beliefe make vs to put all our confidence and hope
patience in trouble HOw hast thou O Lord humbled and plucked me downe I dare now vnneath make my prayers vnto thée for thou art angrie with me but not without my deseruing Certainely I haue sinned Lord I will coÌ„fes it I wil not deny it But O god pardoÌ„ my trespasses relese my debts make me to féele again and the effectually continually also thy grace within me stop my wounds for I am all to plagued and beaten yet Lord this notwithstanding I do abide patiently and giue my attendaÌ„ce on thée coÌ„tinually waiting for helpe at thy hands that not without som knowledge beléefe of thy truth for I haue receiued a token of thy fauour and grace towardes mée I meane thy word of promise concerning Christ who for me was offered on the Crosse for a ransome sacrifice and price for my sins Wherfore according to that thy promise defend mee Lord by thy right hand and giue a gracious eare to my requestes bee thou my stay in perils for all mens stayes are but vaine Beate downe therefore my enemies thine own selfe with thy power which art mine onely ayd and protector O Lord God almighty Amen The humble confession of Iob in his most grieuous aduersitie and losse of goods children and all Iob. 1. NAked I came out of my Mothers wombe and naked shall I returne againe the Lord gaue and the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done now blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen In great trouble of conscience Psal 143. LOrd heare my prayer receiue my supplication hearken to my plaint for thy righteousnes Trie not the law with thy seruants for truly then shal no liuing man be found vnguiltie yea not one of the saints should escape quit at the bar vnlesse thou graunt him thy gracious pardon in so much as the very starres be not pure and faulties before thée in the Angels thou foundedst sin O Lord mine enemies grieuously hunt my soule they beate driue it downe they thrust it into darke dungeons where felloÌ„s conuict and condemned to death were wont to be kept my spirit is sorowfull my heart is heauy sad within my breast to thée I hold vp my hands requiring thee of mercie For like as the dry ground longeth for a shower of raine so my soule thinketh long til it hath thy help and succour heare mee therefore spéedily if thou do not I am in despaire my spirit is all weary of this bondage I haue bidden my life fare well Wherefore O God hyde not thy face that I bee not likened to those that be hurled into the pit of damnation after this night of miserie ouerpassed let the pleasant morning of comfort graciously shine vppon mee that betimes I may heare and féele thy goodnes for in thée is al my trust point me the way that I shall walke in for if thou bee not my guide I must néedes wander and stray out of the way To thée Lord I lift vp my soule and that with all mine heart I beséech thée take mee foorth of mine enemies handes Thou onely art my succour and sauegard teach me to worke whatsoeuer shall be thy pleasure for thou art my God let thy good spirite conduct mée into the land of the liuing raise vp my spirite within mee for thy names sake bring me foorth of all these troubles for thy righteousnes deliuer mee destroy mine enemies as thou art gracious fauourable towards me Those that wil worke me any sorrow or griefe pluck foorth of the way for I am thy seruaÌ„t for thy sake suffer I al this hurly burly As thou art God almighty and most mercifull so helpe thou me thy vnworthy seruant who stand in neede of al supportation from thee A prayer in aduersity O Lord God without whose will and pleasure a sparrow doth not fall on the ground seeing it is thy wil and blessed ordinaÌ„ce that I should be in this miserie and aduersitie seeing also thou dost punish mee with aduersitie not to destroy and cast me away but to call me to repentance and saue me for whom thou dost loue him dost thou chasten Furthermore séeing affliction aduersitie worketh patieÌ„ce who so patieÌ„tly heareth tribulatioÌ„ is made like vnto our Sauiour Christ our head Finally séeing that in all trubulation and aduersitie wee are in assurance of comfort at thy gracious hands for thou commandest mee to call vpon thée in the time of tribulation hast promised to heare and succour me graunt me therfore O almighty God and mercifull father in al trouble and aduersitie generally and euen in this particularlie to bee quiet without discouragement and patient without distrustfulnes that so I may haue grace to praise and magnifie thée and to put my whole trust and confidence in thee because thou neuer forsakest them that trust in thee-but workest all for the best to them that loue thee and seeke the glorie of thy name To thee be glorie for euer Amen A thanksgiuing and prayer also to be vsed in the time of prosperitie I Giue thankes vnto thee O God almighty which not onely hast endued mee with the giftes of nature as reason power and strength but also hast plenteously giuen me the substance of this worlde I acknowledge O Lord that these are thy giftes and confesse with the holy Apostle Saint Iames that there is no perfect nor good gift but it commeth froÌ„ thee O Father of light which giuest freely and castest no man in the téeth yea I further in particular acknowledge with the Prophet Aggeus that gold and siluer is thine and to whom it pleaseth thee thou giuest it to the godly that they may be thy disposers distributers thereof and to the vngodly to heape vp their damnation withall Wherefore sith I feele in mine owne heart an inclination to abuse these as other good things I cannot but humblie beseech and desire thée most mercifull God and louing father to frame in mee with thy holy spirite a faithfull heart and ready hand to distribute these thy gifts according to thy pleasure that so I may not lay vp treasure here where théeues may rob and moathes corrupt but may lay vp treasure in thy heauenly kingdome where neither théeues may steale nor moathes corrupt and that onely to mine owne comfort whom of thy mercie thou hast promised to rewarde therefore neither yet alone to the good example of the humble and meeke of thy congregation but also to the glorie of thy name to whom bee all honor and praise world without ende Amen The prayer of Manasses King of Iuda O Lord almightie God of our fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob and of the iust seede of them which hast made heauen and earth with all the ornaments thereof which â—ast ordained the sea by the word of thy commaundement which hast shut vppe the déepe and hast sealed it for thy fearefull and laudable name dreaded of all men and honorable before the face of thy power the
to euerlasting blessednes through Christ Iesus Amen A Prayer against worldly carefulnes O Most deare and tender father our defender and nourisher endue vs with thy grace that wee may cast off the great blindnes of our minds and carefulnes of worldly thinges and may imploy our whole studie and care in kéeping of thy holy lawes and yet that wee may trauaile and labour for our necessities in this life like the birdes of the aire and the lillies of the field without carefulnesse for thou hast promised to be carefull for vs and hast commanded that vpon thée we should cast all our care which liuest and raignest world without ende Amen A Prayer against the diuel IEsu Christ our Lord which by the mouth of thy holy Apostle S. Peter didst say that our aduersarie the diuell goeth about like a roring lyon séeking whom hee may deuour wee know the truth of this by our owne experience and féele that hee is busie and fierce and breaketh in vpon vs so that if thou helpe not hee will soone deceaue vs with his craft ouerturne vs with his might and with his crueltie teare vs in péeces But if thou which hast vanquished him wilt appeare but as it were a farre off thou wilt make him afraide and with thy onely looke put him to slight Vouchsafe O Lord to receiue vs into thy tuition being but infants weake féeble and vnskilful lest the â—â—â—rce and cruell beast all to teare vs yea giue vs grace alwayes not onely to beare before vs the sworde of the spirit in our sight and to tarrie it in our hands but also couragiously to vse it as from thée that so our enemies may well know that we doe our busines by thy counsaile aid and strength and in thy power may bee put to flight to thy glorie and our euerlasting comfort through Christ Amen A thankes-giuing vnto God for all his benefites WE verie humbly in Christ thanke thée O heauenly Father for thy manifold and inestimable benefits which thou hast giuen to vs both for our soules and bodies yea and that fréely of thine owne goodnes not onely without but contrarie to our deseruing We thanke thée that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercie first to create and make vs according to thine owne image and likenes and to place vs in ioyfull Paradise where we should haue continually remained in a blessed and quiet state if through the subtile and deceitfull suggestions of Satan our old enemie we had not transgressed thy holy commandements We thanke thee also O most gentle Father for thy louing kindnes which thou shewedst to vs when wee were all perished and lost through the sinne of our first parents Adam and Heua For when thou mightest iustly haue condemned vs and cast vs into perpetuall damnation thou like a father of singular great loue hadst pitty on vs and sauedst vs by the death and passion of thy welbeloued sonne our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ who gaue himselfe a ransome for all our sinnes and payed a sufficient price by his precious bloud for all the wickednesse that wee at any time heretofore haue committed or hereafter shall commit through our frailtie and weakenes so that wee beléeue thy promises and repent and amend our liues Neither wast thou thus contented that hee onely should die for our sinnes but also diddest raise him vp againe for our iustification and to make vs righteous in thy sight Moreouer after that he had shewed himselfe vnfainedly to liue to his Apostles by manifest and euident tokens certainelie through the power of his Godhead hee ascended vp into heauen perfect God and perfect man where he now sitteth on thy right hande and maketh intercession for vs being our alone mediator and aduocate from thence we looke for him to come againe at the day of iudgement not as a fearefull Iudge to condemne and cast vs away but as a most louing Lord and gentle Sauiour to carry vs with him into euerlasting glorie there world without end to remaine in such ioyes as eye hath not seene nor eare hath not heard nor yet any heart is able to thinke For these thy most bounteous giftes and for all other thy benefites which thou daylie giuest to vs of thy great mercie both for our body and soule wee humbly thanke thee most mercifull Father beséeching thee to giue vs grace through thy holy spirit not to bee either vnmind full of them or vnthankefull for them but to walke worthy of this thy kindnes and so behaue our selues all our life time in this wretched world according to thy holy will that at the last day we may bee found in the number of them to whom thy onely begotten soone shall say Come ye blessed of my father possesse the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of this world Lord let it so come to passe euen for Christ Iesus sake Amen A deuout Prayer to bee daylie sayd O Almighty and eternal God which vouchsafedst that wee as it were heauenly children should euery one of vs call thee our heauenly father Grant that among vs by purenes and example of innocent life thy most holy name may bee sanctified that all other nations beholding our goodnesse and vertuous liuing that thou workest in vs may bee stirred to hallow and glorifie thée Grant O Lord that the kingdome of thy grace and mercie in this life may so rule and raigne continually in our hearts that we may bee by thée accepted and accounted as worthie in Christ to bee partakers of thy kingdome of glorie and maiestie in the life to come Grant that vnto the very death yea and in death it selfe also wee refuse not to follow thy diuine will but that wee according to the example of the celestiall citizens agréeing together quietly vnited in spirit all controuersie in opinions contrarie to thy holy truth being laide apart and the lust of the flesh being subdued and the flattering assaults of the world and the diuell ouercome we may willingly faithfully and constantly obey thy blessed will in all things Graunt O Lord for our bodie such a measure of necessarie and néedefull sustenance that thereby we may be the better enabled more freely and hearefully to serue thée and abound in all good workes towards thy saints and seruants here vpon earth knowing that our goodnesse reacheth not to thee but to the excellent that are in the world whom wee beseech thée make vs more and more to delight in and to loue for thy sake Giue me grace O Lord not onely patiently to beare and suffer our enemies and such as hate vs together with the iniuries which they doe lay vpon vs making good vse of them for thy glorie and our instruction but also vnfaignedly to forget and forgiue whatsoeuer they haue deuised sayd or done against vs euen as wee our selues would gladly obtayne at thy mercifull hands and féele in our selues the frée pardon and full forgiuenesse of all our transgressions And for such temptations
RIGHT GODLY RVLE How all faithfull Christians ought to occupie and exercise themselues in their dayly prayers Luke 22. Matth 26. Christ teacheth vs in his Gospel 〈◊〉 Watch and pray least yee fâ—â—â— into temptation Imprinted at London by F. Kingston 1602 GODLY PRAYERS For Munday Morning Prayer O Most louing God and gracious father in Christ wee thanke thee for that sweete sleepe and comfortable rest that thou hast giuen vs this night and forasmuch as thou haâ—t commaunded vs by thy 〈◊〉 wâ—rd that no man sâ— bee idle but alwaies ocâ—pied in vertuous exercises euerie man according to his calling wée most humblie beséech thée that thine eies may attend vs dayly and defend vs and in sorrowe succour cherish and comfort vs. And so gouerne good Lord all our counsailes studies and labours that wee may spend this day according to thy most blessed â—â—ll without hurting of our â—â—â—â—hbour yea that 〈…〉 diligently and warily eschew and auoyd all things that should displease thée set thée alwayes before our eyes and liue in thy feare and euer worke thou so in vs that wee may bee found continent pure of liuing temperate and acceptable before thy diuine Maiestie vnto the praise of thy most holy blessed name through Iesu Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen For Tuesday Morning Prayer SEeing that thou oh heauenly Father art that one and alone Almightie God which art in euerie place beholdest the counsailes deuices and workes yea the very thoughts of all men and giuest to euery one â—â—cording to their déedes wee humbly beseech thee for Christ Iesus his sake to giue vs this grace that forasmuch as thou hast graciouslie preserued vs this night past wee may not spend this day present nor any other day of our liues after our owne mindes and pleasure which is alway euil and wicked but more earnestly looke vpon and diligently follow thy fatherly will thy euerlasting counsaile thy faithfull word and pleasure which is alwaies good perfite and holy and performe the same with chearefulnes that thy diuine name may alway bee sanctified both now and euermore of vs miserable sinners thorough thy dearely beloued Son Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen For Wednesday A Morning prayer O Lord Iesus Christ which art the bright Sun of the world euer rising neuer falling which with thy wholesome looke preseruest nourishest and makest ioyfull all thinges that are in heauen and earth shine fauourablie I beséech thée into my spirite that the night of sinnes and mists of errors being driuen away by thy inward light I may walke this day and all the daies of my life without stumbling or offeÌ„ce comely as in the day time being pure froÌ„ the works of darknesse Grant this O Lord which liuest raignest with God the Father in vnitie of the holy Ghost world without end Amen For Thursday Morning Prayer O Lord Iesu Christ to whom before whom all things are manifest and plaine which also sufferest not a Sparrow to light on the grounde without thy prouidence and which in times past by thy holy Spirit diddest guide our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob in thy pathes and waies in a strange countrey didst appoint the same thy blessed Spirit and messenger to bee their guide Graunt me this day most wretched sinner whom by thy word thou doest encourage to call vpon thee in all time of neede necessities that I may haue the same thy holie Spirit to direct my pathes and waies this day that I may walke according to thy godly will and pleasure to the profite of my neighbour and glorie of thy name which liuest and raignest world without end Amen For Friday A Morning prayer O Mercifull Lord God heauenly Father I render most high lande praise and thanks vnto thée for that thou hast preserued me both this night and all the time and daies of my life hetherto vnder thy defence hast suffered me to liue vnto this present hower I beséech thée heartilie that thou wilt vouchsafe to receiue me this day and the residue of my whole life from hencefoorth into thy tuition ruling and gouerning mee with thy holie Spirite that so all manner of darkenes of misbeliefe infidelitie carnall lustes and affections may bee vtterly chosed driuen out of my heart and that I may be iustified and saued both body soule through a right and stedfast faith and so walke in the light of thy most godly truth to thy glorie praise and to the profit and furtherance of my neighbour through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen For Saturday Morning Prayer O Heauenlie Father which like a diligent watchman attendest alwaies vpon thy faithfull people whether they wake or sleepe and mightily defendest theÌ„ not only froÌ„ Sathan that old enemie of mankind but also froÌ„ al their aduersaries so that through thy godly power they bee preserued harmelesse I huÌ„bly thanke thee for that it hath pleased thy goodnesse so to take care for me thy vnprofitable seruaÌ„t this night past that thou hast both safely kept me from all mine enemies and also giuen mée swéete sléepe vnto the great comfort of my bodie I farther entirely beseech thée most mercifull and swéete father to shewe the like kindnesse towardes me this day in preseruing my bodie For Sunday or the Sabboth Morning Prayer O Gracious Lord God and heauenly Father I humblie beséech thée in Christ so to sanctifie me thoroughout in body soule and spirit that I may religiously kéep and sanctifie this Sabbath vnto thee according to thy holy word not thinking therein mine own thoughts nor speaking mine owne words nor doing mine own works but thinking speaking and doing that which is agréeable to thy blessed will Giue me grace carefully to frequent the publike assemblies of thy Saints and diligently to profite by all holy exercises there Graunt me a religious heart to consent to the praiers of the Church and an attentiue minde to heare and vnderstand the good things of truth and life that shal be deliuered to mee out of thy word And assist me so further that when I shal depart from thy people I may call mine owne heart to account in the thinges I haue heard and may confer christianlie with others for the strengthening of our faith in our hearts and for a glorious confession of the same with our mouthes to the euerlasting praise of thy glorious name and the eternall saluation of our soules through Iesus Christ thy deare son our only mediator and aduocate So be it A generall Morning prayer O Almightie God and our most mercifull father in Iesus Christ I confesse and acknowledge that I am a miserable a wretched sinner and haue manifold waies most grieuously transgressed thy most godly and blessed commaundementes through wicked thoughts vngodly lustes sinfull words and déedes all my whole life In sinne was I conceiued and borne and there is no goodnesse in mée insomuch that if thou shouldest enter into thy narrow iudgment with
of saluation in him alone whom thou hast appointed to bee our onely redéemer and Sauiour Make vs alway readie and able to render vnto thée most humble and heartie thankes for this thine incomprehensible mercy and goodnes towardes vs finally so to make vs professe the death of thy dearely beloued Son that wee renounce and forsake all sinne yea that wée may alwaies féele it in our selues and plainely shew it forth to others that wee arise with him in newnes of life in righteousnes innocencie and all true holines after this life may raigne with him in euerlasting glorie heare vs O heauenly Father for our Lord Iesus Christes sake Amen ALmightie God our heauenly Father wée beséech thy gracious goodnes now and at all times so to assist vs that like as thy onely begotten and dearely beloued sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ according to his blessed will suffered death willingly and bitter passion for our redemption and saluation hauing thereof foresight perfect knowledge so in like maner when it shall please thée so lay any crosse and afflictions vpon our backs that we may both willinglie vndergoe it patiently beare it powerfully ouercome it to thy euerlasting glorie other mens spirituall benefit and our owne endlesse saluation through Christ Heare vs herein O heauēly father for our Lord Iesus Christs sake Amen O Our Sauiour and redéemer Iesus Christ which in thy last Supper with the Apostles didst giue thy blessed bodie blood vnder the visible elements of bread and wine graunt vs grace wee beséech thée euer stedfastly to beléeue and sincerely to acknowledge in this most blessed Sacramēt not onely thine infinite and Almightie power but also thine incomprehensible loue towards vs yea assist so that when we come to the participation of these blessed mysteries we may alway worthily receiue the same according to thy holy ordinances in such sort as that thereby we may alwaies obtaine strength of faith in the truth of thy promises encrease of holines by the vniting of the spirit with thee our head and by thee and thy spirite with all the company of them that bee truely thine which bee thy spirituall and mysticall bodie and our spirituall and Christian brethren Herein heare vs O Christ our Sauiour for thy names sake Amen ALmighty GOD and our most louing Father in Christ whose holy Apostle Peter presuming of his owne power strength did miserably fall not onely in the deniall of his maister Christ for feare of an handmaide but also in sorswearing and cursing himselfe if euer he knew him grant vs grace we beseech thee mercicifull Father that we neuer presume of our own might power but that being in our own harts humble lowly and acknowledging our infirmitie frailtie and weakenes we may euer in all our affaires receiue at thy hand outward inward strenght cōfort also and may thereby bée inabled vnto the acceptable performance of thy holy and blessed will Heare vs O heauenly Father for our Lorde Iesus Christs sake Amen O Our blessed Sauiour Iesus Christ which in that great heauines of thy soule intolerable anguish which thou sustainedst before thy passion diddest fall down vpō thy face in praier vnto thy heauenly Father giue vs grace also the aide of thy holy spirite that wee likewise in all heauinesse of minde and troubles of this world may run euermore by most humble and constant prayer vnto the onely ayd strength and comfort of thée our heauenly father heare vs our Sauiour Christ for thy names sake Amen ALmighty God eternal father we doe remember that in the condemnation of thy onely and dearely beloued innocent Lambe our Sauiour Iesus Christ the Iudge did sitte witnesse was brought Christ himselfe was presented and condemned and all truth there was troden vnder foote all vnrighteousnes did raigne and innocencie comdemned In consideration whereof we cannot but intreat thée O most gracious Lord and Father to graunt vnto our heads and rulers such a notable measure of grace and assistance euen from thine owne selfe that they may euer in all their iudgements iudge according to true iustice and equitie without corruption partialitie and wicked dissimulation and that to the beating down of wickednes and sinne and to the maintenance of thine euerlasting truth iustice honour and glorie Heare vs our heauenly Father for our Lord Iesus Christs sake Amen A prayer for trust in God O Most gracious most wise guide and our almightie Sauiour Iesus Christ who doest lead them the right way to immortall blessednes which truly and vnfainedly trusting in thee commit themselues to thée grant vs grace we pray thée not only to sée this that we be blinde and féeble indeede but also that we may so take and repute our selues that so wee may not presume of our selues to sée to our selues but may alwaies wholie commit our selues vnto thee to bee guyded by thee and from thee may bee inabled so far to sée that alway wee may haue thée before our eies to follow thee being our guide to be ready at thy call most obediently and to commit our selues wholy vnto thée that thou which onely knowest the way and art alone the way indéed mayest lead vs the same way to all heauenly desires To thée with the Father and the holy Ghost be glory for euer Amen A prayer of any captiue according to the forme of Dauid when he was hid in the caue WIth my voyce I crie to thée afore thée I open my lamentations in thy bosome I disclose the secret words of my heart my dolours and griefs I shew vnto thee my heart is almost like to brust so great is my discomfiture Thou knowest all my fashions O Lord and thou séest well enough how the vngodly haue laid their snares for me Loe I cast mine eyes on this side that side as well on my friends as kinsfolkes but all is in vaine none of them all helpeth me And againe I cannot run away I am so laden and ouercharged with yrons O Lord my maker and father vnto thée I crie thou art mine onely shot-anker defence helpe Thou art my portion heritage in all countries yea I haue none other possession but thée onely To thee therefore I sticke altogether knowing certainly that nothing can goe amisse with mee when I am vnder the shadowe of thy wings and thou guidest me Consider then my lamentable complaint behold howe I am lowe brought by the cruell pursuers which bee much more of power than I am defend me deliuer me from all this prison horrible feare of sinne death that I may set out thy name This once obtained the godly folke shall flocke about me and shall not stint to giue thee thankes when they sée that thou riddest me forth of these dangers to the high praise of thy name Lord bee mercifull vnto vs take part with vs then we shall for euer lift vp and magnify thy glorious name Amen A prayer for
weaknes of my flesh bée not ouercome with the feare of death or any other temptation whatsoeuer Yea graunt me mercifull Sauiour I humbly beséech thee that when death hath shut vp the eyes of my bodie yet that the eyes of my soule may still beholde and looke vpon thée and may assuredly féele thée in my selfe for my selfe to bee the mightie conqueror of death and the deuil sinne and hell and all other enemies of mine whatsoeuer so that when death hath taken away the vse of my tongue and spéech yet that my heart may cry and say vnto thée O Lord into thy hands I giue and commend my spirit Lord Iesus receiue my soule vnto thée Amen The prayer of Salomon for to obtaine wisedome 1 King 2. THOU hast shewed Lord vnto thy seruant Dauid my Father great mercie when hee walked in thy sight in truth and iustice and in vprightnes of heart with thée Thou shewest vnto him thy great mercie and gauest him a sonne sitting vpon his throne as it is at this day And now Lord God thou hast made thy seruant to raigne in the roome of Dauid my Father I am a very babe and know not how to goe out and in And thy seruant is in the middest of an infinite number which thou hast chosen which cannot bee numbred nor counted for multitude Wherefore giue to thy seruant an heart apt to bee taught and full of vnderstanding to iudge thy people that I may discerne betwéene good and bad For who is able to iudge this thy mightie people A prayer for obtaining of wisdome Sapient 9. GOd of our fathers and Lord of mercie thou hast made all things with thy word and ordained man through thy wisedome that hee should haue dominion ouer the creatures which thou hast made that hee should order the world according vnto equitie and righteousnes and execute iudgement with a true heart giue mee wisedome which is euer among the children of Israel For I thy seruant and sonne of thy handmaide am a féeble person of a short time and too young to the vnderstanding of thy iudgements and though a man bee neuer so perfect among the children of men yet if thy wisedome be not with him he shall be nothing worth Oh send thy wisedome out of thy holy heauens and from the throne of thy Maiestie that she may be with me and labour with me that I may knowe what is acceptable in thy sight for she knoweth and vnderstandeth all things and she shall conduct me right soberly in all my workes and preserue mee in her power so shall my workes bee acceptable Amen A prayer for a competent liuing Prouerb 30. TWo things Lord I demand that thou wilt not deny mee vntill I dye vanitie and words of leasings remoue farre from me pouertie or riches giue me not onely giue me that is necessarie for my liuing least being in full abundance I might be prouoked to denie thée and say Who is the Lord or being compelled by necessitie I might steale and forsweare the name of God Another Prayer GOod Lord God and swéete Sauiour Iesus Christ the sonne of the euerlasting God grant vnto me most fraile sinner and miserable wretch this grace and mercie that I may euer haue present before the eyes of my soule thy holy life thine example and behauiour and that according to any measure of mercie thou hast béen pleased or shalt be pleased to bestowe vpon me I may in liuing and manners follow the same And cause mee good Lord to profite grow and increase therein to such a notable measure as may be acceptable vnto thée being thine own grace and comfortable to my selfe as comming from thée for the saluation of my soule Lighten Lord and make cleere and bright my heart with the glorious light of thy grace that it euer may goe before mee and follow mee in all my acts so that by thy grace and power conducting and guiding I may accomplish and fulfill al that may please thy goodnes and vtterly eschue and auoide all that in any wise should displease the same Vouchsafe sweete Sauiour I beséech thée to direct and order all my cogitations and thoughts all my spéech and wordes all mine acts and déedes in thy law and commaundements in thy monitions and counsels and take me good Lord wholly so vnto thée that here in all things doing thy will I by grace may bee one of the soules that thou hast appointed to euerlasting saluation thorough Christ Iesus Amen A deuout prayer to our Lord God O LORD which hast vouchsafed of thy vnspeakeable goodnes to make me and ordaine me thy creature to liue in this transitorie life giuing me a reasonable soule by the which inlightned with the truth of thy word I know thée to be my Lord my God and my maker which also I may in some sort well perceiue by the visible sight of thy wonderfull workes as by heauen the earth and the creatures in them contained together with the commodities blessings that we daylie receiue by them at thy hand all which declare the great loue that thou hadest in our first creation and also doe expresse the singular care and prouidence that yet still thou hast for vs and further doe declare to vs thée to be the only God and Lord ouer all and that there is none aboue thée and that there is no wisdome knowledge power or strength of value besides thée and yet further also thou knowing our necessarie néede of thy holy of thy most louing fauour hast not disdained to say to me and to other thy people by thine owne most blessed word to the great comfort of all our consciences Aske and it shall bee giuen séeke and yee shall finde knocke and it shall be opened to you And yet for further declaration of thy great loue toward vs hast most familiarly sayde If we that be euill can giue vnto our children when they aske good things how much more then shall our heauenly Father giue his holy spirit to them that earnestly desire it What a swéete and comfortable saying is this In confidence of this truth O most blessed Lord I wretched sinner doe aske at thy hands mercie and grace confessing my selfe to bee a most wicked and abominable sinner in thy sight most weake of all other to stand to or in thy truth most fraile to fall and readie to breake all thy holy commandements by the kéeping of which we are knowne to bee thy true seruants O most mercifull Lord God I acknowledge my selfe daylie and hourely to breake the same but where I haue thus offended thy diuine Maiestie I humblie for Christ Iesus sake aske of thee mercie and forgiuenes minding by thy most mightie assistance neuer hereafter to offend in the same And Lord that I may bee the better perswaded of the assured performance of the same I humbly aske and desire thy strength continually to make me stand fast in faith thy knowledge and power from thée to worke thy blessed
to euill as from the corruption of our nature arise vppe in our hearts giue vs grace first clearely to discerne and discouer them then couragiously to stand vp against them and soundly to loath and leaue them that we bée not in the strength of them as it were in the middest of a violent tempest carried headlong into sinne and by meanes thereof into euerlasting destruction Especially strengthen vs good Lord against the suggestions of Satan whose maruellous malice wilie subtilties and verie great power against vs wee are not ignorant of as not vnacquainted neither with our owne weakenes and disability to withstand What say wee more with our pronenesse and readinesse to yeeld and therefore cannot but in both these respects againe and againe intreate thée that art the God of our strength to cause thy grace to bee sufficient for vs and in vs and to make thy power perfect through our infirmitie that so hauing fought valiantly and mightily ouercome through thy strength wee may through thy goodnesse and mercie for euermore liue with thée in that heauenly citie where and against which as also against such citizens of thine as are gathered into it no manner of temptation shall assayle much lesse bee able to preuaile and there for euer haue the full fruition of celestiall delectation not only accompanied with Angels and blessed Saints but enioying the most comfortable sight of thy glorious countenance in whose presence is the fulnes of ioy and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore which vouchsafe vnto vs for Iesus Christs sake thy déere sonne and our all and only sufficient Sauiour Amen Another Prayer to our Lord God O Heauenly Father God almighty I pray and beséech thée in mercie graciously to behold me thy vnworthie seruant that I may by the giftes of thy holy spirit feruently desire thy kingdome and by the light of thy word may soundly knowe thy will and faithfully worke and walke thereafter Giue mee O Lord wisedome euen the wisedome that is from aboue Make mee constant in thy truth patient in tribulation and strong in thée vnto the ende Keepe mee Lord from the sleightie inuasion of the olde wily serpent Defend mee from the counsailes and cursings of euill tongues Let thy mightie arme bee my continuall shield against all the malignity and mischiefe of this wicked world Remember not Lord my offences instruct and prepare me to repent and teach mee to be truly sorrowfull for my sinnes Make me to loue iustice and hate wrong to doe good and absteine from all euils that so the fruits of my faith may pledge vp to my conscience that thou hast graciously called me to be thy child To thée therefore bée glory and honor for euer and euer Amen A deuout Prayer HEarken Lord to my wordes consider the thoughts of my heart Behold how loud I cry to thée Let my iust prayer enter into thine eares which vnfainedly commeth from my heart Heare me Lord for I am poore and destitute of mans helpe Take care for my soule Saue me thy seruant which wholy trust in thee Haue mercie vpon me O Lord for I will neuer cease crying to thee for help for thou art mild and more mercifull than my tongue is able to expresse yea than my heart is able to thinke As often as aduersitie assaileth me I will crie and call for helpe vnto thée I will call vpon thée in the day time and in the night my cry shall not bee hid from thée O thou God of the heauens maker of the waters and Lord of all creatures heare me a poore sinner calling vpon thée and putting my whole trust in thy mercie haue mercie vpon me O Lord God haue mercie vpon mée and for thy manifold mercies sake forgiue mee all my offences Amen A prayer for meekenes and chastitie O Lord thou father and God of my life let mee not haue a proud looke but turne away all voluptuousnes from mee Take from mee the lustes of the body let not the desires of vncleanenesse take hold vpon me and giue me not ouer into an vnshamefast and obstinate mind Amen A prayer of Esay in the 6. and 64. Chap. LOrd looke downe from heauen and behold from thy holy habitations and from the seate of thy glorie where is thy strength where is the plenteous rich multitude of thy mercies are al these hardned against vs verily thou art our Father Abraham now knoweth vs not nor Israel knoweth vs not but thou Lord art our father thou art our redeemer thy name is from the beginning Wherefore hast thou made vs Lord to erre from thy wayes hast thou hardned our hearts least wee should feare thée Turne thee to thy promise made to thy seruants for the tribes of thy heritage for few of thy people haue enioyed the possession of their land and that but a little while Our enemies haue spoyled thy holy place and troden it vnder féete And wee were regarded so vile as if thou hadst neuer béen Lord ouer vs as though thy glorious name had neuer béen called vpon by vs and shewed ouer vs. I would that thou wouldest all too breake the heauens and come downe once that these hilles might melt away at thy presence like as at a hot fire and that the malicious might boyle away as doth the water vpon the fire that thy name might be knowne to thy enemies and these vngodly might bee shamed and troubled at thy presence When thou wroughtest for vs marueilous things then we looked not for them thou camst downe and the hilles wasted away with trembling before thy face and from the beginning hearde they not nor perceiued with their eares neither with any eye was there séene any besides thee that wrought such marueilous things and that to men which waited not for thée sometime thou méetest with them that gladly did righteousnesse and thought vpon thee in thy wayes But now Lord thou art angry because wee are sinners and euer haue béen in sinne although wee were deliuered from perils And all we are wrapped in filthie vncleannesse yea all our righteousnes is spotted like the cloathes of a meÌ„struous woman and all wee are taken away like leaues and our iniquities haue caried vs away like a whirle-winde and there is none left that will call for helpe in thy name and not one that will rise vp and holde thée with prayer for thou hast hid thy face from vs and hast dried vs vp in the hand of our iniquitie But now Lord thou art our Father wee are but clay and thou art our potter and all wee are the works of thy hands bee not angry O Lord for euer and remember not all our wickednes Loe beholde we beséech thee all wee are thy people the cities of thy holy places are forsaken Syon is turned into a desert Ierusalem is desolate the house of holines and prayer and of our glory in which our fathers praises thée is turned into an heâ—â—e of fire and all things that we