desireth forgivenesse of them at thy gracious hands O establish thy word with thy servant and let him not be disappointed of his hopes Though he have sinned yet in thee he trusteth O suffer him not for ever utterly to be confounded Though he have sinned yet he seeketh thee And thou Lord never failest them that seek thee Psal. 9. 10. Yet he commeth to thee And of them that come to thee thou castest none out Ioh. 6.37 O Lord Let not the guiltinesse of a sinner more prevaile to condemne then the gracious goodnesse of a most mercifull Saviour to acquit to pardon O Let not the unrighteousnesse of man make the goodnesse of God of none effect O Lord doe not so remember the unkindness of this thy Child that thereby thou forget the Compassion and kindenesse of a father Doe not thinke upon our sinne that thou therby forget thine owne nature and property which is alway to have mercy Doe not so remember our sinne that thou therby remembrest not thine owne name which is Jesus a loving and most kind Saviour Lord if thy life in our life have not sufficiently appeared yet let not thy death lose the full power and effect thereof in our death also Suffer not O Lord in both so great a price to perish Lose not O Lord that which thou hast redeemed since thou camest to redeeme that which was lost That which was so deere to thee to redeeme suffer it not to be lost as a thing of no value Have mercy upon him O Lord consider the pains which he suffereth thou who onely dost deliver from the gates of death Psal. 9.13 Shew thy marvellous loving kindenesse thou which art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee Psal. 17.7 O keepe him as the apple of thine eye hide him under the shadow of thy wings Psal. 17.8 O Iet thy mercifull Ioving kindnesse bee his comfort according to thy word unto thy servant Psal. 119.76 He or shee is troubled above measure O be mercifull unto him according to thy goodnesse O consider his adversity and deliver him for he is brought very low His eyes long sore for thy word saying When wilt thou comfort me His eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy Righteousnesse O thinke upon him O Lord as concerning thy word wherein thou hast caused him to put his trust O look thou upon him and bee mercifull unto him as thou usest to do to those that love thy name Cast him not away now in the time of his weakenesse forsake him not now when his strength faileth him Psal. 71.9 In the multitude of the sorrowes that are in his heart let thy comforts O Lord refresh his soule O Lord when it oppresseth comfort thou him Esay 38.14 O Lord let thy strength bee made perfect in his weakenesse 2 Cor. 12.9 Let no tentation oppresse him but such as is incident to thy children But as thou art faithfull O Lord so suffer him not to be tempted above that he is able to beare But good Lord with the temptation give an happy issue that he may be able to overcome it 1 Cor. 10. 13. O Lord though he be afflicted on every side yet let him not be distressed though in want of some of thy comforts yet not of all though chastened yet not forsaken though cast downe yet not perish 2 Cor. 4 8,9 Remember him O Lord with the favour thou bearest unto thy children O visit him with thy salvation That he may see the felicity of thy chosen and rejoyce with the gladnes of thy Saints and give thankes with thine inheritance Psal. 106. 5. O Remember not his former sinnes but have mercy upon him O Lord and that soone for hee is come to great extremity Psal. 79.8,9 Helpe him O LORD God of his Salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver him and bee mercifull unto his sinnes for thy names sake Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which have beene ever of old O Remember not the sinnes and offences of his youth but according to thy mercy thinke thou on him O Lord for thy goodnesse Clense him O LORD from his secret sins from whatsoever hee hath offended By thought word or deed by ignorance or error by frailty or negligence in excesse or in defect by leaving good undone or by doing evill in publicke or private by day or by night against thee his neighbour his owne body Before or since his effectuall calling by himselfe or by other Remembred or forgotten From them all clense him O Lord even from them all lay none of them to his charge cast them behinde thee bury them drowne them scatter them as the mist and as the morning cloud make them to vanish away and come to nothing And wherein soever his conscience most accuseth him therein O Lord be thou most mercifull O enter not into judgement with thy servant if thou shouldest no flesh should bee righteous in thy sight If thou O Lord shouldest be extreame to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it Psal. 130.3 But good Lord one deepe calleth another the deepe of our misery the deepe of thy mercie Psal. 42. Where sinne hath abounded there let grace over abound Rom. 5. And in and through all sinnes and offences O Lord let thy mercie triumph over thy Justice Iam. 2. O Lord heare O Lord forgive Consider O Lord and doe it Dan. 9. Delay not O Lord for his spirit waxeth faint Turne not thy face from him lest he become like those that goe down into the silence Be favourable O Lord be favourable For thy names sake Forthy truthes sake For thy mercies sake Thy many great wonderfull mercies sake For thine owne selfe O Lord Our Creator and Redeemer Our Lord and our Father Our King and our God Commendatio Animae 12. The Commendation of the Soule to God immediately before the departure Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Luke 2. Into thy hands O Lord we commend his spirit for thou hast redeemed it O Lord thou God of truth Psal. 31. Bring his soule out of prison that it may prayse thee Psal. 142. Oh deliver him from this body of death Rom. 7. Say unto his soule I am thy salvation Psal. 33. Say unto him This day shalt thou be with me in paradise Luke 23. Let him now feele the salvation of Jesus Let him now feele the anoynting of Christ even the oyle of Gladnesse wherewith thou art anoynted Guide thou him through the vale of the shadow of death Psal. 23. Let him see the goodnesse of the Lord in the Land of the living Psal. 27. O Lord command his spirit to be received up to thee in peace O Lord wil him come unto thee Mat. 14. Lord Iesu receive his spirit Act. 7. And open to him the gates of everlasting glory Let thy good spirit conduct him into the Land of righteousnesse Psal. 143. 10. Into
Spirit Fourthly The holy Catholique Church The mysticall body of Christ the head and them which the Spirit hath called out of the whole world To the beleife of the divine truth To a holy conversation To the mutuall participation of all the members of the body To the Communion of Saints and remission of sins in this world and hope of Resurrection and translation to life eternall in that to come I beleeve Lord supply the defects of my Faith That I may love thee the Father Reverence thee the Almighty That I may commit the keeping of my Soule to thee as to a faithfull Creator 1 Pet. 4. That I may ever give thankes to thy word and onely begotten Sonne as the purger of our nature in our conception and Birth As the Redeemer of our persons By his Passion By his Crosse By his Death As the triumpher over hell in his Descension over death his Resurrection As our forerunner in his Ascension As our Advocate in his Intercession As the Repairer of our Faith in his second comming That Christ may bee formed in us That wee may be conformed to his Image in good workes Conception in Faith Birth in humility For his Passion-sake to have sympathie with him as suffering for us To suffer for him when it shall please him to have an antipathie with sin as the cause of his Passions To Revenge sin in us To Crucifie sin in us To Mortifie sin in us To Burie sin in us To make us conformable to his Descension into hel by our often comming there by meditation To his Resurrection rising againe to newnesse of life To his Ascension seeking and labouring after those things that are above To his Judgment judging our owne selves that we may not be condemned with the world To make us remember when wee are cold in prayer and want any grace or heavenly comfort Thy Seate Thy Appearing Thy Intercession To make us never forget when wee burne through concupiscence and sinfull lust His dreadful and fearefull tribunall and often to thinke on the last trumpe That for thy Christ his sake the onely begotten of thee the Father wee may receive thine anointing the grace of Sanctification the unspeakeable gift of the Holy Ghost In a happy conjunction flowing knowledge fervent prayer diffusion of charity That I may not quench the Spirit or resist him or make him sad or at any time dishonour him That we may be called in thy catholick Church living members both by now and holy affection That we may be common partakers of holy persons actions prayers Liturgies or publique service to the full assurance of remission of sinnes Hope of Resurrection and translation to life eternall Lord increase my Faith as a grain of Mustard seed Not a dead Faith Not a temporary Faith Not a hypocritical Faith Destroying the Law But working by charity co-operating with good works subservient to vertue A living Faith A pure Faith A holy Faith Amen A Confession of sins Lord I confesse I was borne in iniquity and in sinne did my Mother conceive me Psal. 51.7 A roote of bitternesse A vine of Sodome A spawne of Vipers A wild Olive branch A son of wrath A vessel of wrath 1. A rebellious heart like a deceitfull bow 2. A mouth like an open sepulchre full of folly 3. Polluted lips 4. A tongue a world of wickednesse 5. Eyes full of adultery 6. Vncircumcised eares like a deafe Adder 7. A whorish forehead like brasse 8. A hard necke like an iron sinew 9. Hands slow to good 10. Feete swift to evill Whatsoever I have done either was a Spiders web or Basiliskes egge I have sinned before the Lord Thee the Lord and done this evill in thy sight I am by nature corruption a worme very dust By sin a slave of Satan and most vilde firebrand of hell I have sinned sins many in number more than there are drops of water in the Sea starres in Heaven haires on my head Of many kindes In many places on every greene field under every greene tree Often reiterated at severall turnes as a Fountaine casteth out her waters Ier. 6.7 Till they became habituall as skarlet Esa. 1.18 I sold my selfe to doe wickednesse 1 King 21.25 Till they became naturall like a Leopards spots or Ethiopians skinne I have sinned large sins Esa. 57.8 hard sins Ier. 30. 14. Great in quantity v. 15 Long from my Mothers wombe Psal. 24.11 Thicke cords of vanity Esa 5. 18. Deepe heavy as a burden Lead Psa. 38. 4. Having their cry reach to heaven I have sinned heinous sinnes because fruitelesly vainely for a handfull of corne for a peece of bread because with greedinesse Ephes. 4.19 One sin after another because with a whores forehead Ier. 3. 3. Because deceitfully Gal. 2.18 Iam. 4. 10. Because even to offence because I have been unthankfull Rom. 1.21 As a dog to the vomit as a sow to the wallowing in the mire 2 Pet. 2.22 But deliver mee from them O Lord because thou art righteous and upright are thy judgements Psal. 119.137 I eate the fruit of a lye For what fruite have I now of those things whereof I am ashamed Rom. 6.21 Broken cisternes which can hold no water Ier. 2. 13. My dayes are passed away in thy wrath my yeares are as a tale that is told Psal. 90.9 Thou hast given me up to a reprobate minde to doe the things that are not convenient Rom. 1.28 There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sinne Psal. 38.3 Adde hither the confusion that is continually before me and the shame of my face that hath covered me Psal. 44.15 Moreover my troubled minde and feare because of thy judgements Lastly bitternesse worse than of death both because I have forsaken God and am forsaken by him Woe be to me revolter that I have done these things See O Lord how vilde I am become even abhorring my owne selfe I waste for very griefe What shall I say or how shall I open my mouth what shall I answer seeing I have done these things Esa. 38.15 To which of the Saints may I flee Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7.24 Since I can neither say or doe more I will lift up mine eyes toward thee Though I bee unworthy to looke towards thee yet I will looke towards thee Out of the deepe have I called to thee O Lord Lord heare my prayer Psal. 130.2 If thou beest strict to observe what is done amisse Lord who shall be able to abide Enter not into judgement with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shal no man living be justifyed Psal. 143.2 I appeale therefore O Lord from thee to thee From thee being Just to thee being Mercifull From the throne of justice to the throne of grace From thee being a Judge to thee being a Father in Christ Accept O Lord this humble appeale Suffer me not
A MANVAL of directions for the Visitation of the sicke wth sweete Meditations Prayers to be vsed in time of sicknesse by Lancelot Andrewes late Bishop of Winchester LONDON Printed for Samuel Cartwright at the hand Bible in Duck-lane 1642 A MANVALL OF Directions for the visitation of the sicke with sweete Meditations and Prayers to be used in time of sicknesse Whereunto is added a Short confession of the Faith with a forme of Thankesgiving and Prayers for Morning and Evening BY LANCELOT ANDREVVES late Bishop of Winchester LONDON Printed by R. Cotes for Samuel Cartwright and are to be sold at the signe of the hand and Bible in Ducke-Lane 1642. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Sir EDWARD LITTLETON KNIGHT Baron Littleton of Mounslowe Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of ENGLAND AND One of his Majesties most Honorable Privy COVNCELL Grace Peace be multiplyed Right Honorable MAY it please you in these troublesome daies of ours to behold the man who though with open mouth he telleth not all things that every one hath done Yet by lively example teacheth what every one ought to be ready to doe Even for Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty His Person whilest hee lived wanted not the love and favour of a King to advance him to dignity let not this Posthume worke of his lacke your Honors protection and patronage to keepe it from indignity A Midwives care reacheth no further than the safe bringing the Infant into the world the maintenance and protection thereof she commendeth to the Father and other Friends This Orphan by my meanes hath happily seene the Light but wanting a Father as being deceased before his birth I presume to commend its defence and tuition to your Honour as a friend your Lordshippes selfe to the gracious protection of the Lord who grant you ever the continuance of your honour to you and your posterity for ever So prayeth Your Honours humbly devoted I.G. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER COurteous Reader I shall not neede I conceive to use many words by way of Preface The Authour of this Manuall and his former Workes have beene of such note and esteeme amongst us as that I doubt not but it may justly be said concerning them even to most men which Jehu of the Prophet that annointed him to be King over Israel 2 King 9.11 Ye know the man and his communication For this how like it is the rest of its Brethren I leave you to judge and yet I doubt not but some way may be made to your more willing entertainment of it by telling you it was conceived about that time the Reverend Authour was Parson of Saint Giles Creplegate and used by him in his ordinary Visitation of the sicke To this let me adde the love of publique good not respect of private profit hath moved him to fit this to the Presse who otherwise would never have seene his name in Print and now desireth the praise of the worke may be given to the right Author resting Yours in the Lord I.G. Inquiries to be made by the Minister The Parties THe Sex 2 The Age The condition of life 1 Whether learned structed 2 Sound in minde memory 3 The sense of heariâ—â— perfect 1 whether patient unquiet 2 Cheerefull of dejeâ—â— 3 If being well found comfort 1 Reading 2 Hearing 3 Repeating any particulars Whether any mateâ—â— all point whereof to admonished To take occasion out of â—is owne words VVHat man is hee that liveth and shall not see death Psal. 89.48 It is appointed for all men once to dye Heb. 9 27. I am a stranger and sojourner with thee as all my Fathers were Psal. 39 12. Wee have here no abiding City Heb. 13.14 The night commeth when no man can doe any worke Ioh. 9.4 Where the tree falleth whether to the North to the South there it â—â—eth Eccles. 1.1.3 A MANVALL for the SICKE 1. Comfortable Scriptures to be used to the sicke party Esay 54.10 THe Mountaine may remove and the Hills may faldown but my mercies shall not depart from thee nor the covenant of my peace come to nothing saith the Lord that hath compassion on thee Heaven and earth shal passe but my Word shall not passe All the promises of God are in him Yea and Amen In whom wee have most great and precious promises that we should be partakers of the Divine Nature Ieremy 31.18 I have heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou trast corrected me and I was chastised as an untamed Heifer convert thou me and I shall be converted for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I had converted I repented I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea confounded because I did beare the reproach of my youth Since I spake to him I still remember him therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have compassion on him saith the Lord I will visite their iniquity with a rod and their sinne with secourges nevertheles my mercy will I not take from him nor suffer my truth to faile Prov. 3. 11,12 My sonne refuse not the chastisement of the Lord neither be grieved with his correction for the Lord correcteth him whom he loveth even as the father doth the child in whom for all that he delighteth Ioh. 5. 17,18,19 Behold blessed is the man whom God correcteth therefore refuse not thou the correction of the Almighty For he maketh the wound and bindeth it up he smiteth and his hands make whole againe He shall deliver thee in sixe troubles and in the seaventh the evill shall not come nigh thee Heb. 12. 5. Forget not the consolation that speaketh unto you as unto children If you indure chastening God offereth himselfe unto you as unto a sonne for what sonne is it whom the Father chasteneth not If therefore yee bee without correction whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sonnes Moreover wee have had the fathers of our bodies which corrected us and yet wee gave them reverence should we not much rather bee in subjection to the father of Spirits that wee may live For they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their owne pleasure but he chasteneth us for our profit that we might bee partakers of his holinesse Now no chastening for the present seemeth joyous but grievous yet afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse unto them which are thereby execised Wherefore lift up your hands which hang downe and your weake knees Ioh. 16.22 And you now are in sorrow but I will see you againe and your heart shall rejoyce and your Joy shall none bee able to take from you Esa. 54. 7 8. For a little while have I sorsaken thee but in great compassion will I gather thee For a moment in mine anger I hid my face from thee but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Modicum videbitis me A
call to minde any persons in particular whō you have so offended 8. Severall parts of prayer to be used by the sicke party taken out of Scripture ANd now O Lord what is my hope truely my hope is in thee Psal. 39. 7. Thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them that remaine in the broad sea Though hee kill mee yet will I trust in him Ioh. 13. 15. Though I walk through the vale of the shadow of death yet will I feare none evill Psal. 23. 2. 4. Lord thou knowest whereof wee bee made thou remembrest we are but dust Psal. 103. 14. Call to minde we are but flesh a winde that passeth away and commeth not againe Psa. 78. 39. Remember Lord of what time I am what our substance is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought Psal. 89. 47. Lord considermy complaint for I am brought very low Let my present misery more prevaile to moove compassion than my sinnefull life past to provoke thine indignation Lord how long wilt thou be angrie with thy servant that prayeth Behold Lord I shew the lowlinesse of a suppliant shew not thou to me the rigour of a Judg. Ne quaeso premat Sententia Iudicis Quem sic submittit Petitio supplicis O deliver not thine owne inheritance over into the will of thine enemy Psal 119. 94. I am thine O save me I am thine carest thou not that I perish Mar. 4. 38. Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine hand-maid Psal. 116. 16. Thine unprofitable evill servant yet thy servant Thy lost unkind child yet thy child Luk. 15. Though I have not shewed to thee the duty and affection of a child yet doe not thou cast from thee the naturall kindnesse and compassion of a Father I commend my selfe into thy hands as unto a faithfull Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. Receive O Lord thine owne creature not made by any strange god but by thy selfe the onely true and living God despise not O Lord the worke of thine owne hand Psal. 138. ult. Lord I am created to thine owne Image and likenesse Gen. 1. 26. Suffer not O Lord suffer not thine Image to bee utterly defaced but renue it againe in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephes. 4. 24. I commend my selfe into thine hands for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth Psal 31. 5. Behold Lord I am the price of thy blood of thy most pretious blood 1 Cor. 6. ult. Suffer not so great a price to perish Suffer not that to be cast away that thou hast so deerely bought O Lord thou camest downe from heaven to redeeme that which was lost suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed Behold O Lord thou art in the middest of us thy name is called upon us we are called by thy name Christians Dan. 9. 19. For thy names sake be mercifull unto us Psa. 25. 11. Spare thine own name in us Psal. 19. 9. And doe not good Lord so remember our sinnes that by remembring them thou forgettest thine owne name Lord we call upon thy name there is no name under heaven wherein we can be saved but onely it Act. 4. 12. Though we be unfaithfull yet thou art true and canst not deny thine owne name 2 Tim. 2.13 I commend my selfe into thine hands as to my true and onely sanctifier Lord I have beene the Temple of thy holy spirit 1 Cor. 3.16 Though it hath beene polluted by my frailty yet Lord destroy it not But dedicate it hallow it anew and sanctifie it to thee yet once againe make an Encaenia of it Spare us good Lord spare thine owne handiwork thine own Image thine owne name the price of thine owne blood in us The good Lord bee mercifull unto every one that prepareth his heart to seeke the Lord God the God of our Fathers though he be not according to the cleannesse of the Sanctuary 1 Chron. 30.19 Behold O Lord ae bruised Reed O breake it not smoaking flax yet O Lord quench it not Esa. 42.3 Mat. 12. 20. Lord I have never denied thy name but confessed it ever and in the confession and invocation of it I desire to spend my last breath and to depart this life Lord I have desired to feare thy Name Neh. 1. 11. My soule hath beene desirous to long after thy Commandements Psal. 119.20 Lord I doe acknowledge my wickednesse and I am sorrie for my sinne Psal. 38.18 Lord I beleeve help thou mine unbeleife Lord I hope verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the Living Psal. 27.13 Let not this hope confound me nor make me ashamed Psa. 119.16 Lord I freely forgive whomsoe'r I have ought against those poore pence or mites they owe me Mat. 18.28 Lord I held my peace and opened not my mouth at thy chastisements because it was thy doing O Lord Psal. 39.9 Lord I seeke thee and thou never failest them that seeke thee Psal. 9. 10. I come unto thee and of them that come unto thee thou castest none out Ioh. 6.37 Neverthelesse though I be sometime afraid yet put I my trust in thee Psal. 56.3 O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be put to confusion Psal. 71 1.31.1 O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from them that seeke after my soule and deliver me lest hee devoure my soule like a Lion and teare it in peeces whiles there is none to helpe Psal. 7.1,2 The snares of death compassed me round about the overflowings of ungodlinesse made me afraid Psal. 18.4 The sorrow of death overtooke me and the paines of hell gat hold upon me Psal. 18.5 I have found trouble and heavinesse and I wil call upon the name of the Lord Psal. 116.3 O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soule Psa. 116 4. Heare my voyce O Lord out of thy holie Temple let my complaint come before thee let it enter even into thine cares Psal. 18.6 Send downe from on high and deliver me take me out of many waters Psal. 18.16 Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our Lord is mercifull Psal. 116.5 The Lord preserveth the simple I am in misery but hee will thinke upon me Psal. 116.6 Turne againe then to thy rest O my Soule for the Lord hath regarded thee Psal. 116.7 Psalme 22. verse 1. My God my God looke upon mee why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint ver. 2 3. O my God I cry in the day time and thou hearestnot and in the night season also I have audience yet thou continuest holy O thou Worship of Israell ver. 4. Our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou diddest deliver them 5. They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 9. But thou wert he that tookest mee out of my Mothers wombe 10. Thou wert my hope when I
thy holy hill and Heavenly Kingdome Psal. 15. Send thine Angell to meete him and to bring him into Abrahams bosom Luke 16. Place him in the habitation of Light and peace of joy and gladnesse Receive him into the armes of thy mercy and give him an inheritance with thy Saints in light there to raigne with thine elect Angels thy blessed Saints thy holy prophets and glorious Apostles in all joy and glory felicity and happinesse for ever and ever 13. Scriptures to be applyed to those who survive when the party is departed Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal. 116. I heard a voyce from Heaven saying Write Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them Moses Wee have sinned O Lord thou hast set our faults before thee and our secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance Psal. 90.8 Returne O Lord how long and bee pacifyed towards thy servants Psa. 90. 13. Iob. I have sinned what shall I doe unto thee O thou preserver of mankind why hast thou set mee as a marke against thee that I am become a burden to my selfe Iob 7. 20. Have mercy upon mee O Lord and restore unto me my righteousnesse againe Say concerning me Lord deliver him for I have received a Reconciliation Iob 33. v. 24 That I have offended thee woe is me Iob 10.15 Yet if thou kill mee I will put my trust in thee Iob 13.15 David My misdeeds have prevailed against me Psal. 65. 3. O bee thou mercifull unto my sinne ibid. I have gone astray like a sheepe that is lost O seeke thy servant for I do not forget thy Commandements Psalm 119. ult. Wee have sinned with our Fathers wee have done amisse and dealt wickedly Psal. 105. For thy names sake O Lord bee mercifull unto our sinne for it is great Psal. 25. My foote hath slipped let thy mercy O Lord lift me up Psal. 94. Esay Behold thou art angry for we have sinned we all have beene as an uncleane thing and all our Righteousnesse as a defiled cloath Wee all fade as a leafe and our iniquities like a winde have taken us away But now O Lord thou art our Father wee are but as clay and thou art our Potter wee all are the worke of thy hands Be not angry O Lord above measure neither remember our iniquities forever Lord we beseech thee remember wee are thy people Jeremy Lord our iniquities are against us our rebellions be many we have sinned against thee Yet deale thou with us according to thy name for thou Lord art in the middest of us and thy name is called upon us O Lord forsake us not O Lord thou hope of Israell the Saviour of it in the time of trouble forsake us not Daniel Wee have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and done wickedly yea we have rebelled and have departed from thy precepts and from thy Commandements O Lord righteousnes belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion and shame of face because of all the offences wee have committed against thee Yet compassion and forgivenesse is with thee O Lord though wee have rebelled against thee O Lord according to thy goodnesse I beseech thee let thine anger and thy wrath bee turned away from us and cause thy face to shine upon thy servant O my Lord incline thine eare and heare open thine eyes and behold my affliction for wee doe not present our supplications before thee in our owne righteousnesse but for thy manifold and great mercies O Lord heare O Lord forgive consider and doe it O Lord deferre not for thine owne sake O my God Ionas O Lord in following lying vanities I have forsaken mine owne mercy for the which I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes Ion. 2.4 Yet I remember thee O Lord yet will I look againe towards thy holy Temple O Lord heare and have mercy The Prodigall Child Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne But forgive mee and make me one of the meanest of thy hired servants Luke 15. 28. Lord bee mercifull unto me a sinner Jesu Master have mercy upon us Have mercy upon mee Lord thou Son of David Mat. 15. O Lord helpe me O Lord even the little whelps eate of the crums of thy Table Paul O Lord I am carnall and sold under sinne and in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good The good things I doe not which I would the evill that I would not that doe I. Though I consent to the Law according to the inner man yet I feele another Law in my nature rebelling against the Law of my minde and leading me captive to the Law of sinne O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this bodie of death Rom. 7.14 But this is a true saying and by all meanes worthy to bee received That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners whereof I am chiefe Peter We have spent the time past of our life after the lust of the heathen walking in wantonnesse lust surfetting uncleannesse and other excesses 1 Pet. 4. But thou hast redeemed us O Lord by the precious blood of Christ the undefiled Lambe 1 Pet. 1. Have mercy upon us in that name besides which thou hast given none under heaven whereby wee must be saved Act. 4. Iohn If we say wee have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If our heart condemne us not God is greater then our heart knoweth all things But wee confesse our sinnes and confessing them we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sinnes Iames In many things we offend all But Lord let thy mercy triumph over thy Justice 14. A forme of Confession according to the tenne Commandements 1. 1. I have not studyed to know and seeke thee as I ought 2. Knowing thee I have not glorified thee nor beene thankefull to thee especially not for thy chastisements 3. I have doubted of thy promises and not trusted to thy helpe 4. I have made flesh mine arme and have hoped for prosperity from man rather then from thee 2. 1. I have touching thee been full of roving imaginations and evill thoughts 2. I have not worshipped thee in spirit and truth 3. I have not performed the duty of invocation with that reverence which I should 4. I have drawne neere unto thee with my lippes but my heart hath beene farie from thee 3. 1. I have not with due regard taken thy name into my mouth 2. I have with rash oathes and eager execrations oft abused it 3. I have not given occasion to others to sanctifie thy name but have caused it to bee evill spoken of through mine evil dealing 4. I have not duely regarded and reverenced those things wheron thy name is imprinted 4. 1. I have not spared to absent my selfe from thy holy
56. In height Psa. 103. 11. Psal. 36.5 108.4 In depth Psa. 42.9 In length Psal. 26.6 13.6 There is no end of his salvation Psal. 71.13 Mercy shall be set up for ever Psal. 89. 4. His mercy is over all his workes Psal. 145.9 As is his Majesty so is his mercy Psal. 102.40 His propertie is to have mercy Esay 28.21 Hee is the father of mercyes 2 Cor 1. 3. Hee is mercy it selfe Psa. 59. He was so mercifull that he forgave their misdeedes and destroyed them not Yea many a time turned hee his face away and wold not suffer his whole displeasure to arise for he considered they were but dust Psal. 78. 1.38 The Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you Esay 30.18 In the father of the lost child his image Luke 5. 22. God hath shut up all under sinne that he might have mercy upon all Rom. 11. 32. Where sin aboundeth there grace doth over-a-bound Rom. 5. 20. Mercy ttiumpheth over Iustice Iam. 2. 1. This is a true saying and by all meanes worthy to be received that Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners In this God set forth his love to us that when wee were his enemies Christ dyed for us Rom. 5. 10. Christ dyed once for our sinnes the just for the unjust that he might offer us unto God 1. Pet. 3. 18. Wee have an Advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sinnes and not for ours onely but for the sins of the whole world 1. Ioh. 2.2 I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Mat. 9. 13. Come unto mee you that travaile and be heavy laden I will refresh you Mat. 11. 20. Of them that come to mee I cast none out Ioh. 6.37 Thou never failest them that seeke thee Psal. 9.10 Why art thou so heavy O my soule and why art thou so disquieted within mee O put thy trust in God for I shall yet give him thanks for he is the helpe of my Countenance and my God Returne thou unto my rest O my soule for the Lord hath beene gracious unto thee If the Lord had not helped mee it had not failed but my soule had been put to silence In the middest of the troubles that were in mine heart thy Comforts have refreshed my soule Neverthelesse my soule waite thou still upon God for of him cometh my salvation He verily is my hope and my strength he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall Let us goe with boldnesse unto the Throne of grace that wee may finde mercy in the time of need Act. 4. ult. 16. Expressions of Gods Mercy fit to be used to him in Prayer Lord Of life and death of sickenesse and health and al things thereto belonging By whose appointment wee were borne and againe by whose appointment wee mâ—â— dye our time is in thine hand and unt 〈…〉 belong the issues 〈…〉 Th 〈…〉 est nothing th 〈…〉 made nor doe 〈…〉 terly forsake the workes of thine owne hands Thou that art a defence for the oppressed a refuge in the needfull time of trouble Thou that never failest them that seeke thee and to whom none ever prayeth without hope to be heard Thou that promised the poore shall not alway be forgotten that the patient abiding of the meeke shall not perish for ever For the comfortlesse troubles sake of the needy and for the deepe sighing of the poore arise O Lord and men shall know that it is thy hand and that it is thou Lord that hast done it O Lord Whose mercy reacheth to the Heavens and whose faithfulnesse to the clouds Of whose mercies there is neither number nor end The greatenesse of whose goodnesse is not shut up under any time Who callest unto thy vineyard even at the eleventh houre Which rulest not with rigour but with meekenesse doest governe the things thou hast made Thou that killest and revivest that bringest to the gates of death and bringest backe againe That hatest nothing of that thou hast made that hast shut up all under sin that thou mightest have mercy upon all Lord The Saviour and saving health of all the faithfull The fountaine of all grace and goodnesse The father of mercies and Consolation Thou that upholdest all such as are faling And liftest up those that be downe Thou that healest the broaken in heart And givest medicine to cure their sicknesse The Comfort of them that be in heavinesse The strength of them that be in weakenesse The health of them that be in sickenesse Heare O Lord and have mercy Looke downe from heaven behold and visit visit with thy salvation A Confession The Foundation and ground-worke of Prayer is Faith Theoph. The ground of Faith is the promise of God Lift up your hearts He which giveth us life teacheth us to pray The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds Eccles. 35.17 Prayer is a conference with God I will set my sinnes before mee that they may not appeare before thee Lord my heart is ready Lord I feare it is not ready Would God it were so Woe is mee that it is not so Lord I fit and prepare my selfe Assist my preparation and make me more fit A Confession of the Faith Lord I beleeve helpe my unbeleefe First In God 1. The Father 2. Almighty 3. Creator of Heaven and Earth In the Father naturall affection Almighty power of deliverance Creator providence To Preserve To Governe To Perfect consummate all things Secondly In Jesus Christ His only Sonne Our Lord The great Mystery of godlinesse God manifest in the flesh for us men and for our Salvation God and Man The Son of the Father Anointed of the spirit Our Lord As Creator As Redeemer 1. That he was conceived To purge forth the sin wherin we are conceived 2. Was Borne To clense us of the sin wherein we are borne by nature 3. Suffered What we should have done that we might not suffer 4. Was Crucified To take away the curse of the Law 5. Dyed To take away the sting of death 6. Was Buried To take away the corruption of our bodies in the grave 1. That he descended into bell Whither we should have gone that wee may never come there 2. Rose againe from the dead That being made the first fruites of them that sleepe he might raise our nature together with himselfe 3. Ascended up into heaven That he might prepare a place for us 4. Now sitteth at the right hand of God that he might make intercession for us 5. Whence he shall come That he may receive us 6. To be a Iudge For the consummation of all things Thirdly In the Holy Ghost And in him power from on high to sanctifie and quicken unto eternall life Outwardly and visibly but powerfully and manifestly working in us by the illumination of knowledge infusion of grace In Reproofe In Instruction In Long sufferance In Assistance In Witnesse-bearing In Consolation Grace is the fruite of the