pure wombe of an humble maid and take on thee my nature and be borne and cry and suffer cold and all the incommodities which the meannesse of a stable could minister to the tendernesse of thy first infancy Lord what is man that thou art mindfull of him and the Son of man that thou so regardest him I adore thee blessed Iesu and praise thee for thine immaculate sanctity for all thy holy precepts and counsels for thy Divine example for thy miracles and mysterious revelations of thy Fathers will for the institution of the holy Sacraments and all other blessings of thy Propheticall Office O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious sing praises unto his Name for it is lovely I adore and love thee most blessed Iesu for all the parts of thy most bitter Passion for thy being betrayed and accused buffeted and spit upon blindfolded and mocked crowned with thornes and scourged for thine agony and bloudy sweat for thy bearing the sad load of the Crosse and sadder load of our sinnes for thy Crucifixion three long houres when the weight of thy Body was supported with wounds and nailes for thy Death and Buriall for thy continuall intercession and advocation with thy heavenly Father in behalfe of me and all thy holy Church and all other acts of mediation and redemption the blessings of thy priestly Office O praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders he hath done for the children of men I adore and magnifie thy holy Name O most blessed Iesu for thy triumph over death hell sin and the grave for thy opening the Kingdome of Heaven to all believers for thy glorious resurrection and ascension for thy government over all the creatures for the advancement of thy holy Kingdome for thy continuall resisting and defeating the intendments of thine enemies against thy Church by the strength of thine arme by the mightinesse of thy power by the glories of thy wisedome for those blessed promises thou hast made performest to thy Church of sending the holy Ghost of giving her perpetuity of being in defiance of all the gates and powers of Hell and darknesse and blessing her with continuall assistances and all other glories of thy Regall Office and power O sing praises sing praises unto our God O sing praises sing praises unto our King for God is the King of all the earth sing yee praises with understanding O most holy Spirit Love of the Father Fountain of grace Spring of all spirituall blessings I adore and praise thy divine excellencies which are essentiall to thy glorious Selfe in the unity of the most mysterious Trinity and which thou communicatest to all faithfull people and to me thy unworthy servant in the unity of the Catholike Church O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstoole for he is holy O blessed Spirit I praise and magnifie thy Name for thy miraculous descent upon the Apostles in Pentecost in mysterious representments for those great graces and assistances comming upon their heads and falling downe upon us all in the descent of all ages of the Church for confirmation of our Faith for propagation of the Gospel for edification and ornament of thy Family Thou O God shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations O most glorious Spirit I praise and magnifie thy Name for thy inspiration of the Apostles and Prophets for thy providence and mercy in causing holy Scriptures to be written and preserving them from the corruptions of Heretickes from the violences of Pagans and enemies of the Crosse of Christ I will alwayes give thankes unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth I blesse thy Name for those holy promises and threatnings those judgements and mercies those holy precepts and admonitions which thou hast registred in Scriptures and in the records and monuments of the Church for all those graces helpes and comforts whereby thou promotest me in piety and the wayes of true Religion for baptismall and penitentiall grace for the opportunities and sweet refreshings of the Sacrament of the Eucharist for all the advantages thou hast given me of good society tutours and governours for the feares thou hast produced in me as deleteries and impediments of sin for all my hopes of pardon and expectation of the promises made by our Lord Iesus Christ to incourage me in the pathes of life and sanctity for all the holy sermons spirituall bookes and lessons for all the good prayers and meditations for those blessed waitings and knockings at the doore of my heart patiently tarrying for and lovingly inviting me to repentance without ceasing admonishing and reproving me with the checkes of a tender conscience with exteriour and interiour motives and for whatsoever other meanes or incentive of holinesse thou hast assisted me withall I magnifie and praise and adore thee and thy goodnesse All Nations whom thou hast made and sanctified shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name for thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone and great is thy mercy towards me thou hast delivered my soule from the nethermost Hell therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thankes unto thee for ever with Cherubims and Seraphims and all the companies of the heavenly Host saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabbaoth holy is our God holy is the Immortall holy is the Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost to whom be all honour and glory and dominion and power ascribed of all spirits and all men and all creatures now and for evermore Amen I. Prayers preparatory to the receiving of the blessed Sacrament O Most immaculate and glorious Iesu behold me miserable sinner drawing neare to thee with the approaches of humility and earnest desire to be cleansed from my sinnes to be united to thee by the nearest and most mysterious union of charity and Sacramentall participation of thy most holy Body and Bloud I presume nothing of mine owne worthinesse but I am most confident of thy mercies and infinite loving kindnesse I know O Lord I am blinde and sicke and dead and naked but therefore I come the rather I am sicke and thou art my Physitian thou arisest with healing in thy wings by thy wounds I come to be cured and to be healed by thy stripes I am unclean but thou art the Fountain of purity I am blinde and thou art the great Eye of the world the Sun of righteousnesse in thy light I shall see light I am poore and thou art rich unto all the Lord of all the creatures I therefore humbly begge of thy mercy that thou wouldest be pleased to take from me all my sinnes to cure my infirmities to cleanse my filthinesse to lighten my darknesse to clothe my nakednesse with the robe of thy righteousnesse that I may with such reverence and faith and holy intention receive thy blessed Body and Bloud in the mysterious
Sacrament that it may be unto me life and pleasantnesse and holy nourishment and that I may be firmely and indissolubly united to thy mysticall Body and may at last see clearly and without a vaile thy face in glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen II. I Adore and blesse thy glorious Majesty O blessed Iesu for this great dignation and vouchsafing to me that thou art pleased for all the infinite multiplication of my sinnes and innumerable violations of thy holy Law still to give thy selfe unto me to convey health and grace and life and hopes of glory in the most blessed Sacrament I adore thee O most righteous Redeemer that thou art pleased under the visible signes of Bread and Wine to convey unto our soules thy holy Body and Bloud and all the benefits of thy bitter Passion O my God I am not worthy thou shouldest come under my roofe but let thy holy Spirit with his purities prepare for thee a lodging in my soule Thou hast knocked often O blessed Iesu at the doore of my heart and wouldest willingly have entred behold O Lord my heart is ready to receive thee cast out of it all worldly desires all lusts and carnall appetites and then enter in and there love to inhabit that the Devill may never returne to a place that is so swept and garnished to fill me full of all iniquity O thou lover of soules grant that this holy Sacrament may be a light unto mine eyes a guide to my understanding and a joy to my soule that by its strength I may subdue and mortifie the whole body of sin in me and that it may produce in me constancy in Faith fulnesse of wisedome perfection and accomplishment of all thy righteous commandments and such a blessed union with thee that I may never more live unto my selfe or to the world but to thee onely and by the refreshment of an holy hope I may be lead through the pathes of a good life and persevering piety to the communion and possession of thy Kingdome O blessed Iesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen III. O Lord God who hast made all things of nought producing great degrees of esâ—ence out of nothing make me a new creature and of a sinfull man make me holy and just and mercifull that I may receive thy precious Body devoutly reverently with meeknesse contrition and great affection with spirituall comfort and gladnesse at thy mysticall presence Feed my soule with Bread from Heaven fill me with charity conform me to thy wil in all things save me from all dangers bodily and ghostly assist and guide me in all doubts and feares prepare and strengthen me against all surreptions and sudden incursion of temptations cleanse me from all staines of sin and suffer nothing to abide in me but thy selfe onely who art the Life of soules the Food of the Elect and the joy of Angels Give me such a gust and holy relish in this Divine nutriment that nothing may ever hereafter please me but what savours of thee and thy miraculous sweetnesse Teach me to loath all the pleasures and beauties of this life and let my soule be so inebriated with the pleasures of thy Table that I may be comprehended and swallowed up with thy love and sweetnesse let me thinke nothing but thee covet nothing but thee enjoy nothing but thee nothing in comparison with thee and neither do nor possesse any thing but what leades to thee and is in order to the performance of thy will and the fruition of thy glories Transfixe my soule O blessed Jesu with so great love to thee so great devotion in receiving the holy Sacrament that I may be transformed to the Fellowship of thy sufferings and admitted to a participation of all the benefits of thy Passion and to a communion of thy graces and thy glories I desire to be with thee dissolve all the chaines of my sin and then come Lord Jesus come quickly Let my soule feed on thee greedily for thou art the spring of light and life the Fountaine of wisedome and health a torrent of divine pleasure and tranquillity the Authour of peace and comfort enter into me sweet Jesu take thou possession of my soule and be thou Lord over me and all my faculties and preserve me with great mercy and tendernesse that no doubting or infidelity no impenitence or remanent affection to a sin no impurity or irreverence may make me unworthy and uncapable of thy glorious approach Let not my sinnes crucifie the Lord of life again let it not be said concerning me the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table that this holy Communion may not be unto me an occasion of death but a blessed peace-offering for my sinnes and a gate of life and glory Grant this O blessed God for his sake who is both Sacrifice and Priest the Master of the Feast and the Feast it selfe even Iesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen A Prayer after receiving the consecrated Bread I Give thankes unto thee Almighty and eternall God that thou hast not rejected me from thy holy Table but hast refreshed my soule with the salutary refection of the Body of thy Son Iesus Christ Lord if I had lived innocently and had kept all thy Commandments I could have had no proportion of merit to so transcendent a mercy but since I have lived in all manner of sin and multiplied provocations against thy Divine Majesty thy mercy is so glorious and infinite that I am amased at the consideration of its immensity Go on O my deare God to finish so blessed a redemption and now that thou hast begun to celebrate a marriage and holy union between thy selfe and my soule let me never throw off the wedding garment or stain it with the pollutions of deadly sin nor seek after other lovers but let me for ever and ever be united unto thee being transformed into thy will in this life and to the likenesse of thy glories in the life to come who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen After receiving the Cup O Iust and deare God who out of the unmeasurable abysses of wisedome and mercy hast redeemed us and offered life and grace and salvation to us by the reall exhibition of thy Son Iesus Christ in the sacrifice of his Death upon the altar of the Crosse and by commemoration of his bitter agonies in the holy Sacrament Grant that that great and venerable sacrifice which we now commemorate sacramentally may procure of thee for thy whole Church mercy and great assistance in all trials deliverance from all heresies schismes sacriledge and persecutions to all sicke people health and salvation redemption for captives competency of living to the indigent and necessitous comfort to the afflicted reliefe to the oppressed repentance to all sinners softnesse of
spirit and a tender conscience to the obstinate conversion to the Iewes Turkes and remedy to all that are in any trouble or adversity And grant to us O Lord that this blessed Sacrament and sacrifice of commemorâ—tion in vertue of that dreadfull and proper Sacrifice upon the Crosse may obtain for me and for us all who have communicated this day pardon and peace and that we may derive from thee by this ministery grace to expell all our sinnes to mortifie all our lusts to exterminate all concupiscence to crucifie all inordination and irregularity to produce in us humility and chastity and obedience and meeknesse of spirit and charity and may become our Defence and Armour against the violences and invasions of all our ghostly enemies and temporall disadvantages and give us this grace and favour that we may not die in the guilt and commission of a sin without repentance nor without receiving the blessed Sacrament but that we may so live and die that we may at last rest in thy bosome and be imbraced with the comprehensions of thy eternall charity who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen All blessing and praise and honour be unto thee O blessed Redeemer to thee we the banished and miserable sonnes of Adam do call for mercy and defence to thee we sigh and cry in this valley of teares O dearest Advocate turne those thy mercifull eyes towards us shew us thy glorious face in thy Kingdome where no teares or sighing or feares or sadnesses can approach Amen sweetest Iesu Amen Prayers preparatory to death I. A Prayer for a blessed ending to be said in time of health or sicknesse O Blessed Iesu Fountaine of eternall mercy the Life of the soule and glorious Conquerour over Death and sin I humbly beseech thee to give me grace so to spend this transitory life in vertuous and holy exercises that when the day of my death shall come in the midst of all my paines I may feel the sweet refreshings of thy holy spirit comforting my soul sustaining my infirmities and releeving all my spirituall necessities and grant that in the Vnity of the holy Catholique Church and in the integrity of Christian faith with confidence and hope of thy mercy in great love towards thee in peace with my Neighbours and in charity with all the world I may through thy grace depart hence out of this vale of misery and go unto that glorious country where thou hast purchased an inheritance for us with the price of thy most precious bloud and raignest in it gloriously in the Vnity of thy Father and ours of thy holy Spirit and our Ghostly Comforter ever one God world without end Amen II. A Prayer to be said at the beginning of a sicknesse O Lord my God who chastisest every one whom thou receivest and with thy Fatherly correction smitest all those whom thou consignest to the inheritance of sonnes write my soul in the book of life and number me amongst thy Children whom thou hast smitten with the rod of sicknesse and by thy chastisements hast brought me into the Lot of the righteous Thou O Blessed Iesu art a helper in the needfull time of trouble lay no more upon me then thou shalt enable me to beare and let thy gentle correction in this life prevent the insupportable stripes of thy vengeance in the life to come Smite me now that thou mayest spare me to all eternity and yet O blessed High Priest who art touched with a sense of our infirmities smite me friendly and reproove me with such a tendernesse as thou bearest unto thy Children to whom thou conveyest suppletory comforts greater then the paines of chastisement and in due time restore me to health and to thy solemne assemblies again and to the joy of thy Countenance Give me patience and humility and the grace of repentance and an absolute dereliction of my selfe and a resignation to thy pleasures and providence with a power to do thy will in all things and then do what thou pleasest to me only in health or sicknesse in life or death let me feel thy comforts refreshing my soul and let thy grace pardon all my sinnes Grant this O Blessed Iesu for my trust is in thee onely thou art my God and my mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen III. A Prayer to be said in the progresse of a sicknesse O Lord my God Blessed Iesu who by thy bitter death and passion hast sweetned the cup of death to us taking away it's bitternesse and sting and making it an entrance to life and glory have pitty upon me thy servant who have so deep a share in sinne that I cannot shake off the terrors of death but that my nature with it 's hereditary corruption still would preserve it selfe in a disunion from the joyes of thy Kingdom Lord I acknowledge my own infirmities and begge thy pitty It is better for me to be with thee but the remembrance of my sinnes doth so depresse my growing confidence that I am in a great streight between my feares and hopes betwen the infirmities of my Nature and the better desires of conforming to thy holy will and pleasure O my Deare Redeemer wean my soul and all my desires from the flatteries of this world pardon all my sinnes and consigne so great a favour by the comforts and attestation of thy divinest Spirit that my own feares being masterd my sinnes pardoned my desires rectified as the Hart thirsts after the springs of water so my soul may long after thee O God and to enter into thy Courts Heavenly Father if it may be for thy glory and my ghostly good to have the dayes of my pilgrimage prolonged I begge of thee health and life but if it be not pleasing to thee to have this cup passe from me thy will be done my Saviour hath drunk off all the bitternesse Behold O Lord I am in thine hands do with me as seemeth good in thine eyes though I walke through the vally of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord only who shalt make me to dwell in everlasting safety and to partake of the joyes of thy Kingdom who livest and raignest eternall God world without end Amen IV. A Prayer for a sick Person in danger of death O Lord Iesus Christ our health and life our hope and our resurrection from the dead I resigne my self up to thy holy will and pleasure either to life that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment or to death to the perpetuall enjoyment of thy presence and of thy glories Into thy hands I commend my spirit for I know O Lord that nothing can perish which is committed to thy mercies J believe O Lord that I shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the just I relinquish all care of that only I
desertion affliction or sadnesse but such as may be an instrument of thy glorie and their eternall comfort in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen IX A Prayer of a wife for her Husband O My God who hast graciously pleased to call me to the holy state of Matrimonie blesse me in it with the grace of chastitie with loyaltie obedience and complacencie to my Husband and blesse him with long life with a healthfull bodie with an understanding soule with abundance of all thy graces which may make him to be and continue thy servant a true son of the Church a supporter and a guide to me his wife a blessing and a comfort to his children through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen X. Of a Husband for his Wife O Mercifull God who art a Father to us thy Children a Spouse to thy holy Church a Saviour and Redeemer to all mankinde have mercie upon thy Handmaid my wife endue her with all the ornaments of thy heavenly grace make her to be holy and devout as Hester loving and amiable as Rachel fruitfull as Leah wise as Rebeccah faithfull and obedient as Sarah that being filled with thy grace and benediction here she may be partaker of thy glorie hereafter through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen XI For a Curate to say in behalfe of his Parish O Blessed Jesu thou that art an eternall Priest an universall Bishop and the Fountain of all ghostly good have mercy upon this Parish which thou hast concredited to my charge Lord I am unfit for so great a burden but by thy aide and gracious acceptation I hope for mercy pardon and assistance O Lord send thy holy Spirit to dwell amongst us let here be peace and charity and true Catholike Religion and holy Discipline Comfort the comfortlesse heale the sicke relieve the oppressed instruct the ignorant correct the refractory keep us all from all deadly sin and make them obedient to their superiours friendly to one another and servants of thy Divine Majestie that so from thy favour they may obtain blessings in their bodies in their soules in their estates and a supply to all their necessities till at last they be freed from all dangers and necessities in the full fruition of thy everlasting glories O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Iesu. Amen XII For a Parishioner to say in behalfe of his Curate O God Almighty who art pleased to send thy blessings upon us by the Ministration of the Bishops and Priests of thy holy Church have mercie upon thy servant to whom is committed the care of my soule that he by whose meanes thou art graciously pleased to advance my spirituall good may by thy grace and favour be protected by thy providence assisted by thy great mercies comforted and relieued in all his necessities bodily and ghostly through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen XIII For safe Child-birth O Blessed Iesu Son of the eternall God who according to thy humanitie wert borne of a holy Maid who conceived thee without sin and brought thee forth without pain have mercie upon me thy humble servant and as by thy blessing I have conceived so grant that by thy favourable assistance I may be safely delivered Lord grant me patience and strength and confidence in thee and send thy holy Angel to be my guardian in the houre of my travaile O shut not up my soule with sinners nor my life with them that go down into the pit I humbly also begge mercie for my childe grant it may be borne with it's right shape give it a comely bodie an understanding soule life and opportunitie of Baptisme and thy grace from the cradle to the grave that it may increase the number of Saints in that holy Fellowship of Saints and Angels where thou livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen XIV Before a journey O God who didst preserve thy servants Abraham and Jacob thy People Israel thy servant Tobias and the wisemen of the East in their severall journies by thy Providence by a ministerie of Angels by a pillar of fire and by the guidance of a Starre vouchsafe to preserve us thy servants in the way we are now to go Be O Lord unto us a Guide in our preparation a shadow in the Day and a covering by Night a rest to our wearinesse and a staffe to our weaknesse a patron in adversitie a protection from danger that by thy assistance we may performe our journey safely to thy honour to our owne comfort and with safetie may returne and at last bring us to the everlasting rest of our heavenly Countrey through him who is the way the truth and the life our blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Amen XV For afflicted persons O Lord God mercifull and gracious whose compassion extends to all that are in miserie and need and takest delight in the relieving the distresses of the afflicted give refreshment to all the comfortlesse provide for the poore give ease to all them that are tormented with sharpe paines health to the diseased libertie and redemption to the captives chearfulnesse of spirit to all them that are in great desolations Lord let thy Spirit confirme all that are strong strengthen all that are weake and speake peace to afflicted consciences that the light of thy countenance being restored to them they may rejoyce in thy salvation and sing praises unto thy Name who hast delivered their soules from death their eyes from teares and their feet from falling Grant this for the honour of thy mercies and the glorie of thy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen XVI For our Enemies O Blessed Iesu who wert of so infinite mercies so transcendent a charitie that thou didst descend from Heaven to the bowels of the earth that thou mightest reconcile us who were enemies to the mercies of thy heavenly Father and in imitation of so glorious example hast commanded us to love them that hate us and to pray for them that are our enemies I beseech thee of thine infinite goodnesse that thou wouldst be pleased to keep me with thy grace in so much meeknesse justice and affable disposition that I may so farre as concernes me live peaceably with all men giving no man occasion of offence and 〈◊〉 them who hate me without a cause I beseech thee give thy pardon and fill them with chaâ—iâ—â—e towards thee and all the world blesse them with all blessings in order to eternitie that when they are reconciled to thee we also may be united with the bands of Faith and Love and a common hope and at last we may be removed to the glories of thy Kingdome which is full of love and eternall charitie and where thou livest 〈◊〉 reignest ever one God world without end Amen XVII A Prayer to be said upon Ember-dayes O Mercifull Iesu who hast promised perpetuitie to the Church and a permanencie in defiance of all the powers of darknesse and the gates of hell and to this purpose hast constituted severall orders leaving a power to the Apostles and their Successours the Bishops to beget Fathers of our soules and to appoint Priests and Deacons for the edification of the Church the benefit of all Christian People and the advancement of thy service have mercie upon thy Ministers the Bishops give them for ever great measure of thy holy Spirit and at this time particular assistances and a power of discerning and trying the spirits of them who come to be ordained to the Ministerie of thy Word and Sacraments that they may lay hands suddenly on no man but maturely prudently and piously they may appoint such to thy service and the Ministerie of thy Kingdome who by learning discretion and a holy life are apt instruments for the conversion of soules to be examples to the People guides of their manners comforters of their sorrowes to sustaine their weaknesses and able to promote all the interests of true Religion Grant this O great Shepheard 〈◊〉 Bishop of our soules â—â—essed Iesus who livest and reignest in the Kingdome of thinâ—â—â—â—rnall Father one God world without end 〈◊〉 Sanctus Deus Sanctus Fortis Sanctus Immortalis FINIS