Commandements Grant we beseech thee Almighty God that the words which we have heard this day with our outward eares may through thy grace be so graffed inwardly in our hearts that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living Sanctify and wash these children with the Holy Ghost Prayer 1. in Baptisme that they being delivered from thy wrath may be received into the Arke of Christs Church being stedfast in faith joyfull through hope and rooted in charity may so passe the waves of this troublesome world that finally they may come to the land of everlasting life I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father Cat in common prayer booke quest 13. who is the giver of all goodnes to send his grace unto me and to all people that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to doe Daily increase in these thy servants Prayer 1. in confirm thy manifold gifts of grace the spirit of wisdome and understanding the spirit of counsaile and ghostly strength the spirit of knowledge and true godlinesse and fulfill them O Lord with the spirit of thy holy feare Almighty and everliving God Prayer 3. which makest us both to will and to doe those things that be good and acceptable unto thy Majesty The Lord so fill you with all spirituall benediction and grace that you may so live together in this life The Blessing in marriage that in the world to come you may have life everlasting Send thy blessing upon these thy servants Prayer 2. in Matrim that they obeying thy will and alwayes being in safety under thy protection may abide in thy love to their lives end Grant that this man may love his wife according to thy word Prayer 4. and also that this woman may be a follower of holy and godly Matrons Almighty God poure upon you the riches of his grace sanctifie and blesse you Prayer 5. in Matrim that ye may please him both in body and soule and live together in holy love unto your lives end Give this thy servant grace so to take thy visitation Prayer 2. in visita of the sicke Prayer 3. that after this painfull life ended he may dwell with thee in life everlasting Renew in this thy servant most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the Devill or by his owne carnall will and frailenesse Thou most worthy Judge eternall Sentence 4. in the buriall Last prayer in buriall suffer us not at our last houre for any paines of death to fall from thee We meekly beseech thee O Father to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousnesse O Holy Ghost Visit our mindes and unto us Veni Creator Spiritus thy heavenly grace inspire That in all truth and godlinesse we may have true desire To us such plenty of thy grace In the same bymne good Lord grant we thee pray That thou mayst be our comforter at the last dreadfull day Grant we pray not with lips alone Lords pray by D. Coxe Prayer last in order Deacons But with the hearts deepe sigh and grove Make these Deacons to be modest humble and constant in their ministration to have a ready will to observe all spirituall discipline that they continuing ever stable and strong in thy Sonne Christ may well use themselves in this office Almighty God our heavenly Father Prayer 2. in Consecr of Bishops who hath given you a good-will to doe all these things c. Governe us by thy holy Spirit to frame in us a newnesse of life therein to laud and magnifie thy blessed name for ever Prayers in the fast 1625. Coll. 1. and to live every one of us according to the severall state of life whereunto thou Lord hast ordained us in godly feare and trembling before thee Grant us grace and true repentance stedfast faith Prayers in the fast 1625. Coll. 1. and constant patience that whither we live or die we may alwayes continue thine and ever praise thy holy name and by thy great mercy be pertakers of grace in this life eternall glory in the life to come Grant us a due care and conscience in our selves to use all good meanes of recovery Prayer 6. added to the Letany that neither we tempt thy Majesty by presumption in contemning of the contagion or neglecting of the meanes of avoiding removing and repressing the same neither despaire of thy goodnesse or murmure against the providence if we be not so soone eased and delivered as we desire but that we may submitting our selves in all things to thy good will and pleasure seeke thy mercifull favour for our release and succour by true faith and repentance use the meanes for ease which thou givest us with care and diligence helpe the afflicted and preserve the whole with compassionate pitty and charity and finally depend upon thy providence and waite for thy gracious deliverance with constant hope and patience Send us light in our understanding Prayers in the fast 1626. Pray 1. added to Letany Art 10. readinesse and obedience in our will We can doe nothing pleasing to God without Gods grace through Christ preventing us that we may have a good will and working with us when we have a good will In the man that is born again the understanding is inlightned Rogers on that Art Prop. 3. and the minde wholly changed and the body is made able to produce good works They that are predestinated are both justified by faith Prop. 7. on Art 17. and sanctified by the Spirit and shall be glorified in the life to come Grant that the King may through thy grace in all honour Prayer for March 27.1 Pr. added to Letany Last prayer save one vertue and godlinesse continue his glorious reigne over us many yeers Blesse the Kings royall allyance with the dew of thy heavenly Spirit that they ever trusting in thy goodnesse and protected by thy power may after death obtain eternall glory The Scriptures have power to turn through Gods promise Hom. of exhort to read Script Part. 1. In the same place Part. 2. and be effectuall through Gods assistance In reading Gods word he profits most that is most turned into it that is most inspired with the holy Ghost Read not the Scriptures without daily praying to God that he would direct your reading to good effect In the same place Ser. of Salu. Part. 1. In the same place Serm. of Truth Part. 1. Sermon against adultery In the same place Let us pray to God that we may speak think beleeve live and depart hence according to the wholsome doctrin of the Scriptures True faith is not ours but by Gods working in us A true and lively faith is the gift of God God gave the Fathers then grace to be his children as he doth us now We are sanctified and made holy by the blood of Christ through
thy honour and glory Make us so follow the doctrine Coll. on S. Iohn Bapt. and holy life of Saint Iohn Baptist that we may truly repent and constantly speak the truth boldly rebuke vice and patiently suffer for the truths sake Make we beseech thee all Bishops and Pastours diligently to preach thy holy word Coll. on S. Peter and the people obediently to follow the same Grant that we forsaking all worldly and carnall affections Coll. on S. Iames. may be evermore ready to follow thy commandements Grant us grace to follow thy holy Saints in all vertuous and godly living Collect. on All Saints Prayer after every command Ser. against perill of idol 2. Part. Serm concerning Pr. 1. Part. 1. Part. of Serm. for Rog. week In the same place Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Let us beseech God that we may flee from all idolatry God for his great mercy sake so work in our hearts by his holy Spirit that we may alwayes make our humble prayers unto him as we ought to do Let us call upon the father of mercy that we may be assisted with the presence of his holy Spirit and demeane our selves in speaking and hearing to the salvation of our souls If we should aske the Saints in heaven whence came their glorious works which they wrought in their lives Esay saith O Lord it is thou of thy goodnesse that hast wrought all works in us Grant that this thy rod Prayers for the Fast 1625. 2. Prayer added in the Letany Thanksgiving 1625. Collect. 1. In the same book 3. Prayer after the Gospel may by thy heavenly grace speedily work in us the fruit and effect of true repentance unfainedly turning and converting unto thee and perfect amendment of our whole lives Give us such effectuall grace that we looking every one of us into the plague of his own heart may abhorre our own corruptions and turn from our evill wayes We most humbly beseech thee to poure thy heavenly grace into our hearts that we may learn to turn unto thee from our wicked wayes CHAP. X. Of Gods governing us SEeing after we are regenerated and have spirituall life wrought in us we still need Gods help to govern us it must needs follow that being spiritually dead by nature we could not be made alive by a morall swasion but by a powerfull work of God That we still need Gods governing grace appeares by authorised books GRant that our doings may be ordered by thy governance Morning Prayer Coll. 3. to do alwayes that is righteous in thy sight We beseech thee Coll. on 5. Sunday in Lent that by thy great goodnesse thy people may be governed and preserved evermore both in body and soul Lord from whom all good things do come Coll. on 5. Sund. after Easter grant us thy humble servants that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy mercifull guiding may performe the same Lord make us to have a perpetuall feare and love of thy holy name Coll. on 2. Sund. after Trinity for thou never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast love Grant that the course of this world may be so ordered by thy governance Coll. on 5. Sund. after Trinity that thy congregation may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietnesse O Almightie Lord everliving God vouchsafe Short Pray after Com. Prayer 2. we beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both our hearts and bodies in the wayes of thy laws and in the works of thy commandements Defend O Lord Prayer in Confirm Hom. of Matrim this child with thy heavenly grace that he may continue thine for ever Married persons must crave the help of Gods Spirit so to rule their hearts that their minds be not desevered Use oft prayer to God In the same Hom. that he would be present by you that he would continue concord and charitie betwixt you We pray that God by his holy Spirit would illuminate and govern the hearts of all such Now. Cat. quest 206. as be of his Cuurch wherein he reigneth specially as in his kingdome As thou hast by Gods guiding quest 251. first conceived this minde and will so shalt thou by his grace attain to a happy end of this thy godly study and indeavour CHAP. XI Of Gods preserving us in godlinesse and from sinne AS the power of God manifests it selfe at first in regenerating us so may it evidently be discerned afterwards in resisting Satans temptations and keeping us in the wayes of piety If an effectuall worke of God be sometimes needfull to keepe us from grosse idolatry in heavy temptations then is it much more needfull to keepe us from evill thoughts and in pious meditations with delight Our flesh is quickly weary of good wayes and easily inclining to evill after we are regenerate If now besides the strength of that working grace which God put into us at first there be need of an effectuall helpe of grace still then was there at first when we were able to doe nothing need not of a stocke that we might use well or ill but of an effectuall work of grace to worke faith and repentance in us Now what need we have of Gods preserving helpe let the bookes speake VOuchsafe Te Deum O Lord to keepe us this day without sinne From all evill and mischiefe Letany from sinne from the crafts and assaults of the devill from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindnesse of heart from pride vaine-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablenesse Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devill Good Lord deliver us That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant Letany Charles our most gracious King and Governour Lord make us to have a perpetuall feare and love of thy holy name Coll. Sund. 2. after Trin. Sund. 7. Nourish us with all goodnesse and of thy great mercy keepe us in the same Lord we beseech thee grant thy people grace to avoid the infections of the devill Sund. 18. Lord we beseech thee to keepe thy houshold the Church in continuall godlinesse Sund. 22. Almighty God confirme and strengthen you in all goodnesse Absolv at the Communion Cat in book of Com. Pr. quest 13. Pr. 3. in vis of the sicke Veni Creator I pray unto God that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keepe us from all sinne and wickednesse Preserve and continue this sicke member in the unity of thy Church Strength and stablish all our weaknesse so feeble and so fraile That neither flesh the world
nor devill against us doe prevaile In the same hymne And grant O Lord that thou being our leader and our guide We may eschew the snares of sinne and from thee never slide Onely thy grace must be my stay Humble suit of sin least that I fall downe flat And being downe then of my selfe cannot recover that Lord keepe our King and his councell Prayer to the Holy Ghost before Serm. Hom. of faith Part. 3. Hom. of Inform of them which take offence c. Part. 1. In the same place and give them will and might To persevere in thy Gospel which can put sinne to flight It is God that must be our defence and protection against all temptation of wickednesse and sinne Noah and Lot godly men which otherwise felt inwardly Gods holy Spirit inflaming them in their hearts with the feare and love of God could not by their owne strength keepe themselves from committing horrible sinnes We must therefore acknowledge our owne infirmity and weaknesse and pray more earnestly to God incessantly for his grace to strengthen us and to defend us from all evill It is of the goodnesse of God Serm. for Rogat week Part. 3. that we faint not in our hope unto him It is verily Gods worke in us the charity wherewith we love our brethren If after our fall we repent it is by him that we repent which reacheth forth his mercifull hand to raise us up If any will we have to rise it is he that preventeth our will and disposeth us thereto Pray God to defend and maintaine you in marriage Hom. of Matrim Now. Cat. quest 206. that ye be not overcome with any temptations We pray that God would strengthen the members of his Church with his aide and power as his souldiers that they may earnestly fight against and subdue the devill the world and the lusts of the flesh We pray God not to suffer us to be overcome with any wicked temptation but that he will deliver us quest 224. and save us from all evill Direct our steps in thy word Psal for Even and so shall our feet be kept from falling and no wickednesse shall have dominion over us Deliver us from the power of wicked spirits Even prayer there and from all sinne the workes of darknesse and from all other perils bodily and ghostly CHAP. XII Of the progresse of the Regenerate THe servants of God that are regenerate though they be able to doe spirtuall actions by vertue of that grace they have received yet so unperfectly that they cannot make any great progresse in godlinesse without further helpe of Gods grace they acknowledge that they have of Gods assistance to bring into action their good cogitations so violently are they opposed by the remainders of fleshly corruption Now if the regenerate have need of Gods grace to make a progresse how much more have they need of his effectuall grace that have no power to regenerate themselves as we say or at least not so much as the regenerate have to proceed as our adversaries must say unlesse they will put no difference betwixt spirituall death and spirituall life Let us now heare the testimony of the bookes in this particular Grant that we being regenerate Collect. on Christmas day and made thy children by adoption and grace may daily be renued by thy holy Spirit Nourish us with all goodnesse Sund. 7. after Trinity Sunday 14. after Trin. Prayer 3. in Baptisme Prayer in priv Bapt. Almightie and everlasting God give unto us the encrease of faith hope and charitie Encrease this knowledge and confirme this faith in us evermore Give thy holy Spirit to this infant that he being born again and being made heire of everlasting salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ may continue thy servant and attain thy promise Daily increase in these thy servants Prayer 1. in Confirm thy manifold gifts of grace the spirit of ghostly strength and true godlinesse and fulfill them O Lord with the spirit of thy holy feare Defend O Lord Prayer 2. there this childe with thy heavenly grace that he may continue thine for ever and daily increase in thy holy Spirit more and more untill he come unto thy everlasting kingdome O Lord increase our faith in us Prayer to holy Ghost before Ser. Prayer 3. in order of Priests and love so to abound c. We humbly beseech thee by the same thy Sonne to grant unto all us which either here or else where call upon thy name that we may shew our selves thankfull to thee for these and all other thy benefits and that we may daily encrease and go forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Sonne by thy holy Spirit Almightie God accomplish in you the good work Prayer 2. in Consecr of Bishops which he hath begun that ye may be found perfect and irreprehensible at the latter day Regard not the horrour of our sinnes Prayer in fast 1625. Coll. 1. but our unfained repentance Perfect that worke which thou hast begun in us Give unto us every day more earnest and unfeignned repentance Prayer 6. added to Letany there plant in our hearts by the grace of thy holy Spirit a setled feare of thy name and full resolution to lead the rest of our life in the carefull obedience of thy holy will in our callings and faithfull hope of a better life to come Lord we beleeve but do thou encrease our faith Prayer for season weather there our devotion our repentance and all Christian vertues Thou didst most graciously accept our undeserved repentance before thee Prayer against pestil in the fast 1626. we beseech thee to give us the grace of greater humiliation and to shew as yet further mercy Neither doth the holy Ghost think it sufficient Hom. for Whitsunday Part. 1. inwardly to work the spirituall and new birth of man unlesse he do also dwell and abide in him Whether the Prince be good or evill Hom. against wilfull rebel Part. 1. Thanksgiv Nov. 5. Pr. after 1. Coll. let us pray for him for his continuance and increase in goodnesse if he be good and for his amendment if he be evill Increase in us more and more a lively faith and fruitfull love in all obedience CHAP. XIII Of the prayers of holy men SVch as are indued with true grace already yet pray to God still for grace By which grace they do not entend a power to do well if they please for this they have already yea they had it before they did actually beleeve and by vertue of this power did beleeve as our adversaries say The grace then that Gods servants pray for that they may obey God is an actuall inclination of their will already regenerate to the effecting of those good desires that are in their souls Neither must we suppose that their prayers aime only at an indefinit power of doing well but at a
disobey the Gospel of truth preached They which be indued with so excellent a benefit of God that is predestination be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season Artic. 17. they though grace obey the calling they be made like the image of Christ In Christ Jesus of the meere will and purpose of God some are elected Mr. Rogers comment Prop. 5. and not others unto salvation Adversaries unto this truth Hereby is discovered the impiety of those men Mr. Rogers in the same place which think that God beheld in every man whither he would use his grace well and beleeve the Gospel or no and as he saw a man affected so did predestinate chuse or refuse him Such as be ordained to everlasting life Expos of Prop. 6. if they live long in this world they one time or other be called unto the knowledge of salvation by the preaching of Gods word they obey that calling through the operation of the Holy Ghost working within them The predestinate are both justified by faith Prop. 7. sanctified by the Spirit and shall be glorified in the life to come Divers be the effects of mans predestination Expos of Prop. 7. but chiefely it bringeth to the elect justification by faith in this life and in the life to come glorification c. as testify all the Churches in their confessions The word of God is the savour of life unto eternall life unto all those Hom. of inform of such as take offence at some places of Script Part. 2. Hom. of almes deeds Part. 2. whose hearts God hath purified by true faith God of his speciall favour toward them whom he hath appointed to salvation hath so offered his grace especially and they have so received it fruitfully that the spirit of God mightily working in them now unto obedience to Gods will they declare by their life and good deeds which cannot come but of the Spirit of God and his especiall grace that they are the undoubted children of God appointed to everlasting life All spirituall gifts and graces come specially from God Sermon for Rogat week Part. 3. Faith is the gift of God and by his power we are kept through faith unto salvation We shall never be able to avoyd sinne without the speciall grace of him Sermon of Repentance Part. 2. Ioh. 15. Now. Cat. quest 150. that doth say without me ye can do nothing All those whom God hath chosen he hath restored unto holinesse of life and innocency CHAP. IIII. Of Gods work in infants IT is evident out of the first Chapter that men are as dead to God by nature as infants and as unable to repent and beleeve Now children are not spiritually quickned by power of any morall swasion but by an effectuall divine operation as the books in sundry places affirme SAnctifie these children and wash them with the holy Ghost Publike Baptisme Prayer 1. We call upon thee for these infants that they coming to thy holy Baptisme Prayer 2. may receive remission of their sins by spirituall regeneration O mercifull God grant The short prayers after the promise made by the sureties that the old man in these children may be so buryed that the new man may be raised up in them Grant that all carnall affections may die in them and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in them Grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our office and ministry may also be endued with heavenly vertues CHAP. V. Of the giving of internall grace to men THose places that affirme that God gives grace as faith and repentance and the like prove that God doth more then perswade externally or give some power that men may beleeve or repent because they say that God gives the things themselves God is not the giver of that which we attain to only by his perswasion nor chiefly to be commended for it but he that attains to it as on the contrary the devill was not the authour of Adams sinne nor chiefly to be condemned for it because he did but perswade him to it Adams own will did it and himself was most to be blamed for it So in all Logick and Law the actour is the principall the Counsellers are instruments and accessaries And Kings were ever held above their Councell and more praise worthy for doing well then they for advising Now that God gives us those graces let us heare out of the Records Lord from whom all good things doe come Collect. 5. Sunday af-Easter Collect. 7. Sunday after Trinity Sunday 23. Prayer 1. in Matrim Lords prayer by D. Cox Lord which art the author and giver of all good things God the author of all godlinesse O eternall God giver of all spirituall grace the author of everlasting life Thine Holy Ghost into us poure with all his gifts most plenteously See more to the same purpose in the Homily for Rogation weeke Part. 1.2.3 Now. Cat. quest 249. O God from whom all holy desires Even pray Coll. 2. all good counsailes and all just works doe proceed That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Councell and all the Nobility with grace The Letany The Letany Also Coll. 13. after Trin. That it may please thee to give to all thy people encrease of grace to heare meekely thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit Thou in thy gifts art manifold Come holy Ghost eternall God whereby Christs Church doth stand In faithfull hearts writing thy law the finger of Gods hand Wee beseech him to grant us true repentance Absolution Short prayafter the Creede Coll. Quin. sunday Coll. 7. sun after Trin. Prayer for Church mil. Reason 2. of Confirm Indue thy Ministers with righteousnesse Send thy Holy Ghost and poure into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity Graffe in our hearts the love of thy name Inspire continually the universall Church with the Spirit of truth unity and concord Confirmation is ministred to them that be baptised that by imposition of hands and prayer they may receive strength and defence against all temptations to sinne and the assaults of the world and the devill Arme and make strong thy feeble hoast Lords pray by D. Coxe with faith and with the Holy Ghost Every good and heavenly gift as faith hope Hom. of fast Part. 2. charity cometh onely and solely of God God give us grace to follow Christs example in peace and charity in patience and sufferance Pass Ser. 1. Thou hast received Christs body to have within Resur serm thee the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost for to dwell with thee to endow thee with grace to streng then thee against thine enemies By the assistance of Gods holy Spirit we be replenished with all righteousnesse In the same place by his power we are able to subdue all our
certaine event of spirituall power given them by God as appeares by those frequent expressions of the end of their desires in such phrases as these That we loving that thou requirest may obtain that thou promisest That we may continue thy servants and attain thy promises That they may so please thee in this world that in the world to come they may have life everlasting And many such like Their prayers do seek more for the furtherance of the will then for the illumination of the understanding And of such a will as is made good already They must needs then aime at a greater power of the will to good and a more effectuall direction of good thoughts to good actions because they seek for a certain effect which they aske in faith and God gives in mercy If they then yet pray for effectual grace then could they not be converted at the first without it What they pray for let us now observe HOwbeit ye cannot have a minde and a will thereto of your selves Order of Priests Exhort for that power and ability is given of God alone Therfore ye see how ye ought and have need earnestly to pray for his holy Spirit Let us earnestly call for grace Hom. of Swearing Part. 2. that all vaine swearing and perjury set apart we may onely use such oathes as be lawfull and godly and that we may truely without all fraud keepe the same according to Gods will and pleasure Let us pray that Kings may ever in all things have God before their eyes Serm. of obedience that they may have zeale to Gods glory that they may rightly use their sword and authority that they may most faithfully follow the Kings in the Bible Let us pray for ourselves that we may live godly in holy and Christian conversation In the same Hom. Let us beseech God that we being warned by his holy word Hom. against perill of idolatry Part. 2. Hom. of Prayer Part. 3. forbiding all idolatry may flee from all idolatry It is needfull daily to pray for the ministers that they may effectually preach the Gospell to the people and bring forth the true fruits thereof to the example of all other The confessing that all grace of the soule is Gods gift onely Hom. for Rogat week Part. 2. will make us to have recourse to God for all grace as the wiseman did for chastity Wisd 10. saying After I knew that otherwise I could not be chast except God granted it I made hast to the Lord and earnestly besought him from the bottome of my heart to have it Now if the aide of prayer be taken away Hom. of Matrim by what meanes can marryed persons sustaine themselves in any comfort For they cannot otherwise either resist the devill or yet have their hearts staid in stable comfort in all perils and necessities but by prayer If thy wife be wicked In the same Hom. chafe not in anger but pray unto Almighty God for her By prayer we may obtaine Gods helpe In the same Hom. his grace and defence and protection to continue without discord in marriage to a better life to come Which grant us he that dyed for us all These things being considered let us earnestly pray unto the living God our heavenly Father Serm. of Repent Part. 1. that he will vouchsafe by his holy Spirit to worke a true and unfained repentance in us We pray that Gods name may be called upon with pure mind by men of all ages Now. Cat. quest 203. quest 209. c. We pray that whatsoever betides us we may receive it with contented and gladsome hearts and that we may in all things be serviceable and obedient to God and that we rebell not nor repine not against Gods will I being of my selfe most weake and unable thereunto quest 249. must continually and earnestly sue by hearty prayer to God the giver of all good things for increase of faith and grace to please God CHAP. XIIII Of Gods grants WHat God grants unto his people that he doth not permit them to doe or give leave that they doe it themselves by strength of nature or some former grace received without any further help of God for God not hinder us from doing any good but give us free leave in his word So that there needs no new grant of leave to do well or to use well the strength we have received But Gods granting is giving some new spirituall strength or grace to use well the grace we have received If such grace be yet effectually granted to good men then could they not at first be made good without Gods effectuall operation We shall be briefe in this last point because all the prayers we have cited before are but expressions of Gods peoples desires and of Gods satisfaction which he gives unto the same GRant O most mercifull Father Confession that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Grant this day that we fall into no sin Coll. 3. Morning Pray Coll. Sund. in Advent neither run into any kinde of danger Blessed Lord God which hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning Grant us that we may in such wise heare them read marke learne and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort of thy holy word we may imbrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ Lord we beseech thee mercifully to receive the prayers of thy people which call upon thee Coll. Sund. after Epiph and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to doe and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Receive our supplications and prayers Coll. on good Frid. which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy congregation that every member of the same in his vocation and ministery may truely and godly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ Grant unto all them that be admitted into the fellowship of Christs religion Sund. 3. after Easter that they may eschew those things that be contrary to their profession and follow all such things as be agreable to the same Grant we beseech thee Almighty God Coll. on Ascens day that like as we doe beleeve thy onely begotten Sonne our Lord to have ascended into the heavens so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend and with him continually dwell Grant us by thy Spirit to have a right judgement in all things Coll. on Whitsunday and evermore to rejoyce in his holy Comfort Grant we beseech thee that we which have S. Coll. on convers of S. Paul Pauls wonderfull conversion in remembrance may follow and fulfill thy holy doctrine that he taught through Jesus Christ our Lord. Grant that we may with pure and cleane