of God is not meat nor drink but righteousnes peace and ioy in the holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 But rather séeke ye after the kingdome of God all these things which are but accessaries and common as wel to the wicked as the godlie shal be ministred vnto you Luke 12.31 Feare not little flocke for it is your Fathers pleasure to giue you the kingdome which is the chefest thing that can be giuen Luke 12.32 In my Fathers house are manie dwelling places I goe to prepare a place for you So that there is not onely a place for Christ but for all that are his John 14.2 3. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen IN the roll of the booke it is written of me I desired to doe thy good will O my God yea thy law is within my hart Psal 40.7.8 That seruant that knew his Maisters will prepa red not himselfe neither did according to his will shal be beaten with many stripes Luk. 12 47. For this is the will of God euen your sanctification and that ye should abstaine from fornication And dedicate your selues wholy to God that euery one of you should know how to possesse his vessell in holinesse and honour His body that is prophaned by such filthinesse 1. Thes 4.3 4. And fashion not your selues like vnto this world but be ye chāged by the renewing of your mind that ye may prooue what is the good will of GOD and acceptable and perfect Whatsoeuer is not agreeable to Gods will is euill displeasant vnperfect Rom. 12.2 Wherefore be ye not vnwise but vnderstand what the will of the Lord is Ephes. 5.17 4. Giue vs this day our daily bread BEhold the eye of the Lord is vpon them that feare him he worketh that in mercy which man by no meanes can compasse and vpon them that trust in his mercie to deliuer their soule from death and to preserue them in famine Psal. 33 18.19 The eyes of all waight vpon thee and thou giuest them their meate in due season thou openest thine hand and fillest all things liuing with thy good pleasure Gods prouidence stretcheth both to man and beast Psal. 145.15 Man shall not liue by bread only but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of GOD. The order that God hath ordeined to maintaine his creatures by is here ment Deut. 8.3 Matth 4.4 The cheefe thing of life is water bread clothing lodging to couer thy shame Eccles. 29.23 Two things haue I required of thee denie mee them not before I die Remoue far from me vanitie lies giue me not pouerty nor riches feede me with foode conuenient for mee least I bee full deny thee and say Who is the Lord For Riches make men forget their Maker Or least I be poore and steale take the name of my God in vaine Prou. 30.7.8.9 When we haue foode and raiment let vs therwith be content 1. Tim. 6.8 5. And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. FOrgiue thy neighbour the hurt that hée hath don to thee for man ought not to seeke vengeance so shall thy sinnes be forgiuē thée also when thou prayest Should a man beare hatred against a man and desire forgiuenesse of the Lord He will shewe no mercy to a man which is like himselfe and will hée aske forgiuenesse of his owne sinnes Eccles. 28.2.3.4 Iudge not and ye shall not be iudged condemne not and ye shall not be condemned forgiue and ye shall be forgiuen Giue and it shall be giuen vnto you a good measure pressed downe shaked togeather and running ouer shal men giue into your bosome For with what measure you meate with the same shall men meate vnto you againe Luke 6.37.38 Loue your enemies doe well to them which hate you Luke 6.27 There shall be iudgement mercilesse to him that sheweth no mercy and mercie reioyceth against iudgement and feareth it not Iam. 2.13 6. And lead vs not into temptation BE sober and watch for your aduersarie the Diuell as a roring Lion walketh about séeking whom he may deuour 1. Pet. 5.8 In whom the God of this world euen Satan hath blinded the mindes that is of infidels that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ which is the image of God in respect of his office should not shine vnto them 2. Cor. 4.4 Whensoeuer a man heareth the word of the kingdome and vnderstandeth it not the euill one commeth euen the Diuell and taketh away that which was sowen in his hart Mat. 13 19. The Prince that ruleth in the aire euen the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes. 2.2 Loue not the world as it is aduersarie to God neither the thinges that are in the world If any man loue the world the loue of the Father is not in him c. 1. Iohn 3.15.16.17 We know that we are of God the whole world lieth in wickednesse al men as of them selues lie as it were busied in euill 1. Iohn 15.19 Know ye not that the amitie of the world is the enmitie of god Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world maketh himselfe the enimie of God Iam. 4.4 For all that is borne of God ouercōmeth the world and this is the victorie that ouercommeth the world euen our fayth Who is it that ouercommeth the worlde but hee which beleeueth that Iesus is the sonne of GOD 1. Iohn 5.4.5 That the righteousnesse of the law that which the law requireth might be fulfilled in vs which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit For they that are after the flesh sauour the thinges of the flesh their will vnderstanding reason wit all is fleshlie The wisdome of the flesh is death it is enmitie against God They that are in the flesh can not please God Rom. 8·4 7. But deliuer vs from euill Amen HElpe vs O GOD of our saluation seeing we haue none other Sauiour for the glory of thy name and deliuer vs. Psal. 69.8 In the day of my trouble I will call vpon thée for thou hearest me Psal. 86.7 There shall none euill come vnto thée He shall giue his Angels charge ouer thée to keepe thee in all thy wayes they shall beare thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foote against a stone Because he hath loued me Gods protection promised therefore will I deliuer him I will exalt him because he hath known my name He shall call vpon me and I will heare him I will be with him in trouble I will deliuer him and glorifie him c. Psal. 91.9.10.11.12 c. O Lord giue vs grace to learne this and liue thereafter Amen The beliefe of a Christian commonly called the Apostles Creede diuided into twelue Articles and expounded 1. I beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of heauen and earth HEare O Israel the LORD our God is Lord onely Deut. 6.4 Blessed be GOD euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ
passions of death I may lay fast hold vpon Iesus Christ my Sauiour hoping in him to liue who by his death purchased euerlasting life for all the faythfull O heare my prayer O God and let my cry come vnto thee for Iesus sake vnto whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all laude honour and prayse for euermore Amen A Prayer to leade our liues according to the law and will of God Giue me O Lord a mind and will To loue thy Law and it fulfill LOuing Lord and most mercifull Father thou that art righteous in thy workes iust in thy iudgements faithfull in thy words true in thy promises make me I heartily beseech thee alwayes plyant like Waxe both in mind and will to loue thy Law and to liue after the same Giue my heart the cleere light of true Christian knowledge that I hauing the eies of my soule broad waking may discerne betweene light and darknesse Christ and Beliall God and the Diuell Hell and Heauen the Flesh and the Spirit Guide thou O Lord all my goings by thy grace that all my thoughtes may rest vpon thée Gouerne thou my will and all mine affections that they may keepe within the limits of thy holie Law and Commaundements that all my endeauour may be directed to the accomplishment and fulfilling of thy Statutes and Ordinances so farre foorth as my weaknesse can wade through the rough waues of this most wicked world let thy spirit lead me to doe those things that please thy diuine maiestie that at the last day whē thou shalt sit vpon the Raine bowe treading the Cloudes of the skies vnder thy féete and compassed round about with legions of Angels Cherubim and Seraphim armies of Saintes and holy Martyres I may be receiued into the number of the elect and enter into possession of that inheritaunce which neither Gold nor Siluer but the precious Blood of thy beloued Sonne my swéete Sauiour Iesus Christ bought and purchased Grant this most mercifull Father for thy mercies sake which are vnmeasurable and for thy kindnesse sake which is vnsearchable and for thy tender loue sake which is vnspeakable Amen A Prayer to keepe our tongue from speaking ill From an ill tongue Lord make me cleane To great and small good fayrh to meane ALmighty God which canst not away with a double heart and to whom an euill tongue is fowle dishonour giue me grace I beséech thée to speake nothing but that which is true right and iust not hurting any with my tōgue which thou hast giuen mee to doe all men good and to vse as an instrument for the sounding foorth of thy prayse and glory And be cause a lying and an euill Tongue draweth the soul into death and destruction put backe I beséech thée from my lippes all guilefull speaches all deceitfull communications and al lying wordes Moreouer because thou O Lord art truth it selfe and therefore delightest in truth innocencie giue me grace alwayes to enure my tongue vnto truth abhorring all such talke as may offende thy diuine Maiestie and diminish the honour due vnto thy holy name Let thy sanctifying Spirit take charge ouer my heart that I may doe good vnto all and hurt vnto none vttering that with tongue which I meane in heart purposing as well in déede as in word nothing but good fayth true christianitie Grant this O God for Iesus Christs sake Amen A Prayer to fast and pray aright To Fast aright teach vs the way O Sauiour Christ we humbly pray MOst bountifull Iesu most sweet Iesu most louing Iesu which by thine example diddest teach vs to Faste aright not after the painted fashon of Pharisies and Hypocrites but according to the plaine manner of vnfeigned Christians I heartily humbly beséech thée to giue me grace to exercise my selfe in godly Fasting Prayer that the man of sinne may be subdued and brought vnder that my heart may be cleansed from all sinne and vnrighteousnesse that my thoughtes and cogitations may be scoured from corruption and filthinesse that my wordes may not smell of Heathenish vnholinesse wickednesse that my déedes may not be leauened with beastly wantonnesse but that the course of my whole life may be seasoned with the sauorie salt of sanctification that whatsoeuer I thinke whatsoeuer I say or whatsoeuer I do it may carry with it some signe of the true Fast namely the fast from sin vnto which fast whosoeuer apply themselues they are sure to be thy children and are builded vpon a stedfast hope to inherite that place of endlesse happinesse which thou boughtest with thy precious blod This fasting I beseech thee O sweete Sauiour giue me grace to exercise so shall my sinfull flesh bee kept in awe as a seruant and my Spirit shall beare rule ouer it and kéepe it in subiection This O Christ and whatsoeuer else is necessary vouchsafe of thy goodnesse to grant vnto me thy poore creature who aske it euen in zealous and hearty prayer Amen A Prayer against wilfull sins and snares of Satan From wilfull sinne Lord saue vs That Satan may not haue vs. Be vnto vs a brasen wale most mercifull Father against all the assaults of sinne specially preserue vs from wilfull offences and from transgressing of very malice which is a wheting of thy wrath against vs and a kindling of our owne confusion without hope of mercy at thy heauenly hands O Lord let vs not be so farre estranged from obedience as of set purpose to runne into contempt of thy glorious name let not our hearts become so flintie as to be void of all feeling of sorrow for sinne yea as to be emboldened to heape sinne vpon sinne to our vtter shame We know this is Satans séeking we are assured this is the Diuels drift we cannot be ignorant that this is Belsebubs intent therby to haue vs wiped in thy wrath out of the Booke of life and so he to haue full sway ouer vs as children of condemnation But thou O Lord art mercifull thou art gratious thou art carefull ouer vs defend vs therefore from all sinn and chiefely from the sin of wilfulnes and malice for the honour of thy name Amen A Prayer for the feare of the Lord and loue of his word Increase in me O Lord thy feare That to thy word I may giue eare ETernall God omnipotent Creatour whose word layd the foundation of the whole world furnished the same with all things behoofefull for the maintenance of man wee humbly beseech thee increase in vs a louing feare of thee and thy word that whatsoeuer we are inioyned and commanded to doe therein wee may rather neglect life lands goods all precious possessions then to leaue it vndone knowing that by hearing thy word wee vnderstand thy will which who so kéepeth they are assured in spirit to be thy faithfull seruants So fill vs therefore O God with this godlie feare that we stopping our eares and waxing dull against all worldly vanities may bee rauished
increase the same making thy glory the marke wherat to direct all my doings and thy word the rule to kéepe me within the compasse of thy will O Christ heare me O heare me sweet Sauiour which art the Well of life whereof whosoeuer tasteth hee shall neuer see Death Heare me O gracious Redéemer and let me féele inwardly the fruits of my faithfull prayer Amen A Prayer for Loue and Vnitie with all men To liue in loue all men among Giue grace O Christ to old and young LOrd Iesus thou Patterne of true and vnfeined loue yea of loue leading to life euerlasting without whom there can bee no loue or concord amōg men I beseech thee to heare the prayer of me thy poore seruant and that which I aske in spirit vouchsafe to giue me of thy free mercy And because loue is the fulfilling of the Law and the seale of saluation to the consciences of all Christians Furthermore for so much as thou hast commaunded vs to doe good to all men which cannot be vnlesse loue be the lampe to giue vs light I beséech thée to fill my heart with that loue yea to poure that loue abundantly into the hearts of all both old and yong that we may first and principally loue Almightie God the Father thée O Christ the Sonne and the holy Ghost with such a loue as is loath to turne the fauor of God into displeasure his gentlenesse into rigour his mercy into iudgement and his forbearance into vengeance Secondly to loue my Soueraigne Prince whom I am bound in conscience to obey to loue my superiors to loue mine equals to loue mine inferiors to loue mine enemies Finally to loue all and hate none that by this meanes I may dwel in God the Fountaine of loue who of méere loue for the saluation of the soule of man sent thee O my Sauiour into the world to suffer death vp on the crosse euen in the face of his enimies and persecutors Grant this O Christ to whom with the Father and the holie Ghost be all praise and glory for euermore Amen A Prayer for the hearing and true vnderstanding of the word of God To heare thy word and liue therein Vs to renew O Lord begin LIghten my heart O Lord GOD with the lampe of thy holy and blessed word which is the weapon of euery true Christian souldier and the sword of the spirit to cut off all the temptations of the Diuell the world and the flesh if it be vsed according to thy wil O Lord which art the giuer and author of the same And for so much O Lord as thy worde is the rule whereby wée are bound to direct all our doings and the square whereat to frame the whole course of our life I beséech thée to circumcise my heart that all carnall cogitations and thoughtes expelled and driuen out I may betake my selfe wholy vnto the reading hearing studying folowing of thy word which is the food of our soules the comfortable bread which killeth hunger and the pleasant drinke which quencheth thirst not the hunger thirst of the body against the which it hath pleased thée to prouide most healthfull remedies but the hunger and thirst of the soule which are no way else asswaged but by the vertue and heauenly working of thy word This word O Lord vouchsafe to make florish and fruitifie in vs that thereby wee may bée wonne to the worshipping of thée in true feare vnfained faith and perfect holinesse of life through Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen A Praier to God for forgiuenesse of manifold and grieuous sinnes My heart vncleane Lord circumcise And make my soule thy sacrifice IN sinne O Lord was my conception in sinne my education in sinne the whole course of my life Nothing is cleane and vnspotted in mée nothing is sound nothing perfect nothing holy nothing sanctified I am full of sinne and iniquitie my thoughts desires are attainted with sinne my labours and handy works are defiled with wickednes my words and communications are tempered with the leauen of iniquity my hart is corrupt putrified there is nothing sound in me but all mine entrails are infected and poysoned with sin the high way to euerlasting shame death and condemnation O miserable wretch that I am to whom shall I run for succour To whom shall I make my sorrowes knowne Before whom shall I powre my plaintes Art not thou the Samaritane which with the oyle of mercie souplest my festered woundes Art not thou the good Sephearde which bringest home the straying Shéepe to the shéepefold Art not thou the good Captaine which fightest in defence of thy Souldiers O yes Lord thou art euen he and doubtlesse had not the oyle of thy mercy healed my filthy Botches had not thy hand fetcht me home to the flocke had not thy loue and grace ouer shadowed me in danger I had rotted in my filthinesse I had perished in my wandering and I had béen vtterly ouerthrowne in combate O Lord my God circumcise my heart and clense it from all euill thoughts deuises imaginations consentes to sinne Sanctifie my soule renew my spirit and garnish mée with the garment of regeneration that I may become a swéete smelling sacrifice before thée a sacrifice of acceptable incense a sacrifice of holines righteousnes so shall I prayse thée in the assemblie of the iust extoll thy glorious name among thy people Amen A Prayer for to be setled in the Truth Thy Truth send downe Lord from aboue And giue me grace the same to loue ACcording to thy louing kindnesse O Christ heare the praiers of thy seruant that request which Hope inboldeneth mee to make vouchsafe in mercy to grant And because the Deuill is the father of all falshood and lying and thou the fountaine of all truth and righteousnes as thou saiest of thy selfe I am the Way the Truth and the Life therefore I beseech thee O gracious God Sauiour to plant in me the Trueth without the which all entrance into heauenly ioy is stopt vp to banish out of my heart which by nature is a nest of wickednesse all maner of sinne resisting the Truth And for so much as Truth is a pearle of price and a Iewell of great value to the godly the ornament of the faythful and the treasure of the true Christian therefore I beséech thée O Christ giue me grace to thirst after truth to hunger after the taste of that heauenly foode that my desiring soule may be succoured my longing heart refreshed euen with the fulnes of the same And wheras by nature we are bōdslaues of sinne and by that meanes vtter enemies of truth we beseech thee notwithstanding to make vs partakers of mercy and not of iudgement remembring that thy death and bloodshed paid the price of redemption for all mankinde Thou God of truth heare my prayer and let the suite of me thy poore Seruant come before thy presence and that which I haue asked with
boldnesse vouchsafe to graunt of thy speciall goodnesse Amen A Prayer to leade our life according to the will of God To doe thy will teach me O Lord And let my life thereto accord MOst mighty most iust most mercifull most louing most tender deare Father forsomuch as there is no way to heauen but by doing thy wil we say with humblenes of heart as Iesus â—hrist thy Sonne and my swéete Sauiour hath taught Fiat voluntas tua sicut in Coelo in Terra Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heauen And because it is thy will that we should walk in holines and righteousnes before thée all the dayes of our life we beséech thée to be the Schoolemaster of our Soules and Spirites that thy Wisedome instructing and teaching vs to make a difference betwéene good and bad we may follow the one and forsake the other considering that the doers of thy wil and not the knowers of the same shal be partakers of the promises of life and saluation For thy Sonne Iesus Christes sake my onely Sauiour and Redeemer grant this request O most gracious God both vnto mee and to all thy people Amen A Prayer to fast and abstaine from sinne To fast from Sinne is Christians ioy My heart thereto O Lord employ LOrd God maker of heauen earth Iudge of the quicke and the dead thou that by wisedome séest all things and by thy prouidence orderest all creatures wee beséech thée to cast thine eyes of care and compassion vpon vs miserable sinners who from the day of our birth haue liued in wantonnes and all kind of wickednes therby kindling thy wrath and Iustice against vs to our confusion O let vs yet at length haue our eyes opened and sée the brightnesse of thy glorie which the blindnesse of our minds will not suffer vs to behold Let vs not pamper our selues in securitie lyuing out of rule and abandoning all godlinesse which is a kinde of surfetting in iniquity and ouercharging our hearts with heapes of abominations but let vs become new Schollers in the Schoole of Christianitie walking warily redeeming the time louing light and detesting darknesse O Lord vouchsafe to be mindfull of vs thy creatures and of thine owne glory which art our Creator Teach vs to fast aright not superstitiously in abstaining from this or that kind of meate vsing a vaine order in dyet and differences of meates but as thine holy ones haue in times past fasted the true Fast which thou in thy Word requirest so grant I beséech thee that I and all people may fast after the same fashion to fast from sin wickednes that the flesh may bee brought into subiection and the spirit quickened Graunt this O Lord for thy Sons sake Iesus Christ my Redéemer and Sauiour Amen A Praier for grace to forsake euill and to follow that which is good From Heauen O God send vs thy grace Ill to forsake and good t' imbrace ALmightie God I beseech thee to giue mee true vnderstanding knowledge not onely to confesse thée a most mercifull Father but also an vpright Iudge fauouring thy children which liue within the compasse of thy Commandements and punishing offendours which run headlong into all mischiefe not once looking backe to the written Tables of the law And because it standeth not with the frailtie of man to fulfill the summe of the law vpon the breach whereof condemnation doth insue we beseech thée to inrich our harts with the treasure of thy Grace that we waxing wealthy therewith may be able to withstand all the assaults of Satan our subtile aduersarie Moreouer good GOD forsomuch as this Grace of thine is the badge of thy fatherly affection and guydeth the thoughts the words the déedes of euery Christian wée besech thée to shield vs with the same that wée may follow and stand stedfastly in that which is acceptable in thy sight renouncing the Deuill and his workes of darknesse and betaking our selues body and soule to the healthfull guiding of thy grace Amen A Prayer for the assistance of the Holy Ghost Th' assistance of the Holy Ghost Sweete Iesus spread in euery Coast. MOst comfortable Sauiour most victorious Captaine most triumphant Redéemer most mercifull Mediatour Iesus Christ thou beloued Sonne of the eternall God spread abroad the brightnesse of thy Maiestie to the consolation of all people And forsomuch as without thée the whole world is nothing else but a solitarie Wildernesse destitute of faith hope charitie loue gentlenes compassion forbearance and all other workes of Christianitie we beséech thée to be a gracious God as thou art an omnipotent God that where thy power is séene thy mercie may likewise be perceiued Let not thy creatures continue in ignorance of thée their Sauiour but so assist them with the present aide of thy comforting Spirit and the holy Ghost that they may sée in what by-wayes of destruction dangers they trauerse Let thy holy Ghost be their lodesman let the holy Ghost be their teacher let the holy Ghost be their right hand and their left let the holy Ghost be to them all in all that they being thus inspired filled with the power of thy sanctifying Spirit may feele in themselues a spiritual inclination working all desires of the flesh being cut off cast away and may also be receiued into thy shéepfold be reckoned among the number of the faithfull Graunt this O Christ thou tender Sauiour of our soules Amen A Prayer against Wrath and Malice From hatefull heart and fraught with ire Saue vs O Lord wee thee desire BOuntifull God which hast giuen vs commandement to loue all men and to hate none to be angry but not to sinne to be displeased a little but not to let the Sunne set vpon our wrath wée beséech thée to purge our heartes cleane from all hatred from all enuie from all malice from al vncharitablenesse from all vntowardnesse from all bitternesse from all quarrelling from all misreporting from all backbyting from all reuengement seeking sinally from al the motions of a wicked spirit Let loue banish hate let friendlines displace vnkindnes let charitie remooue ouerthwartnes let forbearance dispossesse maliciousnes al which are most shamefull sinnes and so hatefull in thy sight O God that he is no Christian but an Antichristian no child of blisse but of Baall no heire of Heauen but of Hell no vessell of election but of reprobation no partaker of ioy but of woe no souldier of the Church but of the Synagogue in whom they beare rule And therefore most gracious God root out of our hearts all such wéedes of wickednesse that we may become new griftes of righteousnesse through Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen A Praier for obedience to the keeping of Gods Commandements To liue within the rule of Law keepe vs O Lord in feare awe EVerlasting God whose name is so glorious that it passeth the capacitie of man to giue it due aduancement we beséech thée of thine
holinesse Mark 12.31.33 Let your conuersation be without couetousnesse be content with those thinges that ye haue Heb. 13 5. Godlinesse is great gaine if a man be content with that he hath Religion is the true riches 1. Tim. 6.6 A foolish mans foote is soone in his neighbours house but a man of experience is ashamed to looke in Eccles. 21.22 Follow not thy lusts but turne thee from thine owne appetites for if thou giuest thy soule her desires it shall make thine enimies that enuie thee to laugh thee to scorne Eccle. 18.30 Let not sinne therefore reigne in your mortall body that ye should obey it in the lustes thereof The mind first ministreth euill motions wherby mans will is enticed thence burst foorth the lustes by them the body is prouoked and the body by his actions doth sollicite the minde therfore we are commanded at the least to rule our bodies Rom. 6.12 Sit not at al with another mans wife neither ly with her vpon the bed nor banquet with her least thine heart incline vnto her and so through thy desire fall into destruccion Eccl. 9 11. Giue me thy vineyard that I may make me a garden of hearbes thereof c. Achabs inordinate lust after Naboths inheritance sharpely punished 1. Kin. 21.2.4.6 c. If mine heart hath been deceiued by a woman to lust after her or if I haue laid waite at the doore of my neighbour let my wife grinde vnto another man and let other men bowe downe vpon her To abuse her Iob. 31.9.10 The leprosie therefore of Naaman shall cleaue vnto thee to thy séed for euer To be an example to all such as by whose couetousnes Gods word might be slaundered because Gehazi was the seruant of Elisha the Prophet named in Scripture The man of God 2. King 5.27 Lord haue mercie vpon vs and by the operation of thy holy Spirit incline our heartes to keepe these Lawes Amen The necessarie appurtenances belonging to this Conduit The Cesterne to this Conduit A Cesterne to this Conduit of Comfort must haue The water thence flowing vnsoyled to saue Of this vnprouided no Christian should bee The nature and vertue thereof if they see And therefore neglect not so precious a thing Which beside other benefites Gods blessing doth bring A Cesterne is required heere To keepe this Conduit-water cleere For precious Pearles and Oyntment sweet Must places haue for them most meete Haue care to keepe thy Conscience cleane This is the Cesterne which I meane It must be swept it must be scowrd Before this water in be powrd Pure wine which hath a fragrant in all Into a Pot not sauouring well The Wine will change the vertue gon This hurt doth follow therevpon Euen so a Conscience soyld with sinne Corrupt and cankred all within With diuelish thoughts vngodly lusts Vile auarice in wealth which trustes Neglecting God the well of wealth And vnto his the horne of health A Conscience staind and blemisht thus If we perceiue to lodge in vs The grace of God ecclipsed is So that we must needs doe amisse For leâ— vs learne and beare away Our conscience doth our deedes bewray And layeth load with heaue and shoue At vs before the Lord aboue And as in Courtes where Iudges sit The custome is not to acquit Vh'offender of his foule offence Except there come in euidence And make his cauâ—e vpright and good Dischargd is he trueth vnderstood Euen so it fares with euerie one whose sinnes to such excesse is growne That in themselues their conscience sits And Serpent like against them spits Ten thousand thousand sore complaintes And with sharpe torments them attaines Thus doth their conscience them arraine And to confesse doth them constraine All such misdeedes as they haue done So that into Gods curse they runne Which threatens death and hell to such As of this world haue made so much That truth contemnd lies vnder foote The plants thereof rent vp by roote Gods word and will is set at nought An euill conscience this hath wrought A conscience voyd of Gods good grace Not hell it selfe so ill a place This is the worme which euer gnawes The corsiue salue which sharply drawes This is the fire which fiercely burnes And all our ioyes to torments turnes In such a place no rest can dwell And why it is a verie Hell O well are they that liue vpright Pleasing the Lord with all their mi Keeping his law hearing his word To cut downe sinne the spirituall sword For why all such shall feele within A conscience cleare from spots of sinne And puâ—ifide it may persume The fragrant flowers and sweete perfume Of godlie praier vnto the Lord To sacrifice with heartie accord This is the Cesterne marke it well Of dregs or leeze which must not smell For if it doe this Conduit spout No drop of comfort yeeldeth out A conscience pure therefore possesse And things amisse with speed redresse Least this sweete Conduit being shut From hope of comfort thou be put In summe if thou Gods child wilt be And wouldst that prayer should comfort thee Prepare thy heart thy minde apply Thy conscience seeke to sanctifie Amend thy life imbrace that 's good And fire thy fayth on Christes blood Then shall thy prayers sweetly smell Before the Lord and like him well And thou shalt haue thy hearts desire And vnto hope of health aspire Which grant O God vnto vs all To whom by fayth for grace we call That we may pray and praying please Thy Godhead and thy wrath appease O people we thrice happy then Graunt this O God Amen Amen The Pipe to this Conduit A Pipe to this Conduit by leuell is layd where through pleasant liquor of life is conuaid This Pipe and the Cesterne are ioyned in one Both must be imbraced or both let alone Which that with reâ—oycing each christian may doe Th' almightie by prayer must be sued nto THe Pipe is peace more worth then Gold A Iewell for no riches sold. It is not peace twiâ—t King and King Although this be a precious thing For where in peace Kings weare the Crowne There all dissention is cast downe There people liue in hearty loue There is no cause to fend and proue Their high estates such dutie haue As their degrees and callings craue Th' inferiour knowes and vnderstands What their superiours state demaunds The baser to the better bowes And seruice due likewise allowes There is no grudge there is no strife Where people passe in peace their life The seedes which we in soyle doe sow Spring vp and spread increase and grow Vnto our charge we haue an eye Our labours doe our lackes supply We worship God His name we feare And to our Prince true heartes we beare Among our selues in loue we liue These are the fruits which peace doth giue But yet the peace which doth surmount All precious thinges that we can count It is not peace twixt man and man Which no long time continue can It is