godly life give me Grace that I may always most thankfully receive that inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life even for the same thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen LOrd give me that Grace that I may hold me still by thee and abide patiently upon thee That I may not grieve my self at the man whose way doth prosper nor against him that doth after evil counsels That I may leave off from wrath and let go displeasure lest I fret my self and be moved to do evil Amen * The Lord grant that here in me and for me he may be a consuming fire And O that my heart may be kindled with this fire that it may be an eternal light to me lest my soul burn in it unto everlasting punishment through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord make me like a green Olive-tree in thy House for I trust in thy tender mercie for ever And I will always praise thee for that thou hast done and hope in thy Name for ever Amen O Lord I beseech thee make me remember how much more than other men I have need to call upon thee My charge is great and my strength little O give me Grace to come often before thee and to ask that help which thou art readier to give than I to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Have mercie upon me O Lord Consider the troubles which I suffer of them that hate me O thou which didst lift me up from the gates of death Amen O Lord increase in me Faith and Devotion replenish my heart with all goodness and by thy great mercie keep me in the same Give me godly zeal in Prayer true humilitie in Prosperitie perfect patience in Adversitie and continual joy in the Holy Ghost even for Jesus Christ his sake my onely Lord and Saviour Amen O God who hast taught the hearts of thy faithful People by sending to them the Light of thy holy Spirit grant me by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoyes in his holy comfort through the ments of Christ Jesus our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unitie of the same Spirit one God World without end Amen ALmightie and everlasting God who hast given unto thy servants Grace by the confession of true faith to acknowledge theGlorie of the eternal Trinitie and in the power of the Divine Majestie to worship the Unitie I humbly beseech thee bless me also that I may live in the stedfastness of this Faith and through it be evermore defended from all Ghostly and Bodily dangers for thy mercies sake who 〈◊〉 and reignest one God world without end Amen O My God incline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and see O Lord forgive O Lord consider and do it for thine own sake O my God and for my Saviour Jesus Christ his sake Amen Lord let me not be afraid though one be made rich or though the glorie of his house be increased For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pomp follow him But ever make me afraid to offend thee Amen Mine eyes long sore for thy Word saying When wilt thou comfort me Lord comfort me for I am become like a bottle in the smoak yet let me not I beseech thee forget thy Law even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord God which seest that I put not my trust in any thing that I do mercifully grant that I may be defended against all Adversitie through Jesus Christ my Lord and onely Saviour Amen O Lord which hast taught us that all our doings without Charitie are nothing worth send thy Holy Ghost and pour into my heart that most excellent gift of Charitie the very bond of Peace and all Vertues without the which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee Grant this for thy onely Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord fill me with Grace that I may fulfil all the service which I owe thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God spare I beseech thee who shall raise up Jacob for he is small Spare him therefore O Lord spare thy People spare me Say unto my soul thou hast repented of the evil intended and it shall not be Amen Lord when I am asleep let me not be made afraid but let my sleep be sweet that I may be enabled to serve thee Amen Grant I beseech thee most merciful Father that I who for my evil deeds am worthily punished may by the comfort of thy Grace be mercifully relieved through Jesus Christ our onely Lord and Saviour Amen COnsider and hear me O Lord my God Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death Amen O Lord thou hast proved and visited my heart in the night-season thou hast tried me O blessed Father purge me that thou mayest find no wickedness in me through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord hear me that seven times a day I may praise thee and be acquainted with that great peace which they have that love thy Law Amen O Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto me thy humble servant that by thy holy inspiration I may think those things that are good and by thy merciful guiding may also perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen Entrance into the Church LOrd I will come into thy house upon the multitude of thy mercies and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy Temple O bless me that I may Amen Hear the voice of my humble Petitions O Lord when I crie unto thee in this place when I hold my hands towards the mercies sent of thy holy Temple even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings O Lord hear our desires and give an heritage unto those that pray unto thee and fear thy Name Amen O my God I will go into thy Gates with thanksgiving and into thy Courts with praise I will be thankful unto thee and speak good of thy Name For thou Lord art gracious thy mercie is everlasting and thy truth endureth from Generation to Generation Amen O Lord I love the habitation of thy House and the place where thine Honour dwelleth O shut not up my soul with impenitent sinners but give me plentie of thy Grace even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen In the Holy Sacrament * FOrgive me O Lord whatsoever I have transgrest against thee from the time of my infancie even to this very moment whether against knowledge or through ignorance at home or abroad sleeping or waking in thoughts words or deeds whether occasion'd through the fierie darts of our ghostly Enemie or by the unclean desires of my own
heart have mercie upon me and grant me pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God and most merciful Father give me I beseech thee that grace that I may duely examine the inmost of my heart and my most secret thoughts how I stand before thee Lord I confess all my sins and my unworthiness to present my self at thine Altar But thou canst forgive sin and give repentance do both gracious Father and then behold I am clean to come unto thee Lord make me a worthie Receiver of that for which I come Christ and remission of sin in Christ And that for his own mercie sake and thine Amen O Lord into a clean charitable and thankful heart give me Grace to receive the blessed Bodie and Bloud of thy Son my most blessed Saviour that it may more perfectly cleanse me from all dregs of sin that being made clean it may nourish me in Faith Hope Charitie and Obedience with all other fruits of spiritual life and growth in thee that in all the future course of my life I may shew my self such an ingrafted member into the Bodie of thy Son that I may never be drawn to do any thing that may dishonour his Name Grant this O Lord I beseech thee even for his merit and mercie sake Amen O Lord God hear my Prayers I come to thee in a stedfast Faith yet for the clearness of my Faith Lord enlighten it for the strength of my Faith Lord increase it And behold I quarrel not the words of thy Son my Saviour's blessed Institution I know his words are no gross unnatural conceit but they are spirit and life and supernatural While the World disputes I believe He hath promised me if I come worthily that I shall receive his most precious Bodie and Bloud with all the benefits of his Passion If I can receive it and retain it Lord make me able make me worthie I know I can no more die eternally than that Bodie and Bloud can die and be shed again My Saviour is willing in this tender of them both unto me Lord so wash and cleanse my Soul that I may now and at all times else come prepared by heartie Prayers and Devotion and be made worthie by thy Grace of this infinite Blessing the Pledge and Earnest of Eternal Life in the merits of the same Jesus Christ who gave his Bodie and Bloud for me Amen Almightie God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of my heart by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit that I may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O God the Father of Heaven who hast delivered thy onely begotten Son to death for us O God the Son Redeemer of the World who by thy precious Bloud hast cleansed us from our sins O God the Holy Ghost the Comforter who by thy Grace dost visit and establish the hearts of thy Saints O most holy high eternal happie ever blessed Trinitie O good Father holy Son loving Spirit by whose operation we receive our Being by whose love we obtain Grace and in contemplation of whom we hope for Glorie whose Majestie is unspeakable whose Power is incomparable whose Goodness is inestimable O thou that art the Lord both of Quick and Dead I adore thee I call upon thee and with the utmost affection of my heart I bless thee now and for evermore Amen * O Lord Jesu grant us while we live Mercie and Grace guide us thy Servants by thy perpetual Light grant to thy Church Truth and Peace grant me a most wretched sinner Repentance and Forgiveness Amen * O Lord I pray thee correct those that are in errour convert the unbeliever increase the Faith of thy Church root out of it all Heresies discover and confound her secret designing Enemies and break in pieces those that are openly fierce violent and impenitent through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O merciful Father let my Benefactors obtain eternal Rewards in Heaven for the benefits which they have bestowed upon me on Earth I pray thee also that thou wouldest vouchsafe to bring me together with those whom I have prayed for or whom I am bound to pray for and together with all the People of God into thy Kingdom that there we may appear in Righteousness and be fully satisfied with thy Glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O Lord how long wilt thou be angrie with thy servant that prayeth O Lord give me Grace and Repentance and thou canst not be angrie with my Prayer O Lord I am thine save me and deliver me not into the will of mine enemies especially my ghostly Enemies O Lord I am thy servant thy unprofitable wastful servant yet thy servant O Lord set my accounts right before thee and pardon all my mis-spendings and misreckonings O Lord I am thy son thy most unkind prodigal run-away son yet thy son O Lord though I have not retained the love and dutie of a son yet do not thou cast off I humbly beg it the kindness and compassion of a Father O Lord in thy Grace I return to thee and though I have eaten draugh with all the unclean Swine in the World in my hungrie absence from thee yet now Lord upon my humble return to thee give me I beseech thee the Bread of Life the Bodie and Bloud of my Saviour into my soul that I may be satisfied in thee and never more run away from thee even for Jesus Christ his sake that gave himself for me Amen * O merciful God who hast made all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made nor wouldest the death of a sinner but rather that he should be converted and live have mercie upon all Jews Turks Infidels and Hereticks and take from them all ignorance hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and so fetch them home blessed Lord to thy flock that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites and be made one Fold under one Shepherd Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Spirit one God World without end Amen * As I must one day appear and answer at thy dreadful Tribunal where there shall be no respect of persons so at this time ere the day of Judgment overtakes me I prostrate my self before thy holy Altar and being burdened by my own Conscience I lay open my evil thoughts and ungodly deeds before thee and thy glorious Angels I beseech thee O Lord regard my lowliness and forgive me all my sins which are more in number than the hairs of my head For what evil have I not design'd in my heart but many and most abominable things have I committed in very deed For I am guiltie O Lord of Envie Gluttonie c. All my Senses and all my Members have I polluted But
me that I may learn from thee what I ought to teach others concerning thee Amen Deliver me O Lord from the man that is evil and preserve me from the cruel man which imagines mischief in his heart and stirs up strife all the day long The proud have laid a snare for me and spread their net abroad with cords and set traps in my way Lord keep me from treacherous hands and preserve me that though they purpose yet they may not be able to overthrow my goings even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed give unto me and all thy servants that Peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen HAve mercie upon me O God have mercie upon me for my soul trusteth in thee and in the shadow of thy wings will I trust till these and all other my afflictions be over-past O send out thy mercie and truth upon me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O merciful Lord who comest not in to the proud heart humble thou my soul. O thou who art seen by those onely that are pure in heart give me true puritie of heart O Lord I am athirst for thee give me the pledge of the Inheritance which is to come give me at least a drop of thy heavenly showers to refresh my thirst for I burn with Love Neither do I beg this for my own merits for I am most unworthie so much as to tast it but for thy mercies and the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Almightie God vouchsafe I beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both my heart and bodie in the waies of thy Laws and in the works of thy Commandments that through thy mightie protection both here and ever I may be preserved by night and by day in bodie and in soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen O Lord I crie unto thee hearken unto me O God Thou holdest my eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak And in the night season my soul refuseth comfort yet even then give me grace especially that I may commune with mine own heart and search out my spirits and compose them in thee that I may rise to serve thee Amen Grant O Lord to me that am lying down to sleep rest both of bodie and soul. Preserve me from the dismal sleep of sin from all the black defiling pleasures of the night Quench the fierie Darts of the evil one which he aims craftily against me Subdue the Rebellions of my flesh and lay asleep in me all earthly and worldly thoughts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon my infirmities and for the glorie of thy Names sake turn from me and the rest of thy servants all those evils which we most justly have deserved And grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercie and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glorie through our onely Mediator and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FRIDAY * O Great God Almightie God God of infinite goodness whom we ought to believe and apprehend to be inviolable and incorruptible O thou Trinitie in Unitie whom the Catholick Church adores I that have experienc'd thy mercie in my self do most humbly entreat thee that thou wouldest not suffer those men to differ from me in thy Worship with whom I have perfectly agreed in all conversation from my Childhood and suffer thou not either me or them to wander from thy truth and salvation which is in Christ Jesus Amen Lord I will call upon thee and early shall my prayer come before thee Lord do not abhor my soul neither hide thy face from me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Lord make me to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name for thou never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast love Grant this even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie and everlasting God which of thy tender love towards man hast sent our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the Cross that all mankind should follow the example of his great humilitie mercifully grant that I may both follow the example of his patience and be made partaker of his resurrection through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almightie God I humbly beseech thee graciously to behold thy Familie for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was content to be betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked men and to suffer death upon the Cross who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Almightie and everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole bodie of the Church is governed and sanctified receive these my supplications and prayers which I offer up before thee for all estates of men in thy holy Church that every member of the same in his vocation may truly and devoutly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen * 'T Is now long O Lord that I have been striving against Heresies and I am almost tired Come my Lord Jesus thou most mightie Warrier thou Captain of the Armies of the Lord who hast overcome the Devil and the World lay hold on the shield and buckler and stand up to help me Amen Deal with me O God according to thy Name for sweet is thy mercie O deliver me for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me Lord save my soul. Amen Mine eyes are ever looking unto thee O Lord O pluck my feet out of the net Amen Almightie God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name I beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to me now that in his Name I make my prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which I have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of my necessitie and to the setting forth of thy glorie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Remember not my old sins but have mercie upon me and that soon for I am come to great miserie Help me O God of my salvat io n deliver me and be merciful unto my sins for thy Names sake Amen Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the praise and that for thy loving mercie and for thy truths sake Amen * O thou Father Son and Holy Ghost one God who hast declared unto us
the Unitie of the Deitie and hast revealed the undivided glorie of the onely ever-blessed Divinitie and demonstrated the perfect eternitie of thy Trinitie grant me I beseech thee Faith and Obedience in this life and Glorie in the life to come by and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Redeemer Amen O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angrie with thy poor servant that prayeth O turn me again O God shew the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen * Glorie be to thee glorie be to thee O Lord How great is the depth of thy mercie how great the abundance of thy patience Behold how some that have been raised from a mean and obscure degree to honour and renown under pretence of thy Name how they abuse their honour and use it against thee the Donor they are unjust and assume to themselves what they should not dare against thy most holy Mysteries they use their utmost to thrust out men of approv'd integrity that profligat men may with the greatest fecuritie and licentiousness put all things into confusion Arise O Lord and help thy Church and suffer not my soul to come into their counsels through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I will crie day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thine ear unto my calling for my soul is full of trouble and my life draws nigh unto the pit O let not thine indignation lie too hard upon me neither vex me with all thy storms but remember of what mould thou hast made me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * O Lord let me have no idle contention about words but let me constantly profess the Faith without delays Preserve in me I beseech thee an unblemished reverence to thy Faith and grant me this restimonie of my Conscience whilst I have my being that I may alwaies retain that Profession which I made at the Sacrament of my new Birth when I was baptized in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost That I may acknowledge thee the Father and together with thee may adore thy Son and may merit thy holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord be merciful unto me and I will sing praises unto thy Name yea I will tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season O bless me and fulfil all thy works of grace in me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen * Grant me O Lord a watchful mind and sober thoughts a pure heart and pleasant sleep and free from all diabolical phancies And raise me again O Lord at the hour of prayer that I may adhere firmly to thy precepts and keep an entire remembrance of thy Judgements Amen LOrd remember thy promise unto thy servant wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust That thy statutes may be my songs in the house of my pilgrimage and that I may remember thy Name in the night-season Amen * Into thy hands O Lord I commend my soul and bodie for thou hast created and redeemed them O Lord thou God of truth And together with my self I commend unto thee all that is mine for thou Lord hast graciously bestow'd them on me according to thy good pleasure Cause me therefore O Lord both to lie down and sleep in peace for it is thou onely makest me to dwell in safetie through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen * O Lord and maker of all things O God the Father and Governour of thine O thou disposer of Life and Death O thou preserver and benefactor of Souls O thou that makest all things and changest them by the creating Word which framed them both seasonably and wisely according to the depth of thy Wisdom and Providence govern thou my life in the flesh as long as shall be most expedient for me and thy Church And in thy good time receive me I beseech thee as one prepared not surprized so as I may not flie thee at the last day nor come with an unwilling mind like one forcibly broke off and snatcht away from this world but that I may go readily and chearfully to that most blessed and eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord to whom be glorie for ever and ever Amen * O Lord my God call me that I may come to thee fix me that I may not leave thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SATURDAY O Lord I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercie in the morning for thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of my trouble Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my defence and my merciful God Amen The glorious Majestie of thee O Lord my God be upon me prosper thou the work of my hands upon me O prosper thou my handie-work Amen O Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy Commandments from me for thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellors Lord continue that favour to me that so they may ever be Amen O Lord our heavenly Father Almightie and everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same with thy mightie power and grant that this day I fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that which is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O My soul wait thou still upon my God for my hope is in him he is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall So Amen Lord Jesu Amen O Lord God be merciful unto every one that prepares his whole heart to seek thee O Lord God the God of his Fathers though he be not according to the Purification of the Sancturie Amen O Lord I walk in the midst of trouble I beseech thee refresh me Stretch forth thy hand upon the furie and the cunning of mine Enemies that thy right hand may save me O make good thy loving kindness towards me and despise not I beseech thee the work of thine own hands Amen I deal with the thing that is lawful and right O give me not over unto mine Oppressors Amen O make me thy poor servant still to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almightie God the Fountain of all Wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking I beseech thee to have compassion upon my infirmities and those things which for my unworthiness I dare not and for my blindness I cannot ask vouchsafe to give me for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ