Christ our Lord Amen Psal 34. I will wait for thy loving kindnesse O God in the midst of thy Temple and there will I praise thee Amen Psal. 48. 9. Lord let me behold thee in thy Sanctuary and there see thy power and glory for thy loving kindnesse is better than life therefore my lips shall praise thee Thus will I magnifie thee all my life and lift up my hands in thy Name Oh! satisfie me with the riches of thy mercy which is in Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal. 63. 2. O how amiable are thy dwellings O Lord of Hosts my soul hath a desire and a longing to enter into the Courts of thee O Lord My heart and my flesh rejoyce in thee O merciful GOD Amen Psalm 84. 1. Lord I humbly beseech thee to hear and accept my prayers for my self and for the people that call upon thee and grant that we may perfectly know all things we ought to do and also have grace and power faithfully to fulfil the same through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon all my infirmities and in all dangers and adversities stretch out thy right hand to help and defend me through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen God thou which knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailty we cannot alwaies stand upright grant I most humbly beseech thee to me the health both of body and soul that all those things which I suffer for sin I may by thy help well passe and overcome through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord the Sun is at the height for this day lift up the light of thy countenance upon me and I shall be whole Make all darknesse and spiritual shadows short upon me and shorter in me through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Who can tell how ofthe offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret sins Keep me also O Lord from presumptuous sins lest they get the Dominion over me and keep me innocent from the great offence I humbly beseech thee Amen Psal. 19. 12 13. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alwayes praising thee blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy wayes Lord thus blesse the heart of thy servant for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 84. 4. O Sancta Adoranda Longanimis Trinitas Longanimis n. es quae eos à quibus scinderis tam diu toleras O Trinitas Cujus Ego ut Cultor minimè fictus Praeco essem jampridem dignus habitus sum O Trinitas omnibus aliquando vel per Illuminationem vel per poenam agnoscenda Oro te ut hos qui nunc Contumeliis te afficiunt adoratores accipias ne quisquam vel ex Minimis pereat Et hoc etiamsi mihi proptereà aliqua Gratiae Jactura facienda Sit. Neque n. tantum dicere audio Quantum Apostolus Concede autem hoc per propter Merita Jesu Christi Redemptoris Nostri Amen Almighty God who through thy onely begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life I humbly beseech thee that as by thy special Grace preventing me thou dost put into my mind good desires so by thy continual help I may bring the same to good effect through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God who hast given thine Only Son to die for our sins and to rise again for our Justification give me grace so to put away the Leaven of Malice and all wickednesse that I may alwayes serve thee in purenesse of living and in truth through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God who hast given thine onely Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and an example of good life give me grace that I may alwayes most thankfully receive that inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour to sollow 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 doeth 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 Tribuat hîc Mihi Dominus ut in Me pro me fiat Ignis Consumens Et ardeat hoc Igne Cor Meum in Lumen AEternum Mihi Ne codem ardeat Anima Mea in Poenam perennem Per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum Amen O Lord make me like a green Olive Tree in thy house for I trust in thy tender mercy for ever and I will alwayes praise thee for that thou hast done and hope in thy name for ever Amen Psal. 52. 8. O Lord I besech thee make me remember how much more then other men I have need to call upon thee My Charge is great and my strength is little O give me grace to come alwayes before thee and to ask that help which thou art readier to give then I to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Have mercy 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 Psal. 9. 8. O Lord increase in me Faith and Devotion replenish my heart with all Goodnesse and by thy great mercy keep me in the same Give me Godly zeal in Prayer True Humility in Prosperity Perfect Patience in adversity 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 Judgement in all things and evermore to rejoyce in his holy Comfort through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit One God world without end Amen Almighty and everlasting God which hast given unto thy servants grace by the confession of the true Faith to acknowledge the Glory of the AEternal Trinity and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity I humbly beseech thee blesse me also that I may live in the stedfastnesse of this Faith and through it be evermore defended from all Ghostly and Bodily dangers for thy mercy sake who livest and raignest one God world without end Amen O my God incline thine Ear and hear open thine Eyes and see Lord forgive O Lord consider and do it for thine own sake O God and for my Saviour Jesus Christ his sake Amen Dan. 9. 19. Lord let me not be afraid though one be made rich or though the glory of his house be increased
semper serviam tibi In per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Hold not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the deceitfull is opened upon me and they have spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause But I give my self unto prayer Lord forgive them and hear me Amen Psal. 119. 11. O God which art the Author of Peace and lover of Concord in knowledge of whom standeth our AEternal life whose service is perfect freedom Defend me and all thy servants in all assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversary through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Dic O Domine meus Jesu doce discam à te quod doceam de te Amen Deliver me O Lord from the man that is evill and preserve me from the cruell man which imagineth mischief in his heart and stirreth up strife all the day-long The proud have laid a snare for me and spred 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 Psal. 140. 2. O God from whom all holy desires all just Counsells and all good 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 Commandements and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may passe our time in rest and quietnesse through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Have mercy upon me O God have mercy upon me for my soul trusteth in thee and in the shadow of thy wings will I trust till these afflictions be over-past O send out thy mercy and truth upon me even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 57. 1. O Domine Misericors qui ad cor Altum non accedis humilia Animam meam O Tu qui non videris nisi à mundis cordibus veram Cordis Munditiem dato mihi Sitio O Domine saltem da Guttam Coelestis Pluviae qua refrigerare possium sitim meam quia Amore ardeo Nec hoc peto Domine propter merita mev Indignissimus enim sum qui gustem sed pro Misericordia tua meritis salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi Amen Almighty God vouchsafe I beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both my heart and body in the wayes of thy lawes and in the works of thy Commandements that through thy mighty protection both here and ever I may be preserved by night and by day in body and in soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen O Lord I cry 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 my owne heart and search out my spirits and compose them in thee that I may rise to serve thee Amen Psal. 7. 1 2. Da Mihi Domine dormitum abeunti requiem Corporis Animae Custodi me a Caliginoso peccati somno Ab omni tenebrosa nocturna Mollitie Ignita maligni tela dolosè in me vibrata extinguito Rebelliones Carnis meae reprimito Et omnem terrenam mundanam in Me Cogitationem sopito Per ipsum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen I humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon my infirmities and for the Glory of thy Name 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 mercy and evermore serve thee in holinesse and purenesse of living to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VI. DEus Magne Deus Omnipotens Deus summae Bonitatis quem Inviolabilem Incorruptibilem credi intelligi fas est Trina unitas quam Catholica Ecclesia colit supplex Oro expertus in meipso misericordiam tuam ne homines cum quibus mihi in pueritia in omni victu suit summa Consensio in tuo cultu à me dissentire permittas Nec vel me vel illos à veritate salute quae est in Jesu Christo Amen O 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 Psal. 88. 13. 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 steadfast love Grant this even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Almighty 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 humility 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 Almighty God I humbly beseech thee graciously to behold thy family 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 Crosse who liveth and raigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost one God word without end Amen Almighty and everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole body 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 truely and devoutly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen Dieu est O Domine Ex quo contra haereses laboravi sum penè fatigatus veni Domine meus Jesu Praeliator fortissime Princeps Exercitus Domini qui Diabolum vicisti saeculum Apprehende arma scutum exurge in adjutorium Mihi Amen Deal with me O God according to thy Name for sweet is thy mercy O deliver me for I am helplesse and poor and my heart is wounded within me Lord save my soul Amen Psal. 109. 20. My eyes are ever looking unto thee O Lord pluck my feet out of the net Amen Psal. 25. 14. Almighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy sons Name I beseech thee mercifully to encline thy Ear unto me now that I make my prayers and supplications
also and be safe in the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord thou hast fed me with the bread of affliction and given me plenty of tears to drink I am become a very strife to my neighbours and my enemies laugh me to scorn but turn thee again thou God of Hosts shew me the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen Psal. 80. 5. Help me O Lord my God O save me according to thy mercy and the world shall know that this is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Amen Lord Jesu Amen Psal. 109. 25. If my delight had not been in thy law I should have perished in my trouble O continue my delight Amen Psal. 119. 92. Pestilentia DEliver me O Lord from all my offences and make me not a rebuke to the foolish take I humbly beseech thee thy plague away from thy people for we are even consumed by means of thy heavy hand and for Jesus Christ his sake lay neither me nor mine under this uncomfortable disease Amen Psal. 39. 9 11. O Lord deliver me from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilence O defend me under thy wings and keep me sase under thy feathers that I may not be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flyeth by day for the pestilence that walketh in the darknesse nor for the sicknesse that destroyeth at noon-day though thousands fall before me and ten thousands at my right hand yet let it not come neer me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psalm 91. 3. O Lord thou art my hope I beseech thee let no evil happen unto me neither let any plague come nigh my dwelling but give thy Angels charge over me to keep me in all my wayes O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen Psa. 91. 10. O let the sorrowful sighing of them whom thou hast visited come before thee and according to the greatnesse of both thy power and thy mercy preserve them that are appointed to die Even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 79. 12. O Lord I beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy humble servant that I and my Family that are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodnesse from this and all other Infection both of soul and body that so we may live both to serve and praise thee to the glory of thy great Name through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen O Almighty God which in thy wrath in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of Pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst save the rest have pity upon us miserable sinners that now are visited with great sicknesse and mortality and like as thou didst then command thy Angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sicknesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord who hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavy and long continued visitation and in the midst of thy judgement remembring mercy hast redeemed us from death we offer up unto thee our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast now delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee And here I offer up unto thee most merciful Father in the name of all thy people all possible praise and thanks and shall ever magnifie thee through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Lord the sorrows of death compass me and the snares of death are ready to overtake me when thou wilt dissolve my tabernacle thou alone knowest therefore in this my trouble I will call upon thee O Lord and will complain unto my God O be with me at the instant of my death and receive me for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Psal. 18. 3 4 5. Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth Amen Psal. 31. 6. O Lord thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is become like the drought in summer I acknowledge my sin unto thee O Lord and my unrighteousnesse have I not hid O Lord be merciful unto me Amen Psal. 34. 4. O Lord hear my prayer and with thy ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were O spare a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Amen Psal. 39. 13. O Domine mediâ vità in morte sumus unde aut à quo quaerimus auxilium nisi à te Domine qui tamen pro peccatis nostris meritò infensus est nobis Sancte fortis sancte Misericors salvator amarissimis poenis mortis aeternae ne tradas me Ne projicias me in tempore aegritudinis meae quum deficit virtus mea ne derelinquas me Domine ante te omnia desideria mea suspiria mea à te non sunt abscondita Nosti Domine Tu Domine Nosti intima Cordis mei ne quaeso occludas precibus meis aures misericordiae tuae quin parce mihi O Domine Sanctissime O Omnipotens Deus Sancte salvator maximè misericors Dignissime AEterne Judex ne sinas me in horâ meâ novissima pro quocunque terrore mortis excidere à te Amen O Domine Salvator Jesu O Lord the snares of death compasse me round about the pains of hell get hold upon me I have found trouble and heaviness but I will call upon thy name O Lord O Lord deliver my soul deliver my soul from death my eyes from tears and my feet from falling that I may walk before thee in the land of the living Amen Psal. 116. 2 3. Thou O Lord hast chastened and corrected me but not given me yet over unto death Open me the gates of righteousnesse that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord Amen Psal. 118. 18. There is no health in my flesh by reason of thy wrath neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sins yet O Lord be mercisul to me and heal me for thy names sake Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks for the great and almost miraculous bringing mee back from the bottome of my Grave what thou hast farther for me to do or suffer thou alone knowest Lord give me patience and courage and all Christian resolution to do thee service and grace to do it and let me not live longer then to honour thee through Jesus Christ Amen INDEX A AMici folio 11. Afflicti f. 12 Auxilium fol. 58 59 75 104. Tempore adverso 56 Afflictiones f. 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132. Adoratio glorificatio dei mei 114. Adventus Dom. 1. f. 18 Dom. 2. 19 Dom. 4. 19. Dies Ascensionis fol.