and came into a place named Golâ—â—otha where theâ— crucified him 〈…〉 therwith 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 the most of 〈◊〉 c. â—ohn 1â— Abraham tooke the wood of â—he burnt offring â–ª and layd â—t vpon Isaac his sonne c. 〈◊〉 â—â— Behoâ—d the wiâ—ow was there gathering sticks â–ª and Eliah called her and said c. 〈…〉 cry of thy whole church being in peril Behold how many thousaÌ„d meÌ„ cry out Lord saue vs or els we perish The tempest hath ouercome all cunning of man nay rather we seé that the indeuour of such as goe about to helpe it doth turne to the contrary There neédeth thy voyce O Lord Iesu say no more but tempest be still and by and by the wished calmenes will shew it selfe The Lord would haue spared the innumerable thousands of wicked people that were in Sodome and Gomorra if he could haue fouÌ„â— but ten righteous among them all Now there are many thousands which loue the glory of thy name and which long to behold the beauty of thy house and wilt thou not at their intreatance release thine anger and remember thy old mercies wilt thou not through thy heauenlye cunning turne our foolishnes to thine Tubultaâ—â— wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron c. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw and tasted on a tree c. And when they were come to the 〈◊〉 which 〈…〉 Caluaâ—â—e there they crucified him and the euil do 〈◊〉 one on the right hand and the other on the left c. Luke 23. own glory wilt thou not turn the wicked folkes euill doinges to the benefit of thy church for thy mercy is wont to be then redyest at hand when things are so far past recouery as no strength or policie of man can help them Thou being the only author and maintayner of peace art only he that maketh thinges at one though they be neuer so much at oddes Thou didst dispose the olde Chaos wherein the seédes of al things lay confused and turmoyling among them selues without any order or comlynesse and by wonderfull order knit the thinges together in euerlastinge league which striue together by nature But how much more shamefull a Chaos is it where ther is no loue no faith no keéping of couenants no reuerence of lawes no awe of such as are in authoritie no consent of opinions but euery man singes his own song as One of the souldiours with a speare pearced his side â–ª â— forthwith ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recordâ— is true And he that c. Iohn 10. With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water c Exo. 17 in a black sanctus Among the compasses of the Skyes there is no disagreément the Elements doe keép euery one his place and euery of them execâ—â—â—eth his own office And wilt thou suffer thy spouse for whose sake all things are created to goe to wrack by continuall discord Wilt thou suffer wicked spirits the authors of discord to execute tiranny in thy kingdome vnpunished Wilt thou suffer that strong fellow whom thou hast once thrust out to get possession of thy tents agayne When thou dwelledst as a mortal maÌ„ among men the deuils fled away at thy voyce We beseéch theé O Lord send thy Spirite into the hartes of all them that profes thy honorable name to driue from them the wicked spirits which are the scholemasters of ryot couetousnes ambition lechery vengeance and discord and that I may Assone as the sunne was downe Iosue commaundeth that they c. Iosu. â— Then they arose and went all night and toke the body c. 1. Sam. 13 Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the â—ock and rolled a great â—tone to the dore c. Math. 27. vse the prophets own wordes a cleane hart create in vs O God our king and renue thy holy Spirite in our bowels take not thy holy spirit from vs Geue vs againe the gladnes of thy saluatioÌ„ and strengtheÌ„ thy spouse and thy spouses shepheards with a principall spirite By this spirit hast thou set things in heauen and earth at one by this spirite hast thou assembled and knit so many tongues so many nations and so many sundry sorts of men into the one body of thy church which cleaueth vnto theé her head by the same spirit If it may please theé to renue him in all mennes harts these outward calamities wil by and by cease or if they cease not yet shall they at least wise turne to the behoofe of them that loue theé Set this confusion in order O Lord and let thy spirit spread forth it selfe vpon the waters of wauering opinions He layd it in a tomb â—ewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the preparing of the Saboth the Saboth drue on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. â—hen Ioseph was come to his brethren they stript â—im c. Gen. 37. So they tâ—ke vp Jonas and â—ast him into the sea and the sea c. Ionas And forasmuch as thy spirit which according to the saying of the prophet contayneth all thinges hath also the knowledge of the voyce in him graunt that as all which dwell in thy house haue but one law one baptisme one God one hope one spirit so also there may be but one voyce among all them that professe thy catholick truth At thy going vp into heauen thou after the maner of such as triumph diddest scatter abroad diuers rewards from aboue geue giftes vnto men bestow sundry presents of thy spirite among them Renue now again thine old bouÌ„teousnes from aboue geue the same thinges to the Church now drooping which thou gauest to her at her first florishing forth Geue vnto her Princes the awe of theé that they may so gouern the common weale as though they should shortly yeald an account of euery The wepeth continually in the night and her teares c. Lamen 1. Call me not Naomi but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen c. Ruth 1. â—here was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the sepulchre The next day that followed the day of preparing the hie priestes and Pharises c. Math. 27. thing to theé the king of all kinges Geue them of the wisdome which is alwayes about thy throne that they may seé what is best to be done and perform it in their deédes Geue vnto the shepheards whom thou hast vouchsafed to put in thy roomth the gift of prophesy that they may interprete the misticall scriptures not by mannes reason but by thy inspiration Geue them the threéfold charity which thou diddest demaund of Peter when thou gauest him charge to feéde thy flock Geue them the loue of
words but also in dedes of purpose that we should follow thine example We pray theé therfore to shead in to vs the spirit of thy mildenesse that we may patiently suffer both the euill will and the euill speéch and the euill doings of our enemies as we hear say thou diddest and as we dayly perceiue that thou doest still Let vs nether requite wrong in deéd nor take vpō vs to reuenge our selues Charitie visiteth the sick I was sick ye visited me Math. 25. Let it not greue thee to visit the sick Eccle. 7 in words nor wish or desire any such thing in hart or minde but let vs be so farre of from all reuenge as we may euen doe them good and help them to the vttermost of our power and with earnest prayer and supplication craue good things of theé for them namely that thou vouchsafe to geue thē a good minde and al other things which thou knowest to be for their welfare profit commoditie and soul health so as we may be thy children in deéde which bestowest thy bounteousnes not only vpon the good and thankful but also vpon the wicked and vnthankfull and also thy kindly disciples which prayed thy father to forgeue their most vnrighteous tormentors Amen * Another MOst mercifull and louing Father which hatest not any of the Charitie visiteth prisoners I was in prison and ye came Math. 25. Onesiphorus oft refreshed me was not 2. Tim. 1. thinges which thou hast made but sufferest and bearest with mennes misdoinges winking at them to prouoke them to repentance We beseéch theé most humbly euen with all our harts to poure out vpon our enemies with bountifull hand whatsoeuer thinges thou knowest may doe them good and cheéfly a sound and vncorrupt minde wherthrough they may know theé and seéke theé in true charitie with their wholl hart and loue vs thy children for thy sake Let not their hating of vs turne to their harme neither let vs in any wise hurt them seéing that we cannot doe them good for want of abilitie Destroy thē not O father for their hatred towards vs but saue them at our intreatance for them Lord we desire their amendment and not their punishment Separate them not from vs by punishing Sight Let thine eyes behold that is right Prouerb 4. them but ioyne and knit them to vs by thy fauorable dealing with them And seéing we be all ordayned to be Citizens of the one euerlasting Citie let vs begin to enter into that way here already by mutuall loue which may bring vs right forth thether through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen * A confession of our sinnes O Lord my God euerlasting and almighty Father I acknowledge and confesse before thy holy and high Maiestye that I was bread and borne in sinne and corruption and that since my birth I haue not ceased nor doe cease dayly to transgresse thy commaundements In respect whereof I cannot escape ruine and destruction according to thy rightfull iustice Notwithstanding forasmuch as I am sory that I haue offended theé and doe condemne Hearing The eare of ielosy heareth all thyngs Wisdome 1. both my self and my sinne and forasmuch as it hath plesed theé to loue vs euen when we were thine enemies and for assurance therof to giue vs thy only and welbeloued sonne our Lord Iesus Christ to be a mediator aduocate betweéne theé and vs promising vs that we shall obtayn whatsoeuer we aske of theé in his name Uouchsafe O most louing God and mercifull Father to pardon and forgeue me in his name and for his sake and not only to cleanse my hart from all vanitie and vncleannes but also to gouern and guid me by thy holy spirit in all my wayes that I may liue according to thy holy and heauenly cōmaundements all the dayes of my life to the glory of thy name through the same thy wel beloued Sonne So be it Taste The mouth tasteth the meats Iob. 34. * A Prayer for remission and forgeuenes of sinnes SO huge is the heape of our sinnes and in so sundry wise haue we offēded O righteous and holy lawmaker that vnles we lift vp our mindes to the considering of thy goodnes we must neédes despaire Theé we displease to theé doe we bid battail through our wicked deédes To theé do we profes enmitie euen to theé which art almighty which hast no neéd of any thing whom nothing can hurt and yet art thou the party that doth first offer peace and attonement Because nothing hapneth oftner to vs thē to fall into this disease we haue neéde of nothing so much as of the medicine of thy mercy and thou doest alwayes offer it vs redely and set it before vs. Smelling Geue a swete smell as incense c. Eccle. 39. Wherfore graunt we beseéch theé O most mild and kindharted Father that we may both discern our diseases and know the remedies of them and seéke them as it becommeth vs at thine only hand who art wont to graunt them so easely at our requestes for the loue of thine only sonne Iesus Christ Amē Another MOst mercifull and gratious father I beseéch theé let not other mennes naughtines hurt me but rather let their goodnes further me thou art the terrible ielious God which reuengeth the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate theé and againe on the other side art treatible and mild insomuch that thou shewest mercy vnto thousands in them Touching Touch no vncleane thing 2. Cor. 6. that loue theé and keép thy commaundements Adde this also as an increasement of thine exceding great goodnes that the faults of my forefathers in the flesh light not vpon my head but that the weldoing of thy sōne Iesus Christ who is our father may succor me Be not angry with me for their sakes that begate this body of mine but let me feéle theé fauourable to me for Iesus Christes sake who hath begotten my soule new again Amen Another Esay 2. 19. Math. 24. Mark. 13. Luke 17 The sun shall be darkned the moone shal lose hir light the starres shall fal from heauen Two men shall be in the field the one receaued the other shall be refused Alas how sore are we nouseled in sinne by custome in so much that as now we can almost doe nothing els and yet we perceiue not when we do amisse O how small an account doe we make of it We lie wallowing vp on the ground in dirt and dung and yet we neuer strayne our selues so much as to lift vp our heads that we might not rot as we lye What father would forbeare vs so often in breaking his commaundements Yet not withstāding thou O God doest bear with vs and winkest at our sinnes and thy goodnes and long sufferance allure vs to amendement To thee therefore be glory and prayse for euer and euer Amen Two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be receaued the
granÌ„t vs liue eternally * A Prayer for the obtayning of a sound minde O Lord Iesu Christ the light of al them that put their trust in theé and the only Phisition of our soules the light of mind which thou hadst put into vs by creation is dimmed defaced and in maner extinguished by the fall of our first Father Adam and a horrible maime and disorder is fallen vpoÌ„ all the powers sences of our soules Our wit reason iudgement discretion vnderstanding and will are vtterly corrupted so as of our selues we can not seé nor discern any thing aright The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto thee Countreywoman â–ª Away with butter cheése For thy life thou must leese The Nurse Geue sucke no more For I am at the dore Create thou a pure hart in vs and renue a right spirite in vs Binde thou vp the sores of our soules wash them with the wine of thy precyous bloud and annoynt them with the oyle of thy holynes Repair that heauenly Image which is defaced in vs through sinne and adorne it agayne with thine own righteousnes That we being set in perfect state by thy meanes may sing acceptable prayses euerlastinglye to theé in thy holy church Amen ¶ A Prayer to be sayd for newnesse of life VNto theé O Lord doe I lift vp my hart In theé my God doe I trust let me not be put to shame Shepeheardes wife Be thou young or olde Thou must enter into my folde ¶ Aged woman Be the day neuer so long At last commeth Euensong From earth we came to earth we shall For sinne by death hath made vs thrall Shew me thy wayes and teach me thy pathes lead me forth in thy righteousnes and guide me for thou art my sauyour in theé is my trust all the day long Teach me thy way O Lord guide me in the right path for feare of mine enemies A cleane hart create in me O God and a right Spirite renue within my bowels Thrust me not out of thy sight O Lord neither take thy spirit froÌ„ me Geue me agayne the comfort of thy help and strengthen me with a principall Spirite Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walke in thy truth Knit my hart vnto theé that it may fear thy name geue thy seruaÌ„t streÌ„gth and saue the sonne of thy handmayd The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto thee The Creeple Be thou poore or disesed Thou must with me be pleased The poore woman Be thou neuer so poore Thou must enter at my â—ore Make me to vnderstand the wayes of thy commaundements and I will talke of thy wonders Remoue from me the way of lying and geue me thy law Set thy law O Lord and the way of thy statutes before me that I may euer keép them Geue me vnderstanding that I may obserue thy law keép it continually Leade me forth in the pathes of thy commaundements for in them is my delight Incline my hart vnto thy testimonies and not vnto couetousnes Let not the foote of pride come neare me nor the hand of sinne touch me Turne away mine eyes from vanitie and quicken me in thy way StrengtheÌ„ thy seruant in thy word that I may feare theé The Infant Loe this little hart I strike with my dart The Foole. Of foolish and fond I break the bond No state no might young nor old To resist death daâ—â— behold Behold I haue lusted for thy commaundements quicken me in thy righteousnes Let thy mercy come vpon me O Lord let thy sauing health light vpon me according to thy word A Prayer for true mortification Emperors and kings we did raigne But now the earth doth vs detayne ¶ The Emperor Of Monarch Emperor I am the conqueror ¶ The king Keisar or king I must theé bring ¶ The Duke Duke though thou be daunce after me ¶ The Marques Marques of state march with thy mate Dukes and Marques we haue been Nought now but bones are to be seen For if thy sonne our sauiour euer wont to obay thy good will prayed so hartely and often Not my will but thy will be We Earles and Barons were sometime Now wrapt in lead are turnd to slime ¶ The Baron Barons of nobilitie sweare to me fealty ¶ The Vicount Earle or Vicount geue thy account done wherby he declareth himself to be very man how can it be but we whose nature is corrupt not only in natiuity but in the rest of our whol life also shall finde both our hands full in great and greéuous temptations wholy to resine our selues vnto theé Graunt therfore deére Father for thy Christes sake I most hartely beseéch theé thy grace and holy spirite to be effectual in me that dayly I may accustome my selfe to deny my will in more easie and pleasant things of this life that when neéde shall be I may come vnto theé with a resined will alwayes stedfastly expecting thy mercy and in the meane season continually obaying theé with readines and willingnes doing whatsoeuer may most plese theé through Christ our Lord which liueth and raigneth with theé and the holy Ghost world without end Amen ¶ The Archbishop Archb. Metropolite theé thy Prouince I visite ¶ The Bishop Bishops graue old are sheép of my fold Bishops we haue taught the lord That all must enter deathes dore A prayer for coÌ„tinuance in seking after christ by S. Augustine Both sheep and shepheard all must dye We taught the same the same we try ¶ The Doctor Doctor diuine at last thy reading houre is past ¶ The Preacher Preach no more about thy glas is run out ¶ The lord Come lordings all daunce at my call ¶ The Knight Goe hence sir knight t is almost night We Lords and Knights of late Now lie in low estate Behold the Squire as in a glas For as thou art so he was ¶ The Esquire Esquire the braue It bootes not to craue ¶ The Gentleman Lusty or sad Thou must be had ¶ The Iudge â–ª Come on iudge With me to trudge ¶ The iustice Sir Iustice arise come to my assise Iudge and Iustice sentence haue To ly as captiues in the graue In such sort therefore O my God thou art layde vp for them that feare theé as thou mayst be found of them that hope in theé So thou doest prolong to be found of them that seéke theé the sooner to approch to them that perseuere in seéking No law no plea no drift From death can make a shift ¶ Sergeant at law Leaue the Lawes heare my cause ¶ The Attorâ—ey Plead as thou lust With me thou must O my mercy and my refuge my deliuerer and defender so geue me feare as also I may loue so put me in feare as thou increase also the desire of theé and so make me one of those that feare and keépe thy commaundements that by the obedience of thy feare I may
A BOOKE OF Christian Prayers collected out of the aunciēt writers and best learned in our tyme worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians in these daungerous and troublesome dayes that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs. AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate 1578. ¶ Cum Priuilegio Elizabeth Regina 2. PARALIPOM 6. ¶ Domine Deus Israel non est similis tui Deus in coelo in terra qui pacta custodis misericordiam cum seruis tuis qui ambulant coram te in toto corde suo ⧠To the Christian Reader zeale and knowledge in true and harty prayer through Christ Iesus DAuid a Prophet and a Prince to whom the lord had done many great singular benefites bethought him selfe not so much to increase thē by vse as to requite them by thankes He therefore willing as a Prophet able as a prince but not able in deede though willing so to doe opened his good hart and sayd Quid retribuam Domino What reward shall I geue vnto the Lord Being resolued he answered I will receaue I will call and I will pay Psal. 116. Doe thou the like Christiā Reader which art as farre indebted as euer he And seeing that Iesus Christ him selfe calleth saying Come vnto me all you that labor and are laden and I will refresh you Mat. 11. Answere thou I come Lord Iesu I come I come and will pay my vowes promysed to thee in the presence of all thy people euen in the Courtes of thy house when I was receaued into the houshold of faith I come and will pray and prayse thee for al thy benefites I come and will harken to thy blessed word and keepe the same I come and will receaue the cup of saluation at thy holy table in remēbrance of thy death with thanksgeuing In this sort so many waies by Baptisme by prayer by hearing his blessed word by frequenting his table must we come vnto him and that with a liuely faith The Spirite is willing but the flesh is weake Mat. 26 ▪ come vnto him therfore especially by prayer Pray that he would strengthen both flesh and Spirite And thinke it not superfluous to pray because God already knoweth what we neede and what we will aske But pray because God hath commaunded Luke 8. Pray to humble thy selfe before the feete of his maiestie Pray because 〈◊〉 doest hourely want that grace which he will assuredly geue Pray therfore that you may haue Mat. 7. And pray least you fall into temptation Luke 12. And because God vnderstandeth pray not thou therfore in a language which thou vnderstandest not but with Spirite and Vnderstanding 1. Cor. 14. Not with mouth and lippes onely but with the hart Mat. 15. For the spirite also helpeth our infirmities making request for vs with sighes which cannot be expressed Rom. 8 As Anna and Mary Magdalen with teares from a groning hart spake nothing 1. Reg. 1 Luke 7. For God must be worshipped in spirite and truth Iohn 14. And pray not with much babling and vayn repetition Math. 6. Neither be rash with thy mouth neither let thy hart be hasty to bring forth a word in the sight of God for God is in heauen and thou art in earth therfore let thy words be few For as a dreame commeth by multitude of busines so is the voice of a foole in the multitude of words Eccle. 5. Prepare therfore thy selfe and soul to pray Eccle. 18. with teares Mach. 5. with watching Col 4. with almes Act. 10 with fasting Luke 1. as the Niniuites Iona. 3. as Dauid 2. Reg. 2. as Daniell cap. 9. For with fasting prayer is good Tob. 12 Which exercises as they are the only meanes not onely to excite and stirre vs vp to pray but also to make them acceptable before God through Iesus Christ so also a great care diligence must be vsed of vs to vse the same not of constraint but willingly geuing our selues therunto Luke 5. without ostentatiō Mat. 6. praying continually 1. Thessal 5. without ceasing Col. 1. as the widow Luke 18. and as the woman of Canaan Mat. 15. Praying alwayes 1. Thess. 1 and at al times day and night 2. Tim. 1. in all places euery where 1. Tim. 2. in the Temple and congregation Act. 22. and that bare headed 1. Cor. 11. at home in thy chamber secretly Mat. 6. in thy bed Psal. 6. at meale and meate Mat. 26. morning and euening Psal. 44. abroad in the field Luke 6. The Scripture is full of examples Peter prayd in the vpper part of the house Act. 10. Eliseus aboue in his chamber 4. Reg. 4. Danyell in the kinges chamber secretly Cap. 6. and among the Lyons Dan. 14. Moyses in the wildernes Iosu. 1. Ezechias the king in his bed Esay 34. Ionas in the Whales belly Cap. 3. Christ in fieldes and gardens Math. 26. and on his cros Mat. 27. For the place of prayer is not materiall Ioh. 4. I meane of Priuate prayer in which consideration pray in all places at all times whether it be seuen times a day with Dauid Psa. 118. or thrise a day with Danyel Cap. 6. Whether on the Sabaoth day or at the ninth houre especially when Gods Spirite shall moue thee so to doe For at any such time to defer thy prayer vntill thou find a better place to sitte stand or kneele is as much as to hinder if not to quench Gods Spirite Now it followeth to whom we must come To me sayth Christ for without me you can doe nothing Ioh. 15. whatsoeuer you shall aske the father in my name it shall be geuen you Ioh. 16. Come to no earthly man for cursed is he that putteth his trust in man Ier. 17. and who shall deliuer his brother or make agreement with God for him Psal. 49. Come to no heauenly saint For Christ is our onely Mediator and intercessor betweene God and vs. 1. Tim. 2. and whom haue I in heauen but thee saith Dauid Psal. 33. Come onely vnto him therfore And why to him only For in him the Father is well pleased Mat. 3. No man can come to the Father but by him Ioh. 14. He onely is present euery wher to heare the prayers of the whole world All power is geuen into his hands Ioh. 5 He onely knoweth the secrets of our hartes But who shall come Al you saith he that labour and are laden How laden Not with bags of gold and brags of righteousnes For he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Luke 5. Presēt not therfore thy prayers in thine own righteousnes Dan. 9. Play not the Pharisie but pray as the Publicane Luk. 18. And albeit God heareth not sinners Ioh. 9. yet that is meant of desperate sinners malicious despicers of Christ his Gospel not of the repentant in whom as it is requisite there be no brag of righteousnesse so is it as necessary that there
and the decree DestructioÌ„ was preached to the Niniuites if they repented not this was the condition and the decree Niniue repented and was not destroyed but saued was therfore Gods decree altered no For he decreed their destruction but vpoÌ„ this condition if they repented not Pray therfore if thou be godly that he would geue thee the grace to coÌ„tinue and if thou be sinful pray that he geue thee the grace to repent And thus very well our prayers haue strength to stay Gods wrath his decree remayning immutable because it is threatned but vpoÌ„ a condition if we repent not But whence hath prayer this strength of it self No. For we being iustified through faith haue peace toward God that is the fauor of God through our Lord Iesus Christ. Rom. 5. So that Christ is our mouth whereby we speake to the Father our eyes by which we see the Father our right hand by which we offer to the Father Which Christ except he be our aduocate neither we nor all the saints can haue any thing to doe with god For no maÌ„ coÌ„meth to the father but by him Ioh. 14. Why then are not our prayers alwayes heard hauing continually such a spokesman who hath all power both in heauen and earth Truely because either we aske amisse not according to Gods will and that which is not for vs to receaue or it pleaseth the Lord to defer our requestes for tryall of our faith and patience HereupoÌ„ it was that Dauid sayd Expectans expectaui Dominum With long wayting I waited for the lord and he inclined vnto me and heard my calling Psal. 40. Pray therfore continually with faith loue vnderstanding in the name of Iesus Christ pray for al men at al times in al places and for al things according to Gods wil. Though thou be a sinner though God foreknoweth the hart though his decree be immutable yet pray vnto him in Iesus Christ and he will refresh thee Of this I thought good to admonish thee Christian Reader because it is an easy thing to pray but to pray aright is a thing very difficult Here are prepared for thee zealous and godly prayers some translated out of Latin French some made by the best learned of our time Use theÌ„ as I haue taught thee that they may be to good vse Accuse not mine insufficiency in teaching but amend thine owne imperfection in praying praying that we talke not smoothly walk crookedly but that we may giue to God the father our maker obedience faith to Iesus Christ our redemer and mortification of the flesh to God the holy ghost our comfortor Fare wel in Christ Iesu. R. D. ⧠The Preface or preparation to prayer O Lord my good God and Father blessed be thy name for euer dispose my hart open my lips and guide me by thy holy spirite to a true acknowledgement of all my sinnes that my prayer may be heard of theé in the name of thy Sonne Iesus Christ So be it ¶ A prayer to be sayd at our first waking O God and father of our Lord Iesus Christ whom no man knoweth but by thy specyall gift graunt that vnto the rest of thine exceéding great benefites towards me this which is the greatest that can be bestowed vpon mankind There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Iacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. The birth of blessed Mâ—ry the virgine the mother of Christ c. may be added also namely that as thou hast raysed vp my body from fast and sound sleépe so also thou wilt deliuer my mind from the sleépe of sin and from the darcknes of this world and after death restore the same body to life as well as thou hast called it agayne from sleépe For that which is death to vs is but sleépe vnto theé I pray and beseéch theé that through thy goodnes this body of mine may be a fellow and furtherer of all godlinesse to my soule in this life so as it may also be partner with it of the endles felicitie in the life to come through Iesus Christ thy sonne our lord For whose sake and by whom thou geuest vs all good and holsome thinges to our welfare Amen Another MUch better is the light of the soule and the insight of the Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Ioseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be geuen thee to wife for to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6. minde then the light or eyesight of the body The eyesight of the body euery silly beast hath but the sight of minde none hath but men Yea none haue it but wise men Thou therfore O Lord Iesu Christ which art the greatest of all lights the only true light the light from whence springeth the light of the day and the sonne Thou light which inlightenest euery man y commeth into the world Thou light whereon there commeth no night nor euentide but continuest euer bright and cleére as at midday Thou light wherewithout all things are deépe darcknesse and whereby all things were made lightsome Thou mind and wisdom of the heauenly Father inlighten my minde that being blind in all other things I may seé nothing but that which beloÌ„geth to theé and that I may thereby walke in thy wayes without fantasying or lyking The seede of the woman shall tread vpon the head of the serpent Gen 3. The Angel sayd to him the Lord is with thee thou valyant man Iudges 6 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 the â—ngell Gabriel was sent fro God to a citie in Galile 〈◊〉 Nazareth 〈◊〉 virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. of any other light els Lord I beseéch theé inlighten mine eyes that I may neuer slumber in darcknes least my ghostly enemy say at any time I haue preuayled against him Amen * A prayer at our vprising OUr first father Adam being tumbled down from most excellent and glorious highnes into the dungeon of shame and sinck of all sinne was releéued lifted vp again by thy hand O Sauyour Iesus christ And we likewise should lye wallowing in the same plight for euer if we were not raysed vp by theé Wherfore O most mercifull Redeémer of mankinde like as thou of thy goodnes hast raysed vp this heauy and burthensome body euen so vouchsafe to lift vp my minde to the knowledge and loue of thy highnes Amen And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Iuda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c Luke 1. And Moyses returned
sobernes and chastity Geue thy people willingnesse to obay thy hestes and forwardnes to serue them by whom it is thy will to haue the affayres of this world ordered so shall it come to passe that if by thy inspiration the Princes commaund things seéming theé and the Shepheards teach things accordingly and the people obay For feare of him the kepers were astonied became as dead men But the Angell sayd to the women Feare not for I know you seeke Iesus which was crucified c. Maâ—h 23. â—amson arose at midnight and toke the â—ores c. Iudicum 16 â—nd the Lord spake vnto the fish and it cast out Ionas c. Ionas 2. their good gouernment and godly teaching the church shall with such good order soon recouer her former dignitye and quietnes to the glory of thy name Notwithstanding that thou hadst appointed the Niniuites to vtter destruction yet diddest thou spare theÌ„ as soone as they turned to repentance wilt thou despise thy spouse casting her selfe down at thy feéte which vseth sighes in steéde of sackcloth and teares in steéde of ashes Thou hast promised forgeuenes to such as conuert and yet is it thy gift that a man returneth to theé with all his hart to the intent that all our good thinges should redound to thy glory Thou art the maker repayre thy creature Thou art the raunsomer saue the cost which thou hast bestowed Thou art the Sauyour suffer not them to perish which hang wholly vpoÌ„ theé Thou 〈…〉 and behold Ioseph was not in the 〈◊〉 c. Gen ◠〈…〉 my soule loueth I sought him but I found him not 〈…〉 Mary stoode at the sepulcher weâ—â—ng and as she wept the bowed her selfe into the sepulcher and saw two aungels in white sitting the one c. Iohn 20. art the Lord maintayn thine own possession Thou art the head succour thy members Thou art the king geue vs reuerence of thy lawes Thou art the Prince of peace inspire thy loue into vs Thou art God haue mercy vpon thy humble suiters According to S. Paules saying be thou all in all men that the wholl company of thy church may with one mind and one voyce in consent yeald thanks for her obtayned mercy to the father and the sonne and the holy Ghost who being the perfect pattern of concord are distinct in propriety of persons and yet in nature but one to whom be prayse and glory for euer Amen * A Prayer for the Queenes Maiestie Iesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast viâ— deuils And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned c. Mar. 16 The king said vnto Daâ—iell O Daniel the seruaunt c. Daniel 6. When I had past a litle from them then I found him c. Cant. 3. Thou hast restored again the liberty of our countrey and the sincerity of thy doctrine with peace and tranquilitie of thy church Thine thine was the benefit the meanes the labor and seruice was hers A burthen to heauy alas for a womans shoulders yet easie and tollerable by thy helping hand And Iacob called the name of the place Peniell c. Gen. 32. Gedeon aunswered â—he Lord be with vs why then c. Iud. 6. Iesus said to Thomas put the finger here and see my hands and â—ut forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faythlesse c. Iohn â—â— Preserue her kingdome maintayn religion defend thy cause our Queen vs thy sheépe and her people Scatter thine enemies which thirst after war. Let them be ashamed and confounded that worshippe Idols Let vs not be a pray to the nations that know not theé neither call vpon thy name So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of god And they went forth and preached c. Mar. 16 â—nd Enoch walked with God and he was no more sent for God tooke him away c. Gen. 5. There appeared â— charet of fire and horses of fire so Elias went vp by a whirlwind c. 2. Reg. 2 * Another O God most excellent creator and preseruer of all thinges we cast our selues down before the feéte of thy maiestie and inwardly feéling how vnworthye we are to haue our prayers heard of theé we dare not lift vp our eyes to heauen Knowledge of God in Iesus Christ is life Mahomet and his Alcoron is perdition Loue of God is in spirite and truth Idolatry is Spirituall adultery Aboue al take the shield of fayth Ephe. 6. Behold thou hast caâ—â— me out Genesis 4. Fayth apprehendeth Christ Iesus Cayne dispaireth of mercy Moreouer O singular and most precious treasure of al treasures thou through her meanes and ministery hast brought agayn Christ Iesus once banished out of England Hope maketh not ashamed Iudas ashamed and hanged him selfe Looking vnto Iesus the Author c. Heb. 12. Let al bitternes and anger and wrath Eph. 4. Pâ—tience â—uercoÌ„meth all thinges Wrath deuoureth it selfe Thou hast geuen her Counsellers graunt that she may vse their councell happely Indue them with godly righteous and carefull hartes that they may be both willing and able simply and faithfully to consult and also prouidently to prouide as well for thy church as for her and vs her people It is thy grace O Lord that we her people renued with thy word doe suffer our selues to be nourished with the same Send forth therefore faithfull shepheards godly and true teachers to feéde vs And driue away all hirelings and rauening wolues from this flock of thine and of thy Sonne Iesus Christ. Humilitie is tender harted Pride despiseth his neighbour Be not high minded but make your selues c Rom. â—2 Woe to the crown of pride c. Esay 28. Furthermore of thy goodnes maintayne peace and tranquilitie defend our Queéne her kingdome and countrey from bloudy warres and especially protect her and vs from hollow harts and from ciuill tumults and coÌ„spiracies which haue shaken the greatest part of Christendome And because the affliction of euery poore creature appertayneth to her in as much as she is thine inspire the magistrates vnder her with thy holy spirite that they may willingly carefully maintayne iustice and prouide for the releéfe of Christ his poore members whose treasurers both she and we and all others are whom thou hast blessed with thy earthly benefits Be 〈◊〉 â—nd tender harted c. Ephe 4. Auenge not your selues â–ª but geue place c. Rom. 12. Mercy beareth with infirmities Cruelty seeketh reuenge * Another O Almighty God king of kinges Lord of Lords the only God and gouernour of all things Thou art he by whom alone kings doe raigne Thou most high bearest rule ouer all the kingdomes of men Thou in Christ thine only Sonne being the most gracious father of thy chosen church doest for the comfortable nourishing of it dispose the Royall state among men Concord supporteth one another Discord destroyeth one another Three things
into thy presence O Lord and let thy hand saue me Loe here the man that was caught of theéues wounded and left half for dead as he was going towards Iericho Thou kinde harted Samaritane take me vp I haue sinned to to much in my life and done euil in thy sight From the sole of my foote to the crown of my hed there is no souÌ„d peéce in me Hadst not thou helped me by thy dying vpon the crosse my soule should haue gone to hell as it hath deserued But I O mercifull Iesu am a peéce of thy so deare raunsome Thou Vnderstanding is a welspring of life c. Prouâ—â—b 16 Be ye not like horse and Mule which c. Psalme 32. VnderstaÌ„ding reacheth the heauen Ignorance is as a beast hast shed thy precious bloud for me refuse me not I am the sheép that is gon astray O good shepheard seéke me out and bring me home to thy fold agayne that thou mayst be iustyfied in thy sayinges For thou hast promised me that in what houre soeuer a sinner doth figh for his sinnes he shal be safe I am sory I acknowledge mine iniquities and mine offences are alwayes in my sight Of a truth I am not worthy to be called thy sonne because I haue sinned against heauen and against theé Make me to heare of ioy and gladnes Turne thy face away from my sinnes and blot out all mine offences For thy singular mercies sake cast me not away from thy sight Deal not with me according to my sins neither reward me according to mine iniquities but help me O God of my welfare and for the honor of thy name delyuer me deal Industry gathereth reward Sloth bringeth sleep Goe to the Pismere O thou Slouggard c. Prouerb 6. The Slouthfull man hideth his hand in his c. Prouerb 26. fauourably with me according to thy good pleasure that I may dwell in thy house all the dayes of my life prayse theé for euer and euer with them that are there Amen Another MOst gentle master Iesu christ how oft haue I transgressed the rule of thy doctrin How oft haue I despised thy commaundements O holy Lord When thou badst me returne I returned not â–ª WheÌ„ thou didst threaten I was not afrayd When thou didst deale mildly and gently with me I becam the curster Aboue seuenty times seuen times haue I sinned against heauen and in thy sight who shall wash away so great filth who shall scrape of this daubaken dung Whatsoeuer Peter say thou Wherfore I put you in remembrance c. 2. Tim. 1. I am counted among them that goe down c. Psal. 88. Memory is a treasure house Obliuion is as a graue must be fayn to wash vs thy selfe for we be not able to wash our selues but in al things that we doe we haue neede of thy mercifull washing The traytor Iudas was admitted to eate with thee at thy table but he was shut out from this healthful washing and in the end could not be washed for defacing the honor of his apostleship with cursed couetousnes Howbeit forasmuch as with thee is the well of life and the bottomles poole of all compassions that euer haue been vouchsafe that we whom thou hast washed in baptisme whom thou hast washed with thine own bloud and whom thou washest still from time to time by forgeuing our dayly sinnes may be remoued from the puddles of this world and from the mire of this present life to the most pleasant kingdom of thy glory Iustice iudgeth rightly Tyranny oppresseth â—ight Dauid executed right and iustice c 2. King. 2. Thy princes are rebellious and companions c. Esay 1. where there is neither scab nor sorenesse of eyes neither issue of bloud nor vncleanes of body nor any need of more washing because the substance of thy brightnes shall be fully incorporate into our bodies according to thy promyses which thou must needes fulfill And therfore goe through with the good worke which thou hast begun and bring it to perfection according to thy good pleasure Amen * Another BOw downe thine eares to my words O Lord and harken to my cry Harken to the voyce of my prayer my king and my God haue mercy vpoÌ„ me and heare my prayer Upon the multitude of thy compassions will I enter into thy house and worship towards thy holy temple Lord rebuke He girdeth me with strength c. Psalme 18. He sayd he would burne vp c. Iudith 6. Strength shevved in the arme Holofernes slayne by Iudith me not in thy rage neither chastise me in thine anger For thine arowes stick fast in me and thy hand lyeth heauy vpon me There is no health in my flesh at the sight of thy displeasure There is no ease in my bones at the sight of my sinnes For mine iniquities are gone ouer my head and lye heauy vpon me like a sore burthen Haue pity vpon me according to thy great mercy and according to the multitude of thy compassions wipe away my sinnes Wash me more and more from mine vnrighteousnes and clense me from my sinne For I acknowledge mine vnrighteousnes and my sinne is alwayes in my sight Greatly haue I sinned against theé and done euil in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy sayings and ouercome when thou art iudged Behold I was conceiued in wickednes and my mother bred me Courage is bould in Christ. Cowardice faynteth in tryall Dauid tooke a good courage to him c. 1. Reg. 2. I desire that you faynt not c. Ephe. 3. in sinne Turn thy face away from my sinnes and wipe out all my iniquities A clean hart create in me O God and renue a right spirit in my bowels Thrust me not out of thy presence neither take thou thy holy spirite from me Geue me the comfort of thy sauing health agayn and strengthen me with a principall spirit For thou Lord art good and pitifull and of much mercy to them that call vpon theé Thou O lord God artful of mercy and compassion flow to wrath but full of pitie truth Therefore shall the righteous prayse theé and sinners shall be conuerted vnto theé Amen Another I Am gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy seruant O Lord for I am not vnmindfull of thy commaundements Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant A wholesome sleepe commeth of c. Eccle. 31. For tables are so full of vomit c. Esay 28 Temperance watcheth and bridleth Intemperance ouercommeth the hart O Lord for no man liuing shall be iustified in thy sight Who knoweth all his sins Cleanse me from my secret sinnes and for other mennes sinnes beare with thy seruant Call to minde thy compassions O Lord and thy mercies which haue been from euerlasting Remember not Lord the misdeedes and offences of my youth Be mindfull of me according to thy mercy for thy goodnes sake O Lord for it is exceeding great Make thy mercies yet more wonderfull O thou that sauest theÌ„ which
side with his spear so as there remayned not one drop more in thy body But finally thou wast as a bundle of mirhe hanged vp aloft thy tender flesh shrunke the moysture of thy bowels dried vp the marow of thy bones wasted away I beseéch theé O most sweéte Iesu by this most bitter death of thine and by the sheading of thy most precious bloud wound my hart with such repentance ¶ The lord Come lordings all daunce at my call ¶ The Knight Goe hence sir Knight t is almost night We Lordes and Knightes of late Now lye in low estate of my sinnes and ioy of thy loue as my teares may be my foode day and night Turne thou me wholy vnto theé that my hart may dwell with theé continually and my conuersation be acceptable vnto theé And let my life be such through thy goodnes as I may prayse theé for euer with al thy Saints in the life to come Amen Another O Lord Iesu Christ the sonne of the liuing God who for the saluation of the world drankest eyzell and Gall vpon the cros like as at the geuing vp of the Ghost when thou hadst finished all things didst commit thy soule into thy Fathers hāds so do I betake my soul into thy mercifull hands beseeching thee both to preserue it here frō all sinne and in the end to receaue it in peace into the company of thy chosen that are departed that I may Behold the Squire as in a glas For as thou art so he was ¶ The Esquire Esquire the braue It bootes nor to craue ¶ The Gentleman Lusty or sad Thou must be had with thē prayse thee euerlastingly which liuest raignest c. Amen * A prayer vpon the minding of Christes resurrection and ascention O Lord Iesu O good Iesu which diddest vouchsafe to die for my sinnnes and rosest agayn for my iustification I beseéch theé by thy glorious resurrection raise me vp from the graue of al my vices and sinnes and geue me part daily in the first resurrection that I may be made partaker of the second resurrection also O most sweét Iesu which art gone vp into heauē with glorious triumph and sittest at the right hand of thy Father like a most mighty king draw me vp to theé make me to runne after theé for the sweét sent of thine oyntmentes ¶ The Iudge Come on iudge With me to trudge ¶ The iustice Sir Iustice arise come to my assise Iudge and Iustice sentence haue To ly as captiues in the craue make me to run without tyring by thy drawing and pulling of me forward Draw the soul that thirsteth after theé to the riuers of euerlasting suffifanze which are aboue yea verely draw me to thy selfe which art the liuing fountayn that I may so drink of theé according to my capacitie as I may liue for euer My God my life thou welspring of life fill my minde with the streames of thy pleasures ▪ make my hart loue-sick with the sober drunkennes of thy loue that I may forget the things that are vain and earthly and haue theé only in my mind continually Geue me thy holy spirite which is betokened by those waters which thou hast promysed to geue to them that are a thirst Graunt I beseéch theé that I may long with all my hart and labour with all my indeuor to attayne to the place whether we beleéue that thou didst ascend No law no plea ▪ no drift From death can make a shift ¶ Sergeant at law Leaue the Lawes heare my cause ¶ The Attorney Plead as thou lust With me thou must the fortith day after thy resurrection so as I may be conuersant in this vale of misery but with my body and alwayes in heauen with my hart so as my minde may be where thou art euen where thou my incomparable and deér beloued treasure art that I may sing prayses to thy name from this time forth for euermore Amen Another O Brother of oures O naturall sonne of that father whose sōnes thou makest vs by adoption O head of our body we seé that thou art king of heauē forget not thou thy earth wherinto thine inestimable loue of vs did bring theé down Thou frō out of that place geuest hope to vs thy members that we may come thether as thou art exalted already O gard and defence of vs what can now hurt vs so long as ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execution I haue a commission The Mayors and Shirifes doe pas with speed And others them in place succeed we trust in theé Most wretched are they that know theé not and most happy are they that doe euer behold theé Blessed are they that knew theé here in the dayes of the mortalitie of thy flesh But more blessed are they that seé theé in heauen and shall seé theé raigning in the chief goods of thy father O loue and delight of mankind O only hope of vs imbrace vs with thy fauour kisse vs shead thy spirite into our harts and make our minds to run continually vpon theé to our exceéding great comfort Lift vs vp lying flatte vpon the ground open our eyes and lift them vp vnto theé Open thy mouth to call vs and open our eares to heare theé that we setting theé alone before vs for our marck to direct our life by may square out all our doeings words thoughts by theé Amen We peace did keep in Princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Bailife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest ⧠A Prayer to Christ ascending and raigning in glory OH good Christ our first begotten brother and tender harted Ioseph Oh natural sonne of that Father to whom we are made children of adoption through theé Oh our head raigning on high in glory forget not vs thy poore members here on earth wher into abasing thy selfe thou camst down and sufferedst for vs most cruell death Out of this thy throne of maiesty and glory thou putst vs in assured hope and confidence that we also shall attayn to that blessed place whether thou art gon before to take possessiō for vs Oh our strong tower of defence succor what can hurt vs now trusting in theé Most vnhappy are they which are ignorāt of theé Most happy are they which alwayes behold theé ¶ The Phisicion By thy water I do seé thou must away with me The Astronomer Looke not so hie low thou must lie No arte or medicine can preuayle When death doth purpose to assayle Blessed are they which haue known theé here in the dayes of their mortalitie but more blessed are they which seé theé in the heauens and shall seé theé raigning with thy Father in ioyes incomparable Oh Lord the only ioy and comfort of our soules shew vs thy louing countenance imbrace vs with the armes of thy mercy receiue vs O good
Ioseph thy younger bretheren with the kisse of comfort pour into our harts thy holy spirite pluck vs vp from the earth earthly things open our eyes and lift them vp vnto theé open thy mouth and call vs vnto theé open our eares that we may heare theé so that whatsoeuer we doe speak or thinke it may be directed vnto theé alone our Redeémer Mediator Aduocate Amen Death wins the field All armes must yeald ¶ The Herauld Herald in thy shield beare grasse in green field Sergeant at Armes Sergeant see thou stay Al glory must away ⧠A Prayer at our going to a Sermon MAny and sundry wayes O lord doest thou vtter and shew forth thy light vnto vs in this great darcknes of oures But no way more effectually and plenteously then by thine Apostles and by them that haue succeéded in their charge Great and plentyfull is the haruest as thou thy selfe hast told vs but few are the haruestfolkes For the most part they be all ignorant and ouercast with the cloud of darcknes And as for true preachers that teach as they ought to doe the number of them is very small ¶ The TruÌ„petor Trumpet geue sound all must to the ground ¶ The Pursiuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without baggage All must needes die we need not tell Our message hath been sounded well And vnto this man also graunt the treasure of thy wisedome that he may poure it out vpon vs to our saluation And in vs open thou the windowes and dores of our harts that we may so receiue into vs the wholesome light of thy most holy word as that the good seéde which shall fall into vs be neither choked with bryars thornes and brambles nor burnt vp with drought nor deuâ—ured by the birds of the ayre but battle as in good ground bring forth plentifull fruit to the prayse honor of thy name Amen A Prayer for knowledge and vnderstanding HEare my prayers O Lord Iesu the euerlasting wisedome of the We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all soldiâ—rs to deathes band ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„â—t ¶ The Fife Fife seé thou play to leade them the way Father which geuest vnto childhoode the commoditie of aptnes to learne I pray theé adde the furtherance of thy grace to the forwardnes of nature that I may the sooner and more perfectly learn knowledge and the liberall sciences Howbeit in such wise as they may serue to thy glory so as my minde being furthered by the help of them may attayn to the fuller knowing of theé which is the highest poynt of mans felicitie And also that according to the example of thy most holy childhoode I may dayly prosper more and more in age wisdome and fauor both before God and man to the glory of thy name which liuest and raignest c. Amen A Prayer to be sayd before receuing of the Communion O Father of mercy and God of al consolation seéing all creatures ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy long vyage Death only maketh Captaines quail â–ª And harty souldiers for to fayle do acknowledge and confesse theé to be their gouernour and Lord it becometh vs the workmanship of thine own hands to reuerence and magnifie thy godly maiestie First for that thou hast created vs to thine own Image and similitude but cheéfly because thou hast deliuered vs from that euerlasting death damnation into the which Sathan drew mankind by the meanes of sinne from the bondage wherof neither man nor angell was able to make vs freé But thou O Lord rich in mercy and infinite in goodnes hast prouyded our redemptioÌ„ to stand in thine only and wel beloued sonne whom of very loue thou didst geue to be made man like vnto vs in all things sinne excepted that in his body he might receaue the punishment of our transgression by his death to make satisfaction to thy iustice and by Vse gayne of Gold and liue in cost So as by death life be not lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can me perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue no pitie his resurrection to destroy him that was author of death and so to bring agayn life to the world from which the whole ofspring of Adam was most iustly exiled O Lord we acknowledge that no creature was able to comprehend the length and breadth the deépenes and height of that thy most excellent loue which moued theé to shew mercy where none was deserued to promise geue life where death had gotten victory to receaue vs into thy grace when we could doe nothing but rebell against thy maiesty O Lord the blind dulnes of our corrupt nature will not suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites Yet neuerthelesse at the commaundement of Iesus Christ our Lord we present our selues to this his table which he hath left to be vsed in remembrance of his death vntil his comming ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page spent is thine age Pressmen goe play printing must stay We Printers wrote with wisdomes peâ— She liues for â—ye we die as men again to declare and witnes before the world that by him alone we haue receaued liberty and life that by him alone thou doest acknowledge vs to be thy children and heires that by him alone we haue entraÌ„ce to the throne of thy grace that by him alone we are possessed in our spiritual kingdome to eate and drinke at his table with whoÌ„ we haue our conuersation presently in heauen and by whom our bodies shall be raysed vp agayn from the dust and shall be placed with him in that endles ioy which thou O Father of mercy hast prepared for thine elect before the foundation of the world was layd And these most inestimable benefits we acknowledge and confesse to haue receaued of thy freé mercy and grace by thine onely beloued sonne Iesus christ For the which therfore we thy congregation moued by thy holy spirite Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siiluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By rigâ—t I must be bold with thee that liuest so old render to theé all thanks prayse and glory for euer and euer Amen Another WHat tongue or what hart can worthely geue theé thankes O Lord Iesu for thine vnspekable loue towards vs Who to the intent to redeéme mankind forlorn diddest vouchsafe to become man and to take all the miseries of our state vpon theé in so much that in the end thou being a pure and vnspotted lamb wast contented to be made a sacrifice for vs vpon the altar of the cros and to abide the punishment due for our sins that thou mightest reconcile vs to thy Father yea and both in life and death thou didst spend geue and bestow thy selfe wholy vpon vs and
â—aue no care our selues continually to craue it and earnestly endeuer by wel doing to keép it Amen * A Prayer for fayth EAsily yea to easely O Lord do we beleue man which is euill vntrue and ignorant but hardly â–ª and slowly do we beleue theé which art God exceéding good most sothfast and most wise We beleue men in the things that can do vs no good but we beleue not theé in the care of our saluation Man is able to do nothing but thou art able to do al things We can find in our harts to follow our seÌ„â—es which are so oft deceiued and yet we doubt of theé O God which canst neither deceiue nor be deceiued O how great is our vnthaÌ„kfulnes and ignorance Alas how is man blinded of his own sin But thou O Christ through the pitifulnes and compassioÌ„ ¶ The Baronnesse â–ª Baronnesse braue and hie Prepare thy selfe to dye ¶ The Lady Ladies gay and fayre To you I doe repayre No state no might young nor old To resist death 〈◊〉 behold of thy Father art appoynted as a guid in this our blindnes and as a schoolemaster to our rudenes yet notwithstanding the greuousest inconuenience in this blindnes and ignorance is that trembling and staggaring still from time to time eyther we conceaue not the excellent and most wholsome precepts of our good scholemaister or els we stand wauering and doubting of the truth of theÌ„ Blind wretch how wilt thou scape the vengeaÌ„ce that is prepared for theé if thou shrinke away from him seéing thou neither knowest the way thy selfe nor beleéuest him that sheweth it theé O Christ which art the pure euerlasting truth vouchsafe to shead thy selfe so into our harts that as thou and all thy sayinges are most true so we may take them for more certayne then the things which we seé with our eyes Death by his might doth conuince Empresse Queene Duches and Prince ¶ The â—uâ—ges wife Madame or iustice wife I am come to ende thy life â—he Lawyeâ—â— wife Beware thy husbands gayn Reward theé not with pain or handle with our hands which are but sences of the body that may and do deceiue vs notwithstanding that the foolish beastly flesh do trust so much to them Asswage and settle these motions of the flesh which driue vs from time to time to the altering of the thing that ought to be alwayes most firme fast setled in our minds Faith is a gift of thy inlightening O Christ therfore shead it mercifully and bouÌ„tifully in such wise into our harts as these faulty eyes of oures may be inforced to behold it euen loth and vnwilling though they be Lord I beleéue but yet help thou mine vnbeleéfe Lord increase our faith Amen A Prayer for trust in God THe ground of mans decay was his trusting of himselfe and the beginning of his rysing agayne was The GentlewomaÌ„ Gentles braue fine Daunce after my line Aldermans wife Thou art clothed in skarlet And yet art but my varlet Behold vs here that sometime were gay How now we lye dead all wrapped in clay his distrusting of him selfe and his trusting to God. O most excellent and singular wise guid which leadest all them the rightest and nearest way to euerlasting blessednes which trust theé truely and vnfaynedly Graunt that as we be blind and weak in very deéd so we may take our selues so to be that we take not vp on vs to shift for our selues but let our looking be to seé theé alone and let our inabling of our selues be no further but to desire to follow theé going afore vs to come to theé wheÌ„ thou callest vs to obay theé as thou guydest vs and to betake our selues wholy vnto theé that thou who only knowest what way to goe mayst lead vs to the attaynement of our desires that way which we wold neuer haue set foote into of our own accord Amen Riches nor treasure auayle nothing For death to earth all doth bring Merchantes wife Braue neuer so nice daunce after my deuice ¶ Citizens wife Tricke and trim put of your hood I am come to do you good * A Prayer to be sayd for the feare of God. GRaunt Lord that being taught by thy commauÌ„dements I may serue theé with feare and reioyce before theé with trembling in all things standing in awe of theé least thou happen to be angry and I perish out of the right way For the feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome ⧠A Prayer for loue towards Christ. THe ground of all happines is to loue thee which art most excelleÌ„tly good and the perfection of happines is to be knit vnto thee which art most excellently good as we may become all one with thee for that is the very end of loue Therfore do we begin our blessednes here by louing thee and Riche mans wife Though thou haue siluer and golde Yet art thou within my â—olde Young woman Fine prety in the wast Come with me in hast As death in this world hath the victory So by death we hope to enter Gods glory we finish it in heauen by being knit vnto thee O most louing Christ would God we were so far in loue with thee that beyng swallowed vp and altogether consumed in thee we were one with thee euen as thou and thy Father art one so as we were no more our selues but thou nor any more men but after a sort Gods as we beyng oll one thing with God which is the highest and most perfect blessednes For God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Now therfore I am aliue or rather not I But Christ in me To him therfore be all thanks and prayse for euer Amen A Prayer to be sayd for cleanes of hart MOst merciful Iesu Christ who being made in the likenes of sinfull flesh hast born our sinnes in thy Time to liue time to dy God granÌ„t vs liue eternally ¶ The Mayde Fresh galant gay All must with me away ¶ The Damosell Fine proper neate And all is but wormes meate body to wipe away all our naughtines by thy death and to make vs clean and new creatures acceptable vnto god Scoure vs from the spots which we by our sinnes doe dayly cast vpon the whitenes that we haue gotten by theé And when thou hast so cleansed vs let thy grace maintayn vs still in the same cleanes that we may be worthy to be called thine both in profession name Lord cleanse me from my secret sinnes and beare with thy seruant in his other sinnes Amen Another A Clean hart create in me O god and renue a right spirite within my bowels Let my hart be made vndefiled through thy inrighteousing that I may not be put to shame Amen ¶ Farmers wife Cease thy labour and paine For I am thy riches and gainâ— HusbandmaÌ„s wife Toyle no more I say For heÌ„ce I must away Time to liue time to dy God
enioy the feare of thy loue Amen A Prayer for spirituall ioy LOrd Iesu the redeémer and comforter of mankind which hast by thy holy Spirite prepared far greater pleasures then the world knoweth of for such as refuse the false pleasures of this world for thy sake tempering the troubles of this life with inward and ¶ The Mayor Mayor I theé call â–ª to my guild Hall. ¶ The Shirife Shirif for execution I haue a commission Mayors Shirifes do passe with speed And others them in place succeed secret solaces and after a sort renuing from tyme to tyme a certayne forecast of the blessednes to come to the intent that being cheéred and refreshed we should come running to theé with gladder hartes I beseéch theé graunt that the anoynting of thy holy spirit may often driue from me all irksomnes of aduersities and cheére vp my minde with healthful gladnes euen as he anoynted theé with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes in respect of thy humayn nature when thou wast here vpon earth which liuest and raignest with the father and the same holy Spirite for euer and euer Amen A Prayer to be sayd in the time of sicknes MOst mercifull Redeémer thou art alwayes mercifull who art We peace did keep in Princes name Now death doth charge vs with the same ¶ The Baâ—â—ife Come Baylife no bayle with me shal preuayl ¶ The Constable Constable I arrest to my ward be prest alwayes the sauiour whether thou doest send health or sicknes wealth or aduersitie ioy or sorow For it is of great mercy when by outward afflictions as it were by bitter but yet wholesom medicines thou doest heale the inward diseases of the soule and by temporary troubles which doe last but for a short time doest prepare vs to eternal ioyes which indure for euer And thy selfe O gracious sauiour passing into thy glory through the gretest afflictioÌ„s of this world hast troden out to vs by thy steps that way to true perfect felicity in the which no humble and true seruant ought eyther to disdayne or to shrinke to follow after his Lord and master so going before him But for so much as without theé we can doe nothing that good is I beseéch theé to indue me with thy heauenlye grace that I may take vp willingly ¶ The Phisicion By thy water I do seé thou must away with me The Astronomer Looke not so hie low thou must lie No art or medecine can preuayle When death doth purpose to assayle obediently this crosse which thou hast appointed vnto me and follow after theé and that I may drinke of as it were this medicinable cup though bitter vnto the flesh which thou the heauenly phisition doest offer vnto me paciently without grudging or murmuring against theé And that I may with thy faithfull seruant Iob and with vnfayned lips and hart say The Lord hath geuen the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased the Lord so is it come to passe blessed be the name of the Lord. For if I haue receaued gladly youth health riches honor and ioy at thy hands O Lord why should I refuse paciently to take age sicknes aduersity sorrow at thy hands also These things be in deéd very greuous vnto frayle nature and flesh but thou my Lord though most perfectly innocent Death wines the field all armes must yeald ¶ The Herauâ—d Herald in thy shield beare grasse in green field Sergeant at Armes Zergeant see thou stay al glory must away infinitely hast suffered more greéuous things for me who haue so oft deserued hel But yet thou knowest the frailty of our humane condition nature wherfore I besech theé as thou pourest sharp wine into our wounds to bite away the corruption of our sinnes so after the example of the mercifull Samaritane set forth in thy holy gospell to resemble thy selfe vnto the sharpe wine of thy correction the supplying oyle of thy merciful comfort whereby I may be able to suffer things which otherwise are intollerable vnto me And if it be thy pleasure to increase sorow vpon me increase also thy grace and gift of patience in me and turne these worldly and bodely afflictions to the profite of my soule by my acknowledging of thy iustice in punishyng me worthely and thy mercy in correcting me gratiously euen like as a Father ¶ The TruÌ„petor Trumpet geue sound all muâ—â— to the ground ¶ The â—ursiuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without â—agâ—age All must needes diâ— we need not tell Our message hath bin sounded wel hath pitie vpon his children when he beateth them and by my submitting of my own will vnto thy holy will and patiently taking of this thy proouing and trying of me whether I loue theé or no may offer that sacrifice of obedience which is acceptable vnto theé And when thy Fatherly pitie shall be contented with thy meéke chastising of me then I beseéch theé send calme after this tempest quietnes after this trouble and ioy after this sorrow that I may render thanks vnto theé for double causes both that thou hast first corrected and amended me an vnprofitable seruant and afterward hast taken away the bitternes of affliction with the softnes of thy comfort In the one hauing regard of necessitie in the other not forgetting my infirmitie and in both as in all things alwayes remembring thy mercy vnto the which We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all soldyars to deathes band ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„nâ—r ¶ The Fifâ— â–ª Fife seé thou play to leade them the way I doe commende and betake my selfe both body and soule now and for euer Unto theé with the father and the holy Ghost one God of most excellent maiesty be all praise honor and thanksgeuing for euer and euer Amen Another LOrd Iesu the onely health of theÌ„ that liue the only life of them that dye I yeald and geue ouer my self wholy to thy most holy will whither it please thee that this silly soule shall abide any longer in the lodge of my body to serue the or that thou wilt haue it to depart out of this world For inasmuch as I am sure that the thing wich is committed to thy mercy cannot perish I will willingly put of this fraile and wretched flesh of mine verely in hope of the resurrection ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy â—ong vyage Death onely maketh Captaynes quaile And harty souldiers for to fayle which shall render it to mee in farre better plight I beseech thee strengthen my soule with thy grace agaynst all temptations and agaynst all Sathans assaults gard me with the shield of thy mercy whereby thou madest all thy martires inuincible in old tyme agaynst all horrible torments and cruell kinds of death I see there is no defence in my self all my trust is in thy vnspeakable goodnes I haue no desert
deliuer vs. From all blindnes of hart from pride vayn glory and hipocrisie from enuy hatred and malice and all vncharitablenes Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceites of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs ¶ The TruÌ„petor â–ª Trumpet geue sound all must to the ground ¶ The Pursuant Goe suÌ„mon by message to come without baggage All mâ—st needs dye â–ª we need not tell Our message hath bene sounded well From lightnings and tempests from plague pestilence and famine from battayl and murther and from sodayn death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from al hardnes of hart and contempt of thy word and commaundement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mistery of thy holy incarnatioÌ„ by thy holy natiuitie and circumsition by thy baptisme fasting and temtatioÌ„ Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buryall by thy glorious resurrection and ascention and by the coÌ„ming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. We drum that domes day now at hand Doth call all souldyers to deathes hand ¶ The Dromme Drommer call together al soldyars to my baÌ„ner ¶ The Fife Fâ—fe seé thou play to leade them the way In all time of our tribulation in all time of our welth in the hour of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners â—oe beseéch theé to hear vs O Lord God and that it may please theé to rule and gouern thy holy church vniuersally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please theé to keép streÌ„gthen in true worshiping of theé in righteousnes and holynes of life thy seruant Elizabeth our most gracious Queéne and gouernour We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to rule hir hart in thy faith feare loue and that she may euermore haue affiance in theé euer seéke thy honor and glory We beseech thee c. ¶ The Capitaine Captain march with me thy Captayne I must be ¶ The Souldior Soldyar haue a courage to thy long vyage Death only maketh captaines quayl And harty soldyars for to fayl That it may please theé to be her defender and keéper geuing her the victory ouer all her enemies We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to illuminate al Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the church with true knowledge vnderstanding of thy word And that both by their preaching liuing they may set it forth shew it accordingly We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to indue all the Lords of the counsel and all the Nobilitie with grace wisedome and vnderstanding We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to blesse and keépe the Magistrates geuing them grace to execute Iustice and to maintayn truth We beseech thee c. Vse gayn of gold and liâ—e in cost So as by death life be noâ— lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can â—e perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue â—o pitie That it may please theé to bles keépe all thy people We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue to all Nations vnitie peace and concord We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue all thy people increase of grace to heare meékly thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruites of the spirite We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to bring into the way of truth al such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to strengthen such as doe stand to comfort and helpe the weak harted to rayse them vp that fall and finally to beate down Sathan vnder our feéte We beseech thee c. ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page â–ª spent is thine age Let printing stay and come away We Printers wrote with wisdomes pen She liues for aye we die as men That it may please theé to succor help and comfort all that be in danger necessitie and tribulation We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to preserue all that trauail by land or by water al women labouring with child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitie vpon all Prisoners and Captiues We beseech thee c. it may please theé to defend and prouide for the fatherles children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to forgeue our enemies persecutors and slaunderers Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By right I must be bold â–ª with theé that â—â—â—uest so old and to turne their harts We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to geue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enioy them We beseech thee c. That it may please theé to giue vs true repentance to forgeue vs all our sins negligences and ignorances and to indue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite to amend our liues according to thy holy word We beseech thee c. Sonne of God we besech theé to heare vs. Sonne of God we c. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I â—aue store No one deuise no aâ—t no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foyle O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our father which art in c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euil Amen ¶ The versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Answere Neither reward vs after our iniquities Let vs pray In song in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in clay ¶ The Musicâ—oÌ„â— Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away O God mercifull Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite hart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that we make before theé in all our troubles and aduersities when so euer they oppresse vs And graciously heare vs that those euils which the craft and subtiltie of the deuill or man worketh against vs be brought to naught and by the prouidence of thy goodnes they may be dispersed that we thy seruants being hurt by
Behold vs here that sometime were gay And now lie dead all wrapped in clay Riches nor treasure auayl nothing For death to earth all doth bring Merchantes wife Braue neuer so nice daunce after my deuice 〈…〉 wife â—ricke and trim â—ut of your hood â— am come to d◠〈◊〉 good * A Prayer in desire of the life to come IN the life to come we must not thinke to inioy any one benefite alone as we do here but al good things and all at once euen as many as are possible to be thought or not thought For we shall inioy theé O God who alone art all in all things And loue shal make vs one with theé and so we shall be as it were certayn Gods. O when shall we haue an end of this misery and a beginning of that ioy when shal I cease to liue among such as are euil spitefull cumbersome and enemilike and begin to liue with Christ who is Riche mans wife Though thou haue siluer and golde Yet art thou within my holde Young woman Fine prety in the wast Come with me in hast â—s death in this world hath the victory So by death we hope to enter Gods glory curteous good frendly and loueth me most deérely This body of mine is but a pryson to my soule Yea and that a most darck and lothsome one This world is but a banishmeÌ„t and this life but sorow wretchednes But where as thou art there is our home our freédome and our endles blisse Twitch our mindes from time to time to the remembraunce of so great happynesse Sheade into our harts the desire of so great good things and therfore cheéfly to be coueted Settle our mindes and geue them euen here some tast of thy ioyes wherby we may lothe and abhor these things wherinto we runne with such headinesse imbracing them fast betweéne our armes and laying hold on theÌ„ with both our hands that we may shun and hold scorne of these so harsh and bitter things couet nothing so much as the sweétnes of thy company O death how bitter is thy sting That poore and rich to earth doth bring ¶ The Mayde Fresh galant gay All must with me away ¶ The Damâ—sell Fine proper neate And all is but wormes meate whereunder al good thinges are contayned Amen * The feare of the Iudge and Iudgement day O Lord and God of Gods reuenger of wickednes I know that thy comming will be manifest I am certayn thou wilt not alwayes keépe silence when fire shall burne before thy face and a mighty tempest shall rage in thy sight when thou shalt cal the heauen from aboue and the earth from beneath to seuere thy people Behold in the presence of so many thousands of people mine iniquitie shall be discouered my sinnes shal be opened in the sight of so many Angels and not my misdeédes only but thoughts and words Before so many Iudges shall I stand helplesse as haue excelled me in good workes By so many euidences shall I ¶ Farmers 〈◊〉 Cease thy labour and paine For I am thy riches and gain Husbandmas wife â—oyle no more I say For heÌ„câ— I must away Time to liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally be cast as haue geuen me example of good life With so many witnesses shal I be coÌ„uinced as haue admonished me with holesome counsell and by their vertuous deédes haue bene paterns for me to imitate O my Lord I haue not what to alleage I finde nothing what I should aunswere And being now in this greuous danger my coÌ„science vexeth me the secrets of my hart wound me couetousnes heÌ„meth me in pride accuseth enuy consumeth concupiscence enflameth exces corrupteth me rauine defameth me drunkennes dryeth me vp slaunder renteth me in peéces ambition supplanteth rapine sharpely rebuketh dissention cutteth a sunder anger disturbeth lightnes maketh me dissolute faintnes weakneth me hipocrisie deceueth flattery breaketh me fauour lifteth me vp but malice doth goare The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me Countrrywoman Away with butter cheése For thy life thou must leese The Nurse Geue such no more For I am at the dore Behold O my deliuerer froÌ„ this wrath full generation behold with whom I haue liued euer since my birth day after whom I sought with whom I kept fayth and promise The life which I loued condemneth me which I commended disdaineth me These be my frends in whom I did repose my selfe the gouerners whom I obayed masters whoÌ„ I serued counsellers whom I did credite Citizens with whom I dwelled domistical fellowes with whom I was familiar Alas my king and my God that I haue so long soiorned among theÌ„ Woe is my light that I haue dwelled with the inhabitaÌ„ts of Cedar And seéing that holy Dauid sayd long how much more miserable wretch that I am may I say to long hath my soule dwelt among them O God my streÌ„gth no fleshe shall be iustified in thy sight My help is not in the children of men Thus death hath brought all things to nought Set thy mercy aside whom shalt thou finde iust when thou iudgest And except thou iustifie the sinner in thy mercy who shall be found pure whom thou mayest glorifie For I beleue O my sauing health that which I haue heard which of thy mercy to bryng me to repentance the sweét lippes of thy mouth hath spoken that no man can come to me except my father who sent me draw him For truly thou hast instructed me and most fauorably with thy instructioÌ„ hast reformed me I besech theé almighty father in thy beloued sonne with all the strength of my hart and minde I besech theé O welbeloued sonne of god I beseéch theé O most holy and most coÌ„fortable spirite of God so leade me that I may hasten to the sweéte smelling fauoure of thy precious balmes Amen Come ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome prepared for you Matâ—â—5 Depart from me ye 〈…〉 euerlasting 〈…〉 is prepared for 〈◊〉 Math. 25. The conclusion O Lord Iesus Christ thou king of kings the great counsell and wisedome of the father O thou the greate Shephearde of thy Pasture O thou righteous Iudge of all Iudges preserue our Queen Elizabeth long to liue with thy pore Church of England in health and wealth to thy good pleasure and will. Blesse thou the wisedome and pollicy of her counsayle to the strengthening of the same thy Church the tranquilitie of our Queene and Country inspire the Ministers of thy blessed Gospell with thy holy spirite that they may be sauery salt to season and bright lights to the way of saluation Rayse vp faythfull distributers of right and iustice to the poore commons of this Realme diligent and carefull magistrates to execute the lawes aright as they will answere before thy tribunall seate at the day of iudgement Finally to euery of vs thy poore sheepe let thy mighty hand outstretched arme O Lord God father
at the setting of the Sunne He shall breaks downe their altars he shal destroy their images For now they shall say we haue no king because we feared not the Lord and what should a king do to vs Ose. 10. Moses cast the â—abâ—es out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry c. Exo. 32 The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be fore the ark of the Lord c. 1. Sam. â— WRetthed are they O Lord to whom thy daysun goeth down I meane that sonne of thine which neuer setteth to thy saints but is always at the noonpoint with theÌ„ euer bright and euer shining A droopy night ouer dreépeth the minds of them euen at hie noontide which depart from theé But vnto them that are conuersant with theé it is continually cleére daylight This daysun that shineth in the skye goeth and commeth by turnes But thou if we loue theé in deéd doest neuer goe away froÌ„ vs O that thou wouldst remoue away this impediment of sin from vs that it might alwayes be day light in our harts Amen * A Prayer to be sayd at the lighting vp of Candles GReat and thick darcknes ouerwhelmeth our harts O Lord Saul sayd to Doeg euen thou and fall vpon the priestes And Doeg the Edomite turned c. 1. Sa. 22 Aâ—halia seing her sonne to be dead destroyed all the kings seed But Iehoâ—heba c. Reg. 11. Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder according to the tyme which he had diligently searched c. Maâ— 2. vntil thy light do chase it away Thy Daysun O most wise workmaster is as the cresset of this bodily world and vnto the spirituall world the cresset is thy wisdome from whence springeth the light both of our bodies and of our soules At the comming of the night vpon the day thou hast geuen vs Candles for a remedy of the darknes and for a remedy of our ignoraunce after sinne thou hast geuen vs thy doctrine which thy sonne who loueth vs moste deérelye hath brought down vnto vs. Wherfore thou fountayne and teacher of all trueth make vs through both those lights to seé such things as may driue away the dimnesse of our minds The light of thy countenance is sealed vpon vs O Lord thou hast put lightsomnes into our harts Thy word is a lantern to my feet and a light to my pathes And Iesus when he was baptised came straight out of the water And lo the heauens were opened vnto him and Iohn saw the spirite of God descending like a doue c. Math. 3. Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine handâ— vpon the seâ— c. Exodus 14. They curtâ— down a branch with one cluster of grapes and bearâ— vpon c. Num. 13. ⧠A Prayer to be sayd in the Euening O Lord my God my Father and my sauyour forasmuch as thou hast graunted me the grace to come to the end of this day hast created the night for man to rest in I casting my self most humbly down before thy holy maiesty beseéch theé most hartelye to shew me this goodnes to the residue of thine infinite benefites that I may so rest this night to the comfort and refreshment of mine infirmitie as my hart may still be lift vp vnto theé And my soule haue her spirituall rest aswel as the body taketh his Let not my sleépe be vnmeasurable to please excessiuely the ease of my flesh but only to suffice the necessity of my nature that I may be the better disposed to thy seruice to morrow God spake to Iacob get thee out of this countrey Iacob toke all his gooddes and cattell c. Gen. â—1 Dauid asked counsel of the Lord saying Shall I go vp into any cities of Iudah c. 2. Sam. 2. The Angel sayd to Ioseph Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the babes life Then he arose and toke the babe c. Mat. Preserue me also from all vncleannes both of body and soule keéping me from all temtations of the enemy and from all dangers that may befall me And because I haue not passed this day without offeÌ„ding theé after diuers sorts and maners Like as now in the absence of the sun thou sendest darcknes to couer all things so also vouchsafe to wipe out all mine offences by thine infinite mercy so as they may neuer come to reckning before thy iudgement seate All which things I aske and craue of theé in the name and for the sake of thine only Sonne my Lord and Sauyour Iesus Christ according to the rule which he hath geuen vs to pray by saying Our Father which art c. * Another The tempter came to Christ saying If thou be the sonne of God commaunde that these stones be made bread But he aunswering sayd it is written Man shal not liue by bread only c. Math. 4. Esau selleth his byrth right for a mâ—sse of portage c. Gen. 25. The woman seyng the tree to be pleasaunt tooke of the fruit c. Gen. 3. LOrd Iesu Christ to whose vnconsumable goodnes we be beholden for all things which hast graunted the cherefull light of the day vnto al men both good and bad to doe their busines in and mercifully geueÌ„ them the sweet stilnes of the night to refresh the pores of their silly bodies and to put away the cares of their minds and to asswage their sorowes Forasmuch as thou thy selfe performest al these thinges much more beneficially to them that loue thee to whom thou geuest a far greater light by the grace of fayth to do al deedes of godlines by then doth the shining of the Sun vnto the world In so much as the promyses neuer suffer them to faynt but the comfort of thy Spirite putteth away all cumberaunces of minde far more effectually then any sleepe of the body And the wholl Helyas stretched himselfe vpon the childe and the Lord heard the voyce of Helyas c. 3. Reg. 17. Heliseus comming into the house and behold the childe was dead and he stretched c. 4. Reg. 4. Christ cried with a loud voyce Lazarus come forth Then hâ—â—hat was dead came forth bound band foote with bandes and his face was bound with a napkin Iesus said vnto them c. Iohn 11. man resteth not more sweetly or safely in any thing then in thy mercy O deere Redeemer I besech thee that if I haue done any thing this day through humayn frailety and neglygence which hath offended thyne eyes pardon it for thy wonted goodnes sake and graunt therewithal that this night may be happy to me by thy prospering thereof pure by thy preseruing of me and safe from the nightly illusions of wicked feendes through thy protection so as this sleep may make both my body and minde more cherefull and lusty to serue thee to
dryuen by thy commaundement and trusting to thy promyses I pray They appointed vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer and from that tyme Iudas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister Now on the first day of the feast of vnleaâ—ened bread c. Math. 26 Iudas sayd Come let vs sell him to the Ismalites c. Gen. 37 So Ioseph was brought down into Egypt and Potipher c. Gen. 30 vnto thee in the name of my Lotd with all the godly vpon earth saying as he hath taught vs Our Father which art in heauen c. * A Prayer to God the Father The foolish virgines came also sayng Lord Lord c. Math. 25. The great Dragon that old serpent was cast out c. 〈◊〉 12. Iesus knowing all thinges that should come went forth and said vnto them â—home seeke ye They answered him Iesus of Nazareth Iesus aunswered I 〈◊〉 he Iudas also c. Iohn 18. And because we haue diuers hard incouÌ„ters to indure against the world the deuill his ministers and the flesh which we beare about vs we beseéch theé euen with sighes that thy kingdome may come That like as in heauen all thinges submit them selues to thy maiesty with trembling so also thy Spirite may raign in our harts making vs to acknowledge theé the king of all kinges then the which nothing can be either greater or better They appointed vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer and from that tyme Iudas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread c. Math. 26 Ioab tooke â—bâ—er aside peaceably and smote him vnder the ribbe that he dâ—â—d c. 2. Sam. â— Simon to redeme Ionathan sendeth mony and the children to Triphon c. 1. Macha 13. When 〈◊〉 the father of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father he told his two brethren c Gen. 10 〈◊〉 is mocked of little children crying vnto him Come vp thou baldhead c. â— â—eg 2. 〈…〉 Christ 〈◊〉 his face â—nd buâ—feted him 〈◊〉 Prophecy â—â—to vs O Christ who is he that smote thee Peter sate without in the hall and a maid c Math. 26. The meat that geueth life in deéde is the knowledge of theé by thy holy Scriptures the grace of thy spirit whereby we grow vp in theé through dayly increase of vertue in the inner man vntill we be fully men growen according to the full measure of thine only begotten sonne Iesus christ By thy word thou begatest vs when we were nothing by the same hast thou be gotten vs agayn vnhappely borne of Adam and by the same doest thou feéde and cherish vs now agayn begotten For that is the heauenly bread that is the new wine wherwith all the blessed spirites are continually and happely fed which dwelling in thy house doe prayse theé for euer and euer 〈◊〉 let Barrabas lose vnto theÌ„â—nd scourged Iesus and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldiours of the gouernour toke Iesus in to the common hall c. Math. 27. The plowers plowed vpon my backe and furrowes long did cast c. Psal. 131. Sathan smote Iob with sore voyles froÌ„ the sole of his foot c. Iob. 2. When thou â–ª art done all thy duety stere downe that thou mayst receue a crown c. Eccle. 22. 〈◊〉 sayd vnto Dauid who art thou that criest to the king c. 1 Sam. 26 And the souldiâ—rs plattâ—â—â—owne oâ— thorne â—pon his â—ead an 〈◊〉 in his 〈…〉 and bowed their knees before â—im and mocked â—im saying God 〈◊〉 c. Math. 2 â–ª * Another in Iesus Christ our Redeemer by S. August Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude saying I am innocent of the death of this iust man looke you to it Then answered all the people c. Math. 27. Iezabell sent a messenger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me c. 3. Reg. 19. Then the king commaunded and they brought Daniell and cast c. Dan. 6. I Call vpon thee O God I cal vpon thee because thou art nigh to all them that call vpon thee in truth Thou art the truth teach me I besech thee in thy mercy O holy truth teach me to call vpoÌ„ thee in truth For how I should so doe I know not Teach me therefore I most humbly beseech thee O most blessed truth For wisdome without thee is folishnes to know thee is perfect knowledge Instruct me with thy diuine wisdome teach me thy Lawes For I beleeue that he is most happy who is instructed by thee and taught thy law I haue a desire to call vpon thee which I pray thee that I may doe in verity What is it to call vpon truth in truth but to call vpon the Father in the Sonne Truly most holy Father thy word is the truth and the beginning of thy Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne c. Gene. 22. 〈…〉 was there gathering sticks â–ª and Eliah called her and said c. 〈…〉 And Iesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Golgotha where they cruciâ—â—ed him and 〈◊〉 other with him 〈…〉 side one and Iesus in the midst of them c. Iohn â—â— word is truth For this is the beginning of thy word that thy word was in the beginning In the beginning it selfe I worship thee O thou principall beginning in the very word of truth I cry to thee most perfect truth In the which O thou the very same truth teach and direct me For what is sweeter then to call vpon the Father in the name of his only begotten Then to moue the father to compassion by mention of his sonne Then to pacifie the king by name of his welbeloued child For by this meanes the offender is released from pryson the captiue set at liberty By this meanes they that haue receaued the sorrowfull sentence of death are wont to purchase not only pardon but vnhoped fauour if they pleade the loue of the welbeloued Sonne By this meanes seruants that And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie there they crucified him and the euil doers one on the right hand and the other on the left c. Luke 23. Tubulraim wrought 〈◊〉 euery craft of brasse and iron c. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw and fasted on a tree c. doe trespasse escape their masters punishment when his louing Sonne is their Intercessor Euen so O almighty Father I pray thee for the loue of thy omnipotent Sonne draw my soul out of pryson that it may confesse vnto thy name Deliuer me from the chaynes of sin I beseech thee by thy coeternall and only Sonne and most mercifully restore me to life by the mediation of thy most pretious sonne sitting at thy right hand For what other Intercessor I should appoint I know not but him who is the propitiation for our sinnes who sitteth at thy right
best and finally desiring nothing but theé who with the father and the holy Ghost art the full and perfect felicity for all euer Amen ⧠A Prayer to the holy Ghost O Holy Spirit worthy of all worship which makest vp the almighty trinity which proceédest from the father and the sonne and art equall to either of them differing from them in only propriety of person which of thy â—nd Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene for God tooke him away c. Gen. â— There appeared a charet of fire and horses of fire to Elias went vp by a whirlwind c 2. Reg. 2 So after the Lord hâ—d spoken vnto them he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of god And they went forth and preached â—c Mar. 16 goodnes forgeuest the sinnes of them that amend which with thy holy breth cleansest mennes mindes comforting them when they be in sorrow cheéring them vp with pure gladnes when they be in heauynes leading them into all truth when they be out of the way kindling in them the fire of charitye when they be a cold knitting them together with the glew of peace when they be at varyance and garnishing and inriching them with sundry giftes which by thy meanes profes the name of the Lord Iesu by whose working all things liue which liue in deéde whose delight is to dwell in the harts of the simple which thou hast vouchsafed to consecrate for temples to thy selfe I beseéch theé maintayne thy giftes in me increase the things dayly which thou hast vouchsafed vpon me that by thy gouernance the lustes of the flesh The birth of blessed Mary the virgine the mother of Christ c. There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iâ—ssâ— and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Iacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. may dye more and more in me and the desire of the heauenly life more quicken and increase Let me so passe through the misty desert of this world by thy light going before me as I may neither be defiled with Sathans vices nor be intangled with any errors disagreéing from thy truth which the true catholick church hath delyuered vs by the instinct of theé which liuest raignest euerlastingly with the Father and the Sonne Amen * A Prayer to God for his Spirite and grace to pray effectually ETernall and most mercyfull Father we know not our selues neither can easely vnderstand what or how we should pray as we ought But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wifâ— c. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be geuen theâ— to wife for to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6. Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Ioseph her husband being a iust men c Math. 1. Geue vs the Spirit ô Lord to help our infirmytyes which maketh requeste for vs vnto theé with sighes which cannot be expressed I lift vp mine eyes to theé that dwel lest in the heauens Stir vp my hart and mind ô Lord come into me ô spirite of God that I may come vnto theé with hart soule not with mouth and lips only Geue vs thy grace that we may call vpon theé as true worshippers in spirite and truth with the inward attention without hipocrisie and ambition Graunt that I aske nothing of theé but that which may agreé to thy holy will to thy prayse and glory and to the health of my soule â—nd in the â—i moâ—rt the Angell Gabrielâ— was sent froÌ„ God to a citie in Galile naâ—med Nazareth to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. â—he â—aâ—de of the womâ—n shall â—read vpon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. The Angel sayd to him the Lord is with thee â—hou valyant man â—udges 6 Neither let my praiers ô Lord prescribe the time when and how they should be fulfilled But let me submit my selfe to thy holy will in all things with hope patience and humilitie of hart Thy will be done in earth ô Lord as it is in heauen I will wayt patiently ô Lord for theé that thou mayst incline vnto me and heare my prayer Behold euen as the eies of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a mayd vnto the hand of her maistresse so our eyes will wayt vpon theé ô Lord vntill thou haue mercy vpon vs. â—nd Moyses returned to Iethro his father in law and sayd to him I pray c. Exo. 4. My soule doth magnify the Lord and my sprite doth reioyce in God my sauiour Luke 1. Aâ—d Mary câ—ose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Iuda 〈◊〉 entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c. Luke 1. In his name through faith we come to the throne of thy grace receiuing the spirite of adoption we cry Abba Father StrengtheÌ„ vs O Lord least the vnworthynes of our life withdraw and intice vs from prayer Assist vs therfore O most mercifull father that we may pray euery where lifting vp pure hands without wrath or doubting with supplications prayers intercessions geuing of thanks for our selues and for all men Graunt this through Iesus Christ our Lord who is also at thy right hand and maketh request for vs To whom with theé and thy holy Spirit be all laud and glory Amen When the dayes were accomplished Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes and layd him in the manger because there was no roume c. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest is holy ground Exod. 3. Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease c. Num. 17. * A Prayer for the whole Realm and the body of the Church with the members therof according to their estates degrees Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old as God had coÌ„maunded him c. Gen. 2. Let euery maÌ„ child among you be circumcised That is ye shal circumcise the foreskin of your flesh c. Ge. 17 And when the viii dayes were accomplished that they should circumcise the childe his name was then called Iesus which was so named of the Angel before he was conceiâ—ed c. Luke 2. And forasmuch as thou hast commaunded vs to pray inespecially for kings and Princes and for all such as are set in authoritie that the company of mankind may liue peaceably and quietly vnder them in all godlines and honesty considering how burthensome crownes and scepters are how hard the wealding of them is and how difficult a matter it is to discharge them well whether it be in respect of themselues or of their
nor good workes at all to alleadge before thee But as for euill workes I haue alas to many of them Neuertheles my hope is that I shal be reckned in the number of the righteous by meanes of thy righteteousnes For my sake wast thou borne for my sake didst thou thirst for my sake wast thou huÌ„gry for my sake diddest thou teach for my sake diddest thou Vse gayn of gold and liue in cost So as by death life be not lost ¶ The Marchant Neither craft nor trade Can â—e perswade ¶ The Citizen Of towne and citie I haue no pitie pray for my sake didst thou fast for my sake didst thou perfourme the great number of good works in this life for my sake didst thou suffer so many bitter panges for my sake didst thou geue ouer thy precious life to the death Let the things profite me which thou hast geueÌ„ me of thine own free will thou I say which hast geuen thy self wholy for me Let thy bloud wash away the spots of my sinnes Let thy righteousnes hide mine vnrighteousnes Let thy deseruings commend me to the soueraign Iudge As my greef and disease increase so increase thou thy grace Let not my faith wauer Let not my hope staggar Let not my charity waxe colde Let not my humain infirmitie be cast down with the dread of death But euen when death shall haue cloased ¶ The Printers Leaue setting thy page spent is thine age Pressmen goe play printing must stay We Printers wrote with wisdomes pâ—n She liues for aye we die as men the eyes of my body let the eyes of my minde looke still vpon thee with out wauering aside And when it shal haue bereft me of the vse of my tung let my hart cry stedfastly still vnto thee Into thy hands I commit my spirite O Lord to whom be honor prayse world without end Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd in the Plague time IT is no maruail O most righteous Father that the elementes of this world are fearce against vs sometime with earthquakes sometime with tempestes and lightnings sometime with ouerflowing of seas and Riuers sometime with pestilent concourses of the heauenly lights and sometime with corruption of the infected ayre for we doe commonly abuse thy gifts Death takes no bribe of wealth Death forceth not long health ¶ The Riche man Thy siluer nor golde froÌ„ death can theé withhold ¶ The aged man By right I must be bold with theé that liuest so old We acknowledge that euen in this case also the creatures serue and obay their Creator whose coÌ„maundements we neglect so oftentimes Also we acknowledge thy fatherly nurturing of vs wherby thou callest vs back from the trust of this world with gentle correction and drawest vs to the desire of the euerlasting life ¶ The Artificer No compas or arte can cause me depart The Husbandman Labour no more For I haue store No one deuise no arâ— no toyle Could make vs geue to death the foil A Prayer for health both of body and minde DOubtles the only true health is to be found in that part which is cheéfest in vs and lykest vnto theé O Lord that is to say to haue the soul allyed In song in daunce in pipes in play We lost our life now wrapt in â—la◠¶ The Musâ—â—iâ—n Strike vp thy play Daunce with me away and knit vnto theé as neare as is possible by louing and worshipping of theé which art our only welfare But forasmuch as the same is annexed to the body it feéleth the affections therof and is moued by them As for salues and medicines they doe good when thou listest but they be superfluous and to no purpose if thou list not to worke by them Thou I say which art the founder of them and of al naturall things Thine only will is the cause of life and death and of health and sicknes which thou layest vpon vs most commonly to chastise and bridle this body of oures which rusheth forth into vnruly losenes in all things like an vnweldy vnbrideled beast ouerwhelming vs with forgetfulnes of the true health when it groweth to strong and ouerlusty But thou O Father graunt vs so ¶ The Shepeheard Leaue thy shepâ— And with me crepe ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fonde I breake the bonde The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obay vnto me to be hole in body as our minds may also be hole and sound Or if it be not for our benefite to haue health of body at least wise geue vs a healthy minde and lend vs power strength to beare our sicknes that the greéfe and weakenes of the body appaire not the soule Amen A Prayer in affliction or aduersitie MOst mercifull Redeémer which art alwayes full of compassion thou art alwayes our preseruer whether thou send vs aduersitie or prosperitie For great is thy mercy compassion in that thou healest the inward man by outward afflictions as it were by bitter medicines and preparest vs to euerlasting ioyes by temporal troubles And for as much as thou thy selfe hast traced vs out this true way to felicitie Time to liue time to dy God grant vs liue eternally ¶ The Begâ—ar Begging is done For I am come The Roge. Thinke I am best For I bring rest by thine own footesteps graunt that I may paciently and obediently drinke this cup which thou reachest vnto me Greéuous in deéde are these thinges vnto my nature but yet hast thou suffered greéuouser things for me and I haue deserued far greéuouser things for I haue deserued hel fire Notwithstanding thou knowest the frailety of mans state and therfore like the mercifull Samaritane thou pourest wine into our wounds which maketh our vices to smart but yet thou alayest it with the oyle of thy comfort to the end we should indure the things which also would be intollerable If thou thinke meéte to increase our greéfes increase thou also the gift of pacience graunt that these afflictions may turne me to the amendement of my misdeédes Or if thy Fatherly louing kindnes thinke ¶ Youth Young olde Come to my folde ¶ Of Infancy Feare not me though I grisly be Time to liue â— time to dy God grant vs liue eternally this thy chastising of me to be sufficient let this storme passe into calme wether that I may thanke theé in both respects as well for that thou hast amended thine vnprofitable seruant by gentlenes as also for that thou hast put away the bitternes of the affliction by the sweétnes of thy comfort hauing in the one case respect of necessity and in the other being mindfull of our infirmities To theé therfore be prayse and thanks for euer Amen ⧠A Prayer vpon the minding of death WHat doe we dayly all our life long but heape sinne vpon sinne and lode wickednes vpon wickednes so as euery day becomes worse then other by increasing the number of our offences and the wrath that is
earth we came to earth we shall For sinne by death hath made vs thrall the mind And the more gentlenes that is vsed towards this most vnkind and leud bondseruaÌ„t the body so much the worse and more wicked doth it become If we follow it it caryeth vs into destruction turning vs away from God to it own earthlines and rottennes O how vnseémly an incounter is this wherin the flesh being matched against the Spirite that is to say the bondslaue against his Lord striueth with him for victory and prehemineÌ„ce sometime getting the vpper hand so as his master is not able erewhiles to represse his boldnes malapertnes and lustines because he bare with him to long and to often But thou O Lord Christ to whom all power is geuen both in heauen and earth which camest to vndo the works of the deuill which onlye art able to make the thing cleane which is conceiued The wise the simple and euery degree Are by force compelled to obey vnto me The Creeple Be thou poore or disesed Thou must with me be pleased The poore woman To thou neuer o poore Thou must enter at my â—ore of vncleane seéde Reforme our vnderstanding and will Cleanse our harts Circumcise our mindes Wash our soules Stablish thy freé and mighty spirite in vs Subdue vs wholy to thy good pleasure And restore vs the state by thy goodnes which we haue lost through our own naughtines so as our flesh may be in subiection to the spirite and our affections be made obedient to right and vncorrupted reason Or at least wise that although the flesh rebell and fight against the spirit yet the power of y minde may be so strong â–ª and the strength of our reason so mighty through thy grace as they may get the vpper hand in all incounters and finally ouercome all assaultes to the praise of the working of thy holy spirit Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd against the deuill The Infant Loe this little hart I strike with my dart The Foole. Of foolish and fond I break the bond No state no might young nor old To resist death dare be bold IEsus Christ our Lord God our shield our fortres our strong rock our only defence thou knowest and it greeueth vs to feel with how great force and perilous pollicie that olde enemy of oures the wily serpent that beguiled our first parents in paradise the roaring Lyon that goeth about night and day seeking whom he may deuoure That destroyer waster and accuser of the saynts the deuill commeth vpon vs to assayl vs thou knowest how small or rather no power at al we haue of our selues to withstand him so that vnlesse thou succour vs he will easely deceaue vs by his craftynes ouerthrow vs by his mightynes and rend vs in peeces by his cruelty But we know that if thou doe but shew thy selfe to him aloof thou shalt driue him away with thine only looke For thou hast ouercome Emperors and kings we did raigne But now the earth doth vs detayne The Emperor Of Monarch Emperor I am the conqueror ¶ â—he king Keisar or king I must theé bring him by thy death thou hast bound him disarmed him and spoyled his house thou hast bereft him of all lordship and power thou hast crushed his head thou hast cast down hys throne and dispossessed him of hys kingdome thou hast led away captiuity captiue thou hast cancelled the obligation that he had of oures and nayled it to thy crosse and finally thou hast tryumphed ouer him in our nature to our benefite and behoofe We therfore being weake feeble naked vnarmed vnskilfull ignorant and of no forecast but yet thy members through thy grace beseech thee which art strong almighty only wise and prudent vouchsafe to defend maintayn preserue vs continually from that merciles dragon Be thou our eye our eare our hand our loads man guide and captayn Set thy selfe ¶ The Duke Duke though thou be daunce after me ¶ The Marques Marques of state match with thy mate Dukes and Marques we hauâ— bene Nought â—ow but â—oâ—es are to be seen in our defence against this our vnappeasable aduersary disappoynt his practises confound his deuices break his bow knap asunder his speare ouerthrow his holds quench his fiery darts put his armies to flight and geue thy seruants the vpper hand of him and his or rather ouercome thou him and his in vs and by vs. Doe but aduaunce the standard of thy crosse in our harts and thou dryuest him out of the field Vnder this baÌ„ner dare we march boldly against him assuring our selues that by the power thereof thou wilt delyuer vs from the hands of our enemies and of all that hate vs so as we may serue thee in holynes and righteousnes all the dayes of our life Which we beseech thee to graunt vs for thy mercies sake to the euerlasting honor of thy most holy name Amen We Earles and Barons were sometime Now wrapt in lead are turnd to flime ¶ The Baron Barons of nobilitie sweare to me fealty ¶ The Vicount Earle or Vicount geue thy account ⧠A Prayer to be sayd of a woman with Child THy wisedome and power shine forth in all thy workes O Lord but yet much more greater more manifest and more wonderfull are they in the shaping of man Of how small beginning doest thou make so marueilous a liuing thing sheading a soule into it whose originall is from heauen to the intent he should long to returne thether as into his countrey ¶ The Archbishop Archb. Metropolite theé thy Prouince I visite ¶ The Bishop Bishops graue old are sheép of my fold Bishops we haue taught the lore That all must enter deathes dore O most gracious workman let thy pitifulnes amend the thing which our sinfulnes hath marred and eyther abate my payne that I may not haue neéde of so great strength tendance cunning or els increase my strength power and courage that I may be able to ouercome all the payn of my trauell Amen * A Prayer to be sayd of such as be vnder the Crosse. HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for euer how long wilt thou hide thy face from me Both sheep and shepheard all must dye We taught the same the same we try ¶ The Doctor Doctor diuine at last thy reading houre is past ¶ â—he Preacher Preach no more â—bout thy glas is run out Unto theé O Lord haue I cryed all the day long haue I stretched out my hands vnto theé Wilt thou worke wonders among the dead or shal the dead arise praise theé shall any man shew thy mercy in the graue or thy truth in destruction Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darck or thy righteousnes in the land of forgetfulnes Why doest thou thrust back my soul O Lord and hide thy face from me no man is mindful of theé in death and who will prayse theé in the graue Be stil before God O my soule for