THE PROTESTANT's Crums of Comfort CONTAINING I. Prayers and Meditations with Ejaculations for every day in the Week and other occasions II. Thanksgivings for Deliverances from Popery Tyranny and Arbitrary Power III. The Rebellion in Ireland and Massacre of Paris IV. The Learned Bishop Usher's Prophecy concerning Ireland and the Downfall of Rome V. Advice to the late Besieged in London-Derry under that Reverend Divine and valiant Commander Coll. George Walker Ilustrated with Pictures sutable to each particular Occasion London Printed by W. W. for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane 1690. Defenders of y e Protestant Religioâ— Q. Elizabeth K. William K. James Q. Mary II. of Sam. XXIII v. 3. He that ruleth ore men must be just ruling in y e fear of God Licensed December 16th 1689. To the Honourable The Lady P. T. Madam WHere true Piety inhabites Charity always â—ims a Priviledge in â—owning Religious Actions â—d like the good Samaritan â—ords the Oil of relief to the â—ounds of the distressed Such tender Compassion alâ—â—ys attends the Great and â—st of whom Madam you â— a perfect Pattern your â—…nty has been unlimited to 〈…〉 distressed and afflicted to 〈…〉 Fatherless and the Widow â—…t even Commiseration it self has been your daily delight and practice Divine Souls like yours can never be free from humblâ— Addressers which creates â— Prâ—sumption in me to lay thâ—… Tract at your Laâ—â—ships Door where I humbly conceive yoâ— will honour it so far as 〈◊〉 take it into your Closet That Heaven may prospâ—… you with length of days here and reward you with a Croâ—… of Glory hereafter is tâ—… hearty Prayer of Madam Your most obedient Servanâ— G. W. THE Protestant's Manual OF PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS When we first awake O God thou art my God early will I seek thee I will sing of thy power â—…d will praise thy Mercy becomes in the Morning for â—…ou hast been and wilt be 〈…〉 defence and refuge in the â—…y of my Trouble A Prayer for the Morning O Eternal God whose Providence has protected mâ— the night past brought me tâ— the beginning of this day defend me O Lord in the same by thy Almighty power anâ— grant that this day I fall into nâ— Sin neither run into any kinâ— of danger but that all mâ— doings may be ordered by thâ— Governance to do alwayâ— that which is righteous in thâ— sight through Jesus Christ. II. I praise thy Name thâ—â— thou hast still continued to 〈◊〉 the opportunity of servinâ— thee and advancing my hopâ— of a blessed Eternity preserâ—â—â—â— me this day from all violence and snares of my Enemies visible and invisible keep me from all pride self-self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and dissimulation and let the graces of thy holy Spirit take an absolute possession of my Soul and all its faculties that I may finally tread down Satan under my Feet all this I beg for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Evening ALmighty God I praise and magnifie thy holy Name for thy preservation of me this day and all the days of my Life for unless thy Mercy had withheld me I had committed more and more grievous Sins and had been overwhelmed by thy just wrath and severest judgments Pardon O Lord I beseech thee the Sins and Offences of my Youth and the irregularity of all my Actions either in thought word or deed II. Let thy Heavenly Grace be present with me that though my Body sleep yet let my Soul be vigilant lest I sleep in Sin and be forgetfull of my Duty towards thee let thy goodness and loving kindness never slip out of my remembrance but so unite my heart unto thee with fervent Charity that whatever I do may redound to thy glory III. Grant that whether I sleep or wake live or dye I may never lose the light of thy Countenance but evermore live in thy favour that escaping from the Darkness of this World I may at last arrive at the Land of everlasting Peace and happiness to behold thy power and glory Amen Meditations for Sunday Morning LEt God arise and let his Enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoak vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the Fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God But let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce before God let them also be merry and joyfull II. O Sing unto God and sing Praises unto his Name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an Horse praise him in his Name yea and rejoyce before him He is a Father of the Fatherless and defendeth the Cause of the Widows even God in his holy Habitation He is the God that maketh Men to be of one Mind in an House and bringeth the Prisoners out of Captivity but letteth the Runnagates continue in scarceness III. O God when thou wentest forth before the People when thou wentest through the Wilderness The Earth shook and the Heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sinaâ— also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel Thou O God sentest a gracious Rain upon thine in heritance and refreshed'st iâ— when it was weary Thy Congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy Goodness prepared for the Poor IV. The Lord gave the Word Great was the Company of the Preachers Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the Household divided the spoil Though ye have liâ—n among the Pots yet shall ye be as the Wings of a Dove that is covered with silver Wings and her Feathers like Gold V. When the Almighty scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon As the Hill of Basan so is God's Hill even an high Hill as the Hill of Basan Why hop ye so ye high Hills this is God's Hill in which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever VI. The Chariots of God are Twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy Place of Sinâ—i Thou art gone up on high â—hou hast led Captivity Captive and received Gifts for Men yea even for thine Enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them VII Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us He is our God even the God of whom cometh â—alvation God is the Lord by whom we escape Death God shall wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy Scalp of such a one as goeth on sâ—ill in his wickedness VIII The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan Mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the Sea That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine Enemies and that the Tongue of thy Dogs may be red through the
same IX It is well seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and my King goest in the Sanctuary The Singers go before the Minstrels follow after in the midst are the Damsels playing with the Timbrels Give Thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the Congregations from the ground of the Heart There is little Benjamin their Ruler and the Princes of Judaâ— their Counsel the Princes of Zabulâ—n and the Princes of Napthali X. Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee Stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us For thy Temples sake at Jerusalem so shall Kings bring Presents unto thee When the Company of the Spear-men and multitude of the Mighty are scattered abroad among the Beasts of the People so that they humbly bring pieces of Silver and when he hath scattered the People that delight in War Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt the Morians Land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God The Prayer MOst gracious God who art â— Father of the Fatherless and pleadest the Cause of the Widoâ— have Mercy upon thy holy Catholick Church and since her Lord is â—scended up on high even to his heavenly Mansions leave us not alone comfortless but send thy holy Spirit into our hearts that by his assistance we may escape spiritual and the bitterness of the temporal II. Send a gracious showre even the Dew of thy divine Favours to refresh our weariness in this Calamity make thy People as Doves innocent and chast and adorn them with the Beauty of inward Sanctity Let all Kings Princes and Rulers of the Earth confess thy Name and thy honour that thy Gospel extending forth into all Lands Peace and all thy Blessings may follow it and thy praise be encreased from Generation to Generation through Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Sunday Noons Meditations SIng unto God O ye Kingdoms of the Earth O sing Praises unto the Lord Who sitteth in the Heavens over all from the beginning Lo he doth send forth his Voice yea and that a mighty Voice Ascribe ye the Power to God over Israel his Worship and strength is in the Clouds O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy Places even the God of Israel he will give strength unto his People blessed be God II. O clap your hands together all ye People O sing unto God with the voice of melody For the Lord is high and to be feared he is the great King upon all the Earth He shall subdue the People under us and the Nations under our Feet He shall chuse out an Heritage for us even the Worship of Jacob whom he loved III. God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the Trump O sing Praises sing Praises unto our God O sing Praises sing Praises unto our King For God is the King of all the Earth Sing ye Praises with understanding The Prayer O Lord God Celestial King who reignâ—st Potentate in all the World thou art exalted above all Creatures and art to be feared in all the Dominions of the Earth let the Seed of thy glorious Gospel be planted in all parts of the habitable World that thy saving Health may be known unto all Nations II. Let thy Grace pull down all the strong Holds of Sin and Satan that any ways oppose thy Holy Name and Word subdue all thy People unto thee and the Nations under thy Feet so that we that are thy People and Sheep of thy hands may become one Sheepfold under one Shepherd Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and Saviour Meditations for Sunday Night I will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy Name for ever and ever Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to be praised there is no end of his Greatness II. One Generation shall praise thy Works unto another and declare thy power As for me I will be talking of thy Worship thy Glory thy praise and wondrous Works So that Men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous Acts and I will also tell of thy greatness The Memorial of thine abundant Kindness shall be shewed and Men shall sing of thy Righteousness III. The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great Goodness The Lord is loving unto every one and his Mercy is over all his Works All thy Works praise thee O Lord and thy Saints give thanks unto thee They shew the glory of thy Kingdom and talk of thy power That thy power thy glory and mightiness of thy Kingdom might be known unto Men. Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and thy Dominion endureth throughout all Ages The Prayer MOst mighty God marvellous worthy art thou to be praised and of thy greatness there is no end give us sanctified Hearts and Lips that we may express thy Righteousness and magnifie thy glory Worship and wondrous Works II. All the Earth praises thee O Lord and thy Saints give Thanks unto thee Make us religious and sincere before thee and to lay aside all Hypocrisie Protect us O Lord by thy hand of Providence that we fall not and raise us up when we are down III. Give us spiritual and temporal Meat in thy oâ—n due time for our Souls and Bodies that we being filled abundantly with thy Mercies here we may have our hearts desire fulfilled and satisfied hereafter among such as fear thee and praise thy holy Name for evermore Amen Monday Mornings Meditations THE Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down For he shall deliver the Poor when he cryeth the Needy also and him that hath no helper He shall be favourable to the Simple and Needy and shall preserve the Souls of the Poor He shall deliver their Souls from wrong and falshood and dear shall their bloud be in his sight II. There shall be a heap of Corn in the Earth high upon the Hills His Fruit shall shake like Liâ—anus and he shall be green in the City like Grass upon the Earth His Name shall endure for ever his Name shall remain under the Sun among the Posterities which shall be blessed through him and all the Heathen shall praise him III. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doth wondrous things And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the Earth shall be filled with his Majesty Amen The Prayer O Eternal God thou that defendest the Children and Poor but puâ—ishest the wrong doer have mercy upon thy People under affliction extend thy Mercy and compassion from â—ne Sea to another even unto the Worlds end II. Make thy People who love thy Name flourish and subdue their Enemies under them that neither â—alshood nor wrong may any ways â—pâ—ress them Bless them with Peace â—nd Tranquillity and satisfie them with thy Righteousness and Salvation through thy Mercy O blessed â—esu Amen MoÌ„nday Noon's Meditations NOT unto us O
Wednesday Morning DEliver me O Lord from the Evil Man and preserve me from the Wicked Man Which imagine mischief iâ— their Hearts and stir up strisâ— all the day long They have sharpened their Tongues like a Serpent Adders Poyson is under their Lips II. Keep me O Lord from the Hands of the Ungodly preserve me from the wicked Men which are purposed to overthrow my going The Proud have laid a sâ—are for me and spread a Net abroad with Cords yea and set Traps in my way III. I said unto the Lord thou art my God hear the Voice of my Prayers O Lord. O Lord God thou strength of my Health thou hast covered my Head in the day of Battle IV. Let not the Ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous Imagination prosper lest they be too Proud Let the mischief of their own Lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about A man full of Words shall not prosper upon the Earth Evil shall hunt the wicked Person to overthrow him The Prayer O Lord God the Strength of all those that depend upon thee deliver us from evil and wicked Men that neither their Examples may corrupt us nor their Counsels misguide us or their Mischief disturb our Safety II. But do thou O Lord cover our Heads in the day of Battle and Strife against all our Bodily and Ghostly Enemies that though they pursue us to overthrow us yet we may be safe on Earth under thy Favour and Almighty Protection and at the last being removed from all Fears and Dangers we may appear in thy sight amongst the Righteous for evermore Meditations for Wednesday Noon HEar my Prayer O Lord and consider my Desire Hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake And enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight shall no one living be justified II. For the Enemy hath persecuted my Soul he hath smitten my Life down to the ground he hath laid me in the Darkness as the men that have been long dead Therefore is my Spirit vexed within me and my Heart within me is desolate III. Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works Yea I exercise my self in the works of thy Hands I stretch forth my Hands unto thee my Soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty Land The Prayer MOst Righteous Judge and dear Redeemer hear us for thy Truth and Mercies sake free us from the hainous Guilt of all our Sins and renounce those Punishments due to us for the same II. Enter not at any time into Judgment with us for in thy sight no Flesh can be justified by its own worthiness Fortifie our Souls with the Holiness of a lively Faith which worketh by Charity that at last we enter into thy Holy of Holies even Life Everlasting Amen Meditations for Wednesday Night HEar me O Lord and that soon for my Spirit waxeth faint Hide not thy Face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the Morning for in thee is my Trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my Soul unto thee II. Deliver me O Lord from mine Enemies for I flie unto thee to hide me Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the Land of Righteousness III. Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy Righteousness sake bring my Soul out of trouble And of thy goodness slay mine Enemies and destroy all them that vex my Soul for I am thy Servant The Prayer BOW down thine Ear O Lord and hear my Complaint support my weak Spirit with thy Heavenly Grace which is sufficient for me Hide not the light of thy Countenance from me but replenish me with the Beams of thy Mercy and Goodness II. Direct me in the way that I should walk in instruct me to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken my Soul in thy Paths which lead to Life Eternal and so continue the Conduct of thy Blessed Spirit to me that it may never depart from me till I am brought out of this temporal World and am safely arrived at thy Spiritual Kingdom Amen Meditations for Thursday Morning PRaise the Lord O my Soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any Being will I sing praises unto my God O put not your trust in Princes nor in any Child of Man â—or there is no help in them For when the Breath of Man goeth out he shall turn again to his Earth and then all his Thoughts perish II. Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the Hungry III. The Lord looseth Men out of Prison the Lord giveth Sight to the Blind The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the Righteous The Lord careth for the Strangers he defendeth the Fatherless and Widow as for the way of the Ungodly he turneth it upside down The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer GReat God who art King for everlasting world without end vouchsafe us thy Grace and assist us with thy ready help that we may fix all our hopes in thee for thou alone art able to grant Deliverance II. Lord feed our Souls and satisfie us with thy Salvation when we hunger and thirst after thee revenge our Cause when we suffer wrong and heal our back-slidings Enlighten our Darkness that we walk not in the shadow of Death and let thy hand of Providence take care of us in all our necessities that when our life is expired and we return to that Earth from whence we were taken we may reign with thee for evermore Meditations for Thursday Noon I Cryed unto the Lord with my Voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication I poured out my Complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble When my Spirit was in heaviness thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me II. I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no Man that would know me I had no place to flie unto and no man cared for my Soul I cried unto thee O Lord and said thou art my Hope and my Portion in the Land of the Living III. Consider my Complaint for I am brought very low O deliver me from my Persecutors for they are too strong for me Bring my Soul out of Prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the Righteous resort unto my Company The Prayer THou art our Place O Lord to flee unto and the only Sanctuary wherein is
Merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour In the time of Plague Let thy Anger cease O Lord and be appeased for the inquity of thy People as thou hast sworn by thy self O Holy God Holy and Strong Holy and Immortal have Mercy upon us For a City Compass this City O Lord with thy Protection and let thy Holy Angels guard the Walls thereof O Lord mercifully hear thy People For Grace Lord from whom all good things do come grant unto us thy humble Servants that by thy Holy Inspiration we may think those things that be good and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. For Enemies O God the lover and preserver of Peace and Charity give unto all our Enemies thy true Peace and Love and Remission of Sins and mightily deliver us from their Snares through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the Afflicted O Almighty God the Afflicted Soul the troubled Spirit crieth unto thee Hear O Lord and have Mercy for thou art a merciful God For Travellers Assist us mercifully O Lord in our Supplications and Prayers and dispose the way of thy Servants towards the Attainment of Everlasting Salvation that among all the Changes and Chances of this mortal Life they may ever be defended by thy most Gracious and ready Help through Christ our Lord. For the Fruits of the Earth O God in whom we live move and have our Being open thy Treasure in the due Season and give a Blessing to the works of thy Hands through Jesus Christ our Lord. Against Temptation Almighty God which doth see that we have no Power of our selves to help our selves keep us both outwardly in our Bodies and inwardly in our Souls that we may be defended from all Adversities which may happen to the Body and from all Evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the Soul through Jesus Christ. For Misbelievers and Sinners Almighty and Everlasting God who desirest not the Death of a Sinner mercifully look upon all that are deceived by the subtilty of Satan that all evil Prejudice laid aside they may return to the Unity of thy Truth and Love For Temporal Necessities Replenish those O Lord we beseech thee with Temporal Nourishment whom thou hast refreshed with thy Blessed Sacraments Against Tempests Drive spiritual Wickedness from thy House O Lord and preserve it from the malignity of tempestuous Weather For Women in Travel O Lord of thy abundant Goodness and Mercy help thy Servants who are in great pains and perils of Child-birth that being delivered out of their present Danger they may glorifie thy holy Name who art blessed for evermore For the Sick O God the only refuge of our infirmities by thy mighty power relieve thy sick Servants that they with thy gracious Assistance may be able to give Thanks unto thee in thy Holy Church through Jesus Christ. For Prisoners O God who deliveredst thy Apostle Peter from his Chains and restoredst him to Liberty have pity upon thy Servants in Captivity release their Bonds and grant them Freedom and Safety Accept of the hearty Repentance of those that are appointed to dye and save their Souls for his Merits who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God VVorld without end For the Dying Father of all Flesh and God of all Spirits receive the Souls which thou hast redeemed with thy bloud returning to thee A Prayer before Study O unspeakable Creatour who out of the Treasure of thy VVisdom hast ordained Hierarchies of Angels and hast placed them above the highest Heaven in a wonderfull order and disposed them sweetly for all parts of the VVorld thou the true Fountain and incomprehensible Principle of Light and VVisdom vouchsafe to illuminate the Darkness of my Understanding with a Beam of thy Light remove the Darkness wherein I was born Sin and Ignorance thou who makest the Tongues of Infants Eloquent loosen my Tongue and pour forth the Grace of thy Spirit upon my Lips give me acuteness to apprehend capacity to retain subtilty to interpret aptness to learn readiness to speak direct my beginning farther my progression and perfect my conclusion When the Bell tolls for a Dying Person O gracious God be with this Person in the holy operations of thy Grace and in the yearnings of thy tenderest Mercies in the dreadfull Moment when the Soul shall depart from the Body and conduct this thy dying Creature through the Valley of the Shadow of Death unto the Land of everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A concluding Prayer Almighty God who hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Son's Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine Ears to us who have now made our Supplications and Prayers unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy VVill may be effectually obtained to the relief of our Necessities and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be with us now at the hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment King Edward the Sixth's Prayer against Popery LOrd God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched Life and take me among thy chosen Howbeit not my Will but thy Will be done Lord I commit my Spirit to thee O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen's sake send me Life and Health that I may truly serve thee II. O my Lord God Bless thy People and save thine inheritance O Lord God Save thy chosen People of England O my Lord God defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy True Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name Amen For God's Mercies upon Their Majesties Forces under the Command and Conduct of his Grace the Duke of Schomberg O Most powerfull and great God mighty in Battel fearfull in praises doing wonders thou hast done mighty things already for us whereof we rejoice O be pleased still to continue thy undeserved Mercies towards us and accomplish what thou hast already begun for us Go forth we humbly beseech thee with our Armies against those who would make a Prey of thy People II. Protect and guide our great Governour and Commander whose Commission is to fight thy Battel Guide him and Counsel him in all his Undertakings and cover his head in the day of Battel cause those that hate thy Name and People to flee before him and scatter them as the dust before the Wind Crown him with Victory and great Success that at the last he may return home in Peace and Safety to thy Glory their Majesties Comfort his own Satisfaction and all the Nation 's happiness this we beg for the Merits of Jesus Christ Amen For Mercy to the whole Nation
pine away in Misery Many have been stoned to death and some have been stripped stark naked and driven into the Woods and Mountains in the extremity of Frost and Snow and there starved Some have been compelled to carry their own Parents to Execution others to give fire to the Wood that burnt them Mothers have been forced to throw their own Children into the Water Wives to hang their own Husbands Children to hang up their own Parents and when they have done all this in hope and upon promise of Life they themselves were barbarously Murthered Some have been boiled alive in Cauldrons some have been put into a hole in the ground all but the head and there forc'd to continue till they died Some have been driven through the streets naked and if through weakness they kept not their pace they were pricked forward with Spears and Swords Some have been so rack'd and tormented that Worms have bred in their putrified Sores Infants have been closed again in their Mothers Bellies which the Villains had ript up and there strangled some have been wounded deadly and then hung upon Tenter-hooks and others have been hung by the Arms that the Souldiers might try their valour and the strength of their Swords upon them Some have been ript up and their Guts let out to trail about their heels others have been dragged with Wythes and Ropes about their Necks through the VVaters Bogs Woods and Streets to force them to confess their Treasure which when they had gotten they were basely murdered One hundred and four sheltred themselves in Caves and by smoak made with wet straw at the mouth thereof have been smothered The same Cruelties we must have expected again to have â—aln upon all Protestants if God in his great Mercy had not prevented them Strange and remarkable PREDICTIONS OF THAT Holy Learned and excellent Bishop James Usher LATE Lord Primate of Ireland THE Author of the Life of this worthy Archbishop relates That amongst other extraordinary Gifts and Graces the Almighty had bestowed upon him he was wonderfully endued with a Prophetick Spirit whereby he predicted several things sometime long before they came to pass whereof some we have seen fulfilled and others remain yet to be accomplished and though he was one that abhorr'd Enthusiastick Notiâ—â—s being too Learned Rational and Knowing to admit such idle Freaks and Whimsies Yet he profest That several times in his Life he had many things imprest upon his Mind concerning future Events with so much warmness and importunity that he was not able to keep them secret but lay under an unâ—voidable necessity to make them known From which Spirit he foretold the Irish Rebellion Forty years before it came with the time when it should break forth in a Sermon at Dublin in 1601 where from Ezek. 4. 6. discoursing concerning the Prophets bearing the iniquity of Judah forty days the Lord therein appointed a day for a year He made this direct Application in relation to the connivance of Popery at that time From this year says he will I â—eckon the Sin of Ireland that those whom you now embrace shall be your ruine and you shall bear this Iniquity Which Prediction proved exactly true for from that time 1601 to the year 1641 was Forty years in which it is notoriously known that the Rebellion and Destruction of Ireland happened which was acted by those Popish Emissaries which were then connived at And of this Sermon the Bishop reserved the Notes and made a Remark of it in the Margent of his Bible and for 20 years before he lived in the expectation of the fulfilling of it and the nearer the time was the more he was confident it was near accomplishment though as yet there was no visible appearance The year before the Rebellion brokeforth says Dr. Bernard The Bishop taking his leave of me being going from Ireland to England he advised me to a serious Preparation for I should see heavy Sorrows and Miseries before I saw him again which he delivered with as great Confidence as if he had seen it which seems to verifie that of the Prophet Amos 3. 7. Surely the Lord will do nothing but he will reveal it to his Servants the Prophets From this prophetick Spirit he foresaw the Changes and Miseries of England in Church and State for having in one of his Books De Prim. Eccl. Brit. given a large Account of the Destruction of the Britains by the Saxons about 550 years after Christ he gives this among other Reasons why he insisted so largely upon it That he foresaw that a like Judgment was yet behind if timely Repentance and Reformation did not prevent it and he would often mourn upon the foresight of this long before it came From this Spirit he gave mournfull intimations of the Death of King Charles the I of whom he would be often speaking with fear and trembling even when the King had the greatest Success and would therefore constantly pray and gave all Advice possible to prevent any such thing From this Spirit he foresaw his own Poverty in Worldly things and this he would often speak of with admiration to the Hearers when he was in his greatest Prosperity which the event did most certainly verifie From this Spirit he predicted the Divisions and Confusions in England about Religion and the sad Consequences of it some of which we have seen fulfilled and I pray God the rest which he feared may not also be accomplished Lastly from this Spirit he foretold That the greatest stroke upon the Reformed Churches was yet to come and the time of the utter ruine of Rome should be when she thought her self most secure and to this last I shall add a brief Account from the Person 's own hand who was concern'd The year before the Primate's Death I went to him and earnestly desired him to grant me in Writing his Apprehensions of Justification and Sanctification by Christ because I had formerly heard him Preach upon those Points wherein he seemed to make those great Mysteries more intelligible to my mean Capacity than any Discourse I had heard from others but by reason I had an imperfect Memory of the particulars I took the boldness to importune him That he would please to give me a brief Account of them in writing whereby I might the better imprint them in my memory oâ— which he would willingly have excused himself by declaring his Intentions of not writing any more adding That if he did write any thing it should not exceed a sheet or two but upon my continued importunity I at last obtained his promise He coming to Town some time after was pleased to give me a Visit where I failed not to challenge the benefit of his promise made to me to which he replyed That he had not writ and yet could not charge himself with any breach of promise for said he I did begin to write but when I came to write of Sanctification that is of the new Creature which
Death of thine only Son hast redeemed us from death to life and hast continually a care of us preserving us as the Apple of thine Eye from the dangerous Assaults of Satan and providest for us all things necessary that more Thanks and Praise is due unto thee than the Tongue of Men or Angels can declare II. Accept these my Praises and Thanksgivings O Lord Ibeseech thee and encrease in me a daily desire to praise thy Goodness acknowledging every good and perfect Gift to come from thee to whom with the Son and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for evermore Amen To God for all his Benefits Most merciful God we yield thee humble thanks for thy continual favour and kindness towards us thy poor and unworthy Creatures for whose Salvation when we were lost thou wert pleased even of thy mere Love to send thine only beloved Son Christ Jesus into the World taking humane Nature upon him and suffering most bitter pangs of Death upon the Cross to redeem us again to thy favour II. Such O Lord was thine unspeakable Love for which we are never able to pay the least recompence but give us O Lord thankfull and obedient hearts that we may yield thee praises not only with our Lips but in our lives not only in giving thy Son for us but in leaving unto us a continual remembrance of the same thine unspeakable Love thy Holy Gospel wherein consists the rule whereby we are directed and though Heaven and Earth pass away yet not one tittle of that shall decay or diminish for without which we should have been in our accustomed Ignorance accept us we beseech thee in thy Son our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Prayer before the following Advice to the besieged Souldiers in London-Derry under the Command of that worthy Divine and most Loyal and Valiant Commander Col. Walker O Most Eternal Lord God whose Providence never fails those who trust in thy Name and Word mercifully we beseech thee to cast down thy Eyes of Pity and Compassion upon us miserable Sinners which are here met together we do in all humility prostrate our selves before thy Divine Majesty beseeching thee to pardon all our Sins and help our Infirmities O Lord we are not able of our selves to do any thing but offend thee committing daily and hourly Sins without number but O Lord hear thy Son Christ Jesus for us and nail them to his Cross that they may never rise up in Judgment against us either to shame us in this World or condemn us in the World to come bury them in the bottomless Sea of thy Mercy and Forgetfulness that they may never appear before thee to hinder thy Favours unto us seal the remission of them to our Souls and Consciences that they may not disturb or distract us in our Devotions and Duty pour thy Grace and holy Spirit into us that may enable us to walk before thee in Holiness Righteousness and in Sobriety all the days of our lives Bless we beseech thee our dear and dread Soveraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Katherine the Queen Dowager the Princess Anne of Denmark and the rest of the Royal Family Bless the Archbishops and Bishops with the rest of the Dispencers of thy holy Sacraments and grant that the light of thy Gospel may never depart from us And Lastly we come unto thee for a Blessing upon our Governours Commanders and fellow Souldiers guide and conduct them in this Calamity fortifie them with Courage and Strength against our Romish Adversaries that thy Name may be glorified our Lives preserved and our Souls Eternally saved in the great day of the Lord Jesus when all flesh shall appear Grant that our Meeting at this time may be for the better and not for the worse to praise and glorifie thy holy Name in whose holy Name and Word we put up these our imperfect Prayers in that most absolute and perfect form of Prayer which Christ himself bath taught us Our Father c. Christian Courage IN AFFLICTION A Discourse by way of Advice to the besieged in London-Derry 2 Chron. 20. Chap. Verse 9. latter part of it Be not afraid nor dismay'd by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's THE Context runs thus And he said Hearken ye all Judah and ye Inhabitants of Jerusalem and thou King Jehoshaphat Thus saith the Lord unto you Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not yours but God's These are the words of God which he commanded Jahaziel the Prophet to deliver to Jehoshaphat King of Judah When the Moabites and Ammonites came to make War against him to dispossess him of his Kingdom verse the 8th of this Chapter and may be a seasonable Text for this Auditory Our Sins indeed are many which have justly provoked God's heavy Wrath against us and our Enemies are very numerous which surround us therefore now let us cry mightily unto God earnestly beseeching him that he would pardon all our Sins blot out all our Iniquities and receive us graciously let us sincerely repent and be heartily sorry for our manifold Transgressions committed against him so shall we by his Divine Assistance be in a readiness to encounter with Roman Malice these Moabites and Ammonites who are Enemies to our Lives Religion Laws and Liberties and be animated with Courage to go out cheerfully against Rome's Force and Cruelties fighting manfully the Lord's Battel every one of us laying his hand upon his Heart with this comfortable Expression in our Mouths Be not afraid nor dismaied by reason of this great multitude for the Battel is not ours but God's Servile Fear is the harbinger of the Guilty and a slavish timorousness belongs not to the Strong and Couragious but a God like Fear attends upon the Vertuous and produces Success in their Undertakings Holy Job that great Proficient in God's School and great Example of Christian Patience tells you Job 28. 28. The fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from Evil is Understanding This is the only supream Good and Fear which secures us from committing shameful Acts and creates a circumspection in our Lives for as the shadow of the Body is followed by the Sun so doth Glory attend Vertue in our progress to Christ. Let us then put our whole trust in God in this time of danger and take the Royal Prophets resolution Psal. 118. 6. Not to fear what man can do unto us but rather fear the Lord who pitieth those that fear him Psal. 103. 13. It is the Duty of every one of us to be circumspect in our Lives but more especially at this season and time of Affliction when the hand of God is stretched out against us when the Enemy waits even at our doors ready to devour us when they stand gaping ready to swallow us up quick and none of us can prognosticate how soon his