Rom. 12. or Heb 10. v. 30. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Revenge O Thou to whom vengeance belongeth keepe me from a revengefull spirit that I fall not into the hands of thy vengeance And since my pitty and patience and pardon is thy will let me not study revenges and returnes of injuries Thou O meek and mercifull Saviour didst pray for thy bloody enemies O let me then forgive my greatest foes Committing my cause to thee who wilt doe justice for me on them if I seek not revenge and for thy self upon me if I doe Thine O Lord is the sword of vengeance thine is the sharpest sword O let me not dare to take it out of thy hand lest whilst I strike others I fall justly by thy sword Though flesh and blood provoke me to it let thy holy Spirit hold me from it cast keep out of me that evil spirit by thy power O good God and Saviour of thy mercy Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Revenge 1. THe sinne of Revenge strikes at God and Man 1. It invades Gods Prerogative and takes his sword out of his hand Rom. 12. 19 2. It is many waies an injury to man To his 1. Nature Borne without armes to live without revenge And even armed Bruits agree with their kind and Devils avoid quarrels 2. Glory To passe by an injury of Prov. 19 11. all the most excellent victory Caesars noble memory to forget Pro. 16. 32. Ro. 12. 22. nothing but wrongs 3. Peace The mind is disturbed and takes no rest Ester 5. 11 12 13. Prov. 12. 15 4. Justice I am my owne Judge and anothers Executioner 5. Wisdome If my revenge fall on a Just man it toucheth God his Zach. 2. 8. friend If he be unjust my vengeance will make me so too 2. Be a Christian and you cannot doe this sinne contrary to the Holy life and law of Christ for when much provoked Luk. 9. 55. 1. He check'd his Disciples for calling for it 2. He commands Charity to pardon Joh. 15. 12 Luk. 21. 19 Ro. 12. 20. wrongs Patience to suffer them and Kindnesse to conquer them 3. He forbids Selfe-love the mother 2 Tim. 3. 2. Ephes 4. 31 32. and Wrath the father both which beget and bring forth revenge A Penitentiall Service fit for a troubled Soule fasting and praying for mercy and grace for Wednesday or other Day Morning Prayer Psal 6. 32. 38. or 51. 130. 143. Lesson Isa 1. Mat. 11. or Act. 3. Evening Prayer Psal 40. 42 43. Lesson Job 9. or Ezek. 18. or 33. 2 Cor. 7. ¶ 1. Collect or Prayer for a Penitent O Lord I doe here cast downe my self before thee O cast me not away from thee I cannot stand at the Barre of thy justice I doe therefore lie downe at the Foot-stoole of thy mercy I doe condemne my self for my sins Lord doe not thou judge me Cancell my sins in my Saviours blood and wash my soule in the streames of mercy Though as red as crimson and scarlet thou hast promised the penitent they shall be white as snow O acquit this pensive soule of mine I beseech thee let not my guilt be black as Hell before thee Wash me from it forgive it me And because forgivenesse of what 's past availes not if I fall againe into former offences O God of all grace I beseech thee so to pardon me a sinner as to make me a Saint Give me an holy strength to mortifie my lusts with an holy care to watch and withstand all occasions and temptations to wickednesse especially those that are by nature custome or condition of life most ready to surprize me against them make me to watch and ward and pray and strive more diligently And let thy Holy Spirit assist and strengthen me to a victory even for the blessed merits of him who overcame the world for me the Captaine of my salvation thy Deare Son Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen ¶ 2. Collect or Prayer for a Penitent O God! with a prostrate body and bleeding heart I doe most humbly confesse bewaile my wretched nature and wicked life before thee For my thoughts my lusts my deeds and words past my conscience cryes out against me * Here thinke of particulars when you say it So vaine so vile so foule so ill have they been before thee And thou art greater then my heart and can'st lay more unto my charge then conscience knowes about me O thou searcher of all hearts and wayes how oft I have vowed thee better service thou knowest and have shamefully violated my faith with thee I have sometimes begun to seek after thee but soone lost my self again in the waies of former vanity As the hills so hath been my love to vaine things but my goodnesse as the morning dew which vanisheth presently And for this even from my owne mouth thou mayest againe condemne me Yea Lord with grief of heart and shame of face I doe yet further confesse and lament bitterly that as if it had been a light thing my self to be in sinnes and armes against thee I have been a Leader of others into Rebellion and so am both a Sinner and a Tempter before thee I have countenanced in them what I should condemne and encouraged what I should abhorre And so as principall to my owne have made my selfe accessary to other mens ills and by nursing the acts of their sinnes have contracted their guilts for which thou mayest againe condemne me charging their wickednesse and woes upon me And though I have been and am at this day so guilty unworthy and vile a wretch against thee O how good and gracious a God hast thou been all my life at this present art unto me Though I deserve all vengeance even to eternall death thy mercies have been and are still great upon me O God of all pity and patience I am confounded to consider thy great goodnesse and my wickednesse against thee Woe is me that the bonds of thy Lawes and thy mercies and my vowes should be all thus broken by me For this shame and confusion of face for ever might justly cover me But Lord though I be every way a miserable Sinner thou art infinitely more a mercifull God Thou hast a propitiatory for sinne above all my provocations Mary Magdalene was foule with lust yet forgiven St. Peter perjured but pardoned Saint Paul made others to blaspheme yet found mercy O Lord for thine infinite mercies sake let my sinnes be forgiven me even for my Saviours sake punish not my guiltinesse upon me Seale to my soule thy pardon in his blood which was shed to save me And for time to come let thy Holy Spirit assist me to live with more conscience and lesse sinne before thee Lighten my mind with a sight of thy truth and fire my heart with a love to thy majestie that the vanities of the earth may be my scorne and the glory of heaven the onely ambition that
flamma c. Bern. O let my Heart never be so hard as to see those Wounds of so great love to me and have no woundings of affection for Thee for Thee And all in heaven and earth that have Relation unto Thee O Christ I am in love with the Father of my Lord Jesus Christ who would give His Joh. 3. 16. Rom. 8. 32 onely Sonne so to suffer on earth for a time that I might not frie in Hell for ever And I have love tâ— Thee O Holy Spirit of God who didst Anoint Jesus Isa 61. 1. to be my Christ and give Him Inauguration to his Crowne of Thornes and Blessed though most bloody Function O Holy Trinity I doe adore what I cannot comprehend as your Heavenly 1 Joh. 3. 7. Heb. 10. 7. Persons so your Counsels And with an humble love and holy reverence desire to behold and blesse your Designe for the Salvation of one World by the Passion of Him who is more worth than a Thousand I see and admire your wonderfull Wisdome Goodnesse and Power that could and did contrive such a Decree And next to your Persons that Blessed Trinity of your Perfections I will Ephes 3. 10 11. Col. 1. 27. for ever love admire and adore And next God I have love for thee O Man Son of man who ever thou art by His flesh and blood and bloody Passion made Gods Son and Brother of Christ Thy Heb. 2. 10 12 14. Ephes 2. 13. 19. Crosse O Jesus shall make all Mankind my friends and Thy Blood glue my heart to every man O Christ why should I hate any when Thou didst so love all How dare I slight any when Thou gavest thy Hearts-blood for every one shall he that is Mat. 25. 40. thy Brother be my hate or scorne And of all Mankind I love you ye Saints that are Twice his Brethren Rom. 12. 5 1 Cor. 12. 27. in Spirit and flesh so neer to Him in both as makes you His Limbs as well as Brothers And Thee O Holy 2 Cor. 11. 2. Col. 1. 18. Ephes 5. 23. Church Spouse of Him and Mother and Body of them yea the Body for which with specialty He gave His Blood and Selfe I have Passionate Ephes 5. 25. Act. 20. 28. Love for thee O thou Dearest Body of Christ shall I think any thing too good for thee for whom He gave Himselfe Preferring thee His Mysticall before His Naturall Body And shall I esteem friend or state or liberty or life or any thing or all things before thee And above all the world though no worship I have kindnesse for you you holy Angels of God who though you have no Ransome because no need of a Redeemers Blood nor had wherwithall as it needed not to pay and contribute at all to the Redemption yet for your Zeale to God and Love Luk. 2. 13. to Man gave it the joy as if it had been your Deliverance and Christ the Welcome as if He had come to be your Saviour Messengers of His Birth Ministers in his life Attendants at his Luk. 2. 11. Mat. 4. 11. Joh. 20 12. Luk. 24. 6. Act. 1. 11. Death Heraulds of his Resurrection and Ascension Giving to his Naturall Body all Due Services on earth and paying for him to his Mysticall your Heb. 1. 14. Holy Ministeries now he is in Heaven O you Pure and Holy Spirits of God! though you got not your Blisse you lost not by Him It is made more strong to you and you more High in Mediator Confirmationis it by the Numbers of Glorified Bodies filling the Rooms of Apostate Spirits to vour farre greater joy and Blisse You love Him and His Passion for it and I you for that You love Man above your owne Kind for that and I you for it Thus Lord I love all for Thee and Thee in all And now I will love my self amongst them O Lord I am One in whom is thy flesh a Man I am One in whom is thy Spirit a Christian I am One for whom thou didst Heb. 2. 12. Joh. 3. 5. Heb. 2. 9. Rom. 5. 5. Isa 43. 4. shed thy Blood On whom thou hast shed thy Spirit A Redeemed Esteemed Man by Thee And shall I be so poore as to value dirt to thy Blood the world before thee Shall I quit Phil. 3. 8. thy Spirit for luâ—t value thee after the Flesh Shall I be tempted to give my selfe from thee to the Flesh and World love Thee lesse than the Devill O Lord I will value thy Blood more I will keep thy Spirit better I will set a higher price on my Self than to sell thy Blessed Purchase to the Devill for a Base piece of flesh and small portion of the World So am I and let me ever be in love with thee O Lord 2. But O Sinne I am in hate with thee for my owne and for my Saviours sake That didst pose Heaven it selfe and put God to it one of the two to damne my Soule or doe thus to my Saviour O thou Enemy of God Man how execrable art thou more than heart can think that madest Him Lamentable more than Eye saw Lam. 1. 12. And O Devill I hate thee who didst tempt man out of Paradise and so draw Christ to a Crosse And could thy Temptations have prevailed and thy power have matcht thy malice wouldst have cast the Second Adam out too that so nor the First nor His Seed might ever have come in againe And O World I abhorre thee as the Imp of the Devill who of His Jewes and Gentiles couldst find hands for such horrid acts and Sinnes that Act. 5. 27. made those Bloody Passions Sinne Devil World for the Death of my King and Lord and Christ Have as you deserve my hate 3. I long for the Lord My Soule longeth for God even the living God! Psal 42. 1. yea even for the dying God! when shall I come and appeare in the presence of God God dying once yet Apoc. 1. 18. Heb. 2. 8. living-ever when shall I come before the dying-living God! I long for the Chariot which will bring me to Thee and will Kisse it 2 Tim. 2. 12. though it be a Crosse I long for the Inne which will lodge me neare Thee and will embrace Phil. 1. 23. it though it be a Grave I long for the Bed which will raise me to Thee and will climb it though Act. 21. 13. it be a Gibbet O Cup of Salvation I will not refuse Psal 116. 12 thee Though full to Martyrs Mar. 10. 39 measure of blood if from Him thou shalt be drunke and yet deem'd nothing to thy Saviours Blood And till my Soule can come to thy Glorified-Crucified Body in Heaven I long after thy Courts where Thou art present in Spirit on earth To be Psal 95. 6. Mat. 28. 20 in thy Holy Temple which is the Chamber At the Altar and
by thy mercy obtaine everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Confession ALmighty and most mercifull Father I have erred and strayed from thy wayes like a lost Sheep I have followed too much the devices and desires of my owne heart I have offended against thy holy laws I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and I have done those things which I ought not to have done and there is no health in me But thou O Lord have mercy upon me miserable Offendour Spare thou me O God which confess my faults Restore thou me that am penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord and grant O most mercifull Father for his sake that I may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy name Amen Prayer for Pardon ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desirest not the death of a Sinner but that he may turne from his wickednesse and live and hast promised pardon to them that truly repent unfeignedly believe thy holy Gospel of thy mercy I beseech thee to grant me true repentance and thy holy Spirit that those things may please thee which I doe at this present and the rest of my life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last I may come to thine eternall joy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill c. The Versicles Vers O Lord open thou my lips Resp And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise Vers O God make speed to save me Resp O Lord make hast to help me Glory be to the Father c. Alleluiah Praise the Lord. ¶ Read the Psalmes for the Service of that day Then the Lessons appointed for it After say the Creed c. Then the Daily Prayers Animadversions to the devout Reader touching these Daily Prayers IF thou wouldest have reason why these Prayers are so short and in severall which use to make a long one all put together that thy Devotion may be quicker they are so short a little space being run with a greater speed and that thy Spirit may hold out fresher in severalls as so many rests all the way it runs If thou beest a Man of another Spirit take that course of prayer wherein thy soule speeds best This is propounded not prescribed to every Devotion and intended for help not the hinderance of any Morning Prayers 1. Collect for Grace O God! I can aske no greater gift than thy Glory and therefore beg no better gift than thy Grace yea even this consummate is nothing else but 1 Cor. 13. 10. that nor can I come at it but by the way of grace I doe therefore for Jesus Christ his sake beseech thee bestow on me that blessed gift Grace to doe thee service on earth that thou may'st give me thy salvation in heaven through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Collect for Peace MY poore Soule is an humble Suiter for peace O God! the Col. 1. 20. blood of Jesus is my plea thy Spirit my Advocate I deserve by my sinnes eternall enmity but for thy deare 2 Cor. 5. 19. Sonnes sake have favour for me by whom the world is attoned O let me be reconciled to thee I know not how Rom. 8. 26. to pray this as I ought but thy Spirit can make effectuall Intercession for me Lord let thy Spirit move and thy Son make my peace Subdue my lusts conquer Satan for me that my conscience may have peace with thee and I in it By thy grace through the mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 3. Collect for Health O Lord when I am sick let me thinke I may die when I am in health that I may be sick that I may not mispend the stock of my life but doe thee honour with my health and thou mayest give me comfort for it in my sicknesse Even this that sin hath not bound me to my bed but thy providence hast cast me downe which can and will lift me up or to health in this world or to happines in a better such an enjoyment of health give me I beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 4. Collect for Safety O Lord so many daies as I live so Act. 10. 28. many lives I owe thee thou renewest my lease every day a poore Tenant at thy will I am and a fraile Isa 28. 5. cotage of clay by thy power I keep Job 4. 19. Deut. 10. 12. Lord that hast hitherto spar'd me still preserve me and let me pay as I can what I owe of service the onely rent thou requirest for tenement and appurtenances life health wealth and all the good things I have of thee for which thou both grantest terme of life and givest eternity This to that continue I beseech thee for his sake who was surety and is sole Purchaser for me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 5. Collect for Friends FOr all my Kindred and Friends Lord receive my prayers Doe thou good unto them all O God! To those that erre shew thy truth and those that see it keep from errour to those that doe amisse give grace to doe better and those that doe well continue in so doing to those that are afflicted give comfort and deliverance to those that prosper humility and temperance blesse the sick with health and the healthy from sicknesse supply those in want and let those that want not give supply to all grant thy grace O God! and shew thy mercy let love bind us one to another and Religion knit us all to thee that all who are of naturall kindred may meet in heavenly consanguinity Even so Esth 2. 31. Job 1. 13. Lord let the bloud of Jesus runne through all our veines and the Spirit of Jesus go along with the blood that the glory of Jesus may be the end of us all And how ever we suffer and scatter on earth we may live and joy together in the blisse of Heaven By the Union of that holy Spirit and communion of that blessed blood Amen Amen 6. Collect for the Kingdome O Lord we were the mirror of the world for mercy we are for misery a people wofully torn divided distressed distracted a multitude of headlesse heartlesse disordered men ready to be destroyed O thou great Physitian that canst as easily cure Jer. 4. 22. a Kingdome as a Man heale our Land for thy tender pities sake Lord have mercy on us and heale us In the blood of Jesus purge our sins the cause of all our maladies whether ours or of the Ages before us from their guilt and curse
of them all good Lord deliver us Deliver us from blood O God from all the innocent and pretious blood which lies upon us From our sins of peace which brought the warre and the sinnes of warre which brought and left us in that guilt of blood O Jesus that hadst mercy even for those that shed thine and Act. 2. 27. madest the matter of their sinne the meanes of their salvation let the virtue of thy blood expiate the guilt of all shed amongst us and the voice of Heb. 12. 24 it out-crie all the clamours which it makes in Heaven against us And by the grace of thy Spirit make our hearts bleed for our sins that it may crie so for us With our sinnes remove our woes Piece our rents and close our wounds with thy heavenly hands O God of peace that we perish not under them let us not make our selves a prey to foraigne force nor fall by an intestine fury Meet Body and Head in common safety meane while looke upon our languishings and keep life in the Body Lord who delightest not in the death of one Sinner pitty millions of poore sinfull miserable soules at the very point to perish pitty us good Lord and preserve us for thy great mercies sake in Christ Jesus Amen Amen 7. Collect for the Church 1 Cor. 11. 2. FOr thy deare Spouse and my best Mother I thy poore Child and Hers on bended knees hold up my hands and humbly pray all thy Goodnesse O God! Truth Love and Peace be with her For errour truth for schisme love for persecution peace Behold O Lord not what She is but was and not what She was for sin but thy Service And Heare Lord not the cries of her sins but groanes of her miseries And make her to be as Good as She was yea Lord make her be as Good as She should be Beautifull in Her selfe Unblemished in her Children Shining in truth Comely in order Holy in life Repair'd in her ruines Restored in her Rights Relieved in her injuries To Thy glory Her honour and the happinesse of us all through the Grace and Worthinesse of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 8. Collect for the Catholique Church O God of peace send Unity amongst all that professe thy Name As they have but one Head Ephes 4. 1 4 c. let them be but one Body as they are but one Body let them have but one Spirit the Spirit of truth and holiness in doctrine and life be in all Cease schismes and warres in the Christian world Let not them spill one anothers blood for whom thy Sonne shed His. Let there not be many Hearts under one Head nor more Heads with it lest they make a Massacre in thy Body or a Monster of it O let thy Scepter have obedience and thine Orders Observance every where Suffer none by delusion or depravation of mind or ambition of Spirit to pull downe thy Throne whilst they pretend for thy Scepter and let confusion and tyranny into the Church whilest they professe to bring in liberty and order and pull downe thy House to set up thy Glory From Violence avarice sacriledge schisme heresie Anarchy tyranny King of the Church keep us Do Thou governe us and let us obey thee doe Thou save us and let us serve thee Even all Christian souls save through out the world Dear Jesus Amen Concluding Prayer IT is thy promise to grant whatsoever I aske in thy Sons name Lord thou wilt not performe lesse because I BreviariuÌ„ totius Evangelii Tert. aske so in his Words In His blessed Breviary therefore I Summe and offer up all and say Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Blessing God the Father blesse me God the Son defend me God the holy Ghost preserve me and all mine and His now and evermore Amen So ends Morning Prayer A Charitable Prayer for these Miserable Times O Lord that dost not willingly afflict the Children of Men Behold from thy Holy Habitation of Heaven the Multitudes of miserable Souls Lives amongst us and have mercy upon us Have mercy on all Ignorant Souls instruct them On all Deluded Mindes and Enlighten them On all seducing and seduced Spirits and Convert them Have mercy on all broken Hearts and Heal them all strugling with Temptation and Rescue them All Languishing in Spirituall Desertion and Revive them Have mercy on all that stagger in Faith and establish them That are falne from Thee and Raise them That stand with Thee and Confirme them Have mercy on all that groan under their Sinnes and Ease them that blesse themselves and goe on in their wickednesse and curb and stop them Jesus that didst shed thy Bloud for all Soules to save them shed thy Holy Spirit on all and heal them And Lord have mercy on all miserable Bodies Those that are ready to Famish for want Feed them Those that are bound to Beds of pain Loose them Those that are in Prison and Bonds Release them Those that are under the fury of Persecution and cry under the yoke of Oppression Relieve them Those that lie smarting in their Paines and Wounds Cure them Thâ—se that are Distracted in their Thoughts and Wits Settle them Those that are in Perils of their Lives Preserve them Jesus that didst freely Distribute thy Comforts and Cures to all Miseries and Maladies of Men when thou wast on Earth Have mercy on all and Help them Far or near with us or from us Lord have mercy on all Even every Sonne and Daughter of Adam at this time in paine and anguish upon the face of the Earth where ever they are whosoever they be what help I would pray for my self from thee or Comfort from Man in their condition I beseech thee the God of all Help and Comfort to give it to them Take them to thy Care and Tender them Supply them and Succour them have Compassion on them and Heal them Jesus that didst give thy Bloud for them deny not thy bowels to them Thou that didst Redeeme them all preserve them Even all Miserable Souls and Bodies I beseech thee for thine Infinite mercies sake Amen A Prayer against the Temptations of the Time O God Who wilt not suffer us to be tempted above what we are 1 Cor. 10. 13. able to bear Succour me that the Temptations of the Time doe not overwhelme me Discover to me the wayes of thy Providence so far that I may see why I should neither deny it or doubt it And make me know Thy Judgements Job 11. 6. Rom. 11. 33. Job 40. 4. 41. 3. Jer. 12. 1. to be so unsearchable and thy wayes past finding out that I may humbly submit my wit to thy Wisdome and admire and adore the Justice which I doe not see Let me not be of so narrow a mind as to confine thy Worke to one World which thou dost not finish but in Two Nor let me be such a Creature of Sense as to believe thou
thy poore Child and Spouse who desires to love thee O be thou unto me all yea more than all unto me and that I may ever have thy love and care have thou mine ever I beseech thee and let neither world wooe nor Devill tempt nor flesh yeild it from thee let no lust defile my heart thy bed nor sinne blemish my body thy members let both be as thine undefiled before thee Where I have failed in either for time past Lord forgive me that for time to come I may keep more truly thine Lord strengthen me Behold the desires of my soule are after thee deare Jesus accept me let me live espoused by thy grace and at last be married to thy glory to that blessed day deare Saviour bring me and for it fit me and ever keep me deare Lord Jesus Amen Amen A Prayer for Fatherlesse-Children THou that art the Widowes Iudge and Orphans Father I commend to thy fatherly care my selfe and the Children thou hast given me Lord keep us from the evill of this world and bring us to the blisse of a better I beseech thee Holy Father take my Children to thy care and teach them thy feare be thou Tutor to their soules and Protector of their lives that by thy grace and mercy they may miscarry in neither let me serve thee in them and nurse them up in both for thee Assist me with wisdome and grace and power to doe it and give them grace in all duty and good obedience to suffer it let not my affections be too fiery or fond let me not neglect them nor distrust thee the love and care which is just let me give them and so expect thy blessing upon them And good Lord give it to them let the Fathers blessing be on them who is dead let a poore Mothers blessing be on them who lives let the blessing of their Friends be on them even all that pray it for them but above all let thy Blessing which is above all be upon them all I beseech thee Father of mercies Helper of the Fatherlesse blesse them Sonne of God that hadst little ones in thy armes on earth lay thy hands on them and blesse them Holy Spirit that didst appeare in the shape of a Dove behold their innocency and blesse them Holy Father Son and Spirit blesse them with thy grace and bring them to thy glory and me with them I beseech thee even for thy mercies sake for thy merits sake for thy goodnesse sake thou deare Maker Redeemer and Sanctifier of us all now and ever say Amen to the humble prayers which I put up unto thee in such words as thou hast taught me to say Our Father c. Prayer against sudden Death IF my repentance be daily no Death can be sudden to my Soule O Lord to make my Soule therefore surely thine let me be every day at a certaine with repentance And because the summes of my sinnes are vast and I may forget my debt and duty in the daily discharges of my sinnes and not repent for all or not enough O therefore give me a faire summons to my last end that I may die with a cleare soule and make so good an account as thou mayest acquit me of all my sins for his sake who paid the price of all in his blood even for the deare merits of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayers for one going to Sea 1. Prayer for a Voyage SEal thou my Passe O Lord and then I shal go safe yea do thou according to thy wonted goodnesse goe with me good God! guide me prosper me return me O let not my failings follow me but thy mercy put them from me and thy grace in Iesus Christ accept me And now save me and mine I beseech thee and all that by Land or Sea are in any extremity for his sake who is the Saviour of us all Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Prayer Gratulatory after a Voyage SAlvation is thine O Lord thine therefore be the glory that the flouds have not swallowed me up and the Deep shut her mouth upon me And now Lord who in thy great mercy and goodnesse hast been my Saviour at Sea be my Guide at Land lead me and shield me and blesse me that as I desire I may doe and in thy due time returne to live and serve thee in the place and way thou hast appointed for me on earth till I come to the place prepared in heaven for all that love thee through the merits of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen 3. Prayer at returne to Sea I Doe againe cast my selfe into thy armes deare Father embrace me for thy mercies sake hold my life in thy hand till thou hast brought me to the Haven where I would be and thence conduct me to the home where I should be there let me preserve the memory of thy mercies that thou mayest continue the possessions of thy goodnesse to me and mine till thou shalt please to translate us from our earthly Tabernacles to thy everlasting Habitations through the merits of Iesus Christ the blessed Purchaser of both for which ever fit us and prepare us by thy grace O God! Amen Amen A Prayer after returne home from Sea O God that hast been with me in my going out and comming in my Pilot by Sea Conduct by Land receive therefore the humble praises of my gratefull soule most sensible of thy goodnesse And still O Lord blesse me and mine and let thy holy Spirit so steare our course in the Sea of this sublunary world that we may escape those lusts which drowne souls in perdition and by the blessed guidance and assistance of thy grace arrive at last at the Land of everlasting life to live and dwell and love and laud adore joy in thee and enjoy thee for ever by the merits of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thanksgiving for deliverance from a Storme O Lord thou hast made me to see the great dreads and dangers of the Deep and I am alive at this day by thy gracious deliverance O let this mercy be ever in my memory and let me never forget the service which I vowed and owe unto thee for that mercy Make me so mindfull of that Passe-over of the floods that I may better passe the time of my Pilgrimage in thy feare till at last I come to have a happy Passe-over to thy glory even for his sake who is passed to heaven before me and for me Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Thanksgiving for deliverance from a Storme With a holy Meditation against perills O Lord thy providence is above all perils thy power above all stormes thy mercy above all sins I have seen I have seen at once thy Greatnesse and Goodnesse O God! thou wast my Anchor and I am saved thou wast my Pilot and I am preserved when no hope but to perish for wants then I had it and am help'd from heaven praised for ever be thou the God of my help Praised for
didst both live and die in virtue of thy blood that sole and soveraigne antidote and sanctuary of bleeding Sinners thy deare and pretious blood let my soule live if my body die but if thy blessed will both live to praise thy goodnesse to both Lord cast my sins behind thy back and hold me in thy Armes Into thy Armes of mercy I cast my self Body Soul my onely hope and refuge and rock of my salvation is in thy blessed merits and blood deare Jesus take me and keep me in thy Armes now and ever and especially in my last hower and agonie have mercy on me I beseech thee Amen Amen Thanksgiving for one recovered of the Plague THou hast smitten and thou hast healed me O my God! the blow was grievous thy help is greater the blow was just thy help more gracious my sinnes deserved death thy mercy hath spared my life O Lord with an humble thankfull soule I doe acknowledge as ever so now especially from thy good hand my present life and health And now I humbly beseech thee that my heart may smite me that I have ever rebelled against so good a Majestie and thy grace keep me that I never more lift up my hand against so great a goodnesse O let not the pestilence goe from my body to my soule let not Satan and corruption poyson perswade my spirit to sit in the chaire or stay in the house of pestilence Let not others be infected with sinne by me nor me by them lest thou be more provoked and the plague gone returne in a greater judgment My God my help my health my hope my life and comfort be thy Name ever blessed that hast spared my soule and life O let it be no more dishonoured by me that keeping from the infection of an evill world I may live in the blisse of a better where is neither sinne nor sicknesse to infect soule or body but perfect health strength grace and glory in thee and with thee to all eternity O Jesus my onely refuge and the horne of my salvation So be it Amen Amen Prayer for one at the Hower of Death to be said by the Sick or some for him altering the Person 1. Prayer of one at the point of Death GOd the Father his mercies be about me God the Sonne his merits be upon me God the Holy Ghost his comforts be within me Holy Trinitie preserve strengthen and support me that my Death may be pretious in the sight of the Lord and my Soule live with thee to all eternity Amen Amen 2. Prayer for one at the point of Death FAther of mercies let thy love be to him Saviour of the world let thy merits be on him Comforter of departing Souls let thy peace be in him Father Sonne and Holy Spirit defend a Child of thy Family save a Lamb of thy Flock keep a member of thy Church O thou One and onely Lord God of Heaven command thy holy Angels to tender him and forbid evill ones to trouble him Deliver his soul discharge his sinne seale his pardon heavenly Father by thy Holy Spirit in the blood of Jesus Amen Amen 3. Prayer for one at the point of Death LOrd Jesus Succour this Dying Soule make passage for him by death to a better life purge his sins in thy Blood and prepare his Soule by thy Spirit and receive it to the glory of thy Father Jesus that didst so deerly purchase it make haste to receive it from the pangs of present and paines of everlasting death Good Lord deliver it deliver it for thy mercies sake Amen Amen Thanksgiving after Death for one Departed ¶ Say this Scripture Psal 116. 7 15. Returne unto thy rest ô my Soule for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Pretious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of the Saints Apoc. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord even so saith the Spirit that they rest from their labours ¶ Then Pray thus THou that hast sent for this Soul out of the Prison of his Bodie to come to the Palace of thy Blisse receive our praises O Lord for his happy deliverance from pangs to joyes from Tryalls to Triumphs from Earth to Heaven O Lord we beseech thee admit our humble lauds to attend him into thy presence and with them let our prayers enter before thee that as he so we in thy good time may come and present our Halleluja's with our selves in thy sight And meane time lead a godly life to have a blessed death Lord let us not forsake thee now that thou mayest not leave us then in that last and great hower upon which followes an Eternitie of weale or woe Lord have mercy on us and doe not forsake us and therefore let us have the feare of it and thee now and ever before us that as we believed our Brother departed is we may be blessed in and by our death grant we may deare Iesus Amen Amen A generall Thanksgiving for Gods mercies O Thou high Majestie of Heaven how hast thou filled me with the favours of thy bounty how great hast thou been in thy goodnesse and mercy how gracious in thy providence to me thou hast poured the blessings of heaven and earth upon my head Thou hast loaden me with thy gifts bestowed upon me in Creating Redeeming and in Preserving me In my Creation thou gavest me thine Image and madest me more noble than all the Creatures of the earth In my Redemption thou gav'st me thy Sonne and madest me more glorious than the Angels of Heaven In my Baptisme and Regeneration thou gavest me thy Spirit and hast made me more happy than millions of men in the world Thou hast given thy self to me Lord what could'st thou doe more for me thrice blessed yea for ever be thy glorious Name for thine infinite grace mercy and goodnesse to me And in thy providence for this life how abundantly hast thou blessed me in health wealth body mind c. and many and many mercies vouchsafed me In my weaknesse thou hast strengthened me in my dangers thou hast delivered me in my distresses thou hast comforted me in my prayers thou hast heard me in thy judgments thou hast spared me to this day preserving my life and making it many waies joyfull to me And not for any good in me O Lord hast thou been thus gracious towards me My ills on earth hath been many my ingratitudes great against thee For them thou mightest for ever banish me from heaven and with my sinnes cast me into hell amongst those that offend thee for thy owne goodnesse and great Names sake hast thou been thus bountifull and mercifull to me O fill my heart with thy love that my mouth may poure ou◠praises to thee Ravish my soule with thy goodnesse that my heart may ever love thee Fill my life with thy feare that as my lips my thoughts deeds may ever honour thee let me not be so wretched as to forget thy
the Devill of more goodnesse wisdome care and power to save then he is able to destroy Thou canst send more succours to me then he can bring forces against me more holy Angels then he hath wicked Spirits Lord give me that strength Lord send me those succours Put upon me the armour of light to fight with the Rulers of darknesse Let the Helmet of hope be on my head and the brestplate of faith and love on my heart that I be not mortally wounded in the fight In my extremity send thy Angels to succour me And let thy holy Spirit be my Leader that the evill one may not be my Conquerour Lord Jesus that knowest what it was to be tempted and didst overcome the Tempter for me relieve my frailty when I am tempted and suffer not Satan to overcome me And let me be sober and watch and pray that I enter not into Temptation that thou mayest relieve me O Lord How shall I not fall into the hand of Hell if I throw my selfe into Temptation From such presumptions O Christ preserve me How many soules have beene left and lost in those bold adventures of their strength make me sadly to consider that such a daring Spirit may never possesse me Let me remember with feare and trembling what great Saints have falne that I may with an humble and holy care and feare seeke for thy strength to stand and being upheld by thy right hand may never fall But let me not cast my self out of thine into Satans hand for if thou Lord doe not uphold and he pull downe how shall I stand And let me keepe my wayes that I cast not my selfe out for thou wilt not protect me but in thy wayes And let me not runne my selfe into temptation for that is out of my wayes and thy protection Thou great Shepheard of the sheep keepe me a poore Lambe of thy fold Thou Lion of the Tribe of Juda that hast prevailed save me from the roaring Lion that he may never prevaile And in and from all his Temptations deliver me in thy mercy that he may not devour my soule for all his roaring Rescue me thou that didst redeeme me Preserve me thou that didst create me my Lord and my God my strength hope deare Jesus Amen TUESDAY A Prayer against the World O Lord The World is a strong Enemy to conquer The great Conquerors of the powers were Captives to the vanities of the World yet by thy strength it may be conquered for thou art greater then he that is the world Thou didst O Saviour conquer it for me and by thy aide I may conquer it for my selfe And by thy will I must conquer it with thee on earth if I will triumph with thee in Heaven O then let me resolutely set and fit my selfe for the conquest of the world And to the forces of reason Lord give me the powers of grace by which I may make a conquest This world is but for a time and will end at last and how soone to me thou Lord onely knowest and did it endure what comfort or contentment can my immortall soule receive in any or all the good of the world O let me not lose my eternall inheritance in the world to come for a poore portion in this present world Thou Lord hast made me in it but me for thy self and it for me O then let me never be of it let my Spirit alwayes be above it Let me not make my Servant my Soveraigne good Assist me by thy grace that I may not O God! And because my senses are so naturall and neare unto me and the world takes my soule captive by the power of my senses O let me watch those gates against the entries of Temptations and looke well to my sense that I lose not my soule That I doe not Lord keepe me from all evill from the men and from the things of the world From Companies and Counsels and examples of the ill set on by the Devill to wooe for the world Lord keep me as so many foes and fiends to my soule and let me rather suffer them as my sorrowes then take solace in such men From the Vanities of the world that they doe not allure me and the miseries of it that they may not deject me The great powers by which the world assaults me defend me O Lord that they doe not overcome me and let me looke well to my soule because I am never free from such assaults From the Vanities of Riches Honours Pleasures the prevailing goods of the world the Heaven she brings And from the miseries of wants scornes ignominies injuries tortures the powerfull ills of the world the Hell she hath Lord keep me that they lead not my soule into the Captivitie of sin lest I feele a worser Hell and lose a better Heaven Let me not lose thy favour for the smiles nor incurre thy displeasure for the frownes of this world Let neither her Sorceries bewitch me to ill nor her Tyrannies fright me from good Let my love and feare be both on thee the good and ill not of this but another life On that be my heart on this my foot Let me love and value and use this world onely as it may helpe me to that Not for the Throne of my Spirit but the footstoole of my soule By whose good my body may be better enabled to serve my Spirit and both to serve Thee and come to the good of a better world For such a Conquest Lord strengthen me and to these Triumphs above bring me even for his sake who hath overcome the flesh the Devill and the World for me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen WEDNESDAY A Prayer against sudden Death O Thou great Judge of the world I am a child of death by the sentence of the Law for Adams sinne and have deserved it at the hands of thy Justice for my owne yet in thy mercy thou hast not executed that sentence upon me but to this day hast continued my life Yea most mercifull God when the feares and snares of Death and Hell tooke hold on me and my provocations were great against thee in those great distresses I called upon thee and thou didst heare me and deliver me Lord make me ever thankfull for thy goodnesse and take not away thy loving kindnesse from me though since I have not walked worthy of thy mercy Save my soule from the sins that trouble me Save my body from the sicknesses that feare me And save my life from all ill accidents and disasters that may befall me If thou speak the word O Lord I shall be safe body and soule and no ill can touch me Good Lord speake that word and save me Pardon my sins that they doe not destroy me and lengthen my dayes that I may better serve thee For a sudden death by a present repentance and good life Lord ever prepare me And from a sudden death by thy good providence deliver me That I may have
difficulty because our Christianity is purged from such corruptions Then I aske If he be mad that being to passe over a deepe River will leave a Bridge for a narrow Planke Is he wise that in the Great Case of Eternall life and Salvation will put his Soule on a perplext and perillous way when he may goe a plaine and a safe one 2. And by that Argument should not every Papist turne Protestant Believe Worship Pray Come to Service and Sacrament with us For 1. They confesse with us Scripture is infallible but we say not the Pope The Rule of Faith say both but not Tradition say we Safe to believe the Old Creed both grant but a New One we deny To trust to Christs Merits sure with both but not to ours with us Both believe Heaven and Hell but we have no faith for Purgatory The Protestants then is the safer Faith 2. And to worship God they say with us is safe and profitable piety but to worship Images we say is damnable Idolatry Ours therefore is the safer Worshipping 3. And to pray to God in Christs Name both grant good Religion but to call to Saints for helpe or to God in their Name we say grosse Superstition That therefore is the safer Praying 4. And in the Sacrament of the Eucharist a Sacrifice Commemorative both grant but a Propitiatory we disclaime A Reall Presence both allow but the way of Transubstantiation we reject The Cup by Institution and Primitive Observation we and they confesse A power of Alienation we abhorre This therefore is the safer Receiving 5. Lastly in our Liturgy is no errour some of them say but in their Missall are many say we Service in a Knowne Tongue is not sinfull with them but in an unknowne unwarantable and against Scripture with us Therefore it 's best to come to our Church to Service and Prayers And so ours by their Confession and Reason is the best Religion To conclude Upon my Grounds before I build all this The True Christian hath Gods Word and Seale for his Salvation He that Believes Does and Praies aright is the True Christian 1. Such a one is a member in and of the Catholike Church though not of the Romane 2. Such Christians the Primitive Times had therefore he is no new but an ancient Christian 3. Where Gods Word and Sacraments are professed and used by such there 's a Church of Christ and visible Christianity 4. And from any Church in the world that is such I will not From the Romane as such I doe not separate So I am no Schismaticall Christian 5. And in these Grounds all agree and so there is Unity And this is the onely plaine Christian way to Heaven and so it 's safest to be Reformed not Corrupted a Catholike Christian not a Particular Romane GAL. 6. 16. And as many as walk according to this Rule Peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel os God Rules of Devotion for Morning IN the Morning when you first awake What to doe when you awake lift up your eyes to God and say I lift up mine eyes to the Hils from whence cometh my help Then lift up your heart to God and pray Lord keep me from all sin and danger this day for Jesus Christ his sake When you are up kneel down and say What to doe when you are first up this prayer Almighty God who hast touched my heart with a sense of thy fear and holy dread of thy Majesty I beseech Let this never be omitted thee give me thy grace so to governe my thoughts and look to my words and wayes this day that I may avoid all sinnes Especially those to which I am most inclined or may be most provoked That so my soul and body may be kept pure and unspotted before thee and whensoever the houre of their separation shall come may be ready and prepared for thee through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen When you are ready for your Morning Prayers use every day one of the following Services Rules for the Evening BEfore you goe into your Bed kneel and say this short Prayer O God who hast made the day for labor and the night for rest let thy Sons Bloud cleanse me from this days guilt that I may sleep in thy peace and rise againe refreshed and preserved by thy favour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen And this Thanks-giving and Prayer Almighty God who hast preserved me this day from many sinnes and dangers I doe humbly magnifie thy Name for thy Grace and Goodnesse towards me Beseeching thee to forgive me all the errours of this day whereof my conscience doth or may accuse me And grant that those sins which by my frailty I have committed may by the help of thy Spirit be more carefully avoided That I may ever stand in thy favour walk under thy protection and now rest and lie down in thy peace and at last come to thy heavenly Kingdom through the Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ Amen! When you lie down say I will lay downe my â—head in peace and take my rest for thou onely O Lord makest me to dwell in safety Then pray thus Lighten mine eyes O Lord that I sleep not in death I commit my soule and body to thee Keep me for thy mercies sake PSAL. 55. 18. In the Evening and Morning and at Noone day will I pray and that instantly and he shall heare my voyce Dayly Prayers Here begin the Daily Prayers saying first some of these Sentences PSAL. 66. 2. O Thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come PSAL. 123. 125. 1. Vnto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the Heavens Vnto thee O Lord will I lift up my soul PSAL. 66. 16. If I incline to wickednesse in my heart the Lord will not hear me JOHN 16. 23. Verily verily I say unto you whatsoever you shall ask the Fatherin my name he will give it to you JAM 1. 6. But let him ask in faith nothing doubtin for let not that man thinke he shall receive any thing of the Lord. that is wavering and without Faith 1 JOHN 3. 22. And whatsoever we aske we receive of him because we keep his Commandements and doe the things that are pleasing in his sight JAM 4. 3. Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amisse that ye may spend it on your lusts 1 TIM 2. 8. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy bands without wrath without doubting Preparatory Prayer BReath on me with thy holy Spirit O God that the Breath of mine may now please thee and my Prayers come up as sweet-smelling odours before thee Through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen! Or This PRevent me O Lord in all my doings with thy most gracious favour and further me with thy continuall help that in all my works begun continued and ended in thee I may glorifie thy holy name and finally
hast no other reward or punishment then what I see and feel O let my Eyes look to the end of all Heaven or Hell and let me envie no ill mans happinesse who shall end in Hell Nor bewaile any good mans wretchednesse who shall have Heaven for his end And let me understand that Prosperity of Psal 92. 7. Sinners is a heavy Plague because their Prov. 1. 32 spur to Hell the greatest punishment and Adversity of Saints a happy Mercy Psal 94. 12 because thy Rod to beat them into Heaven the Best Reward Meane while let me not give a Breast Psal 4. 8. full of thy Peace for an Armefull of that wealth which breeds nests of Vipers and Adders in their Hearts and continuall Job 20. 14. 16. stings in their Bosomes let me prefer the sufferings of Innocence before the Spoiles and Triumphs of Violence O God since a guilty Conscience is the greatest punishment on Earth because next to Hell And Accusing and Condemning thy Providence and forsaking Mal. 2. 17. 3. 13 14 15. my Innocence the greatest Guilt To that Extremity let no Temptation ever lead me Jesus Keep me from it by thy Grace and Mercy Amen Evening Prayers 1. Collect for Grace THou that hast promised Thy Holy Spirit to those that ask Luk. 11. 13. it give me Thy Grace O God with courage and constancy so to fight and subdue my flesh and ghostly enemy that I may passe my Pilgrimage in thy fear and at last receive my Triumphs in thy Glory Apoc. 3. 21 through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 2. Collect for Peace O God of peace who art Incomprehensible give me thy peace Phil. 4. 7. which passeth all understanding Let me so live according to thy Rule that Gal. 6. 16. I may have peace with my Conscience Let me be so ruled by thy Will and Word that my Conscience may have peace with Thee Lord make an everlasting Jer. 6. 16. peace with me and let me never doe what will break that league with Thee Dear Jesus treat it for me in thy Bloud and maintaine it in me by thy Spirit Amen Amen 3. Collect for Health IT is the wonder of thy providence O Lord that a body subject to thousands of Frailties and casualties every day should enjoy health or life an hour yet through thy mercy I have both at this instant Lord continue to me what I have and let me so improve it to thy honour that thou maist continue it and for Christ his sake doe not for any wickednesse smite me with sicknesse Amen Amen 4. Collect for Safety FOrgive O Lord the forfeitures I Psal 19. 11. have made of thy protection by the wandrings of my life And though I have not beene as I should a dutiful Child yet be Thou O Lord as thou ever art a mercifull Isa 63. 16. Father Forget not thy fatherly goodnesse to me who pray thy pardon for offending Thee thy Grace to serve Thee and thy Providence to preserve me this night and evermore through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 5. Collect for Friends O Lord it is joyfull for Friends to Psal 3. 3. 1. Heb. 12. 22 23. love live together on earth but the joy of joyes all to live with thee in Heaven I beseech thee let this happinesse be the portion of all whom thou hast made more nearly and dearly mine Let us so live in thy service that we may die with thy Salvation Mean while what wants of earthly good to any give us what is amisse and offensive to thy Heavenly Majesty in any forgive us what is requisite to make us so to serve thee now as thou mayest save us then in thy bounty bestow upon us Truth and Grace aright to see and seek thy face in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 6. Collect for the Kingdome O Lord we lie all in broil and bloud Pity us Our distraction threaten desolation to us Preserve us Our sinnes cry loud for thy vengeance upon us Pardon us Thy mercies have been great to this Nation Lord remember them Thy deliverances of us have been many Lord renue them That iniquity be not our ruine let us repent ruine it The guilt bloud Ezek. 18. 13. upon us forgive our Breaches repaire The order which may bring peace establish The Government thou hast establish'd maintain what is just and right in thine eyes set up what thou seest evill cast down what makes the Nation miserable remove what may make it happy restore Lord for thy mercies sake say we have been miserable enough and make us more happy Let the light of thy countenance shine again upon us and grant us peace the Power and Authority which may procure it preserve and those to whom thou hast given that power blesse them to us and us in them and all in thee for Jesus Christ his sake Amen 7. Collect for the Church Catholike BEhold O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ I a Christian and child of his true Catholike Church pray thy mercies on my Good and Great Mother and all my Brethren and her Children in thee and thy Son For Errours amongst them send them Truth For Schisme Unity For Superstition warrantable worship For Confusion Order For Profanenesse Piety For Variance Concord For War Peace that all may as one Body with one mind and heart and mouth and knee believe love confesse adore and so serve thee and him whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ the Great Lord and common Saviour of us all as thou mayest save us all in the world to come O thou Head of the Church fave thy Body By thy Bloud cleanse it By thy Spirit sanctifie it By thy Power preserve it and every Limb of it dear Jesus Amen 8. Collect for the Church O Christ Head of thy Body the Ephes 1. 22 Church Let not this poor Member of it amongst us perish What it is thou seest Lord with pity behold us What it was thou knowest O Lord in mercy restore us Thy Primitive Order in Christian Truth and Worship for the saving of Soules cast down set up The present Confusions Distractions Innovations Errours which are got up cast down Set up thy Glory O Lord amongst us and what is set apart to support it doe thou maintaine and continue to us and our Posterities after us for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Amen Concluding Prayer BEhold Lord I have prayed thy Grace and Peace with Health and Protection for my Friends the Kingdome and this and thy Church Grant good God all the requests I have prayed of thee or what more I should have prayed from thee or what any else have prayed with me In whose name I have presented with whose words I desire to perfume perfect my Prayers Beseeching thee that his Spirit may breathe in those words in which I know I pray both what and as I ought And therefore as devoutly confidently say Our Father
thee as that is my state let this be my blisse Give me the blessings of the Womb a healthy and holy seed which may be Heires of thy blessings on earth after us and at last inheritance of thy eternall blessednesse in heaven with us even for the sake of thy onely begotten Sonne my deare and onely Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 1. Prayer for a Woman with Child LOrd who hast blessed me with a hopefull Conception crowne thy mercy in mee with a happy Deliverance From all frights and harmes which may cause miscarriage to me let thy providence shield me From all errors and ills which may draw thy displeasure upon me let thy grace preserve me And for all my faults and failings past let thy mercy pardon me And Lord let not the Child for the Parents sake be any way unhappy The blessing of shape and perfectnesse of Body and mind be upon it I beseech thee so shall the Church have a Child and thou a Servant my Family a pillar and thy kingdome an heire mine shall be the comfort but thine shall be the gaine O thou that thy selfe wast once enclosed in a Mothers womb conceived bred and born shew this mercy to me doe it for me deare Iesus thou holy Sonne of God Amen Amen Prayer against Miscarriage LOrd keep me from all harmes and frights this day * At Evening say this Night and that my Womb by no ill acccident may miscarry within me let not my heart by any ill act miscarry before thee Body and Soule let thy mercy grace preserve me now and ever deare Iesus Amen Amen Prayer for a Woman in Travaile LOe this is the fruit of the forbidden Tree our first Mother brought forth sin and we bring forth in paine for it justly O Lord for I am the Daughter of my Mother as I sinned in her loynes so since I came into the world I have justified often what she did once I have sinned O Lord I have sinned O how often have I coveted what thou hast forbidden done ill in thy eyes to doe what was pleasing to my owne and been both tempted and Tempter unto evill By inheritance therefore and purchase wrath is my due misery my portion and this paine my proper lot and thy great mercy it is in Christ my Saviour that the pangs of everlasting death are not my but O thou Judge of the world remember that thou art the Preserver of men preserve me in it support me under it make haste make haste good Lord to deliver me from it and comfort me after it O remember not what the first Adam hath done but the second suffered and by his immaculate Conception and holy Birth and Life by the bitter passion and pangs and death of the holy Child Jesus deliver me deare Father in this my extremity Let the paines of my Travaile end in the joies of a blessed Birth that may to the comfort of my soule live and be made an Heire of thy kingdome Amen Amen Prayer after Deliverance of Child LOrd that hast look'd downe on thy poore hand maid in her great distresse I looke up unto thee and blesse thy Name for my happy deliverance that thou hast made me the joyfull Mother of a hopefull Child without visible infirmity or deformity which might take from my joy Goe on good God in mercy to me and it Support me on my bed of weaknesse and in thy due time raise me from it with strength Let my Child live till thou by holy Baptisme hast made it thy Heire and in that holy and happy state of soule preserve it to thy kingdome and let it be my continuall care by all good meanes to preserve it And good Lord from the pangs of eternall death and paines of Hell keep me and it for ever And whatsoever burden of woe I shall travaile under on earth let me not despaire of mercifull deliverance whom thou hast so graciously eased of my late paine and burden Thy power mercy is the same for ever O Lord let it be shewed to thy Servant in all her extremity according as her hope and trust is in thee by the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayer after Christening the Child WHat an honour hast thou done unto thy Servant O Lord thou hast given me a naturall birth and my Child a new one what came polluted into the world is washed cleane in thy laver for the raggs of Adam thou hast put on it thy Sonnes robes My Child is made thy heire and what was borne by me to a Crosse thou hast begotten againe to a Crown of glory O Lord let it be my care to keep my Child thine thy Sonnes righteousnesse on him and Spirit in him and my ambition so to be thy Child that I may with it be Inheritor of thy Crowne By the merits of him who is the first-borne of his Brethren thy Son and Heire of all things Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer and Thanksgiving for our Birth-day I Thank thee O Lord for my Birth this day but especially for my new-birth By that I was made a Man by this a Christian from that I have a naturall life from this a spirituall that was to live on earth this in heaven nor was that to live for ever but a time on earth Lord let me not frustrate the end of my Birth nor apostate from the blisse of my Baptisme The state of grace in which this set me let me ever maintaine And if by sinne I ever fall from it let me by a true and timely repentance rise againe and recover it that when I shall go from earth I may come to heaven and when leave to live with men live with thee and thy Angels for ever for which end I am created redeem'd and preserved in this world Lord that gavest my life this day to begin let it so end for his sake whose birth life and death makes all ours blessed who is the beginning and end Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayer for New-years-day GOd of my life who hast given me this day to see a New-yeare begin let me live to see it at a happy end and thou who hast a New-heart in thy gift O give that to me that according to all the good purposes of my soule I may walke in good conscience before thee and have thy peace within me and thy blessing all the yeare upon me even for his sake who was content to be borne at this time and this day to be circumcised and shed his just blood for me Iesus Christ thy Son my deare Saviour and Lord. Amen Prayer for a Widow O Lord that hast taken my Head from me be thou Husband to me thou that boughtest my Soule by thy bloud to be thy Spouse doe not lose me doe not leave me guide and governe in me in all my waies in all my wants and straits supply me thou that art better than Friend than Father than Husband than all be unto
ever every way be the God of my salvation yea whilst I live wil I praise thee in this manner For thy mercy O Lord thine infinite mercy it is that I am preserved and live Lord let those dangers never depart from my mind that thy deliverance may never go out of my heart but that I may ever be mindfull and carefull of thee and thy service for it all the daies of my life O let me keep with joy the memory of those waves which came over but went off my head as the great passeover of my life And let thy tempest be made a Temple to me to call me to pray unto thee and praise thee the God of my life to teach me to feare obey and trust serve thee better every where whilst thou shalt continue to me those daies 1. Even thy Creatures how terrible are they O Lord all hearts are afraid of thy tempests and melt at thy stormes O let me in this glasse of their terror see the dreadfull face of thy angried Majestie at which the depths themselves doe tremble and the foundations of the world are discovered even as the blast of the breath of thy nostrils O Lord And let me never presume to exalt my selfe against thee but ever tremble before thy face 2. At thy word the stormes did cease their rage and lie still O God! if any tempest shall arise in my passions through my frailty let it cease at thy command let not the Seas obey thee and my Soule rebell against thee 3. Thou hast presented the horror of a tempest to my eyes and eares O Lord keep me that I never feele a tempest in my Conscience let the raging Sea never run in my Soule to raise up stormes in me more dreadfull than death And that I may never be drowned in the depths of despaire Lord keep me from the overflowing of wickednesse Let not presumptuous sinnes have any dominion over me let the conversation of the wicked never cleave unto me 4. Thou hast in this great extremity of danger manifested to my Soule thy ready and mighty help for deliverance even when the waves were about to overwhelme me then even then O blessed God did thy goodnesse save me O let this experience of thy mercifull power and aide make me to trust and stay my Soule upon thee in all distresses and dangers whatsoever shall hereafter befall me 5. O let not any temptations of the vanities of the Land drowne in me the memory of thy mercies at Sea but against all temptings to offend thee let this tempest thus arme me Had I bin in that hower tempted to sinne O God would I durst I then have offended thee And now that I am by thy mercy delivered shall I yeild upon any temptation to sinne against thee and breake my great obligation and vow to serve thee 6. O let those waters which did fright but not drowne me in the deep be apprehended as a new Baptisme in which thy hand was pleased at once to sprinkle and teach me that my cheeks are to be wet daily with the brinish teares of repentance for my sins and the fresh springs of joy are to flow from my eyes for the goodnesse of thy deliverance Thy waters came over me but confusion did not cover me my face felt the danger but thou hast saved my head O Lord my God! O Lord I beseech thee doe thou thus sanctifie these great passages of thy providence to me that whilst I live thou mayest have from me a better service and when I die I may receive from thee a better salvation even for Iesus Christ's sake my deare and onely Saviour Amen Prayer before or in a Journey O Lord who hast set thy Angels to keep us in all our Psal 91. 11 Psal 94. 5. waies charge that Convoy with me in whose heart they are forgive me that I have gone astray from thee and give me grace to goe no more astray and be not extreame to marke all errors and wandrings Ps 130. 3. from thee who then O Lord shall be preserved on earth or saved in heaven let thy holy Spirit guide me this day and ever in the waies which please thee and thy blessed protection be over me and all with me for his sake who is the Way the Truth and the Life even for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Prayer Gratulatory after a Journey LOrd thou hast been with me in my Journey and as I prayed I have passed the perils of the way by the conduct of thy providence and where I would be I am by the favour of thy conduct blessed be thy holy name O Lord for all thy goodnesse How many have miscarried and doe daily many waies and even so might I have done had it not been for thy favour Blessed be thy name for it yea for all the preservations of my life and the mercy to which I owe those preservations Blessed for ever be thy holy name And still O Lord so magnifie thy mercy in my protection on earth that thou mayest ever be blessed of me till I am blessed with thee in Heaven through the merits of him who by his blood bought that blessednesse for us and in our flesh sits at the right hand to save us Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayers for a Souldier in a just Warre 1. Morning Prayer for one in Warre O LORD in daies of blood Read Psal 140. there be many howres of Death what minute may not be that hower O let me then thinke of mine thinke of it and prepare for it Thy grace give me so to doe this day and thy mercy for what hath been misdone before it that when my life shall end on earth it may begin where it shall never have an end Meane while let me live to doe thee more honour if it may stand with thy pleasure and see a happy peace to be the purchase of this warre that I may so live to my Prince Nation Church Religion me mine every way happy And doe thou therefore guide my Soule this day and guard my life from all evill and danger for Jesus Christ his sake in whose words I pray it saying Our Father c. 2. Evening Prayer for one in Warre LOrd who hast been my shield this Read Psal 91. day be my watch this night that I may be safe from the swords and hands of all Enemies and by the guard of thy goodnesse preserv'd to blesse and serve thee the next day for and in thy mercy through the merits of Jesus Christ in whose words I pray it saying Our Father c. 3. Prayer before Bataile O Thou shield of those that put Read Psal 143. 21 23. their trust in thee be his shield whose hope is onely in thee and in thy mercy onely Mercy Lord grant me for all my sinnes past and pardon me Mercy grant me in my present perils and preserve me Mercy grant me good God in my attempts this day and
mercy so wicked as to abuse thy blessings let all that I am and have serve thee mind body state health friends none be abused to vanity in any way of sin to reproach thee but all made to extoll my Makers praises and my Redeemers glory Since I owe my selfe by so many bonds of blessings to thee yea thousand lives and soules had I so many to serve thee let me not deny the service of one poore soule body unto thee O blessed Maker and Redeemer and Preserver of both I have no more to give thee my self therefore made of both I present unto thee I give thee my self on earth O Lord accept me and receive me to thy selfe in heaven where with thy Angels I shal give thee perfect praises singing Hallelujahs day and night giving everlasting lauds unto thee my great Maker my deare Redeemer my holy Comforter my good Preserver O God Father Son and holy Ghost O blessed and adored Trinity to thee and to thy goodness alone for what I am and have hope of bliss in this or a better world be all honour praise thanksgiving and glory for ever and ever Amen Amen A Gratulatory Commemoration of Gods mercies and deliverances REceive the sacrifice of my thankfull soule O Lord for all thy mercies * Here think of particular and mercifull deliverances of me and mine from diseases and dangers by Land or Water in Warre or Peace of old or late for soule or body O! what great dangers hast thou shewed me and them and yet hast delivered us from all our feares they live and I live and all live and why but to praise thee the God of our salvation and life thou art my God and I will praise thee thou art my God and I will worship thee yea whilst I live will I magnifie thee on this manner And O give me grace to give thee more better glory Glory from my lips and glory from my life Glory in my mind by a just sense and Meditation of thy mercy And glory from my heart in a true love and joy of thy goodnesse till thou dost give me thy glory in heaven Lord let me ever give thee this glory on earth even so Lord for all thy benefits and blessings from any ill or of any good to me or any more nearly mine from the hower of my birth to this day of my life glory be to thee now and ever by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thanksgiving for a preserved Friend or others formerly Prayed for MY Heart is full of thy goodness O God! thou hast delivered thy Servant from his dangers and me from my fears O what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits to me O my God! I give thee a thankfull heart and beseech thee to give me a thankfull life Grace so to live that my deeds as well as words may speak me thankfull O let me not pay thee with neglects for thy favours lest thou returne me plagues for thy mercies let me have care to serve thee in for thy goodnesse that I may still rejoice in and for thy salvation of him and me and all who are more dearly mine even so be it for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Prayers for every day in the Week SUNDAY A Prayer against the flesh O Lord deliver me from my selfe my sinfull sensuall and carnall selfe ready to joyne with my foes to ruine my soule by yeilding it up to the temptations of sinne Let me watch it as my most mortall enemy without which all the Devils in hell cannot force nor all the powers on earth fasten a sin upon me and yet a foe so inbred and Naturall to me as will lodge in me whilest I live and never leave me Make me see what cause I have to keepe a strict and continuall watch and pray thy aide when the Devill and the World without beset me and lead on Armies of Temptations against me and the flesh within is false and ever ready to betray me and let them in upon me From such Enemies and Traytors Lord deliver me and as I love the eternall salvation of my soule let me not sleepe in security that have to doe with such Enemies And since the flesh is my foe let me not cherish it and satisfie it and provide for it and entertaine it as a friend but according to thy will and the necessity of my soule let me not spare to crucifie and kill it as my Enemy which will torture me if I be not crucified and kill me if I doe not kill it And grant me Good God the power of thy Spirit to doe thy will in mortifying of the flesh to the saving of my soule Let my life be a continuall fight against the corruptions of my flesh and succour me with wisdome and grace to maintaine that fight let me watch and fast and use all due meanes to beat downe my body if that give it strength Let me meditate and heare and reade and pray and weep in all good wayes seeking to beare up my soule to beat downe that sinfull body and bring it to death And because though now beaten downe a new Temptation will raise it up and struck dead it will revive againe Hasten my soule O Lord out of these endlesse Warres where I may keep the triumphs of an eternall peace from earth to heaven and strengthen my soule to get those daily victories over my lusts that they bring me to those triumphs O Christ that hadst flesh and no corruption pitty me that have both Succour my double frailty thou that knowest the infirmity of the flesh Assist me with thy holy Spirit to stand Recover me when I fall in these holy fights Relieve my wants forgive my weaknessâ—s close up my wounds by thy bloud Blessed Saviour the Captaine of my Salvation who didst fight and conquer all my foes and now sittest on thy Throne in triumph in heaven make me so to fight that I may conquer on earth and having subdued the flesh may sit with thee on the Throne From their shame keepe me that prefer the Subject before the Soveraigne Flesh before the Spirit From their losse keep me that prefer a Toy to a Crowne a Lust to a Kingdome From their Cowardise keepe me that dare not fight for a Crowne but yeild their souls up to lust From their woe ever keep me that buy delights with their death for a little life after the flesh dying eternally bodies and soules From such folly and misery deare Jesus deliver me Amen! Amen! MONDAY A Prayer against the Devill O Lord how shall my poore soule stand against Temptation it thou doe not assist me who have as many Ghostly Enemies as Devils to tempt me malicious crafty busie and mighty all of them hating my soule to death watching my weaknesses and continually seeking occasion to devour me O my God without thy strength I cannot stand and by thy strength I shall not fall For thou O God art above
time with more comfort and contentment and setlement of minde to yeild up my life and soule unto thee Deare Saviour heare me that sheddest thy bloud to save me and sittest in Heaven to preserve me For my last houre fit me From sudden surprizall of it keep me To it and in it ever save me and by thy grace and holy merits make it a happie houre unto me that I may then die in thy armes and at the day of Judgment rise and stand joyfull before thee Lord Jesus for thy mercies sake grant all this to me Amen! Amen! THURSDAY A Prayer against Hypocrisie O Lord Make me abhorre to be prophane and feare to be an Hypocrite If I be a notorious sinner the world will condemne me and if a close offender Thou wilt not justifie me Let me therefore be a Saint in sinceritie that God and man may approve and blesse me O Lord God of truth that searchest the heart what will it availe me to have the world accquit me when my conscience shall be a thousand witnesses against me and Thy selfe more then ten thousand consciences to condemne me Keepe me therefore from the blot and follie of Hypocrisie And since Hypocrites are the first-borne of the damned let me have no part in that sinne that I may have no portion with such sinners Let me be the same wheresoever I am in the Closet and Church in secret and publike in the darke and day and let me be alwayes what I should be studying ever to approve my heart and wayes before thee that thou who seest in secret mayest reward me openly O let me set Thee every where before my eyes and my selfe before thine and accordingly walk uprightly before thee till I come to rest eternally with thee O Lord since thou requirest no more to have thy favour on Earth and glory in Heaven but a heart true unto thee and doest pardon and passe by many infirmities where thou seest such a heart Let me not give thee lesse then a sinceritie in thy service God of Truth give me a single heart to serve thee and accept it from me and a Monster of a double heart let Satan never make me From Hypocrisie and lyes of life Lord deliver me Thou that hadst no gaule in thy heart nor guile in thy mouth Blessed Sonne and Truth of God let me be Thine in truth sweet Jesus Amen! FRIDAY Prayer against Inconstancie in good O Lord Thou art immutable what thou art let me be unchangeable what I should be never ceasing to be thy good Child and Servant who ever continuest to be my good Father and Lord O Lord There is not one moment in which I can be or live without thy goodnesse and shall there be many dayes wherein thou art without my service The glory with which thou rewardest it is to all eternity and shall the duties of it faile and fall short of constancy O my God! had I the age of Angels to live I owe the service of all that life unto thee and now that I have but a span of time shall I keepe away a great part of that from thee O Lord let me not so much forget thee and my selfe as to doe thus by thee And should I so farre forget my duty let me remember my necessity It is constancie gets the Crown to thy service and shall I fall off from it and lose my Crowne O Lord In what a fearefull condition would my soule be if death should seize me when I am faln off and take me away in that time of sin and have I any assurance this howre the next not to see death And were I sure of life time should I so live and divide it best yeares to the devill and worst to my God Months to vanity minute to piety Day and night looke to this world and not spare an houre for a better Lord Let not the Devill and the World divide my time with thee lest not giving thee all thou takest none from me or giving thee the least share thou throwest it backe upon me Fix my heart on thy feare that no temptation of Devill or man may remove mee Bind my soule with such resolutions to thee that no strength of the flesh may loose me Since I cannot for my bodies frailty serve thee as an Angell without intermission continually let me as a Saint without failing constantly be devoted to thee not as a retainer but daily servant attending upon thee Keeping carefully my howres of devotion and consecrating all my dayes unto thee in a conscionable and constant endeavour in all places â—nd things and at all times to shun all evill and doe what may please thee O thou that art without shadow of change ever the same settle my fickle soule in thy feare and establish thy holy Spirit in me that I may serve thee on earth with constancie and in heaven to all eternity By the grace and merits of him who finished the work of Eternall Redemption for me living and dying to save me and now sits at thy right hand to uphold and keepe me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen SATURDAY Prayer against impenitence in ill LOrd keepe me from the fearfull sinne and judgment of an impenitent heart Since repentance for sinne is the onely remedy appointed to save me let me not neglect it lest I die for it irrecoverably O Lord what shall become of my guilty soule if thou doe not pardon me And how should I hope thy pardon if I goe on to provoke thee Give me therefore a sorrow for my sinnes past wherein I have offended thee and if I fall by frailty into sin let me not lye without remorse but rise by repentance that I may returne againe into favour with thee O my God if now I will not I shall repent in Hell if not on Earth if not with timely teares in hope in fires with everlasting horrour O let me weep for a time that I may not waile them for ever Let me mourne for them unto comfort rather then rejoyce into confusion From a heart hardned in sin and a conscience seared with guilt Lord keep me as from the threshold of hell And from continuance and custome in sin keep me that I grow not senselesse of it and seared And from multiplying and reiterating the acts of sin keep me that I get not a custome If I sin let my heart smite me that thy hand of vengeance may not touch me And for that hardnesse and habit of ill which I have already got by any acts of sin Deare Saviour help me and heale me Melt my heart in the fire of thy love to a tendernesse of offending thee and O blessed scape-goat * Leviâ— 16. 21. Goates blood melts Adamant Such is an hard heart Zach. 7. 12. mollifie my hardnesse by the vertue of thy blood that I may not stand stubborne against thee Bow me with thy mercies break me with thy judgments wound me with thy Word move me with
thy Spirit and by all meanes mould me and make my heart of that temper that the least touch of sin may trouble me that I may not obstinately goe on in a course of Rebellion against thee Mercifull Father let all thy crosses come rather upon me then this curse befall me That I may rather grieve and groane with hope on earth then waile and houle in hell without remedie A heart of flesh for stone Lord give me let thy holy Spirit work and keep it in me Doe it deare Saviour for me I beseech the in thy mercy Amen Amen Animadversion to the Devout Reader touching these Services THe Author in these Services tenders thee some things new and nothing he hopes naught There are extant Books of Prayers and Meditations and Directions apart and those who joyne some of these together but all as in his way he knowes none He conceives that the Soul engaged in a particular duty will be much assisted by so manie helps at hand and come off better with the Service Vicissitudes of Devotions like changes of clothes as they please the mind because they clog lesse so they will advance her piety the more when all though they goe severall waies meet in one study and care to work her Spirituall preferment Thy Spirit will not be lesse devoted to thy Prayers for having breathed it in holy Scriptures Nor wilt thou take in that Holy aire with lesse advantage to thy Soules health for going to it from thy Prayers Nor will those Heavenly refreshments profit or last less for plying the Soul at present well-devoted with proper pious Meditations Instructions set suteing to her particular purposes This will be as a Word in due season fit and good and serve as a little Sermon to nourish Holy Spirit so Divinely begot which else may starve before it can come to a greater and perhaps not have her particular state and case much reached and relieved neither if she come The Closet the good mans Daily Sanctuary alwayes * Ezek. 11 16. and in persecution often his onely Church as it never wants Gods Spirituall Altar a Devout heart nor his Garden Gods Holy Book in it nor Gods Holy Service an Holy Prayer-Book for it By this shall have a little Pulpit too Necessary for those who have no other and profitable for those who may want a better And surely the Soule which keeps her daily walkes betwixt Gods Altar and Garden her Prayers and his Scriptures must needs grow and goe on in Godlinesse And faster and firmer both for hearing every day a Sermon when Her selfe is the Preacher Her state the Text and God and Conscience the Auditory Reader He that is not for a Pulpit in the Chamber would have this in thy Closet and thinkes he shall doe God and thee good Service in these devote-lesse times to furnish thy Closet with such a Pulpit His Aime thou seest His patterne thou maist easily aime at especially if a Child of that Mother whose wisdome taught him such Prayers Though some things in the Services be new there are no novelties in them but for thy singular use compiled and made a Handfull of little Homilies and Prayers Rules for every Sundayes Devotion Sunday-morning When you awake lift up your heart and say O Sun of Righteousness which this day didst rise for me shine now and ever with thy Grace and Mercy upon me Amen When you are up kneel and say this Prayer O Lord Holynesse becometh thy House Dutifulness becometh me to go to thy Courts wait upon Thee And this is the great day of thy Service Thou that hast given me to see the light of this day make me carefull to do the duty of it timely to Present my selfe unto Thee and reverently to behave my self before Thee that I may come with fruit and favour from thee for Jesus Christ His sake Amen Before you goe to Church say if you have time the Sunday-Service following Omit not to say the Collect for it howsoever in the Afternoone say the Evening-Service Sunday-night When you goe to Bed kneel and say O Sun of Righteousnesse keep me from utter darknesse let me so sleep in thy Peace that I may be every ready to arise and meet thee in thy Glory Amen Amen Seven Services for the 1 st Week Services set to the Daies of the Weeke for foure severall Weeks Sunday-service Of the joyes of Heaven Morning Prayer Psal 36. 84. Lesson Isa 64. Mat. 5. to 13. or Mat. 17. to 14. Evening Prayer Psalm 15. 16. Lesson Isaiah 35. Apoc. 21. Then this following Collect. After it the Daily Prayers ¶ Sunday Collect or Prayer for the joyes of Heaven DEare Saviour who hast purchased lost Heaven for me by thy blood and now possessest it for me in my flesh possesse my soule I beseech thee with thy holy Spirit that my conversation now may be heavenly on earth and my habitation hereafter happy in heaven O let me not for the perishing pleasures of this vaine world lose an eternity of blessed joyes in thy presence and Kingdome Preserve me to it deare Redeemer who hast prepared it for me even for thy mercies sake O Lord. Amen Daily Prayers 1. Meditation of the joyes of Heaven WHat do I on earth when God is in Heaven Why are my Heart Body in two severall worlds And where but with Him and on Him should be my Heart Lord draw to thee what is made for thee till Bodie can come let my Spirit be with thee till my Soule depart from my Bodie to dwell for ever with thee let Devotion carry my thoughts out of my Soule and daily visit thee My help my hope my solace my salvation Father of my Spirit Husband of my Soule Soveraigne of my welfare Author of my nature End of my essence Blisse of my being Satisfaction of my desires Rest of my thoughts Perfection of my powers my life is a banishment imprisonment punishment on earth if thou be in heaven shun I never so much I shall meet with nothing but sinne and miserie seek I never so much I shall not find any thing of blisse below had I whole lands of wealth with hills of honour upon them and rivers of pleasure about those all were not a peble a pile a drop to my blessednesse my avaritious ambitious voluptuous desires are left drie on earth onely fill'd and drown'd in the paradise crowne and kingdome of heaven the ocean of blisse runs about the good that is infinite high above change great without measure full without want long beyond time away then my Soule from thy banishment bondage woe and miserable vanitie to thy home freedome joy and true felicitie Dove of grace flie to the windows of glory mount to those Louvers on high where the ravenous Bird of hell can neither seize or fright thee nor the beasts of the earth devoure or disquiet thee Heaven on Earth is a monstrous confusion if thou vainly seek it there thou
feast Fiends That makes thee dread the sight of Death as Hell and the thoughts of it as Devils because there are Devils and Hell which thou deniest but dost dread none hath more horrour for them then thou who saiest thou hast no such Faith See more Soliloquie p. So end the Seven Services for the first Week Seven Services for the 2d. Week Sunday-Service Against neglect of Gods Service Morning Prayer Psal 5. 27. 42. Lesson Gen. 28. or Jor. 7. to ver 17. Mat. 11. Evening Prayer Psal 95. 122. Lesson Eccles 5. 1 Cor. 11. or Heb. 6. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Neglect of Gods Service O Lord Thou hast devoted a Time and Place to thy worship and holinesse becometh thy house for ever Make me ever carefull to pay thee then and there the dues and duties of Religion which I owe thee Solemnly waiting on thy Majestie amongst thy Sâ—rvants in thy Court and Sanctuary Lâ—t me be diligent in thy service and râ—verend at it That as thy Saints and Angels in heaven incessantly serve thee I may with thy Saints on earth constantly worship thee till we all come together for ever to adore thee Even for his sake whose meat and drinke it was to serve thee Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Neglect of Gods Service 1. GOd wil find no time to save us if we find no day to serve him a Psal 2. 11 12. Act. 26. 20. 2. Have we six in a Week and shall not God have one day b Exod. 20. 9. 3. Publique worship is the Pillar of Religion and high service of Almighty God c Gen. 4. 26. 4. If every one take away his stone we shall pull down the Pillar to the ruine of Religion d Lam. 2. 5. In the Church we are before Gods face as well as Mans e Psal 95. 6. It is both a Scandall to man f 1 Cor. 11. 22. and Scorne to God g Eccles 5. 1 2. to be irreverent in the Church to dare and jeer God to his face 7. The truest Picture of the Saints with God in Heaven is a Congregation devout at Gods Worship on Earth h Apoc. 4. 10. 8. We cannot doe better then to goe to Heaven nor worse then to doe any thing ill or unseemly in it i Gen. 28. 17. 9. The Devils misbehaviour in Heaven cast him into Hell k Jud. v. 6. 10. He that laughs in the Church is tickled by the Devill * Risus in Ecclesia Diaboli opus est Monday-Service Against Procrastination Morning Prayer Psal 95. 7. Lesson Prov. 1. Mat. 25. to 14 or 24. to 36. or Act. 24 Evening Prayer Psal 4. 90. Lesson Eccles 8. Apoc. 21. ¶ Prayer against Procrastination LOrd keepe me from the delayes of holy and necessary duties Make me to consider how many art now perishing in Hell for neglecting the times of thy gracious visitations on earth That whilest the Spirit of grace and life blowes on me I may improve that breath to purchase my selfe an estate in the life of glory and immortalitie Even for his sake who lingred no time to shed his bloud to save me Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen! Remedies against Procrastination 1. IT is unworthy God He calls to day a Psal 95. 7. and you will come to morrow The Devill shall have the floure b Levit. 2. 1. of age and God the bran 2. It is unsafe for man The Adventure of an immortall soule upon two great uncertainties to come Having my breath c Prov. 25. 1. James 4. 13. and Gods Spirit d Joh. 3. 8. If either fail I am lost for ever And God knowes Innumerable soules are thus lost * Coesarius Inuumerabiles animoe siâ— periêre 3. It is unwise The house of my soule is set on fire e Isa 2. 18. with guilt to day and will quench it to morrow I fall into the puddle f 2 Pet. 2. 22. of sin this week and will rise the next 4. It is uncomfortable For the longer I keepe off from God 1. Gods acceptance is more doubtfull He is for first fruits g Levit. 2. 12. and firstlings 2. Mans performance is more difficult Because Satan hath the greater power over me h 2 Tim. 2. 26. and sinne in me i Prov. 5. 22. By the strength of Custome k Jer. 12. 23. which it is a miracle to conquer * S. Bern. 3. Repentance hath a greater taske more spots to wash l Isa 1. 16. knots to loose m 2 Pet. 2. 20. roots to digge n Jer. 4 5. foes to kill o 1 Pet. 2. 21. Sinne in time of a Child growes a Gyant for strength and Lust spawnes like a fiâ—h in number If it be now ten strong next yeare it will be an hundred and the next yeare a thousand c. 4. The best fruit of sinne is repentance p 2 Cor. 7. 8 9. the rest is shame q Rom. 6. 21 23. and death 5. It is unprofitable at best For the lesse seed the lesse harvest r 2 Cor. 9. 6. The lesse good â— the lesse glory s Rom. 2. 7. And the more Springs and opportunities I lose the more seed-times of good t Gal. 6. So I reap lesse comfort of what is past u Isa 38. 3. and reward to come x Luk. 19. 16. Tuesday-Service Against Presumption Morning Prayer Psal 7. 19. Lesson Deut. 29. or Levit. 26. Mat. 24. Evening Prayer Psalm 68. Lesson Eccles 8. 1 Thes 5. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Presumption KEepe me O Lord from carnall security If I fall into sin let me not lie in it out of a Presumption of thy mercy but do thou awake me to repentance and raise me in thy goodnesse And since repentance is not in my power make me fearfull to fall into sin in hopes of thy grace and mercy and more afraid to lie in it if I fall lest I sleep without feare till some Suddaine judgment awake me and present the horrour of eternall death before me From a lethargy in sin O thou Holy Physitian of soules preserve now and ever Deare Saviour I beseech thee Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Presumption 1. IT is the Devils lullabie to sleepe out the time of Salvation as did the five foolish Virgins a Matth. 27. 7. 2. It is the Devils high way to desperation b Prov. 1. 28. 3. None but a poysonous spirit will suck the strength of sin out of the flower of mercy c Eccles 8. 11. Isa 10. 2. 4. It is to make quarrels amongst Gods Attributes in the confidence of mercy to put contempt on justice d Rom. 2. 4 5. It is to leave the soul at last without all hope of succour and sanctuary because guilt dares not fly to offended justice e Gen 3. 10. Apoc. 6. 16. and hath no refuge else but abused mercy f Rom. 2. 4.
Jer. 9. Col. 3. or Ephes 4 Apoc. 12. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Lying O God of truth keep me from the lip of Lying Since the Devill is a lying Spirit let not my mouth be possessed with him Since he is the Father let not me be a Child of falsehoods Cause my heart to conceive things aright and let my tongue truly bring forth the conceptions of my heart Suffer me not at the price of any lust to let out my tongue to serve the turnes of Satan As a Prostitute to Malice by lying to doe mischief or an Advocate to friendship by lying to doe good or excuse the shame of evill Let me not commit an evill to doe a good much lesse adde sinne to sinne word to deed upon any occasions Especially upon small occasions let not my minde and tongue be filled with such blots Blemishes both to Christian and Humane conversation Pesâ—s both to Church and to mankind And that I may abhorre a lye make me to love truth and justice even for his sake in whose mouth was no guile Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Lying 1. THe Devil first spake a Jo. 8 4â— and ever since taught this language b 1 Kings 22. 22. 2. The Death of Mankind was drawn in first from that breath of the Serpent c Gen. 3. 4. 3. Speech brought forth with a lie is conceived in adultery 4. When I love a lie I divorce my soule from Truth Gods daughter and marry it to Falsehood the Devills 5. The Devils daughter hath damnation for her dowry so hath lying a sin of aire but ends in fire d Apo. 21. 8 6. A Christian and a Liar is a Monster A new man with an old Tongue The Devills tongue in the head of a Christian e Ephes 4. 24 25. 7. A Lyar is another Lucifer He gives being to that which hath none and so equals himself to God who only can and doth 8. The Primitive Christians would rather die than Lye Chusing rather the losse of life then such a blot on the Conscience These Considerations may make us loath it and leave it 1. Do nothing foul to be blusht at and we shall not need to lie for a mask f Gen. 18. 12. 2. If mens eyes do not God sees the truth of things g Jer. 5. 3. 1 King 14 16. 3. Here the mask is fouler then the face if not very foul at least the face is fouler for the ugly mask * Sin added to sin 4. A time will come when God will pull all masks from al faces h 1 Cor. 4. 5. And what good then in the Refuge of lies i Isa 28. 15 Isa 59. 4. Saturday-Service Against Detraction or Slandering Morning Prayer Psal 10. 15. 50. Lesson Jer. 9. or Levit. 19. Verse 11. 2. Evening Prayer Psal 64. 101. 140. Lesson Jer. 9. JaÌ„ 4. or 1 Pet. 2. v. 21. 1 Pet. 3. to v. 14 ¶ Prayer against Detraction O Lord Since the Detractor is a Devill let not me be one Let me not delight to hear a slander lest he sit in my ear Let me not utter it lest he walk on my tongue but above all let me not devise it lest he lie in my heart Let not my Ear Tongue and Heart be a chaire house and bed for the Devill Let thy holy Spirit of love wholly possesse me that he may have no part in me Thou wouldst have my heart to be thy Temple and my lips are the dores Let me not make thy Temple his Forge to frame and thy Dores his Shop to vent his mischiefes Lest in thy justice thou give me my portion with railers and cursers and blasphemers in his fiery furnace As I abhor to murder my neighbors life make me afraid to destroy his fame and reputation lest I wound thereby and kill at once his credit and my conscience Keep the sword of Calumny out of my mouth I beseech thee that I kill not my slandred neighbour and my selfe and wound as many as hear and believe me From taking and giving these wounds Lord shield me and save me for his sake who being reviled yet reviled not Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Remedies against Detraction 1. IT makes a black mouth and us spit ink in our Brothers face or fire like Devills a Eph. 4. 27 The Devil and slanderer all one 2. As bloudy as black A b Lev. 19. 16 Ezek. 22. 9 murder of what is more precious then life another reputation c Prov. 12. 1 with the death of my conscience d Jam. 4. 1 3. As abhorred as bloudy To God and Man The Slanderer cries out on another for slandering him and therein condemnes himself c Rom. 2. 1 as a vile man for being a slanderer 4. To wound a good mans fame is most to be abhorr'd to cast filth at Gods eyes f Zach. 2. 8 He being sacred to God g Psa 105 19. this is a kind of sacriledge 5. To wound a Man of God so is yet worse h 1 Tim. 5 19. 1 Tim. 3. 7 1 Sam. 3. 17 To kill as many souls as believe the slanders His Ministry lies a bleeding if his credit receive a wound Three fortifications are needfull to defend the soul from this sinne 1. In the Ear. To keep it out of the tongue i Psa 15. 3 To be deaf to obloquy is the way naturally to become dumb to it 2. In the Eye To keep it out of the ear Slander will not come where anger entertaines it k Prov. 25. 23. 3. In the Heart To keep it out of all The cheif fort of all In 1. Wisdome Not to believe ill reports l Pro. 16. 21 2. Truth Not to devise them m Exo. 23. 1 3. Charity n 1 Cor. 13. 5. If true to conceal not to speak them Anothers life being the forbidden tree which my tongue is not to touch Daily Prayers Seven Services against Seven other commonly called Deadly Sinnes Sonday-Service Against Idlenesse Morning Prayer Psal 104. Lessons Gen. 2. or Proverb 6. Ezek. 16. Mat. 20. to 17 Evening Prayer Psal 147. 128. Lessons Prov. 6. 2 Thes 2. or 1 Tim. 5. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Idlenesse O Lord who hast made all things for action and Man above all to be employed in holy and laudable doings Keep me from the much evill of an idle life Let me not spend my pretious daies in vaine but improve them in such labours as may be proper to my condition profitable to others and above all suitable to thy service and available to my eternall salvation O let me redeem what is lost of my time and spend the remaines of that pretious treasure to the use for which thou givest me to live in this world even to purchase my self happinesse in the world to come Through the merits of him whose life was a continuall labour to doe all good to mankind Jesus Christ our
To that end it will be of some force to thinke 1. At death all leaves us Why 1 Tim. 6 7 Jam. 4 14. 1 Pet. 1. 17 so much cost on my Inne 2. Life is short Why such luggage for a little journey 3. Nature needs little Why clog 1 Tim. 6. 8. Conscience and it with much 4. My goods are trusts Why such Luk. 16. 2. care to have what is anothers 5. I must reckon for all Why Phil. 4. 17. then such reckoning of any 2. And effectually done if I have grace 1. To love the world lesse for 1 Joh. 2. 15 then I will not covet it much And value it low for then I will love it lesse Did we prize Riches as strawes we would not seek them as Pearles 2. To beleeve God better Then Heb. 13. 5. his Providence will moderate our care and his Promise banish our Covetousnesse 3. To serve God more For then Psal 37. 3. 54. 9. of St. Mat. I shall beleeve him better and challenge maintenance from him upon his Honour and Word 4. To be content with what I 1 Tim. 6. 6 have For then I will not crave what I have not and shall bring my mind to my lot if I Phil. 4. 11. 12. cannot it to my mind 5. To be thrifty with content For he that is a Prodigall to spend is forced to be a Miser to get Avarice never works more then in the service of luxury 6. To be covetous with my thirst Amos 4. 1. to wit of Heaven He that loves true riches scornes earthly 1 Cor. 12. 1. And will so get and use them as they may encrease 1 Tim. 6 19. the heavenly So he will be charitable not miserable thinking Act. 20. 35 it happier to be of the Giving than Receiving hand Tuesday-Service Against Gluttonie Morning Prayer Psal 17. 73. Lessons Deut. 8. or 32. Amos 6. Luke 16. or 21. Evening Prayer Psal 78. or 160. Lessons Dan. 5. or Isaiah 22. Rom. 13. or 1 Cor. 10. Phil. 3. Jude or Epist ¶ Collect or Prayer against Gluttonie DEare Saviour that would'st have my Body a Temple for thy holy Spirit thou wilt not have it a Sepulcher for Beasts Thou that hast done my lips Mat. 26. â—6 the blisse honour to be made Dores for thy Holy Bodie to enter at wilt not have them gates for the uncleane Spirit to passe in and out if I so pollute my body wilt thou not desert me and destroy me if I dare so prophane Thine Lord that I may not lose my Soul let me not so abuse either Bodie and abhorre gluttony which makes me doe that abuse to both O Christ it was thy meat and drink Joh. 4. 34. to doe thy Fathers will and but for strength to that thou didst not eate and drink O! let me not with Adam eat my selfe at oncc out of Obedience and Paradise Thou didst fast and feast to teach me there is a Time for both but a Gluttons appetite was never in thy mouth Nor let it ever be in mine O God! if I fast let me not eate up my Bodie by cruell abstinence if I feast let me not devoure my Soule by intemperance whether I abstaine or eate or drinke or whatsoever I 1 Cor. 10. 3 doe let all be to thy glory that at death when Epicures make their two Feasts for Wormes and Fiends with their Bodies and Soules thou mayest feast and fill both mine with thy One Joyes which will fill and not loathe Satisfie and not Surfeit for ever To that glut of joyes deare Jesus bring me From other gluttonie keep me By the way of thy Blood and worke of thy holy Spirit O Lord Amen Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Gluttonie A Sinne 1 Man is not made for but is 2 undone by yet may be 3 helpt against 1. Mans throat is narrow not made to swallow and short not for delight to gormandize If he doe 2. Love he which World he will it will be his ruine 1 For a better 1. It makes Man Swine His Belly v. Apud Tertul. Venter Deus c. God and Paunch his Paradise The Kitchin his Church First and second courses his Services His howers of Devotion Meal-times His Creed is in his Cook His Decalogue in his Dishes The company of Epicures his Communion of Saints and death everlasting his end For by this meanes he eates and drinks away his time in vanity drownes his soul in sensuality destroyes his conscience Tert. Appendices sc gulae lascivia atque luxuria with guilt It being as one dead sin it self always mother of another luxury which never wants a womb where gluttony hath a belly And often sister to many as ill as 1 Cor. 10. 7 Sodomes all even the worst though Idolatry and Sodomie it selfe And 2. It makes him as much wretch as Beast For even here it bars him of the greatest blessing Health His chief boon long Life and onely blisse Pleasure For fulnesse is the mother of Sicknesse and that the nurse of Death Temperance hath the most delicious taste and Hunger cookes all meates Prov. 27. 7 to Delicates whâ—reas his Appetite needs more whets then his Knife with which he doth not so much cut his meat as his throat Even then digging his Pluris necat crapula quam gladius grave with his teeth when he most pampers his Palate Before the Flood Mans life was longest when food simplest Their years ten to one longer because their diets twenty to one lesse 3. For such a Malady help were happy And it hath a double cure 1. Perforce So sicknesse is the remedy which disgusts the Palate and make fasts necessary because meats unpleasant So for the time the Glutton is abstemious but by disease not virtue not from good habit but ill habitude Yet even thus if wise it may get the ill one off and be cured 2. By choice For as his pleasures are none in sicknesse they are short in health whilst the meats passe by the throat from the mouth to the stomack space and time not long And in death gone past all recovery Why then so much ill for so little good This vanishing and perishing in sicknesse and death That hastning and posting my Body unto sicknesse I wil none if I weigh it well And lesse if I doe consider and endeavour aright 1. 1. There is a life after death Be not an Epicure in thy Creed and thou wilt not be a Glutton 1 Cor. 15. 32 33. in thy life Ede bibe lude believes nothing beyond death 2. Thou wilt be arraigned then by thy Creatour for abusing his Workmanship thy self Accused by the Creatures for devouring his workes them Making thy soul and body instead of the Ark of his Testimonies and Tabernacle of his service the one a streiner for lusts the other for meats Rom. 8. 20 The creature ravished by force to serve thee against his ends
as if made for nothing but thy lust and the dunghill Thou wilt therefore be condemned for thy injury to him thy self and them To a gluttony of torments starved body and soul without crumb or Luk. 16. 23 drop of comfort for thy short pleasures to paines long and lasting for ever Consider this 2. There is a Cloath a Meat a Drink an Art an Office that will help if thou have it Do thou then endeavour it 1. The Coat is Christ Of particular Rom. 13. 13 14. virtue to expell Gluttony 2. The Meat is his Word and Sacrament To which to have an holy Appetite is to lose the Job 6. 27. sensuall and to digest it to loath it 3. The Drink is his Spirit with Eph. 5. 18. which the soul drunk keepes the body sober The greater excesses of good the lesse of it surfets 4. The Art is his Pionry to undermine Dan. 4. 27. gluttony by works of Charity Giving the maintenance of thy lust to the poor So thou shalt at once starve thy Job 29. 15 and 31. 16. sinne and feast thy Conscience And God and Christ himself will come to the feast Mat. 15. 35 Luk. 14. 13. 5. The Office is to keep his Table Which Frugality covers and Temperance takes away His Example Command wil make thee able and Prayer will get the blessing of both And sooner if for his sake thou eat and delight in sober company and leave Gluttons for Saints Wednesday-Service Against Lasciuiousnesse and Luxury Morning Prayer Psal 106. Lesson Ezek. 16. or 2 Sam. 12. Prov. 7. Joh. 8. to v. 42 Evening-Prayer Psal 51. Lesson 2 Sam. 12. 1 Cor. 6. or Heb. 13. ¶ Prayer against Lasciviousnesse LOrd keepe me from all filthinesse of flesh and Spirit that before men and thee who discernest both I may appeare pure and undefiled a chast Spouse to thee not to be tempted to any acts or lusts of uncomelinesse or unworthinesse which be ill in thy eyes that are ever upon me O let me be pure and holy in all manner of conversation as thou art holy that in the great day of tryall thou maist not disclaime me but owne me and take me to thy glory for the merits of thy Holy One and Undefiled Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Daily Prayers Remedies against Lasciviousnesse 1. GEnerally The sin of unchastity is vaine foule fearefull and prevailing For 1. The more lust is served the lesse satisfied a Ezek. 16. 28. 2. It 's called particularly filthinesse and uncleannesse b Apoc. 17 14. It is sacrilegiously to make the Body c 1 Cor. 6. 18 19 Gods Temple a Stewes and that is the vilest filthinesse d 1 Cor. 3. 17. 3. It is a short pleasure for everlasting paine e Heb. 11. 24. yet this fire is the end of that fleshlinesse f 1 Cor. 6. 9. Heb. 13. 4. Apoc. 21. 8. Besides a foule conscience it wounds health honour state wasting the balsame of life blessing of wealth and oyntment of a good reputation g Prov. 5. 8 9 10. Pro. 6. 26. 32. 33. Job 31. 9 10. c. 4. It is a strong lust in the assault and commonly gets the victory Nature concurring with the strength h Pro. 7. 21 2 Sam. 11. 2 5. The holy Martyrs could no more be tempted by pleasures then tortures But 2. Particularly In a married condition it is every way worse 1. Not onely Damnation in another world i Apoc. 21. 8. but present Death k Joh. 8. 5. Levit. 20. 10. in this by the Law of God and man too in many places 2. It tends to the confusion of mankinde Incest c. l Gen. 38. 16. 3. The dumbe creatures are true to their Mates 3. The cure of both is the same To kill the sinne 1. In the Egge Stifle the first thoughts and motions of lust m Mat. 5. 28. no Bird but was first an Egge 2. In the hatching Take heed of the things that beget and nourish lust Covenant with the eyes n Job 31. 1 against lascivious Persons Pictures gestures stop the o Pro. 7. 21. eares against lustfull Songs Discourses Devices Keepe the heart p Pro. 6. 255 from being idle and the body from excessive sleeps and meats and drinks or such as are knowne to be provocative q Pro. 23. 33. Temperance Sobriety are great friends to Chastity 3. Tempted Thinke that thy keepers eyes are upon thee with Joseph that God sees thee r Gen. 39. 9. and will judge thee s Prov. 5. 20 21. Thou wilt blush if but a child behold thee Thursday-Service Against Pride Morning Prayer Psal 73. 131. Lessons Isa 14. Luk. 18. to v. 19 or Acts 12. Evening Prayer Psal 86. 138. Lesson Jâ—r 13. Jam. 4. or 1 Pet. 5. ¶ Collect or Prayer against Pride LOrd keepe me from the sinne of Pride which threw Angels out of Heaven and Man out of Paradise lest it cast me headlong into the depths of thy displeasure and barre my soule of both O let me who am nothing but a miserable body and soule a lump of sins and woes let me never exalt my selfe before or against thee Without whose goodnesse but one minute my flesh would fall to the earth and my spirit lie in hell for ever without thy mercy Preserve by these thoughts an humble spirit in me such as thou maist respect on earth and hereafter advance unto thy glory Even for his sake who so abased himselfe for my pride Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen! Daily Prayers Remedies against Pride 1. KNow what Pride is A sinne abhominable as that which is 1. Gods hate Others sinnes fly God but this flyes at God * S. Greg. and God at it a 1 Pet. 5. 5. 2. Mans bane It went before the fall of Angels b Jude v. 6. Isai 14. and Adam c Gen. 3. 5 6. and doth goe before destruction d Prov. 16. 18. 3. Christs scorne In his birth life death all humility nothing of pride much against it 2. Know what we are and there is no cause of pride 1. Not for our Ills. And our 1. Bodies are Baggs of phlegme and choler poore and vile e Phil. 3. 21. 1. I am quickened dust and shall be dead f Gen. 3. 19. 2. One worme was my begining and many will be my end and much woe betweene g Job 25. 6 Job 19. 26. 2. Soules be Cages of uncleane lusts and errours h Gen. 6. 5 Nests of Serpents and Vipers i Isa 49. 4 5. 3. Bodies and Soules both have what should humble us 1. My body is subject to a thousand sicknesses and sorrowes but my soule to ten thousand times more sins and wounds and weaknesses and falls k Rom. 7. 24. Psal 19. 12. Psal 40. 12 2. A Grave will be the end of my Body l Psal 49. 14. and Hell without pardon the end of a sinning Soule
let me loath the honie of wicked delights and because under the flowers of pleasure snakes of guilt lye hid let me beware of all but O Lord ever keepe me from setting my heart on any On thee be my soule ever fixt O God! In thee be the joy of my heart even in thee alone and in other things onely in thee and for thee and let thy feare be the matter or measure of all my pleasures that they may be in thee that when the brook of earthly joyes shall faile I may drink of the river which runs to all eternity O thou who art said to weepe not to laugh strengthen me to see and overcome this vanity That I may joy in thee now and with thee hereafter in endlesse felicity Deare Jesus Amen Daily Prayers Monday-Service Of the Vanity of Honours Morning Prayer Psal 49. 82. Lesson 1 Sam. 2. or Esth 6. Dan. 4. Joh. 12. Evening Prayer Psal 75. 83. Lesson Isa 3. or 5. or 23. or Jer. 5. 2 Cor. 1. ¶ Prayer against the Vanity of Honours O Lord Because thou hast made me great shall I not be good Because my bloud is noble shall my life be wicked Because men doe me honour shall I doe thee shame Lord let such a spirit of basenesse never possesse me let me know that the greater my honours are the greater be my obligations to serve thee And let those parasites of greatnesse appeare as so many fiends of Hell unto me who would have me break those bonds and flatter and nourish such a spirit in me Make me too wise to build my blisse on mans breath that I be not miserable at their pleasure and happy when they list Make me not so fond as to think a glory so vaine can make me happy So poore as to thinke that applause my blessednesse which goes and comes with a blast of mans Make me so wise as to know that a holy spirit makes the noblest bloud and to be thy child is the best descent to beare thine image the best coat to have thine Angels the best Ministers of honour and thine eyes the best Judges And make me so good as to doe those noble acts of vertue and piety which may give me this honour let others court the vaine let me seeke tâ—ue glory To scorne earth get heaven shining as the Sun in the State of immortality King of Glory give this honour to me Sweet Jesus I beseech thee Amen Amen Daily Prayers Tuesday-Service Against the Vanity of Riches Morning Prayer Psal 39. 49. Lessons Deut. 8. 9. or Pro. 11. 23 Mat. 13. or 19. or Mar. 10 Evening Prayer Psal 52. 62. Lessons Job 31. or Eccles. 5. James 5. ¶ Prayer against the Vanity of Riches KEep me O Lord from their madnesse who make riches their God and poverty their Devill Let not that be my heaven whâ—ch is so near to hell let me not make that my blissâ— which earth hath in her bowels And let not that have my heart which is not my heaven From immoderate desires to get or keepe wealth keepe me O Lord and from sinfull defend me that I may not covet much to spend more in the maintenance of lust vice and vanity and have much to ruine me Let me know that riches are good as they come from thee and give me a power of greater piety and charity and alacrity to serve thee and so let me value them as acts of thy bounty But as things unable to save either soule from hell or body from death in the day of distresse or to satisfie the soule in any better day let me despise them as poore and of no value And as Meanes of Sinne and Woe Feeds of pride luxury and excesse let me abhorre them as the Fewell of wrath and hell Let me be rich in thee and to thee in baggs laid up in heaven laid out in earth to mans Necessity and thy Glory Let the riches of grace be my joy others my use and their love my scorne That when the Worldly Rich shall be Beggers bereaved of all comfort I may be rich in all abundance in thee and with thee who art all in all by the purchase of the pretious blood and passion of Him who became poore to make us rich Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Wednesday-Service Against the Vanity of Beauty Morning Prayer Psal 38 39. 45. Lessons 2 Sam. 14. or Pro. 31. or 11. or Ezek. 28. Mat. 23 Evening Prayer Psal 6. 96. 145. Lessons Isay 3. or 28. Ezek. 16. 1 Cor. 11. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Beauty O Lord let me looke at Beauty as thy blessing but not make it my blisse Let not my care be more for my body then my soule and to have a faire face then conscience O let that which is thy face and Image have the chiefest of my costs and care Let the glasse of thy Word be often before me to see it and the waters of repentance daily with me to wash it and the fine linnen of the Saints ever by me to adorne it that the King of Heaven may delight in my beauty and not Men but Angels love me For beauty of the body let it not be my sinne or anothers snare Let me not hate Deformity above Hell and love Beauty before Heaven Since age at last will and infirmity before may deface that beauty and change it to a loath'd deformity And Lord keepe my looks from being lures of vanity Let no guilts be upon my eyes of anothers iniquity Let thy feare preserve me and them from these guilts Make it my care to appeare with a faire and cleane conscience before thee and to Him whom thou hast made the vayle of my eyes let me be joy of his That when humane beauty shall faile an Angels may be given me a body and soule both faire without blot or blemish to all eternity To that beauty Lord Jesus bring me Amen Amen Daily Prayers Thursday Service Against the Vanity of Strength Morning Prayer Psal 22 33. 38. 102. Lessons Job 6. or 9. or 40. or 1 Sam. 17. Act. 3. or 5. Evening Prayer Psal 86. 147. Lessons Job 21. or Isay 26. 1 John 2. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Strength THat I have health the Crown of earthly mercies I thank thee O God of my strength And I beseech thee continue it to me without which I cannot serve thee or enjoy any comfort from thee And let me use it whilst it is with me to the end for which thou givest it me to look and seek after eternall life where is no sicknesse nor infirmity Lord make me know that all other use is Vanity To trust in strength idolatry to turne it against thee villany To doe more sinne because I have more health from thee Let me therefore have care in the dayes of my youth and strength to remember thee my Creatour that in the dayes of age and infirmity thou mayest not forget thy Servant Let my
healthy body make my soul more cheerfull to serve thee How unfit sicknesse is to doe thee service and how many wayes it may come let me sadly consider that in my health I may goe about my happinesse and in my sicknesse have the comfort of a well-employed health and at my death the assurance of eternall life by that employment Lord since thou givest me the best of thy blessings let me give thee the first of my years the strength of my youth not my decrepite dayes that come sicknesse or health life or death I may be Thine ever a child of blisse and heire of immortality by the merits of him who is the Sonne of thy Love Jesus Christ Amen Daily Prayers Friday-Service Against the Vanity of Wit Morning Prayer Psal 36. 94. Lessons 2 Sam. 17. or Prov. 3. Lukc 10. Evening Prayer Psal 90. 111. 2. Lessons Jer. 4. Ecclcs 2. 1 Cor. 3 or 2 Tim. 3. Jam. 3. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Wit I Thanke thee O Lord for the blessing of my Reason For the power of it by which thou hast made me a man not a beast and the use of it by which thou hast made me of understanding not an ideot I beseech thee let me not marre what thou hast made My wit to delude my will and it to draw my soule from thee lest I foole my selfe of the end for which I was made and an Ideot get to Heaven before me As I have the wit let me have the wisdome to know thee and with my understanding the conscience to feare thee without which the most wise is but a foole before thee Ftom a wit to contrive mischiefs and to compasse designes of vanity from skill to use the arts of sinne and finde the wayes of death and hell Good Lord deliver me From an Atheists wit to dispute against thee and Religious acts which binde the soule unto thee and cunning to maintaine acts of vice and villanie Lord keepe me that it find neither roome nor favour in me that such wickednesse be not charged upon me Let me be a foole on earth to be a Saint in Heaven even theirs who thinke Sanctitie a simplenesse Devotion a dulnesse and thy Feare a folly And from pride of understanding and scorne of the simple who have little to my much let this preserve me that thou canst make my much to be little if I so provoke thee bereaving me of my wits by a sicknesse or a phrensie Wisdome of God from all this save me Deare Jesus Amen! Daily Prayers Saturday-Service Against the Vanity of Friends and Favour Morning Prayer Psal 38. 41. 11. 5. 39. Lessons Esth 6. or Job 6. or Pro. 19. Luk. 1. Act. 7. Evening Prayer Psal 88 89. 106. Lessons Micha 7. Eccles 9. James 1. ¶ Collect or Prayer against the Vanity of Friends and Favour O Lord Friends are Jewels and so thou hast taught us to value them yet as men that may be false or will be fickle our trust must not be in them Some are not more friends to my person then my prosperity And those that are now most friends with me may prove bitter enemies against me Let me therefore seeke to have my Conscience thy Angels and Selfe for friends that will never faile me and let thy will be mine O God that all these friendships may be for me O thou great Friend of mankind who by thy bloud didst make falne man friends with God by thy Holy Spirit make me fit for all these friendships And Lord let me not value mans with thy favour They can give me honour but not a Crowne of Glory Wealth but not Heaven Their hands are too short Yea in sicknesse and distresse they cannot reach health or quiet to my body or my conscience And though their power be ever lesse then my wants it may be often greater then their wills O Thou Unchangeable Majestie The everlasting lover of them that feare thee let me be one that thou maist ever favour me Let me not care for mans cloud so the light of thy countenance shine upon me Let my sinnes never hide that light from my soule I beseech thee Sun of righteousnesse let some beame of thy love ever come unto me Lord Jesus say Amen Amen! Daily Prayers Services upon other subjects and particular occasions Advertisement to the devout Reader touching these Services FOr those services in the fourth Week which may not be so proper for all as that of Honour Beauty Strength those here which are of more Cōmon concernment may be used in their stead as the Service against Malice Revenge Impatience The rest as occasion and discretion guides thee and devotion finds most beneficiall for thee Wherein the Authour gives thee thou mayest take thy choice And if thou wilt make these serve for a fift Weeke doe as shall most please and profit thee A Service of the pleasures of piety for Sunday or other day Morning Prayer Ps 4. 30. 32. or 33. 97. Lessons Deut. 16. or Isa 29. or 35. 61. 65. Joh. 16. Evening Prayer Psal 16. 36. or 126. 132. Lessons Heb. 3. or Mat. 3. or 8. Phil. 4. ¶ A Prayer to have the pleasures of Piety RAvish my heart O Lord with the joyes of thy Saints and cause me to see the felicity of thy chosen O! What are the pleasings of sense to the solaces of a Soule or the delights of the flesh to the raptures of Spirit And in what but in thee O God can my immortall Soule take repose or my Spirit finde rellish thou art the Soveraign good In thee is the Crown of joy All in the world is nothing to thee woe without thee And how can my Soule rejoyce in thee but in the favour which thou hast to those that feare thee and those multitudes of mercies which proceed from thy favour to those that are in holy league and peace with thee Lord make me one of thy Saints that I may have some of those joyes which none but those that feele know and those that know cannot utter And give me I beseech thee some taste of those holy pleasures which may encourage me more and more to seek to be a Saint O Lord of those shoures of hidden Manna which daily fall upon Soules greatly devout indeed let some crums and drops come to me who truly desire to be so and whilst others take pleasure to swim in sensuality let me be satisfied with those drops Let sinfull contents be my hate because they banish them and sensuall my scorne because below them Let me joy in the goods of the earth as my common portion but triumph in thy favour as my great Inheritance and in the duties of thy service and feare as the wayes to thy favour To the harvest of joy in Heaven Lord at last bring me and to live more comfortably on earth in thy feare the First-fruits of thy Spirit give me and a love and care and conscience of thy feare encrease ever in me God
takes me and thy feare my onely care as the way to that glory In that way guide me keep me and continue me by thy holy Spirit I beseech thee let me so use thy earthly blessings that they may not hinder me Father of mercy and God of grace grant this I beseech thee even by the blessed Mediation and Merits of Jesus Christ Amen ¶ 3. Prayer for a Penitent Confessing Sins and Deprecating Judgments O Thou Holy and Dreadfull Majestie I am ashamed to lift up my eyes unto thee for the sins I have committed against thee Woe is me for the undue thoughts and lusts and words and deeds of which I stand guilty before thee I have like a prodigall Child wasted those goods and daies in the delights of vanity which thou O Father didst give me not to sinne with but to serve thee And even for those few houres which I have spent best privately in thy service and in thy Sanctuary I have need to aske thy forgivenesse and mercy So coldly so carelesly so distractedly so irreverently have I then and there behaved my selfe before thee By thy holy lawes by thy many mercies by my often vowes promises I stand at this day deeply obliged unto thee But I have broken all those bonds and even to this houre am not free from rebelling against thee For this I doe confesse thou mightest sentence me to as many judgments as the mercies are with which thou hast blessed and yet blessest me Thou mightest cast away that soule which I have so much polluted with sinne and smite that body which hath been so much a servant to it in the acts of vanity Thou mightest take away all Hope and Comfort from me and at once bereave me both of Life and Soule Of all these plagues O Lord I am most guilty by my sinnes and if thou shouldest execute them all upon me thou wert but righteous in thy judgements But in judgment Lord remember mercy To thy poore servant to thy penitent prostrate Child grant thy pardon Deare Father and reach to my soule thy hand of mercy I have guilt but thou hast Bloud O Blessed Redeemer I have staines but thou hast Grace O Holy Comforter O Holy blessed and glorious Trinity Spare my life and save my soule I beseech thee who have condemned my selfe for sinning so much and resolve by thy grace to serve the more conscionably And Lord save thy poor distracted Church O forgive her sinnes and build up her walâ—s And in Her preserve all that are dutifull Children and faithfull to thee and her especially those who are in Place and Power to preserve Her Lord doe thou preserve Her and Them and all who are deare and neare to me and Thee Comfort all that are cast down especially those whose soules bleed for their sinnes all poor-penitent-broken Spirits Have mercy on them O Lord and comfort for them and heale them thou good Physitian who alone canst help them by the pretious wounds and death and bloody passion of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Daily Prayers Letanie Ten Commandements Epistle 2 Cor. 11. 18. Gospel Mark 4. v. 35. Prayer for Catholike Church Service against Impatience for Thursday or other day Morning Prayer Psal 77. 37. Lessons Job 2. or Prov. 25. Mat. 18. Evening Prayer Psal 106. 145. Lessons 2 Sam. 15. Rom. 12. or Jameâ— 5. ¶ 1. Collect or Prayer against Impatience O Lord let not a Spirit of impatience possesse me by which I do but provoke thee and advance not all Jer. 7. 19. above my misery By it I shall neither get thy blessing nor ease my burden Isa 45 9. but draw thy curse double the cross upon me Thou art my Maker I may not strive with Thee And my misery Psal 39. 10. is thy worke I must not contest with it I may struggle under the yoke Lam. 3. 27 but what I shall gaine but gaule and guilt by the strife Gaule to my Jer. 28. 13. neck and Guilt to my conscience I will therefore kisse thy Rod and bow to what I cannot breake thy yoke Under which I will draw on my course with more humility and care Sad for that I have offended and carefull that I may not offend 1 Pet. 5. 6. so shall my obedience be accepted and my deliverance hastened For O Lord it is not my punishment but amendment which thou dost seek and therefore sendest distresse to drive me to Hos 5. 15. my duty Which when I learne by thy rod and yoke thou dost lay them aside and appeare in more comfortable shapes unto me yea and allowest my Apoc. 3. 10. patience good recompence for my better behaviour in the schoole of my misery Good Lord let me learne what thou doest teach that I may receive what thou doest give the honour of being held thy Faithfull Servant under the crosse and the glory of having Rom. 8. 18. a Crowne for my service Not for any merits of mine or it but for thine infinite mercies sake and the merits of Him who is the Great Master Heb. 12. 3 4. and Patterne of Patience and all perfection Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ 2. Prayer against Impatience LOrd keep me from Impatience as much my paine as sinne To thee the wise and just Disposer and Governour of Humane affaires it is a sinne a quarrelling and fighting with thy Providence To me a poore fraile Creature who cannot maintaine contest Job 2. 10. against my Maker it will be but paine If thy Hand lay the burden on Isa 49. 5. I must submit I cannot resist thee Pray it off I may I cannot throw it from me yea impatiently to seek to cast it off is the way to overwhelme me O! let me not delight at once in thy displeasure and my overthrow Thou art just If evill be on me it's what I deserve Thou art good If I submit to thy will thou wilt worke my good out of that evil Thou art great If I will not by choice I shall by force submit to thy will When therefore evil be it never so much or great is upon me let me look up to thee from whom it flowes Let me looke in to my sinne for which it comes Let me looke on to my good to which it tends So shall I sit downe in Patience under it and kneele downe in prayer to be delivered from it waiting humbly till thou shalt set me above it Even so give me grace to do and say of my Crosse and Paine as thou my Saviour didst of thy bitter Cup and Passion Father If it be thy will Let this Cup passe from me if not not my will but thy will be done Amen Amen Remedies against Impatience 1. AN Insurrection against the Government of a Providence Almighty and Good and therefore ever fond and foule 2. A Sinne of an everlasting date because man is in the perpetuall motion of misery till at rest in heaven 3. A Sinne which keeps
Armes I leave the wounded Mother and at thy Feet I lay the Bleeding Child Jesus nourish these Holy Passions in me which my Heart hath conceived and my Tongue now brought forth before thee Let thy Holy Passion ever Breed them in me and thy Holy Spirit nurse them for thee Even by the Merits of thy Bloody Passion I beseech thee Amen Amen A Service Eucharisticall or Preparatory to the Holy Communion for Saturday or other Day Morning Prayer Psal 26. 74. 146. Lessons 2 Chron. 30. Mat. 26. to Verse 46. Evening Prayer Psal 55. 67. Lessons Isay 55. 1 Cor. 11. or 10. 1. Prayer before comming to the Holy Communion Acknowledging and Deprecating our unworthincs O Lord I am every where in thy Presence and under thy Eye and therefore should be profanc no where But thy Speciall Presence and Face is in thy Temple there therefore I should be most Holy And thy Chair and Seat is at thy Table there then I should be most Even the Angels are not pure enough for such a Heavenly Presence how then shall a poor sinfull mortall Man appear at so High and Holy a Service How shall I dare to Communicate with thee that deserve not to Come before thee Lord Since I cannot come as I should Pure I will endeavour by thy Grace to come as I may Penitent I will be more Humble because lesse Holy and more Wash'd because so Eilthy And O Lord give me Grace so to come Let me look over my life in the Glass of thy Law let my Conscience help me look and make me wash with my Teares what is polluted in my wayes and clense in Christs Bloud what I wash with my Tears O Lord in a Bath of this water warm'd in that Blood flowing from a Sinners bleeding Heart and Saviours bloody Side shall I not be clean if I wash Pierce my Heart O Lord that I may Repent open my Heart that I may Believe that I may so wash and be clean Though I did not live let me believe aright and let me love whom I doe believe Thee O God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who didst send thy Sonne to shed his Bloud and Redeeme me Thee O Son of God who didst come and shed thy Blood to make a Bath and heal me Thee O Holy Spirit of God! by whose Grace and Work upon my heart I come to have the benefits of that Bloud And whom I love let me not grieve Lord let me no more offend thee Let my heart be set to serve thee resolved to please thee And doe thou accept me Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Amen 2 Prayer to be used before the Holy Communion to be pardoned and prepared for it DEare Saviour that hast given thy Flesh and Bloud to be my meat and drinke and now invitest me to those heavenly dainties Who am I wofull and wicked wretch that I am that I should dare with my unworthy hands to receive those High and Holy Mysteries Originally uncleane Actually defiled and even since my last comming and Communicating for all my vowes and protestations before Thee againe and againe polluted In these straits and stresses of spirit how shall my soule be satisfied If I come not at thy call I rebell against thy mercy If I come I trespasse upon thy puritie O my God! I will not stand out a Rebell but rather fall downe an humble Suppliant before thee I am guilty Lord pardon me I am polluted Lord purge me Though guilty though polluted I am thy Ransomed soule Deare Redeemer save me Let the Merits of thy pretious bloud clense me from the guilts upon me Let the graces of thy Holy Spirit Sanctifie me from the stains within me Let the sighs and teares which come from my bleeding heart wash off those blots by vertue of that pretious bloud Let the cryes and prayers which now come from my believing soule obtaine those graces from thy Holy Spirit True repentance and humility A lively faith and charity with all those holy and heavenly thoughts and affections which may dispose and prepare me for thee By these fit my soule for thy selfe and my body with my soule to be an holy house and habitation for thee Let thy Holy Spirit and Body enter into me Come Deare Redeemer come to the price of thy bloud seize thine owne and save me Possesse my soule feede me and preserve me Hereafter let me have more grace then to grieve thee Give me care to keepe my bodie thy Temple more pure from sinne and holy to thee and my heart thy Bed more cleane from lust and undefiled before thee In the strength of thee the Living Bread let me grow more able to serve thee And by vertue of so neare an Union and Communion with thee let not mine but thy Holy Spirit from henceforth lighten lead and enliven me That I may shun sinne which thou hatest and daily doe those duties of devotion and charity which please thee So let this Holy Sacrament at once Seale to me thy mercy and my glory Where I shall for ever communicate with thee in perfect purity and felicity To that happy Communion by thy grace deare Saviour ever prepare me and now for a Holy Communion with thee Amen! Amen! Say Amen Lord Jesu 3. Prayer at our comming to the Holy Communion DIdst Thou not invite me to thy Holy Table O Lord I durst not come Now thou callest me I dare not keepe away And yet when I doe consider Who and what is here I fear and tremble to come Thou O Lord art a Holy and Dreadfull Majesty and so Thy Mysteries be Holy Bread and Holy Wine A most Holy Bodie and Bloud No taint in His Bloud who is God and Lord as Thy selfe The Lamb of God Immaculate Undefiled without Spot all-pure most High and Holy But alas I am Uncleane Uncleane Uncleane Originally Actually every way In Heart Hand Lips every part Throughout Childhood Youth Manhood every Age Most unworthy to approach a Presence so pure who am so unholy True Lord But I lament my Uncleanness I renounce my owne worthinesse I come not because worthy but needie I come to be made cleane and worthy That Bodie and Bloud can make me cleane It is my Saviours His Merits can make me worthy They are thy Sons And here is a conveyance of that Blessed Body and Bloud It is thy Sacrament Lord Thinke me worthy for his sake and Make me worthy for thy Mercies sake by my comming Give my Sins thy Pardon my Soul thy Grace My selfe thy Acceptance in thy Beloved And what Thou dost convey Seale to me by what I am to Receive from thee The Blessed Body and Bloud of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen 4. Prayer and Thanksgiving after Receiving of the Holy Communion PArdon O Father thy poore Child the errours and infirmities which have pass't in thy Holy Service whether before or in or since the Sacrament And in and for the pretious Bloud of thine Holy Child Jesus of which I
have had the Holy Communion Seale me my pardon And behold and accept thy Servant from a heart full of thy love pouring out praises to thee for the inestimable benefits received in those High and Holy Mysteries What am I O Lord or what is in me that thou shouldest doe this great honour and favour to me I am unworthy to touch the thresholds of thy House and thou hast taken me to thy Table I am not worthy to stand amongst thy Saints and thou hast made me sit with my Saviour I am not worthy to come before thee and fall down before thy Footstoole and thou hast beene pleased to come into me and make my heart thy Throne I am not worthy to eat the bread of Men and thou hast given me the bread of Angels Yea Lord The Angels hunger but have not this bread What they admire I have received whom they adore I have entertained The Body and Bloud of Jesus their Mirrour is my meat Christ and they are Two but I and my Saviour are One. Flesh of his Flesh and Bone of his Bone One Bloud one Body O unspeakable Mysterie O incomparable Mercy Lord I beseech thee since of my selfe I cannot enough praise thee make me some way worthy of thee Let my Hands which have received that Blessed Body and Bloud be henceforth Sacred and doe no deeds that may offend thee Let my Lips which have touched those Holy Mysteries be hallowed from all words that may displease thee And let my Heart the Habitation of my Lord and Saviour be hereafter holy and no vain thoughts lodge within me As I am one with Him in Body and Bloud let me be one in Spirit The spirit of Wisdome Love and Holyness truly to know Thee serve Thee and cleave unto Thee By the blessed Sacrament of his Body and Blood Convey it to me Confirme it in me Let it be to my soule the Signet of thy Love and Seale of thy Glory And even for the Precious Merits of that Bloud and Body receive me to it I beseech thee that I may be one in everlasting Union and Communion with Thee for Jesus his sake Amen Amen! A Thanksgiving to be said after the Communinn fit for one devoutly affected at it THou that hast given the Bread of Heaven to feed me O give me the tongue of an Angell to praise thee O Lord the very Angels are not blessed with such a Bread O! what an high Mystery and mercy is this that my Saviour is my Sustenance and their Maker my Meat The Body and Bloud of Christ the Eternall Sonne of Gods to be in an holy Communion eaten drunken by the mouth of a mortall man O the infinite condescending Goodnes of a gracious God to make my humble heart the habitation of his Holines To come to me enter in me and become one not by Reconciliation onely but heavenly Union and Communion with me O miraculous Union O mysterious Incorporation O happy Soule that art so neare to thy Saviour O blessed Saviour that art so neare to my Soule O wretched Soule if any thing be too deare with thee for such a Saviour That wouldst not give thy body and blood for his Truth that wilt not give thy life to his Glory O Lord let my Soule which by thy Sacrament is made so happie by my sinne be never made so wretched Thou that hast entred thy Bodie and Bloud into me by thy Spirit take possession of me Guide me leade me command me rule me move me Be thou the Spirit of my Soule and Soule of my Body Let not the Flesh World or Devill henceforth have any power in me Live O Live Thou in me O Christ in thy earthly House and let me live for ever with Thee in thy Heavenly Habitation Even by the Merits and vertues of thy pretious Body and Bloud Sweet Jesus my Deare Lord and Saviour I beseech thee Amen Amen! An Holy Rapture to be said by One having Devoutly Communicated O Lord Where thou doest dwell is Heaven Heaven then is not this day more Above me then Within me How then shall my Single Soule Honour thee and my Tongue extoll Thee who hast made for thy Servant a Double Heaven O Lord Let all that is within me and all that is without me minde heart tongue hand all Savour of that Heaven that is within me and set forth thy Glory And doe Thou who this day hast conveyed Heaven into me at my last houre Convey my Soule into Heaven That what is here wanting in thy due Praises I may pay there in everlasting Halleluja's Even so Lord Glory be to thee for ever for the Invaluable favour and honour thou hast done to thy servant For the unsearchable Riches and Treasures Conveyed in thy Sacrament even the Blessed Body and Blood of Jesus Christ my deare Redeemer and Lord and Saviour Amen Amen Meditations for the Holy Communion upon 1 Cor. 11. 24. 25. ¶ Doe this in Remembrance of me D Oe but for thee Dear Jesus I had been undone for ever for thee then and for Mat. 18. 11 thy sake what is it which I should not doe 2. Thy desires are my Commands There is Authority enough in thy love for me to doe what thou shalt please Speak Lord then thy Servant heareth what ever thy will is that will I doe 3. Since thou wouldst have no flesh but my Bodies I will have no will but Heb. 10. 5. thy Soules What is thine shall be my will O Lord and done which thou wilt hav◠me doe 4. I dare not say so to any man O Lord though never so Godly so much thy Man His will may have Errour for Guide and ill in Company But O thou Holy one of God! Thy mind knowes no Errour thy will no Obliquity I dare doe whatsoever thou dost will 5. Dare doe Dare not but doe it If thy desire once come out in an Injunction and thy will be signified by Command not onely upon my Obligation I ought But must upon my Mat. 17. 5. Act. 3. 23. Act. 9. 6. Allegeance to thee the King of the Church and Soveraign as well as Saviour of my Soul I must not dispute nor delay but doe and therefore ought may must doe This. For Lord what is it thou wouldst now have me do Is it to climb a Crosse to undergo a bitter Passion Act. 21. 19 Even for thy sake I should not think much to doe that who hast done more for mine What then when it is not so much as this not to goe to a Scaffold but come to thy Table not to goe to a Grave but a Feast not to Bleed or Burne but to to Eat and Drink not to Suffer that but to doe this 2. And what is that I am to Eat and Drink Bread of Affliction and Water of Adversity which flag my Spirits No Deare Jesus but Bread and Wine to confirme and comfort my Heart Not a Confessours Bread Tears nor a Martyrs Cup Bloud
Heavenly light to their thoughts and holy Fire to their Affections This Fire like that of the Sanctuary must not goe out of the Heart and vanish like passions moved at a Play unlesse we will play away our Soules we must then see 3. How we are to Order our selves after the Holy Communion AS our care was before how to 1 Cor. 11. 27. Ephes 4. 1. Heb. 2. 16. Communicate it must be now how to Walk Worthily As those who are Honoured by Christ above Angels and therefore should be at least Saints Made now One with Christ * Assistunt Cherubini Chys Ut ChristuÌ„ gcrat in pectore Ferat in mente Cypr. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. and so henceforth to live Two from the Flesh the World and the Devill His Holy Body is in us His Holy Spirit must not be from us Else we Sinne grievously against His Bloud and Body What Nebuchadnezzars was in Eph. 4. 4. Dan. 2. 32. Dreame we make his Body indeed a Monster because we of it are such mungrill Limbs And as Belshazzar did at his Profane Banquet we doe by the Holy Supper Turne the Cup of 1 Cor. 11. 27 Blessing into Blasphemy Carousing as it were Healths to our Idol-lusts in Dan. 5. 4. His Hallowed both Wine and Bloud So 1. We play Judas with Christ Eat Joh. 13. 18 26. His Bread and lift up the Heele against Him Take the Sop and betray our Interests in Him 2. We play Gadaren with Him and worse We doe not Pray but Mar. 5. 17. cast Him out of our Coasts and after we have received Him in 3. We play Strumpet with Him 1 Cor. 6. 15. Jam. 4. 4. Our Members which are his are made the Worlds which is an Harlots 4. And so we play Fooles with our 1 Cor. 10. 22. Mat. 22. 11 1 Cor. 11. 29 30. own Soules On which we draw heavy Wrath for our vile provocations if not a Plague and Stroke from Heaven on our Bodies for doing such Injuries to our Saviour So end the Directions about the Holy Communion A Service fit for Sad Times for Wednesday or Friday Morning Prayer Psal 71 73 74. or 124 125 126 129. Lessons Dan. 9. or Ezra 10. to v. 7. or 2 Chron. 36. Jer. 14. Luk. 21. Evening Prayer Psal 44 77 78. or 83. 98 or 137. 140 141. Lessons 2 Chron. 13. or 20. 1 Cor. 10. or Jude Ep. ¶ 1. Collect Confessing and Depreâ—ating Judgments O Lord Thou hast given us to see Bitter and Bloudy Times Barbarous outrages are done and endured daily Our Houses and Friends are full Even thy Temples are not free Dear God! These be the Dues of our Sins Thou art Just but we are Wicked Against the great Meanes of thy Grace and Mercies of thy Goodness for many and many years vouchsafed to us and our Fathers before us we are notwithstanding full of Hypocrisie full of Profanenesse full of Lewdnesse most Ingratefully and therefore most Aboimnably Wicked And I even I have contributed a great measure of my Sins to fill up those Woes But O God! that art Mercifull as thou art Just that delightest not so much to appeare just as Mercifull Pardon those Sins of ours that cause those Woes Pardon those Sins of mine which concurre to that cause And with the Pardon of our Sins grant us a Release of our punishments Let civill broiles and bloodsheds cease True Piety and Peace flourish againe amongst us Thou that out of evill canst work good and out of Confusion didst set up the Order of the World out of those evills and confusions that are upon us worke good and establishment for us O Thou that powerfully canst Mercifully doe this To thy great Honour and our great happinesse for the comfort both in body and Soule of us and ours and all that truly fear and love Thee and true Religion in and for Thee Even for thy tender Pities sake hear us Even for the pretious Bloud and Passion of Jesus helpe us In whose Blessed and Beloved Name we put up our Prayers Saying Our Father c. Amen 2. Prayer for an End of Warre HAsten O God these Daies of Bloud and Woes and give a happy and speedy end to the Warrs O! Let unnaturall Divisions cease and the unhappy Separations of Dearest friends end amongst us For these Times of wants and wounds and bonds and destructions let the Daies of Plenty and Safety and Liberty returne againe unto us O! Let it be enough that for our sins thou hast so long wounded us and broken us and now heale us and binde us up and Save us for thy Mercies sake Give us peace for the Sword Thou God of peace even for his Sake who is the Prince of peace Jesus Christ our Lord Amen! 3. Prayer for Blessing on those who seeke peace O God of Peace Blesse those that seek it that they may findit and stop and turne those that fly it and make them to seeke it Bow their hearts to it that have the power and strengthen their hands for it that have the Will As for those who set their hands and hearts against it we beseech thee turne thine hand and face against them O! Forgive us our Sins which threaten to destroy us and send us a peace which may preserve us And from more Bloud and Violence Deliver us Deliver us for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen! 4. Prayer for Friends in Danger and Distresse O God of Power Pity preserve thou those that are in danger to die Rescue them from the rage of violence and shew thy selfe Mercifull to them in saving their lives if it be thy blessed will O thou preserver of men Save them If not grant them all Graces and Mercies needful for the saving of their Souls Let them Glorifie thee in life and death that thou maist glorifie them with thy Eternall Life Through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. In whose name I pray mercy for all that Suffer in these Times of extremity Chiefly the Destitute Widdows and Fatherlesse Lord Take them to thy care and comfort them Have mercy on them and helpe them Supply them all and Succour them for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen 5. Prayer for Conversion of one in an Evill Course O Lord That delightest not in the Death of a Sinner I beseech thee by thy Grace and-Providence to stay his Course who is entred into a way of Vice and Vanity O Let him not goe on to bring an end of shame upon himself in this World and Confusion of face upon his Soule in the World to come But of thy great Mercy stop him and turne him to a better Course For Jesus Christ his sake Amen 6. Prayer for preservation of the Church O Lord The Church is thy Body and thou art Hâ—ae Head Shee is thy Spouse and thou art her Husband O! Save thine owne Body Preserve thine owne Spouse Protect her from all Enemies Men and Devills Keep her from all ills Errours
Almighty God if thou hast not care as well to Do as Say thy Prayers Observe then some hours for thy Devotion but all Time in thy Conversation The Eternitie which God will give and the Goodnesse which preserves thee every Psal 104. 13. moment will not abate a Minute of all for this thou owest him Service all Luk. 1. 75. the daies of thy Life every houre of the Act. 28. 7. day every Minute of the hour Thou must doe him Homage at Some Times Deut. 19. 9. Injurie at none Kneel at Times before him and pray but Offend and provoke Deut. 6. 13. 10. 12. 2 Tim. 1. 5. Act. 24. 16. 2 Cor. 1. 12. Rom. 12. 1 Deut. 8. 6. Psal 119. 5. Prov. 3. 6. Heb. 9. 14. Psal 119. 5. 6. him never My Soule Keeping a good Conscience is doing Him this Service In all thy waies then studie thou to keep a good Conscience That is a Conformitie betwixt his and thy waies His Will and thy Life His Laws and thy Couâ—ses And since thy Thoughts Words and Deeds are the Three Courses of thy Life how they are to be run take Direction by his Lawes And let Solomon that great and Wise King teach The Government of thy Thoughts Keep thy Heart with all diligence Prov. 4. 23 A litle will not serve All is litle enough For thou canst not keep hand or Tongue without this Their courses being rivers that Spring in the Mat. 15. 19 Heart Out of the Heart proceed evill thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts False-witnesse Blasphemies Ill words deeds thoughts all flow from the heart The Womb of Job 15. 35 Psal 7. 14. Isa 59. 4. wickednesse the Nest of evill No birth no bird without it With all diligence then look to it Since the Triplicitie of all ill is from it a Double a Treble Watch be ever over it Watch then My Soule that no ill thoughts lodge in it Come they may they will Jer. 4. 14. by force of Temptation or Corruption but stay they must not If the Gates of Sense let them in upon thee doe not Board them do not Bed them Consent not to them Delight not in them Thoughts are like Birds they come as swift and fly as high their hovering thou canst not hinder But their nestling thou maist If of an ill feather thou must Suffer them and Deut. 14. 11 12. they will hatch fledge and flie abroad out of tongue or hand in words or deeds of wickednesse If then Flesh or Devill bring an ill thought into thy heart Wandring or wicked to God or Man any way ill doe thou forthwith frowne and turne it out Bid it not Welcome but Avant And if that will not put it pray it away Groane to God under it that He may remove it And if yet it will not goe call in Help from God against it seeke Job 33. 23 Ghostly Counsell about it My Soule If an Infant Thought grow too strong for thee if it grow man how wil it Master thee Crie out then at first and call in more strength then thy own to drive it from thee And because it is so hardly got out if once let in therefore watch what thou canst to keep it out See to the Cinque-ports and at every Gate of sense Mark 13. 37. Psal 119. 37. Job 31. 1. 7. Prov. 4. 25 17. 4. 2 Sam. 11. 8 Prov. 7. 21 Gen. 3. 1. 6 Nec potestarx mentis capi nisi per portas bostiles irruat exercitus set a Watch And the Eyes and Eares especially as the Principall Gates David had never had so much as the thought of Adulterie had he looked better to his Eyes Nor would the Whorish woman have come into the Young mans heart had he kept her out of his Eares At these two gates Adam was taken and Mankind lost Nor is the fort of the Heart almost Dow got till we give up those Outwarks Gazing on Temptation and listning to the Devill is the over-throw of Man For if heart be gone all is lost As the first thing which lives it 's the last which dies as well in Spirituall as Naturall life If that then be departed thou art a Child of death For out of it are the issues of Life Above all keeping then Prov. 4. 23 Keep thy Heart Yes and keep thy Tongue too As thy Life look to thy Tongue It is S. Peters Transcript of King Davids Proclamation Who is the man that Psal 34. 13 1 Pet. 3. 10. wouldlive long and see good Dayes let him keep his tongue from evill and his lips that they speak no guile It is unruly and apt to run to Evill Jac. 3. 2. Jac. 1. 26. a Bridle therefore thou must have for it And what is that Surely Gods Law is a Bit his Threat a Curb thy Resolution a Rein all make a good Bridle The Bit is in every Mouth Prov. 4. 24 Psal 12. 3. the Curb in every Ear the Rein should be in every Heart If the Tongue go against Law it must come unto Judgment Even Words must be accounted Jude v. 15 16. for If Vain thou must answer for their Idlenesse The Judg assures it If Vile Mat. 12. 36 then thou must look to answer for their Ilness The Judg pronounceth it For by thy words thou shalt be justified Mat. 12. 37. Job 6. 26. and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Though but wind as they blow from Holy or unholy Spirit they waft to Heaven or Hel. My Soul look to it Life and Death are in the power of the Tongue This made David rein his in I said I will look to my wayes I Pro. 18. 21. Psal 39. 1. will take heed that I offend not with my Tongue He will keep it as with a Bridle He said he would he resolved it should be so He did not bite it out as the * Apud Hier. Young man did his tongue to save his Conscience but in he did and so must thou My Soul thou needest not be so severe It 's the Trumpet of Gods Psa 51. 15 Psal 71. 8. honour the Organ of his Praise his Servant and Sanctuary must not be mute do not then ruine but rule thy Psal 29. 9. tongue Bite it then in and if need be bite it but not out And the Rein wil be more easie if the Heart be wel Rul'd For out of the abundance of the Mat. 12. 34 35. heart the mouth speaketh good or ill as it is restored with grace or wickedness Where no Restraint of ill thoughts there will be liberty for ill words For what are words but born thoughts and what are thoughts but conceived words Misconceptions make mis-shapen Births Seest thou not O my Soul How unchaste 2. Pet. 2. 18. hearts have tongues ful of Filthiness And a stewes is in the mouth when a Whore is in the Heart Have Jude v. 13. not Prophane
8. 12. 6. 15. Jer. 3. 3. Prov. 7. 21 Jer. 9. 12. in brasse as will be in thy countenance Entrance teares of the veile of shame but continuance whores the forhead And so my Soule it is with all Sin as that One. Entrance conceives Continuance This begets Custome And That Impudence And It Vengeance Say then my Soule Say and doe with Humble and Holy Job Once have I Spoken but I will not answer Job 40. 4. 5. Yea twice but I will proceed no further No Thrice may carry thee so far from God that either thou carest 2 Tim. 3. 3. Prov. 1. 24. 31. Apoc. 22. 11. not or canst not Returne and so must on and Proceed Proceed for want of a Timely pause till thou come to a fatall Period Beware then of Bad Customs And so doe by 3. Lewd Companies Indeed the way not to be struck with those is to fence against these For they will both instill the one and induce the other That as they are Schools of Prov. 4. 14 error and This as they be forges of wickednesse Those within these without both lead to Leudnesse According Hos 7. 6. 7. to the Dialls next us our Watches goe and wrong if they be set to wickednesse When David therefore would have his goe right he bids these be gone Away from me ye wicked for Psal 6. 8. I will Keep the Commandements of my God That is His Conscience cannot Prov. 1. 10 goe right if their Company be not away How should we goe right and be with Mat. 26. 69. them that are wrong Saint Peter though fully resolv'd and warn'd against it thus fell into his fearfull error The way of Christ lay not through the High-Priests hall nor will Devotion kindle but coole at such a fire A Spark amongst live-coales holds its heat amongst dead it dies My Soule If thou canst not decline evill livers delight not in them they will damp and Prov. 13. 20. Prov. 6. 27. Col. 3. 12. 1 Cor. 5. 10. Ephes 5. 11. Mat. 8. 28. Ephes 2. 1. Mazentius dead thy Sparke Civility with all is good Familiarity dangerous Thou maist live amonst Gods rebells thou must not love them If thou dost thou wilt in time be like them Dead as they are to all good As the living Bodies chain'd by the Tyrant to the Dead And Buried as they are in all ill As sound Bodies living with the Pestilent catch their death And without the Preservative of Gods great mercy and grace damn'd with them for both As those that are found with Rioters incurre the same Doome how Luc. 6. 25. Num. 16. 24. Apoc. 18. 4 dost thou feare their Condemnation and love their Company How canst thou laugh with them in this World with whom thou wouldst not houle in that other Why dost thou dread a Plaguie Body and sit with a Pestilent Psal 1. 4. Cathedra Pestilentiae 2 Cor. 11. 3. 2 Tim. 4. 3. Prov. 4. 15. Act. 2. 40. Soule Surely the Soule is better then thy Body and her Plague worse and that infection greater Read Lord have mercy on them writ on a Sinners Doore When thou dost see in their lives a Crosse to all Gods Commandements And my Soule say Lord have mercy on thee for dareing so much in Spirituall dangers and Lord have mercy on thee that thou doe not further dare so much Shun profane Companies And as not goe the way with these So doe not give way to 4. Vaine Scruples My Soule Two things God desires Thy Joy in his Service and His Comfort in thy Life The Devill a friend to neither seekes to rob thee of both And thy Scruples are his Theeves If they overtake and overcome thee they will bind thee from the One and beat thee out of the other Taking both thy heart from all Duty and all joy from thy heart Believe it they will give thy Spirit no Freedome and thy Conscience no rest For when thou shouldst be doing good thou wilt be disputing it when at Gods work questioning thy Warrant when acting and waiting on his Service entertaining arguments about it Thus when others are well on their journey thou art quarrelling thy Passe and dost either with Balaams asse stand Judg. 22. 27. Exod. 14 and not move at all or with Pharaohs Chariots drive on heavily And no wonder for the Wheels are of The minde becomes darke the heart dull the Spirit dead the Conscience dared nothing but weaknesse and wavering and trembling and chilnesse and confusion in the powers of action and so either none at all or a stupid trepid troubled motion These be the first fruits of thy Scruples fetters and Snares And what then the Second but Heart-gaules and Gripes They will beat thee till they leave not one sound part of comfort in thee Scourge thee with thoughts Saw thee with doubts Rack thee with feares Torture thee with perplexities till thou hast neither joy of Duty nor Life Leaving thee in a labyrinth of woe dolefull dismall full of nothing but Damps of joy Dumps of Spirit and Distresses of Conscience And here My Soule Take view and heed of the Devils boundless craft 1 Pet. 5. 8. and rage When he cannot make thee quick to ill he will make thee dead to goodnesse If not dissolute irresolute If not Debauch'd for Hell Distracted Heaven-ward If loose of life then Conscience it selfe is a Scruple if strict then every Scruple is a Conscience First he would have thee have no conscience and if not It to be all Scruple With the profane even Carefull Piety goes for Holy lunacy and Motions of holy Spirit for fits of Ghostly Phrensie But to the Religious he perswades what he can what they doe and are all to be profane So when he cannot make our hearts hard as flint to bad purposes he makes them weak as water to better And this is the Malice of the Devill When he cannot have us in Hel to have it in us To Torture us with our Scruples when he cannot with his Torments Now to have us without the Comfort of Heaven because not ever without the joyes of it He would have all like himselfe if they will not goe to it carry Hell with them But Dear Soul do thou defeat his 2 Cor. 2. 12 Devices A Scrupulous Conscience is as unsafe as sad Thy Scruples as they are thy Clogs and Rods so they will be his Skrewes if they continue so Skrewes to winde thy thoughts up through doubts and feares to the utmost pin of Despaire and either leave thee there or let thee downe againe to as ill though a more merry Pin of thy first estate in Presumption They will hoist thee up from Atheisme till they have thee to Superstition and then let thee fall to Atheisme againe So niceness of life ends often in retchlesnesse of Conversation When Satan cannot make our hearts tough enough he makes them tender too much and from that excesse brings them
State his Palace is an Inne His bed a Manger His Throne a Cratch His Canopy none but Webbs which Spiders spin him Is it for strength then the Oxe is better For Beauty He lies in Soile and dust For wit It falls down at his feet Lo whom a Star and Angels Mat. 2. 11. Mat. 2. 2. Luc. 2. 8 9 2 Cor. 8. 9 and Sages proclaim Lord King of Heaven and Earth he is born thus poor that thou shouldst not be proud 2. His life is like his Birth to kill thy Covetousnesse He had no Lands to Lord but to walk in No Mounts to climb but to kneel on Mount Olivet Luc. 22. 39. Mat. 14. 13. 19. was his Closet and the Desert his House His Table the Grasse no Covering but Heaven His Provisions not the purchase of Monies but Miracles By them and Loanes he lives If he ride if he rest if he feast with his Friends Beast Bed Roome all are borrowed Birds and Beasts were provided Mat. 21. 3. Luk. 22. 11 better they had their Nests and Holes He not where to lay his Head Mat. 8. 20. Mat. 27. 60. Mat. 3. 16 17. Mat. 17. 5. Joh. 12. 29 Mat. 25. 14. 15. Luk. 16. 2. Nor House nor Tomb Dead or Living Not He He whom Heaven own'd by Voice and Signe for the Beloved Sonne of God the Lord of all would have nothing that thou shouldst not gape for much and Grasp at all Thou that by his favour dost borrow all of Gods and must account for all not laid out for him And can his Passion revive and lust live No for 3. His Death is the Crucifixion of lust a 1 Pet. 4. 1. 2. 24. Rom. 6. 16. Gal. 2. 20. It crucified him as the cause b Rom. 4. 25. 1 Pet. 2. 22 and thou must crucifie it c Gal. 5. 24 that 's the Consequent And as they him thou it that 's the Patterne d 2 Cor. 13. 4. And as he it so thou that 's the Power e Rom. 6. 11. Come lustfull thoughts Clap his thorns to thy Head Rise wanton Lusts Thrust his Speare to thy heart Tempt fleshly Deeds Strike his nailes into thy hands and into thy feet at such Motions If to Drunkennesse put his Spunge to thy mouth If to Gluttony bring his Gall to thy Palate In short whatever the flesh lusts for for his Deaths sake denie it At Bed or Board let it no where Obtaine let his Crosse crucifie it Golgotha burie it Let it not live the Lord of Life suffered Death for it And for thee that thou shouldst not let it Live That thou die not for 1 Pet. 2. 14 Rom. 8. 13 ever for it Alas my Soul If thy lust struck him who had none of his own Dead how shouldst thou who hast all 2 Cor. 5. 21 Isa 53. 45. and of thy owne Live How not be Dâ—om'd and damn'd to eternall Death Gal. 5. 21. My Soule If thou sadly thinke of God in those foure and of Christ in these three these will be like wisdoms Seaven Prov. 9. 1. Pillers to build up thy heart to all Godlinesse And though such thoughts be the Epicures Dreads and Atheists follies Beleive thou God who loves not thy griefe and wisheth thee no better wisdome And despise not the Inspirations of the Almighty which are Gods Aids to advance that blessed worke My Soule Make much of them if they be Gods For 2. Holy Motions are great helps to Pietie Indeed when Holy Motions and Meditations meet as most what they doe as they make a blessed mixture and union of Holy Spirits Gods and mans So they give a great strength by the juncture and concurrence of two such Holy Hands in one and the same Soule mans and Gods And the worke will goe on that 's undertaken by such two 1 Joh. 4. 1. Ezek. 13. 3 Jer. 31. 33. Ezek. 11. 19. But My Soul It is as necessary as worthy thy knowledg to discern which be and which be not the Motions of the Holy Spirit For if another to it Delusion leads thee and if it guide thou wilt follow it The Tryall of Spirits is That is not Gods which is not Holy nor the Motions His which are not Heavenly For Gods Law is the way when his Spirit is the Guide Which did dictate and therefore will never drive Isa 8. 20. Joh. 16. 13 14 15. Gal. 1. 8. 2 Joh. 10. 2 Cor. 3. 6 from that way As being ever the same and never contrary to it selfe Even Gods Spirit in his Word makes this Tryall And when the Spirit is found Right make much of the Motions They are Rom. 8. 14 1 Cor. 11. 1. from an High my Soule Thou must not bring and bow them to thy Mind but it to them When God is leader thou must not goe before but keep the place of a follower And follow after in Gods name for it Leads ro Heaven It is no worse nor lesse A Messenger from it a Guide to it All good and regular Motion is from the first and Best Mover It is an Angell sent from Heaven for Mal. 2. 1. â— Angelus nuncius what 's that more then a Heavenly Messenger Take heed then Deare Soule Thou doe not entertaine bad and neglect good motions That 's to observe a Devill before an Angell Give not Audience to the Devils Messenger before Gods Embassadour That is to be tyed in too strict a league with Hell too loose with Heaven Beleive it there is as much difference betwixt a good and a bad Motion as a Cherub and a Fiend and betwixt their Isa 8. 19. entertainments as an Angels and a Devils And in their ends too For the one weighes to the Center below the other lifts up to the Circumference above A Seraphim to fire the heart and carry it up in the flame That is a Hellish Firebrand this the Heavenly Isa 6. 6. coale Thou art in some errour and the light of this is to lead thee right At a stand and coole in good and the heat of this is to waâ—me thee and lead thee on Under a fall of grace dead under the ashes of prevailing frailty 1 Thes 5. 19. And this is to quicken thy sparke and stir it up O my Soule then Kindle not the Hellish Quench not the Heavenly coale Quench not the Spirit Cast not water and Earth upon it Drown not the Motions in Sensuall and secular pleasures and affaires Thy heart is the hearth where it is to burne but if good acceptance and endeavours Ephes 4. 30. 2 Tim. 1. 6 doe not blow and stir it up it will goe out They make the Bellowes for this Holy fire O my Soule Have dread of this The Messenger oft refus'd will come Act. 13. 46. Luc. 13. 35. Cant. 5. 23 6 7. Rom. 1. 28 2 Thes 2. 3 1 Sam. 16. 14. Luc. 12. 3. 1 Tim. 4. 1. Luc. 11. 26. Apoc. 3. 10. no more
The Guide not followed will be gone The coale not kindled wil not warme And woe to thee if the good Spirit leave thee for then the Ill one will lead thee In stead of good Angels ill thoughts will haunt thee And thou knowest whither they goe whom he doth lead When God knockâ— at thy heart let him not stay at the doore when his Enemy at the first Motion is let in Doe not that for shame If so know that to keep out Gods Spirit is to shut dore on thy Blisse and doe not that for feare No My Soule In Prosperity or Adversity At thy Devotions or other occasions In Church or Closet By Day or night Well or Sick If thy minde be moved to some knowne good or against some evill God knocks doe thou open His Angel is at dore take him in His Spirit would enter bid him welcome Welcome blessed Spirit that Luc. 13. 36. Mat. 21. 19. comes to carry me to Heaven Welcome Holy Comforter that comest to keep me from Hell O come and never goe from me Holy Spirit of God My Soul thou hast seen what Heavenly Helpers Holy Meditations and Motions be Hear the God of all help and he will assure thee so If others Amos. 6. 3. put off the evil day it 's wisdome for thee to have it before thee If others Act. 24. 25 put by good motions it will be thy happinesse to entertaine them believe him who sayes both O that they were wise that they understood Deut. 32. 29. this that they would consider their latter end Wherefore Holy Brethren Partakers Heb. 3. 1. of the Heavenly calling consider the Apostle and High Priest of our Profession Christ Jesus For consider him that endured such Heb. 12. 3. contradiction of Sinners lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds And Behold I stand at the doore and knock Apoc. 3. 20. if any man heare my voyce and open the dore I will come to him and Sup with him and he with me The Summe of this Part is Good Meditations are great Nurses Psal 119. 15. Psal 1. 2. Gen. 24. 63. of Gods feare Serious thoughts of Death Judgement Heaven and Hell are Meditations good against all Sins in the World Sober Considerations of Christs Birth Life Death are destructive to Pride Avarice and Lust which Three make all Holy Motions of God great Aids to the Practice of Godlinesse How they may be known to be Gods What good offices they have and doe from him to us as His Messengers and guides for our best good Why and how to be entertain'd as sucâ— and how foule and fearfull it is to neglect good and embrace Ill Motions Saturday-Soliloquie Remedies of Humane Frailtie OR A Soliloquie shewing the Soul What Provisions of Grace and Mercy God hath made to support her weakness in the way of Piety MY Soul For all thy Cares 1. Part. and Helps thou wilt fail in Eph. 5. 17. 1 Pet. 5. 8. thy Perpetuall Service so long as Flesh and Devil cease not their Perpetuall Motion God Ez. 18. 23. Gal. 3. 11. Col. 2. 12. Rom. 6. 19. Jam. 2. 26. Psal 41. 4. therefore in tendernesse of mercy hath provided for thee Remedies of Grace Repentance that thou do not die Faith to make thee and it live And New Obedience to keep all alive Sin my Soul is ill humour to Heaven a disorder of Holy Spirit and just temper in thee For this Disease Repentance is Gods Remedy * Tert. de paenit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. And very sufficient to heal thee For it will Bleed a Act. 2. 37 thee in Contrition Vomit thee in Confession b Ezek. 18. 31. Orig. Purge thee by Conversion c 1 Cor. 5. 9. Sweat thee with Guilt d Act. 9. 10 Bath thee in Teares e Joel 2. 12. Diet thee from occasions of ill f 2 Cor. 7. 11. Cauterize the corrupt part with Threats g Jona 3. 4 5. and foment the weak with Promises h Joel 2. 13 And Exercise all in Almes i Dan. 4. 27. Fasts k Joel 2. 12 and Prayers l Luk. 18. 13. And of the healing vertues of all these Penitent Soules have had Blest Experiments For that Bleeding cured the Barbarous Jewes m Act. 2. 38. Vomiting David n 2 Sam. 12. 13. Purging Ephraim o Hos 14. 8 The Sweat did the Jailer good p Act. 16. 29. The Bath helpt Magdalen q Luk. 7. 38. The Cautery Saul r Act. 9. 16. Fomenting s Hos 6. 1 2. Israel The Exercise did Zacheus t Luk. 19. 8. Ahab u 1 King 21. 19. even the Publican w Luk. 18. 13. Ease O my Soul Admire and Adore that Great and Good Physitian that Isa 57. 18. Prescribes thee so faire and yet so Soveraigne Jer. 8. 6. Peccata commssa plangâ—re plangenda non committere a Medicine To Grieve thou hast done ill and desire thou maist doe better To be sorry for what was amisse and not doe again what will make thee Sorry When I have wandred to returne When I have been fool'd to Jer. 3. 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 3. 2. Joh. 12. 40 Isa 1. 16. Paenitens ferè innocens est Eccl. 7. 29. Hos 14. 4. Isa 1. 18. Luk. 15. 17 Ezek. 18. 30 31. Luk. 15. 22 24. 2 Cor. 7. 10 Luk. 4. 18. Act. 11. 18. grow wise When I am sick to be well When I am foul to wash When I cannot be a Saint as good as Adam was fully Innocent to be as well as Enoch may be truly Penitent Was ever Prescript so faire And yet my Soul this Heales Sin Guilt and Staine Returnes thee both to God and thy self Recovers both Fall and Wit Restores both Tainted Bloud and Spirit Reduces to a Paradise both of Joy and Innocence Saves thee from Death sets thee in Health Disposeth thee to long even everlasting life Can any Medicine be more Soveraigne Take it then my Soul if thou lovest thy self And how and when thy Physitian gives it Not half for he appoints the whole Nor this hereafter for he wills it Now To Grieve for Sin and do no more Joel 2. 12. is to see not to lose thy Sicknesse And to amend what is not first griev'd to recover before thou art Sick To be Compunct and not Confesse is to bleed inwardly To Confess but not be Contrite to Vomit wantonly To Confesse and Pro. 28. 13 not Amend to cast and lick up the Vomit To be Frighted for Sin and not 2 Pet. 2. 22 bettered is to Sweat and take cold Joh. 5. 14. after it To weep for it and commit it 2 Pet. 2. 22 is with the Sow to wash and wallow To Abstain occasions and not acts is to fast it into a better Stomack To be Threatned into Despaire is instead of Gen. 4. 13. Sin to burne thy self And
of Gods Spirit a that 's 2 Tim. 1. 19 the true Preaching of the Word Tit. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Neh. 8. 8. 2 Chrâ— 18. 21. 1 Tim. 4. 1 Joh. 4. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 1. 10 11. Mar. 4. 24. Apoc. 2. 11. Act. 17. 11 Jam. 1. 21. Act. 10. 33 Mat. 13. 22 Heb. 4. 2. Errour and Ill are from the Devill though out of a Pulpit And if thou take heed how thou hearest this and have care to harken to that with an humble honest Heart prepossest with neither Errour nor Lust thou canst not chuse but be of better life because well taught by Gods Word Nor wilt thou be worse for giving thy self to Read it For therefore it is Writing as wel as Word to have it in thy Eye But my Soul avoid extremities Theirs who forbid it as a Mote in the Mat. 22. 29. Peoples Eye And theirs who abuse it as Dust under their Foot What is Sacred must not be too Common and Deat 29. 9 2 Pet. 3. 16 Heb. 5. 12. Joh. 5. 39. 1 Joh. 5. 13 Gal. 3. 2. what is Secret must not be Enquired Mysteries are Labyrinths which every Foot may not must not Tread Necessaries every mind ought and may know If thou wouldst not lose thy self then walk not in the Woods but Plaines If thou wilt not drown thy 2 Pet. 1. 10 Heb. 5. 14. Pontifex â—nter DeuÌ„ homines â—ons cst â—ern self Foard the shallowes not the Deeps And if thou canst not give thy selfe take direction how and where to goe and walk And so thou maist advance much in all Holy wayes The Pavement to Heaven is made there by Gods Phil. 2. 16. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Act. 18. 26. Act. 16. 17. Hand and thy Foot will not goe more wrong because thy Eye sees the pavement Nay of that thou art more sure when thou dost Read then Hear Mans Breath comes in with Gods Word into 1 Joh. 4. 1. the Ear but Gods Pure Word and Spirit into the Eye Into the Eye yes and to the Heart too from it and to the Life from that For my Soul as many Saints have been made better so some have been made Saints by the meer Reading of the Word And the Desk as well as the Pulpit hath begot Converts And sure it is a good Nurse if a happy Mother of Spirituall life Tolle lege made Saint Augustine Saint Mat. 19. 2â— Athanas. And a Text read turn'd Saint Antony Angel My Soul I would not have thee make a Chapter keep thee from a Sermon nor a Sermon make thee slight a Chapter Use both right and thou wilt be much bettered by both And if with Eyes on Heaven and Knees on Earth * C. Boromaeus sic c. and Heart on Book thou dost at due times turne the Sacred Volumes thy Reading will be right Yea though leaves not inspiredly Sacred For when thy self readest Scriptures the flowers of Grace thou art the Bee that gettest the Hony by thy own Hand but in Good and Godly Bookes another hath Gathered and thou hast but to Eat the Hony Yea what is far sweeter and wholsomer to Holy and Heavenly Taste O my Soul be given to read Gods and Godly Comparate vobis Biblia animae pharmaca Chrys Bookes Good Aire breeds good Spirit and Gods Aire Holy Breath Where Flowers of Grace and Plants of Paradise grow as on Holy Grounds the Aire is good Nor is it ill to smell a Posie made of no worse Flowers Gods Bible is a Garden a good Book a Posie Take pleasure then and take Psal 1. 2. profit in both And so thou wilt if thou dost digest what thou dost see and hear For my Soul they bring meat into thy Mouth but that doth Prepare 1 Pet. 2. 2. and Distribute it to thy Nourishment They Convey Gods Word to the Dores Rom. 6. 17. Col. 3. 16. of thy House but thou must not let it lie there but lodge it in thy Heart and make it Commander of thy life And to entertain and observe it so is the work which without serious and strong Resolutions will never be done the proper act of The Heart It must resolve upon action for which thou seest reason and determine a Practice when it knowes Gods Will Act. 10. 30. and Word The Counsels of the minde do nothing without the Decrees of the wil. And Ear and Eye can do no more in the Word of God but furnish the minde with good Counsels Execution must come from the Heart the Great Governour of the little world of Man To it therefore is given the power to make such Decrees And my Soul there is nothing which thou canst not doe by virtue of that power It s wonderful what hath been done by a Romane Resolution Miraculous if any thing were impossible to a Christian not only to Scaevola Dan. 3. 28 burne the Hand and not shrink but to set the Body on flames and Smile at it And much more to quench the fire of burning lusts Resolutions are Cords if then weake Temptation if Num. 30. 13. Judg. 15. 13 strong as Sampson breaks them like Tow. But if well twist and made will bind and hold any though never so strong It did David to a Regular life Psal 119 116. to Gods Law because so stedfastly purposed Joshua from strange Gods The Jos 24. 15 Dan. 3. 28 Three Children from the Image-worship There is no good or ill which thou maist not doe or shun if thou resolve for or against it Have not some suffered their Bodies to be Cut their Limbs to be sawne their Throats to be parcht with thirst and their Stomacks Gnawn with hunger when no meanes else were left for saving of their Lives And might not the Intemperate doe as much for Sobriety and Abstinence and the Incontinent against his lusts if they did see and resolve this as necessary to save their Souls Vowes my Soul may be snares Eccles 5. 2 if not considerately made but Holy Purposes are innocent Bonds into which thou maist more commonly enter And bind thy self to better behaviour with them as wel as vowes in Psal 76. 11 Deut. 12. 11. some cases with both And surely God hath given thee that power of will and thy will that power that thou shouldst as a man made for God move by it to Godlinesse and if dull quicken thy self and strengthen it more fastly and firmly to move But when so set it must goe Thou sal 66. 12 sal 116. 6. must determine and doe Put to Practice what thou hast in Purpose and what thy heart doth resolve that must be done by thy Hand My Soul Experiments confirme Precepts much and want of good Attempts makes brave Exploits be thought impossible and left when else they might be done Of the Christian it is most true what glorious Conquests might be got over our lusts were they not thought Invincible To what
heights of Holy Perfection might Flesh and Blood attain were it not believ'd impossible And why Practise begets experience and that a mighty strength Thus doth he come to draw the strongest So the Martyr puts his finger into the Candle after his Body in the Fire Acts. Mon. 1 John 2. 12 13. bow that began with a weaker and carry an Oxe at last that hath it of a Calf on his shoulders Thou hast as many Presidents for this as there be Great Saints which from an Infancy of goodnesse have grown by degrees to be fo Great Even the Gyants of grace were once no taller then Dwarfes in goodnesse Say not then My Soul there 's a Lyon in the way Thy Phansie is the Lyon Enter goe Pro. 22. 13 on in the wayes of God thou shalt finde the Lyon slaine and hony in the Judg. 14. 1 Belly of the Lyon Even what was bitter will be sweet what was hard will be easie what was terrible will be amiable what was strange familiar to Phil. 3. 7 8. him that being well-resolv'd betakes himself to a good and righteous way But my Soul thou canst not stirre unlesse God strengthen pray then his Ability that thou maist goe on and let the hand have help from The Mouth To speak as it doth to Man for the Body so to God for thee for help If Psal 36. 9. Mat. 21. 22 1 Joh. 4. 21 Ezek. 31. 39. it speak from the Heart much may be done by the Mouth For as God is the Fountaine of Grace Prayer is the Bucket of the Well If then thou wouldst have it thou must down or rather since the Well is above up Joh. 14. 5. 1 Cor. 12. 3 Ezek. 36. 27. Rom. 8. 4. 11. 14. Ezek. 16. 37. Luk. 11. 13. with the Bucket My Soul thou canst no more do right without Gods Spirit then the Body live without thine If that Holy Spirit lead thee thou wilt not goe wrong I will put my Spirit into you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my Judgements and doe them Lo there 's the Power to doe right And shall not your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those that ask it That 's the way to come by that power And if thou Isa 61. 3. Dan. 9. 9. Isa 38. 3. Dan. 9. 3. Psal 6. 8. dost for thy better speed and haste mix thy Prayers with ashes and teares and weep and fast for their better fervency thou wilt sooner get to the end of that way And if thou wilt for thy better progresse provide thy self with more strength and store be sure to be one at an Eucharist if it come fairly John 6. 57 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damasc Viaticum Joh. 6. 58. Jam. 5. 16. Luk. 18. 1. to thy hand For my Soul nothing doth more nourish Holy Spirit then an Eucharist The bread of life from Heaven that thou faint not in the way And then Prayers must prevail when we wax not weary and grow faint My Soul thou hast been taught many helpes to doe well but by two things wilt be Cautioned to doe yet better If thou look to thy Christian Credit and Innocence well To keep that without just blot this without greater guilt Lessons that are not commonly taught and therefore to be more Singularly learnt Impaire not thy Credit Encrease not thy guilt Watch against both with strict Conscience Such Holy Cautions help to Heaven much My Soule there is a Reputation 4. Division Phil. 4. 8. 3 Joh. 12. Christian and if thou value the worldly before life the Heavenly should be dearer It is when thou givest no just Scandall and appearest without due blame and blemish in the Eye of the world I say scandall that 's just for if the Offence be causlesse in thee it s taken not given And I say appearing without blemish for thou must look as that it be not that it doe not appear Abstain from all appearance of Evill 1 Thes 5. 22. Thy Conversation must have neither ill Heart nor Face Nor ill Prospect for 1 Cor. 10. 32. Heaven nor Aspect to Earth Give no offence to any That is hurt not an Honest Eye with a Glass of foul behaviour Heb. 12. 13 stumble not an upright foot with a visible block of offence Providing for honest 2 Cor. 6. 3 2 Cor. 8. 21 Rom. 12. 17. Mat. 18. 16 things not onely in the sight of the Lord but in the sight of men And of the Good above all For better a Milstone tyed about thy Neck and thou throwne into the bottome of the Sea then offend one of those little ones What ever they Seeme thy Sin is great O then My Soule shall they be scandalized Phil. 1. 27. Phil. 4. 8. Ephes 4. 1. Col. 1. 10. Rom. 15. 2 rather then great ones bad ones be offended This will hang about thy neck a guilt heavier then a Milstone Have Sense then as of thy earthly of thy Christian Honour my Soule Say doe nothing unworthy that Noblenesse thy Goodnesse Have care as of thy Selfe of anothers Satisfaction and wound no more thy Credit then thy Conscience * Qui conscientiam negligit crudelis est in seipsum qui famam negligit crudelis in proximum Aug. Let not thy Brothers heart more then thy owne take thy wound Ill looks wound good hearts and if they infect kill like the Basiliske A good name is a pretious oyntment but an ill a Deadly Perfume And if thy Eccles 7. 1 Carriage want a good Countenance that 's a dead fly and makes it ill Away then with an Atheists heart and looke Away with unchast deeds and shewes Away with Prophane thoughts and Signes Away with an Epicures Spirit and Habit Away with a liars Soule and Suspition What is ill or looks ill doe all away For Beleive it The way for thee to goe to heaven is not to lay a stumbling-block in thy Rom. 14. 13. Psal 2. 15. Heb. 3. 12. 13. 2 Thes 3. 15. Gal. 6. 1. 2 Sam. 9. 12. Brothers way Build him a Bridge by thy good Example and by thy Counsell lead and help him over but doe not block up and Barricado his passage and by an ill Spectacle of Life like Amasiahs bloudy corps stop his better course Thou canst not bring others on their way and thy selfe be out for heaven No but Company comming Jam. 5. 19. 20. Dan. 12. 3. after thee thou wilt be let sooner and higher in Most doe not mind this but doe thou my Soul And Keep clear of others Guilts Be sure to mind that The reason is as great as thine and their Salvation My Soule Is not thy owne Proper guilt great enough that thou must pile on heaps of other mens to make the Psal 38. 8. fire greater Davids Sins went over his head and were a burden too heavy for him to beare My Soule Dost thou not shrinke at this He that
from our sinnes in his owne Blood and of vassals and slaves of Satan hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father To him be Glory and Dominion and therefore from us Duty and Obedience for ever and ever Amen 3. So then My Soule Take them And Canst thou valew them enough Never too much Thy Bodies Health is worth all the World but thy owne worth more then Ten Thousands of Worlds Ten Millions of Bodies It 's worth as much as Salvation as Eternity comes to beyond all valew As much as thy Christ thy Saviour thy God is worth above Myriads of Salvation For Repentance Recovers thy Sickness * Gods salve for every sore Latimer Tit. 1. 13. Col. 1. 11. Joh. 3. 15. Act. 16. 31 Faith sets thee Sound Obedience keeps thee strong all give a state of good and perfect health and so save from death And my Soule valew faith above all So God doth and therfore ascribes thy health to it alone to shew it the Cheife And so it is Repentance is but a Preparative to it Obedience a Preservative of it Faith is the Royall Grace Repentance the Latimer Ser. 7. before K. Ed Vsher that goes before Obedience that bears up the Train after it The Queen Mother of this the Mistresse to that Regent to both O My Soule The Cordiall is above all because Christ is all in all The Quintessence of Heavenly vertue Col. 3. 11. the Elixar of all Grace the very Spâ—rit of Goodnesse and the perfection of all Col. 2. 9. Eph. 1. 23. Col. 1. 15. Perfections both in Heaven and Earth Beare no Heart in thy Body then not this in thy heart O let that pretious Viall never want this Holy Essence Count worldly good grease to this Oyle All Delights death to this Glad Psal 4. 6. Phil. 3. 8. Col. 1. 27. Apoc. 2. 10 Apoc. 3. 11 nesse All Honours shames to this Glory Keep thy Christ as thy Crowne thy Life as the Crowne of Life thy Immortall Crown and Keep thy Faith as Him for thou hast and holdest Him in it Keep Him as thy Saviour and it as thy Salvation Him as thine Heb. 10 19 1 Pet. 1. 3 4 Eph. 2. 18. Jam. 3. 2. Inheritance and this as thine Interest Him as the onely Sanctuary of a troubled Spirit and this as the only Accesse to Him If Defects be in thy Repentance Errors in thy Obedience as there may there will be in both fly by Faith unto thy Sanctuary Hide thy Selfe in his wounds Hold by the Hornes of the Altar Creep under his wings Die within his Armes goe run from the Pursuer of blood to this Heb. 3. 18. 19. City of Refuge Enter in by thy Faith And My Soul Keep the viall clean that the Elixar goe not out Wash it with Repentance and Dry it with Obedience that it be so kept let them doe that Duty to it that doth so much good and help for them And then My Soul thou shalt be healthy and strong and happy in them all Of old all was not enough for thy health but Christ hath Mediated thy Covenant thus New And to doe this Heb. 8. 6. Duty God for his sake will give thee Ability Ability of Grace to doe him acceptable Service Take his Word for it he Promiseth he will And his Command with it for he Saies thou must A New heart will I give you and a Ezek. 36. 26. new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart and give you a heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and you shall keep my judgements to doe them Therefore saith the Lord God Repent Ezek. 18. 31 32. and turne your Selves from all your transgressions So iniquity shall not be your ruine Cast away all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new Spirit For will yee die O House of Israel For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live The Summe of this Soliloquie God hath appointed Remedies against our failings in His Service 2. Repentance is the Sinners first Remedie And a most faire and Soveraigne Remedie Experiments of it Taking it by Halves or Deferring it too long makes it not to be Saving To Delay it to future is dangerous till death Desperate 2. Faith is a Sinners Cordiall Most pretious because Christ is cheife yea onely Ingredient of it and taken by it Excellent Spirits begot by the Cordiall of true faith Six counterfeits of faith not truly cordiall 3. Obedience in the New Covenant the Souls Preservative in â—ealth Why it is called New and how it is Preservative of it Some take Poison instead of this Preservative The Proofs of these three Remedies and Prescripts how and when to take them and Pretiousnesse of all and of Faith in Cheife Helps to Heaven and Happinesse OR A Soliloquie acquainting the Soul with such Reliefs and Aids as will facilitate and further her Course and Progresse in the wayes of Godlinesse The second Part. Holy Actions and Cautions great Assistants to Piety MY Soul If good Meditations 3. Division and Motions live in thee the mind may do much But when all that is done there must be more And thy Ear Eye Heart Hand Mouth every one must doe his Part Hear Read Resolve Practice Pray all must be in Action And Conscience must keep a particular watch too and have some things in Holy Caution This will compleat all And the Good is not meane which may be done by The Eare. For my Soul by this Dore Gods Act. 14. 2â— 16. 14. Joh. 3. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 2. Joh. 10. 27 Joh. 13. 17 Psal 109. 105. Jer. 23. 29. 2 Cor. 4. 45. Luk. 24 42. 2 Tim. 4. 2 3. 16. Luk. 11. 28. Heb. 5. 11. Isa 28. 10. Heb. 6. 1 2 Heb. 4. 12. Word is received in Baptisme first sets thee Preaching keeps thee on thy feet For what are they but to know and do And in Gods Word is both light and heat and both are Communicated by good Preaching And observe that my Soul to avoid common Errour The work of it is both on minde and heart to informe and enflame Til thou dost as well doe good as know it the Preacher hath not done his nor thou thy work He may tell thee that in an hour which he can scarce teach thee to doe in a life The Principles of Christianity are easie but the Practise is hard And Efficacy as well as Instruction is the work of the Word Even the Preached Word So it be duly Preached For that my Soul thou shalt doe well to eye as another prevailing but most pestilent error The Pulpit doth not make the Word nor Speaking from it Preaching But a Reverend handling of Holy Scripture according to the Truth of Gods Sense and to the aimes