doe faithfully call and trust on thee Wee most miserable and wretched sinners doe confesse vnto thee against our selues to our owne shame and to thy glory that wee were borne and conceiued in sinne that wee haue liued and continued in sinne that our whole liues haue beene nothing else but a heaping vp of sinne and iniquity against thy Holy and Heauenly Maiestie That there is no sinne in his owne nature so heynous or to thee so displeasing but either wee haue committed or else wee haue a pronenesse to commit the same The sinnes of our youth of our riper age and of our later euen of these last time shaue flowed one vpon another and haue polluted our soules defiled our bodies and displeased thy Maiestie so that there is nothing due vnto vs if thou shouldst deale with vs according to our deserts but death and destruction in this life Hell and perdition in the life to come Whither then should we flie for succour and reliefe If we goe vnto Man his breath is in his nostrils that perishing he perisheth If wee goe vnto Angels or to any power in Heauen they haue no power but what they receiueâ— from thee We come therefore vnto thee whose mercy is aboue all thy workes beseeching thee in the multitude of thy mercies to haue compassion on vs. And in that loue which thou shewedst vnto Mankind in sending thy Son to suffer for vs and to saue vs sinners that thou wouldst by his blood death and suffering wash away our sinnes And since thou hast sent him to Redeeme vs suffer vs not to be destroyed O Lord GOD graunt vs penitence and true repentance for our sins past watchfulnesse ouer all our wayes for time to come Care to keepe thy Comman dements strength to withstand the temptations of Satan Humility of heart patience in the times of tryall and aduersitie Constancy in calling vpon thee Feruency in praier Faith in thy promises Assurance of thy loue Assistance in Temptations Deliuerance from dangers of soule and body The right and Sanctified vse of thy creatures Charitie towards our neighbors and contentednes with our estates To this end gracious God take from vs all those things that take vs from thee and giue vs those graces that may make vs to loue thee and declare vs to be intirely beloued of thee Take from vs hardnesse of heart dulnesse and slownes in comming to thy seruice Neglect of those Holy duties thou requirest vs to doe Contempt of thy Commaundements Misbeliefe Vnbeliefe Despaire and doubting of thy mercy Distrust of thy prouidence Giue vs aboue all things Faith stedfaâ—â—ly to beleeue in thee feruour in thy seruice faithfulnesse in maintenance of thy trueth courage to lay downe our liues for the continuance of thy glorious Gospell thankefulnesse for all thy vnspeakable mercies a loue of those that serue thee in sin cerity of heart Liberalitie according to our abilities to those that are in distresse and danger for doing that they ought to do And when thou hast fitted vs for thy seruice and furnished our hearts with thy good graces then send vs the ioy of thy Holy Spirit a detestation of our former euill courses delight in keeping thy Lawes a desire to bee dissolued in thy good appointed time a meditation of our fraile liues and a preparation for our vncertaine deaths And now O blessed Lord wee pray not for our selues alone here present but for thy despised dispersed and distressed flocke throgh the face of the earth It is a little flocke O Lord increase it It is dispersed O Lord gather theÌ„ together into thy fold It is despised distressed Lord succour defend support them Let not the wild Boares destroy thy Vineyard nor the fat Bulles of Basan inuiroÌ„ and ouerwhelme thy chosen ones those that loue thy trueth Thou hast heretofore hedged thy Syon Thou hast mightily and miraculously defended thy chosen Israel Thy hand is not shortned thy power is still the same Let not therefore those that loue not thy trueth or them that loue it say where is now their God Be mercifull to our soueraign to all the Royall Progeny Gouerne the Gouernours of this Land Giue them true wisdome sincere vncorrupt and couragious hearts Innoble the true Nobility with Loyaltie to their Prince and State the leading of a good life and the longing for a better Inspire the Clergie with care and diligence to discharge their duties in their seuerall places Make the Commons of this Kingdome more iust more holy more conscionable in their courses more carefull of the common safety and prosperity of the publike State touch vs all with a zeale of thy feruice and truth an inward reuerence of thy most holy Maiestie a remorse of our former irreligious life That so when wee shall part from this place wee may part from our sinnes but not from sorrow for hauing committed them but may leaue them and leade a better life till wee bee brought from death to that life where sorrow and sin raigneth not where death hath no dominion and where complaints controuersies are not known but haue their ende This life good Lord graunt vs to leade in thy feare and in the ende to inioy that life where ioyes doe last for euer by the mercies of thee our Lord and onely Sauiour Amen A Prayer against Pride anger and Enuy. O LORD God who seest and searchest the secrets of all mens hearts Thou that knowest how subiect I am to Pride Anger and Enuie My heart good Lord is puffed vp with pride it swess with selfe conceipt vaine glory and ostentation I take too much pride of those parts of my Bodie as beautie strength and stature and make my selfe beleeue they are much more faire and fashionable then indeede they are So am I efflated and blowne vp like a bladder with conceit of mine owne knowledg wit vnderstanding and skill making them greater and more goodly vnto my selfe then they are or can bee These foule faults gracious God sometimes I finde in my selfe but nothing so often as I commit them And though now I confesse it yet I haue no power of my selfe to forsake this sinne by which our first Parents fell out of Paradise and we his sinnefull Progeny follow the same steppes and are ready thereby to runne headlong vnto Hell O yet most merciful father clense me from this corruption cure me and I shal be cleane graunt me a lowly penitent and humble heart Teach me to thinke worse of my selfe for my sins then of other men whose faults I know not that I may not thinke so well of my selfe to contemne others O teach me to learne meckenesse of thee my Sauiour who in thy humanitie hast ledde vs to the way of humblenes and meeknesse both of thy precepts and practise Thou hast said learne of me for I am meeke O sweet Sauiour what precept could bee sweeter better or what Example could bee more Holy and perfect If Lucifer an Angel of Heauen could
but that our faith may bee firme our hope assured and our confidence in thee alwaies constant to expect the good pleasure in performance of thy gracious promises but that I may loue and honour thee aboue and more then all creatures which are corruptible the workemanship of thy hands and which as they haue their being from thee so they can not bee at all or subsist without thy sustentation As thou art O Lord graunt that wee may honour thee as thou art our God that wee may praise thee World without end Amen Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me THe Heathen O LORD GOD euerlasting giue thy glory vnto stickes stones and other imaginary idle vaine and euill things The Infidels and vnbeleeuers doe either openly or secretly deny thy Deitie and diuine incomprehensible Majestie The ignorant and evill instructed people though they by custome professe somewhat of thy seruice and power yet they know not what it is but either through euill instruction or for want of instruction know not or care not how to keepe thy Commandements O Lord teach them that beleeue amisse the wayes of truth and to amend their errors those that beleeue not touch their hearts make them to tremble at thy terrors and diuine Iustice which yet they feele not and so to entertaine Faith that their soules may be saued Teach vs that professe thy truth to practise it That we may haue none other Gods but thee the True and onely Euerliuing GOD There is none other but onely thou that art good and goodnesse it selfe How then shall wee stand in iudgement before thee who preferre and accompt any any created thing before or in comparison of thee O let our knees and hearts bow downe before thee alone with faith with feare and with acknowledgement Then we shall haue none other Gods but thee neither follow our owne fantasies nor the corrupt doctrine of such as misleade others Thou shalt not make vnto thy selfe the Image or likenesse of any thing in Heauen above or in the Earth beneath or in the Waters vnder the Earth For c. AS thy power O LORD is greatest and thy preheminence aboue all thy Creatures in the heauens and in the earth So is thine Honour so precious that thou wouldest not haue it giuen to any thing in heauen or in in earth Yet good Lord our natures are so fraile and our soules so sinfull that wee fancie and frame vnto our selues imaginary worshippe of creatures in Heauen in earth and in the waters by their similitude and likenesse giuing or attributing thy glory to those glowormes being false and fading fantasies of our owne imaginations Since then most mighty Maker and Monarch of heauen and earth thou seest our frailtie to fall and the dishonor of thy Maiestie by false worship by framing the likenesse of any creature to worship O suffer vs not to make to set vp or to adore false Gods to fall before them to place any power or hope in them to trust to our owne policie or power to depend vpon earthly helpes ioyes or delights but to rely onely vpon thy strength good will and pleasure That nothing in heaven aboue in the earth beneath or in the waters vnder the earth may carry vs from thy true worship and seruice which is our safety and concernes thy glory to whom be giuen praise without ceasing and Honour without Superstition now and for euer Amen Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine O Lord GOD most mighty and merciful since thy maiestie is so high great and glorious how carefull should wee be to conserue a reuerend and awefull estimation of thy holy name as to honour it in thought word and deed But O most gracious God how carelesse are wee to keep thy holy Commandement How ready by irreligion to blaspheme thy holy Name with oathes curses execrations to abuse thy holy Attributes in forswearing and false accusing to name thee O our good GOD in our mouthes when wee haue thee not in our hearts to dissemble and make Hypocriticall profession of thy holy and true Religion without any care or conscience to put it in practise O most mightie and mercifull God we beseech thee to pardon and passe by our profanenesse in taking thy name in vaine our impiety in blaspheming thy holy name our rashnesse in naming thee without inward reuerence or remembrance of thy power honour and Maiestie our pronesse to mention thy Word Workes and Worship without due premed tation and consideration O teach vs when wee talke thinke or inuocate thy holy name to doe it with conscience faith and seare when we thinke on it to cogitate and call to memory that wee are in thy presence to beleeue that wee are vnder thy power and subiect to thy punishment Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath Day sixe dayes c. SInce thou most glorious God by thine omnipotent power hast created this World and by thy providence for a perpetuall memoriall of this thy most wonderfull Worke hast or dained a Sabbath or seaueth day of rest to bee celebrated and set apart for thy Seruice In which wee should be free from seruile workes and worldly cares O LORD therefore sanctifie vs and so prepare our heartes for this thy seruice that we may make a conscience of performing this thy Precept For this purpose Let vs bee carefull to keepe thy Sabbaothes in publique in the Congregation and Assembly of thy Seruants by Prayer prayses and hearing of thy Word In priuate by Preparation Meditation Conference Consideration of thy Clemencie and Workes of Creation and Preseruation as in deeds of Charitie Mercie and Compassion to the needy For this ende good and gracious GOD fitte and furnish our hearts our wits and our vnderstandings with Zeale Knowledge and Conscience to shake off on this thy holy Sabbaths sloth and slownes to come vnto thine Assemblies and to exercise these religious Duties to cast away worldly cares bodily labours except such as are for necessitie for present preseruation of things ready to perish which cannot bee otherwise preuented or longer deferred and of that which may with most Moderation set forward the religious Exercises and holy Duties of that Day These Graces graunt vs Amen Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy c. O Lord God as thou art the Propagator and Protector of our soules to whom only we should giue diuine Honour so wouldst thou that we should giue to our naturall Parents reuerence obedience sustenance and faithfulnesse which in Iustice is due for the cause of our birth being education and maintenance by them And that we may doe this which thou good God requirest Wee beseech thee remoue from vs Pride selfe-conceite and selfe-loue neglect of our dutie to our Parents and Superiours impatience when they shall exercise authoritie inflict punishment or demaund those things to bee done which we doe dislike or not desire Hardnesse of heart when they stand in neede of our helpe
the Lords Prayer 1 One intire Prayer framed on all the Lords prayer 45 Seuerall Prayers on the Decalogue or Tenne Commandements 57 Short Meditations for a Christian man to make for the examination of himselfe his conscience course of life 112 A Prayer for the performance of those points 119 The differences in Deuotion and exercises of Religion betwixt the Protestants and Koman Catholiques 124 A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Kings Maiestie his dominions and subiects 142 A Prayer for our afflicted Brethron the Protestants beyond the Seas 149 A Prayer to be vsed on the Sabbath day 156 A Prayer in the time of trouble and affliction 160 A Prayer when publike calamities apprâ—â—â—â— or are doubted 164 A Prayer against the raigning sinnes that a man findes to remaine in himselfe 174 A Prayer necessary to be vsed often 179 A Prayer against pride anger and Enuy. 193 A Prayer after deliuery from sickenes and danger of death 203 A Prayer for the maintenance of Zeale Certaine short Prayers and Meditations vpon the Lords Prayer Our Father which art in Heauen Hallowed be thy Name O Lord God most high â—â—uenly 〈◊〉 hou art our Father by creation Wee are thy Children by Adoption What an honour and happinesse is it to vs miserable Men that thou our mighty God vouchsafest to accept and call vs thy Children Hauing Elected vs thou hast giuen vs a great a glorious and an euerlasting Inheritance Hauing created vs of nothing thou hast yet made vâ—â— Heires yea Possessorâ— of thore then earthly euen heauenly endowments Our earthly mould and our carthly mindes only keepe vs from this heauenly possession Thy mercifull and powerfull prouidence hath prouided it our finnefull and corrupt nature keepes vs from it Thou O gracious Father hast giuen vs the earth and al things in this world to gouerne that we might make vse of it for thy seruice and for our owne sustenance But the louing of this earth and the longing after earthly things keepes vs from aspiring and attaining to thy heauenly Inheritance If as sonnes heere on earth weeâ— could seeke the glory of thee our Fatherâ— in heauen wee should sooner and betteâ— obteine the blessings both of Earth and Heauen If we theâ— could consider wherefore thou hast choseâ— vs for thy children and so shew our selueâ— obedient children iâ— keeping thy heauonlâ— Commandement wâ— should not only find comfort in our owne soules and consciences shunne thy wrath and the shipwrake of our soules enioy thy blessings and avoide thy curses but bee made partakers of that patrimony which thou hast prouided for thine elect children But alas most gracious Father wee make our selues by our dayly and continuall sinnes vnworthy to be called thy sons and most vnworthy to receiue the inheritaÌ„ce of thy children Yet thou hast sent thy only begotten Sonne to suffer death for our sinnes to restore vs thy adopted Sonnes to the inheritance which wee by our fallings and transgressions had forfeited yea to a farre more excellent and heauenly inheritance And yet as disobedient children wee haue againe and againe reuolted from thee as Prodigall Sonnes mis-spent that Patrimony thou hast giuen vs wasted in luxury and lust haue beene forced to feede on huskes after wee haue followed sinne and Satan And that which is worse by our long and obdurated sinnes wee doe as much as in vs lyeth crucifie the Lord of life our elder Brother thy best beloued Son whom thou hast sent and we haue sold him by our mis-beliefes and euill-liuing As Iudas sold him to the Iewes for a fewe Talents or pieces of siluer Thus wee of Children become Rebels and of Freeborne made our selus slaues Yet most mercifull Father fince by thy owne choisethou hast called vs to bee thy Children Haue compassion vpon thy weake fraile and wandring Children bring vs backe from the by-pathes wherein wee haue gone astray Restore vs to innocency and to thy fauour Renewe in vs right spirits Mollifie our stony hearts and giue vs fleshy hearts Set thy feare before our eyes so wee shall by thy strength honour thee Our Father which art in Heauen So wee by thy helpe shall hallow and honour thy hallowed and euer honoured Name Let vs not dishonour thee by cursing swearing or blasphemy Thy Name is as thou art great and glorious It is holy as thou art We cannot hallow it except thou make vs holy who of our selues are most vnholy O sanctifie vs thy Children that wee may hallow thee our Father vpon earth and in heauen with Halleluiahs praise and glory for euer euer Amen Thy Kingdome come THy kingdome O Lord is an euerlasting Kingdome and thy Dominion endureth throughout all ages The earth is thy footstoole thou fittest in the highest Heauen and the Scepter of thy power stretcheth ouer all the earth All things with thee are present as well that is past as that is to come And yet wee poore sinners who stand still in thy presence doe not as wee should seeke thy kingdome that it should come vnto vs or that wee by Faith and Repentance should come vnto thee that wee might inioy thy kingdome We seeke not thy kingdome in thy word to doe thy will we seeke it not in thy workes to glorifie thee our Lord Maker Thou excellest in eminence whereby thy kingdome in heauen and earth is gouerned Yet the kings of the earth conspire against thee and thine Anoynted O make them yet to feele thy high and heauy hand that they may seeke thee and shun the suppression of thy truth Church and people which is a great part of thy kingdom here on earth Thy flock and fold of thy militant Church is heere on earth gather them together shield and shelter them by thy out-stretched Arme that they may make thy kingdome known to be as it is great and glorious O suffer not the sufferings of thy Saints still to continue lest the enemies of thy kingdom grow more proud and presumptuous Thou in thy eternall wisdome and counsell considerest that the chosen children of thy kingdome must be as gold purified in the fire of affliction that so they may manifest the glory of thy kingdome â—y prayers persecutiâ—on patience and deliâ—erance Yet the enemies of thy trueth who seeke their owne glorie by thy dishoâ—our tread downe â—hy vineyard to the ende it may bring forth no more fruit But thy Kingdome â—annot bee destroyed â—hough the members â—hereof may for the â—ime bee defaced Thou canst build vp â—he ruines when man â—annot restore it Shew thy selfe a Defender as thou art a Builder of thine owne Kingdome in the Church and Common weale Shew vs the vvay vnto thy Kingdome Teach vs the trueth teach vs to preserue it and to preferre it as a pillar of thy Kingdome before the safegard of our owne liues So shall thy Kingdome of thy grace come and bee conserued by vs that we may come vnto thy Kingdome of Glorie Thy Son our Sauiour said His Kingdome
read thy Word to heare it where it is preached to come vnto thy Congregations and where thy word is not preached to vse all the good meanes wee may for maintenance and increase of knowledge and of conscience by praying reading meditating and conference To this end good Lord teach vs to cast away as all seruile workes so sloth euill and idle company-keeping prophane speeches with other euill actions and thoughts that may either draw vs from our Christian dueties offend thy diuine Maiestie or giue euill example vnto others Make our hearts and Consciences cleane our coÌ„ferences words and workes holy and conuersation vpright and pure So beginning and continuing in thy seruice this day in such sort as thou requirest wee may not onely sanctifie this but all the rest of thy Sabbaths during the remayne of our dayes heere vpon earth vntill wee come to that Sabbath of Sabbaths that eternall rest reioycing and praysing of thy Holy and Blessed Name in the highest Heauens wherein grant vs the assistance of thy holy Spirit and the aide of thy Sonne our Sauiour Christ Iesus Amen A Prayer in the time of trouble and affliction O LORD our God great are our sins and heauie are our visitations yet our chastisments are nothing answerable to our corruption wee haue sinned much and thou hast suffered vs long yet though our sinnes be as redde as scarlet thou hast said and we beleeue that thou wilt make them as white as snow Our sinnes do fester through our owne Corruptions cleanse them O thou the soueraigne sole phisitian of our soules Since thou art pleased to purge vs with some bitter pills that vrge vs to sweat and groane yet more for worldly matters then for the offence of thy diuine Maiestie Make vs therefore first sensible of our sinnes and sorowfull for them And when thou hast purged vs take away thy punishments Cure first our soules then make our bodies and estates sound and safe Yet againe and againe bring vs backe to consider and see from whence all our calamities doe come Deliuer vs if it bee thy blessed will from present and ensuing dangers or else graunt vs patience to vndergoe whatsoeuer thy good pleasure shal be to lay vpon vs Renew vs and then restore vs to thy wonted fauour not for our merits but for the merites and mercies of thy beloued Sonne and our blessed Sauiour Amen A Prayer when publique Calamities approach or are doubted OOr sinnes O Lord haue drawne vpon vs thy heauy displeasure and greater punishments then yet we feele or feare for wee haue multiplied our offences and yet thou hast held backe thy punishing hand wee haue not been allured by thy merits though they be many nor admonished by thy chastisemeÌ„ts sent to draw vs vnto conformity But rather thy long suffering hath made vs more secure hard hearted and negligent This hath caused thee sometimes to send signes of thy fearefull wrath as sickenesse vnseasonable weather want of meanes to maintaine many who heretofore haue liued well Our brethren abroad professing the same Religion suffer many heauy pressuers and are in much perill wee at home though we haue long enioyed the liberty of exercising the Religion wee professe yet our coldnesse and carelessenes in practising besides our many other sins hath hindered the propagation of piety dishonored thy name and indangered the truth O Lord yet at length humble vs in the sight and sense of these our sins Teach vs to learne consider and remember that for such if not for lesse sinnes thou didst consume Sodom draw the deluge ouer the whole earth and destroy almost consume at an instant all the Creatures of the World Yet neither these examples nor our own chastisements haue preuailed to perswade vs vnto true humiliation repentance and amendment of life But now of late when thou hast sent signes in the ayre inundations of waters pestilence pouerty decay of trades and hast found amongst vs a decrease of desire to doe good a desire to deceiue pâ—ide of hart delicious and luxurious liuing periury and perfidious dealing profanation of thy Name Word and Sacraments So that there being little hope of better beliefe or of better liuing when thy sword of Iustice is ready to be drawne the light of trueth in some danger to be diminished and wee to receiue such punishments as we most iustly haue deserued Yet consider wee are the workemanship ordained for thy seruice And though the Axe should be put vnto the tree ready to out of our liues estates and sauing knowledge yet correct but doe not for thy mercies sake confound vs reforme but do not destroy vs Make vs yet new creatures O spare and deâ—iuer vs from the euill daies to come Thou desirest not the death of sinners but rather Conuersion Let vs yet liue to honor thee whom we haue dishonoâ—ed Though long peace and much plenty hath set vs aâ—â—eepe and prouoked vs to much pride and presumption yet let vs with Hezechiah turning to the wall and weeping be repriued from that sentence which our sinnes haue sent out against vs and let vs learne to serue thee and not Sathan So being preserued by thy mercy wee may yeeld Honour and praise to thy eternall Maiestie A Prayer against the raigning sins that a man findes to remaine in himselfe LOrd God how senselesse am I of mine owne sinnes that cannot see nor feele those I daily and continually commit Some are secret and concealed from my self which I know not or cannot conceiue And those though lesse haynous or at the least lesse vnderstood yet too heauy for me to beare Other greater and more grieuous by mee not acknowledged or not repented and amongst many more that I passe ouer without any examination of my selfe or repentance for them Those cleaue most to the corruptions of mine owne nature as pride selfe conceit and other sinnes whereto I am most subiect c. These presse mee most and others too much yet pardon mee O Lord pardon that is past purge me from them for time to come cleanse the corruptions of my nature cure the Contagion that comes by euill company and the inticements of others with whose fashions wits faces or flatteries wee are seduced And for mine owne inward concupiscense which easily sets it selfe on fire O Lord quench it with the cooling and comforting giftes of Grace sobrietie temperance and circumspection Bee thou most gracious God that good Samaritan to poure into my wounded soule the oyle of thy mercy that so these destroyers of my soule being by thee destroyed I may then surely say O Death where is thy sting O Hell where is thy victory and blesse thee who hast blessed mee with thine abundant mercies to whom bee praises and glorie for euer Amen A Prayer necessary to be vsed often O LORD God most mighty mercifull and iust who hast created all things of nothing only by thy power and word who hast preserued all that thou hast made and doest saue all those that