tibi Deus Gratias tibi vera una Trinitas una trina Veritas trina una Unitas Gratias tibi Deus Pater qui Filium tuum ostendisti mihi Doctorem dedisti O semper des in misericordiis antiquis Amen My heart is ready O Lord my heart is ready I will sing and give praise yea I will praise thee among the People and I will sing unto thee among the Nations O let thy Mercy which is great unto the heavensâ— and thy Truth which reacheth unto the clouds imbrace me and preserve me to thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen I will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works I will be glad and rejoyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy Name O thou most highest For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the Throne that judgest right Lord continue to be my defence against the oppressor and my refuge in due time of trouble that I may ever rejoyce in thy Salvation Iesus Christ. Amen My trust is in thee O God and my heart is joyful in thy salvation I will sing unto thee O Lord because thou hast dealt so lovingly with me yea I will praise thy Name O Lord most highest Amen O praise the Lord with me ye that fear him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation and my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear thee Amen What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit Shall the dust give thanks unto thee or shall it declare thy truth Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness therefore will I sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Amen I will alwaies give thanks unto thee O Lord thy praise shall ever be in my mouth My soul shall make her boast of thee O my God and the humble shall hear thereof and be glad For I sought thee O Lord and thou heardest me and didst deliver me out of all my fear even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Let my mouth be filled with praise and with thy glory every day Amen O Lord who is like unto thee For thou hast shewed me great troubles and adversitiesâ— but thou wilt I hope return and quicken me thou wilt return and take me out of this depth Amen I will thank thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for ever For great is thy mercy towards me and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost Hell O deliver it still for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I give thee humble and hearty thanks for the measure of knowledge which thou hast given me of thy truth for giving me a love to it and thy Church for quieting my soul in the midst of thy Churches distractions for the measure of rest and repose which thou hast given me in thee whereas no true content is found without thee Lord I give thee humble thanks likewise for the temporal blessings which thou hast heaped on me the favour of my Leige Lord and Soveraign the place to which thou hast raised me the means which thou hast given me to do good Lord I cannot name all thy blessings how shall I thank thee for them Lord I will thank thee for them by honouring thee in them O give a heart to desire all this and grace to perform it that my sins may be forgiven me and that I may be thine through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O praise the Lord for he is gracious O sing unto his Name for it is lovely I will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will worship towards thy holy Temple and praise thy Name and that because of thy loving kindness and truth for thou hast magnified thy Name and thy Word above all things Lord give me grace to obey thy Word and to honour thy Name for ever in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Pro Inimicis O Lord I beseech thee forgive mine enemies all their sins against thee and give me that measure of thy grace that for their hatred I may love them for their cursing I may bless them for their injury I may do them good and for their persecution I may pray for them Lord I pray for them forgive them for they know not what they do Amen Deus Pacis Charitatis da omnibus inimicis mihi pacem charitatem omniumque remissionem peccatorum meque ab eorum insidiis potenter eripe per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord consider mine Enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me Lord deliver me from them Amen Almighty God I humbly beâ—seech thee look upon the hearty deâ—ires of thy humble servant and stretch out the right hand of thy Majestie to be my defence against all mine Enemies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Be merciful unto me O God for mine Enemies would swallow me up and many they are which fight against me O thou most highest they gather together and keep themselves close they mark my steps because they lay wait for my soul. But when I was afraid I trusted in thee and when I cry then shall mine Enemies turn back This thou wilt make me know when thou art with me Be with me therefore O Lord and let me see deliverance Amen O Lord let not them that are mine Enemies triumph over me neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me either without a cause or for thy cause Amen O Lord God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me lest they devour my soul like a Lyon and tear it in pieces while there is none to help Lift up thy self O God because of the indignation of mine Enemies arise up for me in the Judgment which thou hast commanded that my help may still be from thee O God who preservest them that are true of heart Amen Have mercy upon me O God consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me O thou that liftest me up from the gates of death Amen Hear my voice O God in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the Enemy hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked and from the rage of the workers of iniquity They have whet their tongues like a sword and shoot out their arrows even bitter words Lord deliver me from them Amen Episcopatus DEâ—s omnium fidelium Pastor Rector me Famulum tuum quem Pastorem Ecclesiae Cantuar. praeesse voluisti propitius respice Da mihi
but have mercy upon me that soon for I am come to great misery Help me O God of my salvation O deliver me and be merciful unto my sins for thy Names sake Amen Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the praise and that for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake Amen O tu unus Deus Pater Fili Sancte Spiritus qui unitam Deitatem nobis declarasti sacrosanctae solius Divinitatis indivisam gloriam revelasti et perfectam Trinitatis tuae sempiternitatem demonstrasti Da mihi obsecro fidem et obedientiam in hac vita gloriam in futura per propter Redemptorem nostrum Jesum Christum Amen O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy poor servant that prayeth O turn me again O God shew the light of thy countenance and I shall be whole Amen Tibi gloria tibi gloria Domine Quanta apud te clementiae abyssus quanta patientiae copia En qui nominis tui praetextu ex ignobilibus obscuris clari illustres effecti sunt honore abutuntur contra te qui honorem largitus es audenâ—que non audenda in sacro sancta mysteria tua injurii Probos quantum possunt extrudunt ut homines perditis moribus praediti summa cum quiete licentia conturbent omnia O Domine exurge adjuva Ecclesiam tuam ne sinas animam meam in eorum Consilium descendere per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord I will cry day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thine ear unto my calling for my soul is full of trouble and my life draws nigh unto the pit O let not thine indignation lie too hard upon me neither vex me with all thy storms But remember of what mould thou hast made me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Domine ne sit mihi inutilis pugna verborum sed incunctanâ—is fidei constans professio Conserva oro in me fidei incontaminatam religionem Et usque ad excessum spiritus mei hanc conscientiae meae vocem dona mihi ut quod in regenerationis meae symbolo baptizatus in Patre Filio Spiritu Sancto professus sim semper obtineam Ut te habeam Patrem ut una tecum Filium tuum adorem Spiritum Sanctum tuum promerear per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord be merciful unto me and I will sing praises unto thy Name yea I will tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season O bless me and fulfill all thy works of grace in me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Dona mihi Domine mentem vigilem cogitationem sobriam cor castum somnum placidum ab omni diabolica imaginatione liberum Et deinde excita me Domine hora Orationis ut praeceptis tuis firmiter adhaeream memoriam retineam in violatam judiciorum tuorum Amen LOrd remember thy promise unto thy servant wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust That thy statutes may be my songs in the house of my pilgrimage and that I may remember thy Name in the night season Amen In manus tuas Domine commendo animam corpus meum creasti enim redemisti ea Domine Deus veritatis Commendo autem mecum et mea omnia tu enim mihi gratiose largitus es illa pro beneplacito tuo In pace ergo me simul cubare dormire facias ô Domine qui solus me habitare facis secure per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O omnium Domine effector O Deus tuorum Pater Gubernator O vitae mortis arbiter O Animarum Custos Benefactor O qui omnia facis tempestive atque ut ipse pro sapientiae tuae administrationis altitudine nosti artifice sermone transmutas me opportuno tempore tuo suscipe tamdiu in carne vitam meam moderatus quamdiu conducibile fuerit mihiipsi Ecclesiae Et suscipe quaeso ob metum tuum paratum non turbatum nec in extremo die terga vertentem nec invito animo tanquam abstractum aut avulsum a mundo sed ut prompte alacriter ad beatam illam aeternam vitam proficiscentem quae est in Christo Jesu Domino nostro cui gloria in secula seculorum Amen O Domine Deus meus voca me ut accedam ad te firma me ne recedam a te per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen SATURDAY O Lord I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercy in the morning for thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of my trouble Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my defence and my merciful God Amen The glorious Majesty of thee O Lord my God be upon me prosper thou the work of my hands upon me O prosper thou my handy-work Amen O Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy Law I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy Commandments from me For thy Testimonies are my delight and my counsellors Lord continue that favour to me that so they may ever be Amen O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought me to the beginning of this day defend me in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day I fall into no sin nor run into any kind of danger but that all my doings may be ordered by thy governance to do alwayes that which is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O My soul wait thou still upon my God for my hope is in him he is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall So Amen Lord Iesu Amen O Lord God be mercifull unto every one that prepares his whole heart to seek thee O Lord God the God of his Fathers though he be not according to the Purification of the Sanctuary Amen O Lord I walk in the midst of trouble I beseech thee refresh me Stretch forth thy hand upon the fury and the cunning of mine enemies that thy right hand may save me O make good thy loving-kindness towards me and despise not I beseech thee the work of thine own hands Amen I deal with the thing that is lawful and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors Amen O make me thy poor servant still to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Almighty God the fountain of all wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking I beseech thee to have compassion upon my
infirmities and those things which for my unworthiness I dare not and for my blindness I cannot ask vouchsafe to give me for the worthiness of thy Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord I will put my trust in thee alwayes O let thy people do it with me and I will pour out my heart before thee O God my hope Amen O that my wayes were made so direct that I might keep thy Statutes O Lord direct them Amen O Lord teach me the way of thy Statutes and I shall keep it unto the end yea I shall keep it with my whole heart O stablish thy word in thy sevant that I may fear thee and that for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord I will call upon thee in my troubles O deliver me and hear me and then especially at what time any storm falls upon me even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy Statuts That my whole heart may seek thee and that I may not go wrong out of thy Commandments That I may take greater delight in the way of thy Testimonies then in all manner of riches Amen O Praise the Lord all ye his servants ye that by night stand in the house of the Lord. With these O Lord I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary and will praise thy Name O Lord be with me this Evening in all the mercies of Iesus Christ my Saviour Amen Miserae carnis meae infirmitatem tu nosti qui finxisti me Invisibilium hostium meorum vigilantiam tu nosti qui vides eos Protegat me ala bonitatis tuae per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen O Lord there is no hiding me from thy presence For if I should say the darkness shall cover me then shall my night be turned to day For the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and the light to thee are both alike Therefore O God I present my self open before thee O cleanse my soul that it may rejoyce to be seen of thee in Iesus Christ. Amen Die jam transacto graâ—ias tibi ago Domine gloriam tibi tribuo quod sine scandalo hymnis effero quod liber ab insidiis diem transegerim per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Thy righteousness O God is very high and great things are they which thou hast done for me O God who is like unto thee Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on every side Therefore will I praise thee and thy righteousness O God and unto thee will I sing O thou holy One of Israel My lips will be glad when I sing unto thee and so will my soul which thou hast delivered My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long for many are confounded brought to shame that have sought to do me evil O Lord continue thy blessings to me and multiply my thankfulness to thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord thou keeper of Israel which in the watch over thy servants dost neither slumber nor sleep be my keeper and preserve me this night O keep my soul. Amen Lord give me grace to make haste and not prolong the time to keep thy Commandments That I may call my own ways to remembrance and turn my feet to thy Testimonies And then at midnight will I rise and give thee thanks because of thy righteous judgments O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen Wo is me that I am constrainâ—d to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar For my soul hath too long dwelt among them that are enemies unto peace Too long O Lord but that it is thy good pleasure to continue my dwelling in this vale of misery Amen Quid es ô Deus meus Quid rogo nisi Dominum Deus Quis enim Dominus praeter Dominum aut quis Deus praeter Deum nostrum Summe Optime Potentissime Misericordissime Iustissime Secretissime Presentissime Pulcherrime Fortissime Stabilis Incomprehensibilis Immutabilis mutans omnia Nunquam novus nunquam vetus innovans omnia in vetustatem perducens superbos nesciunt Semper agens semper quietus colligens non egens Portans implens protegens creans nutriens perficiens Quaeris cum nihil desit tibi Amas necaestuas Zelas securus es Poenitet te non doles Irasceris tranquillus es Opera mutas non consilium Recipis quod invenis nunquam amisisti Nunquam inops gaudes lucris Nunquam avarus usuras exigis Supererogatur tibi ut debeas quis habet quicquam non tuum Reddis debita nulli debens Donas debita nihil perdens Et quid dicimus Deus meus vita mea dulcedo mea sancta Aut quid dicit aliquis quum de te dicit Et vae tacentibus de te quoniam loquaces muti sunt Miserere mei Deus ut loquar de te glorificem nomen tuum Amen PROSPERA LOrd this is the time of fear keep thy servant from Presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me That though my sins be many and great yet I may be innocent from the Great offence even for Iesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord make me worthy of the place to which thou hast raised me in thy Church that all my endeavours may be to make Truth and Peace meet together In this course give me understanding to discover my enemies and wisdom to prevent them A heart to love my friends and carriage that may bind them Lord make me love thy Church and the place where thine honour dwelleth that as thou hast honoured me above many others so I may honour thee above all and spend whatsoever is acceptable in the poor remainder of my life to serve thee in thy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord turn away mine eyes that they behold not vanity and quicken thou me in thy way Amen O Domine misericors quando a te ipse exoratus nec enim unquam ita vivimus ut exorare mereamur pacificos nobis dies proventus uberes divitem bonis omnibus tranquillitatem abundantiam dederis super vota crescentem ne sinas me tanta secundarum rerum prosperitate corrumpi ne tui penitus obliviscar mei sed humilitatem gratitudinem adauge per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Familia Domus VIsita quaeso Domine habitationem meam et omnes insidias Inimici ab ea longe repelle Angeli tui sancti habitent in ea nos in pace sanitate custodiant benedictio tua sit super nos semper per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Linguae fraenum LEt the words of my mouth
own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without check God forgive the setters of this withall my heart I beg it but many well-meaning people are caught by it In S. Stephens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him Act. 6. 12. And Herod went the same way when he had killed S. Iames yet he would not venture upon S. Peter till he found how the other pleased the people Acts 12. 3. But take heed of having your hands full of blood Esai 1. 15. For there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes Inquisition for blood And when that Inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us Psal. 9. 12. that God remembers but that 's not all he remembers and forgets not the complaint of the poor i. e. whose blood is shed by Oppression ver 9. Take heed of this 'T is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 12. but then especially when he is making Inquisition for blood And with my prayers to avert it I do heartily desire this City to remember the Prophecy that is expressed Ierem. 26. 15. 3. The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse then a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body And at every cleft profaneness and irreligion is entring in While as Prosper speaks men that introduce profaneness are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell too much in Opinion And that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruine is fallen into danger by her own 4. The last particular for I I am not willing to be too long is my self I was born and baptized in the bosome of the Church of England established by Law In that Profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to die What clamours and slanders I have endured for labouring to keep an Uniformity in the external Service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High-treason in Parliament a crime which my soul ever abhorred This Treason was charged to consist of two parts An endeavour to subvert the Laws of the Land and a like endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by Law Besides my answers to the several Charges I Protested mine innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners Protestations at the Barre must not be taken I must therefore come now to it upon my death being instantly to give God an account for the truth of it I do therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death that I never endeavoured the Subversion either of Law or Religion And I desire you all to remember this Protest of mine for my innocency in this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an Enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I did dislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many wayes and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima And that being the highest Court over which no other hath jurisdiction when 't is misinformed or misgoverned the Subject is left without all remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me and humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man And so I heartily desire you to joyn in prayer with me O Eternal God and merciful Father look down upon me in mercy in the riches and fulness of all thy mercies Look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Cross of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to trie me to the uttermost I most humbly beseech thee give me now in this great Instant full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to die for thine honour the Kings happiness and this Churches preservation And my zeal to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I come now to suffer I say in this particular of Treason But otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present judgment upon me And when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own eyes Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more then miserable Kingdom O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all Blood-thirsty people But if they will not repent O Lord confound all their devices defeat and frustrate all their designes and endeavours upon them which are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their just power the preservation of this poor Church in her Truth Peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their Ancient Laws and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with Religious dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandments all their dayes So Amen Lord Iesu Amen And receive my soul into thy bosom Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. The Lord Archbishop's Prayer as he kneeled by the Block LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Umbra mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke through the jaws of death So Lord receive my soul and have mercy upon me and bless this Kingdome with peace and plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian bloud amongst them for Iesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Then he layd his head upon the Block and after he had prayed to himself said aloud Lord receive my Soul