satisfie our poore with bread Psal. â—32 6. Let our Garners be full and abounding with all manner of store let our sheepe bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets And let our Oxen be strong to labour v. 13. Let there bee no decay no leading away into captivity nor no complaining in our streets Two things I desire of thee O Lord deny me not them before I dye Pro. 30. 7 8 9. Vanity and lying words remove farr from me v. 8. Beggery and abundance give me not Give me onely what is needfull for my life least being full I be tempted to deny thee and say who is the Lord verse 9. Or being forced by want I steale so forswear the name of my God Teach me O God to abound to want Phil. 4. 11. that every where and in all things in what condition soever I shal be I may learne to be content v. 12. Thanksgiving LEt all thy workes confess unto thee ô Lord and let thy Saints blesse thee Psal. 34. 96. 103. 107. It is a good thing to praise the Lord and to sing unto thy Name O most high Psa. 91. 1. To declare thy loving kindnes in the morning and thy truth in the night season v. 2. I will exalt thee O God my King and blesse thy Name for ever and ever every day I will blesse thee and extoll thy Name for ever and ever Psal. 145. 1. v. 2. For it is thou which callest the things which were not as if they were and by whom all things are made in Heaven and on Earth visible and invisible Rom. 4. 17. Col. 1. 16. And it is thou which sustainest all things by the word of thy power and by thy ordinance they continue to this day Heb. 13. Psal. 119. 91. for all things serve thee Which leavest not thy selfe without a witnesse in doing good from heaven giving us raine and fruitfull seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladnesse Acts. 14. 17. 1. It is thou which by thy wisdome and power didst thy selfe 2. With thine owne hands make man of the mould of the earth 3. And didst breath into his nostrills the breath of life Acts. 1. 26. 4. And did'st honour him with thine owne Image 5. And did'st give the Angells charge over him Psal. 91. 11. 6. And dost place him over the worke of thy hands Psal. 8. 7. 7. And did'st seate him in the paradise of pleasure Gen. 2. 15. And when he had dispised thy Commandements did'st not yet dispise him but did'st open to him a gate to repentance and life Acts. 11. 18. Giving to him that great and pretious promise of the seed which should save us 2 Pet. 1. 4. It was thou which did'st instruct us 1. By that which is knowne of God 2. By the Law written in our hearts 3. By the services of sacrifices and oblations 4. By the Oracles of the Prophets 5. By the melody of the Psalmer 6. By the wisdome of the Proverbs 7. By the experience of the sacred story It was thou which when the fulnesse of time came didst send downe thy son who emptying himself and taking the forme of a Servant of the feede of Abraham Heb. 12. 6. Being made of a woman and subjected to the Lawe Gal. 4. 4. Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 21. 6. Ga. 4. 4. By his active obedience fulfilled the Law and by his death tooke away the curse thereof Eph. 5. 1. Redeeming by his death and by his resurrection reviving our nature and leaving nothing undone that was needfull to doe that wee might be made partakers of the divine nature who likewise manifested himselfe to be our Saviour in all places by the preaching of the Gospell Rom. 4. last 2 Cor. 2. 14. Bearing witnesse thereunto by divers signes and miracles Heb. 2. 4. By the admired holines of life in his Saints and By their wonderfull patience even to the effusion of their bloud Heb 11 36 37. And by the incredible condition of the whole world to the faith 1 John 5 4. It is thou also which hast made us the Sonnes of Saints and heirs of the same vocation Which hast given thy Church power to be the pillar and foundation of Truth 1 Tim 3 15. It is thou which hast granted to our Church ability to keep that which was committed to her 1 Tim. 6. 20. To teach us the way of peace and to retain certain ordered stedfastnesse and decency Rom. 3. 22. Col. 2. 5. It is thou which hast established the throne of thy Servant our Soveraigne 1 Ch. 17. 13. Which hast instructed our Princes hast taught our Magistrates wisedome Psal. 105. 22. Which hast vouchsafed us pastours according to thine own heart to feed us with knowledge and learning Jer. 3. 15. It is thou which hast made peace in our inclosure and hast satisfied us with the flowre of wheate Psalm 106. 13 14. Which hast strengthned the Barres of our gates and hast blessed our Children among us Which hast turned our swords into Mattocks and our spears into sithes Esay 2. 4. Which hast cloathed our enemies with confusion and hast given us for a blessing for ever and ever and made us glad with the joy of thy Countenance Psal. 21. 7. It is thou which hast brought mee into this life and hast led mee to the lavar of regeneration and renewing by thy holy Spirit and hast revealed to me the paths of life Tit. 3. 5. Psalm 16. 11. Which hast connived at my sins for my repentance Wisd. 11. 12. And hast not crushed me under the hands of mine iniquity Esa 64. 7. Which hast even waited to shew mercy on me Esa. 30. 18. And hast not suffered my heart to harden Rom. 2. 9. But hast left mee in the compunction of heart and memory of my latter end and conscience of my former sins Acts 7. 37. Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 10. 3. Which hast not cut off my life like a weaver in the beginning Psa. 16. 29. nor from morning to night hast made and of us Jo. 20. 22. Which hast not called me away in the middest of my dayes Psalme 102. 25. But hast holden my soule in life and hast not suffered my feete to slip Psalme 66. 9. Therefore for all these benefits and for many more through their multitude and our forgetfulness omitted Glory be to thee ô Lord glory and honour praise and blessing and thankes with the tongues of Angels and men The meanest of thy work by reason of our sin now every houre and every day Even to our latest gaspe To the end of the world and to all Eternity Amen Thankesgiving in particular O Lord my God For my being living endowment with reason For my nourishment preservation ingenuous education For thy gifts to me of nature of the world of grace For my redemption regeneration christian instruction For thy calling of me calling againe often reiterated calling For thy patience long-suffering long long-suffering of these many times these many yeares even
thy grace establish our hearts and save us Ps. 136. 25. 147. 9. 71. 5. Acts 14. 17. Heb. 13. 9. Thou which makest the Evening an end to the day that it may put us in mind of the evening of our life Psalm 104. 23. Grant that we may ever consider that as the day so our life vanisheth Eccl. 8. 13. Grant that we may ever remember the dayes of darknesse which are many that the night commeth when wee cannot worke that so wee be not cast out to utter darknesse And save us Mat. 25. 3c O Lord my God WHose Essence is above all Essence and whose Nature is uncreated whose handywork the whole World is I set thee before mine eyes Ps. 16. 9. I lift up my soul unto thee I worship thee falling down upon my knees I draw neer unto thee and humble my selfe under thy mighty hand I stretch sorth my hands unto thee my soule gapes to thee as the thirsty land I smite upon my Breast and say with the Publican O Lord be mercifull to me a siâ—â—er To mee more sinfull then the Publican be mercifull as to the Publican ô Father of Mercies Psal. 16. 9. 25. 1. 95. 6. 134. 2. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Psal. 143. 6. Lake 18. 13. I beseech thy paternall bowels of compassion despise me not though I be an uncleane worm a dead dog a stinking carkasse Psal. 216. 2 Kings 9. Despise me not the work of thine hands Psal. 138. 8. Despise me not the likeness of thine owne Image though I beare the brands of mine iniquity Gen. 1. 26. Col. 3. 10. Lord if thou wilt thou canst make mee cleane Mat. 8. 2. O Lord say but the word and I shall be cleansed ver. 8. And thou ô Saviour Christ ô Christ my Saviour Saviour of sinners of whom I am chiefe despise me not redeemed by the price of thy precious bloud 1 Tim. 1. 15. Luke 22. 23. Despise not ô Lord but look upon me looke upon me with thine eyes such eyes as thou did'st upon Mary Magdalen at the Feast St. Peter in the high Priests Hall and the Thiefe on the Crosse That with the thief I may call upon thee saying Remember mee O Lord when thou art in thy kingdom Luke 7. 44. 22. 55. 23. 43. 23. 42. With Peter I now weepe bitterly ver. 22. 62. And ô who will give my head a fountaine of teares that therewith I may weep both day and night With Mary Magdalen I may hear thee say thy sins are forgiven thee Lu. 9. 48. And with her I may love thee much because my many and manifold misdeeds are remitted ver. 9. 47. And thou all holy and gracious and life-giving Spirit dspise me not But turne thee againe O Lord at the last and repent thee concerning thy servant For those thy paternall bowels the bleeding wounds of thy Sonne for the unutterable grones of thy holy Spirit O Lord heare O Lord forgive O Lord consider and doe it deferr not for thine own sake ô my God Dan. 9. 19. Morning Prayer BLessed art thou O Lord our God the God of our fathers which hast turned the shadow of death into the morning and hast renewed the face of the earth Am. 5. 8. Ps. 104 30. Which hast made sleep to depart from mine eyes and slumber from mine eye-lids Psal 132. 4. Which hast lightned mine eyes that I sleep not in death Ps. 13. 4. Which hast delivered my soule from the night feares from the pestilence which walketh in the dark psal. 91. 4 5 6. Which makes the out goings of the morning evening to praise thee v. 65. 8. For I laid me downe and slept and rose againe for it was thou O Lord which didst sustaine me psal. 4. 5. For I waked and beheld and loe my sleepe was sweet Ier. 31. 26. O Lord doe a way as the Night so my sins scatter my transgressions as the morning cloud Esa. 44. 22. Make me a child of the light and of the day cause me to walke soberly chastly and decently as in the day time 1 Thes. 5. 5. Rom. 13. 13. O Lord uphold us when wee are fallen into sinne and raise us up when wee are fallen Ps. 145. 14. That wee harden not our hearts as in the provocation or with any deceitfulnesse of sinne Heb. 3. 8. 13. Deliver us also from the snare of the hunter evill alurements crosse words the Arrow which flyeth by day Ps. 91. 3. 6. From the evill of the day preserve me O Lord and me from doing evill in it Mat. 6. 34. The Hymne O Let mee heare of thy loving kindnesse betime in the morning for in thee is my trust Psalme 143. 8. Shew me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soule unto thee Deliver me ô Lord from mine enemies for I flye unto thee for succour vers. 9. Teach me to do thy wil for thou art my God Let thy loving Spirit leade me forth into the Land of righteousnesse v. 10. Quicken me ô Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soule out of trouble v. 11. Chase from my mind althoughts without understanding Wisd. 1. 5. Turne away mine eyes that they behold not vanity Psal. 119. 37. Hedge in mine ears with thornes that they listen not to foolish discourses Eccl. 23. 29. Set a watch before my mouth and keep the door of my lips Psal. 14. 3. Let me doe nothing that may be scandalous or scrupulous to my soule 1 Sam. 25. 31. Let the meditation of mine heart be ever acceptable in thy sight Ps. 19. last Let mine eyes behold and let mine eye-lids direct my way before mee Pro. 4. 25. Awaken mine eares in the morning to heare the word of instruction Esa. 50. 4. 5. Let my speech be seasoned with salt that it may edifie and give grace to the hearers Ephes. 4. 29. Col. 4. 6. O Lord prepare thou some good way for mee to walk in Eph. 2. 16. Into thy hands I coÌ„mend my Spirit my soule body thou hast created thou hast redeemed thou hast regenerated theÌ„ ô Lord thou God of truth Ps. 31. 5. With my self I commend to thee all that have any relation to me And all that is mine thou ô Lord hast graciously lent them me in thy goodnesse Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from all evil keep our soules good Lord we beseech thee Ps. 121. 7. Keep them all spotlesse and present them guiltlesse in that day Keepe my out-goings and my commings in from this time forth for evermore v. 8. Prosper thou thy servant this day and give him favour in their eyes with whom he meeteth Nehem. 1. 11. O Lord be near at hand to save me ô God make hast to help me Ps. 90. 17. The glorious Majesty of our God be upon us Prosper thou-our worke unto us yea prosper thou our handy worke Let not my dayes be spent in vanity let not my year wast in doing nothing but let one day teach another let
me an evening there is as of the day so of our life that Evening is old age age hath now surprized me Lord prosper thou that likewise unto me Tarry with me ô Lord for the evening growes upon me Luck 24. 29 And my day is much declined cast me not off now in min age forsake me not now when my strength faileth me Psal. 71. 8 9. But rather let thy strength bee made more perfect in this my weaknes 2 Cor. 12. 9. O Lord the day is vanished and gon so doth this life The night doth now approach so doth death also death without death the end both of our day and of our life is neere at hand Remember this therefore wee beseech thee ô Lord make the end of all our lives Christian-like and acceptable to thee peaceable and if it like thee painlesse translating us among thine elect unto thy heavenly kingdome O Lord thou hearest prayer to thee shall all flesh come In the morning at Noone and in the evening I will call I will cry out and thou shalt heare my voyce In the night will I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary and will blesse thee ô Lord Psal. 133. 4. The Lord hath shewed his mercy in the day therfore at night I will sing of him and pray unto the God of my life psal. 42. 9 10. Thus will I praise thee all my life long and in thy Name will I lift up my hands Psal. 63 4 5. O let my prayers be directed as the incense and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou ô Lord my God the God of my Fathers Psal. 144. 20. VVhich hast created the Changes of night and of day v. 22. VVhich givest rest to the weary and refreshest the weake Esa. 40. 29. VVhich givest Songs in the night Job 35. 10. And makest the out-going of the Morning and Evening to praise thee Psalme 65. 9. VVhich hast delivered us from the malice of this day Matt. 6. ult. And cuttest not off our lives like a VVeaver neither from Morning to Evening makest an end of us Esay 38. 12. As we add dayes to our dayes so we add sinnes to our sins Eccles. 5. 8. The just man falls seven times a day Frov. 24. 16. But wee wretched sinners seventy times 7 times Mat. 18. 22. But wee returne to our hearts Esa. 46. 8. And with our hearts we returne to thee Deut. 30. 2. To thee ô Lord wee returne and all that is within us saith Ps. 103. O Lord wee have sinned against thee 2. Sam. 12. 13. But we repent alas wee repent spare us good Lord Luke 17. 4. Be mercifull and spare us Be propitious to us Haue pitty upon us and spare us ô Lord Forgive us the guilt Rom. 13. 19. Take out the staines Psal. 51. 3. 9. Cure the faintnesse in us by reason of our sins psal. 146. 3. and heale our soules O God for wee have sinned against thee psal. 41. 4. Deliver mee from my unavoydable sins psal. 27. 17. Cleanse me from my secret offences psalm 19. 13. And for my Communion with the transgression of others pardon thy servant ô Lord All our good deeds thou hast wrought in us Esay 26. 12. If wee have done any thing well mercifully regard it ô Lord Our sin and our distraction is from our owne selves Hosea 13. 9. Whatsoever wee have done amisse graciously pardon it Thou which givest thy beloved secure rest grant that I may passe this night without feare Psal. 3. 6. Enlighten my eyes that I sleep not in death p. 13. 4. Deliver mee from the mighty feare from the businesse that walketh in the darke psalm 91. 5. Thou which neither sleepest at any time nor slumbrest keepe mee this night ô Lord from al evill chiefly ô Lord keepe and preserve my soule Psalme 121. 4. 7 Visite mee ô God with the visitations of thy Saints open mine eares in the visions of the night Job 33. 15 16. At least let my sleepe be a cessation from sins from labour and let me dream of nought that may offend thee or defile my selfe Prov. 4. 6. Let not my loynes be filled with illusions but let my reynes chasten mee in the night psalme 38. 8. and 16. 7. Let mee remember thee upon my bed and let mee meditate with my heart and search out my spirit Psalme 63. 6. and 77. 6. And when it shall bee time for mee to rise let mee wake with the light to thee ô Lord to thy praise and thy service Rom. 13. 11. Psal. 63. 1. O Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit my soule and my body Thou hast created thou hast redeemed them ô Lord thou God of truth Psalm 31. 5. And with my selfe I commend to thy mercifull protection all those that belong to mee and all that is mine Thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hast bestowed them upon me Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from evil chiefely good Lord keepe and preserve our soules Keepe them ô God keep them all spotlesse and without guilt present them in that day Psa. 121. 7. I will lay me down and sleepe in peace For thou only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 3. 5. and 4. 8. After divine service O Lord thou which hast suffered me this holy day and houre to raise my soule and give praise unto thee and offer up the glory due to thee accept then from my soul this sacrifice sprituall and send into me the grace of thy most sacred spirit ô visit me in thy great goodnesse forgive me all my sins both wilfully and unwillfully committed deliver me from the reward of them that is from everlasting punishment yea and from all distresses in this world change my thoughts into Piety Sanctifie my spirit My soule and my body Oh give me grace to adore and please thee in godlines and holines of life to the utmost end of al my dayes Amen Before thy Approaching the Holy Communion say O Lord I am not worthy nor prepared for thee to come under my sordid roofe for it is wholy desolate and ready to dropp downe quite neither canst thou with me have any fitting place for thy Reposall Mar. 8. 8. But as thou denyest to rest in the Stable and manger of bruit beasts Luk. 2. 7. As thou didst not Disdaine Simon the Kepers house and entertainement Mat. 26. 6. As thou didst not forbid the adulterous Sinner to come and touch thee Luk. 7. 19. Nor did'st abhor her impure and prophane mouth Nor yet the Theeves confession of thee upon the Crosse Luk. 7. 23. Vouchsafe O Lord to receive me likewise an over-worne and most unworthy sinner Amen In approaching the Holy Sacrament O Lord with all thanks wee commemorate the saving passions of thy Christ our Saviour This life-restoring Crosse His precious death His 3. dayes Sepulture His resurrection His ascention to heaven And his sitting on thy right hand His glorious and most Dreadfull returne thence to the
sinnes To weare our colours that wee his he in our red that wee in his white So wee finde Apoc. 7. our robes are not onely washed cleane but dyed a pure white in the blood of the Lambe Yea hee dyed and rose againe both in our colours that we might die and rise too in his he in mount Golgotha like to us that we in mount Tabor might bee like to him His Prayer after the holy Ordinances on Whit-Sunday O LORD wee have heard thy word the outward meanes and received the inward wee began with one sacrament baptisme wee end with the other the Eucharist we began with that where wee heard of him and wee end with the other where wee may and shall I trust receive him and Almighty God grant wee may so receive him at this good time as in his good time wee may bee received by him thither whence he this day came of purpose to bring us even to the holy places made without hands which is his heavenly kingdome which God the Father who prepared it God the Sonne who purchased it To whom three Persons c. Lights from Heaven THere are seaven lights whereof God is the father acknowledging theÌ„ all for his children and to his children will vouchsafe them in their order 1. The light of nature for rebelling against which al that are without Christ suffer condemnation Salomon calles it the candle of the Lord searching the very bowells Pro. 20. 25. which though it be dimme and not perfect yet good it is though lame yet as Mephibosheth it is Regia proles of the blood Royall 2. There is the light of Gods Law Lex Lux saith Salomon totidem verbis Pro. 6. 23. and his father calls it a Lanthorne to his feet nay in the 19. Psalme what he saith at the fourth verse of the sonne at the eight hee saith of the Law of God lights both 3. The light of prophecie as of a candle that shines in a darke place 2 Pet. 1. 19. 4. There is the wonderfull light of the gospell so Saint Peter calls it the proper light of the day 1 Pet. 2. 9. the tongues that descended so many toÌ„gues so many lights for the tongue is a light brings to light what before was hidin the heart 5. And from these other is the light of grace whereby God which commandeth the light to shine out of darknesse hee it is that shineth in our hearts by the inward anoynting which is the oyle of this Lampe 2 Cor. 4. 6. the light of his holy Spirit chasing away the darknes both of our hearts and mindes 6. There is the light of comfort of his holy spirit a light sowen for the righteous here in this life 7. There is the light of glory where the Saints shall reape light where God dwelleth and where wee shall dwell with him even the inheritance of the Saints in light where the righteous shall shine as the Sun in the kingdome of their father the Father of lights Moses Candlestick with seven stalks lights in each of them Gal. 1. 12. Mal. 13. 43. The imprecation against the Enemies of the Church THe Serpents curse be upon them and let their heads be trod to peeces they that are Sions malignant enemies Oh Lord let them be as grasse upon the house top as those that perish at Endor and become dung for the earth let them be as stubble scatterd or wax melted smoak driven no man can tell whither let them perish perish as Sisera and Oreh as Absalon Jaels bammer on their heads Gideons Axe on their necks Joabs Dart in their hearts one nay three one for the enemies of God another for the enemies of mankind a third for the enemies of Sion Psal. 12. 1. Let their sword goe throw their owne hearts and their mischeife light upon their owne heads Amen His Prayer for King James after his Sermon of Gowries Conspiracy EUen so Lord let it be set up thy mercy for ever for ever stablish the truth of this thy Covenant with thy servant our Soveraigne that it may never faile him as not this day so not at any other time let thy hand be still upon him and thine arme about him for ever between him and his harmes violence and hurt never come neere him the sinnes of wickednesse be ever farr from him let them be non proficients all the sort of them that study to practise this wicked lesson never loose thou him nor suffer him to be lost ever finde him good Lord to succour and save him and let thy right hand finde out his enemies to smite and plague them with the same blowes thou didst smite and with the same plagues thou didst power on those of this day the destiny of this day come on them all and for him Let his anoynting still be fresh on him and his Crowne still flourish on his head let him all the day walke in the light of thy countenance and at night rest in the covering of thy wings this day as once it did so let it rise prosperous and happy to him this day and all days that he that wee all may sing thy mercies and set forth thy truth all the dayes of our life heare us ô Lord and grant it for thy Sonnes sake our Saviour Amen His Thankesgiving for the deliverance from the Gunpouder-Treason O God with all the powers thou hast destributed in our Soules the breath of life thou hast breathed into our nostrilles the tongues thou hast put into our mouthes behold all these shall breake forth and confesse and blesse and thanke and praise and magnifie and exalt thee and thy mercy for ever yea every mouth shall acknowledge thee every tongue be the trumpet of thy praise every eye lookeup and every knee bow down to thee and all hearts shall feare thee and all that is within us even our bowells those our bowells that but for thee had flowne wee know not whether even our bones those bones that but for it had been â—â—iâ—er'd bone from bone one from another all shall say who is like unto thee O Lord in mercy who is like unto thee glorious in holiness fearefull in prayses doing wonders wonders of mercy as this day upon us all to bee held by us and our posterity in an everlasting remembrance glory be to thee O Lord glory bee to thee and glory to thy mercy yea super omnia yea most glorious of thy great and high perfection glory bee to thee and glory to it to it in thee and to thee for it and that by all thy workes in all places and at all times and of all thy workes and above them all by us here by the hearts and lungs of us all in this place this day for this day for the mercy of this day for the mercy of it above all mercies and for the worke of this day above al the works of it not this day only but all the dayes of our life even as long as thy
mercy endureth and that endureth for ever in the world to come through the cisterne and cunduit of all thy mercies Jesus Christ A Prayer for Magistrats Ecclesiastical and civill LORD by whose almighty power all governments doe stand those especially wherein the people are led in the way of his sanctuary as he hath graciously begun to lead us in that way so leave us not till we have finished our course with joy knit the hearts of Moses and Aaron and that they may joyne lovingly Teach their hands and fingers of their hands that they lead skilfully touch the hearts of the people that they may be lead willingly That by meanes of this happie conduct surely without errour and safely without danger wee may lead to be led forward untill wee come to the fruition of his promise the expectation of our biessed hope even the eternall joyes of his celestiall Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord Before Sermon BLessed art thou O Lord Teach me thy Statutes open my eyes that I may understand the wonders of thy law O Lord remove thou the vaile from my heart whil'st that I either read or heare thy word The forme of Prayer used by Bishop Andrews after the opening of the Text THat the Word of God may at this time obtaine in us that end to which it was appointed and this our whole action may be advantaged Reverend Fathers and Brethren in CHRIST let us by our prayers invite hither the Divine Majesty acknowledging in the first place from the bottom of our hearts our unworthinesse even to draw neere to him much more to pray to yet much more to obtaine any thing from him But that all our worthinesse depends upon his acceptation and that all our confidence to pray and hope to obtaine depends upon his intercession By him let us deprecate the present punishment most due to our former unthankfulnesse for and carelesnesse in his word Let us pray that the grace of his Spirit may now prevent us and that what my heart hath profitably meditated he would bring into my tongue thence into your Eares thence into your Hâ—â—râ—â— thence into your life study and manners to the salvation of us all and his eternall glory And least we should be unmindfull of the Church of CHRIST in our prayers which is never unmindfull of us in hers let us interceed with our most mercifull Father for his Church militant on earth scattered far and wide through all Nations That God would preserve unto her his truth not long since recovered out of the most thick darknesse of errour that he would restore unto her when it shall seem good unto him her unity now almost lost through the dissentions of the christian World And let us commend unto him not without groanes that part thereof which beside and above the rest stands in speciall need of our prayers that part I say which is afflicted and oppressed either with the outward crosse for the testimony of a good or the inward for the testimony of a bad conscience Let us pray for a happy issue of their calamities and in the meane time while the issue is uncertaine so much patience as shall be necessary for the bearing of their crosses as is meet meekly and couragiously For that part of the Church flourishing with peace and by name for this our Church of England that God would give us to know the day of our visitation and to walke worthy of his so great mercy that we indeed have but before us no Nation no age ever had experience of For the principall members of our Church and State the Queenes most sacred majesty that shee may be enriched and adorned with all virtues fit for so great a place so great a Person that in this her Kingdome the Kingdome of CHRIST may daily more and more be propagated and that she may be as cordiall to us as careful of all things which are Gods as God hath confirmed by many great former later arguments that he is cordiall to and carefull of her For the Honourable Peeres of the Kingdome those especially who are of her Majestyes Privy Councel that God would proceed as he hath done long to suggest to them whatsoever shall be for the peace of this Church and Kingdome that what is good may be effected that what is hurtfull may be removed For the English Clergy to which whiâ—e I desire to pray all happines what other things should I begg of the Lord then that they may once be of one minde and Judgment in all things For our Magistracy that they may discharge their Office purely and entirely neither turning Justice into Worme-wood by corrupt sentence nor into Vineger by long suspension and delay of Causes For the People even the lowest part of the Kingdome so it is but yet precious being bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ that they may heare such as they have and have such as they should heare men fit to teach both now and hereafter That this may be and ever be and that there may daily spring up a great supply of Learned men wch may be able to plead our causes and minister to the health of our bodies and procure the salvation of our soules that God would be good and gracious to all Schooles of good Learning To both the Universities and especially to this of Ours and all the Magistrates thrreof To the Right Honourable the Lord Treasurer of the Kingdome our Chancellour To the Right Worshipfull Master Vice-Chancellour Master Proctors Master Taxors and the rest who have any Office among us Lastly that he would plentifully poure out his blessings upon our Colleges and as my speciall duty calls mee upon the whole Society of Pembrook Hall that wee in gracing our Predecessors who have beene alwayes famous in this Church may follow their iudustry considering the end of their conversation For all these Fathers and Brethern let us humbly offer up to CHRIST our Intercessor his owne Prayer to be presented to his Father in our name that hee would graciously bestow upon us these things and what ever else shall be necessary for us Our Father which art in heaven c. Another Exhortation to Prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of the Text IN the handling of which Particulars that the Word of God may at this time obtaine in us the end to which it was by him ordained and that this our whole action may be profitable let us by our Prayers hither invite the Holy Spirit Invoaking to that end the Father by the Sonne And least wee should be forgetfull of her in our Prayers which in hers is never unmindefull of us let us make intercession to the most mercifull Father for his Church Catholike not Romane but Universall militant upon Earth scattered over the face of the World That God would preserve unto her his Truth now long since recovered out of the thickest darkenesse of errours that when it shall seeme good unto him her Unity now almost lost through the dissentions of the Christian world may be restored And let us not without groanes commend unto God that part thereof which besides and above the rest stands in speciall neede of our supplications I mean our Brethren for what reason soever oppressed and afflicted with any kinde of crosse Let us pray for an happy end of their tryals and while the issue is uncertain for so much patience as shall be necessary to the meeke and constant sufferance of their troubles For the portion of the Church flourishing in peace namely for the Churches in great Brittaine and Ireland and for that in both the Palatinate And as our speciall duty bindes us for the most peaceable and powerfull Prince James by the Grace of God King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and throughout his Dominions over all conditions and orders both Ecclesiasticall and Civill Supreame Governour Let us pray for his long life c. multitude of yeares and that hee may live long daily more and more to encrease the Kingdome of Christ see it propagated and rejoyce For the incomparable Queene Anne For our springing hope the most noble Prince Charls For the Bridegroome and the Bride the most Illustrious Fredericke Prince Elector of the Roman Empire Count Palatine of the Rhene and the most Excellent Lady the Lady Elizabeth the Kings onely Daughter our only Princesse For the most Noble the Peeres of the Realme those chiefely of his Majesties most Houourable Privy Councell For this our Order for the Clergy and for all the people But in our prayers first and last wee earnestly beg of God that hee would be good and gracions to the late Marriage especially that Sion may be glad therein in whose Joy God alwayes shares that hee may so blesse them out of Sion that they may see the clause in the marriage song their Childrens children and what wee all doe wish for Peace upon Israel For which blessing let us prostrate offer up to Christ our Intercessour his owne prayer in our name to be presented to his Father that hee would most mercifully and bounteously bestow upon us these things and what else hee knowes expedient for any of us Our Father c.