RIGHT GODLY RVLE How all faithfull Christians ought to occupie and exercise themselues in their dayly prayers Luke 22. Matth 26. Christ teacheth vs in his Gospel 〈◊〉 Watch and pray least yee fâ—â—â— into temptation Imprinted at London by F. Kingston 1602 GODLY PRAYERS For Munday Morning Prayer O Most louing God and gracious father in Christ wee thanke thee for that sweete sleepe and comfortable rest that thou hast giuen vs this night and forasmuch as thou haâ—t commaunded vs by thy 〈◊〉 wâ—rd that no man sâ— bee idle but alwaies ocâ—pied in vertuous exercises euerie man according to his calling wée most humblie beséech thée that thine eies may attend vs dayly and defend vs and in sorrowe succour cherish and comfort vs. And so gouerne good Lord all our counsailes studies and labours that wee may spend this day according to thy most blessed â—â—ll without hurting of our â—â—â—â—hbour yea that 〈…〉 diligently and warily eschew and auoyd all things that should displease thée set thée alwayes before our eyes and liue in thy feare and euer worke thou so in vs that wee may bee found continent pure of liuing temperate and acceptable before thy diuine Maiestie vnto the praise of thy most holy blessed name through Iesu Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen For Tuesday Morning Prayer SEeing that thou oh heauenly Father art that one and alone Almightie God which art in euerie place beholdest the counsailes deuices and workes yea the very thoughts of all men and giuest to euery one â—â—cording to their déedes wee humbly beseech thee for Christ Iesus his sake to giue vs this grace that forasmuch as thou hast graciouslie preserued vs this night past wee may not spend this day present nor any other day of our liues after our owne mindes and pleasure which is alway euil and wicked but more earnestly looke vpon and diligently follow thy fatherly will thy euerlasting counsaile thy faithfull word and pleasure which is alwaies good perfite and holy and performe the same with chearefulnes that thy diuine name may alway bee sanctified both now and euermore of vs miserable sinners thorough thy dearely beloued Son Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen For Wednesday A Morning prayer O Lord Iesus Christ which art the bright Sun of the world euer rising neuer falling which with thy wholesome looke preseruest nourishest and makest ioyfull all thinges that are in heauen and earth shine fauourablie I beséech thée into my spirite that the night of sinnes and mists of errors being driuen away by thy inward light I may walke this day and all the daies of my life without stumbling or offeÌ„ce comely as in the day time being pure froÌ„ the works of darknesse Grant this O Lord which liuest raignest with God the Father in vnitie of the holy Ghost world without end Amen For Thursday Morning Prayer O Lord Iesu Christ to whom before whom all things are manifest and plaine which also sufferest not a Sparrow to light on the grounde without thy prouidence and which in times past by thy holy Spirit diddest guide our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob in thy pathes and waies in a strange countrey didst appoint the same thy blessed Spirit and messenger to bee their guide Graunt me this day most wretched sinner whom by thy word thou doest encourage to call vpon thee in all time of neede necessities that I may haue the same thy holie Spirit to direct my pathes and waies this day that I may walke according to thy godly will and pleasure to the profite of my neighbour and glorie of thy name which liuest and raignest world without end Amen For Friday A Morning prayer O Mercifull Lord God heauenly Father I render most high lande praise and thanks vnto thée for that thou hast preserued me both this night and all the time and daies of my life hetherto vnder thy defence hast suffered me to liue vnto this present hower I beséech thée heartilie that thou wilt vouchsafe to receiue me this day and the residue of my whole life from hencefoorth into thy tuition ruling and gouerning mee with thy holie Spirite that so all manner of darkenes of misbeliefe infidelitie carnall lustes and affections may bee vtterly chosed driuen out of my heart and that I may be iustified and saued both body soule through a right and stedfast faith and so walke in the light of thy most godly truth to thy glorie praise and to the profit and furtherance of my neighbour through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen For Saturday Morning Prayer O Heauenlie Father which like a diligent watchman attendest alwaies vpon thy faithfull people whether they wake or sleepe and mightily defendest theÌ„ not only froÌ„ Sathan that old enemie of mankind but also froÌ„ al their aduersaries so that through thy godly power they bee preserued harmelesse I huÌ„bly thanke thee for that it hath pleased thy goodnesse so to take care for me thy vnprofitable seruaÌ„t this night past that thou hast both safely kept me from all mine enemies and also giuen mée swéete sléepe vnto the great comfort of my bodie I farther entirely beseech thée most mercifull and swéete father to shewe the like kindnesse towardes me this day in preseruing my bodie For Sunday or the Sabboth Morning Prayer O Gracious Lord God and heauenly Father I humblie beséech thée in Christ so to sanctifie me thoroughout in body soule and spirit that I may religiously kéep and sanctifie this Sabbath vnto thee according to thy holy word not thinking therein mine own thoughts nor speaking mine owne words nor doing mine own works but thinking speaking and doing that which is agréeable to thy blessed will Giue me grace carefully to frequent the publike assemblies of thy Saints and diligently to profite by all holy exercises there Graunt me a religious heart to consent to the praiers of the Church and an attentiue minde to heare and vnderstand the good things of truth and life that shal be deliuered to mee out of thy word And assist me so further that when I shal depart from thy people I may call mine owne heart to account in the thinges I haue heard and may confer christianlie with others for the strengthening of our faith in our hearts and for a glorious confession of the same with our mouthes to the euerlasting praise of thy glorious name and the eternall saluation of our soules through Iesus Christ thy deare son our only mediator and aduocate So be it A generall Morning prayer O Almightie God and our most mercifull father in Iesus Christ I confesse and acknowledge that I am a miserable a wretched sinner and haue manifold waies most grieuously transgressed thy most godly and blessed commaundementes through wicked thoughts vngodly lustes sinfull words and déedes all my whole life In sinne was I conceiued and borne and there is no goodnesse in mée insomuch that if thou shouldest enter into thy narrow iudgment with
mée iudging mée according vnto the same I were not able to suffer or abide it but must needes perish and be damned for euer So little helpe comfort or sucour is there either in me or in any other creature whatsoeuer Only this is my cōfort O heauenly father the thou diddest not spare thy only dearely beloued Son but diddest giue him vp vnto the most bitter most vile and slaunderous death of the Crosse for mee that so hee might in his obedience pay the ransome for my sinnes satisfie thy iudgement still and pacifie thy wrath recōcile mée vnto thée againe purchase mée thy grace and fauour and euerlāsting life Wherefore through the merites of his most bitter death and passion through his innocent bloudshedding I beséech thee O heauenly Father that thou wilt vouchsafe to bee gracious mercifull vnto mee to forgiue and pardon me all my sinnes to lighten my heart with thy holy Spirit to renew confirme and strengthen mee with a right and stedfast faith and to enflame mee in loue towardes thee and my neighbour for thy sake that I may henceforth with a willing and a glad heart walke as it becommeth mee in the obedience of thy most godly and most blessed Commandements and so glorifie and praise thée euerlastingly and also that I may with a frée conscience a quiet spirit in al manner of temptations afflictions and necessities and euen in the very pangs of death boldly faithfully say I beleeue in God the Father almighty maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the virgin Mary Suffered vnder Ponce Pilate Was crucified dead and buried Hée descended into hell The third day hée rose againe from the dead Hee ascended into Heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almightie from thence he shal come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beléeue in the holy Ghost The holy Catholike Church The communion of Saints The forgiuenesse of sinnes The resurrection of the bodie And the life euerlasting Amen But O Lord heauenly Father to comfort my selfe in afflictions temptations with the assured féeling of these Articles of the Christiā faith it is not in my power for faith is thy gift And therefore forasmuch as thou wilt be praied vnto and called vpon for it I come vnto thée to pray and beséech thée both for that for al my other necessities bodily and spirituall euen as thy dearely beloued sonne our Sauiour Christ Iesus himselfe hath taught vs and from the very bottome of my heart I cry and say vnto thée Our Father which art in heauē halowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will bée done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our dailie bread And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. And lead vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill For thine is the kingdome the power and the glorie for euer and euer Amen vnto the lappe of thy pitie For loe thou art my hope and trust in whom I onely repose my selfe hauing in thee ful confidence and faith so that now I may say with a very faithfull heart trusting in thy mercie I beléeue in thee O God the Father in thee O God the Sonne and in thee O God the holy Ghost thrée persons and one true and also verie God besides whom I acknowledge none other God in heauen aboue nor in earth beneath And yet I poore sinner cannot but accuse my selfe vnto thee deare Father that I haue fore and grieuously offended thy almightie goodnesse and Maiestie in the committing of mine exceeding grieuous and manifold sins and wickednes For I haue not kept the least of thy most godly and blessed commaundementes like as thy righteousnes may require indéed doth demād the same of me I haue not I say honoured thee like my God dread thée like my Lord loued thée like my father nor trusted in thee like my creator my sauiour Thy holy and dreadful name vnto which al glory honour belongeth haue I vsed in vaine I haue not sanctified the Sabboth day with workes which bee acceptable to thée nor instructed my neighbour in vertue accordingly I haue not honored my parents nor bin obedient vnto thē through whom as by an instrumēt thou hast wrought my comming into this world The high powers and rulers which receiue authoritie of thee I haue not willingly obeyed I haue not kept my heart pure and cleane from malice and manslaughter yea had not thy grace and mercy defended mee the better I should haue committed the verie deede also I likewise am not pure from theft nor from adulterie nor frō false witnesse bearing but haue in my heart and mind wished and desired my nighbours goods and thinges I haue followed the great Prince of this Worlde Sathan which hath been a lyer from the beginning in concupiscence of the flesh in pride of liuing in deceiptfulnes in lecherie in hatred and also enuie in backbiting in despaire and also misbeléefe And as I haue abused my will vnderstanding which are faculties and powers of my soule so my senses also which thou hast giuen mee to vse to thy glorie and my neighbours good and mine own lawfull delight I haue misused and mispent in hearing séeing smelling tasting and feeling also things that I should not or else suffring thē to be too violētly caried to things I might haue vsed But in what manner soeuer that I haue offended and sinned against thy eternall Maiestie for no man knoweth throughly his sinnes as the Prophet witnesseth whether it hath béen by day or else by night yea euen from my childhood vnto this day were it in workes wordes or thoughts secretly or openly O my mercifull God I am sorie for it euen from the very bottome of my heart yea my soule mourneth for very sorowe most mercifull Father that I am not a thousand times more sorie than I am howbeit in token of great repentance though all hearts bée knowne well enough vnto thée I doe knocke strike my breast and say in bitternesse of heart and soule Lord GOD the Father Sonne and holy Ghost haue mercie Spare mee of thine infinite mercie deare Lord now and all the daies of my life let me bee made partakers of thine abundant grace in such sort that I may chaunge my sinfull life and put thou out of mee the olde man with al his concupisences and lustes graunting mee grace dayly to die vnto the world and that the world may bée crucified vnto mee and I so dayly goe forward in newnes of life Strengthen mee O Lord in a true humble heart in sound loue hope and trust in thée giue my soule grace to desire in thée onely to reioyce and repose my selfe that I may vtterly renounce and forsake the vaine assistance of this world so that thou mayst finde me readie to méete
haue cast mee in the téeth saying He is wont to boast and glory that he is great in fauour with God wherefore let God now deliuer him if he loue him so well By thy procurement O Lord I came out of my mothers wombe and thou gauest me good comforte euen when I sucked my mothers breastes Through thy meanes I came into this world and as soone as I was borne I was left to thy tuition yea thou wast my God when I was yet in my mothers wombe Wherefore go not far away froÌ„ me for danger is euen now at hand I sée no man that will help me Many bâ—lles haue closed me in both strong and fat they haue compassed mee round about They haue opened their mouthes against mee like vnto a lyon that gapeth vpon his praye and roreth for hunger I am poured out like water and al my limmes loosed one from another and my heart is melted within mee as it were waxe Al my strength is gone dried vp like to a tilestone my tongue cleaueth to the roofe of my mouth at the last I shall be buried in the earth as the dead be wont For dogges haue compassed me round about and the most wicked haue conspired against me they haue made hoales through my hands and my féete I was so vngently intreated of theÌ„ that I might easily number al my bones and after all the paine and torment that they did to me with grieuous countenaÌ„ce they stared looked vpoÌ„ me They deuided my clothes among them and cast lottes for my coate Wherefore Lord I beséech thée goe not far from me but for as much as thou art my power and strength make hast to helpe me Deliuer my soule from danger of the sworde and kéepe my life destitute of all mans helpe from the violence of the dog Saue me from the mouth of the Lâ—â—â— and take mee from the hornes of the Vnicornes I will shew vnto my brethren the maiestie of thy name and when the people be most assembled together I wil praise set foorth thy most worthy acts deedes And all that worship our Lord praise him all the posterity of Iacob magnifie him al ye that be of the stocke of Israel with reuerence serue and honor him For he hath not despised and set at naught the poore man because of his miserie neither hath he disdainefully turned away his face from him but rather as soone as the poore man cryed to him for helpe hee heard him by and by I will praise thée with songs openly in the multitude of thy people and will performe my vowes in the sight of theÌ„ that honor thée The poâ—â—â— shall eate and be satisfiâ—â— â—hey shall praise our Lord that studie to please and as many of you as continue still such your hearts shall liue All the ends of the world shall consider these things and be turned to our Lord and all heathen nations shal submit themselues and doe homage vnto thée For our Lord hath a power royall and an imperial dominion ouer the heathen The most mightie and greatest of all them that dwell on the earth haue eaten and after that they haue tasted the spirituall giftes of our Lord they haue submitted themselues and made humble suite vnto him yea and all the dead which are buried in the earth shall knéele and make reuerence in his honour because hee hath not disdained to spend his owne life for them They that shal come after vs shall honor serue him These â—hings shall bee written of our Lord that our posteritie may know and vnderstand them That they also may come and shew these things to the people that shall be borne of them that our Lord hath done these things which be so marueilous A Psalme of thankes-giuing REioyce and sing in the honor of God all yee that liue on the earth Worship and serue our Lord with gladnes come vnto his sight and presence with ioy and mirth Acknowledge you and confesse that our Lord is that God which hath created and made vs for truly we made not our selues but we bee his people and his flocke which he nourisheth and féedeth continually Go ye through his gates to giue him thankes for the innumerable benefits which ye haue receiued of him and to sing through his courtes his worthy acts and deedes praise him and highly commend his name For our Lord is both good and gracious and his mercy is infinite he is most constant in kéeping of promises not to one generation onely but euen to all A Prayer for the night O Lord God and my heauenly father for as much as by thy diuine ordinance the night approcheth and darknes beginneth to ouerwhelme the earth and time requireth that wee giue our selues to bodily rest and quietnes I render vnto thée most harty thanks for thy louing kindnes which hast vouchsafed to preserue me this day froÌ„ the danger of mine enemies to giue mee my health to féede mee and to send mee al things necessarie for the comforte of this my poore and néedy lâ—fe I most humbly beséech thée for Iesus Christs sake that thou wilt mercifully forgiue mee all that I haue this day committed against thy fatherly goodnes either in word déede or thought and that thou wilt vouchsafe to shadowe mee this night vnder the comfortable wings of thy almightie power and defend mee from Sathan and from all his crafty assaultes that neither he nor any of his ministers haue peâ—â—â— ouer either my body or my soule but that although my body through thy benefit enioyeth sweet and pleasant sléep yet my soule may continually watch vnto thée thinke of thée delight in thée and euermore praise thée that when the ioyful light of the day returneth according to thy godly appointment I may rise again with a faithful soule and vndefiled body and so afterward behaue my selfe all my life time according to thy blessed will and commaundement by casting away 〈…〉 sée◠〈…〉 there◠〈…〉 â—rifie thée 〈…〉 â—ther which 〈…〉 begotten Son I 〈…〉 our onely Sau◠〈…〉 swéete comforter liue◠〈◊〉 raignest one true and euâ—â—lasting God world without end Amen FINIS