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A91785	A ladies legacie to her davghters. In three books. Composed of prayers and meditations, fitted for severall times, and upon severall occasions. As also several prayers for each day in the weeke. / By Madam Elizabeth Richardson, wife to the late Sir Thomas Richardson knight, Lord Chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench.	Cramond, Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness, d. 1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing R1382; Thomason E1165_4; ESTC R210104	81,683	176

which is most needfull even thy glory thy favour and thy blessed Kingdome and then Lord I know thou wilt supply all the defects of grace in my soule and heale all the infirmities of my body but chiefly vouchsafe daily to continue and increase all spirituall graces in my soule by thy mercy and mighty power O my blessed Lord God to which end O gracious Spirit give mee an upright and penitent heart an humble and lowly spirit a quiet recollected minde freed from the vanities and cares of this present world and the love of this vile life but Lord teach mee with Mary first and above all things to seek after thee my God thy Kingdome and the righteousnesse thereof so that I may have grace wholly to devote and dedicate my selfe my time and best endeavours unto thy true and faithfull service and daily study and strive to doe thy holy will in all things and seek thy glory here that so I may be partaker of thy heavenly Kingdome hereafter And deare Lord Holy Ghost inspire me with thy grace daily to heare and read thy holy and blessed word as I ought to do and that I may so imploy my time therein as to frame my life hereafter to thy glory and my soules good And grant mee graciously O God to chuse to speake and to walke in the waies of truth and righteousnesse and to set thy heavy judgements against sin continually before my face to deter and make mee daily to remember my owne last end and by thy assistance to prepare for it and to consider the end in all my actions before I doe them that I may never doe amisse and let me still remember thy all-seeing eyes are ever upon our waies that I may not displease or offend thee in any thing But Lord indue me with thy holy Spirit to direct my heart and all my waies aright before thee that so thou maiest witnesse to my spirit that I am the childe of God and ever continue unto mee that unspeakable comfort to give me the joyfull hope of my salvation through my Lord Jesus Christ unto my end and in my end especially establish me with thy free spirit to worke in my soul all saving graces that may make me acceptable in thy sight through my Lord Jesus Christ for whose sake I beseech thee further to extend thy goodnes towards me to forgive all my sinnes and offences that I have done before thee in my whole life past and preserve me in soul and body from all sin and evill either committing or falling on mee but deare Lord vouchsafe daily to supply and bestow upon me all the benefits and blessings necessary for this present life but chiefly be pleased to sanctifie my soule and body unto thy faithfull service and indue me with all saving graces for my salvation both in life and death that so I may bee able rightly and constantly to serve and please thee whilst I live here that also by thy gracious assistance I may obtaine a place hereafter to live with thee eternally O Holy Ghost and my blessed Lord God to whom be all thanks and praise for ever Amen 33. The conclusion for Saturday night in bed to the weeks Prayers for mornings and nights I Most humbly beseech thee my Lord God mercifully to loke upon me and my manifold infirmities and for Jesus my Saviours sake vouchsafe to forgive and pardon all my sinnes and grievous offences that I have committed in thy sight all the daies of my life past and in thy great mercy turne from me all those evils that my transgressions have justly deserved and Lord grant me thy preventing grace and fatherly providence to bee still with mee to preserve me at all times from falling into any sinne or evill either to offend thee my God or to hurt my owne soule And vouchsafe Lord so to direct and dispose the heart and waies of me thy most unworthy servant towards the right performance of all duties and services that I owe unto thee my God and the happy obtaining by my Lord Iesus of everlasting salvation to my owne selfe that amongst all the changes chances and adversities of this miserable mutable and mortall life I may ever be defended by thy ready helpe and favour from falling into sin shame harme or danger either in soule or body and may be directed and assisted by thy grace and providence to walke in the waies of righteousnesse and true holinesse before thee that thou my Lord Holy Ghost maiest guide me in all things I goe about to doe that which may be most serviceable acceptable and best pleasing in the sight of my Lord God to whom be all praise honour power and eternall glory for ever and ever Amen The end of the second Book BOOK III. Short Prayers which may belong to any the three Books when time serves not for longer devotions 1. A short Preface before other prayers or petitions O Lord Holy Ghost who best knowest my manifold infirmities have mercy and pity upon me and vouchsafe to prevent or to banish and drive away all evill hindrances and temptations that may withdraw my heart from God in the offering up of my prayers and humble petitions unto thy Majesty and be pleased Lord to sanctifie teach and assist me herein with thy holy Spirit and grace that I may rightly and faithfully performe this duty and service before thee to thy glory and my good and comfort of my soule through Christ Jesus Amen 2. A short thanksgiving at first sight of the morning light MY blessed Lord God I most humbly praise thee for thy gracious preservation of mee with quiet rest and health this night past and bringing me in safety to this light Lord blesse and sanctifie me this day and ever unto thy faithfull service and keep me alwaies in thy true faith feare favour and ready obedience and make me constantly and unfaignedly thine all my life time but in my death especially that when it pleaseth thee to call for me out of this miserable world thou maiest bring me to eternall salvation by thine own merits and meer mercy sweet Jesus I most humbly beseech thee So be it 3. A Prayer for helpe in present temptation in the time of prayer to our Lord Jesus who overcame and subdued the old tempter the subtile Serpent our everlasting enemy from whom God defend us OH my God heavenly Father who hast made and seest all hearts and knowest my great affection and fervent desire rightly to serve thee and my weaknesse and frailty in performance thereof have pity on my infirmities and assist me with thy grace And sweet Jesus my Saviour who didst suffer thy selfe to bee tempted by the Divell that thou mightest overcome the tempter and succour all those that are tempted to thee Lord I call and pray for helpe and defence against this malicious adversary O God the Holy Ghost indue me with thy blessed Spirit and power so to resist him that he may flye from me

patience to wait thy leasure untill thou please to have mercy on us to our release and comfort and to thy owne praise and glory who never failest those that depend upon thee Now I most humbly acknowledge with all possible praise and thanks which I am bound ever to render unto thee that thou hast formerly delivered me out of many sorrowes eares troubles and vexations both in body and minde and also I blesse and magnifie thy holy Name for all thy great and manifold blessings which thou hast bestowed upon me thy most unworthy servant and I pray thee Lord of thy infinite goodnesse not to let my sinnes and wickednesse hinder thy mercies towards me but pardon and cast all my offences out of thy sight through Jesus Christ my Saviour and vouchsafe alwaies to continue thy grace and favour to mee and especially in daily renewing all spirituall graces in me that so when or how soone soever thou hast appointed an end unto my daies here I may then obtaine the end of my faith and hope even thy glory and my owne salvation through thy beloved Son and my only Saviour Jesus for whose sake Lord heare me and grant these my humble requests with all things else which thou best knowest necessary either for my soule or body for this life or for the life to come in which deare God make mee in thy manifold mercies partaker of eternall happinesse for evermore Amen 3. A Prayer for due preparation before the holy Communion of the Lords Supper O Most gracious God and our heavenly and mercifull Father in Jesus Christ who hatest nothing thou hast made and desirest not the death of sinners but that we should return to thee and live thou absolvest all those that truly repent and beleeve thy holy Gospell and didst send thine only and beloved Son Jesus into the world to seek those that were lost and to save sinners by thy grace of whom I am chiefe O sweet Jesus thou callest to thee those that are heavy laden and truly penitent and weary of their burthensome sinnes that thou maiest mercifully ease and refresh them thou camest to call sinners to repentance and restore us that were lost by sinne and to lay downe thine owne life to redeeme mankinde from eternall death and hast left us a gracious remembrance thereof in thy most holy Supper of that unspeakable worke of our redemption which we are exceedingly bound often to celebrate in acknowledgement of thy unexpressible mercy and favour towards us But oh my Lord I tremble and feare knowing that I am a wretched and wicked sinner and my offences have made me abominable in thy sight being wholy corrupt both in soule and body from the crowne of my head to the soal of the foot the worst deserving of all thy servants and if thou shouldest strictly marke what I have done amisse or enter into judgement with me how should I dare to come into thy presence having nothing to answer for my selfe but to cry with the Publican I have grievously offended Lord be mercifull to mee a sinner and as another saith of himselfe how should I presume to appeare in the presence of God can the Lord be mercifull to so miserable a sinner as I am But Lord I have learned and do beleeve that there is mercy with thee and plentifull redemption therefore we are infinitly bound to love and feare thee but I doe humbly confesse that I am altogether unworthy of my selfe to approach unto thy blessed table but thou Lord that givest both the will and the deed in all good workes so Lord I pray thee to worke in me a due preparation for thy acceptance and then inable me to performe my duty herein in a right and faithfull manner for there at thy heavenly banquet thou Lord Father Son and Holy Ghost art present in thy great Majesty beholding our unperfect devotions wants in preparation and manifold infirmities but thou Lord by thy powerfull grace cleansest us from sin and changest us into new creatures and in thy highest bounty giving thy selfe really unto us to be received spiritually by faith and by the working of the Holy Ghost thou art the heavenly food of our soules unto eternall life powring such great and wonderfull treasure into poore earthen vessels as we are and and so making us partakers of all the benefits of thy unspeakable merits and bitter passions and sufferings Oh Lord who invitest me thither continue thy mercy to perfect the good worke thou hast begun for my salvation and heale thou my corrupt soule converting my straying and deceitfull heart and knit it unto thee my God and by thy grace prepare and fit me rightly reverently faithfully and worthily to receive that high and divine mystery in all humility contrition true faith and charity with such devotion as I ought to doe Now deare Lord give me grace rightly to understand and duly to consider and ponder of thy greatnesse to feare thee of thy goodnesse to love thee of thy power and manifold mercies towards me ever to beleeve and trust in thee And also to looke into my owne rebellious disobedience and shamefull ingratitude towards thee and my most miserable estate who am in danger of everlasting damnation by my innumerable transgressions committed against thee Lord touch my hardened heart with the oyle of thy grace that it may be fastened to receive a sound and sensible feeling and sight of all my grievious sinnes past both in committing the evill I was forbidden and omitting the good I am commanded with a true sense of thy just wrath against me for the same which may worke in mee by thy assistance such unfaigned sorrow and penitencie even to breake my stony heart with hatred of my self and all sinne for so offending thee with such true contrition and repentance unto salvation as I may obtaine thy mercifull pardon sweet Jesus that by thy wounds I may bee healed and all my offences hidden never to bee imputed unto me hereafter and by thy grace heartily purposing constantly to endeavour the amendment of all my misdeeds for the time to come and by thy helpe to lead a holy and a sanctified life so long as I live Now I humbly beseech thee oh dear Lord to indue me also with the blessed gift of true faith which is the only hand to lay hold of thee and all thy mercies whereby thou maiest dwell in me and I in thee for ever I beleeve Lord helpe my unbeleefe and strengthen and increase in me a right hope and lively faith stedfastly to beleeve and rightly to apply to my owne soule all thy gracious promises benefits merits and sufferings for me to my salvation Oh my God Holy Ghost vouchsafe to inspire my heart with true and perfect charity towards all my brethren and neighbours yea even to my very enemies for thy sake that I may forgive them as thou dost pardon me And thou Lord preserver of mankinde by thy gracious operation in this blessed

my heart the store-house of all thy divine precepts that by thy grace I may bring forth good fruit in my life and make mee able rightly and reverently to read and heare thy holy word and heavenly will daily as I ought to doe and by thy grace to frame my life thereafter and direct thou me thy poor servant in all I goe about to doe that which is best and most to thy glory that howsoever all the powers and ●●culties of my soule or the members or senses of ●●y body may be decayed or lost by age griefe or ●●cknesse for the occasions of this life yet so Lord all that is needfull for thy constant service I beseech thee continue to my last breath And also be pleased to grant that my death be neither sudden nor unexpected nor my pains violent whereby to be made unable earnestly and faithfully to pray and call upon thy holy name but if it be thy will give mee knowledge of my death when thy time is come to call mee out of this world and assist me fervently to crie unto thee for grace and mercie in the needfull time of dread and danger then deare Lord fit and prepare me for thy selfe and give me a blessed departure hence to dye in thee my Lord and so I shall remaine safe and ever happy and sweet Iesus make me pray unto thee with my last breath and yeeld up my spirit to God that gave it with praises in my mouth unto my gracious God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Now vouchsafe good Lord while I live to indue me thy most unworthy servant with thy grace and holy Spirit whereby devout love and feare of thy Majesty with true faith stedfast hope perfect charity and unfained repentance with all other saving graces may be daily renued and increased in mee towards thee to thy glory and the furtherance of my salvation through Christ O sweet Saviour who hast performed and suffered great and many things for mee deare Jesus continue thy infinite favour and finish thy worke of mercy towards me the least of thy servants still to call and draw me daily unto thee and make me faithfull constantly and wholly thine in all humble obedience and true humility to serve thee in uprightnesse of life and a holy conversation towards all so long as I live and wilt assure my soule that thou art my mercifull God and after death make me a happy partaker of thy everlasting Kingdome of glory So be it Amen 19. A Prayer of three petitions to the blessed Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost for the spirit of prayer for repentance and remission of sins and grace to amend and lead a new life O My Lord Holy Ghost our sanctifier and comforter and preserver the giver of all heavenly gifts and graces and the directer and assister of us to all goodnesse I most humbly pray thee to indue me thy poore sinfull servant with thy true spirit of grace and prayer to helpe and teach me how to pray as I ought and to drive away and banish from me in the performance of this my duty all evill temptations and wicked hindrances that seek to pervert and withdraw my heart and soule from the true service of my God and suffer not the world the divell nor any his agents to have power over me or part in mee to prevaile against me and to cause God to turn his eare and face of mercy from hearing and receiving my prayers and supplications but Lord by thy grace make my petitions now and alwaies right faithfull and acceptable to Almighty God through Iesus Christ my blessed Saviour But O my God heavenly Father the originall of all goodnesse and mercy who graciously commandest us to call upon thee in the time of trouble that thou delivering us we may glorifie thee what greater misery and danger then a heavy load of sins that will not easily be cast off and a wounded spirit who can beare it for I confesse I have most grievously sinned against thee and my iniquities are multiplied before thee as the starres which cannot be numbred O Lord whose compassion never faileth those that seek and trust in thee as thy mercy exceedeth all thy great workes so let that through thy deare Son move thee to release mee of this intolerable burthen which else will throw mee out of thy presence and favour wherein is the fulnesse of joy and presse me down to hell into everlasting torments amongst the enemies of God and man Now mercifull God who hast pity on thy poore creatures and delightest not in the death of a sinner Lord turne me from all my evill waies that I may be converted unto thee to feare love and obey thee unto my end And vouchsafe to pardon all my transgressions past and remove my sins from me as farre as the East is from the West and bury them in oblivion that they may not be able to separate my God from mee as far as heaven from hell but Gracious Lord be pleased to give me thy unworthy servant the blessed gift of true sorrow and repentance to salvation to fit me for thy mercy and prepare me with grace by the amendment of all my misdeeds for thy loving acceptance of me in thy favour againe and say to my lost soule I am thy God and thy salvation for ever and so thou working in me both the will and the deed the praise honour and glory be only thine for evermore Now swet Jesus the fountaine of mercy and Saviour of all that trust and believe in thee who graciously callest all heavy laden and penitent sinners to come to thee that thou maiest ease them have mercy on me and heale my sinfull soul with thy most pretious bloud and thy righteousnesse I know is alsufficient to cover a world of sinnes if thou please to impute it unto mee O shrowd mee under thy innocent wing that the great wrath I have deserved may never fall upon mee but vouchsafe dear Lord to receive mee sinfull creature into thy favour as thou didst Mary to become wholly thine and be thy faithfull disciple so long as I live and stretch forth thy hand of mercy as thou didst to Peter from sinking in the sea so Lord save me thy unworthy servant from perishing in my sins and by thy assistance according to thy blessed advice that I may make my peace here where I have transgressed before I goe where the utmost farthing must bee paid O Lord by thy grace make me a new creature daily to worke out my salvation with sorrow for my time lost feare to offend again and trembling at the heavy judgements due unto me and striving to make my calling and election sure by a holy life and godly conversation both towards God and man all the rest of my dayes And make mee cast utterly off all love of this deceitfull world which is but lost and my owne vaine desires that hang so fast on and only apply my heart

and soule to seek after thee and thy Kingdome with the righteousnesse thereof and then I shall obtain the end of my faith and hope even thy glory and my owne salvation through thee only dear Jesus my blessed Lord and alone Saviour To whom with God the Father and the Holy Ghost three Persons one eternall God and glorious Trinity be rendred as is due all praise honour and glory for ever and ever Amen 20. The conclusion to this booke A short Prayer so to performe our duties here towards God that we may obtaine heaven hereafter OH most mercifull Lord God thou knowest my unaptnesse to any good I humbly pray thee to give me thy poor unworthy servant grace so truly to feare thee as not to offend thee so constantly to beleeve in thee and confidently to relye upon all thy gracious promises in all my troubles and necessities and so entirely and sincerely to love and honour thee above all things that nothing in this world may withdraw my minde from thee nor any vaine hopes or earthly desires make mee neglect my service to thee but that I may daily study and strive rightly and carefully to obey thee my Lord at all times diligently to seek thee and know thy will and faithfully to serve and please thee as I ought to doe as long as I live For thou O God the Father lovedst us first and sent thy deare Son out of thy bosome to redeeme us and our sweet Saviour Jesus in his love gave himselfe and laid downe his owne life to save us from eternall death greater love cannot bee found then for one to dye for a friend but thou Lord diedst for thine enemies much more having now reconciled us to the father and to thy selfe I trust being united to thee also by the Holy Ghost by sanctification and true faith wrought in me by that blessed Spirit I shall obtaine mercy through the merits and sufferings of my deare Jesus to live with thee in heaven hereafter to glorifie the great Name of God the eternall Father Son and Holy Ghost to whom bee all praise and honour for ever and let heaven and earth Saints and Angells and all creatures give glory to him for evermore Amen Here is one Prayer more which I joyne to these because it concerned one of my daughters to whom this Booke belonged though it was lately penned upon a very strange accident 21. A thanksgiving to Almighty God for his most mercifull preservation of my noble kinswoman the Lady Eliz. Feelding and of my owne daughter the Lady Eliz. Cornwalleis from drowning under the Bridge and was long under water and one worthy Gentlewoman in the company could not bee recovered This may serve upon any such fearfull accident MOst Mighty God Creator of heaven and earth and the only disposer of all things therein thou art the defender and protecter of all thy children and servants and the gracious preserver of all those that depend upon thee thy power ruleth both by sea and land and thy all-guiding providence directeth all things in the world according to thy own high will and good pleasure and for the good of all them that trust in thee Whereof thou hast given many and mee the unworthiest of thy servants an especiall testimony of thy infinite mercy towards my deare daughter and kinswoman in that great and miraculous deliverance lately of them in the dreadfull danger of sudden death by drowning in the Thames for thou didst mercifully provide and take care to save their lives when they were past sense to take care of themselves or to call upon thee for helpe yet beyond all hope thou didst bring them backe from the gates of death praised for ever be thy most glorious Name and let neither us nor any of our generation forget this thy great mercy Now Lord make us duly to acknowledge all thy benefits and let us not passe them out of our mindes without true thankfulnesse for all thy favours continually vouchsafed unto us undeserved for all which we poor creatures have nothing to returne to thee but devout love faithfull service and carefull obedience with the humble sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving which by thy assistance I will performe towards thee with a gratefull heart so long as I live and for ever Amen 22. A Petition of the Author for herselfe O Lord as Paul said he would readily performe the duty in his charge that lay upon him lest while he preached to save others himself should become a cast-away so dearest Lord I having taken pains to compose many Prayers for the use of others under my care to further them in the constant performance of this duty of prayer which being rightly used will draw many blessings from thee Almighty God I most humbly beseech thee to heare and receive their supplications that call upon thee by these Prayers So Gracious Lord suffer not me to neglect my duty and daily service herein towards thy Majesty but make me carefully rightly and reverently to offer up due praises and prayers daily unto thee in a faithfull and acceptable manner all the daies of my life And give me thy poor servant the assistance of thy grace and holy Spirit to reform all my waies before thee to suppresse and overcome the corruption of my heart the vanity of my mind and to forsake and abandon the love of this vile world with all the deceitfull vanities thereof and to cast off those great superfluous cares and desires after the things of this mutable life which passe away like a shadow or dream Wise Solomon that had the plenty and triall of all things under the Sun tells us what it will prove only vanity of vanities and vexation of spirit Wherefore let me learne with Paul in what estate soever I am therewith to be content and to submit with humble patience to thy pleasure in all things thou sendest who knowest what is best and fittest for me and keep me for repining and despairing in thy chastisements for thou canst heale as well as wound when thou pleasest Therefore I will dedicate my heart and soule and all my endeavours unto thy faithfull service striving to make my calling and election sure by looking after thee my God thy Kingdome and thy righteousnesse which is the only thing needfull This grace grant unto mee O God for Jesus Christs sake Amen The end of the first Book BOOK II. THis Book I began to write at my house at Barking in Essex where I retired my selfe in solitarinesse after the death of my worthy and dear husband Sir Thomas Richardson Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench who dyed at Candlemas 1634. Where shortly after I finished these Prayers following for my owne private use being the fittest imployment for my time who was then in so much heavinesse I call this Book a weekly exercise of Prayer either for a private person or in their owne family To which there are added some other necessary Prayers very