morrow Moreouer because this life hath not one houre certayne whensoeuer the eâ—entide therof commeth the long sleepe of the body groweth vpon me from which we shall not wake till the dead rise agayn at the sound He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Abraham said Lord if I haue now found fauor in thy sight c â–ª Gen. â—1 Nâ—buchadneser aÌ„swered Lo I seâ— foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire Dan. 3 of thine Angels Trumpet I beseech thee lighten thou then the eyes of my minde so as I may not sleepe in euerlasting death by the quenching of my faith but rest in thee to whom euen the dead are aliue Which lyuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen ¶ A prayer to be sayd when we vnclothe our selues to bedward THis body which is become vnhaÌ„some and vnwealdy through sin shal be consumed by litle and litle and deliuered agayne to the earth from whence it was taken There shall the end be of this vanitie which we haue purchased to our selues by our owne folly Now therfore thou O most louing Father which hast set me together Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned agaynst the lord c. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked vpon Myriam and behold she was leprous Num. 12. Iesus sayd Many sinnes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7 dissolue me in such wise as I may feéle my selfe to be dissolued and remeÌ„ber of whom I am ouercome and consider whether I must goe Take me not vnwares and vnprouyded to thy iudgement seat but like as we be willing to put of our clothes which we shall put on agayne when the night is past so let vs not be loth to put of this body which we shall receiue agayn after that the night of this world hath run out his full race Amen ⧠A Prayer to be sayd at our going into bed WHen the day is ended we geue our selues to rest in the night so when this life is ended we rest in deth Nothing resembleth our life more theÌ„ the day nor death more then sleépe nor the graue more then the bed Uouchsafe therfore O Lord our gouernour When Christ came nere Ierusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. Who shall haue pity then vâ—on thee O Ierusalem or who c. Iere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation their Alars c. 1. Michâ— 1. defender both to shield vs now lying vnable to help our selues from the craftines assaults of our cruell enemy also to call vs then vnto theé when we shal be yet more vnable at the finishing of the race of this life not for our own deserts but for thy own mercy sake that we may liue walk with theé for euer And now let vs so fall a sleép in theé as thou only those exceding great incredible good thinges may in such wise be preseÌ„t alway before vs by the insight of our minds as we may not be absent from theé no not euen in sleép that such dreames may both keép our beds and bodies pure vndefiled and also chere our harts with that blessed ioy of thine In trust wherof I wil fall on sleép and take my rest through our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen A Prayer when we be redy to sleep The women sang by course in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 2â— The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Christ riding to Ierusalem many spred their gâ—â—â—entes in â—he way other cut downe branches of the trees strawed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. â—â— â–ª TAke me into thy protection O Lord Iesu Christ our defender and graunt that while my body slepeth my soul may wake in thee and cheérefully and ioyfully behold the happy gladsome heauenly life wherein thou art soueraine with the Father and the holy Ghost and the Angels and holy soules of men are most blessed fellow Citizens for euer and euer Amen * A preparation or preface to Publick Prayer ALmighty God and heauenly Father I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy and in thy feare will I worshippe toward thy holy Temple I haue loued the habitation of thine house and willingly am I present in the congregation of thy Saints praysing and confessing thy holy name Iesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them it is written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a deâ— of theues Luke 10 Is this house become a den of theeues wherupon c. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56 Come let vs fall and bow down before the Lord who hath made vs because he is the Lord our God and we the sheep of his pasture Exalt the Lord our God fall down before his footstoole for he is holy Lord I make my prayer vnto thee in an acceptable time euen in the multitude of thy mercies O God heare me in the truth of thy saluation I will offer to thee a sacrifice of praise and will call vpon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord euen now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lords house euen in the middest of thee O Ierusalem I will run in the way of thy commaundementes when thou shalt inlarge mine hart Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes Open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy lawe When Iosephes brethren saw him a farr of c. Gen. 3 Absolon rose vp early and stode hard by the c. 2. Sam. 15. Behold a woman a Cananite came out of the sea coastes â–ª and cried saying vnto him Haue mercy on me O Lord c. Math. 1â— Then will I take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy prayse I will sing with the Spirite and in vnderstanding and say Amen * A short speech before the Lords Proyer O Heauenly Father O most merciful God I most wretched sinner am vnworthy to lift vp my hands and eyes vnto thee or to trouble thee with my prayers Neuerthelesse forasmuch as thou hast commaunded all men to pray promised that thou wilt heare vs And moreouer prescribed vs a forme of Prayer in expresse wordes by thy welbeloued Sonne Iesus Christ being
haue now found fauor in thy sight c. Gen. 18. Nabuchadneser aÌ„swered Lo I see fouremen loose walking in the midst of the firâ— Dan. 3 He was transâ—Ì„gured before them and his face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were as white as the light And beholde there appeared vnto them Moses and Elias c. Math. 17. Iesus sayd Many â—innes are forgeuen her for she loued much To whom a little is forgeuen he doth loue a litle And he said vnto her Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee c. Luke 7 Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned agaynst the lord c. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked vpon Myâ—iam and behold she was leprous Num. 12. Who shall haue pity then vpon thee O Ierusalem or who c. Iere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation their Altars c. 1. Micha 1. When Christ came nere Ierusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it saying O if thou hadst euen knowen at the left in this thy day those thinges which belong vnto thy peace c. Luke 19. And because no gouernment can long stand without good counsell neither can any counsell be good except it be prospered by theé blesse therfore we beseéch theé both her maiesty and her honorable Counsaile that both they rightly vnderstand what is to be done and she accordingly may accomplish that they doe counsell to thy glory and furtherance of the gospell and publick wealth of this Realme Christ riding to Ierusalem many spred their garmentes in the way other cut downe branches of the trees stâ—awed them in the way And they that went before and they that folowed c Mark. â—â— The women sang by coâ—â—ese in their play and said c. 1. Sam. 2â— The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha c. 4. Reg. 2. Likewise to al magistrates such as be aduaunced to authority or placed in office by what name or title soeuer geue we beseéch theé a carefull conscience vprightly to discharge their duety that as they be publick persons to serue the commoÌ„ wealth so they abuse not their office to their priuate gayne nor priuate reuenge of their own affections but that iustice being administred without bribery and equity balanced without cruelty or parciality thinges that be amisse may be reformed vice abandoned truth supported innocency releéued Gods glory maintayned and the Common wealth truely serued Is this house become a â—en of theeues wherupon c. Iere. 7 Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people c. Esay 56. Iesus went into the temple and begâ—n tâ— cast out them that sold and bought saying vnto them 〈…〉 written Myne house is the house of prayer but ye haue made it a 〈◊〉 of thenâ—s Luke â— The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people consulted how they might take Iesus by suttletie and kil him But they said not on the feast day least any vprore c. Math. 26 When Iosephes brethren saw him a farr of c. Gen. 3 Absolon rose vp early and stoode hard by the c. 2. â—am 19. And forasmuch as the Bishoppe of Rome is wont on euery good Friday to accurse vs damned hereticks we curse not him but pray for him that he with all his partakers either may be turned to a better truth or els we pray theé gracious Lord that we neuer agreé with him in doctrine and that he may so curse vs still and neuer bles vs more as he blessed vs in Queéne Maries time God of thy mercy keép away that blessing from vs. Iudas sayd Come let vs sell him to the Ismalites c. Gen. 37 So Ioseph was brought down into Egypt and Poâ—ipher c. Gen. 30 Then appointed vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer and from that â—â—me Iudas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister Now on the first day of the feast of vnleaueâ—ed bread c. Math. 26 And forasmuch as thy poore little flock can scarse haue any place or rest in this world come Lord we beseéch theé with thy Factum est and make an end that this world may haue no more time nor place here that thy Church may haue rest for euer For these and all other necessities requisite to be begged and prayed for asking in thy Christes name and as he hath taught vs we say Our Father which art in heauen c. Another O Singular louer of vs Christ Iesu O Bridegrome to whom thy Church is most deare and which hast Iesus at his last supper as they did eate tooke bread wheÌ„ he had geuen thankes brake it and gaue it to his disciples saying Take eate this is my body c. Math. 26. Melchâ—â—â—ech brought forth bread and wine and he c. Gen. 37 Moses sayd to the people of Israell This is that bread c. Exo. 16. promised that thou wilt neuer fayle her increase her and multiply her with good issue like the father that is to wit like thy selfe Make vs to be all of one minde both in thee and in the thinges that concern thee so as we may verely be that body whereof thou art the head being as it were glewed and fastened together with mutuall charitie kindeled with that euerlasting fire of thine which hast so loued vs that thou hast spent thy bloud and thy life for vs. O Christ the author and perswader of peace loue and good wil soften our hard and steely harts warme our ycie and frozen harts that we may wish well one to another so as al men may perceue vs to be thy true disciples And geue vs grace eueÌ„ now to begin to shew forth that heauenly life wherin there is no disagreement I saw all Israel scatred as sheepâ— that had no shepheard c. 3. Reg. 22 Helisha sayd behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but thou c. 4. Reg. 7. 〈◊〉 said all ye shall be offended by 〈◊〉 this night c. He said moreouer vnto them sitte yâ— here while I go and pray yonder and he toke Peter and the two sonnes c. Math. 26. nor hatred but peace and loue on all hands one towards another Amen Another THe Church is one body deriued from thee O Christ the head therof into diuers members knitte to thee together among themselues with the knot of mutual loue a great mistery of Gods goodnes Now look how great a benefite loue vnitie and peace are so great a mischief is dissention the mother of hatred The author of the former is God and the author of this other is the deuil And like as nothing can be deuised more blessed then to haue the Earthlye church to imitate the concord of the heauenly church so nothing is more wretched then the contrary which is the Image of hell O head and father of oures thou Iesus knowing all thinges that should come went forth and said vnto them Whome seeke ye They answered him Iesus of Nazareth Iesus aunswered I am he Iudas also
and the decree DestructioÌ„ was preached to the Niniuites if they repented not this was the condition and the decree Niniue repented and was not destroyed but saued was therfore Gods decree altered no For he decreed their destruction but vpoÌ„ this condition if they repented not Pray therfore if thou be godly that he would geue thee the grace to coÌ„tinue and if thou be sinful pray that he geue thee the grace to repent And thus very well our prayers haue strength to stay Gods wrath his decree remayning immutable because it is threatned but vpoÌ„ a condition if we repent not But whence hath prayer this strength of it self No. For we being iustified through faith haue peace toward God that is the fauor of God through our Lord Iesus Christ. Rom. 5. So that Christ is our mouth whereby we speake to the Father our eyes by which we see the Father our right hand by which we offer to the Father Which Christ except he be our aduocate neither we nor all the saints can haue any thing to doe with god For no maÌ„ coÌ„meth to the father but by him Ioh. 14. Why then are not our prayers alwayes heard hauing continually such a spokesman who hath all power both in heauen and earth Truely because either we aske amisse not according to Gods will and that which is not for vs to receaue or it pleaseth the Lord to defer our requestes for tryall of our faith and patience HereupoÌ„ it was that Dauid sayd Expectans expectaui Dominum With long wayting I waited for the lord and he inclined vnto me and heard my calling Psal. 40. Pray therfore continually with faith loue vnderstanding in the name of Iesus Christ pray for al men at al times in al places and for al things according to Gods wil. Though thou be a sinner though God foreknoweth the hart though his decree be immutable yet pray vnto him in Iesus Christ and he will refresh thee Of this I thought good to admonish thee Christian Reader because it is an easy thing to pray but to pray aright is a thing very difficult Here are prepared for thee zealous and godly prayers some translated out of Latin French some made by the best learned of our time Use theÌ„ as I haue taught thee that they may be to good vse Accuse not mine insufficiency in teaching but amend thine owne imperfection in praying praying that we talke not smoothly walk crookedly but that we may giue to God the father our maker obedience faith to Iesus Christ our redemer and mortification of the flesh to God the holy ghost our comfortor Fare wel in Christ Iesu. R. D. ⧠The Preface or preparation to prayer O Lord my good God and Father blessed be thy name for euer dispose my hart open my lips and guide me by thy holy spirite to a true acknowledgement of all my sinnes that my prayer may be heard of theé in the name of thy Sonne Iesus Christ So be it ¶ A prayer to be sayd at our first waking O God and father of our Lord Iesus Christ whom no man knoweth but by thy specyall gift graunt that vnto the rest of thine exceéding great benefites towards me this which is the greatest that can be bestowed vpon mankind There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iesse and a graffe c. Esay 11. There shall come a star of Iacob and a scepter shall rise of Israell c. Num. 24. The birth of blessed Mâ—ry the virgine the mother of Christ c. may be added also namely that as thou hast raysed vp my body from fast and sound sleépe so also thou wilt deliuer my mind from the sleépe of sin and from the darcknes of this world and after death restore the same body to life as well as thou hast called it agayne from sleépe For that which is death to vs is but sleépe vnto theé I pray and beseéch theé that through thy goodnes this body of mine may be a fellow and furtherer of all godlinesse to my soule in this life so as it may also be partner with it of the endles felicitie in the life to come through Iesus Christ thy sonne our lord For whose sake and by whom thou geuest vs all good and holsome thinges to our welfare Amen Another MUch better is the light of the soule and the insight of the Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband before they came together was founde with childe by the holy ghost TheÌ„ Ioseph her husband being a iust man c Math. 1. But thou shalt goe vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife c. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be geuen thee to wife for to thee doth the right of her c. Tob. 6. minde then the light or eyesight of the body The eyesight of the body euery silly beast hath but the sight of minde none hath but men Yea none haue it but wise men Thou therfore O Lord Iesu Christ which art the greatest of all lights the only true light the light from whence springeth the light of the day and the sonne Thou light which inlightenest euery man y commeth into the world Thou light whereon there commeth no night nor euentide but continuest euer bright and cleére as at midday Thou light wherewithout all things are deépe darcknesse and whereby all things were made lightsome Thou mind and wisdom of the heauenly Father inlighten my minde that being blind in all other things I may seé nothing but that which beloÌ„geth to theé and that I may thereby walke in thy wayes without fantasying or lyking The seede of the woman shall tread vpon the head of the serpent Gen 3. The Angel sayd to him the Lord is with thee thou valyant man Iudges 6 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 the â—ngell Gabriel was sent fro God to a citie in Galile 〈◊〉 Nazareth 〈◊〉 virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid c. Luke 1. of any other light els Lord I beseéch theé inlighten mine eyes that I may neuer slumber in darcknes least my ghostly enemy say at any time I haue preuayled against him Amen * A prayer at our vprising OUr first father Adam being tumbled down from most excellent and glorious highnes into the dungeon of shame and sinck of all sinne was releéued lifted vp again by thy hand O Sauyour Iesus christ And we likewise should lye wallowing in the same plight for euer if we were not raysed vp by theé Wherfore O most mercifull Redeémer of mankinde like as thou of thy goodnes hast raysed vp this heauy and burthensome body euen so vouchsafe to lift vp my minde to the knowledge and loue of thy highnes Amen And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly contrey to a citie of Iuda and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe c Luke 1. And Moyses returned
hand pleading for vs Behold my Aduocat with thee O God the father Behold the chief Bishop who nedeth no other bloudy expiatioÌ„ for that he shineth imbrued with his own bloud Behold the holy welplesing Sacrifice With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water c Exo. 17 One of the souldiours with a speare pearced his side forthwith ran there out bloud and water And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true And he that c. Iohn 19. offered vp and receaued in al sweetnes Behold the immaculate Lamb which lay still before the shearers who being buffeted spit at and opprobriously rayled at opened not his mouth Behold he who sinned not toke our sinnes vpon him and with his stripes healed our infirmities ⧠A Prayer to God the Sonne O Lord Iesu Christ the maker and redemer of mankind which hast sayd that thou art the way the truth and the life the way by doctrin precepts and examples the truth in promises and the life in reward I beseéch theé for thine vnspekable loues sake where through thou hast vouchsafed to imploy thy selfe wholy in the sauing of vs Suffer me not at any time to stray from theé which art the way Ioseph toke the body and wrapped it in a cleane lâ—nnen câ—oth and laâ—d it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock 〈◊〉 rolled a great â—one to the dore c. Math. 27. Assone as the sâ—â—ne was downe Iosuâ— commaundeth that theâ— c. Iosu. 8 Then they arose and went all night and tokâ— the body c. 1. Sam. 1â— nor to distrust thy promyses which art the truth and performest whatsoeuer thou promysest nor to rest in any other thing then theé which art the way beyond which there is nothing to be desired neither in heauen nor in earth By theé we haue learned the sure and redy way to true saluation to the inteÌ„t we should not wander any longer vp and down in the mazes of this world Thou hast taught vs throughly what to beleue what to doe what to hope and wherin to rest We haue learned of theé how vngratiously we be borne of the first Adam We haue learned of theé that there is no hope of saluation but by beleéfe in theé and that thou art the only light which shineth before vs all as we iorney through the wildernes of this world through the night of our own harts from the darcknes of Egipt to that blessed land which thou hast promysed When Ioseph was come to his brethren they stripâ— him c. Gen. 37. So they toke vp Ionas and cast him into the sea and the sea c. Ionas He layd it in a tomb 〈◊〉 out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd And that day was the â—reparing of the Saboth the Saboth â—râ—e on The women that folowed after c. Luke 23. to the meéke and to such as follow the footsteps of thy mildnesse For in vs there was nothing but deép darcknes in so much that we could nether seé our own wretchednes nor where to seéke remedy for it But thou vouchsafing to come down into the earth to take our nature vpon theé of purpose to driue away the mist of our ignoraunce with the light of thy doctrine and to direct our feéte into the way of peace by thy precepts and hast paued vs the way to immortality by thy example and of abushy and rough way made vs a playn and smooth way by treading it out with thine own footsteps Thus art thou which canst no skill of error become our way wherein to the intent we should not faint thy goodnes hath vouchsafed to stay vs vp with many great and sure promyses For who can tire when he remeÌ„breth that For feare of him the kepers were astonied became as dead men But the Angell sayd to the women Feare not for I know you seeke Iesus which was crucified c. Math. 2â— Samson arose at midnight and toke the dores c. Iâ—dicum 16 And the Lord spake vnto the fish and it cast out Ionas c. Ionas 2. if he walk in thy footsteps the inherytance of the heauenly life is prepared for him Therfore it is thy will that hope should be as a sure staffe to holde vs vp as long as we be in this iorney And thy goodnesse was not contented with that but forasmuch as thou knoest the weaknes of our flesh thou refreshest our strength from time to time with the comfort of thy Spirit to the intent we may come running cherefully vnto theé And as thou being become our way puttest aside all cause of straying so being the truth puttest away al cause of distrust finally being become our life thou giuest vs grace to be dead here vnto sin to liue through thy spirit wh c quickneth all things vntill that in the resurrection when all mortalitie shall be rid quite and clean away we shall liue with theé and in theé for euer at which time God shall be all in all The king said vnto Daniell O Daniel the seruaunt c. Daniel 6. When I had past a litle from them then I found him c â–ª Cant. â— Iesus appâ—aâ—ed first to Mary Magdalenâ— out of whom he had â—ast 〈…〉 she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned c. Mar. 1â— For it is euerlasting life to know the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost to be the one true God whom we seé now by faith but as through a glasse and in a riddle but as then we shall behold his glory at hand and be transformed into the same Image And therefore I beseéch theé ô most mercifull Sauiour increase thy seruants faith that I may neuer stagger in thy heauenly doctrine increase mine obedience that I may neuer swarue from thy commaundements and increase my constancy that walking in thy steps I may neither be intised with Sathans allurementes nor discouraged with his terriblenes but hold out to the death in theé which art the true way increase my faith that trusting to thy promyses I may neuer faint in the indeuour of godlines but forget the things that I haue left behind me and go alwayes Iesus said to Thomas put thâ— finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faythlesse c. Iohn 20. And Iacob called the name of the place Pâ—inâ—ll c. Gen. 32. 〈◊〉 aunswered he Lord be with vs why then c. Iud. 6. forward to more perfection Increase thy grace in me that being dead euery day more then other in my selfe I may be aliue and led by thy Spirite fearing nothing but theé then whom nothing is more amiable glorying in nothing but only in theé who art the true glory of all the saints coueting nothing but theé who art of all things the