not far from me O Lord. V. 22. Psal. 69. Save me O God for the waters are come in even unto my soul. ver 1. Psal. 68. Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered let them also that hate Him flee before Him ver 1. P. Isa. 38. Lord it oppresseth me answer for me v. 14. Psal. 38. Thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God ver 15. Psal. 130. Out of the deep have I called unto Thee O Lord Lord hear my voice ver 1. O let Thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint ver 2. Psal. 79. O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before Thee according to the greatness of Thy power preserve Thou those that are appointed to die ver 12. A Praier to be used by the Priest begging Pardon of his own unworthiness and acceptance of his devotions for the sick O Lord it is a great presumption that one sinner should dare to commend another to Thy Divine Majestie especially the greater the less and who would not fear to undertake it But Thy commandment it is by Thy Holie Apostle When any is sick that the Priests should be called for that they should pray for the sick partie and that their praiers Thou wilt receive and save and forgive the fins of the partie so praied for And now behold O Lord we that are no way meet but unworthie utterly unworthie to sue for ought for our selvs charitie and compassion so binding us are enforced to become suitors to Thee for others Even O Lord for this Thy servant readie to depart this world To Thee we hope to Thee we desire to Thee we intreat and pray in all meek manner and even from the bottom of our hearts O Lord that which justly Thou mightst denie to our unworthiness denie not we beseech Thee to Thine own gracious goodness O Lord forgive us our sins our great and grievous sins oft and many times committed long and many years most wretchedly continued that so we may be meet to pray for others that so we may make our praier unto Thee in an acceptable time Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of Thy people Favorably with mercie receive our praiers Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ. Graciously hear us O Christ. Graciously hear us O Lord Christ. A Letanie for the sick person in danger of death O God the Father of Heaven have mercie upon h. keep and defend h. O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercie upon h. save and deliver h. O God the Holie Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercie upon h. strengthen and comfort h. O Holie Blessed and Glorious Trinitie have mercie upon h. Remember not Lord h. offenses Call not to mind the offenses of h. forefathers But spare h. good Lord spare Thy servant whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy pretious bloud and be not angrie with h. for ever From Thy wrath heavie indignation The guilt and burthen of h. fins The dreadful sentence of the last Judgment Good Lord deliver h. From The sting and terror of Conscience The danger of impatience distrust or despair The extremitie of fickness anguish or agonie that may any way withdraw h. mind from Thee Good Lord deliver h. From the Bitter pangs of eternal death Gates of Hell Power of darkness Illusions assaults of our ghostlie enemie Good Lord deliver h. By Thy manifold and great mercies By the manifold and great Merits of JESUS Christ Thy Son By His Agonie and bloodie Sweat Strong Crying and Tears Bitter Cross and Passion Mightie Resurrection Glorious Ascension Effectual and most acceptable Intercession and Mediation By the Graces and Comforts of the Holie Ghost Good Lord deliver h. For Thy Names sake The glorie of Thy Name Thy loving Mercie Thy Truths sake Thine own self In this Time of h. most extremitie H. last and greatest need In the Hour of death and Day of Judgment Good Lord deliver h. Deliver h. O Lord from all danger and distress from all pains and punishments both bodilie and ghostlie Amen As Thou didst deliver Noah from the Flood so save and deliver h. Lot from the fire of Sodom so save and deliver h. Isaac from present death so save and deliver h. Job from all his tentations so save and deliver h. Moses from the hand of Pharaoh so save and deliver h. Daniel from the Lions den so save and deliver h. Jonas from the belly of the Whale so save and deliver h. And as Thou hast delivered Thy blessed Saints Servants from all their terrors and torments so deliver h. soul and receive it to Thy mercie We sinners do beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to remember h. with the favor Thou bearest unto Thy people and so vifit h. with Thy salvation We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to save and deliver h. soul from the power of the enemie lest as a Lion he devour it and tear it in pieces if there be none to help We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to be merciful and to forgive all h. sins and misdeeds which by the malice of the Devil or by h. own frailtie h. hath at any time of h. life committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee not to lay to h. charge what in concupiscence of the eie pride of life vanitie or superfluitie h. hath committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee not to lay to h. charge what in the fierceness of h. wrath or in the eagerness of an angrie spirit he hath committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee not to lay to h. charge what in vain and idle words in the loosness and slipperiness of the tongue h. hath committed against Thee We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to make h. partaker of all Thy mercies and promises in Christ JESUS We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to vouchsafe h. soul the estate of joy bliss happiness with all Thy blessed Saints in Thy heavenly Kingdom We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please Thee to grant h. bodie rest and peace and a part in the blessed Resurrection of Life and Glorie We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech Thee to hear us O Lord God Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercie upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world have mercie upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world grant h. Thy peace Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father have mercie upon us Lord have mercie upon us Christ have mercie upon us Lord
A MANUAL OF DIRECTIONS FOR THE SICK With many sweet Meditations and Devotions of the R. Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews late L. Bishop of Winchester To which are added Praiers for the Morning Evening and H. Communion Translated out of a Greeke MS. of His Private Devotions By R. D. B. D. London Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1648. To the Christian READER THe great errand of our coming into this World is but to prepare ourselvs for a better Which being the chief scope and aim of this Manual I cannot but commend his pious intention who formerly presented it to publik view But observing a great want of that Impression besides many literal imperfections omissions and misquotations of Holy Scriptures therin and generally so great a want of that care and exactness which was due to any piece of him to whom it claim'd relation and which made the child so unlike the Father I counselled this Second Edition of it assuring myself that it would be an acceptable service to the Church of God and not a little ingage the world in a reverend estimation of this holie Prelate who not only taught them the way to heaven by his incomparable Sermons but also assisted them in it by his Example and Devotions It hath been too great a fault in all ages to wrap up their drugs in gold and to vent false wares under glorious titles imposing an the world and on famous Authors many broken and imperfect Reliques That this Reverend Father hath suffered somwhat by this false play is too notorious in the world and in the former Impression of this Manual there were som crude additions which though not justifiable by any authentik evidence or Remain of his were yet impos'd on him and us and dar'd to call him Master These being hence remanded to their proper place of silence and obscuritie I give you this as his genuin issue Which I am the rather induced to beleive so not only by the internal arguments the spirit and genius the method and peitie thereof but also by the external testimonie and conveighance of it to us as His under the fair hand of his Amanuensis from which collated with another Manuscript and that in print I give you this corrected That it was conceived and used by him in his ordinarie Visitation of the Sick when he was Vicar of St. Giles Creeplegate though I take for no good Topick to gain your entertainment of it by yet this persuasion it may happily beget that all the business of a Parish-Priest is not consined to the Pulpit but that there is other business if the people could think on it wherein to imploy men of that Profession which if so wel attended as it ought we should not hear of so many scandalous complaints against a lazie Clergie nor be so much infested by sacrilegious intruders into our Sacred Office Your pardon if I tell you what I mean not in mine own but his expressions who knew better what belonged to the Court of Conscience I take it to be an Error to think the fruits of Repentance and the worth of them to be a matter any common man can skil of wel enough needs never ask S. John or S. Paul what he should do knows what he should do as wel as S. Paul or S. John either And that it is not rather a matter wherin we need the counsel and direction of such as are professed that way Truly it is neither the least nor the last part of our learning to be able to give answer and direction in this point But therfore laid aside and neglected by us because not sought after by you Therfore not studied but by very few quia nemo nos interrogat because it is grown out of request quite We have learn'd I know not where a new a shorter course which flesh and blood better likes of To pass the whole course of our life and in the whole course of our life not to be able to set down where or when or what we did when we did that which we call Repenting What fruits there came of it what those fruits might be worth But even a little before our death and as little as may be not til the world have given us over then lo to come to our Quid faciemus to ask What we shal do when we are able to do nothing And then must one come and as we call it speak comfortably to us that is minister to us a little Divinitie Ladanum rather stupefactive for the present then doing any sound good and so take our leaves to go meet with ira ventura This way this fashion of Repenting Saint John knew it not it is far from his fructus dignos S. Paul knew it not it is far from his opera digna And I can say little to it but I pray God it deceive us not It is not good trying conclusions about our souls This I take for so fair an item to a tender and pious Christian as I doubt not of diverting him therby from deferring the making of his accompts eaven with heaven til the Cross or Bed of sickness call upon him Sure that 's no time or place to contest with two such Enemies as are Infirmities and Sins and an Age is too short a time to provide ourselvs in for Eternitie With this Protest and Caveat against this Unchristian course and fashion of the World I commend This to you as your Vade mecum and as your faithful friend and Counseller Which though it speak in special to the Sick will be found upon serious thoughts to be servieeable to all estates and conditions whatsoever whether in Sickness or Health Prosperitie or Adversitie making in us such deep impresses of the Divine Excellencie and our Human Frailtie as must needs force us from the cobweb comforts of This to the desire of enjoying those more solid and immutable in a better World in the Expressions and with the Longings of the Roial Prophet My foul is athirst for God yea even for the living God when shal I come to appear before the presence of God! Psal. 42. 2. I need not mind you of the reading of the Psalms after the Old Translation of the Liturgie For besides that there was no other then in being the constant use of those Expressions to which the Church was so habituated in her dailie Offices had made them so familiar and known to all that any other reddition of them might have been taken for the greatest injurie and invasion that could possibly have been made upon Devotion One presumption I shal promise myself your pardon of My affixing Titles and Inscriptions They being wholy designed out of charitie for the better use and service of the Many who not being able to digest and apply what is given in gross may under these special and distinct Heads find matter proper for their Meditations and Devotions according to their several exigencies
and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Psal. 27.16 O cast thy burthen upon the Lord and He shal refresh thee and shal not suffer the righteous to fail for ever Psal. 55.23 O put your trust in Him alway yea people Pour out your hearts before Him for God is our hope Psal. 62.8 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth He His anger for ever Psal. 103.9 In His wrath He will remember mercie P. Hab. 3.2 Heaviness may indure for a night but joy will come in the morning Psal. 30.5 For a little while have I forsaken thee but with great compassion will I gather thee For a moment in mine anger I bid my face from thee but with everlasting mercie have I had pitie on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer P. Isa. 54.7 8. Concerning the Contrition and Repentance of the Sick DO you acknowledg yourself not to have lived so well as you ought but to have sinned don amiss and dealt wickedly Do you call to mind the years of your life spent amiss in the bitterness of your soul Do you desire to have your mind illuminated by God touching those sins you never knew or which you once knew but have now forgotten that you may repent of them 1 Do you desire to feel greater sorrow in your soul for your sins committed then you do 2 Would you be glad if you did feel it 3 And are you grieved that you feel it not that you are no more grieved Be there or is there any special sin that doth lie heavie on your conscience for the which you need or would require the benefit of private Absolution Say Thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin and makest his beautie consume as a moth fretting a garment Psal. 39.12 There is no health in my flesh by reason of Thy wrath neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sen. Psal. 38.3 Lord be merciful unto me Heal my soul for I have sinned against Thee Psal. 41.4 Lord I confess my wickedness and am sorrie for my sin Psal. 38.18 I call to mind the mispent years of my life in the bitterness of my soul. P. Isa. 38.15 My misdeeds have prevailed against me O be Thou merciful unto my sin Psal. 65.3 For Thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great Psal. 25.10 O remember not the offenses and frailties of my youth but according to Thy mercie think Thou upon me O Lord for Thy Goodness Psal. 25.6 Namely O Lord and specially in be merciful unto me Herein the Lord be mertiful unto His servant 2 Kings 5.18 O Lord lay not to my charge Acts 7.60 If Thou Lord be extreme to mark what is don amiss O Lord who may abide it Psal. 130.3 O enter not into judgment with Thy servant for no flesh is righteous in Thy sight Psal. 1 43.2 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face bath covered me Psal. 44.16 My heart is disquieted within me and the fear of death is fallen upon me Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me Psalm 55.4 5. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as are of an humble spirit Psal. 34.17 A broken and contrite heart O Lord wilt Thou not despise Psal. 51.17 Repent you of these your sins That is 1. Have you a purpose to judg yourself for them if you live 1 Cor. 11.31 2. And to inflict upon yourself punishment for committing them according as you shal be directed 2 Cor. 7.11 Levit 5.18 3. Are you resolved if God send you life hereafter to amend and live more carefully and to avoid both those means occasions that may provoke you to sin again and those signs and marks which testifie you delight in it 4. Do you holily promise thus much in the presence of God His grace aiding you 5. Do you desire if God send you health again to be specially put in mind therof Turn us then O God our Saviour and let Thine anger cease from us Psal. 85.4 Concerning the Belief of the Sick BEleive you the Christian Creed or Confession of our most Holie Faith once delivered to the Saints Beleive you that you cannot be saved except you did beleive it Are you glad in your soul and do you give God heartie thanks that in this Faith you were born have lived in it and now shal die in the same Do you yourself desire and do you wish us to desire at the hands of God that this Faith may not fail you until the hour and in the hour of death If your sense fail you or if the pain of your disease or weakness otherwise so work with you as it shal happen you with your tongue to speak ought otherwise then this your Faith or Religion would do you renounce all such words as none of yours and is it your will we account of them as not spoken by you Is there in your mind any scruple touching any matter of Faith or Religion Say Lord I beleive help Thou mine unbelief S. Mark 9.24 Concerning the sick parties Forgiving offenders against him DO you forgive them that any manner of way have offended you as freely as you would be forgiven at Gods hand Do you likewise desire of God that He would forgive them That amends which they are bound to make you in that they have offended you are you content to remit them also Are you willing that so much be shewed them from you that you have forgiven them freely and fully and desire God to do the like Say Father forgive them they knew not what they did S. Luke 23. 34 O Lord lay not these fins to their charge Acts 7. 60. Concerning the sick parties Desire of Forgiveness from them whom be hath offended YOu yourself living in the world it cannot be but some you have offended Do you desire that all such as you have offended would pardon and forgive you Do you remember or call to mind any person or persons in special whom you have so offended Will you that so much be signified to them in your name that you desire them to forgive you Inasmuch as the offenses against the Seventh Commandment of getting any children by the act of adulterie committed with the wife of another man and against the Eighth Commandment touching mens goods and against the Ninth touching mens credits or good names are not by God forgiven unless restitution be made to the parties wronged Are you readie and willing to restore and make satisfaction to such as you have wronged in thrusting in a child begotten by you likelie to deprive the true children of the partie and begotten by him of a childs part and portion and to such as you have wronged in their goods and to satisfie those whom you have any way touched in their good name and that without all fraud or delay Can you call to mind any persons in
Dissimulat peccata propter poenitentiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.4 When He cannot but see yet He forbears is patient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.4 Neh. 9.28 30. Forbears long suffers long many times many years 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. Hos. 6.4 and 11.9 When He can suffer no longer yet stands as over Ephraim asking How shal I staies yet Expectat ut misereatur P. Isa. 30.18 When He can forbear no longer but punish He must He doth it not from the heart Lament 3. V. 33. but against His will When He punisheth He doth it Not suffering His whole displeasure to arise Psal. 78.39 containing Himself and His anger Not according to our deserts Psal. 103. 10. nothing so much Not long it indures but a moment in comparison Psal. 30.5 103.9 and P. Isa. 54.7.8 He thinks everie stripe two P. Isa. 40.2 is quickly wearie In His wrath He remembers mercie P. Hab. 3.2 Repents Him of the evil P. Joel 2.13 Is moved with the sight of our miserie Psal. 106. 43 44. Is soon appeased easily appeased P. Isa. 30. 18. and 55.7 S. Mat. 18.32 Hath mercie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multitudes of it Hath compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bowels of compassion S. Luke 15.20 a parent Psalm 103.13 a mother P. Isa. 49.15 many bowels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. James 5. 11. secundìon Edit Complut Forgives Pardons S. Mat. 18.27 Is reconciled 2 Cor. 5 19. Takes into favor again S. Luke 15.22 23. Receives to grace Rom. 3.25 All have sinned and are defective in giving glorie to God Rom. 3.23 In His Angels He found follie and the stars are not clean in His fight Job 4.18 15.15 25.5 But God hath not made all men for nought Psal. 89.46 Yet if God should be extreme to mark what were don amiss who were able to abide it Psal. 130.3 If He should enter into Judgment with His servants no flesh should be found righteous in His sight Psal. 143.2 None were able to answer one for a thousand No not Job himself Job 9.3 Therefore God hath shut up all under fin that He might have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 He would have all to be saved 1 Tim. 2.4 He would have none to perish but to turn to him by Repentance 2 S. Pet. 3.9 He would not the death of a sinner but that he might turn to Him and live P. Ezech. 33.11 All that 1 know their sin Psal. 51.3 Know it and 2 acknowledg it Psal. 32.5 S. Luke 15.18 Acknowledg it and 3 be sorrie for it Psal. 38.18 Be sorrie for it and 4 be readic to leave it Pro. 28.13 Not only to leave it but 5 to judg themselvs for it 1 Cor. 11.31 P. Ezech. 36.32 1 Cor. 9.27 And to 6 punish themselvs for it 2 Cor. 7.11 By the 1 fruits of Mortification P. Joel 2. 12 13. P. Jonab 3.5 accompanied with 2 Prayer Psalm 32.7 Acts 8.22 3 Alms. P. Isa. 58.7 Pro. 16.6 P. Dan. 4.27 At the 4 estimation of the Priest Levit. 6.6 5 Who may forgive us in the person of Christ. S. John 8.11 and 20.23 2 Cor. 2.10 Which His Mercie is not only for common and ordinarie sinners but for the chief such as Manasses Paul such as David Peter such as Rahab Marie Magdalen such as Jonas The Thief on the Crosse. such as The Corinthian 1 Cor. 5.1 The Corinthians 1 Cor. 6.11 Et haec eratis such as the Jews His Betrayers Murtherers Acts 3.13 14 15. David was a man according to Gods own heart Christ is the Son of David and David for gave Semei 2 Sam. 19.23 and wept for his rebellious son Absolom 2 Sam. 18.33 The Preface or stile of the Law The Lord the Lord Gentle and Merciful Patient and of much mercie who keepeth mercie for thousands and forgiveth Exod. 34.6 7. The Discourse of Elihu Job 33.23 24. If there be a Messenger with Him an interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his uprightness Then He is gracious unto him and saith Deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransom Taste and see how gracious the Lord is Psal. 34.8 1 S. Pet. 2.3 His Mercie is sweet Psal. 109.20 His Mercies are many There is a multitude of them Psal. 69.17 5.7 and 51.1 There is plenteous Redemption Psal. 130.7 His Mercies are great Psal. 86.5 119.156 Have a magnitude Great in height Psal. 103.11 108.4 36.5 depth Psal. 42.9 length Psal. 26.3 Psal. 136. There is no end of His salvation Psal. 71.13 Mercie shal be set up for ever Psal. 89.2 His Mercie is over all His works Psal. 145.9 As is His Majestie so is His Mercie Ecclus. 2.18 His propertie is to have mercie P. Isai. 28.21 He is the Father of mercies 2 Cor. 1.3 He is Mercie itself Psal. 59.17 He was so merciful that He forgave their misdeeds and destroied them not Yea many a time turned He His wrath away and would not suffer His whole displeasure to arise For He considered they were but dust Psal. 78.38 39 40. The Lord waiteth that He may have mercie on you P. Isa. 30.18 In the Father of the lost child His Image S. Luke 15.22 Without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Heb. 9.22 God hath shut up all under sin that He might have mercie upon all Rom. 11.32 Where sin aboundeth there Grace doth over-abound Mercie triumpheth over Justice S. James 2.13 In this GOD set forth His love to us ward that when we were His enemies Christ died for us Rom. 5.8 This is a true saying and of all men worthie to be received that JESUS Christ came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 Christ died once for our sins the just for the unjust that He might offer us unto God 1 S. Pet. 3.18 We have an Advocate with the Father JESUS Christ the righteous And He is the Propitiation for our sins and not for our only but for the sins of the whole world 1 S. John 2.1 2. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance S. Mat. 9.13 Come unto me you that travail and be heavie laden and I will refresh you S. Mat. 11.28 Of them that come to me I will cast none out S. John 6.37 Thou never failest them that seek Thee Psal. 9.10 Spiritual Comforts and Confidence issuing from the contemplation of Gods Goodness WHy art thou so heavie O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God for I shal yet give Him thanks For He is the light of my countenance and my God Psal. 42.6 7 14 15. and 43.5 6. Return then to Thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath been gracious to thee Psal. 116.7 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence In the midst of the troubles that were in my heart Thy comforts have refreshed my soul. Psal. 94.17 19. Nevertheless though I be sometimes