The private devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes. Late Bishop of Winchester. Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A25409 of text R207734 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A3150). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 113 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 96 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. 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Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard, London : An. Dom. 1647. One of several configurations of works by Andrewes later collected and called his "Devotions". A different translation than that of Richard Drake in "A manual of the private devotions and meditations of The Right Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrews, late Lord Bishop of Winchester", published the following year. The last leaf is blank. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800. Prayers -- Early works to 1800. A25409 R207734 (Wing A3150). civilwar no The private devotions of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes. Late Bishop of Winchester. Andrewes, Lancelot 1647 19576 15 0 0 0 0 0 8 B The rate of 8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2000-00 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2001-07 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2001-08 TCP Staff (Michigan) Sampled and proofread 2001-08 TCP Staff (Michigan) Text and markup reviewed and edited 2001-11 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion EFFIGIES R. P. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANDREWES QVONDAM EPISCOPI WINTONIENSIS Obyt 1626. AEtatis suae 7● If ever any merited to be The Universall Bishop , this was He Great ANDREWES who ye whole vast Sea did drain Of Learning , and distilled it in his brain ; These pious dropps are of the purest kind Which trickled from ye limbeck of his mind . W.M. sculptit . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Private DEVOTIONS Of the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrewes . Late Bishop of Winchester . Lord I have called daily upon ●hee ; I have stretched out my hands unto thee . Psal. 88. 9. London , Printed for Humphrey Moseley , and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church yard . An. Dom. 1647. THE STATIONER To the Christian Reader . THe life of this Reverend Father , was a life of Prayer ; Five houres in a day he spent in his Devotions , and for divers months before his dissolution hee gave himselfe wholy up to converse with God ; It is most remarkable , and may instruct Posterity , that when sicknesse had deprived him of his voyce , yet his eyes and hands prayed ; and when both they failed , his heart still prayed , till it pleased God to accept it as his last Sacrifice ; This testimony and Character of his holy Pietie , wee received from learned Bishop Buckeridge , who being well acquainted with his life , commended his precious memory to posterity in a funerall Sermon , one of the last offices which as men , and christians , we are wont to pay to Honour and Virtue ; In the evening of his life hee was seldome seene without these devotions in his hand ; he penned them in Greeke , and in that language presented them to his God ; the reason , it is not for mee to determine ; whether it were for that the clearest evidences of our salvation are delivered to us in that tongue , or whether amongst those fifteene he was Master of , he chose this language as the most copious to expresse the fulnesse of his soule . It appeares not as yet who translated this manuall of devotions , some of his learned Friends , ( to whom the world owes much for the benefit of of this publication ) informed me , that they found them written with his owne hand , from whence they had the happiness to transcribe them ; it is not improbable that wee are indebted to the same hand for the translation , to whom we owe the originall ; since I could never yet learne that any have laid claime thereunto ; it being no new thing in this ambitious age , for men to indeavour to translate fames , as well as bookes , it may seeme strange in these ex-tempore times , for me , to send these Set formes to the presse , since I am not ignorant , how of late it hath been hotly disputed , whether it be better to pray to God with consideration , or without , against this wild fancy I conceived I could not oppose any argument above the example of this learned Doctor of our Church . Who though he was so universall in allholy dimensions , you may be pleased to observe the reverentiall addresses of his soule , in these his approaches to the highest Majesty ; hee well knew the distance betwixt heaven and earth , betwixt God and himselfe , which I hope will be a motive to every pious Christian , as Salomon saith , not to be rash with his mouth , Ecles. 5. 2. I must clearely confesse , when these Copies came first to my hand , I resolved to imprint them in my own heart ; but considering with my selfe that no man might better excuse the divulging of so usuall a booke , then one of my profession , and withall that there were divers manuscripts dispersed abroad , and the Church might be deprived of this genuine Edition , and I of mine owne right , I thought this publication absolutely necessary , being confident that no man could justly except against this Reverend Author , who both abroad & at home was acknowledged for his Pietie and learning , to have been one of the Oracles of the church ; much less against these his devotions , which are for the most part selected out of the holy Scripture . And whereas he freely wrot his controversies and Sermons for the benefit of others , these pieces I suppose cannot be too well thought off , which he kept peculiar to himselfe , having appropriated and consecrated them , to his private use for the employment of his owne soule . This treasure , so piously laid up in his life time , I thought good not to keep wrapt up in a napkin from the Publick , injoy it thankfully , to the glory of that God , who kindled these holy fires in his soule , and let the memory of the devout Author , in spight of ignorance and malice , be perpetuated and blessed by after ages , as for mee , I shall never desire any higher recompence , then to be in some measure serviceable to the Church , and to be esteemed . Your faithfull servant HUM . MOSELEY . An Index of the heads contained in this Booke . A Meditation at your entrance into the Churh before publique worship . Pag. 1. The Horolege or Diall of prayer 3 Morning prayer 17 The Hymne 20 A paraphrase upon the Lords prayer . 25 A confession of sinne 31 A prayer for the performance of the Law 44 A confession of faith 50 A prayer f●r faith 53 A confession of hope 56 Intercession 59 A deprecation or prayer against evill . 64 Prayers against evills temporall 69 Against evills in the Church ibid. Against evills politicall 71 Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest 73 Comprecation of temporall blessings . Hosanna in Terrenis 77 A Thanksgiving 81 A thanksgiving in particular 92 Praises 96 Praises in particular 105 Evening Prayer 109 A prayer after divine service 119 At the approaching to the holy sacrament 122 In the time of Receiving 124 After the receipt of the Eucharist 129 Mourning and weeping 131 A prayer on the meditation of the great worke of our redemption 132 A meditation on Canticles , 5. 10 134 A prayer after the holy Ordidinances on Whitsunday 137 Light from heaven 138 An imprecation against the enemies of the Church 142 Prayer for King Iames , after the Sermon of Gowries conspiracy 144 Thanksgiving after the deliverance from the gunpowder treason A prayer for Magistrates Eccleciasticall and civill 150 Before Sermon 151 The forme of bidding of prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after the opening of the Text 152 Another exhortation to prayer used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of his Text . EPHE. 6. 18. Pray alwaies with all manner of Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit . Confessio . In Prayer there are considered , The species or kinds , As confession of our Sinnes , pag. 31 Demerits , ibid. Faith , p. 51. Hope , p. 56. Deprecation , page 64. Petition for the aversion of Evills Eternall . Internall , or Spirituall . Externall . Comprecation . The conferring of blessings . Eternall , Hosanna , p. 73. Internall , In Altis , p. 69. Externall , In Terrenis . 77. Retribution of thanks Eucharistica . Praise , Conf. laudis page 87. The circumstance of persons , it being for Our selves called Oratio , pag. 25. Others also , Intercession . pag. 59. Time , Place , Manner . The time of Prayer . In generall , Alwaies , Luk. 18. 11. In perticular , and that Most ordinary twice a day , at Morne , Even , Numb. 18. 3. More extraordinary , Twice a day , at Morne , Noone and Night . Psalme 55. 1. Seven times a day . Dan. 6. 11. The Horologe . 1 Before day , Mar. 1. 31. 2 At Sun-rise , Psal. 63. 1. 3 At the third houre , Act . 2. 15. 3 At the sixt or noone , 10. 9. 4 At the ninth houre , 3. 1. 5 At Sun-set . P. 134 6 After it at night , P. 134 7 At Midnight , Ps. 139. 62 The place of Prayer . In generall in every place . Exod. 20. 24. In speciall for 1 Tim. 2. 8. Publique Prayer . In the Congregation or Temple , Psal. 111. 1. Acts 3. 1. and 22. 17. Private Prayer . At home . Esa. 26. 20. In the Chamber , Mat. 6. 6. On the house top or leades , Acts 10. 9. Abroade . In the Garden , Joh. 18. 2. In the field , Gen. 29. 63. In the Desert , Mar. 1. 35. The manner of Prayer . in respect of The Posture , Standing , Mar. 11. 25. Kneeling , Luke 22. 41. Falling on the face , Mat. 26. 29. The Gesture . Lifting up the eyes , Psal. 123. 1. Lifting up of the hands , 1 Tim. 2. 8. Smiting the brest , Luke 18. 13. Vncovering the head , 1 , Cor. 11. 4. At your entrance into the Church before publique service , say O LORD , IN the multitude of thy mercies I wil aproach thine house , and I will worship towards thy holy Temple in the reverence of thee . Lord , hear the voyce of my prayer when I call unto thee , when I lift up my hands towards thy Sanctuary . Remember these my brethren also which stand about me and pray together with me , remember their endeavours & their zeale . Remember them likewise which for just causes are absent , and O Lord have mercy upon them and us , according to the abundance of thy goodnesse . I have loved the beauty of thine house , and the place where thy glory dwelleth , that I might hear the voyce of thy praises , and publish all thy wonders . One thing have I desired of the Lord , which I will still intreate . That I may dwell still in the house of the Lord , and visite his holy Temple . To thee O Lord my heart hath said , I will seeke the Lord . Thee ( ô my God ) have I sought , & thy face . And thee will I seeke . The Horologe or Diall of Prayer . THou which hast put the times and seasons in thine own power , Acts 1. 7. Grant that wee may pray unto thee in a fit and acceptable time , and save us , Mar. 4. 38. 1. Thou which for us men and for our salvation wert borne at Midnight , Lu. 2. 7 Grant that we may be daily regenerate by the renewing of thy holy Spirit untill Christ bee perfectly found in us , and save us , Lu. 3. 5. 2. Thou which early in the morning whilst the Sunne was rising didst rise again , Mar. 16. 2. Raise us up daily to newnesse of life , prompting us unto those means of repentance which thou best know'st , and save us , Rom. 6. 4. 3. Thou which at the third houre didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Apostles , Acts 2. 15. Take not thy Spirit from us , but renew it daily in us , and save us , Psal. 51. 10. 11. 4. Thou which at the sixth houre , and on the sixth day did'st fasten the sins of the world , and crucifie them on the same Crosse with thy selfe , Mat. 27. 45. Col. 2. 14. Cancell the hand-writing of our sins which is against us , and take it cleare away , and save us . Thou which at the sixth hour did'st let downe the great sheete from Heaven and Earth as a type of thy Church , Acts 10. 11. Receive us sinners of the Gentiles into the same , and with it take us up into Heaven and save us , Gal. 2. 15. Acts 10. 16. 5. Thou which at the ninth houre did'st for us sinners and our sinnes , take that bitter and cursed death , Mar. 15. 34. Heb. 2. 9. Mortifie in us our earthly members , and whatsoever opposeth thy will , and save us . Col. 3. 5. 6. Thou which at even would'st be taken downe from the Crosse , and laid in the Sepulchre . Mar. 15. 42. Bury our sinnes in thy grave and with thy righteousnesse cover the evill which we have committed and save us . Rom. 6. 4. Thou which late at night gavest to thine Apostles the power of remitting or retaining sinnes . Jo. 2. 23. Make us pertakers of that benefit unto remission good Lord , and not unto retention , and save us . Thou which at midnight did'st raise the Prophet David , and the Apostle Paul to praise thee . Ps. 119. 62. Act. 16. 25. O give us also Songs in the night , and make us mindefull of thee upon our Beds , and save us . Ps. 63. 6. Thou which by thine owne mouth hast foretold , the coming of the Bridegroome at midnight . Mat. 5. 6. Grant that we may ever have that crye in our eares , the Bridegroome cometh and so be never unprepared to meet him , and save us . Thou which by the Cocke crowing did'st admonish thy Apostle Peter , and made him returne to repentance , Matt. 26. 74. 75. Grant that wee also weepe bitterly for the things wherein wee have sinned against thee , and save us . Thou which at the Seventh hour did'st cure the Rulers Sonne of a feaver . Jo. 4. 52. If any feaver or sicknesse remaine in our soules , take that away also , and save us . Thou which at the 10. houre would'st have thy Apostle ( which found thy Sonne ) to cry with great joy , wee have found the Messias . Jo. 1. 41. Make us find the Messias likewise , and having found him to rejoyce in like manner , and save us . Jo. 1. 41. Thou which vouchsafest to call those which stood al day idle and ( with promises of reward ) to send them even at the 11. houre into thy Vinyard Matt. 20. 6. Shew us the same favour , and though wee returne late unto thee ( as at the 11 houre ) graciously yet denie not to entertaine us , and save us . Thou which at Supper time did'st institute the holy mysteries of thy body and bloud . Jo. 13. 3. Matt. 26. 20. Make us mindefull and pertakers of them , and not to our perdition , but to the remission of sinne , and our obtaining the legacies of the new Testament , and save us . Thou which hast foretold thy comming to judgment , on a day which wee expect not , and in an houre which wee knew not . Luk. 12. 46. Matt. 24. 50. Make us ready every day And houre that wee may with joy attend thy comeing , and save us . Thou which sendest forth the light , wch createst the morning , and makest the Sun to rise upon thee good , & bad , inlighten the blindnesse of our mindes with the knowledg of thy truth . Ps. 43. 3. 74. 16. Eph. 1. 18. Lift up the light of thy Countenance upon us , that in thy light we may see light , in the light of grace , the light of glory , and save us . Ps. 4. 7. 36. 9. Thou which givest food to all flesh , which feedest the young Ravens which call upon thee , and hast nourished us from our Childe-hood . Fill our hearts with food and gladnesse , and with thy grace establish our hearts , and save us , Ps. 136. 25. 147. 9. 71. 5. Acts 14. 17. Heb. 13. 9. Thou which makest the Evening an end to the day , that it may put us in mind of the evening of our life . Psalm 104. 23. Grant that we may ever consider that as the day , so our life vanisheth , Eccl. 8. 13. Grant that we may ever remember the dayes of darknesse which are many , & that the night commeth when wee cannot worke , that so wee be not cast out to utter darknesse , And save us , Mat. 25. 3c . O Lord my God , WHose Essence is above all Essence , and whose Nature is uncreated ; whose handywork the whole World is . I set thee before mine eyes , Ps. 16. 9. I lift up my soul unto thee , I worship thee , falling down upon my knees ; I draw neer unto thee , and humble my selfe under thy mighty hand , I stretch sorth my hands unto thee , my soule gapes to thee , as the thirsty land . I smite upon my Breast and say with the Publican , O Lord be mercifull to me a si●●er , To mee more sinfull then the Publican , be mercifull as to the Publican , ô Father of Mercies , Psal. 16. 9. 25. 1. 95. 6. 134. 2. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Psal. 143. 6. Lake 18. 13. I beseech thy paternall bowels of compassion despise me not ( though I be an uncleane worm ) a dead dog , a stinking carkasse , Psal. 216. 2 Kings 9. Despise me not , the work of thine hands , Psal. 138. 8. Despise me not the likeness of thine owne Image , though I beare the brands of mine iniquity , Gen. 1. 26. Col. 3. 10. Lord if thou wilt , thou canst make mee cleane , Mat. 8. 2. O Lord say but the word and I shall be cleansed , ver. 8. And thou ô Saviour Christ , ô Christ my Saviour , Saviour of sinners of whom I am chiefe , despise me not , redeemed by the price of thy precious bloud 1 Tim. 1. 15. Luke 22. 23. Despise not ô Lord , but look upon me , looke upon me with thine eyes , such eyes as thou did'st upon Mary Magdalen at the Feast , St. Peter in the high Priests Hall , and the Thiefe on the Crosse . That with the thief I may call upon thee , saying , Remember mee O Lord when thou art in thy kingdom , Luke 7. 44. 22. 55. 23. 43. 23. 42. With Peter I now weepe bitterly , ver. 22. 62. And ô who will give my head a fountaine of teares , that therewith I may weep both day and night . With Mary Magdalen I may hear thee say , thy sins are forgiven thee , Lu. 9. 48. And with her I may love thee much , because my many and manifold misdeeds are remitted , ver. 9. 47. And thou all holy and gracious , and life-giving Spirit , dspise me not . But turne thee againe O Lord at the last , and repent thee concerning thy servant . For those thy paternall bowels , the bleeding wounds of thy Sonne for the unutterable grones of thy holy Spirit . O Lord heare , O Lord forgive , O Lord consider and doe it , deferr not for thine own sake , ô my God . Dan. 9. 19. Morning Prayer . BLessed art thou O Lord our God , the God of our fathers which hast turned the shadow of death into the morning , and hast renewed the face of the earth . Am. 5. 8. Ps. 104 30. Which hast made sleep to depart from mine eyes , and slumber from mine eye-lids , Psal 132. 4. Which hast lightned , mine eyes , that I sleep not in death . Ps. 13. 4. Which hast delivered my soule from the night feares , from the pestilence which walketh in the dark . psal. 91. 4 , 5 , 6. Which makes the out goings of the morning & evening to praise thee . v. 65. 8. For I laid me downe and slept , and rose againe , for it was thou O Lord which didst sustaine me . psal. 4. 5. For I waked and beheld and loe my sleepe was sweet . Ier. 31. 26. O Lord doe a way as the Night , so my sins , scatter my transgressions as the morning cloud . Esa. 44. 22. Make me a child of the light and of the day , cause me to walke soberly , chastly and decently as in the day time . 1 Thes. 5. 5. Rom. 13. 13. O Lord uphold us when wee are fallen into sinne , and raise us up when wee are fallen . Ps. 145. 14. That wee harden not our hearts as in the provocation or with any deceitfulnesse of sinne . Heb. 3. 8. 13. Deliver us also from the snare of the hunter , evill alurements , crosse words , the Arrow which flyeth by day . Ps. 91. 3. 6. From the evill of the day preserve me O Lord , and me from doing evill in it . Mat. 6. 34. The Hymne . O Let mee heare of thy loving kindnesse betime in the morning , for in thee is my trust . Psalme 143. 8. Shew me the way that I should walk in , for I lift up my soule unto thee , Deliver me ô Lord from mine enemies , for I flye unto thee for succour , vers. 9. Teach me to do thy wil for thou art my God ; Let thy loving Spirit leade me forth into the Land of righteousnesse , v. 10. Quicken me ô Lord for thy names sake , and for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soule out of trouble , v. 11. Chase from my mind althoughts without understanding , Wisd. 1. 5. Turne away mine eyes that they behold not vanity , Psal. 119. 37. Hedge in mine ears with thornes , that they listen not to foolish discourses , Eccl. 23. 29. Set a watch before my mouth , and keep the door of my lips , Psal. 14. 3. Let me doe nothing that may be scandalous or scrupulous to my soule , 1 Sam. 25. 31. Let the meditation of mine heart be ever acceptable in thy sight , Ps. 19. last . Let mine eyes behold , and let mine eye-lids direct my way before mee , Pro. 4. 25. Awaken mine eares in the morning to heare the word of instruction , Esa. 50. 4. 5. Let my speech be seasoned with salt , that it may edifie and give grace to the hearers , Ephes. 4. 29. Col. 4. 6. O Lord prepare thou some good way for mee to walk in , Eph. 2. 16. Into thy hands I cōmend my Spirit , my soule & body , thou hast created , thou hast redeemed , thou hast regenerated thē ô Lord thou God of truth , Ps. 31. 5. With my self I commend to thee all that have any relation to me . And all that is mine , thou ô Lord hast graciously lent them me in thy goodnesse , Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from all evil , keep our soules good Lord we beseech thee , Ps. 121. 7. Keep them all spotlesse , and present them guiltlesse in that day . Keepe my out-goings and my commings in from this time forth for evermore , v. 8. Prosper thou thy servant this day , and give him favour in their eyes with whom he meeteth , Nehem. 1. 11. O Lord be near at hand to save me , ô God make hast to help me , Ps. 90. 17. The glorious Majesty of our God be upon us . Prosper thou-our worke unto us , yea prosper thou our handy worke . Let not my dayes be spent in vanity ; let not my year wast in doing nothing , but let one day teach another let one night adde knowledge unto another . Teach mee good Lord so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisedome . From the morning watch untill the evening let Israel trust in thee O Lord . A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer . O Lord , I Have neither knowne thee as I ought & might have done , neither as I have known thee , have I glorified thy name , or beene thankefull unto thee ; and woe is me that I have not . But with sorrow I confesse and humbly I crave pardon , and would to God I had done it , nay would I might now hereafter so know thee , and live so holily , that both in me and by mee , and by others for my sake thy name might be hallowed . O let me so serve and so promote thy Kingdome here upon earth in the state of grace , that I may attaine unto some place , though the lowest , even under the feete of thy Saints in Heaven , in the state of glory . Thy will which is holy and just and good be done by mee ; thy mercifull and gracious will be done with me ( me earth as I am ) As it is in Heaven . Give us this day those things which may conduce to our welfare , our quiet , and our contentment . Forgive mee my debts . That excessive score of my debts , my filthy slips & fals , my frequent relapses , & my long , long wallowing in abominable pollutions , even such as it is a shame to name or repeate these all , and those other also which are not so sensible , and yet perhaps no lesse grievious , and which sinke me full as deep into perdition . Out of these depths I cry out unto thee good Lord , I beseech thee deliver my soule , deliver it from the nethermost hell . One deep calleth upon another , the depth of my misery , on the depth of thy mercie . psal. 42. 7. O let thy mercie bee exalted above thy justice , let thy goodnesse overcome my wickednesse , Jam. 2. 13. Where sin hath abounded , let thy grace much more abound , Rom. 5. 20. Take away my sinnes ; take away the cause of my sins ; my sinns both those which are scandalous and scrupulous to my heart , and those also which are not so , and yet perhaps far more heynous , of which I desire thee ô Lord that I may bee enlightned , that so I may bee humbled for them . In thy wrath remember mercie , and forgive me my sinnes , sins of mine owne ends with others sins secret and manifest , sins ancient and fresh , of the world or of the flesh : As thou art most mercifull , and indulgent , and compassionate . O Lord forgive them all , even as wee forgive our debters , and grant us this also that wee may forgive them ; and to that end infuse thy charity into our hearts . Leade me not , neither suffer me to be led , nor ●● enter into temptation , but remember & commiserate my frailty and weakenesse so often discovered . But deliver me from evill , from the evill Spirit and his suggestion , from the evill in my selfe that is in my flesh , and the inticement therof , from the evil in the world , and the contagion of it . From all penall evills which most justly and worthily I have deserved , from the evils of the world to come , and spare mee there , and feare and launce me here rather . From the evills of this present world ; ptty mee Lord , for I am but feeble ; from the malice and evill of this day and of this disease ( wherewith I now struggle ) and from the evill ensuing . From all manner of evills past , present , and to come ; from them all good Lord deliver me and keepe me thy servant for ever . Amen . Confession of sin . TO thee ( O Lord ) I confess , for if I would I cannot hide it from thee , that I also am one of the number , for even my life discovereth my guilt . O Lord , I am a Sinner , a branch of the wild Olive tree , arising from the roote of bitternesse , Job 14. 4. For of uncleane seed was I begotten , and in sinne did my mother conceive me , Psal. 51. 1. And I have sinned , I have dealt unjustly , I have done wickedly even in thy presence . Psa. 106. 6. 51. 2. Impiously have I behaved my selfe in thy Covenant , and have cast off thy law , 1 King. 8. 34. And rejected thy correction , & oppressed thy spirit , and have gon a whoring after mine owne inventions and proceeded from bad to worse and have not feared thee . Esa. 5. 24. Pro. 15. 3. Esa 63. 10. Ier. 18. 12. Lev. 25. 43. Nor yet returned . Luk. 15. 18. No , not when I was called back . Pro. 13. 10. Not when I was afflicted . Heb. 3. 13. But have waxed hard . 1 Kings . 16. 33. And have provoked thee . And all this thou hast seene . Psa. 9. 33. And yet hast held thy peace . La. 2. 59. Sam. 49. 21. O God . Thou knowest my foolishnesse , and my transgresssions are not hid from thee ; I know it also , & my guilt is ever more before me . Ps. 69. 5. Ps. 51. 3. Job . 31. 33. Ps. 141. 4. And I hide not ( ô Lord ) Iincline not my heart to such wicked words , as to excuse the accusations of my sinnes . But against mine owne selfe , I acknowledge mine iniquity and all that is within me , and all my bones say that I have sinned , I have sinned , O Lord against thee . Psa. 32. 5. & 103. 1. & 55. 10. & 106. 6. Dan. 9. 19. Like a lost sheep I have gon astray , and have been as froward , as an untamed Heifer ; nay like a dogg have I returned to my vomit , and like a washt Sow have I wallowed in the mire againe , and rushed into mine owne destruction , like a barbed steed into the battell . Psalme 119. vlt. Ier. 31. 18. Pro. 26. 11. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Ier. 8. 6. And now ( O Lord ) all my desire is before thee , and my groaning is not hidden from thee , thou know'st Lord my greif because I have thus sinned against thee , that I am become tedious to mine own selfe , because my sorrow is not greater , that earnestly desire of thee , a contrite heart unspeakable groanes and teares of bloud . Psa. 38. 9. Iob. 7. 20. Psalme . 51. 17. Rom. 8. 26. And woe is me for my leanesse , for the drynesse of my eyes and the hardnes of my heart . Esa. 24. 16. Ier. 9. 1. Rom. 12. 5. Mar. 9. 25. Yet Lord , I repent , I repent O Lord , O doe thou help my want of penitence and still more and more bruise thou & rend , prick and smite this heart of mine . Psa. 51. 17. Ioel. 2. 13. Act 1. 2. 37. Behold O Lord I am angry with my selfe for my foolish unprofittable , nay hurtfull & dangerous lust . 1 Cor. 7. Ps. 73. 22. Luc. 23. 34. 1 Cor. 6. 8. 1 Tim 6. 9. Yea I even loath and abhorr my selfe , for the absurdity the foolishnesse , the basenesse of it . Iob 42. 6. 2 Thes. 3. 2 All the day long my shame is before mine eyes , and the confusion of face hath covered me . Ex. 5. 12. 13 , 17. Psa. 44. 15 Alas , Alas . That I have no more reverenced nor yet feared Ja. 1. 14. Thy Incomprehensible glory Awfull presence Dreadfull power Exquisite Justice Amiable goodnesse How have I been drawn away by mine owne conconcupiscence that I am become a prey to the devil , to be taken of him at his will . 1 Tim. 2. last . Behold now therefore O Lord , I adjudge and professe my selfe most guilty and worthy of eternall punishment , yea and of all extreamities here in this world also . Gen. 18. 19. Eze. 33. 9. 1 Cor. 11. 31. Behold me O Lord already condemned by mine owne Sentence . Tit. 3. 11. Psalme 143. 2. Behold it , & O good Lord enter not thou into judgement with thy Servant . Tit. 3. 11. Ps. 143. 2. Gen. 30. 20. I acknowledge that I am farre lesse then all , yea even the least of al thy mercies . Luk. 15. 19. That I am not worthy to be made one of thy Hyrelings , not the very meanest of them . That I am not worthy of the scrapps that fall from thy Table . Mat. 15. 15. Nor so much as to touch the hem of thy garment . Mat. 9. 21. And now O Lord humbled under thy mighty hand , I bend my knees unto thee and fall prostrate on the earth , on my face . 1 Pet. 5. 6. Eph. 3. 14. Mat. 26. 29. I stretch forth my hands unto thee , and my soule is as the land that wanteth water before thee . Psalme 146. 6. I dare not so much as lift an eye towards heaven but I smite my brest , and from the depth of it doth my soule call and cry out unto thee . Luk. 18. 13. Psal. 35. and 79. 9. O for thy names sake , for the glory of thy name bee mercifull to my sinne for it is very much , for it is exceeding great , and for thy mercies , thy sweet and tender mercies . psal. 25. 10 , 11. Luke 1. 18. For the greatnesse , the multitude , the vast multitude , the riches , the abundance , the over abundance of them . ps. 69. 16. 119. 156 and 51. 1. and 130. 4. Eph. 1. 6. 1 Tim. 1. 14. Rom. 5. 20. Be mercifull O Lord to me a sinner , ô Lord be merfull to me the chiefe of all sinners . O remember and consider what my substance is , that I am but as grasse or the flower of grasse , but flesh & a wind that passeth away and commeth not againe . Esay 40. 6. Psal. 73. 40. Job 17. 14. But a worme and rottennesse , but dust and ashes . Gen. 18. 27. psal. 35. 13. Job 4. 19. Gen. 41. 9. prov. 27. 1. Esa. 38. 13. That I am a stranger and Pilgrim upon the earth , that I dwell in an house of clay , that my dayes are few and evill , that I am here to day , and not tomorrow , in the morning and not at night , now and not anon , that I live in a body of sinne and death , in a world of corruption and which is set upon mischief or lyeth in wickednesse . Rom. 6. 6. 1 pet. 1. 4. 1 Jo. 15. 19. psal. 74. 18. Remember this O Lord and discharge , remitt and forgive mee all those my transgressions , which as a man bearing about me this flesh , and dwelling in such a world , I have committed against thee . Reprove me not ô Lord in thine anger , neither chasten me in thy displeasure , Psal. 6. 1. For unto thee I confesse my wickednesse , ô pardon thou the ungodlinesse of my heart , psal. 6. 1. 32. 5 , 6. 38. 9. All my desire ô Lord is before thee , and my groaning is not concealed from thee . Pitty me therefore according to thy great mercie , and according to the multitude of thy compassions doe away all mine offences , psal. 51 1 Rise ô God and have mercy upon me , for it is time to have mercy on me , yea the time is come , psal. 102. 13. For if thou should'st strictly examine our iniquities ô Lord what man were able to subsist , psal. 33. 3. Enter not thou into judgment with thy servant , for in thy sight no flesh can be righteous , psal. 14. 32. O Lord , Thou which camest into the world to save sinners , save mee which am the chiefest of all Sinners , 1 Tim. 1. 15. 24. Thou which takest away the sinnes of the whole world , be pleased to take away my sins also , 1 Iob. 1. 24. Thou that camest to redeeme that which was lost , Lu. 19. 10. Suffer not that to be lost which thou hast redeemed . That which was so dear to redeem , suffer not to be lost as a thing of no value . A Prayer for the performance of the Law . I Lift my hand ô Lord to thy Commandements which I have loved , open mine eyes and I shall understand , incline my heart and I shall affect , direct my steps and I shall walke in the path of thy precepts , Ps. 119. 48. 18. 36. 133. 1. O Lord God . Grant that I May know thee for the true God , and knowing it , that I may acknowledg thee and no other , nor any thing else with or beside thee , John 17. Rom. 1. 21. 2. Grant that I may worship & adore thee in truth of spirit , Jo. 4. 14. 3. In the decent habit and gesture of my body , 1 Cor. 14. 40. 4. In the benediction of my mouth , Jam. 3. 9. in publique and private , 1 Cor. 14. 26. 5. Grant also that I may render honour to my Superiours . That I may bee perswaded and ruled by them , love to all those which belong to me , that I may bee carefull and provident for them , Heb. 1. 13. 17. 1. Tim. 5. 8. 6. That I may overcome malice with goodnesse , Rom. 12. 21. 7. That I may possess my Vessel in holinesse and honour , 1 Thes. 4. 4. 8. That being content with what I have , my conversation may bee void of all coveteousnesse , Hebr. 13. 5. 9. That I may speak with charity , Ephes. 4. 15. 10. That I covet not inordinately , nor pursue any covetous desires , Rom. 7. ult. Col. 3. 5. Eccles. 8. 30. Good Lord , Remove from mee all , 1. Atheisme & Hypocrisie . 2. Idolatry & will-worship . 3. Perjury and Blasphemy . 4. Superstition and profanesse in thy service . 5. Stubbornesse and carelesnesse . 6. Strife and malice . 7. Lust and uncleanenesse , 8. Injury and Cosenage . 9. Lying and slandering . 10. And all wicked desires and base Concupiscence . Grant me O Lord thy grace . To remember the latter end , Deut. 32. 29. To bruise the Serpents head , Gen. 3. 15. To cut off occasions of sinne . To covenant with my sence , 2 Cor. 11. 13. To prevent scandals Iob. 31. 1. To subdue my body . Ez. 14. 4. Not to sit idle . 1 Cor. 9. 8. To shun wicked company . Mat. 24. 6. To consort with the righteous . Psal. 26. 4. To select times for prayer . 1 Cor. 7. 5. Stopp up my pathes with thornes that I finde not the way to vanity . Hos. 2. 6. Hold me in and rayne me with bitt and bridle , when I keep not neer thee . Psal. 32. 9. And constraine mee to come to thee , If inviting will not serve . Luc. 14. 34. 39. Vouchsafe ( O Lord ) to give me the knowledge and beliefe of thy justice , that it may breed in me . Feare , Humility , Repentance , Prayer , and Fasting , Hope , Charity , Thanksgiving , Praise and Almes . Confession of Faith . Lord I beleeve in the Father , one God . Word , Spirit . In the Father . THat by his infinite power all things were created . In the Sonne . That by his goodnesse and his love , Mankinde was redeemed to which purpose the world became flesh . And was Conceived and Borne , Suffered , and was Crucified Dyed , and was buried , Descended , & rose againe , Ascended , and sate at the right hand of God , from whence he shall returne & reward every one according to his worke . In the Holy Ghost . That by his illumination and his sacred inspiration , his elect people are called out of the whole world , to the beleife of the truth , and to holinesse of conversation . In whom wee are made partakers of the communion of Saints , and the remission of sinnes , in this present world . And in whom we faithfully expect , the resurrection of the flesh , and life eeverlasting , in the world to come . This I beleeve . Iob. 11. 26 O Lord helpe thou my unbeleife . Mar. 9. 24. But above and before all , I beleive that thou wert Christ the son of the living God . Mat. 16. 16. Prayer for Faith . ANd ô Lord grant that I may love thee as a Father , for thy indulgence , adore thee as Almighty , for thy power , and by good works , commend my Soule unto thee , as a faithfull Creatour . 1 Pet. 4. Grant also that I may receive , From Jesus Salvation , Anoynting , From Christ From the onely begotten Son . Adoption .   That I may worship and serve him in faith For his conception , For his Nativitie in humilitie . For his sufferings , in patience . For his Crosse in my crucifying all occasions to sin . For his death , in the mortification of my flesh . For his Sepulture in burying my bad purposes by good works . For his descent in my meditation upon hell . For his resurrection , in newnesse of life . For his ascention , in my contemplation of heavenly things . For his Session , in my choice of the better part on the right hand . For his returne , in the feare of his second comming . For his future judgement in the judging of my selfe , before I come to be judged . And grant me further the inspiration of saving grace , from thy most holy Scepter , that I may participate of vocation , & Sanctification in the holy Catholique Church . And that I may have my Communion in The Mysteries , The grounds , The watchings , The prayers , The Teares , The Fastings . and all the sufferings of the Saints . To my firme perswasion of the remission of my sins , and to the confident hope of my Resurrection , and translation to life eternall . Confession of Hope . O Thou which art the Hope of all the ends of the Earth , and of them which remaine afar off in the Seas , Psal. 65. 6. Thou upon whom our Fore-fathers did depend , v. 22. 4. And thou deliveredst them , upon whom they only relyed , and were not confounded , v. 5. Thou which art my hope from my youth , from the breasts of my Mother , and to whom I have beene intrusted from the very wombe , v. 9. 10. Bee thou my hope still and still , ever and ever , and my portion in the land of the Living . I hope on thy Nature , thy Name , thy Word , thy Practise . O let mee not bee confounded by this hope of mine . Tou Lord shalt save both Man and Beast , Psal. 36. 7. How excellent is thy mercy ô God , therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow dow of thy wings . v. 39. 8 And now Lord what is my hope , truly my hope is even in thee . My soule fainteth with longing for thy salvation . Psal. 119. 81. Yet have I good hope because of thy Word . O think upon thy Servant as concerning thy Word , wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust . v. 49. Why art thou so full of heavinesse ô my soule , and why are thou so disquieted within me ; O put thy trust in God , for I wil yet praise him which is the helpe of my countenance and my God . Psal. 42. 14 , 15. Against hope I will believe in hope , Rom. 4. 18. And though hee slay mee , yet will I trust in him , Iob 13. 15. Intercession . HEar our prayers ( good Lord we beseech ) the for thy creatures , For healthfull , times & seasons . fruitfull Peacefull For man-kind , for the succour and comfort of all that are in distraction of minde , In sickenesse , in poverty , in perplexity . For the sobriety and thankfulnesse of all that are in minde quiet , sound in body , in estate wealthy , and free from all trouble . For the conversion of all Turks , Jewes , Pagans , Atheists . For all Christians . They which continue in truth & grace , may be established . That they which wander in errour and sin , may be reduced into the right . For al churches throughout the whole world , their unity and confirmation . For this Church of ours , that the defects thereof may be supplyed , that al Heresies and scandals both publique and private may be removed , that the Clergy may deliver the Word sincerely , and walke in it uprightly . For the Laity , that they be not overweined with their own understanding , but rather be perswaded by the instruction and obedience to the authority of their Superiours . For all Common-wealths , their establishment and tranquility ; for this Realm of ours , for all Incorporations in it ; for this City , that they may be freed and preserv'd from all danger and distresse . For our King and his Queene , and for their safety and prosperity . For the Councell and their prudence . For the Judges and their uprightnesse . For our forces and their fortitude . For the Communalty and their temperance and holy simplicity . For our Husbandmen , Merchants , Artificers , Even to the baser Tradesman , even to the Beggars . For our Posterity now springing up ; for the good education of the Issue Royall , the young Nobility & Gentry , of all Students and learners in the Universities , in the Innes of court , in Schooles and Trades ; that as they grow in years , so they may encrease also in wisedome and in favour both with God and men . For all such as are recommended to our prayers . By nearnesse of Kindred and affinity . By beneficense towards us . Morall friendship . Christian charity . Familiar neighbourhood . Fellowship in Household . Or mutuall promise . For those that are in their last extreamity , or in any eminent danger . For those which have undertaken any great work for the glory of thy Name , or the peace of the Church . For those which are bountiful towards any holy designes , or towards the poo And lastly , but most especially for all those whom in word or in deed I have any wayes , at any time wronged . Deprecation or Prayer against evills . O Father of Heaven which hast created us . O Sonne of God which hast redeemed us . O sacred Spirit which hast regenerated us . Remember not our offences , nor the transgressions of our Fore-fathers . Neither take thou vengeance for their sinnes , and ●ine upon me . But spare us , good Lord , spare thy people , & in thy people , thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood , and be not angry with us for ever . Be mercifull , be merciful O Lord and spare us , and be not angry with us for ever . Be mercifull , be merciful ô Lord and pitty us , and be not angry with mee to my ruine . Deal not with me ô Lord according to my trangressions , neither reward thou me according to my sinnes . But according to thy mercy deale thou with me . And according to the multitude of thy compassions reward me . According to that great mercy of thine , And according to that exceeding multitude of thy compassions . By whatsoever is deare and acceptable to thee . From all evill and misfortune at all times of necessity . Rise up Lord , defend , and save me , preserve me good Lord , and destroy me not . But most especially in the time of extremity , in the houre of death , in the day of judgment , in that fearefull day , good Lord deliver me . From beholding the sterne countenance of the Judge . Apo. 6. 6. From my standing on the left hand . Mat. 25. 41. From hearing that terrible sentence depart from me you wicked . Mat. 8. 12. From being bound in the chaines of darknesse . Jude . 5. 6. From casting out into utter darknesse . Mat. 8. 12. From being thrust into the bottomles pit of fire , and Brimstone , where the smoake of the fire ascendeth up for ever . Be mercifull O Lord & spare me , Have pitty O Lord and deliver me , And confound me not for ever . And to this end and purpose , from a blinded and a hardned heart , tending to impenitence . Eph. 14. 19. From a wanton and brasen face tending to impudence , Acts. 28. 27. From a seered conscience . Pro. 7. 13. From a reprobate mind , Esa. 48. 4. From the sin unto death , Tit. 1. 16. And against the holy Ghost . Jo. 5. 16. Mat. 12. 13. Be mercifull good Lord , and deliver me . Prayers against Evills Temporall . FRom all evill and misfortune , and all perrillous accidents in this world . From the pestilence , Famine , and Warre . From great fires , inundations , & Earthquakes , From excessive Raine , drought and mil-dew ; From al blastings , lightning and Thunder , From Temptations , Stormes , infectious diseases , and sudden death Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us . Against evills in the Church . FRom all Innovations , private interpretations difference in doctrine , contending about vaine and fruitles questions ; endles desputations , and controversies . Heresies both publique and private . Schismes Scandalls From the pernicious flattering of Princes . Acts. 12. 22. The partiality of Saul . 1 Sam. 14. 18. The contempt of Michal . 2 Sam. 6. 16. The Preisthood of Micha . Judg. 17. 10. The flesh-hook of Hophni . 1 Sam. 2. 16. The fraternity of Symon Magus , and Judas Iscariot . Act. 8. 17. Mat. 26. 17. From such as are corrupted in minde , unstable and unlearned . 1 Tim. 6. 5. 2 Pet. 3. 16. From the arrogance of young Schollers . 1 Tim. 36. And from People that contradict their Minister , speaking according to the word of God , Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us . Hos. 4. 4. Against evills Politicall . FRom Anarchie or want of Kings . From the multitude of Princes . From Tyranny , From Princes , like Ashur . Jeroboham . Roboam . From the cruell insolency of Hamon . 2 Sam. 15. 31. From the councellors of Zoan . Esa. 14. 11. From the perillous counsell of Achitophel . 1 Kings . 21. 13. From the Judges of Jesrael . From the Lawes of Omri . Micha . 6. 16. From the Torrents of Belial . Psa. 18. 4. The plague of Per● . Num. 25. 5. The vale of Achor . Josh. 7. 26. From effussion of blood , deadly feind . Treason , Forraign invasion , Civill Warr . For the displaceing of good Magistrates and the raising of evill , be mercifull good Lord and deliver us . From whatsoever may make against the tranquility of our Soules . The health of our bodies , our estates , our libertie , or our credit . Be mercifull good Lord and deliver us . Comprecation or Hosanna in the highest . REmember me O Lord in the favour which thou bearest to thy People , and visite me with thy salvation , that I may see the felicity of thy chosen . And rejoyce with the gladnesse of the Saints . And give thanks with thine Inheritance . For certainly there is a glory to be revealed hereafter . And when the judge commeth , some shal behold his joyfull countenance . Job . 33. 16. And be placed on his right hand . Mat. 25. 32. And here that most sweet voyce , come yee blessed . v. 34. And be taken up to meet Christ in the Clouds . 1 Thes. 4. And enter into his joy , his full joy . Mat. 25. 21. His joy which shall never be taken away . v. 22. And enjoy that beatificall vision of him . And remaine with him for evermore , And they onely , onely they of all the sonnes of men are blessed . To grant me , the vilest of men , the meanest place there , a place even under their feet , under the feet of thine elect , and of the lowest among them , and to this purpose . Let me finde grace in thy sight , that I may obtaine the grace to serve & please thee with feare and reverence . Gen. 6. 8. Heb. 12. 8. And give me yet a second grace that I may not receive that grace in vaine . 2 Cor. 6. 1. So farre forth as to neglect it , or to be wanting to it . 1 Tim. 4. 14. Heb. 12. 15. But that I may stirr it up rather , so as to encrease in it , and to remaine therein . to my lives end , 1 Tim. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 3. 18. Acts. 13. 43. And O Lord , supply thou the defects of thy graces in me , helpe my weake faith , confirme my faint hope , enflame the smokeing flax of my charity . And kindle it so in my heart , that I may learne to love thee , first & above all , and my friends in thee , & any Enemies for thee , and thy sake . As I would have men to deale with me , so give me grace to deale with them . One thing onely let mee feare , that is , to feare any thing more then thee . And let my heart so rejoyce in the feare of thee . That this feare of mine may be my hope . Lastly , thou which givest grace to the humble . Give me so much grace , as to be humbled . Comprecation of temporall blessings . Hosanna in Terrenis . REmember O Lord to crowne the years with goodnesse , and let thy providence distill plenty , For the eyes of all things waite upon thee , ô Lord and thou givest them foode in due season . Thou openest thy hands , and fillest every Creature with thy blessing . Psal. 145. 15. Vouchsafe us therefore ô Lord the blessing of the heavens , and of the dew from above , and of the fountaines of the deepe beneath . Deut. 33. 13. 14. The precious things returned by the Sun , and the precious fruits put forth by the Moone . v. 15 The choicest things of the ancient mountains , and the precious things of the lasting hills ; the precious things of the earth , and fulnes thereof . O make peace within our borders . And fasten thou the Barres of our gates . v. 19. But cloath our enemies with confusion , and blesse our children among us . Let our Sonnes grow up as the young plants , and our Daughters be as the polished corners of the Temple . v. 144. 12. Lord blesse our victualls with increase , and fill us with the floure of wheate , and satisfie our poore with bread . Psal. ●32 . 6. Let our Garners be full and abounding with all manner of store , let our sheepe bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets , And let our Oxen be strong to labour . v. 13. Let there bee no decay , no leading away into captivity , nor no complaining in our streets . Two things I desire of thee ( O Lord ) deny me not them before I dye . Pro. 30. 7 , 8 , 9. Vanity and lying words , remove farr from me . v. 8. Beggery and abundance give me not . Give me onely what is needfull for my life , least being full , I be tempted to deny thee and say , who is the Lord . verse . 9. Or being forced by want I steale , & so forswear the name of my God . Teach me O God to abound , & to want , Phil. 4. 11. that every where and in all things , in what condition soever I shal be , I may learne to be content , v. 12. Thanksgiving . LEt all thy workes confess unto thee ô Lord , and let thy Saints blesse thee . Psal. 34. 96. 103. 107. It is a good thing to praise the Lord , and to sing unto thy Name O most high . Psa. 91. 1. To declare thy loving kindnes in the morning , and thy truth in the night season . v. 2. I will exalt thee O God my King , and blesse thy Name for ever and ever , every day I will blesse thee and extoll thy Name for ever and ever . Psal. 145. 1. v. 2. For it is thou which callest the things which were not , as if they were , and by whom all things are made in Heaven and on Earth , visible and invisible . Rom. 4. 17. Col. 1. 16. And it is thou which sustainest all things by the word of thy power , and by thy ordinance they continue to this day . Heb. 13. Psal. 119. 91. for all things serve thee . Which leavest not thy selfe without a witnesse , in doing good from heaven ; giving us raine and fruitfull seasons and filling our hearts with food and gladnesse . Acts. 14. 17. 1. It is thou which by thy wisdome and power didst ( thy selfe ) 2. With thine owne hands make man of the mould of the earth . 3. And didst breath into his nostrills the breath of life . Acts. 1. 26. 4. And did'st honour him with thine owne Image . 5. And did'st give the Angells charge over him , Psal. 91. 11. 6. And dost place him over the worke of thy hands , Psal. 8. 7. 7. And did'st seate him in the paradise of pleasure . Gen. 2. 15. And when he had dispised thy Commandements , did'st not yet dispise him , but did'st open to him a gate to repentance and life , Acts. 11. 18. Giving to him that great and pretious promise of the seed which should save us , 2 Pet. 1. 4. It was thou which did'st instruct us . 1. By that which is knowne of God . 2. By the Law written in our hearts . 3. By the services of sacrifices and oblations . 4. By the Oracles of the Prophets . 5. By the melody of the Psalmer . 6. By the wisdome of the Proverbs . 7. By the experience of the sacred story . It was thou which when the fulnesse of time came didst send downe thy son who emptying himself , and taking the forme of a Servant , of the feede of Abraham , Heb. 12. 6. Being made of a woman and subjected to the Lawe . Gal. 4. 4. Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 21. 6. Ga. 4. 4. By his active obedience fulfilled the Law , and by his death tooke away the curse thereof , Eph. 5. 1. Redeeming by his death , and by his resurrection reviving our nature , and leaving nothing undone that was needfull to doe , that wee might be made partakers of the divine nature , who likewise manifested himselfe to be our Saviour in all places by the preaching of the Gospell . Rom. 4. last . 2 Cor. 2. 14. Bearing witnesse thereunto by divers signes and miracles . Heb. 2. 4. By the admired holines of life in his Saints , and By their wonderfull patience even to the effusion of their bloud . Heb , 11 , 36 , 37. And by the incredible condition of the whole world to the faith . 1 John , 5 , 4. It is thou also which hast made us the Sonnes of Saints and heirs of the same vocation . Which hast given thy Church power , to be the pillar and foundation of Truth . 1 Tim , 3 , 15. It is thou which hast granted to our Church ability , to keep that which was committed to her . 1 Tim. 6. 20. To teach us the way of peace , and to retain certain ordered stedfastnesse and decency , Rom. 3. 22. Col. 2. 5. It is thou which hast established the throne of thy Servant our Soveraigne , 1 Ch. 17. 13. Which hast instructed our Princes , & hast taught our Magistrates wisedome Psal. 105. 22. Which hast vouchsafed us pastours according to thine own heart , to feed us with knowledge and learning , Jer. 3. 15. It is thou which hast made peace in our inclosure , and hast satisfied us with the flowre of wheate , Psalm 106. 13 , 14. Which hast strengthned the Barres of our gates , and hast blessed our Children among us . Which hast turned our swords into Mattocks , and our spears into sithes , Esay 2. 4. Which hast cloathed our enemies with confusion , and hast given us for a blessing for ever and ever , and made us glad with the joy of thy Countenance , Psal. 21. 7. It is thou which hast brought mee into this life , and hast led mee to the lavar of regeneration and renewing by thy holy Spirit , and hast revealed to me the paths of life . Tit. 3. 5. Psalm 16. 11. Which hast connived at my sins for my repentance . Wisd. 11. 12. And hast not crushed me under the hands of mine iniquity . Esa 64. 7. Which hast even waited to shew mercy on me . Esa. 30. 18. And hast not suffered my heart to harden . Rom. 2. 9. But hast left mee in the compunction of heart , and memory of my latter end , and conscience of my former sins . Acts 7. 37. Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 10. 3. Which hast not cut off my life like a weaver in the beginning , Psa. 16. 29. nor from morning to night hast made and of us . Jo. 20. 22. Which hast not called me away in the middest of my dayes . Psalme 102. 25. But hast holden my soule in life , and hast not suffered my feete to slip . Psalme 66. 9. Therefore for all these benefits , and for many more , through their multitude and our forgetfulness omitted ; Glory be to thee ô Lord , glory and honour & praise and blessing and thankes with the tongues of Angels and men . The meanest of thy work by reason of our sin now every houre and every day , Even to our latest gaspe , To the end of the world , and to all Eternity . Amen . Thankesgiving in particular . O Lord my God , For my being . living , endowment with reason . For my nourishment , preservation , ingenuous education . For thy gifts to me , of nature , of the world , of grace . For my redemption , regeneration , christian instruction . For thy calling of me , calling againe , often reiterated calling . For thy patience , long-suffering , long , long-suffering of these many times , these many yeares , even untill now . For the good which I have received . For the good ( if any ) which I have done . For the use and comfort of thy prudent benefits . For the promise , and my hope of enjoying thy future blessing . For my good and honest Parents . My kinde and mild Master and Teacher . My ever memorable Benefactors . My trusty friends . My faithfull companions . My loving and carefull Wife . My obedient and towardly children . For all those which have any way furthered and profited me , By their writings , Sermons , Discourses , Proverbs , Examples , Reproofes , Injuries . For all these and for all other , known & unknown . manifest and secret , remembred and forgotten . Wherewith willingly or against my will I have been affected and bettered . I praise , and will praise . Blesse . Blesse . Thanke . Thank thee . All the dayes of my life . What am I ( Lord ) or what is my Fathers house , that thou shouldst vouchsafe to look on such a dead dog as I am ? Psal. 3. 4. What shall I render to the Lord , for all the things hee hath bestowed upon me ? What thanks can I repay unto my God for all the things which he hath forgiven , which he hath given me to this instant . Praises . IT is good to sing psalms unto our God . For sweete and decent is his praise : Therefore will I confesse unto the Lord with my whole heart . In the counsell of the Saints , and in the Congregation . O magnifie the Lord with me , and let us elevate his Name . Let all his works blesse the Lord , in all the places of his Dominion , from the Sun rise to the fall thereof . Let all that breath praise the Lord . Let all flesh bless his holy name for ever . Praise the Lord ô all yee Nations , and praise him only ô all ye people . Give unto the Lord ( all ye Kindreds of the earth ) give unto the Lord honor and glory . Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name . Being your offerings , and come into his Courts . Praise thou the Lord ô Salem , and thou ô Sion , praise ye the Lord . All ye that stand in the Lords house , in the courts of the house of our God , lift up your hands towards his Sanctuary , ô lift them up and praise the Lord . My soule praiseth the Lord , him will I praise all my life long . To my God will I sing whilst I have any being . Thou art my God , and I will praise thee . Thou art my God , and I will exalt thee . Be thou ô God exalted above the Heavens , and thy glory above the Earth . Praised be the Lord for his great goodnesse towards all his Creatures . All man-kinde in generall . The Klngdome of the whole world . The Catholike Church . The Kingdomes and Churches in severall . This Church and Kingdome of ours . The orders and degrees in each . And the particular persons in them . Towards this City . This Parish wherein I dwell . Towards all that are mine . Mine Household . Kindred . Benefactors . Friends . Wel-willers . Towards my poor selfe . My soule and body in the gifts of grace . Nature . The world . Now to this present , and which shall bee at my time hereafter . Wee lift our hearts up to the Lord , For indeede it is most due and just . Most meet and convenient in all , and by all means , in all ●indes . Times and places . To memorize . adore . confesse . praise . blesse . Magnifie and thanke thee . VVhich art the Creator , Nourisher , Preserver , Governour , Restorer , Promoter and Perfecter of all Creatures . Their Lord and Father . Their King and God . The fountain of life and Immortrlity . The treasury of eternall blessing . VVhom the heavens applaud , and the heaven of heavens , the Angels and all the Celestiall powers each to other , and wee most unworthy and humble sinners under the feete of them , with them . Holy , holy , holy , Lord God of Sabboth , Esa 6. 3. The whole heavens and all the Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory . Blessed be the glory of the Lord out of his owne place , Ezek. 3. 12. Glory bee to God on high , in earth peace and good will among men . Blessed and praised and magnified , extolled and glorified and hallowed bee thy Name O Lord . The memoriall , mention , and remembrance thereof . For the faith of the Patriarchs . The hope of the Prophets . The labours of the Apostles . The trueth of the Evangelists . The blood of the Martyrs . The zeale of the Confessors . The study of the Doctors . Glory be to thee , O Lord , glory be to thee . Glory be to thee for the glorifying of them . In whom wee also glorifie thee . Amen . Glory and wisedome , Honour and Virtue , Praise and Riches , Blessing & Power , Thanksgiving and Dominion . Holinesse and Salvation , be ascribed to our God which sitteth upon the Throne and liveth for ever , and to the Lambe which was slaine . Amen . Great and wonderfull are thy workes ô Lord Almighty , true and just are thy wayes ô thou King of Saints . Rev. 15. 3. Who will not feare the Lord , and glorifie thy Name , for thou onely art holy , and all the Nations shall come and worshipp thee , for thy judgments are made manifest . Praises in Particular . COme and harken unto me , ô all yee that feare the Lord , and I will shew you what thing hee hath done for my Soule , he hath created me , hee hath brought me into life , and hath so disposed of mee that I am , A living soule , and not a sensles thing ; A Man , not a Beast ; Civill , not barbarous ; Freeborne , not a slave ; Legittimate , not a bastard ; Of honest parentage , not of base or Ignominious ; Of understanding , not blockish ; Sound in sences , not blind or deafe ; Sound in Limbs , not lame or maimed ; Well brought up , not forlorne or exposed . A Christian , not a Pagan ; Peaceable not quarelsome ; Cleare of dangers , not swallowed up by them ; Cleere of infamy , not wounded in credit ; Of sufficient estate , not forced to flatter ; or borrow . And living in the dayes of PEACE , not turmoyled with hurly burly . To thee O Lord , Which according to thy abundant mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead , 1 Pet. 1. 3 , 4. To an Inheritance , Immortall , undefiled , and never fading , reserved in heaven for us , which hast blessed me with all spirituall blessings , in heavenly things in Christ , Eph. 1. 3. Which comfortest mee in all my tribulations , that as the sufferings of Christ abound in me , so through Christ my consolation aboundeth . To thee O Lord , The God of my fathers , I make my confession ; to thee I give praise , because thou hast granted me wisdome and courage in some measure , and hast shewed me the things which I desired thee , and hast opened thy Word unto me . Unto him which Is able to doe superabundantly above that which is desired or understood , according to the power which worketh in us . Eph. 3. 29. To him be glory in the Church of Christ , through out all generations for ever and ever . As with marrow and fatnes shall my soule be satisfied and with joyfull lipps shall my soule praise him . Psal. 63. 5. Evening Prayer HAving passed through this ●●● I give my thanks to t●●e ô Lord . The Evening approacheth , ô blesse that also to me , an evening there is as of the day , so of our life , that Evening is old age , & age hath now surprized me , Lord prosper thou that likewise unto me . Tarry with me ô Lord , for the evening growes upon me . Luck . 24. 29 : And my day is much declined , cast me not off now in min age forsake me not now when my strength faileth me . Psal. 71. 8 , 9. But rather let thy strength bee made more perfect in this my weaknes , 2 Cor. 12. 9. O Lord the day is vanished and gon , so doth this life . The night doth now approach , so doth death also , death without death , the end both of our day and of our life , is neere at hand . Remember this therefore wee beseech thee ô Lord , make the end of all our lives Christian-like and acceptable to thee , peaceable , and if it like thee , painlesse , translating us among thine elect , unto thy heavenly kingdome . O Lord thou hearest prayer , to thee shall all flesh come . In the morning , at Noone , and in the evening I will call , I will cry out , and thou shalt heare my voyce . In the night will I lift up my hands to thy Sanctuary , and will blesse thee ô Lord , Psal. 133. 4. The Lord hath shewed his mercy in the day , therfore at night I will sing of him , and pray unto the God of my life , psal. 42. 9 , 10. Thus will I praise thee all my life long , and in thy Name will I lift up my hands , Psal. 63 : 4 , 5. O let my prayers be directed as the incense , and the lifting up of my hands as the Evening Sacrifice . Psal. 141. 2. Blessed art thou ô Lord my God : the God of my Fathers . Psal. 144. 20. VVhich hast created the Changes of night and of day . v. 22. VVhich givest rest to the weary , and refreshest the weake . Esa. 40. 29. VVhich givest Songs in the night . Job . 35. 10. And makest the out-going of the Morning and Evening to praise thee . Psalme . 65. 9. VVhich hast delivered us from the malice of this day . Matt. 6. ult. And cuttest not off our lives ( like a VVeaver ) neither from Morning to Evening makest an end of us . Esay . 38. 12. As we add dayes to our dayes , so we add sinnes to our sins , Eccles. 5. 8. The just man falls seven times a day . Frov. 24. 16. But wee wretched sinners seventy times 7 times . Mat. 18. 22. But wee returne to our hearts . Esa. 46. 8. And with our hearts we returne to thee . Deut. 30. 2. To thee ô Lord wee returne , and all that is within us , saith , Ps. 103. O Lord wee have sinned against thee . 2. Sam. 12. 13. But we repent ; alas wee repent , spare us good Lord , Luke . 17. 4. Be mercifull and spare us . Be propitious to us . Haue pitty upon us , and spare us ô Lord . Forgive us the guilt , Rom. 13. 19. Take out the staines , Psal. 51. 3. 9. Cure the faintnesse in us by reason of our sins , psal. 146. 3. and heale our soules O God , for wee have sinned against thee , psal. 41. 4. Deliver mee from my unavoydable sins , psal. 27. 17. Cleanse me from my secret offences , psalm . 19. 13. And for my Communion with the transgression of others , pardon thy servant ô Lord . All our good deeds thou hast wrought in us , Esay . 26. 12. If wee have done any thing well , mercifully regard it ô Lord . Our sin and our distraction is from our owne selves , Hosea . 13. 9. Whatsoever wee have done amisse , graciously pardon it . Thou which givest thy beloved secure rest , grant that I may passe this night without feare , Psal. 3. 6. Enlighten my eyes that I sleep not in death . p. 13. 4. Deliver mee from the mighty feare , from the businesse that walketh in the darke . psalm . 91. 5. Thou which neither sleepest at any time , nor slumbrest , keepe mee this night ô Lord from al evill : chiefly ô Lord keepe and preserve my soule . Psalme . 121. 4. 7 Visite mee ô God with the visitations of thy Saints : open mine eares in the visions of the night . Job . 33. 15 , 16. At least let my sleepe be a cessation from sins , from labour , and let me dream of nought that may offend thee , or defile my selfe . Prov. 4. 6. Let not my loynes be filled with illusions , but let my reynes chasten mee in the night . psalme . 38. 8. and 16. 7. Let mee remember thee upon my bed , and let mee meditate with my heart , and search out my spirit . Psalme . 63. 6. and 77. 6. And when it shall bee time for mee to rise , let mee wake with the light to thee ô Lord , to thy praise and thy service . Rom. 13. 11. Psal. 63. 1. O Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit , my soule and my body . Thou hast created , thou hast redeemed them ô Lord , thou God of truth . Psalm . 31. 5. And with my selfe I commend to thy mercifull protection , all those that belong to mee , and all that is mine : Thou ô Lord of thy goodnesse hast bestowed them upon me , Gen. 33. 5. O keep us all from evil , chiefely good Lord keepe and preserve our soules . Keepe them ô God , keep them all spotlesse , and without guilt present them in that day , Psa. 121. 7. I will lay me down and sleepe in peace . For thou only makest me dwell in safety , Psal. 3. 5. and 4. 8. After divine service . O Lord thou which hast suffered me this holy day , and houre to raise my soule , and give praise unto thee and offer up the glory due to thee ; accept then , from my soul , this sacrifice sprituall , and send into me the grace of thy most sacred spirit , ô visit me in thy great goodnesse , forgive me all my sins both wilfully and unwillfully committed , deliver me from the reward of them , that is from everlasting punishment , yea , and from all distresses in this world , change my thoughts into Piety . Sanctifie my spirit , My soule and my body , Oh , give me grace to adore and please thee in godlines and holines of life , to the utmost end of al my dayes . Amen . Before thy Approaching the Holy Communion , say O Lord , I am not worthy , nor prepared for thee to come under my sordid roofe , for it is wholy desolate and ready to dropp downe quite , neither canst thou with me have any fitting place for thy Reposall . Mar. 8. 8. But as thou denyest to rest in the Stable and manger of bruit beasts . Luk. 2. 7. As thou didst not Disdaine Simon . the Kepers house , and entertainement . Mat. 26. 6. As thou didst not forbid the adulterous Sinner to come and touch thee . Luk. 7. 19. Nor did'st abhor her impure and prophane mouth , Nor yet the Theeves confession of thee upon the Crosse . Luk. 7. 23. Vouchsafe O Lord to receive me likewise ( an over-worne and most unworthy sinner ) Amen . In approaching the Holy Sacrament . O Lord with all thanks wee commemorate the saving passions of thy Christ our Saviour . This life-restoring Crosse , His precious death , His 3. dayes Sepulture , His resurrection , His ascention to heaven And his sitting on thy right hand , His glorious and most Dreadfull returne thence to the last Iudgment . And wee beseech thee that with the sincere witnesse of our conscience receiving part of these thy holy Mysteries wee may be therewithall incorporated into the sacred body of thy Sonne , and so communicating , worthily may dwell in him and he again in us , and be his members as he is our head , and become Temples of his holy Spirit . And ô good Lord scoure out the staines of my old and fresh sins , and let not such foule spots continue there , where thy pure Sacrament shall have entered , but ô Lord make not any of us guilty of these most dreadful and celestial mysteries , nor weake or feeble either in Soul or body , for our receiving them unworthily . But grant that to our last gaspe , wee may retaine the hope and comfort of this ever blessed Sacrament of thine . In the time of Receiving . ATtend O Lord from thy most sacred dweling , and from the throne of glory , in thy kingdome and come and hallow it , ô thou which visitest on high with the the Father , and yet invisible art present with us , come neere and consecrate these guifts of thine , and all those both by whom , and for whose sake , and the end also to which they are consecrated . And yet that we may so participate of these thy mysteries that they may prove to us according to thy institution . The monuments of our Lords dispensation , and a memoriall of his sacrifice , and the meanes of renewing our covenant with thee . Act. 2. 4. Luk. 22. 18. 2 Cor. 11. 26. Pet. 5. 1. 5. According to the manner of receiving by eating and drinking . The Soules food for our strength and nourishment . 1 Cor. 10. 2. Her medicine to purge and to restore her . Heb. 9. 14. According to the effects ô Lord let them like seales confirme our pardons to us . To the remission of our transgressions , and cancelling of all our debts and sins Mat. 26. 28. Col. 2. 14. Let them take out the staines that sin leaves in us and cure the weaknesse in our soules bred by it . Heb. 9. 14. Esa. 6. 7. 1 Pet. 2. 14. Let them keep from us the destroying Angell , as did the lambs bloud in the Passeover . Doe thou by them communicate to us the body and bloud of Christ , and knitt us unto him that we may participate his Spirit . 1 Cor. 10. 16. and verse . 12 , 13. Let them like Conduit-pipes convey to us the graces of that most holy Spirit , Hebr. 13. 19. 1 Cor. 12. 13. That so they may enlighten our darke mindes , and pricke our hearts with the compunction of true repentance , and cherish our weak faith , and prop our hope , and become bands to us of Charity , occasions to us of our liberty , and the awaker of all our thankfulnesse , Luke . 24. 31. 1 Cor. 11. 20. John . 13. 35. Psalm . 116. 12. And let them arme us against transgression to the encrease of all effectuall grace , and the augmentation of our Consolation , and the tranquility of our Conscience . 1 Pet. 4. 1. Hebr. 13. 9. Psalm . 104. 15. 1 Cor. 11. 28. That even we together , with the rest of all the Saints , which ever have been gracious in thy sight , may bee partakers of those incorruptible and everlasting gifts prepared by thee for all that love thy blessed Name : In whom thou art , and ever shalt be glorified . After the receipt of the Eucharist . IT is good for me to adhere to God , to place the hope of my salvation in thee ô Lord , ô Christ our God . Wee have now finished all within our performance that concernes this Mysterie of thine owne dispensation . For wee have had memoriall of thy death . And have had an earnest of eternall life , and tasted these thy most sweet delicacies . Whereof there can bee no satiety . And ô good Lord let it stand with thy pleasure , to grant that to us in the World to come , Amen . The LORD bee mercifull to every one that prepareth his heart to seeke the Lord of our Fathers , though he be not prepared according to the cleaness of thy redemption , 1 Cor. 30. 19. Mourning and weeping . OH that my head were full of water , and mine eyes fountaines of teares , Jeremiah 9. 1. Hee which turneth the flint stone into a springing well , vouchsafe mee gratiam Lacrymarum , . some small portion of the grace of repentance ; that though weepe I cannot , yet wish and pray for it I may , at least complaine and bemoane my selfe as the Prophet . My leanenesse , my leanenesse , woe is me my drynesse , my drynesse , woe is mee the transgressors have o●fended , the transgressors have grievously offended . Esay . 24. 16. Grievously offend I can , grievously lament I cannot , my drynesse , my drynesse woe is me , but I humbly beseech thee my mercifull God and Father , in default of my contrition to accept of the strong crying and bitter teares , which in the dayes of his flesh , thy blessed Sonne in great agonie shed for mee . A Prayer on the meditation of the great worke of our redemption . O Lord which hast set before us thy Passion and Throne , one to awake our love , the other to quicken our hope , that we may this day , and ever , lift up our eyes and heads , that wee may this day , and ever carry them in our eyes and hearts , looke up to them both , so looke that wee may love the one , and waite and hope for the other ; so love , and so hope , that by them both we may move , and that swiftly , even runne to him , and running , not faint , but so constantly runne , that wee faint not finally , to attaine the happy fruition of himselfe , and of the joy and glory of his blessed throne , that so wee may finde and feele him as on the Crosse the Author , so there the finisher of our faith , by the Son our Lord Jesus Christ . Amen . A meditation on Canticles , 5. 10. THe Spouse in the Canticles . askeing of her Beloveds colours , saith of him , my Beloved is white and red , white of his own proper , so he was when he shewed himself in kind transfigured on the mount , his apparrel then so white , no Fuller in the earth could come neer it , Math. 17. 2. Mar. 9. 3. white of himselfe , how comes hee red then , not of himselfe , but for us , that is our naturall colour , wee are born polluted in our owne bloud , it is sinnes colour , that for shame , that for shame is the colour of sin ; our sins saith Esay , . Ch. 1. are as Crimson , of as deep dye as any purple , this the true tincture of our sins the Edomites . colour right : for Edom. is red . The tincture of our sinne originall , dyed in the Wool ; and then again of our sins actuall , died in the cloath too , twice dryed , so was Christ twice , once in his owne , againe in his enemies . Right dibaphus , . a perfect full colour , a true purple , of a double dye , his too . So was it meete for crimson sinners to have a crimson Saviour : a Saviour of such a colour it behooveth us to have . Comming then to save us , off went his white , on went our red : Laid by his owne righteousnesse , to bee cloathed with our sinnes . To weare our colours ; that wee his , he in our red , that wee in his white . So wee finde ( Apoc. 7. ) our robes are not onely washed cleane , but dyed a pure white , in the blood of the Lambe . Yea hee dyed and rose againe , both in our colours , that we might die , and rise too , in his , he in mount Golgotha , like to us , that we in mount Tabor , might bee like to him . His Prayer after the holy Ordinances on Whit-Sunday . O LORD wee have heard thy word , the outward meanes , and received the inward , wee began with one sacrament , baptisme ; wee end with the other , the Eucharist , we began with that where wee heard of him ; and wee end with the other , where wee may , and shall ( I trust ) receive him , and Almighty God grant , wee may so receive him at this good time , as in his good time , wee may bee received by him thither , whence he this day came of purpose to bring us , even to the holy places made without hands , which is his heavenly kingdome , which God the Father who prepared it , God the Sonne who purchased it , To whom three Persons , &c. Lights from Heaven . THere are seaven lights , whereof God is the father , acknowledging thē all for his children , and to his children , will vouchsafe them , in their order . 1. The light of nature , for rebelling against which al that are without Christ , suffer condemnation , Salomon calles it the candle of the Lord , searching the very bowells . Pro. 20. 25. which though it be dimme , and not perfect , yet good it is , though lame yet as Mephibosheth , it is Regia proles , of the blood Royall . 2. There is the light of Gods Law , Lex , Lux ( saith Salomon ) totidem verbis . Pro. 6. 23. and his father calls it , a Lanthorne to his feet , nay in the 19. Psalme . what he saith at the fourth verse of the sonne , at the eight hee saith of the Law of God , lights both . 3. The light of prophecie , as of a candle , that shines in a darke place . 2 Pet. 1. 19. 4. There is the wonderfull light of the gospell ( so Saint Peter calls it ) the proper light of the day . 1 Pet. 2. 9. the tongues that descended , so many tōgues , so many lights , for the tongue is a light , & brings to light , what before was hidin the heart . 5. And from these other is the light of grace , whereby God which commandeth the light to shine out of darknesse , hee it is that shineth in our hearts , by the inward anoynting , which is the oyle of this Lampe . 2 Cor. 4. 6. the light of his holy Spirit , chasing away the darknes , both of our hearts , and mindes . 6. There is the light of comfort , of his holy spirit , a light sowen for the righteous , here in this life . 7. There is the light of glory , where the Saints shall reape light , where God dwelleth , and where wee shall dwell with him , even the inheritance of the Saints , in light , where the righteous shall shine as the Sun , in the kingdome of their father , the Father of lights , Moses Candlestick , with seven stalks & lights in each of them . Gal. 1. 12. Mal. 13. 43. The imprecation against the Enemies of the Church . THe Serpents curse be upon them , and let their heads be trod to peeces , they that are Sions malignant enemies , Oh Lord , let them be as grasse , upon the house top , as those that perish at Endor and become dung for the earth , let them be as stubble scatterd , or wax melted , smoak driven , no man can tell whither , let them perish , perish as Sisera , and Oreh , as , Absalon , Jaels bammer on their heads , Gideons Axe on their necks , Joabs Dart in their hearts , one , nay three , one for the enemies of God , another for the enemies of mankind , a third for the enemies of Sion , Psal. 12. 1. Let their sword goe throw their owne hearts , and their mischeife light upon their owne heads . Amen . His Prayer for King James , after his Sermon of Gowries Conspiracy . EUen so Lord let it be , set up thy mercy , for ever , for ever , stablish the truth , of this thy Covenant , with thy servant our Soveraigne , that it may never faile him , as not this day , so not at any other time , let thy hand be still upon him , and thine arme about him for ever , between him , and his harmes , violence , and hurt , never come neere him , the sinnes of wickednesse be ever farr from him , let them be non proficients , all the sort of them that study to practise this wicked lesson , never loose thou him , nor suffer him to be lost , ever finde him good Lord , to succour and save him , and let thy right hand finde out his enemies , to smite and plague them , with the same blowes thou didst smite , and with the same plagues thou didst power , on those of this day , the destiny of this day come on them all , and for him , Let his anoynting still be fresh on him , and his Crowne still flourish on his head , let him all the day walke in the light of thy countenance , and at night , rest in the covering of thy wings , this day as once it did , so let it rise prosperous and happy to him this day , and all days , that he , that wee , all may sing thy mercies , and set forth thy truth , all the dayes of our life , heare us ô Lord , and grant it for thy Sonnes sake our Saviour , Amen . His Thankesgiving for the deliverance from the Gunpouder-Treason . O God , with all the powers , thou hast destributed in our Soules , the breath of life , thou hast breathed into our nostrilles , the tongues thou hast put into our mouthes , behold , all these shall breake forth and confesse , and blesse , and thanke , and praise , and magnifie , and exalt thee , and thy mercy for ever , yea every mouth shall acknowledge thee , every tongue , be the trumpet of thy praise , every eye lookeup , and every knee bow down to thee , and all hearts shall feare thee , and all that is within us , even our bowells , those our bowells , that but for thee , had flowne , wee know not whether ; even our bones , those bones , that but for it , had been ●●i●er'd , bone , from bone , one from another , all shall say , who is like unto thee O Lord , in mercy who is like unto thee , glorious in holiness , fearefull in prayses , doing wonders , wonders of mercy , as this day , upon us all , to bee held by us , and our posterity , in an everlasting remembrance ; glory be to thee O Lord , glory bee to thee , and glory to thy mercy , yea super omnia yea most glorious , of thy great , and high perfection , glory bee to thee , and glory to it , to it , in thee , and to thee for it , and that , by all thy workes , in all places , and at all times , and of all thy workes , and above them all , by us here , by the hearts and lungs of us all , in this place , this day , for this day , for the mercy of this day , for the mercy of it , above all mercies and for the worke of this day , above al the works of it , & not this day only , but all the dayes of our life , even as long as thy mercy endureth , and that endureth for ever , in the world to come , through the cisterne , and cunduit , of all thy mercies Jesus Christ . A Prayer for Magistrats Ecclesiastical and civill . LORD by whose almighty power all governments doe stand , those especially wherein the people are led in the way of his sanctuary , as he hath graciously begun to lead us in that way , so leave us not , till we have finished our course with joy ; knit the hearts of Moses and Aaron , and that they may joyne lovingly . Teach their hands , and fingers of their hands , that they lead skilfully , touch the hearts of the people , that they may be lead willingly , That by meanes of this happie conduct , surely without errour , and safely without danger wee may lead & to be led forward untill wee come to the fruition of his promise , the expectation of our biessed hope ; even the eternall joyes of his celestiall Kingdome , through Jesus Christ our Lord . Before Sermon . BLessed art thou O Lord Teach me thy Statutes , open my eyes that I may understand the wonders of thy law . O Lord remove thou the vaile from my heart whil'st that I either read or heare thy word . The forme of Prayer used by Bishop Andrews after the opening of the Text THat the Word of God may at this time , obtaine in us that end to which it was appointed , and this our whole action may be advantaged ( Reverend Fathers and Brethren in CHRIST ) let us by our prayers invite hither the Divine Majesty , acknowledging in the first place , from the bottom of our hearts our unworthinesse , even to draw neere to him , much more to pray to , & yet much more to obtaine any thing from him . But that all our worthinesse depends upon his acceptation , and that all our confidence to pray and hope to obtaine , depends upon his intercession . By him let us deprecate the present punishment most due to our former unthankfulnesse for , and carelesnesse in his word . Let us pray that the grace of his Spirit may now prevent us ; and that what my heart hath profitably meditated , he would bring into my tongue , thence into your Eares , thence into your H●●r●● , thence into your life study and manners , to the salvation of us all , and his eternall glory . And least we should be unmindfull of the Church of CHRIST in our prayers , which is never unmindfull of us in hers , let us interceed , with our most mercifull Father , for his Church militant , on earth , scattered far and wide through all Nations That God would preserve unto her his truth , not long since recovered out of the most thick darknesse of errour , that he would restore unto her , when it shall seem good unto him , her unity , now almost lost through the dissentions of the christian World . And let us commend unto him , not without groanes , that part thereof , which beside and above the rest , stands in speciall need of our prayers : that part I say , which is afflicted and oppressed either with the outward crosse , for the testimony of a good , or the inward for the testimony . of a bad conscience . Let us pray for a happy issue of their calamities , and in the meane time , while the issue is uncertaine , so much patience , as shall be necessary for the bearing of their crosses , ( as is meet ) meekly and couragiously . For that part of the Church flourishing with peace , and by name , for this our Church of England , that God would give us to know the day of our visitation , and to walke worthy of his so great mercy , that we indeed have , but before us no Nation , no age ever had experience of . For the principall members of our Church and State , the Queenes most sacred majesty , that shee may be enriched and adorned with all virtues , fit for so great a place , so great a Person , that in this her Kingdome , the Kingdome of CHRIST may daily more and more be propagated : and that she may be as cordiall to us as careful , of all things which are Gods as God hath confirmed ; by many , great , former , later arguments that he is cordiall to , and carefull of her . For the Honourable Peeres of the Kingdome : those especially who are of her Majestyes Privy Councel ; that God would proceed ( as he hath done long ) to suggest to them whatsoever shall be for the peace of this Church , and Kingdome , that what is good may be effected , that what is hurtfull may be removed . For the English Clergy : to which whi●e I desire to pray all happines , what other things should I begg of the Lord , then that they may once be of one minde and Judgment in all things . For our Magistracy , that they may discharge their Office purely and entirely : neither turning Justice into Worme-wood , by corrupt sentence ; nor into Vineger by long suspension and delay of Causes . For the People , even the lowest part of the Kingdome : ( so it is , but yet precious , being bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ ) that they may heare such as they have , and have such as they should heare , men fit to teach both now and hereafter . That this may be , and ever be , and that there may daily spring up a great supply of Learned men , wch may be able to plead our causes , and minister to the health of our bodies , and procure the salvation of our soules , that God would be good and gracious to all Schooles of good Learning : To both the Universities , and especially to this of Ours , and all the Magistrates thrreof . To the Right Honourable the Lord Treasurer of the Kingdome , our Chancellour : To the Right Worshipfull Master Vice-Chancellour , Master Proctors , Master Taxors , and the rest who have any Office among us . Lastly , that he would plentifully poure out his blessings upon our Colleges ; and ( as my speciall duty calls mee ) upon the whole Society of Pembrook Hall ; that wee in gracing our Predecessors who have beene alwayes famous in this Church , may follow their iudustry , considering the end of their conversation . For all these ( Fathers and Brethern ) let us humbly offer up to CHRIST our Intercessor , his owne Prayer , to be presented to his Father in our name , that hee would graciously bestow upon us these things , and what ever else shall be necessary for us . Our Father which art in heaven , &c. Another Exhortation to Prayer , used by Bishop Andrewes after his opening of the Text . IN the handling of which Particulars , that the Word of God may at this time obtaine in us the end to which it was by him ordained , and that this our whole action may be profitable , let us by our Prayers hither invite the Holy Spirit , Invoaking to that end the Father by the Sonne . And least wee should be forgetfull of her in our Prayers , which in hers is never unmindefull of us ; let us make intercession to the most mercifull Father , for his Church Catholike , not Romane but Universall , militant upon Earth , scattered over the face of the World . That God would preserve unto her , his Truth , now long since recovered out of the thickest darkenesse of errours : that when it shall seeme good unto him , her Unity , now almost lost through the dissentions of the Christian world , may be restored . And let us not without groanes commend unto God , that part thereof , which besides and above the rest , stands in speciall neede of our supplications ; I mean our Brethren , for what reason soever oppressed , and afflicted with any kinde of crosse . Let us pray for an happy end of their tryals , and while the issue is uncertain , for so much patience as shall be necessary to the meeke and constant sufferance of their troubles . For the portion of the Church flourishing in peace , namely for the Churches in great Brittaine and Ireland , and for that in both the Palatinate . And ( as our speciall duty bindes us ) for the most peaceable and powerfull Prince , James , by the Grace of God , King of Great Brittaine , France and Ireland , Defender of the Faith , and throughout his Dominions , over all conditions and orders both Ecclesiasticall and Civill , Supreame Governour . Let us pray for his long life , &c. multitude of yeares , and that hee may live long , daily more and more to encrease the Kingdome of Christ , see it propagated and rejoyce . For the incomparable Queene Anne . For our springing hope the most noble Prince Charls . For the Bridegroome and the Bride , the most Illustrious Fredericke Prince Elector of the Roman Empire , Count Palatine of the Rhene , and the most Excellent Lady , the Lady Elizabeth , the Kings onely Daughter , our only Princesse . For the most Noble , the Peeres of the Realme , those chiefely of his Majesties most Houourable Privy Councell . For this our Order , for the Clergy and for all the people . But in our prayers first and last , wee earnestly beg of God that hee would be good and gracions to the late Marriage , especially that Sion may be glad therein , in whose Joy God alwayes shares : that hee may so blesse them out of Sion , that they may see ( the clause in the marriage song ) their Childrens children , and ( what wee all doe wish for ) Peace upon Israel . For which blessing let us prostrate , offer up to Christ our Intercessour his owne prayer , in our name to be presented to his Father , that hee would most mercifully and bounteously bestow upon us these things , and what else hee knowes expedient for any of us . Our Father , &c.