O Lorde open thou my lippes, that my mouth may speake and shew forth that, whiche is to thy glorie and praise.

O Omnipotent Fa­ther, and euerli­uing GOD, the Fountayne of al felicitie, from whom onely procéedeth all good giftes, most hūblie I beséech thée of [Page] thyne aboundante mercye and exceding kindnes, so to direct and gouerne me this day and euer, with thy good guyding spirite, that all my thoughts, words and déeds, maye onely be occupyed in thy seruice, fayth, feare and loue, and so assist & streng­then me with thy grace, O most mercifull and louing father, for thy sonne Iesus Christ his sake, that nether sinne, death, hell, nor Sa­than, haue the dominion & vpper hande of mée, Indue my heart with the true vn­derstanding of thy true and liuely word, that I may be ready & proane manfully to [Page] fight vnder the standerd of my glorious captain Iesus Christ, agaynst the world, the flesh, & that cruell Ser­pente the olde Leuiathan, which hunteth continually like a roaring lion, seeking the vtter destruction of my soule. Make me constant in time of temptation, y^e whē or at what time my rebel­ling and sinfull fleshe, shall intice me to luste after the pomps and vanities of this wicked worlde, I may by a strong, liuely, and vnshake­able fayth, thorowe the bit­ter tormentes that my saui­our Christe Iesus suffered for me, and al that faythful­ly [Page] beleue and cal vpon him, so mortifie and subdue the olde Adam, that I maye bée dead and buryed from sinne and all iniquity, & the new man Christ Iesus may con­tinually dwell and raign in mee, by whose meanes, I shall be garnished & decked by the meanes of a fruitfull fayth, with immortalitie & heauenly blessednes, vouch­safe (O Lord) I beséech thée, according to the multitude of thy mercies to looke vpon mée, and by thy celestiall prouidence so illuminate the eyes of my soule, that I may continually watche for the glorious cōming of thy [Page] anoynted son Iesus Christ. Roote oute (O Lorde) in and from me the vilde and corrupt branches of rapine, deceipte, auarice, luxurie, concupiscence, and all vn­godlinesse, let the motions of my minde altogether de­pende vppon thée, prepare my tongue to publishe thy prayse, let my lippes be loc­ked vp from all scurillitic & vncomely talke, let myne eares loathe and abhorre to heare thy glorious and bles­sed name blasphemed, & thy trueth to be by any Sectari­an ill spoken of, and slaun­dered, kéepe and defend mée vnder the winges of thy cō ­fortable [Page] protection, from al errors, sismes, and detesta­ble heresies, make me with out fayning, firmely, & con­stantly to builde vpon the truth, wherein is perfectly set forth thy great mercie & diuine iustice. Let the zeale of thy promises in al distres be my chiefest ioy and con­solation, and giue me grace from aboue, that as I make my boast of thy mercies and louing kindnes, by vertue wherof, I am by my Saui­our Christ Iesus quickned from deathe to life, & in his dearest death, and precious bloudsheding, regenerated & borne a new, not of water [Page] but of the spirit by fayth, so Lorde, I maye with thy a­boundaunt loue showne to mée warde, & the whole po­steritie of Adam, I may bée afrayde, wilfully, or of a set purpose, to transgresse thy commaundementes, and so incurre therby thy displea­sure, that the effectes of thy iustice, in the day of thy cō ­ming to iudgement, be pro­nounced against mee, to the vtter destruction of bodie & soule, make me alwais wil­ling good Lord to heare thy worde, by the power wher­of my faith is increased, and therewithall plante in mée perfite loue and obedience, [Page] and so directe my footsteppes in this vale of miserie, that I may treade the pathe that leadeth to thée, with whome my soule thirsteth to rest, e­uen as vehementlye as the Hart longeth after the wa­ter brookes. Graunt this O merciful God, for the honor and glorye of thy names sake. Amen▪

MOste mercyfull Fa­ther, I moste wretched and vnworthye sinner, pro­strate my selfe before the Throane of thy heauenlye [Page] grace, yeelding vnto thée moste humble and heartye thankes, that hast of thy ex­céeding loue and fauor, pre­serued mee this day from al perill and daunger, humbly beséeching thy diuine maie­stie, this night to preserue me, for the loue of thy onely sonne, & my sweetest Saui­our Iesus Christ, my Medi­atour & aduocate, who con­tinuallye pleadeth and ma­keth intercession to thée for mée, & all the rest of thy cho­sen children, presenting hys bloudy wounds, and his glo­rious body al to be scourged in thy diuine presence, who thereby doth mittigate thy [Page] wrathe & indignation, iustly conceiued agaynst me, a mi­serable and wretched crea­ture, and all mankynde. Make me Lord still to con­fesse myne vnworthynesse, and weakenesse to be suche, and so great, that of my selfe I am not worthye to lift vp myne eyes to heauen, much lesse to be called thy sonne, such and so great is the bur­then of my sinne and iniqui­tie, so that by the meanes of my corruption & filthinesse, I acknowledge my selfe to be the child of death, and de­struction, yet build I still on thy promises good Lord, and in this greate daunger, I [Page] come vnto thée with teares, saying.

O father, I haue sinned a­gaynst heauen, and agaynst thée, and am no more wor­thy to bée called thy sonne: of my selfe I haue nothing, but by thée I haue al things: of my selfe I acknowledge I haue iustly deserued the heauy sentēce of thine yre, but by grace of thee, O mightie Emanuel, I am regene­rate and borne agayne from death to life: from daunger to ioy: from perill to peace: from bondage to libertie, & so in fine, from Hell & dam­nation, to blisse & saluation. Such is the effect of thy mercie, [Page] so abundant is thy loue towardes me, and all those that with contrite heartes presente themselues vnto thée. Increase my fayth lord that it may abound in good and fruitfull workes, so for­tifie mée, y^t I neuer swerue from thy veritie, giue mée thy grace from aboue, O merciful Iesus, that I may neuer shrinke from thy sa­cred testimonies. And more ouer, I with all humilitie, and reuerence of heart and mynde, beséeche thée thys night, whiche thou hast or­dayned for man to rest in, thou wilt gard and protecte mée with thy good guidyng [Page] spirite, and albeit, my sin­full flesh shall sleepe & slum­ber, yet graunt good Lorde, that my soule may continu­ally kéepe watch and ward, let not the enemie finde me slumbering and sléeping as careles in the cradle of sin­full Securitie, leaste that whilest I am vnarmed, that is naked & destitute of thy grace and fauour, he enter in and breake vp the house of my sinnefull bodye, and make such hauocke & spoile, that my infected and leapo­rous soule, deformed by meanes of myne iniquitie, and wounded with the dan­geruos Darts of transgres­sion, [Page] bée throwne with the body of sinne to the Lake of destruction, wherein is con­tinuall wayling, and gna­shing of téeth. Make me stil (O good Lorde) to consider that the bed is a plaine pat­terne and similitude of the Graue, which continually calleth for me and all other thy Creatures, make me to vnderstand that when I am layd (of my self) without thy heauenly prouidence, I can not bée able to ryse agayne: make me to acknowledge, that sléepe is the very figure of death, to whose stroak, at thy appoynted pleasure, I must submit my selfe. In­due [Page] me with loue & charitie to all men, let my Lampe (O Lord) be garnished with Oyle, that whensoeuer, or at what tyme soeuer thy messenger death shall drawnie, and knock at the gates of my house, I maye at hys sommons, in the daye of the resurrection of the dead, be ready to attend on thée and thy bride, with my burning Lampe, that is, with a sted­fast fayth, when as by thée I shalbe clothed a newe, for my mortall body shall then be couered with immortal­litie, the corruption of my sinful & rebelling flesh, shal be changed to incorruption [Page] and perfite puritye, thy righteousnesse shalbe mine, thy merites shal make me per­fite & holy, by vertue wher­of hell shal loose his victory, death shall loose his sting, my fayth and hope shal haue ende and rewarde, & I wyth thy Saintes, continuallye dwell in loue and charitie with thée, the Heauenlye Bridegrome Christ Iesus. To whome with the father and the holy ghost, be ascri­bed all lawd, glory, pow­er, prayse, and domi­nion, for euer. Amen.

FOr as muche as (O Bountifull Lorde) it is most méete, right, and iust, that all fleshe shoulde prayse, magnifie, and wor­ship thée, and shoulde with­out ceasing giue thankes vnto thée, who onely art the Creator and maker of all thinges, as well visible as inuisible, who onely art the Treasure of all goodnesse, the Well of life, onely God and Lord, whom the Hea­uens, and Heauens of Hea­uens, the Sunne, the Moone [Page] the Starres, the earth, the Sea, with all that mooue therein: yea, the heauenly companie of martyrs, the soules of the Prophets, and Apostles, Aungels, Arcke­aungels, togither with the soules of al iust & righteous persons, do lawd & glorifie. It is moste requisite, that ech mortal creature, liuing in this worlde, shoulde also acknowledge thy magnifi­cence, wherefore (most mer­cifull Father) I wyth my hart and mouth do acknow­ledge thée to be my king & Lorde, the giuer of all good­nesse, I confesse thee to bee omnipotent, reuerent, mer­ciful, [Page] long suffering, God of all consolation, comforte, mercie and pitie.

I knowe that of thine in­finite goodnesse onely, thou didst make man after thy si­militude & likenes, placing hym in the moste delectable place of Paradice, and al­thoughe he did transgresse thy commaundemente, and therby deserue eternal deth & damnation, yet thou lyke a most louing & pitifull Fa­ther, didst not vtterly reiect him, but gently correct him, & after that thou hast sente hym into the earth, cōman­ding him there to increase and multiply, thou didst in­struct [Page] his posterity with thy lawe, thou didst teach them by the Propehtes, and after that, sentest down thine on­ly begotten sonne, to take vpon him our nature, and to suffer death for our sinnes, thereby to make a recom­pence for the offence which man had committed against thée, and al this thou didst of thy excéeding great mercye and kindnesse, without any deserte of mankinde, not be­ing so muche as by any one prayer, or yet intreatie, thervnto incited.

Therefore, I being bolde­ned with such inestimable benefits, so fréely giuen and [Page] bestowed, doe without any feare at this time, appeare before thy diuine maiestye, prostrating my selfe before the seate of thy mercye, and with al humblenes of hart, and minde, doe make this my prayer vnto thee.

Dispise me not (O Lorde God) being defiled with sin and iniquitie, for beholde I present my self before thée, not presuming vppon myne owne worthinesse, but tru­sting in thy goodnesse.

Be mercifull vnto me a sin­ner, light thou the dull sigh­ted eyes of my minde, open y^u the stopped eares of myne hart, y^e I may both sée, heare [Page] and perceiue & vnderstande that which thou teachest, & alwayes do that which thou commandest, make me not only a hearer of thy heauenly doctrine, but also a perfit follower of the same: direct sanctifie & gouerne my life, be thou alwayes present & readie, both to heare and to help me. Saue & defend mée from al shame and reproch, be thou my shield and buck­ler against al temptations, clense my minde & thought from all vncleannesse, kéepe and preserue mée from all danger both of body & soule. This fraile life is nothing else but a continuall war­fare [Page] in this worlde, our sins most like to cruell enemies assault vs on euery side, a­gayne our dayes are but fewe in number.

Guide me therefore with thy grace, so to spende my small, short, and transitory time in this worlde, the ve­ry Fountayne, welspring, & vale of all miserie, that I maye be made a member of Christ, & a partaker of thine eternall felicitie. To the which, séeing that thorowe mine owne deserte, I shall neuer be able to aspire, (for sin truely so aboundeth in me, that ech déede and act of mine, is not onely infected, [Page] but altogether poluted therwith) none other remedie haue I to ease my self, none other salue to ease my sore, but only to take hold of that promise of thine, whereas thou sayest: Come vnto me all ye that labor, & be ouer­loden, & I will refresh you, this is my holdfaste, this is myne Ankor, and sure stay, for verily (swéete Sauiour) when I looke vppon myne owne fraylenesse, & beholde how readie I am to offende thée, then I quake for feare, then I am almoste in vtter dispaire, but assoone as I call to minde thy great loue and kindnesse, and how that [Page] thou wilt not the death of a sinner, but rather that hée should repent and liue, and that in what daye soeuer he doth hartily repent, and cal vnto thée, thou wilte heare him, then I am relieued, then I am not a little com­forted, knowing surely that thou wilte performe that whiche thou hast promised. In faithful assurance wher­of, I nowe say vnto thée.

Tourne thou mée (O my God) and I shalbe tourned, from all my wickednesse de­liuer me. Heale my soule which is wounded with sin for I doe acknowledge my iniquitie, & am hartily sory [Page] for mine offences. Correcte mée, O Lorde, but yet not in thy furie, look not vpon my weakenes, but thinke vpon thine owne worthines, re­member thy louing kinde­nes, and in the aboundance and multitude of thy mer­cies wipe clene away, par­don, and forget all my sins, throw whiche I haue either in word, or déed, thought, or any other kinde of waye of­fended thée, blot them out of thy remembraunce, & let the bloude of that Immaculate Lambe Iesus Christ washe them away, let mine old of­fences so decay & die in me, that I neuer commit them [Page] any more, or by any meanes renew them in thy sight.

And in the meane time do not withdraw thy grace frō me, but cause me to do all y^t which good is. O Father re­moue thy wrath away from me, and restore vnto me thy fauour. Turne thou thy lo­uing countenance vnto me, and plentifully poure forth thy mercy vpō me. Incline my heart to doe that onely whiche is acceptable in thy sight. Guide thou my foote­steps in thy pathes, & suffer me not at any time to stray from thy wayes, let me al­wayes haue the feare of thée in my hart, and the remem­brance [Page] of thy benefits fresh in my memory, & if at anye time thorow weaknes and frayltie I do transgresse thy commandemēts, yet do not therfore reiect & cast me out of thy sight, but be thou that good Samaritane, & poure the Oyle and wyne of mer­cy & forgiuenesse, into those woundes which sinne shall make in me. Disdaine mée not for my reuoulting, but haue mercy vpon me accor­ding to thy great goodnes, & according to the multitude of thy mercies, wipe awaye mine iniquitie, hide me vn­der the shadow of thy win­ges and protection, lighten [Page] mée with thy holye spirite. Make mée thy seruant, & so indue me with thy grace, that I maye vnfaynedlye, with hart and voyce, serue, honor, and prayse thee, al the dayes of my life. Amen.

O Gracious Lord, Omni­potent, whose mercy is euerlasting & infinite, bow downe thyne eare and har­ken vnto this my prayer, whiche I make before thy diuine Maiestie, most hum­bly beséeching thée of thyne acustomed goodnes to indue [Page] me with the works of mer­cie, & déedes of charitie, and aboue all things to giue me pacience in aduersitie, méekly to suffer, and pacientlye to take whatsoeuer it shall please thée to laye vpon me, and neuer to murmur, or to grudge therat, but alwaies to thinke thy louing & gen­tle correction to be muche lesse than the desarts of my great & manifold offences.

Againe, if I be not vnder correction, then am I not thy childe, for what father is he who correcteth not his Children, whome he moste intyrely beloueth. Thys thē is an euident tokē that [Page] thou louest vs, whē as thou correctest vs, for as the scripture sayth: Whome God lo­ueth, him he chasteneth. Thou séest all thinges, thou vnderstandest & knowest al thinges, so that not so much as one little Sparrow ligh­teth vpon the ground, with­out thy knowledge: yea, our very thoughts are forekno­wen vnto thée, thou dispo­sest & orderest all things as séemeth best to thy holy will and pleasure, by thy helpe I maye doe all thinges, wyth­out thée I can doe nothing. When thou powrest vppon vs thy creatures, thy good giftes and benefites: When [Page] thou bestowest vppon vs prosperitie, health, wealth, and such like, thou doest it to this intente, that we ac­knowledging the same, should thereby be encoura­ged to serue, honoure, and humblye obey thée, and al­wayes prayse and magni­fie thy glorious name, con­trariwise, when thou stry­kest vs with thy rod of cor­rectiō, as plaguing vs with great mortalitie, suffering our enemies to inuade vs: robbers for to spoyle vs: po­uertie to oppresse vs: or fire to consume those thinges, which thou hast lent vs, for the maynteynaunce of oure [Page] bodyes in this mortall life. Thou doest it to put vs in mynde that we haue trans­gressed thy Commaunde­mentes, that we haue not harkened vnto thée, neyther done that which is accepta­ble in thy sight, but willingly falling into the puddle of sinne, and following oure own appetites, haue prouo­ked thy iust wrathe and in­dignation against vs. Thus thou dealest w^t vs, O Lord, to the intent that we suffe­ring bodily punishment, & féeling the smart of the same may therby be admonished of our duetie, and with true compunction of heart, desire [Page] to be released frō thy scour­ges whiche we haue deser­ued, and worthily receaue, and then acknowledge our selues to be lost children, & straying shéepe, may bothe see and be ashamed of oure vnbrydled affections, & wil­fulnes, which haue brought vs to calamitie & misery, & with y^e true penitent to say.

We are not worthy, most mercifull father, to lifte vp our eyes or voyce vnto thée for our manifold sinnes and wickednesse: neuerthelesse, presuming vppon thine a­boundaunt mercie (who re­fusest none that doe call vp­on thée) moste lamentablye [Page] we doe cry, haue mercy vpō vs▪ O Lorde, haue mercye vpon vs miserable sinners, being nowe gréeuouslye af­flicted with the burthen of punishment and affliction, which thou hast layde vpon vs, put thou therfore away all displeasure conceiued a­gaynst vs, thy poore crea­tures, and graunt vs, that being warned by thys, we maye euer hereafter serue thée in newnesse of life, and neuer committe anye thing whiche shall displease or of­fend thée.

This O heauenly father, I acknowledge to bée oure duetie, but althoughe I for [Page] my parte, haue not perfour­med the same as I ought to doe, yet I beséeche thine in­estimable goodnes not to execute the rigoure of thy iu­stice vppon me, but to staye thine hand, and before thou giue me any greter wound, to behold my humilitie and repentaunce, which beyng not able to recompence and satisfie the trespasses which I agaynst thée haue cōmit­ted, do offer vnto thée accor­ding as the poore Widdowe did, al that which I am able to giue, that is a sorrowfull contrition of hearte, for my former offences done and paste. Thy Iustice as it [Page] is right, so is it rigorous to sinners, thou art so iealous & so much doest detest sinne, that thou sparest not to pun­nishe thy very elect and cho­sen seruants, when as they fall into it.

Who was more accepta­ble in thy sighte, then that holy Prophet king Dauid? of whom thou thy selfe didst say, I haue found a man ac­cording to mine own heart, euen Dauid my seruaunte: yet neuerthelesse, diuers & sundrye wayes didst thou punishe him, when that he had swarued from thy testi­monies. Thou sufferedst him to be molested with the [Page] insurrection of hys owne sonne, thou didst sende the Prophet vnto him, to offer him the choyce of plagues, which thou wouldest sende vpon him for his wicked ly­uing, but when he with sor­rowfull sighes, & trickling teares, tourned vnto thée, cōfessing his fault, crauing pardone, and promising a­mendment of life, thou for­gatest thine anger, and for­gauest his offence.

Other of thy chosen Ues­sels thou hast permitted to bée gréeuouslye tormented, and vexed by sundrye trou­bles and aduersities, onely to trye their faith and sted­fastnesse [Page] towardes thée, as thou didst suffer that pacy­ent man Iobe, for to be most cruelly intreated by that e­nemie of all mankinde, to haue his houses burned and spoyled, his cattle taken a­way, his seruauntes driuen into bondage, his Children to be slaine, his own body to be afflicted with most loath­some diseases, plagues, and sores, and all this thou didst not for any euil déede of his, but to shew thine Omnipo­tencie and power, for when thou hadst tride hym to the vtmost, and founde that his ennemie the Deuill coulde not preuayle agaynst hym, [Page] or by any [...] and griefe, [...] him to blaspheme and speak euil of thée, thou didst reduce him to health, thou didst enriche him agayne, thou didst restore vnto hym agayn his children, friends, familye, and all his goodes, with muche more than euer he before possessed, shewing most manifestlye, that thou wilte▪ re warde them moste plenteously, which doe loue thée, follow and obserue thy commandementes.

Wherefore I beséech thée to giue me grace, that what soeuer waye it shall please thée, to visite mée wyth thy punishment, I may take it [Page] paciently and say: Naked came I into this world, and naked shall I retourne to the earth agayne, the Lorde giueth, the Lorde taketh a­way, euen as it pleaseth the Lorde, so be it. Suffer mée not to dispaire, or to thinke that thou dealest vniustlye with me, but to say. Shall I receiue prosperitie at the Lordes hande, and not to be content with aduersitie: & alwaies to think vpon this. Happy are they whom thou dost punish, for though thou make a wounde, thou also giuest a playster, thoughe thou smitest, thy hande ma­keth whole agayne, my ini­quitie [Page] is greate, but be thou mercifull vnto my wicked­nesse. O deliuer me from thyne anger, and presse mée not farther than I shall be able to beare, but now that I acknowledge, that what soeuer trouble thou haste sent me, or wilt laye vppon me, is either for the punish­ment of mine iniquitie, or for the triall of my constan­cie, I maye with repentant Dauid, finde remission of my sinnes, and with patient Iobe release of my aduersi­tie, and obtayn such fauor in thy sight, that thou neuer a­gayne so gréeuously punishe me, but that I may so passe [Page] this life, that I may after­ward liue with thée, to whō be honour and glory, for e­uer and euer. Amen.

O Most bountifull and lo­uing Father, myne on­lye guyder and comforter, the Wel of mercie, the true light of the worlde, take a­waye the darkenesse of my mind, lighten my heart and sences, indue me with thy grace, arme me so strongly with sure hope, confidence & truste in thée, that I neuer be driuen into feare, eyther by the subtle inuasions of [Page] our ghostlye ennemye Sa­than, or by the craftie wyli­nesse of the worlde, neither yet by losse, damage, hurte, or hindrance of any of those vain and transitory things, which we in this world doe possesse. But alwaies what­soeuer shal become of them, to thinke that they are but thinges lent, and not oure owne, & that we shall make a streight accompt for the vse, or abuse of them.

Whereby the more wée possesse thereof, the greater shall be our payne, if we a­buse them. Wherefore take from me all inwarde heaui­nesse, thought and care, for [Page] any losse and discommodity receiued by worldly goods, and alwayes to thinke that as well pouertie, as riches: néedinesse, as aboundance: sicknesse as health: aduersi­ty, as prosperity: come from thée, and that it is knowne to thine vnserchable iudge­ment onely, why and wher­fore thou sendest eyther of these vpon vs, and therefore let not my minde bée trou­bled with any feare of thin­ges to chaunce, sauing one­ly to feare to displease thée, but alwayes to be merry in thée with sobernesse, and to cast all my care of worldlye affayres vppon thée. For as [Page] much as thou hast comman­ded, that we shoulde not be careful what to eat or what to drink, or with what ray­ment we should be clothed, for y^u wilte not sée the righ­teous forsaken or their chil­dren begging their breade, and that thou tournest all thinges to the best, to them that serue thée, and flie vnto thée for succour in the tyme of their distresse.

Let this (O Lord) be euer more fresh in my memorye, grauen in my heart, and re­dy in my mouth, so that I leauing all néedlesse feare, may alwayes giue thanks vnto thée, and prayse thy [Page] holye name. Amen.

ALmightie God, the Fa­ther of our Lorde Iesus Christ, whome no deserte, merite, or worthinesse of oures, but thyne own great clemencie, mercy, and pity, caused to send downe thyne onely begotten sonne into this world, to beare the bur­then of our sinnes, with the which, we moste miserable sinners were ouerladen, & that he shoulde suffer moste cruell tormentes, yea, and also most bitter and shame­full [Page] death, and sanctifie the reprochefull name of the Crosse, with the renting of his blessed bodye, and shed­ding his most precious blood thereon. Thereby to make attonement betwéene thée & vs: thereby to pay the ran­some for our soules: thereby to consumate and finish the perfection of oure redempti­on and saluation. Whiche thing it was thy good will, that he should doe, not only to aswage thy wrath and in­dignation, but also to bring vs agayn into thy grace and fauour, & that wée being de­liuered out of the bondage of sinne & hell, might serue [Page] thee in righteousnes and ho­lynesse all the dayes of oure life, and by thy frée gift and benefite of his deathe and passion, be made partakers of his resurrection, and of thyne endlesse & vnspeaka­ble glory.

Wherefore my God, my maker, my Lord, my kyng, séeyng thou hast so aboun­dauntly bestowed thy Hea­uenly giftes vpon me, & all mankind, and hast so plen­tifully poured out thy grace and fauour on vs, that for our sakes, thou wouldst not spare thy owne sonne. How shal we escape thine indig­nation, whiche for this care [Page] and kindnesse of thyne, are most carelesse and vnkynd, and among all other, which way shall I poore creature turne me? how shall I, who haue bene moste vnthanke­full for his benefites, and moste vnmindefull of them, be so bolde as to lifte vp my hart, or hands vnto the hea­uens, and to call vpon thée? thou of thy singuler goodnes diddest so prouide, that the wickednesse of olde Adam shoulde be purged and wa­shed away with the bloud of Iesus Christe, but I haue wilfullye fallen into sinne againe: Thou madest me the child of light, but I haue [Page] made my selfe an inheritor of darknes: thou madest mée thyne by creation: I haue made my selfe the childe of perdition.

What shall I now there­fore do? shall I doubt of anie further mercie and forgiue­nesse? No, no (sweet Lord) so great is thy mercye whiche surmounteth al thy works: so large are thy promises, so sure is the perfourmance of them, to al such as take hold thereof (so deare in thy sight are the merites of thy sonne Iesus) so acceptable vnto thée is the harty repentance of a sinner, that with the re­membrannce thereof, I am [Page] prouoked to crye vnto thée, saying: Father, I haue sin­ned agaynst heauen, and a­gaynst thée, I am no more worthye to bée called thy childe: Neuertheles, behold thou me not as I am, a grée­uous offendour, but as thy creature, haue nowe no re­spect to mine offences, but behold my repētance, think not vpon my wickednesse, but vpon the wounds of my sauiour Iesus, looke not vp­on my false hart, which hath wauered from thy lawes, but behold the bléeding hart of thy sonne Iesus Chryst, whiche was pierced to re­lease me and set me frée, my [Page] sinnes I cast vpon his back, beséeching thée that hys me­rites may beare them, and thy mercy pardon them.

Heare me, O Lorde, my God, heare me, for I knowe the more earnestlye that I séeke for, & desire thyne ayd, the readier y^u art to stretche forth thine hand to help me. Heare me therfore, O Lord, bow downe and incline thy eare vnto my praier, inspire me so with thy holy spirite, that I may loue thée aboue al things, and that I neuer fayle to put my hope & trust of saluation in him, whome thou wouldest to be my Re­déemer and sauiour.

[Page]Make mée by the forsa­king of all wickednes, so to rise from falling into sinne, that I may obtayne the true seruing of thée with inno­cency and purenesse of life. Graunt this, O Lorde, for Iesus Christes sake, to whom with thée and the ho­lye Ghoste, be all honor and glory. Amen.

O Most sweete Sauiour, O moste mercifull Re­déemer: O bountifull Iesu, the sonne of God, who al­though [Page] thou art highe, yet thou art moste humble, al­though thou arte Omnipo­tente, thou arte also moste méeke, and as thou art most mightie, so art thou moste merciful. To thée O Christ, the guyde of al felicitie, the Father of heauen hath gy­uen all power, both in hea­uen and in earth.

Thou art the true Pastor of our soules, thou art oure Messias, y^u castest off none that sue vnto thée, but as thou hast taken awaye the hande wryting that was agaynst vs, and hast fastned it to thy Crosse, so art thou ready to imparte the merits [Page] of thy Passion, vnto all such as with true repentaunce of their sinnes call vppon thée faythfully. Wherefore, my swéete Iesus, I most fayth­fullye and vnfaynedlye ac­knowledge y^e benefites that thou hast bestowed vpō me, and steadfastlye beléeue, that thou being an Immaculate Lamb, in whose mouth was neuer found guyle, didst suf­fer most cruell torments at the hands of sinners, for the loue of vs moste wretched sinners, for the which cause I most hartily beséeche thée, and most humbly pray thée, to accept me into the num­ber of thē, whome thou wilt [Page] make Coinheritours of thy bitter paynes, and although I of my selfe, be moste vn­worthy thereof, yet thy me­rites can make me worthy: to them doe I flye, crauing that I may be so armed, and defened by them, that I maye subdue the world, the fleshe, and the Deuill, euen as thou hast gloriously con­quered sin, death, and Hell. Thou seest, O my Sauiour, how I am daily and hower­ly beset, with these thrée en­nemies, and so hardly besée­ged of them, y^t without thy help, I can by no meanes es­cape, but that I must néedes be a pray vnto one of them. [Page] Strengthen me therefore, O Lorde, that neyther the one with carnall lusts, ney­ther the other with delecta­ble pleasures, nor sathā him selfe with all his crafty and suttle deuises, get the domi­nion ouer mee. Thou haste bought me, thou haste payd for me, take thou me, saue, kéepe, and defend me, be al­wayes ready at the voyce of my crying, poure into mée thy grace paciently to abide thy diuine wil & pleasure in all things, make me both at this present, and all y^e dayes of my life, to haue in minde and profoundlye to roote in my heart, the misteries of [Page] thy painefull passion, and so to be filled with the remembraunce thereof, that sinne may no more enter into me and that Sathan mine olde enimie, may wel perceiue, that he hath neyther parte nor fellowship in me. But that I am both body & soule altogether thine. To whom be all prayses worlde with­out end. Amen.

O Holye Ghoste, O bles­sed and Holye Spirite, comforter of them that be afflicted. Thou procéeding from the Father and the [Page] Sonne, art the true instruc­tour and teacher of the de­uine and heauenlye veri­tye. Wherefore I with all humilitie, praye thée to re­newe and make in mee a cleane hearte, to grafte a right spirite in me, Guide and gouern mée, that I may thinke nothing, speake no­thing, doe nothing, but that only which shall please thée.

And whereas I haue not ceased to offend my Lorde God and Maker, and moste gréeuouslye to transgresse a­gaynst Iesus my redéemer and sauiour, I pray thée that I maye haue inwarde sor­row, repentance and shame [Page] thereof, and that euer here­after, I may performe my duety as I ought to doe, and so bring forth the fruites of repentance, that the passion of Iesus Christ may defend me from all sinne and wic­kednesse, and bring me to the ioyes of Paradice. So be it.

REmember not, O Lorde GOD, thine anger a­gaynst me an offender, but be myndefull of thy mercye towardes me a true peny­tente, forget that through pryde, I haue prouoked thée [Page] to yre, and fauourablye har­ken vnto my prayer. What is Iesus, but a Sauioure? therefore O bountifull Ie­su be thou my Sauiour, ryse vp in thyne owne strength to helpe me, saye vnto my soule, I am thy safegarde. In thy goodnesse do I trust, in thée is my hope, and for as much as thou hast willed that we should without cea­sing séeke and sue vnto thée, beholde I being counsayled and foretolde by thy cōman­dementes, doe nowe both aske, séeke, and knock. But thou which commandest me to aske, graunt that I may receiue, thou bidst me séeke, [Page] make me to find. Thou hast taught me to knocke: open vnto me y^t stand knocking: strengthen mee that am weake: restore me that am lost: reuiue me that am dead by sinne: make me to serue thée: to liue to thée: to giue my selfe wholy to thée.

I knowe my God, that be­cause thou madest me, I owe my selfe vnto thée, & for that thou hast redéemed mée, I shuld owe thée more than my self. But behold, I haue no more to giue, neither can I giue my selfe vnto thée, vnlesse thou make me wil­ling therevnto. Take thou me, draw me vnto thée, that [Page] as I am thine by creatiō, so I may be thine by folowing of thée, whiche liuest & raig­nest for euer & euer. Amen.

HAue mercie vpon me, O Lord, haue mercy vpon mée, moste miserable Crea­ture, which doe that which I ought not, and feare that whiche I haue moste iustly deserued, if I weigh with my selfe the wickednes that I haue done, the punishmēt therby deserued, is not halfe so great as the sinne that I haue committed, but y^u art a mercifull God, & thy iudge­mentes [Page] are right, neyther doest thou at any time pu­nishe vs vniustly. Thou al­mightie god madest vs, whē as we were not, and when as we were loste and dam­ned, thou didst miraculously restore vs. I knowe and am sure, that our life is not led by sodaine and vncertayne motions, but is disposed and directed by thée, thou hast a fatherly care of vs al, but specially of all suche as do put their whole trust and confidence in thy mercy.

Therfore I humbly pray and beséeche thée, that thou wouldest not deale with me after my deseruings, but ac­cording [Page] to thy great mercy, which doth excéed the sinne of the whole world.

And as often as thou doest punish me outwardly, giue me grace inwardlye with patience, to beare the same and that thy praise ne­uer depart out of my mouth. Order my doinges, euen as shall be most necessary both for my body and soule.

Thou onely hast power o­uer all things, thou kno­west all thinges, to thée be al honour for euer. A­men.

BEholde, out from the bottom of my hearte, doe I crie vnto thée (O lord) beséeching thée, that thou wouldest saue me from the bottomlesse pitte of Hell. I knowe that there is mercie with thee. Doe not therfore marke what I haue done a­misse. Enter not into iudge­ment with thy seruant, for then can I by no meanes be iustified in thy sight.

The remembraunce of mine offences is grieuous [Page] vnto me, & therefore I right humbly craue pardon there­of. My heart is troubled, my soule is vexed, there is no health in my flesh. Forsake me not myne onely stay and comforte. Dispise not my contrite heart, open the bo­some of thy mercie, take clean away mine iniquity, bring my soule out of tribu­lation, turne the extremitie of thy iustice into thy tēder mercy, and when thou shalt come to iudge y^e quicke and the dead, be not reuenged on mée by eternall damna­tion, but to take me amon­gest thyne electe, into the blessed state of Saluation. [Page] Graunt this O Father, for Christes sake, our Media­tour, and Aduocate. Amen.

O Lorde my GOD, al­though I haue commit­ted that, whereby I am an offendour, can I make my selfe not to be thy creature? though through sin I haue loste my cleannesse & puri­tie, haue I also taken away thy goodnesse, and mercye? thoughe I haue committed that, wherefore thou mayest condemne me, hast thou not done that, whereby thou mayest saue me? True it is (O Lord) that my conscience [Page] doth shewe me, that I haue deserued damnatiō, but thy mercy excéedeth all offensy­on. Spare mée (O God) be­cause it is not vnpossible for thy power: it is not vn­meet for thy mercy: it is not vnacustomed, or yet contra­ry to thine infinite goodnes.

Wherefore thou whiche hast created me, doe not de­stroye me. Thou (O Iesu) whiche hast redeemed mée, do not condemne me, thou whiche hast made me, let not thy worke be cast away by my wickednes. Wype a­way all that is myne, and draweth me from thee, and knowledge all that is thine [Page] in mée, and may bring me vnto thée. Which liuest and raignest one God in persōs thrée, to whome be al honor, now and euer. Amen.

I Humblye accept moste mercifull Iesus, this hea­uie temptation, whiche nowe I suffer at the handes of thy diuine prouy­dence, and would a greater if thou please to laye it on [Page] me for thy sake. Who hath ordayned this from the be­ginning, for the tender loue thou bearest to the health of my sinfull soule, and I most hartily thanke thée for it, I confesse I haue deserued worse for my sinne and vn­kindenesse towardes thée, and I am not worthie to re­ceyue any comfort or conso­lation at thy handes, there­fore to the honor of the pas­sion and death, whiche thou wyllinglye sufferedst on the Crosse, I offer my selfe to sustayne this, or any other aduersitie with al my hart, not séeking other ways ease or reliefe, then in and by [Page] thee (O Lorde) and as thy good will and pleasure shal appoint, yet this one thing I craue and beséech thée, for the tender loue thou bearest to mée, and all mankinde, (for in mée is no vertue, or ought that is good) to helpe and assist me with thy holy spirite, (as my trust is thou wilt) who promiseth that no man shall be tempted more than he shalbe able to beare and giue me all what euer shalbe necessary to sustayne with patience this painfull Crosse & temptation, which thy deuine wisdome hath a­pointed for me, to the intēt that I bearing y^e same wyl­lingly [Page] with thée here in this worlde, may conceiue assu­red hope to bée partaker of thy glorye in the worlde to come: grant me my request moste mercifull Sauioure, not for my merite or deser­uing, but onely for the me­rites of thy death and bitter passion, I humblye beséeche thée. Amen.

O Moste mercifull Lorde God, whose Maiestie is incomprehensible, and po­wer infinite, whose magni­ficence is exalted aboue the [Page] heauens, vouchsafe I beséech thée, from thy high Throne, to beholde the worke of thy handes. Haue pitie on the vnhappy & desolate conditi­on of thy creature. I am a sinner conceiued in sin, & of my selfe I haue no good thing: wherefore (O Lord) I cleaue to the Altare of thy mercy. Thou art my Ankor, my hope, my refuge, & staye. Therefore O Lorde, haue mercy vpon me, for no flesh can be iustified in thy sight. Thou knowest the frayltie & weakenes of men, we are taught by the fall of Peter, y^t we can doe nothing wyth­out thée. Graunt vs therfore [Page] good lord thy grace, without which in this world, we are lyke by the waues of temp­tations, to be swallowed in the gulph & whyrlepoole of sinnes, to be drownd as the ship without Ankor & Py­late, in euerye Tempest to runne on the Rocke and pe­rishe: Guide vs therfore by thy grace (good Lorde) tho­row the flouds of this care­full worlde, that wee maye rest for euer in the pleasant Porte, and happye hauen of euerlasting ioy, with thyne elected, thorough our bles­sed Sauiour Iesus Chryst. To whome wyth thée and the holye Ghoste, bée all [Page] honour and glorye, in all worldes. Amen.

O Lord, I am a sinner, my sins are heauy vpon me, the burthen of them is into­lerable, refresh me with thy grace, washe away mine of­fences, & I shall be whiter than the snow, let the chéer­full beames of thy counte­nance shine vppon mée, and giue light to the darknes of my life. We can looke for nothing as deserued, but pu­nishment due to oure offen­ces. Wherfore good lord▪ not according to thy iustice, but [Page] in the multitude of thy mer­cies deale with thy seruant. Remember not the sinnes of my forefathers, think not on the misdemeanor of my youth passed, haue pitie on thy creture, which acording to the likenesse of thy selfe, thou hast made & shaped of earth. How long wilt thou turne thy face away frō me? forsake me not, O my God, but renewe in me thy holy spirit. Pluck away from me all that withdraweth mée from thée. Graft in my hart thy grace, y^t I may loue thée, and feare thée, and so final­lye reioyce in thy goodnesse with thy elected, and prayse [Page] thée in thy wondrous works for euer. Graunt thys most mightie God, for our Saui­our Iesus Christ his sake. To whome with thée and the holye Ghost, be all ho­nour and glory, for euer and euer. Amen.

O Blessed sauiour Iesus, sonne of the euerliuing God, the vnspeakeable ioye of thy seruantes, moste pre­sent cōfort to sinners, which camest into y^e world to saue offenders, whiche so louest the world that thou sparedst not thy most pecious blood, to redéeme the losse of oure [Page] first father Adam, & to make vs Coheires of the forfaited inheritance with thy selfe, that al which beléeue in thée might be saued, good Lorde whiche hast promysed to them that knocke, it shal be opened, & that they whiche seeke shall finde, graunt I beséeche thée, that I maye search thy holye lawes, and finde the trueth of thy holye worde, that I may alwayes constantly confesse & shewe thée & thy goodnesse, as well in my words as lyuing. In­spire me with thy holye spi­rite, that I may know thée, stedfastlye trust in thée, and serue thée in prayers & well [Page] doing, all the tyme of my life. O most mercifull Lord and sauiour of the world, for the glory of thy names sake I beséeche thée to heare my praiers. My soule reioyce in God thy sauing healthe, for he hath bene good to thée, he hath kept thée frō the snare of the hunter, & blessed thée. The lord is a merciful God, let all the earth feare him, let the mouthes of all men sounde prayses vnto hym. God is a good Lord, & dayly increaseth his good giftes to his seruants, the Lord wyll encrease my fayth in hym, and I shalbe saued, Amen.

O Lord God of all iustice, whiche in equall Bal­lance doest weigh the cause of the Prince and of the poo­rest man, whiche despisest not the sutes of the simple, whiche deliuerest the Cap­tiue, and comfortest the de­solate and carefull. O Lord whiche hast blessed them that are poore in spirite, re­léeue thy seruaunt oppressed with griefe, remoue from me the clowdes of my sor­rowes. O Lorde stretche forth thy mightie hand and helpe me, let me not sincke [Page] in the Seas of slaunder and shame. Thou knowest the secretes of my heart, defend me in myne innocencie. Pleade thou my cause a­gaynst the vngodly, whiche haue layd their nets for me. O God, thou which hast de­liuered Ioseph, Danyell, Mardocheus, and Susanna, from captiuitie and instant death, and didst cloath them with honoure, good Lorde strengthen me, and be my defendour against all euils, and let not the poysoned ar­rowes of malicious tongues doe me any harme. Graunt these my prayers (good Lorde,) I bseeche thée, for [Page] our Sauioure Iesus Chryst his sake. Amen.

O Lorde cleanse my heart I beséeche thée, from all impure and wicked cogita­tions, and thoughtes, and giue me a cléere conscience, shamefast eyes, innocente handes, and a tongue to tell the truth. Séeing that there is nothyng hidde that shall not be discouered, good lord I beséeche thée to search my thoughtes, and renewe in me thy holye spirite, directe my féete in thy wayes, that [Page] walking after thée, in the pathe of the righteous, I may passe thorow this vale of misery, bearing thy ban­ner stowtly in my warfare, and obtaine euerlasting ioy the promised hire to such as here haue paciently borne thy crosse, and valiauntlye fought with the armoure of fayth, against temptations and all euils, vouchsafe (O Lorde) to graunt my petici­ons, I most humbly beséech thée, for thy onely begotten sonne, our Sauiour Ie­sus Christ his sake Amen.

O Almightie God, and e­uer ruling King, whose infinit power & maiesty our wyts cannot comprehende: whose glorious brightnesse with our mortall eyes wee cannot behold: whose won­derous workes & manyfold mercyes, the tongues of mē cannot sufficiently declare: Good Lord I yéeld thée most humble thankes, for thy sin­guler great gifts and bene­fites, bestowed vppon me a sinner. Good Lord thou hast blessed me with knowledge [Page] with increase and plenty of all thinges, thou hast giuen me friends, health, and rest. That I shoulde eate my meate with ioy, and prayse thée in al thy gifts & works: I know that I haue no good thing, but it commeth from thée, and onely for thy mer­cies sake, thou hast so regar­ded me thy seruaunt, wher­fore (good lord) I beséech thée to grant me thy grace with­all, that I maye vse these thy gifts to thy honour and glory, & the comfort of them that néede, that vsing the ta­lent whiche thou hast lente mée, I maye become a good seruaunt, and obtayne eter­nal [Page] blisse, the promised hire to suche as doe well. Uouch­safe good Lord, for thy sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christe his sake to heare my pray­ers.

ALmightie God, refreshe me with thy grace, I be­séech thée, comfort me wyth thy mercye, and blesse mée, that safe from all euils, frée from feare of all daungers, in peace and quietnesse, I may sing prayses to thy holy name, and reioice in thée, with thine elected for euer and euer. Amen.

GOod Lorde so rule the eyes of my heart, that they being kept simple and pure, my bodye may bée a cleare and shining temple of thy holy spirite, so kindle in vs the loue of thy glori­ous sonne, that we follow­ing his steps, may doe that which is good, and declyne from the euill, so that our light shyning before men, we may glorifie thée by our good works, with thy bles­sed sonne our Sauiour and the holye Ghost. To whose infinite maiestie, in trinitie [Page] and vnitie, be all honour and glory, for euer. Amen.

O Moste mercifull Lorde God, I haue offended a­gainst the Throane of thy Maiestye, my sinnes are e­uer before myne eyes, I am not worthy to liue or enioy the fruites wherewith thou hast blessed the earth, my owne conscience is my tor­menter, bringing testimo­nie and witnes against me. The Sunne doth hyde hys light agaynst mee, and the place is the worse wherein I become. O Lorde, what [Page] shall I doe, shal I dispayre? No, thou art mercifull, and more ready to forgiue, then we to aske, I will confesse my sins to thée. I am weary of my sinfull life, I am sory in my soule for myne offen­ces, wherefore good Lorde thou whiche doest case them that are laden, and refreshe them that trauayle, thou which hast promised mercy to the penitente, looke on thy seruant with thy cheare­full countenaunce, beholde me with those pittying eies, with whiche thou didst Ma­ry Magdalen, and the wo­man taken in Adulterye, thou whiche hast shedde thy [Page] bloode on the Alter of the Crosse, offering thy moste precious bodye, an eternall Sacrifice for our sinnes, dis­pyse not that whiche thou hast redéemed: Thou which camest into the world to cal sinners to repentaunce, and to saue the lost shéepe of Is­raell, haue mercye vppon me, & leade me by thy grace to the Foulde, among thy Sheepe, for they go in sweet Pasture, & are not in daun­ger of Wolues, for thou art their shepheard, and kéepest good accounte of euery one of them, thoughe I haue gone astray wandring from thy flocke, and borne the [Page] markes of the worlde, yet good Lord disclaime not thy right, I beséeche thée, but take me vnto thée, that I may be safe vnder the shad­dow of thy winges. He may sléepe soundly, whome thou doest kéepe, thou arte the watchman of Israell. All honour and glorye be vnto thée for euer.

O Lorde I am a sinner, & sorry for mine offences, I cannot make satisfaction for my defaultes, if I haue any good thing it cōmeth of thée. The moste acceptable [Page] sacrifice to thée, is a contrite and humble hart. O God let me not be oppressed with the waues of sinne, let mée not sinke into the Whyrle­poole and gulph of dispayre: thou which liftest vp the fallen, and raysest the humble and méeke, cloathing them wyth purple, & setteth them vp wyth Prynces in the seates of honor: thou whiche despisest the imaginations of the proude, and resistest their enterprises, blesse me in all my doynges, send mée happy successe in all my af­fayres, that I maye reioyce in thy goodnesse, with thyne elected for euer & euer. Ac­cepte [Page] my humble sute good Lorde, I beséeche thée, for the glorye of thy names sake. A­men.

O Moste mightie Lorde God of Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, which didst lead the children of Israell tho­row the red Sea, and made the streames of Iordane runne back into their sprin­ges agayne, that thy people mighte passe throughe the middest thereof: good Lorde whose heastes the floudes o­bey, at whose voyce the hils [Page] doe leape, and the earthe doeth tremble, O moste mightie Lorde, which canst destroy the prowdest kings with very Flyes and Ants, whiche made little Dauyd to tryumphe on the Gyaunt Golyath, which deliueredst his enemy King Saule into his handes, gauest Gedeon thy seruaunt wyth hys few Souldioures, victorye of so manye Legyons of strong men: Thou which hast sub­dued so many mighty kings and sundrye Nations vnto thy people Israell. O God, whiche workest all in all things, which giuest victory alwayes as séemeth best to [Page] thy vnsearchable wisdome: defende me alwayes I be­seeche thée, agaynst myne e­nemies & all euils, that my ship tossed and beaten in the waues of this worlde, may rest in thy happye Hauen of euerlasting ioy.

My soule cleaueth vnto thy mercye, as to an holye Sanctuary. O God, if thou shouldest not be mercyfull, who could abyde the heat of thy displeasure? but thou (O Lorde) arte good to thy ser­uauntes, and I hope to sée thy goodnesse in the land of y^e liuing. All glory be to thée moste high and mercyfull God, for euer & euer. Amen.

HOwe long (O Lorde) wilt thou tourne awaye thy face from mee? Howe long wilte thou be angrye wyth thy seruauntes? How long shall I abyde mour­ning & solitarye, as the byrd that hath lost hir young? O Lorde thinke on mée in thy mercies, and doe not correct me in thy wrathe, for then shall I become as the duste and smoke in the winde. O Lorde forsake not thy ser­uaunt Israell, whome thou hast chosen, my heart com­forted [Page] in thy mercyes, shall reioyce, and I will sing vn­to thée, and praise thée in thy good works and Myracles, which thou hast done in our forefathers time.

I Altogether vnhappy, and comfortlesse, haue gree­uouslye offended my Lorde God, what shall I doe? whe­ther shall I goe? I cannot hyde me from hys sight: how oft haue I trespassed against hym? howe oft haue I deser­ued his displeasure? and yet howe seldome hath hée puni­shed me? howe oft hathe hée [Page] béene good and mercyfull vnto mée? howe ofte haue I promised & vowed amende­mente, and howe little and seldome haue I perfourmed it: this is a woefull case. Who will haue pittye on me, I dare not lift vp myne eyes towarde Heauen, be­cause I haue sinned against it, and in earthe I can looke for no refuge, because I haue béene a slaunder and shame to it. What then: should I dispayre? No, God is a mercifull, and a good sa­uiour, hée dothe visite them that liue in darcknesse, and is a chearefull light to them that sit in the shaddowe of [Page] death. He willeth vs to for­giue our brother, though he offend seuentie times, yea, infinitely. And God is more mercifull than any man can be, and he must be the onely refuge and comfort, he will not despise hys creature, the image of himselfe, returne thée to thy Lorde God, praye to him humbly on thy knées for grace, and continue to bewayle thy sinnes past, be­cause that he whiche loueth thée, prouoketh thée dayly with hys gracious giftes, and blessings to loue him, & wil not leaue vntil he haue made perfite his worke be­gone, & brought his mercye [Page] to full effecte in thée. What naturall cause begynneth his worke, and leaueth it in the halfe way imperfite: the vertue of the seede doth not cease, till y^e fruit be brought to perfection, yet that na­ture worketh not at once, but first prepareth the mat­ter, and then disposeth, and makes it fit to receiue the shape, which is the perfecti­on and ende thereof, and as by naturall order, and right course, things doe procéede, and increase by little and little, from the lesse to the more, euen so doth God first dispose vs to his mercy, and then increasing his goodnes [Page] daylye, bestoweth on vs in the ende, the treasure of his grace, the inheritance of e­uerlasting ioies. What bird forsaketh hir yong, till they bée able to lyue of them­selues? and yet no auayle for their paine cōmeth to them, very loue worketh in natu­rall causes, to bring foorth their affectes to perfection, if it be so in creatures, what will the Creator doe, which is loue it selfe, and infinite goodnes? He wil withdraw thée from thy sins, make thée cleane and pure, and finally blesse thee with eternal life, whiche he hath prepared for thée. O Lorde I come to thée [Page] sad and mourning, I sit at thy feete, humblye wayting for thy mercie, thou art my hope and helper, according to thy great mercyes, haue mercy vpon me. Amen.

GOod Lord, seeing that it is thy pleasure that wée shall not bée carefull for worldly thinges, if a Spar­row falleth not on y^e ground without thy foresight, howe muche more care doest thou [Page] take of vs thy children, good Lord, thou féedest the byrdes of the ayre, and cloathest the Lyllyes of the Field, which take no care. Wherefore good Lorde, so prouide for our necessitie & sickenesse, wée beséeche thée▪ that wee casting all our care vppon thée, maye chieflye studye to please thée, and serue thée, and not to be so wrapped & entangled in the desires of worldly thinges, like little children, who for light tri­fles of no valure, will for­sake the moste ample inhe­ritance that is. So in like manner, those whome the Scripture calleth the chil­dren [Page] of this worlde, are so adicted to trifles, are so gi­uen to transitory & moment thinges, that for them they dispise the inheritaunce to come, and in comparison of them, they contemne euer­lasting felicitie of heauenly thinges: Graunt vs therfore good Lord, that we be not so ouercome with the desire of worldly & transitorie things that thereby wee loose the ritch inheritance of euerla­sting life. Graunt this good Lord which liuest and raig­nest King of all Kinges, for euer and euer. Amen.

O Lorde, seeyng that the righteous shall dwel in thy tabernacle, graunt mée I beséech thée a pure and vn­defiled soule. O what is the shape of the earth, wherein Gods ennemies haue aby­ding? in comparison of the wonderfull bewtie of Hea­uen, wherein righteousnes doeth dwell: in comparison of that place, wherein Aun­gels Arckaungels, all good men, yea, and God himselfe is abyding. What are the plesures of the world, welth [Page] honour, company of our pa­rentes and friendes, where­in all our pleasure & swéete­nesse, is mixed wyth sower­nesse and sorrowe, wherein euerye perfection hathe hys imperfection. What is all this to the vnspeakable ioy in the kingdome of GOD, what is y^e company of frinds &c. here, in comparison to the companye of Abraham, Isaac & Iacob, the Patriar­ches & Prophets, and all the Sayntes of God. O the in­felicitie of euerlasting lyfe, whiche is without all dis­commodities, perpetuall without all perrill and mo­lestation: Oh the glorious [Page] maiesty, the singuler myrth and passing ioyes of the lyfe to come, the eye hathe not séene, nor the hart of man is able to conceiue in any part the happy estate of the bles­sed soules in heauen. Oh howe amiable are thy Ta­bernacles? my soule hathe a desire to enter into the (Courts of the Lorde,) my harte and my soule reioyce in the liuing god, blessed be they that dwel in thy house, they may be alwayes pray­sing thée. One daye in thy Courtes is better than a thousande else where, I had rather to be a dore kéeper in the house of my God, than [Page] to dwel in the Tents of vn­godlinesse. The Lorde God is a light and defence. My soule is a thirst for God, e­uen for the lyuing GOD. When shall I come before the presence of my God. My flesh longeth after thée in a barren and dry land, where no water is. Good Lord re­member mée, and grant that I maye weare the white Garmentes of innocencye, with thyne elected, in thy euerlasting king­dome. Amen.

O Moste mercifull father, I yeeld thée moste hum­ble thankes, for thy greate benefites bestowed vppon me a sinner, of thy frée mer­cye, onely thou haste of thy fatherly loue, brought mée vp tenderly, and instructed me in thy holy lawe, thou hast giuen me knowledge, and vnderstandyng, thou hast preserued me from ma­ny daungers & euils, which diuers men haue felte: thou hast blessed me with helth, quietnesse, ioy, plentye, and [Page] wealth, which a number do want, thou hast taken care of me, and done all thinges for me. O Lorde thoughe I can deserue nothing but pu­nishment, by thy iuste dis­pleasure, yet good Lorde, I trust to thy goodnesse, I ask thy mercye, and not iustice, and for thy mercies sake, I beséeche thée to continue thy grace, and to increase thy good gifts towards me, and haue me in thy protection, till my lyues end: good Lord blesse me, that I may enioy the fruites of the earth, and vse them to thy honour and glory: good Lord be thou my ayde and guyde me in al my [Page] doinges, my buckler and de­fence in all daungers, that I may freely and ioyfullye sing prayses to thée, whiche liuest and raygnest, one God almightie, and incom­prehensible, worlde wyth­out ende. Amen.

MOst mightie God which by thy worde hast made all thinges, whose voyce the floudes and hilles doe knowe, whose heast both quick and dead, heauen and hell obey, at whose displea­sure, the Diuels in hell doe tremble, let thy worde so [Page] lighten our heartes, that by oure good workes, we may testifie our profession, séeing that the Trée whiche bea­reth not fruite, shall be cut downe and throwne into the fyre. Graunt that I may not onely be a hearer, but also a doer of thy holy word, that so finallye I maye bée partaker of thy euerlasting ioye and blisse. O Lorde graunt mee wisedome to knowe thee, and grace to followe thée in true humili­tie, that as thou didst suffer to be spitted at, and smitten of thine enemies: so wee may beare the displeasures of the world, and rage of our [Page] ennemies wyth pacience: thou hast blessed the little ones, & reuealed vnto them the thinges hidden from the wyse, for thou wilte haue mercye where it pleaseth thée. O set thy feare always before myne eyes, and graft thy fayth so in my hart, that I may loue thée, and glorifie thy holy name, for euer. A­men.

GOod Lord, whiche wyth thy handes doest stay the frame and engyne of the [Page] earth, and rulest the course of the swifte heauens, dis­posing, and ordering all thinges by thy diuine pro­uidence, whiche hast ap­poynted boundes to oure life, which we cannot passe, I beséeche thée, that by my liuing, I learning to dye, mortifying by thy spirite, the affections of the fleshe, though not expelling them, yet subduing the rage of them, I maye at the last by the Hauen of Deathe, land in the moste gloryous Ci­tye of euerlastyng lyfe, where our bodyes, whiche are nowe darcke, mysera­ble, and corruptible, shall [Page] be moste brighte, glorious, and incorruptible, lyke to the immortall shining bo­dye of oure Lorde Iesus Chryste, we shall be lyke to Christ oure Sauyour, euen as he is, so shall we be, as we haue borne the Image of the earthlye, so shall we beare the Image of the hea­uenly, and shyne lyke to the sunne, as the face of Christe did in his transfiguration, Oh Lord Iesus, blessed Sa­uiour, whiche by thy deathe haste tryumphed ouer sinne and deathe. Thou hast tro­den on the sting of the mon­ster, oure hydeous enemye, the Gates of Hell haue not [Page] preuayled againste thee, graunt to me true and liue­ly fayth, by which men passe from earth to heauen, from death to eternall life. This can we not do without thée, thou must be our Mediator, for a child of a nights birth, is not pure in thy sight. In sinne were wee borne, and by nature wee are the chil­dren of perdition, and fyre­brandes of Hell, but thou O blessed Sauiour, arte the perfection of the Lawe, to them that beleue. As death came by synnes, so by thy death and precyous bloode­shedding, is death conque­red and exiled, and wée that [Page] beléeue, washed and clean­sed of our sinnes, al the pro­phets beare witnesse, that they whiche beléeue in thy name, shall receiue remissi­on of their sins. If we con­fesse our synnes, thou arte righteous to forgiue vs our iniquities. Whosoeuer cal­leth on thy name, shal be sa­ued, thou hast no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but ra­ther desyrest y^t they shoulde liue & be cōuerted, thou hast so loued the world, that thou not only didst become man and tooke our nature vpon thée, but were content also to suffer most cruel death on the Crosse, to purge our na­ture [Page] from mortal sinne and corruption, & adorne it with immortality & eternall glo­rye, not only in thyne own person, but in vs also, to sa­tisfy the iustice of the father for oure sinnes. O blessed shepheard, thou doubtest not to spende thy most precious bloode, to saue thy beloued sheepe from rauine & spoile, Good Lorde so increase thy grace in mee, that thy holye woord may take roote & flo­rish in me, that the good séed may not bee choaked with thornes, so order my liuing, that when by course of na­ture, I shalbe dissolued from the pryson of my bodye, I [Page] may come to thée, that when thou more brighter then the sunne shal come in the mid­dest of the Legions of Aun­gels, in the shyning glorye and Maiestye, to iudge the quicke & the dead, I may be in the number of the bles­sed ones, whom thou shalt call to possesse thy kingdom prepared for them, by thy father, saying: Com ye bles­sed children of my father, re­ceiue y^• kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde. Thou whiche didst dye and ryse agayne, wilt rayse and bring to life all those that are dead, be­léeuing in thy faith.

IF thou perceyue that the storme of tempta­tion doth verye often and greeuously assault thee, dismay not there­fore thy selfe, neither bee displeased with thy selfe, as though almighty God nothing regarded thee, but ra­ther thanke him that hee instructeth and teacheth thee, as one to bee hys heyre, that he punisheth & correcteth thee as his most deare sonne, that he proueth & assayeth thee as his wel­beloued friend. It is a manyfest and great token that man is reiect from the mercy and fauour God, when hee is troubled with no temptation. In thy temptatiō remember the ho­ly Apostle S. Paule, which being wrapt to the misteries of the thirde heauen, was v [...]xed with the aungel of sathan: remember the temptation of the holy man Iob, & other which [Page] were grieuou [...]ly troubled with their offences. O happy & fortunate man in whome this earthly Adam is so mortified and subdued, that it in no wise resisteth the spirit, but whether thys perfit quyetnes may be in any, I will not affirme, peraduenture it is not necessary to be. For Paule in this life, notwithstanding his highe perfection and grace, had a motion of the flesh to vexe & trouble him. And when he thrice desyred God to be deliuered from the sayd motion. He only had this answer. Paul my grace is sufficient, for vertue is made perfit by vexatiō. Paul was vexed by pride that he should not be proud, to be perfite & strong in God, he was caused to be weak & feeble. For he carryed the treasure of heauēly reuelation in a frayle & britle vessel, that the honor & victory should only be in God, not in himself: this one example of Paul is eruditiō & lerning in many things when that we be intised & moued to sin, that we diligently cal to almighti god by prayer. Remember that Da­uid [Page] the Prophet, King Salomon & Peter the Apostle, notwithstanding they were great lightes & examples of holynesse, yet they fell into grie­uous and great sins, whom almigh­ty God peraduenture suffred to fall for this cause, speciallye that thou shouldest not dispa [...]re. Lyft vp thy selfe therefore vppon thy feete, and with high courage & bolde stomack returne againe into battayle agaynst thy enemies, not onely more fierce and bold, but also more ware & dili­gent, and think with thy selfe what intollerable and inuincible tempta­tions Christ suffred for thee, wherin there appeared no help, comfort, ayd, nor defence anye where, wherein God and the whole worlde seemed to be his most cruell and malycious enemyes, when that he cryed alowd: My God my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Truely this was a most grieuous, paynfull, and bitter temptatiō, which Christ suffred for vs, that he might make the way of the crosse easy for vs. Therefore pre­pare [Page] thou thy [...]elf paciently to drink of that Cuppe, which Christ Iesu thy head, hath so willingly dronke on, for the saluation of al mankynd. And seeing therefore that Christ so willingly put himselfe in subiection and dipped himselfe in those so hor­rible and intollerable sorrowes and calamities (oure moste louing and heauenly Father willing the same out of doubt) he also vnderstandeth and knoweth our infirmitye, out of doubt hee taking compassion on vs, will not extreamly deale with vs, but will rather beare with our im­becillitye and weakenes. Doth not he himselfe, calling al men vnto him, say: Come vnto me al yee that labor and are heauy laden, and I will re­fresh you: what more greater com­fort I pray you can be giuen vs. How could Christ speak more mer­cifull vnto vs. There bee manye things that greeuously vex & trouble man, but what thing can more cru­elly vex & torment his conscience, o­uerwhelmed with sin, then when he [Page] doubte [...]h of the mercy of God, when he dreadeth least God be his aduer­sary and will reiect him, when he is not able to conceiue this fayth of his mercy, & doth imagine himself to be cast away, as a dry member that is cut of. Be present here, O Iesus Christ with thyne ayde & help, here we haue need of thy comfort, let not this blacke, violent & horrible tēpest of troubls ouerthrow & drown wretched man: but there is no cause why we should doubt. Christ is true, he wil make his promises to appear, he wil help vs & refresh vs. Therfore where as thy faith is not strong y­nough, wheras thou feelest thy self to doubt of Gods mercy, and haste well neare no fayth at all, strayght waies cal vpō God, bewail tho mi­sery & lack of belief before him, seek for his aid & succour by feruent pra­yer, & he wil both help & refresh thee he hath taken vpon him thus to do, & he wil bring it to pas: but take heed thou cease not to call vpon god beseech thou without al ceasing, the [Page] Father of all consolation & comfort, with sighs from the bottom of thine hart, that he turne not his face from thee, lay thy weakenes vppon him, & poure out into his bosom all things which trouble & torment thee. Crye out with his disciples, O Lord in­crease my fayth. Lykewise say thou with the Father of the lunaticke child: lord I bele [...]ue, help thou mine vnbeliefe. Make hast O lord to help mee, before that I oppressed wyth this weight be drowned. O moste louing & mest merciful Father, lord God of my health, our only help and refuge: Enter not into iudgemente with thy seruauntes. Christ is my righteousnes, redemption and inno­cencye, whiche suffred most bitter and cruell death for my sake. Let those things mooue thee, O Father of all compassion, haue mercy vpon me for thy sons sake, confirme and strengthen my hearte by Faythe in Christ: Comforte mee with the consolations of the holy ghoste, that I may enioy the true ioyes of euer­lasting [Page] lyfe, through the merites of my Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and the holy ghost be all praise and glorye, for euer and euer. Amen.

REioyce in GOD my soule, for he is my lighte and my defence, my helpe the lanterne to my féete, he hath heard my prayer, when I called on him, he hath hol­pen me in my néede, he hath deliuered mee in my daun­gers. The Lorde is the kée­per [Page] of my life, from whome shall I shrinke, whom shall I feare, lying prostrate at the féete of my Lorde, I be­wayled my case, and hée heard my complaint, he for­saketh not his seruaunts. Wherefore, if armies of men stoode vp agaynst mée, I shoulde not feare, for if God be on my syde, who can preuayle against mée? Hée is happye and safe, whom God the mighty God of Is­rael keepeth, the sunne shal not burne him by daye, nor the Moone by night. Thryse blessed is hée that feareth the Lorde, for hée shall see happy dayes. As the Hart [Page] thyrsteth after the water springes, so my soule hath longed for my Lorde the li­uing God. When shall I come to appeare before thy presence, to sée thée in thy glorious Maiestie, face to face? O Lord let thy king­dome come. Come Lord Ie­sus, that I may see the day of my redemptiō. Good Lord make hast to helpe mée. All glory, maiesty, and Empire, be vnto God the Creatour, God the redéemer, and God the holy comforter, for euer and euer. Amen.

[Page]MY synfull life increa­singe, and my synnes still abounding (good Lord) to whom shall I flye, or to whome shall I resorte for succoure? from offendinge thée I cannot cease, neyther day nor nighte, & my sinnes are heuy vpon me, pressing mee downe euen vnto Hel, such is the weight thereof. Moreouer, when I prepare my selfe to amendmente of life, and thinke stedfastly to serue & please thée, euen soone after doth my corrupt and infected nature, offend and displease thy Deuyne maiesty, so that I am proane & ready to runne headlong [Page] into all kynd of wickednes & sin, such is my strength, such is my force, or rather weaknesse in performing those things which thou re­quirest at my handes. So that good Lord, I am ready vtterly to dispayre, and for­sake thée, vnlesse thou of thy great mercy and pitty, send thyne ayde from aboue, and poure into mee thy moste healthfull grace, that I may make hast to flye vnto thée with most bitter teares, a sorrowfull heart and bow­ing knées, lamenting my sinfull lyfe, and gréeuous of­fences committed agaynste thée, trusting most assured­lye, [Page] and faythfullye in the merites of my sauioure Ie­sus Christ, that by his most bitter death and bloodshed­ding, which is of farre grea­ter force, vertue & effect, in preseruing me, then all my sinnes and offences are, in condemninge and casting mée away, for whose sake I moste assuredly beléeue all my sinnes and offences are clearly forgiuen, and shall neuer be layd to my charge, but that I shall enter with thée in the laste day into thy euerlasting kingdom, there to bée with thée for euer­more, to whom be all honor praise and glory, for euer [Page] and euer.

SHyne wee beséech thée, O almighty and mercifull God, through the power of oure Lorde Iesus Christe, and the comfortable woor­king of thy sacred Spirite, the heauenlye comforter, vpon our myndes and harts with the glorious beams of thy heauenly grace, geue vs such plenty of wisedom and vnderstanding from aboue, that thorow the knowledge of thee, the man of ūn, that is, our frayle & féeble fleshe, with the wicked lustes, and [Page] desyre of concupiscence, may lye deade and buryed in vs, giue vs good Lord the fee­ling of thy grace, that by the vertue and deuine operati­on of thy worde, the eyes of our soules may bee illumy­ned, and made so light, that the Prince of Darknesse, with all his vnrighteous ministers may bee expulsed and banished from our me­mories, and so establish vs in thy truth, that our harts, myndes and thoughts, may continuallye be occupyed in thy testimonies, that there­by thou good Lorde effectu­ally shyning in our hearts, by the vertue of thy good spi­rite, [Page] we may learn to know and vnderstand, what is the fulnes of of our calling, and how ritche thou arte in the glory of the celestiall and Heauenlye heritage of thy Sayntes, and that excellent greatnes of thy power and louing kyndnes towardes vs, which beléeue without fayning thy holy Gospell, according to the might and force of thy strength, which thou shewedst in Chryst Ie­sus, when thou didst rayse him from the dead, and didst set him on thy ryght hande, farre aboue all Empire, po­wer, authority, and domi­nion, and euery name that [Page] is named, not onely in this worlde, but in the world to come, by whose precyous death, & dearest bloodshed­ding, wee are assured, that sinne, Death, and hell, are vanquished, ouercome, and vtterlye destroyed, and if wée beléeue without waue­ring, we shall in him bee a­ble to resiste all the power of Hell, and in Christ as Conquerours, to tryumphe with victorye ouer sinne, Death, and Sathan, and at the last, to haue and enioye the fruition of his riche and glorious kingdome, which hee by moste paynfull ago­nye, bloody strypes, grée­uous [Page] and bloodye woundes and lastly by his most pain­full death purchased for his chosen and elect. To whom for our sanctification, iusti­fication, redemption, and our saluation, bee rendred with his Celestial Father, and the holye Ghoste, all lawd, glory, power, honor, and dominion, for euer and euer. Amen.

[Page]ALmighty GOD, my Heauenlye and moste mercifull Father, I feele thy promised punishmente at this presente to take ef­fect on mee, which for the guilte and transgression of my progenitours, hath bene by thy deuyne maiesty, iust­ly pronounced agaynst me, and the whole generation of Adam, great and intolle­rable are these bitter pange and piercing paynes that in this my trauaile of Childe-byrth, I indure and abyde. Now féele I as it were, a cruell and sharpe conflicte betwixt death and lyfe, now féele I (O Lord) the rod of [Page] thy correction, according to thy iustice, layde heauy vp­on me, for the vse and exer­cise of sinne and iniquitie, yet when it shall please thée (good Lord) looke vpon mée wyth the eyes of Fatherlye compassion and pittie, and according to the multitude of thy manifold mercyes, bée thou now present with mée, arme me with perfite paci­ence, ioyfullye to beare thy correction, and in the midst of these my sharpe and bit­ter bruntes of griefe, giue me grace styll to call vppon thée, strengthen me a poore wretched woman, giue mée comforte and heauenly con­solatiō [Page] from aboue, & when thou shalt thinke it meete & conuenient, send me safe de­liuerance, that I may enioy the fruite of my wombe, the sight whereof shall adorne & deck me anew wyth ioy and gladnesse: Otherwise good Lord, if in this season thou determine to take me hence vnto thy self, by thy messen­ger Death, to whose stroake all Creatures (when thou thinkest it méete and expe­dient) shall bowe, make mée constant & faithfull in thée, whose I am, whether I dye or liue, forget my sins and offences committed by mée, agaynst thee, let the bloude [Page] of the Lambe Iesus, washe awaye my deformitie, let the spottes of my corrupti­on, bee purged and taken a­waye, let my infected soule that is putrified therein, be purified therein: Giue mée grace alwayes, whether I liue or dye, to call vpon thée continually: giue me power to pitch ny confidence onely and alone in the bloudye woundes of Christ Iesus, to whome in this my distresse I flye and appeale for reme­die and comforte. Graunt this, O gracious God, which liuest and raignest worlde without end. Amen.

HOw muche, and how greatly am I bound to laud, prayse, and extol thée (O my Lorde God) euen nowe was I assayled in my body, being a wretched and sinfull woman, with sundry and diuers dolors, and grée­uous grypes of perrillous paynes, in such sort, that my Agonyes abounding, Death himselfe, séemed to mée, to knocke at the gates of my bodye, thy rodde of Iustice [Page] lay so heauy vpō me, so that I iudged my self a creature more méete for the graue, whose clamor I thought stil sounded in my eares, then to reape the benefite of life. By my paynes Lorde God, in this my trauayle, I am forced to confesse & acknow­ledge that thou arte iuste in thy promises, and art ready to punishe sinne and iniqui­tie: by this my safe and sure deliueraunce, I am bounde to acknowledge, that wyth thy iustice, thou alwayes frequentest pittie, commix­ing thy mercye & iustice to­gether, in such sort, y^t I must needes confesse thee to bée [Page] most righteous & mercifull. I cannot (O my God) but protest that thou hast dealte fauourablye with mee, and those paines which I abode were layde vpon me for my sinne and wickednesse, and yet haste thou not dealte se­uerely with mee, neyther giuen sentence agaynst mée in thy fury, which haue iust­lye deserued the same, for hadst thou, O Lorde, respec­ted my desertes, I had pori­shed euerlastingly, and béen vtterly confounded, my gre­uous grones throwne forth vnto thée, pierced the verye Bowels of thy annoynted sonne Iesus Christ, who be­holding [Page] my agonyes and bitter payns, became an inter­cessor to thée for mée, thorow whose earnest intreaty, and louing meditation, thou cō ­uertedst thy displeasure to mercie, and for hys sake a­lone, that dyed vppon the crosse for my offences, thou hast asswaged my torments▪ and in t [...]e fu [...]nesse of thy b [...]nty & louing kindnesse, thou hast giuen me a liuing soule to glad my hart, for the which I am bound of right, to giue thée harty and hum­ble thankes, humblye be sée­ching thée, being now faint and féeble in body, to streng­then me in soule, mind, and [Page] heart, that my tongue maye be the Organ that may con­tinually publish forth thy e­uerlasting prayse. Graunt this (O gracious God) for the loue of thy onely begot­ten sonne Iesus Christ. To whome wyth thée and the holye Ghoste, bee giuen all lawde, power & dominion, for euer and euer. A [...].

EStablyshe oure hartes & mindes, O moste gracious God, in the true worshipping of thy deuine [Page] Maiestye, make vs to be­léeue thy holye and sacred Gospell, wherein wée are daylye and hourely instruc­ted to loue, feare, honoure, and obeye thée, to hate sinne and iniquitie, to renounce al superstitious ceremonies whereby thy worship is de­faced, thy glory prophaned, and thine honoure greatlye dyminished: Giue vs thy grace to hate sinne and ini­quitie, to renounce and for­sake the vanities and wan­ton pleasure of this wicked and sinfull worlde, arme vs we beséeche thée to morti­fie and bryng vnder, the re­bellyous appetites, and [Page] straunge lustes of the fleshe, and finallye giue vs power from aboue, to wythstande Sathan the prince of darck­nesse, and all his damnable ministers, who by diuers temptations, prouoke and alure vs from godly puritie, and perfite integrity (which passeth onely from Chryste Iesus to vs, who is the ful­nesse of oure perfection and holynesse) to all kinde of euill, impietie, & vnclean­nesse, by meanes whereof, thy worship is greatlye pro­phaned, and of a set purpose contemned. Make vs con­stant to skirmishe agaynst the worlde, sinne, death, and [Page] hell, and by the power of a­fruitfull faith, giue vs grace to resist and brydle the con­cupiscence of oure fleshe, in suche sorte, that oure soules may triumph with victorye, & continue constant in wor­shipping thee, from whome passeth the fulnesse of oure ioye, prepare oure heartes and myndes (good Lorde) to spreade foorth the glory of thy name, keepe oure tongues from al filthy talk, and vncomely iesture, least by the exercise of such sinne, we contemne thy worship, and prouoke thée to displea­sure and indignation, set thou a watche before the [Page] gates of my mouth, that my lippes may by thy grace, be always made open to sound forth thy prayse and euerla­sting glorye, be mercifull to our offences, think thou not on our vnrighteousnes, but vppon thy clemencye, for­giue thou fréely, and pardon graciously our sinnes, make vs faythfull in Christe Ie­sus, shorten the daungerous dayes of iniquitie, increase the number of thy chosen & peculier saintes, hasten thy comming, O sauior Christ, that we with the fellowship of thy saintes, heauenly An­gels, and the blessed compa­ny of Martirs may celebrate [Page] thy prayse, and worship thée in thy glorious kingdome, before thy father oure God, and the holy Ghost, to whom be prayse for euer. Amen.

PRotect & defend me (O heauenlye and most mercifull fa­ther) from the fel­lowship of the vngodly men whiche dayly imagine mis­chiefe in their heartes, to harm the innocent: kepe me from the counsayles of the foolish and vngodly, whiche speake proud things against [Page] the glorye of thy blessed name, defend me from faith­lesse and deceiptfull ones, whose guiltie stomacks are gorged with grudge, enuie, mallice, hatred, disdayne, and al vncharitablenes, for their throts are like vnto an open sepulchre, or swallow­ing graue, their tongues are giuen to slaunder, and back­bite their neighboures, the poyson of Adders lyeth hid­den vnder their lippes, and in fine, they as thyne ene­mies blaspheme thy holye and blessed name, and con­temne thy testimonies, O Lorde gine me thy grace to be conuersant with good & [Page] godly men, such as fauoure thy gloryous Gospell, & doe their indeuour to practise thy preceptes to the glorye of thy holye & blessed name: make mee by their example to exercise my selfe in the heauenly verity, that there­by I maye bee instructed in the liuely knowledge of thy commandements, & obtaine such wisedome from aboue, that by saythe I may cleaue to thee, & the fellowship of those y^t feare thy holy name, and so auoyde the company of the wicked, and vngodly worldlinges, whiche haue layde snares to intrap mée. Graunt this, O most merci­full [Page] Father, for thy sonne Iesus Christ hys sake, who euer liueth & raigneth with thee, and the holye Ghost, to whome be all lawd, glorye, power, and prayse, for euer and euer. Amen.

TAke awaye from mée (O Lorde) the burthen of my corruption, which by the continual exercise of my sinne and wickednesse, hath wounded my soule wo­fullye, with the daungerous dartes of transgression, so [Page] that I feele my putrifaction abounding, and my festred conscience ouerladen wyth vncleannesse, so that I haue no other meane or remedye, but to prostrate my seffe be­fore the Throane of thy glo­rious Maiestye, beséechyng thee intyrely, of thy gracy­ous goodnesse, to salue my sores wyth the comfortable Oyle of thy mercye▪ thou onely (O Iesus) arte the swéet phisition of my soule: sprinckle vppon mée Isope, and I shall be made whyter than snow, if thou of thy ex­céeding bounty and fauour, good Lord, wilt vouchsafe to washe awaye the spottes of [Page] my sinne and wickednesse, that heapeth thy indigna­tion and furye agaynst me, I shall then excell the Gold that hath beene purified in the Furnace seuen folde: let it therefore good Lord and mercyfull Father, seeme pleasaunt vnto thy deuyne Maiestye, to touche my corrupted & vncleane heart, wyth the heauenlye finger of thy grace, that I maye bryng foorth the fruites of true repentaunce, whiche are more acceptable to thy glorious and deuyne pre­sence, then the offering of Calues, Bullockes, shéepe, Goates, or any other burnt [Page] offring, or sacrifice of peace, a contrite and sorrowfull soule, is the thing that thou doest moste delight, an hum­ble and a lowlye spirite, is the oblation that thou doest desire: A cleane and pure heart, O Lorde my God, I knowe thou doest loue and fauoure, wherefore I be­seeche thée, to purge me from my sinne and iniquitie, of thy great mercy, let the bit­ter deploration of myne of­fences & hartye contrition, thorough thy glorious me­rites and paynefull passion: (O Iesus) be y^• only meane and way, to set me frée from the powers of hell, death, & [Page] damnation, and sith I am by thy goodnesse, begotten and borne anew, strengthen me good Lord, that I neuer slyde nor fall from thée, but that I maye continuallye beare in my remembrance, the state whereto I am cal­led by thée, thorowe thy a­boundaunt loue and kynde­nesse, wype away good lord all my sinnes out of thy re­membraunce, cleanse me in the bloude of thy spotlesse Lambe Iesus Chryste, and I shall be made cleane, pure and safe. Graunt this moste mercifull God, for the ho­nour and glory of thy name sake, thorow the bitter deth [Page] of thy sonne Iesus Christe, my mediatoure and Aduo­cate, to whom with thée and the holye Ghoste, be giuen lawd, glory, power, & praise, for euer and euer. Amen.

GIue vs good Lorde the comfortable and health­full spirite of thy grace, and aboundaunt fauoure, that wee maye wythout ceasing make oure continuall boast of thy prayse, we know and from the bottomes of oure heart confesse, that thou hast dealte more louinglye [Page] with vs, then thou hast done with our next neighboures, whose painefull miseries and bloudy broyles, may be a sufficient warnyng vnto vs to hate oure sinne & ini­quitie, least the like calami­tie or euer we be aware, doe compasse & hedge vs rounde about, giue vs grace there­fore in time of peace, and happie prosperitie, so to walke, that thy fatherlye blessing bée not withdrawn nor taken from vs, and the rod of thy sharpe correction be layde vppon our neckes, euen in such sorte, as thou hast visited oure brethren in other Countreyes, whose [Page] bodyes by the meanes of cy­uill discention, haue béene made a praye to the sworde, we heare and vnderstande, that not farre off, but euen hard at the gates of our bor­ders, the father is readye in armes, to séeke the destructi­on of hys sonne, the sonne is as gréedye to gape for the blood of his father, we heare how vyolentlye the brother thirsteth after the bloude of hys brother: frind is against friend: neighboure agaynst neighbour: young men are murthered: olde men are sodaynlye slayne: manye a wife is husbandlesse: many a childe is desolate and fa­therlesse: [Page] the cruel harted e­nemy spareth none: he ma­keth hauocke: no teares can staye hym from hys affectio­ned Tyrannye, the tender infantes are haled from the earnfull paps of their wée­ping mothers, and torne to péecemeale before the sor­rowfull eyes of their care­full parentes: Olde age is contemned: godly Matrons are abused: Uirgines are deflowred, and rauished by violence, a spectacle or ex­treame crueltie for vs to be­holde, and a glasse of great carefulnesse for vs to looke vppon, that haue worthely deserued like or far greater [Page] punishmentes, yet with­holdeste thou from vs thy scourge, although our offen­ces are so great and diuers, that might heap vp the sen­tence of thy excéeding iustice agaynst vs, in place of war and bloudye battayle, thou hast giuen vnto vs prosperi­tie and perfit peace: in place of penury, dearth, & scarcity, thou hast giuen vs increase, fulnesse, and great plentie: in stead of discorde and dis­cention, thou hast sent vs vnitie and concorde, and by thy celestiall prouydence, wee are defended from the cruell enemie, and from the domesticall and ciuill [Page] warre, and besides these thy gracious giftes, to heape vp our consolation & ioye, thou hast giuen vs thy true and lyuely word, as a Lanterne to direct and guide our foot­steps: from vanitie to ver­tue: from wickednesse, to godlye wisedome: from ly­centious libertie, to newe­nesse of life, and godly con­uersation, besides all these thyne inestimable graces, fréelye bestowed vppon vs, thou haste giuen vs godly & zealous Preachers, whiche plenteously breake vnto vs out of thy eternall testamēt, the breade of life, whereon (good Lord) giue our soules [Page] such power to féede by fayth, that they maye be nourished to eternall ioye, and we by the diligent obseruing and obeying of thy commande­mentes, maye be preserued from all kind of discention, and peaceably enioye the fruites of pure peace, & tru­stie tranquilitie. Grant this (O mercifull father) for thy Sonne Christes sake, oure onely Sauioure and Redée­mer, Christ Iesus.

O Lorde, oure heauenlye father, and euerlyuing [Page] God, wée thy wretched and most miserable Creatures, confesse and acknowledge, wée haue worthelye deser­ued the rod of thy correction and punishment, and doe merite manye sharpe and bitter stripes, that knowing thy blessed & glorious wyll, haue of set purpose contem­ned thy deuine and heauen­ly precepts, for which cause the sentence of thy wrath is sharpely kyndled agaynste vs, euen as it hathe béene a­gainst thy chosen people Is­raell, in the dayes of oure forefathers, who glorying in their wickednesse, were plagued in the fulnesse of [Page] thy indignation, the sworde of their enemies beset them rounde about, and hemmed them in on euery side, the Iebusits, the Amonits, the Philistines, and the Amo­rites oppressed them diuers­ly, theyr strong holds were rased, their Citties were besieged, theyr houses were ransackt, theyr goodes and theyr riches were caryed a­waye, by force of the bloud­thirstie enimie, theyr yong men were ledde awaye cap­tyue, their virgines were woefully deflowred, but in fyne, when thou Lord God, diddest beholde their heartie and earnest contrition, thou [Page] didst withdrawe thy frow­ning countenance, and sent them spéedy and safe deliue­raunce, one whyle thou Lorde sentest them Moyses to bring them out of the ser­uitude of Pharao, the stony and stubborne hearted king of the Egyptians, another whyle Iepthah sette them frée from the sworde of the Amonites, wherewith they were greeuouslye afflicted, and to make thy power & excellent glory fully known, thou gauest Sampson suche fortitude to bridle y^e prowde Philistians: Ouer and be­sides these, thou of thy loue and myraculous goodnesse, [Page] hast made feeble women, mightie and victorious con­querours, Debora was a shield to thy people, Iudith comforted the distressed Be­thulians, and cut off y^e head of prowd Holophernus, that thy selfe good Lorde, when thou beheldest their teares, and harty sorrowe for their offences, did prepare thy selfe to goe forth with their hostes, thou thy selfe wyth the breathe of thy Nostrels, diddest confounde and ouer­throw their enemies, so good Lord, be thou nowe present with vs, in the fulnesse of thy deuyne power, looke vp­on vs wyth the eyes of thy [Page] fauourable pittie, forget our corrupt and moste filthye of­fences, let our contrite and sorrowful harts be a meane to vanquish thy displeasure conceiued agaynst vs, bée thou present with vs in this tyme of necessitie and trou­ble, set thy hand to help and assist vs agaynst the enemy, be thou present with vs, in this tyme of perrill & daun­ger, goe thou forth with our hostes, then shall wee be as­sured to preuayle, let not the multitude of furious foes dismaye vs, for victory we doe know consisteth not in the power nor strength of many men, the strengthe of [Page] horses, armor nor weapons: but it is thou O merciful fa­ther, that giuest y^e conquest, where, and to whome thou pleasest. To thée therfore in this great extremity we flie and appeale, beséeching thée of thyne inestimable loue and kyndenesse, for the loue of our sauiour Christ Iesus, to looke vppon our true re­pentante hearts, and in the fulnesse of thy misseration and pytties, to set vs free from the power of the ra­ging enemye, and to pardon our sinnes and greeuous of­fences, that henceforth wée vow and dedicate our harts and mindes wholy to walk [Page] in integritie, and newnesse of life. Whiche graunt good Lorde, to whome with thy sonne Christ Iesus, and the holye Ghost, be prayse and glorye attributed for euer and euer, worlde wythout end. Amen.

WE heare (O Hea­uenly father) and are daylye taught and instructed out of thy eternall worde, howe greatlye the gréeuous sinne of presumption, pryde, and vayne glory, displeaseth thy deuyne Maiestye, wée are [Page] learned that for the practise of this pestilente and hay­nous euill, thou haste not spared the verye Aungels, but haste throwne them in thy displeasure, for their pryde, vayneglory, and pre­sumption, from beatitude, to miserye, from ioy wyth­out end, to perdurable payn: from brightnesse of thy glo­rious presence, to vtter ex­treme and palpable darke­nes, from the gloryous frui­tion and participation of thy euerlasting kyngdome, to the bottomlesse pit of hel, Death, damnation, and end­lesse flames of fire, besydes this, we are taught that by [Page] the transgression of Adam, whose hawtye presumyng, thorowe the intisemente of the subtle and perillous a­lurement of the Serpente, thought to bee as thy selfe, but in fine, thy iustice con­demned him and all hys po­steritie, this pestiferous sinne of pryde drowned him in the floudes of all daunge­rous euils, as gluttonye, lux­ury, and suche other perils, that had not thy mercye ta­ken effect, to keepe and hold Plea for his and oure saue­garde, and thy sonne Chryst imbrased the glory & power of his deuyne Essence, & ta­ken vpon him our fleshe and [Page] frayle nature, sinne onely excepted, who freely offered his innocente bodye to the death of the Crosse, we had perished euerlastinglye, and bene vtterly confounded. Print therefore good Lord, and wryte these examples in my memorye, that I fall not from thy fauour, by the exercise of thys detestable sinne, make me still to con­sider that the proud and dis­daynfull are always abhor­red in thy sight, and sith it is thy good will and gracious pleasure, to regard the hum­ble and lowly man, giue me such méekenesse from aboue, that I maye continuallye [Page] present thée with the Sacri­fice of a gentle, méeke, and contrite spirite, that I may auoyde the plagues and pu­nishmentes which thou hast prepared for the prowd and hawty minded. Graunt this (good Lord) for Iesus Christ his sake, my onely Media­tour and Aduocate, who li­ueth and raigneth with thée and the holy ghost in glorye permanent and maiestye e­uerlasting.

O Eternall and euer ly­uing god the father of al consolation, and comforte, [Page] vouchsafe of thyne infinite loue & kindenesse, to streng­then mée with thy heauenly grace, paciently to beare, and wyth meekenesse to suf­fer this Crosse of affliction and trouble, which thou hast layde vpon mée, for the vse of sinne and iniquitie, I knowe (O gracious and lo­uing father) that my deserts are suche, as worthely haue prouoked thée to displeasure the burthē of my sinnes are intollerable, for the whiche I must acknowledge, and earnestly from the bottome of my heart confesse, that iustlye thou haste corrected and visited mee, yet not in [Page] the fulnesse of thy furye, but according to thy fatherlye loue and kyndnesse, and al­beit, thy rod lie heauy vpon my shoulders, yet in thys tyme of thy correction, I am comforted greatlye, know­ing assuredlye that y^u correc­test and smytest where thou louest, thou woundest and healest agayne, thou thro­west downe to Hell, and thou liftest vp to Heauen, such and so great is thy om­nipotencie, that thou rulest aboue the Firmament, in earth, flouds, and the lower­most partes of hell, in Hea­uen the Aungels, Arckaun­gels, the souls of thy saints, [Page] the blessed company of mar­tyrs giue thée prayse, glory, and veneration, the Sunne, the Moone, and glistering starres, eche one of them in their course and quallitie, shewe themselues obedient to thy will, in earth y^e beasts of the field, and the siely fe­thered fowles of the Ayre, in their order séeme to sette forth thy glorye and prayse, in the déepe waters the fy­shes of the Seas are readye to obserue thy will, and in their manner, they as thy creatures, giue thee due ho­nour and reuerence, but a­mongest these, man whome thou by thy diuine will and [Page] pleasure haste indued with reason and in his creation, cōcerning the inward man, hast fashioned hym to thy similitude and lykenesse, is nowe moste prone and wil­ling to be by thy ministers of darckenesse, seduced and carryed awaye from vertue to vyce: from godlinesse to all impietie: from obedy­ence to wilfull breache and contempt of thy precepts, so that diligence is banished by negligence, and suche is the power of oure flesh, that our eyes which should haue their chiefest cōtemplation and delight in perusing and reading thy glorious and sa­cred [Page] Gospell, wherein wée maye beholde thee crucified and slayne: O swéetest Sa­uiour Christe Iesus, perfite God and perfite manne, by whose innocent deathe and bloudy passion, the attone­ment betwixte thy Father and vs, are so daseled wyth the dimmy and darke mysts of Sathan, that they are occupyed in the beholding of mundane and transitorye pleasures, al which in effect vanish & weare away, euen as the Flower that eyther is parched by the force of Phebus radiant beames, or by Winter stormes and ho­rye frostes consumed, oure [Page] eares whiche thou haste gy­uen vnto vs to heare, and vnderstande the sacred and deuine misteries contained in thy holy lawe, are made deafe of purpose, so that they glory more in fables & loth­some leasinges, then they conceiue delight in the zea­lous predication of thy E­uangelicall and heauenlye doctrine, our hartes are har­dened like the Adamāt, so y^t for the greatest parte, they cannot brooke thy testymo­nies, they continually luste and desire to bee satisfied with worldly welth, honor and dignitie, and who be­holdeth not in these dayes, [Page] what cruel conflict and bloo­dy fyght, there is betwixte good conscience and filthy a­uarice, the roote of all mys­chiefe and euill: Naye who seeth not in this age, playne dealing murthered by de­ceyte, and faythlesse frawd: Who nowe beholdeth not true meaning strangled by forged flatterye & loathsome leasinges? the bowels of cō ­passion and pitty are shut vp by vyolent oppression & ty­ranny, our féete are willing to tread the pathes of pryde, fornication and vnclean­nesse, our hands are ready to offer wrong & iniurie to the innocent: yea, and in fine, [Page] whatsoeuer thou hast giuen vnto vs, to spreade and set forth thy glory and honor, is by sinne so corrupted, that wee make the members of our bodyes, which by grace and of pure loue are ingraf­ted in the body of Christ, the riche and great shepheard of oure soules the verye mem­bers of Sathan, so that of set purpose our transgression a­bounding, wée flye from Chryst the rocke and strong piller of our saluation, and run headlong to deathe, and vtter destruction of body and soule, yet like a louing God and mercifull Father, thou callest vs home agayne by [Page] thy word, wherin not onely thy mercies, but also thy ter­rible threats are thundered forth agaynst vs for our im­penitencye, but when ney­ther thy manifolde mercies fréely of thy aboundant good­nes offred vnto vs in Iesus Christ, can moue nor stir vs to handfast contrition, ney­ther yet thy terrible commi­nations and threatnynges can exclayme, nor call vs backe from the daungerous puddle of our sinnes, then y^u sendest foorth thy plagues and punishmentes, as pesti­lence, famyne, and bloudye sworde, intending thereby to driue vs to amendement [Page] of lyfe, and to acknowledge thy omnipotency, but when thou beholdest oure true re­pentaunt heartes, oure sobs and sighing teares powred foorth, before the Throane of thy deuyne Maiestye, thou withdrawest from vs the terroure of thyne indig­nation, and vengeaunce, the Rodde of thy correcti­on is layde aside, thy dis­pleasure iustly conceiued a­gainst vs, for the continuall exercise of sinne, is vtterly forgotten, and by the in­tercession of thy sonne Ie­sus Chryste, that sitteth on thy right hande in glorye permanēt and euerlasting, [Page] lyke a louyng Father, and moste mercyfull GOD, thy Syluered Scepter of peace is offered vnto vs, wyth al other thy gracyous benefites, that thy anger is conuerted to clemencye, thy displeasure is tourned to louing kindenes, and in fine, thy indignation is so calmed by thyne aboundant grace and mercye, that lyke a louing and gentle father, thyne armes are stretched foorth ioyfullye to imbrace and receiue vs to thy fa­uoure agayne, all thys I knowe to be moste certaine and true, for when, or at what tyme soeuer, wée shall [Page] appeare before the gates of thy mercye, & by the vertue and power of a constant and liuely fayth knock thereat, thou art readie to open vn­to vs, not for any of oure de­sertes, but for the merites of Iesus Christe, the fulnesse of thy deuyne misseration, compassion and pittye, and whensoeuer we shal cal vp­on thee, with lowlynesse and méekenesse of our harts and myndes, bewayling wofully our heynous offen­ces committed against thée, thine eares are most atten­tiue to heare, and willyng­ly doest graunt vs our peti­cions, wherefore (O moste [Page] gracious and louing father) we come vnto thée with sor­rowfull and contrite harts, beséeching thée for the loue of thine anointed sonne Ie­sus Christe our Messias, sa­uioure and redeemer, besée­ching thée to beholde & looke vppon vs wyth the eyes of compassion and pitie, & al­beit wee haue worthely de­serued this thy plague and punishmēt, yet respect thou not our deseruings, least in thy furie & indignation, we be confounded and perishe, haue an eye rather to thy sonne Iesus Christ, beholde his bloudy woundes, which yet are freshe & gréene, and [Page] neuer stint bléeding, thinke vpon the bitter and painfull tormentes that hee suffered for vs vppon the Crosse, in whose name we beséech thée fauourably to looke vpō our infirmities, mercifullye to heare our prayers and peti­cions offered vnto thée, and graciouslye for the glorye of thy names sake, to take and withdraw from vs this thy heauie rodde of correction, whiche our sinfull liues and contempt of thy preceptes hath heaped heauily in oure necks: giue vs pacience to suffer whatsoeuer it shall please thée to lay vppon vs: giue vs grace alway to call [Page] and cry vpon thy holy & bles­sed name, and faythfullye with teares to say vnto thée continually. Spare vs good Lord, spare thy people, whō thou hast redéemed with thy precious bloode, neither yet good Lorde be thou angrye with vs for euer. Grant this (O mercifull father) for the loue of thy onely sonne Ie­sus Christ, to whome wyth thée and the holye Ghost, bée all honor, glorye and prayse ascribed, for euer. Amen.

OMnipotent God, and fa­ther euerlasting, whose mercy is infinite and whose [Page] kingdome hathe no ende, vouchsafe I beséeche thée of thine excéeding goodnesse to increase our fayth, that as thy Guestes repayre to the Table of thy sonne Iesus Christ, who hath lefte vnto vs before he gaue hys bodye to be crucified, and his blood to be shedde largely on the Crosse for our redemption, as a pledge of his great loue and aboundant kindenesse, the celebration of his glori­ous Supper, wherein as it were in a looking Glasse, the death of our great may­ster, the high shephearde of our Soules Iesus Chryste, is moste liuely set forth vn­to [Page] vs, giue vs grace there­fore from aboue, rightly to vnderstand the deuyne my­steries offred vnto vs there­by, and not to wreste or wring the same contrary to thy will. Let it bée far from oure thoughtes, (good Lord) to leaue thy eternall veri­tie, and to builde on the doctrine of men, who follo­wing their owne imagina­tions, run headlong to the gaping Gulphe of daunger and destruction, plucke the Scales of ignoraunce from oure eyes, that wee maye cléerly disearne and behold, by the light of thy glorious Gospell, howe wee maye [Page] truelye Communicate and participate the fruites of thy grace, represented vnto vs in this comfortable Sa­cramente, indue vs plenti­fully with such pure know­ledge, that we may not once think or say after any grosse fourme or carnall manner, we feede vppon, or eate thy fleshe reallye, or carnallye, make vs alwayes constant­ly to beleeue that thy glory­ous body is ascended vp in­to heauen, & sitteth on the right hand of thy father, cō ­cerning thy humanitie, and cannot be thence remoued, till the time that thou shalt come with Legions of Aun­gels, [Page] to iudge the quick and the dead, before whose pre­sence, shall runne a consu­ming fyre, and moreouer, wee doe moste humblye be­séech thée, so to confyrme vs in the trueth of thy blessed Testamente, that we maye confesse thy deuine nature to be equall with the father and the holy Ghoste, and to beléeue that thy power is not a power perticuler, but a power generall, and suche as doth and shall gouerne in Heauen and Earth, in the déepe and low waters: yea, and in the neathermoste partes of Hell, strengthen vs therefore good Lord that [Page] stande, least that in falling from the true knowledge of thée, we perish euerlasting­ly, and sith thou hast called vs by thy worde, as thy Guestes, to this blessed ban­quet, wherein the mouthes of our carnall bodies are fo­stered and fedde with bread and Wyne, so Lorde con­firme oure faith in thée, that the mouthes of oure soules may féede spiritually vppon thy swéetest flesh, and drink thy dearest bloud, and so bée norished to euerlasting life and heauenlye blessednesse, which rewarde as a dowrie due, thou haste promised to all those that faythfully [...] [Page] build vpon thée, whiche art the Rock and strong Piller of oure Saluation, and as these must set forth vnto vs most liuely thy death & pas­sion, so make vs thankfull to thée for the same, & therby giue vs grace to prynte in oure heartes thy greate loue and exceedyng clemencye, that sparedst not to giue thy bodye to the moste vylde, shamefull, and slaunderous death of the Crosse, and thy bloud to be shed for oure of­fences, indue vs wyth loue and charitie to all menne, make vs readie to forgiue, loue, and pardone oure ene­mies, persecuters and slan­doers, [Page] tourne oure heartes and myndes from al impie­tie, couetousnesse, blasphe­mie, pride, glottonie, forni­cation, and al other detesta­ble euils, and if at any time we haue defeated y^• father­lesse of hys right, the widow of hir dowrie, or gathered together our goodes wrong­fully, by vyolence, oppressi­on, fraud, by collusion, or de­ceyt, giue vs grace to make restitution, and to ask wyth sorrowfull playnte & flouds of teares, from the bottome of our heartes, pardon and free forgiuenesse of thée, for such and all other our offen­ces, whatsoeuer wee haue [Page] don, or cōmitted, in thought worde, will, and deede, a­gaynst thy deuyne Maiesty, or any other oure brethren. Take away from vs all bit­ternesse, curssed speaking, and backbyting, gyue vs grace to come worthelye by the vertue of a true & fruite­full fayth, to this holye and blessed Supper, that oure soules féeding faythfully on thy swéetest fleshe, and drin­king thy dearest bloude, wée may both in bodye and soule be nourished by thée to euer­lasting and endlesse glorye in Heauen, where with thee and the fellowshippe of thy chosen sayntes, we shall en­ioy [Page] the fruition of thy euer­lasting kingdome, whiche thou haste ordayned for all those that onely and alone without wauering, do build vpō thée, sanctifie and make cleane our harts and minds by the power of the holye Ghost, the verye comforter of thy chosen, purge thou our canckred consciences infec­ted wyth sinne, by the wor­king of thy good grace, least that by the presuming to this thy table (O Lorde) we incurre thy displeasure, and being vnrepentant for oure offences, wee be founde vn­méete Guestes, to come to thy holy banquet, and so we [Page] eate and drinke to the vtter confusion of oure soules and bodies, giue vs grace there­fore (good Lord) to conuerte vs wholye vnto thée, and we shall bee tourned from all our sinne and iniquity: giue vs grace to rest onely vppon thée, and wee shall be made safe: giue vs thyne ayd from aboue, we beséeche thée, by fayth to striue with the man of sinne, and so to vanquishe him, that he maye die in vs, & we may liue to thée, which art the giuer of life. Graunt this, O most gracious God, for Iesus Christe hys sake, to whome with thée and the holye Ghoste, be giuen all [Page] prayse, honour, and glorye, for euer and euer. Amen.

WE giue thée moste har­ty thanks, O heauenly father, that hast at this pre­sent fed & refreshed our hun­gry Soules with the fleshe & blood of our sauior Christ, not carnallye, but spiritual­lye, giue vs grace therefore continuallye by the meanes of an increasing and fruite­full fayth, to beleue that thy flesh is meate in déede, and thy bloud is drinke in déede, [Page] and that vnneaths wée eate thy flesh & drinke thy bloud, wee cannot enter into thy kingdome, nor be saued in the daye of thy commyng. (Giue vs grace therfore, be­ing vnprofitable seruantes and vnworthely called, by the reason of the multitude of oure sinnes, to banquet at thy table, whereas the cele­bration of thy Supper hath bene vsed, and thy death by the vysible Elementes of breade & Wine represented vnto vs, to offer vp vnto thée continually the fruites of true repentaunt and sor­rowfull heartes, that thy name may be glorified, wée [Page] by thy grace comforted, thy displeasure bee tourned to loue: thy wrathe to compas­sion: oure sinnes pardoned, and forgotten, & our names written in the booke of life. And as it hath pleased thee at thys present to accompt vs for thy guests, & not one­lye to féede vs wyth visible creatures, namely breade and wyne, but also in soule whiche is thyne owne simi­litude, to cherishe vs wyth thy flesh & blood, whereon by the vertue of a liuely fayth, we haue to oure great com­fortes, most plentifully fed. So now (O Lord) we beséech thée of thyne aboundaunte [Page] goodnesse, to increase oure fayth, y^t it may waxe strong in thée, and fruitfully, to ex­ercise the workes of Cha­ritie and loue to all menne, that thereby as wee haue now bene at the celebration of thy gloryous and blessed Supper, so we maye, when­soeuer it shall please thee to call vs to thy heauenly ban­quet, be found furnished, not emptie, not naked, but ar­med & couered with fruitful fayth and trueth, and so as thy guestes, or vesselles of honoure, enioye the partici­pation of thy heauenlye and riche pallace, wheras ioyes neuer fade, but continually [Page] indure, take from vs the burthen of oure corruption, sette vs frée from the cursed clogge of sinne, deliuer vs from the snares of death and destruction, giue vs willyng myndes to obey & heare thy commandementes, cleanse thou oure heartes from all iniquitie, and giue vs grace henceforth to walk in new­nesse of life and godlye con­uersation, that thy name may be glorified, and we sa­ued in the daye of thy com­ming to iudgemente. Grant this for Iesus Chryste hys sake, our Mediatour and ad­uocate. Amen.

O GOD (my Lorde) my harts delight, with whō my soule longeth to dwell, in that heauenly Ierusalem wherin is continual health, eternall felicitie, happie li­bertie, and perfite blessed­nes, where men shal be like vnto the Angels of God, and iust men shall shyne as the Sunne, in the euerlasting kingdome, wherein is no heauynesse, no sorrowe, no griefe, no feare, no labour, no death, no disease, no lack no hunger, no thirst, no cold nor heate, no wearinesse of fasting, nor temptation of [Page] the enemy, no will to sinne, nor power to do euil, no old age, no lame or deformed person, no feare of pouertie, or weakenes by disease, but a quiet harbor of all ioy, and euerlasting happines, wher men in the societie of Aun­gels, shal continually dwel, wythout anye infirmitie of the fleshe. For there is infi­nite ioye, and eternal blisse, from whence none shall bée remooued, that once by thy prouidence shall enter ther­in. There is rest from la­bors, peace from y^e enemy, a new kinde of ioy & delight, such as no hart can cōceyue, saue onely by taking a mer­uaylous [Page] delight, and excée­ding pleasure in the behol­ding of thée my Lorde God, my gloryous redéemer, and the heauenlye comforter, whiche proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne. O heauenly Ierusalem, thou art swéete and beautifull in all thy ioyes and delyghtes, there are no suche myseries in thée as we féele and suffer in this poore and miserable life. There is in thee no darknes nor change of tyme the shyning of the Moone, the twinckling brightnes of the starres giueth not light in thée, but onely the God of all power, glory & maiesty, [Page] the light of lightes, for in thée the sonne of Iustice gi­ueth light, to those that are adopted in his blood to euer-during blessednesse. The bright & imaculate Lambe, a moste beautifull light, is thy light, that doth illumi­nate hys chosen Children. The king of kings is in the midst of thée, enuironed on eche side with hys beloued Saintes, and redy to crown them with euerlasting glo­rye: In thée are Legions of Aungels, singing of swéete Hymnes and songs, that set forth thy prayse and honour of thy name: In thée are the fellowshippe of heauenlye [Page] citizens: In thée resteth the swéete solemnity of al such as returne from this mise­rable pylgrimage vnto thy glory, the companie of the prophets, Apostles, & victo­rious armie of Martyrs, holy men & women, which haue vanquished the plea­sures of the worlde, haue their abyding with thée: There are yong children & maidēs, which haue passed ouer their dayes in holi­nesse of life publishing thy praise. Euery one reioiceth in his degrée, though not e­quall in glory, yet like in ioyes & gladnesse, for there raigneth perfect charitie, & [Page] God is al in all, whose ma­iestie without end they sée continually, and still in be­holding him their loue in­creaseth. Of this eternall blessednes, the holy Apostle Peter had as it were a sha­dow or a taste vppon the Mount Thabor, at the trās­figuration of Christ from whence he desired he, might not depart. Paul also had a proofe of it, when hee was rapt or takē vp into y^e third Heauen, where he hearde words and sawe thinges so maruailous & secrete, so far passing al mans vnderstan­ding, & such as were not to be told or reuealed vntomē. [Page] Moyses his face became so bright, through the conuer­sation that he had with the deuine glory vpon Mounte Sina, that the Israelites coulde not abide it: what then shall become of vs, when perpetuallye with thée, which art the Lorde of al glory, we shal be conuer­saunt after the manner of thy children and famylier friendes? Who is he then, that will not séeke and de­sire by all meanes possible to be a dweller there, both for the desire of peace, ioy, and eternitie, and for the perfect sight of God.

Contrariwise, who is [Page] able to expresse y^• torments appointed for the vngodly, and vnrepentant liuers, in that deadly place, called Hell, which Sathan him­selfe abhorreth: what other thing can be there, but con­tinuall paines, eternal tri­bulation, & infinite calami­tie, repleate with al euils. There dwelleth wicked & vgly Aungels, whose hor­rible looks bringeth sodaine feare, grieuous paines, and fearefull death, with conti­nual clouds of euer during darknes: There is nothing but howling, wayling, la­mentation and mourning without all ende, fearefull [Page] [...]criches, and confused cries are there in all places so­daynly raysed: There the worme of conscience neuer dyeth. In that damnable dungeon there is fire vn­quenchable, and perpetual gnashing of toeth: The mi­serable soule findeth there no rest, but is afflicted with all kinde of torments, and such as can neuer be expressed, all which indure for e­uer. Alas little auayle it those that are subiected as fire brandes of bell to crye vnto the Lorde, for he will not heare them, then shall they know, that all things which they had in this life, [Page] are vaine, and such thinges as they thought to be plea­saunte, to bee found more bitter then Gall or poyson. Then where is the plea­sure of the flesh so tearmed falsly? for there is none o­ther pleasure, but to feare the Lorde. Then shall they confesse, and saye, that the iudgement of God is true, and righteous, saying: did we not heare of this, & yet woulde not bee conuerted from the wicked déedes, but then shall nothinge pre­uayle: No sorrowe canne finde comforte, no com­plaintes, no remorce, no tormentes, nor paynefull [Page] passions an ende, such and so increasing are the vexa­tions of the seconde death, wherewithall the bodyes and soules of the vnrighte­ous shal for euer be inuiro­ned. Sith therefore (O hea­uenly father, & most graci­ous God) it seemeth good to thy eternal wisdome by the knowledge of thy euerla­sting trueth, to giue mee knowledge of thyne inesti­mable mercy offered fréely vnto mée in Iesus Christe my mercifull Sauyour, in whose bloody death & payne­full passion I am assured of eternal life & blessednesse. Giue me grace to printe in [Page] my remēbrance thy mani­folde mercies, that feeding in soule by faith in thée, I may attaine vnto those end lesse ioyes, that thou haste. prepared for thy adopted sonnes and chosen children, in thy kingdome of euerla­sting righteousnesse. And so escape those euerlastinge torments, which thou haste prepared for the Diuel and his Angels, from the which place of woefull vexation and endlesse miserie, deli­uer me, O heauenly father, for the loue of Iesus Christ his sake, to whome with thée and the holy Ghost, be all lawde and praise, for [Page] euer. Amen.

MOst mightie art thou O Lorde, in all thy déedes, and most holy in all thy wayes, blessed bee the name of my father, my God and glorious creator, who by his deuine power, and celestiall prouidence, of no­thing made all things, fish, fleshe, fowles, fruits, trées, herbes, & all other thinges, whatsoeuer are contayned both in Heauen, earth▪ Seas, and the nethermost partes thereof. Man con­cerning the outward parts, [Page] thou by thy celestial proui­dence, and fatherly bounty, framedst and createdst of clay, but concerning the in­ward substance of thy crea­ture man, thou didst fashion & make euen according to thine owne similitude and likenesse. Moreouer, such and so great was thy loue and good wil towards him, that all the Creatures, or workes of thy creation ser­ued to his vse. In earth thou haste made him Lorde & king ouer the fruits ther­of, the beastes of the Field, the Foules of the ayre, and the fishes of the little floods and great waters. In the [Page] Firmament, thou hast pla­ced the glistering Sunne with his oryent beames to giue him light by day, and therewith thou hast giuen him the Moone & the stars to gouerne him by night, for the which cause, aboue all other, the workes of thy creation, man shoulde and ought of right to giue thée that glory that to thée be­longeth. But alas, such and so great is the corruption of our frayle and sinful flesh that for all these thy graces, we are carryed away from thée, and enter into con­tempt of thy precepts, for which cause thou oftētimes [Page] doest correct and punish vs, to the intēt we might ther­by feeling thy rod of correc­tion bee driuen to imbrace harty and true repentance, but when thy threates and the stripes of thy displesure laide vpon vs, cannot take place amongest vs, thou of­tentimes giuest vs vp to follow our lustes and affec­tions, but at last when thou doest beholde our inormi­ties, thou in a moment, by the power of thy deuine iu­stice, restrayned the rope of our disordered libertie, and cuttest in sunder the Bry­dle of our voluptuousnesse, eyther by sodayne death, [Page] sworde, fire, famine, or o­ther thy deuine sentences of thy conceiued yre, to the intent, that other thy crea­tures might by the terrour of thy Iustice, auoyde sinne, and learne to amende their liues, least they fall into the like calamitie or daun­ger. True, and moste true it is, good Lorde, that by the exercise of sinne, we are the children of death & destruc­tion, but by grace of the al­mightie and victorious con­queror, swéet Iesus Christ, we are the adopted sonnes of thy father, and made fel­lowe heires with thee our perfect Emanuel, in whose [Page] name with all humilitie & lowlinesse of heart & mind, I come vnto thée in this great extremitie and daun­ger of death, beséeching thée to bée present with mee, to forget mine offences, to thinke vpon thy mercies, and although I haue not deserued so much as the least drop of thy fauor, by means of the great burthen of my sins, which are in the pre­sence of thy diuine maiesty, most vgly and loathsome to behold, yet respect thou not (O Father) mine iniquity, but haue an eye, I beséech thée to the merits of my sa­uior Christ Iesus, to whom [Page] as my mediatour, sauiour & Redeemer, I apeale, who hath promised comfort and sweete consolation to all those that in thy name flye vnto thée for reléefe, I con­fesse th [...]e worthily thou hast visited me, and yet not ac­cording to the multitude of my sins but in the fulnes of miseration and fatherly pi­tie, giue me grace therefore in these bitter bruntes of death, who vehemently at this present, beginneth to combat with fainting & fée­ble life, constantly to cleue vnto thée, let not y^e plesures of this wicked worlde bee a let or impediment for mée [Page] to come vnto thée, let not my fraile & feeble flesh, sub­iect to sin, which hath tho­row my transgression made mee a bondman to death, moue me to dispaire in thy great mercy, neither yet let that cauilling aduersary, y^e enemy of mankinde, at my last end triumph ouer mée, gyue me patience to suffer and gladly to beare & abide this thy scourge and visita­tion, and so fortifie mée in soule and body, that so long as life shall indure in mée, I may neuer cease to call v­pon thy holy and blessed name, yea, and when death is most busiest, make thou [Page] me most constant, yea, whē he séeketh most strongly to assayle my féeble body, giue mée thy grace, good Lorde, that I may in spirite, hart, minde, and all the powers of my soule, giue praises vnto thée, that of thy grace & inestimable kindenes, hast sent thy sonne Christ Iesus to raunsome me by his blo­die death and passion from the power of hell: Giue me grace therefore nowe that thou hast appoynted thy messenger death, to finishe the days of my pilgrimage, and to call me by his som­mons from out this vale of misery & wrecchednesse, to [Page] build stedfastly vpon him, & faithfully to hope for life & saluation, in and alone tho­row him, let the remem­braunce of my [...] wic­kednes, be [...] vpon, [...] thy glorious [...]ight, b [...]h [...]de my sorrow­ [...]l & true repentant heart, which come vnto thee with teares, not building on my merites, but vppon thy mercies, though I be sinful, thy son my sauiour is righ­teous: though I be wicked, yet he is most holy: though I be full of iniquitie, yet he full of all goodnes: though I haue grieuously offended [Page] thee, yet he hath fully con­tented thee: though I haue transgressed thy lawe, yet he hath fulfilled the same, & hath promised in his blood, to wash away their sinnes, that by faith continue in him constant to the ende I therefore in [...] g [...]at and [...]aynefull [...]onie, be­holding Death [...] heate at the gates of my body, come vnto thee by the vertue of a fruitefull fayth, beséech­ing thée, when thou shalt see it méete and conueni­ent, that hee shall dissolue the bandes of this fadyng life, which endureth but a whyle, for a thousand yeres [Page] are as yesterday in thy sight to take my soule into thy glorious and blessed hands, and so to confirme mee thy truth, that at the last when it shall please thée, by the sounde of a trumpe, to raise my body from the graue, when and in which time, body and soule shal vnite, & come before thy presence, I may by faith in thée, passe ouer the mount of my cor­ruption, shake off the bands of sin be set frée from death, and destruction, and being by the vertue of thy righte­ousnesse made holy, I may triumph with happie victo­rie ouer sinne, death, and al [Page] the powers of hell, and en­ter with thée, & the felow­ship of thy chosen Sayntes into euerlasting rest, grant this most louing father for Christ Iesus sake, to whom with thée and the holy ghost be rendred al laude, glory, honour, and prayse, for e­uer. Amen.

THe Lorde God bee mer­cifull vnto me, pardon & forgiue me my sinnes, looke vpon me with thy gratious and blessed countenaunce, preserue mee from the se­cond death, and euerlasting destruction of body & soule. The Lord God iustifie me in his death & bloode, cloath [Page] mée with his euerlastinge righteousnes, and register my name in the booke of life. The Lorde God com­fort my guiltie conscience with the euerlasting light of his bountiful fauor, & lot my place among his saints in his heauenly kingdome. The Lord God for his mer­cies sake, after this my bodily death, giue me the fruition of his presence, in his right palace of endlesse glory, to whose mercifull protection I commend with al humilitie and reuerence my soule, Lord Iesus pre­serue me, Lord Iesus com­fort me, Lord Iesus refresh [Page] mée, Lorde Iesus praye for me, for only into thy hands that hast redéemed mee, O Lorde God of truth, I com­mend my soule. Amen.

AH Lord, the euerlasting and heauenly spirite which sanctifiest and quick­nest the hartes of the faith­full. For as much as there is an other spirit which cō ­trary to thy heauenly mo­cions, moueth and prouo­keth [Page] vnto infidelitie ma­lice, lying, pride, wrath, whoredome, fornication, glotonie, dronkeship, enuy, couetousnesse, contention, errour, deceyte, hypocrisie, straunge religion, fayned holinesse, impietie, despe­ration. &c. which is called the Prince of the world, the great dragon of Hell, the authoritie of all euilles the father of lying and a mur­therer from the beginning, to whom it is euident that we are poore wretched and miserable, fallen away frō God, walke in th [...] lustes of the flesh, liue after the trade of the world, and doe that [Page] that is pleasaunt to the cor­rupt affections, and are far away estraunged from the citie of righteous Israel, & as straungers partaine no­thing vnto the couenaunt and promises of grace. Wherefore while we thus consider this our damnati­on and the word of thy pro­mise and commandement, we are earnestly mooued to flie vnto thée, humblie to desire and beséech thée, tru­sting that we shal obtayne. For thou promisest and al­so commaundest to trust an looke for this, that through the good will of thy spirite, thou wilt gather & receaue [Page] vs into thy people, that we may bee made a spirituall Israell, & renew vs, that is to say beget vs a new vnto repentance & godly liuing turne vs & with an earnest zeale of our heart drawe vs vnto thée, that from hence­forth we may abstaine from the workes of darkenesse & death. Destroye in vs the kingdome of sinne that is to say exclude frō vs not onely euill words & déeds but also plucke out of our minds all euil thoughts, noysome coū ­cels furious effectes and the stinking course of this flesh. Turne vs from euil wayes vnto the right path of re­pentance. [Page] Let our members be so addict to righteousnes and sanctification, that they may bee made fitte to serue thée. Let vs increase and be plenteous in al such works as bee pleasaunt vnto thée. Forsake vs not in tentatiō, but rather strēgthē vs with that thy secret vertue & in­ward power. Bring to passe that we giue no eare to his flattering deceits, nor yet to his beautyfull & glistering falaces, least he corrupt our mindes and abuse our flesh vnto our destruction, which at the beginning full craf­tely hee brought to passe by his subtyle and swéete sug­gestions [Page] but rather throwe downe and treade vnder our féete this our cruel ene­mie, that we being frée frō his deceitfull tyranny may through thy ghostly inspi­ration obtayne such peace and quietnes in our harts, that we may serue thée with a cleane bodie and pure mind, through Iesu Christ, vnto the laude prayse and glory of God the heauenly father. So be it.

O Lord and our God Ie­su Christ the scripture [Page] testifieth of thee that when thou wast in the worlde thou diddest preach repen­tance and the comming of the kingdome of heauen, and after thou wast risen a­gayne thou saidest, that it behoued thée so to suffer, & on the thirde daye to rise a­gayne from the deade, and that both repentaunce and remission of sinnes shoulde be preached to euery crea­ture in thy name. And that whosoeuer beléeued & were baptised shoulde bee saued. Agayne, than full louingly diddest bid them that labor and are laden to come vnto thée, and promised that thou [Page] wouldest vnlade & refreshe them. Uerely it is no small company of wicked spirites cleueth, which, is also a ro­ring Lyō, and earnest accu­ser of the sons of God, yea and such an enemy of God and of thē that pertain vn­to him, as by no means nei­ther will nor may be recon­ciled. Therefore we & all of vs, which thorow thy grace are bound and giuen ouer to serue God most humbly be­séech thée O holy spirit, that thou wilt defend vs against al the wicked temptations and pernicious breathings of the most wicked spirite, that all vice excluded all vertue and godlinesse may [Page] spring growe & increase in vs vntil we be made perfect & auncient in Christ Iesu our Lord & in his holy law. Take away infidelity, and engraffe in our brest a true and vnfayned faith. Take away pride, wrath, enuye, debate, whoredome, glo­tonye, dronkeshippe, co­uetousnesse errour, hypo­crisie with all kinde of vn­godlines, and print in our hearts humilitie, loue, cha­stity, and concord, purity of life, temperance, sobriety, mercy, liberality towarde the poore, truth, pure holy­nesse, with all kinde of ver­tue. Take awaye from vs [Page] all that euer is of Sathan, the flesh and the world, and giue vs that which onely commeth from the heauen­ly father, and from his one­ly begotten sonne and from thée that holy spirit, Teach vs all trueth, enarme vs with the shield of true faith that we may so quench the firie dartes of Sathan. Graunt that wee may so watch and shewe such dili­gence, that wee may per­ceiue his craftie assaultes and daungerous vnto thee, that wee liue not heare af­ter in the fleshe, but rather that wee abhorre from all filthinesse and impuritie [Page] thereof, and that we being brought into the kingdome through thy precious bloud may obtayne dayly more & more perfect remission of our sinnes. So be it.

O Lord God our heauen­ly father, giue vs grace that wee may neuer cease diligently to cal vpon thée, & with most humble minds to desire thée, that through thy great mercies we may be fulfilled with plenteous and rich knowledge of thy diuine will, and that wée may encrease dayly more & [Page] more in vs by the vertue of the word of God by the vse of preaching and ministra­tion of the Sacramentes, which knowledge of thy will is a spirituall know­ledge and an heauenly sci­ence whereby we being al­so endued, doe those things that are right and pleasant before thee, yea wherewith we haue such knowledge, that wee take nothing in hand, but that onely which thou most of all doest ap­prooue. Graunt that we be­ing fruitfull in good works, may encrease in the same knowledge, that wee may bee made strong in all ver­tue [Page] and godly power accor­ding to the excéeding abun­dant glory of thy Maiestie & that we may be enarmed with patience, long suffe­ring, chéerefull perseuerāce so well in aduersitie and perill as in sorrow & death. Thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. So be it.

O God the almighty Lord which art the very loue it selfe, & he that abideth in loue, abideth in thée, & thou in him thorowe Iesu Christ wee miserable Creatures cry this day vnto thée with [Page] a bitter and sorrowfull hearte, and for our little strength we earnestly de­sire, that thou wilt powre out into our hearts the true christen and vnfayned cha­ritie through the holy ghost whereby wee may loue one another, not only in words but also in workes, that we may aboundantly declare our faith, as newely borne from aboue of the immor­tal séede by the word of the liuing God, Helpe vs O God and giue vs so much light that wee may knowe perfectly all fayned loue wherewith we behelde our selues, & our false boasting, [Page] which commeth not from a pure heart, lest vnder the pretence of loue wee doe a­gainst fayth, & against the godly trueth, and by thys meanes fall away from the true loue which is gotten by the same crosse & bloude of Christ. Through the same our Lord Iesu Christ. So be it.

THy seruaunt am I, giue me vnderstanding, O Lorde, that I may learne thy commandements. For thy lawe is pure and vnde­filed, it turneth soules, it [Page] giueth wisedome to babes: Thy ordinaunces are right making heartes chéerefull Thy commandementes are bright lightening eies. The declaration and preaching of thy wordes maketh them to see that are blind, and gi­ueth vnderstanding to the litle ones. Lighten therfore my eyes, O Lorde, and giue me knowledge and vnder­standing in thy holy lawe. For thou O Lord alone gi­uest wisedome, and out of thy mouth commeth pru­dence and knowledge. So shall I with a glad heart searche thy lawe, and sing perpetuall prayses to thy [Page] most blessed name.

O Lorde Iesu Christ, let very mercy moue thée to haue pitie and compassion on vs, which being desti­tute of all other helpe, wan­der abroade and are disper­sed like sheep that are with­out a shepheard. And for as much as there is much har­uest and fewe worke men, sende foorth thou which art Lorde of the haruest, many faithful workemen, to finish it. And those that thou shalt sende, endue and replenish [Page] them with thy grace, yea, to guide them, that they may bring forth much fruit that great heapes of them that beleeue may plente­ously be gathered into thy barne, that there may bee plentie of that pure spiri­tuall wheat vnto thy praise which liuest and reignest with God the father in the vnitie of the holy Ghost ve­rie God for euermore. So be it.

O Almightie euerlasting God, of whom al power is ordained we commende [Page] vnto thée all them, which by thine ordinance are our superiours, as Emperours, Kings Princes and other Magistrates to whom thou hast committed the sworde and giuen power to gouern the subiects. Wee beséech thée, that thou wilt make them to be feared of the vn­righteous and trāsgressors, and that through thy gifte they may ouercome the e­nemies of thy name main­taine publique peace and tranquilitie looke vpon and defend widowes and them that be succurlesse.

Moreouer graunt to the subiects an obedient mind [Page] that they do not resist thine ordinance vnto their great hindrance, but that they di­ligently obeye their Magi­strates in all lawful things not onely for the feare of paine but also for consci­ence. Thorow Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Mercifull euerlasting, God thou knowest right wel how earnestly our most cruell aduersary Satan as a roaring Lyon wandreth about the congregation of the faithfull, and through [Page] the weakenes of our fleshe bringeth in among vs ma­nifolde incommodities, diseases and sundry temp­tations.

In consideration where­of we are prouoked accor­ding to the commaunde­ment of thy sonne our Lord Iesus Christ continually to watch that is to say, to vse feruent prayer.

Wherefore wee desire O most merciful father that thou wilt helpe and com­fort them that are afflicted lighten thē that are blinde teach the ignorant, graunt to the weake strength, to them that beginne to go [Page] shew the paths of thy way, to them that are going al­ready, sende dayly the en­crease of grace, and giue thē that haue obtayned some perfection of godlines con­stancie and stedfastnes that euery one of vs according to the measure of the gifte of his faith may bee made perfecte. Through Iesus Christ our Lord.

O Most gentle redeemer, which art always mer­cifull, alwaye a Sauiour, whether thou sendest vs [Page] prosperitie or aduersitie, this is a token of great mercie and of louing kind­nesse, while by afflictions as by bitter plastures or salues thou doest heale the inwarde man, and by tem­poral paines preparest vn­to vs euerlasting ioyes. And for as much as thou hast before declared vnto vs euē by thine owne steps that this is the way, vnto the true felicitie, graunt I beséech thée, that I may pa­ciently & obediently drink out this cuppe, which thou hast reached vnto me. Ue­rely these thinges are vnto fraile nature verie grée­uous, [Page] but yet thou suffered more gréeuous thinges for me and I haue deserued far more gréeuous things which haue so ofte deserued hell. Notwithstandinge thou knowest the frayltie of mans condition, and there­fore euen as that mercifull Samaritane doest thou poure into our woundes wyne which fretteth and sharpely biteth our vices, but thou puttest to it also y^e oyle of thy consolation, tho­row the which we may suf­fer those thinges, that are intolerable to vs. If it bée thy pleasure to encrease my paines, giue mee also the [Page] gift of patience and graunt that these afflictions of the body may turne vnto the remission of my sinnes. O if thy fatherly pitie be con­tented with this gentle chastysement where-wyth thou diddest nowe nurture mee, then let mee receiue at thy hande my health a­gaine, that I may giue thée thankes for both, that is, because thou hast merciful­ly chastened mee thine vn­profitable seruant and also taken away y^e bitternes of my affliction with y^e swéet­nes of thy comfort. So shall I remember thy benefits, & sing praise & glory to thée for [Page] euer and euer worlds with out end. Amen.

AH Lorde thou puissant strong & mightie God which destroyest the coun­cels of the vngodly, & rid­dest away the tyrantes of this world out of the earth at thy pleasure, so that no councell or strength at all can resist thine eternal wisdome and euerlasting de­termination, which thou hast to fore appointed by thine vnsearcheable wise­dome from the beginning. [Page] We thy poore creatures, simple wretches and vnpro­fitable seruants, doe most instantly and hartely de­sire thee, for the loue that thou haste to thy welbelo­ued, and onely begotten sonne, our Lord and Saui­our Iesus Christ, that thou wilt looke vpon thy cause, for it is time O Lorde, and bring to naught all those things that are or shall bée appoynted, determined and fully agréed vpon among the wicked against thée, and thy holy word. Let not the enemies of thy trueth so miserably oppresse thy seruauntes which seeke thy [Page] glory, tender the aduaunce­ment of thy pure religion, and aboue all thinges wish in their heartes that thy most holie name may onely be glorified among all na­tions.

Whatsoeuer the vngodly goe about contrary to thy glory and thy worde, let it not take effect, O swéete fa­ther, yea rather destroy it & vtterly bring it to nought, that all men may knowe that thou alone art that al­mightie and euerlasting God, which rulest and sub­duest all inhabiters of the earth, from the highest to the lowest, after thy moste [Page] holye will and pleasure. But to them that walk not in the councell of the vn­godly, nor tread not y^e way of sinners, giue thou good lucke & prosperous successe in thy name, that their holy trauailes and vertuous en­terprises may come vnto a godly end. Defend them, that they sit not in the chai­er of the pestilent scorners, which spitefully rayling on thy trueth, do defend with high tirannie both their wicked doctrin and liuing. Grant to thy seruantes the mouthe of thy wisedome which no man may resiste, whereby they may know y^t [Page] thou alone art the Lorde, & that none is to be compared vnto thée, al the enemies of thy Godly truth with their wicked counsels destroyed and put out of the way, we may with feruēt minds re­ceiue the trueth of thy most holy word, order our life according to the same, & sing perpetuall prayses to thy most blessed name worlde without end, through Iesu Christ thy sonne our Lord. So be it.

[Page] O Euerlasting and mer­ciful God which art the God of peace, loue, vnitie and concord, & not of strife, debate, discorde and confu­sion, thou seest how misera­bly thy holy congregation is rent, torne, and deuided into diuers sectes, whyle fleshly mē leauing the hol­some instruction of thy most blessed word, which is the alone truth and righteous­nesse, set foorth and main­taine euery mā as his fan­sie leadeth, thinges of their owne brayne, inuented by carnall wisedome, without the authoritie of thine vn­defiled lawe. And hereof [Page] commeth it to passe that so great dissention reign now a dayes in the worlde, and that so manye and diuers sectes, schismes and here­sies, spring vpp in euerie place, vnto the great per­turbation of the christian publicke weale. For so long as men set aside the rules and ordinances of thy holie Scripture, and appoynt things of their own imagi­nation, and stiffely defend them, it cannot come to passe that christian peace and vnitie of spirite, with heartie concorde can haue place among vs. Therefore we wretched sinners, to [Page] whome knowledge of these thinges thorow thy grace, haue chanced, doe pray and moste feruently desire thy great mercy, that for asmuch as there is but one euerla­sting God, and one heauen­ly father, which thou art, and one fayth, and one bap­tisme, which we al professe y^e cal on thy name, thou wilt thorow thy onely spirit, ga­ther togither such as are dispersed into diuers sects, into y^e vnitie of true & pure vn­derstanding of thy word by fayth, & bring them againe, whose mindes are disseue­red, into one bodye, that there may be no dissention among them. But specially [Page] O most mercifull father, graunt, that we which doe breath, and for our little power labour vnto the true vnitie in Christ, may lay a­side al dissension, and seeke that thine only euerlasting trueth, which is contained in thy word, that wee toge­ther may growe into one iudgement, sentence, and minde, yea and that which floweth and commeth forth from the intelligence and vnderstanding of our Lord Iesu Christ, and euermore guide and leade vs agayne vnto him that we with one perfect agréement of minde and with one mouth may [Page] praise, & magnifie thée, the celestial father of our Lord Iesu Christ, through the same Iesu Christ thy sonne & the holy ghost. So be it.

O Lorde Iesu the redée­mer and comforter of mankinde, which hast pre­pared for them that forsake the vaine pleasures of this worlde for thy loue, farre better delectations & plea­sures, through y^e holy ghost that most swéete comforter which the worlde knoweth not, measuring the griefes of this life with inwarde [Page] and secret comforts, and re­newe to vs as a certayne gage or pledge of the glorie that hereafter shall come, wherewith we being refre­shed & comforted, may run vnto thée with the more chearefull minds. I beséech thée that the annoynting of thy sprite may continually beate out of me the tedious­nes of euils, and make my minde merry with health­full ioy, and be annoynted thorow thy aboundant mer­cie, with the oyle of glad­nesse and ghostly comfort, which liuest and reignest with the father and the same spirite, very GOD [Page] worlde without ende. A­men.

O Lorde Iesu Christe, which art the onely and euerlasting sonne of God the father, which al­so becamest man for oure sake, that thou shouldest bring vs vnto God y^e father, and therfore thou going vn­to the father occupiest hys right hand, graunt that we may be cōuersant now with thée, thorowe fayth in the [Page] holy Ghost after an heauen­ly manner, and that after this exyle and banishment we being illumined with thy brightnesse, may re­maine with thée for euer, which liuest and reignest with God the father & the holy ghost, very God world without end. Amen.

O Lorde God our heauen­ly father, we right har­tely thanke thée for thy ma­nifold and inestimable be­nefites, which thou haste giuen to vs, deseruing no­thing [Page] lesse than to re­ceiue of thy boūtie so great kindnesse. We thanke thée that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercie first to create and make vs accor­ding to thy likenes, and to place vs in ioyful Paradise there perpetually to haue remayned, if through the subtile and deceitefull sug­gestions of Satan our ad­uersarie we had not trans­gressed thy most holy com­mandment. We thank thée also, O most bounteous fa­ther, for thy louing kinde­nesse which thou shewest vnto vs, when we were all perished and lost, through [Page] the sinne of Adam. For when thou mightest iustly haue condemned vs, & cast vs into perpetual damnatiō thou like a father of singu­ler great loue haddest pity on vs, and sauedst vs by the death & passion of thy wel­beloued sonne oure Lorde and sauioure Iesus Christ, which gaue himselfe a ran­some for all our sinnes, and paide sufficient price by his precious bloud for all the wickednesse that wée euer committed in times past, or hereafter shall commit thorowe oure frailtie and weakenesse, so that we re­pent and beleue. Neyther [Page] wast thou thus contented he should onely dye for oure sinnes, but thou didst raise him also againe for our iu­stification, to make vs righ­teous in thy sight. More­ouer after that hee hadde shewed himself vnfainedly aliue to his apostles by ma­nifest and euident tokens, certayne dayes after hys resurrection, thorowe the power of his Godhead, as­cended vp into heauen, per­fect God and perfect man, where he sitteth now on the right hand and maketh in­tercession for vs, being our onely Mediatour and alone Aduocate.

[Page]From thence we looke for him to come againe at the day of Iudgement, not as a cruell Iudge to condemne and cast vs away into per­petuall damnation, but as a most louing Lorde and gentle Sauiour to cary vs with him into perpetuall glory, there alwayes to re­mayne in euerlasting ioye, praysing thée worlde with out end. For these thy most bounteous giftes and for o­ther innumerable, which dayly thou giuest vnto vs of thy great mercy, wee thanke thee most gentle & mercifull father, desiring thee with all humblenes of [Page] minde that thou wilt giue vs grace through thy holie spirit not to be vnthankful but to walke worthy this thy kindnes, and so to be­haue our selues in this wretched worlde according to thy word, that at the last day we may be found in the number of them to whome thy onely begotten Sonne our Lord and Sauiour Ie­sus Christ shal say, come ye blessed of my father possesse that kingdome, which was prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde. Lord let it so come to passe, Amen.

O Lorde Iesu Christe, whiche art the onely and alone Phisicion of the wounded conscience, we poore & miserable sinners, trusting on thy goodnesse and grace, doe here briefly declare vnto thée the euill trée of oure heart, with the rootes, braunches, leaues, & fruits of the same, which all we vnfaynedly confesse to be euill and wicked. For thou doest no lesse consider, weigh, and ponder the in­ward lustes of oure heart, which is froward and vn­searchable, [Page] then these out­ward grosse sinnes, that we wickedly commit eyther in word or déede. Therfore we beséech thée & pray thée, euen so heartily as our weaknes will suffer, although we be very vnapt to praye, that thou wilt mercifully cir­cumcise & cut away our sto­ny heart, yea for this olde heart, create in vs ano­ther new hart, replenish it with thy spirite, water it and make it moyst with the iuyce or humoure of hea­uenly grace, and wyth the fountaynes of Spirituall waters, that the inwarde poyson and the noisom iuice [Page] of the flesh may be dried vp, the custome of the olde man abolished, & our heart after this no more bring foorth thorns and cockle, fit stuffe [...]or the fire, but spirituall fruits in righteousnes and holinesse vnto euerlasting life. So be it.

THanks be giuen vnto our lord Iesus Christ, both nowe and alwayes for these and all other his benefit [...], so mercifully, louingly, and aboundantly powred vpon vs. Amen.

THe God of all glory and peace, who hath created, redemed, and presently fed vs, be blessed for euer an [...] euer. Amen.