O Almighty and moste mercifull Father, who of thine vnspeake­able loue, and pitie, toward the disobediente, and loste children of Adam (when wee were caried awaye thorough sinne, and igno­raunce to damnation, fo­lowing Sathan, after the blind, and vnbrideled lusts of the fleshe) diddest recon­cile [Page 2] vs to thee by grace, and adopcion in Christ Iesus, the righteous and immaculate Lambe, by faith and sure confidence, grounded on the merites of his death whereby we are redeemed from the eternall prison of death and damnation, haue mercy vpon vs, mos [...]e mercifull & louing Father, & so quicken our dul and heauy mindes, by the inspiration of thy holy spirite, that we [Page 3] maye shake of this dead sleepe, & continualy watch in thee, abandoning the worckes of darcknes, and walking in the worckes of light, whereby we may be worthy to walk in this ho­ly vocation (where vnto thou haste called vs (and with thine elected sainctes, to sing prayses vnto thee, and at all seasons & times, to glorify thy holy name. And among all other be­nefites [Page 4] which thou of thy free mercy, doste dayly and hourely, most aboundantly bestow vpon vs, we yeeld thée mortall thankes, for y^t thou haste vouchsa [...]ed to pres [...]rue vs both this night and all the time and dayes of our life, vnder the sha­dowe and protection of thy winges, keeping our eyes waking in thée, without a­ny idle dreames, or phan­tasies, that might disturbe [Page 5] our mindes from the me­ditation of thy grace, and haste safely brought me to the beginning of this daye, from the drousy graue of my bed, which manifestly, resembleth in lying downe my death, and in rysing vp a manifest tipe and figure of my resurrection. Ther­fore sith thou of thy mercy haste raysed me vp from this earthly reast, wherein my mortall body, and cor­rupt [Page 6] nature hath ben part­ly recreated from the la­boures & trauayles, which I dayly sustayne in this te­restrial pilgrimage, vouch­ [...]a [...]e also I beséech thee, to direct me with thy holy spirite, both this day and euer that all my doinges maye tend to thy glory and to the commoditie of my neigh­bou [...].

And graunt most, merciful Father, that the residue of [Page 7] my whole life, frō hēceforth may he gided happly vnder thy tuition, whereby all maner of darkenes, misbeliefe infidelitie, & carnall lustes, and affections, may be vt­terly chased, & driuen out of my hart, and that I may be iustified & saued, both body and soule, through a right and perfect fayth, in Christ Iesu, and so walke in the light of thy most holy word & cōmaundements, all the [Page 8] dayes of this my fraile and transitory being. Arme vs with thy grace, most mer­cifull father, and strengthē vs, by thine assistaunce, to vanquishe the power of the sinfull flesh, and Sathan, y^t hauing victory in the end, we may ioyfully triumphe in thy saluation, that art y^e God of our strength and might. Endue our blynde hartes with thy heauenly spirite, that being strong [Page 9] in fayth, although [...]éeble in y^e flesh, we may so rule the bridle of our course, both now and euer from hence­forth, that we sleepe not in sinne (as y^e vnbeleuers doo) which haue no hope of re­surrection in Christ Iesu, but folowing the motion of their owne common sence, are so linked and tyed to y^e ground, that their grosse ca­pacitie is not of force to loke vp, and to be holde the [Page 10] brightnes of thy diuinitie, which art God from the beginning, & for euerlasting, world without ende. To whome with the sonne, & the holy Ghost be al honor and glory for euer, & euer, Amen.

O Almighty and moste mercifull Father, ma­ker of heauen, and earth, [Page 11] with all that is therein, whose works are inserche­able, whose mercy is in [...] ­nite, whose power is aboue the Cloudes of heauen, we beséech thee of thy accusto­med fatherly piety, and pit­tie, that thou wilte vouch­safe to be our watche man, this night and euer to gard vs from all our enemies, both bodily or ghostly, that endeuour to disturb the ex­ternall rest of our body, or [Page 12] to assalt the infernall Clo­set of our Conscience, with any sinful suggestions, or deuilish deuises of Sathan our mortall foe, and deadly aduersary. We acknolege and confesse moste merci­full Father, that of our sel­ues, we are not worthy to lifte vp our eyes towarde heauen, much lesse to pre­sume in presenting oureselues before thy deuine maiestie, with confidence [Page 13] that thou wilte heare our prayers, or incline to our petitions, if we call to re­membraunce the vnwor­thines of our own merites and desertes, for we are nothing else but a lumpe of sinne, conceaued and borne in iniquity, folowing the right path of our naturall imbecilitie, and weakenes in Adam, euer more prone and apt to folowe the filthy appetite of our own desire, [Page 14] like vnbrideled Colts, and reiecting the holsome disci­pline, and instructions of thy most holy wil and commaundements. Our own consciences accuse vs, and our own sinz beare witnes against vs, that we are no­thing else but miserable wretches, subiect to corrupcion, clothed with iniquity and not of our selues able to thinck as muche as one good thought, so that wée [Page 15] are not able to abide the extremitie of thy straighte iudgement, knowing that by the worckes of the flesh we are condemned to deth yet quickned in the spirite and iustified by grace, in Christ Iesu. Wee knowe most merciful Father that thou art a righteous Iudge such a one as visiteth the sinz of the Fathers, vpon the Children to the thirde and fourth generation, and [Page 16] doest not Iustify the syn­ners, and them that walk in the waye of iniquitie, but punishest the falts of al such as transgres thy holy lawes and commaunde­mentes.

Notwithstanding most mercifull Father, seing thou hast promised to here vs, whensoeuer we repent vs of our sinz, from the bottom of our harte and vnfainedly do call vpō thy name [Page 17] for help, we haue presumed to appeale to thy Throne of mercy, humbly cōfessing our manifold sinz and of­fences, and crauing remis­sion of our trespasses, in y^e bowels of thy onely begot­ten sonne Iesus Christ, our intercessor and sauioure. Haue mercy therefore vp­on vs O Lord, and forgiue vs our offences, instruct vs with thy holy spirite, to enter into examinatiō of our [Page 18] owne selues & by a stedfast fayth in Christ Iesu, with worckes correspondent to the same, we may earnest­ly and hartely repēt, from the very bottome of oure hartes, and euer hereafter to thirst after thy law, and statutes, euen as the harte desireth the brookes of wa­ter. And last of all, for as muche as it hath pleased thée of thy heauenly wyse­dome, to prepare, and or­de [...]e [Page 19] the night for man to rest, and refresh himself af­ter his dayly trauayles, grant we beséech thée most mercifull Father, that as our bodies do take a care­les sléepe, so contrarily, our soules maye contin [...]allye watche in thée, expectting dilligently that happy time when our Lord Iesus shal appear for our deliuerance out of this mortall life into another more blis [...]ull and [Page 20] happy life, the ioyes wher­of noe mans capacitie is able to conceaue, much les is the tongue able worthi­ly to expresse the happines thereof.

To that life we beséech the to bring vs for Iesus christ his sake.

O Almighty and moste mercifull Father the e­uerlasting [Page 22] fountayne, and well spring of al grace, and goodnesse, whose mercy is incomprehensible, and po­wer infinite, thou the eter­nall Iehouah, in whose handes are all the corners of the earth, & the strength of the hilles is thine also, whose omnipotent power, fashoned the Sea, and pre­pared the dry land, haue mercy vpon vs, miserable and wretched sinners, and [Page 22] encline thy fatherly eare, vnto the voyce of our pray­ers.

Increase most heauenly father in our mindes, the sparckes of true fayth, and Christianitie that, being alwayes garded with the de­fence of thy holy worde, we may haue power and force to renounce, and resiste the terrible inuasions, of our mortall enimy Sathan, who continualy rangeth a­bout, [Page 23] like a roaring Lion, séeking whome he may de­noure.

And sith wee are chaunced in these perillous tymes, wherein noughte but ini­quitie raigneth, and Ante­christ aduaunceth himselfe in thy temple exalting himself aboue all that is called God, infecting thy poore disposed [...]ock, with the poyso­ned dr [...]gges of damnable heresy, illuminate we beséech [Page 24] thée moste merciful father our blinded eyes, with the true light of thy heauenly grace, that being armed with y^e shield of thy diuine inspiration, we may ther­by be the more emboldned to withstand the dayly and innumerable assalts of our ghostly enemie, that conti­nually laboureth by all meanes possible to wreste the worde of trueth and vnderstāding out of our harts [...] [Page 23] [...] [Page 24] [Page 25] and to throwe vs headlong into the bottomlesse lake of euerlasting perdition, and whereas withoute the in­spiration of thy heauenlye grace, we are not able so much as to thincke a good thought, and much les able to resist the sinfull allure­ments of our corrupt flesh, the world and the Deuill, therefore we craue of thée most heauenly Father, that thou wilte vouchsafe to [Page 26] make perfecte that good worcke, which thou hast be gonne in vs, not suffering those fewe sparckes of thy heauenly grace which thy spirite hath planted in our hartes, to be extinguished, or quenched, by meanes of our weakenes and incon­stancie, but augmenting in our mindes the zeale of thy word, we may be able to rēder an accoūpt at that dreadfull day, of the hope [Page 27] and fayth which we haue in thée, by the merites of thy sonne Iesus Christe, our Messias and Sauiour, whome thou hast vouchsa­fed to send into the earth, héere to be incarnate of the pure virgine Mary, and hauing receaued the image of our humanitie, to offer him selfe as an acceptable sacrafice, vpon the alter of the most bitter Crosse and by the [...]ffusion of his moste [Page 28] precious bloud, to pay the raunsome of our offences vnto thy diuine maiestie, whereby he reconciled vs vnto thée, our heauenly Father, whereas otherwise we had beene subiect to the thraldome, of euerlastinge damnation.

To thée with the same Ie­sus Christ, thy sonne, and the holy spirite, covnited al three in Godhead, and distinguished in person, be all [Page 29] honor and glory for euer, and euer, Amen.

O Eternal God, and euer­lasting Father, the au­thor and fountayne of all goodnesse, the multitude of whose benedictiōs, and be­nefites, farre passe and ex­céede, the compasse of hu­mayne reason and capaci­tie, [Page 30] indue our frayle minds with the grace of thy hea­uenly spirite, that mortifi­ing our owne desires, and affections, our onely ioy & delite may be placed in the perpetuall consideration of thy heauenly promises, and renouncing all care, and regard of worldly bu­sinesse, which commonly withdrawes our mindes from the contemplation of thine infinite mercies, we [Page 31] may be wholie addictted to y^e seruice of thy diuine maiestie, in spirite, and true humulitie of minde, reioy­cing together in Psalmes, Hymnes, and spirituall Songes, comforting one a­nother in thy promise of that day, wherin thou hast promised to make vs fe­low [...]eyres of thine heuen­ly inheritaunce, with A­braham, Isaack, and Iacob, in that celestiall mansion, [Page 32] which thou haste ordeyned for thine elect, since the be­ginning of the world. And because by reason of oure naturall corruption, which we haue successiuely rece­ued, since the fall of oure great Grandfather Adam, we are all naturally bente and inclined to goe astray strengthen most mercifull Father our féeble spirites, with inspiration of thy he­uenly grace, that being ar­med [Page 33] against al the assaults of the flesh, the worlde, the Deuill, and Antichriste, that Capitall enimy of thy worde, we may haue oure consciensces cleare, from all maner temtations, and altogether vacante to the Meditation of the pro­mises expressed in the Gos­pell of thy sonne Iesus Christe, our sauioure. En­due vs with the diuine in­fluence of thy spirite, that [Page 34] we maye neuer be caried away with the fleshe, but by the operation of thy grace, in our hartes, we maye be able to mortify, & subdue our carnal afec­tions and wordly desires whereby our zeale may be the more enflamed to insue the heauenly motions of thy holy spirite, which di­recteth the mindes of them that feare thée, in the per­fect pathway of lighte, and [Page 35] vnderstanding. Graunte this most mercifull father, for thy Sonne Christe hys sake, to whom with thée & the holy Ghost, be al honor and glory, from this time forth for euermore.

O Euerlasting and moste mercifull Father the fountayne of all grace, and [Page 36] goodnes, which art the God of peace, loue, vnitie and concorde, and the iuste re­uenger of discētion, debate and confusion, thou séeste, howe miserably thy holy congregation is rent, torn and deuided into diuers sectes, and contrarieties in religion, while the carnall professors of thy name, in cloake of pretēded holines set forth & mainteine such beggerly traditions, as the [Page 37] appetite of theire grosse phantasie leadeth them vnto, shaking of the sweete yoke of thine vndefiled law wresting the letter thereof to serue the dissolute moti­on of their carnall cogitati­ons, mainteining in stéede of thy pure & sincere word, the fleshly cerimonies of their own deuise, and in­uention whereby it com­meth to passe that so great dissention raigneth now a­dayes [Page 38] in the world, and that so many sectes schis­mes, and heresies are day­lye sette a broach in euery place, to the vnspekeable perturbation of the course of thy word, and vtter sub­uersion of diuers common wealthes, whiche oughte chiefly to be mainteined by the vniform consente and iudgement, touching the worde, and by the perfecte band of Amity, concerning [Page 39] temporall causes.

But now wheras men set aside the ryght rules, and or dinaunces of thy blessed worde, plantinge in steed thereof, orders and tradi­cions of their own imagi­nations, howe can it come to passe that christian peace and vnity of spirite, should dwell among vs. There­fore graunt O most merci­full Father, that wee thy pore dispersed shepe which [Page 40] haue so long ben tossed and turmoyled with tempests of this tumultuous times, may at the last by the di­rection of thine heauenly Spirite, bee reduced in­to one foulde, acknowele­ging thee our moste louing shepehearde, and mercifull Father, thy sonne Iesus Christe, our onely sauiour and Mediatour to thy di­uine maiesty, the holy ghost our comforter, whyche by [Page 41] the mouth of thy sonne Ie­sus Christ, thou didst pro­mise to send vnto vs, which spirite assureth our spirites that we are pertakers, in­heritours, and fellow Citi­zens of that heauenly Ieru­salem, whiche thou promy­sedst to all them, that vnfainedly walke in thy statutes and trust onely to be saued by the blood, and passion of thine onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ, our Messias, [Page 42] the onely red [...]emer of all mankinde. Remoue O moste mercifull Father, from our eyes, the darcke shadow and vayle of igno­raunce, that abandoning al the dregges of erronious sectes, & heretical schismes, we may be gathered all to­gether into the vnitie of thy word; and confesse that there is but one eternall God, and one heauenly Father, which thou arte, and [Page 43] one Fayth & one Baptis [...]e which we all professe, that call vpō thy name. Graunt also most merciful father y^e we whose minds, & opiniōs are noted most repugnant, and contrary in fayth may he altogether covnited into one iugement; & opinion in religion, which maye bee grounded onely vppon the foundations of thy Pro­ph [...]tes, and Apostles Iesus Christ, himselfe being the [Page 44] head corner stone. And sith ther is but one fayth, which directeth vs into the waye of saluation, graunt we be­séech thée, that by the operation of thy holy spirite, we may be brought to such an agréement, and vniformity in Religion, that we maye glorify thée our heauenly Father, with one onely spirite, and generall consente of conscience whereby wee maye be reduced from the [Page 45] captiuitie of eternall igno­raunce, and be made al the shéepe of thee our most mercifull and bountifull shéep­heard, To whome with. &c

VVE render vnto thée most mercifull Fa­ther, immortall thankes, for that thou hast vochsa­fed, [Page 46] to send thine onely be­gotten sonne Iesus Christ, into the world to take our shape, and nature vpō him and to submit himselfe to the bitter passion of the Crosse, to redéeme vs wretched sinners, which before were thrales and bonde slaues to the horrible sor­mente of euerlasting dam­nation.

O what condigne thankes are we able to render vn­to [Page 47] thée, that in the least re­spect, may be able to coun­ter payse thy fatherly kind­nes and loue, which thou daily shewe [...]t vnto vs, most myserable and wretched sinners.

Thou hast sent thy Christ our Sauioure, to redeeme vs from the bondage of sinne, death, and damnati­on, and that not with Gold nor Siluer, but with his most preci [...]use bloode, once [Page 48] offered vpon the Crosse to paye our generall raun­some

The promises which thou diddest make to our 'forefathers, in figures and sha­dows, thou hast openly performed to vs in the open sight of the whole worlde, in sending that M [...]essias, to take our sins vpon him, to be scourged for our off [...]n­ces, and to beare the bur­then of our iniquities▪ A­gaine, [Page 49] thou hast manifested to vs the perfect pathwaye of saluation, by the mouth of thine onely begotten son Iesus Christ, and that not in figures, nor shadowes, but in expresse wordes, saying (Hoc fac & viues) do this and thou shalt liue, which to our forefathers thou de­claredst couertly, and in y^e darke shadowes of secrete misteries, and that not by thy sonne Iesus Christ but [Page 50] but by thy prophets which were men mortall as we be, and were inferioure to thy sonne, both in diuine power, and also in dignity of person. For how muche the seruaunt or bondman is inferiour to the heyre, so much are the Prophets inferiour to thy sonne, and heyre, Christ Iesus, whom our mortal eyes haue séene of late dayes, personally here in the earth, and rea­soned [Page 51] with him face to face & euen at his owne mouth haue learned what is the will of thée our moste lo­uing Father, and moste mercifull creatoure. And moreouer because it was thy good pleasure to take awaye the presence of thy sonne, from mankinde as concerning the fleshe, we yeld thée moste harty thankes that thou woul­dest vouchsafe to sēd down [Page 52] thine heauenly spirite, into the hartes of all thy sonnes Apostles, which spirite in­forming their spirites, of thy diuine will, prouoked them by writing to reuele thy promises of saluation (whereof thy sonne prea­ched) vnto the posterity of all ages, for euermore, wher [...]y both we that now liue, and the remnaunte of all future yeres may lerne to direct their steppes, as [Page 53] with a true line, or rule, into the waye of thy com­maundementes.

And sith in recompence of all these thine vnspeakeable benefits, thou requirest no other sacrafice, but thankes giuing with contrition of harte, therefore with vn­cessaunt prayers wee will magnify thy holy name, recordīg thine innumerable benefites, with Psalmes of thankes geuing in the [Page 54] midest of the congregation for euer, not doubting, but thou of thine infinite good­nes, wilt accept the thanks which we yelde to thy dy­uine Maiestie, as procée­ding from the very bottom of our vnfained hartes. To thée most mercifull Father with thy son Iesus Christ and the holy ghoste, be all honour and glory for euer, Amen.

O E [...]ernall and moste mercifull Father, who by thy diuine wisedome, diddest lay the foundations of heauen, and earth with the Sea and al that is therin, haue mercy & compassi­on of thy pore flock, disper­sed through the whole erth for the constant profession and testimony of thy hea­uenly [Page 56] worde, and deliuer them at laste, from the tir­rany of Pharao, y^e terrible persecutoure of thy poore members.

And because that in all Landes many departe into voluntary exile, whose conscience cannot sustayne to sée thy true worde corrup­ted with the superstitious traditions of mortal men, we beseech thée moste hea­uenly Father to inspire the [Page 57] dewe of thy spirite, into the hartes of all Christian Kinges, and Princes, in whose handes consistes the reformatiō as wel of ecclesiastical as ciuil & politike causes: that by the motion of the same spirit they may be the more feruentlye en­flamed with the zeal [...], and loue of thy glory and be the more [...]ircumspectly bent to plant the séedes of thy true Religion, through all their [Page 58] dominions, kindle moste (mercifull Father) in their harts a desire, to deface all blinde cerimonies, and su­persticious idolatry, which in any respect, maye séeme preiudiciall, or derogatory, to thy glory let them break down their hill alters, hew down their groues, burne their Images with [...]ire, y^e no one monument of them be left vpon the earthe, and that when they are sought [Page 59] for, their place may not be founde, so that the name & memory of them may de­cay, and perish with the as­ [...]hes, of their consumed timber. Let their moltion Ima­ges be consumed with fire, and their grauen Shrines be brought to cōfusion. For thou art a might [...]e God, & agelous God, one that can­not suffer a mate, or pere in thy Dominion. Thou wilt be worshipped in truth [Page 60] and righteousnesse of hart, and not with blockishe and sencelesse Images, y^e work of mens hands, which haue eares and heare not: eyes, and see not: noses, & smell not: mouthes, and eate not: handes, and feele not: feete, and goe not: but are cary­ed hither and thether, vpon mens shoulders, like sence­lesse stockes as they are, in no respect, resembling any figure of diuinitie or God-head. [Page 61] And bicause the vse of these phantastical Idols, tendeth especially to y^e pre­iudice and prophanatiō of thine omnipotent & diuine power, (who hast commaū ded by expresse wordes in thy law, that we should not make to our selues the likenesse of any thinge in hea­uen, or earth, or in the wa­ters to bow vnto) Graunt, we besech thée, thy grace, to all princes, and potentates, [Page 62] that beare as wel the spiri­tual sword, as y^e title of temporal gouernmēt, that they may be moued with thyne heauenly motion, to purge thy church frō all the dregs of superstition, and Idola­trie, wherby thy poore flock y^t is now dispersed through the whole worlde, may be brought againe into one v­niforme consent of Religi­on, seruing thee in lowlines and purenesse of hart, ab [...] ­doning [Page 63] all the rabble of Romayne traditions, and ido­latrous ceremonies, clea­uing only to the rule of thy holy gospel reuealed by thy sonne, Iesus Christe oure lord & Sauiour. To whom with the Father & the holy Ghost, thrée persons & one God, be all honour & glory world without ende. Amen. A prayer for the preserua­tion of our noble Queene Elizabeth.

[Page 64]WE yelde vnto thée, (most mightie, & mercifull Father) immortall thanckes, for that it hathe pleased thée of thy méere mercie and fatherly boun­tye, after the stormes of so many troublesome tymes, to conduct vs into the com­fortable port of trāquilitie, by the hand of thy most gracious seruaunt, & our déere soueraigne Lady, Elizabeth. When we were as shéepe, [Page 65] wandring astray in y^e wil­dernes, thou ordainedst hir Maiestie, to be our Shepe­heard, to gather vs againe into thy shepefould. When we had bene long lossed hi­ther & thether, with the outrage and cruel fury of tirā ­nicall persecution, like a poore weatherbeatē Bark, that hath bene continually turmoyled & tossed, on the perillous surg [...]s of the out­ragious and swelling seas, [Page 66] findinge no sure roade, nor harber wherein to rest, but continually in daunger, eyther to sinck into the san [...]s▪ or to be ouerwhelmed with waues, or violently to be dashed in peces against the mayne rockes: Euen then (I say) when we dispayred vtterly of sauegarde, stan­ding still in feare of the ha­zard of euerlasting confu­sion, thou committedst the helme, to be guyded by hir [Page 67] graces wisedome, who at laste conducted vs into the hauen of this longe desired peace and tranquilitie.

Therefore whereas thou hast placed hir in the regal throne, to be our Dauid, our Iosias, our Samuel, yea to be our Shéepeheard and ring-l [...]ader, in the way of true holinesse, and sincere Reli­gion. Inspire hir mynde with y^e manifold blessinges of thy grace, that she may [Page 68] walke all the dayes of hir lyfe, in the path of thy com­maundementes, & happely discharge hir dutie, in that stewardship, and dispensa­tion, which thou hast cōmitted to hir Maiesties hands. Inflame hir minde more & more with the loue of thy holy gospel, y^e all hir déedes, thoughtes, & practises, may tend to the propagation, & planting of thy worde and true Christian religion, in [Page 69] these hir Maiesties Domi­nions. E [...]cline the motiōs of hir vertuous disposition, aboue all thinges to seeke thine honor & glory, to sow the seedes of the Catholike fayth, abundantly in all places, to cut of y^e broode of su­perstition and Idolatry, to constitute true Preachers of thy worde, and establish euery wher thine holy gos­pel, and true religion. Pre­serue hir, moste mercifull [Page 70] father, (as hitherto thou haste moste myraculously done) from the deuilish de­uises, and practises of hir enimies, that she may haue a longe and happy raigne, among vs, to the a [...]aunce­ment of thy glory, and ioy and comfort of all hir sub­iectes Let hir naturall dis­position cōtin [...]e to hir [...]ocs terrible, to hir subiectes a­mi [...]ble, to hir offēders mer­ciful, to the vertuous boun­tiful, [Page 71] indifferent to al men, and in all respectes, partial in no point, neither in cau­ses ecclesiastical, nor yet in matters concerninge poli­tike gouernement. Assist hir, mo [...] merciful Father, with the might of thy hea­uenly Spirit, to quayle the pryde of the triple headed Romish Ce [...]berus, to banishe his beggarly ceremonies, to abridge the term [...] of his raigne, and finally to cut of [Page 72] and preuent the séedes, that continually striue to spring vp from abhominable su­perstition, and Idolatrie. Graūt hir grace, most mer­ciful Father, to runne the remnant of hir race, in the right path of thy commaū ­dements, declining neither to the right hand, nor to the left, but so vsinge all times thy heauenly word, as the rule, and compasse, to direct hir course. Preserue hir [Page 73] grace, (most mercifull Fa­ther) in continuall healthe of body, and quietnesse of mynde, that she may be al­wayes able to rule the bri­dle of hir charge, and to ex­ecute right and Iustice, to all sorts and degrees, to the aduauncemēt of thy glory, and the vniuersall commo­ditie of hir▪ Maiesties sub­iectes. And finally graunt (O most mercifull father) that when it shall please [Page 74] thée, to end the terme of hir dayes in this worlde, thou wilt make hir partaker of those celestial ioyes, which are prepared for them that feare thée, since the founda­tion of the world. Graunt this, most mercifull father, for thy déere sonne our lord Iesus Christ his sake. To whom with thee & the holy Ghost, three persons and one God, be all glory and honor, world without end.

ALmighty and most merciful Father, whose po­wer is infinit, and workes incomprehēsible, vouchsafe to direct the hartes of the Nobilitie of this Realme, with the diuine motion of thine heauenly spirit, that all their actions and ende­uors, may especially tende to the aduauncemēt of thy [Page 76] holy word, and secondly, to the common commoditie & peace, of the weale publik: whereby our Coūtry may be frée from all seditious tumults, and ciuil commo­tions, that may cause the hinderaūce of thy holy gos­pell, or the decay of y^e whole state of the cōmon wealth. Endue their mindes, most merciful Father, with true humilitie of hart, that they may al be cōtent with their [Page 77] present estate, not attemp­ting further then their degree or calling: but alwaies to séeke thy honor and glo­ry, carefully to shew theyr natural dutie, & allegeance to their Prince, obediently to bestowe their trauayle, for the increase of publike peace, & vtilitie, diligently. Whereby thy name may be cōtinually gloryfied, thy commaundementes folow­ed, and the state of the com­mon [Page 78] wealth, happely maynteyned. Through Iesus Christ our sauiour. Amen.

ILluminate, we beseche thee, most mercifull Fa­ther, the eyes of all them, whom thou hast appointed to be the Shepeheards and leaders of thy children Is­rael, that they may faithful­ly, [Page 79] & truely feede them with the heauenly Manna, of thy sonne Iesus Christ his gos­pell, reducing thy lost shepe in the wildernesse, into thy shepe sold, againe byndinge vp their former sores, & ap­plying such holsome medi­cine, and spirituall consola­tion, vnto their diseases, whereby they may be won & reconciled vnto thee, their true pasture, from whome they haue so long wandred [Page 80] astray. Geue grace, most [...] heauēly Father, to all those to whome thou hast distry­buted thy talent, y^t by theyr vigilant studie, and careful diligence, they may some gaine fiue m [...]e, to those fiue they receaued, some thrée, some two, and euery man accordinge to the portion which thou hast lent them: not hyding the same in the ground, as the vnprofitable seruant dyd, wherby no be­nefite▪ [Page 81] redoūded to thée that didst le [...]d the same. Plant most mercifull Father, in their hartes, a zeale to dys­charge the cōmaundemēts without respect of loue, or dignitie of person, and that without all hypocrysie, or pretended holinesse. Geue them grace to prosecute the summe of their message, without all maner of feare or dreade, not doubtinge to speake before Princes, and [Page 82] sharply to rebuke iniqui­ties, (as they Prophet Na­than reproued Dauid). Let them not be mapleasers, or such as for affectiōs sake winck at offences, and re­proue not y^e sinners of their sinnes, wherby [...]hey might be reclaymed from theyr wicked wayes, to the em­bracinge of thy holy com­maundements. Let them not be suche, as flatter, or fawn vpon Princes, for [Page 83] promotions sake, gapinge for worldly dignitie, not regarding the execution of the office wherevnto they are called. Kindle, O Lord, in their hartes, a continual care, and desire, to conuert sinners into y^e way of righ­teousnesse. Launcing theyr incurable sores, cutting a­way the buds and sproutes of sinne, applying spiritu­all Phisicke to their mala­dies, whereby they may be [Page 84] brought againe into the so­cietie of the Congregation, and from thenceforth learn to ensue the path of vertue▪ and vnderstandinge: euen as the vinecutter vseth to handle a dead [...]Uine, to cut awai y^e superfluous sprroutz to water it, & to adde freshe earth vnto the roote, wher­by at last the olde sappe, & liquor may return into hir braunches againe. Geue them grace, O Lorde, to [Page 85] Preach they true word on­ly, not intermedling y^e tra­ditions, or inuentions of men, but the pure Gospell of thy sonne Iesus Christ, which geueth lyght vnto the simple, and is as sweete to the Soule, as the hony combe is to the externall taste of the mouth, Let thē cut of the course of all Ro­mish superstition, and ab­hominable Idolatrie, of the whore of Babilon, let them [Page 86] sowe the séedes of thyne in­fallible vertue, and teache their [...]locke, to serue thée in trueth, and humilitie, with the sacrifice of thankes-ge­uing, and cōtrition of hart. Geue thē grace to expresse that doctrin in their liuing, which they haue preached out of thy Booke, that they may be an example to the flocke, of verteous liuinge, temperance, humilitie, and lowlinesse of mynde, that [Page 87] their godly lyfe maye in­flame vs, to imitate y^e same with true zeale and since­ritie of hart: Whereby, at the last we may altogether arriue hahely at the cele­stiall Ierusalem, and heauen­ly lande of promise, from the tyrannicall slauery of this earthly Egipt, wherein lyke paynefull Pilgrims, we haue so long time wan­dred, Wher, with the elect, we maye be made parta­kers [Page 88] of those euerlastinge ioyes, which thy sonne Ie­sus Christe purchased for vs: by the merites of his death & passion. To whom with thée, & the holy ghost, be all honor and glory, for euer, and euer. Amen.

GEue grace, O heauenly Father, to all the Com­mons of this Realme, that [Page 89] their chiefest care and stu­dy, may be bent to seeke thy honor and glory, & to walke all the dayes of their liues, in the way of thy commaū ­demēts: Next that to haue a reuerent care, of the du­tie and allegeaūce, that they owe to their Prince, and al the rest of hir maiestrates, that are put in authoritie vnder hir, that euery man may liue quietly in his vo­cation, hauing continually [Page 90] the feare of thee our heaū ­ly father, before their eyes, exercisinge honestly what lawfull trade so euer they professe, to thy glory, and the cōmoditie of y^e cōmmon welth. Geue them grace, moste heauenly Father, to knowe themselues, to sub­mitt themselues, to their superiors, to liue in perfect peace, & obedience to their elders, without enuy, strife, or debate, not stirrers vp of [Page 91] any ciuill dissentions, or cōmotions, nor presuming to presse, or clyme hygher then their degrée, but refra­ninge themselues from all maner crymes, she winge their good will and obediēce to their Prince, and Ma­iestrates, like seruantes to their maisters, or children to their parentes. That they may [...] altogether in the yoke of perfect vnitie and concorde, euery one to [Page 92] his power supplyinge hys neighboures necessitie, and cherefully impartinge hys portion, to him that wan­teth. Whereby wee shall haue a flowinge common welth, with aboundaunce of peace in our cities, with­out all maner of inconue­nience or misorder. Euery man studiously exercisinge his trade with thy feare be [...]ore our eyes. And our du­tie to our Prince and coun­try [Page 93] faythfully performed. Through Iesus Christ our Sauiour, Amen.

Looke downe, we beséeche thée, most mercifull Fa­ther, with the eyes of thy mercy, vpon thy poore con­gregation, militant here in [Page 94] earth, that being protected with the shielde of thy hea­uenly grace, we may be a­able to resist the terrible as­salts & inuasions of sathan, with Anti Christ his chiefe minister, which daily, and hourely, seke with stronge temptations, to seduce vs from the most comfortable meditation of thy heauenly worde, and promisses, and to eclipse the eyes of our hartes, wyth the obscure [Page 95] cloud of errour, and ignor­ance, whereby wee might be throwen into the bottō ­lesse lake, of euerlastinge death, and dānation. And had it not bene for thy di­uine prouidence, and pro­tection, (most mercyfull Father) the enemie had longe ag [...]ne deuoured vs, yea he had so wiped, and blowen vs away, y^e scarse any remembraunce of our beinge had remayned on y^e [Page 96] earth Wherefore sith it is thy good pleasure, that the name of Israell, should not be vtterly extinguished, geue vs grace, to [...] our steppes in the path of thy cōmaundemēts that all our deedes, wordes & thoughtes may tend to thy glory, and y^e commoditi [...] of the com­mon wealth. Endue, we be sech thee, the mynde of our soueragine Qu [...]ene, Eliza­beth, that aboue al thinges [Page 97] she may seke thy honor, and glory the maintainance of true religion, & the prospe­rous, and quiet state of her subiectes. Directe the myndes of her Maiesties Counsell, and y^e rest of the nobilitie, that they may al­wayes liue in thy feare, w^t [...]rue obedience to y^e prince, deuising suche lawes, and statutes, as may bee most auailable to the conseruati­on, and publike commodi­tie [Page 98] of the common welth. Inspire the mindes of such as thou hast called to be the ministers of thy word, w^c the spirite of truth, and vn­derstanding, that they may preach the pure doctrine, of thy heauenly word, reuoke­ing sinners into the way of repentaunce, and amende­ment of life, to embrace the sweete yoke of thy lawe, whereby their soules may be saued from euerlastinge [Page 99] [...]aln [...]ati [...]n. G [...]ue grace, most heauenly Father, to all the [...] of thys Realme, y^t aboue al [...] things they may la [...]our to followe thy commaundements, to liue in due obedience to their Prince, and Magie­str [...]tes, and to be ruled by the holsome and spirituall counsell of their p [...]stours. And [...] thy grace in generall (most mercyfull Father) to the whole body [Page 100] of the Realme, that altoge­ther, both the Prince, No­bilitie, Clargy, and [...] may chiefly [...] to abuāce thy Gospell, and secondly the happy and prosporous [...]ate of the cōmon wealth. Through Christ. &c.

ALmighty and most m [...]rcifull Father, which art the onely stay, and comfort [Page 101] of all them that are afflicted with the scourge of aduer­sitie: bowe down thy mer­cifull eare vnto the voyce of my lamentation, which am nothing else but a lumpe of sinne, euery houre decly­ninge from thy cōmaunde­ments, into the reprobate way of iniquitie, y^t I must néedes confesse, that myne owne merites, and deser­uinges, haue iustly procu­red this worthy plage, wherin [Page 102] like a vyle, and wretch­ed [...], I am entangled, But thou (O most mercy­full and louinge Father, y^u art alwaies ready to shewe mercy, to the repentant sin­ner, which hast promised to put all my offēces, and mis­deedes, out of thy remem­braunce, whensoeuer I re­pent, from the bottome of my hart: haue mercy vppō my miseries, and velease me of this aduersitie, which [Page 103] hath worthely chaunced, by reason of the innumerable multitude of my sinnes. And if it be thy good will, and pleasure to proue the more [...], with tem­tations, or any other kinde of afflection, that thou shalt lay on me, then vouchsafe, most mercifull Father, to arme mée wyth the spirite of [...] which [Page 104] it hath pleased thy diuine Maiestie to lay vpon me. that I murmure not at thy workes, neyther blaspheme thy name, when I am in miserie, but that I maye al­waies haue in mynde, that thou art a mercifull iudge, and a reuenger of iniqui­tie, to whome onely it bee­longeth, to throwe downe to hell, [...] to rayse vp to heauen again [...] where, with thy sonne Iesus Christ and [Page 105] the holy Ghost. &c.

O Lord Iesus Christ, y^e onely defence, and pyl­ler of our estate, the hope & confidence of all them, that sleepe in the vaile of this wicked worlde, which by the merites of thy most pretious death, & passion, didst ouercome death, and tri­umphest [Page 106] ouer the sting therof, in thy heauenly kinge­dome: geue strength, vnto vs feeble, and impotent sin­ners, against the r [...]aringe Lyon, whiche continually wandreth aboute séekynge whom he may deuoure, en­de [...]ouringe alwayes wyth subtill awaitinges & strong temtations, to withdrawe our myndes, from the faith which we haue in thee of e­uerlastinge lyfe, into a re­probate [Page 107] sence, to geue ourselues vp to the [...] lust [...] and affections of the fleshe, to vncleannes, Idolatriy, innumerable other like ab­hominatiōs, that are chiefe aduersaries and enemyes to the spirite of truthe and vnderstanding. Thou ther­fore that art the i [...]acu­late Lambe, y^e vanquisher of sinne, death, and hell, geue vnto vs thy little shéep the strength and vertue of [Page 108] thy spirit, that being in our owne selues weake, and fe­ble, and in thée, strong and valiant, we may be able to withstande and subdue all the assaults of the Deuill, y^t our ghostly enemie may not triumph ouer vs, but being cōquerors through thée, wée maye geue thankes to thy mercy, which neuer leaueth them destritute of suc­ [...]oure, whose onely confi­dence, and a [...]iance, is repo­sed [Page 109] in the sure defence, and sauegerde of thy mercy Thou knowest, O Lord, y^t we are but earth and ashes, subiect to corrupsion, & mor­talitie, the flesh euer rebel­linge against the spirite, whereby we are alwaies more prone, & apt to runne the carles race of ignorance and iniquitie, then to frame our steppes in the narowe and strayte path of vertue, and vnderstanding. Ther­fore, [Page 110] illuminate we besech thée, our blinde eyes, with y^e light of thy heauēly spirit, that abhoring y^e workes of darkenes, and preuaylinge against all temptations of the worlde, the flesh, and the Deuill, we may be wholie bent to serue thy diuine Ma­iestie, in truthe and vnder­standing, sauinge alwayes an assured hope of a glory­ous resurrectiō on thy right hand, wher we may be per­takers [Page 111] of that ioyfull sen­t [...]nce of life, whiche thou wilt pronounce to all them that shall inherite that hea­uenly kingdome, with thée, our onely redéemer, and Sauiour. To whom with the Father, and the holy Ghost. &c.

O Almighty Lord, & most [Page 112] mercifull Father, the foun­tayne, and welspring of all heauenly gifts, and graces, geue me wisdom to knowe what thy will and pleasure is: for I thy seruant and y^e sonne of thy hād mayde, am a féeble person, engendred, and created of the frayle substaunce of the flesh, en­uironed round about wyth the darke shadowe, & [...]ayle of ignoraunce, y^t by meanes thereof the beames of my [Page 113] mynde are so obscurely e­clipsed, that I cannot once looke vp vpon the brightnes of thy diuine Maiestie, nor excercyse my selfe at all in contemplation of the mis­teries of thy heauēly word, and promises, whereby I might saue my soule from hell. Inspire therfore (most mercifull Father) my dull and heauy mynde, with the light of the true wisdome, and not with worldly wit, [Page 114] and policy onely, which con­cerne humayne affayres, but with the true vnderstā ­ding of thy sacred scripturs wherein thou hast made a faithfull promise of eternal saluation, to all them that vnfaynedly beleue, that Ie­sus Christ, is the sonne of God, and the onely redée­mer of all mankinde. Thou knowest, O Lord, that my dull capacitie is farre to grosse, to attaine to y^e knowledge, [Page 115] and vnderstandinge of thy iudgemēts, [...] lawes▪ for I am but meere corrup­tion, and of a most frayle nature. And thou how can I that am but earthe, and ashes, cōceaue the meaning of thy diuine mistries? sure­ly, by no meanes, except y^e motion of thy spirite dire [...] myne vnconstant, and wa­uering mynde in the right way of truth, and vnderstā ­ding, whereby I may be al­wayes [Page 116] inflamed, to medi­tat [...] vpon thy promises, contained in thy holy Ghospell wherein thou hast promy­sed euerlastinge lyfe, to all those that with a stedfast fayth beleue, y^t by y^e meanes of Iesus Christ, his passiō, they haue obtayned frée re­mission, of their sinnes. To whom with y^e Father, and the holy Ghost, be all honour; and glory, now and euermore. Amen.

ALmighty, and most mercifull Father, which art the way, the truth, and life, deliuer me from the hands of them that imagine mis­chieffe, and thinke vpon de­ceyt all y^e daye longe, whose tongues are more sharp thē a two edged sworde, and y^e [Page 118] poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes. Beholde, most mercyfull Father, from thy heauenly throne, thy vine­yard which the Boare roo­teth vp, and neuer suffreth y^e tender branches to spring aboue the ground, but as fast as they bud fourth, he spoiles them, not suffer­inge the same to attayne to their full maturitie, & per­fect ripenes. Aryse O Lord and reuenge thyne owne [Page 119] cause, how long shall thy Ielozy sléepe, for euer? O re­member the afflictions of thy seruantes, that are op­pressed with the tyranny of Pharao, and ouerladen with the intollerable burthen of the Egiptian taskes. Thou séest our misery, and thral­dome, and how we are eue­ry day, in daunger to be [...] of the enemy. And for thy sake onely, doe we suffer reproch al y^e day long. [Page 120] A ryse therefore O Lorde, like a mighty man of warr and as a stout gyant refre­shed with wine. Looke downe, and behould, howe thy stocke is scattered abroade, by meanes of the outragiousnes of the wolf, who continually séeketh to roote out, and vtterly to ex­tingush the name of Israell. Take Armes in hand, and strike in thyn [...] owne cause, and confounde thyne ene­myes, [Page 121] wyth the fire of thy heauy displeasure. So shall thy poore dispersed [...]locke, b [...] reduc [...] againe at last into one fould, and [...] con­tinuall prayses to thee, the author of our libertie, and our auenger. To whome with the Sonne and the ho­ly Ghost, be all honor and glory. &c.

[Page 122] VVE render vnto thée, (most merciful father) immortall thankes, for the manifould & dayly benefits, which thou of thy mercie, without any desert of ours, hast most aboūdantly pou­red vpon vs, since the time it pleased thée to inspire in­to vs the breath of lyfe, fra­minge our corrupt bodyes in forme of thine own like­nes, placing vs in thy plea­sant Paradise, there to re­mayne [Page 123] in most happy and fortunate estate, if through the subtill allurementes of Sathan, our ghostly enimie we had not transgressed thy commaundements. We thanke thée, also, most mer­cyfull Father, for that whē we were condemned by our owne transgression, in our great Grandfather Adam, thou of thy Fatherly loue, and naturall compassion, y^t thou haddest on mankinde, [Page 124] didest send down, thy onely begottē Sonne Iesus Christ to take our corrupt Nature vpon hym, and to humble himselfe to the shamefull death, of the Crosse, thereby to redeme vs wretched sin­ners, from the bondage of hell, whether for our diso­bedience, we were iustly condemned: and to pay the raunsome of our offences, whereby thy wrathe: that was worthyly inflamed a­gainst [Page 125] vs, might be appeas­ed, and we lost sheepe at last recōcyled to thee our pitifull pastoure, & most mercifull Father. We yeld thée also immortall thankes, moste mercifull Father, for that it hathe pleased thee to re­ueale thy holy Gospell vnto vs, by thy Sonne Iesus Christ, whereby we might obtaine remission of our sinnes, and through faythe, might haue a sure confidēce [Page 126] that by the merites of Iesus Christ hys passion, we are deliuered from the intole­rable cursse of the lawe, and are made partakers of that heauenly kingdome, prepa­red for vs since the founda­tion of the world. For these thy most bountifull gyftes, and all other thy benefites, dayly and hourely powred vpon vs, we hartely thanke thée, most louing and mer­cifull Father. Beseching [Page 127] thée that thou wilt geue vs grace, through the operatiō of thy heauenly spirit in our myndes, so to order our life, and conuersation, that wee walke in true holines, and sincerity of hart, behauing our selues so circumspectly in this wretched world, that at the last day, we may bée found faltles, and be recea­ued into the number of thē, to whome this ioyfull sen­tence shalbe pronounced: [Page 128] Come ye blessed of my Fa­ther, possesse y^e kingedome, whiche was prepared for you, from the beginning of y^e worlde. To which king­dome, we besech thée, most mercyfull Father, for the merites of thine onely sōne our Sauiour Iesus Christ, to bring vs speedely out of this vale of misery, and so­rowe: where with the soci­etie of y^e elect, we may singe prayses to thée our moste [Page 129] mercyfull Father, worlde without ende: To whome w^t thy Sonne Iesus Christ, our Sauiour, and the holy Ghost, three in vnitie, and one in trinitie bee all ho­nour, glory, power, domi­nion and might, from thys time fourth for euermore.

O Almighty, and moste [Page 130] mercifull God, the Father, eternall, which haste bene from the beginninge, and so shalt remayne world w^t out end: Thou that createst all liuing creatures, and last of all man, breathinge the breath of lyfe into them, by a naturall instinct, and dis­position, euery thinge to fo­lowe his owne kind, sauing man only aboue al the rest, whome thou hadest formed after thine own image, and [Page 131] indude hym wyth reason, more then naturall, wherby hée might discerne the good from the euill, and learne to eschewe suche thinges as might be hurtfull vnto him: Euen he I say aboue all the rest, transgressed the com­maundementes of thy Ma­iestie, inclining to his owne lustes and affections, with­out any regarde or fe [...]e of thée, his onely Lorde & ma­ker. Whereby hee was ex­pelled [Page 132] out of the garden of Eden, that place of pleasure where once thou hadest pla­ced him. But (Oh) what thankes shall we yeld vnto thée, (most mercifull and lo­uynge Father, that did [...]est vouchsafe, of thy méere mercy, and Fatherly loue, toward vs, to sende downe thyne onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ, to be our re­deem [...]r, and Sauiour, to de­liuer vs out of the mouth of [Page 133] hell, whither our owne de­serts had worthely condem­ned vs? we will singe a Psalme of thankes geuing, and worship toward thy ho­ly temple. For what other reward are we able to geue vnto thée, that maye in any respect worthely counter vaile the least sparke of thy Fatherly pyttie, and kinde­nes? surely none. For of our owne selues, we are not able so much as to thinke a [Page 134] good thought, wythout the motion of thy spirit, much lesse to doe any suche good déede, y^t might be aunswer­able to the innumerable multitude of thy benefites alwayes bes [...]owed vpon vs Accept therefore, (most mercifull Father,) our sacrifice of thankes geuing, & bowe downeth neeare to our hū ­ble petit [...]ons that procedeth from vn [...]yned lippes. And sith it hath pleased thy di­uine [Page 135] Maiestie, to giue vp thy onely begotten Sonne Iesus Christ, to the deathe of the Crosse, for our redēp­tion, vouchsafe, O Lord, so to direct our myndes, in the way of thy cōmaundemēts that we may partly seeme worthy of the inestimable price of so great a benefite, as the raunsome of our ini­quitie hath cost: and kepe y^e eyes of our mynds alwaies waking, that we fall not a [Page 136] sléepe in sinne, as they doe, which haue no hope of resurrection from the dead. En­gender in our hartes the true zeale of thin vndefiled word, and religion, that we maye bee alwaeis medita­tinge vpon thy promises, & not founde idle, nor vnpro­uided when the good man of the house shall come: but y^t we may be found wakinge in thée, with plenty of oyle in our lampes, as the fyue [Page 137] wise Uirgins had▪ O drawe vs neere vnto thee, by the o­peration of thy heauenly grace, & heare our prayers, forgeue vs our offences, cō ­fort vs in our afflic [...]tions, & forgeue our enemies, as we hope to haue forgeuenes of all our sinns at thy hāds, by the meri [...]es of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, let not myne enemies triumph ouer me, nor y^e roaring Lyon deuour me, but protect me alwayes [Page 138] most mercifull Father, vn­der y^e shadow of thy winges that I may strongly & con­stantly withstand his inua­sions, by y^e vndoubted hope, and confidence that I haue reposed in thy mercy: And graunt that I maye die in thy true fayth, and rest with thee, in thy euerlasting kingdome. To whome with thy Sonne Iesus Christ, and y^e holy Ghoste: be all honour and glory for euer & euer.

O Most mercifull Iesu, and onely Sauiour of all mā ­kynde, whose loue to vs all was so pure, and vnfayned, that thou didest not denie to take our flesh vpon thee, and to submit thy selfe to the death, in offeringe vp thyne owne bodey, as a swéete smelling sacrifize to appease [Page 140] the indignatiō of thy father, who was worthyly inflam­ed for the transgression, and breach of his holy cōmaun­dements. O swéete Iesu, the onely author of our sal­uation, our most louing me­diatour to thy Father, haue mercy vpon me, and cast me not away whome thou with thy pressious bloud haste [...]edéemed: O reiect me not, for I am the price of thy pas­sion, thou with the effusion [Page 141] of thy most pretiou [...] bloud, halfe payd the raunsome of mine iniquitie, and made a full a [...]d perfect satisfaction for my offences. O then looke downe vpon my mise­ries, consider my distresse: Behold the hell that tormē ­teth my conscience, as ofte as I call to remembrance, my lyfe so wickedly past, and the innumerable mul­titude of my sinnes, which are moe in number thē the [Page 142] heares of my head, or the sandes of the Sea. Geue me grace, to repent my wicked lyfe, with Mary Magdelen, and to wash thy feete wyth the moysture of my teares and lamentation. Geue me grace, to be sory for my sins and to wéepe with Peter, & to crye with the thefe, that hanged on the right side, at y^e time of thy passion. Lorde remember me when thou cōmest into thy kingedome. [Page 143] O geue me grace to call my selfe to remembraunce, to examine mine owne consci­ence, to recount the number of my sinnes, and to cast my selfe flat prostrate at y^e féete of thy mercy, bewayllinge my sinfull lyfe, with many a riuer of teares, to acknow­ledge mine own wickednes vnto thée, to craue remissiō of my faultes, and by the continuall teares of repen­taunce, to recouer thy fa­uour [Page 144] againe, and to die ther in. Geue me grace to leade a new lyfe, to put of the person of Adam, and to bée regenarate and new borne in thée, my Lord and Saui­our. Geue me grace, swéet Iesu to cry Peccaui with Da­uid, and vnfaynedly to la­ment my sinnes. Geue me grace swéet Iesu to returne againe with the prodigall or lost Sonne, and to crye: Fa­ther, I haue sinned agaynst [Page 145] heauen and against thée and I am no more worthy to be called thy Sonne: make me as one of thy hyred seruāts, O swéete Iesu haue mercy vpō me, and forgeue me my sinnes, renew a right spirit within me, wash me wyth Isope, and I shalbe made whyter then Snowe: for vnto thée belongeth mercy, and with thée is plentifull redemption. O thinke not vpon y^e offences of my youth [Page 146] wherein I haue raunged to much at randon, lyke an vnbrideled coult, neglecting the way of vnderstandinge and loathing the path of thy cōmaundemēts. I acknow­ledge fréely, y^t if thou shold­est deale with me according to iustice, I haue deserued euerlasting death, neyther should I be able to abide thy sharpe iudgemēt, but should sinke downe into the bottō ­les dungeō of eternall dam­nation. [Page 147] But hauinge a sure and certayue confidence, fix­ed on the ancer, or hould, of immoueable fayth, I vn­doubtedly beléeue, that by thy merites, I am made partaker of euerlasting lyfe, be­ing fréely iustified, with ab­solute remision of all my sinnes, synce the first houre of my Natiuitie. Which fayth, I ground neyther on the merites of any mortall man, neyther vpon any Ro­mish [Page 148] Pardons, or Indulgences, but onely vpō thée, my Lord and Sauiour, who with thy most precious blodsheding, hast payde the price of my iniquitie, and suffered thy glorious body to be mangled and torne for my transgression. Geue me grace, swéete Iesu, so to order the reste of my lyfe, as becōmeth a true Christian to doe, walkyng in the light of thy holy Gos­pell, & eschewing y^e workes [Page 149] of darkenes, behauinge my selfe obediently to my supe­riors, louingely to my fe­lowes, and conrtiousely to myne inferiors, bearinge no grudge in my consciēce, offering wronge to no man, but paciently to sufier iniu­ries without desire of re­uenge: forgeueinge euery man, whatsoeuer hée hathe donne against me, as I my selfe would desire to be for­geuen of thée my swéet Sa­uiour, [Page 150] and onely redéemer. Geue me grace swéete Iesu to perseuer in my faith till y^e end, that all myne actions may be donne in the name of Iesu, and all my thoughts vpon Iesu, both at my down lying, and vp rysinge, all the terme of my lyfe, and at the very instant of death, when I fetche the laste gaspe, my mynd may be withdrawen with no idle or phantastical cogitations, but continually [Page 151] excercised in the meditation of the sweete and comforta­ble name of Iesu, Iesu. Iesu. To thee, swéete Iesu, with y^e Father, and the holy Ghost, be all honor and glory for e­uermore. Amen.

O Holy, and blessed spirite, which being true, & euer lastinge God, wyth God the [Page 152] Father, and God the Sonne, procéedest from thē both co­equall in deytie and dignitie of person, which art the one­ly comforter of them y^t tra­uayle in this earthly Pil­grimage, and by thy heauen­ly wisdome directest them y^t right way, to attaine to hea­uenly vnderstandinge of the will of God. Quicken, most holy sprite, by thy heauenly breath, the myndes of them y^t afore were dead through [Page 153] sinne, make mery the hartes of y^t faythfull penitēt bringe into the way of truth all such as haue erred, and wandred astray in the vale of erroure and ignoraunce, comfort the soules of all them that hunger & thurst, after righte­ousenesse, and suffer perse­cution for the Testimony of the Gospell, inrich thē plen­tiousely with heauenly gyfts which praye vnto thée in the name of Iesus Christ, our [Page 154] onely mediatour, & redemer. Purifie our hartes, we be­sech thée, with the fire of thy loue, that all y^t course of our frayle and mortall life, may be directed by thy heauenly motion, as with an infallible rule and compas, that cānot lightly erre. Mortifie in vs all worldly care, carnall lustes, concupiscence, coue­tousenes, wrath, gluttony, pryde, and all other sinfull inclinations, that may wyth­drawe [Page 155] vs from the contem­plation of thy glorious deitie. Renue our spirites wythin vs, that we may seeme rege­nerate, or new borne as in­fantes, and illuminate our myndes, wyth thy heauenly benefites, and spirituall gifts that our bodies may be made thy temples, wythout spot, or blemishe, at that dreadfull daye when euery man must yeld account of the workes of his body. Leade vs into the [Page 156] way of truth, and suffer vs not to be caried away, wyth diuers and straunge doctrin, but alwayes to remayne in that doctrine whereof thou art the author: and vouchsafe to strenghten our myndes in the same, that if an Angell of heauen should teache any o­ther doctrine, then that which thou hast already taught, we may not beleue him, but whosoeuer preacheth any doctrin contrary to that we haue re­ceaued, [Page 157] we may houlde him accursed. Strengthen our soules, against all assaltes, of our ghostely enemy Sathan, and his cheife minister, Anti-christ, y^t séeketh by all meanes possible, to remoue the foun­dations of our fayth, and to pull the word of truth out of our hartes and to throwe vs, headlonge, into the dungeon of erroure, and ignoraunce. Strength vs against y^e vaine allurementes of the wicked [Page 158] woeld, and against all vncleā lustes of the fleshe, that wée beinge replenished wyth thy holy breath, may bée founde pure and sanctified in thée and doe those thinges onely that may be acceptable in thy sight. To whome, with the Father, the Sonne and the holy Ghost: be all honor and glory, now & for euer Amen.

[Page 159] O Most glorious, & blessed Trinitie, the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghoste, thrée persones, and one God, omnipotent, and euerlasting without, beginninge, or en­ding, whome we doe confesse to be one in trinitie, & thrée in vnitie, haue mercy vpon me, saue me, and defend me, from all myne enemies both bodely, and ghostly, & by thy mercifull goodnes, and clea­mency, [Page 160] vouchsafe so to direct my mynde, in the way of thy commaundementes, that all my doinges may be accepta­ble before thee, which art the God of my strength and my saluation. I beseche thée also, moste blessed and gloryous trinitie, that those s [...]arkes of fayth, that by thy heauenlie grace are already planted in my hart, may by the operati­on of thy diuine breth with­in me, euery daye more and [Page 161] more enflame, & by contiuall meditation of thy holy scrip­tures, increase mightily within me, to the suppression of vice, and aduauncement of vertue: wherby I may walke worthy of that profession, wherevnto thou haste called me: walking in the same, w^t true zeale, and simplicitie of hart, all the dayes of my life. I besech thée also, (most bles­sed Trinitie,) that thou of thy accustomed mercy, and loue, [Page 162] wilt make perfect in me, that good worke, which thou haste begonne, and leade me in all truth, and godlynes, hauing my mynde alwaies fixte vpō thée, my moste louinge and mercyfull Father, cause me alwaies to thinke, and speake and to doe those thinges, that may he acceptable to thée, & restrayne my tonge, from all idell and vnhonest talke, be­cause, that at y^t dreadfull daye of iudgement, I am to render [Page 163] an accompte, of euery idell word, that I haue spoken du­ring the terme of my former lyfe. Kepe my hart, and body, my sences, my doinges, my talke, and communication in thy holy lawes, & in y^e workes of thy cōmaundements. Geue me grace, to leade an vpright lyfe, wythout [...]ffence to my brethren, obedient to myne elders, louing to all sortes, & degrées, enuious to no man, but framing my lyfe vpright­ly [Page 164] and innoc [...]ntly my conuer­sation orderly, & honestly, my doinges circumspectly, & ver­tuously, hauing thy feare be­fore myne eyes, in all my thoughtes, deedes, and words, when Ilie downe, and when I ryse vp, at my last [...]nd, and euer more Amen,

O Swéet Iesu, the Sonne of [Page 165] the euerliuing God, y^u gauest thy body, to be cruelly tormen­ted, to the death, to deliuer and redeme me most miserable & wretched sinner, y^t by y^e lawe was dead in iniquitie, & sub­iecte to the misery of eternall damnation: haue mercy vpō me, poore miserable wretch, whome the multitud of myne offences doeth, so terrifie, and driue into such méere despera­tion, that I dare not once looke vp vpon the brightnes of thy [Page 166] glory, nor presume to present my selfe before thy deuine Maiestie, in hope to obtayne remission of my sinnes, but de­pending onely vpō a sure faith in thee, my Lord and Sauiour by whose death and passion, I am assuredly informed by faith, that I am fréely iustified, with absolute remission of all myne offences. Wherefore I most humbly appeale vnto thy Throne of mercy, crying with the Publicanne, Lorde haue [Page 167] mercy vpō me, thy mercy par­don my faltes, bynde vp my woundes, and poure in thy sweet oyle, like a good Sama­ritan, whereby I may be puri­fied, and purged, from those naughty tares of sinne, which haue plowed me, euen as a sha­dowe, foloweth the body, from the verye instant of my Nati­uitie. I come as an abiecte wretch, and reprobate to thée y^t art the mediator and interces­sor, to reconcile me, to thy Fa­ther, [Page 168] (from whose sauoure I fell for transgression of his cō ­maundement, in my greate Grandfather Adam:) moste humbly desiring thee, to heale myne infirmitie, and sickenes to washe away my sinne, and filthynes, to illuminate my blyndenes, to conduct me to the right way, that nowe wander in the wide dessert of error, to comfort mee, destitute of all helpe and goodnes. I confesse most swéete Sauiour, that I [Page 169] am but earth and ashes, a con­fused Chaos, and lumpe of sinne and of my selfe not worthy to loke vp toward heauen, much lesse to presume vnto thy holy table, to the communication of that most blessed Sacrement of thy body, whereof whosoe­uer eateth worthylie, with a stedfast and inmoueable fayth in thee, hath euerlasting lyfe: but whosoeuer eateth thereof vnworthily, (as Iudas dyd,) eateth his owne dampnation, [Page 170] Therefore although I come lyke an vncleane sinner, be­ [...] polluted both in body & [...], yet reposinge my whole fayth, and confidence in the merites of thy passiō I haue presumed to come to thy table, to be made parta­ker of that vnspeakeable be­n [...]te of thy death, feedinge outwardly vpon materyall bread, but inwardly by faith vpon thy blessed bodye: the bread representing a perfect [Page 171] figure and remembraunce, of thy bodie, and the wyne, of thy bloud, whiche was shed vpon the Crosse for my redemptiō. Geue me grace sweete Iesu, to confesse my sinnes wyth the Publicane, and to crye, Lord be merci­full to me a sinner: and y^t with Mary Magdeline, I may washe thy feete with y^e teares of repentaunce, geue me grace, to reconcile my selfe to my brother, while he [Page 172] is in the waye, to examyne mine owne consience, and if in ought I haue offended a­ny man, first of all to desire forgeuenesse at the hands of thy deuine Maiestie, and next of him whome I haue trespassed: I my selfe to for­geue all men, whatsoeuer they haue done, said, or ima­gined agaynst mée, euen as I hope to haue remission at thy Fathers handes, of all myne offences, by the me­rites [Page 173] of thy pretious deathe and passion. Geue me grace to serch my conscience so narowly, that if any one s [...]r [...]ple doe stycke in my mynde, I may humbly con­fesse it, before the feete of thy mercy, crauing pardon ther­of, with grace necessary to leaue a newe lyfe. That with a p [...]e hart, and cleare cōscience, confessing my sins from y^e bottome of my hart, I maye this daye, receaue y^e [Page 174] Sacrament of thy precious body and bloud, to my soules health, that thou from hence­forth mayst dwell in me, & I in thee for euer, whereby I may obtayne, and attaine to that longe desired marke, whereto the race of all true Christians tendeth, that is euerlasting lyfe, in that hea­uenly Ierusalem, where all the elect Saintes shall liue for euermore, worlde wythout end. In the meane sp [...]ce, vn­till [Page 175] it shall seeme good to thy Ma [...]estie, to abridge y^e course of my dayes in this lyfe, I humbly desire thée, (moste sweete Sauiour,) to admit me to the cōmunion of thy Supper, that I may be wor­thy to be accompted a mem­ber of thy mysticall bodie here in earth, among y^e number of thy chosen Sayntes, in thy congregation. And af­ter the receit of thy body, & bloud, vouchsafe I bes [...]che [Page 176] thée, to illuminate the eyes of my hart with the light of thy heauenly spirit, that Sa­thā enter not into me, as he did into Iudas, but graunt that the rest of my lyfe may be so ordred, that sinne may be subdued in me, thy glory aduaunced, thy faith embra­ced, and thy holy commaun­dementes studiously follo­wed, through the merites of thy passion. Amen.

I Render moste hartie and infinite thankes, vnto thée, swéete Iesu, for thyne vn­speakable goodnesse, because thou hast fed me this day w^t thy most pretious bodie, and bloude, in the S [...]crament, wherby I am iustified by an inmoueable and constante [Page 178] fayth in thy grace and pas­sion, being made an vndefi­led member of thy church. A Temple for the holy Ghost, and a fellow heire or parta­ker in thy glorious king­dome, in the bosome of A­braham, where the spirites of the elect shall rest for e­uermore. Graunt therfore sweet Iesu, that this Sacra­mēt which I haue receaued, may through the operation of the holy Ghost, be to mee [Page 179] a purgation, and clensing of all my sinnes, a spirituall strēgthe agaynst my bo [...]ly frailtie, a preparature, and preseruature against y^e tēp­tatyons of Sathan, a bridle, & mean of restraint against y^e vntamed lusts of the flesh a defence against worldly troubles and aduersitie, and finally a perfect medicine of lyfe, and a continuall re­membraunc [...] of thy blessed passion: by meanes wherof [Page 180] I stande in assured hope of eternall saluation, with frée iustification, and remission of all my sinnes. So that it may conduct and guyde me in the way, and when I am out of the way, it maye re­duce me, whē I slide it may vpholde me, when I fall it may rayse me vp agayne: when I liue, it maye bée a salue to my soule: when I am weake it maye strēgthē and confirme: when I am [Page 181] in darkenes, it may illumi­nate me, wyth the light of true fayth, and vnderstan­ding. Let y^e receauing there­of excuse so effectuall an o­peration in my hart, that I neuer ioye in other comfort but in thée, that I neuer féele other sweetenes but thee, y^t I neuer seke other place of refuge but thée, y^t my mynd be enamoured vpō no other louer but thée, that I séeke for no other succoure but at [Page 182] thée, & thát I trust in none o­ther but in thée, myne onely Lorde and redemer, who didest not denie, to haue thy moste pretious body scour­ged, and mangled, and thy bloud to be shed most aboundantly, for my sake: where­by I might be brought from errour, to trueth, from igno­raunce, to vnderstāding frō darkenes, to light, from va­nitie, to veritie, from mor­talitie, to immortallitie, [...]rō [Page 183] corruption to incorruption, from damnatiō to iustifica­tion, from eternall death, to the incōprehensible ioyes of eternall ly [...]e and saluation▪ To thee swéete Iesus, wyth the Father, & the holy Ghost be all honour, & glory from thys tyme forthe for euer more, worlde without ende. Amen.

[Page 184] O Almighty Lord, & most mercifall father, y^e wach­man of them that sleepe, the Physicion of them that are diseased, the comfort of thē that are afflicted, the garder and protector of them that are in any daunger, or ad­uersity, vouchsafe, I besech thée, to sende downe thyne heauenly Aungell, to be my guide, conductor, and leader, [Page 185] in the waye where I walke that by thy gracious protec­tion, I may be defended frō all myne enemies, bothe Ghostly and bodily, & from all perills, or daungers, y^t by any extraordinary meanes may be fall me, if I be alone without company, kepe my mynde free, from all maner idle phantasies, and fonde cogitatio [...]s, that may with­drawe me from the medita­tion of thy heauenly word, [Page 186] and let al my thoughts con­sist in the contemplation of thy comfortable promises, and cōmaundementes. And if it so chaunce that I tra­uayle in the companie of o­thers, I beseche thee, so to di­rect my tonge, that no word of ribaldrie, or vnhonest talke proceede out of my mouth, but that al my com­munications, thoughts, and déedes, may tend to the ad­uauncement of thy glorie, [Page 187] and to the edification both of me, and all els that shall heare it. Send downe, most heauenly Father, thy mes­senger to conduct me, as thou dydst yong Iobias in his iourney to Rages, whiche moste mercifully defended him from the iawes of the monstrous Fishe, and from the power of the euil spirit. Thou hast promised, that thou wylt at all tymes be readie both to heare their [Page 188] prayers, and minister pre­sent helpe to all them, that vnfaignedly call vppon thy name: encline therefore thine eare vnto me, moste mercifull Father, whiche powre foorth my prayers, before y^e throne of thy mer­cie, and vouchsafe to garde me vnder the shadow of thy winges, that I may safely trauaile in trade of my vo­cation, without daunger of anye ghostly enimie, that [Page 189] may hurt the soule, or anye other humaine chaunce, or casualtie, that may annoye the body. Direct, most mer­cyfull Father, the proc [...]se of my businesse to a happie and prosperous ende, & that I may returne with as good and perfect helth, both of bo­die and soule, as I take my iourney: so will I prayse thée, in the congregation of y^e righteous, with a Psalme of thankes geuing to thy [Page 190] name, for euer and euer. A­men.

O Almightie Lorde, and most mercifull Father, maker of al thinges, who by thine insearcheable wyse­dome dyddest create that mightie globe of the world, the heauens, earth, sea, and all things els therin contey­ned: [Page 191] vouchsafe I beseeche thée to be mine aide, and de­fence, in this daungerous viage, whiche I haue presu­med to take, reposing mine only trust and confidence in thy mercie, to be deliuered and preserued from all ma­ner daungers, and ieopar­dies, that may happē either vpon the sea or on the drye lande. Thou knowest most mercifull Father, that all those that trauayle by sea, [Page 192] are subiect to the hazarde of diuers calamities, eyther to be tossed at the pleasure of the winde and waues, ei­ther to be dashed violently vpon the mayne rockes, or to sticke in y^e quicke sandes, or to be dispoyled both of lyfe, and goodes, by the ty­rannie of Pyrates. But yet what crosse or affliction so euer happen vnto me, I muste acknowledge fréely, y^t it is but a iust punishmēt [Page 193] for mine offences, because from the firste house of my natiuitie, I haue been more apt and prone, to folowe the filthy app [...]tite of mine own desires, then to exercise myself in the tr [...]e way of thine vndefiled lawe. Notwith­standing, what crosse soeuer thou shalt thinke good to lay vpon me, yea, although I were deuoured of y^e waues, and swallowed downe into the deapth of the Whales [Page 194] bellie, yet wil I not dispaire of thy mercie, for thou art the same God for euer, thy right hand is not shortned, neyther is the greatnesse of thy power diminyshedde, Whē [...]onas lay thrée dayes and thrée nyghtes in the Whales bellie, yet diddest thou at last deliuer him safe and sounde, and sent him to preach thy name to y^e great citie of Niniue. Thou art yet the same God, thou wast at [Page 195] y^e time, neither is thy power abridged at all. Although I were neuer so shaken with wyndes, turmoyled with tempestes, tossed with the waues, yea although I were vtterlye deuoured of the Whale, yet art thou able to deliuer me from all these daungers, yea, from the ve­ry iawes of death. To thée therfore do I make my sup­plicatiōs, to thée do I powre foorth my prayers, for thou [Page 196] onely art the castle of my comfort, my bulwarke, my watchman, my keeper, my defender, the sure rocke and hope of my saluation. To [...]hee only it belongeth to di­rect my course safelye into the hauē, to protect and saue me frō the crueltie of y^e wa­ter, to leade me forth, to brīg me in, to be my onely stay & defence, whether I sléepe or wake, liue or die, sincke or swim, vpon the waters, as [Page 197] wel as vpō the land, & brief­ly in all places, & in al times and seasons. Thou knowest (most merciful father) that this trade is not of my de­uising, nor yet procéeding of any humaine inuention: but thou of thy mere mercy, didst reueale the mysterie therof to thy seruaunt Noe, in commaundyng hym to frame an Arke, that myght fléete vpon the floods, wher­in he and his familie onely [Page 198] were saued, when all the worlde els, for the greatnes of iniquitie perished altoge­ther, and were vtterly con­founded in the waters. Graunt therfore most mer­cyfull Father, that this vo­yage, whiche I haue presu­med to take onely vppon a sure fayth, & affiaunce in thy mercy, may turne me to no damage, or misfortune, but that I may be safely conduc­ted, both foorth and home a­gayne, [Page 199] by thy merciful pro­tection, and assistance. So wyl I yéelde thee immortal prayses, for thy fatherly be­nefites, and my tongue shal recorde the workes of thy glory, for euer & euer. Yet, (Father) not my wyll, but thy wyll be fulfilled. To thée with thy sonne Iesus Christ, and the holy Ghoste, thrée persons and one God, be all honour and glory, for euermore. Amen.

I Render vnto thée immor­tall thankes, most mercy­full Father, for the swéete sléepe, and comfortable rest that thou of thy mercy hast geuen me this night to re­create my wery limmes of the continuall labours, and trauayles, whiche I was borne to susteyne. And for [Page 201] as muche, as thou hast com­maunded me by thy holye worde, to redeeme the time, and alwayes to be exercised in some good worke, and ne­uer to spende the tyme in idlenesse, I most humbly be­seche thee, that thou wylt vouchsafe to looke vpon me, with the eyes of thy mercy, and by the illumination and inspiration of thy heauenly spirite, so to direct all my counsayles, laboures, and [Page 202] studies, that beyng repleni­shed with thy grace, I may so spende this day according to thy most blessed wyl and ordinaunce, that I may cir­cumspectly shunne, and es­chewe all suche wayes as may prouoke, or kyndle thy displeasure agaynst me, or that in anye respect, maye tende to my neyghboures dāmage. Geue me grace, to remoue the vayle of vanitie out of my hart, that I maye [Page 203] alwayes haue thy feare be­fore myne eyes, lyuing ho­nestly, and vprightly in my callyng, aboundyng in all maner good workes, proce­ding from a sounde and vn­corrupt fayth, that my con­uersation maye be founde pure before thée, without ei­ther spot or blemishe, my li­uing maye be temperate, & modest, with mediocritie, a [...]d not sauouring of anye incontinencie, or immode­rate [Page 204] superfluitie: whereby all my doinges maye be ac­ceptable before thy diuine maiestie, to the prayse and glorye of thy moste blessed name. Styrre vp my mind continually, to haue thy pro­mises, and benefites in re­membraunce, that all my thoughtes, and cogitations, may be exercised in the con­syderation of them, and not fallyng backewarde to my wonted iniquitie, as the [Page 205] dogge vseth to returne a­gaine to his vomite, or the sowe that hath bene cleane washed to wallowe agayne in the myre. Geue me con­tinuall quietnesse of minde, without anye vexation or sting of conscience, that I maye haue some taste, and féeling of thy euerlasting ioyes, that these dregges, & chaffe of the worlde maye séeme lothsome, and fylthy vnto me, in comparison of [Page 206] those heauenlye pleasures, that are prepared for the e­lect since the foundation of the worlde. To which ioyes we besech thée (most mercy­full father) to bryng vs, for Iesus Christe his sake: To whom, &c.

ALmyghtie & moste mer­cyful Father, whiche at [Page 207] the creatour of all thynges, diddest by thy heauēly wis­dome ordayne the daye for man to trauayle in, and to exercise him selfe in the la­boures parteyning to the trade of his vocation: and the night for vs to re [...] from our dayly laboures, and to refreshe our fraile bodyes, with some sweete and na­turall sleepe, whereby we myght be y^e better enabled, euery man to laboure in his [Page 208] calling, and profession ac­cording to thy holy wil, and commaundements: Uouch­safe we beseeche thée (moste merciful father) that we thy poore pylgrimes, that dayly trauayle in runnyng this our earthly race, in hope to winne the crowne of euer­lasting glorie, by y^e merites of Christe Iesus, may enioy continuall health of body, & soule this night & euer, and that we maye be preserued [Page 209] from al temptations of Sa­than, who is euer redy, whē we be idle, to seduce vs frō thée our Sauiour, into the broade way of euerlastyng death and damna [...]ion. And whēsoeuer our bodies take their naturall rest, yet our myndes maye be alwayes bent and fixed vpon thée, the eyes of our vnderstanding, may alwaies watch in thee, that art our onely Lord and moste mercyfull defender. [Page 210] Geue vs grace, whensoeuer we lye downe, euery nyght to examine our conscience, and enter into accompte of those déedes, whiche we haue done the daye before, and all the rest of our lyfe tyme. And if we finde, that we haue done any good déed, geue vs grace to ascribe the same to thée, that art the on­ly fountayne and author of al goodnesse, and to acknow­ledge fréely our own [...] im­perfection, [Page 211] howe that of our selues, we are not able to thinke so muche as one good thought, muche lesse to do a­ny good or godly action, that shoulde seeme to procéede of our owne forwardnesse, or aptnesse thereunto: for we are nothing els but sinne & corruption: and then howe shoulde an euyll trée bring foorth good fruite? Agayne, if we finde that we haue sin­ned agaynst thée, eyther in [Page 212] thought, word, or deede, (as we do seuentie tymes seuen tymes euery day:) geue vs grace, most merciful father, to acknowledge if before thy diuine maiestie, & with the teares of earnest & vn­faigned repentance, to craue thy mercy with forgeuenes both of that, and all other crimes and offences, which we haue cōmitted againste thée since the tyme of our byrth. Or els if we finde [Page 213] that we haue by any mea­nes endāmaged our neygh­bour, geue vs grace to recō ­cile our selues, and to cleare our conscience, before we lye downe, wherby we may sléepe both swéetly, & sound­ly, in Christ Iesus, without any idle cogitatiōs, or phan­tasticall dreames, that may disturbe our myndes from the meditatiō of thy word: and yf we dreame at all, let vs dreame of thée our mer­cyfull [Page 214] Father: and such god­ly lessons and precepts that we haue séene sléeping, to folow & prosecute the same actually, waking. Through Iesus Christe our only me­mediatour and sauiour. A­men.

I Render vnto thée, (moste mercyfull father) immor­tall [Page 215] thankes for that thou of thy mere mercye and Fa­therly bountie hast graun­ted this night past to be pro­sperous and healthfull vnto me, without any perturba­tion eyther of body or soule. And because thou hast pro­mised by the mouth of thy holye prophetes, that thou wylt heare my voyce, wh̄ ­soeuer I call vppon thée by faith with humble supplica­tions, and repentance of my [Page 216] sinnes: I beseche thée lyke­wise, that thou wylt so pro­sper all myne actions, and indeuours this present day, that al thinges that I do say or thinke, may redeunde to thy glorie, to the commodi­tie of my neighbour, & to the dammage of no man what­soeuer, neyther in thought, worde, nor déede: but that all my doinges maye be di­rected by thy gouernance, to eschewe sinne, to doe that is [Page 217] righteous in thy sight, & at all tymes, in all places, and in al respectes, to haue a re­uerent feare of thée before mine eies, to walke circumspectly and so vprightly in my vocation, to put of the person of Adam, and to put on the newe man, to order my conuersation agreable to thy wyll, to serue thée in spirite and trueth, with the sacrifice of thankes geuing, and contritiō of hart, to lay [Page 218] sure holde on the anker of fayth, with an vndoubted, and stedfast hope of resur­rection to eternall life. Illu­m [...]na [...]e myne eyes moste mercyfull Father, with the beames of thy heauenly spi­rite, that I walke not in darknesse, as the children of vnbeliefe do, which haue no hope to arise from the dead. Geue me grace to abandon all worldly carefulnesse, to tame myne owne lustes, & [Page 219] affections, to do y^e thing that is right, and diligently to walke in the light of thy cō ­maundementes: For thou onely art the true light, thou knowest no going downe, thou art God from euerla­sting, & world without end. Encrease most merciful fa­ther, the gift of faith, that I may truely beleue in thée, & in thy promises made vnto me, and that neither by my negligēce, nor by my infir­mitie [Page 220] of the fleshe, nor by greatnes of temptation, nei­ther by the subtill craftes, & assaultes of the deuil, I may be driuen from faith in the blood of my sauiour Christe Iesus. Strengthen (moste mercifull Father) my féeble nature against all assaultes of the worlde, the flesh, and y^e deuil, that I may alwaies haue a sure cōfidence in thy onely mercie, neuer to start away frō thy grace to seeke [Page 221] for helpe of man, but conti­nually to cleaue to the mul­titude of thy mercies, who art able to exalt the humble and meeke, & to pull downe the mighty from the throne of their pompe and glorie Geue me grace to haue thee in minde, whatsoeuer I doe to honor thee, to feare thee, to cal vpon thy name, when I am in trouble, and to re­pose my whole truste in the greatnesse of thy power and [Page 222] mercy, with an assured hope to be preserued from all pe­rils, both bodily, and ghost­ly, and at the laste when I haue ended my race in this transitorie pylgrimage, to obtaine the crowne of euer­lasting ioye, and felicitie, in that celestiall Ierusalem, whiche thou haste prepared for all them that feare thy name, since the creation of the worlde, throuh Iesus Christe our sauiour, Amen.

O Almightie & most mer­cifull father, I acknow­ledge and cōfesse, that I am not worthy to lift vp mine eyes towarde heauen, muchlesse to presume to presēt miselfe before thy diuine ma­iestie, I being but earth and asshes, a lumpe of sinne and iniquitie, subiect to death & [Page 224] corruption, if I enter into examination of mine owne desertes: for y^e infinite mul­titude of mine offēces beare witnes against me, that by mine owne workes I am vnder the dreadfull curse of the lawe, and in extreme danger of euerlasting death and damnation: for in sinne was I begottē, and in sinne hath my mother conceaued me, I confesse that there is no goodnesse in me, but ani [Page 225] apt & forwarde inclination, to eschewe the good, and to folowe the euill: to raunge after y^e lustes of mine owne desires, to wander astraye out of the way of righteous­nesse, and th [...]ough my dayly disobedience, to kindle thy wrath, & heauie displeasure against me, and contiqually to heape sinne vpon sinne, to runne a madding after the phantasies of mine owne minde, and neuer to harken [Page 226] to the voyce of thy cōmaun­dements. Yet this one com­fort haue I, y^t Iesus Christ, by his pretious death and bloodsheddyng, hath payde & the raunsome of my iniqui­tie, & made a ful agrement, and perfect attonement be­twene God and man, being a continuall intercessor for me, and a moste louing me­diator betwixt his father & me, to appease his furie, and to receaue me into his fa­uour [Page 227] againe. Therfore most merciful father, séeing thou haste not denied to geue vp thine onely begotten sonne, to the shameful death of the crosse, to redéeme me from the bondage of death, & hell: Inspire I beseche thée my minde with thy heauēly spi­rite, that I maye doe suche thinges as please thee, and turne to kill sinne, with all other vngodly lustes & con­cupiscence, that I maye be [Page 228] made a sweete smelling sa­crifice to thee, and the tem­ple of y^e holy ghost for euer, & that I may liue vprightly and honestly in my calling, without reproofe, ensuing y^e right pathe of thy holy com­maundementes. And for as muche as it hath pleased thee to ordaine the night for men to rest in, and the day to labour, graunt I beseche thee most merciful Father, that I may so take my bo­dily [Page 229] rest, that my soule may continually watche for that happie and ioyfull tyme, when Iesus Christ shal ap­peare for my deliueraunce out of the miseries of this transitorie lyse. And in the meane season that I be not ouercome by any phātasies, dreames or other temptati­ons, but maye haue my minde, alwaye fixed vppon thee, to loue thee, feare thee, and rest in thee for euer: [Page 230] Moreouer that my sleepe be not excessiue, or ouermuche after the vnsatiable desyres of the fleshe, but so much as maye suffise to content and satisfie my feeble nature, wherby I may be the better disposed to lyue in al godlye conuersation, to the glory of thy holy name, and the com­moditie of my neyghbour. To thee with the sonne and the holy ghost, be al honor & glory for euer & euer. Amē.

O Almightie & most mer­ciful father, haue pitie, and compassion vppon the weakenesse of me thy vn­worthy chylde, and be thou prest, and redy (O heauenly father) to helpe me, & with thy heauenly spirit to assist my weake spirite, againste all assaultes of the wicked [Page 232] worlde, the fleshe, and the deuyll, whiche striue conti­nually with fayre allure­mentes and prouocations to drawe my mynde from thy commaundementes, in­to the hartfull and damna­ble way of error, and ini­quitie: but myne only stay and cōfidence is in the mul­titude of thy mercies, with a sure and certayne hope, that thou wylt so direct my steppes, both this day, and [Page 233] euer hereafter, that all my thoughtes, words, & deedes, may be found acceptable in thy sight, and accordyng to the godly liue and rule of thy vndefiled lawe. There­fore I beseech thee (heauen­ly father) to shewe thy mer­cy vpon me, and to prosper me in whatsoeuer I goe a­bout in thy name: so that thou geuyng me lyght, I may learne to knowe what thinges are acceptable be­fore [Page 234] thee, and by the vertue of thy grace, I may haue an earnest yeale, & desyre to fo­low the same in my life, to [...]ay glory, & the commoditie of my neighbour. That thou being my guide and leader, I may walke in the path of vnderstanding, and righte­ousnesse without stumbling or wandring astray: for in my selfe I haue nothing but mistrust, and inabilitie to do any thing, y^t maye please [Page 235] thée, sauing only by the mo­tion of thy holy spirit in my mind, which spirit assureth my spirite, that the meane to please thée, is a constant and immoueable fayth in Christe Iesus, with repen­taunce of my sinnes, and a­mendment of lyfe, to ensue the steppes of equitie, and vnderstanding: to cleaue to y^e stedfast rocke, of thy hea­uenly worde, and promises, to loue my neighbour as my [Page 236] selfe, for hereby shall it be knowen that we be thy chil­drē, if we loue one another: to geue ouer my portion to y^e poore, to take vp my crosse, and folowe thée, to abounde in all maner good workes, whiche are the fruites of fayth in Christe Iesu. Geue me grace, most mercyful fa­ther, to kyll the buddes of sinne in my fleshe, to bridle myne owne destres, to kepe my body in subiectiō, wher­by [Page 237] I maye be sanctified in thee, and made an vndefiled [...]ple for the holy ghost, ful of the spirite of trueth and vnderstanding. And sith it hath pleased thee of thy fa­therly pitie to preserue me from all perils & daungers, both of body and soule, this night, and al the rest of my lyfe tyme, tyll this present houre, I beseeche thee also most merciful father, to pro­tect me with thy grace, all [Page 238] this daye, & euer hereafter, that I may safely walke in my vocatiō, with thy feare before myne eyes, in all things that I take in hand. And vouchsafe most mercy­full father, so to direct the rēnant of my course, which I haue yet to runne in this lyfe, that at the laste I may come to dwell with thée, in thy euerlasting kingdome, and there to haue fruition of eternall ioye and felicitie: [Page 239] through Iesus Christe, our onely mediatour & sauiour. Amen.

O Mercyfull Lorde Iesu, I beseche thée to be fauou­rable to me, a wretched sin­ner, that all my lyfe tyme, haue folowed the lustes of myne owne minde, and ne­uer harkened to thy voyce, [Page 240] wherby I might liue in thy lawe, that thou hast appoin­ted for me. Put away I be­seeche thée, all my sinnes out of thy remembrance, washe me cleane w^t thy pretious blood, sanctifie me with thy bitter passion and death, clense me throughly, restore me agayne to the innocen­cie, whiche thou gauest me in baptisme, that I may be truely regenerate, & borne a newe in thée my swéet sa­uiour [Page 241] & only redeemer, so y^t I maye acknowledge thée onely the author of my re­demption, and the principal cause of my iustification: & to shew my fel [...]e a thanke­full Samaritane, for that thou hast vouchsafed, by thy death and bloodshedding, to purge me from the leprosie of sinne, and al kinde of vn­cleannesse: yeelding thée im­mortal thanks continually, for that & all other gratious [Page 242] benefites, which thou of thy fatherly liberalitie, & boun­tie, vouchsafest dayly to be­stow vpon me. And among all the rest geue me grace, swéet Iesu, to haue alwaies in remembrāce thy sincere loue, fatherly affection, and gratious charitie towardes me, in that thou hast vouch­safed to take my nature v­pon thée, to be made man in all respectes lyke vnto me, (sinne onely excepted) and [Page 243] for my sake to be borne in a stable, and as an infant to be wrapped in clothes, to be swadled, & laide in a maun­ger, there to be fed with the materiall milke of thy bles­sed mother, the virgin Ma­rie. For my sake sweet Ie­su, thou hast susteyned hun­ger, colde, pouertie, and ma­ny other agonies didst thou susteyne for me, most mise­rable and wretched sinner. Thou hast suffered thy selfe [Page 244] to be betrayed, to be appre­hended, and taken shame­fully, to be bounde vnwor­thyly, to be beaten cruelly, to be condemned vniustly, and to be brought to that shameful death of the crosse, where for my sake thy pre­tious bodye was rent, and torne, and thy moste sweete blood aboundauntly shedde, where thou yéeldedst vp the ghost to God the father, and descendedst agayne into the [Page 245] graue, lyke a dead man, but dyddest ryse agayne the thirde daye, and ascendedst into heauen, where thou sit­test at y^e right hande of God the father, from whence we looke for thy cōming again, to iudge the quicke and the dead, at what tyme we stād in assured hope, to be made ioyntly possessours & felowe heyres in thy kingdome, in eternall ioy for euer. Ther­fore swéete Iesu, seing thou [Page 246] haste not spared thy owne pretious body, but gauest it vp as a sweete smelling sa­crifice on the aulter of the crosse, therby so redeme me from death, and to make a full satisfaction for my of­fences: direct, I besech thee, my [...] so in this lyfe, y^t I maye be worthy of that v [...]catiō wherunto thou hast called me, to haue an espe­cial [...]are, and regarde of thy commaundementes, and to [Page 247] folowe them as nearely as I can, in all trueth & single­nesse of hart, to yeelde du [...] obedience to my betters, to labour paynefullye, and at tymes conuenient in my trade, and at night when I lye downe to recreate my bodye after my daylye la­bours, geue me grace to cō ­fesse my sinnes vnto thée, to implore thy mercye, with the teares of vnfaigned re­pentaunce. And though my [Page 248] limmes take their naturall rest, yet let my minde con­tinually watche in thee, ex­spectyng that ioyfull daye, when I shalbe made parta­ker of thy celestiall ioyes, which shall neuer ende, To thee sweete Iesus, with the father, and the holye ghost, be all honor. &c.

O Almightie, & moste mer­cyfull father, I hartyly [Page 249] beseeche thee, vouchsafe to looke downe, with the eyes of thy mercy vpō me, a most vile and miserable sinner, whiche lye here prostrate before the feete of thy mer­cy, crauing remission of my manifolde sinnes and wic­kednesse, from the very bot­tome of my hart, acknow­ledging freely, that I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne, the multitude of myne offences is so great & [Page 250] infinite. Yet for asmuch as thou art the god and Father of all comfort which desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should tourne from his wickednesse and liue: and like a true pitifull Samaritan art sory to sée mely thus wounded wyth the sting of sinne and iniquitie, make me I pray thée, by in­fusion of thy comfortable oyle into my woūds, to run repentantly with the lost [Page 251] Sonne, and vnfaynedly to bewaile myne offences at y^e féete of thy mercy, crying, Father, I haue sinned against heauen, and agaynst thee, I am no more worthy to bee called thy Sonne, make mee as one of thy hired seruants. Geue me grace, alwaies to repent my sinnes with a cō trite hart before thy deuine Maiestie, wythout eyther dissemblinge, or cloking of them, for thou art the god of [Page 252] light, thou séest whatsoeuer is donne in darkenesse, and from thy eyes there can bée nothing cōcealed: haue mer­cy therefore (most mercifull Father) vppon me, forgeue me my trespasses, as I for­geue them that haue trespas­sed against me: forgeue me my debt, and haue compassiō vpon myne infirmitie, for thou Lorde art a mercyfull God, full of pitie & compas­sion such a one, as is sory for [Page 253] my afflictions, with thée is aboundaunce of comfort, & plentie, of redemption, thou onely art y^e god of my health and saluation: besides thee I knowlege none other god, neyther in heauē aboue, nor i [...] the earth beneth, neyther in the water vnder y^e earth, thō onely art almighty, thou onely from the beginning art euerlasting, world with­out ende. O bowe downe thine eares (most mercifull [Page 254] Father) to the voyce of my lamentatiō, for against thée onely haue I sinned, thée on­ly haue I offended, and iust­ly for my disobedience pro­uoked thy wrath, and indig­notion against mée, yet I poore sinner doe accuse my selfe vnto thée, deare Father that I haue sore & greuouse­ly offended thy goodnesse & Maiestie, in committing of diuers & manifold haynouse offences against thée, for I [Page 255] haue not kepte the least of thy most holy and godly cō ­maundemēntes, but haue wandred astraye from my youth, folowing myne owne vnbrideled affections, decli­ning frō y^e sacred precepts of thy holie lawe, and star­ting aside like a brokē bowe I haue not honoured thée lyke my god, I haue not o­bai [...]d thée like my Father, I haue not serued thee like my creator, but haue all my life [Page 256] tyme spurned at the waye of righteousnesse, and vnder­standing, offending thy di­uine Maiestie euer both in thoughts, words, and dedes, whiche continually I cōmit against thée, O my merciful God and louing Sauiour, I am sory for my sinnes, euen from the bottom of my hart, yea my soule mourneth most mercyfull Father, to the death, for the innumer­able multitude of my sins. [Page 257] The onely hope I haue of obtayning thy mercy, is in the merites of thy Sonne Iesus Christ, my Sauiour. Thou hast diuers and sun­dry tymes by the mouth of thy holy Prophetes, pronoū ­ced forgeuenesse of sinnes, if I repent from the bottome of my hart, vouchsafe there­fore most mercifull Father, to looke vpon my misery, & as thou sparest thy plague from the great Citie of Ni­niue, [Page 258] when they repented: e­uen so most mercifull father withdrawe thy rod frō mée, that lye prostrate at y^e feete of thy mercie, bewailinge my sinnes wyth the vnfay­ned lamentation of hartye repentaunce. Forgeue mée my offences, most mercifull Father, and renue a right spirit within me, cōduct me by the vertue of thy grace, to run y^e rest of this earthly course which yet remaineth [Page 259] that my footesteppes neuer slyde: but that I may so spēd this day, (to the beginning whereof thou haste safely brought me) and the rēnant of my lyfe in thys world y^t all my thoughtes, wordes, and works, may tend to thy glory, and to the cōmoditie of my neighbour, so that I may haue a ioyfull resur­rection at what tyme thy Sonne Iesus Christ my sa­uiour, shall come to iudge [Page 260] both the quicke and y^e deade. To whome with thée and y^e holy Ghost be all honor and glory for euer and euer.

O Lorde, whiche onely art god, true gratious & mer­cyfull, which commaundest them that loue thy name to cast all their feare and care vpon thée, promysing most [Page 261] mercifully, thy selfe to bée their protectour from theyr enemies, their refuge in dā ­ger, their gouernour in the daye, their watchman in y^e night, who kéepest Israell, & doest neither slumber nor sléepe, but hast thyne eyes contineuallie bent vpon thē as the egle on her yoūge­ons protecting them vnder the shadowe of thy power, as the henne gathereth her chickens to geather, couer­ing [Page 262] them vnder the shadowe of her winges: I besech thee of thy bountifull goodnesse O Lorde, to forgeue me my sinnes wherein I haue offē ­ded thee this day, and here­tofore in my lyfe tyme, and to receaue me vnder thy protection this night and e­uer, that I may rest in per­fect quietnesse both of body & soule. Graunt most merci­full Father, that the exter­nall eyes of my bodie maye [Page 263] take their sound and natur­all sléepe, but let the inward eyes of my hart and mynde continually watch vnto thée that the weakenesse of the slesh cause me not to offende thy diuine Maiestie. Let my mynd at all tymes haue an inward feelynge of thy goodnesse towards me, that the memory of thy many­fold benefites neuer slyde out of my remembraunce, but that at all tymes I may [Page 264] be styrred vp to prayse thy name, & to yeld thee thankes for the innumerable gyftes that thou of thy méere mer­cy and Fatherly liberalitie, without any desart of mine hast fréely bestowed vpon me, since the first houre of my natiuitie. Let thy praise sound in my mouth, late & earely, at midday and mid­night, in all places, at all tymes and seasons. Plant in my hart most mercyfull [Page 265] Father, a true desire & per­fect zeale to thanke thee, for all the benefit [...]s that I haue daylie receaued at thy hāds, that I may tourne backe w^t y^e Samaritan, & prayse thee, and not to depart as y^e other ix. Lepiers did, who feeling themselues clensed of their filthynesse, yet returned not at all to geue God thankes Instruct me I besech thée in thy diuine iudgements that when I haue safely passed [Page 265] this nighte vnder thy pro­tection, I may spend y^e next day, I all my lyfe folowing in holynesse and puritie of conuersation, crying cōtinu­ally, come Lord Iesu, come, for thyne electes sake, come quickly, Amen. That at the last I maye happilie a­riue at the port of that euer­lastinge rest, whiche by thy mercy thou hast promised to all thē that vnfaynedly loue y^e name of Iesu: To whom [Page 266] with the Father, and the holy Ghost be all honor and glory for euer. Amen.

ALmighty and most mer­cifull Father, I besech thée for thy Sonne Iesus Christe his sake, to graunt me thy heauenly grace that with immoueable zeale I may séeke after those things [Page 267] that may please thée, & cir­comspectly shunne all kinde of wayes that maye moue or prouake thy wrathe a­gainst me. And when I haue once knowē perfectly what thy will & pleasure is, geue me grace to séeke the same carefully, to fulfill it perfect­ly, and to walke in the same vigelantly, to the honor and glory of thy most holy name Order my lyuinge so that I may doe those things which [Page 268] thou requirest of me, & that with vnfained deuotiō wythout all pharisicall pretēded holynesse. Geue me grace that I maye know it, & haue will and power to doo there­after, least if I knowe my maister his will and due it not, I be beaten with many stripes. Aboue all thinges geue me grace to seeke thy honour and glory, wyth all thinges else which he moste conuenient for my saluatiō [Page 269] in Christe Iesu. Make my wa [...]es I beseche thee moste mercyfull Father, sure and straight before, that if welth abound I fall not vnto pride and presumption, or if I fall into aduersitie I be not dri­uen into desperation, as to loase y^e fayth whiche I haue in my Lord and Sauiour, or to blaspheme thy most holy mame with words of re­proch as they doo, whose hart Sathan hath possessed, and [Page 270] rooted the séedes of vertue & vnderstandinge out of their harts. Onely geue me a ne­cessary liuinge, sufficient to maintayne my selfe honest­ly, wyth mediocritie, and without superfluitie or idle excesse. Geue mée not to much, lest I wax proude & so forget thée, that art y^e au­thor of my welth and mine onely vpholder: neyther to littell lest I bée forced to at­tempt, vnhonest and extra­ordinary [Page 271] shiftes, without a­ny care or respect eyther thy heauenly lawes and com­maundemēts, or the decrées of my prince and countrie. Geue me grace euer to re­ioyce in thée, and that I may neuer be sorowfull for any thinge, but that may drawe me from thy lawe, or wher­in I haue sinned against thy diuine Maiestie. Bée thou myne onely comforte aboue all other, to recreate me whē [Page 272] I am in perplexitie, to pro­tect me both at my down liinge and vprysinge, let mee not be mery with the ioye that is without thee, neyther let me delite in any thinge but in thee, and the crosse of Christ Iesu: make me to lift vp myne harte continually to thee, when I am eyther in prosperitie or fallen into aduersatie. Make me hum­ble without ipocrisie, mery without lightnesse, sad without [Page 273] mistrust, sober without dulnesse, true without dou blenesse, fearinge thee with­out desperation, trusting in thée wythout presumption, teling my neybour his falts without dissimulation, ge­uing other a good example of perfect and godly lyuinge, y^t they which behold it may be the more enflamed to trend the like trace and to glorifiy god in all his gyftes. And fi­nallie graunt most mercy­full [Page 274] Father that séeinge (I haue taken sufficient reste this night past, and that the day is come) wherein thou hast appoynted me to doe all suche godly and necessarie businesse, as may be to thy glory, y^e profit of my neygh­bour and health of my soule: I maye so passe the same in thy feare, that I be in daun­ger of no trouble or pertur­batiō [...]ther of body or minde but euermore constante in [Page 275] fayth by the bloud of Christ Iesus my Sauiour and re­deemer. To whome with thée & y^e holy ghost be all ho­nor and glory for euer and euer. Amen.

I Render vnto thée, (moste mercifull Father, all pos­sible thankes and prayses, for that thou of thy méere [Page 276] mercy and Fatherly pitie, hast garded me all this day, and the rest of my life time vnder y^e winges of thy hea­uenly protection: desyringe thée with the teares of my lamentation to put all my wickednes out of thy minde which I haue committed a­gaynst thy diuine Maiestie sith the tyme of my concep­tion Thou haste promysed by the mouth of thy holye Prophet that at what time [Page 277] soeuer a sinner doth repente him of his sinnes from the bottome of his harte, thou wilt put all his wickednesse out of thy remembraunce: forgeue me therefore moste mercyfull Father, and with the eyes of thy mercy looke down vpon me as thou did­dest loke vpon Peter thyne Apostle when hée lamented his sinne & was sory for his offences, let me be regene­rate in spirit, and learne frō [Page 278] henceforth to walke in thy lawes all the dayes of my lyfe. Make me to lifte mine hart often tymes vnto thée, and when I fall make me to thinke vpon thee and be sory for mine iniquity with sted­fast purpose of amendmēt & grace of thée, to performe the same. Graunte me vn­derstandinge to knowe thy will to folowe suche conuer­sation as may please thee, to repose my whole trust and [Page 279] confidence in the multitude of thy mercies, whereby I may walke without blame in my calling, doing right to euery man, and iniury to no man, but after the exam­ple of thy Son Iesus Christ to suffer wronge patiently without desire of reuenge, to pray for mine enimies, & to loue them that persecute my lyfe, Graunte grace in all kynde of humilitie to fo­lowe y^e steppes of thy sonne [Page 280] Iesus Christ, that pure and immaculate Lambe. And when my body hath taken his naturall rest geue me a desire to shake of all slouth­fulnesse and drousinesse, that my lims may be stronge to sustayne my laboures, that pertayne to my present, vo­cation, and that all mine ac­cions maye bee done in thy name, and referred to thy glory, to the commoditie of the cōmon welth. Through [Page 281] Iesus Christe our Sauiour Amen.

O Almighty Lord & moste mercyfull Father, whose power reacheth aboue the cloudes, & thy glory through all the world, who onely be­holdest the counsels, deuises and workes, yea the very thoughtes of all men, that [Page 282] serchest the inward cogita­tions, yea the very hart and raynes. I most humbly be­sech thée, that for as muche as thou hast graciously pre­serued me this night, I may not spend this day after my owne mynde and pleasure whiche is alway euill and wicked, but earnestly looke vpon and diligently folowe thy fatherly will, thy euer­lasting counsaile, thy health­full word & pleasure which [Page 283] is alwaies good, perfect and holy, and that I may fulfill y^e same with all possible care and dyligēce, that thy diuine name may be alwaies sanc­tyfied voth nowe and euer­more of me miserable siner. Inspire my mynde with thy heauenly spirite, that my wayes maye be directed ac­cordinge to thy Godly wyll and commaundemēts, that my féete slyde not out of the pathes of righteousnesse, y^t [Page 284] my mynde imagine not vp­on wickednes, y^t my tongue speake no blasphemies a­gainst thée, but that all my thoughtes, wordes & works, maye bée to guided by thy y^e grace I neuer prouoke thy wrathe nor displeasure a­gainst me, as for my sinns and offences of my youth, I besech thée to put them out of thy remembraunce for thy great mercyes sake and neuer thinke vpon thē here­after. [Page 285] For I confesse and ac­knowledge that I am a mi­serable and wretched sinner, I haue wandred out of the waye of vertue synce my youth, ond haue folowed the brutishe inclination of my corrupt nature, like y^e sence­lesse beastes of the earthe, whose eyes are still fatse­ned on the ground, consider­inge no further thē the time present, without any know­lege or fore sight of the time [Page 286] to come. Thou knowest O Lorde that I am but haye & grasse, that flourisheth this day, and to morowe is cut downe and cast into the for­nice: so little hould or staye is there in the lyfe of man, y^t he cannot assure himselfe of one houre longer then thy good pleasure shall permitt him. Ten times happy ther­fore is he that can spend this little tyme of being, which thou haste graunted him ac­cording [Page 287] to the rules and precepts of thy holy commaun­dements. Wherefore sith I am but mortall, made of earth and ashes, and always prone to fall from thy sta­tutes, illuminate I beseche thée, the eclipsed eyes of my grosse vnderstanding, with the lighte of thy heauenly spirite, that I maye spende this day, and all the rest of my lyfe hereafter in suche wyse as my doinges may be [Page 288] acceptable in thy sight, and cōmodious to the common welthe through our onely Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ. Amem.

O Mercifull God and hea­uenly Father, whether I sléepe or wake, liue or dye I am alwaies thine, where­fore I beséech thée hartelie [Page 289] that thou wilt vouchsafe to take care and charge of me, and not to suffer me to pe­rishe in the works of darke­nesse, but to kyndle the light of thy countenaunce in my hart, that thy godly konw­ledge maye daylie encrease in me through a righte and a pure fayth, and that I may alwaies be found to liue & walke after thy will & plea­sure, to haue my minde and cogitacions bent vpon thee, [Page 290] whether I sléepe or wake or what thing else so euer I doo that I may stick fast to thée, by a pure & vnspotted faith, in my sauiour Christ Iesus. Be thou (O merciful father) my watch man and my ke­per, frō y^e terryble assaults of Sathan, and his wicked ministers, kepe my harte from the imaginations of iniquitie, y^t I may be pure in thée, and an vnspotted spouse to thy Sonne Christ [Page 291] Iesus. When I laye downe my selfe, to recreat my lims with sléepe, which thou hast appoynted for the satisfactiō of my trayle bodie, let mee not be troubled or assayled with any vncleane cogitati­ons, but keepe my mynde stil waking in thée, to repose my trust in thy mercy, that y^e externall eyes of my hart maye be euermore excerci­sed in meditaciō of the com­fortable promise. To whom [Page 292] with the Father, the Sonne and the holy ghost be all ho­nor and glory now and euer more. Amen.

O Almighty god and moste mercifull Father, whom the tables of thy commaun­dementes, deliuered to the handes of thy seruant May­ses vpon the Mount Sina: a­mong [Page 293] other precepts diddest geue charge vnto thy chosen children of Israell, that in six dayes they shoulde doe all such workes and labours, as they had to doe, and reste from laboure the seuenth day: graunt we besech thée, that since we haue happelie passed ouer this whole weke vnder thy gracious protecti­on, we maye not onely rest this day from our daily tra­uailes but that we maye ab­stayne [Page 294] also from the works of sinne and iniquitie, and sanctifie this daye to thée, w^t prayers and thankes ge­uing, aboūding in all works of loue and charitie, as thou hast cōm [...]unded in thy holy worde, that we may be foūd pure without spotte or ble­mish at that daye when thy Sonne Iesus Christe shall come to iudge the world w^t righteousnesse and equitie. And forasmuch as thou hast [Page 295] ordayned this daye amonge the rest wherin we shoulde méete altogeather with bro­therly loue and affection, to yealde thee prayses for the innumerable benefites we haue receaued at thy hande, to acknowledge thy fatherly loue and pittie towardes vs from tyme to tyme, and to geue thee thankes in gener­all for all and vniuersall thy benifites hitherto bestowed vpon vs, we humbly besech [Page 296] thée to graunte vs thy holie spirite that we maye be the more zelousely inflamed to serue thee in true holynesse and integritie of lyfe: & by y^e operation of that spirite we may kill all carnall lustes, vnlawfull pleasures, occupi­scence, and all other spottes of vncleannesse, wherby we may be made thy childe by adopcion and grace, and our bodies y^e temple of the holy ghost, beinge throughly pur­ged [Page 297] and purified from the dregges of iniquitie and ab­hominotion. Geue vs grace most mercifull Father, to spend this daye to thy plea­sure in all good workes and charitie, proceding from an vndefiled faith in Christ Ie­sus, that we fall not into no kynde of daunger, but that all our doings may be or [...]e­ [...]ed by thy gouernaunce, to doe alwaies that is righte­ous in thy sight, through Ie­sus [Page 298] Christ our Lord. Amen.

WE rēder vnto thée euerlasting prayses (most mercifull Father) for that of thy gracious fauour and loue towardes vs, thou hast vouchsafed to preserue mee all this daye and the rest of my lyfe hetherto, vnder the shadowe of thy most merci­full [Page 299] protection: besechinge thee also to take me to thy tuition this present night & euer, that we be not temp­ted with any suggestion of Sathan, but being through­ly armed with y^e holy ghost, we may haue power & force to resiste hys assaultes by a sure fayth and confidence in y^e bloud of thy blessed sonne, our Lord & Sauiour Christ Iesus. Geue vs grace to re­pent vs of our sinnes vnfai­nedly, [Page 300] to craue remission of them vncessantly, to em­brace thy holy word and cō ­maundements sincerely, & to expresse them in our ly­uinge effectually: whereby we maye walke vprightly in our conuersation, with sure and certaine hope of re­surrection to eternall life by the merites of Christ Iesus, that we may be founde wa­kinge and watchinge for his cōming, when he shall come [Page 301] to iudge the worlde wyth e­quitie, and to reward euery man according to the works of his bodie. Graunt vs grace most mercifull father, to behaue our selues so vp­rightly in this lyfe, that thē we may be made pertakers of thy kingedome wyth thy elect: there to liue in eter­nall ioy and filicitie worlde without end. Amen.

O Lord our heauenly Fa­ther, high and mightie, King of Kinges, Lorde of Lordes, the onely ruler of Princes, which doest from thy throne beholde all the dwellers vpon the earth, most hartely we besech thee with thy fauour to beholde [Page] our moste gracious souc­raigne Lady Queene Eliza­beth, and so replenysh her with the grace of thy holie spirite, that she may alwaies incline to thy wil and walke in thy way Indue her plen­tifully with heauenly gifts: graūt her in health & welth longe to liue, strengthen her that she maye vanquish and ouercome all her enemies. And finally after this lyfe she may attaine euerlasting [Page] ioye and felicitie: Through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

ALmightie and euerlast­ing God, whiche onely workest great meruayles, sende downe vpon our Pa­stours, and Ministers, and all congregations commit­ted to their charge y^e health­full spirite of thy grace, and that they may truly please [Page] thée. Poure vpon them the continuall dwe of thy bles­sing: Graunt this (O Lord) for the honour of our aduo­cate and mediatour Iesus Christ.

O God heauenly Father, which by thy Sonne Ie­sus Christ hast promised to all them that seeke thy king­dome, and the righteousnes therof, all thinges necessary to their bodily sustenaunce: Send vs wee besech thee, in [Page] this our necessitie. such mo­derate raine and showers, y^t we maye receiue y^e frutes of the earth to our comforte, and to thy honour: through Iesus Christ our Lord Amē

THe peace of God which pas­seth [...] vnderstandinge kepe our hurtes and myndes in the knowledge & loue of God & of his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord. And the blessing of God almight [...], the father the sonne & the holy Ghost, be among vs & remaine with vs alwaies. Amē.