❧ A Godly meditation composed by the faithful and constant servant of God I. B. 〈…〉 lastly was burnt in 〈…〉 for the testimony of jesus Christ, by the tyranny of Antechriste in his fyllot members.  ¶ Psalm lxxix. O Lord let the vengeance of thy servants blood that is shed be openly showed upon the ungodly in our sight. O let the sorrowful, lighting of the prisoners come before thee▪ and according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die.  

O Almighty and everlasting Lord god the dear father of our saviour jesus Christ, which haste made heaven, & earth, the sea and all that therein is, which art the only ruler, governor, conseruor, & keeper of all things, together with thy dearly beloved son Christ jesus our lord, and with thy holy ghost the comforter. O holy, Righteous and wise. O strong, terrible, mighty and fearful Lord god, judge of all men, and governor of all the whole world O exorable, patient, and most gracious father, whose eyes are upon the ways of all men, and are so clean, they cannot abide impitye, thou searchest the hearts and triest the very thaughtes, and reins of all men, thou hatest sin and abhorrest iniquity: for sins sake thou haste grievously punished mankind thy most dear creature as thou haste declared by the penalty of death laid upon all the children of Adam, by the casting out of Adam & his of spring forth of Paradise, by the cursing of the earth, by the drowning of the world, by the burning up of Sodom and gomor, by the hardening the heart of Pharaoh, so that no miracle could convert him, by the drowning of him, and his people with him in the red sea, by the overthrowing of the Israhelytes in the wilderness, so that of six hundredth thousand, all only but two did enter into the land of promise, by rejecting king Saul, by the great ponishmentes upon thy servant david, not withstanding his hearty repentance by grievously affecting Solomon in himself, and in his posterity: by the captivity of the ten tribes, and by the thraldom of the jews, wherein until this present day they continue a notable spectacle, of they wrath to the world against and for sin, but of all spectacles of thy anger against sin, the greatest and most notable, is the death & bloody passion of thy dearly beloved son Jesus' Christ. Great is thine anger against sin when in heaven and earth nothing could befound which might appease thy wrath, save the bloodshedding of thine only & most dearly beloved son, in whom was and is all thy delight, great is the sore of sin that needed such a salve, mighty was the malady, that needed such a medicine. If in Christ in whom was no sin, thy wrath was so fierce for our sin, that he was constrained to cry my god, my god why hast thou forsaken me, how great and importable then is thine anger against us which are nothing but sinful. They that are thy children through the contemplation of thine anger against sin, set forth most evidently in the death of Christ, Do tremble & are afraid, lamenting themselves upon him (and heartily crying for mercy) Where as the wicked, are altogether careless & contemptuous, nothing lamenting their iniquities or crying to the heartily for mercy and pardon, amongst whom we are rather to be placed, then amongst thy children, for that we are so shameless for our sin, and careless for thy wrath, which we may well say to be most grievous against us, and evidently set forth in the taking away of our good King and thy true religion, in thexiel of thy servants, prisonment of thy people, misery of thy children, and death of thy saints. Also by the placing over us in Authority thy enemies, by the success thou givest them in all they take in hand, by the returning again in to our country of Antichrist the pope. All these as they do preach unto all the world (but specially unto us) thy grievous wrath, so do they set before our eyes, our iniquities and sins, which have deserved the same, for thou art just and holy in all thy works thy judgements are righteous altogether, it is we, it is we that have sinned, & procured these plagues we have been unthankful wretches, and most carnal gosspelers therefore to us pertaineth shame, and nothing else is due but confusion. For we have done very wickedly, we have heaped sin upon sin, so that the measure hath over flowed, and Ascended up to heaven, and brought these plagues, which are but earnest for greater to ensue, & yet alas we are altogether caerlesse, in manner, what shall we do? What shall we say? Who can give us pendent hearts? Who can open our lips, that our mouths might make acceptable confession unto thee. Alas of ourselves we cannot think any good, much less wish it, and least of all do it, as for Angels or any other creatures, they have nothing, but that which they have received, & they are made to minister unto us so that where it passeth the power of the master, she minister must needs want, Alas then what shall we do? Thou art holy & we unholy, thou art good, and we nothing but evil, thou art pure, we all together impure, thou art light, and we most dark darkness, how then can there be any conveniency or agreement betwixt us, O what now may we do? Despair? no, for thou art god, & therefore good thou art merciful, and therefore thou forgivest sins, with thee is mercy and propitiation, and therefore thou art worshipped, when Adam had sinned thou gavest him mercy before he desired it, & wilt thou deny us mercy which now desire the same, Adam excused his fault and accused that, but we accuse ourselves, and excuse thee, & shall we be sent empty away? Noye found favour when thy fury a boundyd and shall we seeking grace be frustrate? Abraham was pulled out of idolatry when the world was drowned therein, and art thou his god only? Israel in captivity in Egypt was graciously visited and delivered and dear God, the same good lord, shall we always be forgotten? How often in the wilderness didst thou defer, and spar thy plagues, at the request of Moses when the people themselves made no petition to thee. And saying we not only now make our petitions unto the through thy goodness, but also have a mediator for us now far above Moses, even Jesus' Christ: should we I say dear lord, depart ashamed? So soon as David said I have sinned, thou didst forth with answer to him that he should not die, thou hadst taken away his sins, And gracious god, even the self same god, shall not we which now with David gladly confess that we have sinned, shall we I say not hear, by thy good spirit, that our sins be pardoned. O grant that with Manasses we may find favour and mercy remember that thou hast not spared thine own only deresone jesus Christ, but given him for us all to die, for our sins, to rise for our righteousness, to ascend for our possession taking in heaven, and to appear before thee for us for ever, a high priest after the order of Melchisadech that through him we might have free access to come to thy throne, now rather of grace then of justice, Remember that thou by him hast bidden ask and promised that we should receive, saying ask and ye shall have, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shallbe opened unto you. O thou Dear god and most meek and merciful father, we heartily beseech the to be merciful unto us, for this thy Christis sake, for his deaths sake, for thy promiss truth, and mercies sake, have mercy upon us, pardon & forgive us all our Sins, iniquities, and trespaces, what so ever we committed against thee, in thought word or Deed, ever or at any time hitherto by any means, Der father have mercy upon us though we be poor, it our christ is rich, though we be Sinners yet he is righteous, though we be fools, yet is he wise, though we be Inpure yet he is pure, and holy, for his sake therefore be merciful unto us, Call to mind how thou hast promised that thou wilt power out of thy clean waters, and wash us from our filth, & clence us from our evils, forget not that thou hast promised to take from us our stony hearts, & Dost promise to give us sauft hearts, new hearts & to put into the mids of us right Spirits, Remember thy covenate namely how thou wilt be our god and we shall be thy people, forget not the parts of it, that is to put out of thy memory for ever all unrighteousness, and to write in our minds and hearts thy law and testimonies, Remember that thou dost straightly charge us to have none other gods but thee, saying that thou art the lord our gad. O then declare the same to us all, we heartily now beseech the forgive us our sins, forget our iniquitis, clence us from our filthiness, wash us from our wickedness, power out thy holy spirit upon us, take from us our hard hearts, our stony hearts, our impenitent hearts, our distrusting and doubtful hearts, our carnal our secure, our idle, our beastly hearts, our impure, malicious, arrogant, envious, wrathful, impatient, covetous, hypocritical and epicuriall hearts, & in place thereof give us new hearts, saft hearts, faithful hearts, merciful hearts, loving, obedient, chaest pure, holy, righteous, true simple, lowly, and patiented hearts, to fear thee, to love thee, trust in thee for ever, writ thy law in our hearts, grave it in our minds, we heartily beseech the give us that spirit of prayer, make us diligent & happy in the works of our vocation, take in to thy custody and governance for ever, our souls and bodies, our lives, and all that ever we have, tempt us never further, than thou wilt make us able to bear, & what so ever thou knowest we have need of in soul or body, dear god and gracious father, vouchsafe to give us that same in thy good time and always, as thy children guide us, so that our life may please the and our deaths praise the through jesus Christ our lord, for whose sake we heartily pray the to grant these things thus asked, & all other things necessary for soul and body, not only to us, but to all others also, for whom thou wouldest that we should pray, specially for they children, that be in thraldom, in exyel, in prison, misery, heaviness, poverty, sickness. Be merciful to all the whole realm of England grant us all true repentance, mitigation of our misery, and if it be thy good will, thy holy word and Religion amongst us once again, pardon our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and if it be thy pleasure, turn their hearts, be merciful unto our parents, brethren and Sisters, friends, kinsfolks and famelis neighbours, and such as by any means thou haste coupled and linked us by love, or otherwise, and unto us poor sinners here gathered together in thy holy name, grant us thy blessing and holy spirit to sanctify us, and dwell in us, as thy dear children to keep us, this day and for ever, from all evil to thy eternal glory, and our everlasting comfort and the profit of thy church, which mercifully, maintain thereshe and comfort, strengthening them that stand, so that they never fall, lifting up them that be fallen and keep us from falling, from thy truth, through the merits of thy dearly beloved son jesus Christ our only saviour, which liveth and Reigneth with the & the holy ghost, to whom be all praise and honour both now and for ever. Amen.  

¶ When you awake out of your sleep pray thus.  
OH most dear father of our saviour jesus Christ, whom none doth know but of thy gift grant that to the manifold great benefits of thy goodness given to me, this which of all other is most, m●● be added, that like as thou haste awaked my body from sleep, so thou wouldest throughly awake yea deliver mi soul from the sleep of sin and darkness of this world and that which now is awaked out of sleep, thou wouldst, after death restore to life for that is but sleep to the which is death to us, Dear god I most heartily beseech, and humbly pray thy goodness, to make my body such a companion, or rather a minister of godliness, to my soul, in this present life, that in the life to come it may part take with the same everlasting happiness by jesus Christ our Lord. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the deed, and Christ shall show light unto thee. Ephesians. v.   

¶ Occasions to meditate.  
HEre call to mind the great mirth and blissedness, of the everlasting resurrection, Also remember to muse upon that most clear light and bright morning, and new clearness of our bodies after the long darkness it hath been in, all then shallbe full of joy.   

❧ So soon as you behold the day light pray.  
O Lord thou greatest and most true light, whence this light of the day and sun doth spring, O light which dost lighten, every man that cometh in to this world, Oh light which knowest no night nor evening, but art always a midday most clear & fair with out whom all is most dark darkness by whom albe most splendent O thou wisdom of the eternal father of mercis, lighten my mind that I may only see those things that please thee, and may be blinded to all other things.  
Grant that I may walk in thy ways, and that nothing else may be light and pleasant unto me. Lighten mine eyes, Oh lord, that I sleep not in death, least mine enemies say I have prevailed against him.   

¶ Occasions to meditate.  
Muse a little how much the light and eye of the mind and soul is better than of the body. Also that we care more for the soul to see well, then for the body. Think that beasts have bodily eyes and therewith see, but men have eyes of the mind and therewith should see.   

¶ When you arise pray.  
over first father tumbled down himself, from a most excellent high & honourable estate into the miex of misery, and deep sea of shame & mischief, but Oh Christ thou putting forth thine hand diddest raise him up, even so we except we be lift up of thee, shall lie still for ever. O good Christ our most gracious redeemer, grant that as thou dost mercifully, raise us now this my body and burden, even so, I beseech the raise up my mind and heart to the light of the true knowledge of the love of thee, that my conversation may be in heaven where thou art. If thou be risen, with Christ think upon those things that be above.   

¶ Occasions to meditate.  
Think Sum thing how fowl and filthy that Adam's fall was by reason of sin, and so of every one of us from the height of god's grace Again think upon the great benefit of Christ, by whose help we do daily arise from our fallings.   

¶ When you Apparel yourself Pray.  
O Christ cloeth me with thin own self, that I may be so far from making provision for my flesh to fulfil the lusts of it, that I may clean put of all my carnal desires, and crucefy the kingdom of the flesh in me, Be thou unto me a weed to warm me, from catching the cold of this world, if thou be a wai from me (dear lord) all things willbe unto me forthwith cold, weak deed. etc. But if thou be with me all things willbe warm lively, fresh. etc. grant therefore that as I compass this my body with this cote, so thou wouldest clothe me wholly (but spetiallye my soul) with thine own self. Put upon you as the elect of god, bowels of mercy, meekness, love, peace. etc.   

❧ Occasions to meditate.  
Call to mind a little how we are incorperate into christ, again how he doth clothe us nourish us under his wings, ptettion, & providence, preserve us. &   

¶ When you are made ready, to begin the day withal pray.  
O God and merciful father thou knowest and hast taught us to know something, that the weakness of man is much, and that without thy grace and virtue, he can do nor think no good thing, Have mercy upon me, I humbly do beseech thee which am thy most unworthy, and most weak child, O be gracious and tender towards me, lighten me that I may with pleasure look upon good things only, exhort me that I may covet them carefully lead me that I may follow and at the length attain them, I distrusting myself altogether commend and offer myself wholly soul, body, life etc. Into thy hands. Thy loving spirit lead me forth unto the land of righteousness.   

¶ Cogitations meet to begin the day with.  
Think first that a man consisteth of a soul and a body, and that the soul is from heaven, heavenly, firm and immortal, but the body is of the earth, earthly, frail & mortal. Again think that though by reason of sin wherein you are conceived and borne, the parts of the soul that understandeth and desireth be so corrupt that without special grace to both parties, you can neither know nor love any good thing in gods sight, much less do good then, yet this not withstanding think that you are regenerate by Christ's Resurrection (whereof your baptism, requireth faith and therefore have both those parts something reform both to know and love, and therefore to do sum good in the sight of God through Christ) for whose sake our poor doenges are accepted, for good, the evil and infirmity cleaving thereto not being imputed thorough faith, think that by faith which is gods sede (for they which believe are borne of god, and made gods children) given to those that be ordained, to eternal life, think (I say) by faith that you receive more and more, the spirit of sanctification, through the use of god's word and sacraments, and earnest prayer to illumine, and lighten our minds, understanding, judgement and reason, & to bow, form, frame, and inflame your affections with love & power, to that, that good is, & therefore use you the means a foresaid accordingly. Think that by this spirit, you are thorough faith coupled to Christ, as a lively member, and so to god, and as it were made one with him, and by love which springeth out of this faith, you are made one also with all that be of god, & so you have fellowship with god and all good men that ever were or shallbe in all the good, that god & all his saints, have, or shall have. Think as by faith and love through the spirit you are now entered into this communion (the blessedness whereof no tongue can express) so after this life, you shall first in soul, & in the last day in body also, enjoy forever the same society most perfectly which now is but begun in you. think then of your negligence that doth so little care for this your happy estate, think upon your ingratitude to god for making you, redeeming you, calling you, and so lovenglye adopting you.  
Think upon your foolishness in fantasying so much earthily and bodily pleasures. Think upon your deafness & blindness, which heareth not god, nor seeth him, he calling you so diligently, by his works, words and sacraments. Think upon your frowardness which will not be led of god and his spirit. Think upon your forgetfulness and in consideration of your high estate, how your body is the temple of the holy ghost, your members, are the members of Christ the whole world and all things are your own. 1. Cor. 6. Therefore say unto your soul, O soul Arise follow god, contemn this world purpose well and pursue it, long for thy Lords coming, be ready and watch that he come not upon thee unwares. And for so much as you must live to god's pleasure see the vocation & state of your life whereto god hath called you & pray god for grace, knowledge, & ability to take the most profitable things in hand, well to begin, better to go on, & best of all to end the same, to god's glory & profit of your brethren, and think that time lost, wherein you, speak or do not, or (at the least) think not sum thing to god's glory, and your brethren's commodity.   

❧ When you go forth of the doers pray.  
Now must I walk among the snares of death, stretched out of Satan and of his mischievous ministers, in the world, carryenge with me a friend to them both, and a foe to myself, even this body of sin and sinful flesh. O grand capitain christ, lead me and guide me I beseech thee, defend me from the plagues, and subtleties, whereof I am endangered. Grant that I may take all things that hap as I should do, only upon the set thou mine eyes, that I may so go on forwards in thy wai as by no things I be hindered, but rather furthered and may refer all thnigs to the accordingly, show me thy ways (O Lord) and teach me thy paths. Consider how vainli the most part of men be occupied, how they do trouble and cumber themselves diversly, how they meddle with many things thereby much alienating their minds from the knowledge and cogitation of that which they should most esteem, & so becum a let and an offence to others.  
As in going abroad, you will see that your Apparel be seemly in the sight of men, so see how seemly you Appear in the sygt of god.   

☞ When you are going any journey Pray.  
THy sour life is a pilgrimage from the lord we came, and to the lord we make our journey, how be it through thenyshe places and painful, yea perilous ways which our cruel enemies, have and do prepare for us, now more than stark blind by reason of sin. O Christ, which art a most true loads man and guide, and thereto most expert, faithful and friendly do thou put out thine hand open mine eyes make thy high ways known unto me, which wai thou didst first enter into, out of this corruptible life, & hast fenced the same for us to immortality.  
Thou art the way, lead us unto the father by thyself, that all we may be one with him as thou and he together be one. Show me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee. Psal. 144.   

¶ Or Pray thus.  
Merciful father thou art wont to send to thy servants & men of simple hearts, thine angels to be their keepers, & as it were guides as elder brethren to watch upon thy weak children, so didst thou to young Tobias, to jacob, to Abraham's servant, to josua. etc. O good god though we be much unlike unto them (so many are our sins) yet for thine own goodness sake sand thin holy angels, to pitch their tents about us, from sathan & his slaves to hide and defend to carry us in there hands that we come not into further danger than thou through out wilt deliver us, for theyn own sake. His Angels or ministers for them that be heirs of salvation, sathan sleepeth not, but seeketh always to destroy us. Hebr. i. Think something how we are strangers from our country from our home, from our original, I mean from god. Again think upon your madness that do lyngar & loiter so gladly in this our journey, and pilgrimadge. Also how foolish we are to fantazye things which we cannot carry with us, and to contempe conscience which will always be acompanyon to us, to our joy if it be good, but to our shame, and sorrow if it be evil and corrupt, finally how unnatural we are that so little desire to be at our home, to be with our only father, master, fellows and friends. etc.   

¶ When you are about to receive your meat pray.  
THis is a wonderful mystery of thy work, O maker and governor of the world, that thou dost sustain the lives of men & beasts with this meats, surely this power is neither in the bread nor food, but in thy will & word, by which word all things do lyeve and have their beings. Again, how great a thing is it, that thou art able yearly to give sustenance to so many creatures, this is spoken of by thy prophet in thy praises. All things look up to the & thou givest them meat in due season, thou openest thyen hand & fillest with thy blessing every living thing, thes doubtless are wondered works of thine almightiness, I therefore heartily pray thee (O most liberal lord & faithful father) that as thou by meat through thy word dost minister life to thes our bodies, even so by the same word with thy grace do thou quicken our souls that both in soul & body we may pleas the till this our mortal carcase shall put on immortality & we shall need no more any other food, but the only which than wilt be all in all, taste & see how good the lord is, bless the lord (O my soul) which tedeth and filleth thy mouth with good things. Think a little how great gods power is that made us. Also think how great his wisdom is to preserve us. But most of all think how many things are given to our use, how wondered it is to give us life, but most of all to propagate to immortality the life of the soul by his only beck. last of all think that god by his providence for thy body would have the to confirm thy faith of god's providence for thy soul.   

¶ In the meal time pray.  
O Most liberal dystributor of thy gifts, which givest us all kind of good things to use, thou being pure givest pure things, grant to me thy grace, that I mice use not thes thy gracious gifts, given to our use and profits. Let us not love them because thou dost give us these things, but rather let us love thee, because thou givest them, and for that they be necessary for us, for a season till we come unto thee. Grant us to be conversant amongst thy gifts soberly, purely, temperately, holy, because thou art such a one, so shall not we, turn that, to the poison of our souls, which thou hast given for the medicine of our bodies, but using thy benefits thankfully, we shall find them profitable, both to soul and body, think that the meats & drinks set before you, are given to you to use and not to abuse, think they are given to profit and not to hurt you. Think that they are not given to you alone, but unto others also by you in eating, and drinking, think that you, do but feed the worms, remember the poor prisoners, sick. etc. as though you were in their case think upon the food of your soul Christ body broken & his blood shed. desire the meat that lasteth for ever. Iohn. vi. work for it, Christ meat was to do his fathers will. Iohn the fourth.   

¶ After your meat pray thus.  
BY corporal meats thou dost sustain our corporal daily life (ready otherwise to perish) the which surely is a great work but yet this is much greater more profitable, & more holy that thy grace (O jesus Christ) doth keep away from us the death of the soul, for this life we ought much to thank thee, & because thou dost prolong it with thy good gifts, we most heartily praise thee, how be it this life is but the way to eternal life, which we beseech the for thy death's sake that thou wilt give us, & so shall we not only give thee (as we can) thanks in time for temporal things but also eternal thanks, for eternal things. O grant to us thes our desires for thy mercy's sake. Amen. Think now that god hath given the this his blessing of meat etc. and thereto time that thou mightest, as repent, so seek his glory, & the commodity of thy brethren, therefore go there abouts but first pray for grace well to begin, & again consider how thou hast been partaker of other men's labours, as of the husband man's, the millers, the bakars, the browers, the butchers, the cooks. etc. See therefore that thou be not adroen be, but rather such a one, as may help the hyeve, if god have thus fed thy body, which he leaveth not but for thy soul's sake, how can it be then but that he willbe much more ready to feed thy soul. Therefore take a courage to thee, and go to him for grace accordingly.   

¶ Cogytations for about the midday time.  
AS the body is now environed on all sides with light, so See that thy mind may be. As god giveth thee, thus plentifully this corporal light, so pray him that he will give thee, the spiritual light, think that as the son is now most clear so shall our bodies be in the day of judgement. As now the son is cum to the highest, and therefore willbegin to draw downward so is there nothing in the world so perfect and glorious, which (when it is at the full) will not decrease & so wear away.   

¶ When you come home again. Pray.  
there is nothing (O Lord) more like to thy holy nature, than a quiet mind, thou hast called us out of the troublesome disquietness of the world into that thy quiet rest & peace, which the world cannot, give, being such a peace as passeth all men's understanding. Houses are ordained for us, that we might get us in to them from the injury of wether, from the cruelty of beasts from dysquietnes of people, & from the toils of the world, O gracious father grant that through thy great mercy my body may enter into this house, from outward actions, but so that it may become buxom & obedient to the soul, & make no resistance there against. That in soul and body, I may have a godly quietness & peace to praise the. Amen. Peace be to this house and to all that dwell in the same. Think what a return & how merry a return it willbe to come to our eternal most quiet and most happy home, than willbe all grief gone away, what so ever hear is pleasant & joyful, the same is nothing but a very shadow in comparison etc.   

¶ At the son going down pray.  
O How unhappy are they O Lord on whom thy son goeth down & giveth no light, I mean thy grace which is always clear as the midday, dark night unto them is the midday, which depart from thee, in the is never night but always day light most clear. This corporal son hath his courses, now up now down, but thou (dear lord) if we do love the art always one, O that this block and vail of sin were taken away from me, that there might be always clear day in my mind. Think that as we are not sorry when the son goeth down, by cause we know it will rise again, even so let us not sorrow for death, where through the soul & body do pa●●e a sunder for they shall eftsoons return & come together again. So long as the son is up, wild beasts keep their dens, Foxes their borows, Owls their hoals etc. but when the son is down then come they abroad. So wicked men and hypocrites keep their dens in the gospel but it being taken away then swarm they out of their hoals like bees as this day doth teach.   

¶ When the candles be light prey.  
Most thick & dark clouds do Cover our minds, except thy light (O Lord) do dyspell them. Thy son (O most wise worker) is as it were a fire brand to the world, thy wisdom, whereby light cometh both to soul and body is a fire brand, to the spiritual world. After day when the night cometh, thou haste given for the remedy of darkness a candle After sin for the remedy of ignorance thou hast given thy doctrine which thy dear son hath brought unto us, O thou which art the Author and master of all truth make us to see, by both the lights so that the dimness of our minds be dryiven clean away, life upon us thy mirth in our hearts Thy word is a lantern to my feet & a light unto my paths. Think that the knowledge and wisdom, that god hath given unto us by the candles of this night, whereby we see those things in this night, of our bodies which are expedient for us, maketh us to wish much more for this doctrine of God, and when we get it, the more to esteem and diligently embrace it that as all would be horror without candles, so is there nothing but mere confusion where gods word taketh not place.   

¶ When you make yourself unready Pray.  
THis our life and weak knit body by reason of sin, by a little and little, will by dissolved, and so shallbe restored to the earth whence it was taken, than willbe an end of this vanity, which by our foolishness we have wrought to ourselves, O most meek father so do thou untie unlose, and lose me for thou haste knit me together that I may perceive myself to be made unready and dissolved and so may remember both of whom I was made and also whyether I go lest I be had unprepared unto thy tribunal and judgement seat, Put of th'old man with his lusts, & concupiscens Be content with joseph to put of thy prison Apparel, that thou mayst put on new. Think that we do willingly put of our garments, which in the morning we shall put on again, and therefore in thee, after the night of the world, we shall receive on out bodies again let us not unwillingly put them of, when god by death shall call.   

¶ When you enter in to your bed Pray.  
THe day now ended men give themselves to rest in the night and so this life fyneshed we shall rest in death. Nothing is more like this life, than every day, nothing more like death then sleep, nothing more like to our graeve then our bed, O lord our keeper & defender grant the I now laying me down to rest, being unable to keep myself, may be preserved from the crafts & Assaults of the wicked enemy, & & grant father, that when I have run the race of this life if wouldest of thy mercy call me unto the that I may always live & watch with thee, now good god give me to take my rest in the & bring to pass that thy gracious goodness may be (even in sleep) before mine eyes, that sleeping I be not absent from thee, but may have my dreams to draw me unto the & so both soul & body, may be kept pure and holy for ever. I will lay me down in peace & take my rest. Think that as this troblesum day is now past & night cum & so rest, bed, and pleasant sleep which maketh most excellent princes, & most poor pesauntes a like, even so after the tumults, troubles temptationes & tempests of this life they that believe in Christ have prepared for them an heaven and rest most pleasant and joyful. As you are not a frayed to enter in to your bed, and to dispose yourself to sleep, so be not afraid to die but rather prepare yourself to it, think that now you are nearer your end by one days journey, than you were in the morning   

¶ When you feel sleep to be coming pray.  
O Lord jesus Christ my watchman and keeper take me to thy care grant that my body sleeping, my mind may watch in thee, and be made merry by sum sight of that celestial & heavenly life wherein thou art the king & prince together with the father & the holy ghost. Thy Angels & holy souls, be most happy citizens. O purify my soul keep clean my body, that in both I may please thee, sleeping and waking for ever Amen.   

¶ A most fruitful Prayer for the dispersed Church of Christ very necessary to be used of the godly in these days of affliction compiled by. R. P.  
O Most omnipotent magnificent and glorious god and father of all consolation, we here assembled do not presume to present and prostrate ourselves before thy mercy seat in the respect of our own worthiness and righteousness, which is all together polluted and defiled: but in the merits, righteousness and worthiness of thy only son jesus Christ, whom thou hast given unto us as a most pure and precious garment to cover our pollution and filthiness with all, to th'end we might appear holy and justified in thy sight through him. Wherefore in the obedience of thy commandements and in the confidence of thy promises contained in thy holy word that thou shalt accept, and grant our prayers presented unto the in the favour of thy only son our saviour jesus Christ. Either for ourselves, or for the necessity of thy saints and congregation. We here congregated together do with one mouth and mind most humbly beseech the not only to pardon and forgive us all our sins negligences, Ignorances and iniquities, which we from time to time incessantly do commit against thy divine majesty in word, deed, and thought, such is the infirmity of our corrupted nature: But also that it would please thee (O benign father) to be favourable and merciful unto thy poor afflicted church, & congregation dispersed through out the whole world, which in these days of iniquity are oppressed in iuried, dispiced, persecuted & afflicted for the testimony of thy word and for the obedience of thy laws.  
And namely O Lord and father we humbly beseech the to extend thy mercy and favourable countynance upon all those that are imprisoned or condemned for the cause of thy Gospel: whom thou hast chosen forth and made worthy to glorify thy name. That either it may please the to give them such constancy as thou hast given to thy saints & matters in time paste, willingly to shed their blood for the testimony of thy word: Or else mightily deliver them from the tyranny of their enemies as thou deliverest the condemned Daniel from the Lions, and the persecuted Peter out prison, to thexeaultation of thy glory and the rejoicing of thy church.  
Further more most beneficial father we humbly beseech the to stretch forth the mighty arm into the protection and defence of all those that are exiled for the testimony of thy verity: & that because they would not bend their backs and incline their necks under the youcke of Anthechrist, and be polluted with the execrable Idolatries, and blasphemus superstitions of the ungodly. That it would please the not only to feed them in strange countries, but also to prepare a resting place for them, as thou haste done from time to time for thine elect in all age is whereas they may unite them selves together in the sincere ministration of thy holy word and Sacraments to their singular edification. And in deu time restore them home again into their land, to celebrate thy praises, promote thy gospel, & edify thy desolate congregation.  
Consequently O lord thou that hast said that thou wilt not break the bruised reide, nor quench the smoking flax: Be merciful we beseech thee unto all those that through fear and wecknes have denied the by dissimulation and ypocresie. That it may please the to strengthen their wecke knees (thou that art the strength of them that standeth) and lift up their feible hands, that their little smoke may increase into a great flame and their bruised reid into a mighty oak, able to abide all the bolstringe blasts & stormy tempests of adversity, to th'end that the ungodly do no longer triumph over their fight, which (as they think) they have utterly quenched & subdued. Stir up thy strength in them O lord and behold them with that merciful eye, where with thou beheldes Peter, that they rising by repentance, may become the constant confessors of thy word, and the sanctified members of thy church. To the end that when as by thy providence thou purposest to lay thy cross upon them, they do no more seek unlawful means to avoid the same, but most willingly to be contented with patience to take it up & follow thee, in what sort so ever it shall please the to lay the same upon their shoulders. Either by death, imprisonment or exile. And that it will please thee, not to tempt them about their powers, but give them grace utterly to despair of their own strength, and wholly to depend upon thy mercy.  
On the other side O lord god, thou ryghtouse judge, Let not the ungodly the enemies of thy truth continually triumph over us, as they do at this day. Let not thine heritage become a reproach & common lawghing stock unto the impudent and wicked Papists, who by all possible means seek the utter destruction of thy little stock in shedding, the blood of thy saints for the testimony of thy word, seeking by most devilish and damnable practices to subvert thy truth. Confounded them O God and all their wicked counsels: & in the same pit they have digged for other, let them be taken, that it may be universally known, that there is no counsel nor force that can prevail against the lord our god. Break O lord the horns of those bloody bulls of basan. Pull down those high mountains that elevate themselves against thee. And rote up the rotten race of the ungodly, to th'end that they being consumed in the fire of thine indignation, thine exiled Church may in there own land find place of habitation.  
O Lord deliver our land which thou haste given us for a portion to poscesse in this life from the invasion and subduing of strangers. Truth it is we cannot deny but that our sins hath justly deserved this great plague now eminent and approaching, even to be given over into the hands and subjection of that proud and beastly nation, that neither know thee, nor fear thee: and to serve them in a bodily captivity, that have refused to serve the in a spiritual liberty. Yet lord for as much as we are assuredly persuaded by thy holy word that thine anger doth not last for ever towards those that earnestly repent, but in the stead of vengeance dost show mercy. We most penitently beseech the to remove this thy great indignation bent towards us, and give not over our land, our cities, Towns, and Castles our goods, pocessions & riches, our wife's, children and our own lywes into the subjection of strangers. But rather O Lord expel them our land subvert there counsels, dissipate their devices and deliver us from their tyranny, as thou deliverest. Samaria from that cruel Benadab, jerusalem from that blasphemus Senacherib, and Betulia from that proud Holifernus.  
give us O Lord such princes & rulers, such magistrates & governors as will advance thy glory, erect up thy gospel, supprese idolatry, banish all papistry, & execute justice & equity. Water again O lord thy vine of england with the moisture of thy holy-word, lest it utterly perish & whither away. Byld up again the decayed walls of thy rewyned jerusalem thy congregation in this land, lest the ungodly do attribute our confusion not unto our sins (as the truth is) but unto our profession in religion.  
Remember (O Lord) that we are a persell of thy portion, thy flock, the inheritors of thy kingdom, the sheep of thy pasture, and the members of thy son our saviour jesus Christ: deal with us therefore according to the multitude of thy mercies, that all nations, kindreds, & tongues, may selebrate thy praises in the restoring of thy rewyned church to perfection again, for it is thy work (O lord) & not man's, & from the do we with patience attend the same, & not from the fleshly arm of man, & therefore to the only is done all dominion, power and thanks giving now in our days and evermore. Amen.   

i. Timoth. two. Pray in every place lifting up pure hands.  
OH mighty king, and most high almighty god, the father of our lord jesus christ, which mercifully dost govern all things, which thou hast made look down upon the faithful seed of Abraham, the children of thy chosen jacob, Thy chosen people I do mean, consecrate unto the by the anoyncting of thy holy spirit, And appointed to thy kingdom by the eternal purpose, free merci, and grease, but yet as strangers wandering in this vile vale of misery, brought forth daily, by the worldly tyrants, like shape to the slaughter. O father of all flesh who by thy divine providence changest times and ceasons, and most wonderfully disposest kingdoms, thou hast destroyed Pharo, with all his horse, and chariots, puffid up with pride, agayenst thy people, leading forth saffelye by the hands of thy mercy, thy belovede Israel, thorough the high waves of the raging waters Thou oh god the lord of all hosts, and armis, diddest first drive away from the gates of thy people the blasphemous Senacherib, slaing of his army, four score and five thousand by thy angil, in one night: And after by his own sons before his own Idols, diddest kill the same blasphemous Idolater, showing openly to all heathen thy provident pwre, towards thy despised letel ones. Thou diddest trance form and change proud Nabuchodonosar, the enemy of thy people, into A brute beast, to eat grass, and hay, to the honorable terror of all worldly tyrants, And as thou art the father of mercies and god of all consolation, so of thy wonderful mercy diddest thou preserve those thy three servants in Babylon, which with bold courage gave their bodies to the fire, because they would not worship any dead Idol, and when they were cast into the burning furnace, thou diddest give them cheerful hearts, to rejoice, and sing psalms, and savedst unhurt the very hears of their heads, turning the flame from them, to devour their enemies Thou oh lord god, by the might of thy right arm (which governeth all) broughtest Daniel thy prophet save into light and life, forth of the dark den of the devouring lions where by false accusations he was shout under the earth, of those raging beasts to be devoured, but thou turnedst their cruelty upon his accusares, repaying the wicked, upon their own pates. Yea lord which passeth all wonders, & is far above man's power to perceive therein thy working, thou diddest cause the huge, and great dragon of the seas, the horrible Leviathan, and Behemoth, the main whalefish, to swallow up and devour, thy servant jonas, to keep him three days and three nights in the dungeon of his belly the dark hell-like grave to a living man, Thou diddest cause that  monster, to carry him to the place, that thou hadst appointed, and there to cast him up save, and able to do thy message. Now also O heavenly father, beholdor of all things, to whom only belongeth vengeance, thou seest & considerest how thy holy name by the wicked wordlings, and blasphemous Idoloters is dishonorid, thy sacrate word, refused, forsaken and despised, thy holy spirit provokede, and offended, thy chosen temple polluted, and deffilede, Tarry not too long therefore, but show thy power speedily upon thy chosen household, which is so grievously vexed, & so cruelly handled by thy open enemies, Avenge thy own glory, and shorten these evil days, for thy elects sake. Let thy kingdom come of all thy desired, & though our livings, hath offended thy majesty, as we do confess unfeignedly (O Lord) that we have all sinned, our kings, princes, priests prophets, and people, All we together, with our parent's fathers & mothers, have most grievously, infinitely, passing all measure, and number with our hard flintishe hearts, our dissolute, and careless life, without all shame and repentance for sin, offended, transgressid, trespassid, sinned, and committed most horrible wickedness, so that we have worthily deserved, the uttermost of thy plagues and terrible vengeance. Yet for thy own glory (O merciful Lord) suffer not the enemy of thy son christ, the romish Antichrist, thus wretchedly to delude, and draw from the our poor brethren, for whom thy son once died, that by his cruelty, after so clear light, they should be made captives to dumb Idols, and devilish Inventions, of popish ceremonies, thereunto pertaining. Suffer him not to seduce the simple sort with his fond opinion, that his false gods, blind mumbling, feigned religion or his foolish superstition, doth give him such conquests, such victories, such triumph, and so high hand over us. We know most certainly (O Lord) that it is not their arm and power, but our sins, and offences, that hath delivered us to their fury, And hath caused the to turn away from us. But turn again, O Lord let us fall into thy hands otherways (seeing thy justice must punish us) let us fall into thy hands (as David did choose) by dearth, famine, or pestilence, or what way thou likest, least these vain Idolaters do rejoice, at the miserable destruction, of those men, whom they make proselytes, and from thy doctrine Apostates, But oh lord thy holy will be fulfilled, this is thy righteous judgement, to punish us with the tyrannical yoke of blindness, because we have cast away from us, the sweat yoke of the wholesome word of thy son our saviour. Yet consider the horrible blasphemies of thine and our enemies. They name a cake, their god, there Christ and altogether they know nothing of thy power, they say in their hearts, there is no god, which either can, or will deliver us: wherefore O heavenly father, the governor of all things, the Avenger of the causes of the poor, the fatherless, the widow & of the oppressed, look down from heaven, with the face of thy fatherly mercies and forgive us all former offences, and for thy son Christ's sake have mercy upon us, which by the force, and cruelty, of wicked, and blasphemous Idolaters without causes approved, are haled & pulled from our own houses, are slandered slain and murdered, as rebels, and traitors, like persons pernicious, pestiferous, seditious, pestilent, and full of mortal poison, to all men contagious where we do meddle no farther, but against the helly powers of darkness, against the spiritual craftiness, in heavenly things, which would deny the will of our god, and the power of our Christ unto us, we do contend no farther, but only for our Christ crucified, and the only salvation by his blessed passion, knowledging none other god none other Christ, or saviour, but only thee, the everliving lord and our most merciful father, and thy dear son our saviour, who is in the same glory with the in the high heavens, Therefore O Lord for thy glorious name sake, for jesus Christ's sake, by whom thou haste promised to grant all righteous requests, make the wicked Idolaters to wonder and stand amazed, at thy almighty power, use thy wont strength, to the confusion of thine enemies, and to the help & deliverance of thy persecuted people all thy saints do beseech the therefore, the young infants (which have somedeal tasted of thy sweet word) by whose mouths thou hast promised to make perfect thy praises whose Angels doth alway behold thy face, who beside the loss of us their parents, Are in danger, to be compelled, and driven (without thy great mercies to serve dumb, & insensible Idols) do cry and call to thee: there pitiful mothers, with lamentable tears, lie prostrate before the throne of thy grace. Thou father of the fatherless judge of the widows, and avenger of all the oppressed, let it apere (O Lord omnipotent) that thou dost hear, judge, avenge, & punish all wrongs offered to all thy little ones that do believe in thee, Do this O Lord for thy name's sake, Arise up O Lord and thy enemies shallbe scattered & confounded, So be it O Lord most merciful at thy time appointed.   

¶ An other godly prayer to be said at all times.  
Honour and praise be given to the o Lord god almighty most dear father of heaven, for all thy marsies and loving kindness showyd unto us, in that it hath pleysyd thy gracius goodness freely and of thine own accord to elect and choose us to salvation before the beginning of the world, and even like contenewall thanks be given to the for creating of us after thine own image, for redeminge, us with the precius blood of thy dersonne when we ware utterly lost, for sanctifying us with thy holy spirit in the revelation and knowledge of thy holy word, for helping and Suckering us in all our needs and nescesites, for saving us from all dangers of body and soul, for comforting us so fatherly in all our tribulation and persecutions, for sparing us so long and giving us so large a time of repentans, thes benefits O most merciful father, like as we knowledge to have received them of thy only goodness, even so we beseech the that for thy dear son jesus Christ's sake to grant us always thy holy spirit, whereby we may contenewally grow in thankfulness towards thee, to be led into all truth, and comforted in all our adversetes, O lord strengthen our faith, kindle it more in faruentnes and love towards the & our neighbours for thy sake. Suffer us not dereste father to receive thy word any more in vain, but grant us always the assystans of thy grace and holy spirit, that in heart word and deed, we may santefye and do worship to thy holy name. Help to amplefye & increase thy kingdom, and what soever thou sendest we may be heartily well content with thy good pleasure and will, let us not lack the thing (Oh father) with out the which we cannot serve thee, but bless thou so all the works of our hands that we may have sufficient and not to be chargeabell but rather helpful unto others, be merciful (O Lord) to our offences, and seeing our det it great which thou haste forgiven us in jesus christ, make us to love the and our neighbours so much the more. Be thou our father our captain and defender in all temptations hold thou us by thy merciful hand, that we may be delivered from all inconveniences, & end our lives in the sanctifying and honour of thy holy name, through jesus Christ our lord, and only saviour. Amen.  
Let thy mighty hand and out strechyd arm O Lord be still our defence, thy mercy & loving kindness in jesus Christ thy dear son our salvation, thy true and holy word our instruction, thy grace and holy spirit, our comfort and consolation, unto the end, and in the end. Amen.  
¶ O Lord increase our faith.  
Bradfords' beads that he prayed on being in Prison for the testimoni, of jesus Christ leaving them as necessary to be used of the faithful.  ¶ Blesyd are the dead that die in the lord, even so saith the Spiret, that they rest from their labores, but their works follow them. Apo. xiiii.   

Imprinted at London in Saint Martin's parish in the vinetre, upon the three Crane warfe, by wyllyam Coplande.  
Anno. Do. M.D.LIX the xv. day of March.