THE SECOND PART of the true watch, CONTAINING THE perfect rule and sum of Prayer: So plainly set down, that the weakest Christian, taking but the least pains, may in a very short space, learn to pray of himself, with much assurance and comfort: both to get strength to observe the Lords watch; and to help to turn away, or at least find comfort in the evils that are to come.  Luk. 21. 36. Watch and pray continually, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and that ye may stand before the Son of man.. Esay 62. 6. 7. Ye that are the Lords remembrancers, give him no rest. 
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MY singular good Lady, L. ELIZABETH Countess of Huntingdon.  
OUR Saviour hath not without good cause, (Right Honourable) so oft called on us to watch and pray, 
Mark. 13. 33. and 14. 38.  joining these two together; and warning his Disciples in their greatest dangers to watch and pray, that they might not fall into temptation; and also charging us all to watch and pray continually, that we may be accounted worthy to escape all the evils that shall come to pass, 
Luk. 21. 36.  and to stand before the Son of man: because we can neither watch unless we pray, to obtain strength from the Lord by it; nor pray with any comfort or power unless we watch; nor ever get assurance to escape the evils that shall come on the world, much less the temptations of Satan, and damnation of hell, and appear with boldness before our Saviour, unless we both watch and pray. In regard whereof, first my duty to the Majesty of God, who prepared the watch against so needful a time; and after so graciously caused my poor desire therein to be accepted in his church, hath encouraged me to endeavour to adjoin unto the watch, this short direction for prayer, as a second part & unseparable companion, for the further good of his servants, of whom sundry have desired it at my hands. And secondly, your ladyships most favourable acceptance of it, being dedicated unto my Honourable Lord, persuading me of your Honours unfeigned desire both to observe the same, and walk in all the ways of the Lord, have emboldened me to presume to offer this unto your Honourable Ladyship: both to testify my dutiful & thankful affection to your Honour also: and withal my fervent desire that you may both walk hand in hand all your days, in the self-same narrow way of eternal life; as being of the same heart and holy accord; enabled thereunto by the spirit of the Lord, obtained by continual and instant prayer. That so ye may shine as glorious lights together in the earth, and after in the heavens above the brightness of the Sun for evermore.  
This shall be in the mean time your key into the palace of the Almighty, 
Mat. 7. 7. 8 and 21. 22.  and to the presence chamber of his glorious Majesty: 
Psal. 135. 18.  whereby you may be admitted at all times 
james 4. 8.  to most familiar conference; receive immediate answers from his Highness: 
Esay 65. 24  obtain the riches and pleasures of his house, with the most precious jewels of his treasury, to adorn you far more gloriously than all the pearl & precious stones of all the Princes of the earth: all which shall utterly vanish as the dimmest star, when the brightness of your glory shall appear. 
Gen. 32. 28. and 1. 2.  You shall as Israel prevail with your God; 
Hebr. 1. 14.  have his Angels and all the hosts of heaven at your desire; 
james 47.  all being at a perpetual league with you: 
Ephes. 6. 18.  vanquish the devils and put them to slight: 
job 22. 27. 28. 29.  overthrow the plots of the wickedest, and be accepted for the Church: subdue in yourself each corruption: bring every thought into an holy obedience: find the Comforter at hand in all your trials; the sweet voice of the Spirit, making you with confidence to call him Abba, oh Father; 
Rom. 8. 15. 16.  and giving you most strong assurance of a kingdom, and the life of the Angels in the very terrors of death. And in a word, you shall thus most happily redeem the days of our vanity, and treasure up in heaven abundantly against the time of the perfect accomplishment of your eternal triumph and felicity.  
Whereunto according to my perpetual bounden duty I shall always strive during my life; both by my incessant prayer, and all other holy means, which the Lord shall in mercy vouchsafe unto me his poor and unworthy servant. And in this study towards your eternal glory and happiness I rest myself; nothing doubting of your like honourable acceptation of this my poor endeavour, howsoever penned in a most plain and familiar style; not to delight the curious with an hours reading, (which I leave to others) but to help the honest heart that is desirous to learn of our Saviour how to pray, 
Luke 18. 1.  and continued therein in this life without fainting, 
Esay 65. 13. 14.  to rejoice and sing with the Angels for ever after; when all others shall weep and mourn, and never find any comfort or release.  
Your Honours in the Lord ever to be commanded. JOHN BRINSLEY.   

THE PREFACE TO THE CHRISTIan Reader, containing a large and plain direction to all the simpler sort, how to use this aright; and an earnest exhortation to all sorts to give themselves instantly to watching and prayer.  
IT hath been wished (Christian and loving Reader) that as I have gone briefly thorough the Commandments and Articles of the faith, to set down the true watch; so I would take some pains in like manner to go thorough the Lord's Prayer, to set down the rule and sum of prayer, for the further perfecting and our better performing the same watch. Whereupon notwithstanding my great inability, in respect of many of my brethren, yet considering the Lords former mercy, who shows his power in weakness; and that by this motion of divers, he seems to require my poor labour in this also, I have attempted likewise to make trial herein: the better to enable the simpler sort, and to stir up all sorts to this holy duty of prayer; that we may obtain strength from the Lord to keep his watch more faithfully, with innumerable other benefits procured by the same. And the rather weighing well into what dangerous times we are fallen; wherein the greatest part (as it is much to be feared) in such a declining to Atheism, and generally to extreme coldness or lukewarmness, do seldom or never pray privately; unless perhaps they use the Lords Prayer without understanding. And of those who use to pray, some although they pray much, yet they do it very superstitiously, to the provoking of the Lord, and hurt of their own souls, instead of receiving any true comfort therein; as all our popish sort do. Others have a desire to pray, but want ability or leisure; as all our young and weak Christians. A third sort droop in their troubles, temptations and fears, & are at their wit's end, as Jacob's sons, not knowing what way to take, and so continue fretting & vexing themselves, or attempt unlawful means for their relief and comfort. A fourth are afraid to use the Lords Prayer as a prayer, because they cannot comprehend the power and meaning of it in so short a form. A fifth have gone forth with our Saviour into the garden, promising and beginning to watch & pray, which yet through our long peace, ease and prosperity, are fallen a sleep. another sort live in monstrous sins, as in oppression and unmerciful dealing, deceit, secret uncleanness and the like, without repentance; and yet imagine that they do pray, that their prayers are accepted, and that they shall be heard in the day when they cry, deceiving their own souls. A last sort, and those one only and scarce to befound abide therein with our Saviour, in watching, cries and tears; wrestling and weeping as jacob for the deadly malice & bloody threats of Esau; and holding up their hands with Moses against Amaleck, and also to pacify the Lords wrath, that it may not be powered out upon his people, for all our grievous provocations. To witness my love therefore yet further to all these, and all other the Lords people, I have thought it my duty, to offer this weak labour also unto the Church of God, commending the success unto him who is only wise, and worketh by what instruments it pleaseth him, and above all that we are able to conceive: yet not before I had first communicated it unto some, much reverenced of all, for their learning and piety. Now I only crave pardon to speak freely, to each of these sorts particularly.  
And first to you that pray not at all, look but upon the necessity of prayer, 
hearken you that pray not at all.  and consider well in what state you stand until you both can and use to pray; that you are in state of damnation, having all things accursed unto you, and working your perdition; and that you but only tarry for the execution of God's vengeance; and than if God open your eyes to see yourselves and your danger, I shall not need to call upon you: for, I know you will give no rest unto your eyes, until ye both can and do practise this duty: nor that you will ever let day pass hereafter, but reserve some part of it from your pleasures and profits, to bestow on the Lord in prayer, at least a morning and an evening sacrifice.  
For you that pray in an unknown tongue, or without understanding, 
You that pray man unknown tongue.  be advised to spend no more labour in vain, deceiving your own souls: but learn of your Lord and Saviour to pray according to that heavenly pattern, wherein all true wisdom and comfort are to be found, and which he hath prescribed unto you to use, if you be any of his disciples; warranting you, that if you so ask you shall have; and then shall you find him to answer to your hearts desire, and carry you into all his saving truth.  
And you that have a desire to pray, but know not how to perform this duty aright; 
You that desire to pray.  I have chiefly intended your good, both to direct you for the things which are principally to be begged of us, contained in the Lord's prayer, the sum whereof I have endeavoured to set down plainly in these short forms, applying them to the times; and also to help you for the manner of uttering your requests; aiming at this specially, that by daily practice and meditation herein, you may better attain to the true understamnding of the Lords prayer, and ever have it in fresh memory: which being the true perfection and pattern of all holy prayer, doth in the infinite wisdom of God comprehend whatsoever we can ask. That so you having first gathered by wise observation in the watch, a true catalogue of your own special sins and wants, together with the main sins and wants of the Church and Land, may be able of yourselves both for matter and words, to make a most holy confession of sins, and power forth your supplications according to your necessities, with comfort and assurance. I have set them down in two forms, both containing the same matter, as they are one set against the other: the one more shortly, because of our weariness in the best things, and chiefly in this duty of prayer, (though of all other most necessary) the other somewhat more largely, for the fuller understanding of it; & the heads of both in the margin, for the better remembering thereof, or conceiving the like. Not intending to tie any necessarily ever to use one of these, (though it were much better to use them or the like, than not to pray at all, or to pray vnprofi●ablie) nor to use the whole ever at large; although all the things therein comprised, are to be begged daily for ourselves, or our brethren; but to use those most which chiefly concern our special necessities, and the necessities of the Church & our Land; all which may be referred to one of these six petitions; As when we would pray for the glory of God, or to kindle the zeal of it in our hearts, or that he would show his glory in the preservation of our King and Realms, to use the first. For the Church of God and perfect unity therein, and against the proud enemies thereof; or to get more assurance that we are true members of it, to use the second petition. The third for cheerfulness in doing Gods will or submission to the same. The fourth for dependence on God, for the things of this life, and against all worldly cares. The fifth for forgiveness of sins. The last against dangers or fear of temptation, or any evil whatsoever. I have laboured to set down the heads so plainly in the margin, distinguishing them by figures, that every one that is desirous to learn, having but the several parts of the Lords prayer in his mind may meditate of them happily at his work, or as God gives any leisure; first marking how many things are chiefly to be learned in the Preface; then in each petition; so in the conclusion: and withal labouring to feel the need that he hath of them, our misery without them, and our happiness in enjoying them; stirring up his heart to a vehement desire of them: and then at time of prayer, to try how he can pray of himself according to the same order; using in the mean time, the help of one of the prayers set down, to get fit words; and withal a daily meditation of his particular sins, (chiefly those following his nature and course of life, with his principal wants, dangers, chastisements and mercies received;) which will be the speediest teacher to the simplest to pray with true feeling and power. If you would yet wish further direction for the general confession of sin, you may use the first and second helps in the watch of the miseries and heinousness of sin, Edit. 2. p. 5. l. 9 If for an increase in holiness, the third help of the blessings following a holy conversation, pag.. 11. If for true comfort and thanksgiving; you may use the help of the rules for direction and comfort in our examination, pag. 13. All which with the graces we have obtained in the Law, and promises we are assured of in the Gospel, must needs cause the simplest to send forth most sweet prayers and thanksgivings unto the Lord. And so much for you that are desirous to pray.  
Now to you that droop and faint under your several troubles and temptations, not knowing what to do, 
You that faint in your troubles.  the Lord hath here showed you plainly what you should do. Learn of Eliphas in job: 
job 22. 21.  Acquaint yourselves with your God, search your sins by the true trial; Make peace with him; 
26.  than you may lift up your face to God, make your prayer unto him, and he will hear you: 
28.  And his light shall shine upon your ways. When others are cast down you shall be lift up, 
29.  and God will save the humble person. Therefore continue in prayer, wrestling with him, let him not go before he have blessed you, he will certainly do it: Prove and see. Only, wait upon the Lord in the way of righteousness until he send you comfort; using all holy and warrantable means to help herein, to serve his divine and fatherly providence; but be afraid of so much as ever thinking of any indirect course (as to do but the least evil to obtain never so great a good) and much more of rebelling against the Lord or his anointed, and that authority which he hath set over you; lest above all other your miseries, you bring upon you the terrors of an accusing conscience, 
Rom. 13. 2.  and procure unto yourselves most certain w●e and endless damnation. And thus much also for you that faint in your trials. If you desire further advice, look the watch, pag. 127.  
You that are afraid to pray, using the Lord's prayer as a prayer, 
You that are afraid to use the Lords prayer.  because you cannot comprehend the meaning of it in so few words: and for that the multitude abuse it; accept my earnest endeavour to knit our hearts in one, both by assisting you, that you may have the sum of the chief heads ever in fresh memory, as before your faces; and that those who abuse it without understanding may learn a more holy use thereof. If yet you say, that you cannot so comprehend the full meaning of it, and all things contained in it, the like you may say (as I take it) of every several petition thereof, and so we should use none of them in our prayers at all.  
For you beloved that sometimes were fervent in prayer, 
You that are fallen asleep.  but now are cold and heavy, or altogether fallen asleep; I say not unto you awake; Behold from whence you are fallen, and the danger wherein yourselves and the Church of God stand continually; seeing our experience teacheth us, that there is but a hair breadth between us and death; especially if ever the Lord should leave his anointed, our josiah, the breath of our nostrils, for one minute, into the enemy's hand. But only ● put you in mind of the speech of our Saviour to his drowsy Disciples; Sleep henceforth & take your rest. I beseech the Lord that I may never see that day. But what mean all our prodigious signs? and above all the worst, that almost all are 
* I desire to awake you by oft beating upon this point.  fallen asleep in the midst of such inveterate and deadly malice, with all sorts of grievous sins, increased to the uttermost, to provoke the Lord: after so many bloody practices, and terrible forewarnings given so oft, and graciously to prevent the fierce wrath of the Lord; with such sudden and insolent over flewing; some of them in the midst and highest part of the Land, where the people were altogether secure, as not having the least thought of any danger by water; which together with the former, (principally of the raging seas) all must needs acknowledge to be the finger of God. If our sins had been so increased in the days of popish blindness, they had been nothing in respect; but now in such a glorious light, wherein all of us have been convinced so many ways; and subscribed in our hearts to the truth of God; and also do generally still justify the good ways of God; and yet for most part set ourselves to trample all under our feet, hating or scorning all that so walk, how gracious, dutiful and blameless soever they be; this must needs make our sins unmeasurably sinful, and above the sins of all other people.  
And you that imagine you pray, and are accepted of the Lord, and yet live in your unmerciful oppression, or any other such heinous sin; may it not well be demanded of you, as the Lord doth of the people before the Captivity: 
jer. 7. 9 10.  Will you swear, lie, dissemble, oppress, build your houses with blood, commit adultery, drink the blood of souls and all other evil, and yet cry, the temple of the Lord, we are the servants of the Lord, and call upon his name? Will the Lord take a wicked man by the hand? Can the hypocrite call on God in the day of his adversity? No, no, you deceive your own souls; until you have made peace with God by unfeigned repentance, and by Zacheus restitution peace with men. Nay although you commit not half these sins, 
Ezec. 18. 11.  but live in any one of them, or any other like, hath not the Lord said you shall surely die for it? What good then can your prayers do, when the Lord turns away his ear (as from that which 
Prou. 28. 9  is abominable,) 
Prou. 1. 24. 25. 26.  and will laugh at your destruction; because you would not first hearken unto him to turn from your evil ways, while he stretched forth his hands unto you? 
You that still continue with our Saviour.   
Therefore unto you (my dear brethren of all sorts and degrees) who have continued with our Saviour hitherto, in watching, prayers and tears, and yet at length begin with Moses to faint, with long holding up your hands, or are in danger thereof; I unfeignedly desire of the Lord, that I may be as Aaron or Hur, to help to confirm your weak hands and weary knees. 
Deut. 20. 1. 2. 3.  Let not your hearts faint. 
2. Chr. 25▪ 2.  The Lord our God is with us while we are with him. Let us continue wrestling and weeping, and become so much more instant and importunate as the sins & dangers increase; urging him ever with his own glory, the pride of his enemies, and their blasphemies, if ever they should prevail: together with his gracious promises, love and former mercies, both to all his own people in all ages, and especially towards ourselves, declared hitherto in all our peace, prosperity, miraculous deliverances, with continuance of the Gospel beyond all expectation. Oh that all in the Land fearing the Lord, 
Three things wished at the hands of all fearing God.  and the tokens of his displeasure, had hearts to perform but these three duties to his heavenly Majesty.  
First that every one of us would but learn to know our own special faults and wants by careful meditation in the law, 
Each to know and amend our special faults.  together with the sins and wants of the Church and Land, and so to consider each night how we prevail in reforming ourselves; and then frame our prayers and thanksgiving accordingly: for each of our particular and principal sins, are as Satan that stood at Iehosuah's right hand, that our prayers cannot go up unto the Lord. And of all others, that every one whose conscience do accuse them of cruelty towards their brethren, would take away that crying sin of oppression, crying louder for vengeance then all the sins of the earth beside, which brought the flood of waters, when the earth was filled with cruelty; and brought in the fierce Babylonian, to oppress and spoil the great men in judea, and to make those goodly houses desolate, 
Esay 5. 8. 9  which had formerly been built by the oppressions and spoiling of the poor: which makes the poor to sigh being weary of their lives, 
Psal. 12. 5.  whose sighs the Lord must needs hear and avenge, 
Exod. 22. 22. 23.  when man regardeth them not: 
Deut. 9 7. 8. 9 10. 11.  which will so shut up the bowels of the Lords mercy and compassion, that he will show us no more mercy, but, reject all our prayers, because we would have no mercy of the poor; no, though Noah, job and Daniel were amongst us; 
Ezek. 14. 14.  that they should but save their own souls; and so must needs bring a fearful desolation upon our sinful nation, unless it be speedily redressed: besides the blasphemies of the Idolatrous enemies of the Church of God, and their brags of their works of mercy and pity; thereby moving the people to a discontentedness, & to dislike of the religion of the Lord, as being the breeder and nourisher of all such cruel and unmerciful dealing; though even in this same bloody sin, they be as deep as any other.  
Secondly, that all would learn of our Saviour to pray as he hath commanded. 
To learn of our Saviour to pray.  I have this confident hope, that the weakest Christian amongst us having a good heart, 
My hope of the simplest.  although he have never been able to utter his requests to God for himself or Gods Church, 
Learn but the chief heads of the margins and try, making them your morning meditation.  would in few weeks (but following this poor direction) learn to pray in feeling with much comfort: & those who want good hearts, would by this practice obtain them.  
Thirdly, that we would all join to pray according to the two first petitions, for the Church of God, our Prince and Realms, with true unity therein, 
To pray according to the two first petitions chiefly.  and against all the enemies of them; for then undoubtedly we should neither need to fear the practices of the Pope's Seminaries nor devils, 
The fruit hereof.  nor yet all the enemies of the world; but only stand still with Moses, and see what the Lord would still do for us. Happy shall they be, whom the Lord singles out unto this work, to be if it were but as one of gedeon's three hundred, for the perpetual preservation of the Church of God and their country. But for the rest, although they scape the Bear, yet a Lion shall tear them in pieces; for being delivered with God's s●ruants from the temporal judgement, the eternal wrath of God doth certainly remain for them. Wherefore give me leave to speak a little further 
A further pressing the exhortation to prayer.  unto your souls in this important business, if I may awake but some of you.  
You that spend your lives in pleasures, will you not be persuaded to spend some 
To them that live in pleasures.  hours in this heavenvly work, to talk with God for the saving your own souls and the people of the Lord? Oh that you knew the unspeakable sweetness that herein you should find; whereas in your vain pleasures what can you look for, but intolerable bitterness in the end? will not all these increase the wrath against us? whereas the changing them into prayers, with fasting and tears, would be as the sacrifice of Noah, wherein the Lord would certainly smell a savour of rest; and as the repentance of Niniveh, that he that had compassion on the poor ignorant heathen, would much more cause his face to shine still more bright, upon us, whom he hath vouchsafed so long the profession of his name. Know it for certain, as the Lord hath given any of you more of his outward blessings, & with them more time & means to serve him, so he looks for so much more time at your hands to be spent in instant prayer, then of any other of the earth, and so must your account be. Do not the popish sort that live in your bosoms observe, besides your extreme irreligiousness, how you never use to pray privately, or with any devotion? and are they not hereby hardened to like far better of their own blind superstition; wherein they spend so much time in prayer? How will you answer your God for the blood of so many souls as hereby perish? If you could be persuaded (which you will one day feel, either in this life, or when it is utterly too late) that these & all other your sins, wherein now is your felicity, will be as so many swords to pierce your poor souls, and so many devils to torment you eternally; and your repentance & death altogether uncertain: you durst not let one minute pass, but would fall into bitter mourning for all your sins, and for your time so ill spent, and be warned by our Saviour to begin to watch and pray, that you might escape all these miseries, that will certainly come upon you.  
You also that have filled your houses with the spoils of the poor, & the earth with their cries, the cry of your sins is gone up into the heavens, that the Lord threateneth to be avenged forthwith. Let the counsel of Daniel to Nabuchadnezar be acceptable unto you, 
Dan. 4. 24.  if you will escape the decree that is coming forth against you. Break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by mercy towards the poor. 
Esay 1. 16. 17. 18. 19 20.  Repent and make restitution while you may▪ Cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless and defend the widow, as the Lord bids you by his Prophet. Then you may pray, and your prayers shall be heard: though your sins were as crimson (that is, most bloody sins) yet they shall be made white as snow. If ye consent and obey, ye shall eat the good things of the Land: but if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Your oppressions which have pressed down the poor unto the ground, will one day crush you into the bottom of hell, and will be a load heavier than the whole earth upon you: that you would give all the world, if you had it, to be disburdened of them; and at your death the judgement threatened unto jehoiakim shall surely light upon you, 
jerem. 22. 18. 19  that none shall lament or mourn for you, to say, ah Lord, ah his glory; but all shall rejoice that the earth is eased of you; and your remembrance shall remain most vile and loathsome to all posterity, as the memory of other oppressors doth before.  
And for you that would never spare so much as one hour from your worldly businesses to private prayer, 
To the worldling.  when God opens your eyes to discern the true profit hereof, above the other, & that hitherto you have been merely of the world, and utterly without God; howsoever you look to your worldly business, you will look to this business of the Lord, and set your selves times of prayer, which the gaining of the world cannot make you to forget.  
And in a word, so many of you as can talk with men of any earthly matter, 
To all that cannot pray of themselves, nor regard to learn.  and make any request for this present life, for whatsoever you need; and yet could never utter so much as one speech, no not in secret to your Father in heaven, nor make any one supplication for any heavenly thing with feeling; how can you think that ever you were touched with Zeal of God's glory or his kingdom? or how can you imagine that you can be the children of the heavenly Father, or have any interest in the Lord and his kingdom; or be any thing but mere worldlings, savouring only the world, and it alone your portion, having a world of miseries and torment remaining for you for ever? Learn therefore to pray above all; you will find this a treasure ten thousand times better than all the wealth & pleasures of the world. For what you would have, this will undoubtedly procure you, as far as shall be good; and whereas all the honours, pleasures, riches and friends in the world, can never give you any true contentment, nor add one minute unto your life; this only will fill your hearts in heavenly contentation, with abundant joy and gladness, and make you live and reign with Christ for ever in the heavens.  
Now so many as acknowledge that thus indeed you ought both to watch and pray, 
To all that acknowledge the truth and necessity hereof.  and yet but only give these the reading, without care to learn the practice of them, or happily having some good motions or purposes, to put them forthwith in practice, or it may be, have begun well, yet through your pleasures or worldly business, or at least a carnal sloth and security leave them off, and return to your old courses, be warned from the Lord; for this will certainly be one further witness and conviction against you, than ever formerly you received, and much better it had been for you, that you had never seen this way of life, thus plainly and easily set before you, and how you may either help to preserve the whole, or at least escape yourselves from the evils to come; then after you have known it, and subscribed in your hearts to the truth and necessity of it, and happily put your hands to the plough, to look back again. Remember Lot's wife; if you be out of Sodom hie for your lives, until you be safe in Zoar; and being safe yourselves, learn to be as importunate with the Angel of the Covenant, when you but think of the sins of the Land, as faithful Abraham was: comforting and encouraging yourselves in this, that you are not alone but many with you, and the Lord hath yet his ten righteous left, in all quarters some, that mourn and cry for all the abominations. If in this attempt I have failed of that I desire, I humbly crave pardon; and also that my good will may be accepted, in this endeavour intended chiefly to help the simple. Vouchsafe me your better direction, and I shall willingly follow it. My desire is to labour herein also to bring this together with the watch to more perfection, if I shall find it accepted, and that it may bring the least good to God's Church; in which I desire not to live one day longer, than I may be some way profitable. I have so oft made reference to the watch as to a main ground of prayer, and for that this is as a second part, and an unseparable companion thereof, 
Ephes. 6. 13. 14. 18.  (as the Apostle makes them Ephes. 6.) and also that I need not trouble you with oft repetition of the 
To them that are not persuaded of such present necessity of prayer, but think me over fearful.  same things.  
Concerning the present necessity hereof, (that I may neither seem over bold, not yet to fearful of some grievous judgement without cause) I desire of all sorts that you would examine it between the Lord and your own consciences (to whom I appeal, and which I know will witness with me, when I shall stand before the great tribunal) your consciences I say, not asleep in this deep security, but either thoroughly awaked by the law, or as they were upon the instant of the discovery of the gunpowder plot; or at any time before any of our great deliverances, fully accomplished in the midst of our extreme dangers. Remember but whether your hearts wear not then as my heart is now; that if God had done with us as he then threatened, he had not been most righteous, and we justly deserved it. Did not all hearts tremble in the acknowledgement of the truth of his majesties sacred speech in the Parliament house at that time? And who would not have confessed in any of these dangers, that it had not been full time for each to have betaken himself to this armour; to have run to God by instant supplication, and stood up in the breach; and for every one to have learned to watch and pray? And must not our case since be far more desperate, we having received thus our third most terrible admonition, together with so many mercies still heaped upon us? Let us but think what we have done since that time, to secure us from the final execution of his vengeance: have we not most fearfully increased the transgression, going still many degrees backwards, running from the Lord, and sunken deeper in our rebellion, instead of turning to him according to our oft promises, and his infinite mercy? Besides our impudency in sinning; and our eating up one another in every corner and degree, racking all things to the uttermost farthing, and all commonly to maintain pride and all excess; countenancing the lewdest in every place, disgracing and treading upon the upright, that he that abstains from evil maketh himself a prey: Let but the shamelessness of that one sin of quaffing, condemned by the heathen, in Assuerus Court in their greatest pomp and excess that ever we read of, and registered in God's book for that cause, be witness: although we cannot imagine that ever it was practised in half so odious a manner, as it is ordinarily with us every where, in scorning the Lord to his face, and sacrificing to Satan. Our cloaks of Civility will prove but Adam's figleaves. Inquire of your own hearts, whether this be not the general verdict of all whom God hath touched, or who retain any of their ancient feeling; yea whether the very blind may not grope it; that there was never such a declining to all looseness, open profaneness & even Atheism heard or read of in any age, where the Gospel was professed, nor that sin was practised with so high a hand. And then answer plainly, whether the Lord may not justly get himself glory of us, in the declaration of his justice, and the power of his wrath against our sins; seeing the riches of his mercies in sparing and delivering us, have made us so far to exceed, as to deny the tokens of his wrath, and despise him to the face; scorning and hating nothing so much as a holy care to serve him according to his wil Or what follows amongst men (even the most equal & merciful) after the third admonition at most, but the due execution & final expulsion? And whether we have not just cause to fear and seek to pacify his wrath? Or whether he may not most righteously cause his own children to cry in feeling the miseries which have not cried out in seeing the abominations, & seeking to pacify him: and also whether he may not justly pluck the world from us, which hath so bewitched & plucked us from him. And to conclude, whether it be not much better that we each awake and meet him in time with entreaty of peace, because he is so merciful, them to be awaked of him and cry day and night (as his people in the Captivity) when it is too late, and he will show no mercy until his work be accomplished upon us. Thus having presumed this second time, to testify my heart to all, and my earnest desire of a heavenvly union, and all happiness to God's Church, & this our nation, I take my leave; with my instant prayers that all God's servants may have their eyes open, to see the necessity of this work above all other, & their hearts prepared to set themselves forthwith hereunto, (which hath made me the longer in persuading unto it.) The whole success I leave to his heavenly Majesty, whose this work is, & who hath long called us all unto the practice of it, looking & wondering that so few have come to help, 
Esay 6. 3. 5.  and whose only arm hath helped us hitherto 
Ezek. 22. 30.  & will for ever, 
judg. 5. 23.  if we but only cry to him.   
THREE PRINCIPAL points to be first learned and felt of every poor Christian, that intends to help in this work of prayer; the sum where of being in our hearts, will be as a continual spur and preparative to prayer, and as the life and soul thereof. 

1. The necessity of prayer.  
2. The special properties of them that can pray.  
3. The power of prayer rightly performed.    

The necessity of prayer.  
1 WE can never come to any assurance that we are in the favour of God, 
Without this constant practice, we can neither be assured that we are Gods children, nor that we have right to any creature.  or his children, before we make conscience to practise this duty daily: for the spirit of prayer, (which makes us to pray with sighs & groans) is the earnest and seal of our adoption; and is given unto us so soon as ever Christ is made ours by faith; and therefore in the mean time we stand in state 
Rom. 8. 15. 16.  of damnation, 
Gal. 4. 6.  and are thieves and usurpers of that which we have.  
2 We can have no comfort, 
But have all things work to our damnation.  that the things which we enjoy shall be to our salvation; but to increase and seal up our condemnation; seeing they are only sanctified by the word and prayer; 
1. Tim. 4. 5.  and for that we receive them without giving the Lord his due glory. 
Prou. 16. 4.   
3 We cannot look to obtain any one thing as a blessing, 
We cannot look to obtain any thing as a blessing, nor turn away any evil.  of all those things which our Saviour hath taught us to pray for, nor to turn away any one evil but by prayer: for God hath ordained this to be the only hand hereunto, 
Mat. 7. 7.  saying, 
jam. 4. 2. 3.  Ask and ye shall have.  
4 Seeing every worldling can speak to his friend, 
Nor be any thing but mere worldlings, feeling no want, nor able to speak of any thing else.  for worldly things; and every child can and useth to run to his loving father making his moan & requests for whatsoever he would have; how can we imagine that God is our heavenly and tender Father, or we any thing but merely earth-worms and worldlings, 
Rom. 8. 5.  until we use to run unto him daily to beg of him heavenly things, which we continually and principally stand in need of.  
5 If we will be saved we must pray, 
Otherwise we cannot be saved.  seeing our Lord and Saviour, (who will save only those that obey him, and destroy all the rest,) hath so oft charged us to pray, and to pray continually, as the importunate widow; teaching us also, 
Luke 18. 1.  so plainly how to pray; 
Matth. 6. 9  leading us by the hand, if we will be guided by him; and made us such gracious promises if we will pray; 
Psal. 14. 4.  and contrarily describing the accursed Atheists to be such as call not upon his name. 
jer. 10. 25.   
6 Lastly, 
The Lord calls us all to step into the breach with Moses.  the Lord our merciful God, at this time especially calls us all that are in any favour with his Majesty, to step up into the breach to stay his hand for being avenged, 
Ezec. 22. 30  for the general overflow of iniquity in all estates; concerning which all natural men could say long ago, that God must needs bring some terrible plague upon our nation, without speedy repentance; which indeed he had done sundry times since, (but 
* At the intended invasion.  thrice above all other, never to be forgotten) had not his hand been wonderfully stayed: and we notwithstanding since instead of repenting, 
The death of Q. Elizabeth.  have grown much worse in every kind of iniquity, being now become not only secure, 
The gunpowder plot.  but also hardened in all our evil courses, to make but a sport of sin, and a scorn of all those who make any conscience to walk in the ways of the Lord; so that hereby our sin must needs be increased to the uttermost, and much more considering the Lords most miraculous deliverances of us; his continual threatenings and admonitions by his servants proclaiming his wrath; warnings from heaven and earth; a continued pestilence for so many years together, visiting every corner of our Land; the raging of the winds and waters, to such a terror and desolation: the sword set to our very hearts; the grave prepared for us by our enemies, yet we delivered, and sundry of them thrown in as our ransom. Now after all this, and that in the clear light of the Gospel, with innumerable mercies beside, & sundry promises of our amendment we waxing still worse and worse, and now without all hope of recovery; how can it be but the Lord must needs wax weary with forbearing; or what comfort can be left us but only the instant prayers of Gods faithful servants, 
Read with reverence the Prophet jeremy, with the rest who lived hard before the captivity even in josiahs' days, and compare times with times, and it will make us cry instantly to God, day and night.  either to stay his hand still, or to secure us to be hid in the evil day? If all this cannot awake us, yet this one thing well considered, will undoubtedly rouse us, as the certainest evidence of vengeance approaching, that those enemies by whom he hath so oft threatened us to avenge his quarrel, and whom we all know by long experience to thirst most greedily after our blood, are again increased in number, pride and malice, after the time that we had thought them quashed for ever rising, or once daring to show their faces again: that knowing their holy father, the bloody positions, Machiavellian plots and practices of their cursed religion in all countries, we must needs see ourselves in imminent danger of utter destruction every hour, more than that mighty arm shall still protect us, which we see to be justly stretched out against us for our sins, and the power of prayer which hitherto hath stayed it, to be fearfully abated.   

THE SPECIAL PROperties of them that can pray: (for as josuah told the people they could not serve the Lord, 
jos. 24. 19  so every one cannot pray) 
Prou. 28. 9  and these evidently grounded out of the Lords Prayer.  
1 WE must be the children of GOD, 
We must be children of childlike affections towards our heavenvly Father, and able to call him Father.  borne anew by his Word and Spirit, having some assurance of his favour, and a desire to grow therein; carrying always childlike affections to his Majesty: for we must come to him as to our dear Father, and be able by the Spirit of adoption to call him Abba, oh Father.  
2 We must ever come unto our Father only through his beloved Son, 
Rom. 8. 15.  by whom we are reconciled, 
Coming in faith only in Christ & in a true sense of our own unworthiness.  made his children, and kept in his favour; and withal in a true sense of our unworthiness to be called his children, or make any request unto him: and so we must make our petitions only in the name of this our Lord and Saviour, in whom alone our Father is well pleased: begging in faith (that is) in full assurance to be heard for Christ's merit, in whatsoever we request of our tender Father.  
3 We must come in all humility before his heavenly Majesty, 
In all humility, being but dust and ashes; yet with our hearts lift up to heaven.  remembering we are but dust and ashes; yet full of heavenly affections; able to lift up our hearts unto him, and to be only conversant with him in the heavens for the time of prayer principally; having all our thoughts separated from the earth, and all earthly cogitations; because we speak to our Father which is in heaven.  
4 We must be brethren of brotherly and tender hearts towards all the children of our heavenly father, 
We must be brethren tenderly affected towards all the children of our heavenly Father.  (that is, all those who sound profess the Gospel of Christ in word and conversation) because our heavenly Father will have us hereby both to declare and increase our love; praying all one for another, and in the name of all, as dear brethren and feeling members; crying earnestly for all: Our Father.  
5 We must be such as are zealous for the glory of our heavenly Father; 
Zealous of our Father's glory above all things in the wo●ld.  desirous both to behold his glory, shining brightly in all his works, and chiefly in his heavenly word; and labouring to draw all others to a like reverend admiration thereof; making this the end of all our endeavours, that our heavenly Father may be honoured; and casting all our thoughts which way we may gain him any glory; more afraid of dishonouring him any way, or offending him, but even in our thoughts, than any evil that can befall us in the world; and such as use to mourn for all the dishonours done unto God his heavenly Majesty; that we may ever both truly begin and end our prayers with this fervent desire; That his great name may be glorified, because all kingdom, 
Seeking first the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof.  power and glory are only his for ever.  
6 Such as first seek his kingdom and the righteousness of it; that is, the enlargement of the Church wherein Christ reigns and is magnified, and so the spreading of his true religion, and of all the means belonging to the conversion and saving of his elect; with the utter overthrow of all false religion and ungodliness, whereby Satan and Antichrist do reign, using all diligence for saving ourselves and others:) that being here partakers of his kingdom of grace, we may ever after reign with him in glory: and also such as long and wait for the coming of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Otherwise how can we pray in truth: Let thy kingdom come?  
7 We must be of an holy conversation, 
Making conscience of every tittle of the will & word of the Lord.  as the loyal subjects of this heavenly kingdom; striving to know the will of our heavenvly Father, in all things which concern us; and such as make conscience of every tittle of his word, as Noah and Moses: who in all things as the Lord bade them, so did they: able to say as David, I am here Lord to do thy will, I am desirous to do it as cheerfully as the Angels in heaven; ready with Abraham to leave all at the Lords commandment, and offer up whatsoever is dearest unto us in the world; and to receive any trial with patience and thankfulness, and with Paul, not only ready to be bound, but to die at jerusalem for the name of jesus. Or else we can never pray in sincerity, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.  
8 Such also as labour to depend wholly upon the Lords fatherly providence, 
Labouring to depend wholly upon the Lord's providence and protection.  and watchful protection, for this life, and all the comforts of it; in a feeling of our own natural frailty, that if he but take away our breath we are gone, and cannot of ourselves continue one minute; and withal, that we are neither worthy of, nor able of ourselves to get the least crumb of bread, much less to cause it to do us any good; and therefore such as use to beg it every day from our heavenly Father, and that as well for the poor as for ourselves, being lively touched with their miseries; desirous to employ that which he bestows upon us, to his glory and the good of his children; labouring (as jacob and Paul) if we have but bread to be therewith content: such as neither trust in the abundance of means, nor faint in the want of them; but only use all means appointed to serve his divine and fatherly providence, casting all the care for the success upon him alone, being assured that he cannot fail us, nor forsake us of that that shall be best for us; (so far as may stand with his own glory and the good of us his people) at least so long as we endeavour to honour him, walking as his obedient children: without this we can never pray aright; Give us this day our daily bread.  
9 We must be such as use to travel under the burden of all our sins, 
traveling under the burden of our sins.  especially presumptuous and scandalous; in the sense both of the multitude & heinousness of them, & also our misery by them, until we be thoroughly washed from them in the blood of jesus Christ; as having no other means of delivery or satisfaction: feeling with Paul the corruption of our nature, and our daily infirmities to be as a death unto us; and hereupon using to cry instantly in the ears of the Lord: Forgive us our trespasses; never giving him over until we obtain this assurance.  
10 We must be void of malice, 
Void of malice, using to pray for our enemies.  and such as use to pray for our very enemies; and are ready to do them any kindness, whereby to gain them to Christ, or leave them more without excuse; because than we have this assurance to be forgiven, and not else; neither can we say in truth Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us: but pray for a curse upon ourselves.  
11 Having a continual sense of the danger we stand in, 
Fearing always, and watching, lest we should fall into temptation, so suspecting all our ways.  of falling into some sin every hour, to the dishonour of our heavenly Father, and provoking his displeasure, with innumerable evils following thereupon; through the deadly malice and subtlety of Satan, who hath the advantage of our corrupt nature, and all things in the world to beguile us: fearing always lest for our sins the Lord should leave us in his hand; and thereupon such as are careful to keep our ranks, and the watch of the Lord. That we may continually pray in feeling, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  
12 Carrying always a reverent and thankful acknowledgement of his absolute kingdom, 
Acknowledging ever his sovereignty, and how he disposeth all for his own glory, and the good of his elect.  power and sovereignty over all creatures, that he overrules both the rage of men and devils, and all other things in heaven and earth, disposing all to his own glory, and the salvation of his obedient subjects and children; that we may be ever able to sound forth with thankfulness, For thine is the kingdom, power and glory for ever and ever.  
13 Lastly we must be such true believers, 
Able in true faith with thankfulness to say Amen.  as being assured that he will grant all that we beg, as shall be most for his own glory, and the greatest good of his elect, do rest ourselves wholly upon his fatherly love, being able in thankfulness ever to say: Amen; Lord let it be so as we do assure our hearts it shall be.   

THE POWER OF true Prayer.  
1 WHen we are such sound Christians, 
To give us assurance of God's favour.  and use to pray in this manner, we shall have a certain assurance that we are Gods children, 
Rom. 10. 12.  and in his favour, 
Rom. 8. 15. 16. 26.  and such as shall be saved undoubtedly: for this is the Lords seal and the earnest of our inheritance. 
2 Cor. 1. 22.   
2 We shall have a comfortable and sanctified use of all things we enjoy. 
To have all things sanctified unto us.  1. Tim. 4. 5.  
3 We shall be sure to obtain whatsoever he hath taught us to pray for; 
To obtain whatsoever we so pray for.  so far as shall be for his own glory and our good; for the very form of prayer contains a most gracious promise; that so ask we shall obtain: otherwise our Saviour would never have taught us to pray so; assuring us that if we ask in faith we shall have, and that according to our faith, it shall be done unto us.  
4 The servant prayers of a few of us, 
For the turning away any judgement from our Land, or procuring any blessing.  being such as are described, shall do more for turning away any judgement from the Church; discovering and overthrowing the deepest plots of God's enemies, or for procuring any blessing to our Land, than many of our valiantest soldiers and wisest politicians; or then many thousands of our enemies, & hundred thousands of the wicked joining with them to provoke the Lord by their sins, can do to bring a judgement upon us. For we know how many times that one Moses stayed the Lord's hand, that he could not destroy his people; and also that Eliah was the Chariots and horsemen of Israel; yet were they men subject to like passions that we are: for our God is still the same of infinite compassion; and therefore look what Gods servants have been formerly able to do by their prayers, the same shall we do still, so far as shall be necessary, if we strive to walk in their steps. So that we have no cause to fear, sith one of them alone could so far prevail with the Lord, but that many of us joining as an a mie to compass the Lord about with our prayers and tears, may much more overcome his heavenly Majesty, if our hearts and hands be steady with Moses; especially he having showed such tokens of his compassion and love towards his chosen flock amongst us, as never in any age more: 
Ezech. 22. 30.  and now calling us also to stand up in the breach, 
job 22. 30.  having assured us that the innocent shall deliver the Island. Therefore all of us that fear the Lord, must cheerfully each encourage one another to this duty, 
Deut. 20. 1. 3. 4.  confirming the wea●●e hands and weary knees; 
Heb. 12. 12.  being certainly assured of this at least, that though the Lords decree should be gone forth against us for all our exceeding provocations, and that he would not spare the whole at our prayers, (whereof notwithstanding we may have gracious hope to the contrary, if we can but find our hearts fervently set to this duty of prayer) yet we shall save our own souls, 
Ezek. 14. 14.  and the Lord will be unto us as a sanctuary, whereas otherwise, if such a judgement come upon us, as hath been so oft almost fully executed, (which the Lord in mercy still save us from) we are all accessary to it, who have not sought in time to turn it away, and accursed with Meroz, 
judg. 5. 23.  because we came not to help the Lord against the mighty: and so shall find nothing but fear and an evil conscience to chase us: 
Prou. 28. 1.  whereas on the contrary we shall be strong and courageous as Lions whatsoever come to pass; knowing that even in the midst of the fire there he will be with us, 
Esay 43. 1. 2. 3.  that the flame shall not so much as kindle on us (more than he will dispose to his own exceeding glory and our endless comfort) and also in the floods that they do not overwhelm us.   

A MOST Heavenly and sure rule according to the whole Lords Prayer in order: whereby we may grow to strong assurance and much power in Prayer.  
Live always as an obedient child, in the eye of thy heavenly Father; humbled in the reverence of his most holy and glorious Majesty, and in the sense of thine own vileness and unworthiness to be called his child; longing until he take thee unto himself into the heavens; studying what way thou mayest 
* Let the desire of the two first petitions be ever in thy heart, & beg all other things for them only as being the end of all, then shalt thou be each way most blessed, and ask what thou wilt so, & thou shall receive it.  honour him most in the mean time: and that first by yielding all obedience to the laws of his kingdom, and gaining more thereunto: attending continually what his divine will and pleasure is concerning thee, chiefly in thy particular calling, and the charge committed unto thee: and then thou shalt surely find him God all-sufficient unto thee, more tender over thee then ever was father or mother, performing unto thee all his promises according to all thy petitions, for this and for the better life; and sealing unto thee a plentiful assurance of the free pardon of all thy sins in the blood of his Son jesus Christ; and that he will save thee from the tempter, and all evil that they shall not hurt thee: That thou shall be able with all joy and thankfulness to acknowledge upon happy experience, his absolute kingdom and power, and so to give him continually with all his holy Angels, all glory, praise and dominion, resting thyself most fully satisfied in his only love and favour for ever and ever.   

THE SUM OF all in other words, most plainly; for the understanding of the simplest.  
Observe diligently the Watch of the Lord; growing daily in the practice of every Commandment, and faith in all his promises: and keep in thy heart a Catalogue or short sum of thine own chief sins, wants and infirmities, together with the main sins and wants of the Land, and tokens of the Lords wrath due thereunto (gathered by wise observation according to the rule of the Watch) and withal set before thee the infiniteness of the Lords love and compassion towards his, with his special favours towards thyself: and then pray fervently in faith to thy heavenly Father, looking steadfastly at jesus Christ thy Saviour; crying only in zeal for his glory and kingdom; and thou shalt be able to pierce the heavens; to prevail with God as jacob, and much more with men; and find by good experience the truth of that promise, 
Esay 65. 24.  that before thou callest God will answer; and whilst thou speakest he will hear.   


THE PERFECT RULE AND SUM of Prayer.  
Our Father] Oh Lord most holy and glorious, terrible to all the wicked, but most gracious and full of compassion towards all that desire to obey all thy Commandments: we that are but dust and ashes, children of wrath by nature, and most rebellious of all thy creatures, dare not of ourselves once lift up our eyes to heaven.  
Father.] Yet nevertheless seeing it hath pleased thee to receive us for thine own children by grace, thorough thy Son jesus Christ, by whom thou hast purchased & ordained us to eternal glory, and given him to be our mediator; we come before thee, (oh Father) in his name; magnifying thee for this favour, being the greatest happiness that ever could befall us.  
Increase in us daily this assurance, by making us to grow in repentance & faith; & framing us to the image of thy Son, in all knowledge▪ love & obedience; wholly changing and renewing us, that we may be no longer strangers from thee, but may delight to be ever in thy presence, hearing thy voice or speaking to thee in prayer, crying, Oh Father.  
Our] And that it may be more evident that thou art our Father indeed, give us grace to love thy children above all other for thy sake: and each so much more, as they more excel in virtue, and are more dear unto thee, that we may daily remember them in all our prayers, saying; Our Father: And delight in their companies only, as those with whom we shall live for ever. Knit our hearts in brotherly love, that we may tenderly comfort & edify one another, afraid of grieving or hindering, & much more of turning any one out of the way of life.  
Let our holy agreement in all the substance of thy truth, with our joint profession to walk together in the path of life, be of more force to unite us, than all the trash of the world, or cunning of Satan to divide us.  
Are we not all that so walk, thine own children, and coheirs of thy kingdom; notwithstanding all our imperfections and some less diversities which must accompany us while we are in the earth.  
Confounded therefore all devices working this division, to thy dishonour & rejoicing to our enemies, who thus conspire to work our shame & ruin, if it were possible.  
Let us never rest until we find these hearty affections towards all thy children, that hereby we may know certainly that we are translated from death to life, when we can pray, Our father.  
Which art in heaven▪] And whereas thou reignest in the heavens where thou hast provided thrones for us, humble us still more, in the sense of thy greatness; seeing we are but poor worms crawling in sin.  
And yet so lift up our hearts unto thee, that we may be with thee, esspecially in all our prayers; longing to behold thee face to face: & let our conversation be so heavenvly, that the world may see that we are thy heavenly children traveling towards thee, & ourselves may grow up to a full assurance that heaven is ours, reserved by our Lord & Saviour for us, & all creatures ever to do us good.  
Hallowed] And seeing thou hast vouchsafed us only this honour, to be the heirs of thy kingdom, whereas thou mightest justly have left us with the wicked to everlasting perdition.  
Give us grace ever to testify our thankfulness, seeking in and above all things to honour thee. Open our eyes to behold thy power, wisdom & goodness shining in all thy works, & much more in thy heavenvly word chiefly in all thy judgements upon thine enemies, & mercies towards thy children, still showed every day.  
Make us able to consider of, and set forth the praises belonging to thee therein, both in word & deed; that by us thy great name may be known in all the world. Above all in that wherein thou hast been magnified before our eyes, in showing thy fatherly care for us, & wrath against our enemies: how for dishonouring thee in abusing thy Gospel, and all thy blessings bestowed on us above all people; thou hast not only corrected us tenderly with thy milder rods, but hast also sundry times raised up most cruel enemies, threatening not only to take away the Gospel, but our utter destruction also, and brought them to the very execution of it, because we would not hearken and turn unto thee according to thy mercies: yet ever when we have cried unto thee, thou hast plucked them back in the instant, and taken vengeance for us: so as we have oft thought that they durst never have attempted the like again: & so, as if the most barbarous nations had received but the least of our deliverances with our means they would have repent long ago, as we have oft promised.  
Oh gracious Father make us ever to acknowledge this, & to see that thy anger is again more fearfully kindled, for that these our enemies, (as our sins) do still increase in number and malice, without hope of leaving off their practices, until they have wrought either ours or their own endless ruin.  
Good Father, let this token of thy wrath, (together with the arming of the dumb creatures, both winds and waters so oft threatening our destruction, for the overflow of all iniquity in every place) prevail so mightily with us, that we may all presently seek to appease thine anger. Didst thou not before the bloody and fiery conspiracy warn us all from heaven (as thou didst jerusalem) enclosing us in a fiery tent with pillars of darkness, of fire & blood (foreshowing us as by that which followed we may justly deem) that bloody destruction which was towards us?  
Did not many of our hearts tremble at that sight, causing us to seek more earnestly to turn away the future evils?  
And feared we without cause? Had it not been effected indeed, and we all enclosed in the most dark, fiery and bloody tent that ever the world heard of; if thou hadst not heard the prayers of thy poor children, in the very instant, and remembered us in mercy?  
And shall we remain senseless still in the midst of the tokens of thy wrath, making the whole land to tremble at the report of them? Save us from that the heaviest judgement that ever fell upon the heart of man, whereby not only the Egyptians, but also thine own people were prepared for their final desolation, so oft threatened by our Saviour, that by seeing we should see & not perceive, but have our hearts more full (by all the means used for our repentance) lest we should convert & be spared.  
Open our eyes to see our fearful estate, and how far this judgement hath seized on us already. Convert us & we shall be converted, & not harden ourselves against the tokens of thy wrath, thy word and servants.  
Oh leave us not unto them whose mercies are cruelty, to cause them to blaspheme, but let us still fall into thy hands who pitiest us when thou smitest us, and in wrath remember'st mercy.  
Though our sins be heinous to anger thee, yet let the cry of thy servants still prevail.  
Hast thou not said it, that the innocent shall deliver the Island? and dost thou not call us to stand up in the breach, because thou wouldst not destroy us? Hast thou not been wont to pardon whole nations at the prayers of a few of thy servants?  
Therefore we thy remembrancers (knowing that thou art still the same, as to thy servants in former time, and we as dear unto thee; and that thou canst deny us nothing which we beg in thy sons name, according to thy will, for our good) do humbly entreat thee, to glorify thy mercy in pardoning our sin, and turning us speedily unto thee; but make thine enemies to feel thy hand, & those chiefly, who have as Balaam caused us to provoke thee so grievously, that we have been so oft in so fearful danger, by our backslidings and rebellions.  
Get thyself glory upon them as upon Pharaoh, that when thou hast delivered us and overthrown them, as sundry times thou hast begun, we may sing praises, and ever keep a remembrance of thy mercy.  
Let us be afraid of obscuring any part of thy glory; and much more of seeking our own honour, or taking any part of thine honour to ourselves, being proud of thy gifts. But above all, keep us from dishonouring thee, by our sinful lives amongst the wicked, to cause them to blaspheme.  
Let this be our honour to honour thee, and contrarily our greatest dishonour.  
Strengthen us to walk so uprightly, that others seeing our good works, may glorify thee, and we may wear the reproach of the wicked as a crown.  
So kindle the zeal of thy glory in our hearts, that we may be grieved continually for all the dishonours done unto thee. And that instead of being ashamed of thee, or any part of thy truth, we may ever profess it with all holy wisdom, and boldness as our chiefest glory; that our Saviour may acknowledge us before thee in the presence of men & Angels, to be the heirs of thy kingdom; when he will deny all other, as those whom he never knew, to their endless confusion.  
Thy kingdom come]  
And whereas thou (oh Father) art chiefly glorified in the increase of thine own people which obey thy word, amongst whom only thou reignest, and especially when thou causest thy religion & people to prosper against all the power of hell: Grant thy Gospel whereby thou conquerest & rulest, to be sincerely preached every where, and make it so powerful that it may destroy the kingdom of Satan & Antichrist; & gather all thine unto thee, that so thou mayest hasten thy glorious kingdom.  
And to this end, raise up Kings and Queens to nourish us with the word of life, & preserve us from the rage of all our cruel enemies, especially that bloody Antichrist: and for those that are such already, make them ten times more, accounting this their greatest dignity to have the bringing up of the heirs of thy kingdom committed unto them.  
And as it hath pleased thee to settle this kingdom in so great peace amongst us, delivering us from that blood thirsty whore of Babylon, & to continued the same beyond all former expectation under our dread Sovereign, so endue him with such an abundant portion of thy Spirit, according to that high dignity laid upon him; and with such tender affections towards thy children, that in token of true thankfulness for all his dominions, & chiefly the wonderful deliverances of his Majesty & his, (and of all us thy people principally by him) he may set himself with jehosaphat and Ezechiah, & other worthy Kings of juda, to enlarge thy king doom, & promote thy pure religion, destroying all ungodliness; and to procure each way the good of us thy poor children committed to him; that all we being still more loyally affected, as toward our most happy nursing father under thee, & as all the good people were towards David, may ever sound forth thy praises for him, and pray earnestly for his preservation, & of our Queen with all their royal progeny, that his kingdom may be established until Christ shall come, to resign up this earthly sceptre and reign with thee eternally.  
Give all our Rulers the same heart, that they may be as the hands of thine anointed in every place, for this purpose.  
And as thou hast ordained chiefly to finish thy kingdom by the preaching of thy Gospel, which thou did dost first spread by thy holy Apostles subduing the world thereby, so we pray thee to send forth such powerful preachers into every congregation, which may not cease to admonish every one with tears: framing themselves by all holy means to win all; afraid of the least offence, which might hinder the salvation of any one. Awaken at length all sorts of unconscionable ministers, drunken with the blood of their people; that remembering the cry of Abel's blood, they may be think themselves in time what to answer when Christ shall come: and either give them repentance & care for their people's salvation, or free them from them, and commit them to such by whom they may be brought into obedience to the laws of thy kingdom; that thou alone mayest reign as Lord amongst them, Antichrist being cast out utterly, with all things whereby he hath kept any of thy people under his slavery, or seeks to pull them into Babylon.  
Deface (oh Lord) all the prints of his Idolatry, and cut off all hopes of ever building up Babel again.  
And seeing the chief glory and safety of thy kingdom, is in the unity of thy subjects; take away, good Lord, all causes of contentions. Confound all the plots of cursed Balaam, who knowing that no kingdom divided can stand, seeks to rend thy Church in pieces, the easier to prevail against it, when thou art also departed from it; as ever Satan hath been wont. Grant that we may buy this peace, with the loss of all, except thy favour, that all sorts seeing our holy agreement, may join themselves unto us, and come into the bosom of thy Church. And moreover, sith thou wilt have every one to help to build up thy kingdom, and to save others by bringing them thereunto, grant us more care, not only for our charges committed to us; but for every one tied unto us by any special bond that we may take every first occasion for gaining them unto thee, by all holy means.  
Let us not rest before they be safe. And that we may prevail the more, give us (oh Lord) a sweet feeling what a blessed thing it is to be of thy kingdom, & partakers of thy glory: even to be Kings & Priests unto thee; and what happiness there is in living such a holy conversation, & how wretched the state of all other people is, being bondslaves of Saran, and reserved for hell.  
Grant us to live in all things, as thy obedient subjects, that we may pass from this kingdom of grace into thy glorious kingdom.  
Make us to fear the occasions of backsliding, that we never so much as once look back unto the world, but hie fast towards heaven where our Saviour keeps possession for us. Destroy in us all our corruption, whereby Satan prevails against us. Hasten that day when the difference shall appear between us and then that fear thee not, when we shall reign with thee for ever.  
And because we now live by faith, and not by sight, the wicked oft flourishing when thy children are afflicted: Oh Lord increase our faith in all thy sweet promises, that through the comfort of it, & power of godliness, we may grow up to a full assurance, that we are the true heirs of thy kingdom and overcome all hindrances, that being faithful to the death, we may have the crown of life. Fill our hearts with such peace & joy, with all the fruits of righteousness, that all may see to what kingdom we belong, and we feeling the beginning of it here, may enter into thy heavenly joy. Thy will be etc.] And that our childlike affections, with our zeal & thankfulness, may more appear to all the world; quicken us to do thy heavenvly will, chiefly wherein thou hast showed us how thou wilt have us walk, that we may do it cheerfully, as the Angels.  
Accept our will for the deed. Let it be our chief desire to stand in thy presence, to inquire by all holy means what thy divine pleasure is: and ever so soon as thou hast made it known unto us, give us David's Echo, to say I am here Lord to do thy will, thy law is within my heart.  
And whereas it is thy decree, that thorough many troubles we must enter into thy kingdom; (good Father) subdue our corrupt wills to thy holy will, that humbling ourselves under thy hand, we may try & reform our ways immediately, without once whispering against thee: knowing that in love thou so workest our good in all our trials, and wilt give us a happy issue in thy due time.  
And if it shall be thy good pleasure to call us to suffer for thy name; keep us that we may suffer as thine own children for righteousness, and then to take up our crosses with thankfulness, rejoicing that thou countest us worthy that honour, looking steadfastly at our Lord & Saviour, who having▪ first trodden that way before us, sits for ever in glory at thy right hand. But keep us that we never do any thing against thy revealed will, to procure thereby never so great a good; seeing thou canst and wilt effect whatsoever is best without our sin. That we may ever truly pray; Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  
Give us this day etc.]  
And thou (oh dear Father) when we are such; that the world may see thy tender care over us, and how thou fulfilest thy promises unto us, & that we may the better attend the seeking of thy glory and good pleasure; vouchsafe us the comforts of this present life. Show us thy love in providing for us in due time. Direct us to use all painfulness and holy wisdom, chiefly in our particular calling, with all the means to serve thy providence: avoiding whatsoever may hinder our comfort, or hurt our estate. Grant us to hide our selves under thy watchful protection, knowing that our times are in thy hand, to continue as pleaseth thee; and to consider that of ourselves, we cannot prolong our lives one minute, nor have any power to get one morsel of bread, unless thou both show us the means, assist us to use them, & give a blessing to them. Humble us here in, that we are not worthy the least crumb of bread, which we are taught to beg daily: and that we are but usurpers of it, and of whatsoever else we have, unless we be in Christ; because we having lost all, can have no right to any thing until it be restored unto us in him who is Lord of all. Increase our assurance that thou hast given him unto us, that we may have a true title to whatsoever we enjoy. Bless thy good creatures to nourish & comfort us.  
Give us contented hearts though we have but bread, acknowledging thy fatherly providence as well in want as plenty, and that thou wilt make even bread sufficient when other means fail.  
And if we shall come to have no more but for the present day, nor any means of succour; then strengthen us to cast ourselves upon thee without fainting, and to show that we live not by bread only, but by thy power & tender care and blessing Certify our consciences, that though wicked men may be hunger-starved, yet thou wilt never let any of us that serve thee, being heirs of thy kingdom, to want any thing that is good for us, but wilt work extraordinarily causing our enemies to feed us, or the fouls to bring us meat, rather than we shall want. Keep us therefore from carking cares aforehand, for provision for us or ours, & much more from murmuring, whereby thou art dishonoured & provoked. Make us able to sanctify thee, using only the means for thy protection & providence, commending ourselves wholly unto thee, being certainly assured that thou canst not fail us. And when thou dost bestow thy gifts upon us, make us to behold thy goodness in them, using them holily, & never abusing them to satisfy our lusts, or to puff us up, or set our confidence & love upon them; but that we may employ them to maintain thy worship & service, and perform all holy duties, especially for the relief of thy children, for whom we are to pray daily, and to whom thou hast given an interest in the use of them; that so we may show our thankfulness to thy heavenly Majesty, love to thy children and chiefly the most excellent, and therein the true practice of the Communion of Saints, waiting for the joyful sentence, Come ye blessed of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you etc.  
Forgive us our trespasses.]  
And whereas our sins only do hinder, & turn from us all these blessings which we have begged▪ and bring innumerable evils upon us, instead of them, & so make us most unhappy, whereupon thou hast taught us to cry every day, forgive us our sins;  
Pardon (good Lord) and remove all our sins out of thy sight. And to the end that we may never give thee rest until we have gotten this assurance; teach us that herein is all true happiness, and without it we are most miserable, & without all hope of comfort.  
Show us also the heinousness of sin, declared in the fearful punishment of thy most glorious Angels, the excellentest of all thy works, whom for one sin thou didst throw down unto hell to be reserved in chains of darkness to the judgement of the great day. And after wards in our first parents cast out of their happy estate accursed in themselves and all their posterity, even all us, until we obtain deliverance by laying hold of our Lord and Saviour. Make us able yet more plainly to behold the same, not only in the general destruction of the old world; turning Sodom into ashes; preparing hell for an everlasting punishment to all unbelievers and impenitent sinners; but also in thy severity against thine own children, as in cutting off Moses (only for that he did not sanctify thee at the waters of strife) that he could not enter into Canaan, after he had led thy people forty years and now brought them to the borders of it.  
And besides the heavy punishment of David and his house all his life long, and the fearful judgements on many of thine own faithful servants. Teach us to conceive aright of the vileness and danger of sin hereby, that the least sin of thine elect could never have been ransomed, but by the sacrifice of thine own dear Son; and how thou didst power out upon him the full viols of thy wrath, to cause him to cry, my God why hast thou forsaken me.  
Give us a continual meditation hereof, and of the innumerable evils which every sin brings on thine own children, unless they be prevented by speedy repentance, especially depriving us of all true comfort and power in prayer, so long as we remain therein without repentance, beside the loss of many extraordinary favours. Show us withal how our sins increased, being committed not only against thy glorious Majesty, but also against our high calling, and all thine abundant mercies with so strong means to restrain us, beside so many vows and promises of amendment, & that after pardon formerly obtained and sealed unto us.  
Grants us some sight also of the multitude of our sins, not only in breaking thy Commandments, in thought, word or deed, but even in omitting any part thereof, or doing it without all our heart; besides the sin of our first parents whereof we are all guilty; and the corruption of our sinful natures whereby we are so infected with sin, that we are inclined unto evil continaully; & unable to think any thing but that which is sinful; so little moved by thy judgements or mercies, to make any right use thereof. Give us such a lively sense hereof, & of our daily frailties, in●rmities & noisome lusts, flowing from this loathsome sink, that in the feeling of this bondage of our corruption, we may ever sigh, desiring to be delivered therefrom.  
Set before our faces also the grievous sins of our youth, & much more those which we have committed since our high calling, contrary to our consciences, and whereby we have dishonoured thee to the reproach of thy Gospel, grief of thy servants, or hindering the salvation of any soul: that by all these we beholding the infiniteness of our debt, and our great misery thereby, that we may run continually to the fountain of thy sons blood, which is open to all the house of Israel for sin & uncleanness, crying, Wash me thoroughly from my sin, purge and purify me. And yet that the ugly view of them may not utterly dismay us, as though we could not be purged from them; comfort us in the infinite worth & merit of thy sons blood which is all-sufficient to cleanse us thoroughly, although we had all the sins of the world upon us, so long as we can cry to be washed therein. But yet seeing thou admittest none to this fountain, but only them that come in true fainth, and unfaied repentance for all their sins, resolving to live a new life, and crying after this fountain:  
Make us able in the sense of our vileness by nature, and our particular sins, to mourn bitterly when we look at thy Son whom we have pierced thereby, and so to hate sin, that we may be afraid of ever defiling ourselves again, sinning against that precious blood.  
Help us to try our repentance & faith to be such as are sound, & have been wrought in us by the preaching of the Gospel, & do continually increase, which are the certain evidences thereof.  
Grant us grace to judge ourselves daily, that we may not be judged of thee. Remember us also, we entreat thee again, for our sinful Land; though even the earth be corrupt, & the cry of the sins exceeding great, yet let the cry of us thy children in every corner prevail against the cry of the sins, that thy mercy may be magnified in all the world. As we for give etc.] And as thou hast taught us to pray only so to be forgiven, as we forgive others; assuring us that if we do forgive we shall be forgiven, and otherwise we shall never be forgiven. Change our malicious and proud hearts, that although we hate the sins and company of the wicked, and rejoice in the execution of thy righteous judgements, and pray daily for the confounding of all the wicked practices and devices of the enemies of thy Church; that yet we may seek the salvation of all sorts: and for them that are our enemies but upon private respects, give us grace to pray earnestly for them that they may repent & obtain mercy.  
And that we may seek to pacify them, by offering them full satisfaction, and doing them any good, so far as may stand with their salvation, & the credit of the Gospel, to heap coals upon their heads, either to gain them or leave them more without excuse; and to seal up to ourselves a full remission of all our sins thereby.  
Lead us not into temptation.] And seeing our deadly enemy seeks hourly to tempt us to sin to dishonour thee, and become his vassals, that thou mightest leave us in his hand to execute his malice upon us, and bring upon us all the evils which follow sin, whereupon our Saviour hath taught us to pray, Lead us not into temptation: Open our eyes (good Father) to see our continual danger; and first for the multitude of damned spirits ranging up and down as roaring Lions to devour us. Teach us to know that they are able to bring us to as fearful sins as ever were committed, & to destroy us utterly in a moment with all that we have, if thou give them leave. Acquaint us with their subt●lties in fitting their temptations to our particular estates and dispositions which they know, by dogging us ever, & taking their advantages to solicit us to those sins, whereby they have most prevailed against us formerly or against other thy servants; and how they are wont also to draw us on by degrees, as first to yield to some smaller matters which are accounted no sins; or to thrust ourselves carelessly or with our warrant into the danger and occasions of temptation, neglecting the calling laid upon us, as David to lie on his bed in the afternoons instead of looking to the affairs of his kingdom.  
Make us able to consider how they have all the baits of the world, both the credit, riches & pleasures thereof, which they ever hold forth unto us, if we will follow their counsel; and otherwise threaten not only the loss of all these, but also of all comforts, with hatred, disgrace and many other evils which we must suffer from malicious men, if we will make such a strict conscience of all our ways, to the very lest duty that thou hast commanded.  
And whereas we are ordinarily secure in overweening of our own strength; Show us (oh Lord) the vileness of our corrupt natures, which are ever ready to conspire with Satan to our utter perdition, & to swallow every bait which he layeth for us, without any fear of danger; so that we have no strength, more than thou reachest forth thine hand to help us. Reveal unto us also the danger we stand in from thy glorious Majesty, lest thou shouldest leave us up unto the power of the tempter, and our own corruption; to awake us from our security, for our neglect of thy watch, & careless using the means of grace, or at least for tempting thee, in not avoiding each occasion of temptation.  
And seeing the tempter in all his temptations, hideth the danger & ugliness of sin, showing only the fair side of it, that is, the go●d that we shall get thereby, and chooseth the subtilest and fittest instruments to serve his purpose, as the counsel or example of men of chiefest reputation, sometimes changing himself into an Angel of light, never coming like himself; whereby he deceives all the world, and oft prevails with us thine own children, at least to presume to sin, because thou art so merciful;  
Good Father set before us a continual view hereof, and of the sundry evils which by every sin we ha●e upon our heads; especially the wound of conscience which will certainly come on us unless it be prevented, & which none can bear. Make us to know that howsoever reprobates may wallow in their filth, and scape unpunished here, being reserved for hell, and fatted for destruction: yet thou wilt not suffer any of us thy children, who have begun to make a profession of thee according to thy word, to commit the very lest sin, but wilt make us feel the smart of it, unless we prevent thee speedily by repentance, because thou wilt not be dishonoured by us, nor have us condemned with the world; & that the wicked may see thy hatred against sin, and what plagues remain for themselves for evermore. Yea (oh holy Father) let us fear always lest thou shouldest leave us never so little, & suspect all our ways, in as much as Satan more maliceth us, than any other of the world, and therefore seeks hourly to provoke thee to leave us in his hand, and for that our sins will cause moto blaspheme, hardening them to perdition, than the sins of any other: whereupon very few of thy worthiest servants have escaped to the end; without some grievous wounds, the scars whereof they have carried to their graves, to the blemishing their profession, the grief of themselves and all the godly. And therefore as thou hast given us this only remedy to watch and pray that we enter not into temptation, so make us able to keep this thy watch, and by it to be better acquainted with ourselves, & our particular infirmities, that we may always wear the complete armour, chiefly the shield of faith, & thy Word ever in readiness against each temptation, which w●l put Satan to flight; that being strengthened by thy Spirit, we may stand fast in the evil day, & get the conquest without any grievous wounds; to thy greater glory, & our own greater honour in the heavens: We do not pray against temptations altogether, knowing the profit that we reap thereby; but that we may endure fight valiantly and conquering, until thou set the crown upon our heads.  
For thine is the etc.] We have been bold to beg all these things of thee (oh holy Father▪) because all kingdom, power & glory are only thine; acknowledging that we have received all from thy heavenly bounty; and being assured th' thou wilt grant us all these things for thy sons sake, and whatsoever else is good for us, so far as shall be for thine own glory, seeing thou art absolute Lord & King in heaven and in earth, and dost dispose, guide and overrule all things, as shall make most for thine own glory, and the greatest good of us thine obedient subjects and children;  
That we may set forth the glory of thy dominion, and happiness of thy Kingdom, living as thy loyal subjects; to which we hereby bind ourselves for ever; and so return all possible thanks and praise to thy heavenly Majesty, saying ever, Amen.  
Be it so (oh Lord holy & true) as we fully believe it shall be. Even so Amen: Come Lord jesus, come quickly.   

Our Father which art in heaven] 
1. We must come trembling, because of God's glorious Majesty:  Oh Lord most holy and most glorious, whose brightness the Angels are not able to behold, so terrible to all the ungodly, as they shall wish the mountains to cover them, that they may never appear in thy presence; and yet a most gracious and tender Father to all thy children that desire to obey all thy Commandments: 
And our own vileness by nature.  we that are but dust and ashes, and by nature through the fall of our first parents, children of wrath in state of damnation, bondslaves of Satan, and most rebellious of all thy creatures, dare not presume of ourselves, once to lift up our eyes to heaven; 
2. Yet in confident boldness, as to our Father in Christ.  yet nevertheless seeing it hath pleased thee of thy free mercy to adopt us to be thy children by grace, through thy Son jesus Christ, and hast chosen us hereunto, bought us with his precious blood, called us by thy Gospel, sealed us with thy Spirit, and given him to be our perpetual mediator at thy right hand, bidden us to come to thee as to our tender father, and call thee father through him; oh dear Father we present ourselves before thy divine Majesty only in his name, 
3. Only in the name of Christ our Mediator.  magnifying thy mercy that thou hast 
4. With thankfulness for our happiestate in him.  vouchsafed us this blessed estate to be thy children, 
Watch. ed. 2. p. 1. l. 1. 2.  and to have thy favour, being the greatest happiness that ever can befall mortal creatures. 
5. Begging an increase of our assurance.  Give us hearts (most gracious Father) to seek daily to increase this assurance, by growing in repentance for all our sins and faith in thy sweet promises; frame us every day more & more to the image of thy Son, 
By more conformity to Christ in knowledge. Watch. pag. 88 lin. 6.  in all knowledge of thy heavenvly Majesty; 
And all childlike affections.  being affectioned to reverence, love and obey thee as our most dear Father, wholly changed in all the parts & qualities both of our souls and bodies; that we may be no longer strangers from thee, as all the wicked are, who bid thee to depart from them; but may take our chiefest delight to be ever in thy presence, 
Delighting in the presence of our Father.  to hear thee to speak to us in thy heavenvly word, & to utter all our wants and our whole heart to thee in our prayers, crying, Oh Father.  
Our] And that it may be more evident, 
6. And an increase of our love to all God's children:  not only to ourselves, but to all the world, that we are thine own children indeed, give us hearts to love all thy children, being our brethren and sisters, above all other for thy sake alone: and every one so much the more, as they more lively carry thy image in all holiness excelling in virtue, 
Chiefly as they more excel in virtue:  and so are more dear unto thy heavenly Majesty; that we may every day in all our prayers remember them as ourselves, begging alike for them all, saying, 
By praying for them as for ourselves, and delighting in their companies.  Our Father: And that we may delight in their companies only, as those with whom we shall converse together for ever in the heavens. Knit all our hearts in this firm bond of brotherly love, 
Begging most instantly our heavenly union to be showed in all duties:  that we may tenderly exhort, relieve, help, comfort & support the weaknesses one of another, seeking by all means the edifying of others, afraid of giving the least offence to grieve, and much more to hinder the salvation or turn any one out of the way of life. 
Confirmed by all bonds of agreement:  Let this happy brotherhood and holy agreement in all the substance of thy truth, which is able undoubtedly to save our souls, together with our joint profession to walk hand in hand, in all the narrow way of life, have more power firmly to unite us, than all the trash, pomp or pleasure of the world, with all the cunning of Satan or Antichrist can have to divide us.  
Are we not all that so walk, 
And common interest.  thine own children, having thy Son our Saviour, thy Spirit our comforter and earnest for our joint inheritance and glory; notwithstanding all our infirmity and imperfections, with some less diversities in judgement, which must accompany us until we be perfect in the heavens?  
Confound therefore all the devices of thine enemies, 
And all contrary devices of our enemies confounded.  that work this evil among thine own children, to so great dishonour to thy heavenly Majesty, whereby our enemies insult over us, who have conspired thus to work our shame, and to provoke thee against us, 
Which by our division seek our ruin:  to leave us into their hands to our utter ruin, if it were possible. Dear Father, let us never think our state to be good, until we carry these hearty affections to all thy children, 
That we may never think our state good.  studying to knit this bond of love, being able truly thus to pray, Our father. For hereby we know that we are translated from death unto life, 
Until we love the brethren.  because we love the brethren, and until this time we abide still in death. 
1. john 3. 14.   
Which art in heaven 
7. To grow in reverence to our heavenly Father.  And whereas thou our Father art highly exalted in the heaven of heavens, and there also hast provided thrones for us thy children after we have suffered a little; humble us evermore in the sense of thy greatness, together with our own baseness and unworthiness, being but poor worms crawling upon the earth, & loaden with innumerable sins. And yet withal lift up our hearts always unto the heavens, 
8. And in heavenly affections:  there to be conversant with thee our heavenvly Father, minding heavenly things▪ especially in all our prayers; longing there to behold thee face to face: and that in the mean time while we abide here below, 
And conversations:  we may be of such heavenly conversations, so using the world, as if we used it not, that the world may see that we are not of it, but pilgrims and strangers here, and thy heavenly children: 
To declare ourselves his children.  and that ourselves also may hereby grow up to a strong assurance that heaven is ours, 
Watch. pag. 90. lin. 9  & all the joys thereof reserved for us by our Lord & Saviour, 
And heaven ours, and all creatures at a league with us for our good.  and all the creatures in heaven and earth at a league with us to do us good, so far as shall stand with thine honour and our salvation, ever ready to help in time of need.  
Hallowed be thy name] And seeing thou (oh tender Father) hast vouchsafed us this honour above the greatest part of the word, 
For this honour that God hath vouchsafed to us to be his children.  to be thine▪ own children and heirs of thy glorious kingdom, whereas thou mightest justly have left us in our sins with all the wicked to everlasting shame and perdition. 
1. To seek his honour in and above all things.  Give us grace (good Father) to testify our love and thankfulness all the days of our life, 
Watch. p. 78. lin. 17.  in studying in and above all things which way to honour thee. 
2. To have our eyes open to behold his glory, shining in all his works, as his Creatures:  Open our blind eyes to this end, to behold the glory of thy wisdom, power, goodness and righteousness shining in all thy works, even in the basest creature in heaven or earth; and much more in thy heavenly word; 
Word: judgement:  chiefly in all thy terrible judgements executed upon the enemies of thy Church therein revealed, 
Mercy:  with mercies towards thy children, 
Watch. pag. 31. lin. 17.  and which thou still showest every day, especially towards ourselves. Make us able to take every occasion to consider of aright, 
3. To be able to set forth his praises belonging to him therein, and have a holy use of them.  and set forth the praises belonging to thee therein, and have a holy use of them both in word & deed, that by us thy great name may be known & magnified in all the world. Above all, 
4. Chiefly his glory manifested in our days, for us and against our enemies.  set ever before our faces (good Lord) that wonderful glory wherein thou hast been magnified in these our days, and before our days, in the evident declaration both of thy displeasure against us of this sinful nation; and withal of thy mercy and tender care for us, and wrath against our enemies; how for dishonouring thee, 
First for us, in abundant mercies.  by abusing thy Gospel which thou hast given us with such peace and prosperity, as never nation known before, thou hast not only corrected our grievous transgressions and security, 
And then correcting us fatherly for abusing his mercies to his dishonour: So to bring us to amendment:  as a tender Father with thy milder rods of dearth, pestilence & sundry the like, to bring us to amendment, and cause us with more cheerfulness to embrace thy Gospel, and bring forth the fruits of it: 
After threatening us by cruel enemies, to take away all:  but also raised up against us sundry times, most cruel enemies, threatening not only the taking away thy Gospel, but our utter destruction also, 
Bringing them to the execution:  & brought the enemies to the very execution thereof, because we would not serve thee with good hearts, according to all thy mercies bestowed upon us: and yet ever when we have cried unto thee, thou hast heard us, 
Yet ever delivering and avenging us, when we have cried unto him:  as thou didst thy people Israel, and as thou didst hear jehosaphat against the Moabits, and Ezechiah and Esay against the proud Assyrian; and plucking them back in the instant, hast taken vengeance for us: that we have oft thought that they durst never have risen against us any more: 
So as it had been enough to have converted the most barbarous nation.  so as if the most barbarous nations of the earth, had received but the least of our deliverances, with our means, they undoubtedly had repent long ago in sackcloth and ashes; as we for the present have promised unto thee. Oh gracious Father, 
5. To pray for grace ever to remember and acknowledge this.  enable us always to remember and acknowledge this, and to see moreover that thine anger is not yet turned away, but more fearfully kindled against us, 
And to see moreover his anger kindled again, by increase of our sins, with these bloody enemies, and their malice.  for that as our sins and provocations are multiplied, so these our bloody enemies instead of decreasing, or joining themselves unto us, do still increase daily; and their malice is become much more deadly against us thy poor children, without hope of leaving off, 
Without hope of leaving off; until they have their wills.  until they have wrought either ours, or at least their own utter ruin, which in time they must needs effect.  
Good Father cause this principal token of thy displeasure, 
And also witnessed by many fearful signs:  together with all other signs thereof showed from heaven and earth, 
Arming winds and waters against us:  (as the arming of the dumb creatures against us, both winds and waters so strangely and furiously in so many places, threatening utterly to sweep us 
Threatening to sweep us away:  away in our deadly security, 
For our overflow of iniquity, that we may be awaked, and seek to appease his wrath in in time.  for the great overflow of all iniquity every where) cause this to work so mightily, that we may all be presently awaked out of our deepest security, and seek by all means to appease thy wrath. Oh Lord, didst thou not before that most secret, 
That remembering our former warnings from heaven, and what followed the fiery tent spread over our heads.  bloody and fiery conspiracy, warn us all from heaven, (as thou didst jerusalem before her last destruction) by a fiery tent directly over our heads, enclosing us all, with pillars of most horrible darkness, pillars of fire, and pillars of blood, foreshowing us (as by that which followed we may justly deem) that bloody darkness and fiery destruction that was towards us? Did not the hearts of many of us tremble in the beholding thereof, and in fearing some grievous judgement that was to come, causing us to fly to thee, to seek to hide ourselves under thy wings? And did we fear without just cause? Had it not been effected indeed, and we all, chiefly our dread Sovereign with all our heads and rulers, enclosed in the most dark, fiery & bloody tent, that ever the world heard of; in that most unnatural and accursed massacre, if thou our gracious and most tender Father hadst not heard the prayers of thy poor children, which both before and at that very instant were humbled before thee, and so thought on us in mercy? And shall we now be senseless still in these signs, & tokens still entering in upon us, as fearfully as ever any of the ten plagues upon the Egyptians, 
We may not be senseless in these tokens of his wrath, seizing upon us as fearfully as any of the piagues of Egypt.  making the whole land to tremble, at the very report of them? Save and deliver us from that judgement, 
Chiefly to be saved from that heaviest judgement:  of all other the heaviest that ever fall upon the heart of man: and whereby not only the egyptians were prepared for their final overthrow in the sea, but also thine own people Israel, both before the great captivity, 
Whereby both Egypt and Israel were prepared for destruction.  and also before the last and utter desolation of that nation, so oft threatened by our Saviour: (that by hearing we should hear, 
That we should be worse for all the means sent to call us to repentance, until the judgement come, that we may s●e our estate and turn:  & not understand, and seeing we should see, & not perceive; but have our hearts made more fat and senseless (by all the means sent to call us to repentance) lest we should be converted, and thou shouldest spare us. Oh open our eyes that we may see in what state we stand, and how far this judgement hath seized upon us already. Convert us & we shall be converted; and never let us, (as those whom thou hast utterly destroyed) harden ourselves against the evident tokens of thy wrath, 
And not harden ourselves against the Lord.  denying or making light of them, much less to oppose ourselves against thee, thy word, and servants. Preserve us from the outrageous overflowings of the multitude, which thou mayest justly arm against us in their ignorance, like the furious waves of the raging seas, for lack of our care & conscience to see them taught, to know thee and thine ordinances, and to fear thy great and mighty name. Let not the floods of iniquity swallow us up. Above all, 
That we may never fall into the bloody enemy's hands:  never leave us in their hands whose very mercies are cruelties, that they should blaspheme thy great name, to say where is now their God; but let us still fall into thy hands, 
But still into the Lords.  and deal with us as it pleaseth thee, for with thee is mercy, and when thou smitest us, yet thou pitiest us, 
Because he pitieth us when he smiteth us.  ever in wrath remembering mercy. Though our provocations be more heinous, than we are able to express, yet Lord hear the cry of thy servants, and let them still prevail 
6. To pray instantly that the cry of his servants may prevail:  with thee to stay thy hand. Hast thou not said it, and many a time made it good, even unto this very day, 
As hitherto according to his promise: Sith he calls us now to stand in the breach, as Moses to stay his hand: to declare the riches of his mercy: saving us still at the prayers of a few.  that the innocent should deliver the Island? & dost thou not call for us thy poor servants, to stand up with Moses in the breach to stay thy fierce wrath, because thou art a God of mercy, and wouldst not destroy thy people? most declaring the riches of thy grace, in pardoning and saving whole nations at the prayers of a few of thy poor servants, and giving the wicked for their ransom? Therefore (oh good Lord) we whom thou dost call to be thy remembrancers (knowing that thou art still the same good God to thine, as thou wast to Moses, Abraham, 
And seeing he is still the same to us, as to Moses and Abraham:  and Samuel; and being assured that through thy Son we are as dear unto thee, as the apple of thine own eye, that thou canst deny us nothing 
And we so dear to him that he can deny us nothing:  which we beg in his name, which may make for thine own glory and good 
Which may make for his glory, and our good:  of thy people) do humbly entreat thee to glorify thy mercy, that it may shine to all the world, 
To entreat him to magnify his mercy in pardoning and turning our hearts to meet him:  in pardoning the sin of our Land, turning the hearts of all sorts speedily unto thee, to meet thee with an entreaty of peace: but make all the unplacable enemies of thy Church to feel thy hand; 
But to make his enemies to feel his hand, who have been the causes of our sin by their wiles:  and those chiefly who have as Balaam and the Midianites, caused us with their wiles to provoke thee to so fierce a wrath, wherein we have been so oft and so lately almost utterly consumed, through our backslidings and rebellions against thee. Get thyself glory upon them as upon Pharo, 
To get himself glory upon them, as upon Pharaoh.  in the heart of the sea, that when thou hast delivered us, & overthrown them (as sundry times thou hast begun, 
As he hath begun & promised to accomplish to his everlasting praise.  and promised to accomplish) we may sing the song of Moses thy servant: and all ages keep a remembrance of thine endless mercy.  
Let every one of us be afraid of defacing or obscuring any part of thy glory, 
7. That we may be afraid of obscuring his glory:  and much more of seeking vainly our own glory, 
Seeking our own glory, or taking his honour to ourselves.  especially of robbing thy Majesty, by taking any part of thine honour to ourselves as Herod; being proud of thy gifts, whereunto our sinful natures are strongly inclined. But above all, keep us from dishonouring thee by our evil example, 
8. That we may not dishonour him by our sins:  amongst the wicked and ungodly, to cause them to blaspheme that glorious truth which we profess. Make us to account it our greatest honour to honour thee, 
But account it our greatest honour to honour him; and contrarily.  and the greatest dishonour and evil that ever can befall us, so much as in show to dishonour thee. Strengthen us to walk so uprightly, 
9 To honour him by our holy ensample.  that others seeing our good works, may glorify thee our heavenly father; and that we may stop the mouths of all the wicked, 
To stop the mouths of the wicked.  bearing their reproach as a crown upon our heads.  
So inflame our hearts with a zeal of thy glory, that our righteous souls may be vexed from day to day, for all the abominations, 
10. To have the zeal of Lot against the abominations of our age.  whereby thou art dishonoured by Atheists, Papists, and all sorts of godless men. 
11. With a bold acknowledgement of the Lord, and every part of his truth:  And let us be so far off from dishonouring thee, by being ashamed with Peter of thee and thy religion, or any part thereof, where we ought to profess it, that in all places we may show it forth, with all wisdom and boldness, as that which is our chiefest glory, 
As being our glory:  gracing it with a holy conversation: that our Lord & Saviour may acknowledge us before thee our heavenly father, 
That we may be acknowledged of him before all the world: to our own everlasting honour:  in the presence of thy glorious Angels, and of the whole world, to be thine own children, and heirs of thy Kingdom; when he will most justly deny all the fearful and unbelievers, as those whom he never knew, to their endless horror and confusion.  
Thy kingdom come.]  
And whereas thou (oh Father) art chiefly glorified when thy kingdom cometh, 
Seeing Gods glory is in the enlarging his kingdom, and doing his will.  and thy will is done; that is, in the increase of thine own Church & people, which obey thy word, amongst whom alone thou reignest as Lord and King, & especially when thou dost enlarge thy dominions against all the subtlety and power of hell, causing thy religion and people to prosper & increase: 
1. To pray for a free course to the Gospel, which is the sceptre of his kingdom, and that it may be powerful every where.  Good father give thy Gospel (which is the sceptre of thy kingdom) whereby thou conquerest and rulest, a free course to be sincerely preached in all the world, all impediments being utterly removed; and make it so powerful in all places that it may utterly throw down the kingdom of Satan, and Antichrist; converting & speedily gathering all thine elect unto thee, that so thou mayest hasten thy kingdom of glory.  
And to this end, whereas thou hast ordained Kings and Queens, to be nursing fathers and mothers to thy poor 
2. For Kings and Queens, to be nursing fathers and mothers to the Church:  Church, to nourish us thy children with the word of life, and to preserve us from the rage of that bloody Antichrist, 
Chiefly to preserve is against the rage of all cruel enemies, and to account this their chiefest dignity.  and of all other cruel enemies; oh almighty and dear Father, raise up such for us in all the countries of the world, and those which are such already make them ten times more, that they may account this their greatest dignity, to have the bringing up of thine own children & heirs of thy kingdom, committed to their care & faithfulness.  
More specially as thou hast settled this thy kingdom among us, of this nation in much peace and prosperity, under our late tender nursing mother, 
3. Especially to pray for our sovereign, raised up for us, in place of our tender mother.  delivering us from the tyranny of that bloodthirsty whore of Babylon, and continued the same still most miraculously, and beyond all former expectation under our gracious Sovereign, whom thou hast raised up for a foster father in her place; so we beseech thee to enlarge the heart of thine anointed servant, 
That he may have an abundant portion of God's Spirit:  with such an abundant portion of thy Spirit, both of wisdom and zeal for thy glory & kingdom, and tender affections towards thy children, 
According to his high dignity and charge:  according to that high dignity laid upon him; and the charge committed unto him, that in token of true thankfulness for all his dominions and great honour, and much more for the admirable deliverances given unto him and his, (and above all that thou hast made him twice, chiefly so wonderfully in our eyes, thy principal instrument, 
And the deliverances of the Church by him, he may set himself to advance Christ's kingdom and Gospel: Watch. pag. 43. lin. 2.  in saving us thy poor Church) he may set himself much more earnestly than ever did Cyrus, or Darius, even worthy jehosaphat, and Ezekiah, to advance thy glory, in enlarging and furthering this kingdom of thy Son, and in promoting thy pure religion with all his power, destroying whatsoever is against it, and discountenancing all ungodinesse; and to procure each way both by godly laws, 
Procure the good of God's servants, repressing the wicked:  and all other holy means, the good of us thy poor people committed unto his trust, repressing all the wicked; that we may live a quiet life in all godliness and honesty, 
That we may live in all peace and godliness without fear, affected towards him as the good people were towards David:  fearing none but only thy heavenly Majesty: that all we thy children being affected towards him, thine anointed, more and more, as towards our happy nursing father under thee, and as all the good people were towards thy servant David, may evermore accordingly sound forth thy praises for him, 
Sound forth his praises:  and cry continually unto thee, for the preservation of his Majesty, 
And pray for him and his, to reign for evermore.  with our noble Queen, and all their royal progeny, that the throne of his kingdom may be establihed until Christ, the King of Kings shall come: then to resign up the sceptre into his hands, and to be taken up into his throne to reign with thee for evermore.  

4. For our Magistrates to have the same hearts.  Good Lord give all our Magistrates and Rulers under him the same heart, that they may be as the hands of thine anointed in every place, for the accomplishment of this work.  
And withal as thou hast appointed to build up thy kingdom, 
5. For our Ministers to tread in the steps of the holy Apostles. Watch. p. 45. l. 11. 12.  chiefly by the sincere preaching of thy sacred Gospel, whereby thou didst first spread it so speedily, subduing all the world by the Ministry of thy holy Apostles; so we pray thee send forth such faithful Preachers, into every congregation, which being furnished with gifts, 
Seeking to save every soul.  and tenderly affected with the care of every soul, committed unto their charge, may not cease with Paul, 
By word,  to admonish every one both publicly and privately, day & night with tears; going before them in all holy conversation, 
And conversation.  and framing themselves to all, to win all; afraid of giving the least offence, either to harden, or any way to hinder the salvation of any one of them. 
To awaken all our unconscionable Ministers:  Awaken at length (oh Lord) all our blind guides, and all sorts of unconscionable Ministers, who are drunk with the blood of souls, that they may but remember, 
They may remember the cry of Abel's blood:  how the blood of one Abel did cry for vengeance from the earth, and think where they will appear, 
And Christ appearing.  when Christ shall come to take an account for every soul: and either give them repentance for that bloody sin, 
And either to repent & become profitable, or the people may be committed to such, as by whom Christ may reign, and they saved:  that they may save themselves, and those committed to them; or else utterly free thy people from this heavy judgement, and set such in their places, by whose faithful Ministry thy people may be brought every where, into a holy obedience to thy heavenly Gospel, to their everlasting salvation; that thou alone mayest reign as Lord and King, 
Antichrist cast forth: and whatsoever belongeth to him, or whereby he hath deceived the people of the Lord:  and Antichrist cast out utterly, with all that appertains to his bloody religion, and whereby he hath upholden his throne and tyranny, & kept any of thy people under his flavery, or at least seeks to bewitch them, to pull them into Babylon again. Good Lord destroy all the very prints of that cursed Idolatry, 
And the very prints of his Idolatire utterly destroyed.  & whatsoever may put his favourits in hope of ever repairing the ruins of their Babel.  
And seeing (oh Lord) that this is the glory & safety of thy Kingdom, 
6. To pray for a holy unity in the Church, chiefly amongst the leaders: And to take away all causes of contention, confounding all Balaams devices.  when all the subjects of it, especially the leaders of thy people, live in a holy unity under thy laws: take away we beseech thee, all contentions from amongst us, with the causes thereof. Confound we pray thee, all the plots of that cursed Balaam of Rome; who knowing that not thine own kingdom, if it be divided, can stand, seeks day and night by all his agents, to rend thy Church in pieces, the easier to prevail against it when it is divided, 
Who seeks by our divisions, to prevail against us.  and thou departed from it: as Satan hath ever prevailed by his instruments in all countries. Grant we may buy this peace with godly Abraham, with the loss of all things, 
And that we may buy this peace with the loss of all.  except thy favour; that all sorts seeing our holy agreement may come forth of Popery, 
That all sorts may join themselves unto us.  & profaneness unto us; & our brethren departed, may turn into the bosom of thy Church again. 
7. That every one of us may have a care to save others. Wat. p. 57 l. 14. 15.  And whereas thou hast appointed that every one of us should labour to build up thy Kingdom, by bringing others thereunto, that they may be saved; give us hearts to have a special regard, 
Especially all committed to our charge:  not only of all those committed to our charge, to bring them in obedience to the laws of thy Kingdom, 
With all knit unto us by any special bond:  but even all who are tied unto us by any special bond, that we may take every first occasion which thou offerest for procuring, 
Taking all occasions to save them by all means, being as the Angels for Lot.  or furthering their salvation, and so gaining them unto thee, by all good admonitions, exhortations and examples. Let us be as the Angels unto Lot, never resting before we have gotten them safe into Zoar. 
8. That we may have a feeling of the happiness of this kingdom.  And that we may be able to persuade others more effectually, Lord give every one of us a sweet feeling, what a blessed thing it is to be the subjects of this thy Kingdom; 
Watch. p. 11. lin. 2. p. 114. 115.  to have all the privileges thereof, and to be partakers of thy glory, 
And of the reward of holiness:  even Kings, and Priests unto thee; and what reward and happiness, there is in living such a holy conversation; and how wretched & unhappy, 
And how wretched the state of all other is. Watch. p. 56. 7. 8. 9  the state of all other people is, seem they never so happy in this world, being but bondslaves of Satan, reserved for the chains of eternal darkness. 
9 That we may live as the subjects of this kingdom:  Oh heavenly King, grant us to live in all things, as the subjects of thy Kingdom, that so we may pass from this Kingdom of grace, into that thy Kingdom of glory. 
Fearing the causes of backsliding. Watch. pag. 122. lin. 8.  Make us to fear the causes of backsliding, that we may never so much as look back with Lot's wife, towards this evil world; but ever hie fast towards thine heavenly Kingdom, having our eye at our Lord and Saviour, 
Hying fast towards heaven, looking at our Saviour.  who fitteth at thy right hand, keeping there possession for us. Destroy in us every corruption, whereby Satan keeps us any way in his slavery, 
10. To destroy all our corruption.  or at any time gets the dominion over us. Hasten that glorious day, 
11. To hasten the day of the appearing of our glory and triumph.  when the difference shall appear between us thy subjects, and those who serve thee not; when we shall wholly reign in glory with thee, free from all our enemies, and from ever offending thee any more. And because in the mean time, 
12. And in the mean time seeing we live by faith.  we thy subjects live by faith, and not by sight in this world, where all things usually seem to go out of order; the wicked flourishing in their ungodliness, when we oft weep and mourn: 
To increase our faith:  Oh Lord increase our faith, in all thy gracious promises, that through the comfort and power of godliness wrought in us thereby, we may grow up to such a full assurance, 
That we growing to full assurance, may overcome the world. Wat. 116. lin. 20. 117. lin. 7.  that we are the true heirs of thy kingdom, that we may easily overcome all the hindrances of the world, and having the patience of Saints, we may be faithful to the death, until thou set the crown upon our heads. 
And remain faithful to the death.  Fill our hearts with such peace of conscience, and joy in thee, 
13. To be filled with peace, joy and righteousness: That all may see of what kingdom we are:  with all the fruits of righteousness, encouraged by thy sweet promises, that all others may see to what Kingdom we belong, and we ourselves may feel daily, the beginning of it in our selves, 
And we feel the beginning of it in ourselves, so entering into our joy.  so entering into thy heavenly joy.  
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. And that our childlike affections towards thy heavenly Majesty, 
1. To pray that we may declare our childlike effections, zeal and thankfulness, ●y doing his heavenly will:  our zeal for thy glory, and thankfulness for thy Kingdom, may be more manifest to all the world; quicken us to do thy heavenly will, & commandments, chiefly those with which thou hast fully acquainted us, 
As cheerfully as the Angels.  how thou wilt have us to walk, and keep thy watch; 
2. That he will accept our will for the deed.  and that with as much readiness as thy Angels in heaven: 
3. That we may delight to stand in his presence, to inquire his will by all means:  and wherein we are too short accept (good Father) our will for the deed. Let it be our delight to stand ever in thy presence, to inquire thy divine pleasure, both by reading and hearing thy heavenly word, and ask of others; and ever so soon as thou hast by any means made known unto us, what thy good will is, 
Having David's Echo, I am here Lord:  give us forthwith David's Echo, that without consulting with flesh and blood we may say forthwith, I am here Lord, to do thy will, yea thy law is within my heart: that so all our service may be free-will offerings unto thee. 
That all our service may be free-will offerings.  And whereas it is thy decree, that thorough many troubles we must enter into thy heavenly Kingdom; 
4. To prepare for troubles, and humble ourselves under them, as his obedient children▪ Making right use of them:  (good Father) frame our corrupt wills unto thy heavenly will, & give us grace both to look for them, & ever to humble ourselves under thy hand as thy obedient children, seeking always to pacify thee, searching immediately, and amending whatsoever is amiste, 
Without whispering:  without once whispering against thy divine Majesty: 
Assured that God doth all of love for our good, and will give a happy issue.  being assured that thou still lovest us, even when thou correctest us most sharply, and art working our good; & wilt in thy due time give a happy end to all our troubles, and cause thy loving countenance to shine on us again. 
5. To take up our crosses, not suffering as evil doers, but only for righteousness:  And if it shall be thy good pleasure to call us to suffer for thy name, keep us that we may not suffer as evil doers, or busy bodies for meddling in things without our calling, so to bring crosses on our selves, but as thine own children for righteousness; and then make us to take up our crosses, 
With joy and thankfulness.  with all joyfulness and thankfulness, that thou accountest us worthy that honour, looking steadfastly at the great reward holden forth unto us, in the hand of our Lord & saviour, 
Looking at our Saviour.  who having trodden that way before us, is there highly exalted to reign for ever. 
6. That we may never do any thing against his revealed will, to obtain never so great a good, which we imagine.  But keep us that we never go against thy revealed will, whereby thou hast convinced our consciences, under pretence either to honour thee, or do any service unto thy Church, or for never so great a good: seeing thou canst and wilt maintain thine own honour, & save thy Church, effecting whatsoever is best without our sin. That we may ever truly pray, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  
Give us this day our daily bread.] And then (oh dear Father, when thou hast given us such hearts thus to seek thy will; 
To the end that all may see the Lords tender care for us, and that we may attend the doing of his will.  that the world may see the tender care that thou hast for us, and how thou dost fulfil unto us all thy promises, and that we likewise may wholly attend the seeking of thy glory, 
1. To pray for the comforts of this life.  in the enlargement of thy Kingdom, 
Watch. pag. 51. lin. 6.  and doing thy will; vouchsafe us graciously all things meet for the comfort of this present life: 
2. That he would show his fatherly providence for necessaries, and to direct us to the means to serve his providence. Watch. pag. 65. lin. 15.  Show us thy fatherly love, providing sufficiently for all our necessities in thy due time: Direct us to use all the holy means, which thou hast appointed to serve thy divine providence, both painfulness, thrift and godly wisdom, 
Chiefly in our particular calling, avoiding the contrary.  chiefly in our particular calling; avoiding as warily whatsoever may any way endanger us, make our lives uncomfortable, or hurt our estate. 
3. To commit ourselves wholly to his protection, depending on him without fear.  Grant us grace also evermore, in all humility to commit ourselves unto thy Fatherly protection, not fearing what man can do unto us; remembering that our times are in thy hands, to continue so long as it pleaseth thee; & that likewise unless thou who hast given us our lives do preserve them, 
4. To know our own frailty,  we cannot continue one moment. 
And unability to get a crumb of bread, or to see or use the means.  Make us to know that of ourselves we have no power to get one morsel of bread, unless thou both show us the means, and after enable us to use the same, and give a blessing to them. 
To be humbled in the sense of our unworthiness of bread:  Humble us in the sense of our vileness, that we are so far off from deserving eternal life, that we are not worthy of the least crumb of bread, which thou hast taught us to beg daily: and grant us grace to know, that when we have it, we are but thieves and usurpers of it, 
And that we are usurpers of it▪ & of all other things,  and of whatsoever else we possess, & to make a dreadful account for it, unless thou give it us in jesus Christ; 
Until they be given us in Christ, having lost all in Adam.  because we having lost all through Adam's transgression, can have no right unto it again, until it be restored unto us, 
5. To get more assurance of our title in Christ.  in our Lord and Saviour. Vouchsafe therefore to increase our assurance that thou hast given us thy Son who is Lord of all, that in him we may be certain, that we have a true title to whatsoever we enjoy. 
6. For power to the creature to nourish us.  Give withal both power and strength, to thy good creatures, to nourish and comfort us.  
Bread.] Bestow upon us 
7. For contentation with our estate.  contented hearts, with the estate wherein thou settest us, 
Watch. p. 66 lin. 12. And to see the Lords providence in bread alone.  though we have but bread; & grace to see, and acknowledge thy wise and tender providence, aswell in want as plenty, being undoubtedly assured that thou canst, & wilt make bread alone to satisfy us abundantly, when other means fail.  
This day.] 
And when we have but for the day, nor any means.  And if thou shalt ever bring us into that straight, that we shall have no more but for the present day, nor any means of succour in the world; 
To be able to cast ourselves wholly on the Lord without fainting. Watch. p. 21. lin. 7.  them strengthen us to give thee glory, by casting our selves wholly upon thee, without impatience or fainting; that we may be able even then, to show our confidence in thee, & how we live not by bread only, but by every word proceeding out of thy mouth. Certify our consciences aforehand, 
8. To pray for assurance that the Lord will never let us want that is good:  that howsoever wicked men, be they never so rich, may starve with hunger before they die, yet thou wilt never let us thine own obedient children, and heirs of thy Kingdom, to want any thing that shall be good for us; but that thou wilt rather work extraordinarily, 
But work extraordinarily:  when ordinary means fail, causing our enemies to feed us, 
When ordinary means fail.  if our brethren forget us, the very fowls to bring us bread, and the heavens to pour us down a blessing. 
9 To be afraid of dishonouring the Lord, by carcking cares aforehand, or impatience in trials.  And therefore (good Father) let us always be reverently afraid of dishonouring, or grieving thee by carcking cares aforehand, for provision for us or ours: and much more of murmuring, or impatience in any such trials, whereunto our sinful natures are extremely inclined. 
10. When we used only the means to refer the blessing to the Lord.  Make us able to sanctify thy great name, in using only the means for thy protection and providence, referring the work & whole success unto thy heavenly Majesty alone, being certain that thou wilt do that, that shall be best, and that thou canst not fail us nor forsake us. 
11. To have a holy use of all God's gifts to our salvation:  And when thou dost bestow thy gifts upon us, give us a holy use of them; that both they may further our salvation; and that we may see thy goodness in them; and never abuse them to satisfy our sinful desires; 
Never abusing them:  or puff up our proud hearts; or make them our gods, putting our confidence or felicity in them; 
But employing them to the ends appointed, as first and chiefly, to maintain God's religion, and relieve his servants:  but that we may employ them to the maintenance of thy religion, with all the holy ends which thou hast ordained them for: and especially for the relief & comfort of our poor brethren, for whom thou hast taught us to pray daily as for ourselves; and to whom thou hast given an interest in the use of our goods. 
Esay 58. 6. 7. 8. 9 10. 11. etc.  Give us bowels of compassion towards the poor and needy, that we may take off every heavy burden, relieve the oppressed, deal our bread to the hungry souls, that their backs and bellies may bless us, and that thou mayest remember us in the day of our adversity, and we lay up a sure foundation against the time to come: that therein also we may show forth our homage to thy divine Majesty, 
So to show our homage to God:  that we hold all of thy goodness; and declare the love we bear to thy children for thy sake, and chiefly to them that most excel in thy graces, and so the true practice of the Communion of Saints, 
And the communion of Saints: waiting for the joyful sentence.  waiting for that joyful sentence, Come ye blessed of my Father, receive the Kingdom prepared for you, for when I was hungry, you gave me meat.  
Forgive us our trespasses.]  
And whereas our sins only do hinder our assurance, 
And seeing our sins only do hinder all these things which we have begged:  that we are thy children, and cause us that we can neither behold thy glory, nor feel the power and happiness of thy Kingdom; neither yet have that full security for thy fatherly providence, and protection from all evil, which otherwise we should find, and do moreover bring all contrary evils upon us, and therefore thou hast taught us to cry every day, 
1. To pray for pardon of all our sins:  forgive us our trespasses: Pardon (good Lord) and remove all our sins, that keep away these good things from us. And that we may cry more earnestly for forgiveness, never giving thee rest, until we have attained it; 
Because herein alone stands all true happiness.  teach us that herein alone stands all true peace and blessedness, when we have this full assurance sealed in our hearts, that our sins are pardoned; and that all they whose sins are not remitted, are most accursed and unhappy. 
2. To this end to see the heinousness of sin:  And to this end show us (good Father) first the heinousness of sin, by making us to consider aright thy wrath, declared against it from heaven, 
In the fearful punishment of the Angels:  in the fearful punishment of thy most excellent creatures the Angels, whom for that one sin, even because they were not content with their estate, thou hast cast down into hell, to be reserved in chains of darkness, unto the judgement of the great day; then to be damned to endless torments: & afterwards in our first parents, 
Our first parents:  cast from their happy estate, for eating the forbidden fruit, & for whose sin alone, all the curses of this life & that to come, fell not only upon themselves but also all their posterity, even all of us, being wrapped under the same condemnation, until we be delivered by jesus Christ. Open our eyes to see this thy wrath against sin yet more fully, not only upon the wicked in the general destruction of the old world, and in turning the filthy Cities of Sodom & 
The old world.  Gomorrah into ashes, to remain as eternal monuments to all posterity; 
Sodom.  & in preparing the lake burning with fire and brimstone, for an everlasting punishment to all unbelievers, 
Hell prepared for the wicked:  and impenitent persons; but even against the sins of thine own dearest children, 
And in the punishment of God's dearest servants: As Moses:  as in the heavy punishment upon thine own faithful servant Moses, for so small a sin in our account (as not honouring thee before the people, in believing and avouching thy power and truth) that thou didst cut him off for entering into Canaan, which of all earthly things he must needs most desire, being the land of promise, the type of heaven, and also after that he had led the people, forty years towards it. And besides the punishment of David, 
And David.  and his house for that one sin, that thy hand did so pursue him and his, all his life long; & so thy sharp corrections, laid upon all other thy dearest servants, registered in thy book; Lord teach us yet more rightly to conceive the vileness of sin by this one thing chiefly, 
And chiefly that upon our Saviour himself.  that the least sin of thine elect, could never have been ransommed, but by the unspeakable torments of thine own beloved Son, the Lord of glory, taking our nature to become a sacrifice to appease thy wrath, and to satisfy thy justice: & how thou didst pour out upon him, the full viols of thy wrath, to cause him to sweat drops of blood, & to cry out; my God my God, why hast thou forsaken me. Give us thy children some true sense hereof, 
3. To have some sense of the innumerable evils, which each sin brings p. 5. l. 22 23. p. 6. 7.  and withal this grace to keep a continual remembrance of the innumerable evils, which every sin brings even upon us, thine own children in our souls or bodies, 
Upon Gods own children:  goods, name or friends, unless we prevent them by speedy and unfeigned repentance; 
Unless they be prevented, especially depriving us of God's protection and providence, and all power in prayer.  especially how thereby we are left wholly destitute of thy protection & providence, and deprived of all comfort and power in prayer, so long as we remain therein; and also of many extraordinary experiments of thy bounty, which otherwise we should find. Make us able in some sort to comprehend the greatness of sin, 
4. To be able to comprehend in some sort the greatness of our sin, how it is increased by circumstances, being ●om●mitted ●gainst the infinite God: our high calling:  by the infiniteness of thy glorious Majesty, against whom each sin is committed: & how our sins are increased hereby also, that they are committed against our high calling to be Christians, and heirs of thy Kingdom: with such abundant mercies, both ordinary and extraordinary; 
All mercies:  and so many and strong means to restrain us; 
Means:  besides sundry vows and covenants renewed, 
Vows:  and that after mercy obtained, and pardon formerly sealed, 
After pardon obtained.  upon our promise of amendment. Open our blind eyes to have some sight also of the multitude of our sins, 
5. To have some sight of the multitude of our sins.  how they are more in number, than the stars of heaven, seeing they are every breach of thy divine will, 
Being every breach of God's Commandment, in thought:  revealed unto us in thy law and Gospel, and that not only in thought, word or deed, 
Or in omitting the very lest duty:  but even in omitting of any part thereof, or doing it without all our heart, and all our strength; 
Besides Adam's sin.  besides the sin of our first parents, whereby we are all the children of wrath, and under thy curse; and also besides the corruption of our sinful natures received from 
The corruption of our nature:  thence; whereupon we are so wholly inclined unto evil, that all the thoughts of our hearts, 
Being wholly carried to evil:  are only evil continually; so as we cannot of ourselves so much as think, much less will any thing but that which is sinful; and hence also the hardness of our hearts, 
And the hardness of our hearts.  that we are so little moved, either at the hearing of so many judgements, or the enjoying of so many mercies, to make any right use of them. 
6. For a continual feeling of ourdaily fraulties:  Vouchsafe us such a lively, and continual sense hereof, together with a feeling of our daily slips, wants, frailties, infirmities, imperfections & noisome lusts, issuing from this filthy puddle of original corruption in us, that we may be weary of this body of sin, 
traveling under them, Desiring to be delivered.  groaning under the bondage of this our corruption, & sighing to be delivered from it. 
7. That we may see our most grievous sins, both before our calling and since.  Show us also our most grievous sins, not only of our youth and ignorance, but those much more which we have committed, since thou hast called us by thy grace unto so high a dignity, & convinced our consciences; chiefly our open and scandalous sins, 
Chiefly our scandalous sins.  whereby we have most dishonoured thee, causing thy Gospel to be evil spoken of; grieved thy children, or any way hindered the salvation of others; that by all these we may see what debtor we are, 
8. That by all these we may see what debtor we are:  & how unable to pay the least part, but to lie in hell for evermore; that we may cry continually with David, 
And may be driven to cry for forgiveness, and to run to the fountain of Chrisis' blood.  Lord forgive us our sins, and blot out all our offences; wash us thoroughly, purge and cleanse us; thus running every moment, to the fountain of thy Son's blood, which is open to all the house of Israel, for all sins & uncleanness. 
And yet that we may find comfort in the al-sufficiencie thereof.  And yet withal that we may not be utterly overwhelmed, by the ugly view of the multitude or loathsomeness of our sins, as though they could not be pardoned, nor we purged from them; comfort us in this that thy sons blood is of infinite merit, and all sufficient to wash us from all our sins (though they were the most heinous sins, that ever were committed; yea although we had all the sins of the world upon us) so long as in a true feeling of them, we can desire to be washed therein. 
9 To the end that we may not be deceived in the forgiunes of our sins.  But because we are all very ready to deceive ourselves, imagining that we are washen, when we remain still in our filthiness; seeing thou neither callest, nor admitst of any to this fountain, but them that come in true repentance for all their sins, 
To pray for true repentance and faith, which are the unseparable companions of forgiveness.  fully purposing amendment; and in a lively faith in thy sweet promises, desiring to grow therein; Oh grant us grace, truly to see our particular sins, and the vileness of them, and make us able in the sight of them, and the sense of our estate and danger by them, to mourn bitterly for them, looking at thy Son, whom we have pierced thereby; and so to hate and abhor them, that being once purged in this Laver, we may be ever afraid of defiling ourselves again, or of sinning against that precious blood. 
And to try them both by the word, to be sincere. Wat. pag. 2. lin. 8.  Help us to try both our repentance and faith, by the holy rule which thou hast given us in thy law and Gospel, that we may know them to be such, as will abide the trial, and not hypocritical; and which also have been first wrought in us, 
And such as have been wrought in us, by the Gospel, and do increase and grow.  by the powerful preaching of thy Gospel, and do continually increase and grow: which are the infallible evidences, that they are sound and sincere. 
10. That we may continually examine & judge ourselves.  Give us hearts to be daily examining, and judging ourselves that we may escape thy judgement. We entreat thee also again for our sinful Realms, 
11. To pray again for pardon of the sins of our land.  to pardon all the fearful provocations thereof, and to be pacified at the instant prayers of thy faithful servants, 
As the instant prayers of God's servants by the blood of Christ.  crying unto thee in all places by the blood of thy Son, which speaks better things than the blood of Abel; Let that cry still prevail against the cry of the sins, that thy mercy may be magnified in all the world.  
As we forgive them that trespass against us.] 
Whereas we must pray to be forgiven as we forgive.  And whereas thou (oh holy and gracious Father) hast taught us ever to pray to be forgiven, as we forgive them that trespass against us, telling us plainly that if we forgive others for thy cause, thou wilt also forgive us; and contrarily that if we will not forgive others, 
1. To pray against all maliciousness and desire of revenge:  we shall never be forgiven: Change (good Lord) the wickedness of our sinful hearts, which are most strongly bend to malice and revenge, that howsoever we hate the sins and company of the wicked, 
That though we hate the sins of the wicked and rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgements on them:  and whatsoever else is in them, whereby they dishonour thee, or show themselves to be thine enemies: and although we also rejoice in the execution of thy righteous judgements, whereby thou gettest thyself glory upon the proud enemies of thy Church; and do also pray daily for the confounding of all their wicked practices and devices; 
And pray for confounding their evil practices:  yet Lord grant us hearts to seek the salvation of all sorts, 
Yet that we may pray for and seek their salvation.  because we know not whether they belong to thine eternal election; and for them that are but our enemies upon private respects, 
2. For them that are our enemies on private respects, to pray their sin may be pardoned:  give us grace that instead of seeking revenge, we may pray earnestly for them, that they may see their sins, and have their hearts changed, and so obtain pardon for it: And moreover that we may seek to pacify them, 
And that we may seek to pacify them and gain their love:  by offering them reconciliation or full satisfaction, doing them good or gratifying them by any kindness, so far as may stand with their salvation and credit of thy Gospel, even when they hunger to feed them, and when they thirst to give them drink, 
to heap coals on their heads:  to heap coals upon their heads as thou hast commanded; either to gain them by our Christian kindness, or to leave them more without excuse; 
And get full assurance of forgiveness to ourselves.  and to seal up to ourselves a most plentiful assurance of a full remission of all our sins thereby.  
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.] 
Seeing Satan seeks continually by temptations to draw us to sin to provoke the Lord against us & bring some evil upon us.  And seeing (oh tender Father) that our deadly enemy seeks hourly by his temptations to draw us to sin against thy heavenly Majesty to dishonour thee, making us his vassals to do his will, so to strip us utterly both of thy protection and providence, and to cause thee to leave us in his hand, to bring upon us thy wrath with all the evils following upon sin; whereupon our Saviour hath taught us to pray always, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: 
1. To pray we may see the danger we stand in each hour.  Good Lord open our eyes to see the danger wherein we stand continually, & first for the multitude of those damned spirits that range 
For the multitude of damned spirits.  up and down day and night with a deadly malice seeking to devour us. Teach us to know (oh holy Father) what their power is against us, 
2. For their power to tempt and destroy us in a moment.  if thou do not restrain it; that they are able to bring us to as fearful sins, as ever they brought any of thy servants unto, and to destroy us utterly in a moment both souls and bodies, with all that ever thou hast given unto us, if thou preserve us not. Acquaint us with their deep subtleties, 
3. Because of their subtleties:  both in fitting their temptations to our particular natures and dispositions, 
Whereby they knowing our dispositions:  to our conditions, callings and occasions which they know perfectly; always dogging us at the heels, and watching us, 
Mark and take all advantages:  & their meetest opportunities; whereby they take their fittest advantage to overcome us, as against Eve and David, 
To solicit us to those sins wherein they are most like to prevail, drawing us on by degrees, to yield first to smaller matters which the world accounts no sin:  chiefly by soliciting us to those sins, wherein we have been formerly overtaken, or whereby they have most prevailed against thy dearest servants: & that also in drawing us on by degrees, as first either to yield to some smaller matters which the world accounts no sins, but trifles, or too much preciseness; as Eve to eye the forbidden fruit, and to reason with the Serpent about the temptation: 
Or not to avoid the occasions of temptation or neglect our calling.  or else not to avoid the danger and occasions of the temptations, but thrust ourselves into them carelessly without any warrant, neglecting the calling laid upon us; as David to lie idly on his bed in the afternoons instead of looking to the great affairs of his kingdom. 
4. For their innumerable allurements and baits of this world:  Make us able yet more fully to conceive of our perpetual danger, through their innumerable allurements and baits to deceive us both of the credit and estimation of the world, with the riches and pleasures thereof; which they ever hold forth & proffer unto us, 
Which they proffer.  if we will follow their persuasions; 
5. For their threatenings if we will be so precise as to make conscience of each of God's Commandments.  and otherwise threatening not only the loss, or at least the hazarding of all these, but more also the hatred, disgrace and reproach of the world, with depriving us of all comforts, the loss of our goods, with many other evils, which we must be sure to look for daily at the hands of malicious men; if we will be so strict as to make conscience of every one of thy commandments, so as we will not do the least thing forbidden, nor omit the least duty commanded us. And whereas we are ordinarily secure in an overweening of our own strength and ability to resist Satan; Show us (oh Lord) even in our hearts, 
6. For the vileness of our nature ready to conspire with them:  the vileness of our corrupt nature, which is ever ready as a bond slave of Satan's, and a traitor against our souls to conspire with him presently to our utter perdition, and as ready to run after & swallow every one of his deadly temptations, 
And to swallow every bait:  as ever fish the bait: 
Without all strength to resist.  so as we have no strength in the world to help ourselves, but all against ourselves, more than that thou graciously reachest forth thine hand unto us, strengthening & delivering us. 
7. For God's displeasure, to leave us in their power for our security.  And herein we pray thee also to reveal unto us that great danger which we stand in continually from thy glorious Majesty, seeing we have no warrant of protection, or any aid from thee (but rather just cause of fear that thou shouldest give us up wholly into the power of the tempter, and our own corruption) longer than that we make conscience to observe thy watch, walking carefully in every one of thy Commandments; using diligently every means of grace, & avoiding as warily each least occasion of temptation. 
8. For Satan's cunning in hiding all this danger, and the ugliness of sin:  And moreover seeing the subtle tempter in all his temptations, useth all his cunning to hide all this danger with the ugliness of sin, and the misery that he knoweth it will bring upon us; showing only the fair side of it, 
Showing only the faireside of it what we shall get by it, and using the fittest instruments to effect his purpose:  as the safety, credit, pleasure or gain which we shall get by it, and also useth the fittest instruments to persuade us hereunto; as the counsel or example of the wisest, learnedst, or wealthiest & of chiefest reputation, & sometimes of those who have a name for godliness, so changing himself into an Angel of light, 
Never con●ing like himself to tempt,  and never coming like himself, (unless to drive poor souls into utter despair) whereby he not only deceives the world, 
Whereby he deceives all the world:  but even us thy children, either to make us to think sin to be no sin, 
And oft times Gods own children, making sin to seem no sin.  or at least to presume to sin, because thou art so merciful, or for that thou dost not punish presently. Cause us (good Father) 
2. To pray we may have a continual remembrance of the several miseries of each sin, Watch. p. 5. 6. 7.  to keep a continual and fresh remembrance hereof, and withal of that fearful misery which we hale upon our heads by every sin; especially the wound of conscience, which no creature was ever able to bear, 
Chiefly the wounds of conscience which none can bear: and will come unless it be speedily prevented:  and which will certainly come upon us, unless it be prevented by speedy repentance. And howsoever the reprobate and the ungodly may wallow in their filthiness, and yet seem to be more free from punishment than any other, 
That although wicked men escape here, who are reserved for hell, the Lord yet will not suffer us so:  because thou reservest them for hell, and therefore fattest them for the day of slaughter: yet make us to know that thou wilt not let any of us thy children (who have specially given up our names to thee, to make a more sincere profession of thy Gospel) to commit the very lest sin, but that thou wilt surely make us feel the smart of it, unless we prevent it presently by unfeigned repentance: 
Especially when our sins are scandalous:  and that thou wilt do openly when our sins are heinous or to the offence of others; because thou wilt neither be dishonoured by us, 
Because he will not be dishonoured by us, nor let us be damned:  nor let us be condemned with the world; but wilt surely correct us to let all the wicked see with what a perfect hatred thou hatest all sin, 
And that the wicked may see his hatred against sin, and what remains for them for ever.  when thou dost punish it so severely in thine own children, and what plagues remain for them eternally. Yea (oh gracious Father) make us to fear alway, 
3. To pray we may fear always lest God should leave us never so little, because of Satan's most deadly malice against us who dreescaped from him:  lest thou shouldest leave us never so little; and to suspect all our ways, in as much as Satan carries a more deadly hatred against us, 
To provoke the Lord against us:  who are escaped from his tyranny, then against any other people of the world; and therefore seeks every hour to provoke thee against us, to leave us in his hand, 
And for that our sins will more dishonour him, and harden more to perdition then of any other:  and also because he knows that our sins will more cause thy glorious name to be blasphemed, and harden more to utter perdition, than the sins of any other; 
Whence so few have escaped to the end,  whereupon very few of thy worthiest servants through his continual dogging them, have escaped to the end of their lives without some grievous foils and wounds, 
Without some grievous foils.  the scars whereof they have carried with them to their graves, to the blemishing their profession, & wounding their consciences, with the grief and shame of the godly, and insulting of the wicked. 
4. To learn to watch and pray as the remedy against all temptations:  And therefore as thou hast taught us this as the remedy against every assault of the enemy, to watch and pray that we enter not into temptation; so make us always able to observe this thy watch which thou hast set before us, 
And to be better acquainted without selves:  and to learn to be better acquainted with our own selves and our estates, knowing our particular infirmities, 
And weaknesses:  and wherein we are weak, that we may put on daily the complete armour, 
To put on the complete armour, chiefly the shield of faith:  chiefly the shield of faith, and breastplate of righteousness to save us from his fiery darts, 
And to have the word ever in readiness:  and withal to have thy holy Word ever in readiness against every temptation, 
That strengthened by the spirit and continuing in prayer we may stand fast:  which is the sword of thy Spirit, able utterly to vanquish him, and put him to flight, that being strengthened by thy holy Spirit, obtained by continuing in instant prayer, 
And preserve ourselves without any grievous wounds, until we have gotten the final conquest.  we may be able to stand fast in the evil day, and so finish our course, until we have gotten the final conquest, without any grievous wounds or foil; to thine everlasting glory, & our own greater triumph and honour in the heavens. 
5. That we pray not against all temptation:  We do not pray that we should not be tempted at all; for thou hast taught us to account it exceeding joy, when we fall into divers temptations, knowing the good that comes thereby; but that we may endure temptation, 
But only that in them we may overcome:  fight valiantly and overcoming, 
So to receive the crown of glory in the end.  that when we are tried we may have the crown of glory set upon our heads.  
For thine is the kingdom, power and glory, 
We have begged all from the Lord:  for ever and ever: Amen.] We have been bold (oh gracious Father) to beg all these things from they heavenly Majesty, 
1. Because all kingdom, power and glory are his, and we have received all from him.  because all kingdom, power and glory belong only to thee; acknowledging that whatsoever good things we enjoy, we have received them all from thy rich and fatherly bounty; 
2. Because he will grant us all good things, above all that we can ask:  and being certainly assured that as thou hast bidden us to pray thus, so thou wilt grant us all these things which we have begged in thy sons name, and whatsoever else is good for us, even above all that we are able to ask; 
So far as shall be for his glory and our good:  so far as shall be for thine own glory (seeing thou art absolute Lord and King in heaven and in earth, and dost by thy mighty power and wisdom dispose and guide all things, 
Seeing he guideth and overruleth all things to serve hereunto:  overruling the very counsels and rage of all wicked men and devils, as shall make most for thine own glory and the greatest good of us thine own obedient subjects and children) and hast assured us that ask thus in faith, 
And hath assured us that ask in faith, we shall have:  we shall receive; That we may set forth by good experience the glory of thy dominion and power, with the happiness of thy Kingdom, 
That we may set forth the glory and happiness of his kingdom:  to all succeeding ages; to which we do hereby bind ourselves all the days of our life, and to live as the loyal subjects of this thy Kingdom, 
Whereunto we bind ourselves, and to live as his subjects all our days:  to thine everlasting glory; and so return all possible thanks, praise and dominion to thy heavenly Majesty, 
And so return all praise and thanks, saying, Amen.  saying ever, Amen, Be it so (oh LORD holy and true) as we do fully believe that it shall be. 
Even so Lord jesus.  Even so Amen. Amen, Come Lord jesus, Come quickly.   
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