THE FOURTH PART OF THE TRUE WATCH: CONTAINING PRAYERS AND TEARS for the CHURCHES. OR A help to hold up the hearts and hands of the poorest servants of God, until our Lord jesus Christ shall have rescued his Glory, Kingdom, and People in all the world, and fully prepared the way to his most glorious appearing.  
In praying learn to watch, in watching pray; in watching and praying is our victory.  Zech. 4. 6. Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Host 12. 4. He had power over the Angel and prevailed, he wept and made supplication unto him. 
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Pavier. 1624.   

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS Ladies, the Lady ZOUCH, wife to the Right Honourable the Lord ZOUCH, with her Noble Sisters, Lady DUDLEY, and Lady WINFIE●…D, all Grace and happiness.  
IT is too well known (Right Honourable and Worthy Ladies) how both in Court and Country the hearts not only of poor simple women loaden with sins, bu●… of our chief Ladies and of all other, are stolen away (so much as the Lord permite) from all true allegiance and obedience to our Lord jesus Christ and his Anoinced, to join themselves to the Church of Rome, to the endless perdition both of their souls and bodies. This also is as evident, that this is wrought principally by this subtlety of the old Serpent: That they in that Church have more holy devotions, and do also spend much more time therein, than we in ours.  
By this enchantment amongst others, Satan and his instruments seek to devour not widows houses alone, as those did in the days of our Saviour; but in time to swallow us all up quick unless our mighty God stid deliver us from their jaws, as hither to he hath done. Considering therefore how the Romish Seducers swarm in every place, to the present endangering of all the Churches and people of the Lord, & even this our nation amongst the rest; and having heard moreover (by one of special note in 
D. Wh.  the Church of God, for his learning able to silence the proudest Adversary) that some of our most Honourable and chief Ladies, have in these & the like respects, earnestly desired that some amongst us would more seriously labour herein, that we might match them even in this kind, not as theirs in blind & vain superstitions, but in true, sincere and holy devotions; I have thought it my bounden duty, to tender for the good of all sorts, such meditations and prayers as the Lord hath in his mercy been pleased to vouchsafe unto me in this behalf.  
This also the rather, for that he having long ago put this very same care into my heart, to seek hereby as much to save us all, as they do to destroy us all, hath now much more inflamed it, with an ardent study hereof: upon this religious motion, and most honourable desire of those great Personages, mentioned to me again and again, and that in God's special providence, as I have taken it, to stir me up more earnestly hereunto. Let me therefore herein (right noble and worthy Ladies) humbly beg pardon, if I presume upon your truly renowned courtesy, and tender and compassionate affection, to be more than ordinary in this my dedication to your Honours, upon this important and extraordinary occasion, from this intolerable insulting of the common Adversary, and the pitiful deluding and destroying of multitudes of poor unstable souls, and also the endangering of us all, to lie open daily more and more unto the butcherly cruelties of Rome, when they have thoroughly prepared the way, by drawing enough unto their part, through this and other their cunning stratagems and strong delusions. Grant me leave (dear Ladies) I beseech you (though a thing unusual in such dedications, which are wont usually to be very brief; yet (to manifest my long study and earnest desire for the saving of such of our brethren and sisters, as are endangered 
Rom. 9 2. 2 Sam. 5. 1.  to be destroyed by this and the like subtleties of Satan) to help hereby, and by our instant prayers for them, to pull some of them back again from the subtle Serpent, unto our Lord jesus Christ; and withal to keep others from falling away from him, even so many of them as belong to the election of grace, and to leave the rest of them more without excuse. Now is the time that Michael and his Angels strive specially 
Apoc. 12. 7.  against the Dragon and his Angels, about the whole body of his Church. Now is the time, that our Lord jesus looks for us all to help him and his poor Church, to remember our Baptism vow in a special manner, to ●…ight manfully under his banner, and to stand for him, for ourselves, & for our brethren.  
I have therefore presumed upon the occasion of that their right Christian and tender commiseration, to write a general Epistle to all the plain and simple-hearted people of our land, seduced by those deceivers, or in danger thereof: and not only to them, but to all sorts: That all may take the better notice of the delusions of Popery, the difference between the devotions of the Romish Synagogue, and of the true Church of Christ, and to make fully known unto them all, that they must all either renounce Popery, and profess the Gospel with us, or else profess themselves therein to be of Satan, and to stand for his religion against our Lord jesus Christ. That thus all may get out of Baby●…on, seek to save themselves, and help to pull out and save all others.  
And so much the rather, for that this very service hath been required of me particularly by a truly religious, worthy and ancient professor of Christ's Gospel, in the behalf of a great and honourable Lady, who hath been drawn away by this same delusion principally; to wit, That they have more holy devotions in their Church, than we in ours, and do spend more time therein. Whereupon he requested me to write some Epistle, to help to reclaim her, and to bring her back again unto us. Which service or a greater I could not well deny, as God should be pleased to vouchsafe me ability and opportunity, especially having been long obliged by his ancient love, though the unablest of thousand others.  
And moreover, for that I have likewise stood for many years (after a sort) bound by promise, for the very like service in effect unto a Gentleman, much respected generally of all that are affected to that Romish Religion, for his special devotion in that superstitious kind; one worthy indeed to be duly respected of all, in regard of his good parts of nature, learning, and also descent, if the Lord shall be pleased to show him that mercy to reclaim and bring him back into the bosom of his own true Church and people again.  
This have I therefore more heartily wished to accomplish, not only for that I have remained long thus bound by my particular promise unto himself (as after shall more fully appear) but likewise for that I was specially obliged in duty, both to his father, being a worthy judge of our Land, and in love to his eldest brother, who was a rare hope in his time, even in his tender years (as the Commons house of Parliament could then have borne witness) if our God had been pleased to have prolonged his days. And this the more cheerfully also, for that the Lord had formerly showed mercy on that his hopeful brother, vouchsafing me, a poor and weak instrument, to help to pull him from Satan to Christ; out of deep despair, whereunto he had fal●…e by reading some part of their devotions, even of Parson's Resolution of the pains of hell, and to bring him to much assurance and comfort in jesus Christ, by the right use of a little part of ours, viz. of the practice of some directions in the first part of the True Watch. My trust is therefore that your Ladyships and all others will judge my boldness to be borne withal, though I thus presume, because I know assuredly, that you will not only join your hands, but your hearts to the reclaiming and saving of them both, and of all other so deluded, and even enchanted with their sorceries, and that they themselves will most praise the Lord for this service, if ever he shall thoroughly open their eyes; whereas otherwise without unfeigned turning and speedy preventing it, they will undoubtedly fall into a far more forlorn and irrecoverable despair, when it will be too late.  
And who knoweth how far this service may prevail, being both thus requested and also promised; and now thus undertaken in all dutiful and loving affection, and also in uprightness and singleness of heart towards them, and towards all other, as before our blessed God, who hath ever been wont not only to work by the weakest and unlikeliest means, that himself alone may have all the glory, but also to do the greatest good to his Church, by the extremest rage, yea by the deepest and most mischievous plots of the Adversaries against it. Who knows, whether his goodness may not make it an instrument, through your instant prayers, with the prayers and tears of many of his people furthered by this occasion, to pull not them two alone, but with them likewise many thousands, yea hundred thousands from hell, and to bring them to heaven, & withal to keep innumerable souls from ever declining from the Lord. Yea, what knoweth any one, whether he may not make it a means amongst others, to help to save us all, and with us, all Christ's true Churches, from that common calamity and destruction, which Satan and his Agents do fully assure themselves in time to bring upon them all, and upon all the people of the Lord. Our bloody enemies, having so resolved never to rest, until, under the name of Heretics, they have utterly rooted us all out, from off the face of the earth. My trust is therefore (Right Honourable) that all who unfeignedly love Christ's Gospel, and the souls of these our deluded brethren and sisters, and desire the saving of the Church of God, will think it an acceptable service, to set before the eyes of all the world, the palpableness of this most notorious delusion: and to take away that forged imputation and shame from the true Church of Christ, and from all the Israel of God; viz. That our Adversaries of Rome have more holy devotions than we, and also do spend more time therein, than we in ours.  
Accept then, I beseech your Honours, this poor service here now in this entrance into this fourth part of this Watch thus undertaken chiefly upon the occasion of that most Christian desire of those great Ladies, to whom yet I durst not presume to dedicate it, being unknown unto them: albeit I have heard much good concerning them, & heartily pray that all heavenly graces may be ten times more resplendent in them, to their everlasting praise & happiness. Accept it as one special use and application of all the three former parts of it, to the helping of the poorest and weakest Christians in all the land, that every one herein may have the benefit of all the former, that all in praying may learn to watch, and every one in watching may learn to pray, & each in watching and praying, may not only help to save themselves, but also their own native Country, with all the true Churches of our Lord jesus Christ, and to pull all Gods Elect out of the mouth of the roaring Lion.  
All may see (so far as I am able to conjecture) that to be true, which was mentioned, That the battle of the great day is come; That Satan hath openly, and even visibly entered the field with his armies to fight against the Lords most glorious Majesty and his Armies, even against all his poor Church at once; for that this spiritual war is set on by his principal Commanders, the Pope and his Cardinals, with their chief Agents the Jesuits, and other Seminary Priests, and managed and fought by his most deadly weapons, lying and murder.  
We are therefore ever to keep in memory, that we are not now so much to labour to fight against flesh & blood, as against 
Ephes. 6. 12.  principalities and powers, the Princes of the darkness of this world, and to that end to be armed 
Vers. 11.  with all the complete armour of God, both defensive and offensive.  
To this end, like as I have long traveled to help all our poor Country Schools, and all of the inferior sort, that the meanest of them, who will suffer themselves to be directed, might not need to fear the insulting of any, or of all the proudest Jesuits, in regard of laying a sure foundation of all good learning in our Grammar Schools (with all sweet delight both to Master and Scholars) neither doth it repent me, but I bless the God of heaven, that gave me a heart so to abase my self; so have I here for all the poor people of the land, laboured to prepare and fit them weapons against this great day. Which day all my labours will witness for me, that I have long feared, seeing the malice and rage of the Adversary daily growing more and more, with the increase of our iniquities to provoke the Lord to send it upon us, like as upon all the other Churches; to the end to make us all to seek him by unfeigned repentance, & that every one of u●… may turn from our evil way unto his Covenant. That thus seeking him unfeignedly, he may take our cause into his own hand, fight his own battles, and save us from these our merciless enemies. The better instructed sort of Christians, who are able to pray better of themselves, need them not, I have therefore endeavoured to fit them chiefly for all the younger and weaker sort, who would as fain learn to pray, to save themselves and the land with all the Churches, and long as much to be helpers in this work, as any of those who are best instructed.  
Wherefore (dear Ladies) as you have so much rejoiced in the former parts of this Watch, and to do all things which may tend not only to the saving of yourselves, but also of our native Country, and to make us a happy people; so I assure myself, that you will not disdain these poor helps, though they be composed in a plain, easy, and homely style; so as to lead the poorest by the hand, and to support their weakness, to help to confirm weak hands and weary knees, that all herein may help together. It is not any painted (much less Players) eloquence, that will pacify our blessed God, and defend us, or put to flight our proud Adversaries. We have had a great while too much experience of that, in too many both of our Sermons and Prayers; no, no, it must be the evidence and power of the word of the Lord, sent forth by the sighs and groans of his holy Spirit, though all heavenly eloquence rightly used, be his most gracious gift, and if ever, now specially to be wished. Thus have I studied to fit weapons, as he hath enabled me against this time of need, meet for all sorts; that old and young, noble and ignoble, yea our most honourable Ladies may have their weapons from his Armoury; so as all, from the chief of them to the very poor woman that grinds at the mill, may in this 
judg. 5. 23.  battle help the Lord against the mighty, and so keep that bitter curse from all our land. That jael may strike the nail into the 
judg. 4. 21. 5. 26.  temples of Sisera. And that thus in the ●…ud, she that sits at home may have part in the spoil, and all of us jointly together, when we shall see the Lord to have got himself the victory with his own right arm, 
judg. 5. 1.  may sing the song of Deborah 
Exod. 15. 21.  and of Miriam, yea of all the host of heaven, saying; Praise, 
Apoc. 5. 13.  and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for evermore.  
Pardon me (worthy Ladies) I humbly again beseech you, if so much presuming upon your Ladyship's patience, according to my assurance of your tender commiseration, and true Christian humility, I have so far passed the bounds of an ordinary Epistle in this matter of such extraordinary moment and importance, so nearly at this present concerning the safety and happiness of your Honours, and of all the people of the Lord. If I may (by the worthy ensamples of your honourable Ladyships) provoke other of your noble rank and condition (as who have most leisure and best opportunity) and so others of his servants and children to a holy emulation, seriously to meditate hereof, and to put all these in practice, only so far forth as his heavenly Majesty calls all hereunto, and expects these duties at the hands of every soul, I shall have an abundant reward of all my poor travels. Or if I may but help to awake such of his servants, as to whose view they shall be presented, to labour to be for all the rest, as the Angels for Lot, to pull all from Satan to our Lord jesus Christ, and chiefly those of our own native Country, who are so seduced by Antichrist, and by those who are sent abroad by him into the world to deceive, and to draw all to his part.  
Read and consider, and so far as your Ladyships shall clearly see our Lord jesus Christ leading you by the hand, so far follow him, doing as he directs you. So you shall not only be sure to save your own souls, but also help to save all sorts, and more specially all the Honourable, and others; who either shall look at, or hear of your worthy ensamples; yea, your native Country (as was said before) and all the true Churches of Christ, and shall in like manner be helpers, to gather in all the remainder of his Elect, both jews and Gentiles, so to prepare the way to his most glorious coming. Thus shall you increase your own eternal honour and happiness, and shall shine more and more in all heavenly graces and good works, and in greater glittering before the Lord, his Saints and Angels, than by being adorned with all the gold, pearls and diamonds, which the whole earth can afford.  
In which humble desire, I take my leave, and commend your Ladyships unto that Celestial grace, which performeth all the holy desires of them that fear him and trust in his mercy, and so shall ever remain  
Your Ladyships in all service and entire affection, john Brinsley.   

TO ALL THE PLAIN AND simple-hearted people of our Land, seduced by Popery; that they may forthwith bethink themselves, both from whom they have departed, and also upon what grounds; and to let them know that they must either return to our Church again, or profess themselves to be of Satan's Religion, and so will remain to fight under his banner against our Lord and Saviour.  
BEloved in our Lord jesus Christ, so many of you, as of whom we may hope that you belong to the election of grace, for whom my hearts desire and continual prayer to our God is, that you may be saved; give me leave to show my unfeigned affection towards you, in performing that service for you all, which hath been requested at my hands, by such as wish much better to you, than you do unto yourselves. And that but only in these two things: First, in manifesting in what an estate and condition you presently stand, and so your danger eternally; and after, in helping to procure, that all the people of the Lord may cry instantly and jointly for you, that he may show you mercy, in opening your eyes, to see how palpably you have suffered yourselves to be deluded, and in plucking you out of the very jaws of that old Serpent. Howsoever, for the present, you take it at my hands, yet the time will come, as I certainly assure my soul, that you will either bless the God of Heaven for the endeavour of my ardent affection towards you, if it shall be available for you, or cry out against yourselves, with wring of your hands, and tearing of your hair, when it will be too late, and no more place found for your repentance. Vouchsafe me this favour, that being amongst the weakest of all my brethren, I may leave all matters of higher dispute, in maintaining the truth of Christ against the Jesuits and other Seminary Priests, by whom you have been so enchanted and abused, unto my more learned and reverend brethren, who have already entered the lists with them, and to others exercised in that kind, whose books I acknowledge myself unworthy to bear; and that (sith what spare thoughts God hath vouchsafed me from my necessary calling, I have specially employed in this kind, to help his people in holy meditations, and other like devotions) I may thus far only presume without offence: First, to put you in mind of your Baptism vow, and Covenant made with our blessed God, from which you have so far departed. And in the second place, to advertise you, that you may consider well upon what grounds you have departed. And finally, whither you are come. Whether by their cunning sleights you be not gotten under the very banner of Satan, to fight even against our Lord and Saviour jesus▪ Christ, though you do not imagine so much, but the clean contrary.  
In every one of these therefore, I desire to deal lovingly, plainly, and ingenuously, as in the presence of our Lord jesus Christ, before whom I stand: as he shall be pleased to assist me with his grace, and according also to the weight of the business which we have in hand, which concerns the saving of every soul of you.  
For our Baptism vow & Covenant, (which we are all bound to perform all our days, as we look to have the Lord our God, or any benefit by our blessed Saviour, or ever to appear with boldness before his Tribunal) I refer you first unto it, as the sum of it is set down expressly in our public form of Baptism; and if you please, as it is (amongst other of our books) more particularly and largely explained, but even in the first part of this Watch, The Rule of Life: In which little book, I have laboured, so far as the Lord hath enabled me, to shadow out the same vow, and so to trace out the narrow path of life, as to direct every soul from step to step, and as it were, to guide them by the hand, until we have finished our whole course, and shall have entered within the gates of the Celestial jerusalem: which, though it be but amongst the least and weakest of our helps for our de●…otions, yet I would wish every one of you so drawn away from us, to read, that therein you may first see and know our way of life, before you so condemn it; to try what iniquity you find in it, 
jer. 2. 5.  before you so utterly depart from it, and herewithal from Christ's true Church and Spouse, your mother, which hath bred and borne you, and consequently, even from Christ himself, so far as I am any way able to conceive, judging as before his heavenly Majesty. And having so read and thoroughly weighed and compared it with your way of life, according to any of your books of the like kind, then to give sentence (as before him to whom you must surely give an answer, even for this) whether is the better and more holy, your way or ours, whether more agreeable to his heavenly pattern.) And thus much for the first point, and your Baptism ●…ow, which you seem to have so far abjured, in so departing from the bosom of your mother, and utterly casting her oft: and to leave it to your more serious meditation and more mature deliberation.  
For the second: viz. Upon what grounds you have departed; I will content myself to have instanced but only in this one; which, as is said, hath been of late such a principal cause of your departure, and as I myself heard one poor soul, who had been seduced, specially alleging it (before sundry witnesses, and some of them most learned) as a main cause of her joining to that religion, viz. That they have in their Church and Religion more holy devotions than we in ours, and spend more time therein. That by the palpableness of this delusion fully discovered, you and every one of you may judge of all the rest of their delusions, which have nothing the like power so to bewitch you, and to steal away your hearts.  
And that I may proceed in order, to make all the mysteries of this delusion as clear as the Sun at the noonday, even to the understanding and full capacity of the simplest in the land, I will divide it into three parts, which are the three heads of this fell destroying Hydra, so main a cause of your present departure from our Church and Religion, and of your turning to Popery: To wit, Because 
The delusion what, and the parts of it.  they have in their Religion more holy and and better devotions, and do also spend more time therein, than we in ours. The first head then of this poisoning Serpent is this; That they have more helps for devotion in their religion, than we in ours. The second, That their many devotions are more holy and better than ours. And the 
The first part of the delusion.  third is, That they spend more time in these their holy devotions, than we do in ours. 
That in Popery they have more devotions than we in our Religion.   
For the first of these: That they have more helps for devotions, that is, more such as which those of our common sort may have, understand and use, it is as true as that which he, who lately writ the Gag for the new gospeler, hath published 
Like that in the Gag for the new gospeler.  in print to the view of the world, and which he hath not been ashamed to set in the very forefront of his book, in the Preface to the Reader, within twelve lines of the beginning to the very same end, which this delusion tends: viz. to help more easily to deceive all the simple, & to make them more to abhor all our Bibles, and thereby our Religion, whereof the sacred Bible is the ground●…: and so to take away the very life of their lives, and indeed to prepare the way the better for the full effecting of their bloody designs and desires against us all. Which I would therefore desire all (who would not willingly be so palpably abused by these murdering Jesuits, or who would but know these deluders and their Religion aright, and also the danger that we stand in perpetually by it) to take notice of. His words are these, that he would advise all of, That England hath brought forth within these few years▪ past, to the number of▪ 
* This twenty is but one this two and fifty years, By this shameless lie judge all the rest.  twenty several sorts of Bible's sarr●… different one from another. These are his own very words: for the truth hereof, let every one inquire diligently, whether England ever brought forth any more Bibles, since that translated by the Bishops, printed 1572. save that one appointed by our Sovereign Lord and King to be most carefully translated, and that to satisfy the Papists, and to take away all their calumniations against our Translations; and the same very little differing from the former, but as may fall out with the best Translations. For mine own self, I have enquired of the most learned, and can hear of none other.  
But to pass over this most intolerable & shameless untruth, together with that which they had devised in like manner for the present hiding their own wickedness in the Powder-Treason, for the dispatching us all, as it were, at one blow, like as it hath been generally reported, and received from thence till this day: to wit, That the Puritans had blown up the Parliament house; intimating thereby, that they therefore were well worthy to be destroyed out of the earth: and so under the name of Putitanes, to have taken occasion hereupon, to have murdered all who truly professed Christ's. Gospel in all the Churches. And also together with that like fair pretence of a marriage, under which they effected that most bloody, detestable, and merciless massacre at Paris, in butchering of a sudden so many of the Flower of the Nobility, Gentry, and principal professors in France. And likewise to omit that intendment 88 in a like treaty, and all other their stratagems of the same nature, by which they have so much promoted the Catholic cause, as they call it, and still do to this very day, and so far surprised the Church of Christ, and prevailed against us all, all of them being of the same nature, and from the same Author.  
To pass over all these, and to leave them all, as rightly due to Popery; for 
joh. 8. 44.  that lying and murder, the two chief works of the Devil, are now well known to all the world (even to all, that will not wittingly put out their own eyes) to be the t●…o principal pillars, which have always supported and promoted Popery and the kingdom of Antichrist, and must now specially, if ever heretofore, stand him in stead. And to come briefly to show the palpableness of this first delusion, and that it is of the very same nature with all the former mentioned; namely when they say, That they have more holy devotions, 
What is to be understood by Devotions.  that is, more books and helps for devotions, viz. more holy directions for a true Christian life, for the right practice of Christianity and piety, more helps for holy meditations and contemplations, for examining our hearts and lives sound according to the word of the Lord; so for true humiliation & repentance, for holy prayers, thanksgivings, and the like, than we have, I refer all who are willing to know the truth, to that catalogue of our devotions, even of those which are extant in Print, and may be had by all, who will use or see them, as it is set down in the end of this book, as it is gathered out of Master Maunsels catalogue, dedicated to Q. Elizabeth, printed anno 1595. and of those which have been since. Which Catalogue alone (to compare it with all the English devotions of the like kinds, that 
* For their devotions wherewith they cousin the world and extremely oppress the poor superstitious souls which will have them, see them in their Catalogue of their English books dispersed within these two years last passed with their prices, as they are in Mr GEESE late discovery, viz. Foot out of the Snare, p. 9●….  they have in the world much more of these which their common sort can come by and make use of) will I hope quite smite off this first head of this kill serpent. And especially when the works of some one of our men there mentioned, alone, being well applied and practised, may afford sufficient matter in that kind to any poor Christian, for his whole life, to make him a blessed man; yea much more blessed than all the devotions of Popery can, as will appear after: and what may we think then of all the rest of them together?  
And thus much briefly may suffice for the cutting off this first head of this Hydra.  
But the second head of this subtle 
The second part of the delusion.  serpent may seem more dangerous, as it is indeed, and more full of deadly 
That the Popish devotions are holier than ours.  poison, to wit, that their devotions, viz. those commended most unto you by your Church and Jesuits, are more holy and better than ours. To cut off this therefore likewise, as it is a thing more necessary, so it may seem more 
The holiness of devotions wherein.  difficult. But that this may be as easily and surely effected, we are wisely to consider, wherein the holiness and goodness of all true devotions do consist. This we may do specially, by considering the matter, ends, and fruits of true devotions.  
For the general matter, those must 
Which devotions are best in regard of the matter and form in general. Ephes. 2. 20. 2 Pet. 1. 19 1 joh. 5. 47. Mat. 16. 18. Mat. 24. 35.  needs be the holiest and best, which are most directly grounded upon the sacred Scriptures, that sure foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, whereof jesus Christ is the chief corner stone; upon which as all the true Church is built, so all her devotions; against which foundation the gates of hell shall never prevail more than against Christ himself; they being holy as his own Majesty; and heaven and earth may pass, but not one jot or tittle in them, till all things in them be fulfilled; for that such devotions in regard of their matter are the Lords, so far forth as they are si●…mely grounded upon that sacred word. 
In regard of the more particular, matter.   
For the more particular matter likewise, those must needs be the best, which tend most to advance the glory of our God, and the sceptre and kingdom of our Lord jesus Christ; which most magnify him, giving all our salvation to the rich mercy of our heavenly Father, in and through our Lord jesus Christ alone; and so which are most powerful and effectual to pull down all the pride of sinful man, and to make us to renounce all, but Christ jesus 
Phil. 3. 8, 9 Rom. 3. ●…7. 4. 2.  alone; to account all but loss and dung, in regard of any rejoicing in ourselves, of any justification or merit, but only in jesus Christ, and to be found in him alone, not having our own righteousness, but the righteousness of God in him. So those which most serve to cause us wholly to deny ourselves, & thereby to be made fit to come unto and follow him, as his true subjects and disciples, and which make most to the saving of all his Church and chosen flock, by him alone, and to leave all, who will not so receive and follow him, and hear his voice only (as his enemies) more without excuse.  
And as these, so those in like manner which give most full assurance of God's favour and love, and of true pardon of sin and eternal life by jesus Christ alone, and which thus give most strong and most abundant consolation only in him.  
Those likewise which are most powerful and effectual to increase our faith in him, and therewithal our love, and all the rest of the graces of God, even all parts of true sanctification and repentance, which are nothing else but the fruits of our holy faith in him, wrought in us by his blessed Spiri●… when that we truly believe in Christ.  
Or to speak all more shortly, those devotions must needs be best, which most frame all to the lively image of our Lord and Saviour, and so do most form Christ in us, to wit, which most fashion us to that absolute pattern of true holiness, which is commanded in his blessed word, and not to superstition contrary to it and condemned in it.  
And also those, whereby we may be best assured to receive most power to prevail with the Lord, and to obtain all good things from him alone.  
Or yet more for the understanding of all: Those must needs be best, which do best direct and help us to perform all our vows & promises made to him, and so to walk with him all our days, doing only that which he requires in all things, that so we may be assured of all his promises, both for this and the better life, to be fully performed to us, for the saving ourselves and all the people of the Lord.  
Or most briefly, according to our 
A most evident trial according to our Saviour's direction.  Saviour's direction, which stands sure for ever, in the three first petitions. Those which most tend to advance his glory and kingdom, with the accomplishment of all his heavenly will alone, and not the will of sinful man, must needs be the best of all. The reason is, for that these three first being obeyed and sought first aright, will certainly bring the three latter petitions and blessings for ourselves, both all things needful for this and the better life, with forgivenenesse of sins, deliverance from Satan, and from all the evils that he intends against us. That we shall see our Lord jesus manifesting his kingdom, power and glory for us, and making us partakers of the same for evermore.  
For the ends and fruits, those must 
Trial by the ends & fruits of devotions.  of necessity be the best, which as they do most directly aim at all these things mentioned, so do likewise serve as God's instruments to help us to work these things most powerfully and effectually.  
Finally (for the form and manner 
Trial by the manner.  of sending them forth unto the Lord, or performing them any other way) those must needs be best and holiest, which are done with most understanding, 
1 Cor. 14. 9, 11, 14, 15.  and so with the holiest and most fervent affections rising thereon; and 
Matt. 6. 7.  which are also uttered or performed in best order and with fewest vain repetitions.  
And contrarily those must needs be the worst which are contrary to these, in regard of their matter general or particular, and which conduce to contrary ends, and have most contrary effects and operations, and are done in a manner farthest differing from these.  
Now having set down these general rules and directions, which may serve for our discerning of the true and sincere holiness and goodness of all devotions, and which are the best; we are in the next place to consider briefly, and in a general manner, what is the most special and principal matter of our devotions; and than what is the chiefest matter of theirs; and after in the third place, to compare them more particularly together, and so leave the discerning and judgement of them, to every conscience, as in the presence of the Lord.  
For our devotions they are such generally 
Our devotions what in general.  as agree to the former rules. Both that we may so keep his watch, and walk with him here, as we may be sure to find him God all-sufficient, to live and reign with him eternally. And also that we may so pray, as we may be▪ certain to be heard, and to prevail with his heavenly Majesty for ourselves and for all his Churches and people, in all that he shall see best for his own glory, and the saving of all his chosen flock, and in whatsoever he hath promised to grant, even every thing in the due time, and especially whereby we may be sure to find him a sanctuary, whatsoever come to pass.  
But for those devotions of theirs 
Their devotions of what sort.  (whereof they glory so much, and wherewith they seek to inchant not you alone, but if it were possible, all the people of the Lord, and even to pull all from Christ to Antichrist) 
a See their books of their chief devotions as they are called by Master G●…E, who was best acquainted with them.  what are they for the most part, but either meditations of their Legend stories, as of that material Cross whereon, and those nails wherewith our Saviour was nailed; or concerning the Virgin Mary her milk and merit: or their Lady's Psalter, all full of blasphemies, and such like sluffe, as that is, which is in that book so lately published 
b See their Litanies to our Lady, in that book, and namely, that sung at the intended ●…panish invasion.  by the Spanish Monk; or tales of Saint Francis, of this Saint and that, of their Shrines, and the miracles done by them, or in the numbering and oft repeating upon their Beads, their Pater nosters, Creeds, Ave mary's, Rosaries and the like, many of them in an unknown tongue, and in a most superstitious and blasphemous manner; or prayers to the Saints, devotions to the Cross, and to all their holy relics, with innumerable other fearful superstitions. All of them being to the great dishonour of the Lord, and the dreadful provoking of his heavy wrath, in filling up the measure of their sins, in stead of any comfort that any poor souls shall ever find in them.  
Or which is far worse, what are 
Their more profound meditations and devotions.  their deeper and more profound meditations and devotions, I mean, of their holy Jesuits, and jesuited Catholics? but what meritorious works they may do, for promoting the Catholic cause; how to hold up and to advance the throne of their holy Father, that he may be the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, opposing and exalting 
2 Thess. 2. 4.  himself above all that is called God. Yea to advance their own pomp and tyranny in all the world, that they may at their pleasure reign over both souls and bodies of all, as they do in all countries, where they prevail and domineer.  
And thus are their chief meditations, how to take away whatsoever may be any hindrance hereunto, by murdering Kings and Princes, seeking to subvert whole states, so to bring all again to adore that Romish Antichrist, 
2 Thess. 2. 4. Apoc. 13. 11. etc. 14, 15, 16, 17.  to cast Christ jesus out of his Throne, and that that man of sin may seat himself every where as God; to destroy utterly all that will not worship him, and take his mark, yea all the people of the Lord, who truly worship Christ jesus, and to root the remembrance of them from off the earth.  
So that whereas the scope and effect 
Scope of all their d●…votions.  of all our meditations and devotions is only to save the souls and bodies of all men; theirs are in very deed for the most part to destroy all, either souls, or bodies, or both; intended chiefly by their Jesuits and Seminarie Priests, to work that zeal in men, as may make them ready to ruinate their own native country, to have their hands imbrued in the blood of their mother that bred them, rather than to be hindered in their wretched designs. And not only to take away the Lords anointed, with all his royal seed, and all not joining to them, but even those of the same profession with them, and of the nearest of their kin, (so that they can do it warily enough) if they be like to be any impediment to the accomplishment of their desires, as the powder furnace gave sufficient evidence. Yea the very best of their devotions (more than where they agree with the word of the Lord, and so with ours) are such as concerning which, the Lord himself doth in his word, and will one day demand of them before 
Esa. 1. 13.  the whole world; Who hath required these things at your hands? For, for those meditations of Lewes de Granado and others, so far as they agree with the word of the Lord and with ours▪ they are not properly Popish, but Christian devotions, & so in deed ours, reserved amongst them, as the Scriptures and other parts of God's truth, for the cause of the true Church, the little remainder of God's people hid amongst them, even in the midst of Rome.  
Now to take any of these devotions 
Comparing of them together.  of theirs, as they are theirs properly, and the very meanest of ours, but even these whereunto this is the entrance, (prepared of purpose to help the poorest and weakest Christians in our Church, and even all those who have not yet entered into this way of piety, but are only desirous to offer their best service to our Lord jesus and his poor Church, if they may be fitted and admitted hereunto) and to compare them to those of theirs in all or any of the former respects, I doubt not to refer them to any conscience, in all the world, if it be not altogether seared and stark dead: whether are more agreeable to the former rules, and so the better. But to come more particularly, 
Particular comparing of them for more evidence.  to set them opposite, that thus they may the better appear, as when white and black are set to be beholden, light and darkness both together; and to do it so, as the simplest in all the land may see it plainly, and be able to judge; and therefore with some little repetition.  
1. Ours directly grounded upon the word of the Lord, theirs more than for a show grounded only and professedly upon the doctrines and traditions of men, yea in deed on the doctrines of that man of sin.  
2. Ours tending wholly to advance the glory of our God, and giving all glory to him alone, excluding all rejoicing in ourselves, that he that rejoiceth may rejoice only in the Lord; theirs robbing him of his honour, giving it to creatures.  
3. Ours tending only to magnify our Lord jesus Christ and his merit alone, with the all-sufficiency of it, for our salvation, and for whatsoever else we stand in need of, we coming only to our heavenly Father, as it were with his beloved son Christ jesus in our arms, presenting him for us, as all-sufficient, that we may be accepted in and for him, so making him our alone Saviour, Mediator, and Intercessor: they come putting many other things in the place of him, and of his alone merit and intercession; as namely, the Virgin Marie and other Saints, with their Merits, yea Crucifixes, Masses, Indulgences, Relics, and a number of other things, which being in any sort put in the place of Christ jesus, of his satisfaction or merit, and having his honour given to them in whole or in part, make all 〈◊〉 devotions to be most abominable.  
4. Ours tending altogether to humble man in regard of any thing in himself, and wholly to beat down all the pride of sinful man; to make him utterly to deny himself, and all con●…dence in himself; thus to make him fit to fall down with the poor Publican, and with Marie Magdalen at the feet of our Lord and Saviour, to lay fast and lively hold on him, to present him only for us to God his Father; theirs tending to puff and lift up sinful man like Lucifer, to cause him to be utterly thrust down to hell.  
5. Ours teaching and helping us in all things fully to understand, yea to observe and keep our Baptism vow and Covenant made with our blessed God, according to his heavenly word; theirs to keep all in blindness and ignorance of that their Baptism vow in regard of any true understanding or holy performance of it.  
6. Ours teaching and assisting us to fight manfully under the banner of our Lord jesus Christ, against sin, the world and the devil, and so to continue Christ's faithful soldiers and servants, to our lives end, according as we have vowed and bound ourselves; theirs to fight Giantlike, or as the Angels of the Dragon, under the banner of Satan and Antichrist, against our Lord and Saviour Christ jesus, and against all his true Church; to maintain all their abominable Idolatry and superstition, and all the bloody and filthy sins of Sodom; To fight for all the worldly pomp and tyranny of their Popes and Cardinals, and of all the rest that persecute Christ's Church. Thus to continue Satan and Antichrists faithful soldiers and servants to their lives end; to fight ever against us, until they have utterly destroyed us or themselves; and all indeed because we will not falsify our vows and sacramental oaths made to our Lord jesus Christ, like as they themselves do.  
7. Our devotions teaching and stirring us up all our days, to observe every particular part of our Covenant both for Law and Gospel; theirs not only to hold all in ignorance of their Covenant, and so altogether in an unpossibilitie to keep it, when they know it not, and every one of them necessarily liable to the wrath of God; but also in effect teaching the violating of all, both Law and Gospel, thrusting ou●… some parts wholly, as the second Commandment in many of their books; adding and detracting at the Pope's pleasure, and that nothing is to be taken for Scripture and for God's Word, but only as it hath warrant and authority from him; in so much as a Papist dare not believe the Trinity from the infallible Testimony of the written Word of God, without the authority of their Pope.  
8. Ours teaching & helping to walk in the narrow path that only leadeth to life, prescribed by our Lord and Saviour; theirs drawing from this narrow path into by-paths devised by man▪ and so into the broad way leading to destruction; seeking to kill all, who resolve to obey our Saviour, in labouring to keep the narrow way, and who will not run those by-paths, and the broad way with them.  
9 Ours directing & helping us to live the life of faith, living only by the word of God, which together with the Spirit can alone give faith; theirs the life of unbelief, grounded merely upon the word of sinful man, for that they believe the word, not for itself, but only so far as it hath authority from the Pope, as was said, which in truth can never give any sound faith. Yea ours directing and assisting to live not only the life of faith in general; but of the true justifying and saving faith, which is wrought only by the particular applying of Christ and all his promises to ourselves, from which particular applying of Christ proceedeth all true confidence, and every part of sanctification; theirs directing to believe, but without any such particular application; and only in general, and as the wickedest and the very Devils believe; for they believe there is one God, and quake and tremble. Now that this general belief of theirs, and this implicit faith can never breed the true justifying, sanctifying and saying faith, I appeal to the consciences of all, any more than the most sovereign plaster can heal, if it be not particularly applied and kept to the sore, or more than meat can nourish and strengthen, if it be not eaten and digested, and even turned into our nature: or yet any more than a graft can grow by the stock, if it▪ be not grafted into the stock by special application, conjunction and union to take sap from it.  
10. Ours directing & helping to live the life of true godliness, being guided only by his word and Spirit, which life alone hath all the promises, both for 
1 Tim. 4▪ 8.  this and the other life; theirs for most part, in stead of this true godliness so guided by God's word, directing to live the life of bodily exercises, as Paul calls them; in superstitious penance, fastings, whip, with other will-worships, devotions and works devised ●…eerely by man; which bodily exercises 
Col. 2. 23.  and devotions, have only a show of wisdom from men vainly puffed up by their fleshly minds, no promise at all; but contrarily all the threatenings in God's book for adding to his word, and detracting from it, in matter of 
Deut. 4. 2. 22. 32. Prov. 30. 6. Apoc. 22. 18.  his worship and service, and for rejecting his Commandments, setting up man's in stead thereof; and so placing sinful man in the room of our most holy, blessed, and glorious God; the creature above the Creator, yea in truth, Satan above God, like as in all 
1 Tim. 4. 1.  their devilish and lying doctrines.  
11. Ours teaching & working by the practice of them full assurance of God's favour and love in jesus Christ, which only brings with it joy unspeakable and glorious; theirs teaching and bringing but only hope, without any ground of true faith, and therefore teaching doubting continually, which when the conscience is awaked, brings the very flashing of hell fire with it.  
So that ours, in the right use of them, are heaven upon earth; theirs, when their consciences shall be awaked, or when they but see what they have done in them all, a very hell upon earth.  
12. Our devotions are in the end the sweetest in the remembrance of them, and of all the time before that ever we have spent in them, since we believed in Christ; so as every one of our devotions made in faith, as our Religion directeth, and every moment of time so spent in them, hath a certain reward; theirs being done without warrant of the word, yea contrary to the word, and therefore superstitiously and sinfully, not only wanting all such expectation of reward (for who required the best of those things at their hands) but also having an expectation of vengeance, when the conscience beginneth to be a little awaked. So that experience teacheth, that then they are fain to renounce all but jesus Christ, and so all confidence in these things, and to wish then with Balaam, to die the death of the righteous; toward which death of the righteous, we are always going forward; and which life we striving to live, shall be sure to die the death thereof, and our last end to be like to our life.  
13. Our devotions in so many of us as practise them aright, are as our Religion, viz. that pure Religion and undefiled before God even the Father, which james speaketh of, directing and 
jam. 1. 17.  helping to visit the fatherless and the widow in their adversity, and namely those of them who are of the household of faith, and the members of our Lord jesus Christ, and to keep ourselves unspotted of the world. So as we practising rightly out devotions, there cannot be a lying tongue found in our mouths, nor a hand or heart defiled with blood, but we shall seek by all means to save both souls and bodies of all sorts, even of our wickedest enemies, and the most bloudily-minded against us. Their Devotions contrarily are in truth, as their Religion, to devour widow's houses, under a pretence of long prayer, and to destroy all the innocent, the fatherless & widow, even all who are of the household of faith, & the members of Christ, which are indeed the Innocents' that save all the rest. 
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And by these, they make themselves notorious and infamous to all the world, to be the most polluted with execrable lying and the murder of innocents, of all other religions, that ever were in the world before, as will further appear after, whereby all their chief professors, and namely their bloody jesuits have made themselves odious even to all Nations.  
14. Yea and to pass by many other; our Devotions are as our Religion, to make us faithful and loyal subjects, and not to be so bold, as to have an evil thought in our hearts against him, whom the Lord sets over us, but to be as David, whose heart smit him, for touching but the lap of Saul's garment, and so with that holy servant of God, and with the children of the Captivity, and with Daniel, yea with all the holy Martyrs to be content to endure whatsoever from them, and from all in holy and lawful authority under them, that in our patient sufferings, Kings, Princes and Rulers may see the truth, and what is pleasing to the Lord, and also what they ought to maintain and do for their own salvation, and of their Royal Progeny and Dominions; theirs in all these things, to make all to be contrarily affected, viz. to arm and flesh all to rebellion, and the murdering of Kings and Princes when they can do it conveniently. After that those their ghostly fathers have made them to drink deep enough of this cup, and to be truly devout in the manner of their devotions: though I hope better things of you, to whom I write, yet it cannot hurt you to be warned.  
15. Moreover for the manner & form of our devotions; All our devotions which are agreeable to our doctrine, are sent forth from understanding hearts, and so with a holy zeal, inflamed by the spirit of judgement, and the 
Esa. 4. 4.  spirit of burning, mixed with the sweet perfume of Christ's merit, and so offered up to our heavenly Father, as they may be most pleasing, coming to him, 
Apoc. 8. 3.  as out of the hand of our Saviour, yea offered also in order without any vain 
Matth. 6.  babbling or idle repetition: Theirs contrarily are for most part and usually without any understanding at all; like as all the devotions of their ignorant sort are, especially those which are in an unknown tongue; and so without all holy affection. For all holy affections must of necessity be grounded upon knowledge, without which the heart cannot be good; neither can 
Prov. 19 2.  there be any faith in such, nor any 
Rom. 4. end.  thing but sin, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. And not only so, but also theirs are full of vain and idle repetitions in that blind manner, a matter directly condemned by our Saviour as 
Matth. 6. 7.  hypocritical and heathenish, when men think to be heard for their much babbling. Finally, for that theirs are usually sent forth in a proud opinion of their own merit and worthiness to be heard, or as they come out of the hand of some Saint or Angel; to whom therein they give this honour and prerogative, which solely belongs to our Lord and Saviour, viz. of presenting 
Rom. 8. 34. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Apoc. ●…. 3.  our prayers and supplications unto his Father alone.  
I might prosecute these comparisons in many other instances, as namely, that our devotions make us still better, the more they are practised by us, and more like to Christ jesus; theirs as they are theirs properly, as those which I named, make them still and ever worse and worse, and more like to Satan, as he is transformed into an Angel of light; as namely in all their jesuits, their chief professed holy men, being indeed devils in carnate, and so accounted to all States, and specially for those chief works of their lying and murder, which are manifest to all, to be their principal study: Ours (to repeat it again, that it may leave the deeper impression in every soul) tending to save all both souls and bodies; theirs to destroy all, not only us whom they term Heretics, but themselves eternally, and all other whom they seduce by their delusions.  
But to omit all further comparisons, for that it would be too long, and only to content ourselves with these, and to come to a conclusion of this second point, viz. That these things being so, as every one who professeth Christ's Gospel, and holdeth the Religion of our Church, must needs acknowledge, and even the very consciences of our Adversaries will surely do, when they shall be awaked to answer as before the Lords Tribunal; I now here appeal to every soul, whether are more holy and so better, their devotions or ours.  
And thus I hope this second head 
Conclusion of this second point.  of this monstrous destroying and devouring serpent, is utterly smitten off for ever hereafter hurting any of God's people, who uprightly weigh these things, and to whom it is given to believe the Gospel of Christ, and withal to lay to heart that forewarning of Paul concerning the strong delusions 
2 Thess. 2. 11, 12.  of Antichrist, amongst which these are not of the least. And for them to ●…rag of the number of them being such, is to boast of their store of poison and pestilent infection enough to destroy not only themselves, but even all the world And thus much for the second head. 
The third part of the delusion: that they spend more time in their devotions than we in ours.   
To come therefore to the last head of this deadly Serpent, which is yet more perilous and full of mortal poison than the former: viz. That they spend more time in their devotions than we do in ours, and therefore their religion is better. To cut off this likewise,  
1. I answer, that their devotions being such as those which we have heard, viz. Idolatrous, superstitious, and against the direction of the Lord, yea against his express charge, (like as all theirs are, so far as they are properly theirs) the more time they spend in them, the more they increase their sin, and so the wrath of God against themselves, with their own everlasting misery, so that to glory of their many devotions spent in that kind, is but to glory in their shame and in their sin, even in the lancing of their own souls, in a devotion like to the devotion of Baal's Priests.  
2. Thus I answer, that a Papist, being a right Papist, holding their usual tenets, and following their practice, can never make one prayer which can be acceptable unto God, nor do any work which can be pleasing, for that 
Rh●…m. on Rom. 3. vers. 22. sect. 7.  they do not only condemn, but also scorn, yea persecute that true justifying faith, which consists in a particular applying of Christ, and in a peculiar and full assurance of God's favour and love through jesus Christ alone; without which faith there can be no sanctification, for that all our sanctification flows from our justification, and our justification from this particular saving faith, thus applying Christ to us, and making him ours, and so making us flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones; whereby all our good works flow from him by his Spirit, when we are so united and incorporated into him thereby.  
Now they denying and scorning that whereby they should be made good trees, can never bring forth any good 
Mat. 12. 33.  fruit pleasing and acceptable unto the Lord: For first, the tree must be good, and then will the fruit be good, & never before, but scorning that whereby they should be made good trees and living members of Christ, & have his Spirit, they can never do the works of Christ, or bring forth the fruits of the Spirit.  
3. Though they could make never so many prayers, and those good prayers in regard of the matter, yet none of those prayers can ever be accepted; but God threats to hide his face from 
Esa. 1. 15.  them, because their hearts and hands are full of blood, all of them, at least the most devout of them, wishing and seeking the blood of all heretics, and so of us whom they principally account to be such amongst all other.  
For their very hating of us so mortally they are murderers, and much 
1 joh. 3. 15.  more, hating and ceiling to root us all out, only for our love to our God, even for his name's sake, and for our cleaving fast to him alone; and therefore cannot have eternal life abiding in them, much less can any of their prayers be heard so long as they so remain.  
4 Moreover, for all their canonical and set hours, if they be either in such kind of prayers as theirs are properly; or else if they be with the neglect of that particular calling wherein every one of them should walk, to eat their own bread, and not to be as Caterpillars and idle bellies, to live of the spoil of the Church or Commonwealth; & much more, if they be to deceive and to delude poor souls in an opinion of me●… it thereby; and most of all in putting their works so done in place of the merit of Christ, as in adding them to the treasure of the Church; though by them they afflict and humble their bodies never so much; yet all these the more they are, the greater is their sin and misery, as was said before: for who required any 
Esa. 1. 12. Psal. 50. 16.  of the best of them done in this manner at their hands? And much more any of those which are in themselves idolatrous or superstitious.  
5. For true and holy devotions, and which are pleasing and acceptable unto God, I doubt not constantly to affirm, but that the poorest and weakest true Christian in our Church (which rightly holding the doctrine of our Church, and justified by the blood of Christ through a lively faith in him, makes conscience of all his ways, and so useth to pray according to his will, in the name of Christ only, both spends more time in true holy Devotions, and shall be more accepted with the Lord, yea shall have more power to prevail with his Majesty for whatsoever he seeks, and shall also bring more comfort to his own soul, and find a far greater reward from the Lord, than the proudest Pharisaical Papist in all the world.  
For that the prayers of such an one so made, are the prayers of faith, unto which all the promises are made; and contrarily all the prayers of the Papists, so far as they are Papists, and so made, can be no other but prayers of unbelief, and so can look to receive nothing, because indeed they are nothing but sin, and displeasing to his 
jam. 16. 7.  Majesty.  
And if the poorest Christian, and he that spends least time do this, what shall we think of many thousands others, who have set themselves unfeignedly to seek and walk with God? Yea, what shall we think of all those, who knowing their own sins and weaknesses, and the continual endeavours of Satan against them, with their own necessities, and the necessities of the Churches, are driven to be instant with the Lord day and night? And chiefly what shall we judge of all those, who do at this day truly take to heart the dishonours done unto his glorious Majesty, the oppositions against Christ's Gospel, his crown and dignity, with the state of his poor Churches and people therein; the rage and fury of Satan and Antichrist? who have therefore set themselves truly to help our Lord jesus in his members to pacify his wrath, and for the restoring of his captives with the glory of his Zion.  
Yet have we too just cause to accuse 
Just complaint against the greatest part of those who profess the Gospel.  and condemn ourselves herein, not only all our Atheists and profane sort, but also the multitude generally, that we suffer our adversaries so far to condemn the greatest part of us, who profess the Gospel, that they should labour far more in their superstitious devotions, to increase their sin and judgement upon them all (though this have been always the nature of superstition) than we in our holy and true devotions to increase our own happiness, and for the saving of us all. Notwithstanding that whatsoever deadness and want is amongst us in this behalf, it is not through the fault of our Religion, which teacheth and enableth us otherwise when it is rightly known and practised, but it is the want of true knowledge, and of a sound and conscionable practice of our Religion.  
Hence it hath been, and is one principal end whereunto I have bend my studies in these poor labours, the better to awaken us, and to put more life into us, to begin more universally and jointly, and also more incessantly to importune the Lord herein, being provoked by their ensample.  
That thus we may labour as powerfully and as earnestly with the Lord hereby, for the saving of ourselves generally, and of so many of them with us as belong unto his eternal election, as they do by theirs, to destroy both us and themselves together.  
And thus much also, for cutting off 
Conclusion.  the third head of this subtle serpent, which I trust shall thus fall with the rest. And now that this Hydra is so laid in 
The further manifestation of that assumption, which fully demonstrated, all must renounce Popery or be professedly of Satan's Religion. Se●… Watch, Part 3. pag. 340.  the dust, and all his heads taken utterly from him, for so poisoning and destroying any more; let me once again come unto the further demonstration of that assumption, concerning which that learned Gentleman (of whom I made mention in the Epistle Dedicatory) professed long ago, that if it could be proved, viz. that Popery teacheth lying and murdering for the supporting of it, he would utterly renounce his religion and embrace ours. For that this doth in like manner, and as nearly concern every Papist in the world, as it doth him. That they must needs every one either profess with him, that if it can be proved, they likewise will utterly renounce Popery, and embrace the Gospel, or that they are of that Religion which is of Satan, and will so remain, whatsoever the Lord shall manifest to the contrary. Which point, as all may see, doth fitly come in to be yet more plainly demonstrated in this place, and upon this present occasion.  
The Syllogism whereby I endeavoured 
The Syllogism grounded upon our Saviour's own words.  to let him see the danger wherein himself and all the rest of them who are of that popish Religion do stand (because that Religion so far as it is differing from ours, and properly Popish, holding their chief grounds, must needs be of the devil.) was grounded upon the express words of our Saviour to the unbelieving jews, who therefore sought by lies and all devices to kill him, even for the truth, which he declared unto them, as now they do●… us all. The words are, john 8. 44. Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father will you do; He hath been a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth.  
This I framed in the plainest manner that I could, for the easier understanding and trial of it, as now I do●…; that every one may be better able to discern of the truth and weight of it, thus:  
That Religion which teacheth lying and murder for the supporting and advancing of it, is of the Devil; But the Religion of the jesuited Papist it a Religion which teacheth lying and murder for the supporting and advancing of it.  
Ergo the Religion of the jesuited Papists is of the Devil.  
First the proposition I showed to be strong from the express words of our Saviour, and not possibly to be gainesaied; for ●…hat if liars and murderers are of the devil, than that Religion which teacheth lying and murdering to support and advance itself, must needs be so likewise.  
He therefore being pressed with the Assumption, denied it, only by distinguishing, that howsoever some of them had practised so, yet it was not their doctrine, and that if it could be proved to be their doctrine, he would utterly renounce his Religion, and join himself again to us.  
This I undertook to prove unto him: but living some miles dist●…nt from him, and having my calling to follow, which I was necessarily to attend; the Lord our faithful and most gracious Father, seeing my unfeigned desire for his reclaiming and salvation, undertook for me the proving of it, in such a manner, as whereby to give satisfaction for the truth of it to all the world, and for ever to stop his mouth, and the mouths of all our adversaries, even of every one affected to that Popish Religion, and that two ways.  
First, this conference of ours, and 
How the Lord manifested the truth of this Assumption, that this is their doctrine.  so my promise being but a little before the powder Treason, it proved itself, or rather, his heavenly Majesty manifested it by themselves, leaving them up to themselves in that very powder Treason, wherein there was for the supporting and advancing of their Religion, first such a murder intended as the world before that day never heard of.  
And secondly, a lie as great as it, devised not only to cover that bloody fact, for the present; but by it to have destroyed all the rest, who had escaped that blow, even all truly professing Christ's Gospel; in all countries of the earth, under the name of Puritans; for that they had committed such a fact, viz. That the Puritans had blown up the Parliament house: like as when it was discovered, they gave it forth, that the Puritans had intended it. That which should have been their own most detestable act, they father upon the people of the Lord, whom they would have butchered by it, and blown up for ever.  
Now this whole act of this devilish and deadly preparation, we know, was proved to be done by the advice of Father Garn●…, and other their superiors. And therefore it being their doctrine, that they are to obey their Superiors and Ghostly Fathers, chiefly in all things which concern the promoting of the Catholic cause▪ and therein to be ever ready to adventure their lives; I appeal to the conscience of this Gentleman, and the consciences of them and you all, whether it be not their doctrine by necessary consequence.  
2. His heavenly Majesty & goodness declared it thus further for me soon after, upon the same occasion of the Powder-treason; in causing 
* Now L. ●…. of Lic●…field.  Mr. Doctor Morton (a man meet for his learning and knowledge of their works) to prove it against them, in his book called, An exact discovery of Romish doctrine in the case of conspiracy and rebellion, written by direction from our Superiors; together with his Defence thereof in his Encounter against Parsons. In which he doth manifest this to be their plain and direct doctrine, setting down their places out of sundry of their chief Authors.  
3. The Lord hath moreover caused it to be published not to our Nation alone, but as it were to the whole world, in that book which is called, Revelatio Cons●…iorum qu●… 〈◊〉 Synod●… Tridentinae ●…ant inita, & in hunc usqu●… diem continuata: viz. ay he revealing of Popish conspiracies, between the Pope, the Emperor, and other Popish Princes and States of the Christian world from the beginning of the Council of Trent until this day, for the utter rooting out of the Gospel of Christ, and destroying the professors thereof, either by fraud under pretence of peace, or other leagues, or by open hostility and cruelty, whensoever their time and opportunity serves; which book hath sundry of the Pope's Bulls annexed to it to the same purpose. And likewise the Lord hath caused it to be thus divulged by sundry other books and means. But this I have already set down in the 
Part 3. c. 11. p. 340, 341.  third part of this Watch, and namely in the Idolatry of judah hastening the Captivity; which matter (if ever heretofore) concerns our whole Nation, and even all the Churches seriously to lay to heart.  
Now this one very fact of their●… alone, might have been fully sufficient to have caused all of them to have acknowledged the truth of that Assumption; and thereupon to have utterly renounced Popery, and embraced the Gospel again; if God had been so pleased to have opened their eyes, o●… touched their hearts to have considered of it as in his presence, and much more those mentioned books, and many such like discoveries.  
But sith that (notwithstanding all manner of convictions by such notorious practices formerly, such manifestations by writings, and even from their own books) most of them in stead of renouncing Popery, and joining to us again, are much more obstinate; and the number of them is increased, and that they do daily grow in their induration against all the Lords most gracious warn of them; and that all the jesuits and jesuited, do set themselves as Pharaoh and Egypt, to pursue all his Israel at this once, into the very heart of the sea; and also seeing that all their simpler sort are so far enchanted by their jannes' and Ia●…bres, those their jesuits and other Seminary Priests through their illusions, and hopes at length to prevail, at least by these their practices of equivocations and murders, I have thought it my duty yet once again to manifest here still further the evidence of this Assumption, viz. That Popery practiseth and teacheth lying and murder to support and advance itself; and therefore is undoubtedly of the Devil.  
Who can tell if yet at length our blessed God will not be pleased to awake that Honourable Lady, and that devoted Gentleman, with others of them, (which I beg of his sacred Majesty even upon my knees) to consider better of their estate and courses, and get themselves out of the power and paw of Satan. At least my certain hope in the Lord is, that it may be a means to help to keep many others from ever so coming under Satan's banner:  
And here I cannot but again wonder 
The Lord himself also daily more and more manifesting the truth of it, to leave all the obstinate more without excuse.  at the goodness of our God, and of his special providence answering for me, and performing also my poor desire herein likewise, above all that I could ever expect, at this very instant of time, now that this my hearts desire towards them, and our prayers to God for them, are to come into the press, and into the public view of all, and but even as it were immediately before. Which thing I cannot no●… dare otherwise expound, but because he would have all sorts to take notice of his love and care for us, and for all that are his people, to warn and save us all; and also of his infinite mercy, even to them, if any warning may yet serve to prevail with them: or else of his most just vengeance, if they will suffer themselves still to be so wilfully blinded, and carried against him, his truth and servants in such a furious rage to their own certain perdition, and will not yet turn and betake themselves unto the colours of our Lord jesus Christ.  
First, he hath manifested it anew, in discovering again, (even as it were to all the world) the wickedness of that Religion in this behalf, in causing our whole nation, not only to take more full and certain notice of their dealing, and to be enforced to seek by all means to prevent the mischief and danger by it; but also all the Churches, even all the earth, to see how by delays and fair pretences (which have indeed been nothing, but mere untruths and gulls, to speak plainly of them) they have devoured so great a part, and are ready presently to swallow up all, under pretences of marriages, of more strong leagues, and more firm peace, according to their ancient devices and practices, & agreeably to their holy Counsels at Trent, in the book mentioned before: so as even all the world rings and cries out of it.  
2. In the new French practice of the 
Se●… the book entitled, An admirable discovery of an horrible attempt; standerously ●…hered upon them of Rochel.  Jesuits, confirmed both in print, and also by letters to sundry Merchants from men of credit, whereby they sought to make our Religion odious to Kings, Princes, and States, for treasonable plots: and so to set them all to band themselves to root it and us utterly out of the earth, and specially to make France once again to flow with Christian blood; for that such as they are, have not yet drunk blood enough, though all their jesuited sort are made drunk already, with the blood of the Saints, and Martyrs of jesus.  
3. By causing at this time their Art of equivocating and lying to come to light, and to be published to the view of all sorts amongst us. How these Jesuits have beaten their brains, and even gone beyond Satan himself, in devising, maintaining, and practising this devilish Art, which we may well call their new Black Art, for which I refer all to Mr. Masons book of The new Art of lying, covered by Jesuits under the veil of Equivocation. That all may see and be for ever fully satisfied, that these are their doctrines, & the very chiefest of them, in the refining and perfecting whereof, they bestow most pains.  
4. By that late and notable Discovery 
See Foot out of the Snare, pag. 25.  out of their own books, by Mr. Gee, who was one of them; wherein he hath set down such impious tricks and devices of their Priests and Jesuits, that (as he there saith) all may justly hoot at them, for most abominable impostors and liars. The reading but of some of which will manifestly clear whatsoever I have spoken in this behalf, and this Assumption. This likewise coming forth in God's special providence at this very instant, for the more full conviction of all, or leaving all more without excuse, and to stop every mouth that shall plead for them.  
Yet to pass over all these, and this also; that all sorts do know, that their Jesuits and Confessors are the chief contrivers and abettors of all their chief stratagems, and that nothing is done without them. And albeit we are nothing to regard words, when their deeds, according to their Doctrines and Constitutions, are apparent to all the world. And that although they may delude little children, by affirming that these are not their doctrines (if any dare still deny it against the witness of his own heart) yet men, having their brains in their heads, can never be so besotted, unless they will wilfully join hands with them, or suffer their eyes utterly to be put out.  
For that which they say; That they are not their Doctrines, unless we can show them out of the Council of Trent, or some of their chief Counsels; can any man imagine, that the Counsels would openly profess them to proclaim to all the world, that they and their Religion is of Satan? or can we think or imagine, that so many of their Jesuits should publish them unto the world, unless they were the advice of their Popes, and indeed their Doctrine.  
But to pass all these things over, 
All their Doctrines lies in hypocrisic.  and to leave them to their further consideration, to work better upon their consciences: what can they yet, or any other say to their Doctrines, which the Holy Ghost calls, Lies 
2 Tim. 4. 2.  through hypocrisy, devised to devour us all?  
Such as this here discovered, That they have more holy devotions than we, etc.  
And even for all their Doctrines jointly to leave it to the consciences of all whether all of those wherein they differ from us, and for which they so contend, be not Doctrines merely devised to please the corrupt nature of man; to hold up that Hierarchy of the Pope, and tyranny of that Sea of Rome, viz. of their Pope, Cardinals, Abbots, and the rest: And also for their bellies; and that they may keep all the world in slavery, and to hide their wickedness. And more specially what their Doctrines are concerning Purgatory, Masses, Indulgences, Pardons, even for the time to come; Miracles done by this Saint and that, and by this Relic and that: and concerning their holy Relics themselves, and so all their doctrines of Equivocation, mental Reservation, and the like, whether they be not all (to speak as the thing is) notorious lies to keep the poor people in ignorance, & in their blind devotions and slavery to them; yea to muzzle them in their murdering zeal against the true Church. Which if it be so, than the Assumption is most manifest to all the world, even to children, and almost to sucking babes: That Popery teacheth lying and murder, or that which tends thereunto, viz. to the destroying of all either souls, or bodies, or both.  
Now for the truth of all these things, 
Appeal for the truth of the Assumption.  I appeal first to the Lord jesus, the judge of all, to judge between us; and that I have written according to the persuasion of my heart, grounded upon the word of the Lord, and upon their writings and dealings.  

2. I appeal to the sacred Scriptures, by which we and they and all our doctrines must be judged.  
3. To the universal consent of all the true Church of Christ.  
4. To every one who professeth the Gospel according to the doctrine of our Church, and our good laws.  
5. To their own hearts and consciences, I mean of all the learneder, and cunninger sort of them, and to the consciences of all, when they shall be so awaked, as to think that they are to appear before jesus Christ to give an account.   
For particular proofs of these and other disputes, I leave them to the Treatises mentioned before, and also to the more learned, and them who have better leisure. It may be sufficient for me to have made them manifest to all who profess Christ's Gospel, and who judge indifferently, and to leave them and their consciences thus convinced unto the Lord's judgement fea●…. 
Appeal for the evidence of sundry Consectaries.   
And now these things being so, I appeal again to their consciences, and the consciences of all the world, concerning the evidence and necessity of these Consectaries.  
1. Whether the Assumption being true, that Religion of theirs be not of the Devil, by our Saviour's own reason, and therefore that all of them must either renounce, and even abjure it, or else profess themselves to be of Satan's Religion, to maintain it, and to fight for him against our Lord jesus Christ, and that they will still do it.  
2. Whether all sorts are not bound to seek to save themselves from that lying and murdering Religion, and to use all warrantable and holy means, both to reclaim all from it, to the end to save them, both souls and bodies, and also to deliver all the Churches and people of the Lord, from the danger of being suddenly surprised, and murdered thereby; and so far as God enables them any way, to take away all the dishonour and provocations of his sacred Majesty, which may come thereby, as by all other such heinous sins. This I humbly submit to the judgement of all; seeing whosoever is not with our 
Luk. 11. 23.  Saviour is against him, and that whosoever saves not, destroys. That the Magistrates and all in authority are the keepers of both the Tables, each according to his place: and for that the blood of all must be required at the Pastors and Watchman's ha●…ds, 
Ezek. 33. 7, 8.  according to the charge committed to every one of them, if they be not faithful in their several places designed to them by the Lord.  

* I could wish them & all other of the simpler sort to read such little treatises as show how Popery is against the main grounds of Religion, and first principles of the Catechism; as namely a little book called a pill to purge out Popery, with the shifts of the jesuits by Master MVLL●…N and the like. Request to all opponents.  Wherefore I entreat them and all others seriously to think hereof, as in the presence of our Lord jesus Christ, before whom I have written, in duty to his heavenly majesty, for maintaining his glory, and holding up the sceptre of our Lord jesus, and in love and duty to all sorts, chiefly to all in high place, for the saving of all, or to leave the obstinate utterly without excuse.  
And thus much also for the proof of the Assumption, and the shutting up of this enclosed Epistle.  
Unto which, if this Gentleman, or any one for that Honourable Lady, will offer to reply, let me but crave this of him, whosoever he be, which equity and wisdom will require.  
1. First, to do it in love and with good advice, as in the presence of our Lord jesus Christ, without all shifts or devices against the light of his conscience, even as I have endeavoured, and only for the finding out and maintaining the truth, whereunto (God willing) I shall ever yield, if any one in any thing shall rightly show me my error, and I shall moreover acknowledge my oversight.  
2. And secondly, let me request of him, that he will bethink himself wisely, for what he pleads, and also for whom, whether he do it not even for Satan, and for the upholding of his kingdom by his chief works of lying and murder; and also to consider against whom he doth it, whether it be not against our Lord jesus Christ, and against all his Saints and people: and withal to think, how hard it is for him to kick against the pricks, and that against the light shining clearly in his heart. And yet 
Acts 9, 5.  more also, to ponder wisely what it is to give Satan advantage, but by one lie only wilfully maintained, and especially such a lie, as tends but to the murdering of one soul. And how much more then, when it is to maintain the Art of lying devised by and for the devil himself; to hold up his kingdom, and to overthrow the kingdom of Christ, and for the deceiving and destroying of innumerable souls, even of all bewitched by them; and tending to the destroying of all the people of the Lord, and the rooting them out of the earth. How dreadful it will be to stand before Christ, to give answer but for the blood of one soul alone; when Abel's blood, the blood but even of his body alone, cries so loud from the earth, and makes Cain such a runagate all his days, to be in hell whilst he was yet here in the earth; yea before he came into that place of torment designed for him and for all other wicked men, and chiefly for all liars and murderers, to be tormented there for ever.  
4. And finally, let me wish him for his credit (if he respect nothing else) to answer all these books which I have mentioned, as well for the cause of the learned as the unlearned, because they are (as it were sent of God) to manifest the truth hereof; and then I have no doubt, but he our most blessed and only wise God, will both reply and answer for us still, and so maintain his own cause, as to put them all to silence, at least in the pit which they are digging for us, and that for evermore.  
Thus have I through the good hand of my God, made way to the satisfying of the holy desires of those worthy Personages, which wish so Honourably and Christianly unto you, & that we may match our chief Adversaries in our devotions; although we do already (as all may plainly see) go so far beyond them in this kind; and also to the end that you who mean plainly, and have not your hearts yet tainted with their bloodthirsty desires, & all others, may perceive, how you have been and are deluded, and even enchanted in every one of these respects: by which scale, all may measure the rest of their lying doctrines and devices. And withal I hope that I have made it evident to the consciences of all, that all sorts must renounce Popery, and embrace the Gospel; or else profess themselves to be of their father the Devil, and that they will fight against Christ. To try if the Lord may be pleased yet to show them mercy, to come out of the snares of Satan, either by the clear manifestation of these delusions of his, or by the prayers and tears of many of his people, crying jointly for all, to hale and 
See Peter's enlargement, concerning the power of faithful prayer.  pull them out of Egypt and Sodom, for what are not the joint prayers of God's people able to do?  
Now these things being so, this delusion so laid open, and the Assumption so plainly proved and demonstrated to the convincing of every of your consciences, as I am fully persuaded before the Lord, give me leave in tender commiseration to turn my speech unto you all, who dare still stand out against his Majesty.  
Oh bethink yourselves in time, what it is to fight against the light of your own hearts! what will follow the wounded conscience, when the Lord shall wake it and call it to an account, which he will certainly do, either in this life, or so soon as ever you shall depart hence. Remember the cases of Cain, Saul, judas, for fight so desperately against the light, and so standing forth against the Lord and his most gracious offer of mercy.  
Oh bethink yourselves in time of his terrible and most glorious Majesty, against whom you have so fearfully sinned, as to provoke him not only against yourselves, but against this whole Nation, even against us all, for your causes, in departing from him and his holy Religion, to a Religion of such abominations, and so manifestly convicted and declared to be of Satan his sworn enemy!  
Remember the dreadfulness of his wrath, so declared in the irrevocable punishment of the Angels that so fell from him, of Adam, the old world, Sodom; and that which shall be so fearfully 
2 Thess. 1. 7, 8, 9, 10.  revealed when Christ shall come with thousand thousands of glorious Angels, in flaming fire, to render vengeance to all who know him not, and who will not yield obedience to his heavenly Gospel, and much more to all his obstinate enemies.  
Consider well how your sin is increased not only being committed so contrarily to your Baptism vow, but also by all the evictions of the abominations of that idolatrous, lying, and murdering Religion, especially in this Nation, since the time of the first casting it forth so publicly by Parliament, and even until this very day, and now last of all by this Discovery of this forged delusion, wherein so many others of yours like unto it are included.  
Think what it is, not only to be barred out of Heaven, deprived utterly of all the joys thereof, but moreover to be thrust into hell, to abide the torment thereof with Satan and his Angels for ever and ever: which must needs come upon you, if that Religion of Rome be such, and have such supporters, as you have or may see set before your faces.  
If you will not read this, but be as the deaf adder stopping your ears, and in stead of Satan hiding away and blinding your own eyes, yet I hope you have each of you some faithful friends, who (believing the Gospel▪ and persuaded of your delusions as I am) will play the parts of faithful Physicians, & true loving friends towards such as are endangered by extreme distempers in burning fevers or the like, or in extreme peril of perishing by water or fire, or any way else; viz. which will make these things known unto you, & urge them upon you for your preservation and recovery, so to declare their uttermost love unto you, to the end to convert you, and bring you to us again, and to our Lord jesus Christ, and so save you from hell: though for the present they adventure your displeasure, as I also must.  
Howsoever, this shall be my rejoicing and my witness for me before the Lord, for my duty towards his heavenly Majesty, and towards his Vicegerent our royal Sovereign, & of my love and duty towards this Church and Nation, and even you all in this behalf. For which, entreating him in his rich mercy to make it effectual, I commit it and you to his Grace, which works above all that we can conceive, and shall rest ever striving with you,  
I. B.   

TO EVERY TRUE CHRISTIAN Soul, rightly taking to heart the estate of Christ's poor Churches and dispersed Flock.  
CHristian Reader, if thou take to heart the dishonours done unto our most holy God, the trampling under foot the Gospel and Sceptre of our Lord jesus Christ in so many parts of his Church, the miserable estate of his people and servants professing his name, under the slavery and tyranny of Antichrist; or the woeful condition of the remainder of Gods elect not yet called & gathered forth, but remainining under the power of Satan; or if thou regard but the saving of thine own soul, afford some assistance to him and his poor people, especially now that he so graciously calls upon thee, and offers thee so much direction and help thereunto, even in these meditations and prayers b●…sides many others.  
Consider of them well; and so far as thou findest him calling on thee, to put them in practice, set thyself forthwith to help in this blessed work. If any of them, either meditations or prayers, seem unto thee weak, as they must needs be, having been written for most part when many others slept; and that because of the industry of Satan and his instruments, that they might not be any hindrance unto my calling, yet are they such as thy Christ expects at thy hands, so far as they are sound grounded upon his sacred truth, and agreeable to his heavenly will. Give him thy heart and best affections, and better the form in th●…ne own devotion, remembering ever for whom they are chiefly intended, viz to help the weaker sort, which are not able to pray of themselves, according to th●…se occasions.  
If they seem over long for thy occasions, yet are they so divided, as thou mayest leave off and begin again wheresoever thou pleasest, only fitting some general beginnings and ends of the prayers, according to the other, or according to thine own holy meditation.  
I●… this offend thee, that they are s●…t down in a book, remember the public prayers, that in all ages have been so in the Church, and yet most pleasing and available. Let the consideration of so many of thine own nation, yea so many of the chief thereof, so fearfully seduced, and even bewitched by Jesuits, and other Seminary Priests, and every day more and more falling away, to the endangering not only of themselves, but of the whole Land continually, provoke thee to this duty: and especially seeing they profess themselves to have been drawn to that Romish Religion hereby chiefly; That they in their Church have more devotions, and spend more time therein, than we in ours.  
Let this move thee to take some pity of them, and to help by thy prayers, to pull them out of the fire of God's vengeance, and likewise to keep others from falling from him. Let their blind zeal and superstitious devotions (which condemns the coldness and security of the greatest part of those, who professing Christ's Gospel, yet pray so litt●…e, and which is one principal cause of their stumbling, I speak upon certain knowledge, both concerning high and low, noble and mean●…) let this, I say, provoke thee to more devotion in holy meditations and instant prayers, according to the word and will of thy God, and enforce thee hereunto, to spend daily some part of it, as God gives thee more ●…it opportunity; or as thou hast more neglected these. They (as is said) use some devotions daily to pull souls out of Purgatory; be thou instant for them, to pull them from the power of Satan to Christ.  
Begin thus to redeem thy time, so badly misspent, and that so long, until thou shalt see God's glory recovered, the sceptre of his Christ set up again in all places whence it is removed; with the delivery of thy brethren in all foreign part●…; and the dangers past which are so threatened towards all the Churches, and namely our ne●…rest and faithful neighbours, and even towards thyself. Suffer not these blinded souls to rise up in judgement against thee, that they have spent more time and pains in their devotion to serve Satan and Antichrist, and to hold up his throne, to their endless perdition; than thou to serve our Lord jesus, to the saving thine own soul, and the lives of all his people.  
If thou wouldst be ready to spend thy goods, and to adventure thy life for the glory of thy God, for thy Christ, and his Church, at his command; yea if thou wouldst bestow any labour or cost, to save thy native Country or Countrymen being in danger, and much more the Lords Anointed, with our Royal Prince, and that most illustrious Prince and Princess Palatine, all of whom have showed so much love to Christ's Gospel, and if thy heart be truly affected to that sweet and happy progen●…, then be ready to help them all by thy prayers: especially sith thou mayest do this without any cost or loss, and hast help offered from his Majesty, and the same also, not only put into thy hands, but, as it were, into thy mouth; and withal thy hands holden up by him to do it. Do it therefore as well as thou caused, if thou regard but thine own case, either of soul or body, thy present or eternal estate.  
I have purposely in many of the prayers, followed the order in the first part of this Watch, which I have taken for a good direction, both for that it hath been so oft tried by the learned to be according to the true Rule of Life, and for that the places for proofs are there quoted to avoid further labour: and that thou and all the weaker sort may learn together both to watch and pray for yourselves and all the people of the Lord, and so be sure to prevail with his heavenly Majesty.  
If thou shalt find or suspect any error, wherein thou darest not join, signify it as in love and in the fear of the Lord; and I shall (as I have ever bound myself) be most ready either to give thee satisfaction, or to reform it; and yet in the mean time proceed in the rest jointly with thy brethren.  
Let us all join as being of one heart and soul, wherein we all agree, crying unto our heavenly Father, compassing him about at his feet for ourselves and all his dear children, and he will surely hear our cries, and in his due time reveal every difference unto us, and wherein the error lieth.  
I tie thee not to days nor hours, but as thou observest the Lord offering thee fittest opportunities, and as he shall move thee thereto: though because of Satan's subtlety, and the falseness and corruption of our own hearts, we shall find by experience, that all the bonds whereby we can bind ourselves to holy duties, especially of this nature and importance, are far too little, so we●… do it in an holy wisdom and wise consideration, that we bring not a snare upon ourselves.  
Wonder not that I so oft go●… over that heavenly prayer of our Saviour's, and so strictly tie myself unto it, for that I find it the wisdom of God, and the power of God, ministering still now and most heavenly matter even to this our present purpose; and also am fully assured that all the true Churches & people of the Lord both do & shall so find it, and that more & more, as we more labour according to it; having also such sure directions and such undoubted promises; every part and pecce of it containing promises to the prayer of faith, and to every true believing soul. Whereby we may have a certain assurance from our Lord jesus Christ the author of it, that he will accompany it to every soul (that shall be so prepared, and so use it as be hath directed) with the power of his own spirit, and be wonderful in granting all things which we so beg according to his heavenly will, above all that any heart can conceive.  
Remember also for thy better encouragement, how every prayer herein tends to the appeasing of the Lords heavy indignation, which hath been thus far declared against his people: and this by our joint seeking to give him his glory in helping to reclaim and reduce us all to the obedience of his blessed Covenant of Grace, wherein is our life, and thereby to the deliver●…e and saving of all the Churches, the eternal salvation of all belonging to that his election of grace, be they now Atheists, Papists, wicked, profane, or whatsoever, and so to prepare the way in the universal repentance of the Churches to the coming of the new Jerusalem, and the eternal glory of Zion. So that every one of us striving to pray faithfully and fervently, and to put in practice whatsoever we thus pray for; so far as it concerns us, shall in every prayer and petition be true helpers unto our Lord jesus and his poor Church; and for every such a service, even every hour so spent, receive our pay, and in the end for all a rich and most full reward.  
Let every prayer be a●… the Sun, beginning at thyself in thy meditations, but diffusing and spreading the b●…ames into all the Churches, chiefly to those which stand in most need thereof, and to every one of Gods chosen in all the world, so far as he shall enable thee and it concerneth them, and from them ever reflecting to thyself again.  
Thou hast heard the sound of the cruel wars abroad, the late prevailing of the enemy, the overthrow of the Churches, the new threatenings of those bloody intendments against all the rest, and the increase of their rage daily. In these poor helps, and the like, the Lord offereth thee weapons, and directs thee so to use them, that thou mayst help them in the remotest parts; calls upon thee loud to come and help them, assures thee of a blessed victory in the end, that then thou and all the true Church and people of the Lord shall sing the songs of Miriam and Deborah, and of the 24. Elders, and triumph with Christ eternally, when all who have refused to help, shall weep and wail for evermore.  
Thus entreating that the Lord may at length awake thee and all his people, that we may each give up a happy account, and escape the dreadful doom and sentence, for neglecting his glory, kingdom, and people, and may hence forward carefully use all the means which his goodness affords unto us for our present and eternal happiness, I commend thee to his grace, and rest  
Thy fellow-soldier in Christ thus striving with and for thee, I. B.   

The Contents in general.  
1. AN Epistle to all the plain and simple hearted people of our land seduced by Popery, or in danger thereof.  
2. A preparation to instant prayer, according to the necessity of the times, and the present estate of God's poor Church.  
3. The prayer itself, divided into several parts, according to the several branches of that heavenly pattern which our blessed Saviour hath set before us all to follow; containing in it the principal part's of the Catechism, and how to make right use of all, specially for these times; and so in praying, better to imprint and remember the whole.  
4. A continual quickening and putting new life into our prayers, that we may never be weary, nor ever give the Lord over, until we have prevailed with his heavenly Majesty.  
In the preparative this is ever to be had in fresh memory.  
That all who are to help in this work, are to labour to bring their hearts to a due consideration of all these things following, and to have a right feeling and practice of them, so far as they concern us.  

1. How the Lord hath been wont to look for some to help him, in all the great deliverances and distresses of his Church: and how he expects the service of all his at this day.  
2. What necessity there is of servant prayer at this time, above all former times: in what need the whole Church, and every particular member stands of our prayers: what a right feeling of the miseries and estates of our poor brethren each of us ought to have; and how we ought to seek to help them herein to the uttermost of our power.  
3. What one's we must be, and how qualified in all things, if we look ever to be heard in our prayers for the Churches, and hope to have our persons accepted.  
4. How our prayers must be framed, that they likewise may be sure to be pleasing and available with the Lord.  
5. What assurance we may have of the power of our prayers, so sent forth to prevail with our God, and to overcome.  
6. How without these things, and much more if we be of contrary minds, and dispositions; our prayers are turned into sin; and do help to kindle the wrath, and to draw down the vengeance of the Lord more speedily and fiercely upon all.  
7. That every one must strive, to be of the number of them, who are helpers in this work or perish, and how graciously the Lord calls every one of us hereunto.  
8. Particular prayers for helping the Churches, framed according to our Saviour's direction: and the present necessity of all.   
1 A Prayer that we may be made fit and accepted into this service of prayer for the Churches.  
2 A prayer for increase of love to all God's Children, and that we may keep a continual fresh remembrance & feeling of the miseries of all our distressed Brethren, without which we cannot pray for them as we ought.  
3 A prayer that we may know God to be our gracious Father in Christ, and to grow in the assurance thereof daily, without which we cannot prevail with him.  
4 A prayer that we may not deceyve ourselves in our imagination, that we are Gods children (as most do) & so remain unfit for this service.  
5 A prayer that we may find in us the particular marks of God's children, for our further assurance and boldness in prayer.  
6 A prayer for knowledge and right use of the means, whereby we may be made Gods children, & so grow up in our confidence and power in prayer thereby.  
7 A prayer, that all may understand how dear God's children are to him, that they may be to us likewise, and we thereby able to pray more earnestly for them.  
8 A prayer, that we may be able to lift up our eyes to our heavenly Father, looking beyond all earthly means, in all the troubles and perils of the Church, without which we cannot pray as we ought.  
9 A thanks giving for the delivery of the Churches from Egypt and Babylon, with an earnest prayer for the full accomplishment thereof, and that we may never look back to them again, to provoke the Lord against us by the same.  
10 A prayer, that in token of our thankfulness for our deliverance, we may all seek to give him his glory in our unfeigned repentance, and walking conscionably in all his holy Commandments.  
11 A prayer that we may all give God the glory of his inward worship, according to the first Commandment, to help to pacify his Majesty toward the Churches.  
11 A prayer to be able to discern the sin of the Churches, whereby he is di●…onored & provoked even by the transgression of the first Commandment.  
12 A humble confession of the sins of the Churches; and an acknowledgement of God's righteous proceeding against them, for our unthankfulness and transgression of his lawe●…; and for that though we have heard of the miseries of our Brethren, we have not been humbled, nor made our supplications for them as we ought, according to Nehemiah.  
13 A humble confession of the sin of our Land, so polluted by all the Popish sort, rejecting the Lord, and setting up the Pope of Rome, with his idolatry & superstition, in place of him, and his pure worship, to provoke his Majesty against us.  
14 A prayer for all the simple-hearted, seduced by the Jesuits, and other Seminary Priests, that they may see how they have been deluded, to help thereby, to pluck them from sathan, and bring them to our Lord jesus Christ.  
15 A humble Thanksgiving for our dread Sovereign, with our gracious Prince and Princess, and all the Royal Progeny; and for all our deliverances and preservations by them: with an earnes●… Prayer, that our sins being forgiven, they may be each in their times and places, the happiest heads of the most blessed people, that ever have been in the world before.  
16 A humble Thanksgiving, that God hath thus far heard our prayers; with an earnest supplication, that he may go on to perfect his work; and that as we have made entrance into this service, so we may all proceed, until we shall see the full deliverance of all his Churches, the new Ierusa●…em, and the eternal glory of his Zion.  

The other Prayers, and that which (God willing) is to succeed, see in the end of all, after the Table of the particular Contents.    

Rules to be observed in the use of all the Meditations and Prayers.  
REmember throughout to expect not excellency of words, but the power of God. Remember Da●… Sling, and I●…suahs Trumpets of Rams horn. Thine eye being on thy Book, let the eye of thy soul be at thy Christ, making intercession at his Father's right hand; labouring to feel all in thy heart, and especially to have a right sense of the necessities of all for whom thou prayest, and so praying in Faith thou shalt prevail.   

Rules to help to keep us from ever declining from the Lord, and from all delusions, chiefly by Popery.  
1 LAbour to walk with thy God, as Enech, making conscience of all thy ways, specially of thy particular calling, and every holy duty, in the due time; fearing all occasions of evil, watching and taking forthwith, all occasions of good▪  
2 Pray as he hath directed thee, respecting ever his glory and kingdom, and the general state of his Church, before thine own particular.  
3 Strive to live under the best means, and with the best company which GOD shall vouchsafe thee.  
4 Remember ever those strong delusions of Popery, sent in God's justice for contempt of the Gospel, in not receyving the love of his truth, mentioned in the Epistle to the poor seduced people, and withal keep ever in mind those principal supporters and pillars of Popery, (viz) lying and ●…irther, the chief works of Satan, which show that that Relig●…on is of him likewise.  
5 Consider well, how Popery overthrows many of the chief Principles of the Catechism. For this  
See a Pill to purge out Popery.  
6 Be afraid of conferring with the Serpent, viz. inticers to Popery, or any evil, & of reasoning with temptations.  
7 In all such doubts, first conserre with God, by holy Meditation and Prayer, as D●…niel & his compaaions, after, with thy faithful Minister, or some of the worthiest servants of God, so far as God offers thee any opportunity.  
8 Strive to rejoice in the Lord always▪ and in thy happy estate through Christ▪ Pray continually, by lifting up thy heart through him. In all things give thanks whatsoever come to pass. So thou shalt see the event happy, and thyself ever to prevay●…e with God, and more than a Conqueror.   

¶ Places of Scripture to be ever in our hearts, to quicken us and stir up in us the power of prayer.  
THe eyes of the Lord are upon 
Psal. 34. 15.  the Righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry.  
Thou wilt prepare their hart: 
Psal. 10, 17.  thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.  
To judge of the fatherless and 
18.  oppressed, that ●…the man of the earth may no more oppress.  
Yea, before they call, I will 
Esay 65, 24.  answer: And whiles they speak, I will hear.  
But let him ask in Faith, 
james 1, 6.  nothing wavering.  
The effectual servant prayer 
james 5, 16.  of a righteous man availeth much.  
Elias was a man subject to 
17.  the like passions as we are▪ and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it reigned not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.  
And he prayed again, and the 
1●….  heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.  
[Concerning him when he was rapt up into heaven, thus cried Elisha after him:] My 
2 Kings 2, 12.  father, my father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen thereof.  
[And for Elisha, the king of Israel coming down to visit him in his last sickness, wept over his face with the same words,] O my father, my father, 
2 King. 13, 14.  the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen thereof.  
[Of him that makes and keeps peace with God, thus sayeth the Spirit:] Thou shalt make thy Prayer unto him, and 
job 22, 21, 22.  he shall hear thee, and tho●… shalt pay thy Vows, etc.  
The innocent shall deliver the 
3●….  Island: and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands.  
[But as for the wicked thus he speaketh, which he would have all men take notice of & ponder well, having set a double note upon it.]  
The Lord is known by the 
Psal. 9, 16.  judgement which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the works of his own hands.  
What hast thou to do to take my 
Psal. 50, 16, 17▪  Covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest to be reform, and hast cast my words behind thee?   

Errata.  
Amend these slips following, with what is defective in this first draught through want of meet leisure, and our God will (I hope) bring it forth again with all the rest of it, much more polished, for his own glory●…, and for the good of all his people: whereunto I trust, during life, I shall not be wanting, as his goodness shall vouchsafe to assist me.  
PAg. 7. l: 7▪ put out those 7 lines twice repeated. p: 8, l: 10. for our read this. p. 10 l, 16. & p. 91, l. 5. unto: p: 99, l, 3. but moreover: l 7, third general. p: 103. may. 109 l. 1. seek all. p: 157, marg. for Deut read Genes. p: 161. l: 2. for to do, ●…: as. p: 164, l. 1. admitted. l: 4. these. pag. 189. l: 5. as at Marg▪ l. 17 Deut: 30, 29. p: 220. marg: lin. 1. That. p: 291, l. 15. not only. p: 300. l. 20. for 〈◊〉 read may est. p: 306. l. 10. run on▪ p. 3●…6. l. 18. for best, most. pag. 348. l ●…9. and. p. 384. l. 2. have.   

A PREPARATIVE to instant Prayer, according to the necessity of the Times, by thinking day and night of these things following, until we have gotten them, or the sum of them into our hearts, and can have them ever as it were before our eyes; to cry instantly to our holy God, like as he hath directed us.  

The first general Meditation; How our Saviour looks for some to help him, in the delivery & saving of his Church.  
FIrst, we are seriously 
To meditate.  to meditate, and to bring our hearts to a due consideration, how our blessed Saviour, like 
Esay ●…9, 26, etc. 63. 3, 4, 5  a●… in the redeeming and saving of his chosen flocke from hell; so in all the greatest extremities 
How our Saviour hath been wont to look for some to help his Church in all her extremities.  of his poor distressed Church, mentioned in his Sacred word, hath been wont to look long for some, that would offer themselves to help it; and when he hath found none, to uphold or succour it, in his tender pity and compassion, his own arm hath saved it, his righteousness itself hath sustained it, in what sort he hath seen it best.  
And although he hath suffered 
His usual manner then, to find out some to stand in the breach, and by whom he migat▪ show himself gloriously for it.  it ofttimes to be greevously afflicted, yea sometimes almost utterly consumed, yet how evermore, when he would deliver and save it from the violence and rage of the wicked enemies, or other imminent calamitles, by some great and glorious deliverance, his usual manner hath been to seek and find out some one at least, that should stand up in the gap before him, in more special manner for it, that he might not destroy it; & by whom he might show himself wonderful for his people and chosen Flock. Thus he found out joseph, Moses, 
As joseph.  Samuel, David, jehosaphat, Ezekiah, Daniel, Hester, Mordecay, Ezra, Nehemiah, and others.  
Yea, how he hath moreover ever sought & found out some 
Some to be helpers by their prayers and tears.  few, whom he hath vouchsafed to be his helpers, at least by their prayers and tears, for saving the rest: such as of whom he hath said, The innocent 
job 22. ●…0.  shall deliver the island.  
These he looks and calls for at this day: And of this little number, every true believing 
These henow looks for.  soul must needs desire to be one, if he love the Lord jesus 
Every one must needs desire to be of this little number.  Christ, and his Church; yea, if he but love his native country, or his own soul: or if he but only fear that dreadful curse denounced against Meroz, Curse ye Meroz, said the Angel 
jude 5, 23.  of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to help the Lord against the mighty. And much more must he needs contend for this, if he rightly consider what a high honour and happiness it is, to be one of that little number, chosen and singled out hereunto, to be if it were but as any one of gedeon's three hundreth. 
judg. 7, 7.   
Howbeit, every one having 
Yet everyone is not fitted for this service.  some few good desires, is not fit to serve under, and to help our Lord jesus in th●… great 
Our Saviour hath taught whom they ●…ust be.  work. He himself hath taught and directed us plainly, both whom we must be, and how we must be qualified and fitted every way, if we will be his Soldiers, and so fight in this spiritual battle, as that we may hope to prevail. That every one of us must learn, and have in our hearts these instructions and directions following, which our Lord and Saviour hath in his infinite Wisdom set before our▪ faces, in that absolute form & pattern of prayer, which for this end, and for every occasion of supplication to be made to him, and to his Father in his name, he hath given as a perpetual direction unto his Church: unto which pattern, as of all other the most effectual, sufficient, and certain to this purpose, I have herein still wholly tied myself.  
He than that desires to be any one of those whom he looks for, to help him herein, and that will so pray, as that he may be sure to be accepted and prevail; must know, as first Gods usual manner of proceeding in the delivery of his 
To medi●…ate in the second place, of the necessity of servant prayer at this time, above all former.  Church, so secondly, the necessity of servant prayer at this time, above all former times, in what need the poor Church, and every particular member of it stands thereof, and must labour to have a true and lively feeling in his heart, of the miseries and dangers which the Churches are in. Thirdly, what 
3. What a one he must be.  a one himself must be, & how qualified in all things, that his person may be accepted, if ever he look to be heard. Fourthly, 
4. How his prayers must be framed.  how our prayers must be framed, that they likewise may be sure to be pleasing and available with the Lord. Fiftly, 
5. The power of such prayers.  what power and assurance our prayers so sent forth, have to prevail with God, and to overcome. Sixtly, that all other but these are unmeete and 
6. All other unmeet.  unable to help, and after a sort, excluded from this service, and much more all that are of contrary dispositions. Seventhly, 
7. How yet every one must endeavour to be an helper  how every one that looks to be saved by jesus Christ, and to stand at his right hand, must endeavour by all possible means, to be fitted for this service, to be a helper to Christ's poor Church herein.   

The second general Meditation, concerning the present necessity of this work, and the lively feeling thereof, How every one that looks to be saved by jesus Christ, & to stand at his right hand, must endeavour by all possible means to be fitted for this service, to be a helper to our Saviour's poor●… Church herein.  
THat we may know the 
To see the necessity of this duty by considering.  present necessity of this duty, and be able to cry more instantly, the Lord calls us seriously in the second place, to meditate day and night, according to every part and petition of that heavenly prayer 
1. The estate of the Churches,  of our Saviour's, concerning the distressed estate of his poor Churches at this day, and of all other poor souls belonging to his eternal election, living under the captivity & bondage of Satan, and the tyranny of his cursed and crucll Instruments. 
2. How the Lord calls for our helps, in teaching us to cry, Our Father▪  And withal, he would have us wisely to consider how he, even our Lord jesus Christ himself, calls for our duty by this very prayer, amongst many other means: teaching us here to cry unto him for the rescuing and delivery of all hi●… Children▪ Our Father▪ which art in heaven. And to this end, how we are to labour to bring our own hearts, and the hearts of all other the people of the Lord, to a lively sense and tender feeling hereof, so far as God enables us, and offers u●… opportunity.  

The first particular Meditation of this second general point, concerning the calamities & dangers of our brethren in all places, and those threatened towards ourselves; and the chief means of delivery and preservation from them.  
FIrst we are to lay to heart; 
Our Father which art, etc. 1. To lay to heart the calamities and perils of all the churches and people of God at this instant.  how many of our brethren, the dear children of our heavenly Father (for whom our Lord and Saviour hath taught us thus to cry, as for ourselves, Our Father) are now in grievous calamities of all sorts; that many others of them are in extreme peril, to be forthwith utterly destroyed, and devoured by the rage and power of Satan, and of his bloody instruments. That we also ourselves, with all the rest of the Churches and sincere Christians in all the world, are in extreme danger every moment of time (as any of the designs of the jesuits, or other merciless enemies take place) if our heavenly Father do not still protect and preserve us. And therefore as very many of our brethren abroad are in continual feeling of their miseries, and of our heavenly Fathers most heavy displeasure against them for all their undutifulness, crying at his feet, for his Fatherly pity, love, compassion to deliver and save them; so we ought likewise to do for them, even so many of us as are already assured, or ever will assure our own souls, that we are his natural children, and hereby 
2. Pet. 1. 4.  do desire to declare our natural and childlike love and fear, in seeking to appease his displeasure, that he may spare his people.  
And much more are we to 
2 To seek to prevent or mitigate the displeasure of our heavenly father.  seek to prevent or mitigate, the same heavy displeasure kindled against ourselves, and hereby to stay the ●…age of Satan & Antichrist, all of us being hated and devoted alike to destruction, by the malice of the Serpent and his cruel instruments; & all of us having provoked our heavenly Father alike (yea we more than any other) to leave us into their hands, to be so tried by them, until we be truly humbled, in feeling our disobediences, and be sensible of our provocations of him by our want of commiseration towards them, and of not taking warning by their example; That thus we may lift up our cries to heaven, that he in the tender bowels of his compassion, may both succour and rescue them, and also save us from the li●…e miseries, which seem ready to rush upon us for all our sins and provocations. We are withal to labour to bring our hearts to a right consideration, that our heavenly Father hath in 
To consider how God hath ordained Kings & Queens for nurses to his church. Esay. 49 23.  the riches of his mercy ordained Rulers & Governors and all in lawful and holy authority, especially Kings and Queens to be in his place, as nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers to his poor children, to deliver and pull them out of the jaws of the dragon; to carry them in their arms, and in their bosoms from the fury and violence of the Serpent, and to preserve and protect them that they may profess his name in peace and safety; and that therefore Satan must needs malign them above all other, even for this especially. And likewise that he hath ordained the prayers of his people and children to obtain this at his hand, so to incline the hearts of all Kings and 
And the prayers of his people so to incline their hearts. 2 Tim. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4.  Princes and all in authority to pity them.   

The second particular Meditation of the second general: How he hath been wont principally to get himself glory in saving his Church by Princes and Governors. 
Hallowed be thy name. As the Lord hath been wont to glorify his name by Kings and Princes saving his Church, so we may now expect.   
SEcondly, we are to labour to bring our hearts to a true understanding and feeling hereof, that as the Lord hath been wont to glorify his great name in former ages, thus in his pitiful compassion saving his Church and Children by Kings and Princes, and other deliverers raised up for them, and like as he hath magnified his power and Fatherly care so oft before our eyes in such miraculous and gracious preservations of us of this nation, and other our brethren abroad unto this day, especially when we were in the midst of the fire: so he can and will magnify it again in a most wonderful manner, if we that 
If we can give Christ glory in our repentance.  are his children can but give him glory in being unfeignedly humbled for our own sins and the sins of his people, and can meet him in faith by entreaty of peace, crying instantly unto him; Glorify Lord thy great name; & doing only as he commandeth. And seeing all the bloody enemies of 
And the ra ther for that the enemy seeketh to trample his glory under feet  Christ and his Church seek to trample his glory under foot, he will therefore the rather get himself glory upon them, as upon Pharaoh, before all the world, when we shall be rightly prepared for the same.   

The third particular Meditation of this second general, That as Satan and Antichrist have set themselves to fight against Christ his kingdom so our Saviour hath ordained Kings and Princes to hold up his Sceptre, and to defend and protect his Subjects and Gospel. 
Thy kingdom come. How the enemies set themselves against Christ.   
THirdly, we are to bring our hearts to a due consideration and deep pondering hereof; how as the Giants before the flood: so Satan, & his Soldiers have set themselves to fight against heaven, and the host thereof, yea even against jesus Christ our Lord & King, and how they have cast down his Sceptre, Throne, and Dignity, and trample his crown under their feet, in all the places 
How they have prevailed.  where they have prevailed, and where they bear rule over God's poor heritage. And that as they have begun and fearfully prevailed in many places; so they have resolved to 
Resolved to proceed.  proceed throughout the earth, to set up Satan and Antichrist in the very Throne of our Lord jesus Christ, to defile again his Temple, to make his house again a den of Thiefs. That 
That Antichrist may fit again as God in his Temple.  Antichrist may fit again as God, in the Temple of God; yea in those very places where he hath been formerly long cast forth: so that the zeal of his house even in this behalf, should eat us up.  
And also, we are to bring our souls to a true sense hereof, 
That as they thus seek to lead Christ & his army's captives.  that as they thus seek to tyrannize over his people and children, to lead in triumphs as captives, both our Lord jesus himself, and his armies, and to keep under all that belong to the Lord jesus as slaves for ever; so our Saviour hath on the other side ordained and appointed Kings and Princes 
That he hath ordained Kings to hold up his Sceptre,  under him to hold up his Sceptre, even his heavenly Gospel; and that he hath likewise decreed and ordained, that even those of them which before had given their power unto the beast to fight against his Sovereign Majesty, and against his people, should again withdraw 
Apo. 17. 16, 17  all their power from the beast, when they shall see his wickedness fully discovered, and give it wholly unto his heavenly Majesty, to accomplish all his will, in making the 
And to make the whore desolate.  Whore desolate, and for the advancement of his everlasting Gospel, when they shall truly behold the power and glory thereof.   

The fourth particular Meditation of the second general; How Satan and Antichrist set up themselves to be obeyed, and to destroy out of the earth all that seek to obey the Lord.  
FOurthly, we are to endeavour 
4. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  to bring our hearts to a lively meditation and weighing hereof; How Antichrist & 
How Satan & Antichrist seek only to be obeyed  all his limbs who persecute Gods Church, & all other wicked and ungodly men, are so far off from obeying his heavenly will and commandment, that they have set themselves to satisfy only their own wicked lusts and wills, and to disannul all the commandments of our blessed God, both of his Law and Gospel, and all 
To destroy out of the earth all who obey the lord  his holy and blessed will revealed in the same; and with them, to destroy out of the earth, all those that desire to obey him according to his heavenly word; or that make any true and right conscience of his ways and will: yea, to put out all the true saving knowledge of our Lord jesus Christ, to set up their own wicked inventions in place thereof, and how they are in a dreadful manner proceeding herein. That, as was touched before, there is 
Nothing but the power of our Lord jesus Christ, & of his Vicegerents, to hinder it.  nothing but the mighty hand and power of our Lord jesus Christ, and the holy care and vigilancy of his Vicegerents, whose hearts he shall in mercy raise up for himself, and for his poor Church, together with the prayers of his own Children, to prevent the same.  
And withal, we are to strive 
How difficult for us to lay these things▪ to heart.  to bring our hearts to a true feeling, how hard a matter it is for Gods own dear people and children, being free from these trials, to lay these things to heart as they ought to do, and as his people have been wont; and also how difficult it is for them which are tried by these grievous afflictions, 
And for them who are under the trial, to submit themselves.  which they undergo, to submit themselves to Gods will, and to make a right use of them all, ●…nd to cry with our Saviour; Father, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from us, yet not our will, but thy heavenly will be fulfilled. Blessed be thy holy name. That so we may the more commiserate 
That we may more commiserate them.  their estate, and help them crying herein.   

The fifth particular Meditation of the second general, Concerning the innumerable miseries which our Brethren endure, deprived of the outward comforts of this & the better life, & how near the like may be to us.  
We are yet further in the 
Give us this day our daily bread.  fifth place by continual and serious pondering of them, 
To bring our hearts to a feeling of their miseries.  to bring our hearts to a more right fellow-feelling of those innumerable miseries mentioned before, which our poor brethren, the dear children of the Lord, do endure in every place, where Satan and Antichrist have prevailed, especially by this late bloody sword, wheresoever it hath come; how they have been, and still are in so many places deprived 
Both bodily.  of all the comforts of this life, of food, raiment, harbour, liberty, means of health and peace, lying under famine, nakedness, slavery, sickness, peril, sword, and all the miseries that follow upon them where the merciless idolatrous soldier is made drunk with the blood of God's Saints, having none to fly to to succour them, but only to cry unto the Lord. And more also enduring the famine▪ of their souls, having none to feed them with the word of life, none to minister a word of comfort to refresh their fainting hearts.  
And withal we are wisely 
To think how near the like may be to us.  aforehand to lay to heart, how ne'er the like miseries may be unto ourselves, how we have 
How we have deserved to drink more deeply than any other.  deserved to drink of the same cup in a deeper measure; for that we have not known the day of our long visitation which hath been in so much mercy; but have abused these, and all other our Blessings, so as never Nation more. And finally, that we are the faster 
How we hale on these.  haling and pulling these evils upon us, for our want of commiseration; for that our bowels have not, nor yet do earn over them for their innumerable miseries which they abide; and that we have and do so generally by our impenitency and induration fat ourselves as against the day of slaughter.  
How by those principally 
How the Lord hath hitherto preserved us by Kings and Princes.  whom the Lord hath set over us for our foster fathers and mothers, we have hitherto been preserved from these thus far forth, through the tender mercy of our heavenly father, and may hope, that he will so preserve us still, i●… we shall once be awaked, to make a true and right use hereof.   

The sixth particular Meditation of the second general, concerning the sins of the Churches, and namely, the general abuse of the Gospel, and the blessings which accompany it, and that our sins are most heinous for our unthankfulness. 
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.   
Sixthly we are moreover to travel with our own hearts to bring them to a right sense and feeling of our own sins, and the sins of other 
To bring our hearts to a sense of the sins so provoking the Lord.  Churches, and chiefly the most heinous and crying sins thereof, which have provoked the Lord to so heavy displeasure, thus to begin to proceed against so many of his own dear children abroad, and amongst 
Chiefly carnal gospeling▪  other, that carnal Gospelling of barely professing the name of the Gospel, but without any power or life thereof, so much complained of in all the Churches.  
That our blessed God, having committed unto us the hid treasure of his heavenly Gospel, we have not esteemed of it accordingly: that we have only professed it i●… word for the most part, but have not showed forth any power of it as we ought. That we have not caused our light to shine so before others, that yet sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, as that they seeing our good works, might come from the kingdom of Satan to God, and glorify our Father which is in heaven. That 
That the Lord hath, & is still so fearfully proceeding for these sins▪ according to the denunciation in his blessed Law. Levit. 26. Deut. 28.  thus he hath now already so fearfully proceeded against so many of our brethren in foreign parts for these and other sins, according to the threatenings denounced in his Law, and is so still going on forward in the height of his displeasure, and yet we for the most part, remain without any true sense hereof, and the best of us without that which we ought to have.  
Then from them abroad, we are to come home unto 
Our sin in not submitting our selus and seeking to pacific the Lord's wrath▪ who hath so 〈◊〉 and so many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉, that he might spare us.  ourselves, and to our own sins; and herein to consider seriously, that our sins of this Nation, may justly s●…eme more heinous than theirs, or of any other people under heaven, and therefore cry louder for vengeance, both in that the Lord hath so long called us to repentance, not only by the voice of his Spirit in his heavenly Gospel, and by as many of his worthy 
By his Messengers.  Messengers, as ever he sent to any Nation before; but also so long warned us, and striven with us, that he might spare us, by all the other means that ever he used to reclaim any people, both by mercies 
By mercies & judgements.  and judgements, and by his fatherly rods & corrections; more especially by such wonderful preservations of us 
Wonderful preservation & deliverances.  from our just fears, and so admirable deliverances, when we were in the midst of the fire, and when yet we were without any sense or fear thereof, or power to help or save ourselves.  
Also, for that our outrageous 
That our sins are so overspred & committed with so high a hand.  sins and abominations are so generally overspred and committed with so high a hand; yea, that we are so much worse and worse for being smitten, that we seem desperately incurable, falling away more and more, though 
We worse notwithstanding so many tokens of God's displeasure.  we see so many tokens of the Lords wrath; the bloody enemy's executioners of his vengeance on every side of us, and as we may justly fear, so many of these incendyaries the Jesuits, and jesuited Papists in the midst among us. Whereupon all sorts, even mere natural men, have and do daily more and more fear some terrible scourge from the Lord, and wonder at our peace, especially considering the lamentable estate of so many other poor Churches, 
No warning serving us.  and the restless plots of the enemy, and most dangerous stratagems against them, and us all, thorough the Lord's mercy discovered daily, and that yet we have not been warned by their ensample; nor yet so much as in any 
To take their miseries o●… our own perils to heart.  meet measure as we ought, take their miseries and perils to heart.  
Yea, which is more than 
To labour for a feeling.  all these, our gracious God would not have us to rest, until we have a due feeling, and a right consideration hereof, that we principally above all 
That we are the men prin cipally devoted to destruction.  other, have been the men devoted to destruction, by the bloody designs of those most barbarous and merciless enemies 
Most en●…yed by the enemies of the Church.  of the Church, and have 〈◊〉, and are, most en●…yed and hated by them, for that from and by us heretofore, God hath given them the greatest foils, like as I trust, he will still do for evermore.  
And which is a higher degree 
Our sin of carnal Gospelling, greater than of other Churches, not only showing forth▪  of our danger, that we are not only guilty of their sin of carnal Gospelling, & careless profession in showing forth so little power in the practice of true piety in our general and particular callings and duties, which is the very life and true power of godliness; but contrarily, by our ungodliness, our profaneness and abominations in every kind, we have in so many even utterly denied all the 
But so much denying all power of godliness.  true power thereof, which consisteth in the right performance of all holy duties; as being ashamed to be noted 
Ashamed to be noted for more careful profession.  for more sincere profession; yea, we have so scorned and trampled it under foot, as that 
Causing gods enemies to blaspheme.  we have caused God's enemies to blaspheme.  
And which is yet also more to anger his heavenly Majesty, for that we so generally, 
Our sin increased to the uttermost by our turning against Christ jesus, as against our greatest enemy.  not only our Papists and Atheists, and all our notorious profane persons, which swarm almost every where, but even all sorts of Laodicean lukewarm professors are so far turned even against Christ jesus himself (we may speak it with grief & trembling) and that as against our 
Though he have so ui●…ibly protected us.  greatest enemy: although he hath hitherto so miraculously, yea so sensibly, and as it were visibly defended and protected us) and for that we do yet further daily rise against him, still more and more.  
That all this appeareth most manifestly herein; in that 
This 〈◊〉 apparent, that we so many of us seem deadly to: hate all power of godliness.  howsoever these can some of them a little endure the outward and common profession of his heavenly Gospel in word; yet the power of it, to wit, to submit themselves to live according to it (wherein chiefly his kingdom consists) they cannot endure, but rather seem to hate it most deadly. And also, how this heinous and crying sin showeth itself, as in the sight of the Sun, in all the odious names wherewith true godliness 
Manifest in all the odious names wherewith it is branded.  is branded, which are so frequent every where, & cast upon those that seek thus unfeignedly to turn away the vengeance, by endeavouring to walk in all things in all the commandments of our blessed God.  
We are therefore ever to be considering, and never to 
Not to rest till we have brought our hearts to a ceiling of our sins, and how they are increased.  rest, till we have brought our hearts unto a right feeling of those, and all other our most intolerable and loud crying sins, and how they are every hour haling and pulling down the vengeance of God upon us, as the like have done upon the other Churches, and do still more and more, as they are thus daily more and more increased. And moreover, that there is nothing that keepeth back his vengeance, but only his infinite mercies, and ●…ndlesse patience and compassion, 
That noth●…g keeps b●…ck his vengeance, but his in●…init mercy,  which we have so much abused▪ as that we may all justly wonder, that it is not turned into burning fury to consume us at once, and together with that his endless compassion, the loud cries of 
And the cry of his servant▪  his poor children ever sounding in his ears: even the cries and sighs of th●…se which are, and have been so hated, 
Which are & have been so hated.  contemned, greeved, and injuried by all possible means, which the Lord hath permitted to be exercised and practised against them, chiefly by all the Popish sort in every place, & namely, against his Prophets and Messengers sent unto us, in as much mercy as ever his Prophets were sent to judah. For which yet when they were so mocked & misused, the Lord could spare no longer, there could be no further remedy, but brought upon them the King of Caldea, 
2 Chron. 36.  and all other the miseries of their long and woeful Captivity.  
And yet further, 〈◊〉 Lord 
Nothing can give us any true security, but our unfeigned repentance.  calls on us to bee●…ever pondering, how nothing can prevent this wrath to give us any true security of our further escaping, either general on particular, but only our sound and true repentance; not in any formal fashion, but unfeignedly humbling ourselves, and rightly endeavouring to take away all our crying sins, and to stoop unto the Lord our heavenly father, doing in all things as he requireth, that his wrath may be fully appeased towards us. 
Till this, nothing but expectation of some dreadful scourge.  That until this time we live but under a continual expectation of the direful execution of all his terrible plagues denounced in his holy word against us; either some such sudden blow of his vengeance to fall upon us, as was intended at the powder Furnace, or some cruel or bloody invasion, as in 88 or some such ma●…acring as was in the year 72. at Paris, and lately at Nigripelles in France, and Heidelberg●… in the Palatinate; or such cruel and merciless proceedings as in Bohemia, and sundry other parts of the Church: from all which evils, and the like, we are ever to cry that the Lord may evermore in his endless compassion, preserve and keep us.  
And yet to proceed one degree higher: The Lord calls loud upon us, to be think ourselves wisely of that judgement which is heavyer than all the former, if for our contempt of his Gospel, and all other our sins, he should suffer us, as he hath done others, to have our Candlestick removed, the blessed Gospel 
The removing of our Candlestick heavier than all other outward judgements, & how we deserve it  of his Son, the very life of our lives, to be taken from us, and the most abominable mass, even the abomination of desolation to be set up in the place of it, with all the ●…abble of their cursed Idolatry, 
And to have their Idolatry set up.  and all filthy abominations of that Strumpet of Babylon, and withal to have the bloody knives of outrageous 
Knives at o●… throats.  and merciless Idolaters, at our throats every moment of time, which jesuits', and others of them so affected, are so manifestly, yea so shamelessly and impudently plotting and practising day and night, against all the Churches, and whereof they have themselves so gloried and triumphed long ago, as if it had been already fully effected and dispatched.  
That some of these must of necessity come to pass (if we judge according to the word of the Lord, or but to common 
Some of these to be feared, for want of performance of ou●… Co●…so oft renewed by us▪  reason) we have just cause to fear; for want of performance of our promises of repentance. For that here unto we have so oft, and so solemnly bound ourselves every one, at least by those in our places, I mean by our Magistrates and Ministers, as namely we did in those sundry and solemn Fasts by commandment 
As in 〈◊〉  in the year eighty eight, when thereupon our God showed himself from heaven to fight for us: as accepting our vows and promises of true repentance and amendment, and upon that condition ●…aring us, to prove and t●…ie us what we would do; and still from time to time, yea, from year to year, and even from day to day expecting the true and unfeigned accomplishment thereof.  
And more also by renewing 
Fasts since.  our promises and vows in all the Fasts which were after in the days of our gracious Deborah▪ while we lived in fear of the time, when she should be taken from our head, and of the many evils to follow thereupon, even that whereof our enemies were wont so to brag, that there would come a day, and concerning which we were still crying to our tender Father, to save us from the danger and dread thereof.  
Yea, and yet more since that 
The peaceable bringing in of our gracious Sovereign.  time, when our God brought in our dread Sovereign, and set him so over us, as if there had been no change, but all had been done for the perpetual establishing of us & our posterity, at what time he cast such a fear upon all the enemies, that not a dog wagged his tongue against any of the Israel of God. What promises of thankfulness every one of us did make, who in any sort laid these things to heart; by promising repentance and amendment of all our ways, and for ever to honour and obey our Lord jesus Christ.  
And most of all, when of all other times he did most apparently show himself from heaven, as reaching down his hand, and plucking us all out 
At our deliverance from the hellish Furnace.  of the very jaws of the devil, and out of the midst of the Furnace, where of all our holy and frank acknowledgements in our many Thankesgiving and Prayers extant in Print, and commanded to be used & practised generally, and most solemnly once every year, and all our good Laws made thereupon, shall ever bear 
So many ways witnessed.  witness against us before the Lord: beside, every one of our Covenants at our Baptism, wherewith we all stand obliged, and multitudes of other promises, whereby we have also renewed our bonds unto this day.  
So that we are wisely to 
How these must either work the performance of our promises, or arm the Lord against us.  ponder, how now at length all these must either work to bring us to a sound and unfeigned performance of whatsoever we have so promised, and to a true submission to our Lord jesus Christ; or else arm him to come against us in his terrible vengeance, for all our falsi●…ying of our vows & promises unto him, and thus dallying with him, and most heinously abusing his sacred Majesty. 
Not to rest till we have brought our hearts to consider our dissimulation with the Lord.   
We are therefore never to rest until we have brought our hearts to a lively sense and true meditation of these things, and how we have indeed dissembled with his greatness and holiness, as our forefathers did which the Lord so complains of, so oft repeating it. Then they cried 
Psal. ●…07. 6. 12. 19 ●…3.  unto the Lord in their troubles, and he delivered them from their distress: but they kept not his great goodness in remembrance, but presently forgot his wondrous works, and with them all their vows and promises, and did worse than their forefathers, yea then ever they had done before.  
And yet more than all the former, this aught more deeply to pierce into our hearts, that as we have always thus dealt with his heavenly Majesty, so we are now instead of repenting, far worse in every kind, and much further off 
That we are now so far further off from repentance.  from any hope of repenting or turning unfeignedly, or so much as of humbling ourselves in any such public manner any more; that the most godly and religious begin to make doubt, nay extremely 
That all begin to be almost out of hope o●… it.  to fear, and to be as it were out of all hope of any sound humiliation, whereby to turn away the vengeance threat●…ned, and each almost, only seeking to save his own soul.  
Together with all these and above all of them, we are seriously and wisely to lay this to heart, how the people 
How judah went further than we▪  of judah went far further in performing their vows both in the days of that worthy Hezekiah, and that holy josiah, and in taking away all the abominations whereby the Lord was provoked, and also in restoring and performing all things which he required in his Law, and which they had promised for pacifying of his wrath, even to a general renewing the Covenant amongst all the people 
Even to a general renewing the covenant outwardly.  outwardly at least consenting thereto; yet when the hearts of the people consented not so, as did the hearts of their Kings, and namely as did the heart of josiah which melted into tears for the abominations and plagues, nor yet continued, but started back 
Yet starting back.  from the Lord ever & anon, and fell to their ancient sin again; the Lord after all their warnings, brought upon them 
The Lord brought that Captivity.  that terrible Captivity for 70. years, without any further sparing or remedy.  
This he did unto them notwithstanding their good 
Notwithstanding all other means of their security.  Kings, and some worthy Rulers: yea all their holy Prophets, namely jeremy; so importuning him day and night, Ezekiel falling upon his face, and even expostulating with his Majesty for jerusalem his own City, and for his people (being as a brand plucked out of the burning) and notwithstanding their mourners, mourning and crying for all the abominations, and lifting up hearts and hands day and night unto the Lord, yea notwithstanding all his former indulgences and mercies, all their privileges and prerogatives, and his covenant only with them, and all his gracious promises made to them above all the people of the earth.  
Finally, we are ever to be beating hereon, what just 
To be thinking of the removing the Candlestick from other Churches.  cause we have to think, that he having removed the Candlestick from other Churches so sinning, we cannot escape, but the longer his waiting and forbearing is, the severer his vengeance must needs be when it comes.  
And above all these, we are to labour to bring our hearts to a due consideration and wise foresight hereof: that howsoever it go for the general, 
Though God spare the w●…ole at the 〈◊〉 of ●…is dearest.  that the Lord shall save us (which we still and ever pray for) or do still defer his wrath, at the cries of his own dear children who stand in the breach; and though he may spare us in the bowels of his compassion, thus earning over us (as sometimes he did over Ephraim in like case●…) O my people, how should I leave thee up to so many miseries, as thine enemies are devising and practising against thee? how shall I leave my great name to be blasphemed amongst my proud enemies? or though he do still save us like as he so oft saved and delivered his people for Moses alone, thus importuning him (albeit he have over-just cause to say to us as he said to judah before her Captivity, though Noah, job, and Daniel were amongst us, yet they should neither save son nor daughter, but even their own souls) yet I say, howsoever he shall deal in mercy for the general, we must notwithstanding know undoubtedly, that every particular 
Yet every particular soul not turning and helping, must perish.  soul that turns not to God by unfeigned repentance, and that prepares not himself to come thus to help by his prayers for pardoning the sins of the Land, and pacisying of the Lords wrath, must certainly perish.  
And to conclude this point, 
Kings & Princes ordained and used, to bring God's people to repentance. As by Moses, etc.  we are to meditate likewise seriously, how GOD hath principally ordained and ever used, when he would save his people, and call and bring them to true repentance, to do it in like manner by Kings and Princes, or other Rulers, stirred up extraordinarily, and by the voice of his true Prophets, calling them, and his people by them thereunto, as by Moses, joshua, jehosaphat, 
As by Moses, etc.  Hezekiah, Nehemiah, the king of Ninevy, and others, even when he would but save them from the present temporal destruction.  
And therefore as we are to 
To pray therefore as for all of them, so chiefly for our d●…ead Sovereign.  pray instantly for all the Rulers in the several Churches; so above all, for our dread Sovereign, to whom he hath given such excellent understanding of his heavenly will, and whom he hath bound unto himself by so many bonds of such great deliverances, & the like mercies and favours above all the Kings and Princes of the earth; that they may all yet, whilst there is time, now the Lord calls so 
That all may inquire wisely into the causes of all ●…heir evils.  loud upon them, set themselves to inquire wisely into the true causes of the evils already upon the Churches, and of those which are further threatened.  
That they may truly consider, 
That all is from the lord to bring us to repentance, that he may spare us.  that all this is from the Lord, in his everlasting commiseration and fatherly pity, tendering us as his dear children, thus calling us all to a general and unfeigned repentance, that he may spare us; 
And he may take our cause in hand.  and that himself may take our cause in hand against his own and our bloody enemies. That they may with holy josiah, first inquire rightly into all the crying sins in every state and degree within their Dominions, and into all the provocations of the wrath of 
By seeing how our sin is increased.  God, and see how the sins of our time, seem to be above the sins of judah before the Captivity; our glorious light and all other means which he hath used to reclaim us, being rightly weighed.  
And secondly, that they may consider wisely of the danger, which both themselves 
And our dangers.  and all theirs, yea all their Dominions stand in for the same, according to all the Lords most terrible warnings and denounciations.  
And thirdly that they may 
And by enquiring the means to p●…isie the wrath.  think seriously as in the presence of the Lord and inquire from his mouth of the means yet left to pacific and prevent the same.  
And finally, that they may set themselves forthwith, to put all the same in execution 
And setting themselves to the speedy execution thereof.  with holy josiah, and do in all things belonging thereunto, as the Lord himself directeth and commandeth; for that this alone can bring comfort and boldness to them and theirs in assurance of the Lords merciful love and favour, and that they and theirs shall abide still, and ever before the presence of the lord Thus are we to labour to prevail 
To labour to prevail for all herein, chiefly for our dread Sovereign bringing thus the greatest deliverance by his hand.  espcially for our Sovereign Lord, and his, that our God may yet by him magnify the riches of his mercy above all former times, bringing thus to us & all his Churches a third greater deliverance and cause of rejoicing by his hand (through our unfeigned repentance, and the like repentance in all the Churches) then ever heretofore. And thus we are earnestly according to our bounden duty to stir up our hearts by our due meditations to cry for him, and to do what we can both by our prayers, and all other holy means, that all other may join with us herein; and that we may never rest wrestling with him & weeping, until he have heard us, even in this behalf, for the pardoning and taking away our sins, in what sort soever shall seem best to his heavenly Majesty to answer us. And thus much for this Meditation.   

The seventh particular Meditation, of the second general: how Satan exerciseth all his power and tyranny against all the Churches spiritually.  
seventhly, we are withal 
L●…ad us not into temptation b●…t deliver us from evil.  to betake ourselves to a serious Meditation, and to bring our hearts likewise to a right feeling hereof: That as 
To Meditate how Satan having gotten the Church into the wilderness there exerciseth his tyranny on it.  the Lord hath in his just and heavy displeasure left his poor afflicted Churches and children to be thus pursued by Satan, and driven into the wilderness; so Satan having gotten them thither, he there principally exerciseth his power & tyranny against them, even spiritually against their souls and consciences, so far as God permits him, as well as against their bodies.  
How he thereby bestirs himself to bring them into all 
Satan seeks to cause all God's people to fall away or to dissemble for fear●…, by their miseries.  spiritual miseries, & to cause them either to fall away from the Lord jesus Christ, and the soundness and sincerity of his heavenly Gospel, which they have received & professed, or to use dissembling, even to deny the Lord jesus, or other unlawful means for their relief and succour; thus to wound their weak consciences & ●…o get more advantage against them, both to accuse them before the Lord, and so to provoke 
To provoke the Lord more against them.  his Majesty to leave them up into his hands; and even to drive many of them to utter and endless despair of the Lords help & succour, which is the height of miseries, and the very entrance into the lake.  
Or at least (which is his usual 
Or to doubt of God's favour & soundness of their religion or faith.  manner with every one of us, and wherein he can, and doth oft prevail with many of the dearest Saints and Children of the Lord) he sets on them day and night to cause them to doubt of the Lords favour and love, & of the truth of their Religion, the goodness of their cause, the soundness of their Faith and repentance; or whether they have any Faith or no, seeing he so 
Or whether they have any Faith.  leaves them to so many miseries, which if he loved them he would not do. Then, he makes them possess the very sins of their youth, setting all of them before their faces, which ever they fell into in their whole lives, so much as he is able, and aggravating every least slip or failing, as if it were the most heinous sin, that ever was committed.  
Then, through melancholy passions and distempers into 
Thence to melancholy distempers.  which he can drive thee best by long affliction, and by still urging his temptations & terrors) he can, and useth to cause them to accuse themselves 
To accuse themselves falesly.  falsely, and for those things wherein they are most innocent, or for the best things that ever they have done, and so can increase their miseries both bodily and spiritual. The right meditation of these and other like miseries which 
The effect of the right Meditation of these.  he drives them into, m●…st needs cause us to commiserate their poor and woeful estate, and the due consideration of the present danger to ourselves of the like, will make us cry loud day and night, both for them and for ourselves.  
Yea moreover, herein we 
How justly God may leave Satan to stand up against us as against Israel.  are to strive to bring our hearts to a right and wise consideration; That as the Lord being displeased against Israel, gave Satan liberty to stand up against David, to move him to number his people, so to make a way to the just execution of his displeasure for their sins, and thereby to awake them, & bring them to repentance; so he might thus most justly for a long time have given him liberty to stand up against all the Churches, for our coldness and security, but against us especially of this sinful 
Even against all the Churches, but us p●…ially.  Nation, having so long greeved him by all our heinous provocations, even these threescore years and more; and much more may he do it now most righteously, for our so unspeakable impenitency and senselesness at this day, & for that nothing else hath hitherto, or can yet awake us.  
And withal, we are to labour to bring our hearts to a wise and right consideration of the extreme rage and fury that Satan now exerciseth, 
How Satan roars upon the Churches  roaring upon all the true Churches of Christ, as if he would devour us at once, knowing he hath but a short time: and how he hath hereupon thus lately begun to cast out this flood of bloody persecution out of his mouth, to carry away all the Churches and Children of God at this once together, as he hath done 
See Statesmysteries of the Jesuits.  some already. How he and his bloody Instruments have decreed the certain effecting hereof, as God hath made it manifest even by themselves, and that to all the world; I mean to every one whose eyes the God of this world hath not utterly shut up.  
And to be ever thinking hereof: That only our blessed 
The earth hitherto caused to help the Church.  God & tender Father▪ hath caused the earth hitherto, to help his Churches and all of us his Children, in ●…o opening her mouth and swallowing up the waters, albeit so very many of our Brethren abroad have been already carried away thereby. That our course is now (as we have just cause to fear) 
Just fear left our course should be coming thorough Satan's wonderful prevailing.  coming amain like the raging Sea: Satan standing up day and night against every one of us, to tempt us all, each according to our places, callings, & occasions to provoke him by our sins more and more, especially by our induration and security daily increased; that so the Lord may leave us likewise into his hand, which we have just cause to fear; according to all his severe denunciations and threats so nearly executed, and that to as great miseries, as they or any other Churches or people ever endured before, as he had almost done.  
The right Meditation of all these will make us cry aloud: Led us not into temptation but 
The right Meditation hereof will make us to cry loud. Lead us not &c.  deliver us from evil. Lord deliver us not over to the tempter for our sins, to be thus indurate and prepared for destruction, but deliver us from him and from the innumerable evils which he so furiously seeks to bring upon us and upon all our Brethren, and which so many other Churches so groan under.  
And yet more than all this, 
The fourih branch.  we are never to rest day nor night, till our hearts rightly understand and conceive hereof, that as all the miseries now 
All the miser●…es of the Church chief lie from the Dragon.  upon or towards the Churches, are wholly or principally from the Dragon, who hath thus enraged all those whom he hath deceived to fight against 
Pastors and Watchmen ordained to preserve God's Children to be stirred up here ●…unto at their cries.  them; so our God hath also herein ordained Pastors and Watchmen both spiritual and temporal to preserve his Children from him; and those his Pastors and Watchmen to be awaked and made more vigilant hereunto, by the instant Prayers and cries of his poor people committed to their charge. 
They that cannot cry to be delivered from the tempter, to help to deliver their brethren, must endure all misery with him.   
We are ever likewise to be thinking hereof; that he that cannot cry for himself, and for the Watchmen and Churches to be delivered from the tempter, and from all these evils. Especially, from the evil of sin, that it reign not over him, but suffers himself to be a servant, though it be but of any one sin, and a slave of Satan therein, must endure eternal evils and miseries with him in the Lake for ever and ever.   

The eight particular Meditation of the second general: That the kindgome and glory are Christ's, that Satan and Antichrist fight principally against him, and against his Church; only for his cause, and therefore are sure to be overthrown.  
8. ANd yet more still to awaken 
For thine is the Kingdom, etc.  us, & to prepare our hearts to this work, we are to f●…iue to bring our souls on further to a right 
To meditate.  and due consideration: that 
That the Kingdom is our Christ's.  our Lord jesus Christ is absolute Lord and King; that all the kingdoms of the world are our Lords, and his Christ's, 
Apoc. 11. 15.  and that he must reign for evermore. That▪ Satan and Antichrist his eldest son, & all their Soldiers in all these bloody wars which they have so dreadfully begun, and do so furiously pursue against all the Churches, do fight 
Satan & Antichrist●… sight only against him.  only against his glorious Majesty, and even of hatred against him; howsoever these whom Satan hath so enchanted think not so much, but rather 
Apoc. 16. 23. 24.  imagine that they do God good service in it. That Satan & Antichrist have sent 
How they have sent forth their croanking frogs.  forth these croaking Frogs the jesuits and Seminaries to stir up all the Kings and great men of the earth, to give away 
To stir up all to battle against Christ jesus.  their power and authority from Christ jesus, (to whom it is wholly due, and whose they and all their power is) to take part and to fight on their side against our Lord jesus Christ.  
That it is indeed our Lord 
To thrust him out of his throne.  jesus Christ against whom they fight, even to thrust him out of his throne and to destroy 
And to destroy all his people.  his people; and therefore that we have just cause to think, that this same being thus eagerly pursued against him, and against all his true members in all the Churches, is the very battle of the great 
We may just lie think this the battle of the great day  day: for that it is so set as it was never in such sort before, all things being rightly considered.  
And therefore we are wisely to Meditate, that howsoever 
That though the Lord thus permit them to prevail to harden them to pursue his people into the Sea,  to the end to harden them all, and all their Soldiers to their utter destruction, he hath permitted them to prevail thus far, and still raging to pursue his Israel into the heart of the Sea, yet we may have good hope that there is the very place and time, where and when he will get himself 
Yet there he will get himself the victory.  the victory; even when once his own people and Children (seeing and feeling their miseries upon them, and that there is nothing remaining in regard of any help from man but present destruction) shall 
When his people shall cry unto him.  cry aloud unto him as Israel at the Sea. That then he will cause his own people to stand still and see what he will do. That then he will manifest his power, and get himself glory upon his own and his Church's enemies, even upon Pharaoh and his host, and that by his own right arm.  
That howsoever there are 
Though there be mighty Kings against him, and for Antichrist.  multitudes & nations, mighty monarchs and Kings against him, and these have all one mind to give their power and authority from him unto the Beast, until the words of God be fulfilled; so that they shall thus fight with the Lamb; yet the Lamb shall overcome 
Yet the Lamb s●…all over come them.  them▪ for he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings; and they that are on his side are called faithful and chosen. And then, even those same Kings, the remainder of the ten horns, (which have so long before, and some of them do still fight against the Lamb, some more furiously, others less) shall all in the time appointed, hate 
That they shall give their power to the Lamb to make the Whore desolate.  the whore, & make her desolate and naked, and eat her flesh and burn her with fire: for that God will put into their hearts, thus to fulfil his will. 
To provoke ourselves to more instant crying for the full accomplishment of this.   
And yet more also for our further assurance of this, and to provoke our souls to loud and instant crying unto the Lord in this behalf for the accomplishment hereof; we are to bring our hearts to a joyful Meditation and remembrance, 
To consider how the whore is discovered to all  how our blessed God hath discovered that scarlet-coloured Whore to all the world, and more now then ever heretofore, both in all this bloody rage against him, and against all his poor Churches and Children, and their cruel intendments against all 
〈◊〉 mysteries of the jesuits, Laid forth to be visibly beholden of all, to be of Satan by his chief works, viz. lying and murder.  the rest, even against every soul of us truly professing his name. And also how he hath laid her forth to be visibly beholden of all, in all her filthy whoredoms and enticements, to wit, all those abominable doctrines, devices, slanders, and blasphemies against him, and against his heavenly word; and above all in the Powder-treason, wherein Satan showed himself in his chiefest works both of lying and murder, in a special 
Received her death's wound by her own hands in the Powder treason.  manner to all the world, and above all former times; wherein we are to hope that Antichrist received his deadly wound, which all the power 
And will fall being spent by her own violent and bloody rage.  of hell shall never cure again; and that in God's due time, he will fall down of a sudden, as a Deer, or other like beast, deadly smitten, when he hath by his own violence spent himself. 
4. branch. That our Saviour hath clearly foreshowed her destruction, & of all who receive her mark.   
That our Lord jesus Christ hath clearly foreshowed the destruction of that Whore of Babylon, that child of perdition, than man of sin, and of all his followers, yea of every one that receives his mark on his forehead, or in his right hand, or that is any way on his side to fight against him. That he hath not only made all the host of heaven, even all his holy Angels and Saints both 
Revel. 19 Made the host of heaven to rejoice thereat.  in heaven and earth, to rejoice and sing Hallelujah, for the condemning of the great Whore, & the victory given unto the Saints, but also hath made proclamation with a loud voice (by the Angel in 
Made proclamation to all to come to be enriched by her spoils  the Sun) and this to all the Fowls that fly through the midst of heaven, viz. to all the Kings and Princes, Captains and Soldiers, that shall fight under his glorious Majesty, and for him. That they should come & eat the flesh of Kings, and of great Captains, and of all mighty men, and even of all those both great and small that followed the Beast, that is, to be enriched with their spoils.  
That he will destroy every 
5. branch.  one that hath not his name enroled 
That he will destroy every one that is not on his side.  in his book, to be on his side, that is, every one who is not of his called, chosen and faithful flock; yea every one that doth not so strive to prepare himself thus to fight for him, and under him, so as he may be sure to prevail and overcome, and remain with him faithfully fight unto the death; until he have the crown of life.   

The ninth particular Meditation of the second general, how our Lord jesus Christ is that everlasting Amen, and coming quickly.  
FInally, we are never to rest 
Amen.  until we have brought 
To rejoice that Christ is that everlasting Amen.  our hearts to a comfortable rejoicing, that our Lord jesus Christ is that everlasting Amen, that faithful and true witness, who will perform 
Who will perform every word which he hath spoken.  every word that he hath spoken▪ in his due time, and in such sort, as he hath revealed the same, though the particular manner be yet unknown to us. That he is coming 
And is coming quickly.  quickly to render to every one according to his works. That we are not to give our hearts any rest until we are able thus to cry in faithfulness with all the Saints, and all the host of heaven; Amen, Amen. Our Lord jesus Christ only reigneth for evermore,  
Amen, Amen.    

The third general Meditation.  
Thirdly, what manner of ones we must be, whom the Lord so calleth, and whom he will admit and accept to be his helpers herein, and whose prayers shall be available with him, according to the same heavenly direction in Lords prayer.  
THus have we done with these first points for our preparation, by bringing our hearts to a right consideration of the course which the Lord is wont to take in saving his Church, and a true feeling of the necessity of our prayers at this time. Now whemby our due pondering of all these things and the like, and never resting until by our deep Meditation of them, we can have them as it were before our eyes continually, so to see lively the urgent necessity of these our Prayers, and that we can thereby hear the Lord crying loud unto us to help him and his Church herein; we are in the 
After our seeing the order which the Lord takes in saving his Church and necessity of prayer: to be careful we be such as the Lord calleth to help him.  next place as carefully to see, that we be such as he calleth, being qualified in all things accordingly, if ever we will get sound assurance to our own souls to prevail or to be accepted. And this we may learn likewise out of our Saviour's direction in that heavenly pattern for prayer 
Our certain direction by the Lord's prayer.  then which, all the wisdom of the world, can never give us a more sure and plain rule. To which end also, as for all the other before mentioned, we ought the more diligently to look unto it, and to Meditate of it: and that in this manner.  

The first particular Meditation of the third general, To make sure that we be the true children of our heavenly Father.  
Here we are to stir up 
Our Father.  ourselves to this duty.  
1. That having the former view ever before our faces as 
That having Christ's call in our ears,  much as we are able, and this true feeling ever also in our hearts; and withal this lively voice of Christ's loving call to help him and his Church still, 
We make sure we be the true children of our heavenly Father, by the true marks thereof. 2. Pet. 1. 4.  sounding shrill in our ears, we labour day and night, to make sure that we be the true Children of our heavenly Father, full of Childlike and natural affections to his heavenly Majesty. That we have thus put on the Image of our Lord jesus Christ, and are hereby (as holy Peter speaketh) partakers of the divine Nature, not earthly but heavenly minded, burning in the love of his Majesty, of his word, ordinances, and Children, full of faith in Christ jesus, and of all duty and holy obedience, that in all fullness of assurance through our Lord jesus Christ, we can by the power and witness of his holy Spirit, cry unto him Abba, O Father, and seek to be as instant for all our brethren as for ourselves, labouring ever to grow herein, and in the acknowledgement of our own vileness by nature, and of our unworthiness, either to be called his children or to make any petition to his heavenly Majesty.  

More particular Meditations hereof.  
MOre particularly for the 
The first branch of this meditation more particularly to make this sure.  better help and direction of every young and weak Christian (because this is that whereupon all our hope for our prayers doth principally rely) that we in the first place meditate and ponder carefully of these things. 
That we may not deceive ourselves herein we are to think   
To the end that we may be able to cry thus in Faith, (O our Father which art in heaven) we must make sure, that we be his children indeed, & that we do not deceive ourselves, as the greatest part do, even of those that live in the bosom of the Church. And therefore,  
1. We must seriously bethink ourselves, what we 
What one's we are by nature.  were by our natural estate from our first Father Adam, 
1. Cor. 15. 47.  not heavenly but all earthly, wholly corrupt, both in our 
Eph. 2. 2. john. 8. 44. Eph. 2. 3.  nature, & in all our thoughts, words, and deeds, Children of disobedience, yea Children of Satan, and even of the wrath of God.  
2. What we are already, 
2. What one's we must be by grace.  or must be by grace, before we can have the favour of our heavenly Father, or can help in this work; that we must be changed throughout, borne again, made new Creatures, & so as was said, Children of our heavenly Father, heavenly minded, that is, minding heavenly things, obedient Children, endeavouring to walk in all holy obedience before him, so declaring ourselves hereby to be ordained not to wrath, but to the inheritance of the Saints in light. 
3. That we never rest in using the means until we be such.   
3. If we do not fully and plainly find ourselves in this happy estate of God's Children, but still remaining as we were borne, and therefore Children of wrath, the Lord calls upon us loud, that we never rest day nor night, until we find ourselves certainly delivered out of that fearful and woeful estate; and that we are made by grace the very Children of our heavenly Father, and are received into his favour and love. And this chiefly he calls us to seek to attain, by a deep and continual Meditation of the miserable estate in which we 
In regard of our miserable estate we stand in till then.  stand, even for the present, until this time, as was said before; and morespecially for that extreme horror & misery 
And more for the horror which will come o●… us when our consciences shall be awaked.  which will certainly come upon us, when our consciences shall be throughly and sound awaked, which will be undoubtedly either in his life, or so soon as ever we shall be taken hence.  
And of the other side by a 
And our blessed estate of the contrary when can we find ourselves Gods Children.  due and serious Meditation and consideration of that blessed estate, wherein every one is that finds himself indeed in this manner the true Child of his heavenly Father, and can thereupon by the spirit of Adoption cry thus unto him, Abba, O Father.  
And to these ends that we never rest seeking to be in this happy estate, and that we find we are in it undoubtedly; by using conscionably and constantly all the means 
Means; chee●…y the word and prayer.  which God hath ordained thereunto; chee●…y hearing of his blessed word, and earnest prayer for obtaining these two general and principal 
For obtaining the principal graces, Repentance, Faith.  graces and ●…arkes of our regeneration, to wit: True repentance of all our sins▪ and a lively Faith in Christ jesus. 
In ou●… repentance to 〈◊〉▪ a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Change.  And in our repentance that we find a change first in ou●… whole nature, and after a change of all our courses and conversation from earthly to heavenly, not walking thenceforth according to carnal reason, but by faith in the word of the Lord.  
4. If we find ourselves 
4. If such yet to labour to increase in our assurance in walking before him in more hprightnes.  such, yet the Lord calls on us still to labour daily to increase our assurance, by increasing in our conscionable walking before our heavenly Father, and as in his presence; that so we may receive more favour in his eyes to be accepted in our prayers for his Church, and to approach nearer and nearer unto him with faithful Abraham. 
Two lessons to be ever in memory to this end.  Remembering ever these two lessons.  
1. That there is but only one narrow way of life, by our 
1. That there is but one narrow way of life.  conscionable walking wherein, we can only assure ourselves of God's favour and love; but 
I●…numerable leading to destruction.  almost ten thousand leading out of the same; all of them tending to hell and destruction. The impenitent walking in any of which paths provokes his displeasure, especially if we walk in it wittingly or carelessly, thorough lack of examining and trying our ways.  
2. That all this way is directed 
2. That one directed only by God's word. The general whereof is comprised in the Catechism.  and chalked out for the general in the doctrine of our Catechism, both for our Faith and for our repentance or obedience to be continually renewed and increased; more particularly for every step as it were, in the whole body of the Sacred Scriptures, the blessed word of the Lord.  
1. For our Faith, by which 
For Faith.  we must live and walk, that it is briefly comprised in the Articles of our Faith. 2. For 
Conversation  our life and conversation, and the ordering thereof in the Ten Commandments written by the Lords own finger; in each of which and every part whereof, we must walk on forward in performing all duties to his heavenly Majesty, and also to our Brethren. 3. ●…or other helps 
Helps in ou●… journey, the Sacraments.  in this our journey and stays to our Faith; the right use and knowledge of the Sacraments. 4. to the end to obtain more strength so to 
For more strength so to walk, earnest prayer.  walk in Faith and obedience that we are to use earnest prayer; the heavenly pattern whereof is set before us in that most exact form, prescribed by our Saviour, called the Lords prayer. That we may all learn to pray as with one heart and soul, according to that general direction being used and applied particularly, as occasions, times, and seasons require.  
5. The Lord would have us all to know, and ever to keep in fresh memory, that 
5. To pray thus for our Brethren as well as ourselves, that they may have the same assurance, and so manifest themselves for their heavenly Father and for the good of all their Brothren as we do.  he calls on us continually in the use of this prayer, to strive not only for ourselves so to walk, but for all our Brethren, even all the Children of our heavenly Father, dispersed over the face of the whole earth, both already called, and also all other of whom we may hope that they do belong to God's eternal election, whether of the jew, or of the Gentile, Pagans, Turks, or Indians. That these being gathered forth, he may speedily hasten the accomplishment of our happiness by the glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour.  
And that we never test until we shall attain hereunto, to remember all these 
To remember all jointly  jointly in all our prayers, in some good measure, as being of the same mystical body of Christ with us, for that otherwise we cannot rightly pray. [Our Father.]  
And further also amongst them, he would have us to 
6. To pray more specially for all in authority.  pray in a more special manner for all those whom he hath set in his own place here in the earth, for our succour 
As in Gods own place,  and comfort, & the aid and the comfort of all the rest 
For the succour & comfort of all the rest of their Brethrens.  of these our Brethren, and for our joint enjoying of all these blessings which he hath promised to his Church and chosen flock, and which he hath been wont by them to perform unto it. To whom for this cause he hath given his own name, call them 
Bearing his own name and ordained for this end.  Gods, and hath promised that to this end; they shallbe made foster Fathers & nursing Mothers 
Esay. 49.  to his poor Church, when he will be gracious unto it, in delivering, restoring, and beautifying of it, like as he hath done in all former Ages.  
And therefore we are never to rest travelling with our own hearts in this; until we can principally labour with the Lord for them, that they of all other, and so all in their places may be endued with all excellent graces, not only to 
That they may chiefly be endued with all excellent graces.  manifest themselves in the first rank according to their high dignities, the true Children of our heavenly Father, thus shining 
As in the first rank.  before all the rest of their brethren, for the better provoking 
Better to provoke all the rest.  and encouraging of all the rest, and the greater glory of the Lord; but also with 
And chiefly those peculiar to their places.  those gifts which are proper and peculiar unto their places and callings. And that we 
That we may perform all duties to them of honour.  likewise may all of us be very careful to perform unto them the duties belonging to them, in regard of those high places and callings, like as the honour and obedience of 
Obedience.  right appertaining to them so with all true thankfulness for 
Thankfulness.  all the blessings which we enjoy by them.  
And in our thankfulness, 
Therein those three.  we ●…e never to rest until we can from our souls perform unto them these three specially. 
Acknowledgement.  1. Acknowledgement of their authority from God, and that they are in his place. 2. Hearty affections, as to 
Hearty affections.  God's Lieutenants for his cause. 3. Above all instant 
Instant prayers.  prayers for them day & night. And in these our prayers, that we can cry for them not only as for every common member 
That they may be able to walk in their particular callings as before the Lord & as living Laws.  (as was said) to be able to walk before all their people as living Laws in all holy duties of Christianity, but in those of their particular places and callings, and be furnished 
Furnished with all gifts for managing the same happily.  with all excellent gifts and endowments of God's Spirit for their happy managing of the same.  
As first and principally, that they may be made able 
1. For promoting Gods religion.  and resolute to promote the Religion of the Lord alone, and all true godliness, and that with all their power; defacing the contrary, and destroying all ungodnesse in all their Dominions, as did those Worthies; David, jehosaphat, Hezekiah, josiab, and Nehemiah; being thereby so renowned and set out for such blessed examples to all succeeding Ages.  
And in the second place, that they may procure each 
2. Procuring the wealth of his people.  way the good of the people committed to them, as tender Foster-fathers', repressing the wicked, being careful that all holy means be used every where, for the reclaiming and saving every soul in their Dominions, and of bringing them in their arms to the Zion and Sanctuary of the Lord, and all hindrances thereof removed. And that to these ends, they may be all as 〈◊〉 
Exo. 18. 〈◊〉.  Magistrates, men of courage, fearing God, dealing truly, hating covetousness, no respecters of persons.  
And next unto these, that 
Next unto Magistrates to pray for all in any eminency.  we rest not till we be able to pray likewise for all excelling in any eminency, either outward or inward, whereby 
Whereby they may do any special service.  they may do any special service to our Lord jesus Christ, to his Vicegerents, or to his poor Church and people: As namely, That their hearts be not lifted up by their 
That their hearts be not lift up.  gifts, favours, or places, as is ordinary in each estate, and so wrath come upon them, as it 
2. Chro. 32. 25. 26.  did on that good Hezekiah for this very sinn●…; but that contrarily 
But contrarily ●…hore humbled.  they may both ever remember and acknowledge all their preferments to be from his heavenly bounty, and so to be more humbled by them, as having more to answer & be accountable for giving to his divine Majesty alone, all the glory thereof. And secondly, that they may be enabled as thy dear Children to employ all those gifts carefully 
That they may employ all carefully as their talents committed to that end.  as their talents committed unto them by the Lord, to that end and purpose, as may make most for his glory, the furtherance of his Gospel, with the greatest benefit and good to our self;, and to all the people of the Lord.    

The second particular Meditation of the third general, That we can, and use to seek his honour above all other things.  
SEcondly, we must never 
Hallowed be thy name.  give the Lord over, until we have brought our hearts in order, not to seek our own 
Never to rest until we can only seek God's honour  honour or greatness: nor ourselves, any way for ourselves alone, but only in all things to seek the honour of our heavenly Father, being zealous of his glory. And that we can pray earnestly, that 
And be zealous for it to set it forth.  ourselves and all other, may study to set forth his glory before all the sons of men, even the glory of his Wisdom, Goodness, Mercy, justice, Power, and Truth, shining bright in all his works: both in every creature, and also in all his judgements and mercies, and chiefly in his heavenly word: admiring and extolling his great name in every one of them.  
That we can mourn with holy Moses, for all the dishonours 
And mourn for all the dishonours done unto him, as Moses.  done unto him, and for all the provocations whereby he is provoked, choosing rather to have our names put out of his book, then that his 
Exo. 32. 31. 32.  great name should be blasphemed by his malicious enemics, especially in their triumphs for the destruction or 
Num. 14. 13. 17.  miseries of his people.   

The third particular Meditation of the third general: That we seek his honour chiefly in the advancement of the Sceptre of jesus Christ.  
THirdly, we are never to 
Thy kingdom come.  rest until we can rejoice in the truth of our hearts, that we have se●… ourselves to seek by all our might, the advancement 
Not to rest till ●…e can most earnestly seek the coming of Christ's kingdom.  of the Sceptre of his heavenly kingdom, even of the heavenly Gospel of our Lord jesus Christ, and so the coming of his kingdom thereby with power; first the kingdom of Grace, and after 
1. Of Grace. 2. Of Glory.  the kingdom of Glory: desiring earnestly to that end the propagating and spreading 
Desiring the spreading of his Gospel, etc.  of his Gospel over all the world, the gathering forth of all his elect from all parts, with the saving of all his people, & seeking all other things only 
Only for his honour.  for him and for his honour, that he may reign as Lord and King. That we never 
Not resting ●…ll we feel him reigning in our hearts.  give him rest, until we feel him reigning in our hearts by his blessed Word and Spirit: 
And can mourn for all the despite done to him.  making us to mourn withal for all the despite done unto his heavenly Majesty in the contempt of that his glorious 
And Satan's prevailings.  Gospel, and chiefly for all the prevayling of Satan and Antichrist, the setting up again of their abominable Idolatry in any place, and so for all the outrageous wickedness 
With all the wickedness committed against him.  committed against our Lord jesus Christ, his crown and dignity, and also against his poor people.   

The fourth particular Meditation of the third general, That we seek to honour him e●…er in the full accomplishment of all his heavenly will.  
FOurthly, that our hearts bear us witness that we 
Thy will be done.  have attained to be such, as are wholly set not to seek the execution of our own lusts 
That we are wholly set for the knowledge and execution of of God●… will.  or will, but that the whole will and good pleasure of our heavenly Father may be fulfilled by us and all other his Children; especially in all things wherein he hath or shall reveal himself what his good pleasure is. And that we have begun earnestly to indevor ourselves to be as cheerful in the right execution and accomplishment thereof in all parts, as his holy Angels. Moreover, that we can with 
And receiving thankfully whatsoever trial from his hand.  all thankfulness receive from his hand, & yield unto whatsoever chastisements or trials it shall please his heavenly wisdom to exercise us by; 
Mourning to see his Commandments trampled under foot.  and that we can mourn with the holy Prophet David, to see his blessed will and Commandments, both Law, and Gospel, so scorned and trampled under foot. That we have atrayned thereto at the least in our inner man (to wit) in the full desire and resolution of our souls, & are thereupon able thus to cry in truth and in the uprightness of our hearts, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.   

The fifth particular Meditation of the third general, That we be such as look into, and depend only upon our heavenly Father for all good things.  
FIftly, we must travel with 
Give us this day our daily 〈◊〉.  our own hearts, never resting until we be such as feel ourselves in some good 
Not to rest until we can in Faith whole lie depend upon our heavenly Father.  measure able in faith to look up unto him as to our pitiful, gracious, and bountiful Father, and to depend wholly upon him with faithful Abraham, for accomplishment of all our desires, and whatsoever else he hath promised, and for giving to us, and to the whole Church all things belonging hereunto, so far as shallbe best. To trust in him only for all, and to give him the glory of al.  
Also such as have attained in some good sort, a fellow-feeling with our Brethren, of all their wants and afflictions 
And able to cry for our Brethren.  both bodily and spiritual: and so are thereby able to cry for them, as for ourselves, Give us this day our daily bread.  
Such as are ready to communicate unto them in all 
Ready to communicate unto them.  things according to their necessities, of what kind soever. And finally, such as strive to walk painfully and faithfully in our places & callings, that we may not be chargeable to the Church, but may better supply the wants of our Brethren; and so show forth our right dependence on his fatherly goodness for ourselves and for them all, for bread and all other comforts for bodies and souls, appertaining both to this, and the better life.   

The sixth particular Meditation of the third general, That we be such as feel our sins and infirmities as a heavy burden, and travelling under them, do fly ever unto Christ.  
Sixthly, we are seriously to 
For give us our trespasses as etc.  stir up our souls that we never rest until we be such at least in the longing desires of our hearts, as do see and 
That we feel our sins a burden  feel not only our own sins, infirmities, and corruptions, as a heavy burden, making us 
To drive us to Christ.  daily to run to our Lord and Saviour to be eased of them: but withal, that we 
Having some true feeling of the sins of the Churches which have so provoked the Lord.  have some true feeling of the sins of all sorts in the Church, which have so far forth already provoked the Lord to execute his fierce wrath upon so many of our Brethren, to leave them into their enemy's hand▪ and so to threaten all the Churches by the deadly malice and mischievous plots and prevailings of our bloody enemies. And also that we can and do begin to cry, That the Lord would 
To try for forgiveness & so for unfeigned repentance to all the Churches.  forgive us our sins, our heinous crying sins, & grant unto us unfeigned repentance for the ●…ame, & hearts to do whatsoever he hath commanded belonging thereunto; & for the pacifying of his wrath both privately, & publicly. We 
That we he such as have a continual heaviness in our hearts for the sinne●… whereby our heavenly Father is so provoked.  are withal to bethink ourselves, whether we be such as unfeignedly wish with blessed Paul to have a continual heaviness in our hearts, for our own sins, and for the sins of God's people, whereby he hath been so provoked to so heavy a wrath, & so dreadful proceedings even against his own Children, which are so dear unto him; and for that his anger is daily more and more kindled and incensed. 
Such as can forgive and pray for our enemies.   
Such as can freely forgive, and do use to pray for our very enemies; that they, so many of them, as belong to the election of Grace, may likewise come to repentance and escape his wrath & vengeance due unto their sins, and be made with us partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light.   

The seventh particular Meditation of the third general, That we endeavour to pray continually. Led us not into temptation.  
SEventhly we are to meditate 
Led us not in●…o temptation.  seriously, that if we will be helpers unto our Lord and Saviour in this work, we 
Not to rest until we have brought ourselves in awe.  are never to give rest unto our souls, until we have brought ourselves to a true understanding sense and practice of that counsel, yea that precept of our Saviour (with which so few Christians are indeed rightly acquainted) to wit, 
To watch & pray continually that we fall not into temptation.  to watch and pray continually that we fall not into temptation.  
That we be such as do not only see the danger, that we 
That we do not only see our own danger:  ourselves stand in of Satan's temptations every moment of time, and of the many and fearful evils which by our sins he seeks without ceasing to bring upon us; and thence do labour incessantly by watching and prayer to be preserved and delivered from the same: but do also use to 
But also mourn for the prevailing●… of Satan and Antichrist.  mourn and be in heaviness day and night for the prevailing of Satan and Antichrist, and of all their limbs and instruments, not only against the poor people and children of the Lord, but also against his blessed Gospel at this day, by their craft and subtleties, and for the innumerable miseries bodily and spiritual which they have and do daily more and more seek to bring upon them, and therefore we do use daily to cry for them as for ourselves. Lord lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.   

The eighth particular Meditation of the third general, That we can and do use to sing the song of the 24. Elders, Glory, etc.  
SEventhly, we are never to 
For thin●… is the kingdom, etc.  give the Lord over, until we be such as ever acknowledging in our hearts and consciences 
Such as have learned the song of the four and twenty Elders.  the Sovereignty of our Lord jesus Christ have attained hereto, to bow the knees of our souls, and fall down upon our faces before him, having learned the Song of the four and twenty Elders, Glory, Honour, Praise, Dominion, Might, 
Rev. 5. 13.  and Majesty, be to him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for evermore; and do 
And sing the same in our souls  use to sing the same in our souls; and also do desire that it may be sounded out by us, and by all the Church eternally; 
Or mourn] for our failings.  at least such as can mourn for our continual wants and failings herein.  
Finally, that we be such as 
Able to sound Amen in assurance of obtaining.  use to stir up our hearts in faith to sound Amen, both begging and believing that through jesus Christ, we shall obtain whatsoever we have or shall desire, as our Lord and Saviour hath taught us, so far as shall be most for his glory, our salvation, with the good of all his Church; and herein can joyfully repose our souls. And not only that we have attained the beginnings, or as 
Having not only the first fruits in all graces, but endeavouring to grow continually.  it were the first fruits in all these graces: moreover, that we endeavour to increase & grow in every one of them continually. And thus much also for the second general meditation (to wit) what kind of persons we must be, if we will be sure to be accepted, as saithful Abraham and Moses, in regard of the high favour in which we are in through jesus Christ, and that we are so qualified and fitted, as our Saviour requireth of them who are to help him in this work.    

The fourth general Meditation.  
Concerning the frame and order of our prayers, that they likewise may be well pleasing, and so we may be more certain to prevail thereby: when we follow in all things our Saviour's direction.  
FOr the frame and form of our prayers, that the want therein may not any thing hinder our certain assurance, but 
To Meditate.  contrarily that our right manner, ordering & framing thereof may increase our strength and confident crying. They 
That our prayers be framed according to our Saviour's direction so near as we can.  must be so framed as near as we can, at our great Master and Teacher our Lord jesus Christ hath directed us; and then his Sovereign Majesty who hath said Pray thus, will 
Then he will make them powerful.  make them powerful according to his gracious promise. Ask and you shall have, and will set to his seal, first in our hearts, and after manifestly before the world.  

The first particular Meditation of the fourth general, That we pray only to our heavenly Father in the name of Christ.  
FIrst we are carefully to 
1. That we pray only to our heavenly Father in the name of jesus Christ.  see, that our prayers be directed only to our heavenly Father, and none other, and that in the name and mediation of our blessed Saviour; our hearts being lifted up to heaven in confidence of faith through him, and in his name and mediation alone, and not by the mediation of any Saint or Angel; and also without the least looking at ourselves, for any excellency 
Without the least looking at ourselves▪ or any other creature.  in ourselves, or any matter of merit, worth or desert in ourselves, or any other creature, for which we should look any way to be heard, whereunto our hearts are wonderfully prone; and wherein they are exceeding deceitful, and very hard to be known, albeit we have taken long pains to bring them thereunto.   

The second particular Meditation of the fourth general, That above all and in all we aim at God's glory, and the advancement of Christ's sceptre.  
SEcondly, as he hath 
That we aim only at God's glory, not resting till our hearts be inflamed with the zeal thereof.  taught us in the first place to pray, Hallowed be thy name; so in and above all things we must aim at his glory, and never rest till we have a burning zeal thereof, so to seek the advancement of his great name, and the coming of his kingdom, even that jesus 
That Christ only may reign in all the world.  Christ may reign in all the world, all sorts stooping unto him, that thus his elect speedily be gathered forth and saved; Satan and Antichrist with all his enemies being utterly overthrown and confounded. For seeking first his glory, kingdom, & righteousness, that is; seeking them chiefly and in the first 
For that then we have a certain assurance of all other things.  place, we have a certain assurance from his gracious and faithful promise; That all other things shall be cast upon 
Mat. 6. 33.  us, as an over measure, concerning ourselves or ours.  
And herein specially we 
This is a chief failing of all God's people.  are to be warned, for that in this is usually the chief failling of God's people, and for which he may justly send us empty away; even for looking 
In looking more at ourselves then his heavenly Majesty.  at ourselves, more than at his Majesty and the things that concern his kingdom and honour; preferring ourselves and our own particulars, and the care of them, before the things that concern his own glory, kingdom, and people. Though 
Though he hath directed us that this should be all in all.  his wisdom hath in his goodness so plainly directed us herein, beginning and ending with this. The seeking of the advancement of his glory and kingdom, as being all in all, like as indeed it is, for that then (as was said) when we can so seek him in order, he will undoubtedly give us our hearts desire, and more than we can imagine; neither can we ever assure ourselves of any thing as a blessing until this time. For this purpose, and the certainty hereof, read carefully the first of Haggai, and consider 
Hag. 1.  it well, how this self-love makes us forget the first and great Commandment, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, 
Want of this deprives of many blessings.  strength, and might, etc. and so to lose the obtaining of those things which otherwise we might certainly enjoy.   

The third particular Meditation of the fourth general, That we seek the doing of his heavenly will, for his glory and kingdom chiefly. 
That we seek the doing of his heavenly will chiefly for his glory & kingdom.   
THirdly, we are to labour to bring our hearts hereunto, That the accomplishing of his heavenly will▪ whatsoever he hath determined, chiefly i●… things that concern his glory and kingdom, and the good of his Church and Children be sought by us in the first place, and afterwards in all things 
That for these ends we may do it as the Angel's do●….  belonging to ourselves. That to these ends, all his will and good pleasure, which he hath been, or shall be pleased to make known unto us, may be done by us and all his people; and that as cheerfully, wisely, faithfully, and courageously, as the Angels do it in heaven.   

The fourth particular Meditation of the fourth general▪ That we seek all good things from God alone, chiefly that we may have wherewith to honour him, and advance his kingdom.  
FOurthly, in the fourth 
To seek bread chiefly for these ends.  place we are to meditate how we are to travel with our own hearts to seek our daily bread from him, not for ourselves, but for these ends principally.  
That he will be pleased to feed us and to minister unto us from heaven, all things needful and behooveful hereunto, both for ourselves and for all our brethren, that we 
That we may live only to his heavenly Majesty.  may not live to ourselves, but to his heavenly Majesty alone, who hath redeemed and saved us for this purpose.   

The fifth particular Meditation of the fourth general, and so of the sixth and seventh together.  
FIftly, we are seriously to 
5  consider how we are to pray, That to these ends likewise 
To seek forgiveness of our sins to these ends, & that they may not hinder his mercies.  chiefly, and for these causes, he will forgive our sins, and the sins of his people; that they may not hinder his mercy, nor these our prayers in any of the things which we are taught to beg of his heavenly Majesty, nor yet provoke his wrath against us, but having put them away by his Christ, he 
But he may hear us in all things concerning his own glory & our good.  may for his sake tender us as his own Children, and hear us in all things concerning his glory and kingdom, and also for our own necessity and happiness, and the good of his people. 
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6. And finally, that for his glory sake, he will save 
And that he will save us from Satan that we may live to honour him.  us from Satan and from all the evils which he intends, and seeks to bring upon us for our sins, and whereby he seeks to dishonour the Lord & provoke him against us, and to hinder all these mercies, and to bring all contrary miseries and evils upon us, and upon the Church. 
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7. How in all these, still we are ever to seek for his 
All still for his glory & for his Church.  own glory, and the merit of his dearly beloved Son, ever beginning and ending here with. And that our Lord jesus Christ, may show himself gloriously both Lord and King, exercising all his Sovereignty, Dominion, and Power, for us all; that so he may be glorified by us, and by all the Churches, and also 
That he may be glorified in us, & we with him.  glorify us with himself for evermore. And thus much also for the order, that we are ever, as near as we can, to keep in the desire of our hearts, and in all the requests which we make unto his glorious Majesty.    

The fifth general Meditation.  
Fiftly the power and efficacy of our prayers made and performed in all things, according to the heavenly pattern.  
WE are in this Meditation, to have a due consideration & pondering hereof: 
To Meditate how the four former performed aright, we shall be assured of this, viz. to be heard.  that the four former things being performed according to the rule and direction of our Saviour, this fifth will follow of itself, that is to say; that our blessed God will give us a strong assurance to be heard; and so, that we shall see the power and efficacy of our prayers in all accordingly; which we are seriously to meditate of, until we can feel our hearts to pray in faith, and in confident boldness of his goodness to grant our requests.  

The first particular Meditation of the fifth general, That when we can so pray, he will manifest himself our tender Father.  
FIrst, that when we shall 
So praying jointly he will give a witness to each soul and set to his seal that he is our Father.  jointly thus cry unto him, he will not only give a witness to every one of us in our souls, that he is our Father, and set the seal thereof in our hearts (as was said) making us able to call him 
Rom. 8.  Abba, O Father, which is ten thousand times more worth than all our labour herein can be; but will moreover show himself to us so praying, not to each in particular alone, 
Show himself to us all from heaven to be our Father.  but also to all the Churches in general, & that even from heaven; to be our gracious and tender Father, yea that he will so show himself to us, as ever he showed himself to Israel, or to any of his in former Ages, howsoever he 
Though he more humble us first.  may first humble us, and dreadfully awaken us all, to make us more earnestly and jointly to cry unto him.   

The second particular Meditation of the fifth general, How he will from heaven show us his glory, when we can so pray.  
SEcondly, that then we 
2. That he will also show us his glory for his Church more than ever formerly in this last age.  may truly hope, that he will from heaven once again show his glory for his Church, more than ever in this last Age of the world, now that his own glorious 
Now that it is so opposed.  Majesty and Children are so furiously fought against, and that so directly and manifestly, that all the world may take notice of it; chiefly by Satan and Antichrist, and by all their forces. That he will then evidently declare the glorious riches of his Love, Wisdom, Mercy, Power, Truth, Faithfulness, and all his Goodness; both for the rescuing, the succouring, and saving of all his poor Church from the great red Dragon, the Beast and the false Prophet; and for maintaining 
For maintaining his own great name,  his own honour and great Name, which they do so oppugn; and also in getting himself a glorious 
And getting himself a glorious victory.  victory & triumph upon them all, as he did upon Pharaoh, Senacherib, Haman, or any other of his proud enemies, or of the enemies of his Church. Yea, we may then expect that 
This we may expect he will do by themselves.  he will do this, in fight against them by themselves, making their own rage their ruin, their own counsels their own confusion, and the covering of their faces, and in turning all to his own glory, 
To their confusion: happiness of his.  with the greatest joy and happiness to his chosen flock and children for ever.   

The third particular Meditation of the fifth general.  
3. WE are withal to 
How he will then give us assurance of his kingdom to come with power.  meditate infaith; How when he hath prepared and set our hearts in order thus to pray, he will then from heaven cause his own Kingdom to come with power: how then our Lord jesus Christ whose the kingdom is, to whom the Father hath specially committed the government of it, will then advance his own Sceptre, the true Sceptre of righteousness, even his heavenly Gospel amongst his very enemies; that then, his greatest enemies shall fall down before him & lick the dust, in acknowledgement of their own natural wretchedness, and of their willing submission to jesus Christ, or perish for ever. How then our 
Ruinated the kingdom of Satan and Antichrist.  Lord and Saviour will once again cause Satan to fall down from heaven like lightning, 
Luke 10, 18.  ruinating his kingdom, and specially the kingdom of 
Consume Antichrist.  Antichrist; how he will consume that great Antichrist by the breath of his mouth, and utterly abolish him by the brightness of his coming. But the new Jerusalem he 
'Cause the new jerusalem to come from heaven, as a Bride prepared to meet her Husband. Apoc. 22.  will cause to descend from heaven as a Bride trimmed & prepared to meet her Husband, and then will he set up and manifest before all the world the glory of his Majesty, and of the glorious Kingdom of his Son our Saviour, with the felicity and glory of 
And all in such sort as he hath foretold.  all his Saints, in that manner which he hath foretold in his heavenly word; and in all things which are not yet accomplished concerning the same, every thing in their own due time and season.   

The fourth particular Meditation of the fifth general.  
FOurthly, we are wisely to 
Thy will be done. etc.  meditate in faith, How then he will accomplish and 
He will then fulfil whatever not yet accomplished concerning his enemies, or his servants.  fulfil all his holy will and counsel, even whatsoever he hath spoken by the mouth▪ of any of his holy Prophets, which is not yet come to pass, executing both all his judgements upon all his and his Church's enemies, & performing whatsoever he hath foretold and promised to his Saints. How then he will certainly put into the hearts of all, and namely of the Kings, which had formerly given their power unto the Beast, to give all their power and authority to jesus Christ, to fulfil his will, for the full execution 
And put new cheerfulness into all the hearts of his, to do all his will.  and performance hereof, and that cheerfully, wisely, & faithfully, like as i●… is done in heaven: and more specially to every one that can so call up on his blessed name; according to the measure of Grace and Power given to each in his place. Then he will effectually so incline our hearts as that this shall be our meat and drink to do his will, and that we shall never depart from him any more.   

The fifth particular Meditation of the fifth general: How he will then deliver and feed his people.  
FIftly, than we are withal 
G●…ve us this day our dasly bread.  here to meditate in faith, and in all confident assurance, 
How he will deliver his people from all their miseries.  how he will from heaven declare his fatherly and tender care for all his children thus crying to him, to deliver them from all their bondage, Famine, Sword, and other miseries, which they have endured by their merciless enemies, whether bodily or spiritual: thus wiping away all tears from their eyes, so far as shall be most for his own glory, and for their good. Then will he feed them with bread, as 
Feed them from heaven.  from heaven, ministering abundantly all good things unto them, according to the days wherein they suffered adversity, recompensing them double into their bosoms in all joy and heavenly felicity, 
Recompensing them double.  here to be begun, and in an unspeakable manner to be accomplished in the heavens.   

The sixth particular Meditation of the fifth general: How then he will cleanse his people from their sins, and write his law in their hearts. 
Forgive us our trespasses as▪ etc.   
Sixthly, we are likewise seriously and joyfully to be pondering hereof: How then 
To meditate.  he will forgive all the sins of his children according to 
How then he will forgive the sins of all his people  his gracious promise, and remember their iniquities no more, when they shall cry unto him by a lively Faith, as to their heavenly Father, burning with the zeal of his glory and kingdom, and that all his divine will may be so accomplished. That then he will open all our blind eyes to see 
Make us see our pollutions  our natural pollution and uncleanness, yea to behold all out filthy sins, whereby we are defiled and loathsome in the eyes of our heavenly Father▪ and will withal make us 
And the fountain open to u●… all. Zach. 13. ●….  to behold the fountain of his Son's blood open to all the house of Israel for sin and for uncleanness. Then will he make all sorts that are his, even all his elect, as much to 
And to long after it.  long after that Fountain, as ever any did after the pool of 
john 5, 3.  Bethesda: and most gladly to do whatsoever he hath appointed for the purging and cleansing of themselves, and of all his Church from all her iniquities. 
How he w●…l then make our Repencance sound.   
And how to the end that our turning and repentance may be no longer formal (as it hath been for the most part heretofore, when we have cried unto the Lord in our troubles, to be delivered from our distress▪ and afterward have returned to our iniquities again) but that it, and every part of it, may be sound, and unfeigned, he will make every one of his own cry with persecuting Saul, 
Acts. 9 6.  Lord what wilt thou that I should do? Then he will put 
Put his Law in our minds etc. Icr. 31. 33.  his Law into our minds, and write it in our hearts, according to his most gracious and blessed promise, when he intends to save his Church in such sort, as we have just cause to hope he is about to do. He will cause us tenderly 
Cause us to forgive and pity one another. Esay. 11. 6.  to forgive and pity one another; the Wolf to dwell with the Lamb, and to desire to make all our very enemies partakers of the same mercies, and will keep us all that are his, that we may no more depart from him.   

The seventh particular Meditation of the fifth general, How we shall see him delivering his flock from Satan, and dissolving all his cursed works.  
seventhly, we are moreover 
Lea●… us not into temptation.  to Meditate in faith, how then he will restrain the rage and power of the Tempter, 
To meditate how then he will restrain the tempter.  reseving his poor Lambs out of the jaws of the roaring Lyon. How he will 
Dissolve his works.  then destroy and dissolve all the cursed works of Satan; discover his depths, and all 
Discover his depths of wickedness.  the wickedness of his Enchanters, Sorce●…ers, Charmers, Witches, and of all the rest of his crafty, malicious, and accursed instruments; making their madness manifest to all, and what practices they have used against all▪ even against Christian Kings and 
Against all nations.  Princes, Nations and people, to harden & turn them from the faith, as jannes' and jambres 
2. Tim. 3▪ ●….  did to harden Pharaoh, and as Elimas' against the Deputy, and Simon Magus against 
How the Kings of the earth who have given their power to the Beast have been deluded. Apo. 9 3. 4. etc. 16. 13. ●…4.  Samaria. How these and the Locusts coming out of the bottomless pit, have caused them to give their power to the Beast, and to fight against our Lord jesus Christ.  
And furthermore how then 
How he 〈◊〉 then cause their enchantments to 〈◊〉.  he will cause all their witchcrafts & enchantments to cease, as they began so to cease at the first coming of our Saviour in the flesh, and chiefly at the coming down of the holy Ghost, and at that powerful and effectual▪ spreading of the Gospel, in every country wheresoever it so came▪  
Yea, how then all such deceivers shall curse their Gods, and gnaw their tougnes for 
How all deceivers shall curse their Gods, and g●…aw their tongues.  sorrow, being enforced with that wretched Balaans', who loved the wages of iniquity, to acknowledge, that there is no sorcery against jacob, nor any divination against 
Numb. 23. 23.  Israel. How then we shall 
How Christ will be then wonderful in saving his Church.  see him whose name is Wonderful, to show himself wonderful in the saving of his poor Church and Children from the power and fury of the great red Dragon, and in delivering us all in an admirable manner, from all these innumerable evils, which he & all his instruments have so long practised, & so maliciously & dreadfully intended & do still intend against his poor Church; whereupon he so castethout of his mouth all this huge flood of waters after her, to cause her to be carried away of the same at once; and by which the proud enemies, have so cast lots upon 
Hester. 3. 7.  all that truly love and believe in his name, and as certainly 
State mysteries.  determined and set down our day, so soon as ever their opportunity shall serve, as Haman had against the jews.   

The eight particular Meditation of the fifth general, How then he will declare himself sole Monarch, and to whom all glory belongs.  
EIghtly, we are yet further 
For thine is the kingdom, etc.  to Meditate according to this heavenly direction, how 
To meditate how Christ will then declare his Sovereignty.  then he will declare himself before all the earth, to be the only absolute Sovereign Lord and King, the sole and mighty Monarch of all the world, that all power▪ is his, and to him alone belongs all glory and honour, when he shall thus show himself so gloriously for his Church, in such a wonderful deliverance, in such unexpected and even incredible mercies to her (I 
And get himself glory upon his proudest enemies.  mean incredible to all humane reason) and when he shall so get himself glory upon his proudest enemies, and make all the world to see, that he hath overturned all their wisdom, 
Making all their counsels & power to serve him.  power, and fury, making it to serve hereunto; and finally, that he hath in all things so far forth, accomplished whatsoever he hath spoken ever since the beginning.  
And likewise we are earnestly 
How he will then maniseft that all the enemies have fought against him.  to meditate, & to comfort ourselves herein▪ That then he will make it manifest, that the greatest enemies of the Church, have in all their ●…age not fought against his Children, poor worms, dust and ashes, for than they had surely prevailed long ago, to have destroyed his whole Church out of the earth; but that they have fought even against our Lord jesus▪ Christ, this great King of kings, and 
This will cause all to acknowledge his Sovereignty. Rom. 14▪  Lord of lords. Thus will he cause all, both men and devils to acknowledge and ●…say▪ For thine is the kingdom, power, & glory: and all the Children of God to sing with all the holy Angels, and all the hosst of Heaven, Halleluj●…h. Praise ye 
His Angels & Sa●…hts to sing Halle●…. Apoc. 19, 6.  the Lord: for the Lord▪ God omnipotent reigneth, ye●…, to fall upon their faces before the Throne, and to worship our God▪ saying Am●…n. Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honour, power▪ and 
Apo. 7, 11, 〈◊〉.  might be unto our God for ever and ever.   

The ninth particular Meditation of the fif●… general: How we are never to rest, till we can rejoice and triumph in the assurance of Faith, crying ●…oyntly, Amen.  
AND to conclude this 
Amen.  point, we are ever to meditate seriously hereof, and 
Never to give over our Meditations and prayers until we can by them 〈◊〉 ●…n Faith, Amen: rejoicing & triumphing in our assurance to be heard in all.  never to give our hearts any rest, until we can through the 〈◊〉 of our Faith, rejoice and even triumph continually with the Holy Angels: That how impossible soever these things may seem to flesh and blood, and how incredible in the eyes of the world yet he will certainly accomplish them all, in what time measure, and manner shall seem best to his wisdom, accordingly as he hath foretold. And that, even then, when so many of us, as have, or can but unfeignedly begin to set ourselves in all things to walk humbly with him, shall likewise be stirred up by his blessed Spirit, thus jointly to cry unto him: for that, he having taught and 
Reasons of our assurance from his 1. Commandments. 2. Promises. 3. Inclining & preparing our hearts.  commanded us thus to pray, and having given us so many assurances, that being such, & praying thus, he will hear us: and finally, he inclining and setting our hearts as with one accord, thus to importune him herein, we can make no doubt of gracious audience, and a happy answer from his heavenly Majesty, even when we can jointly cry in Faith, Amen. Even so come Lord jesus, come quickly,  
Amen, Amen.    

The sixth general Meditation.  
How all but those that are thus qualified are excluded from helping the Lord, and do rather pull down his wrath upon his Church.  
Sixthly, we are to bring our hearts yet further to a serious 
To meditate, How all other are excluded  Meditation hereof likewise; That all other who are not so qualified, at least in the earnest desire and constant resolution of their hearts: and much more all who are contrarily affected in any of these things thus necessarily required in our preparation: and so all that believe not the word of the Lord in such manner, as to be fully persuaded of the truth of his promises and threatenings, are excluded by the Lord himself, from being any meet helpers in this work.  

The First Meditation hereof, to be seriously pondered.  
1 THat all such as live securely in their own 
First: As All living securely excluded.  ways, without any due regard of the Lord, and of his poor Church, are excluded hence; even all such, as who albeit the Lord show such manifest token●… of his heavy displeasure against his own people and children for their sins; and although they see his Glory, Gospel▪ & People, to be so generally trampled under foot, our lord jesus Christ to be ready utterly to be thrust from his throne, and his members in such miserable distress, or imminent peril▪ yet they care for none of these things, but only mind their own courses, and seek to satisfy their own wills and desires, as all our worldlings▪ and all the profane sort in general do.  
Yea, all such are shut 
2 All who do not in commiseration come to help him, and his poor church.  out as unmeete, who are not now in a tender commiseration of the woeful estate of all the Lords people, de●…irous to obey our Lord jesus Christ, coming to help him and them all, in what thing soever he shall make known unto them, that he stands in need of their help, and so calls for it at their hands; and who endeavour not unfeignedly to do whatsoever he requireth, tending thereunto. And that this must needs be so for these reasons following, which are therefore every one of them to be seriously meditated of, and pondered, until we know ourselves to have passed the danger of them.  

The first reason to be seriously meditated of.  
1 FOr that all such who regard 
Reasons.  him not in his poor and needy members, 
All such must be separated at the last day.  must be separated from these whom our Saviour calls, The blessed of his Father, and must stand at his left hand among the Goats, and must then hear the woeful doom at that last dreadful day; Go ye cursed into everlasting f●…re prepared for the Devil and his Angels, when I was an hungry you gave me no meat: when I was thirsty you gave me no drink; when I was s●…ke and in prison, you visited me not; when I was naked, you clothed me not; when I was a stranger and harbourless, you took me not in, etc. And therefore if it shall be so with these at that day, then certainly they must needs be rejected by him, as utterly unmeet for this service; who now that he calls for these duties at their hands, and that so loud, as all the world doth ring thereof; yet are deaf in all, in regard of any commiseration. For what King▪ General, or Commander, will ever willingly have any admitted into pay to fight under them, but only such as they know to be loyally and faithfully affected towards them; and which do lay to heart, their honours, causes, and quarrels, as if they were their own: much less than can we think, that the Lord of heaven & earth (who needs none of our help, but can get himself the victory over his enemies by the breath of his nostrils when it pleaseth him) will admit of any other to be with him, and to help him in this great work, wherein he will so highly honour them; but only so many as shall be loyally and heartily affected towards his Majesty, his causes, and children.   

The second reason to be seriously thought of.  
SEcondly, we are seriously to lay to heart, and to bethink 
2. All excluded living in any one gross sin impenitently, for that they are both blind and deaf.  ourselves in time if we would be helpers herein, That all such who live in any one gross sin impenitently, and much more in any one of those notorious abominations which brought that dreadful Captivity upon judah; & which the Lord hath caused to be set so lively before the face of all by the holy Prophets themselves, together with the vengeance denounced for them, are also utterly excluded; especially, if they live therein scandalously, to the slander of the Gospel, or the offence of others, to harden them in their courses; for that all such are both blind and deaf, and make others so.  
Such cannot see the wrath 
They see not God's wrath rushing on themselves, much less can they see it rushing on others.  and vengeance of GOD, certainly rushing upon themselves for their own sins wherein they lie, much less can they see that which is rushing upon all the Churches for their security, and abuse of the gospel; and least of all can they discern of any wrath conceived against ourselves: for 
They perceyve not our sins.  that they consider only, that we yet live in peace, but perceyve not at all the multitude and heinousness of our most odious and lowd-crying sins, against which the Prophets so thunder out the vengeance of the Lord, and for which all who are wisehearted indeed and whose eyes GOD hath rightly opened, do fear and tremble.  
They can neither see any 
Nor any tokens of God's displeasure. Nor the fury of the Church's Enemies.  tokens of the Lords displeasure, nor yet discern the enemies raging so furiously against all the Churches abroad, as by their most deep and bloody practices, threats, and intendments they daily manifest to all the world; no not those enemies which be in our very bosoms, such as all those are, who bear evil will against Zion. They perceive 
Nor the multitude of Locusts sent out of the bottomless pit.  not the multitude of Locusts with such stings in their tails, sent out of the bottomless pit to all the Kings of the earth, to draw them all if it were possible, & certainly every one of them, so far as ever the Lord shall permit them) to take up arms against our Lord jesus Christ, and his poor Church.  
They are deaf, and cannot hear the cry of their poor 
Nor hear the cries of Gods poor children, much less his call to repentance.  brethren, though sounding daily in their ears, so as to take any true pity of them; how then should they hear the cry of the Lord, calling to themselves and all other to repent, so to prevent and pacify his wrath.  
Concerning these so continuing, 
God's wrath upon all such in blinding their eyes, & hardening their hearts.  the holy Ghost oft declareth the heavy wrath of God that is upon them. That he hath blinded their eyes, and made their ears dull of hearing, 
Esay. 6. 9 10.  he hath hardened their hearts; lest they should see 
Rom. 11. 8.  with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and convert and be saved. And yet more, for a further execution of his just and most heavy displeasure upon such as so harden and fat themselves against his most terrible threats, thus dreadfully doth the holy Ghost bring in the Prophet David, denouncing God's vengeance against them, saying, Let their table be a snare 
Rom. 11. 9  and a net▪ and a stumbling block for a recompense unto them.  
These therefore, especially 
Esay. 56. Esay. 22.  all blind watchmen, crying Peace, Peace, and all is well, 
Especially upon all blind watchmen calling for all the beasts to destroy.  and so lulling themselves and all others asleep, call for all the Beasts of the forest to destroy; even for all the cruel enemies of Christ, & his true Church, to invade and make havoc of all the rest of the Churches, as of some others they have done before. How then should these pray for the Churches, when they cannot either see or hear any token of God's wrath, so as to cause them to seek to appease it, or pray for themselves; how should they then pray for others, especially for those whom in their hearts they scorn, only because they 
Psal. 14. 6.  fear and put their trust in the Lord alone.   

The third particular reason hereof to be throughly meditated of.  
THirdly, we are in fear 
All the threatenings in the book of God against such sins & sinners are against them.  and trembling to Meditate, How all the threatenings in the book of God, which are against those sins, wherein they live impenitently against the light of their own hearts, & against such sinners, are against them; and particularly those which are against such, as will not submit themselves to walk in obedience to all the Commandments and ordinances of the Lord, but will walk stubbornly against him, though it be but in any one sin; That he will walk stubbornly against them, and the like denuntiations; a●… those, Levit. 26. 14. 15. 23. 24. Deut. 28. 15. 21. etc. 47. 48. Deut. 29. 18. 19 20. 21. 22. etc. But not so 
Not any one promise until they repent.  much as any one promise from the beginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelation, which they can take hold of, as belonging to themselves, so long as they continue so to walk. They are manifestly excluded from meddling with the Covenant of God. Psal. 50. from verse 16. to the end of it. But unto the wicked, said God, what hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest to be reform, and hast cast my Covenant behind thee? When thou sawest a thief, thou didst run with him, and thou hast been partaker with the Adulterers, etc. Where he reckoning up some particular sins, showeth plainly, that every such sin lived in obstinately, and with delight, utterly excludes from all comfort in the Covenant of Grace and mercy in Christ. And that they only who offer to God praise, and unfeignedly endeavour to pay their vows unto him, that is, to yield to him a perfect & entire obedience, have the promise and comfort of the Covenant.  
These may call upon him in the day of trouble, coming 
Psal. 50, 14. 15  with confidence to the Throne of Grace, and lifting up pure hands without staggering or doubting; and he will hear them, that they may glorify him accordingly. But otherwise, be they never so forward in profession, and let them never so much thereupon flatter themselves, yet they shall hear this instead of any comfort, I know you not, depart from me ye that work iniquity. How then can they imagine to be accepted in this work, or that God should vouchsafe so much as to hear others praying for them, that they may be saved, until they turn and submit themselves wholly unto him. We ought therefore to labour to bring our hearts, to be able with fear and trembling, to hear and receive that sweet counsel of the Lords, Psal. 50. 22. Oh consider this; ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none that can deliver you. He that offereth me praise, shall glorify me, and to him that disposeth his way aright, will I sh●…w the salvation of God: That is, only to such a one.   

The 4. particular Reason hereof, to be thoroughly laid to heart.  
FOurthly, we are in fear 
4. Reason.  and trembling to lay this further to heart, How every notorious sinner, though it be 
Every notorious sinner helps to pull down the vengeance on all.  but in one only sin, helps to pull down the vengeance of God upon all, and to hinder the prayers of all the rest, so much as the sin of one man can do, as was noted before. Like as Achan did by his Sacrilege: yea, if it be but in flying for fear, from his office enjoined by the Lord, for the saving of his people, or neglecting it, as jonah: for whose sin the storm could not be stayed, until he was cast into the Sea. And much more all they who wallowing in their wickedness, do call 
Esay 5.  good evil, and evil good; light darkness, and darkness light. For that these, as they hale on iniquity as with cart-ropes, so they violently draw down the vengeance of God upon all, as much as such sinners can. Either the Waters of the old world, as did the Giants before the Flood, if they be such, or fire & brimstone, as did the filthy Sodomites, if they live in those sins of theirs; as namely, in Pride, fullness of Bread, abundance of Idleness, not regarding to strengthen the hands of the poor. Or finally, if they be but any way Oppressors or Spoilers of God's people and Children, their sins cry for other Oppressors & Spoilers in Gods just vengeance to be sent to oppress and spoil them and theirs, as it came fearfully to pass in the Captivity. And therefore thus haling down vengeance, how can they pray to turn it away.   

The fifth reason hereof to be seriously meditated of.  
FIftly, we are to strive to be thoroughly touched with the right understanding 
5. All excluded who have no compassion of their brethren in their miseries.  & lively feeling hereof, That they who have no mercy nor compassion on their Brethren in their miseries bodily or spiritual, can look for no mercy nor compassion. And much more, they who add affliction to the affliction of them whom God hath wounded, whereas they should afford comfort to them as lively feeling members of the same true mystical body of our Lord jesus Christ: yea all who do but stand on the other side in the day of their brethren's miseries, and do not at least with faithful Abraham, pray earnestly for them, as he for them of Sodom. Yea, which is more dreadful, if they do not to the uttermost of their power, as God calls them, and offers them opportunity and 
If they do not adventure themselves▪ for their brethren  means) adventure themselves for their Brethren carried away captives, to the dishonour of the Lord, and the shame of his whole Church and Gospel, they can look for no commiseration, no not in their own extremest calamities; though they howl upon their beds in the fear or feeling of their miseries; or roar and tumble as wild Bulls taken in nets; much less can they hope to be admitted to this holy work thus to help the Lord, before they have been truly humbled for this sin, and have brought their hearts to such a lively sense and feeling of the miseries of their Brethren, as that their bowels can earn over them for the same.   

The sixth Reason to be rightly considered of.  
Sixthly, we are seriously to 
●…. Reason.  think hereof, and not to rest before we have brought 
6. None can be right helpers but only those who can more lay to heart the causes of God and his people, than their own.  our hearts to a right consideration of it, That none but only those who can so lay to heart the dishonours done unto his Majesty, in the blaspheming of his great and glorious name; the trampling under foot his Gospel and people, as that they can at least unfeignedly desire and labour to be more troubled for the same, and more humbled in themselves for them, then for any private evil that can betide themselves or friends, can possibly be meet for this work. For that if we do not so highly esteem and prefer his glory and Gospel, as that in regard thereof, we can even neglect and despise ourselves we do exceedingly dishonour and despise him, and therefore must look to be despised of him, and so have all our prayers, and all service in this behalf until that time utterly rejected.   

The senenth reason to be seriously Meditated of, That none can be admitted, who will not cest away their sin, though as dear as their right eye. 
None m●…ete but they who endeavour to turn from every evil way.   
THis is above all (though touched in part before) to be deeply and duly pondered, to bring our hearts to a true believing and feeling of it: that not any but such as now hearken to his loud cry to repent and turn from all their evil ways, even in every particular can be meet for this, though their sin be as dear unto them as their right eye, if they love i●… more than the Lord jesus, they cannot be worthy of him. 
Mat. 5. 29.  Therefore sith God hath threatened all such, that they must be cast into hell fire, and so perish eternally from his presence; how can they ever imagine to be admitted to this work, seeing they cannot stand before him. Or if 
And to receive the love of every part of God's truth. 2. Thess. 2. 10.  they be such as have not, no●… yet will receive the love of the truth, so as to obey it in what they know, that they may be saved; or such as when 
Rom. 1. 21.  they know God, they will not set themselves to glorify him as God; but contrarily will more and more dishonour him by going on obstinately in their sins; or such as have 
Ezek. 14. 3.  set up any stumbling block of their own wicked imagination to worship it; how can they think to be helpers herein unto the Lord for all others. 
Though they flatter themselves God will not be merciful to them. Deut. 29. 19   
Howsoever they flatter themselves that they shall do well enough, though they live in that sin for a time, or at least a little, and that they shall have peace, that God will be merciful unto them, notwithstanding all that he hath denounced to the contrary: yet the Lord hath told 
Deut. 19 20.  us plainly, that he will not be merciful to any such but will make his wrath smoke against then, until they be consumed. He hath declared 
But will give them up to be deluded. 2. Thess. 2. 11.  to all the world, that such shall be either given up to be strongly deluded by Antichrist, or by some other like delusion; that they shall be 
And in the end to a reprobate sense. Rom. 1. 28.  given up in the end to a reprobate sense▪ as he gave up the very Gentiles for abusing but the light of Nature; yea 
Ezek. 14. 14. That Gods own Prophets shall help to deceive such.  that Gods own Prophets shall help to deceive such, to soothe them in their evil way; answering them according to their own evil heart. That thus the stumbling block which any one hath set up to worship, and wherein he hath preferred the obeying & serving of his own lusts before his obeying & serving of the Lord jesus, shall be his ruin and destruction. And therefore no such man so long as he continueth obstinately in his sin can hope to be admitted, or to have any hand or part in this holy work.   

The eighth reason hereof, That but inclining to any fin, God will not hear us.  
ANd more than all this to awake our consciences yet more fully, the Lord 
john. 9 31.  would have us further to think of this deeply, that he which inclineth to any wickedness in his heart; but to any one sin, desiring to have his 
Prov. 28. 9  corrupt lust satisfied in it, contrary to the light of his conscience, his prayer even for that is a bhominable, so 
Psal. 66. 18.  that God will not hear him, as David professeth of himself.   

The ninth reason hereof to be ever in our hearts, That whosoever is not with our Saviour is against him.  
TO shut up all briefly, 
None but they who in all things endeavour to be with our Saviour are true disciples  this is never to be out of our hearts. That whosoever is not with our Saviour, is against him; whosoever indeavoureth not to be so with him, so to follow and help 
Mat. 12. 30  him, as a true Disciple and soldier, to be furnished with every of the former qualities; to be armed with every part of the complete Armour of a Christiain; to be in all things such a one as he hath so prescribed; yea, who will not bind & set himself constantly to keep his watch, but sometimes give liberty to his own evil heart, he cannot have any true hope to be admitted to this work, but in 
Our danger in approaching near to our God with out a warrant. 2 Sam. 6, 7.  pressing in, to help without a warrant, as Vzzah did to stay the Arke-tottering, is in danger of God's heavy displeasure, and to have his prayer turned into sin. That it shall so come to pass unto him, as unto those who would go to 
Numb. 24, 40, 41, etc. Deut. 1, 41, 45.  fight without the Lord. He may look for a curse in stead of a blessing, & to have the Lords hand stretched out against him, to fall and fly before his enemies. Till this time, every such a one may be afraid of 
Exod. 19, 24.  coming near the Mountain, of putting his hand to the Ark; of rushing into the battle without Armour, & may look to speed as he that came to the marriage, without his 
Math: 22, 11, 12, 13.  wedding Garment.    

The second particular Meditation of this sixth general, Who may with hope and confidence offer themselves.  
NOW upon all these and the like grounds, we are to labour yet further to bring our hearts to a right understanding, and a more thorough apprehension of that second general Meditation, together with this which followeth: 
Only they who are so qualified as the Lord requires, are the men whom he calls.  to wit, That those and they alone who are so qualified, and every way so fitted as are before described, are the men whom indeed the Lord at this day looks for: and which can say with the Prophet Esay, 
Esay 6, 8.  Lord here I am, admit me for one of those whose help thou wilt accept. For Lord, thou knowest, that to my poor power, and that measure of grace which thou hast vouchsafed me, I have in all things unfeignedly desired to be prepared and fitted to help thee and thy poor Church. Accept of my feeble desires, and supply that which is wanting. Thy grace is sufficient for me. 
●…. Cor. 1●…, 9  Thy power is seen in the greatest weakness. Lord thou that seest all hearts, hast tried my heart and my ●…eynes, how unseignedly I have sought thee herein, contending to walk before thee, and as in thy presence continually, and to be kept undefiled, from whatsoever might any way offend thy most holy eyes. Though I be weak and unworthy, and have had exceeding many slips, wants, and failings, yet for the worthyness of thy Christ, admit of those (though so feeble) desires which thou hast vouchsafed me. Give me my press-money, the earnest and seal of thy holy Spirit. My heart is prepared to do thee the faithfullest service that ever thou shalt enable me. Lord, by such poor weak Wretches, and at their prayers, thou hast been wont to get thyself the victory, that no flesh should rejoice in thy presence, but that all glory, honour, and praise may be given to thee alone for evermore.  

Reasons to be seriously weighed; that only such can look, or hope to have acceptance here.  
1. THat these only are in a true League & Covenant with God; and thereupon 
These only in a true league with God. Deut. 16, 17, 18, 19  are such as his heavenly Majesty doth not disdain to call his Friends, as Abraham was called the Friend of God. And therefore they (though they be but dust and ashes) may presume through the merit of the Lord jesus to entreat even for filthy Sodom; yea, to importune his heavenly Majesty, and expect to obtain of him, that if there be but ten righteous persons in five wicked cities, he will spare all for ten sake.  
These only are fit men to 
These fit to help to rescue their Brethren from Satan.  help by their prayers, to rescue their Brethren out of the hands of Satan, and of all their cruel enemies, which have carried them away Captives, and who do so insult & triumph over all, and over the Lord himself, as thinking that they have already made a conquest of all. These are the 
To stay the Lords hands. Exod. 32. 20. ●…4.  men, and these alone which can with Moses stay the lords hands, that he should not destroy his people. These are 
To whom he can deny nothing.  they, to whom God can deny nothing. Only these, who having thus put their shoes off their feet▪ are fit with that holy Moses to stand before the Lord▪ to be sent to fetch 
These fit to fetch God's people out of Egypt.  his people their brethren out of Egypt from the Tile-killes, and to pull them out of the midst of the fire.  
These are with Aaron, thorough 
Thesemeet to pacific the Lord and to stand between the living and dead.  the continual intercession of our great Highpriest, meet to help to pacify the Lords displeasure towards the remnant of his people, to stand between the living and the dead. These being supported 
To hold up their hands against Amalek.  by Aaron and Hur can hold up their hands, till God have got himself a glorious victory against Amalek.  
These, and these alone, are 
To make all creatures to be for his people until he have got himself the victory.  able with josuah to cause the Sun to stand still (so far as the Lord shall see it best for his own glory) until he shall be avenged of all his enemies; and therefore much more may they be confident in matters of less moment. For, what cannot the prayer of Faith 
Heb. 11.  bring to pass? These men are able with Eliah, to move the Lord (so far as in his divine wisdom he shall see it best) 
1. King. 18, 38, 39  to send fire from Heaven to consume their Sacrifices, and to make known to all, that he hath accepted them. And moreover to move the Lord, 
To move the Lord to manifest the truth of his religion.  to manifest to all the World (and that as clearly as if he spoke from Heaven) who is the Lord, which is his true religion, and which the false: 
1. King. 18, 36, 37, 38, 39 Dan 3, & 6.  who they are that are the true children of jesus Christ, and who they are of the otherside that are the Servants of Satan and Antichrist: who are with him, who against him.  
These are they▪ who with Mordokey and Hester, and the rest of the faithful amongst 
To reverse Hamans' dedecree.  the jews, are able to obtain the reversing of that most bloody decree procured by wicked Haman against God's 
Hest. 8, 5, 6.  people, although it be to do all the decrees of the Medes & Persians, such as to man seemeth impossible ever to be 
Hest. 7, 8.  reversed; and to cause Haman to be hanged upon his own Gallows. To turn the plot devised against God's people to their joyfullest day, a day to be remembered for ever; a day of shame and confusion 
Hest. 8, 18.  to all God's enemies.  
These are they whose prayers 
The prayers of these ever come up before the Lord and they may surely expect an answer in his due time. Acts. 10, 10, 11, 12, &c, 30. Dan. 9, 20, 23, 24.  come up before the Lord, as the prayers of holy Daniel, Cornelius, and Peter, and who may look for an answer from heaven at the evening Sacrifice, above all that they can imagine; even by the ministry of God's blessed Angels so far as shall be best. 
These may hope with Paul to save themselves and all in the ship.   
These are they that in the greatest perils of the Church, may hope through their prayers, with holy Paul to save 
Acts. 27, 24.  themselves and all in the Ship with them, in such sort as the heavenly Wisdom shall see it best, that at least they may swim out, though for not harkening unto the Lord in time, they may all first suffer shipwreck, and be 〈◊〉 into the Sea.  
These are they, with whom 
With these will Christ jesus be in the fiery Furnace, and the Lion's den.  at their cries, our Lord jesus will be, as he was with those three Worthies of the Captivity, in the midst of the hot fiery Furnace, and in the very 
Dan. 3, 24, 25. Dan. 6. 22, 23.  Lion's den with holy Daniel, to stop the mouths of those hunger-bitten Lions, that the least hurt shall not come unto them, more than shall be for his eternal glory, with the 
And in their greatest trials make their innocency, & his religion known. Dan. 3, 29, 30, 31, etc. Dan. 4, 33, 34 Dan, 6, 22, 23.  greater good of his Church & People; and by whose trials our blessed God and tender Father, hath made known the truth of his Religion, and of his causes, with the innocence of his people, to Kings, Princes and Rulers, and to cause it by them to be published, as it were to the world, like as he did when it was commanded by them to be spread and divulged in all the Dominions of the mighty Monarches, and so from them to go to all other Nations with whom any of them had any traffic or familiarity. And by whom he hath been wont to effect & accomplish his own glorious works as he hath foretold, above all that any of his own dearest Servants could ever imagine, o●… could have been persuaded of by any humane reason, that they could ever have been brought to pass.  
And thus much for this general 
Conclusion of this general Meditation.  Meditation; viz: who they be that exclude themselves; and also who they are, and who alone, that can ever 
Who meet.  look to be committed as approved of the Lord for this blessed and glorious work. And how we must strive to 
How we must strives hereto.  pass thorough all the difficulties, before we can approach with any true confidence and assurance to put our hand hereto, and much more so as to be able to prevail with our God to be made as his Israel: and what confident boldness we may have herein; 
And what confident boldness we may then have.  for that if we be such as these, our God is still the same, he is not changed, neither is there with him any variableness 
jam. 1, 7.  or shadowing by turning.     

The seventh general Meditation.  
That the Lord notwithstanding graciously calls all sorts to be his helpers herein, and therefore every one who will not strive to be of this number, and come to be on his side must perish, and doth justly bring upon himself swift damnation.  
IN this seventh place, the 
The blessed estate and honour of all admitted to this work and contrarily.  Lord would have us seriously to lay to heart out of all these Meditations, the blessed estate and honour of them, who are called and admitted to this great employment; and of the contrary, the miserable and woeful condition of all who any way exclude themselves; yea of all who do not seek to help herein. And withal, how notwithstanding all these things, the Lord excludes none, save only 
God excludes none but who exclude themselves. But calls all.  those who (as was said) exclude themselves; but that he calls to all, and would have all to address themselves, and to be meet and ready to assist & join with him herein▪ and that therefore all those who will not do their uttermost endeavour to prepare and fit themselves, are justly 
That all are justly damned who come not to help.  damned even for this, for refusing to come to help him and his poor people in their distress, when he so calls on them to come; and for joining with Satan and Antichrist his sworn enemy, even against his heavenly Majesty. To make it plain to every soul, that he calls every one hereunto, ●…ach is to consider well these reasons following.  
That he calls all to every 
Some reasons showing that he calls all to help if ever they will see his face with joy.  one of these duties mentioned, in all these Meditations before, and especially to these which now follow.  
1. That he calls all to be 
He calls all to be with him.  on his part in the earth, that ever will be with him in glory. 
He calls all to regard him in his members.   
2. That he calls all to regard him in his poor members to the end of the world, 
Mat. 25.  as when he is hungry to feed him, etc. To show mercy, if ever they will find mercy.  
3. He calls all to repentance, 
To repent & turn from all their evil ways that they may live  every one to turn from his evil way in every kind, and much more from all those notorious abominations, which brought the wrath of God upon judah, and upon other impenitent sinners in former Ages. and for which he denounceth his vengeance; and likewise he calleth all to awake forth of all their security wherein they sleep; if ever they hope to scape his heavy indignation, & so to meet him with entreaty of peace, that they may be fit to help to stand in the breach. That he calls to this end, even Publicans, Harlots, Scorners of all sorts; he stretcheth out his hands, to gainsayers and 
Rom. 10. 20. 21.  rebels, yea to the most notorious sinners that live upon the earth, thus protesting to every particular soul. As I 
Ezek▪ 18. 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, etc. 33, 11. The Lord's protestation.  live I delight not in the death of a sinnor, but rather that he repent and live.  
4. He calls all to walk 
He calls all to his Covenant. Leu. 26. Deut. 28.  humbly in his Covenant, that he may perform all hts promises unto them, and turn away all his heavy denuntiations. Of which Covenant these are the very principal parts, to love him above all, and our neighbour as 〈◊〉 self.  
3. He calls every one so 
He calls all to pray as he hath directed  to pray as he hath directed and commanded, and that for all his own causes chiefly, as namely, the causes which concern his glory, kingdom, and people; and therefore every one should labour to be such a one as can so pray, whereby he makes it manifest to all, that he 〈◊〉 none at all, but would have all learn so to pray and to be fitted thereunto.  
6. That every general 
God calls all to lay hold of all the promises of mercy.  promise of mercy in all the book of God calls us hereto: as the promises of forgetting our sins, and not remembering our iniquities any more and this without limitation 
Without limitation of time. Ezek. 18. 21. 22. Psal. 95, 7.  of time, but at what time soever it be, that a sinner converts, or without any exceptiof any sin (save only of that unpardonable sin, the malicious 
Or exception of sin. Ezek. ●…8.  oppugning, & persecuting of all the known truth 
Esay. 55. 3. Or person. Numb. 21. 8. 9  of God) and without exception of any person; and bids all but hearken, and their soul 
john. 3. 14. 15. 18.  shall live; if they can but see the brazen Serpent, believe in our Saviour, hunger, thirst, and cry after him.  
7. So doth every example 
And calls all to behold all the examples in his book of receiving poor sinners Luk. 15. 10.  of God's mercy in receiving repentant sinners, as of Manasses, Saul, Mary Magdalen, the repentant Thief upon the Cross; the joy that is in heaven for the conversion of a poor sinner; the high favour 
The favour such are in upon their repentance. Luke. 7. 47.  that upon their unfeigned repentance such poor wretches may know themselves to be in with God. 
Never any such a one rejected. Rom. 5. 20.  That where sin hath abounded, there grace abounds much more: and never any so coming rejected.  

Three more special Meditations to this end. That the wise consideration of them may never go forth of our hearts until we be of this number.  
ABove all the former, the 
Three things to be thought of ever until we be of this number.  Lord would have every poor soul to meditate most seriously, and in their most secret thoughts, of these three things following, that the wise consideration of them may never be from before their eyes, nor the sound of them out of their ears, until they be of this number.  

The first Meditation to this end to be seriously pondered That our Lord jesus stands continually at the heart of every impenitent sinner to enter in.  
1 HOw our Lord jesus 
That the Lord hath ever stood & still stands knocking at the heart of every impenitent sinner.  Christ, hath stood at the door of their hearts all the days of their life, calling them to repentance, to know, fear, love, obey, & believe in him; and that by the loud voice, both of every one of his Creatures, of his mercies, and judgements. And more specially, at the hearts of all 
Chiefly of all in his Church.  in his Church by his heavenly word, which he hath sent unto them; by all the admonitions, 
By his word▪  exhortations, reproofs, threatenings, promises, & the like; that ever he hath vouchsafed unto them by the ministry of his Servants, grounded upon the same word, and also 
And Sacraments.  by the holy Sacraments, as namely by their Baptism, by 
As Baptism.  which he hath been still teaching and calling upon them even from their cradles, to believe in him and to serve him only, according to his blessed Commandment: to fight under his banner, for that they are such as he hath Redeemed with a great price 
And the Lords supper  and are not their own: and also by the holy Communion of his body and blood; wherein as our Saviour gives, or at least offers himself wholly to them, so they give again themselves wholly unto 
And by the good motions of his Spirit.  him. And not only so, but by the good motions of his blessed Spirit, and that so oft as they have felt in themselves holy purposes of amendment and turning unto the Lord. 
And now at this time louder than ever.   
How now at this very time he still stands & knocks louder and louder than ever heretofore, by all the tokens 
By all the tokens of his displeasure.  of his heavy displeasure against the several Churches; & 
Rage of the enemy.  all the rage and malice, which is against the whole true Church of Christ; yea, against every soul professing his name sincerely as they ought. And so by every of those special 
Our favours.  favours which we enjoy, or which we hereafter look for from him; and even by this very help, and all others 
This help.  which he offers unto us for our right and unfeigned meeting him, before his wrath be wholly powered out upon us, and for our true humiliation under his hand, and stooping to him in all things.  

More particularly. 
More particularly.   
THat he stands at thy 
●…e stands at the heart of every one reading this or the like admonition.  heart whosoever thou art, that readest or hearest this or the like admonition, crying unto thee that thou wouldst now repent unfeignedly of each thy fearful sins, & namely of thy hardness of heart and impenitency 
That they would repent of their impenitency.  in them, whereby thou hast so long kept out thy Lord and Saviour, and only made thy heart an habitation for Satan, and as a den of Dragons. And that thou 
To have their souls cleansed.  wouldst seek now to have thy soul & conscience wholly cleansed and purged in the blood of the Lamb, and to wash the feet of thy dear Saviour with Mary Magdalen, by the tears of thy unfeigned sorrow, for all thy former unkindness, and for thy ungraciousness, in keeping 
Chiefly of ungraciousness in keeping out the Lord jesus.  out thy Lord and Saviour so long; giving unto Satan the whole possession of thy heart, and so the very chief rooms thereof, & not vouchsafing unto Christ jesus so much as entertainment within thy threshold. Then will he 
Christ will come to such a one. Rev. 3. 20.  come in to thee, how unworthy soever thou art, and Sup with thee, and thou with him.  
This shall be the joy fullest day that ever shone upon thee; for he being in thy heart, will by his blessed Spirit not only teach thee thus to pray, but will certainly make thy prayers to pi●…rce the very heavens, and find happy audience at the throne of Grace, chiefly in all these causes which so highly concern his Majesty, his poor Church and people. He will then bring unto thee that joy with him, that goes beyond all the joy of all worldly men, and far beyond that which all things here below can ever bring unto thee: That 
2. Cor. 3. 9  which eye never saw, nor ear heard, nor entered into man's heart to consider of. Yea, that which shall never be taken away from thee, but be a continual feast for evermore.  
And contrarily, if yet thou wilt not hearken unto him, but 
And contrarily to them who harden their hearts against Christ jesus.  still harden thy heart against him, the time shall come, that every call of his which ever thou heardest before, and hast 
The sound of his calls shall ever be in their ears affrighting them.  contemned, shall sound so shrill in thy ears, when it will be too late, as thou shalt have it affrighting thee perpetually. That thou never shalt have rest day nor night, for the dreadful noise of these many calls, because thou wouldst not hearken in time, but didst put off the day of thy repentance; and so of harkening to his sweet voice of mercy, thus calling thee stilto be partakers of his mercy, and even of this high favour, and now at day in these dangers of the Church in a special manner above all other.  
Wherefore let the counsel 
Exhortation to all to hear now. Dan. 4. 24.  of the holy Ghost be now acceptable unto thee, break off thy sins by repentance: be not as the deaf Adder any 
Psal. 95. 7.  longer; But whilst it is now called to day, hear his voy●…. Contemn it not now; little knowest thou, whether ever thou shalt hear it any more thus in mercy, but only in wrath and vengeance for despising his long suffering, and all the riches of his compassion.    

The second Meditation, To think what it is for a man to forsake his own happiness▪ in refusing Christ's gracious call, and to join with Satan against him, to his endless perdition.  
SEcondly, the Lord calls 
To think what it is to refuse Christ's call, to join with Satan and the damned.  loud to every soul to bethink him seriously in time, what it is for a man, not only to refuse and contemn the gracious call and service of our Lord jesus Christ, yea all his favours, all his sweet promises and mercies concerning both this and a better life; all the glory and happiness of the Celestial Canaan, the heavenly jerusalem, where is fullness of joy in the presence of the Lamb and at the right hand of our heavenly Father, pleasures for evermore; but of the contrary, to choose to join himself with Satan and with all the damned, to serve under him against our Lord and Saviour. 
Such to bethink themselves what they will do when Christ comes.   
Likewise to think aforehand what such a men will do, when he must appear before his glorious Majesty, when all the greatest & proudest of the earth, that have so set themselves against him, shall cry to the Hills & Mountains to fall upon them and cover them from the presence of the Lamb: so terrible shall his very presence be unto them then (though a Lamb to all believers who 
Apoc. 14, 4.  have here followed him in true obedience, & to all who yet shall hearken to his voice) yea, so dreadful shall it be, when whatsoever torment 
When all threatened against them shall be fully executed.  and misery is denounced against them in the book of God, to be inflicted upon them hereafter, shall be most certainly, and fully executed, in that lake burning with fire and brimstone.  
For the unfallible truth and 
For the evidence hereof  undoubted certainty hereof, the Lord calls every soul always 
To behold the fearful spectacles.  to behold with the eyes of their minds, not only those fearful spectacles mentioned 
Of men tormented with horror of conscience in the Scriptures.  in his word, of that woeful horror of conscience, which hath so surprised and overwhelmed so many of the wicked, whom God hath left for ensamples to all posterity, even for their malicious wickedness, though but against some one of his Servants, as namely, in Cain, Saul, Achitophel, judas, and others; when they did but only consider the wrath of the Lord, and his vengeance due unto them, and which would overtake them, or felt it beginning to seize upon them for this sin; but moreover he 
In daily examples.  calls them to think aright of the continual examples that he daily seateth before their faces in the miseries of so many of his dearest Children.  
How they are tormented 
How they are tormented in conscience for particular slips or failings.  when their consciences are awakened with a right apprehension and fear of the wrath of the Lord for their sins, wherein they have served Satan; though not taking part against his Majesty and Children; no nor so much▪ as in forsaking him, or them, or any his causes; but only for some particular sl●…ps, failings and infirmities, as either for some spiritual pride, or timorousness in fearing men more than God; and thereupon omitting some necessary confession, or other good duty; or for doing some small thing against their conscience; or for some unbelief, in not being able to rest upon the Lord his love and care in the failing of outward means, as it was with Moses at the waters of strif●…; or for spiritual security, for decaying in their first love, neglecting the conscionable use of means of grace and salvation, or the like.  
How even these, I say, 
How these 〈◊〉 endure the flashings of hell fire.  when their consciences are throughly awaked, do endure, as it were, the very slashing of hell fire; and this so dreadfully, as their miseries astonish all that behold them, and that they themselves do account all outward tortures nothing in regard thereof: so that many a time with holy job, they wish an end were 
job. 7. 15.  made of them; being oft ready through Satan's malice, to lay violent hands upon themselves. Also for that they endure this so long, as that God's hand pursues some of them, throughout their whole life: that they are usually uncapable of any comfort (though the same be sent by a messenger of God even one of a thousand) except it be a little before their death, wherein the Lord commonly vouchsafeth unto them much heavenly assurance and consolation.  
And if it be so with these 
If it be so with these here.  here, while yet the day of salvation remains, and the accepted time, and also whilst they have the most excellent means to comfort them, yea, though they be such as have felt formerly the assurance of God's love & favour in Christ, and many lively▪ evidences thereof; & which is the chiefest 
Though they be most dear unto the Lord.  of all, though they▪ be such as are dear and precious unto the Lord, and who have his holy Spirit for their earnest, (albeit only for a time they want the sense & feeling of it, as it hath been in many a soul in our memory, and is at this day: whereupon they have been, & are so usually prayed for in many of our best Congregations, from whence they look for some help & comfort by the prayers of God's people:) if I say it be so with them, what can 
What shall become of all impenitent sinners.  we think shall become of the ungodly and impenitent sinners; & especially, of those 
And chiefly of all Christ's enemies▪  enemies of Christ and his Servants▪ when their consciences shall be throughly awaked, and much more after this life, when their case in regard of any comfort, shall be contrary to the estate of these poor Servants of the Lord. If the 
1. Peter. 4. 18. 19 If the righteous be scarcely saved how they.  righteous shall scarcely be saved (as Peter speaketh, and as we see how hardly it goes with these last mentioned) where shall the wicked and ungodly appear? If the pain 
If pain of a tooth be so great, what shall their total torment be.  of one tooth (alone) be oft so extreme, that it permits no sleep nor rest day nor night, when we have all kind of other comforts to mitigate and ease it, what can we think the torments of all the parts both of soul and body must needs be, in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone for ever, where the very hope of all other comforts shall be utterly taken away, which notwithstanding we are certainly assured must come upon all impenitent and ungodly sinners, because the word of the Lord doth tell us so most plainly, and so oft warns us of it. The Lord calls from heaven continually upon all who do not repent them of their sins, & come to help him, to think seriously hereof, as which alone shall be 
These sufficient to convince all.  sufficiently able to convince and condemme all that ever have heard the holy Scriptures, or but these fearful examples alone.   

The third Meditation, How God herein sets before us all, life and death, blessing and cursing.  
FInally, we are to bethink 
Deut. 30. 19 20. How God sets before us life and death, blessing & cursing.  ourselves, in our deepest and best Meditations, how the Lord here sets before every soul, life and death, blessing and cursing. Life if we will but now set ourselves 
Life if we will hearken to his call.  seriously with all our hearts to seek to pass all these difficulties; never giving rest to our souls, until by our Meditations and prayers, and the right use of all other holy means, which in his word he hath prescribed us, we have attained so to believe, and so to obey, yea in all things so to do as he requireth at our hands, that we may be fit to help him and his poor Church. Then we shall have boldness whatsoever come 
That we shall not need to fear  to pass; we shall not need to fear, though all our enemies were so many Devils; we 
Nor be dismayed for losing all. Mat. 19 27. Mat. 10. 37. 38. Luke. 14. 26. But contrarily have boldness. Prov. 28. 1. Rom. 8, 35. 36.  shall not be dismayed, for the adventuring and losing of all, Houses, Goods, Friends, Parents, Children, no nor Life itself: but contrarily, in the midst of death, we shall be bold and courageous as Lions for our Lord and Saviour, knowing that nothing 
Rom. 8. 35. 36.  can separate us from God's favour; and in the loss of all, we shall gain all, be in all, even in the midst of 
Be more than conquerors. Ron. ●…, 37.  death more than Conquerors, thorough him who hath so loved us, and hath given himself for us, and shall with him triumph over all our enemies eternally▪  
Death and cursing he likewise 
Death and cursing in not yielding to him.  sets before us, & threateneth them unto us undoubtedly, without unfeigned repentance, 
Deut. 30. 19 20.  whereof we can have little hope, if he now calling upon us thus earnestly to help him, by the offer of so many mercies, and such blessedness on the one side, we will not show our true obedience and uttermost endeavour thereunto; and if he denouncing so many miseries on the other side; we still refuse to hearken, living securely and do not regard this gracious 
Our estate when fear▪ shall come on ●…s of a sudden. Prou: 1, 27. Prou: 28, 1. job 15, 20, 21, 22. Deut: 28, 63, etc.  offer of mercy. That when our fear shall come upon us like a whirlwind, we shall fly at the shaking of a sword, even at the very report of our enemies prevailing, & much more of their approaching so near unto us. Our hearts shall be then as Nabals, 
1 Sam: 25, 37, 38.  as dead as a stone, and so we shall live in a perpetual expectation of the just wrath and vengeance of God, to seize upon us everlastingly, so that we can never expect any comfort after.  
Yea, withal we are wisely 
God bids us choose life. Deu: 30, 25. 20  and deeply to meditate hereof, how he bids us to choose life, that we and ours may live, by loving him, obeying his voice, & cleaving fast unto him, because he is our life, and the length of our days. And also how he bidding us, will also thereby give us strength to do it, so far as we shall be accepted. If we but believe his blessed Commandment, and his Covenant of grace, shall set ourselves in the name, and by the power of our Lord jesus Christ to do what we can, in and by the use of all the means which he hath ordained, for obtaining this strength and grace so to help him: and if we will be as earnest▪ as vigilant and industrious for attaining of this honour, as we would be for the attaining of any earthly honour or riches.  
For we cannot think, that ever any man who sought this after this manner was rejected, 
We cannot think that any one was ever rejected who sought life as they ought.  to wit, if he sought it as for treasure, that is early, earnestly, and constantly. And therefore all who will not thus set themselves to obey & help the Lord, have their mouths for ever most justly stopped, being left altogether without excuse.  
And thus much also for 
How we may all be prepared in some good measure to help the Lord & his Church.  this last general Meditation, and how we may in all things be in some good measure rightly and fitly prepared to help in instant and powerful prayer for the poor Churches of Christ, according to all whereunto the Lord now calls us, thereby to have good hope to prevail with him. To wit, when we shall find our hearts so affected towards his heavenly Majesty, as to prefer him, his glory & causes before ourselves, so truly showing that we love him with all our heart, soul, strength, and might, and our neighbour as ourself, as he commandeth; being so affected likewise towards them, and doing so to them, as we would have them do to us, if we were in their estate and case.  
All which, we must every one strive unto, or perish; if 
All must perish if they but stand on the other side Obed. 10. 11.  we but only as we saw before, stand on the other side in the day of our brethren's affliction: and much more, if we will not be moved by any one means, nor all the means together, whereby the Lord calls us, 
judg. 5. 23.  thus to come to help him; now I say that he, even our Lord and Saviour proclaims to all our consciences, before all the world, that he stands in such need of our help, and so expects it hourly at our hands.  
And this may suffice to 
Conclusion, to be thoroughly laid to heart, to put some more life into every soul, & to each of these meditations.  prepare us all, to this happy work of true humiliation, and of instant prayer for the Churches: only let me put you in mind, that our Lord jesus Christ, to the end that he may yet put some more life into all these Meditations, and quicken us in our crying to him according to all the prayers following; he calls upon us all, to have this specially ever in our hearts; and his voice in it sounding incess●…tly in our ears; which was in part touched before. That as the Spirit, and the 
How all the distressed Parts of God's Church cry to us to come and help them.  Bride, do call to our blessed Saviour to come; so first, all the distressed Churches; yea, all the members of Christ, and all the elect of God, which are under the power of Satan, or of any cruel Tyrants, or under other miseries, do call and cry to every one 
Acts. 16. 9, 10.  of us, as the man of Macedonia did to Paul, come & help us. Come help us by your prayers, help us by your tears.  
And secondly, as the Angel 
And all accursed who come not. judg. 5. 23.  of the Lord said, Curse ye Meroz, because he came not to help the Lord; so now he saith, Curse ye all and every one of them, who come not to help our Lord jesus Christ; who come not to help him in his poor members. And tell every one who will not set himself at least in the full purpose of his heart to come; that he hath no 
Excluded from the priv●…idges of God●… people.  part in that heavenly prayer of our blessed Saviour; nor of the glorious privileges and promises contained in it; that he hath no part or portion in the Brotherhood, Inheritance, Glory, Kingdom, Rewards, Promises of this and the better life, Remission of sins, Deliverance from Satan, & from the evils which he seeks to bring on all▪ that he can have no comfort in that everlasting & everliving Amen; to whom all Kingdom▪ Power, and Glory, do only appertain; but that he is contrarily stripped of each of these, and that our Lord jesus is coming quickly in 
How Christ is coming to reward every one according to his works▪  all Majesty and Glory, to give to every one according to his works; to all that come, the happiness of all these blessings; to all now refusing to come when he calls, the misery of all contrary curses.  
Wherefore he saith to all 
How our Saviour calls to all to come, notwithstanding all objections of unfitness.  Come. Come every one, thou though be in thy filth & loathsome rags, & all Leprous, worthy to be thrust out of the camp of Israel▪ & excluded for evermore, yet come; strip off those rags by repen●…ance; wash in the fountain of my blood, which is opened to all the house of Israel, and be thou clean. Put on the garment 
Eph. 6. 13.  of the righteousness of thy Saviour, and be glorious; put on all the complete Arm our of my Spirit, in the full resolution of thy soul & be valiant, & come & help me.  
Though thou have no strength but mere desires, yet come, and thou shalt be accepted; I will not quench the smoking flax, therefore come. Though thy desires be never so weak, yet come; my power shall be manifested and perfected in thy weakness. Therefore come, yea, though thou have no grace at all, yet come; he tells thee from heaven, his Grace is, and shall be sufficient for thee. And finally, though thou have no faith to apprehend this Grace of his, but art full of unbelief, yet ever remember him that said, I believe Lord, Lord help my unbelief, and how he sped, and then thou wilt come. Yea, though thou get others to carry thee, thou wilt certainly do it, if thou canst but 
Mar. 2. 3. Luke, ●…. 18.  set before thy face, the Palsy-man, thou wilt be glad th●…s to come.  
Finally, be think thyself, if ever thou canst name but one, who thus desired to come to our Saviour, in the uprightness of his heart, neglecting no means thereunto, who was rejected of him; but contrarily, how every one so coming hath been graciously accepted and embraced of him: as the Prodigal Son was of his Father; and then try, whether his blessed Spirit will not give thee David's 
Psal. 27. 8. Psal. 40. 8. Zac. 13. 9  Echo to answer to him in thy soul, Lord I come, I come, I come to do thy will; Thy will is within my heart. Accept the work of thine ownegrace, Amen, enen so Lord jesus, I come, I come.      

Prayers according to our Saviour's direction, chiefly for maintaining and advancing of his glory and kingdom, against the r●…ge of Satan and Antichrist, and for helping his poor distressed Churches, with all the members of jesus Christ, scattered over the face of the whole earth; and that the whole number of Gods elect may be speedily gathered forth.  

I. A prayer for our preparation, that we may be made meet to be admitted, and may be accepted as helpers, in this so great a work.  
AH Lord, our most 
To pray.  gracious and tender Father in Christ jesus, we thy unworthy children here prostrate, beholding how thy heavenly 
That beholding the evils against the Lord & his people.  Majesty is fought against, thy honour trampled under foot, thy kingdom & people sought to be destroyed out of the earth, and that by Satan & Antichrist, & other thy cruel enemies; who carrying a mortal hate against thee, and against thy Son jesus Christ, and so against thy Gospel, and people for thy cause alone, do seek that they alone may reign over us, and over all the world in thy place; & seeing also how 
The prevailing of the enemy.  thou hast suffered them fearfully to prevail, and still to proceed because of our sins, and the sins of all other that profess thy name; and 
And hearing the Lord calling as to h●…lpe him.  hearing withal, how thou now callest us all who are thine, and in any favour with thy Majesty, to help thee, and the rest of our Brethren and Sisters, thy poor children, in these their extreme miseries, by our prayers and tears, do humbly entreat 
We may be prepared & be admitted to this service.  thee, so to prepare and fit us, that through our Lord and Saviour, we may be accounted meet to be admitted to this so great a service.  
Lord open our blind eyes, 
To pray to be rightly touched and affected with all these things.  that we may have a right view of all these things; open likewise our dease ears, that we may hear thee calling us unto this duty; and touch our dead hearts, that they may be truly affected herewith: enable us, that thus seeing, hearing, and ceiling, we may cry 
That we may be able to cry uncessantly, until the Lord shall show himself from heaven for his great name, kingdom, and people.  unto thee uncessantly, until thou shalt show thyself from heaven to come down▪ maintain, and defend thine own causes and children to rescue all thine every where both from that bodily and spiritual tyranny, and from all other dreadful miseries, under which they groan; and so to judge between them, & between thine and their enemies, and to get thyself a glorious name and victory in thy due time, to thine own everlasting praise and glory.  
Oh dear Father, persuade 
To be persuaded how the Lord seeks out a man.  our hearts effectually, how now at this very day, in these fearful times and extremities of thy poor Church (as thou hast been wont in all former Ages) thou seekest out a man, that may stand in the breach, and how thou lookest for some, that may specially be singled out hereunto; to help thee and thy poor people.  
Vouchsafe (good Lord) 
To strive to be if not that one man, yet as one of gedeon's three-hundred.  that every one of us may strive to be, if not that one man, yet as some one of gedeon's three hundreth. And to this end, that all these holy Meditations following, and the like, may be in our hearts 
To have these meditations in our hearts.  continually. That we may never rest until, hereby we may know assuredly, that thou hast called us hereunto: that thou acceptest us and our service; and that we may never give thee over, until we see the deliverance and felicity of thy Zion. Grant, that so many of us as unfeignedly desire to be with thy Majesty, may never give any rest unto thee, nor unto our own souls, until we find our 
To be so qualified as Christ requireth in his prayer.  selves so qualified in all things, as thou requirest of all such, in taking to heart the dishonours done unto thy heavenly Majesty, & the oppositions against thy most glorious Gospel, and also in feeling the necessities of thy Church & people; more specially in considering aright, and sensibly feeling, the miserable estate of all them that are under the spiritual bondage & Captivity of Satan, worse ten thousand times then the Captivity and slavery of the Turk, or under the cruelest Tyrants in all the earth.  
Grant likewise, that we may be such, in all holy faith and obedience, and so frame our prayers, that herein we may thus far prevail with thy holiness, that thou mayest 
That we may prevail that God may raise up some Joseph's or daniel's.  raise up for thy poor Church and Children, in every part of the world, some Joseph's, or some that may be as Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, or Hester, which may obtain favour 
By whom the hearts of all Kings and Princes may be inclined to become nursing Fathers to his Church.  with the Kings and Princes of the earth, and by whom thou mayest prepare and incline the hearts, of all Monarches, Kings, and Princes, that they may all become Nursing-fathers', and Nursing-mothers', to thy religion and people; and that all those of them, who in thy mercy are such already, by the power of thy heavenly Spirit, may be wholly delivered from all the power and delusions of Satan and Antichrist; and daily more and more inflamed with all holy zeal for thy glory and kingdom, and all tender affection towards thy children and chosen flock: as the rage and malice of the Dragon is greater against them, knowing he hath but a short time.  
Vouchsafe (Oh grecious 
That these all considering how God hath set them up.  Father) that these all considering aright, how thou hast set them up, and given them all their dominions, authority and power, chiefly to this end; and the great and dreadful account they must all certainly make for the same, they know not how soon: may forthwith se●… themselves as thy faithful Servants, Moses, josuah, David, jehosaphat, 
May set themselves as all worthy rulers have do●…e, for his glory and kingdom.  Hezekiah, and holy josiah, for thy glorious Majesty, Gospel, and people, only according to thy heavenly word and will.  
Grant (good Lord) that 
That thus his great name may be magnified.  thus thy great name may be magnified, by the powerful coming of thy kingdom in all the world, and by the full accomplishing of all thy heavenly will, and good pleasure, which in thine eternal counsel thou hast decreed, for the speedy gathering forth of all thine elect, and finishing of these days of sin, and so for preparing the way to thy glorious coming.  
Good Lord persuade my 
That every one may be persuaded of the present necessity of this work.  poor heart, and the hearts of every one of thine own faithful people, of the present necessity of this work; because of the danger of the sudden approaching of thy vengeance, ready each hour to rush upon u●…, (like as it hath done upon others which have so professed thy name as we●… do) for all our fearful sins: and above all, for our hai●…ous contempt of thy heavenly Gospel; and that, notwithstanding all thy Fatherly warnings and mercies, we have been worse and worse unto this day. And therefore vouchsafe me this grace, that I may not defer it one day, 
Not to de●…er it one day.  nor hour, but now presently whilst thou my Lord and Saviour dost so graciously call me, and offer me this mercy, I may seek to be every way prepared and fitted for it, like as thou hast so plainly ●…aught me, & so lively se●… it before my face in the heavenly prayer of thine, so as the simplest may read and understand.  
Oh Lord jesus, persuade my heart, that refusing or deferring now to come to help 
To fear the curse upon Meroz. judg. 5.  thee, I cannot escape the curse of Meroz, howsoever I may escape the present and temporal vengeance, at the 
That otherwise escaping the temporal, yet we cannot the eternal vengeance.  instant cries of all other of thy dearest servants and children, yet I can never escape the spiritual and eternal wrath. Open mine eyes that I 
To have our eyes open to see against whom we are to wrestle.  may see, that I am not herein to wrestle against flesh & blood, but against principalities and powers, and the Princes of darkness of this world, which have wrought all these evils chiefly, and do seek the utter destruction of all thy people; and that I am not now 
Not for ourselves only, but for all the Church.  to enter the lists with Satan for myself alone, but for all the Church: that so I may put 
To put on all the complete Armour of God & f●…and fast.  on all thy complete Armour, to quit myself valiantly as one of thy worthies, and ever be careful to look to my watch and stand fast, expecting Satan's extremest rage and fury against me, especially if he get never so little advantage.  
Grant unto me to know 
To know our honour setting ourselves aright to this service, & our safety.  undoubtedly, that being thus armed, and setting myself with all speed and cheerfulness unto this work, to be rightly fitted to help thee in this greatest service; I shall have this high honour to be of their number, of whom thou hast spoken, & to whom thou hast promised. That the innocent shall deliver the land; or at least, that thou wilt be to me a Sanctuary whatsoever come to pass; and though I should neither save Son nor Daughter, yet I shall be sure to save my own soul. Hear me therefore (Oh gracious Father) & all thy poor children, in this our humble suit, and in all other things needful for us, or for any member of thy whole Church, for the Lord jesus Christ, whom thou hast given for our grand Captain, our only Mediator and Advocate,  
Amen.   

II. A prayer for increase of our love to all the Children of the Lord, and for keeping a continual fresh remembrance and feeling of their estate. 
Prayer to be humbled that we have not learned our first les son, to have a true feeling of the estate of our brethren.   
[Our] HVmble us (Oh gracious Father) that whereas thou hast long taught us this, as one of our first lessons in our prayers, to cry [Oh our Father] to keep thereby a continual and ever-fresh remembrance & feeling of the estate and necessities of all thy children, our Brethren and Sisters, wheresoever dispersed and distressed in all the world; and so to bind our hearts together in the bond of love, to rejoice with them that rejoice, & mourn with them that mourn, and in all things to seek the same good unto them, which we do unto ourselves; yet so many of us notwithstanding, do never or very seldom, think of them or of their miseries: and the best of us, have so little true feeling and commiseration of their estate, how woeful soever it be, to cry unto thee for them as we ought, so long as we ourselves are at ease, and in prosperity.  
Good Lord persuade our 
To be persuaded that if we love our heavenly Father, we must needs love his children.  hearts, that if we truly love thee our heavenly Father, we must needs love thy children for thy cause, being as dear and precious unto thee as ourselves are, even all those that appertain to thy eternal election, wheresoever they be in all the earth. Lord jesus 
If we love Christ we must needs love his members.  make us know, that if we unfeignedly love thee, we must of necessity likewise love thy members, even every one of that mystical body whereof thou art the head: and whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, as well as o●…r selves.  
Make us to conceive aright, 
That without this we can never assure our hearts that we are true children & members of Christ.  that without this love, which is the badge of thy Disciples and Children, we can never assure our own hearts, that we are either the true and natural children of our heavenly Father: or lively members of thy mystical body, and thy very Disciples indeed, and that we deceive 
But deceive ourselves.  our own hearts, until we become thus truly affected, at least in the inward longing of our souls, and that we can unfeignedly mourn for the want of the lively feeling hereof. 
To know that their sins are ours in some sort, and so their whole estate.   
Lord cause us to know, that their sins are in some sort, our sins; their miseries, our miseries; as being of the same mystical body of our Lord jesus Christ: that both their sins, their calamities, and their afflictions, may be matter of heaviness & mourning unto us: and their prosperity, both bodily and spiritual, may be our continual rejoicing. 
To have this fellow-feeling of their estate wheresoever they are.   
Cause us to have this fellow-feeling of their estate, wheresoever they be; though amongst the Indians, or in any of the remotest and barbarousest places in all the earth, and much more as thou hast united them unto us by nearer bonds, of profession, place, kindred, and the like: and hast made their estates more known unto us. More specially, make us to have a 
And as they are more nearly 〈◊〉 unto us.  more sensible feeling of the estate of those who are of our own nation and stock, and as they are yet linked unto us by nearer bonds.  
Above all (good Father) 
And above all a●… they are more specially ordained to be nursing Fathers and Mothers to God's Church.  make us to be most loyally, and heartily affected, towards those in all quarters & countries, whom thou hast ordained in thine own place, to be Nursing-fathers' & Nursing-mothers' to thy Church, either presently, or in their due times, to succour and provide for all thy children committed to them, as the faithful Nurse for her tender Babes. And amongst them, for all 
Chiefly who are such already.  those of them, yet in a more special manner▪ whom thou hast already vouchsafed this high favour, to be such unto them▪ and to whom thou hast made known thy heavenly will in this behalf, what thou lookest for at their hands; and 
And bound thereto by most bonds.  whom thou hast bound unto thee by so many bonds of thy heavenly and earthly favours. 
That their hearts may be inclined to all God's Children, chiefly to all committed to their charge.   
Oh grant, that at our instant cries, their hearts may be inclined accordingly towards all thy Children, especially to all those whom thou hast to this end specially committed to their trust, that they may show forth before men and Angels, their tender affection towards all of them, chiefly all those of them, who in all unfeigned study of true holiness and righteousness do most lively 
And that as they more resemble their heavenly Father.  resemble thee their heavenly Father, and most visibly carry upon them▪ the true Image of our Lord jesus Christ. 
To have like affections to the Lord.   
Oh give them like affections, to thy heavenly Majesty in this behalf, that thy people and children may be so 
To give that which is dearest unto them for God's people.  precious unto them, that like as in thy tender love, thou gavest thine own dear Son, and with him all good things also; yea, thine own self for the saving and happiness of thy Church; and namely of all blessed Kings, Princes, and Governors: so they again, may not only be willing to employ all their thoughts and endeavours, but also be ready to spend & offer themselves, and also to be offered up; so to give themselves, and all theirs most willingly for the saving and happiness of thy people.  
Lord persuade their and 
To have all theirs and our hearts persuaded of the happiness hereof, and contrarily.  our hearts, that the lively evidence hereof, will upon our deathbeds (if our consciences shall thoroughly be awaked) and so ever after be more worth unto us, than ten thousand worlds, and the contrary more bitter and dreadful than all the evils of this present life can possibly be unto us. These things we humbly entreat thee to grant for thy Son our Lord jesus Christ his sake, our alone Saviour and Advocate.   

III. A prayer that we may be able to seek and find this first, that God is our gracious and tender Father in Christ, and that we may grow in this assurance daily.  
[Father] OH dear Father, 
To pray to be persuaded, that the assurance that God is our Father, is first to be sought, next his glory.  and most blessed Lord God, persuade all thy people, that this is that which is first to be sought of every one of us next thy glory, & above all other things; to be assured that thou art our gracious and tender Father, that so each of us may in faith call upon thee, saying truly as our Saviour hath taught us, Abba, Oh Father. That this assurance alone being rightly considered of, that thou art our heavenly and loving Father, will quiet our 
That assurance alone will quiet the heart, & fill it with joy unspeakable.  heart, or the heart of any believer in all the world, & will fill it with unspeakable joy in the midst of the greatest troubles & temptations, that can possibly befall us.  
And contrarily, make every 
And the contrary will fill it with extreme horror.  one of thy people to know for certain, that the very doubting and want of assurance, whether we be in thy favour and love or no, and much more, whether we be thy Children, will work extreme disquietness and horror in our souls, when once our consciences shall be awaked, and will be unto us as the unspeakable torments of hell fire: and that this will 
And be a●… the beginnings of the flashings of hell.  fall upon all the ungodly, most of all when their consciences shall tell them (as one day the conscience of every wicked and impenitent sinner will do) that they are not thy Children, but thine enemies, and the Children of wrath, yea, of Satan himself: 
john. 8. 4●….  and therefore that they are hated of thee, as Satan their Father is, whose Image they have borne, and whose work they have done.  
To this end, good Lord, work upon our hearts, and the hearts of all that belong to thy eternal election, whosoever, and wheresoever they be in all the earth, that we all may truly understand, and rightly know, our own miserable 
To this end to know first our own miserable condition by nature.  condition by nature; that we are thorough the first Adam. by natural generation, and by the whole course of our lives, none other but the Children of disobedience, and so vessels of wrath, and 
Thus we are but firebrands of hell until we be true members of Christ.  fire— brands of hell, until such time as we are, or shall be regenerated and borne again, and by a lively faith engrafted into jesus Christ the second Adam, and so made thy Children, and heirs of thy kingdom, by thy grace in him.  
Cause us all to know 
That we cannot attain to this assurance until we feel these two graces, repentance and faith.  moreover, that we can never attain hereunto to be thy Children, much less to any certain knowledge or assurance hereof until we feel these two graces of thine, wrought in our hearts by thy blessed Spirit, and the preaching of thy heavenly Gospel unto us; to wit, an unfeigned repentance for all our sins, and a lively faith in jesus Christ: and likewise that we have the same daily increased, or at least continued with a true and earnest desire & endeavour of the increase thereof; for that these two are 
For that these are lively evidences of our being in Christ.  lively evidences to any man that he is regenerate and in the state of grace, and that of a Child of wrath he is made thine own dear Child, ●…cceptable to thee his heavenly Father by jesus Christ alone. Grant to us therefore, and to all thy Children, these lively evidences of thy favour, in our unfeigned repentance, and also our effectual faith increasing daily, for jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour.   

FOUR A prayer that we may not deceive ourselves in vain conceit, that we are Gods Children, when we are nothing less, as the greatest part do, but that we may come to strong assurance hereof▪ by feeling a total change in our lives and conversations.  
OH most holy, and most gracious Father, we entreat yet further of thy divine Majesty, that neither we nor any other of thy people and Children, may deceive 
That we may not deceive ourselves in a vain imagination of faith and repentance.  ourselves in a vain & counterfeit show and imagination of repentance and faith, as the greatest part of those do, who living under the sound, and in the light of the Gospel, do imagine therefore that they have repentance & faith, and are well enough; when as aalas they have nothing less, than any part of true, sound, and unfeigned repentance, or any power of a lively faith. Grant to this end, that neither we nor they, may rest until 
That we may never rest until we find the new birth in our whole man & in all our conversation.  we find in ourselves, the new-birth begun, and increasing daily, by a total change wrought in us, since the time that we believed in Christ, as a special fruit thereof, and that in every part both of our souls and bodies, and also in the whole course of our life and conversation.  
Stir up all our hearts (Oh holy Father) to this purpose, that we may never give thee rest, until we find this thorough change and alteration, both in our minds and 
In our minds  understandings, from ignorance and blindness, to the true knowledge not only of ourselves, but also of thy heavenly Majesty, and so of thy Son jesus Christ; likewise in our memories, that instead 
Memories.  of remembering vanities, we may be able to keep a holy remembrance of the things which concern thy glory, and our own salvation, with the good of our Brethren. Good Lord work 
Wills.  the like change in our wills, from following and obeying the will and lusts of our flesh, to be ever pliant and obedient to thy heavenly will.  
Persuade our hearts that we may never give thee over, until we likewise find the same change in our affections, 
Affections.  that therein we are conformed daily more and more to the holiness of Christ, both in our love & hatred, our joy & our grief; in childlike fear & holy security, resting on●… selves only in thy love and favour.  
Make us to labour to find also the same in our Consciences, 
Consciences.  that we may never give any rest to our souls, until we find our consciences quieted in this assurance, that we are washed from our sins, in the blood of our Lord jesus Christ; and that our own hearts and consciences do bear a continual witness unto us of our upright conversation, at least begun in us; with a settled resolution ever to walk with thee our God, all our days.  
Good Father, never suffer us to be at quiet, until we truly find the same alteration, wrought by thy holy Spirit in like manner in our whole body; making every 
In our whole bodies.  sense and member thereof instead of the service of sin, to become servants of righteousness, even thine own servants.  
Lord persuade us all, that all these parts being thine, Created, and Redeemed to these ends, thou dost not only require this holiness in every 
To be persuaded that God both requires and works this holiness in all his elect in some measure.  one of them, but that thou likewise workest it effectually in all thine, whom thou hast ordained to life and salvation, according to that measure of grace, which thou ar●… pleased to bestow upon every one, causing every one of them to strive forwards towards perfection; & that until 
That until this change in some measure never can any attain this assurance.  such a change be begun in us in some measure, never any one of us, can have any true comfort that we are thy Children, or in thy favour and love; and that only as this change and comformitie to Christ jesus our head increaseth, 
As this increaseth, so our assurance  so doth our comfort likewise increase in thee: and contrarily, as it decreaseth, so do we decay in our comfort and assurance. Harken unto us therefore (Oh tender Father) and work mightily by thy holy Spirit in us, & in all thy Children, that we may never give thee any rest in our prayers, until we shall attain this full assurance, for our Lord jesus Christ his sake, our only Mediator and Advocate.   

V. A prayer that we may find in ourselves, not only the general, but even all the particular marks of God's Children, namely, those which our Saviour hath taught us to beg in his prayer.  
OH Lord, who art the only true persuader and se●…ler of the hearts and consciences of all thine elect, persuade effectually both us and all other thy people, that besides a whole change in our 
To pray to find in ourselves, not only this change, but the peculiar marks of God's children.  selves, in all the qualities and faculties of our souls & bodies, thou hast given sundry peculiar marks and properties, whereby thy Children may both certainly know themselves to be thy Children, and also by which they may be so known, & aught so to be esteemed amongst all thy people; and that so much the more, as they more lively and evidently have these marks upon them.  
And namely (good Lord) persuade us of those which thou in this prayer hast taught 
Chiefly those which our Saviour hath taught us to cry for daily, & whereby we most lively bear his Image.  all thine to pray, and to cry for daily, whereby we carry most lively the Image of our Lord jesus our elder Brother. Vouchsafe that we may be most zealous of the glory 
To be most zealous for God's glory.  of thee our heavenly Father, and that with a holy zeal, having the Spirit of burning, and the Spirit of judgement joined together, which worldlings regard not, being little or nothing at all acquainted with it.  
Grant that we all may 
2. To seek the kingdom of God, and his righteousness first.  seek thy kingdom and righteousness first, before all the things of this life; whereas they that are of this world, seek only, or at least in the first place, the things of this world.  
Help and enable us (good 
3. To seek only knowing & doing the will of our heavenly Father, & not our own.  Father) herein, to these ends, that, whereas carnal and unregenerate men, seek only the satisfying of their own lusts and pleasures, and by all means to have their own wills fulfilled, little or nothing regarding to know, or to do thy heavenly will; we contrarily may seek to know and fulfil the will of thee our heavenly Father, as thou hast expressed it in thy holy and sacred word; and that this we may make our very meat and drink, preferring it (as did our Saviour) before his daily food.  
Vouchsafe us thy holy Spirit, that whereas carnal and worldly men are wont commonly for whatsoever they desire, only to use and 
To use only such means for obtaining all good things, as God himself hath ordained.  seek worldly means; such as like themselves best, whether warrantable from thee or no, they make no matter, seldom or never using to seek and beg them, as they ought, from thy heavenly bounty▪ only in and by the means which thou hast appointed: and do as seldom unfeignedly return thee thanks & praise, when they have received their desires, but are like the swine under the acorn trees, never looking up from whence the Mast falls, sacrificing unto their nets, ascribing all to their own wits and strength; we contrarily may look up unto thee our heavenly Father. Lord grant that we may 
Begging and returning all thanks to him for all.  first beg all from thy heavenly bounty, using only the means that thou hast appointed to accomplish our ends, & after returning praise and thanks for all unto thy divine and sacred Majesty.  
Teach and persuade us, 
To be ever mindful of the rest of our brethren as of ourselves.  and all thy people, that we may be truly mindful of the rest of our Brethren thy dear Children▪ wheresoever dispersed, and that we may be rightly touched with a true and lively feeling both of 
And as well touched with their estate as our own.  their bodily and spiritual estate, and therefore like as thou ha●…t taught & commanded us to pray for all other thy Children as for ourselves, O our Father: And, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses. Led us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, etc. Grant that we may not only thus pray for them, with the lips alone, but sigh and groan unto thy Majesty for them in all these respects, and desire earnestly to seek and to use all means for them in every one of these kinds, as lively feeling members of the same mystical body of jesus Christ with them. Make us to consider, 
To consider how the carnal worldling hath little or no sense of any of these things,  how the carnal worldling, hath little or no sense or feeling of any of these things, nay almost no understanding at all, as appear daily by all his carriage and affections towards thy dearest servants; whom for this cause he principally hates, and makes a mock of, even for their piety, their care, and conscience, to fear and please thy heavenly Majesty.  
Make us all to have a true 
To have a lively sense of our sins.  sense and feeling of our sins, and of the vileness of them, in regard of the nature of sin itself, and that it is so displeasing, and so odious to thy holiness. Enable us therefore by thy holy Spirit▪ to groan 
To groan under the burden of them.  under ou●… sins, as a burden heavier than the earth: yea, to be ofttimes grieved inwardly and ●…ejected, in regard of our new and many slips and failings, & for them all to cry, Forgive us our trespasses: and that we may never 
Never to rest until we be assured of the remission of our sins.  give any rest unto our souls, until we be fully assured of the pardon of them all, and that thou our heavenly Father ar●… fully reconciled unto us in jesus Christ, and thy displeasure wholly appeased towards us. Whereas the unregenerate and carnal man hath usually no feeling of his sins at all, whereupon he commonly makes but a sport of sin, and drink in iniquity as water, so heaping uppe 
Which the carnal man makes bu●… a sport of.  wrath against the day of wrath, making a scoff at all the godly who are troubled with their sins, as at fantastical and melancholy fools.  
Teach and persuade our hearts, that whereas carnal men can hardly or never forgive 
That we may be able to forgive wrongs, and to pray for our enemies.  wrong: done unto them, until they be revenged, or their corrupt minds some way fully satisfied; we contrarily may labour to be so far off from revenge, as we may be able to pray with our Saviour, and with Stephen, Father forgive them, they know not what they do; and that if our 
That if our enemy's hunger, we may feed them.  enemy's hunger, we may feed them as thou ●…hast commanded, yea, persuade our hearts, that we may by all 
And seek their conversion and salvation.  means seek the conversion and salvation of our greatest enemies. And if thou shalt be pleased to convert any of them sound, that we may rejoice therein, even as the heavenly Angels, and delight in such, above our own natural brethren or sisters.  
Lord work so upon us, 
6. To be always afraid of Satan's temptations.  that whereas the Worldling is seldom or never afraid of Satan, and of his temptations, or of sinning against, and provoking thy holiness, and therefore doth continvally or most commonly whatsoever Satan and his own sinful heart moves him unto, without any check or controlment, or looking at thee, or without any fear or regard of the evil which will follow upon that which he doth: we contrarily may desire to fear thee evermore. 
To stand always in awe of the Lord, lest for our security, he leave us up to him.   
Make us always to stand in awe of thy Majesty with a holy reverence, least for our security, or for other our sins thou shouldest leave us to be tempted by Satan and overcome; and therefore in the sense and privity of ●…ur ●…eserts by all our sins, our ●…aylings, weaknesses, and for the corruption of our sinful natures, with our inclination to hearken to the Serpent, ●…o be overtaken and circumvented by him, and in regard of the danger which thereby we stand in continually, we may cry day and night, Lead u●… not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; yea, that we may strive, as our Saviour 
To strive to watch and pray that we fall not into temptation.  hath taught us, To watch and pray continually, that we may not fall into temptation.  
Good Father grant, that 
7. To look ever ●…o the Lords absolute Sovereignty.  whereas the carnal and unregenerate man in his actions looks only at the command and authority of man, and at his countenance and power, and what he can do; and so gives to men the glory due unto thy Sovereign Majesty, or secretly takes it to himself; we contrarily may look higher, even unto thy Highness▪ and to thy absolute Sovereignty over all Kings and Princes, and at thy divine power, and so give unto thee 
And to give him the glory of all.  the glory of all abhorring all imagination of any excellency, that we may any way conceive to be in ourselves; & therefore that we may in all things desire ever with all thy holy Angels thus to acknowledge thee & thy Sovereignty alone, and to give thee all the glory, and to cry evermore, For thine is the kingdom, power, and glory. 
8. To be ever and chiefly thinking of eternity.   
And whereas the worldling looks commonly, & thinks only of this present life, and seldom or never thinks of eternity, but rather labours to put the remembrance thereof out of his heart, having his portion and so his meditations only here below; grant that we contrarily may be always thinking and meditating of eternity, even of that life which is eternal, that so we may live with thee, and fully behold and enjoy thy kingdom, power, and glory for evermore.  
Finally, persuade us and all 
9 That we may not pray looking at any thing in ourselves, or any other creatures.  thine, that whereas the unregenerate and carnal Worldling hath usually in all his prayers and dealings with thee, some eye unto himself, and his worthiness, for his de●…otion and service, or for some other matter in himself, being little or nothing at all acquainted with thy Son our Lord & Saviour jesus Christ and his intercession, and how to come and appear before thy holiness, who art only our father, in, and through him, and how to make his requests only thorough him, and in his name alone, we may come clea●… other wise. Grant that we contrarily may in all 
But stripping ourselves, may come only in jesus Christ.  our supplications, prayers, & our giving of thanks, strip ourselves of all such opinion of our own merit or worthiness: and as we account all but loss and dung, so that we may be found in Christ, not having our own righteousness, but that which is of Christ; so likewise we may make all our prayers and supplications with giving of thanks only in and thorough 
Our everlasting Amen.  him, who is that everlasting Amen▪ and thorough whom alone all thy promises are Yea and Amen; who alone hath deserved this honour, and hath this office to make us and our prayers to be accepted; and therefore that we may in faith cry unto thee evermo●…e thorough 
That we may in Faith, cry Amen.  him, Amen, Amen▪  
Good Lord help us and all thy people, that by all these 
That we may never give the Lord over till we find all these in ourselves.  marks and the like, we may thoroughly try and examine ourselves whether we be thy children, or no; and that we may never give over crying unto thee, until we find every one of these lively and sensibly in us. Cause us rightly 
That we may know ourselves hereby to be thine, and in thy favour as we find them.  to understand, and to be fully persuaded hereof, that in what measure we find the former change wrought in us and every one of these marks, in the same we may know ourselves like wise to be in thy favour, and accepted of thee, and that contrarily without 
And contrarily,  every one of these at least begun in us in some measure, & a sound resolution with an earnest desire and longing of our souls to increase and grow herein, we cannot assure ourselves to be any better than Hypocrites; and 
That we can never find sound comfort.  that we shall never find sound comfort, that thou wilt acknowledge us for thine, until we find these evident marks upon us. Grant unto us therefore, Oh tender Father, all the peculiar marks of thy Children, and all other, that hereby, we and all thine, may know ourselves infallibly, to be thine own dear Children, for thy beloved Son our blessed Lord and Saviour,  
Amen.   

VI A prayer for knowledge and right use of the means, whereby we may be made Gods Children, and grow up in the assurance thereof▪ and so b●… established in grace continually.  
OH most gracious God, 
To pray to know the right means of getting God's favour & growing therein.  and merciful Father, the only fountain of wisdom and grace, forsomuch as every one who hath any spark of grace or true wisdom, desires to be in the blessed estate of thy Children, to have thy love and favour, to grow up in the assurance thereof, as the chiefest happiness in this world; persuade us and all thy people aright, what are the ordinary means whereby thou begettest thy Children to a lively hope: That thou dost it ordinarily 
As in the days of our Saviour and the Primitive Church.  and usually, even by the same means, whereby thou didst first gather thy Church in the days of our Saviour: and after that, so wonderfully and speedily spread 
By the sincere preaching of his Gospel.  it over the face of the earth, even by the sincere preaching of thy heavenly word, and namely of thy sacred Gospel.  
That howsoever the world 
Though the world count it foolishne●…▪  accounts that foolishness, yet thou hast ordained it to be the immortal seed, whereby 
The immortal seed.  thine are begotten anew, and thus made thy Children by grace, and to be thy mighty 
God's mighty power to salvation.  power unto salvation, to make all thine to believe, and in believing, to make them partakers of thy favour and love, and so to give them eternal life. And that this 
That this stands not in the enticing speech of man's wisdom, but in the plain evidence of God's Spirit.  saving kind of preaching stands, as the preaching of Paul did, not in the enticing speech of man's wisdom, but in the plain evidence of thy Spirit, & of power. That 
A●…d why.  so our faith may be apparent to be wrought, not by the wisdom of men, but only by thy divine and mighty power alone.  
Persuade all thy people moreover, that as thou dost beget all thine anew by this thy heavenly voice, 
That God nourisheth his children by the same means of the word.  the sincere preaching of thy Gospel, and in calling them makest them thy Children; so thou feedest and nourishest them, and all thy Graces in them by the same principally; and next thereunto by the right use of thy holy Sacraments, 
Sacraments.  the reverend reading 
Good books.  of the same blessed word, and other holy books grounded 
Meditations.  thereupon, with sacred Meditations, 
Prayers.  conference with the godly, practise of all holy duties, earnest supplications and prayers, for a right and sanctified use, & for thy blessing upon every one of these means, and the like, to make them all effectual hereunto.  
Good Father, persuade ●…ll who thus desire to be thy Children, and in thy favour; and to have all others likewise, 
To seek to this end the establishing & advancement of thy sacred Ministry, and to depend thereon.  partakers with them of the same mercy, to seek by all holy means the establishing and advancement of thy sacred Ministry, & that themselves, and all others may depend upon the conscionable, faithful, and sincere Ministers, Pastors, and Teachers, whom thou hast ordained in this respect, to succeed in the place of holy Paul, and the other Apostles for the gathering together of the Saints, 
Ephes. 4. 11.  for the work of the Ministry, and for the edification of the body of Christ, and be wholly afraid of all Anaba ptisticall fancies or separations, or of any way withdrawing themselves from under the means ordained by thee for their salvation, to lie open to Satan, and his delusions.  
Oh gracious Father, who so tenderest thy Children and chosen flock, as thou hast set 
To stir up the hearts of Kings and Princes to this holy care.  Kings & Princes in thy place for the care and comfort of them above all other of the earth; persuade, and move effectually the hearts of all those whom thou hast appointed to be thus as Fathers to thy children; as namely, all Governors, and principally the chief whom thou hast specially ordained to be the prime foster-fathers' unto those thy dear Children, in all the parts of the world. That they by all the means & power that thou shalt ever vouchsafe to put into their hands, may look to see thy 
To see their people furnished with holy & conscionable Ministers.  people committed to their charge, to be furnished with such conscionable, sincere, & faithful Pastors and teachers, as by whom they may be first begotten, and after nourished and fed, so as they may grow up to the measure of the age of the fullness in Christ, and be provided likewise for all other gracious means & helps belonging hereunto.  
Thus in like manner, we 
That the Ministers may study to make all the people the Children of God.  humbly entreat thee most merciful God, and tender father, that by the mighty operation of thy heavenly Spirit, thou wilt thoroughly persuade and move all those, whom thou hast in a peculiar manner separated unto this work of winning of souls unto thee, or who have or shall any way enter hereupon; that they may wisely consider, that principal part of their Vocation and Function, namely, to endeavour to make all their. Congregations to be thine own Children, carrying lively thy image, and bearing upon them the marks of thy Children.  
Cause them to seek tenderly 
To nourish them as in his place.  to nourish and comfort them as in thy place and presence, and ever to preserve & 
To keep them from Satan and all his agents  keep them from Satan, and all his cursed agents and instruments; as from all seducing Jesuits and seminaries, who compass sea and land to make all sorts the children of the devil, worse than themselves; and so from all other deceyvers, and all the delusions of this evil world. Grant that thus they may study to be able, each according to their places, at all times whensoever thou shalt call them to an account, and chiefly 
To be able to present them with all confident boldness before his Majesty.  at the great day, to present them with all confident boldness and joy before thy heavenly Majesty, saying with the Prophet, Lord here am I, and the children thou hast given me, by my Ministry, or any way committed to my charge. Harken unto us, Oh gracious Father in these our humble supplications, & all other things which thou knowest to be needful for us, or thy whole Church, or any part thereof, for jesus Christ our Lord, and only Saviour.   

VII. A Prayer, that all may understand how dear God's Children are unto him, that they may be so to us likewise.  
OH Lord, most merciful, most wise, and tender 
To pray that God would make all to know how dear his children are unto him.  Father, make all sorts to understand and know in time, especially all those who so furiously rage against thy Church and people at this day, how dear and precious every one of thy Children is unto thy heavenly Majesty, that they are unto thee as the apple of thine own eye, and that therefore their blood is precious in thy sight: That they perishing for lack of 
That their blood will cry for vengeance as the blood of Abel.  care to save and succour them, & much more being destroyed by them to whom thou hast committed them, as to their nursing Fathers in thy place, their blood will cry for vengeance, like as the blood of Abel did, and will cause the murderers one day (without unfeigned repentance) to cry out when it is too late, My sin 
That God can no more bear with wrongs done to them then to Abraham.  is greater than I can bear. Yea, cause all to know, that thou canst no more bear with wrongs done unto these thy Children (and especially to those of them, whom thou hast manifested by their child like obedience, and by the glorious image of our Lord jesus thy dear Son, printed visibly upon them, to be so dear and precious unto thee) than thou couldst bear with the wrongs done unto thy servants, Abraham, Moses, David, or any other of thine. That if for Abraham's cause, thou wast so severe against Abimelech and his 
That if God was so ever against Abimelech, he will be more against them all, who shall hurt them, chiefly for his name's sake.  house (though he was but a Heathen King, & that which he did against Abraham he did ignorantly, and with an upright heart as he saith; yea and thorough Abraham's weakness, in saying of his wife, she was his sister) thou wilt then be much more severe against all those, who being convinced in their consciences of the innocency of thy poor children (as all must needs be in a very great measure, in this most glorious shining light of thy heavenly Gospel) and ye●… do so vex and mollest them, yea, and seek to destroy them out of the earth, only for thy name's sake, for cleaving fast unto thee, and to thy sacred truth.  
Lord persuade the hearts 
To persuade all that these are as Noah's to the places where they are.  of all sorts, that these, while they are in any place, are in some sort as Noah was to the old world, and as Lot to Sodom for keeping off the vengeance from all the rest. Yea (good Lord) make all sorts understand and know, and especially set this ever before our eyes, and the eyes of all thy people every where, that thou madest poor joseph who was 
As joseph to his brethren.  scorned and hated of his Brethren, for his religion and piety, & for seeking to reform their evil behaviour, to be yet the preserver of his Brethren; yea, of all his Father's house, and of the whole Church; and causedst his Brethren in their greatest extremity, and in the very anguish of their souls, to acknowledge how they had sinned against the Lad, chiefly in their lack of commiseration, and moreover to come and to stoop unto joseph, and humbly to seek unto him that he would not remember the wrongs and evils that they had done to him.  
Cause us all to consider well, how thou madest him 
God's instruments to save all from many temporal judgements.  to save them all, even him whom (for his dislike of their evil manners, for his care for their good, and for thy special favour manifested towards him) they accounted the dreamer, plotted against, cast into the pit, sold to the Ismalites, thinking thereby they should never have been troubled with him, no●… have heard of him any more.  
Grant good Lord, seeing 
That he brings plagues for the wrongs done unto them.  thy Children are so dear unto thee, that for their causes, and the wrongs done unto them, thou callest for a dearth upon the lands where they are, thou plaguest even Kings 
Psal.  for their sakes; that thou wilt 
And will not spare any who hurt them, no not Miriam.  not spare their own Brethren or Sisters, if they wrong them, no not Miriam herself, though she be beloved of thee, a Prophetess, and Sister of Moses, but wilt make her feel her sin, and her shame, if she dare but speak against thy servant Moses, especially for doing as thou hast commanded him; that they may be likewise, as 
That they may be so dear to all as they are to the Lord.  dear and precious unto all thy people.  
Grant (Oh tender Father) that all sorts thus esteeming of them for thy cause, as thine own dear Children, and so highly beloved of thee, may 
That all may acknowledge their si●…nes concerning them.  all jointly acknowldge their wrongs against them, & their heinous sin against thy Majesty for them, in all the rebukes, scorns, and taunts, cast upon thee, and thy sacred religion, thorough the evils done unto them. Vouchsafe that hereby all these may with faithful Abraham, Moses, and Samuel, pray for all 
That they may help to make the atonement for Israel.  thy people, and so help to make the atonement for them by the blood of the Lord jesus, that all their sins may be pardoned, thy anger appeased, thy people turned 
All the people of the Lord may be turned to him again,  to thee again, thy hand may be turned against thine obstinate and implacable enemies, and the enemy may 
And the enemy given for their ransom.  once again be given for the ransom of thy Children and people, as thou didst sometimes give Egypt for thine Israel. 
To persuade this chiefly to all his Vicegerents that these being so dear unto the Lord, may be so unto them.   
Lord, persuade this principally, to all thy Deputies, and Vicegerents, wheresoever in the earth, that even for this cause alone, for that these are so beleved of thee, they likewise may in all tender affection, set themselves, as in thy place, to rescue, succour, 
To rescue & succour them  and protect them, from the rage of all thine and their cruel enemies; and that they may seek withal, the uniting 
Seek the uniting of them in Christ.  of the hearts of all thy Children, in that firm bond of brotherly love, which is in Christ jesus: that those of them, who most excel in virtue, 
And may be more de de●…re to them as they more excel in virtue.  as they are most de●…re unto thy heavenly Majesty, may be so likewise unto them, that they may respect and tender them, their welfare and prosperity, above all others.  
That they may seek to 
To prevent whatsoever may dissolve this brotherly knet.  keep all thine in this bond of holy love, and wisely to prevent whatsoever may dissolve this brotherly knot: or but breed any hatred, envy, grudge, heart-burnnings, or unbrotherly censurings amongst them; or whatsoever may hurt or annoy them any way. That hereby all such 
That so they may get this seal to their consciences,  thy Vicegerents may get this testimony and seal to their Consciences, that they themselves are as thy first borne, and amongst the dearest of thy Children, and of all other 
That they are unto him as his first borne, and that he will be a Father and protector to them and theirs.  of the earth most precious unto thee, and that thou wilt show thyself a Father and Protector unto them & theirs for evermore; when as thou wilt declare thyself full of vengeance against all of them who have any way wittingly wronged or intended evil against them.  
Oh unite all the hearts of 
To unite the hearts of all God's Children to them and theirs.  thine own children unto them and theirs in all loyal affection, as to their foster-fathers' and mother's, whom thou hast in so much mercy to this end raised up for them, and committed them unto: as the hearts of all thine own servants were united into thy faithful servant David, whom for this cause they accounted better than ten thousand of themselves, as the Candle of Israel; and as they were knit to that holy and melting hearted King josiah, whose death they so lamented, as for the taking away of their shelter, and even the very breath of their nostrils.  
Hear us (Oh tender Father) and let the bowels of thy fatherly compassion earn over thy dear children, in thus inclining the hearts of all unto them to favour and succour them, especially those of them who have already suffered so much adversity, & been so long humbled under thy hand, for thy dear Son our Lord jesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Advocate,  
Amen.   

VIII. A Prayer that we may all be able to lift uppe our eyes and hearts unto our heavenly Father alone, and to look beyond all earthly means in all the troubles and perils of the Churches.  
OH heavenly Father, who 
Which art in heaven.  over ruledst the counsels of Herod, Pontius Pilate, and 
That God who overrules all counsels to bring to pass his own decrees,  all the people of the jews, and mad'st them all to serve for bringing to pass thine own eternal decree, for thine own everlasting praise and the comfort of thine own chosen flock. Lift up the 
Would lift up the eyes and hearts of all his faithful people to him.  eyes and hearts of all thy Children now in this extreme rage and fury which is against us, and especially the eyes & hearts of all those of us, who have endeavoured to be faithful with thee in these sinful times, and to walk humbly before thee, as Enocke, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Daniel.  
Grant that we may look 
That we may look to him only.  up to thee only, who though thou art so gloriously exalted in the highest heavens, yet lookest upon all the Sons of men, and seest all the 
Who seeth all the wrongs done to his Children.  wrongs that are done unto thy Children, and hearest every of their sighs and groans, writest them in thy book, & puttest their tears in thy bottle, and in thy due 
And will one day make it manifest.  time wilt make this known before all the world; howsoever the wicked and ungodly think not so, but have removed thee far out of their 
To beg pardon for this sin specially that we have all made flesh our arm, & with drawn our hearts from the Lord.  sight.  
Good Father, pardon this sin unto all thy Children, that in the days of our peace we and all thy Churches have amongst other sins, made flesh our arm, & withdrawn our hearts from thee the living God; we have so much looked at our earthly fathers of all sorts, and to earthly means, as that we have said as they did of josiah, that under the shelter of those great trees, we should be safe from all the violent storms which could be raised up by Satan, and from all scorching heat of persecution; so that in regard of them, we have thought we should never be removed, thou Lord hadst of thy goodness by them, made us to stand so strong. Lord make us to 
To see how justly for this sin some are taken 2▪ way from the Churches, others weakened.  see, how justly for this sin thou hast taken away these earthly Fathers from some of the Churches, weakened them in others; and mayest now most justly even for this very sin alone, so enfeeble the arms of all the rest, as that they cannot help thy Children: yea, that thou mayest contrarily so turn their hearts against thy dearest Children 
Until we shall all see▪ our sin, & turn our eyes only to our heavenly Father.  for it, that instead of helping them, they may rather join hands against them, until such time as we shall see our sin even in this behalf, amongst all other our heinous transgressions, and turn our eyes again only to thee our heavenly Father, and chief Protector.  
Oh grant unto us, that we 
That we may not rest i'll by our prayers and tears, we have caused him to relent towards us.  may never rest before that time, that by our unfeigned repentance for this and all other our sins, and by our Prayers and tears, crying all about thy feet, we have caused thee to relent towards us, & thy bowels of compassion to earn over us, in hearing our sighs and cries, and in seeing so many of us so lef●…e unto the hands of all thine, & our bloody & merciless enemies.  
Lord make us all able to 
That by faith we may see him sitting at the great wheel  look up thus to thee, and by faith to behold thee sitting in heaven, laughing to scorn all the devises of thine enemies, guiding there the great wheel, and by it, ordering, turning, and overruling, all these inferior & less wheels here below; that though they seem to be carried violently in a contrary motion, yet we may see all of them 
Making all to serve to the accom plishing of his own eternal decree, for the saving of his Church.  serve, and by thy infinite wisdom and power, made to help to accomplish thine eternal decree, in whatsoever thou hast appointed, concerning the gathering in of all the remainder of thine elect, both jews and Gentiles; the coming down of the new jerusalem, the present and eternal glory of thy Zion; 
The destructi on of his enemies to his eternal glory.  with the utter ruin & downfall of Babel; the endless condemnation and destruction of that Whore of Babylon, and of all thine enemies for evermore.  
Lord, make us rightly to understand▪ & fully to know, that as Herod, and Ponti●…s Pilate, and all the people of the jews, did not, nor could 
Like as all was which the enemies did against our Lord and Saviour.  do any other thing, against our eldest Brother, thy dear Son our only Lord and Saviour, then that which thine own counsel had determined; 
The benefits & blessings thereby.  for his highest advancement at thy right hand, for thine own eternal praise, the sending down of thy holy Spirit in that wonderful manner, the publishing of thine heavenly Gospel, the calling of the Gentiles, the enlargement of the Church, and spreading it over the whole 
So now at this present.  earth; so at this present time, neither Satan, nor Antichrist, Mahomet, nor all the mighty and subtlest enemies of the world can do any other thing against thy Church or Children, then that which long before, even from before the foundation of the world was laid, thou hast ordained; and that for 
For the full accomplishment of all things foretold.  the full accomplishment of whatsoever thou hast foretold, concerning both thy Church and Children, and also 
For preparing the ●…ay to Christ's glorious coming.  concerning thine enemies, and for preparing the way to thy glorious appearing.  
Lord help us in this, that looking over all things here below, we may not only stand still to see what thou wilt do, but that we may rejoice 
That we may by faith be able to rejoice herein.  in faith, beholding thee thus ordering and disposing all things to these blessed ends; and that thou art making, all Angels, Principalities, Powers, yea, Satan, and all his instruments; with all their rage, malice, might, and subtlety, in the very extremest butchering & slaughtering of thy Saints, to work together for the effecting hereof; that so we may rejoice even herein with joy unspeakable & glorious, and in this our blessed estate.  
Lord make us to glorify 
That in all we are more than conquerors.  thee in this confident assurance, that though we should be killed all the day long, as many of our Brethren thy dear Children lately have been, for thy name sake, and as we are indeed in the designs of thine and our enemies, accounted as sheep for the slaughter, yet that in all we shall ever be more than Conquerors thorough that blessed one in whom thou hast loved us.  
Yea (dear Father) make 
That no thing can separate us from his love. Rom. 8. 35.  us to triumph in this, that whatsoever we shall, or can suffer in the mean time, for thy name's sake, as other our Brethren do at this day, and Satan threateneth us; that yet neither tribulation, anguish, persecution, famine, nakedness, bonds, imprisonment, peril, or sword, can ever separate us from thy love in Christ jesus our Lord, if once we have the full evidences in our souls, that we are thy Children in him, being so begotten by that lively word, and having upon us all the evident marks of thy Children.  
Grant us therefore (Oh gracious 
To this end to make this sure that we are his Children.  Father) now in these our days of peace, & whilst thou vouchsafest us the means of thy heavenly Gospel, to give all diligence to make it sure, that we are thy Children, thy dear Children, yea, thy Children to whom thy heavenly kingdom appertaineth, having and bearing upon us, all the lively marks and badges of thy Children.  
Above all, grant us this 
To have this▪ heavenly mindedness.  heavenly mindedness, that our chief thoughts may be upon thee our heavenly Father, our care may be above all things how to please thee, doing in the mean while only the things which thou requirest, casting all our cares, for those days, and for whatsoever the enemy can do, upon thy Majesty alone, and into thy bosom; learning every day more and more to wain our affections from this world, and the things of this world, and to set them wholly above, where thy Son sitteth at thy right hand.  
Lord persuade our hearts, 
To persuade us, that in all the troubles of the ●…hurch, God 〈◊〉 preparing ●…is 〈◊〉 meet him, as obedient children, with entreaty of peace.  and make us able to persuade one another, that by all the power and liberty that thou hast permitted unto Satan, & to all his instruments, and by all the persecutions, and afflictions, that are upon all the Churches; and also by whatsoever threatenings of thine against thy Children, yea, whatsoever mischievous designs are intended against thy poor Church, or what danger soever it is in, thorough that extreme fury of Satan and Antichrist, and all their instruments, thou art yet still preparing all thy Children to meet thee, in a sound humiliation, with strong cries and tears, for all our offending thee, and for grieving thy holy Spirit, by all our former security, and neglect of thee, and of the riches of thy favours vouchsafed unto us.  
Grant us all this grace therefore, as thine obedient and loving Children in all things, to submit ourselves under thy Fatherly hand, to turn jointly to thy Covenant 
Submitting ourselves jointly to his Covenant.  and renew the same in all faithfulness, to take away all the divisions that have 
And having our hearts united in brotherly▪ love.  been amongst us; which thorough our long peace and wantonness, Satan hath wrought to the destroying of us all, if it were possible.  
Vouchsafe (good Father) 
That God may be as much pleased herein as ever displeased in our divisions.  that we may do this so effectually, that thou mayst be as much pleased, in reuniting us again, and in our Brotherly love and agreement, as ever thou hast been displeased, in our divisions, and dissensions: and Satan and his instruments, 
And Satan and his instruments as much dismayed hereby.  in seeing our holy unity and agreement, may be as much dismayed, and put out of heart, for ever prevailing against us: as by the contrary, and by all their prosperous success (as they imagine) they have been animated and encouraged, to our ruin and destruction. That so we 
That we may all sing, Behold how good etc. Psal. 133.  may all sing, with one heart and voice, Behold how good and happy a thing it is, Brethren, to dwell together in unity. Lord manifest thy glory, even the glory of thy▪ wisdom, power, mercy, and truth herein, in making us jointly to look and cry to thee, for all these things, and whatsoever thou in thy infinite wisdom knowest necessary for us in this behalf, or for any member of thy whole Church, for jesus Christ his sake, our only Lord and Saviour.   

IX. 
A thanksgiving for our deliverance from Babylon.  A Thanksgiving to God, according to the first petition of the Lords prayer, for causing his glory to break forth so wonderfully now in this last Age of the world, in delivering his Churches, thus far out of Egypt and Babylon, with a confession of our unworthiness; and an earnest prayer, that we may never dishonour him, by locking thither again; nor provoke him by our sins to give us up to that heavy judgement: and likewise for the diliverie of all the rest of his Israel in his due time, and that he may never leave us until he have brought us all into his heavenly Canaan.  
OH Lord, most holy and 
Hallowed be thy name.  most glorious, open our blind eyes, & touch our hard and stony hearts, and the 
To pray to see our honour to be called forth to be Gods peculiar people.  hearts of all thy true Churches and people in all the world, whom thou hast called forth to be thy people, that we may be able to see and consider aright the exceeding honour and dignity, which thou hast laid upon us, and to show forth our thankfulness to thy heavenly Majesty accordingly.  
Make us able to consider, show thou hast vouchsafed to take us so ne'er unto thyself, as to make us thine own peculiar people of all the people of the earth, to set and 
To set and confirm his Covenant with us.  confirm the Covenant with us of life and glory; and how to this end thou hast brought 
How he hath brought us out of Egypt & Babylon.  us out of that spiritual Egypt and Babylon, from that bondage and tyranny of Satan and Antichrist.  
Make us to consider, and rightly to understand, how by great deliverances and judgements, thou hast carried 
How he hath carried thorough the sea & wilderness.  us thorough the sea and thorough the▪ wilderness, and showed thyself unto us in thy glorious 
Leading us by his statutes.  ordinances, leading us by thy statutes and commandments, and by the works of thy providence, protection, direction, chastisement▪ blessings, as thou didst thy 
As he did Israel by the pillar of fire and the cloud.  people Israel, by the pillar of the fire, and the pillar of the cloud.  
Give us hearts ever to remember, 
How he hath sought for us from heaven.  how thou hast sought for us from heaven; so as all the earth hath s●…ene and heard of thy glory; and hast carried us as upon Eagles 
Brought us to the frontiers of the heavenly Canaan.  wings, and now brought us to the very frontiers of thy heavenly Canaan, and made us to see & taste of the riches, happiness, and glory of it in thy sacred Gospel.  
Oh our blessed God, most gracious, and most dreadful, 
To be a afraid of having a thought of looking back towards Egypt, towards Popery or Popish superstition.  make us and all thy people, to be afraid of ever having any thought of turning back, so much as in our hearts, or of ever having a look towards Egypt, or Sodom again, towards any part of that Popery or Popish superstition and Idolatry, that abominable drudgery, under Satan and Antichrist, from which thou hast so graciously delivered us.  
Oh never suffer us to admit 
That we may never admit of any comparison of their leeks with our Manna▪  of any imagination, or so much as one motion, of comparing the Leeks, Onions, & Garlic of Egypt, with the hid Manna, of thy sacred Law, and heavenly Gospel. Albeit we hear and see their 
That notwithstanding all their rage we may never distrust the Lords presence or power.  ●…age and fury, and the power of all their armies, banding themselves against us, either to swallow us up at once, or else to pursue us into the heart of the sea; yet keep us that we never rebel against thee, thinking to turn back from thee, to go into Egypt again, distrusting thy truth, thy presence, and power.  
Cause us, Oh gracious Father, 
That God can least endure this sin.  wisely to consider of, and ever to have this as before our eyes, that of all dishonours done unto thy heavenly Majesty, thou canst least endure this, chiefly after so long trial and experience, which thou hast given us of thy power, goodness and mercy towards 
That this may make him swear in his wrath we shall never enter into his rest.  us. That this sin alone, may justly make thee swear in thy wrath, that we shall never enter into thy rest.  
Make all them that have 
To make all such to know that this sin without repentance will cut them off from ever entering the heavenly Canaan.  dishonoured thee in this high kind, sinning thus against thy glorious Majesty, to know for certain, that without speedy and unfeigned repentance thou wilt cut them off●… from ever seeing thy celestial Canaan; and much more, 
Chiefly them who as the ten spies have brought an evil report upon this good land.  make all them to know this specially, who with the ten spies, after they have not only searched out the good land, tasted, and brought to others, the fruit of it, but filled themselves, at least with the outward blessings, and dainties thereof, have yet either turned back, or brought an evil report upon it, even upon thy sacred religion and Gospel, to discourage their Brethren thereby, to cause them to be faint-hearted, and as much as ●…veth in them, to turn into Egypt again.  
Oh Lord most holy, most 
To remember that of all who tempted the Lord by their unbelief never any could enter into Canaan.  dreadful, and most terrible, make us all ever to remember, that of all those hundreth thousands, who so tempted and dishonoured thee, by their unbelief, in the way towards the earthly Canaan, never any one could enter in, but thou causedst their catkasses to fall in the wilderness, until they were utterly consumed; and for those that 
And those who brought that slander died by a fearful plague.  brought that vile slander upon the good land, thou causedst them to die by a terrible plague, and that therefore these may justly expect a 
That these●… may expect a more heavy vengeance.  more heavy wrath and vengeance from thy Majesty.  
Oh gracious Father, give all thine own faithful people 
To have the sound hearts of Caleb & josuah.  and children, the same hearts of Caleb & josua, especially all them, who as those thy two worthy servants, have unto this day constantly stuck unto thy sacred Majesty, in the conscionable profession of thy heavenly truth, 
To give constant testimony to the holiness of his religion.  that we may all courageously and boldly give testimony, unto the happiness of this good land, into which thou hast brought us, & this good way of life, wherein thou hast set us: that this indeed, to wit, the sincere profession of thy name, according to thy sacred word, and as it is confirmed by our good Laws, is a land that floweth with milk and honey: and the Lord, if he love us, will continue it unto us, and increase the glory and happiness of it, until he have brought us into his heavenly Canaan.  
Enable us (good Father) 
To encourage our hearts & persuade our brethren that none of us ever rebel against the Lord, nor fear the proud enemy.  thus to encourage our own hearts, and the hearts of all our faithful Brethren; and for all other to persuade them by all means out of thy blessed word, that they rebel not against thee, the Lord of hosts, neither fear the proud enemies of the Church; but 
But only be humbled before him for all our sins.  only that we may jointly be truly humbled before thy glorious Majesty for all our sins, whereby we have thus provoked thy greatness, and holiness, & thus caused thee to muster thine armies, and to strengthen thine and our enemies against us, to cause thine own people in so many places to fly before them.  
Oh Lord enable us by thy 
To pray that we may never leave wrestling with the Lord, until he have inclined all our hearts, chiefly of all in authority for saving his Church and appeasing his wrath.  holy Spirit, that we may never leave wrestling with thee, until we have prevailed with thy Majesty thus far, that thou shalt incline the hearts of all, especially all those, whom thou hast set in thy place, for the saving of thy people, that they and all their dominions, even all the Churches, and every soul of thine, may seek thee, in sack cloth and ashes, in fasting, weeping, and mourning, never giving over crying to thee, through thy Christ, until thine anger be appeased, and thou be reconciled to thy people again; for that then undoubtedly (as thou hast been wont to do in former Ages) thou wilt make thine, and thy 
For that then his enemies shall be but bread for his people. Numb. 14. 9,  Church's enemies, to be but bread for thy people, that all the world shall see, that their shield is departed from them, and that thou the Lord of 
That we shall not need to ●…eare them any more.  hosts art with us, and that we shall not need to fear them any more. 
That we may know that God hath spared us hitherto of his rich mercy. Numb. 14. 13. 19   
Oh gracious God, & most tender Father, cause all the Churches to know, and especially us of this sinful nation, that hitherto we, and so many as have been preserved, thou alone hast spared and saved us, of thy rich mercy, and at the instant requests & importunings 
And at the cries of his faithful servants.  of thy Moseses, which have been amongst us.  
And more specially, cause all unbelievers to know, that thou now speakest to them, as thou didst to thy people in the wilderness. That notwithstanding thy great mercies, and the sparing of us at the cries of thy faithful ones, yet all the earth shall be filled 
Psal. 21.  with the glory of the lord 
That none who still tempt him shall ever see the heavenly Canaan.  that all those who have seen thy glory, the good land, and great deliverances, which thou hast given to thy people, and yet have so oft, and do still tempt thee, not obeying thy voice, shall never see that thy heavenly Canaan, which thou hadst so promised and offered unto them, nor any other that so provoked thee by their unbelief. That 
Only those who remain constant with the Lord shall enter in.  only thy faithful servants, who as Caleb and josuah, having another Spirit, do follow thee still, remaining still more constant and faithful, even in the greatest timorousness and backsliding of the multitude, these only thou wilt bring into the heavenly Canaan, and they alone shall inherit it for evermore.  
Hear us, Oh most gracious 
To pray that remembering Gods mercies & our estates, we may strive fast forward towards the heavenly Canaan.  God. and loving Father, and keep us by the mighty power of thy blessed Spirit, that always remembering what thou hast done for us, and considering aright of the miserable estate of all under Satan and Antichrists tyranny, and our own happy estate and condition, under our Lord & Saviour jesus Christ, we may all jointly strive fast forward towards the full fruition of thine own glorious Majesty in the heavenly Canaan; and in the new jerusalem eternally.  
Grant, that in the mean 
That the unfeigned repentance of all the true Churches.  time, the unfeigned repentance of all thy true Churches and people, for all our sins, may be one of thy effectual and principal instruments, for the pulling of the remainder of thy people forth 
May help to pull all out of Sodom and Egypt and to cause them to fly speedily out of Babylon.  of Sodom, and of Egypt, and to cause all thine, to fly speedily and get themselves out of Babylon, that by escaping her sins, they may likewise escape her plagues: and finally, that it may thus prepare the way to the calling and conversion of the jews, 
And to prepare the way to Christ's glorious coming.  the gathering in of all thy Israel, the speedy coming of our Lord and Saviour for our eternal deliverance, the everlasting glory of thy Zion, and of us all for evermore. Hear us, Oh most gracious Father, in these our requests, and accept of this our poor thanksgiving, for this inestimable favour, even for jesus Christ his sake, our only Lord and Saviour.   

X. A prayer, that we and all the 
A prayer that we may glorify God by walking more conscionably in all his Laws & Commandments.  Churches in token of our thankfulness to our blessed God, for our deliverance from Babylon, & for making us his people and Children, and his Covenant with us, may set ourselves to honour him more than ever we have done, especially in a more conscionable and cheerful walking in all his holy Laws and Commandments, that he may always keep us from that bloody tyranny.  
OH Lord, most holy, most 
Hallowed be etc.  great and glorious, who hast made all things for thine own sake, even the wicked 
Prov. 16. 4.  for the day of evil. Persuade the hearts of all thine own 
That God would persuade all that he hath created all for his own glory.  people, that thou hast thus created & form all things, for thine own honour, that thy great name might ever be magnifyed in all the world: and especially by thine own children; and to this end, thou hast caused the glory of thy 
Caused his glory to ●… s●…ine in every creature.  wisdom, power, and goodness to shine in all thy works, even in every creature of the world, to convince all the 
That all may give him his glory, or be left utterly without excuse.  earth, that every soul that will not give thee thy glory, may be left utterly without excuse, and all the disobedient may have their mouths stopped, and be forever confounded before thy Tribunal.  
Above all, make all thy 
That this glory is more visibly upon the Churches rescued and delivered from Satan and Antichrist.  people to understand and know, that thou hast caused this thy glory to be more visibly upon the Churches, (which thou hast so mightily rescued and delivered from the power of Satan and Antichrist, and whom thou hast taken into so near a Covenant, as to be thy only people, to whom thou hast committed thy heavenly word and ordinances) than it is upon all other people and 
That we may set forth his glory by keeping his S●…atutes.  places of the world beside; and that this thou hast done chiefly to this end, that we might set forth thy glory in this, by keeping all thy Statutes, and observing all thy Laws.  
Lord cause all to know moreover, that to this end, 
To this end he hath set before us life & death.  thou▪ hast not delivered us, & set us out of that bondage, to serve thee in holiness, but hast set before us also life & death, blessing and cursing, and hast 
Deut. 30, 19  bidden us to choose life, that 
Bidden us to choose life.  we and ours may live, and hast assured us hereof, and that only by loving thee, the Lord our God, by obeying thy voice, by cleaving fast unto thee, because thou (thorough thy Christ) art unto us our life, and the length of our 
How we may do it.  days, and whatsoever thou bidst us, thou wilt enable us to do, we only believing in thy beloved Son, and using 
jos. 1. 8.  the holy means which thou hast appointed.  
Make us all to this purpose, ever to remember, how thou hast charged us all, that 
Charged us that the book of the Law shall never depart out of our hearts.  the book of thy Law, thy sacred word should never depart out of our mouths, but that we should meditate in it day and night; that we may all observe and do, according to all that is written in that book: for that then thou wil●… make all our ways (in this our journey) prosperous; no enemy shall be able 
Then no enemy shall be able to withstand us. jos. 1. 5.  to withstand us, much less to surprise us of a sudden, but thou wilt be with us, and 
We shall in all have good success.  thou wilt then give us good success.  
Yea good Lord, let this ever be before our faces, how to incorage●…s better h●… 〈◊〉 to, thou hast assured us, that if we will thus think and meditate of thy Laws and Commandments day and night, to observe & do them, and honour thee thereby; thou wilt honour us herein, that we shall be a blessed 
Be a blessed people. Psal. 1. 2. 3.  people, and like the trees plainted by the rivers of water; that we shall bring forth our fruit in due season, and that so, as our leaf shall not fade, but look whatsoever 
Prosper in all  we do, shall prosper. How then 
Be wiser than our enemies.  we shall be wiser than our enemies; yea we shall have 
Psal. 119. 98. 99 100  more understanding than our teachers, and then all the ancient; when we can set ourselves thus to honour thee, by keeping all thy Commandments, like as thou didst verify thy gracious promises in this ●…alfe, to thy faithful servant David, to Daniel, 
Like as David, Daniel, and others. Dan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.  to those worthies of the Captivity, whom thou didst so highly honour, for that they so honoured thee, as that they would rather choose to be cast upon all miseries, yea▪ the cruelest death, then voluntarily to defile themselves, by transgressing but the very lest of all thy holy Commandments. 
God will be with us as we are with him. 2. Chro. 15. 2.   
Make us all therefore that are thi●…e, rightly to understand, that whilst we thus honour thee, in being thus 
Ezra. 8. 22.  with thee (in faith and all holy obedience to these thy blessed Commandments) thou wilt likewise honour us (in being with us in mercy 
Heb. 10. 38.  and truth) thy good hand shall be so sensibly upon us, that we shall live by faith, in assurance 
We shall be able to live by faith  and experience, that thou wilt accomplish unto ●…s every one of thy 〈◊〉 promises, and that thus persevering in faith and obedience, we shallbe saved eternally.  
Make us to know for certain, that so long, & so long only as we watch and strive hereunto, seeking cheerfully to receive the Law of thy mouth, and to lay uppe thy 
job 22. 21. 22, 23, etc.  words in our souls, we shall be able to lift up our hearts 
To lift up hearts and hands in assurance to be heard. L●…m. 3, 39, 40, 41, 42.  with our hands, in undoubted assurance, that we shall be heard, in whatsoever shall be best for us, and for thy Church.  
Cause us to know and believe 
Only such as wholly endeavour to walk with God, are the innocent that shall deliver the Island.  for certain, that so many of us, and so many only as thus seek to make & keep peace with thy Majesty, in turning and submitting ourselves thus wholly to thy Covenant, as holy Noah, Moses, and Abraham did, are those whom thou accountest the innocent, and to whom thou hast promised that they shall deliver the Island. 
job 22, 30.   
Lord at length persuade 
To be persuaded that all God's promises are made to an endeavour of an entire obedience.  us all that are thine, and make every one of us to seek to persuade all others, that unto this entire endeavour of obedience to all thy Commandments both of thy Law and Gospel, are all thy promises made: and that contrarily against all contempt and despising 
And contrarily.  of the heavenly Commandments, yea against every wilful disobedience, though it be but to one Commandment, thy cursings and th●…e t●…ings are denounced, which thou dost dreadfully execute accordingly, because men will not thus give thee thy glory.  
Good Lord awaken all the Churches, and open the eyes of all thine own people rightly to conceive & understand these things, and how Satan 
How Satan knowing this,  that old Serpent, that arch & bloody enemy of thy Church knowing all this well enough, hath sought in all the prosperity 
Hath laboured to make all to content themselves only with a bare outward profession, destroying all the power of godliness, to the Lords dishonour.  of thy Churches, to cause thine own people to dishonour thee, by making only a bare outward profession of honouring thee, by receiving and setting up thy heavenly Religion & Commandments to obey them in word, but trampling them all under foot generally, according to the evil customs and manners of the Countries and places where they live; that thou 
That he might leave all into his hand.  mightest leave thy people into his hand, & into the hands of all his cruel instruments, as thou hast most righteously done in so many parts of thy Church already, and threatnest all the rest of thy people for the same.  
Oh dear Father, how many of thy faithful servants; who have lived in those parts 
The acknowledgement of God's righteousness herein, by many of his faithful servants.  of thy Church, which are now left into the enemy's hands, do herein justify thy proceedings, acknowledging thy righteousness in all that thou hast brought upon them, even for this very cause of carnal Gospelling, and loose profession.  
Oh tender Father, make us 
To pray, that we may be able likewise to justify the Lord, and never to rest until he give thee all unfeigned repentance for it.  all able likewise to justify thee in this behalf; and never to rest crying unto thee for them, until thou shalt open their eyes to see and acknowledge thy righteousness, and that they shall unseinedly repent of their most heinous dishonour done to thy sacred Majesty herein, in causing thy name hereby to be blasphemed amongst thine enemies.  
Yea cause us (good Lord) 
That we may be warned by their ensample.  by their fearful ensample, even us specially of this sinful Nation, to meet thee speedily by our unfeigned repentance for this dreadful sin, whereof we are generally no less guilty than any of them, co●…dering the gracious means which we have so long time enjoyed above all. Oh make us to do it forthwith, 
To do it forthwith.  before it be too late, & that thy wrath be poured on us as upon them, and that there be no remedy. Cause 
To be warned hereof by the very Heathen. 1 Sam. 6, 5, ●….  us at least to be warned by the very Heathen, who acknowledged this giving glory thus to thee the God of Israel, to be the only means to appease thy wrath, and prevent thy further judgements.  
Lord smi●…e the hearts of all thy Lieutenants, and of all to 
To smite the hearts of all God's Lieutenants with a true sense hereof.  whom the charge of thy honour, the saving of thy people, are specially committed, that they may be thoroughly awaked and touched with a right Meditation and sense hereof, and of their account to be given even for this dishonour before thy heavenly Majesty, that thy people should thus fall away, or thus fly before thine enemies. And for all 
To persuade us that our Adversaries are raised up to humble us to walk with our God.  thine and our proud adversaries persuade our hearts, that thou hast raised them up thus against us all, as thou didst Pharaoh against Israel, that when thou hast humbled us by them, so as to turn us to thee again, by causing us to submit and humble our souls to walk lowlily with thee▪ in all these thy blessed Commandments, and so to honour 
How then he will get himself glory on them.  thee, thou wilt then get thyself glory upon their pride and fury, and in our final deliverance from them, giving them for our ransom.  
Yea (good Father) for every particular soul of us, make us to know in our very hearts, that thou as thou hast 
To know, as we are made for his glory, so he will be glorified in each of us.  made us for thine own glory; so thou wilt be glorified in us and by us, and that in endless mercy and eternal 
In mercy,  compassion upon so many of us, as thou having ordained to be vessels of glory, givest hearts unto, thus to humble ourselves, to seek to walk obediently in all thy blessed Laws and commandments: & of the other side, that thou wilt be glorified in declaring thy wrath and everlasting 
Or vengeance.  vengeance, which thou wilt in thy due time execute upon all thy disobedient and stubborn enemies, who shall declare themselves manifestly by rebelling against thee, to be vessels of wrath prepared for destruction.  
Lord; by the due meditation and consideration hereof, awaken and rouse up all thy people to learn to make more true conscience of all thy blessed▪ Commandments, than ever we have done heretofore, for the appeasing of thy Majesty; that thy glory 
That his glory may shine in our deliverance.  may shine in all the world, in pardoning the sins of thy people, delivering us from our cruel enemies, and getting thyself honour upon Babylon, 
And getting himself honour upon Babylon.  who hath chiefly for this been, and is, the staff of thy wrath and indignation.  
Hear us therefore herein, and cause us at length, even in token of our thankfulness, & in the zeal we have for thy glory, yea in a vehement desire, that thy glory may be set uppe, and thy great name may by us be magnified in all the world, thus to seek to renew and perform all our vows, to walk more obediently in all thy blessed Commandments then ever heretofore, even for our Lord jesus Christ his sake, our only Redeemer & Saviour,  
Amen,   

XI A Prayer that God's glory may 
A prayer that we may give God the glory of his inward worship according to the 1. Commandment, and so help to pacify his Majesty towards the Churches.  break forth more and more, than ever heretofore, in causing us and all his people in all the Churches, to set him up alone as our God, and make him great in our hearts, by having our hearts first sound replenished with all the parts of his inward worship, commanded in the first Commandment, without which, we and all our outward worship, and whatsoever we do in his service are utterly in vain That thus all the Churches, and every soul, may seek to pacify his Majesty, by giving unto him his due glory.  
OH Lord God, who art most glorious in thy 〈◊〉 Majesty 〈◊〉 
To pray that we may set up God in our hearts, giving him there his inward worship.  in all thy Attributes, and hast made this glory of thine to shine bright in every one of thy works, and chiefly in thy heavenly word, that thou mightest be glorified accordingly by all thy people, and chiefly by them, whom thou hast redeemed from Egypt and Babylon to this end and purpose; set up this thy glory in the hearts & consciences of every one of thine elect, that all of us may know and acknowledge thee 
In knowing and acknowledging him.  such a one as thou hast revealed thyself in thy most blessed word.  
Lord grant, that all of us may be known hereby, to 
john 6, 45.  be taught by thee, and that the earth may be filled with the 
Heb. 2, ●…4.  knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the Sea, according to thy grancious promises made unto thy Church in the flourishing estate thereof: yea, persuade us good Lord, that without the true knowledge of thee, and thy heavenly will, our hearts cannot be good, howsoever we may deceive ourselves, as the world doth generally.  
More specially, enable us to set thee up in our hearts, not only by knowing thee in a general manner, but by believing that thou art our God; that we may be able 
In faith believing him to be our God. john. 20. 28.  in faith each of us with Thomas▪ to call thee▪ My God, and my Lord, and so to believe every thing, contained in thy heavenly word, as that this power of our faith in thee▪ may show itself, in each part and action of our whole life, both in readily obeying every one of thy blessed Commandments, as thy servants, Abraham and Noah did, and also in fearing every one of thy threatenings and judgements, & finally in laying lively hold of every one of thy gracious promises made unto us in the same word; that so we may always cheer up our hearts, and encourage ourselves, and also one another, to run out more joyfully in all the narrow way of life.  
Lord persuade all our 
To be persuaded that this peculiar faith was the faith of Abraham & all the faithful. Rom. ●…3.  hearts, that this particular and powerful faith (howsoever it be scoffed at by all thine and thy Church's enemies) was the very faith of our Father Abraham, and of all the faithful recorded, in thy book, even that whereby all 
Heb. 11. 2.  the Fathers, received good report; and that without this lively working faith, it is 
Heb. 〈◊〉. 6.  impossible for any one ever to be pleasing, or ever to do 
Rom. 14. 23.  any thing acceptable to thy heavenly Majesty.  
Good Lord, make us all able upon th●… our right & saving knowledge of thee, that thou 
Upon this our faith to hold fast the Anchor of our hope.  art faithful and true, and this our faith in thee, that thou art our God, to hold fast the Anchor of our hope, and to manifest it, by our waiting and looking steadfastly, for the full accomplishment of every promise that thou hast made, either concerning thy Church in general, or else any of us particularly: & also of whatsoever thou hast denounced, concerning thine and thy Church's enemies, and that thou wilt do every thing in thy due time, for thy Church, and against thy enemies, howsoever for the present, all things may seem to go against thy Church and people.  
Yea, enable us withal (good Father) ever to honour thee, by showing forth this 
To honour the Lord by manifesting our faith by our confidence.  our faith, by the confidence which we have in thee, even then when we may seem to be most forgotten, and forsaken of thee, both by casting all our burdens upon thee at all times, and also by our rejoicing always in thee as in our good God, that thou takest care for us; and by being hereby full of Christian cheerfulness and courage, against all the oppositions and fears, that ever we shall, or can mee●…e with, in this our journey towards Can●…an, as thy worthiest servants have been wont to be.  
Oh magnify thy power 
To manifest our faith by our love to the Lord, his Commandments and ordinances.  and goodness, in shedding out thy love so abundantly upon all thy Churches, and every member thereof, and so manifesting it before the world, that in the true sense and feeling of it in our hearts, and our lively faith in thee, we may all jointly manifest the fervent love we return unto thy Majesty, by our unfeigned love of every one of thy blessed Commandments, and our fervent desire to thy statutes, to walk in them all without reproof, yea, by our ardent affection towards all thy ordinances and servants, only for thy cause.  
Good Lord, cause the fervent 
By our zeal for his glory.  zeal that we have towards thy name, to appear before the world, in the vehement grief and indignation, that we have for all the dishonours done unto thy heavenly Majesty, by trampling under feet thy blessed Commandments, thy religion, and servants, and the injuries and contumelyes done against any of them; and so likewise by our study and holy endeavour, by all means to, promote thy true religion and causes, and by our vehement hatred, of whatsoever is offensive to thy holiness; that we may set up nothing in our hearts but thy Majesty, and those things which thou lovest, accounting all other as dross and dung, in regard of thy holiness, yea, even life itself, if it hinder us from enjoying or obeying thee.  
'Cause thy glory to rest herein, upon all the Churches, 
That we may honour him showing forth all holy patience.  and upon all thy poor afflicted servants, that upon the assurance of thy love, and that thou art our gracious God, we may honour thee in showing forth all holy patience, with all chieerfulness, even in the midst of all our trials; that howsoever▪ thou mayest seem to be displeased with us, and to frown upon us, yea, to favour our enemies in all their proceedings, and to give us up into their hands, to let them to be lords over us, and make us a prey to their teeth; yet our eye may be still at thee, at thy love, wisdom, and faythfulness knowing that whatsoever thou dost to us, thou dost it but to humble us for our security, and for all other our grievous sins, and to prove us, that thou art certainly disposing all to our greatest comfort in the end: and thus to prepare our way unto thy heavenly jerusalem.  
That thus we all may ever possess our souls in patience, and wait for the happy issue, 
That we may possess our souls in patience, waiting for the happy issue. job 13, 15.  both of all our own trials, and of all the trials of thy Church and people, and be always able to say with holy job, though thou shouldst kill us, or leave us utterly and wholly unto the pleasures and lusts of our enemies; yet we will still trust in thee, approving our ways in thy sight, that hereby we may make it manifest to the faces of all our enemies, that we are certainly assured, that nothing can separate us from thy love, and that thou canst not forsake, fail, or forget us, whatsoever 〈◊〉 the present thou do unto us.  
Ye●…, oh most blessed God, 
That we may give him glory in our childlike fear  cause thy glory yet to shine more clearly upon all the Churches, and upon everyone of us that are thy true servants and children indeed, in this behalf, that though the wicked fear thee not, but seek to drive all the true fear of thy Majesty even out of our hearts likewise, as out of their own, and do therefore hate and persecute us, so far as thou permits them, only because we fear thee, and put our tru●…t in thy mercy: yet we may fear thee so much more with a true, holy, childlike fear; that we may ever, and especially now in these evil days, labour to live always as in thy presence, and as in the very eye of thy all-seeing Majesty.  
Grant good Lord, that we 
Walking constantly withou●… God in holy fear.  may be able thus to walk with thee constantly, until we shall be translated hence, and with holy Noah, to endeavour to be still more righteous in our generation, and to be daily building our Arkes to save ourselves and Families, and all other that we can get into the same, from the flood of thy vengeance, that is rushing upon all the world of the wicked.  
And albeit the world scorn 
Albeit the world scorn and hate us for it.  and deride us daily for it, and though we be the only talk and hatred of the wicked, and as men appointed and designed to death only for this our fear of thee, in the bloody hopes of thine and our proud enemies, yet cause us herein to honour thee, that we may not fear the faces of them while we walk in thy blessed Commandments, and do only as thou requirest of us, but that by the might and power of thy heavenly Spirit, we may be more full of all Christian courage, as the three worthy Children of the Captivity, & as good Daniel and holy Nehemiah.  
And yet more also enable us herein likewise to honour 
To shewforth our honour towards the Lord by our Humility.  thee before the world, and to show openly before men and Angels, that we have set thee uppe in our hearts to be our God, even by walking humbly with thee, that though the world regard thee not, but thou art far above out of their sight, and though they do band themselves against thee, against thy heavenly word and servants; yea though they scorn all thy judgements and threatenings, as the Giants before the flood, and as proud Pharaoh and Herod did, yet we may all walk ever in all humility and lowliness of Spirit before thee.  
Make us ever to have before 
To this end, to have ever before our eyes God's excellency & our own vileness and danger by Nature, and Satan's malice.  our faces thy glorious excellency, and our own vileness; thy holiness, and our sinfulness, and that not only by the fall of our first Parents, and by the whole course of our sinful lives, and also the power, subtlety, and malice of Satan against us to destroy us each moment, without thy special preservation & mercy; but even for the very corruption of our sinful natures which still dwell in us; that body of death which would carry us to destruction▪ yea▪ even to hell itself every minute, if thou in the riches of thy mercy shouldest not restrain it, and shouldest not cover all our sins, yea, keep and uphold us.  
Oh give us hearts, that 
That we may give to the Lord all the glory of our standing and perseverance in grace & of each good thing.  herein we may all magnify thy great name, in giving unto thee, as is thy due, all the glory of our standing & perseverance in grace, and of every good thing that ever we enjoy, acknowledging from our souls, that they are all the free gifts of thy rich mercy, and that we are not worthy any of them, nay that we are much less than the least of them, as thy dearest servants 
That we may withal give him his glory mourning continually for all the dishonours done unto his name, & all provocations against the Churches.  have been wont to do.  
And good Lord, herein make us specially able to give thee thy glory, in being thoroughly humbled, and in mourning continually for all the heinous sins, whereby thou hast been, and art still, daily more and more provoked against the Churches, for all the dishonours done unto thy great name; that we may be every one as righteous Lot in Sodom, and as the mourners before the Captivity, and as those worthy servants of thine, both Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel, until we shall see again the setting up of thy glory and Gospel▪ thy gracious countenance shining upon all the Churches, and the full delivery of thy dear Children, out of the hands of their most merciless & bloody enemies.  
Oh grant, that hereby our 
To pray to be able to see hereby who they are that truly honour the Lord▪ & have set him up for their God.  eyes may be open, to see aright both who they are, that truly honour thee, by having thee their God, as they ought, in setting thee thus up in their hearts, in every one of these respects, and who are hereby truly thankful for their great deliverance from Egypt and Babylon; yea, from Satan and eternal damnation. Hear us for jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour.  

Another Prayer, according to the first Commandment.  
OH Lord, most glorious, 
To discern of the greatness of the sin of all the Churches, whereby he is dishonoured & provoked.  and most blessed, as we entreat thee to manifest who they are which truly honour thee, having set thee uppe in their hearts as their God: make us able by these likewise, to discern of the greatness of the sin of all the Churches, when after so long a time, there yet appeareth so little true saving knowledge of thy Majesty; but that such a 
By palpable ignorance & blindness in them.  gross and palpable darkness is upon the most congregations and places, that the people are ready to receive any errors broached amongst them, and that so great a part of thy people seem now much more ready to receyve Popery and superstition again, then to stand forth for the maintaining thy heavenly Gospel, with the loss of any thing for it; and so very many thereby so forward, to put their necks under the yoke of Antichrist again, rejecting the sweet yoke of jesus Christ.  
When there is also such a 
By Atheism  world of Atheism, as that so many both in Court & Country live as if there were no God, no heaven, no judgement, no place of torment. Such multitudes perishing daily for lack of this knowledge, living as without Christ, being ignorant of all saving knowledge of him, and so go hoodwinked to hell: worse than the Ox that knoweth his owner.  
Make us able hereby, to 
Unbelief.  consider aright, how justly thou mayest be provoked against the Churches for our wonderful unbelief, and mayest even give us up into our enemy's hands for the same, when there are so marvellous few to be found in all the Churches, who show forth their saving knowledge of thy Majesty, and faith in thee, by their conversations, by making a right conscience of every one of thy blessed Commandments to obey them; or of thy judgements or threats to restrain them from sin; or of thy sweet promises and mercies to be encouraged thereby to run more cheerfully in the narrow way of life; but all sorts, except the small remnant, full of profaneness, or extreme licentiousness.  
Oh make us to behold, that carnal confidence, which so 
Carnal confidence.  possesseth all almost generally that (in steed of honouring thee, by having set thee up to be our only confidence and strength) we do trust in vanity, making flesh our arm; either relying upon our wit, our policy and counsel, or other like means; by all which, as our hearts are withdrawn from thee, so we have and do bring a fearful curse upon ourselves, making these our gods.  
Lord make us able to consider of this more seriously, & of the truth hereof by this one thing, that in all our straits and fears, we so little run unto thy Majesty to seek thy face and help in the first place, by humbling our souls before thee, and seeking to pacify thy wrath as we ought; but only look to the outward means, as relying upon them alone or principally.  
And Lord we entreat thee to show us in our hearts, and to set plainly before our faces, how in all the rest of these holy duties, we have provoked thee alike; how in steed of taking to heart the dishonours done unto thy heavenly Majesty, and being zealous for thy glory, we have been, and are so generally, either stark cold, or lukewarm as the 
lukewarmness.  ●…odicean, that thou mayest justly spew us out of thy mouth, or at least, that we are so mervailously decayed and fall'n from our first love.  
Lord give us hearts to consider of our most heinous sin in this behalf, that in steed of so loving thee, thy truth, and servants as we should do, if we had set thee up truly in our souls and consciences, as our God; we have almost every 
Loving other things more than God's Majesty.  one set up some other thing, which we manifest plainly, that we have, and do love, and prefer before thy glorious holiness, as having our affections set thereon much more, then on thy heavenly Majesty, and for obtaining or enjoying whereof, we are not afraid to endanger ourselves to lose thy favour, as some of us our children and friends to make them great; others, our pleasures to take our delight, and satiate ourselves in them; others of us, and that very generally, the riches, pomp, honour, and wealth of the world; and all of us, except some little remnant, preferring our own selves, our own honour, ●…ase, peace, and safety, and whatsoever is most pleasing unto us, before thy glorious Majesty, and thy heavenly Commandments.  
Lord make us able to see, how we have and do provoke thee generally, to pour out thy wrath upon us all: some of us by gross disobedience 
Disobedience  and obstinacy against some one or other of these thy Sacred Commandments, if not all of them (wherein soever they cross the corruption of ou●… own hearts) and that against the very light of our own consciences; although thou hast told us plainly, that this hath been, and is, nothing else but rebellion against thee, 
1 〈◊〉▪ 15, 22, 23  and as the sin of witch craft in thy eyes.  
How others of us, dishonour thee by our timorousness, 
T●…ousnes.  fearing the faces of men more than thy glorious face; and thereupon doing or forbearing good or evil only, for fear of man; wherein we have and do commit manifest Idolatry, making Gods of men, and setting them up in thy place. How others of us tempt thee by presuming upon 
Presumption.  thy mercy, to be bold to sin, because thou art so merciful; though thou hast told us directly, that thou wilt not 
Deut. 29, 19, 20, 21.  be merciful to such.  
Yea, which is yet a higher degree (good Lord:) Make us to see how many amongst us, in ●…teed of having so set thee up as our God in our hearts, & of being continually humbled before thy glorious Majesty, for all our sins and provocations, have added fuel to the kindling and inflaming thy wrath against us; as 
Pride against God.  all amongst us, who have set ourselves against thy Word, thy judgements, or servants, even with an high hand, as if it were in despite of thy Majesty, and even in defiance of thee.  
O●… make us to see and acknowledge 
To see that as the Popish sort have set up their false Gods outwardly▪  all our sins, and withal, that as the Popish sort in every place, have set up other Gods to anger thee, as chiefly their holy Father the Pope (whose word and ordinances they reverence above thine; rejecting thy word utterly in regard of their Pope's decrees and traditions) and with him have set up all their Saints and Idols, to whom by their invocation of them, they give his glory; so every one of us, who albeit in words we profess thee our God, have yet in our 
So we in our hearts.  hearts set up other things, which we prefer before thee, and on which we spend more of our thoughts, & more of our love and care to enjoy them, then on thy Majesty; even we likewise have set up so many false Gods in our hearts, to provoke thee to the uttermost.  
And finally, good Lord, 
To see even by this first Commandment how few do truly honour the Lord.  make us all able to see by this first commandment of thine, how wonderful few they are, so far as we are able to conceive, who by the light of their good works, do indeed and truth glorify thee their heavenly Father, by showing forth before men and Angels, that they have so set thee up in their 〈◊〉 as their God: and those few that 
All wicked men maligning all who have so set him up, so to glorify his great name.  do so indeed, are the men principally maligned of all the people of the world, even for this cause principally, because they show in their lives, that they have thus in their hearts set thee up to be their God, although that they be the only blessed people, having thee their God, all other being in a most miserable estate; and that they are therefore the only men in honour and favour with thee, and by whom chiefly, as by Abraham, Noah, and Moses, thou saves●… and preservest▪ all the rest of us.  
Make us Lord to understand 
To be able to conceive aright hereo:  and conceive aright hereof, and that for this very 〈◊〉 alone, whereby we have 
That we may wonder how even for this sin God hath spared us so long.  so generally se●… ourselves, not only to malign and dishonour the●…, but even to fight against thy heavenly Majesty; we may wonder how thou hast spared us of this nation hither to, and not left us up as the other Churches, until we shall see and acknowledge what we h●…e done against the●…, our most gracious and out most blessed God in this behalf. 
That we may never ●…est until we have so set up the Lord in our hearts.   
Hear us, Oh tender Father, ●…nd suffer us never to ●…est, until we have repent particularly, of this our most heinous and crying sin; and that all of us, that ever look▪ to have a strong assurance that we belong to thy eternal ●…lection, have thus truly se●… the●… up in our hearts, as our Lord and God. That so by our unfeigned repentance, thou mayest once again manifest thyself in the deliverance of all thy Churches and people, in a more glorious manner, to be still our God graciously reconciled to us again in jesus christ, & mayest so renew thy Covenant to remain our God, and the God of our posterity, through him, and for his sake alone, for evermore,  
Amen, Amen▪    

XII. A humble confession of the sins of the Churches, and an acknowledgement of God's righteous proceeding for our unthank fullness and transgression of his Laws: and for that though we have heard of all their miseries, and known our own dangers▪ yet we have not been humbled, nor made our supplications as we ought, according to the 1. of Nehemiah.  
OH Lord God of heaven 
An importuning of the Lord by his justice and mercy.  and earth, who art the great and terrible God, proceeding most fearfully in thy dreadful judgements, even against thine own dear people and children, as thou didst against thy people of Israel, for their unthankfuluesse, & for their despising, & transgressing thy blessed Laws and Commandments: and yet art withal full of mercy and tender compassion to thy people, repenting of their sins, and truly humbled for their provocations; thou, who keepest, Covenant and mercy for ever, for all that truly love thee, and who desire unfeignedly to observe all thy Commandments: hear us and all 
To hear his people crying jointly to him.  thy poor Churches and people in all the earth, at this day looking up to thee alone and crying loud unto thee.  
We pray thee (Oh tender 
To behold the miseries and dangers of all his poor people  Father) that thine eyes may be open, and thine ears may be attended, both to behold the miseries and dangers, and to hear the prayers of thy poor servants which we all jointly pour out before thee day and night, for our brethren thy servants and children which are in such great affliction; and do now uncessantly confess all our sins, and the sins of all thy people, which we have sinned against thee. Both we, and our Fathers, all of us have grievously provoked thee now this threescore years and above, even since thou first took us by the hand to bring us forth of Egypt & Babylon; and didst also carry us out as upon Eagles wings by thy▪ mig hty hand and o●…t-stretched arm.  
Oh Lord, we have heard 
A humble confession, how hearing the miseries of our brethren and, their perils, yet we have not been humbled for them.  long, & do daily hear more and more, of the innumerable miseries which thou broughtest upon our brethren and sisters in the Palatinate, it being a principal member even of our own selves; And so in Bohemia and the Countries adjoining to it, though further remote from us, yet our dear brethren and sisters in Christ jesus; and so likewise in the Churches of France, hard at our doors, in all the direful slaughters, and butcherly cruelties, which thine & our merciless enemies have executed upon them in their bloody rage, without any pity. We have also heard, and do still daily hear ringing in our ears, the miserable state and condition of the residue of them that have escaped the bloody sword: some of them enduring all kind of violence and calamities of all sorts, living in all reproach, the wall of their jerusalem being broken down, the gates there of being burnt with fire, all the rest of them living in continual fear, because of the deadly fury, and hellish plots against them to destroy them all. And yet though we have long heard, & do daily heave of these things, and of the rage of thine and our enemies still increased against them all and against ourselves, have we not with thy holy servant Nehemiah, 
Neh. 1. 4.  sit down, wept, and mourned for them; muchless fasted and prayed before thee the God of heaven in their behalf, in any such manner as we ought.  
Oh thou our most holy 
A further confession how we have all sinned in our extreme unthankfulness & breach of our Covenant with the Lord.  God, and pitiful Father, we humbly confess and acknowledge, that we have all grievously sinned against thee, we have not kept thy great goodness in remembrance, which thou show'dst unto us in delivering our fathers and us so wonderfully from Egypt & Babylon by so mighty a hand; nor the many great preservations and deliverances, which since that time our ears have heard, and our eyes have seen; how thou hast rescued us from their jaws, nor yet have we kept in memory how thou tookest us to be thine own peculiar people of all the people of the earth; made thy Covenant with us to be our God, and that we should be thy people, so that we would but walk in this thy Covenant.  
But this our Covenant with thy Majesty, though all of us who profess thy Gospel, have solemnly entered into, for ourselves, our children, and posterity, and every one bound ourselves by thy holy Sacraments, chiefly by our Baptism vow; yet we have all heinously transgressed, we have cast it behind o●…r backs, trampling under foot thy blessed Commandments, thy statutes & judgements.  
Hereby (good Lord) have we most justly brought all this thy fierce wrath upon so many parts of thy Church, and also provoked thee to threaten most righteously the like, or more heavy, to come upon us all, until we all see our unthankfulness and our breach of Covenant: and that we do all jointly humble ourselves under thy most mighty and most fatherly hand, to give thee thy glory, by renewing and confirming this our Covenant in our true and our unfeigned repentance.  
We therefore do most freely acknowledge, that we have all most grievously and fearfully transgressed, even in all the Churches, against that first and great Commandment; yea indeed, against every one of thy most sacred Commandments, in a high degree, in one kind or other, and that in a special manner, and (as it were) with a high hand.  
For concerning thy inward worship, and giving 
How concerning Gods inward worship, multitudes amongst us have set up Satan to adore.  thee thy due glory, by setting thee up as chief in our hearts, to adore and worship thee as our glorious God. We humbly confess for ourselves and brethren, even against us all, that all of us who in the midst 
As all living in blindness or any heinous sin.  of this shining light of thy heavenly word, do still content ourselves to live in ignorance and blindness, or in any heinous sin, and especially in Athiesme or profaneness, have set up Satan the God of this world, in our hearts to be our God; and that he it is that ruling there, so blinds the eyes of all such, lest the light of thy heavenly truth should shine unto them, and they should be converted and saved thereby.  
Multitudes of us (O Lord 
All who have set up the world in any kind.  thou knowest) have set up the world as our God, very many of us the riches, other the pleasures, and others of us the honour and pomp of it to adore; many other, that Antichrist the Pope of Rome, as all who are Popishly affected in all the Churches, who all prefer his decrees and ordinances before thy heavenly word; for that all these, and likewise all others, who adore or honour any creature with that honour which is due to thy heavenly Majesty alone, or above thee, have and do prefer all these before thee, and set them up in thy place. 
Very few who have set up the Lord as we ought.   
But very few there are amongst us (Oh most holy Father) who have so set thee up as we ought to do our most glorious Lord and God; that is, so as to set our whole heart upon thee, and to put our whole affiance and confidence in thee, to love thee with all our heart, soul, strength, and might; to be zealous for thee, for thy sincere worship and truth; but we are rather (good Lord) very generally as the Laodicean lukewarm, worthy to be spewed out of thy mouth. Yea Lord, we have in very many of us increased our sin in this, in hating and scorning all such, as have been more zealous for thee and for thy truth, than ourselves are: & in that so many of us have sought utterly to destroy all power of true godliness, in whomsoever it hath appeared, yea that so very many of us have opposed ourselves, as it were fight even against thine own sacred Majesty, like the Giants before the Flood. 
For his outward worship in the second Commandment, how we have ●…inned.   
And for thy outward worship, the sin of multitudes of us (Oh Lord) hath been, and is no less to provoke thy holiness, as in all those in each of the Churches, who instead of worshipping thee only, according to thy blessed word in Spirit and truth, have and do worship and do adore thee by Images, Crucifixes, & the like Idolatrous or superstitious devises, or by any will-worship whatsoever, devised by man, without the warrant of thy sacred word: although those worships have been most goodly in show, and pretended to most fair and holy ends. And much more, in and by all those who have or do worship Satan, thy sworn enemy in thy place, using devilish Arts, to effect their desires, and to bring to pass strange things by his help. This we confess likewise, what multitudes there are in the Churches, who have and do worship thee hypocritically, merely in outward ceremonies and bare shows of religion, and also of those who halt between thy pure and sincere religion, and the religion of Antichrist.  
And so likewise of such as worship mereely as the Pharifes, being forward in small matters, in tithing Mint and Cummin, omitting in the mean time, the most weighty; and namely, all true faith, and unseigned repentance, and true turning unto thy Covenant.  
But for those (Oh gracious Father) who by their conscionable walking, do manifest to the world, that they sincerely worship thee in spirit and truth, when we consider of them aright how few they are, we may wonder at thy goodness in sparing us for their sakes; seeing they have been not only so few, but also so hated, scorned, & abused, for thy sake alone.  
Moreover, for taking thy 
Confession how we have increased our guiltiness by taking God's name in vain.  glorious name in vain (Oh holy Father) we acknowledge again to our own shame, that we have made ourselves extremely guilty, and worthy of all thy plagues, for that besides all the fearful oaths and blasphemies, daily belched out against thy greatness, thou hast so sensibly spoken unto us by thy blessed word, and by all thy glorious works, chiefly by threatenings and judgements, upon ourselves more mildly, and upon our brethren in a more fearful manner, and yet we have not harkened unto thee. And moreover for that besides all these, thou hast spoken unto us, by the voice of thy mercies in all thy great deliverances and miraculous preservations of us in this Nation specially, and through the incredible continuance of all thy blessings; still by them all calling us all to know thee and to meet thee, by an unfeigned humiliation, before thy vengeance be poured out upon us for all our sins. And for that yet we have not heard to tremble before this glorious name, The Lord our GOD, and unfeignedly to turn unto thee by our unfeigned repentance, but have hardened our hearts, to increase and hasten thy wrath by all our blasphemies and sins, whereby we have caused thy great name to be blasphemed amongst the enemies unto this very day. 
And principally for profaning his Sabbath, which might justly make all our countries to rest and keep Sabbaths to him in that doleful manner, that some do already.   
And finally, for our Sabbaths, Lord we have and do●… confess again to the covering of our faces, that we have so polluted them in all the Churches▪ as that all of us do●… and must needs acknowledge, that even for this sin alone, had we no other, we have most righteously deserved, that thou shouldst so begin to kindle such a fire of thy vengeance in the gates of all our chief Cities, as should not be quenched; like as thou hast so fearfully done in foreign parts, & so often threatened us ourselves here at home. Yea (holy Father) we have made ourselves worthy, that thou shouldest thus proceed in thy fierce wrath, to cause all our lands to keep such dreadful Sabbaths, being possessed by thine and our enemies, as so many of them do already, and seeing we would not serve thee in our own good lands, under thine own servants with cheerful & glad hearts, that we should serve thine and our enemies, not only in our own, but even in foreign Countrye●… with heaviness and terror all our days. And as we have sinned, rebelling against thee in every one of these: so likewise against all the rest of thy holy Commandments: and even against thy heavenly Gospel and ordinances, as that we have justly forfitted them all, and all other our privileges and promises.  
We therefore acknowledge 
Acknowledgement of God's righteousness in all that he hath done to the Churches & threateneth.  in the behalf of all thy people, that thou art righteous in all that thou hast done unto us: and if thou still further execute whatsoever thou hast denounced in thy blessed 
Neh. 1. 8.  Law against us. And yet notwithstanding we do humbly beseech thee, to remember the word, that thou commandedst by thy servant Moses, saying, Ye will transgress and I will scatter you among the people. But if you turn to me and keep my Commanddments, and do them, though your scattering were to the ut●…ermost part of the heaven▪ yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you to the place, which I have chosen to place my name there.  
Now these (dear Father) 
A humble prayer for them and for us all.  are thy people, yea, thy servants and children, our own brethren and sisters, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, & by thy mighty hand as well as ourselves, & some of them of the chief of us all, any one of whom is worth many thousands of the 〈◊〉 of us. Therefore (Oh good Lord) we beseech thee, let it be enough to awaken us all, that thou hast so far stretched out thy hand against these our brethren, being thine own children and inheritance, and let thine ear now at length hearken to the prayers of thy servant, and to the fervent supplications and loud cries of all thy servants, who desire to fear thy great name, and give us favour in thy presence, and in the presence of all those, whom thou hast set in thine own place, to be nursing-fathers' and nursing-mothers' to thy poor Church and people.  
Grant that their first care may be, to bring us all to unfeigned repentance for our sins, that thou mayest be pacified towards us: and then (good Lord) put into their hearts a holy submission to cast down their crowns before thy dear son our Lord jesus Christ, and to give all their power and authority unto him, to help by all holy means to redeem and restore his Captives, that they may again serve thee in their own places, each under their own vine and fig●…ree, & under the authority and command of thy de●…re servants, as ever they did before. Oh let this prevail with us all, to make us all to remember our vows, to ●…urne to the obedience of thy blessed Commandments, and especially to turn hereby to keep thy Sabbaths, and to reverence thy Sanctuary; that thou mayest as much lift them and us all up in mercy, as thou hast formerly cast them down: and that thus we and all future Ages may learn to fear thy great name, and evermore sound out thy praises, both in word dn●… deed, expressing our thankfulness in all holy and new obedience, that so thy glory may shine in all the world. Hear us most merciful Father, in these our humble requests and all others, etc.   

XIII. A humble confession of the heinous sin of our land, and namely in all the Popish sort, who have so fearfully polluted it, in rejecting the Lord and his pure religion, casting it forth of these hearts, and setting up the Pope of Rome with his abominable Idolatry and superstition in place thereof, to provoke his heavenly Majesty against us: with prayer for pardon, and that they, and all other may in due time, see this fearful sin, that casting out Satan and Antichrist, they and all of us may again set up our Lord jesus Christ, to the pacifying of his sacred Majesty, and the saving of us all▪  
OH Lord, most holy, and most glorious, who canst not bear with any kind of impuri●…y or other wickedness in thy people which profess thy name, & whom thou hast chosen to set thy Tabernacle amongst, and much less that they should reject thee, and cast thee forth from r●…igning in their hearts, & should set up Satan and Antichr●… to obey them in thy ●…lace: open 
〈◊〉 that God may 〈◊〉 pen out eyes to se●… what we have done▪ in so ●…arre returning to Po●…ery again especially of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉▪  the eyes of all them, who are superstitiously minded, and even the eyes of us all, to see what we have done in suffering that religion to th●…ive▪ and so far to grow up again, thrusting thee out with thy sacred truth, as in all who obey the Pope of Rome, receiving and reverencing hi●… word and ordinances above thy heavenly word▪  
Oh grant to all them, who 
〈…〉.  have so fallen away from thee rejecting thy glorio●…●…sty, and also to all who 〈◊〉 in a mammering; and much more all those who have so 
To dote so upon it again after such notorious discoveries of the vileness of it.  begun of late to dote after Popery, to bethink themselves seriously, what they will answer unto thy sacred Majesty, for their so casting thee off, and thy Religion after the time that thou hast so lo●…g, so clearly, and fully discovered the baseness and vileness of Popery, and so to cast it out of our land, by such a general consent of our Princes, Nobles, and Commons, and so good Laws made against it▪  
Cause them, and all sorts, 
How all sorts had seen before how they had been deluded by i●….  wisely to weigh and consider well with themselves, that this our whole state did not so cast it out at once, without just cause, nor our whole land so renounce it, without a most palpable discovery of the filthiness thereof. How before that time, even very Idiots and little children saw how all had been deluded and robbed by it, through all their Masses, Purgatory, Pilgrimages, Pardons, with all kinds of their juggling 〈◊〉▪ and how all was but to get money, to make themselves fa●…, and Lords of all, both bodies and souls of men; that all might be their slaves and vassals, like as it is in all the Popish Countries at this day. Make them all to understand and know, how all those, whose eyes thou hast not shut 
How Gods vengeance was most iust●…y co●… upon those their 〈◊〉 us houses.  up, did tken plainly perceive and acknowledge thy vengeance most justly upon all those places, called their religious houses; as their Abbeys, 〈◊〉, Nunneries, and the like, in their ruins & desolation, for all the abominations committed in them. How notorious this filthiness 
How ●…ous 〈◊〉 were for filthiness.  of them was, even more loathsome and abominable than the sin of Sodom, through their fullness of bread and abundance of idleness. How 
Blood.  they we●…re all red with blood, with the cruel and unnatural murder●… of Infant●… to hide those their odious sins.  
Cause them all at length ●…o understand and lay to hart, that those houses wherein was the chief practice of their religion, were nothing 
Being nothing else but dens of thiefs.  else but dens of thiefs, cozening and robbing the whole land, and every day by their new devises fetching in new spoils. How all this which is charged upon them in this behalf, was most apparent in this one thing, that hereby they had got into their hands, most of the pleasantest & fartest things of the Land to uphold their kingdom, and to support their wickedness, and so all other their delusions evident by most notorious discoveries, remaining upon perpetual record to all posterity.  
Lord at length make them, 
That all may know what their religion wa●… 〈◊〉, b●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  and all sorts wisely to understand, before it be too late, that if the continual practice of Sodommy, Whoredom, Murder, Lying, Robbing, swallowing up whole Nations, and all under a cl●…ake of devovon and pi●…y, could demonstrate a religion most abominable and accursed, then surely Popery must needs be it.  
That this was then a chief 
〈◊〉 ●…ere was then one part of that Babylon the mother of whoredoms and abominations.  part of that Babylon, which is called the mother of whoredoms and abominations of the earth, and that in the f●…ll hereof was a part of that vengeance verified. That Babylon 
Apoc. ●…7. 5.  is fall'n, it is fall'n, and is become 
And 〈◊〉 the ruin ●…f it a part of the fall of Babylon verified.  an habitation of devils, a hold of all foul Spirits; when as the most of them were afterwards haunted with devils in one room or▪ other of them.  
Good Lord, cause them 
How God hath as from hea●…en proclaimed the 〈◊〉 of his approbation of his religion professed amon guessed us.  moreover to bethink themselves how evidently of the contrary (as if it were from heaven (and how mightily thou hast maintained & proclaimed thy sacred truth, and convinced them all, and all the whole land, concerning the evidence of thy religion professed amongst us, by the blood of so many learned and most faithful Martyes; yea, by so many of thy Prophets and worthy Preachers in every part of our land, so many learned writers unanswerable. 
To think what they can answer for not being warned by so many & such notorious discoveries of their bloody rage and practices.   
Make them, and all of us, to lay to heart at length, what they can answer: into thee, who ●…ast discovered from time to time, such, & so many most barbarous and unnatural- 〈◊〉, either done or intended by their Jesuits and Seminary Priests, and other of that religion, and especially 
〈◊〉 of their ●…ligion  to be the fruits of their religion, and the practice of their own grounds and principles. Such continual plotting, attempting, and practising of murdering of Princes, ●…sion of States, butchering even their own friends and kinsmen▪ desolating their own native Countries, merciless massacring old and young, noble and ignoble, men, women, and children. 
To keep ever in 〈◊〉, memory▪ that insolent invasion of our nation.  Lord cause them and all sorts ever to keep in memory▪ that which was so much triumphed of by them before the victory, that outrageous insolent and most savage invasion of this our Nation, and at the time of a treaty about a marriage and amity, chiefly managed by her own children and native subjects, deluded by the principal Fathers and spreaders of that religion.  
Oh let that hellish Powder 
The hellish powder Treason discovering the cursedness of that religion.  treason, ever be before our faces▪ that wickedness, unto which no name can ever be found out meet and sufficient to express it, or able to set forth the nature of it. That which was so compact of all the principal works of the devil, both lying, murdering, and all kinds of cruelty, that thou (Oh Lord) madest them themselves, to be trumpeters and public proclaimers by it, of the abominable iniquity of that accursed religion, whereby it was contrived and managed; and that they themselves should show to all nations, that it is come out of the bottomless pit, and the very principal religion of Satan in all the world, under such a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of holiness. Lord give all thy servants grace, wisely to consider of these things, and to think how fearful it is, not only for them, who adjoin themselves, or turn to a religion of such abominations, but even for us all (who have been so warned thereof so many ways, and that from thine own Majesty▪ in such abundant compassion, and by so many infallible evidences) that we through our negligence in our several places have suffered it so to grow up again, ●…s thus to endanger us by it, and our whole Nation, yea, even all the Church and people of the Lord, besides the dishonouring and provoking thy heavenly Majesty to the uttermost.  
Oh gracious God, make 
To consider the ●…nies granted to the Gospel in the miraculous continuance of it, and preservation of our Princes.  them and u●… all, wisely to consider the wonderful Testimonies which thou hast contra●…ly granted to thy Gospel, in the miraculous continuance of it, preservation of our Princes, and us; with all our peace, notwithstanding so innumerable stratagems to have taken them away for so many years together, & how these have been as infallible arguments of thy favour and love towards us for thy Gospel's sake, and for thy faithful servants amongst us, as the like were tokens of thy favour towards judah or jerusalem.  
Oh make us to call to mind, how many a time thy people amongst us have even wondered at our incredible deliverances and preservations, with the defeating of their new hopes and long expected days, and also the new and almost continual discoveries of their wicked intendments, which even they themselves at this day, so many as i●… whom 〈◊〉 the light of nature 〈◊〉 do●… acknowledge, and wonder at the miraculous o●…turning of all the●… counsels, to wor●… for us, and against themselves 〈◊〉 this ●…ery day, so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thy 〈◊〉 and watchful eye over us, & hatred of their wicked●…. Wherefore (Oh blessed Father) 
To beg true repe●…tance for this and all our loud crying sins.  we humbly entreat thee, to great unto us all, true repentance for this amongst all other our fearful and crying sins, & daily 〈◊〉 up more and more, the 〈◊〉 of thine Anoyn●… our 〈◊〉 Sovereign, with all other in high place and chief authority under him, and all thy faithful Ministers, and whomsoever it specially concerns, to labour 
That our land may be purged of it and the evils threa●…ed prevented.  that our sinful Land may be fully purged of it, and the evils prevented, which thou threatnest against us, by the increase and spreading of it. Grant that thus we all jointly and generally, setting thee up in our hearts to worship and adore, and to receive thy sacred religion alone, may utterly extirpate and abolish all conceit of giving thy honour and sovereignty to that man of sin, or setting up his Idolatry or superstition in place thereof. That so we may remain thine own obedient people, that thou mayest likewise continue our most gracious God and loving Father, and so our most watchful protector for ever; and mayest never repent of the good that thou hast done, or further intended towards us; but mayest thus make us a most blessed and happy nation and people, amongst whom thou alone mayest solely relgne, until thy blessed Son shall come in the clouds, that then all we who are thine, may reign with thee in the highest heavens for ●…vermore. 〈◊〉 us oh most gracious God, h●…erein, and in all other things needful for us, or for any member of the whole Church for our Lord jesus Christ,  
Amen, Amen.   

XIIII. An earnest prayer that the Lord would open the eyes of our brethren and sisters, seduced by the Jesuits and other Seminary Priests▪ that they may plainly see, how palpably they are, and have been deluded by them: in what a fearful estate they all stand under Satan and Antichrist, and may speedily get them from under their Tyranny, and betake themselves to the banner of our Lord jesus Christ, to escape the ●…orment which they must otherwise endure with them for evermore.  
OH Lord God, most holy, and most righteous, thou hast said thou wilt be sanctified in all that draw nee●…e unto thee; and therefore as thou ar●… infinite in mercy towards all those who unfeignedly fear thy holy name, and ●…mble at thy word; and w●…t ●…eale thy secrets unto them, and make them of thy privi●… counsel; so thou art most dreadful & terrible unto all other, who regard thee not, in any such holy manner as to 〈◊〉 thee, and to receive the lo●… of thy most sacred truth.  
Awaken we beseech t●…ee, 
To pray for all 〈◊〉 with t●…e wine of popery and 〈◊〉 other ●…gered by i●….  all those who are drunk with the wine of Popery and superstition; that ●…t length they may behold in what ●… fearful and desperate state they stand under the power of Satan and Antichrist, ready to be ●…st into hell every moment of time. Make them 
To consider of the righteousness of God 〈◊〉 upon th●….  able to consider aright of the just 〈◊〉 which thou hast threatened to follow the contempt of thy Gospel, chiefly in the days of Antichrist, and whether for that very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have not deserved it to come upon them. 
2 Thes. 2. 10. 11. 12.  That therefore thou wilt send upon them strong delusions, that they shall believe lies and be damned; because they would not receive the love of thy sacred truth, so as to obey it that they might be saved.  
Make them to bethink 
To bethink themselves what it is so so renounce thei●…●…other and their Baptism 〈◊〉.  themselves wisely, & seriously, and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presence, what iniquity they have found in thee, 〈◊〉 in our way of life▪ or ●…n 〈◊〉 ●…ow they ●…de in Baptism, that they have so 〈◊〉 renounced and abjured it, and depar●…d from the bo●… of their mother to ca●…t her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and with her ●…hine own ●…jesty ●…o fearfully ●…o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 of their 〈◊〉 blindness and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, through 〈◊〉 strong 〈◊〉; where●…●…o many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 been, and are daily so carried away to that Idolatrous religion.  
Go●… Lord, make them able 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epistle prefixed to our sed ●…eed bro●…▪  to discern, how gross & palpabl●… those lies are, whereby the ●…cers do bewitch them; as ●…amely, that so lately divulged, of the Twenty several sorts of Bibles, which within th●…se s●…w years past▪ England hath brought forth▪ Cause them by this one, to 
To 〈◊〉 of their intoil ●…able ly●… devised to deceive the simple.  discern of all the rest of their delusions, when they dare proclai●… such notorious lies before al●… the world, as every poor simple body may understand & see, an●…●…ust needs 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them all t●…t 〈◊〉 ●…nto 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉 conceive in due time, that this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all other, their most deep●… and 〈◊〉 ●…entions, whereby they seek●…●…o raise a sland●…r upon thine own Me●…, 〈◊〉 truth, and people to make their poor seduced Pros●…lites to abhor●… them, and so to root out both the remembrance of thy great n●…me, of thy Religion, and people, from the face of the 〈◊〉.  
Make them to weigh well, 
How they abuse all the simple in persuading them that they have mo●… holy devotions, than w●….  how they have & do deceive, and most shamefully abuse them all, in persuading of them that they have more devotion in their Church then we in ours, and that therefore they are to join themselves to t●…em; when as they have hardly the tenth part of the books of devotion, and others tendi●…g thereunto, viz: to ●…orther Religion and god●…, which the ignorant ●…ort can come by, which w●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ours, and much less of 〈◊〉 S●…mons tending to 
●…●…ding them that their devotions are more 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉 better th●… ou●….  the ●…ame.  
Cause them to have a true sense of that delusion, that they tell them that their devotions are more holy than ours: when as ours are grounded directly upon thy most blessed and eternal word; 
1 Tim. 4. ●….  their upon doctrin●… and traditions of men; 〈◊〉 the doctrines of 〈…〉 of sin, 〈…〉 
〈…〉.  thy glory, th●…t 〈…〉 may 〈…〉 thee; their ●…o 〈…〉 thee of thine honour▪ 〈◊〉 giving it to 〈…〉 tend only to 〈…〉 Lord jesus Christ, 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 many other thing 〈…〉 place of him, 〈…〉 which 〈…〉 wholly to 〈…〉 pride of m●…n, theirs ●…o 〈◊〉 him up like Lucifer.  
Make them to concelve aright how ours help us to understand and keep our Baptism vow & Covenant with our God; theirs to keep them in ignorance of it all their days. Ours teach us to sight ●…anfully under the banner of our Lord jesus, and for him o●…ely; theirs to sight desparately against him, and all his armies: ours teaching and helping us to walk in the narrow path prescribed by ●…hee our blessed Lord and Saviour; theirs to kill all who will not run with them into by-paths and the broad way leading to hell.  
How ours instruct and guide us to live only the life of faith, directed by thy heavenly word▪ their's the life of unbelief; having nothing for the ground, but the mere word of sinful man; how ours teach and direct us to live the life of faith by a particul●…●…plying of Christ 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉, so truly engrafting ●…d in co●…porating us into Christ 〈◊〉 by his holy Spirit▪ and thereby making us good trees, 〈◊〉 we may bring forth good fruit; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to believe in general, and as the Church believes, without any such particular application: which ●…aith of theirs can never bring forth the ●…ound fruits of ●…anctification, and true righteousness, especially when they scorn and persecute this true and saying faith as fantastical and vain.  
Good Father, 〈◊〉 these poor souls to understand and know, how ours direct us to live the life of true godliness; guided by thy word and Spirit, which alone 〈◊〉 all the promises, for this and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 life; theirs teaching chiefly to live the life of superstition by bodily exerci●… themselves in such works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 never required in any such manner.  
O●… persuade them all how our●… bring to the true practisers of them, full assurance of thy 〈◊〉 and love; and thereby ●…oy unspeakable & glorious; theirs bringing nothing but only a ●…aggering hope, & so still doubting whether they be in thy favour or not; which very doubting, when the conscience shall be thoroughly awaked, will bring the very flashings of hell fire upon them. How ours are heaven upon earth, theirs hell upon earth; ours the sweetest in the end, when as each of them done in faith hath a reward promised thereunto; theirs the bitterest in the end, when instead of reward, thou wilt demand concerning the best of them▪ done without warrant of the word, who hath required these things 〈◊〉 your hands.  
Good Lord, 〈…〉 hearts according 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉, that our devotion●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Religion, to 〈…〉 ●…oly and un●…, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the widow and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; 
〈…〉.  theirs to make them polluted with lying and all filthy 〈◊〉; (as in their 〈◊〉 and other chief perswa●… to that Idolatry) yea, with the blood of Innocents'; to destroy the widow and the fatherless out of the earth, even all truly professing Christ name▪ ●…o that their religion i●… the most polluted with lying and murder of ●…nnocents, of all other Religions that ever 〈◊〉 in the world, whereby their 〈…〉▪  
Lord bring to their understandings, and cause them to think of it, and ponder it well, that all our devotions, as our Religion, ●…end wholly to ●…ke us faithful and loyal subjects, to pray for our Kings & Princes, and to have them in our hearts, to dye and 〈◊〉 live with & s●…r them; and that we dare not have an evil thought against the Lords Anointed; but that in our patien●… sufferings they may see their duties; their devotions ●…ending through the subtlety of Satan and the Jesuits, to make them clean contrary, and to carry false and trey to●… hearts against the Lords Anointed, unless the Lord 〈◊〉 wondefully overrule ●…hem by his holy Spirit. For they must of necessity be so 〈◊〉, for maintaining 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 devotions, and obeying their directors, and ghostly fathers, as to 〈◊〉 to destroy whatsoever 〈◊〉 hinder it, & to acco●… 〈◊〉 a most meritorious act, to destroy all 〈◊〉, & principally the chief of them.  
Make them to weigh this with themselves, how our devotions are made with understanding, and so in faith, and with a holy zeal without vain repititions; theirs without all understanding, in a blind devotion, with 〈◊〉 babbling, & repetition, which thou condemnest and 〈◊〉.  
Finally (Good Lord) cause them all at length, in mercy to understand, how our devotions are such as help us to live a true Christian life, in the practice of all the duties of piety and righteousness, in examining our spiritual groweth in grace, in heavenly meditations and contemplations, prayers, thanksgivings, and the like, all directing us to place our whole confidence for our salvation, and whatsoever else, only upon thy rich mercy in jesus Christ: ascribing all our salvation to him, and his merit alone; theirs instead of these works of piety, 
See the Spanish Monk.  are in their Masses, Dir●…, and Litanies, even to Saints, numbering and repeating upon their beads, their 〈◊〉 Nosters, Creeds, Ave mary's, and such other, and that in an unknown tongue, without any understanding, or right edification.  
So likewise (good Lord) make them to see and consid●… withal, how they set their confidence in these and other their superstitions works, & namely and principally, in the merit of the virgin Marie, and of other Saints; in Indulgences and Pardons, even for th●… 〈…〉 a num ber of such 〈◊〉 lying vanities; whereupon when they come to their death 〈…〉 beth ●…ke themselves a 〈◊〉 
H●…●…omming to ●…ve ●…eir eyes 〈◊〉 they are in forced to cast away all these with 〈◊〉 ●…ion, and he of our Religion in their death: Then Christ only.  more se●…ously they are f●…igne to c●… away all 〈…〉 all these, and to accoun●… 〈◊〉 loss and dung▪ & 〈…〉 only upon 〈◊〉 Christ; if then they ●…y 〈…〉 ●…ercy by him.  
Yea, 〈…〉 to consider well 〈◊〉 tim●…▪ ●…w if ever thou open 〈◊〉 eyes & 〈…〉 they 〈◊〉 than cast all these away 〈◊〉▪ detestation, as 〈◊〉 i●… 〈…〉▪ and rest only upon Christ, 〈◊〉 Christ 〈…〉 ever thou 〈…〉 that me●…y.  
〈…〉 all (good 〈◊〉) 〈…〉 more time they 〈◊〉 o●… 〈◊〉 spend in these 〈…〉 more they ha●…●…nd 〈…〉 increase their sin, and make their condemnation the heavier; and that one hour, yea, one minute, spent in true devotion, only in the name of 
Luke. ●…3. ●….  Christ, calling upon him, or thee the Father through him, with the repentant Thief upon the cross, shall be better unto them, than a thousand year spent in their superstitious manner.  
And for this cause (O●…●…ere Father) seeing by their doctrines and devotions, they can never have that true iustisying and saying faith, whereby they might be made partaker●… of ●…esus Christ, and so ●…e thy children, having thy 
Rhem. upon Rom. 3. 22. Sect. 7.  〈◊〉 and love, and doing such works as are pleasing & 〈◊〉 unto thee: but 〈◊〉, they do by all 〈◊〉 scorn and persecute 〈◊〉 ●…aith▪ make them all which belong to thy eternal election, to know their woeful estate, how they must all needs still remain in the estate of nature, and so of damnation, until they repent and turn to our Church again.  
Cause them (Oh most holy 
〈…〉.  and gracious Father) to apprehend this, and to be warned in time, that seeing their Religion cannot stand or continue, 〈◊〉 it be supported and holden up▪ by lying and murder and that these two, are, and have been ever the principal ad●…ancers of it i●… a●… Ages and Countries, & that this is notoriously known to all who will not sh●…t their eyes. And moreover, ●…eing th●… this is also their doctrine, so to promote and advance it: That, that Religion is undoubtedly of the devil, and that our Saviour himself hath in mercy so forewarned them of it, that they may get them out of Babylon, and stand far from it; for fear of her burning, and that they may escape her torment.  
Lord, make them able to 
That they must of necessity renounce it, or profess them selve●… to be of Satan their father.  conc●…, that these things being so (as their own hearts must needs bear witness, if they will suffer their eyes to be opened) they must of necessity renounce that Religion; or else profess themselves to be of their father the devil; 
john. 8. 44.  as much as ever were the jews who sought so to kill our Saviour, and that they will 〈◊〉 his works wittingly and obstinately, fight against thee our blessed Lord and Captain, and against all thy armies, to their utter perdition.  
Good Father, make them 
To think what they will do when Christ shall come to take vengeance of all his enemies.  able to think what they will do at that day, when thy Son Christ jesus, shall come to take vengeance of all his enemies, when all the Kings and greatest Monarches of the earth, who have not helped him, and his 〈◊〉▪ to the advancement of his heavenly Gospel, shall ●…ry to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and mountains to fall upon them, and cover them▪ from 
Apoc. 6. 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉. ●…7.  the face of the Lamb, and of him that 〈◊〉 upon the throne; ●…hen the 〈◊〉 their ●…ther, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and all his children that have been deceived by him: ●…nd especially they w●…o ha●… 〈◊〉 for 
Apoc. 20. 10.  him, against ou●… 〈◊〉 jesus Christ▪ and his 〈◊〉, must be●… 〈◊〉 and bo●… and ●…ast 〈◊〉 him into th●… 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 and brimstone, to be 〈◊〉 with him for evermo●…e.  
Lord, make them to consider 
To weigh & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 way and the●… in the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉.  of all these things in time, to weigh well our 〈◊〉 of life, and their way of life; our rul●… of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 devotions, and their rule of prayers and devotions; to weigh and try them in the 〈◊〉 of the Sanctuary, whether will outweigh, and whether are more agreeable to thy holy word, whereby they and we all must be weighed and judged.  
So vouchsafe this grace to all other, who are wavering or doubting, to think seriously of all these things, to try them all by thy blessed word, by that true weight, that heavenly fire, which will consume 
2 Cor. 3. 2●…  all their timber, hay, & stubble. Make them to be afraid of conferring with, or hear●…ening to the Serpent, their Jesuits, or other Semi●…ary priests, who all holding the same head, their holy Father the Pope, must needs be ●…ll l●…d and inspired by the same spirit, whatsoever sh●…wes they make of the contrary. Give them grace to be warned by the example of our first mother; and keeping thy watch, to go to thee first by instant prayer, in all doubts 
Dan. 9 2. & 2. 17. 19  and difficulties, as Daniel did, and after to confer with thy heavenly word, and with thy faithful Ministers & servants for resolution therein. 
For all to be always growing in grace, for fear of being given up t●… their delusions.   
Above all, grant unto all of us who yet stand by thy mercy, to labour to grow daily in the love of thy truth, and in a conscionable obedience to thee in all thy ways: watching and praying continually, that we may never be given up with them to these strong delusions; but that contrarily by our faith and obedience, we may have boldness to draw nearer and nearer unto thy holiness, with 
That we may have more power in prayer to help to pull every Lot out of Sodom.  that thy faithful servant Abraham, and may help by our prayers, though not to save that filthy Sodom, which thou wilt have burnt down to hell, yet to pull out all thy Lots before, even all amongst them, that belong to thy eternal election, before the fire and brimstone rain down from heaven upon them, to consume all the wicked scorners amongst them eternally.  
Make us all likewise, to 
To consider who they are that are carried away to them  think with ourselves, whether we can name a man, that was first truly grounded in the principles of our Religion, and after coutinued to make conscience of his ways according to the same, that ever the devil or the Jesuits have been able to seduce: but only such, as either were never well grounded, or never truly made conscience of their ways: or such at least, as having fallen by little and little from their first conscience and childlike fear, and so from the love of thy truth, having yielded to be overcome by uncleanness or some notorious sin, and so given way to Satan to be deluded by him.  
'Cause all to understand, how by this means they lie open to Satan, and are hereby made fit for a Priest to absolve them, and make them as clean as when they were first borne, as they will bear them in hand; and thus to be reconciled to the Church, which hath this holy power, and can thus pardonand acquit them whatsoever they do, or howsoever they live, and that without any pain or trouble: especially if it be so, that they have money enough to purchase their pardons and the like.  
Grant us therefore this grace, to use all means for ourselves and all ours, and even 
To use all means for ourselves & all others that we may be kept.  for all those whom we would save from hell, that we may all first be sound instructed in the grounds of the Catechism, & in every principle and part of thy sacred truth; & after learn to make such a conscience of all thy blessed ways and Commandments that thou mayest never give us or them up to these delusions; but we may for ever remain under thy safe protection, until thou shalt translate us into the heavens, from all the danger of the Dragon.  
And for these our seduced 
So for all seduced by any sin.  brethren, and all others deluded die Satan through impenitency in any fearful sin; make us able, first to consider wisely of their estate: secondly, of the means how to save them, and to pull them from it: and lastly, never suffer us to rest, till we have showed our uttermost love unto them to bring them to our Lord jesus Christ.  
Oh open our eyes, and 
That they may be able to see in what estate they stand.  help us, that we may see how they are under the power of Satan, and thine enemies; every moment of time ready to be cut off in thy just vengeance, and to be cast into hell.  
Make us able to have the like tender commiseration of each of them, as of a Captive under the cruelleft tyrant; and as of one in a dead sleep, in the midst of a dreadful fire, ready each minute to seize upon him; or in a deep water sinking down: or as of a poor Lamb in the mouth of a roaring Lion, ready to be devoured each moment: considering that the case of never a one of these, can possibly be the thousand part so bad, as of them that are ready each moment to be cast into the lake of fire, and there to be tormented for evermore.  
Enable us withal, to think 
How they are deluded.  ever of their estate, and to keep in memory these things and the like, which demonstrate to all the world, how palpably they are deluded & bewitched: and so to use them and all other helps, whereby they may be rescued.  
Assist us so with thy heavenly 
That we may not rest until we have awaked them or used all holy means, for them.  grace, that we may never rest, till we have awaked them out of that dead sleep, and convinced their consciences some way, of their woeful case and estate, and after used all holy means, which thou hast, or ever shall reveal unto us, to pluck them out of the fire; at least thus praying and crying unto thee our blessed and gracious God for them, as the Christians did for Peter in prison.  
Lord, make them to know 
That the Lord will pluck them forth if he haye ordained to save them.  for certain, that if they be thy Lambs thou wilt rescue and pull them out of the Lion's mouth; if thou have ordained to save them, thou wilt pluck them out of the fire, and out of the water; thou wilt make all the chains & fetters of the devil to fall off from them: no doors shall keep them, no sorcery shall prevail against them, beyond the time that thou hast appointed.  
Cause us all to know, and 
That all that seek not to save them are g●…y.  fully to understand, that he that saveth not, destroys; so every one of us, that doth not according to our places and callings, seek thus by all holy means to save them all▪ and to preserve all thy Churches, from the dangers threatened by thee, are guilty of the neglect hereof, and so of the blood of all before thy heavenly Majesty, and so much more, as we are more nearly tied, by any more special bon●… of place, call, or otherwise.  
Hear us (Oh tender Father) 
That all may herein show our loves.  for them all, and all so bewitched, and deluded by Satan, and that herein we, chiefly all our Pastors, and watchmen, according to their places, may show all love, and holy obedience to thee: and to all thy tender Lambs which belong to thy fold; even all thy dear and precious ones, committed to their trust, never leaving thee, till thou hast rescued and recovered them: for the full assurance of all our own souls hereby, that we are indeed truly thine, filled with thy 
For our full assurance.  holy Spirit, the Spirit of faith and love, and thereby sealed against the day of our Redemption: and that thou mayest show thyself stronger than Satan, and that he is but thy vassal, and also that thou art more merciful to save, than he can be malicious to destroy, for thy infinite pity, and endless compassion, through our blessed Lord and Saviour jesus Christ:  
Amen, Amen.   

XV. A humble thanksgiving for our dread Sovereign, our gracious Prince, the Prince and Princess Palatine, and all their royal progeny, and for all the great deliverances which our blessed God hath given unto them, and to us all by them: with an earnest prayer, that he may make them (each in their times and places) the happiest heads of the most prosperous and blessed Nations and people, that ever have been in the world.  
OH. Lord our God, infinite inithy mercy, and endless in thy compassions, who by thy wonderful providence, orderest all things in heaven and earth, disposing all to the right ends, which before the world thou hast ordained to thine own glory, and the good of thine elect; we do with all thankfulness 
An acknowledgement of God's mercies in our dread Sovereign & his royal progeny, with all our blessings & ho●…es continued by them.  of heart, humbly acknowledge before thy sacred Majesty, how we especially in this sinful Nation, & with us many other, and namely, all thy chosen flock among us are bound unto thy sacred Majesty, for the admirable setting up, and the wonderful preservation of thine Anointed servant our dread Sovereign, & of all his Royal progeny, with every of thy deliverances and mercies, which thou hast heretofore vouchsafed by them, or as yet dost through them, most graciously offer unto us all, upon our unfeigned repentance and true turning to thee. Lord make us ever to be wisely pondering, of thy divine and Fatherly providence, even in every one of these (which hath been so sensible that our very enemies have taken notice of it) and so give thee glory, acknowledging thy hand in them. Didst thou not (Oh good Lord) at the very naming of thy Royal Servant to 
As namely our deliverances at his entrance.  be our Lord and King, deliver us all from the hand of our Brother Esau, even from all those who had long vowed our death, and thirsted after our blood? Didst thou not thereby, cast such a terror upon all thine, and all thy Church's enemies, as that the fear of him, and of thy people fell upon them all, that not so much as adogge waged his tongue against any of thy servants: though our sins had long before cried for such a vengeance as they had threatened.  
And afterward, when we 
At the Powder Treason from Nebuchadnezars furnace.  had so provoked thee again, by our impenitency, and by all our unthankfulness, manifested in the breach of our renewed vows and Covenants, as that we were endangered to be consumed at once by that fiery furnace, made like Nebuchadnezars, large and wide, or much more terrible, by thine and our most merciless enemies (stirred up against us in thy wrath:) yet didst not thou again deliver us and pluck us forth, even as the three children of the Captivity, and cast in sundry of our enemies for us? Didst thou not also principally, work this as by the hand of thine Anointed, not suffering him to rest, until all our deliverance was wrought? And hast thou not both before and since that 
And all others.  time, given unto him many great deliverances: and in all his preservations still preserved us all, especially us of this Nation, together with all our blessings of so much peace and prosperity, as we still enjoy, in the midst of the calamities of the other Churches.  
And above all, hast thou not thus continued thy heavenly Gospel, the life of our lives, which hath been so removed from other Countries, together with their outward blessings: so as thou hast made him to this day the very breath of our nostrils, and that through him we enjoy all these our mercies, as under our vine and figtree, and by him givest us new and most blessed hope, that we shall enjoy them perpetually. Lord these are mercies and favours never to be forgotten of us: Good Lord set them ever before our eyes.  
And for our gracious Prince, besides all his and our former deliverances, & hopes in and by him, hast thou not 
Preservation of our gracious Prince, & us all with him, and the rejoicing of all 〈◊〉 souls through him.  made him to be to us as joseph▪ and disposed of all his journey and of his dangers in it, to the greatest discovery of the devices of our adversaries, and overturning the hopes of all our wicked enemies. Never suffer us to forget, how thou revivedst the hats of us all, making us to break out into joyful Triumphs & praises, when thou hadst caused us to see his face again, delivering him from so many perils, as our sins had brought him and ●…s into: and those dangers of all sorts, both by sea and land, yea both bodily and spiritual.  
Lord make us able to give 
The disposing of all that journey to so preat joy to all God's Church and people.  thee thy due glory herein, that thou sitting at the stern, hast disposed of all that journey, and all those adventures, to the admired improvement of all thy rich gifts and graces in thy Royal servant: caused him to see the vileness of that most odious superstition and Idolatry, which thy soul so much abhorreth, and which he otherwise had never so well understood. That thou hast taught us all to know by most happy experience, what the power of the prayers of thy people is, when they are sent up with an united force; that they are able to open the Iron doors, 
The experience therein of the power of prayer.  and to break in sunder the gates of brass, to make way for thy children and chosen clock, to pass through the midst of all thine and their mortal enemies. Lord make us to lay it wisely to heart, how thou hast made him so much more hereby, the future expectation and rejoicing of Israel, under thine Anointed servant.  
And likewise for that peerless Princess, Lord make us 
For our peerless Princess the crown of glory renewed upon her head.  all able wisely to consider, what another crown of glory thou hast set upon her head, even in her lowest abasement (which thou hast brought her unto for the sins of thy people) that she should thus excel in all true renown and fame, of all Christian and truly Heroic virtues, above all the Princes of the earth: that thou hast made her a Mirror to all of her sex, at this day in all the world.  
Oh suffer us never to forget 
For her delivery from the Nimrods' of the earth.  that wonderful preservation of her, when thou deliveredst her●… at the Powder Treason, from those cruel Nimrods' the bloody hunters, the reedifiers of Babel, who had in their account, made a prey of her in a special manner, by her to have accomplished all their hellish ends, and most merciless designs against our whole Nation, and against all thy poor Churches and people. Let it never slip out of our mind, that howsoever thou hast suffered her again to be chased, and pursued, as a Do before the 
Her preservation in the second pursuit, together with that illustrious Prince & all their●….  hunters, yet thou preservedst her in a miraculous manner, with that illustrious Prince, and all their Royal seed, and hast made them most fruitful in the midst of all their trials 
Their fruitfulness in their greatest trvals, to the astonishment of all their enemies.  and temptations; to the terror and astonishment of all thine, and thy Church's enemies, and the greater securing and comfort of thy people: to cause all thine to lift up their heads, in an expectation of a more glorious Age & time yet to come in all the world then ever heretofore.  
And above all, let this ever be before our faces, how thou hast thus wonderfully kept them all alive, against all the plots and layings in wait of Satan, and all his instruments, by all their stratagems, devises, and bloody pursuites, and hast preserved those thrice happy pawns & pledges of our peace and safety, though out of their own Countries and people, and in foreign parts.  
And finally, how thou 
Our wished and happy ●…ion begun.  hast begun this wished and happy union, amongst thy Churches and servants, & the cutting off the long wished hopes of the enemies of thy Church, under their pretended leagues of peace and amity, whereby they had so much undermined us, and expected our surprisal of a sudden, whilst we remained yet most secure.  
Not unto us (Oh Father) not unto us, but to thy great name, we give all the glory, humbly confessing, that by all our impenitency, and breach 
Confession of our deserts, that both they and we should have been left into the hand of the enemy.  of vows and Covenants, which we have so oft renewed, and that neither judgements nor mercies could prevail with us, and especially for making flesh our arm, & withdrawing our hearts and confidence from thy heavenly Majesty, we had long ago deserved, that both they and we, with all our blessings, should have been wholly left into the hands of thine & our enemies, which have and do so eagerly thirst after our blood; and that nothing at all hath kept us to this day, but only thy endless compassions, and the yearning of thy bowels at the cries and sighs of thy poor Saints and children in all the Churches, looking up to thee alone, and lifting up their hands unto thee.  
Awaken us therefore graciously now at length (Oh 
Prayers to be awaked to understand the thing; which concern our peace.  thou that hast kept thy Israel, and neither slumberest nor sleepest) and cause us yet in time, to understand the things that concern our peace, and whereby thou mayest be wholly pacified towards us in this Nation, with all thy Churches and people.  
Oh grant unto us (most tender Father) to know and throughly to conceive aright, that, ●…hat which we have so oft and so many a time promised unto thee, and so bound ourselves unto, in all our perils, and which thou hast so long expected▪ thou now expectest at our hands above all former times: now that thou hast added this above all former mercies, thus far to deliver us from our fears, and to vouchsafe unto us such hopes for all future times; & every day to renew the same, in that heavenly union and harmony of thy Anointed, and his whole most honourable Parliament, for thy Church & causes, and against thine enemies.  
Oh give us all such hearts, 
To perform truly whatsoever we have formerly promised.  that we may yet now at length perform whatsoever thou requirest of us, to make our repentance unfeigned & sound, and our full reconciliation thereby: in being humbled before thee, both publicly and privately, and in taking away all our abominations and crying sins, and in doing whatsoever may tend to the giving of thee thy due glory, with the greatest advancement of thy heavenly Gospel, and doing whatsoever thou requirest of us; for the ratifying and confirming all thy mercies towards us, and our making a firm union with thy Majesty, & amongst us all in jesus Christ, according to the right tenor of thy sacred truth.  
That thus, as thy hand 
That as the Lords hand hath been stretched out against us, so how it may be as apparently for us.  hath formerly been stretched out against us, and against thy Churches, and that the enemies have so far prevailed in their designs; so now at last their joy may he as the joy of an hypocrite, and that they may see their confidence as a spider's web. Oh grant such hearts unto us all, that thou seeing ou●… true repentance, mayest give to us, and to thy people, the upper hand; that we-may be above and not beneath, that we may not only stand valiantly, as one man of one hart and soul, for thee, & for thy heavenly Gospel, with thine Anointed, his royal progeny, and Dominions, and each for ourselves and ours, our children & posterity, and for the true liberty of us all: but also that all of us may be as bold as Lions, and being 
Filling us with heavenly courage.  strengthened by thee, and the power of thy might, five of us thy servants, may chase a hundreth (according to thy promise made to the true turning of thy people to thee) and a hundreth of us, may put ten thousand to flight.  
That thus thine Anointed, and all his Royal Progeny and posterity▪ may become the happiest heads of the blessedest progeny and dominions, that ever were formerly in all the earth: and all theirs, and our sins, and the sins of all the Churches may be freely forgiven, never to be remembered against us, or against any of thy true Churches any more, according to thy heavenly promise, 
jer. 31. 34.  and that for thy endless glory and praise, & the everlasting triumph of us all; that we may for ever sing praises unto thy great name, through jesus Christ, that King of Kings, our only Lord and Saviour,  
Amen.   

XVI. A humble thanksgiving, that the Lord hath already, begun so graciously to hear our prayers: with supplication, that as we have made entrance into this service, to help our Lord jesus, and his poor Churches, by our prayers and tears; so we may be every day more fitted and enabled hereunto; until we shall see, not only the deliverance of his Churches and Captives, but also the new jerusalem, and the glory of his Zion, and enjoy the full happiness of them for ever in the heavens.  
OH Lord God, most holy, and most gracious, most faithful and true; who remember'st always all thy 
A giving glory to God for remembering his promises.  gracious promises, which thou hast ever made to thy Churches and people in thy blessed word, and wilt in thy due time perform every one of them, even to all of us who are thine, when thou hast first truly humbled and prepared our hearts to pray, and importune thy sacred Majesty, seeking thee in order. We magnify 
So declaring himself to us.  thy great name, that thou hast so visibly begun to declare thyself to be mindful of thy promises, in so graciously inclining thy care unto our cries.  
We praise thee, and bless 
Proclaiming his mercy before us.  thee, that as thou didst proclaim thy name before thy servant Moses, to be The 
Exod. 34. 6.  Lord, The Lord strong, merciful, gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth: so thou hast done it before us all, especially us of this sinful Nation, that thou herein hast made it manifest, to the convincing of every conscience amongst us, in sparing us, at the prayers of some few of thy people unto this day.  
We glorify thee (Oh good Lord) that as thou hast caused it to be registered in thy book, for all the Ages of thy Church, how according to thy gracious promises, thou ever didst hear thine ancient people of Israel in their miseries, and when they cried to thee in their troubles, thou then deliveredst them from 
Causing his gracious favours towards us in our deliverances to be registered for all posterity.  their distress; so thou hast heard us of this sinful Nation, delivering us not only at our public humiliation, from the merciless intended invasion, but also plucked us from Nebuchadnezars' furnace, at the private sighs & groans of thy secret ones, and that so as that thou hast made these deliverances to be recorded for all succeeding times.  
Yea, we praise and magnify 
For still renewing his mercies.  thee, that thou still renewest these thy wonderful and fatherly mercies, to us a people so unworthy of any mercy, that thou hast hitherto continued, and evidently declared the riches of thy compassion in saving us from all our fears, first so graciously preserving and bringing back 
Preserving and bringing back our Prince.  our most Royal and hopeful Prince, disposing of all his dangers, and our fears, as thou didst to joseph▪ to the greatest comforts and hopes of thy Church: and that thou hast since so lately manifested such riches of thy love and kindness, in such a heavenly 
Confirming such a heavenly union, for the advancement of his glory▪ Gospel, and people.  union, among thy worthiest servants, our Sovereign Lord and King, with all his faithful Peers, and truehearted Nobility and Commons, for the advancement of thy glory and Gospel, and the saying of thy people, with the frustrating the hopes, and daunting the hearts of all thine, & thy Church's Adversaries: and in beginning to grant all things according to the cries of thy poor people, and even above our expectations, considering the heinousness of our sins.  
Oh Lord, who are we▪ that 
Sith he hath been so gracious at the prayers of a few.  even at the prayers of a few of us (in regard of the multitude that know thee not, and therefore do not, nor can seek thy face) thou shouldest be so gracious to us. Lift up 
What hopes we may have when we shall more generally & jointly cry unto him.  our hearts (good Father) that we may conceive aright what thou wilt do at our general cries, when we shall be jointly humbled before thee, and all seek thee as thou hast appointed.  
Grant specially this grace to every one of us (who have already, or shall hereafter give our names unto thee, to serve thee heevein, and help thy poor distressed Church and people) that upon this happy experience, we may 
To pray for more integrity & soundnesse of hart to be more able to persevere and prevail with God.  labour every day to attain unto more integrity & soundness, in walking uprightly and constantly before thee, in all thy holy commandments. Vouchsafe, that hereby we may get more boldness, whereby we may approach nearer unto thee, and even to importune thee with holy Abraham, Moses, Ezra, and Nehemiah, until we have obtained the pacifying of thy Majesty, by the taking away all the abominations & crying sins out of the Churches, the delivering of thy Captives, the restoring and re-edifying of thy jerusalem; and that all the hopes of our wicked enemies shall be at an end, and our dreadful dangers▪ and fears past, and that we shall visibly behold thy glory therein, and also enjoy thy glorious presence for evermore.  
To this end (dear Father) 
To use all means hereof more conscionably.  enable us by thy blessed Spirit, to use all the means furthering hereunto, and that much more careful & conscionably then ever we have done▪ for confirming our weak hands, & for strengthening our weary knees. Make us all ever to keep a fresh remembrance of thy goodness and mercy, how ready thou art to hear the cries of thy people, and of the power of our prayers, thorough our Lord and Saviour; how far they have already prevailed with thy Majesty. Cause us ever to have a ●…arefull and watchful 
To look ever at the word.  eye to thy blessed Word, that in all things we may have that for our guide, and our direction.  
Work in each of us a holy resolution, to cleave fast unto thee, without any departing 
To have a holy resolution.  or staggering, walking continually in all thy blessed Laws and Commandments for ever, even unto the end.  
Teach and help us to fear 
To fear always.  always the offending of thy Sacred Majesty, and that 
For the jords eye.  with a true childlike fear, because of thy holiness, who canst not abide any iniquity, no not in thy dearest Children, and because of the extreme rage and subtlety of Satan against all thine, dogging 
For fear of Satan.  us continually at the heels, to provoke us to sin against thee, that he may accuse us, and incense thy Majesty against us, if it may be, to leave us unto his malice, or at the least, to hinder thy love and blessing; 
For ourselves  And also, because of our own vile corruption, which is ready always to hearken unto him, and to betray us into his hand.  
Assist us to watch ever against 
To watch against all occasions, and over all parts  all occasions of temptations, keeping strict watch over all our senses, our thoughts, motions, words, and actions. Make us every 
To grow better daily.  day to wax better and better, still growing on toward that perfection, which we do daily wait for in the Heavens.  
Cause us ever to keep in fresh memory, that we are thorough our cursed Natures, and the industry of Satan, like him that is in a boar upon a strong stream, that if we bestir not ourselves constantly to go forward, we certainly go backward; if we but forget ourselves, or withdraw our hands never so little.  
Make us able to observe wisely, all our slips and failings; and ever to be careful forth with to seek the recovery of ourselves by unfeigned repentance, and by doing our first and best works. Grant unto us this grace, 
To look well unto our particular calling●…, that sathan take us not out of our ways.  that every one of us may have our own particular & warrantable callings, that we may know them well, and what special duties thou requirest of us in them, and that we may labour to walk faithfully therein that thy blessed Angels may rejoice to attend upon us, and protect us always, and Satan may never take us out of our way, to get any advantage against us thereby.  
Lift up our eyes evermore 
To have an eye to the recompense of reward.  to the recompense of reward, that therein we may cheerfully follow our Lord and Saviour, running fast towards the mark, until we shall attain the Crown, which he ever holdeth forth unto us in his right hand.  
Help us to set thee ever before 
Setting God at our▪ right hand.  our faces, and at our right hands, as thy servant David, that we may never sin against thee; but that we may go on courageously with holy Moses▪ as seeing thee with us ever that art invisible.  
Make us able to rejoice always in our happy estate, 
To go on rejoicing in the happiness of our estate.  thorough jesus Christ, by comparing it with the estate of the greatest Princes and Monarches, who are enemies unto thee, and whether we would change with the mightiest of them▪ Cause us to go 〈◊〉 cheerfully, not only contented with our condition, but also rejoicing herein, that the lines are fallen 
Psalm 16, 6.  unto ●…s in so fair a ground and that we have so goodly an heritage.  
Make us able in praying 
In praying to ●…ive thanks for that which 〈◊〉 we have.  continually for what we stand in need of▪ for ourselves, and for all the Churches and people of the Lord, ever withal 〈◊〉 give thanks for that measure which we have already, and for whatsoever deliverances, hopes, or other 〈◊〉, which we have formerly 〈◊〉; or do ●…ow injoy●….  
And finally, enable us in 
In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods▪ glo●…y.  whatsoever▪ we beg, to aim 〈◊〉 a●… the advancement 〈◊〉 glory, and of the kingdom of thy▪ Son, with the saying of thy people▪ that thus going on in the zeal▪ of thy glory▪ and in the ●…owels of commiseration towards thy poor joseph, in a tender feeling of 
Constant in the means.  his affliction, and in the constant use of all holy means, we may be assured, that we shall be as Caleb, every day 
As Caleb, jos. 14, 10, 1●…0  stronger and stronger, in all grace, and in the power of prayer; and as the green Olive in thy house, bringing forth more fruit to our old age and last days, that our last days may be our best 
Last days best.  days, & our last breath may be spent for thy Majesty, that so we may see the sel●…citie of thy chosen, and may reign and triumph with thee in heaven for evermore.  
Persuade all thy people, 
To persuade all of the necessity of this coming to help.  that every one who comes not thus to help thee & thy poor Church by their prayers, must perish; & that none can help indeed, but they only who seek to attain this integrity, and to abide 
Integrity in God's 〈◊〉.  and grow therein perpetually. Harken unto us (O most tender Father) in these our humble suits, and in whatsoever else thou knowest needful for us, for thy poor distressed Churches, or for any member of thy whole universal and Catholic church, even for the Lord jesus Christ his sake, thy most beloved Son, our only Mediator and blessed Redeemer and Saviour,  
Amen.   
FINIS.   

Protestants helps for Devotion, and matters belonging to the stirring up of the same.  

A  
Avgustines' Meditations.  
Allisons Meditations.  
Art of happiness.  
Abba Father.  
Abraham's Trial.  
Alphabet of Prayers.  
Anatomy of the Soul.  
anderson's prayers.  
Anchor of Faith.  
Art of meditation.   

B  
Bradfords' Meditations.  
Bezaes' Prayers.  
Banes Letters.  
Banes his holy helper.  
Banes his spiritual Armour.  
Bifields' Marrow.  
Bifields' signs of Salvation.  
Bifields' signs of a Wicked man.  
Bound, of Fasting.  
Banes on true Happiness.  
Banes his direction.  
Bifields' Treatises.  
Bifields' Principles.  
Burning bush.  
Boaring of the Eare.  
Benefit of Affliction.  
Battle between Virtues and Vices.  
Beautiful Baybush.   

C  
Christian daily Sacrifice.  
Crashewes prayers.  
Crown of life.  
Christian watchfulness.  
Chain of Graces.  
Christian man's walk.  
Christian Combat.  
Christian Sacrifice.  
Contemplations, 7. parts.  
Converts Catechism.  
Covenant between God and Man.  
Christian's Touchstone.  
Conquest of Temptations.  
Combat between Man and Death.  
Christian prayers and meditations.  
Conduit of Comfort.  
M. Cusuerwe●… of ●…aith.  
Christian Armour, by M. Gouge.  
Calvin's prayers.  
Castle of the soul.  
Conawayes prayers,  
Cases of Conscience.  
Cases of Conscience.   

D  
David's Sling.  
Diamond of Devotion.  
Daily exercise of a Christian.  
deering's prayers.  
Delights of the Saints.  
Discourse of true happiness.  
David's Key.  
D. Duns Devotion.  
Death subdued.  
Dialogue between the Lord and the Soul.  
Dike on the deceitfulness of man's heart.  
Dike of repentance.  
Dike of Conscience.  
David's Cast  
M. Dod on the Commandments.  
M. Dod on the Lord's Supper  
M. Dods household government  
Dents pathway to Heaven.  
Dents sermon on repentance  
David's Vow.  
Defiance to death.  
David's repentance.  
Directions to the waters of Life.  
Directions in our duty to God and man.  
Divine Meditations.   

E  
Every day's Sacrifice.  
Eye to heaven.  
Enemy to Security.  
Enemy to Atheism.  
Estate of a Christian.  
Exercise for Christian Families.  
Exercise of the faithful soul   

F  
Fields prayers.  
Footpath to Faith.  
Lady Fane her Meditations  
Fountain or Well of life.  
Flower of godly Prayers.  
Fruit of Faith.  
Freeman's Comfort.   

G  
Glass of Vainglory.  
Grounds of Divinity.  
Grounds of Religion.  
Granades Meditations.  
Godly Garden.  
Godly man's assurance.  
Garland of godly Flowers.  
Garden of spiritual Flowers  
Gods Husbandry.  
Growing in grace  
Golden Chain, by M. Roger's  
Governance of virtue.  
Garden of Felicity.   

H  
Help to Devotion.  
Hundred heavenly thoughts  
Heavenly progress.  
Heavenly Mansion.  
Handful of wholesome herbs▪  
Harbour of Christianity.   

ay▪  
Imitation of Christ, 3. parts.  
jewel for Gentlewomen.  
joy of a good Conscience.   

K.  
King's Bath.  
Key of Knowledge.  
King's Psalms.   

L  
Linacars Consolations.  
Life & death of M. Stubbs.  
Learn to live.  
Learn to dye.  
Load star of life.  
Love of God.  
Life of Religion.  
Lamp of Virginity.   

M  
Manuel of Prayers.  
Marks of Salvation.  
Meditations and Vows.  
Martyr's Prayers.  
Melancthons' Prayers.  
Marlorats' Prayers.  
Marks of God's Children.   

O  
Oil of Scorpions.   

P  
Practice of Piet●….  
Practise of Christianity.  
Practise of Quietness.  
An Invitation to prayer, and the practice of Piety.  
Poor man's rest.  
Poesy of Prayers.  
Pensive man's practice.  
Prince's Prayers.  
Pilgrims profession.  
Pathway to Paradise.  
Practise of the faithful.  
Pathway to Salvation.  
Pathway to Felicity.  
Pearl of the Gospel.  
Preservative against sin.  
M. Perkins his Treaties.  
Pars Grounds.  
Perfect path to Paradise.  
Path to penitency▪  
Progress to piety.  
Poor man's Pater nostey.  
Pomander of Prayers.  
Paradise of the Soul.  
Pathway to please God.  
Precious Pearl.  
Poor man's Staff.   

Q  
Queen Katherine's Prayers.   

R  
Righteous man's evidence.  
Reward of Religion.  
Rock of Religion.  
Resolves divine.  
Roger's seven Treatises.  
Right godly rules.  
Rosary of Christian Prayers.   

S  
Sick man's Medicine.  
Sanctuary of a troubled Soul.  
Supplication of Saints.  
Seven helps to heaven.  
Scudder on the Lord's prayer  
Spiritual detraction.  
Simpson on the Psalms.  
Simeons' Sacrifice.  
Suttons' Meditations.  
Safeguard of the Soul.  
Sick man's Salve.  
Solace of the Soul.  
Souls watch.  
Spiritual Garden.  
samuel's encounter.  
Samuel smith's Works.  
Saints by Calling.  
Ship of Salvation.  
Sacrifice of a Christian soul.  
Seven sobs of a sorrowful soul  
Shield of Salvation.  
Sampsons' Prayers.  
Sick man's Comfort.   

T  
True Watch.  
Twines prayers.  
Topsels Meditations.  
Treasure of Gladness.  
Trial of Faith.  
Trumpet of the Soul.  
Lad: Tirwits' prayers.  
Troubled man's Medicine.  
Treatise of Conscience.   
FINIS.   

¶ See more concerning all these following in M. Maunsels Catalogue dedicated to Queen Elizaebeth, imprinted An. Dom. 1595 and sundry others since, not mentioned.  

Helps for suffering adversity and affliction. Pag. 2.  
Preparatives against Apostasy. 4. Col. 2  
Catechisms▪ Pag. 28. Col. 2  
Treatises and helps for keeping the Ten Commandments. Pag 35. Col. 2  
Confessing of Christ. Pag. 37. Col. 2  
Treatises of Conscience, with comforts for an afflicted Conscience. 37. col. 2  
Treatises of the Creed, for helps for our faith. Pag. 40. Col. 2.  
Helps against the fear of death, & how to dye well. Pag. 42  
Helps against desperation. pag. 43  
Directions for a Christian life. 44  
Of the end of the world, and the second coming of Christ. 47  
Exercises for a Christian Family, and a Christian life. pa. 48  
Helps for true Fasting. 49  
Spiritual preservatives against the Pestilence. 59  
Imitation of Christ. 62  
Prayers. 83  
Of Repentance. 90  
Helps for preparation unto the Sacraments of the▪ Lords Supper. 93  
Holy Sermons in print, a multitude. 96  
Comforts for the sick. 107, 108  
True Confession of sin. 108  
Restitution of a sinner. ibid.  
Of good works, and exhortation to them. Pag. 113.    

¶ A Table of the particular Meditations of each of the seven generals.  
1. General Meditation. 
HOw our Saviour looks for some to help him in the delivery and saving of his church: and what things are necessary for every such a helper to know. Pag. 12.  2. General Meditation. 
2 Of the present necessity of this work, and of the lively feeling thereof, and how the Lord calls all sorts thereunto. 7 

here in these particular Meditations.  
1. Concerning the calamities and dangers of our Brethren in all places, and those which are threatened towards ourselves, with the chief means of delivery and preservation from them. pag. 9  
2 How God hath been wont to get himself glory in saving his Church, by Princes and Governors. pag. 13.  
3 How as Satan & Antichrist have set themselves to fight against Christ and his Kingdom, so our Saviour hath ordained Kings and Princes to hold up his Sceptre, and to defend and protect his subjects & Gospel. pa. 15  
4 How Satan and Antichrist set up themselves to be obeyed, and to destroy all out of the earth, who seek to obey Christ truly. pag. 18  
5 Concerning the innumerable miseries which our Brethren endure, being deprived of the outward comforts of this and the better life, and how n●…e the like may be to us. pag. 20.  
6 Concerning the general sins of the Churches, so provoking the Lord, and namely the general abuse of the Gospel, and blessings accompanying it, and that our sins are of all others most heinous for the same. pag. 23  
7 How Satan exerciseth all his power and tyranny against the Churches spiritually, like as he doth outwardly. pag. 50  
8 How the Kingdom and Glory are our Christ's: how sathan and Antichrist fight against him, and his Church, for his cause only and therefore are sure to be overthrown. pag. 59  
9 How our Lord jesus is that everlasting Amen, and coming quickly, for the rejoicing of his Church. pag. 67    The third general Meditation. 
3 What manner of ones we must be, whom the Lord now calleth, and whom he will accept, and adm●…t to be his helpers, in this Work, and whose Prayers shall be available with him, according to our Saviour's direction and warrant. pag. 68 

Herein these particular Meditations and marks.  
1 To make sure, that we be the true Children of our heavenly Father, and the means thereunto. pag. 72.  
2 That we be▪ such as can, and use to seek God's honour, above all other things whatsoever. pag. 86  
3 That we use to seek his Honour chiefly, in the advancement of the Sceptre and Gospel of our Lord jesus Christ. pag. 87  
4 That we seek also to honour him ●…ver, in the full accomplishment of all 〈◊〉 Heavenly will. pag. 89  
5 That we be such as look unto, and depend upon our heavenly Father alone, for all good things. pag. 91  
6 That we be such as feel our sins and infirmities, as in heavy burden, and travailing under them, do fly ever unto Christ. pag. 93  
7 That we endeavour to pray continually, Lead us not into temptation. pag. 95  
8 That we be such, as can and do use to sing the song of the 24 Elders: Glory, Honour, etc. pag. 97    The fourth general Meditation. 
4 Concerning the frame and order of our Prayers, that they may be well pleasing as well as our persons, and so we may be more certain to prevail thereby, when we follow in all things our Saviour's direction. pag. 100 

Herein these particular Meditations.  
1 That we pray only unto our heavenly Father, in the name of Christ. pag. 101  
2 That above all, and in all, we aim at God's glory, and the advancement of Christ's sceptre. pag. 102  
3 That we seek the doings of his heavenly will, for his glory and kingdom chiefly, not for ourselves. pag. 105  
4 That we seek all things from him alone, chiefly that we may have wherewith to honour him, and advance his Kingdom. pag. 106  
5 That we seek forgiveness for the same ends, viz. for his glory and Kingdom, and that our sins do not hinder his mercies, and so likewise deliverance from Satan, and from all evils. pag. 108    The fifth general Meditation. 
5 The power and efficacy of our Prayers made and performed in all things, according to the heavenly pattern. pag. 120 

Herein these particular Meditations.  
1 That when we can so ' pray, he will manifest himself our father, setting his seal to our souls, that he is our tender father. pag. 111  
2 How he will from Heaven, show us his glory, when we can pray so, and that more than ever in this last Age. 112  
3 How he will then cause his Kingdom to come with power, and ruinate the kingdom of Satan and Antichrist. pag. 115  
4 How he will then fulfil whatsoever is not yet accomplished concerning his enemies, or his servants, and put new cheerfulness into our hearts, to doc his wil pag. 116  
5 How he will then deliver his people, feed them from Heaven, and recompense double unto them. pag. 118  
6 How then he will cleanse his people from their sins, and write his Law in their hearts. pag. 119  
7 He will deliver his stock from Satan, and dissolve all his cursed works, discovering the depths of all his wickedness. pag. 122  
8 How then he will declare himself sole Monarch, to whom all glory belongs, and cause all to acknowledge his Soveraig●…ty. pag. 125  
9 How we are never to rest, till we can trium●… in the assurance of faith, crying jointly, Amen. pag. 128    The sixth general Meditation. 
6 How all but those who are so qualified as is mentioned, are excluded from helping the Lord, and do rather pull down God's wrath upon his Church. 

Herein these particular Meditations.  
1 How all living securely, are excluded hence, and so all who do not in commiseration strive to come to help him, and his poor Church. 131 

Reasons here of to be seriously thought of.  
1 All such must be separated at the last day.  
2 All living in any gross sin, impenitently are excluded hence, for that they are blind and deaf. pag 1●…5  
3 All the threatenings in God's Book against such sins and sinners are against them, not any prom●…se to them until they repent: and therefore they are excluded. pag. 140  
4 For that every notorious sinner helps to pull down wrath on all. pag 143  
5 All excluded, who have not so much compassion of their Brethren in their miseries▪ as to be re●…d to adventure themselves for them. pag▪ 145  
6 All but those, who can more lay to heart the causes of God and his people, than their own. pag. 148  
7 All rejected who will not cast away their sin, though as dear as their right eyes, and receive the love of every part of God's truth pag. 150  
8 All excluded from this service, who but incline to any evil in their hearts. pag. 152  
9 All but they who endeavour in all things, to be with our Saviour, for that none else can be his true disciples. pag. 153    
2 The second particular Meditation of the sixth general, who may with hope and confidence offer themselves, only they who strive in all things to be so qualified as he requireth. pag. 155  
Reasons, that only such can hope to have acceptance here. pag. 157    The 7. general Meditation. 

7 That the Lord notwithstanding, g●…ciously calls all sorts to help herein, & therefore every one who will not strive to be of this number, must perish. pag. 165  
Reasons showing, that he calls all to help, if ever they will see his face with joy. pa. 167  
Three special Meditations to be over in our hearts, until we be of this number. pag. 172  

1 That the Lord jesus stands at the heart of every impenitent sinner, to enter in●…knocking louder now, then ever heretofore. pag. 172  
He knocks at the heart of every one, reading or hearing this or the like admonition, offering mercy to them who will admit him in, and having infinite wrath against all who will still repel him, 175  
2 To think what it is for a man to forsake his own happiness, in rejecting Christ's gracious call, and to join with sathan against him, to his endless perdition, Pag. 178  
3 How God sets herein before the faces of all, life & death▪ blessing and cursing: life to each one harkening to his call, and coming to help: death to every one still hardening his heart. pag. 188    Conclusion. 


How all the distressed parts of God's Church, do cry to every one of us to come and help them. pag. 192  
How our Saviour himself calls each to come, notwithstanding all objections of unfitness, or disability, with the answer of every true Christian heart to his call: Lord, I come, I come. pag. 195     
These with the prayers mentioned before in the general Contents, are the sum●…e of this first Part.   

The Second Part, to succeed in the next place; containeth Prayers likewise for all the Churches and people of God, scattered through the whole world: that we may all seek to pacify the Lord, by giving him his glory, in returning and submitting ourselves wholly unto his Covenant; and that we may obtain by our instant prayers, that w●…e may jointly honour him; so walking and believing as his heavenly wisdom hath apppointed. For this is a thing notoriously observed and acknowledged by all, who rightly under stand the state of foreign parts; that as it ●… amongst us▪ for the most part; so it hath been very generally amongst them in all the Churches, that they have had only a bare form of godliness, a naked outward profession of the Gospel in word, but almost without any power or life thereof, more than for a fashion. And that this hath not only thus fleshed our Adversaries to the destruction of the whole Church (as doing a thing meritorious unto God herein▪ for that they conceyve us to be but a company of Heretics in professi●…n, very Atheists in our lives) but also provoked our blessed God, so far aire●…die to leave so many of the Churches into their hands, and thus to threaten all the rest, even us ourselves, seeing his kingdom is not in word, but in power. And therefore, so many of us as have made such a carnal profession, have not only showed forth a manifest contempt of his heavenly Majesty, and his holy Covenant; but put a Sceptre of Reed into the hand of our Lord jesus Christ; smitten him upon the face, and trampled his Crown under our feet, and indeed made his and our enemies to blaspheme and thus far to prevail and insult over us.  
Whereupon, he hath justly begun, and threatened us all, to take his kingdom from us, to give it to another people, which would bring forth the fruit of it; and to leave us all to be trampled under foot by these our Enemies, until we know by wanting, the blessings which we have formerly enjoyed, and the difference between his service, and the slavery of his Enemies.  
As these prayers therefore, according to our Saviour's direction, may serve to prepare the way for all other our prayers, and our right access unto his glorious Majesty, to come with confident assurance, and do proceed un to the first petition of the Lords Prayer, and the end of the first Commandment, that we may all give him his due glory, performing unto him his inward worship, which is the fountain of all true obedience; so those that are to follow in the second part (the Lord assisting) are to go according to the tenor of the same heavenly rule of our Saviour; thorough the whole Covenant made with our God, both for all his Law and Gospel, beginning at the second Commandment, & so thorough the Law, and thorough all the Articles of faith, with the doctrine of the Sacraments, and other things belonging thereunto. That thus all, even the poorest servants of God, may have matter enough of prayer to be exercised in continually, and all to this very end for appeasing the Lord's wrath, and reconciling him to all his Churches and Children again. First, every one for himself, and his own particular, to be assured of his own reconciliation to the Lord by the blood of his Son, when he can so pray and obey in truth. And secondly, that every one having attained to this assurance and favour with the Lord, may be exercised daily, as those worthy servants of God, Nehemiah, Ezra, and Daniel, in confessing their own sins, and the sins of all the Churches and people of the Lord, and in so crying unto him, and importuning him▪ until we shall see the full deliverance and restoring of the Churches in Bohemia, Palatinate, & the rest: yea the enlargement of them, by the gathering in of the jew, and the remainder of his Israel from the uttermost parts of the earth, with the utter razing of Babel: and until we obtain whatsoever else the Lord hath either promised to his people, or denounced against his enemies. And finally, until we shall every one see the heavenly jerusalem, and the eternal glory of his Zion. The third & last part, is (God willing) to contain principally Prayers for this our sinful Nation, that we may first all see, and lively apprehend the danger wherein we stand every moment, of drinking at the Lords hand, after those other Churches, which have tasted so deeply of the cup of his displeasure, seeing our sins are no less, but far greater than theirs; and that specially sith their ensample hath no more prevailed with us. Secondly, that we may all in time wisely understand the means which in his wisdom and mercy he hath yet left unto us to prevent the execution ready to come forth against us. And thirdly, that we may every one use all the means thereto, each according to our place and calling, by turning unfeignedly to the Covenant of our God, not only to prevent, and for ever to turn away all the calamities devised against us by our deadly & bloody enemies; but also so to reconcile the Lord unto us, that instead of those miseries which our Enemies so long for, to rush upon us, he may make us the happiest and blessedst Nation that ever was, in this last Age of the world▪ so to remain to his eternal glory, the comfort & example of all the other Churches for evermore.  
To these are also to be added some special Prayers for our particular purposes and ocsions.  
FINIS.