A BOOK OF Christian Prayers, collected out of the ancient writers, and best learned in our time, worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians, in these dangerous and troublesome days, that God for Christ's sake will yet still be merciful unto us.  
AT LONDON, Printed by john day, dwelling over Aldersgate.  
1578.  
¶ Cum Privilegio.   

Elizabeth Regina.  2. PARALIPOM. 6. 
¶ Domine Deus Israel, non est similis tui Deus in coelo & in terra, qui pacta custodis & misericordiam cum servis tuis, qui ambulant coram te in toto cord suo.   

❧ To the Christian Reader, zeal and knowledge in true and hearty prayer through Christ jesus.  
David, a Prophet and a Prince, to whom the lord had done many, great, & singular benefits, bethought himself, not so much to increase them by use, as to requited them by thanks. He therefore, willing as a Prophet, & able as a prince, but not able in deed, though willing so to do, opened his good heart, and said: Quid retribuam Domino? What reward shall I give unto the Lord? Being resolved, he answered: I will receive, I will call, and I will pay. Psal. 116.  
Do thou the like (Christian Reader) which art as far indebted as ever he. And seeing that jesus Christ himself calleth, saying: Come unto me all you that labour, and are laden, and I will refresh you. Mat. 11. Answer thou, I come, Lord jesus, I come. I come, and will pay my vows, promised to thee in the presence of all thy people, even in the Courts of thy house, when I was received into the household of faith.  
I come, and will pray and praise thee for all thy benefits. I come, and will hearken to thy blessed word, and keep the same. I come, and will receive the cup of salvation, at thy holy table, in remembrance of thy death, with thanksgiving. In this sort, & so many ways, by Baptism, by prayer, by hearing his blessed word, by frequenting his table, must we come unto him, and that with a lively faith. The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Mat. 26▪ come unto him therefore, especially by prayer. Pray that he would strengthen both flesh, and Spirit.  
And think it not superfluous to pray, because God already knoweth what we need, and what we will ask. But pray, because God hath commanded. Luke. 8. Pray to humble thyself before the feet of his majesty. Pray because 〈◊〉 dost hourly want that grace, which he will assuredly give. Pray therefore that you may have. Mat. 7. And pray, lest you fall into temptation. Luke. 12.  
And because God understandeth, pray not thou therefore in a language which thou understandest not, but with Spirit and Understanding. 1. Cor. 14. Not with mouth and lips only, but with the heart. Mat. 15. For the spirit also helpeth our infirmities, making request for us with sighs which cannot be expressed. Rom. 8 As Anna, and Mary Magdalen, with tears from a groaning heart, & spoke nothing. 1. Reg. 1 Luke. 7. For God must be worshipped in spirit and truth. john. 14. And pray not with much babbling, and vain repetition. Math. 6. Neither be rash with thy mouth, neither let thy heart be hasty to bring forth a word in the sight of God: for God is in heaven, and thou art in earth, & therefore let thy words be few. For as a dream cometh by multitude of business: so is the voice of a fool in the multitude of words. Eccle. 5.  
Prepare therefore thyself, and soul to pray. Eccle. 18. with tears. Mach. 5. with watching. Col 4. with alms. Act. 10 with fasting. Luke. 1. as the Ninivites. jona. 3. as David. 2. Reg. 2. as Daniel. cap. 9 For with fasting prayer is good. Tob. 12 Which exercises, as they are the only means, not only to excite and stir us up to pray, but also to make them acceptable before God through jesus Christ: so also a great care & diligence must be used of us, to use the same, not of constraint, but willingly giving ourselves thereunto. Luke. 5. without ostentation. Mat. 6. praying continually. 1. Thessaly. 5. without ceasing. Col. 1. as the widow. Luke. 18. and as the woman of Canaan. Mat. 15. Praying always. 1. Thess. 1 and at all times, day and night. 2. Tim. 1. in all places, every where. 1. Tim. 2. in the Temple, and congregation. Act. 22. and that bore headed. 1. Cor. 11. at home in thy chamber secretly. Mat. 6. in thy bed. Psal. 6. at meal and meat. Mat. 26. morning and evening. Psal. 44. abroad in the field. Luke. 6.  
The Scripture is full of examples Peter prayed in the upper part of the house. Act. 10. Eliseus above in his chamber. 4. Reg. 4. Danyell in the kings chamber secretly. Cap. 6. and among the Lions. Dan. 14. Moses' in the wilderness. josu. 1. Ezechias the king in his bed. Esay. 34. jonas in the Whale's belly. Cap. 3. Christ in fields and gardens. Math. 26. and on his cros. Mat. 27. For the place of prayer is not material. joh. 4. I mean of Private prayer: in which consideration, pray in all places, & at all times, whether it be seven times a day with David. Psa. 118. or thrice a day with Danyel. Cap. 6. Whether on the Sabaoth day, or at the ninth hour, especially when Gods Spirit shall move thee so to do. For at any such time to defer thy prayer, until thou found a better place, to sit, stand, or kneel, is as much, as to hinder (if not to quench) God's Spirit. Now it followeth to whom we must come. To me (saith Christ) for without me you can do nothing. joh. 15. whatsoever you shall ask the father in my name, it shall be given you joh. 16. Come to no earthly man, for cursed is he that putteth his trust in man. jer. 17. and who shall deliver his brother, or make agreement with God for him? Psal. 49. Come to no heavenly saint. For Christ is our only Mediator and intercessor between God and us. 1. Tim. 2. and whom have I in heaven but thee saith David? Psal. 33. Come only unto him therefore. And why to him only? For in him the Father is well pleased. Mat. 3. No man can come to the Father, but by him. joh. 14. He only is present every where to hear the prayers of the whole world. All power is given into his hands. joh. 5 He only knoweth the secrets of our hearts.  
But who shall come? Albina you (saith he) that labour, and are laden. How laden? Not with bags of gold, and brags of righteousness. For he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. Luke. 5. Present not therefore thy prayers in thine own righteousness. Dan. 9 Play not the Pharisee, but pray as the Publican. Luk. 18. And albeit God heareth not sinners. joh. 9 yet that is meant of desperate sinners, & malicious despicers of Christ & his Gospel: not of the repentant, in whom, as it is requisite there be no brag of righteousness: so is it as necessary, that there be a hearty confession of unrighteousness, yielding to God's mercy, and craving forgiveness. Such, though they labour, & be heavy laden, yet let them come. But how? with a true faith, nothing wavering, or doubting. 1. Tim. 2. jam. 1. without fainting. Eccle. 7. For the Lord is nigh unto all those that call upon him faithfully. Psal. 145. According to your faith be it unto you, saith Christ unto the two blind men Mat. 10. What faith was that? Do ye believe, saith Christ, that I am able to do this? we believe lord say they. According to this faith they prayed for their eyesight, and had it. Pray thou in the same faith for thy soul's health, & thou shalt receive it. Persuade thyself that God cannot but perform (for Christ's sake) all his promises of grace and mercy. Believe that jesus Christ shed his heart blood not only for our sins (speaking generally,) but for thy sins, and that he can, and will help thee. To such a one Christ himself saith: What so ever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it & it shallbe done unto you But when you pray (saith he) forgive if you have aught against any man, that your Father in heaven, may forgive you .. Mark. 11. So that with this faith must be joined peace & love with our neighbour. Mat. 6. & 11. Also a life answerable to this faith. 1 joh. 3. Lest either our prayers be hindered. 1. Pet. 3. Or not regarded. Mat. 6. Or turned into sin. Psal. 109. But who hath this perfection? Or whose prayers then shall be accepted? Come therefore in the name of Christ For Christ is perfect, though we unperfect. his holiness maketh our prayers holy, when he offereth them unto the Lord. His righteousness is our righteousness, and he was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God. 2. Cor. 5. For to him that worketh not, but believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Rom. 4. Let not thy sin therefore withdraw thee from this exercise: for none asketh, but he that wanteth: none seeketh to found, but he that hath lost.  
Come therefore unto him thou that dost labour, and art heavy laden, carrying in thy mind this one special note by the way, what it is thou wilt demand when thou comest unto him, and for whom. For prayers at adventure are unprofitable, proceeding of custom from the lips, not of zeal from the heart. What we should pray for, the Scripture teacheth plainly. First, for the glory of God. joh. 12. For the peace of jerusalem. Psal. 132. That the word of God may have free passage. 2. Thess. 3. that our flight be not in the winter. Mat. 13. For our former sins. Eccle 81. For soul's health. Psal. 36. For wisdom. 2. Parali. 1. For increase of love. Phil. 1. In time of sickness. Exod. 8. In affliction. ja. 1  
Finally, for all such things as the use and want of man doth require, whether they be earthly graces, or spiritual: always framing our petitions to that certain and just rule of God's will, to the which all manner of requests must be referred: for we know not what we should pray as becometh us. Rom. 8. And therefore we ask and have not. Why? Because we ask amiss. jam. 4. But this trust we have, that if we do ask according to his will he heareth us. 1. joh. 5. According unto this his will therefore, I mean his revealed will, known in Scripture, pray for all men. 1. Tim. 2. For all Kings Esdr 6. Baruc. 1 For all that are in authority. 1. Tim. 2. For the Ministers of God's blessed word Heb. 1 That God may open their utterance Col 4. and increase their number. Mat. 9 And that the word of God may be given us. Ephesi. 6. Finally, we must pray one for an other. jam 2. And for them that hate us wrongfully. Mat. 5. forgiving not seven times but seventye seven times. Mat. 18. And as Christ forgave you, so do ye. Col. 3. For as the Chirurgeon cannot sound heal a wound, so long as the iron of the dart which gave the wound, is lodged in the bottom thereof: So likewise cannot prayer profit, so long as the heart is cankered. Therefore forgive thy brother if he repent him. Luk. 17 if he repent not, yet forgive him, do good unto him, so shalt thou heap coals of fire on his head. Rom. 12. It followeth: And I will refresh you. Wherein thou mayst behold (Christian Reader) the assured mercy of God in jesus Christ, & the effect of true and hearty prayer. For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved. He is rich unto all them that call upon him. for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shallbe saved. Rom. 10. You shall go and pray unto me, and I will hear you (saith the Lord) and you shall seek me, and found me, because you shall seek me with all your heart, and I will be found of you, and I will turn away your captivity. jere. 29. Seek and you shall found. Mat. 6. God is true of his promise, and therefore we found in Scripture, that at Moses prayer the plague ceased. Exod. 8. Miriam by it was delivered from his leprosy. Num. 11. By prayer Anna was of a barren woman made fruitful. 1. Reg. 1. David obtained forgiveness for his manslaughter, and whoredom 2. Reg. 12. Helias caused great plenty of rain. ja. 5. Ezekias overcame Zenacharib. 4. Reg 19 Toby prospered. Tob. 4. Susanna delivered from death Dan. 13. By prayer Queen Hester delivered her and her people. Hest. 14. jonas was delivered out of the whales belly. jonas. 2 By prayer Lepers were cleansed. Luk. 17. the blind restored to sight Luk. 18. The palsy cured Mat. 11. many men & we omen obtained health for their sons, daughters, and servants. Mat. 8. &. 15. By prayer the lame was restored to limbs. Ma. 4. the deaf men to hear. Ma. 21. the doom to speak Ma. 12. By prayer remission of sins was obtained. Ma. 11. & the holy ghost purchased for the Apostles, & all the faithful. Ma. 26. To be short, wonderful is the strength and force of prayer, without the which, nothing prospereth with us fortunately.  
But yet here remaineth a farther question, how it may stand with God's immutable will, and decree, that our prayers should be of such strength & force to altar the threatenings which are decreed, & therefore of force must come to pass. I answer God never promised any thing in scripture, for the most part, except it were the absolute promises concerning Messiah and such like) but it hath a condition annexed unto it, either expressly, or to be understood. Likewise, he never threateneth (for the most part) but a condition is added thereunto. As for example. Adam was created of God that he should have lived continually in blessed estate, if he would so remain: this was the condition, and the decree. Destruction was preached to the Ninivites, if they repented not: this was the condition, and the decree. Ninive repented and was not destroyed, but saved: was therefore Gods decree altered? no? For he decreed their destruction, but upon this condition, if they repented not. Pray therefore (if thou be godly,) that he would give thee the grace to continue: and if thou be sinful pray that he give thee the grace to repent. And thus very well our prayers have strength to stay God's wrath, his decree remaining immutable, because it is threatened but upon a condition, if we repent not.  
But whence hath prayer this strength? of itself? No. For we being justified through faith have peace toward God (that is the favour of God) through our Lord jesus Christ. Rom. 5. So that Christ is our mouth whereby we speak to the Father: our eyes by which we see the Father: our right hand, by which we offer to the Father. Which Christ, except he be our advocate, neither we, nor all the saints, can have any thing to do with God. For no man cometh to the father but by him. joh. 14. Why then are not our prayers always heard, having continually such a spokesman, who hath all power both in heaven and earth? Truly because either we ask amiss, not according to Gods will, and that which is not for us to receive, or it pleaseth the Lord to defer our requests, for trial of our faith and patience. Hereupon it was that David said: Expectans expectavi Dominum. With long waiting, I waited for the lord and he inclined unto me and heard my calling. Psal. 40. Pray therefore continually, with faith, love, & understanding, in the name of jesus Christ: pray for all men, at all times, in all places, and for all things according to Gods wil Though thou be a sinner, though God foreknoweth the heart, though his decree be immutable yet pray unto him in jesus Christ, and he will refresh thee. Of this I thought good to admonish thee (Christian Reader,) because it is an easy thing to pray, but to pray aright, is a thing very difficult. Here are prepared for thee zealous, and godly, prayers, some translated out of Latin, & French, some made by the best learned of our time. Use them as I have taught thee, that they may be to good use. Accuse not mine insufficiency in teaching but amend thine own imperfection in praying: praying that we talk not smoothly, & walk crookedly, but that we may give to God the father our maker, obedience: faith to jesus Christ our redeemer: and mortification of the flesh to God the holy ghost, our comfortor. Far well in Christ Iesu.  
R. D.   


❧ The Preface, or preparation to prayer.  
O Lord, my good God, and Father, blessed be thy name for ever: dispose my heart, open my lips, and guide me by thy holy spirit, to a true acknowledgement of all my sins, that my prayer may be heard of thee, in the name of thy Son jesus Christ, So be it.   

¶ A prayer to be said at our first waking.  
O God, and father of our Lord jesus Christ, whom no man knoweth but by thy special gift: grant, that unto the rest of thine exceéding great benefits towards me, this, which is the greatest that can be bestowed upon mankind, There shall come a rod forth of the stock of jesse, and a graff, etc. Esay. 11. There shall come a star of jacob, and a sceptre shall rise of Israel, etc. Num. 24. The birth of blessed M●ry the virgin the mother of Christ, etc. may be added also, namely that as thou hast raised up my body from fast and sound sleep, so also thou wilt deliver my mind from the sleep of sin, and from the darkness of this world. and after death restore the same body to life, as well as thou hast called it again from sleep. For that which is death to us, is but sleep unto thee. I pray and beseech thee, that through thy goodness, this body of mine, may be a fellow, and furtherer of all godliness to my soul in this life, so as it may also be partner with it of the endless felicity in the life to come, through jesus Christ thy son our Lord. For whose sake, and by whom, thou givest us all good, and wholesome things to our welfare, Amen.   

Another.  
MUch better is the light of the soul, and the insight of the Marry the mother of jesus betrothed to joseph her husband, before they came together, was found with child by the holy ghost. Then joseph her husband being a just man, &c Math. 1. But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife, etc. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be given thee to wife. for to thee doth the right of her, etc. Tob. 6. mind, than the light, or eyesight of the body. The eyesight of the body every silly beast hath: but the sight of mind none hath but men. Yea none have it but wise men.  
Thou therefore O Lord jesus Christ, which art the greatest of all lights, the only true light, the light from whence springeth the light of the day, and the son. Thou light which inlightenest every man that cometh into the world. Thou light, whereon there cometh no night nor eventide: but continuest ever bright, and clear as at midday. Thou light, wherewithout all things are deep darkness, and whereby all things were made lightsome. Thou mind and wisdom of the heavenly Father enlighten my mind, that (being blind in all other things) I may see nothing but that which belongeth to thee, and that I may thereby walk in thy ways, without fantasying, or liking The seed of the woman shall tread upon the head of the serpent, Gen, 3. The Angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiant man. judges. 6 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 the angel Gabriel, was sent fro God to a city in Galilee, 〈◊〉 Nazareth, 〈◊〉 virgin affianced to a man whose name was joseph, of the house of David, etc. Luke. 1. of any other light else. Lord I beseech thee enlighten mine eyes, that I may never slumber in darkness, lest my ghostly enemy say at any time, I have prevailed against him. Amen.   

* A prayer at our uprising.  
OUr first father Adam, being tumbled down from most excellent, and glorious highness, into the dungeon of shame, and sink of all sin, was releéued, & lifted up again by thy hand, O saviour jesus Christ. And we likewise, should lie wallowing in the same plight for ever, if we were not raised up by thee.  
Wherefore O most merciful redeemer of mankind, like as thou of thy goodness, hast raised up this heavy and burdensome body: even so vouchsafe to lift up my mind to the knowledge, and love of thy highness, Amen.  And Mary arose and went with haste into the hilly country to a city of juda, and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass, &c Luke. 1. And Moses returned to jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, etc. Exo. 4. My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit doth rejoice in God my saviour, Luke. 1. 
I Thank thee O Lord jesus Christ, that it hath pleased thee to give me good rest this night past: And I beseech thee likewise to prospero me all this day following, to the glory of thy name, and to mine own soul's health. And thou which art the true daylight, that never knoweth any eventide: And the everlasting dayson, which quickeneth, cherisheth, and cheéreth all things, vouchsafe to shine into my mind, that I may not stumble into any sin, but by thy guiding come to eternal life, Amen.   

Another.  
I Thank thee O holy Lord, father almighty, and everlasting God, that thou hast vouchsafed to keep me this night through thy great mercy. And I beseech thee of thine unmeasurable clemency, to give me grace so to pass this day now coming, in all lowliness, Put thy shoes of thy feet for the place whereon thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. Aaron's rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease, etc. Num. 17. When the days were accomplished, Marry brought 〈◊〉 her first ●e ●otten son and ●rapped him in swaddling clotheses, and laid him in the manger because there was no room, 〈…〉. meéknes, chastity, charity, patience, goodness, fear, and wariness, as my service may please thee, through him which shall come to judge both the quick and the dead, & the world by fire: keep and preserve me from all evil, from all stumbling and giving of offence, from all wilful sinning, and from all the crafts, and assaults of wicked feénds, and enemies, seen, or unseéne, through our Lord jesus Christ thine only begotten son. To whom be praise and glory with thee for evermore, Amen.   

* A Prayer at the putting on of our Clotheses.  
MOst gracious and merciful saviour jesus Christ, thou knowest how we be borne, clothed, & clogged with the grievous, and heavy burden of the first man, who fell away unto fleshlynesse, through disobedience. And when the viii. days were accomplished, that they should circumcise the child, his name was then called jesus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was conceived, etc. Luke. 2. Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him, etc. Gen. 21 Let every man child among you be circumcised. That is ye shall circumcise the fares skin of your flesh, etc. Goe 17 Vouchsafe therefore I beseech thee, to strip me out of the old corrupt Adam, which being soaked in sin, transformeth himself into all encumbrances, and diseases of the mind, that may lead away from thee.  
Rid me also quite and clean of that his tempter the deceitful Eve, which turneth us away from the obedience of thy Father. Cloth me with thyself O my redeemer and sanctifier, cloth me with thyself, which art the second man, and hast yielded thyself obedient in all things to God thy father, to rid away all lusts of the flesh, and to destroy the kingdom thereof, through righteousness.  
Be thou our clothing and apparel, to keép us warm from the cold of this world. For if thou be away, by and by all things become numb, weak, and stark dead. Whereas if thou be present they be lively, sound, strong, and lusty. Abner said to David, make covenant with me, and be hold, mine hand shall be with thee. etc. 2. Sam. 3. The Queen of Sa●a bring gifts to jerusalem to Solomon, with a very great tray●e. etc. 3. Reg· 10. ●here is the king of the jews that is 〈◊〉 for we have 〈◊〉 his star in the East, and are ●ome to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all jerusalem▪ etc. Math. 2. And therefore like as I wrap my body in these clotheses, so cloth thou me all over, but specially my soul, with thine own self, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer to be said at our first going abroad.  
I Must be fain to go abroad among the snares which the devil, and his handseruant the world have laid for me: and I carry with me besides, the stings of mine own flesh. Guide me therefore, O thou most sure guide, be thou my leader, thou God of my welfare. Defend me O captain, from the trains, and stalls that are laid for me: that whatsoever things I shall meet with, I may make no more account of them, than they are worthy of: but keép on my way, with mine eyes so fast fixed and settled upon thee alone, as I may not deal with any thing further 〈◊〉 the days of Purification after the law of Moses, ●●re accomplished, they brought jesus to jerusalem to present him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2. God said to Moses, sanctify unto me all the first borne, that open all manner matrices among the children, etc. Exo. 13 Anna bore a son, & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the child was young, &c, 1. Sam. 1. forth than it hath respect unto thee. Lord show me thy ways, and lead me in thy paths for thy sons sake. Amen.   

* A Prayer to be said at our returning home.  
O How excellent, and joyful shall our returning home be into the everlasting, quiet, and blessed house of heaven, where there is no trouble, nor incumberance at al. All the mirth, and gladness of this world, is but a shadow in comparison of the pleasures that are there. Nothing O Lord, is liker to thy holy nature, than the mind that is settled in quietness. Thou hast called us into that quietness, and peace of thine, from out of the turmoils of this world, as it were from out of storms into a haven: Which is such a peace as the world cannot give, and as passeth all capacity of man.  Behold, thy brother Esau is comforted against there, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. Michael spoke unto David: If thou save not thyself this night to morrow, etc. 1. Sa. 19· ●rise and take the babe and his mother and fly into Egypt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seek the babe to destroy him. So he arose & took the babe & his mother, &c Math. 2 
Houses are builded for us to repair into from the annoyance of the wether, from the cruelty of beasts, and from the waves and turmoils of this troublous world.  
Grant now, O most merciful Father, that through thy singular goodness, our bodies may so resort into them, from our outward doings, as our minds may yield themselves obedient unto thee, without striving: & that they may the better, and more quietly exalt themselves into that sovereign rest of thine above. Grant that nothing may disturb, and disquiet them here beneath: but that all things may be quiet and calm through that peace of thine. The peace of Christ be to this house, and to all that devil therein. Amen.   

* A Prayer to be said at the setting of the Sun.  
He shall breaks down their altars, he shall destroy their images. For now they shall say, we have no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to us? Ose. 10.  
Moses cast the ●ab●es out of his hands and broke them in pieces because of their idolatry, etc. Exo. 32 The Philistines find Dagon fallen down be fore the ark of the Lord etc. 1. Sam. ●.  
WRetthed are they (O Lord) to whom thy daysun goeth down, I mean that son of thine which never setteth to thy saints, but is always at the noonpoint with them, ever bright, and ever shining. A droopy night over dreépeth the minds of them even at high noontide, which departed from thee. But unto them that are conversant with thee, it is continually clear daylight. This daysun that shineth in the sky, goeth and cometh by turns: But thou (if we love thee indeed) dost never go away from us. O that thou wouldst remove away this impediment of sin from us, that it might always be day light in our hearts, Amen.   

* A Prayer to be said at the lighting up of Candles.  
GReat and thick darkness overwhelmeth our hearts (O Lord,) Saul said to Doeg, even thou and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, etc. 1. Sa. 22 A●halia seeing her son to be dead, destroyed all the king's seed. But Ieho●heba. etc. Reg. 11. Herode caused all male children to be slain that were in Bethlehem and in all the costs thereof from two year old and under, according to the time which he had diligently searched, etc. Ma●. 2. until thy light do chase it away. Thy Daysun O most wise workmaster, is as the cresset of this bodily world: and unto the spiritual world, the cresset is thy wisdom, from whence springeth the light both of our bodies, and of our souls. At the coming of the night upon the day, thou hast given us Candles for a remedy of the darkness: and for a remedy of our ignorance after sin, thou hast given us thy doctrine, which thy son (who loveth us most deérelye) hath brought down unto us.  
Wherefore thou fountain and teacher of all truth, make us through both those lights, to see such things as may drive away the dimness of our minds. The light of thy countenance is sealed upon us O Lord, thou hast put lightsomeness into our hearts: Thy word is a lantern to my feet, and a light to my paths.  
And jesus when he was baptized, came strait out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and john saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, etc. Math. 3.  
Lift up thy rod and stretch out thine hand● upon the se●, etc. Exodus. 14. They curt● down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and bear● upon. etc. Num. 13.   

❧ A Prayer to be said in the Evening.  
O Lord, my God, my Father, and my saviour, forasmuch as thou hast granted me the grace to come to the end of this day, & hast created the night for man to rest in: I, casting myself most humbly down before thy holy majesty, beseech thee most heartily to show me this goodness to the residue of thine infinite benefits, that I may so rest this night, to the comfort, and refreshment of mine infirmity, as my heart may still be lift up unto thee: And my soul have her spiritual rest aswell as the body taketh his. Let not my sleep be unmeasurable to please excessively the ease of my flesh: but only to suffice the necessity of my nature, that I may be the better disposed to thy service to morrow.  God spoke to jacob, get thee out of this country. jacob took all his goods and cattle, etc. Gen. ●1. David asked counsel of the Lord, saying: Shall I go up into any cities of judah, etc. 2. Sam. 2. The Angel said to joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the babe's life. Then he arose and took the babe etc. Mat. 
Preserve me also from all uncleanness both of body and soul, keéping me from all temptations of the enemy, and from all dangers that may befall me. And because I have not passed this day without offending thee after divers sorts and manners: Like as now in the absence of the sun, thou sendest darkness to cover all things: so also vouchsafe to wipe out all mine offences, by thine infinite mercy, so as they may never come to reckoning before thy judgement seat.  
All which things I ask, and crave of thee, in the name, and for the sake of thine only Son, my Lord and saviour jesus Christ, according to the rule which he hath given us to pray by saying:  
Our Father which art. etc.   

* Another.  
The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answering, said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread only, etc. Math. 4.  
Esau selleth his birth right for a m●sse of portage, etc. Gen. 25. The woman seeing the tree to be pleasant, took of the fruit etc. Gen. 3.  
LOrd jesus Christ, to whose unconsumable goodness we be beholden for all things: which hast granted the cheerful light of the day, unto all men both good and bad to do their business in, and mercifully given them the sweet stillness of the night, to refresh the pores of their silly bodies, and to put away the cares of their minds, and to assuage their sorrows. Forasmuch as thou thyself performest all these things much more beneficially to them that love thee, to whom thou givest a far greater light by the grace of faith, to do all deeds of godliness by, then doth the shining of the Sun unto the world: In so much as the promises never suffer them to faint, but the comfort of thy Spirit putteth away all cumberaunces of mind, far more effectually than any sleep of the body. And the whole Helyas stretched himself upon the child, and the Lord heard the voice of Helyas, etc. 3. Reg. 17. Heliseus coming into the house and behold, the child was dead and he stretched, etc. 4. Reg. 4. Christ cried with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth. Then h●●hat was dead came forth, bound band & foot with bands and his face was bound with a napkin. jesus said unto them, etc. john. 11. man resteth not more sweetly, or safely in any thing, then in thy mercy (O dear Redeemer:) I beseech thee that if I have done any thing this day through human frailty, and negligence, which hath offended thine eyes, pardon it for thy wonted goodness sake, and grant therewithal that this night may be happy to me by thy prospering thereof, pure by thy preserving of me, and safe from the nightly illusions of wicked fiends, through thy protection, so as this sleep may make both my body and mind, more cheerful, and lusty to serve thee to morrow.  
Moreover, because this life hath not one hour certain, whensoever the eventide thereof cometh, & the long sleep of the body groweth upon me, from which we shall not wake till the dead rise again at the sound He was transfigured before them and his face did shine as the sun, and his clotheses were as white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias, etc. Math. 17. Abraham said, Lord if I have now found favour in thy sight. &c▪ Gen. ●1. N●buchadneser answered: Lo I se● four men lose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3 of thine Angel's Trumpet. I beseech thee lighten thou then the eyes of my mind, so as I may not sleep in everlasting death, by the quenching of my faith, but rest in thee, to whom even the dead are alive: Which livest, and reignest with the Father, and the holy Ghost, one God world without end, Amen.   

¶ A prayer to be said when we unclothe ourselves to bedward.  
THis body which is become unhandsome, and unwealdy through sin, shallbe consumed by little and little, and delivered again to the earth, from whence it was taken. There shall the end be of this vanity, which we have purchased to ourselves by our own folly. Now therefore, thou O most loving Father, which hast set me together: David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord. etc. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked upon Myriam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12. jesus said, Many sins are forgiven her, for she loved much. To whom a little is forgiven he doth love a little, And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven thee, etc. Luke. 7 dissolve me in such wise as I may feel myself to be dissolved, and remember of whom I am overcome, and consider whether I must go. Take me not unwares and unprovided to thy judgement seat: but like as we be willing to put of our clotheses, which we shall put on again when the night is past: so let us not be loath to put of this body, which we shall receive again after that the night of this world hath run out his full race, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer to be said at our going into bed.  
WHen the day is ended, we give ourselves to rest in the night: so when this life is ended, we rest in death. Nothing resembleth our life more than the day, nor death more than sleep, nor the grave, more than the bed. Vouchsafe therefore, O Lord our governor, When Christ came near jerusalem he beheld the city and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst even known at the jest in this thy day those things which belong unto thy peace etc. Luke. 19 Who shall have pity then v●on thee O jerusalem, or who, etc. jere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation, their Alars, etc. 1. Mich●. 1. & defender, both to shield us now lying unable to help ourselves from the craftiness & assaults of our cruel enemy: & also to call us then unto thee, when we shallbe yet more unable at the finishing of the race of this life, not for our own deserts, but for thy own mercy sake: that we may live & walk with thee for ever. And now let us so fall a sleép in thee, as thou only, & those exceeding, great, & incredible good things may in such wise be present always before us by the insight of our minds, as we may not be absent from thee, not not even in sleép: that such dreams may both keép our beds, and bodies pure & undefiled, and also cheer our hearts with that blessed joy of thine In trust whereof, I will fall on sleép, and take my rest, through our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ, Amen.   

A Prayer when we be ready to sleep.  
The women sang by course in their play, and said: etc. 1. Sam. 2● The children of the prophets came to meet Helisha, etc. 4. Reg. 2.  
Christ riding to jerusalem, many spread their garments in ●he way, other cut down branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that followed, &c Mark. ●●▪  
TAke me into thy protection, O Lord jesus Christ our defender: and grant that while my body sleepeth my soul may wake in thee, and cheérefully, and joyfully behold the happy, & gladsome heavenly life, wherein thou art sovereign with the Father and the holy Ghost: and the Angels, and holy souls of men are most blessed fellow Citizens for ever and ever, Amen.   

* A preparation, or preface to Public Prayer.  
ALmighty God, and heavenly Father, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy, and in thy fear, will I worship toward thy holy Temple.  
I have loved the habitation of thine house, and willingly am I present in the congregation of thy Saints, praising and confessing thy holy name.  jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying unto them it is written, Mine house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a de● of thieves. Luke. 10 Is this house become a den of thieves, whereupon. etc. Jere. 7. Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people. etc. Esay, 56, 
Come let us fall and bow down before the Lord who hath made us, because he is the Lord our God, and we the sheep of his pasture.  
Exalt the Lord our God, & fall down before his footstool, for he is holy.  
Lord I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time: even in the multitude of thy mercies: (O God) hear me in the truth of thy salvation.  
I will offer to thee a sacrifice of praise and will call upon the name of the Lord  
I will pay my vows unto the Lord, even now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the Lords house, even in the midst of thee, O jerusalem.  
I will run in the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.  
Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes. Open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy law.  When joseph's brethren saw him a far of, etc. Gen. 3 Absalon rose up early and stood hard by thee, etc. 2. Sam. 15. Behold a woman a Cananite, came out of the sea coasts▪ and cried, saying unto him: Have mercy on me O Lord, etc. Math. 1●. 
Then will I take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord  
Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.  
I will sing with the Spirit, and in understanding, and say, Amen.   

* A short speech before the Lords Proyer.  
O Heavenly Father, O most merciful God, I most wretched sinner am unworthy to lift up my hands and eyes unto thee, or to trouble thee with my prayers.  
Nevertheless, forasmuch as thou hast commanded all men to pray, & promised that thou wilt hear us: And moreover, prescribed us a form of Prayer in express words, by thy well-beloved Son jesus Christ: being driven by thy commandment, and trusting to thy promises, I pray They appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time judas sought opportunity to betray Christ his master. Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, etc. Math. 26 judas said: Come let us cell him to the Ismalites, etc. Gen. 37 So joseph was brought down into Egypt, and Potipher, etc. Gen. 30 unto thee in the name of my Lord, with all the godly upon earth, saying as he hath taught us. Our Father, which art in heaven. etc.   

* A Prayer to God the Father.  The foolish virgins came also saying Lord Lord, etc. Math. 25. The great Dragon that old serpent was cast out, etc. 〈◊〉. 12. jesus knowing all things that should come, went forth and said unto them ●home seek ye? They answered him jesus of Nazareth, jesus answered I 〈◊〉 he. judas also etc. john. 18. 
And because we have divers & hard encounters to endure against the world, the devil, his ministers, and the flesh which we bear about us: we beseech thee even with sighs, that thy kingdom may come. That like as in heaven all things submit themselves to thy majesty with trembling: so also thy Spirit may reign in our hearts, making us to acknowledge thee the king of all kings, than the which nothing can be either greater, or better.  They appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time judas sought opportunity to betray Christ his master. Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, etc. Math. 26 joab took ●b●er aside peaceably, and smote him under the rib that he d●●d. etc. 2. Sam. ●. Simon to redeem jonathan, sendeth money and the children to Triphon etc. 1. Macha. 13. When 〈◊〉 the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, he told his two brethren, &c Gen. 10 〈◊〉 is mocked of little children crying unto him: Come up thou baldhead, etc. ●. ●eg. 2. 〈…〉 Christ 〈◊〉 his face, ●nd buffeted him 〈◊〉 Prophecy ●●to us O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sat without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26. 
The meat that giveth life in deed, is the knowledge of thee by thy holy Scriptures, & the grace of thy spirit, whereby we grow up in thee through daily increase of virtue in the inner man, until we be fully men, grown according to the full measure of thine only begotten son jesus Christ. By thy word thou begatest us when we were nothing, by the same hast thou be gotten us again, unhappily borne of Adam, and by the same dost thou feed and cherish us now again begotten.  
For, that is the heavenly bread, that is the new wine, wherewith all the blessed spirits are continually and happily fed, which (dwelling in thy house) do praise thee for ever and ever.  〈◊〉 let Barrabas loose unto thē●nd scourged jesus, and delivered him to be crucified Then the soldiers of the governor took jesus in to the common hall, etc. Math. 27. The plowers ploughed upon my back, and furrows long did cast, etc. Psal. 131. Satan smote job with sore voyles from the sole of his foot etc. job. 2. When thou▪ art done all thy duty, steer down that thou mayst receive a crown etc. Eccle. 22. 〈◊〉 said unto David, who art thou that criest to the king, etc. 1 Sam. 26 And the souldi●rs platt●●●owne o● thorn ●pon his ●ead, an 〈◊〉 in his 〈…〉, and bowed their knees before ●im and mocked ●im, saying: God 〈◊〉, etc. Math. 2▪  

* Another in jesus Christ our Redeemer, by S. August.  
Pilate took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this just man, look you to it. Then answered all the people, etc. Math. 27.  
jezabel sent a messenger unto Helias saying The Gods do so to me etc. 3. Reg. 19 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast, etc. Dan. 6.  
I Call upon thee, O God, I call upon thee, because thou art nigh to all them, that call upon thee in truth. Thou art the truth, teach me I beseech thee in thy mercy: O holy truth teach me to call upon thee in truth: For how I should so do I know not. Teach me therefore I most humbly beseech thee, O most blessed truth. For wisdom without thee is foolishness, to know thee is perfect knowledge. Instruct me with thy divine wisdom: & teach me thy Laws. For I believe that he is most happy who is instructed by thee, and taught thy Law. I have a desire to call upon thee, which I pray thee that I may do in verity. What is it to call upon truth in truth, but to call upon the Father in the Son?  
Truly (most holy Father) thy word is the truth, and the beginning of thy Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son, etc. Gene. 22. 〈…〉 was there gathering sticks▪ and Eliah called her, and said, etc. 〈…〉. And jesus bore his cross and came into a place named Golgotha, where they crucified him and 〈◊〉 other with him 〈…〉 side one, and jesus in the midst of them, etc. john. ●●. word is truth: For this is the beginning of thy word, that thy word was in the beginning.  
In the beginning itself I worship thee, O thou principal beginning: in the very word of truth, I cry to thee most perfect truth. In the which, O thou the very same truth, teach and direct me. For what is sweeter than to call upon the Father in the name of his only begotten? Then to move the father to compassion by mention of his son? Then to pacify the king by name of his well-beloved child? For by this means the offender is released from prison: the captive set at liberty. By this means they that have received the sorrowful sentence of death, are wont to purchase not only pardon, but unhoped favour, if they plead the love of the well-beloved Son. By this means, servants that And when they were come to the place which is called Caluarie, there they crucified him and the evil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, etc. Luke. 23. Tubulraim wrought 〈◊〉 every craft of brass and iron, etc. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, etc. do trespass, escape their master's punishment, when his loving Son is their Intercessor.  
Even so, O almighty Father, I pray thee for the love of thy omnipotent Son, draw my soul out of prison, that it may confess unto thy name. Deliver me from the chains of sin, I beseech thee, by thy coeternal and only Son: and most mercifully restore me to life, by the mediation of thy most precious son, sitting at thy right hand. For what other Intercessor I should appoint I know not, but him who is the propitiation for our sins, who sitteth at thy right hand pleading for us. Behold my Advocate with thee O God the father. Behold the chief Bishop, who needeth no other bloody expiation, for that he shineth imbrued with his own blood. Behold the holy & welplesing Sacrifice, With the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water, &c Exo. 17 One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, & forthwith ran there out blood and water. And he that saw it bore record and his record is true. And he that etc. john. 19 offered up, and received in all sweetness. Behold the immaculate Lamb, which lay still before the shearers: who being buffeted, spit at, and opprobriously railed at, opened not his mouth. Behold, he who sinned not, took our sins upon him, and with his stripes healed our infirmities.   

❧ A Prayer to God the Son.  
O Lord jesus Christ, the maker and redeemer of mankind, which hast said that thou art the way, the truth and the life: the way, by doctrine, precepts, and examples: the truth, in promises: and the life in reward. I beseech thee for thine unspeakable loves sake, where through thou hast vouchsafed to employ thyself wholly in the saving of us: Suffer me not at any time to stray from thee which art the way, joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean l●nnen cloth, and la●d it in his new tomb which he had hewn out even in the rock 〈◊〉 rolled a great ●one to the door, etc. Math. 27. assoon as the s●●ne was down, Iosu● commandeth that the●, etc. josu. 8 Then they arose and went all night, and tok● the body, etc. 1. Sam. 1● nor to distrust thy promises which art the truth, and performest whatsoever thou promisest: nor to rest in any other thing then thee, which art the way, beyond which there is nothing to be desired, neither in heaven nor in earth. By thee we have learned the sure and ready way to true salvation, to the intent we should not wander any longer up and down in the mazes of this world. Thou hast taught us thoroughly what to believe, what to do, what to hope, and wherein to rest.  
We have learned of thee how ungraciously we be borne of the first Adam. We have learned of thee, that there is no hope of salvation, but by beleéfe in thee: and that thou art the only light which shineth before us all, as we journey through the wilderness of this world & through the night of our own hearts, from the darkness of Egypt, to that blessed land which thou hast promised When joseph was come to his brethren, they strip● him, etc. Gen. 37. So they took up jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea, etc. jonas. He laid it in a tomb 〈◊〉 out of a rock wherein was never man yet laid. And that day was the preparing of the Saboth, & the Saboth ●r●e on. The women that followed after etc. Luke. 23. to the meéke, and to such as follow the footsteps of thy mildness. For in us there was nothing but deép darkness, in so much that we could neither see our own wretchedness, nor where to seek remedy for it. But thou vouchsafing to come down into the earth, & to take our nature upon thee, of purpose to drive away the mist of our ignorance with the light of thy doctrine, and to direct our feet into the way of peace, by thy precepts: and hast paved us the way to immortality by thy example, and of abushy and rough way, made us a plain and smooth way, by treading it out with thine own footsteps.  
Thus art thou (which canst no skill of error) become our way, wherein (to the intent we should not faint) thy goodness hath vouchsafed to stay us up with many great and sure promises. For who can tire, when he remembreth, that For fear of him the keepers were astonished & become as dead men. But the Angel said to the women: Fear not, for I know you seek jesus which was crucified, etc. Math. 2●. Samson arose at midnight and took the doors, etc. I●dicum. 16 And the Lord spoke unto the fish and it cast out jonas, etc. jonas. 2. if he walk in thy footsteps, the inheritance of the heavenly life is prepared for him? Therefore it is thy will that hope should be as a sure staff, to hold us up as long as we be in this journey. And thy goodness was not contented with that, but forasmuch as thou know'st the weakness of our flesh, thou refreshest our strength from time to time with the comfort of thy Spirit, to the intent we may come running cheerfully unto thee. And as thou being become our way, puttest aside all cause of straying: so being the truth, puttest away all cause of distrust: finally, being become our life thou givest us grace to be dead here unto sin, & to live through thy spirit, wh c quickeneth all things, until that in the resurrection when all mortality shall be rid quite and clean away, we shall live with thee, and in thee for ever, at which time God shall be all in all. The king said unto Daniel: O Daniel the servant, etc. Daniel. 6. When I had past a little from them, than I found him, &c▪ Cant. ●. jesus app●a●ed first to Mary Magdalen● out of whom he had ●ast 〈…〉 she went and told them that had been with him which mourned, etc. Mar. 1● For it is everlasting life to know the Father, the Son, & the holy Ghost to be the one true God: whom we see now by faith, but as through a glass, and in a riddle: but as then we shall behold his glory at hand, and be transformed into the same Image. And therefore I beseech thee o most merciful Saviour, increase thy servants faith, that I may never stagger in thy heavenly doctrine: increase mine obedience, that I may never serve from thy commandments: and increase my constancy, that (walking in thy steps,) I may neither be enticed with Satan's allurements, nor discouraged with his terribleness: but hold out to the death in thee which art the true way: increase my faith, that (trusting to thy promises) I may never faint in the endeavour of godliness, but forget the things that I have left behind me, and go always jesus said to Thomas put th● finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithless, etc. john. 20. And jacob called the name of the place P●in●ll, etc. Gen. 32. 〈◊〉 answered: he Lord be with us why then, etc. jud. 6. forward to more perfection. Increase thy grace in me, that (being dead every day more than other in myself) I may be alive, and led by thy Spirit: fearing nothing but thee, than whom, nothing is more amiable: glorying in nothing but only in thee, who art the true glory of all the saints: coveting nothing but thee, who art of all things the best: and finally, desiring nothing but thee, who with the father, and the holy Ghost art the full and perfect felicity, for all ever. Amen.   

❧ A Prayer to the holy Ghost.  
O Holy Spirit, worthy of all worship, which makest up the almighty trinity, which proceédest from the father, and the son, and art equal to either of them, differing from them in only propriety of person, which of thy ●nd Enoch walked with God, and he was no more seen, for God took him away etc. Gen. ●. There appeared a chariot of fire. and horses of fire, to Elias went up by a whirlwind. &c 2. Reg. 2 So after the Lord h●d spoken unto them he was received into heaven and sat at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, ●c. Mar. 16 goodness forgive the sins of them that amend, which with thy holy breath cleansest men's minds, comforting them when they be in sorrow, cheéring them up with pure gladness when they be in heaviness, leading them into all truth when they be out of the way, kindling in them the fire of charity when they be a cold, knitting them together with the glue of peace when they be at variance, and garnishing, and enriching them with sundry gifts, which by thy means profess the name of the Lord jesus: by whose working, all things live, which live in deed, whose delight is to devil in the hearts of the simple, which thou hast vouchsafed to consecrated for temples to thyself. I beseech thee maintain thy gifts in me, & increase the things daily which thou hast vouchsafed upon me: that by thy governance, the lusts of the flesh The birth of blessed Mary the virgin the mother of Christ, etc. There shall come a rod forth of the stock of I●ss●, and a graff, etc. Esay. 11. There shall come a star of jacob, and a sceptre shall rise of Israel, etc. Num. 24. may die more and more in me, and the desire of the heavenly life more quicken and increase.  
Let me so pass through the misty desert of this world, by thy light going before me, as I may neither be defiled with Satan's vices, nor be entangled with any errors, disagreéing from thy truth, which the true catholic church hath delivered us by the instinct of thee, which livest & reignest everlastingly with the Father and the Son, Amen.   

* A Prayer to God for his Spirit, and grace to pray effectually.  
Eternal and most merciful Father, we know not ourselves, neither can easily understand, what, or how we should pray as we aught.  But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wif●, etc. Gen. 24. I will speak for her that she may be given the● to wife. for to thee doth the right of her, etc. Tob. 6. Marry the mother of jesus betrothed to joseph her husband before they came together, was found with child by the holy ghost. Then joseph her husband being a just men, &c Math. 1. 
give us the Spirit o Lord, to help our infirmities, which maketh request for us unto thee, with sighs which cannot be expressed.  
I lift up mine eyes to thee that dwell jest in the heavens.  
Stir up my heart and mind o Lord, come into me o spirit of God, that I may come unto thee with heart & soul, not with mouth and lips only.  
give us thy grace that we may call upon thee as true worshippers in spirit and truth, with the inward attention, without hypocrisy and ambition.  
Grant that I ask nothing of thee but that which may agree to thy holy will, to thy praise and glory, and to the health of my soul.  ●nd in the ●i mo●rt, the Angel Gabriel● was sent from God to a city in Galilee, na●med Nazareth, to a virgin affianced to a man whose name was joseph, of the house of David, etc. Luke. 1. ●he ●a●de of the wom●n shall ●read upon the head of the serpent, Gen. 3. The Angel said to him the Lord is with thee, ●hou valiant man. ●udges. 6 
Neither let my prayers o Lord, prescribe the time when, and how they should be fulfilled.  
But let me submit myself to thy holy will in all things with hope, patience, and humility of heart.  
Thy will be done in earth o Lord, as it is in heaven.  
I will wait patiently o Lord for thee, that thou mayst incline unto me, and hear my prayer.  
Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress: so our eyes will wait upon thee o Lord, until thou have mercy upon us.  ●nd Moses returned to jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, etc. Exo. 4. My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit doth rejoice in God my saviour, Luke. 1. A●d Mary c●ose and went with haste into the hilly country to a city of juda 〈◊〉 entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass, etc. Luke. 1. 
In his name, through faith, we come to the throne of thy grace, & receiving the spirit of adoption, we cry Abba Father.  
Strengthen us O Lord, lest the unworthiness of our life withdraw and entice us from prayer.  
Assist us therefore O most merciful father, that we may pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath or doubting, with supplications, prayers, intercessions, & giving of thanks for ourselves, and for all men.  
Grant this through jesus Christ our Lord, who is also at thy right hand and maketh request for us: To whom with thee, and thy holy Spirit, be all laud, and glory, Amen.  When the days were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten son and wrapped him in swaddling clotheses, and laid him in the manger because there was no room, etc. Lu. 2. Put thy shoes of thy feet for the place whereon thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. Aaron's rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease, etc. Num. 17.  

* A Prayer for the whole Realm, and the body of the Church, with the members thereof, according to their estates, & degrees.  Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him, etc. Gen. 2. Let every man child among you be circumcised. That is ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, etc. Goe 17 And when the viii. days were accomplished, that they should circumcise the child, his name was then called jesus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was concei●ed, etc. Luke. 2. 
And forasmuch as thou hast commanded us to pray inespecially for kings and Princes, and for all such as are set in authority, that the company of mankind may live peaceably, and quietly under them in all godliness and honesty: considering how burdensome crowns and sceptres are, & how hard the wealding of them is, and how difficult a matter it is to discharge them well, whether it be in respect of themselves, or of their subjects:  〈◊〉 is the king of the jews that re●orne▪ for we have e'en his star in the ●ast, and are come to ●orship him. ●he● Herode the king ●eard this, he was troubled, & all Ieru●alem etc. Math. ● Abner said to David, make covenant with me, and be hold, mine hand shall be with thee. etc. ●. Sam. ●. The Queen of Saba bring gifts to jerusalem to Solomon, with a very great tray●e. etc. 3. ●eg· 10. 
O Lord our good God, thou hast set her up to reign over thy people, give unto her thy handmaid, and to all other princes thy servants, give them wisdom and understanding to judge thy people, and to discern between good and bad, that they may not be unprofitable, and much less hurtful in so holy a vocation.  God said to Moses, sanctify unto me all the first borne, that open all manner matrices among the children, etc. E●o. 1● An●● bore a son, & b●ought him into the house of ●he Lord in ●iloh, and the child was young. etc. 1. Sam 1. 〈…〉 purification after ●e 〈◊〉 of Moses, ●ere accomplished, 〈…〉 jesus to jerusalem to present him to the lord, is it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. ●. 
Also I pray unto thee O saviour and father of truth, for all those whom thou hast ordained to be true Shepherds to thy faithful, and to whom thou hast committed the charge of men's souls, and the dealing forth of thy holy gospel. Guide them by thy holy spirit, that they may be found faithful and diligent in their holy vocation.  Arise and take the babe and his mother and fly into Egypt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seek the babe to destroy him. So he arose & took the babe & his mother, &c Math. 2 Behold thy brother Esan is comforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. Michael spoke unto David: If thou save not thyself this night to morrow, etc. ●. Sa. 19 
Let it please thee to make a general deliverance and restitution of thy churches through the whole world, by sending forth labourers into thy harvest, able and sufficient men to gather the poor stray sheep together, under the sheéphooke of the great shepherd of our souls thy son jesus Christ.  Moses cast the tables out of his hands and broke them in p●eces because of their idolatry, etc. Exo. 12 The Philistines ●nde Dagon fallen down before the ark of the Lord etc. 1. Sam. 5. He shall break down their altars, he shall destroy their images. For now they shall say, we have no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to us? Osc. 10. 
As touching their hearers, unto such as profess thy name already, give true perseverance in faith, charity, and all good works, to the glory of thy name, & to the health of their own souls. And as touching the residue which walk as yet in the vanity of their own minds, touch thou their hearts, and give them enlightened eyes, that all of them may yield themselves to serve and please thee. Finally, o God of all comfort, I beseech thee have pity upon the miseries and afflictions of all thy creatures in general, of the nations whom thou visitest with pestilence, war, or famine: of the persons whom thou smitest with poverty, imprisonment, sickness, banishment, or other thy rods, whether it be in their bodies or in their minds: and specially of thy chosen, that suffer for the testimony of thy gospel.  Herode caused all male children to b● s●aine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costs thereon from two year old and under, according to the time which he had diligently searched, &c Mar. 2. S●ul said to Doeg▪ 〈◊〉 thou and fall upon the priests and Doeg the Edomite turned, etc. 1. ●a 22 Athal●a seeing her son to be dead, destroyed all the king's seed. But jehosheba. etc. Reg. 11. God spoke to jacob, get thee out of this country. jacob took all his goods and cattle, etc. Gen. ●1. David asked counsel of the Lord, saying: Shall I go up into any cities of judah, etc. 2. Sam. 2. The Angel said to joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of ●●●rael, for they are dead which sought the babe's life. Then he arose and took the babe etc. Mat. ●  

* Another prayer for the church, and all the states thereof, by john Fox.  And jesus when h● was baptized, cam● strait out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and john saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, etc. Math. 3. Lift up thy rod and stretch out thine hand upon the sea, etc. Exodus. 14. They cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and bears upon, etc. Num. 13. Esau selleth his birth ●●ght for a m●sse of pottage, etc. Gen. 25. The woman seeing the tree to be pleasant, took of the fruit etc. Gen. 3. The tempter 〈◊〉 to Christ saying: If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answering, said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread only, etc. Math. 4. Behold a woman a Cananite, came out of the sea coasts▪ and cried, saying unto him: Have mercy on me O Lord, etc. Math. 15. ● certain man was diseased 38. years, when jesus saw him lie and knew, etc. john. ●▪ And in the 〈…〉 of the night, jesus went unto them, walking on the sea, etc. Math. 14. 
But here (alack) cometh another mischief, as great, or greater than the other. For, the Turk with his sword is not so cruel, but the bishop of Rome on the other side is more fierce and bitter against us, stirring up his bishops to burn us, his confederates to conspire our destruction, setting kings against their subjects, and subjects disloyally to rebel against their princes, and all for thy name.  He that is without fault let him cast the first stone. etc. john. ●. jesus seeing their faith, said to the sick of the dropsy, son, etc. Math. 9 And he took the u loaves and two fishes and looked up to heaven and blessed, and broke and gave the loaves to his disciples and the disciples. etc. Math. 14. 
Amongst us Englishmen here in England, after so great storms of persecution, and cruel murder of so many martyrs, it hath pleased thy grace to give us these halcyon days, which yet we enjoy, and beseech thy merciful goodness still they may continued.  Christ cried with a loud voice, Lazaru● come forth. Then he that was dead came forth, ●ound hand ● foot with bands and his face was bound with a napkin. jesus said unto them, etc. john. 11. Hel●as stretched himself upon the child, and the Lord heard the voice of Hel●as, etc. ●. Reg. 17. He●●●ens coming into the house and behold, the child was dead and he stretched, etc. 4. Reg. 4. Abraham said, Lord if I have now found favour in thy sight. etc. Gen. 18. Nabuchadneser answered: Lo I see fouremen lose walking in the midst of the fir●. Dan. 3 He was trans●̄gured before them and his face did shine as the sun, and his clotheses were as white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias, etc. Math. 17. jesus said, Many ●innes are forgiven her, for she loved much. To whom a little is forgiven he doth love a little. And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven thee, etc. Luke. 7 David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord. etc. 2. Sam. 12. Aaron looked upon My●iam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12. Who shall have pity then upon thee O jerusalem or who, etc. jere. 15. Their feasts are turned into lamentation, their Altars, etc. 1. Micha. 1. When Christ came near jerusalem he beheld the city and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst even known at the left in this thy day those things which belong unto thy peace etc. Luke. 19 
And because no government can long stand without good counsel, neither can any counsel be good except it be prospered by thee: bless therefore we beseech thee, both her majesty, and her honourable Counsel, that both they rightly understand what is to be done, and she accordingly may accomplish that they do counsel to thy glory, and furtherance of the gospel, and public wealth of this Realm.  Christ riding to jerusalem, many spread their garments in the way, other cut down branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that followed, &c Mark. ●● The women sang by co●●ese in their play, and said: etc. 1. Sam. 2● The children of the prophets came to meet Helisha, etc. 4. Reg. 2. 
Likewise to all magistrates, such as be advanced to authority, or placed in office, by what name or title soever: give we beseech thee a careful conscience uprightly to discharge their duty, that as they be public persons to serve the common wealth, so they abuse not their office to their private gain, nor private revenge of their own affections: but that justice being administered without bribery, and equity balanced without cruelty or partiality, things that be amiss may be reformed, vice abandoned, truth supported, innocency releéued, God's glory maintained, and the Common wealth truly served.  Is this house become a ●en of thieves, whereupon. etc. jere. 7, Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people. etc. Esay. 56. jesus went into the temple and beg●n t● cast out them that sold and bought, saying unto them 〈…〉 written, Mine house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a 〈◊〉 of then●s. Luke. ●. The chief priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take jesus by subtlety and kill him. But they said, not on the feast day, lest any uproar, etc. Math. 26 When joseph's brethren saw him a far of, etc. Gen. 3 Absalon rose up early, and stood hard by thee, etc. 2. ●am. 19 
And forasmuch as the Bishop of Rome is wont on every good Friday to accurse us damned heretics, we curse not him, but pray for him, that he with all his partakers, either may be turned to a better truth, or else we pray thee (gracious Lord) that we never agree with him in doctrine, and that he may so curse us still, and never bless us more, as he blessed us in Queen Mary's time. God of thy mercy keép away that blessing from us.  judas said: Come let us cell him to the Ismalites, etc. Gen. 37 So joseph was brought down into Egypt, and Po●ipher, etc. Gen. 30 Then appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver, and from that ●●me judas sought opportunity to betray Christ his master. Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. etc. Math. 26 
And forasmuch as thy poor little flock can scarce have any place or rest in this world, come (Lord) we beseech thee with thy Factum est, and make an end, that this world may have no more time nor place here, & that thy Church may have rest for ever.  
For these, and all other necessities requisite to be begged and prayed for, ask in thy Christ's name, and as he hath taught us, we say: Our Father which art in heaven, etc.   

Another.  
O Singular lover of us, Christ jesus, O Bridegroom to whom thy Church is most dear, and which hast jesus at his last supper as they did eat, took bread, & when he had given thanks broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take, eat, this is my body, etc. Math. 26. Melch●●●ech brought forth bread and wine, and he. etc. Gen. 37 Moses said to the people of Israel: This is that bread. etc. Exo. 16. promised that thou wilt never fail her: increase her, and multiply her with good issue like the father, that is to wit, like thyself. Make us to be all of one mind both in thee, and in the things that concern thee, so as we may verily be that body whereof thou art the head, being (as it were) glued, and fastened together with mutual charity, kindled with that everlasting fire of thine, which hast so loved us, that thou hast spent thy blood and thy life for us.  
O Christ, the author and persuader of peace, love, and good will: soften our hard and steely hearts: warm our icy and frozen hearts, that we may wish well one to another, so as all men may perceive us to be thy true disciples. And give us grace even now to begin to show forth that heavenly life, wherein there is no disagreement I saw all Israel scattered as sheep● that had no shepherd, etc. 3. Reg. 22 Helisha said: behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but thou etc. 4. Reg. 7. 〈◊〉 said: all ye shall be offended by 〈◊〉 this night etc. He said moreover unto them, sit y● here while I go and pray yonder. and he took Peter and the two sons etc. Math. 26. nor hatred, but peace and love on all hands, one towards another, Amen.   

Another.  
THe Church is one body, derived from thee (O Christ) the head thereof, into divers members, knit to thee, & together among themselves, with the knot of mutual love, a great mystery of God's goodness. Now look how great a benefit, love, unity, and peace are: so great a mischief is dissension, the mother of hatred. The author of the former is God, and the author of this other is the devil. And like as nothing can be devised more blessed, then to have the Earthly church to imitate the concord of the heavenly church: so nothing is more wretched than the contrary, which is the Image of hell.  
O head and father of ours, thou jesus knowing all things that should come, went forth and said unto them Whom seek ye? They answered him jesus of Nazareth, jesus answered I am he. judas also etc. john. 1●. The foolish virgins cam● also saying Lord Lord, etc. Math. 2●. The great Dragon that old serpent was cast out, etc. 〈◊〉. 12. only art of power to perform what thou listest. Therefore gather thou us together dispersed: & knit us together now jarring, & rend asunder with opinions: unite us together whom hatred and enmity hath set as far at odds as can be. Grant that all of us which are regenerated, & renewed by baptism in thy name, may close together in one body, meet for such a head as thou art, them the which none can be imagined either better or greater.  
Let us be all of one mind, let us set our hearts all upon one thing, namely upon thee the only almighty god, and singular lover of us: which art also a most meek man, and waste nailed to the cross for our sins, and art the redeemer of mankind, and the setter up again of the whole world. Lord assuage the great number of waves, wherewith this Ship of thine Ioa● took 〈…〉 peaceably, and smote him under the rib that he 〈◊〉. etc. 2. Sam. 3. Simon to redeem jonathan, sendeth money and the children to Triphon etc. 1. Ma●ha. 13. judas had given them a token saying: Whomsoever I kiss, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soon● as he was come, h● goeth to him and saith: Master, master, etc. Mark. 14. is assaulted and shaken. Awake Christ jesus and save us, or else we are like to suffer sore, and horrible shipwreck. No strength, no wisdom, no riches of men can now help us, there remaineth no hope of remedy. Only thy merciful look can save us from this cruel storm, and make it calm again. Therefore put to thy helping hand, that we being preserved by thy power, may glory in thy name, Amen.   

* Another.  
O Lord jesus christ, which through thine almighty power didst make all creatures both visible and invisible, which by thy heavenly wisdom governest and disposest all things in most beautiful order, which by thine unspeakable goodness, preservest, maintainest, and quicken'st all things, & which, through thine infinite mercy, amendest The jews 〈◊〉 Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy unto us O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sat without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. ●6. When Chamthe father of 〈◊〉 saw the nakedness of his father, he told his two brethren, &c Gen. 10 Helise●s is mocked of little children crying unto him: Come up thou baldhead, etc. 4. Reg. 2. the things that are crazed, buildest up the things that were fallen down, and quicken'st the things that were dead: vouchsafe (we beseech thee) to turn thy countenance at length to thy singularly beloved spouse the church, even that mild and gracious countenance of thine wherewith thou cherest all things in heaven, in earth, above the heavens, and under the earth: vouchsafe to turn those meéke and merciful eyes of thine wherewith when thou beheldest Peter, he repented him by and by: and wherewith thou beheldest the scattered people, and waste moved with pity because they wandered like stray and scattered sheép for want of a shepherd.  
Thou seést O good shepherd, how sundry sorts of wolves are broken into thy sheépfold, of whom every one crieth this is Christ, insomuch, that even the perfectest might be drawn into error, The plowe●s plowe● upon my back, and furrows long did cast, etc. Psal. 131. Satan smote job with sore boils fr● the sol● of his foot etc. job. 2. Pilate let 〈◊〉 loose unto them and scourged jesus, and delivered him to be crucified Then the soldiers of the governor took jesus in to the common h●ll, etc. Math. 2●. if it were possible. Thou seést with what winds, with what waves, and with what storms, thy little ship is tossed, out of the which it is not thy will that there shall be any safety. What must follow but that all of us must needs perish, if she should be drowned in the waters?  
We acknowledge and confess, that our own sins have procured us this tempest. We acknowledge thy righteousness, and bewalle our own unrighteousness: but yet therewithal we appeal to thy mercy, which (according to the psalm of the Prophet) exceédeth all thy works. We have endured much punishment already, being overworn with so many wars, overspent with so many exactions, vexed with so many kinds of sicknesses and plagues, overflowed with so many floods, and scared with so many strange wonders threatening us from the skies: and yet for all these And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorn upon his head, and a reed in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God 〈◊〉, etc. Math. 27 When thou hast done all thy d●●ty, ●●tte down that thou mayst receive a crown etc. Eccle. ●2. Abner said unto David, who art thou that criest to the king, etc. 〈◊〉 1. Sam. 26 mischiefs, following one in another's neck, there appeareth not any Haven any where to rest in, but sorer things seem to hung still over our heads.  
We complain not of any rigour on thy behalf (O most meéke saviour,) but we acknowledge thy mercy in that behalf also, for truly we have deserved far sorer things. How be it, O most merciful jesus, stand not thou upon the due of our deserts, but consider what becometh thine own mercifulness, without the which, not even the Angels were able to stand before thee, and much less we that are but earthen vessels. Have mercy upon us O pitiful redeemer, not for any worthiness of ours, but give that glory to thy holy name. Suffer not the jews, Turks, and others which either know thee not, or else envy thy glory, to brag continually against us and to say: Where is jezabel sent a messenger unto Helias saying The Gods do so to me▪ etc. ●. Reg. 19 Then the king commanded and they brought Daniel and cast, etc. Dan. 6. Pilate took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this 〈◊〉 man, look you to it. Then answered all the people▪ etc. Math. 27. their God? Where is their Redeemer? Where is their Saviour? Where is their Bridegroom whom they boast of? These reproaches light upon thee, while thy goodness is measured by our adversities. Because they perceive not that this chastising is to our welfare, they deem us to be forsaken.  
In time past when thou didst sleep in the ship, and the tempest that arose threatened destruction to all that were in it, thou didst awake at the crying out of a few of thy disciples, and anon at thy almighty voice the surges sank down, the winds were whist and still, and the troublesome storm was suddenly turned into a great calm. The dumb elements knew the commandment of their maker. Now in this far grievouser tempest, whereby not a few bodies, but innumerable souls are in danger: we beseech thee to awake at the ●nd jesus ●are his cross and came into a place named Gol●●otha, where the● crucified him 〈…〉 therewith 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 the most of 〈◊〉, etc. ●ohn. 1●. Abraham took the wood of ●he burnt offering▪ and laid ●t upon Isaac his son, etc. 〈◊〉. ●●. Behold the widow was there gathering sticks▪ and Eliah called her, and said, etc. 〈…〉. cry of thy whole church being in peril. Behold how many thousand men cry out, Lord save us or else we perish.  
The tempest hath overcome all cunning of man: nay rather, we see that the endeavour of such as go about to help it, doth turn to the contrary. There needeth thy voice O Lord jesus, say no more but tempest be still, and by and by the wished calmness will show itself. The Lord would have spared the innumerable thousands of wicked people that were in Sodom and Gomorra, if he could have foū● but ten righteous among them all. Now there are many thousands which love the glory of thy name, and which long to behold the beauty of thy house: and wilt thou not at their entreatance release thine anger, and remember thy old mercies? wilt thou not through thy heavenly cunning, turn our foolishness to thine Tubulta●● wrought cunningly every craft of brass and iron, etc. Gen. 4. Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and tasted on a tree, etc. And when they were come to the 〈◊〉 which 〈…〉 Calua●●e, there they crucified him and the evil do 〈◊〉, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, etc. Luke. 23. own glory? wilt thou not turn the wicked folks evil doings, to the benefit of thy church? for thy mercy is wont to be then readiest at hand, when things are so far past recovery, as no strength or policy of man can help them. Thou being the only author and maintainer of peace, art only he that maketh things at one, though they be never so much at odds. Thou didst dispose the old Chaos, wherein the seeds of all things lay confused, and turmoiling among themselves, without any order or comeliness: and by wonderful order knit the things together in everlasting league, which strive together by nature. But how much more shameful a Chaos is it, where there is no love, no faith, no keéping of covenants, no reverence of laws, no awe of such as are in authority, no consent of opinions: but every man sings his own song as One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side▪ ● forthwith ran there out blood and water. And he that saw it bore record and his records is true. And he that etc. john. 10. With the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. The Lord said to Moses thou shalt smite the rock and water, &c Exo. 17 in a black sanctus? Among the compasses of the Skies there is no disagreément, the Elements do keép every one his place, and every of them exec●●●eth his own office. And wilt thou suffer thy spouse, for whose sake all things are created, to go to wrack by continual discord? Will't thou suffer wicked spirits, the authors of discord, to execute tyranny in thy kingdom unpunished? Will't thou suffer that strong fellow whom thou hast once thrust out, to get possession of thy tents again? When thou dwelledst as a mortal man, among men, the devils fled away at thy voice. We beseech thee O Lord, sand thy Spirit into the hearts of all them that profess thy honourable name, to drive from them the wicked spirits, which are the schoolmasters of riot, covetousness, ambition, lechery, vengeance, and discord: and (that I may assoon as the sun was down, joshua commandeth that they, etc. josu. ● Then they arose and went all night, and took the body, etc. 1. Sam. 13 joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out even in the ●ock and rolled a great ●tone to the door, etc. Math. 27. use the prophets own words) a clean heart created in us O God our king, and renew thy holy Spirit in our bowels, take not thy holy spirit from us. give us again the gladness of thy salvation, and strengthen thy spouse and thy spouses' shepherds with a principal spirit. By this spirit hast thou set things in heaven and earth at one: by this spirit hast thou assembled and knit so many tongues, so many nations, and so many sundry sorts of men into the one body of thy church, which cleaveth unto thee her head by the same spirit. If it may please thee to renew him in all men's hearts, these outward calamities will by and by cease, or if they cease not, yet shall they at lest wise turn to the behoof of them that love thee. Set this confusion in order O Lord, and let thy spirit spread forth itself upon the waters of wavering opinions.  
He laid it in a tomb ●ewen out of a rock wherein was never man yet laid. And that day was the preparing of the Saboth, & the Saboth drew on. The women that followed after etc. Luke. 23.  
●hen joseph was come to his brethren, they stripped ●im, etc. Gen. 37.  
So they t●ke up Jonas and ●ast him into the sea and the sea, etc. jonas.  
And forasmuch as thy spirit (which according to the saying of the prophet containeth all things) hath also the knowledge of the voice in him: grant that as all which devil in thy house have but one law, one baptism, one God, one hope, one spirit: so also there may be but one voice among all them that profess thy catholic truth. At thy going up into heaven, thou after the manner of such as triumph, didst scatter abroad divers rewards from above, give gifts unto men, & bestow sundry presents of thy spirit among them. Renew now again thine old bounteousnes from above: give the same things to the Church now drooping, which thou gavest to her at her first flourishing forth. give unto her Prince's the awe of thee, that they may so govern the common weal, as though they should shortly yield an account of every The weepeth continually in the night, and her tears. etc. Lamen. 1. Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara for the lord hath given, etc. Ruth. 1. ●here was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulchre. The next day that followed the day of preparing, the high priests and pharisees, etc. Math. 27. thing to thee the king of all kings. give them of the wisdom which is always about thy throne, that they may see what is best to be done, and perform it in their deeds. give unto the shepherds whom thou hast vouchsafed to put in thy roomth, the gift of prophecy, that they may interpret the mystical scriptures, not by man's reason, but by thy inspiration. give them the threéfold charity which thou didst demand of Peter when thou gavest him charge to feed thy flock. give them the love of soberness and chastity. give thy people willingness to obey thy hests, and forwardness to serve them by whom it is thy will to have the affairs of this world ordered: so shall it come to pass, that if by thy inspiration the Princes command things seeming thee, and the Shepherds teach things accordingly, and the people obey For fear of him the keepers were astonished & become as dead men. But the Angel said to the women: Fear not, for I know you seek jesus which was crucified, etc. Ma●h. 23. ●amson arose at midnight and took the ●ores, etc. judicum. 16 ●nd the Lord spoke unto the fish and it cast out jonas, etc. jonas. 2. their good government and godly teaching: the church shall with such good order soon recover her former dignity and quietness to the glory of thy name. Notwithstanding that thou hadst appointed the Ninivites to utter destruction, yet didst thou spare them as soon as they turned to repentance: & wilt thou despise thy spouse casting herself down at thy feet? which useth sighs in stead of sackcloth, and tears in stead of ashes?  
Thou hast promised forgiveness to such as convert, and yet is it thy gift that a man returneth to thee with all his heart, to the intent that all our good things should redound to thy glory. Thou art the maker, repair thy creature. Thou art the raunsomer, save the cost which thou hast bestowed. Thou art the saviour, suffer not them to perish which hung wholly upon thee. Thou 〈…〉 and behold joseph was not in the 〈◊〉, etc. Gen ● 〈…〉 my soul loveth: I sought him but I found him not, 〈…〉 Marry stood at the sepulchre we●●ng, and as she wept, the bowed herself into the sepulchre and saw two angels in white sitting, the one etc. john. 20. art the Lord, maintain thine own possession. Thou art the head, secure thy members. Thou art the king, give us reverence of thy laws. Thou art the Prince of peace, inspire thy love into us. Thou art God, have mercy upon thy humble suitors.  
According to S. Paul's saying, be thou all in all men, that the whole company of thy church, may with one mind and one voice in consent yield thanks for her obtained mercy, to the father, and the son, and the holy Ghost, who being the perfect pattern of concord, are distinct in propriety of persons, and yet in nature but one, to whom be praise and glory for ever, Amen.   

* A Prayer for the Queen's Majesty.  jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vi●. devils. And she went and told them that had been with him which mourned, etc. Mar. 16 The king said unto Da●iell: O Daniel the servant, etc. Daniel. 6. When I had past a little from them, than I found him, etc. Cant. 3. 
Thou hast restored again the liberty of our country, and the sincerity of thy doctrine, with peace and tranquillity of thy church. Thy, thine was the benefit: the means, the labour, and service was hers. A burden to heavy (alas) for a woman's shoulders: yet easy and tolerable by thy helping hand.  And jacob called the name of the place Peniell, etc. Gen. 32. Gedeon answered: ●he Lord be with us why then, etc. jud. 6. jesus said to Thomas put the finger here and see my hands and ●ut forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithless, etc. john. ●●. 
Preserve her kingdom, maintain religion, defend thy cause, our Queen, us thy sheep, and her people. Scatter thine enemies which thirst after war. Let them be ashamed and confounded that worship Idols. Let us not be a pray to the nations that know not thee, neither call upon thy name.  So after the Lord had spoken unto them he was received into heaven and sat at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, etc. Mar. 16 ●nd Enoch walked with God, and he was no more sent, for God took him away. etc. Gen. 5. There appeared ● chariot of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went up by a whirlwind. etc. 2. Reg. 2  

* Another.  
O God most excellent creator and preserver of all things, we cast ourselves down before the feet of thy majesty: and inwardly feéling how unworthy we are to have our prayers heard of thee, we dare not lift up our eyes to heaven.  Knowledge of God in jesus Christ is life. Mahomet, and his Alcoron is perdition Love of God is in spirit, and truth. Idolatry, is Spiritual adultery. Above all take the shield of faith. Ephe. 6. Behold thou hast ca●● me out. Genesis. 4. faith. apprehendeth Christ jesus. Cain. despaireth of mercy. 
Moreover (O singular, and most precious treasure of all treasures) thou through her means and ministry hast brought again Christ jesus, once banished out of England.  Hope. maketh not ashamed. judas. ashamed, and hanged himself. Looking unto jesus the Author. etc. Heb. 12. Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath. Eph. 4. Patience, overcometh all things. Wrath, devoureth itself. 
Thou hast given her Counsellors: grant that she may use their council happily. Endue them with godly, righteous, and careful hearts, that they may be both willing, and able, simply and faithfully to consult, and also providently to provide, as well for thy church, as for her, and us her people.  
It is thy grace O Lord, that we her people, renewed with thy word, do suffer ourselves to be nourished with the same. Sand forth therefore faithful shepherds, godly, and true teachers to feed us. And drive away all hirelings, and ravening wolves, from this flock of thine, and of thy Son jesus Christ.  Humility, is tender hearted. Pride, despiseth his neighbour. Be not high minded, but make yourselves. &c Rom. ●2. Woe to the crown of pride, etc. Esay. 28. 
Furthermore, of thy goodness, maintain peace and tranquillity, defend our Queen, her kingdom, and country from bloody wars: and especially protect her and us from hollow hearts, and from civil tumults, and conspiracies, which have shaken the greatest part of Christendom.  
And because the affliction of every poor creature appertaineth to her, in as much as she is thine, inspire the magistrates under her with thy holy spirit, that they may willingly & carefully maintain justice, and provide for the releéfe of Christ his poor members, whose treasurers both she and we and all others are, whom thou hast blessed with thy earthly benefits.  Be 〈◊〉, ●nd tender hearted, etc. Ephe 4. Avenge not yourselves▪ but give place etc. Rom. 12. Mercy, beareth with infirmities. Cruelty, seeketh revenge.  

* Another.  
O Almighty God, king of kings, Lord of Lords, the only God and governor of all things: Thou art he, by whom alone kings do reign: Thou most high, bearest rule over all the kingdoms of men: Thou in Christ thine only Son being the most gracious father of thy chosen church, dost for the comfortable nourishing of it, dispose the Royal state among men.  Concord, supporteth one another. Discord, destroyeth one another. Three things rejoice me the unity, etc. Eccles●asticus, 25. The 〈◊〉 of the proud is bloodshed. Ecclesi. 27. Love nourisheth with joy. Herod murdereth infants. Christian sousdior harnessed. Hell Temptation overcome. Put on the whole armour, etc. Ephe. 6. Stand ●ast in the faith, etc. 1. Cor. 16. Wisdom is better than gold. Sardanapalus an imprudent king. 
give unto us also which are subjects, thankful hearts to thee, faithful to her in thee, and charitable towards all men: that all which live under her government, Counsellors, Ministers, and every other in their place and calling, may be thoroughly sactified in holiness to live before thee.  Understanding reacheth the heaven. Ignorance is as a beast Understanding is a wellspring of life. etc. Proverb. 16 Be ye not like horse, and Mule. which. etc. Psalm. 32.  

❧ A Prayer for the Ministers of God's word.  
LEt thy Priests (O Lord) be clothed with righteousness: and let thy Saints rejoice. Pour out thy spirit of wisdom and understanding upon the Ministers of thy word, that they may know the mysteries of thy holy william. give them the gift of utterance, that they may set forth the abundant riches of thy gospel. Writ thy laws in their hearts, and thy testimonies in their bowels, that they may lead thy people into all truth, & rule thy church with discretion. Make them good work Go to the 〈◊〉, O thou Slouggard. etc. Proverb. 6. The Slothful man hideth his hand in his. etc. Proverb, 26. Industry gathereth reward. Sloth bringeth sleep. men, faithful shepherds, and wise builders: that they may mend the broken walls of jerusalem, feed the flocks of thy sheep with the bread and water of life, husband thy vineyard, & dress it in due season, repair thy holy sanctuary, and bring in the vessels dedicated to the service of the Lord. And finally, shine with such light of holy and pure conversation before men, as they may edify no less by example of life, then by instruction of teaching: To the intent that men beholding their modesty, meéknes, sufferance, patience, and other virtues wherewith thou hast endued them to the benefit of thy Church, may be won to thy gospel even by the holiness of their conversation: and be compelled to confess to the glory of thy name, that thou doubtless, livest, reignest, workest and dwellest in them, Amen.  
Memory is a treasure house  
Oblivion is as a grave.  
Wherefore I put you in remembrance, &c 2. Tim. 1.  
I am counted among them that go down etc. Psal. 88   

* A Prayer to be said for all Magistrates  
THey that are in authority over us, are as the helm in a ship, as the eye in the body, and as the mind in the soul, and therefore thou O Lord hast commanded us to further them with our servis or succour, and our prayers. For great is the profit that we receive by good princes and magistrates, and great is the harm which they do being otherwise. Wherefore it is to be wished that they might be good, godly, virtuous and nobleminded.  
Besides this, great is the burden which they bear in governing well: forasmuch as they must make an account thereof unto thee, whereas we in the mean while, are free from that danger. Unto thee therefore (O Lord jesus Christ) do we make our supplications David executed right and justice, &c 2. King. 2. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions, etc. Esay. 1. justice ●udgeth rightly. Tyranny oppresseth ●ight. for them, even unto thee which art the perfect pattern for all Rulers to follow and imitate: as who being most singularly good, and wise, canst neither err nor do any thing amiss. Grant we beseech thee that all those whom thou hast ordained as Shepherds of thy sheép to rule thy people under thee: and specially that our most gracious sovereign Lady Elizabeth, and her most honourable Counsel, together with all her Nobility, Clergy, inferior Magistrates, and under Officers may be so enlightened with the brightness of thy light, so guided by the direction of thy spirit, and so inflamed with the love of thee, and of thy people committed to their charge, as they may in all cases espy the truth, & minister right, equity, & justice, with mercy, always having their eyes upon thee, to follow and execute the things which thou hast Strength showed in the arm. Holofernes slain by judith. He girdeth me with strength, &c Psalm, 28. He said he would burn up, etc. judith. 6. commanded, and not which they themselves list, so as they, drawing all together by one line, according to the pattern which thou hast set before them, may well and thoroughly perform their charge to thy glory: and we obediently yielding ourselves to their godly commandments, may lead a holy and quiet life under them likewise, to the glory of thy name, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer of Children for their Parents.  
LOrd God, whose will it is that next thyself we should yield most honour to our fathers and mothers: forasmuch as among the duties of natural love, it is not the lest to sue unto thy goodness for the welfare of our Parents: I beseech thee preserve my Father and Mother, with all their household, David took a good courage to him. etc. 1. Reg. 2. I desire that you faint not, etc. Ephe. 3 Courage is bold in Christ. Cowardice fainteth in trial. first in the love of thy Religion, and next in safety from all incumberance and grief both of body & mind.  
And unto me, grant that they may not have any trouble by my means: And finally, that I may enjoy the favour of them, & they the favour of thee, which art the sovereign father of all, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer for charity, or love towards our neighbours.  
LOrd, enlighten and instruct our minds, that we may esteem every thing as it is worth, & yet not make the less reckoning of thee, sith nothing can be made better than thou. And secondly, let us make account of man, than whom, there is nothing more excellent among the things of this world. Make us to love him next thee, either as likest ourselves, or as thy child, and therefore our brother, or as one ordained Temperance watcheth, and bridleth. Intemperance overcometh the heart. A wholesome sleep cometh of. etc. Eccle. 31. For tables are so full of vomit, etc. Esay, 28 to be a member of one self same Country with us.  
And 'cause us also even here, to resemble the heavenly kingdom through mutual love, where all hatred is quite banished, and all is full of love, and consequently full of joy and gladness, Amen.   

Another.  
SOften our hearts O Lord, that we may be moved no less at the necessities and griefs of our neighbours, then if they concerned ourselves, or the cases that touched us nearest, and let us think them to befall even to our dearest friends. Let us pity them as ourselves, and in their common adversity let us also communicate with them by compassion, that as we would have pitied ourselves for the like cause, so we may be moved with pity towards those whom we see oppressed with the Use a little wine for thy stomach. 1. Tim. 5 Woe unto them that 〈◊〉 up early etc. Esay. 1. Measure in wine. comforteth. Excess walketh wanton. same adversities. O most mild, and merciful Christ, we beseech thee breathe upon us the spirit of thy meékenes and goodness, that like as thy pitying of us made thee to endure most bitter death, and torments for us, so our pitying of our neighbours may lead us to secure them to our power, Amen.   

Another.  
WHere Charity and Love are, there is the congregation of the Saints. There is neither wrath nor disdain: but steadfast charity for ever. Therefore grant us O Lord God, that we may love one another unfeignedly: for where love is, there art thou: and he that loveth his brother, is born of thee, and dwelleth in thee, and thou in him.  
And where brethren do glorify Sobriety watcheth her mouth. Voluptuousness ●yoteth. Let us which are of the day be sober. 1. Thess. 5. For it is sufficient for us, etc. 1. Pet. 4. thee with one accord, there dost thou pour out thy blessing upon them. Love us therefore O Lord, and shed thy love into our hearts, that we may love thee, and our brethren in thee, and for thee, as all children to thee, through jesus Christ, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer for the afflicted, and persecuted under the tyranny of Antichrist.  
O Merciful Father, who never dost forsake such as put their trust in thee: stretch forth thy mighty arm to the defence of our brethren, by the rage of enemies persecuted, and greéuously tormented in sundry places for the true profession of thy holy Gospel, who in their extreém necessity cry for comfort unto thee.  
Let not thy long suffering, O Lord, Whose apparailing let not be, etc. 1. Pet. 3· The steps of a strange woman. etc. Proverb. 5. Chastity is secret and clean. Uncleanness is like a Goat. be an occasion either to increase the tyranny of thy enemies, or to discourage thy children: but with speed, O Lord. consider their great miseries and afflictions. Prevent the cruel devise of Haman. Stay the rage of Holophernes. Break the counsel of Achitophel. Let not the wicked say: Where is now their God?  
Let thy afflicted flock feel present aid and releéfe from thee O Lord, look down upon them with thy pitiful eye, from thy holy habitation: sand terror and trembling among their enemies: make an end of their outrageous tyranny: beat back their boldness in suppressing thy truth, in destroying thy true servants, in defacing thy glory, and in setting up Antichrist. Let them not thus proudly advance themselves against thee, and thy Christ, but let them understand and feel that against thee Perseverance endureth to the end. Revolting, a Sow in the mire If they continued grounded in faith. 1. Tim. 2. He that endureth to the end shallbe saved. Mat. 10 they fight. Preserve and defend the vine which thy right hand hath planted, and let all nations see the glory of thine anointed, Amen.   

* A Prayer for our brethren, that are in adversity.  
MOst gracious, and merciful saviour, we find by experience almost every minute of an hour, that this life of ours is fraughted with adversities, which grow unto every of us either out of the sinfulness of the flesh, or of each man's own folly, or of other men's spitefulness.  
Besides this, other men's misfortunes are both an increase, and an example of our own. For we see by them, that the like may befall us: and brotherly charity compelleth us to be sorry for them. In respect whereof thou also hast commanded us to weépe with them Charity feedeth the hungry. I was an hungry, and ye gave me meat. Mat. 25. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. prover. 25▪ that weépe, and to mourn with them that mourn, and to be like minded one towards another, as members all of one body. Thou therefore, O merciful redeemer, which hast borne our infirmities, hearken to the prayers which we pour out before thee, for the releéfe of our brothers adversities: & increase not our sorrows by the sorrows of our friends. Rid them out of their miseries, that they may the more quietly set their minds upon thee, & we (through thy gracious goodness) be discharged of no small piece of our heaviness. Or, if it be not expedient either for them or us (for thou only knowest what is expedient for every man:) at lest wise give them power of mind, and strength of b●dy, to bear their sore crosses the easilier, so as neither their bodies may be unable to abide and endure the pains, nor their hearts quail under the grief, Charity giveth drink to the thirsty. I thirsted, and you gave me drink, Mat. 25. The Niggard witholdeth drink from the thirsty. Esay 32. whereby they might be driven to do, say, or think any thing which thou mightest mislike of, or which might turn to their own hurt through impatience or despair, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer for them that be in poverty.  
THey that are snarled and entangled in the extreém penury of things neédfull for the body, cannot set their minds upon thee O Lord, as they aught to do: but when they be disappointed of the things which they do so mightily desire, their hearts are cast down, and quail for excess of grief. Have pity upon them therefore O merciful father, and releéue their misery through thine incredible riches, that by thy removing of their urgent necessity, they may rise up unto thee in mind. Thou O Lord providest enough for all men Charity, harboureth strangers. I was a stranger, & ye lodgeed me. Mat. 25. I have not suffered a stranger to lie without. job. 31. with thy most liberal and bountiful hand: but whereas thy gifts are, in respect of thy goodness & free favour, made common to all men, we (through our naughtiness, nigardship, and distrust,) do make them private and peculiar. Correct thou the thing which our iniquity hath put out of order: let thy goodness supply that which our niggardlynes hath plucked away. give thou meat to the hungry, and drink to the thirsty: Comfort thou the sorrowful: Cheére thou up the dismayed: Strengthen thou the weak: Deliver thou them that are prisoners: And give thou hope and courage to them that are out of heart.  
O Father of all mercy have compassion of so great misery. O Fountain of all good things, and of all blessedness, wash thou away these so sundry, so manifold & so great miseries of ours, Charity clotheth the naked. I was naked & ye clothed me Mat. 25 If a brother or Sister be naked or destitute. James. 2. with one drop of the water of thy mercy, for thine only Son our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ's sake, Amen.   

* A Prayer to be said for our Euilwillers.  
MOst merciful redeemer, thou hast commanded us to pray for them, both which wish us evil, and (as much as in them lieth) do work us evil: and that hast thou done, not only in words, but also in deeds, of purpose that we should follow thine example. We pray thee therefore, to shed in to us the spirit of thy mildness, that we may patiently suffer both the evil will, and the evil speech, and the evil doings of our enemies, as we hear say thou didst, and as we daily perceive that thou dost still.  
Let us neither requited wrong indeed, nor take upon us to revenge ourselves Charity visiteth the sick. I was sick & ye visited me. Math. 25. Let it not grieve thee to visit the sick. Eccle. 7 in words, nor wish, or desire any such thing in heart or mind: but let us be so far of from all revenge, as we may even do them good, and help them to the uttermost of our power, and with earnest prayer and supplication crave good things of thee for them: namely, that thou vouchsafe to give them a good mind, and all other things which thou knowest to be for their welfare, profit, commodity, and soul health: so as we may be thy children in deed, which bestowest thy bounteousness not only upon the good and thankful, but also upon the wicked and unthankful: and also thy kindly disciples, which prayed thy father to forgive their most unrighteous tormentors, Amen.   

* Another.  
MOst merciful, and loving Father, which hatest not any of the Charity, visiteth prisoners. I was in prison and ye came Math. 25. Onesiphorus often refreshed me & was not. 2. Tim. 1. things which thou hast made, but sufferest and bearest with men's misdoings, winking at them, to provoke them to repentance: We beseech thee most humbly, even with all our hearts, to pour out upon our enemies with bountiful hand, whatsoever things thou knowest may do them good: and cheéfly a sound and uncorrupt mind, wherethrough they may know thee, and seek thee in true charity with their whole heart, and love us thy children for thy sake.  
Let not their hating of us turn to their harm, neither let us in any wise hurt them, seeing that we cannot do them good for want of ability. Destroy them not O father, for their hatred towards us, but save them at our entreatance for them. Lord we desire their amendment, and not their punishment. Separate them not from us by punishing Sight. Let thine eyes behold that is right. Proverb. 4. them, but join and knit them to us by thy favourable dealing with them. And seeing we be all ordained to be Citizens of the one everlasting City, let us begin to enter into that way here already by mutual love, which may bring us right forth thither, through jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   

* A confession of our sins.  
O Lord my God, everlasting and almighty Father: I acknowledge and confess before thy holy and high Majesty, that I was bread and borne in sin and corruption: and that since my birth I have not ceased, nor do cease daily to transgress thy commandments. In respect whereof I cannot escape ruin and destruction according to thy rightful justice. Notwithstanding, forasmuch as I am sorry that I have offended thee, and do condemn Hearing. The ear of jealousy heareth all things. Wisdom. 1. both myself and my sin: and forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to love us, even when we were thine enemies, and for assurance thereof, to give us thy only and well-beloved son, our Lord jesus Christ, to be a mediator, & advocate between thee and us, promising us that we shall obtain whatsoever we ask of thee in his name.  
Vouchsafe O most loving God and merciful Father, to pardon and forgive me in his name, and for his sake: and not only to cleanse my heart from all vanity and uncleanness, but also to govern and guide me by thy holy spirit in all my ways, that I may live according to thy holy and heavenly commandments all the days of my life, to the glory of thy name, through the same thy well beloved Son, So be it.  
 
Taste.  
The mouth tasteth the meats job. 34.   

* A Prayer for remission and forgiveness of sins.  
SO huge is the heap of our sins, and in so sundry wise have we offended (O righteous and holy lawmaker) that unless we lift up our minds to the considering of thy goodness, we must needs despair. Thee we displease, to thee do we bid battle through our wicked deeds. To thee do we profess enmity, even to thee which art almighty, which hast no neéd of any thing, whom nothing can hurt: and yet art thou the party that doth first offer peace and atonement.  
Because nothing happeneth oftener to us them to fall into this disease, we have need of nothing so much as of the medicine of thy mercy, and thou dost always offer it us readily, and set it before us.  Smelling. give a sweet smell as incense etc. Eccle. 39 
Wherefore grant we beseech thee O most mild and kind-hearted Father, that we may both discern our diseases, and know the remedies of them, and seek them (as it becometh us) at thine only hand, who art wont to grant them so easily at our requests, for the love of thine only son jesus Christ, Amen.   

Another.  
MOst merciful and gracious father, I beseech thee let not other men's naughtiness hurt me, but rather let their goodness further me: thou art the terrible jealous God, which revengeth the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate thee: and again on the other side, art treatible and mild, insomuch that thou showest mercy unto thousands, in them Touching. Touch no unclean thing. 2. Cor. 6. that love thee and keép thy commandments. Add this also as an increasement of thine exceeding great goodness, that the faults of my forefathers in the flesh light not upon my head, but that the well-doing of thy son jesus Christ who is our father, may succour me. Be not angry with me for their sakes that begat this body of mine, but let me feel thee favourable to me for jesus Christ's sake, who hath begotten my soul new again, Amen.   

Another.  Esay. 2. &. 19 Math. 24. Mark. 13. Luke. 17 The sun shall be darkened, the moon shall loose her light, & the stars shall fall from heaven. Two men shall be in the field, the one received, the other shall be refused. 
Alas, how sore are we nuzzled in sin by custom, in so much that as now we can almost do nothing else, and yet we perceive not when we do amiss. O how small an account do we make of it? We lie wallowing up on the ground in dirt and dung, and yet we never strain ourselves so much as to lift up our heads, that we might not rot as we lie. What father would forbear us so often in breaking his commandments? Yet not withstanding, thou O God dost bear with us, and winkest at our sins, and thy goodness and long sufferance allure us to amendment.  
To thee therefore be glory, and praise, for ever and ever, Amen.  Two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be received the other shall be refused.  

Another.  
O Sovereign creator of all things, when I consider what manner of majesty I have offended with my sins. I do even shudder at mine own rashness. When I bethink me how gracious and bountiful a father I have forsaken, I abhor mine own unkindness, When I perceive from how blessed freedom of mind, into how miserable thraldom I have cast myself: I condemn mine own madness, and I utterly mislike of myself, and my conscience is put in such terror, by thine uneschuable justice, as I see nothing before me but hellfire and disparre.  The Sea shall swell higher than any hill: & shall fall again as low, fishes & monsters of the Sea shall appear with roaring voice. 
Again, how ready thou art to pardon such as amend, thine own only begotten son doth beaten into our heads by many parables, as of the lost groat, and the finding thereof again: of the shepherds bringing home of his stray sheép upon his shoulders: but most evidently of the prodigal son, whose Image I see plainly in myself.  The sea and all floods shall burn, trees and herbs shall drop blood Cities. and all buildings shall be overturned. 
O let thy mercy receive him now submitting himself, whom thou hast he thereto borne withal so gently in his straying from thee. I am unworthy to lift up mine eyes to thee, or to call thee by the name of father. Nevertheless vouchsafe I beseech thee, to cast thine eye upon me: For thy looking towards the sinner, maketh him to revive when he is dead, and to return home again when he is lost.  Stone● shall tumble together, and make a huge none. Tirr●ble earthquakes shall make men hide themselves. Valy●s shall be 〈◊〉 and hills brought low. 
Slave that I am, and worthy of all manner of punishment, I seek not that thou shouldst embrace me and kiss me: I crave not the long rob and the ring, which are the badges of the former dignity that I did hold scorn of. I sue not to be received to the honour of thy children: It shall be a benefit great enough for me, if thou admit me but into the number of thy basest servants, even of such as are branded, & brought again from roguing, that I may at lest wise be some hanger on unto thee, for in thy house there are many roomths.  They that hide themselves shall run forth like mad men▪ The bones of the dead shall appear above the sepulchres. The powers of heaven shall be shaken. 
It shall not grieve me to be counted among the abjects in this life, and to be racked with repentance, and to be sullied with mourning, so I may not be separated from thee for ever.  
I pray thee, and I beseech thee by the death of thy dearly beloved, and only begotten son, impart thy spirit unto me to cleanse my heart, and to strengthen it with his grace, that I slide not thither again through oversight, from whence I was called back by thy mercy, Amen.   

* Another.  
I Have gone astray like a lost sheep, seek out thy servant O Lord, for I have not been unmindful of thy commandments. The offences & oversights of my youth remember not O Lord. Be mindful on me according to thy mercy. For thy goodness sake, Every one living shall die presently. Heaven, earth, & all elements shall burn. The dead shall rise. O Lord, keep my soul, and deliver me: so shall I not be ashamed of putting my trust in thee. Turn my mourning into joy. Rend my sackcloth asunder, and compass me about with gladness, that my tongue may sing to thee without prick or sting of conscience, Amen.   

* Another.  
IF thou look straightly to our sins (O Lord) Lord who shall abide it? But forasmuch as there is mercy with thee, I have waited upon thee for thy laws sake O Lord. My soul hath held out in thy word, my soul hath trusted in thee O Lord. For with thee there is mercy and plenteous redemption, and thou redeemest Israel from all his iniquities, Amen.   

Another.  
Knowledge of God in jesus Christ is life.  
Mahomet, and his Alcoron is perdition  
 
THou hast chastised me O Lord, & I am broken as an untamed young bullock. Turn me & I shallbe turned, for thou art the Lord my God: for when thou hadst once turned me, I amended and when thou hadst showed me my faults, I struck my thigh. I was ashamed and blushed, because I abode the reproach of my youth.   

Another.  
O Good jesus, O sweet jesus the son of the virgin Mary, full of mercy and truth, O sweet jesus have pity upon me according to thy great mercy. O loving jesus, I beseech thee by that precious blood of thine, which thou didst vouchsafe to shed for us wretched sinners upon the altar of the cross, put away all my sins and despise me not in mine humble suit calling upon this thy most holy name of jesus. This Love of God is in spirit, and truth. Idolatry, is Spiritual adultery. name jesus is a sweat name, this name jesus is a healthful name. For what else is jesus but Saviour? O good jesus which hast created me & redeémed me with thine own blood, suffer me not to be damned whom thou hast created. O good jesus let not my wickedness destroy me, whom thy almighty goodness hath made. O good jesus consider what is thine in me, & whatsoever is otherwise wipe it away. O good jesus have mercy upon me while the time serves to have mercy lest thou destroy me in the time of thy dreadful doom. O good jesus, although I miserable sinner have justly deserved everlasting punishment for my most grievous sins by thy rightful justice: yet do I appeal from thy rightful justice to thine unspeakable mercy, & therefore pity thou me as a loving Father and merciful Lord. O good jesus, what profit is there faith. apprehendeth Christ jesus. Cain. despaireth of mercy. Above all take the shield of faith. Ephe. 6. Behold thou hast cast me out. Genesis. 4. in my blood, that I should go down into everlasting corruption? For the dead shall not praise thee O Lord, nor yet they that go down into hell. O most merciful jesus, have mercy upon me. O most sweet jesus, set me at liberty. O loving jesus, be favourable to me sinner O jesus admit me wretched sinner into the number of thy chosen. O jesus the health of them that trust in thee. O jesus the welfare of them that believe in thee, have pity upon me. O jesus the sweet remission of all my sins, O jesus the son of the virgin Mary, pour thy grace, wisdom, lovingness, charity, and humility into me: and in all mine adversities give me holy patience, that I may be able to bear thy cross with thee, to love thee, & to glory & delight in thee for ever and ever. Amen.   

Another.  Hope. maketh not ashamed. judas. ashamed, an● hanged himself. 
MOst righteous and merciful god, remember that thou art pitiful, and that thou art my redeemer. As thou art a judge to condemn offenders: so art thou also God to acquit thy servants, and a creator to save thine own work, and a saviour to save him that believeth in thee, and is baptised.  
Wherefore O Lord, mind not thy justice only as against a sinner, but be mindful of thy goodness as towards thy creature: mind not thy wrath as against an offender, but be mindful of thy compassion as towards a poor wretch of thine. Spare me O Lord which art my salvation, and desirest not the death of a sinner. Spare my sinful soul. My God, in thee do I trust, and unto thee do I commit my soul. O merciful God have pity upon me, have pity upon thy humble creature. Deal with me according to thy mercy, O thou that art blessed for ever. Amen.  Patience, overcometh all things. Wrath, devoureth itself. Looking unto jesus the Author. etc. Heb. 12. Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath. Eph. 4.  

Another.  
O Most merciful Lord, how can I be good which have been evil even in the good? I sinned, & thou winkedst at it. I continued long time in my wickedness, and thou continuedst as long in thy loving kindness, of purpose to bring me to repentance, and to show me favour. Thou therefore that hast born so long with my offences, give mercy to me miserable wretch. For I believe that whatsoever thou determinest to forgive me, it shall be as if it had never been done.  
My whole life O my God, maketh me afraid, because that when I sift it thoroughly, there appeareth well near nothing but sin, or barrenness in it: and if there be any fruit in it, it is either so thin and slender, or so unperfect, and corrupted by some mean or other, that Be not high minded, but make yourselves. &c Rom. 12. Woe to the crown of pride, etc. Esay. 28. Humility, is tender hearted. Pride, despiseth his neighbour. it may well, either utterly displease thee, or at lest wise not like thee. Therefore being abashed at the multitude of my sins, but yet trusting to thy gracious goodness, I acknowledge and confess to thee my maker and redeemer, which hast promised forgiveness to offenders, that in sin I was conceived, in sin have I been brought up, and in sin have I lived all the time of my life unto this day. I found not any sin, wherewith I am not defited by some means or other. Thus is my soul filled with misery according to the desert of my sins. Thus is my soul brought even to the gate of hell. O my God if thou deliver me I have cause to thank thee: if thou deliver me not, yet have I no cause to blame thee, for thou art righteous.  
Alas, how have I lived? what a number of evil things have I said & done? Mercy, beareth with infirmities. Cruelty, seeketh revenge. Be courteous, and tender hearted. etc. Ephe. 4. Avenge not yourselves: but give place etc. Rom. 12. I am ashamed that I have lived so: my conscience telleth me I have deserved damnation: but I am sure that thy mercy wipeth away all offence. Wipe away mine iniquities therefore O Lord, with the multitude of thy mercies, and by the desert of thy most bitter passion, and death, Amen.   

Another.  
Woo is me wretch that I am, how often have I fallen in rising, and lain still when I was fallen? I have heaped sin upon sin, often promising amendment, but never performing it. I have always returned again to my vomit: and to my former offences I have added new, and worse. Behold O most merciful God, I hide not my sins, but I bewray them: I do not excuse, but accuse myself, for I know mine iniquity well enough. Surely I might well enough despair in respect Three things rejoice me the unity, etc. Ecclesiasticus, 25. The strife of the proud is bloodshed. Ecclesi. 27. Concord, supporteth one another. Discord, destroyeth one another. of my outrageous sins, vices, and infinite oversights which I have committed, and daily do commit without ceasing, in thought, word, and deed, and by all other means wherein man's frailty may offend, were it not that thy word O Lord, is become flesh and dwelleth among us. But now I dare not despair, because that he, submitting himself unto thee, to the very death, yea even to the death of the cross, hath taken away the handwriting of our sins, and nailed it to his cross, crucifying the same and death both at once. Therefore I beseech thee for thine only begotten sons death sake, wipe away all my iniquities, and be merciful to me the miserablest of all sinners: to the intent that being set free from sin, and justified before thee through the righteousness of thy son, I may sing praise to thy name, and glorify thee, together with Love nourisheth with joy. Herod murdereth infants. the same thy son, and the holy Ghost, from this time forth for evermore, Amen.   

Another.  
MY soul is weary of her life: I will speak in the bitterness of my heart: I am sick, my life is brought weak with misery, my bones are bruised as in a mortar, and therefore I fly to thee (Lord) as to my physician. Heal me O Lord and I shall be whole: save thou me and I shallbe safe. And because I trust in thee, I shall not be put to shame. But who am I O gracious God, that dare speak thus boldly unto thee? I am a sinner, wholly bred, born, and brought up in sin, a rotten carrion, a filthy vessel, worms meat. Woe is me. Spare me O Lord. What victory were it if thou shouldest fight with me and overcome me, which am less than the stubble before the wind? Pardon Put on the whole armour, etc. Ephe. 6. Stand fast in the faith, etc. 1. Cor. 16. Chastity is secret and clean. Uncleanness is like a Goat. me all my sins, and lift me poor soul out of the mire. Surely Lord (if thou wilt give me leave) thou shouldst not shun him that cometh running to thee. For thou (O Lord jesus) art my God, and yet art thou flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bones, joining thyself to my human nature without leaving the right hand of thy father: and being both God and man in one person, and yet continuing still that which thou wast before. And to what end hast thou done this so high and unconceivable thing, but that I should come running boldly unto thee as to my brother: and thou mercifully impart thy Godhead unto me?  
Wherefore up Lord and help me, up I say, and put me not back for ever. Like as the heart seeketh after the fountains of water: so doth my thirsty soul long after thee the living spring, to Wisdom is better than gold. Sardanapalus an imprudent king. draw water of comfort out of the saviours wells, that it may no more be a thirst when it cometh to appear before thy face.  
Come the joy of my heart, that I may take pleasure of thee. Show thy mercy to me to glad my heart with all. Let me found thee for whom I long. Let my suit enter into thy presence O Lord, and let thy hand save me. Lo here the man that was caught of thieves, wounded, and left half for dead, as he was going towards jericho. Thou kind hearted Samaritane take me up. I have sinned to to much in my life, and done evil in thy sight. From the sole of my foot, to the crown of my head there is no sound piece in me. Hadst not thou helped me by thy dying upon the cross, my soul should have gone to hell as it hath deserved. But I, O merciful jesus, am a piece of thy so dear ransom. Thou Understanding is a wellspring of life etc. Proverb. 16 Be ye not like horse, and Mule: which. etc. Psalm. 32. Understanding reacheth the heaven. Ignorance is as a beast hast shed thy precious blood for me, refuse me not. I am the sheép that is gone astray, O good shepherd seek me out, and bring me home to thy fold again, that thou mayst be justified in thy sayings. For thou hast promised me that in what hour soever a sinner doth sigh for his sins, he shall be safe. I am sorry, I acknowledge mine iniquities, and mine offences are always in my sight. Of a truth I am not worthy to be called thy son, because I have sinned against heaven, and against thee. Make me to hear of joy and gladness. Turn thy face away from my sins, and blot out all mine offences. For thy singular mercy's sake cast me not away from thy sight. Deal not with me according to my sins, neither reward me according to mine iniquities: but help me O God of my welfare, and for the honour of thy name deliver me: deal Industry gathereth reward. Sloth bringeth sleep. Go to the Pismere, O thou Slouggard. etc. Proverb. 6. The Slothful man hideth his hand in his. etc. Proverb, 26. favourably with me according to thy good pleasure, that I may devil in thy house all the days of my life, & praise thee for ever and ever with them that are there, Amen.   

Another.  
MOst gentle master jesus christ, how often have I transgressed the rule of thy doctrine? How often have I despised thy commandments (O holy Lord?) When thou badst me return, I returned not▪ When thou didst threaten, I was not afraid: When thou didst deal mildly and gently with me, I became the curster: Above seventy times seven times have I sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: who shall wash away so great filth? who shall scrape of this daubaken dung? Whatsoever Peter say, thou Wherefore I put you in remembrance, etc. 2. Tim. 1. I am counted among them that go down etc. Psal. 88 Memory is a treasure house Oblivion is as a grave. must be fain to wash us thyself, for we be not able to wash ourselves, but in all things that we do, we have need of thy merciful washing. The traitor judas was admitted to eat with thee at thy table, but he was shut out from this healthful washing, and in the end could not be washed for defacing the honour of his apostleship with cursed covetousness.  
Howbeit forasmuch as with thee is the well of life, and the bottomless pool of all compassions that ever have been: vouchsafe that we, whom thou hast washed in baptism, whom thou hast washed with thine own blood, and whom thou washest still from time to time, by forgiving our daily sins, may be removed from the puddles of this world, and from the mire of this present life, to the most pleasant kingdom of thy glory, justice judgeth rightly. Tyranny oppresseth ●ight. David executed right and justice, &c 2. King. 2. Thy princes are rebellious, and companions, etc. Esay. 1. where there is neither scab, nor soreness of eyes, neither issue of blood, nor uncleanness of body, nor any need of more washing, because the substance of thy brightness shall be fully incorporate into our bodies, according to thy promises, which thou must needs fulfil. And therefore go through with the good work which thou hast begun, and bring it to perfection according to thy good pleasure, Amen.   

* Another.  
BOw down thine ears to my words O Lord, and hearken to my cry. hearken to the voice of my prayer my king and my God, have mercy upon me and hear my prayer. Upon the multitude of thy compassions will I enter into thy house, and worship towards thy holy temple. Lord rebuke He girdeth me with strength, etc. Psalm, 18. He said he would burn up, etc. judith. 6. Strength showed in the arm. Holofernes slain by judith. me not in thy rage, neither chastise me in thine anger. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand lieth heavy upon me. There is no health in my flesh at the sight of thy displeasure. There is no ease in my bones at the sight of my sins. For mine iniquities are gone over my head, and lie heavy upon me like a sore burden.  
Have pity upon me according to thy great mercy, and according to the multitude of thy compassions wipe away my sins. Wash me more and more from mine unrighteousness, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge mine unrighteousness, and my sin is always in my sight. Greatly have I sinned against thee, and done evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and overcome when thou art judged. Behold I was conceived in wickedness, and my mother bred me Courage is bold in Christ. Cowardice fainteth in trial. David took a good courage to him. etc. 1. Reg. 2. I desire that you faint not, etc. Ephe. 3 in sin. Turn thy face away from my sins, and wipe out all my iniquities. A clean heart created in me O God, and renew a right spirit in my bowels.  
Thrust me not out of thy presence, neither take thou thy holy spirit from me. give me the comfort of thy saving health again, and strengthen me with a principal spirit. For thou, Lord, art good and pitiful, and of much mercy to them that call upon thee. Thou, O lord God, artful of mercy and compassion, flow to wrath, but full of pity & truth. Therefore shall the righteous praise thee, and sinners shall be converted unto thee, Amen.   

Another.  
I Am gone astray like a lost sheep, seek thy servant O Lord, for I am not unmindful of thy commandments. Enter not into judgement with thy servant A wholesome sleep cometh of. etc. Eccle. 31. For tables are so full of vomit, etc. Esay. 28 Temperance watcheth, and bridleth. Intemperance overcometh the heart. O Lord, for no man living shall be justified in thy sight. Who knoweth all his sins? Cleanse me from my secret sins, and for other men's sins bear with thy servant. Call to mind thy compassions (O Lord) and thy mercies which have been from everlasting. Remember not (Lord) the misdeeds and offences of my youth. Be mindful of me according to thy mercy for thy goodness sake (O Lord) for it is exceeding great. Make thy mercies yet more wonderful, O thou that savest than which trust in thee. Turn not thy face away from me, neither shake of thy servant in thine anger. For in death no man is mindful of thee, and in hell who will praise thee?  
What profit is there in my blood, that I should go down into corruption? Shall dust give thee thanks, or utter forth thy truth? Look back upon me, and hear me O my God: enlighten mine eyes that I Measure in wine, comforteth. Excess walketh wanton. Use a little wine for thy stomach. 1. Tim. 5 〈…〉 that rise up early etc. Esay. 1. sleep not in death. Withhold not thy compassions aloof from me, but let thy mercy and truth always preserve me, Amen.   

A comfort after craving of mercy gathered out of the psalms.  
IN thee O Lord do I trust, therefore shall I not be confounded for ever: Deliver me in thy righteousness I beseech thee my God. Cast a cheerful countenance upon thy servant, and save me for thy mercy's sake. Lord let me not be put to shame, for I have called upon thee. For sake me not O Lord my God, departed not from me. Make haste to help me O God of my welfare. Why art thou heavy O my soul, and why dost thou trouble me? Put thy trust in God for yet will I praise him, because there is help in his countenance.  
Pitiful and merciful is the Lord, For it is sufficient for us, etc. 1 Pet. 4. Let us which are of the day be sober 〈…〉 Sobriety watcheth her mouth. Voluptuousness ryoteth. slow to wrath, and of much compassion. He will not be always at variance, nor be angry for ever. But look how high the heaven is above the earth, so highly hath he made his mercy to prevail upon them that fear him. Look how far the East is from the West, so far hath he set our sins from us. And as the father pitieth his own children, so doth the Lord pity them that fear him. For he knoweth whereof we be made, and he considereth that we be but dust.  
Therefore will I tarry the Lords leisure: my soul waiteth upon the Lord: in his word is my trust: my soul waiteth for the Lord, from one morning watch to another. Let Israel trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and plenteous redemption: and he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Yea the Lord is good unto all Christian soldier harnessed. Hell Temptation overcome. Whose apparailing let not be. etc. 1. Pet. 3. The steps of a strange woman. etc. Proverb. 5. men, and his mercy is above all his works. Praised be the Lord, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer in commendation of God's mercy received, made by S. Augustine.  
BEhold (O my Creator,) many things have I craved, but not deserved the lest. I confess, alas I confess that these thy benefits are not due unto me, but rather many and most strange scourges. Yet for that Publicans, sinners, and thieves (in a moment delivered out of their enemy's jaws) are mercifully received into the shepherds fold, I am so much the more emboldened. For thou, O thou maker of all things, albeit in all thy works thou art marvelous, yet in thy works of mercy thou art surpassing marvelous: whereof thou thyself hast spoken by one of thy servants, saying: His mercy is above all If they continued grounded in faith. 1. Tim. 2 He that endureth to the end shallbe saved Mat. 10 Perseuer●ce endureth to the end. Revolting, a Sow in the mire his works. And that which thou spakest in general of all thy people, we trust thou hast verified upon every one severally, saying: My mercy will I not take from him. For thou despisest none, rejectest none, thou terrifiest none but such as most horriblely are afraid of thee. When thou art angry, yet dost thou not revenge, but dost bless with thy riches such as have kindled thy wrath, if they shall cease.  Charity feedeth the hungry. I was an hungry, and ye gave me meat. Mat. 25. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. prover. 25. 
The ignorant is instructed by thee: the mourner comforted: they that fall, raised again, and delivered from destruction: to him that asketh, thou dost give: he that seeketh thee, findeth thee: and to him that knocketh, thou dost open.  
O Lord God of my health, behold, what should I object? what should I answer? no refuge without thee: no corner is hid from thee: thou hast showed me the way to live well: thou hast given me the knowledge to walk aright: thou hast threatened hell fire: and promised the glory of thy paradise.  charity giveth drink to the thirsty. I thirsted, and you gave me drink, Mat. 25. The Niggard witholdeth drink from the thirsty. ●say ●2. 
O Lord my strength, and might, my God, my refuge and deliverer, inspire my mind what to think of thee. Put into my mouth how to call upon thee. give me such works as may please thee. With thee a sorrowful spirit is a sacrifice: also thou dost accept an humble and contrite heart.  Charity, harboureth strangers. I was a stranger, & ye lodgeed me. Mat. 25. I have not suffered a stranger to lie without. job. 31.  

* A complaint of a sinner, in that he sinneth again after repentance, by S. August.  Charity clotheth the naked. I was naked & ye clothed me Mat. 25 If a brother or Sister be naked or destitute. James. 2. 
With what face shall he entreat for mercy, who is worthy of hatred? and he that meriteth punishment, with what boldness can he demand praise? He provoketh the judge, who seeketh to have a recompense, but neglecteth his purgation. He insolently, and worthy of death, triumpheth over the king, who (albeit a traitor) sueth for an undeserved reward. He exasperateth the loving affection of his father, who before due time, usurpeth the prerogative of inheritance.  Charity visiteth the sick. I was sick & ye visited me. Math. 25. Let it not grieve thee to visit the sick. Eccle. 7 
And seeing that it is impossible for me to reckon up all, I confess that I have instructed the simple how to sin: the unwilling I have persuaded: I have enforced them that refused: and I have given consent to them that of themselves were willing.  Sight. Let thine eyes behold that is right. Proverb. 4.  

A Prayer against despair.  
MAny say to my soul there is no help for him in his God. But thou Lord art my maintainer, my glory, and the holder up of my head. Depart not from me in the time of my neéd, but defend thou me till this storm be overpast, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer upon the minding of Christ's passion.  
WHat man is this whom I behold all bloody, with skin all to torn, with knubs and wales of stripes, hanging down his head for weakness towards his shoulder, crowned with a Hearing. The ear of jealousy heareth all things. Wisdom. 1. garland of thorns pricking through his skull to the hard brain, and nailed to a cross? What so heinous fault could he do to deserve it? What judge could be so cruel as to put him to it? What hangmen could have so butcherly minds, as to deal so outrageously with him? Now I bethink myself, I know him: it is Christ.  
Art thou he that excellest all the children of men in beauty? in whose lips grace was shed most plentifully, yea, even with Gods own hand? where then is that beauty of thine? Where is that grace of thy lips? I find it not, I see it not, fleshly eyes conceive not so great a mystery. Open thou the eyes of my mind. Bring thy divine light nearer unto me, and give me power to look more wistly upon thee.  
I see it is jesus the son of God, the unspotted lamb, without sin, Taste. The mouth tasteth the meats job. 34. without fault, without offence, which took my wickedness upon him, to the intent that I (being set free from sin) might be brought again into God's favour: rise again from my fall: return home again from banishment: and attain to the end for which I was created. That which I deserved, he suffered: and that which I could never have attained unto, he giveth.  
O my redeemer, deliverer, and saviour draw me to thee, that (being always mindful of thy death, trusting always in thy goodness, and being always thankful for thine unspeakable benefits) I may be made partaker of so great reward, and not be separated from thy body through mine own unthankfulness, so as thou shouldest have been born in vain as in respect of me, & in vain have suffered so many torments, yea and even most bitter death Smelling. give a sweet smell as incense etc. Eccle. 39 of thine own accord for my sake, Amen.   

* Another.  
MY mind beholdeth thy body crucified for my soul: O that thou wouldst also crucify me with thee, so as I might live, or rather not I, but thou my Lord Christ in me. Who will give me to die with thee, that I might rise again with thee to life everlasting? Thou diedst for me, that I might live through thee. Thy flesh is crucified, O Christ: crucify thou the power of sin that reigneth in me: that being stripped out of the old Adam, I may be transformed into the second Adam: to lead a new life by shaking down, and dispatching away of all wickedness, unbelief, and tyranny of Satan.  
Let thy yoke become sweet, and thy burden lightsome to me through Touching. Touch no unclean thing. 2. Cor. 6. thy cross: that I (following thee willingly and cheerfully) may come to the same place where thou art: that is to wit, to thy most blessed, and immortal father, from whom nothing may ever separate us hereafter, Amen.   

Another.  
O Most high and singular obedience, wherethrough thou didst submit thyself to innumerable torments, yea, and even to most bitter, and reproachful death, because it liked thy father to have it so. O noontide of fervent love, and sunshine never drawing towards eventide, show us where thou feedest in the midst of the day, and where thou shroudest thy sheep from cold. O would to god we might be transformed into that cross of thine, that thou mightest devil in our hearts by faith, rooted and grounded in charity, so Esay. 2. &. 19 Math. 24. Mark. 13. Luke. 17 The sun shall be darkened, the moon shall los● her light, & the stars shall fall from heaven. as we might with all thy holy ones, comprehend the length, breadth, height, & depth of thy cross, which exceed all the strength and wisdom of the world, Amen.   

Another.  
I See a wonderful kind of love. Thy highness boweth down the head, to that intent we should hope to be heard, and be heard in deed. Thou offerest the kiss of peace and atonement, yea and that of thine own accord, being the party greéued and wronged, unto us that have done the wrong.  Two men shall be in the field, the one received, the other shall be refused. 
O father and Lord of ours, thou seest the hardness of our heart, and much rather the dullness of it. It is not enough for us to be alured and called so gently, so sweétly, and so lovingly: but thou must be fain even to draw us, pull us, hale us, & drag us. Created a new, and obedient heart in us: for this old one that we have already is stony, it feéleth no gentleness, it is not moved with any hope of the great good things that are promised, Amen.   

Another.  
O Lord jesus Christ, the everlasting sweétnesse and triumph of them that love thee, exceéding all joy, and all longing, thou saver and lover of repentant sinners, which avowest that thy delight is to be among the children of Two women ●hall be grinding at the mill the one shall be received the other shall be refused. men: and therefore in the end of times, becamest man for men's sakes: remember all the foretaste and grief of sorrow, which thou didst endure even from the instant of thy conception in the human nature, forth on: but most of all when the time of thy most healthful passion was at hand, according to the eternal ordinance which God had purposed in his mind before all worlds. Remember the grief and bitterness which thou feltst in thy heart, even by thine own record, when thou saidst: my soul is heavy even unto the death. And at such time as thou gavest thy body and blood to thy disciples at thy last supper, didst wash their feet, and comforting them sweétly, toldst them of thy passion that was at hand.  
Remember the sorrow, anguish and grief which thou didst suffer throughout thy whole tender body, before thy The Sea shall swell higher than any 〈◊〉 shall fall again as low, fishes & monsters of the Sea shall appear with roaring voice. suffering upon the cross, at such time as after thrice praying, thou didst sweated water like to blood, wast betrayed by one of thine own disciples, apprehended by thine own chosen people, accused by false witnesses, condemned wrongfully by three judges in thy chosen city, at the time of the passouer, in the flourishing youth of thy body: and being utterly guiltless, wast delivered to the Gentiles, bespitted, stripped out of thy own garment, clothed with another bodies apparrail, buffeted, blinfolded, bobbed with fists, tied to a post, whipped, and crowned with thorns.  
O most sweet jesus, I beseech thee make me mindful of these thy pains and sufferings which thou abodest for my s●nnes, that I might be discharged and set free from them, and mine atonement be made with thy father, through thy chastisement. Make me to abhor The sea and all ●●uddes shall burn, trees and herbs shall drop blood, Cities. and all buildings shall be overturned. my so detestable cursedness, which could not be put away but by thy so grievous punishments. Make me to be heartily sorry for my sinfulness, and to eschew my offences, which draw thee to the suffering of so great torments. Make me mindful of thy great love to me, and to all mankind, and let the infiniteness thereof, kindle an unfeigned love in me towards thee and my neighbour. Let this thy unmeasurable goodness breéde in me a willing mind, and desire to abide all things patiently for thy sake, and for the truth of thy gospel: And let it engender in me a despising of all worldly and earthly things, and an earnest longing and endeavour to attain to the heavenly heritage, for the purchasing whereof unto me, & for the bringing of me thereunto, thou hast endured these, and all other thy most bitter and intolerable torments.  
Stones shall ●umble together, and make a huge no●e  
●irrible earthquakes shall make men hide themselves.  
Valyes shall be filled and hills brought▪ low.  
 
Wherefore I beseech thee grant me true repentance, amendment of life, perseverance in all goodness, a steadfast faith, and a happy death, through the merits of thy sufferings, that I may also be made partaker of thy blessed resurrection, Amen.   

Another.  
O Lord jesus, the very freedom of the Angels, and the pleasure of paradise, remember the terror and grief which thou didst endure at such time as all thine enemies stood about thee like a sort of Lions, vexing thee with buffetings, spittings, scratchings, and other intolerable dealings: and martyring thee with reproachful words, grievous stripes, and most grievous torments. I beseech thee O Lord for thine own sake, and for thine exceeding great mercies sake, which caused thee to abide these things for our They that hide themselves shall run forth like mad 〈◊〉, The bones of the dead shall appear above the Sepul●res. The powers of heaven shall be shaken. redemption, deliver me from all mine enemies visible & invisible, and grant that I may find both protection in this life, and endless felicity in the life to come, under the shadow of thy wings, Amen.   

Another.  
O jesus, the framer and creator of the world, whom no measure can comprehend within bounds, and which holdest the earth in thy hand, call to mind thy most bitter pain which thou didst endure when they nailed thy most holy hands to the cross, & likewise struck through thy most tender feet, making thy wounds still more and more painful, because thou wast not agreeable to their fancy: and so drawing and retching out thy body to the length and breadth of the cross, that they loosened all the sinews of thy members.  Every one living shall die presently. Heaven, earth, & all elements shall burn. The dead shall rise. 
I beseech thee grant that my continual minding of this thy most holy and bitter pains upon the cross, may 'cause me to stand in awe of thee, and also to love thee, Amen.   

Another.  
O jesus the heavenly physician, remember the anguish, pain, and grief, which thou didst suffer by the rending and tearing of all thy members, when thou wast hoist up, & nailed to the cross: insomuch as there was not any one of them that remained whole and sound, so that there was never any pain found like unto thine: for there was not any place of thee left whole from the sole of the foot, to the crown of the head, and yet even then (unmindful of all thy pains) thou prayedst meékly to thy father for thine 
Emperors and kings, we did reign:  
But now the earth, doth us detain.  ¶ The Emperor. Of Monarch & Emperor: I am the conqueror. ¶ The King. Ke●sar, or king: I must th●e bring enemies, saying: Father forgive them, for they wot not what they do.  
I beseech thee by thy loving kindness and mercy, which caused thee to suffer these pains for my sake, let thy passion be the full pardon of all my sins, Amen.   

Another.  
O jesus the mirror of eternal brightness, and fountain of unconsumeable goodness, which hanging upon the cross, didst thirst for the salvation of man mankind. I beseech thee kindle in us the desire of all good works, and quench in us the thirst of all fleshly lusts, and both cool and kill in us the love of all worldly delight, Amen.   

* Another.  
O Princely jesus, the strength and triumph of our minds, which for ¶ The Duke, Duke though thou be: dance after me▪ ¶ The Marquis. Marks of state: march with thy mate 
Dukes and Marks we have been:  
Naught now but bones are to be seen.  our sakes didst suffer such anguish of heart, that the bitterness of thy death, and the exclamation of the jews upbraiding and reviling thee, made thee to cry out with a loud voice: O God my God, why hast thou forsaken me?  
I beseech thee forsake me not in my distress, but be at hand to comfort me, and deliver me, specially in the time of death, Amen,   

Another.  
O jesus the bottomless sea of all mercy, I beseech thee by thy deep wounds: which pierced through thy flesh, into the marrow of thy bones, and into the very bowels of thee, pull me out of the gulf of my sins, and hide me in the holes of thy wounds, from the sight of thy Father's just wrath, until his displeasure be overpast, Amen.  
We Earls and Barons were sometime:  
Now wrapped in lead, are turned to fl●me.  ¶ The Baron. Barons of nobility: swear to me fealty. ¶ The Viscount. Earl or Viscount: give thy account. 
O jesus the mirror of truth, the standard of unity, and the bond of charity, remember thine innumerable wounds wherewith thou wast torn from top to toe by the wicked jews, so that thou wast all on a gore blood: Which torment thou didst suffer in that chaste body of thine for our sakes, O most meéke jesus, leaving nothing undone on thy behalf, that might be for our benefit. I beseéche thee writ all thy wounds in my heart with thy most precious blood, that in them I may read thy great love towards me.  ¶ The Archbishop Archb. & Metropolite: thee & thy Province I visit. ¶ The Bishop. Bishop's grave & old: are sheep of my fold. 
Bishops we have taught the lore:  
That all must enter deaths door.   

Another.  
O jesus, the only begotten Son of the heavenly Father, & the brightness and Image of his substance, remember the hearty commending of thy spirit into thy Father's hands, when (having thy body all to torn, and thy heart full of anguish, and having erst uttered the bowels of thy mercy) thou gavest up the Ghost. I beseech thee for this thy precious death's sake O king of Saints, give me strength, to withstand the devil, the world, and the flesh, that being dead unto the world, I may live to thee only. And whensoever this banished, and wayfaring soul of mine shall departed hence, I beseech thee receive it home into the hands of thy mercy, Amen.  

Both sheep and shepherd all must die:  
We taught the same, the same we try.   
¶ The Doctor. Doctor divine at last: thy reading hour is past.  
¶ The Preacher. Preach no more about: thy glass is run out.   

Another.  
O jesus the true and fruitful vine, remember the abundant flowing out & shedding of thy blood, which thou didst sand out of thy body most plentifully, as out of grapes pressed at the wine press, at such time as thou didst tread the winefat alone, and begannest to us of the cup of water and wine, by the soldiers thrusting of thee into the side with his spear, so as there remained not one drop more in thy body: But finally thou wast as a bundle of myrrh hanged up aloft, thy tender flesh shrunk, the moisture of thy bowels dried up, & the marrow of thy bones wasted away.  
I beseech thee O most sweet jesus, by this most bitter death of thine, and by the shedding of thy most precious blood, wound my heart with such repentance ¶ The Lord. Come lordings all: dance at my call. ¶ The Knight. Go hence sir Knight: 'tis almost night. 
We Lords and Knights of late:  
Now lie in low estate.  of my sins, and joy of thy love, as my tears may be my food day and night. Turn thou me wholly unto thee, that my heart may devil with thee continually, and my conversation be acceptable unto thee. And let my life be such, through thy goodness, as I may praise thee for ever with all thy Saints in the life to come, Amen.   

Another.  
O Lord jesus Christ the son of the living God, who for the salvation of the world drankest eyzell and Gall upon the cross, like as at the giving up of the Ghost when thou hadst finished all things, didst commit thy soul into thy Father's hands: so do I betake my soul into thy merciful hands, beseeching thee both to preserve it here from all sin, and in the end to receive it in peace into the company of thy chosen that are departed, that I may 
Behold the Squire as in a glass.  
For as thou art, so he was.  ¶ The Esquire. Esquire the brave: It boots nor to crave. ¶ The Gentleman Lusty, or sad: Thou must be had. with them praise thee everlastingly, which livest & reignest etc. Amen.   

* A prayer upon the minding of Christ's resurrection and ascension.  
O Lord jesus, O good jesus, which didst vouchsafe to die for my sins, and rosest again for my justification: I beseech thee by thy glorious resurrection, raise me up from the grave of all my vices and sins, and give me part daily in the first resurrection, that I may be made partaker of the second resurrection also.  
O most sweet jesus, which art gone up into heaven with glorious triumph, and sittest at the right hand of thy Father like a most mighty king, draw me up to thee: make me to run after thee for the sweet sent of thine ointments: ¶ The judge. Come on judge: With me to trudge. ¶ The Justice. Sir justice arise: come to my assize. 
judge and justice sentence have:  
To lie as captives in the crave.  make me to run without tiring, by thy drawing and pulling of me forward. Draw the soul that thirsteth after thee to the rivers of everlasting suffifanze which are above: yea verily draw me to thyself which art the living fountain, that I may so drink of thee, according to my capacity, as I may live for ever. My God, my life, thou wellspring of life, fill my mind with the streams of thy pleasures▪ & make my heart lovesick with the sober drunkenness of thy love, that I may forget the things that are vain and earthly, and have thee only in my mind continually. give me thy holy spirit, which is betokened by those waters, which thou hast promised to give to them that are a thirst.  
Grant (I beseech thee) that I may long with all my heart, and labour with all my endeavour, to attain to the place whether we believe that thou didst ascend 
No law, no plea▪ no drift:  
From death can make a shift.  ¶ Sergeant at law. Leave the Laws: & hear my cause. ¶ The Attorney. Pled as thou lust: With me thou must. the fortieth day after thy resurrection, so as I may be conversant in this vale of misery but with my body, and always in heaven with my heart, so as my mind may be where thou art, even where thou my incomparable and deér beloved treasure art, that I may sing praises to thy name, from this time forth for evermore, Amen.   

Another.  
O Brother of ours, O natural son of that father whose sons thou makest us by adoption, O head of our body, we see that thou art king of heaven, forget not thou thy earth, wherinto thine inestimable love of us did bring thee down. Thou from out of that place givest hope to us thy members, that we may come thither as thou art exalted already. O guard and defence of us, what can now hurt us so long as ¶ The Mayor. Mayor I thee call to my guild Hall. ¶ The Sheriff. Shirif for execution: I have a commission. 
The Mayors and Sheriffs do pass with speed  
And others them in place succeed.  we trust in thee? Most wretched are they that know thee not, and most happy are they that do ever behold thee. Blessed are they that knew thee here in the days of the mortality of thy flesh: But more blessed are they that see thee in heaven, and shall see thee reigning in the chief goods of thy father.  
O love and delight of mankind, O only hope of us, embrace us with thy favour, kiss us, shed thy spirit into our hearts, and make our minds to run continually upon thee, to our exceéding great comfort. Lift us up, lying flat upon the ground, open our eyes, and lift them up unto thee. Open thy mouth to call us, and open our ears to hear thee: that we (setting thee alone before us for our mark to direct our life by) may square out all our doings, words, & thoughts by thee, Amen.  

We peace did keep in Prince's name:  
Now death doth charge us with the same.   
¶ The bailiff. Come Bailiff, no bail: with me shall prevail.  
¶ The Constable. Constable I arrest: to my ward be priest.   

❧ A Prayer to Christ ascending, and reigning in glory.  
O good Christ, our first begotten brother, and tender hearted joseph. O natural son of that Father, to whom we are made children of adoption through thee. O our head, reigning on high in glory, forget not us thy poor members here on earth, where into abasing thyself, thou camest down and suffered'st for us most cruel death. Out of this thy throne of majesty and glory, thou putst us in assured hope and confidence, that we also shall attain to that blessed place whether thou art gone before to take possession for us. O our strong tower of defence & succour, what can hurt us now trusting in thee? Most unhappy are they which are ignorant of thee. Most happy are they which always behold thee.  ¶ The Physician. By thy water, I do see: thou must away with me. The Astronomer. Look not so high: low thou must lie. 
No art, or medicine can prevail:  
When death doth purpose to assail.  
Blessed are they which have known thee here in the days of their mortality, but more blessed are they which see thee in the heavens, and shall see thee reigning with thy Father in joys incomparable.  
O Lord, the only joy and comfort of our souls, show us thy loving countenance: embrace us with the arms of thy mercy: receive us (O good joseph) thy younger brethren, with the kiss of comfort: pour into our hearts thy holy spirit: pluck us up from the earth & earthly things: open our eyes and lift them up unto thee: open thy mouth and call us unto thee: open our ears, that we may hear thee, so that whatsoever we do speak or think, it may be directed unto thee alone, our redeemer, Mediator, & Advocate, Amen  
Death wins the field:  
All arms must yield.  ¶ The Herald. Herald in thy shield: bear grass in green field. Sergeant at Arms. Sergeant see thou stay: All glory must away.  

❧ A Prayer at our going to a Sermon.  
MAny and sundry ways O lord, dost thou utter and show forth thy light unto us in this great darkness of ours: But no way more effectually and plenteously then by thine Apostles, and by them that have succeéded in their charge. Great and plentiful is the harvest, as thou thyself hast told us, but few are the haruestfolkes. For the most part they be all ignorant, and overcast with the cloud of darkness. And as for true preachers that teach as they aught to do, the number of them is very small.  ¶ The Trumpeter. Trumpet give sound: all must to the ground. ¶ The Pursuivant. Go summon by message: to come without baggage. 
All must needs die, we need not tell:  
Our message hath been sounded well.  
And unto this man also grant the treasure of thy wisdom, that he may pour it out upon us to our salvation.  
And in us open thou the windows and doors of our hearts, that we may so receive into us the wholesome light of thy most holy word, as that the good seéde which shall fall into us, be neither choked with briars, thorns, and brambles, nor burnt up with drought, nor devoured by the birds of the air: but battle as in good ground, & bring forth plentiful fruit to the praise & honour of thy name, Amen.   

A Prayer for knowledge, and understanding.  
Hear my prayers O Lord jesus, the everlasting wisdom of the 
We drum that domes day now at hand:  
Doth call all soldi●rs to deaths band.  ¶ The Drum. Drommer call together: all soldiers to my bā●t ¶ The Fife. Fife see thou play: to lead them the way. Father, which givest unto childhood, the commodity of aptness to learn, I pray thee add the furtherance of thy grace to the forwardness of nature: that I may the sooner and more perfectly learn knowledge and the liberal sciences: Howbeit in such wise as they may serve to thy glory: so as my mind being furthered by the help of them, may attain to the fuller knowing of thee, which is the highest point of man's felicity. And also, that (according to the example of thy most holy childhood) I may daily prospero more and more in age, wisdom, and favour, both before God and man, to the glory of thy name which livest and reignest etc. Amen.   

A Prayer to be said before receiving of the Communion.  
O Father of mercy, and God of all consolation, seeing all creatures ¶ The captain. Captain march with me: thy Captain I must be. ¶ The Soldier. Soldyar have a courage: to thy long viage. 
Death only maketh Captains quail▪  
And hearty soldiers for to fail.  do acknowledge and confess thee to be their governor and Lord, it becometh us the workmanship of thine own hands, to reverence and magnify thy godly majesty.  
First, for that thou hast created us to thine own Image and similitude: but cheéfly because thou hast delivered us from that everlasting death & damnation, into the which Satan drew mankind by the means of sin, from the bondage whereof, neither man nor angel was able to make us free. But thou (O Lord) rich in mercy, and infinite in goodness, hast provided our redemption to stand in thine only and well beloved son, whom of very love thou didst give to be made man like unto us in all things, sin excepted: that in his body he might receive the punishment of our transgression, by his death to make satisfaction to thy justice, and by 
Use gain of Gold, and live in cost:  
So as by death, life be not lost.  ¶ The Merchant. Neither craft nor trade: Can me persuade. ¶ The Citizen. Of town and city: I have no pity. his resurrection, to destroy him that was author of death, and so to bring again life to the world, from which the whole offspring of Adam was most justly exiled.  
O Lord, we acknowledge that no creature was able to comprehend the length and breadth, the deépenes and height, of that thy most excellent love which moved thee to show mercy where none was deserved: to promise' & give life, where death had gotten victory: to receive us into thy grace, when we could do nothing but rebel against thy majesty. O Lord, the blind dullness of our corrupt nature will not suffer us sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefits: Yet nevertheless at the commandment of jesus Christ our Lord, we present ourselves to this his table (which he hath left to be used in remembrance of his death until his coming ¶ The Printers. Leave setting thy page spent is thine age. Pressmen go play: printing must stay. 
We Printers wrote with wisdoms pe●:  
She lives for ●ye, we die as men  again) to declare and witness before the world, that by him alone we have received liberty and life: that by him alone thou dost acknowledge us to be thy children and heirs: that by him alone we have entrance to the throne of thy grace: that by him alone we are possessed in our spiritual kingdom, to eat and drink at his table: with whom we have our conversation presently in heaven: and by whom our bodies shall be raised up again from the dust, and shall be placed with him in that endless joy, which thou (O Father of mercy) hast prepared for thine elect before the foundation of the world was laid.  
And these most inestimable benefits we acknowledge and confess to have received of thy free mercy and grace, by thine only beloved son jesus Christ. For the which therefore we thy congregation, moved by thy holy spirit, 
Death takes no bribe of wealth:  
Death forceth not long health.  ¶ The Rich man. Thy silver, nor gold: from death can thee withhold. ¶ The aged man. By rig●t I must be bold: with thee that livest so old. tender to thee all thanks, praise, and glory, for ever, and ever, Amen.   

Another.  
WHat tongue, or what heart can worthily give thee thanks (O Lord jesus) for thine unspeakable love towards us? Who, to the intent to redeem mankind forlorn, didst vouchsafe to become man, and to take all the miseries of our state upon thee: in so much that in the end, thou being a pure and unspotted lamb, wast contented to be made a sacrifice for us upon the altar of the cross, and to abide the punishment due for our sins, that thou mightest reconcile us to thy Father: yea and both in life and death, thou didst spend, give, and bestow thyself wholly upon us, and for us.  ¶ The Artificer. No compass or art: can 'cause me departed. The Husbandman. Labour no more: For I have store. 
Not one devise, no art, no toil:  
Can make us give to death the foil  
Wherefore I beseech thee let thy spirit cleanse my heart, that I may not come unworthily to that heavenvly feast, and to the table whereat even the very Angels do tremble: But that by thy shedding of thyself into my bowels, I may grow manly in thee, and become the lustier by spiritual increasements so as I may continued to the end in the blessed fellowship of thy mystical body, whom it is thy will to have all one with thee, in such wise as thou art all one with the Father, by the knitting of the holy Ghost. To whom be praise, & thanks for evermore, Amen.  
In song▪ in dance, in pipes, in play:  
We lost our life, now wrapped in clay.  ¶ 〈◊〉 Musician. Strike up thy play: Dance with me away  

Another.  
I yield thee hearty thanks (O Lord jesus Christ,) for thine unutterable love in vouchsafing to redeem man kind by thine own death: and I beseech thee suffer not thy most holy blood to have been shed in vain for me, that I (growing up in thee by continual increase of heavenly strength) may become a fit member of thy mystical body, which is the church, and never serve from that most holy covenant which thou madest with thy chosen disciples in thy last supper, by distributing the bread unto them, & by reaching them the cup: and by them with all those that are graffed into thy company by faith in Baptism, Amen.   

* Another.  
¶ The shepherd. Leave thy shep: And with me creep.  
¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fond: I breaks the bond.  

The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto thee   
MY Lord jesus Christ, who am I that thou shouldest vouchsafe to come under my roof? Can a sinful man deserve such grace? Certes (Lord) I am not worthy. Am I better than all my Fathers were? Thou wouldst not show thyself to Moses' one twinkling of an eye: and how happeneth that thou humblest thyself so much, as to come down to a man that is a publican and sinner? And thou vouchsafest not only to eat with him, but also to give thyself to be eaten of him. Hail O bred of life which camest down from heaven, & which givest life to as many as receive thee worthily. Surely who so receiveth thee worthily, although his soul be severed from his body by temporal death, yet shall he not die for ever, because that that separation is not a death, but a passing from death to life: by reason whereof, he that eateth thee worthily, beginneth to live with thee for ever, when 
Time to live, & time to die:  
God grant us live eternally  ¶ The ●eggar. Begging is done: For I am come. The Roge. Think I am best: For I bring rest. he dieth in this world. Thou art the bread of the angels, the very sight of thee refresheth and glorifieth the Angels. Thou art food for the soul, and not for the body. Thou nourishest the mind, and not the maw.  
He that eateth thee, is turned into thee, that by partaking of thee, he may become God, and yet art thou not changed into his substance as other bodily meats be. But woe be to them that receive thee unworthily (O most holy food) by the eating whereof aright, a man becometh God, is set free from all evil, is filled with all goodness, and is undoubtedly made immortal. O sacred pittance of our pilgrimage, whereby we pass out of this naughty world, to the company of heaven.  
Go to therefore thou believing soul, be merry and make good cheer, for thou shalt not die. Feed upon these dainties and stick not. Take thy fill of this feast, ¶ Of Youth. Young & old: Come to my fold. ¶ Of Infancy. Fear not me: though I grisly be. 
Time to live, & time to die:  
God grant us live eternally  wherein the body of thy saviour is set before thee, to feed on. Man fell from God by eating the food of the forbidden tree: But by this food he is relieved again to endless glory.   

* A thanksgiving after the receiving of the holy communion.  
MOst merciful Father, we tender unto thee all praise, thanks, honour, and glory, for that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercies, to grant us miserable sinners, so excellent a gift and treasure, as to receive us into the fellowship and company of thy dear son jesus Christ our Lord, whom thou hast delivered to death for us, and hast given him unto us as a necessary food and nourishment unto everlasting life. And now we beseech thee also (O 
We that were of highest degree:  
Lie dead here now, as ye do see.  ¶ The Empress. Empress though thou be Thou must away with me. ¶ The Queen, Queen also thou dost see: As I am, so shalt thou be. heavenly father) to grant us this request, that thou never suffer us to become so unkind, as to forget so worthy benefits, but rather imprint and fasten them sure in our hearts, that we may grow and increase daily more & more in true faith, which continually is exercised in all manner of good works: & so much the rather (O Lord) confirm us in these perilous days and rages of Satan, that we may constantly stand and continued in the confession of the same, to the advancement of thy glory, which art God over all things, blessed for ever, So be it.   

A prayer for God's grace.  
It is sorrowful to be said, how great a wound our nature which is frail and weak of itself, hath received by sin, and how much ability & strength ¶ The princes▪ Princes of high estate: content you I am your mate ¶ The Duchess, Duchess & princes: Death daily convinces. 
We that sat in the highest seat:  
Are laid here now for worms meat.  it hath foregone. It is not able to lift up itself, nor to stand, nor to go, without thy help and aid. Whatsoever the mind of man thinketh or deviseth, it is utterly uneffectual, and to no purpose if it be not grounded upon thy favour. Nothing is strong except it be upheld by thy goodness, all things without that do fall by and by to the ground. That is it which cleanseth and scoureth us from our filthiness, that is it that strengtheneth our weakness, that is it that maketh us cunning workmen in all virtues. Grant we beseech thee O Lord, that this grace of thine may always accompany us, than the which there can no greater gift be devised, neither is there any thing which thou bestowest more readily and willingly, & therefore also more often. Let the same so work in us, as we acknowledging how much neéd we have thereof, may both apply 
Beauty, honour, and riches avail no whit:  
For death when he cometh, spoileth it.  ¶ The Countess. Countess, or what thou art: I strike thee with my dart. ¶ The Vicountesse. viscounts I do not spare: For of them I ●aue no care. ourselves continually to crave it, and earnestly endeavour by well doing to keép it. Amen.   

* A Prayer for faith.  
EAsily, yea too easily O Lord do we believe man which is evil, untrue and ignorant: but hardly▪ and slowly do we believe thee which art God, exceéding good, most soothfast, and most wise. We believe men in the things that can do us no good, but we believe not thee in the care of our salvation. Man is able to do nothing, but thou art able to do all things. We can found in our hearts to follow our senses which are so often deceived and yet we doubt of thee O God which canst neither deceive, nor be deceived. O how great is our unthankfulness and ignorance. Alas how is man blinded of his own sin? But thou O Christ through the pitifulness and compassion ¶ The baroness▪ baroness brave and high: Prepare thyself to die. ¶ The Lady. Lady's gay and fair: To you I do repair. 
No state, no might, young nor old:  
To resist death 〈◊〉 behold.  of thy Father, art appointed as a guide in this our blindness, and as a schoolmaster to our rudeness: yet notwithstanding, the grevousest inconvenience in this blindness and ignorance is, that trembling and staggaring still from time to time, either we conceive not the excellent and most wholesome precepts of our good schoolmaster, or else we stand wavering and doubting of the truth of them. Blind wretch, how wilt thou scape the vengeance that is prepared for thee: if thou shrink away from him, seeing thou neither knowest the way thyself, nor beleéuest him that showeth it thee?  
O Christ which art the pure & everlasting truth, vouchsafe to shed thyself so into our hearts, that as thou and all thy sayings are most true, so we may take them for more certain than the things which we see with our eyes, 
Death by his might doth convince:  
Empress, Queen Duchess, and Prince.  ¶ The ●u●ges wife. Madame or justice wife: I am come to end thy life. ●he Lawye●● wife Beware thy husband's gain Reward thee not with pain. or handle with our hands, which are but senses of the body, that may and do deceive us, notwithstanding that the foolish & beastly flesh do trust so much to them. Assuage and settle these motions of the flesh, which drive us from time to time, to the altering of the thing that aught to be always most firm, & fast settled in our minds.  
Faith is a gift of thy enlightening (O Christ,) therefore shed it mercifully and bountifully, in such wise into our hearts, as these faulty eyes of ours may be enforced to behold it, even loath, and unwilling though they be. Lord, I believe, but yet help thou mine unbeleéfe. Lord increase our faith, Amen.   

A Prayer for trust in God,  
THe ground of man's decay was his trusting of himself: and the beginning of his rising again, was The Gentlewoman Gentles brave & fine: Dance after my line. Alderman's wife. Thou art clothed in scarlet: And yet art but my varlet. 
Behold us here that sometime were gay:  
How now we lie dead, all wrapped in clay.  his distrusting of himself, and his trusting to God.  
O most excellent and singular wise guide, which leadest all them the rightest and nearest way to everlasting blessedness, which trust thee truly and unfeignedly. Grant that as we be blind, and weak in very deed, so we may take ourselves so to be, that we take not up on us to shifted for ourselves: but let our looking be to see thee alone: and let our enabling of ourselves be no further, but to desire to follow thee going afore us: to come to thee when thou callest us: to obey thee as thou guydest us: and to betake ourselves wholly unto thee, that thou who only knowest what way to go, mayst lead us to the attainment of our desires that way which we would never have set foot into of our own accord, Amen.  

Riches nor treasure avail nothing:  
For death to earth all doth bring.   
Merchants wife. Brave & never so nice: dance after my device  
¶ Citizen's wife. Trick and trim, put of your hood: I am come to do you good.   

* A Prayer to be said for the fear of God.  
Grant Lord, that being taught by thy commandments, I may serve thee with fear, and rejoice before thee with trembling, in all things standing in awe of thee, lest thou happen to be angry, and I perish out of the right way. For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.   

❧ A Prayer for love towards Christ.  
THe ground of all happiness, is to love thee which art most excellently good: and the perfection of happiness, is to be knit unto thee which art most excellently good, as we may become all one with thee, for that is the very end of love. Therefore do we begin our blessedness here by loving thee, and Rich man's wife. Though thou have silver and gold: Yet art thou within my ●olde. Young woman, Fine & pretty in the waist: Come with me in haste. 
As death in this world hath the victory:  
So by death we hope to enter God's glory.  we finish it in heaven by being knit unto thee. O most loving Christ, would God we were so far in love with thee, that being swallowed up, and altogether consumed in thee, we were one with thee, even as thou and thy Father art one, so as we were no more ourselves, but thou: nor any more men, but after a sort Gods, as we being all one thing with God, which is the highest, and most perfect blessedness.  For God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 
Now therefore I am alive, or rather not I, But Christ in me. To him therefore be all thanks and praise for ever, Amen.   

A Prayer to be said for cleans of heart.  
MOst merciful jesus Christ, who being made in the likeness of sinful flesh, hast born our sins in thy 
Time to live, & time to die:  
God grant us live eternally  ¶ The Maid. Fresh, gallant, & gay: All must with me away. ¶ The damosel. Fine, proper & neat: And all is but worms meat. body, to wipe away all our naughtiness by thy death, and to make us clean, and new creatures acceptable unto God. Scour us from the spots which we by our sins do daily cast upon the whiteness that we have gotten by thee: And when thou hast so cleansed us, let thy grace maintain us still in the same cleans, that we may be worthy to be called thine, both in profession & name. Lord cleanse me from my secret sins and bear with thy servant in his other sins, Amen.   

Another.  
A Clean heart created in me O god, and renew a right spirit within my bowels. Let my heart be made undefiled through thy inrighteousing, that I may not be put to shame, Amen.  
¶ Farmer's wife. Cease thy labour and pain: For I am thy riches and gain●  
Husbandman's wife. Toil no more I say: For hence I must away.  

Time to live, & time to die:  
God grant us live eternally    

* A Prayer for the obtaining of a sound mind.  
O Lord jesus Christ, the light of all them that put their trust in thee, and the only Physician of our souls, the light of mind which thou hadst put into us by creation, is dimmed, defaced, and in manner extinguished by the fall of our first Father Adam: and a horrible maim and disorder is fallen upon all the powers & senses of our souls.  
Our wit, reason, judgement, discretion, understanding and will are utterly corrupted, so as of ourselves we can not see nor discern any thing aright.  
The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto thee  Countreywoman▪ Away with butter & cheése: For thy life thou must lose. The Nurse. give suck no more: For I am at the door. 
Created thou a pure heart in us, and renew a right spirit in us. Bind thou up the sores of our souls, wash them with the wine of thy precious blood, and anoint them with the oil of thy holiness. Repair that heavenly Image which is defaced in us through sin, and adorn it again with thine own righteousness. That we (being set in perfect state by thy means) may sing acceptable praises everlastingly to thee in thy holy church, Amen.   

¶ A Prayer to be said for newness of life.  
Unto thee O Lord, do I lift up my heart: In thee my God do I trust, let me not be put to shame.  shepherds wife. Be thou young or old: Thou must enter into my fold ¶ Aged woman. Be the day never so long: At last cometh Evensong. 
From earth we came, to earth we shall:  
For sin by death, hath made us thrall.  
Show me thy ways, and teach me thy paths, lead me forth in thy righteousness, and guide me: for thou art my saviour, in thee is my trust all the day long.  
Teach me thy way O Lord, & guide me in the right path for fear of mine enemies.  
A clean heart created in me O God: and a right Spirit renew within my bowels.  
Thrust me not out of thy sight O Lord: neither take thy spirit from me.  
give me again the comfort of thy help: and strengthen me with a principal Spirit.  
Teach me thy way O Lord: and I will walk in thy truth.  
Knit my heart unto thee that it may fear thy name: give thy servant strength, and save the son of thy handmaid.  
The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto thee  The Cripple. Be thou poor or disesed: Thou must with me be pleased. The poor woman. Be thou never so poor: Thou must enter at my ●ore. 
Make me to understand the ways of thy commandments: and I will talk of thy wonders.  
Remove from me the way of lying: and give me thy law.  
Set thy law (O Lord) and the way of thy statutes before me: that I may ever keép them.  
give me understanding that I may observe thy law, & keép it continually.  
Lead me forth in the paths of thy commandments: for in them is my delight.  
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies: and not unto covetousness.  
Let not the foot of pride come near me: nor the hand of sin touch me.  
Turn away mine eyes from vanity: and quicken me in thy way.  
Strengthen thy servant in thy word: that I may fear thee.  The Infant. Lo, this little heart I strike with my dart. The Foole. Of foolish and fond: I break the bond. 
No state, no might, young nor old:  
To resist death da●● behold.  
Behold I have lusted for thy commandments: quicken me in thy righteousness.  
Let thy mercy come upon me (O Lord) let thy saving health light upon me according to thy word.   

A Prayer for true mortification.  
Emperors and kings, we did reign:  
But now the earth, doth us detain.  ¶ The Emperor. Of Monarch & Emperor: I am the conqueror. ¶ The King. Kaiser, or king: I must thee bring. ¶ The Duke. Duke though thou be: dance after me. ¶ The Marquis. Marks of state: march with thy mate 
Dukes and Marks we have been:  
Naught now but bones are to be seen.  
For if thy son our saviour (ever wont to obey thy good will) prayed so heartily and often: Not my will, but thy will be 
We Earls and Barons were sometime:  
Now wrapped in lead, are turned to slime.  ¶ The Baron. Barons of nobility: swear to me fealty. ¶ The Viscount. Earl or Viscount: give thy account. done, whereby he declareth himself to be very man: how can it be but we, whose nature is corrupt not only in nativity, but in the rest of our whole life also, shall find both our hands full in great and grievous temptations, wholly to resine ourselves unto thee.  
Grant therefore deére Father, for thy Christ's sake, I most heartily beseech thee, thy grace and holy spirit, to be effectual in me, that daily I may accustom myself to deny my will in more easy and pleasant things of this life, that when need shall be, I may come unto thee with a resined will, always steadfastly expecting thy mercy, and in the mean season, continually obeying thee with readiness and willingness, doing whatsoever may most please thee, through Christ our Lord, which liveth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost, world without end, Amen.  ¶ The Archbishop. Archb. & Metropolite: thee & thy Province I visit. ¶ The Bishop. Bishop's grave & old: are sheép of my fold. 
Bishops we have taught the lord:  
That all must enter deaths door.   

A prayer for continuance in seeking after Christ. by S. Augustine.  Both sheep and shepherd all must die: We taught the same, the same we try. ¶ The Doctor. Doctor divine at last: thy reading hour is past. ¶ The Preacher. Preach no more about: thy glass is run out. ¶ The Lord. Come lordings all: dance at my call. ¶ The Knight. Go hence sir knight: 'tis almost night. 
We Lords and Knights of late:  
Now lie in low estate.  
Behold the Squire as in a glass:  
For as thou art, so he was.  ¶ The Esquire. Esquire the brave: It boots not to crave. ¶ The Gentleman Lusty, or sad: Thou must be had. ¶ The judge▪ Come on judge: With me to trudge. ¶ The Justice. Sir justice arise: come to my assize. 
judge and justice sentence have:  
To lie as captives in the grave.  
In such sort therefore (O my God) thou art laid up for them that fear thee, as thou mayst be found of them that hope in thee. So thou dost prolong to be found of them that seek thee, the sooner to approach to them that persevere in seeking.  
No law, no plea, no drift:  
From death can make a shift.  ¶ Sergeant at law. Leave the Laws: & hear my cause. ¶ The Attorney. Pled as thou lust: With me thou must. 
O my mercy and my refuge, my deliverer and defender, so give me fear, as also I may love: so put me in fear, as thou increase also the desire of thee: and so make me one of those that fear and keep thy commandments, that by the obedience of thy fear, I may enjoy the fear of thy love, Amen.   

A Prayer for spiritual joy.  
LOrd jesus, the redeemer and comforter of mankind, which hast by thy holy Spirit prepared far greater pleasures than the world knoweth of, for such as refuse the false pleasures of this world for thy sake, tempering the troubles of this life, with inward and ¶ The Mayor. Mayor I thee call▪ to my guild Hall. ¶ The Sheriff. Shirif for execution: I have a commission. 
Mayors & Sheriffs do pass with speed  
And others them in place succeed.  secret solaces, and after a sort renewing from time to time a certain forecast of the blessedness to come, to the intent that being cheéred and refreshed, we should come running to thee with gladder hearts.  
I beseech thee grant that the anointing of thy holy spirit may often drive from me all irksomeness of adversities, and cheer up my mind with healthful gladness, even as he anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows, in respect of thy human nature when thou wast here upon earth, which livest and reignest with the father and the same holy Spirit for ever, and ever, Amen.   

A Prayer to be said in the time of sickness.  
MOst merciful redeemer, thou art always merciful, who art 
We peace did keep in Prince's name:  
Now death doth charge us with the same.  ¶ The Bailiff. Come Bailiff, no bail: with me shall prevail. ¶ The Constable. Constable I arrest: to my ward be priest. always the saviour, whether thou dost sand health or sickness, wealth or adversity, joy or sorrow. For it is of great mercy when by outward afflictions, as it were by bitter, but yet wholesome medicines, thou dost heal the inward diseases of the soul: and by temporary troubles which do last but for a short time, dost prepare us to eternal joys which endure for ever.  
And thyself (O gracious saviour) passing into thy glory through the greatest afflictions of this world hast trodden out to us by thy steps, that way to true & perfect felicity in the which no humble and true servant aught either to disdain or to shrink to follow after his Lord and master so going before him.  
But for so much as without thee we can do nothing that good is, I beseech thee to endue me with thy heavenly grace, that I may take up willingly & ¶ The Physician. By thy water, I do see: thou must away with me. The Astronomer. Look not so high: low thou must lie. 
No art or medicine can prevail:  
When death doth purpose to assail.  obediently this cross which thou hast appointed unto me, and follow after thee: and that I may drink of, as it were this medicinable cup, though bitter unto the flesh, which thou, the heavenly physician dost offer unto me, patiently without grudging or murmuring against thee: And that I may with thy faithful servant job, and with unfeigned lips and heart, say: The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away, as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it come to pass, blessed be the name of the Lord  
For if I have received gladly youth, health, riches, honour, and joy at thy hands (O Lord:) why should I refuse patiently to take age, sickness, adversity & sorrow at thy hands also? These things be indeed very grievous unto frail nature and flesh: but thou my Lord: though most perfectly innocent, 
Death wines the field  
all arms must yield,  ¶ The Herald. Herald in thy shield: bear grass in green field. Sergeant at Arms. Zergeant see thou stay: all glory must away. infinitely hast suffered more grievous things for me, who have so often deserved hell. But yet thou knowest the frailty of our human condition & nature: wherefore I beseech thee, as thou pourest sharp wine into our wounds to bite away the corruption of our sins, so after the example of the merciful Samaritane, set forth in thy holy gospel, to resemble thyself, & unto the sharp wine of thy correction, the supplying oil of thy merciful comfort, whereby I may be able to suffer things which otherwise are intolerable unto me.  
And if it be thy pleasure to increase sorrow upon me, increase also thy grace and gift of patience in me, and turn these worldly and bodily afflictions to the profit of my soul, by my acknowledging of thy justice in punishing me worthily: and thy mercy in correcting me graciously, even like as a Father ¶ The Trumpeter. Trumpet give sound: all mu●● to the ground. ¶ The pursuivant. Go summon by message: to come without baggage. 
All must needs di●, we need not tell:  
Our message hath been sounded well.  hath pity upon his children when he beateth them, and by my submitting of my own will unto thy holy will, and patiently taking of this thy proving and trying of me whether I love thee or not, may offer that sacrifice of obedience which is acceptable unto thee.  
And when thy Fatherly pity shall be contented with thy meéke chastising of me, than I beseech thee sand calm after this tempest: quietness after this trouble: and joy after this sorrow: that I may tender thanks unto thee for double causes, both that thou hast first corrected and amended me an unprofitable servant, and afterward hast taken away the bitterness of affliction with the softness of thy comfort. In the one, having regard of necessity, in the other, not forgetting my infirmity, and in both, as in all things, always remembering thy mercy, unto the which 
We drum that domes day now at hand:  
Doth call all soldiers to deaths band.  ¶ The Drum. Drommer call together: all soldiers to my bān●r ¶ The Fif●▪ Fife see thou play: to lead them the way. I do commend and betake myself both body and soul, now and for ever. Unto thee, with the father and the holy Ghost, one God of most excellent majesty, be all praise, honour, and thanksgiving, for ever and ever, Amen.   

Another.  
LOrd jesus the only health of them that live, & the only life of them that die: I yield and give over myself wholly to thy most holy will, whither it please thee that this silly soul shall abide any longer in the lodge of my body to serve thee, or that thou wilt have it to departed out of this world. For inasmuch as I am sure that the thing which is committed to thy mercy cannot perish, I will willingly put of this frail and wretched flesh of mine, verily in hope of the resurrection, ¶ The captain. Captain march with me: thy Captain I must be. ¶ The Soldier. Soldyar have a courage: to thy ●ong viage. 
Death only maketh Captains quail:  
And hearty soldiers for to fail.  which shall tender it to me in far better plight. I beseech thee strengthen my soul with thy grace against all temptations, and against all Satan's assaults, guard me with the shield of thy mercy, whereby thou madest all thy martyrs invincible in old time, against all horrible torments and cruel kinds of death. I see there is no defence in myself: all my trust is in thy unspeakable goodness. I have no desert nor good works at all to allege before thee: But as for evil works, I have alas to many of them. Nevertheless my hope is that I shallbe reckoned in the number of the righteous by means of thy righteteousnes.  
For my sake wast thou borne, for my sake didst thou thirst, for my sake wast thou hungry, for my sake didst thou teach, for my sake didst thou 
Use gain of gold, and live in cost:  
So as by death life be not lost.  ¶ The Merchant Neither craft nor trade: Can ●e persuade. ¶ The Citizen. Of town and city: I have no pity. pray, for my sake didst thou fast, for my sake didst thou perform the great number of good works in this life, for my sake didst thou suffer so many bitter pangs, & for my sake didst thou give over thy precious life to the death.  
Let the things profit me which thou hast given me of thine own free will, thou (I say) which hast given thyself wholly for me. Let thy blood wash away the spots of my sins. Let thy righteousness hide mine unrighteousness. Let thy deservings commend me to the sovereign judge. As my grief and disease increase, so increase thou thy grace. Let not my faith waver. Let not my hope staggar. Let not my charity wax cold. Let not my human infirmity be cast down with the dread of death. But even when death shall have closed ¶ The Printers. Leave setting thy page: spent is thine age. Pressmen go play: printing must stay. 
We Printers wrote with wisdoms p●n:  
She lives for ay, we die as men.  the eyes of my body, let the eyes of my mind look still upon thee with out wavering aside. And when it shall have bereft me of the use of my tongue let my heart cry steadfastly still unto thee, Into thy hands I commit my spirit O Lord, to whom be honour & praise world without end, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer to be said in the Plague time.  
IT is no marvel O most righteous Father, that the elements of this world are fierce against us, sometime with earthquakes, sometime with tempests and lightnings, sometime with overflowing of seas and Rivers, sometime with pestilent concourses of the heavenly lights, and sometime with corruption of the infected air, for we do commonly abuse thy gifts.  
Death takes no bribe of wealth:  
Death forceth not long health.  ¶ The Rich man. Thy silver, nor gold: from death can thee withhold. ¶ The aged man. By right I must be bold: with thee that livest so old. 
We acknowledge that even in this case also the creatures serve and obey their Creator, whose commandments we neglect so oftentimes. Also we acknowledge thy fatherly nurturing of us, whereby thou callest us back from the trust of this world with gentle correction, and drawest us to the desire of the everlasting life.  ¶ The Artificer. No compass or art: can 'cause me departed. The Husbandman. Labour no more: For I have store. 
Not one devise no ar●, no toil:  
Can make us give to death the foil   

A Prayer for health both of body and mind.  
doubtless the only true health is to be found in that part which is cheéfest in us, and likest unto thee (O Lord) that is to say, to have the soul allied 
In song, in dance, in pipes, in play:  
We lost our life, now wrapped in ●la●.  ¶ The Mus●●i●n. Strike up thy play: Dance with me away and knit unto thee as near as is possible, by loving and worshipping of thee which art our only welfare.  
But forasmuch as the same is annexed to the body, it feéleth the affections thereof, and is moved by them. As for salves and medicines they do good when thou listest: but they be superfluous and to no purpose, if thou list not to work by them. Thou (I say) which art the founder of them, and of all natural things.  
Thy only will is the cause of life and death, and of health and sickness, which thou layest upon us most commonly to chastise and bridle this body of ours, which rusheth forth into unruly looseness in all things, like an unwieldy & unbridled beast, overwhelming us with forgetfulness of the true health when it groweth to strong and overlusty. But thou (O Father) grant us so ¶ The shepherd. Leave thy shep● And with me creep. ¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fond: I break the bond. 
The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto me.  to be hole in body, as our minds may also be hole and sound. Or if it be not for our benefit to have health of body, at lest wise give us a healthy mind, and lend us power & strength to bear our sickness, that the grief and weakness of the body, appair not the soul, Amen.   

A Prayer in affliction, or adversity.  
MOst merciful redeemer which art always full of compassion, thou art always our preserver, whether thou sand us adversity or prosperity. For great is thy mercy, & compassion, in that thou healest the inward man by outward afflictions as it were by bitter medicines, and preparest us to everlasting joys by temporal troubles. And for as much as thou thyself hast traced us out this true way to felicity 
Time to live, & time to die:  
God grant us live eternally  ¶ The Beggar. Begging is done: For I am come. The Roge. Think I am best: For I bring rest. by thine own footsteps: grant that I may patiently and obediently drink this cup, which thou reachest unto me.  
grievous in deed are these things unto my nature, but yet hast thou suffered grievouser things for me: and I have deserved far grievouser things, for I have deserved hell fire. Notwithstanding thou knowest the frailty of man's state, and therefore like the merciful Samaritane, thou pourest wine into our wounds, which maketh our vices to smart, but yet thou alayest it with the oil of thy comfort, to the end we should endure the things which also would be intolerable. If thou think meet to increase our griefs, increase thou also the gift of patience, & grant that these afflictions may turn me to the amendment of my misdeédes. Or if thy Fatherly loving kindness think ¶ Youth. Young & old: Come to my fold. ¶ Of Infancy. Fear not me: though I grisly be. 
Time to live, ● time to die:  
God grant us live eternally.  this thy chastising of me to be sufficient, let this storm pass into calm wether, that I may thank thee in both respects, as well for that thou hast amended thine unprofitable servant by gentleness, as also for that thou hast put away the bitterness of the affliction by the sweétnes of thy comfort: having in the one case, respect of necessity, and in the other, being mindful of our infirmities. To thee therefore be praise and thanks for ever, Amen.   

❧ A Prayer upon the minding of death.  
WHat do we daily all our life long but heap sin upon sin? and load wickedness upon wickedness? so as every day becomes worse than other, by increasing the number of our offences, and the wrath that is due for 
We that were of highest degree:  
Lie dead here now, as ye do see.  ¶ The Empress. Empress though thou be Thou must away with me. ¶ The Queen, Queen also thou dost see: As I am, so shalt thou be. them. But be we once escaped out of the prison of this body, and received into thy company O Lord God, we shallbe quite out of doubt of the immortality of our Salvation. Sickness, penury, and pain shall not come at us: no nor yet the vices of the mind, for all those things are far of from heaven.  
O Father, give us the light of faith that we may not stumble in the things that are most true. give us the love of thee wherethrough we come thither: establish our faith with charity, & increase our charity with hope which underproppeth, strengtheneth, and holdeth us up in doing the works of godliness. And forasmuch as our watching and warding here, and our warfare which is ordained for great reward, are finished by death, and we cannot tell when that shall come: thou which knowest all things ¶ The princes. Princes of high estate: content you I am your mate ¶ The Duchess. Duchess & princes: Death daily convinces. 
We that sat in the highest seat:  
Are laid here now for worms meat,  call me hence at such time, as may be most for my behoof to departed out of this life, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   

A prayer in danger of death.  
MOst merciful Savyor, enlighten mine eyes that I may never fall a sleép in death, lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him. They that persecute me will be glad if I fall: but I have fastened my hope in thy mercy. Enter not into judgement with thy servant, for no man living shallbe justified in thy sight. I will look before me at the Lord who is always in my sight, for he is at my right hand, to keép me that I be not moved. My heart is glad, & my tongue rejoiceth, & more over my flesh, shall rest in hope.   

A prayer for good success, and for the direction of Christ in all our doings.  
Beauty, honour, and riches avail no whit:  
For death when he cometh, spoileth it.  ¶ The Countess. Countess, or what thou art: I strike thee with my dart. ¶ The Vicountesse. viscounts I ●o not spare: For of them I 〈◊〉 no car●. 
O God, and Lord jesus Christ, thou knowest, yea and thou hast taught us, how great man's weakness is, or rather how unable he is to do any thing without thee. If he trust to himself he must needs fall headlong into a thousand mischiefs. O deére father, pity thy child's infirmity, be merciful and favourable unto me, that I may see the true good things through thine enlightening, have a longing to them through thine encouraging, and attain to them through thy guiding, utterly distrusting myself, I give over, and betake me all wholly unto thee alone.  ¶ The baroness. baroness brave and high: Prepare thyself to die. ¶ The Lady. Lady's gay and fair: To you I do repair. 
No state, no might, young nor old:  
To resist death dare be bold.  
Death by his might doth convince:  
Empress, Queen, Duchess and Prince.  ●he ●udges wife. ●adame or justice wife: I am come to endethy life. The lawyer's wife. Beware thy husband's gain Reward thee not with pain. The Gentlewoman Gentles brave & fine: Dance after my line. Alderman's wife. Thou art clothed in scarlet And yet art but my varlet. 
Behold us here that sometime were gay:  
●ow now we lie dead all wrapped in clay.  
give me grace O God to hearken to thy calling and to follow thy guiding. For thou leadest us to store of all good things: thou offerest thyself and all thy goods: give us grace to receive them. Thou showest us the way to most singular benefits, suffer us not to turn head until we have taken possession of them.  
Give us constancy and stedines of purpose, that our thoughts may not be fleéting, fond, and uneffectual, but that we may perform all things with an unmovable mind, to the glory of thy holy name through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  
Riches, nor treasure avail nothing:  
For death to earth all doth bring.  Merchants wife. Brave & never so nice: dance after my device citizens wife. Trick and trim, put of your hood I am come to do you good.  

A prayer to be said against temptation.  
This weak & feéble fortress of ours is assaulted continually with innumerable enemies and engines: But yet if it please thee O saviour Christ to fortify it but with thy only strength, it shall abide invincible.  Rich man's wife. Though thou have silver and gold: Yet art thou within my hold. Young woman. Fine & pretty in the waist: Come with me in haste. 
As death in this world hath the victory:  
So by death we hope to enter God's glory▪  
Wherefore we beseech thee go not from the helm of this brittle ship, that is tossed in the waves of the manifold temptations, and afflictions of this world, until thou have brought it to the quiet and safe haven of thine eternal and blessed kingdom in heaven, Amen.  
Time to live, ● time to die:  
God grant us live eternally  ¶ The Maid. Fresh gallant, & gay: All must with me away. ¶ The damosel. Fine proper & neat: And all is but worms meat.  

* A Prayer to be said against the world,  
O with what sleights this juggling world beguileth our feéble and dim eyes? O how gay glitterings of things it showeth a far of, that they might seem great and worth the having, whereas in deed they be but small, empty, & to be despised: that the things might seem terrible which are but trifles: that the things might seem meet to be shunned, which are convenient to be sought and attained to.  ¶ Farmer's wife. Cease thy labour and pain: For I am thy riches and gain Husbandman's wife. Toil no more I say: For hence I must away. 
〈…〉 live, ● time to die:  
God grant us live eternally  
The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto me.  Countreywoman Away with but●er & cheése: For thy life thou m●st ●ees●. The Nurse. give suck no more: For I am at the door. 
Deliver us therefore from vanity, O Lord God, and give us steadfastness in seeking thy truth, and in sticking to it, so as we may set our whole minds upon thy righteousness, & joy in nothing but in thee, & in thy son jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   

* A Prayer against the flesh.  
O saviour of mankind, we feel (alas to our great grief we feel) that our spirit is clogged with the flesh, a reasonable thing, with a brutish and filthy thing. While man was in innocency, reason made the spirit a sovereign: but now the sinfulness that we have received by inheritance from our first Parents, hath matched the rebellious flesh against her superior and ruler shepherds wife. Be thou young or old: Thou must enter into my fold ¶ Aged woman. Be the day never so long: At last cometh Evensong. 
From earth we came to earth we shall:  
For sin by death hath made us thrall.  the mind. And the more gentleness that is used towards this most unkind and lewd bondservant the body: so much the worse and more wicked doth it become. If we follow it, it carrieth us into destruction, turning us away from God, to it own earthliness and rottenness. O how unseémly an encounter is this, wherein the flesh being matched against the Spirit, (that is to say, the bondslave against his Lord) striveth with him for victory and pre-eminence? sometime getting the upper hand, so as his master is not able erewhiles to repress his boldness, malapertness, and lustiness: because he bore with him to long, and to often.  
But thou O Lord Christ, to whom all power is given both in heaven and earth, which camest to undo the works of the devil, which only art able to make the thing clean which is conceived 
The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto me.  The Cripple. Be thou poor or disesed: Thou must with me be pleased. The poor woman. To thou never oh poor: Thou must enter at my ●ore. of unclean seéde. Reform our understanding, and will: Cleanse our hearts: Circumcise our minds: Wash our souls: Establish thy free and mighty spirit in us: Subdue us wholly to thy good pleasure: And restore us the state by thy goodness, which we have lost through our own naughtiness, so as our flesh may be in subjection to the spirit, and our affections be made obedient to right and uncorrupted reason. Or at lest wise, that although the flesh rebel, and fight against the spirit, yet the power of the mind may be so strong▪ and the strength of our reason so mighty through thy grace, as they may get the upper hand in all encounters, and finally overcome all assaults, to the praise of the working of thy holy spirit Amen.   

❧ A Prayer to be said against the devil.  
The Infant. Lo, this little heart I strike with my dart.  
The Foole. Of foolish and fond: I break the bond.  

No state, no might, young nor old:  
To resist death dare be bold.   
Jesus Christ, our Lord God, our shield, our fortress, our strong rock, our only defence, thou knowest, and it grieveth us to feel, with how great force, and perilous policy, that old enemy of ours the wily serpent, that beguiled our first parents in paradise, the roaring Lion that goeth about night and day, seeking whom he may devour. That destroyer, waster, and accuser of the saints, the devil, cometh upon us to assail us, thou knowest how small, or rather no power at all we have of ourselves to withstand him, so that unless thou secure us, he will easily deceive us by his craftiness, overthrow us by his mightiness, and rend us in pieces by his cruelty. But we know that if thou do but show thyself to him aloof, thou shalt drive him away with thine only look. For thou hast overcome 
Emperors and kings, we did reign:  
But now the earth, doth us detain.  The Emperor. Of Monarch & Emperor I am the conqueror. ¶ ●he King. Kaiser, or king: I must thee bring. him by thy death, thou hast bound him, disarmed him, and spoiled his house, thou hast bereft him of all lordship and power, thou hast crushed his head, thou hast cast down his throne, and dispossessed him of his kingdom, thou hast led away captivity captive, thou hast canceled the obligation that he had of ours, and nailed it to thy cross: and finally, thou hast triumphed over him in our nature, to our benefit and behoof.  
We therefore, being weak, feeble, naked, unarmed, unskilful, ignorant, and of no forecast, (but yet thy members through thy grace) beseech thee which art strong, almighty, only wise, and prudent, vouchsafe to defend, maintain, & preserve us continually from that merciless dragon. Be thou our eye, our ear, our hand, our loads man, guide, and captain. Set thyself ¶ The Duke. Duke though thou be: dance after me. ¶ The Marquis Marquis of state: match with thy mate 
Dukes and Marks we hau● been:  
Naught ●ow but ●o●es are to be seen.  in our defence against this our unappeasable adversary: disappoint his practices, confounded his devices, break his bow, knap asunder his spear, overthrow his holds, quench his fiery darts, put his armies to flight, and give thy servants the upper hand of him and his, or rather overcome thou him and his, in us, and by us.  
Do but advance the standard of thy cross in our hearts, and thou dryvest him out of the field. Under this banner dare we march boldly against him, assuring ourselves that by the power thereof thou wilt deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and of all that hate us, so as we may serve thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life. Which we beseech thee to grant us for thy mercy's sake, to the everlasting honour of thy most holy name, Amen.  

We Earls and Barons were sometime:  
Now wrapped in lead, are turned to flime.   
¶ The Baron. Barons of nobility: swear to me fealty.  
¶ The Viscount. Earl or Viscount: give thy account.   

❧ A Prayer to be said of a woman with Child.  
THy wisdom and power shine forth in all thy works O Lord, but yet much more greater, more manifest, and more wonderful are they in the shaping of man. Of how small beginning dost thou make so marvelous a living thing? shedding a soul into it whose original is from heaven, to the intent he should long to return thither as into his country.  ¶ The Archbishop. Archb. & Metropolite: thee & thy Province I visit. ¶ The Bishop. Bishop's grave & old: are sheép of my fold. 
Bishops we have taught the lore:  
That all must enter deaths door.  
O most gracious workman, let thy pitifulness amend the thing which our sinfulness hath marred, and either abate my pain, that I may not have need of so great strength, tendance, & cunning: or else increase my strength, power, and courage, that I may be able to overcome all the pain of my travel, Amen.   

* A Prayer to be said of such as be under the Crosse.  
HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord, for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?  
Both sheep and shepherd all must die:  
We taught the same the same we try.  ¶ The Doctor. Doctor divine at last: thy reading hour is past. ¶ ●he Preacher. Preach no more ●bout: thy glass is run out. 
Unto thee O Lord have I cried: all the day long have I stretched out my hands unto thee.  
Will't thou work wonders among the dead, or shall the dead arise & praise thee? shall any man show thy mercy in the grave, or thy truth in destruction?  
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, or thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?  
Why dost thou thrust back my soul O Lord, and hide thy face from me, no man is mindful of thee in death, and who will praise thee in the grave?  
Be still before God, O my soul, for my hope is in him: because he is my rock and my saviour, and I shall not be removed.  
In God is my welfare & my glory: the rock of my strength and my hope is in God.  ¶ The Lord. Come lordings all: dance at my call. ¶ The Knight. Go hence sir knight: 'tis almost night. 
We Lords and Knights of late.  
Nyw lie in low estate.  
Quicken me O Lord, for thy name's sake: and for thy righteousness sake rid my soul out of trouble.  
For I O Lord am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid.  
I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of praise: and pay my vows unto thee in the sight of all the people, Amen.   

¶ A Prayer for God's goodness, and for continuance of the same.  
I Yield thee thanks and praise (O Lord my God) for creating me after thine own Image and likeness. For redeeming me with thy precious blood. For admitting me into the number of thy children by adoption, through the washing of holy baptism, and for feéding me with the sacrament of thy body and blood.  
Behold the Squire as in a glass  
For as thou art so he was.  ¶ The Esquire. Esquire the brave: It boots not to crave. ¶ The Gentleman Lusty, or sad: Thou must be 〈◊〉. 
Also I give thee praise and thanks, for that thou of thine infinite gracious goodness, hast patiently waited for my amendment, even from the time of mine ignorant childhood unto this hour, notwithstanding that I ran loosely into innumerable vices.  
I glorify thee, and praise thee for thy often ridding of me from a number of troubles, distresses, calamities, and miseries: and for saving me hitherto from the often deserved everlasting punishments and torments both of body and soul. I praise thee and glorify thee for thy merciful giving of me health of body, soundness of limbs, quietness of times, and working of good things, with many other virtues.  ¶ The judge. Come on judge: With me to trudge. ¶ The Justice. Sir justice arise▪ come to my assize. 
judge and justice sentence have:  
To lie as Captives in the grave.  
Dispose, and order thou all my thoughts, words and deeds according to thy william. Keep me at all times, and in all places wheresoever I go, whether it be in prosperity or adversity. And in the end bring me to the desired joys of the present beholding of thee, Amen.   

A general thanksgiving.  
O God which excellest in all goodness and wisdom. O heavenly Father, which art full of mercy and clemency, when I call to mind the works of thy hands, I cannot but wonder at thy great wisdom, and infinite goodness, which thou hast showed towards 
No law, no plea, no drift,  
From death can make a shift  ¶ Sergeant at law. Leave the Laws: & hear my cause. ¶ The Attorney. 〈◊〉 lead as thou ●ust: With me thou must. all thy creatures, especially towards me: Not only in that thou hast given me, being, moving, and life: but also in that (besides thine other infinite benefits which thou hast distributed in general to all men in the world) thou hast bestowed so many particular benefits upon me, as it is unpossible for me to rehearse them, yea or to conceive them.  
Thou hast vouchsafed to deliver me by the light of thy gospel, from the darkness of error, and ignorance: or rather, to draw me out of the horrible dungeons of death and damnation, whereto I was condemned, in respect of the corruptness of my nature, and so conveyed me into the kingdom of thy well-beloved son, who hath given himself for my sins, according to thy good pleasure and everlasting ordinance. Also thou hast received me into thy Church among the number of thy children: thou ¶ The Mayor. Mayor I thee call: to my guild Hall. ¶ The Sheriff. Shirif for execution: I have a commission. 
Mayors & Sheriffs do pass with speed  
And others them in place succeed.  hast elected and chosen me through thy wonderful providence, to be to the glory of thy mercy. And thou hast inhonored me with the copartnership of the everlasting inheritance of thy deér beloved son, to be of that royal priesthood, which shall offer the sacrifices of eternal praise and thanksgiving to thy holy name in thy heavenly temple: now therefore according to davids saying, what shall I tender to the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I know that all my life aught to be consecrated to continual thanks giving, to show forth (with his holy people and purchased possession) the mighty works of him that hath called us out of darkness to his wonderful light. The cup of deliverance aught not to departed out of my hands, nor the new songs thereof out of my mouth.  
But Lord, grant me the grace which 
We peace did keep in prince's name:  
Now death doth charge us with the same  ¶ The bailiff. Come Bailiff, no bail: with me shall prevail. ¶ The Constable. Constable I arrest: to my ward be priest. thou didst show heretofore to David, a man according to thine own heart. Who treating of the same matter, and rehearsing the records of thy goodness, said, of a truth Lord, I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid, thou hast broken my bonds a sunder. I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving & call upon thy name. Even so say I lord of myself, and that by thy grace: I am thy servant, I am thy servant.  
Thou hast broken my bonds, and preserved me, and set me in safety. Unto thee O king of eternity, immortal, and invisible, even unto thee (O God) who only art good and only wise, be honour and glory for ever through jesus Christ thy son our Lord, and only Saviour, So be it.  
¶ The Physician. By thy wate●, I do see: thou m●st away with me.  
The 〈◊〉. Look not so high: low thou must lie.  

No art, or medicine can prevail:  
When death doth purpose ●o assail.     

❧ Here beginneth the Litany and Suffrages.  

O God the Father of heaven, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.   

O God the father of heaven, have mercy etc.   

O God the Son redeemer of the world, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.   

O God the Son redeemer, etc.   

O God the holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.   

O God the holy Ghost, etc.   

O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons and one God, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.   

O holy, blessed, and glorious, etc.   

Remember not Lord our offences, nor the 
Death wins the field:  
●ll arm●s must yield.  ¶ The Herald. Herald in thy ●hield bear grass in greenfield. Sergeant at Arms. Sergeant see thou s●ay: ●l glory must away. offences of our forefathers, neither take thou vengeance of our sins. Spare us good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeémed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.   

Spare us good Lord   

From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation.   

Good Lord deliver us.   

From all blindness of heart, from pride, vain glory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.   

Good Lord deliver us.   

From fornication, and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.   

Good Lord deliver us. ¶ The Trumpeter▪ Trumpet give sound: all must to the ground. ¶ The Pursuant Go summon by message: to come without baggage. 
All m●st needs die▪ we need not tell:  
Our message hath been sounded well.  From lightnings and tempests, from plague, pestilence, and famine, from battle, and murder, and from sudden death.   

Good Lord deliver us.   

From all sedition, and privy conspiracy, from all false doctrine and heresy, from all hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment.   

Good Lord deliver us.   

By the mystery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy nativity, and circumsition, by thy baptism, fasting, and temptation.   

Good Lord deliver us.   

By thine agony, and bloody sweat, by thy cross, and passion, by thy precious death, and burial, by thy glorious resurrection, and ascension, and by the coming of the holy Ghost.   

Good Lord deliver us.  

We drum that domes day now at hand:  
Doth call all soldiers to deaths hand.   
¶ The Drum. Drommer call together: all soldiers to my banner  
¶ The Fife. F●fe see thou play: to lead them the way.   

In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgement.   

Good Lord deliver us.   

We sinners ●oe beseech thee to hear us O Lord God, and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy church universally in the right way.   

We beseech thee to hear us good Lord   

That it may please thee to keép & strengthen in true worshipping of thee, in righteousness, and holiness of life, thy servant Elizabeth, our most gracious Queen, and governor.   

We beseech thee, etc.   

That it may please thee to rule her heart in thy faith, fear, & love, and that she may evermore have affiance in thee, & ever seek thy honour and glory.   

We beseech thee etc.  
¶ The captain. Captain march with me: thy Captain I must be.  
¶ The Soldier. Soldyar have a courage: to thy long viage.  

Death only maketh captains quail:  
And hearty soldiers for to fail.    

That it may please thee to be her defender, and keéper, giving her the victory over all her enemies.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Pastors, and Ministers of the church, with true knowledge, & understanding of thy word: And that both by their preaching & living, they may set it forth, & show it accordingly.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to endue all the Lords of the counsel, and all the Nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to bless, and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth.   

We beseech thee etc.  

Use gain of gold, and li●e in cost:  
So as by death life be no● lost.   
¶ The Merchant. Neither craft nor trade: Can ●e persuade.  
¶ The Citizen. Of town and city: I have ●o pity.   

That it may please thee to bless, & keep all thy people.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to give to all Nations, unity, peace, and concord.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to give all thy people increase of grace, to hear meékly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as have erred, and are deceived.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, to comfort and help the weak hearted, to raise them up that fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet.   

We beseech thee etc.  
¶ The Printers. Leave setting thy page▪ spent is thine age.  
Let printing stay: and come away.  

We Printers wrote with wisdoms pen:  
She lives for ay, we die as men.    

That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort, all that be in danger, necessity, and tribulation.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to preserve all that travail by land or by water, all women labouring with child, all sick persons, and young children, and to show thy pity upon all Prisoners and Captives.   

We beseech thee etc.   

it may please thee to defend, and provide for the fatherless children, and widows, and all that be desolate, and oppressed.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers 
Death takes no bribe of wealth:  
Death forceth not long health.  ¶ The Rich man. Thy silver, nor gold: from death can thee withhold. ¶ The aged man. By right I must be bold▪ with thee that ●●●uest so old. and to turn their hearts.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to give, and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them.   

We beseech thee etc.   

That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy holy spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy word.   

We beseech thee etc.   

Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us.   

Son of God, we etc.   

O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.   

Grant us thy peace.  
¶ The Artificer. No compass or art: can 'cause me departed.  
The Husbandman. Labour no more: For I ●aue store.  

Not one devise, no a●t, no toil:  
Can make us give to death the foil.    

O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world.   

Have mercy upon us.   

O Christ hear us.   

O Christ hear us.   

Lord have mercy upon us.   

Lord have mercy upon us.   

Christ have mercy upon us.   

Christ have mercy upon us.   

Lord have mercy upon us.   

Lord have mercy upon us.   

Our father which art in. etc. And lead us not into temptation: But deliver us from evil, Amen.   

¶ The versicle.  
O Lord, deal not with us after our sins.   

Answer.  
Neither reward us after our iniquities.   

Let us pray  

In song, in dance, in pipes in play:  
We lost our life, now wrapped in clay.   
¶ The Musicians. Strike up thy play: Dance with me away  
O God, merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful, mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee, in all our troubles and adversities, when so ever they oppress us: And graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft, and subtlety of the devil, or man, worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed, that we thy servants (being hurt by no persecutions) may evermore give thanks unto thee, in thy holy church through Christ our Lord   

O Lord arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake.   

O God we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.   

O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy honour.  
¶ The shepherd. Leave thy sheep And with me creep.  
¶ The Foole. Of foolish and fond I anreake the bond.  

The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto me.    

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, etc.   

From our enemies defend us O Christ.   

Graciously look upon our afflictions.   

Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts.   

Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people.   

Favourably, with mercy hear our Prayers.   

O Son of David have mercy on us.   

Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ.   

Graciously hear us O Christ, graciously hear us O Lord Christ.   

O Lord let thy mercy be showed upon us.   

As we do put our trust in thee.   

Let us pray.  

Time to live, & time to die  
God grant us live eternally   
¶ The Beggar. Begging is done: For I am come.  
The Roge. Think I am best: For I bring rest.  
WE humbly beseech thee O father, mercifully to look upon one infirmities, & for the glory of thy names sake, turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved: And grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee, in holiness, and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only mediator, and advocate jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.    


❧ A Prayer for the Queen's Majesty,  
O Lord our heavenly father, high, and mighty king of kings, Lord of Lords, the only Ruler of Princes, which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon the earth, most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to 〈…〉. Young & old. Come to my fold ¶ Of Infancy Fear not me: though I grisly be. 
No state, no might y●ung nor old  
To resist death dare be hold.  behold our most graci●us us sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy Spirit, that she may always incline to thy will, and walk in thy way. Endue her plentifully with heavenly gifts. Grant her in health, and wealth long to live. Strength her, that she may vanquish, and overcome all her enemies. And finally after this life, she may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   

❧ In the time of any common plague, or sickness.  
O Almighty God, which in thy wrath in the time of king David, didst slay with the plague of pestilence threéscore and ten thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy didst save the rest: Have pity upon us miserable 
We that were of highest degree▪  
Lie dead here now, as ye do see.  ¶ The Empress. Empress though thou be Thou must away with me. ¶ 〈◊〉 Queen. Queen also thou dost see: As I am so 〈◊〉 thou be. sinners, that now are visited with great sickness & mortality, that like as thou didst then command thine Angel to cease from punishing: so it may please thee to withdraw from us this plague, and grievous sickness, through jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   

* A Prayer of Chrysostom.  
ALmighty God which hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee, and dost promise that when two or three be gathered together in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests. Fulfil now (O Lord) the desires, and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world, knowledge of thy truth, & in the world to come, life everlasting Amen.  
¶ The princes. Princes of high estate: content you I am your mate  
¶ The Duchess Duchess & princes: Death daily convinces.  

We that sat in the highest s●ate:  
Are laid here now for worms meat.    

* A Prayer to be said at the visitation of the sick.  
O Almighty and eternal God, the God of all mercy: many & divers are thy chastisements, by which thou callest us unto thee & thy son Christ. Especially it is thy wonted clemency, to tame our flesh by sundry and sore diseases: to awake, and shake of our sleep by dangerous infirmities: to admonish us of our former wicked life, frail of itself, by grievous anguishes and torments, the messengers of death. Also by this thy cross, thou puttest us in mind of thy Son Christ his cross: of his bloody sweat, and passion: of the great, and last day of thy judgement: joyful to thine elect, to the reprobate, a judgement day most horrible, O Lord, most horrible.  
Beauty, honour, and riches avail no whit:  
For death when he cometh▪ spoileth it.  The Countess. Countess or ●hat thou art: I stri●e thee with my dart. ¶ The Vicountesse. viscounts I do not spare: For of them I ●aue no care. 
Forasmuch therefore (O Lord God) as we found this our poor brother, weakened with sickness, imprisoned here in his bed, sustaining the rigour of thy punishment, & sharpness of thy rod, whose conscience also, the feéling of his sins, and fear of death doth terrify: We wretched sinners, yet thy creatures, & members of thy church, being flesh and blood of corruptible flesh as well as he, most humbly, and most heartily pray, & beseech thy goodness, that thou wilt not show thy rigorous judgement upon him as he hath deserved: But rather cast thy eyes of mercy upon him: Look on him, as on one whom thou hast redeémed: give him grace, and constancy of courage, that he may peaceably, and patiently take this thy fatherly correction, submitting himself with all his heart, to thy good pleasure and will, who hast visited him.  ¶ The baroness baroness brave and high: Prepare thyself to die. ¶ The Lady. Lady's gay and fair: To you I do repair. 
No state, no might, young nor old:  
To resist death dare be ●old.  
Assist him in this his present danger, especially if his conscience discovered before his inward sight, accuseth him of any inward and secret sin. O our God, our good God, God of all comfort and consolation, set against the same his wounded conscience, the grievous torments, and voluntary sacrifice of thy well-beloved Son jesus Christ, who bore our infirmities, and endured the pain which we had deserved, being made sin for us, when he suffered death for our sins and offences, which he washed away with his blood, and rising again from the dead, is made our justice and present redemption.  
Death by his might doth convince:  
Empress Queen Duchess and Prince.  The judges wife. Madame or justice wife: I am come to end thy life. The Lawyer's wife. Beware thy husband's gain Reward thee not with pain. The Gentlewoman. Gentles brave & f●●e: Dance after my line. Alderman's wife. Thou art clothed in scarlet: And yet art ●ut my varlet. 
Behold us here that sometime were gay:  
And now lie dead all wrapped in clay.  
Riches nor treasure avayl nothing:  
For death to earth all doth bring.  Merchants wife Brave & never so nice: dance after my device 〈…〉 wife. ●ricke and trim ●ut of your hood ● am come to d● 〈◊〉 good.  

* A Prayer in desire of the life to come.  
IN the life to come, we must not think to enjoy any one benefit alone as we do here, but all good things and all at once, even as many as are possible to be thought, or not thought. For we shall enjoy thee, O God, who alone art all in all things: And love shall make us one with thee, and so we shall be (as it were) certain Gods. O when shall we have an end of this misery, and a beginning of that joy? when shall I cease to live among such as are evil, spiteful, cumbersome, and enemilike, and begin to live with Christ, who is Rich man's wife. Though thou have silver and gold: Yet art thou within my hold. Young woman. Fine & pretty in the waist: Come with me in haste. 
●s death in this world hath the victory:  
So by death we hope to enter God's glory.  courteous, good, friendly, and loveth me most deérely? This body of mine is but a prison to my soul. Yea and that a most dark, and loathsome one. This world is but a banishment, and this life but sorrow & wretchedness. But where as thou art, there is our home, our freedom, and our endless bliss. Twitch our minds from time to time to the remembrance of so great happiness. Shed into our hearts the desire of so great good things, and therefore cheéfly to be coveted. Settle our minds, and give them (even here) some taste of thy joys, whereby we may loath and abhor these things, wherinto we run with such headiness, embracing them fast between our arms, and laying hold on them with both our hands: that we may shun, and hold scorn of these so harsh, and bitter things, & covet nothing so much as the sweétnes of thy company, 
O death how bitter is thy sting:  
That poor and rich to earth doth bring.  ¶ The Maid. Fresh, gallant, & gay: All must with me away. ¶ The Damsel. Fine, proper & neat: And all is but worms meat. whereunder all good things are contained, Amen.   

* The fear of the judge, and judgement day.  
O Lord, and God of Gods, revenger of wickedness, I know that thy coming will be manifest. I am certain thou wilt not always keep silence, when fire shall burn before thy face, and a mighty tempest shall rage's in thy sight, when thou shalt call the heaven from above, and the earth from beneath, to severe thy people. Behold in the presence of so many thousands of people, mine iniquity shall be discovered, my sins shall be opened in the sight of so many Angels, and not my misdeédes only, but thoughts and words. Before so many judges shall I stand helpless, as have excelled me in good works. By so many evidences shall I ¶ Farmer's 〈◊〉. Cease thy labour and pain: For I am thy riches and gain. Husbandmas wife ●oyle no more I say: For henc● I must away. 
Time to live, ● time to die  
God grant us live eternally  be cast, as have given me example of good life. With so many witnesses shall I be convinced as have admonished me with wholesome counsel, and by their virtuous deeds have been patterns for me to imitate.  
O my Lord I have not what to allege: I find nothing what I should answer. And being now in this grievous danger, my conscience vexeth me: the secrets of my heart wound me: covetousness hemmeth me in: pride accuseth: envy consumeth: concupiscence inflameth: excess corrupteth me: ravin defameth me: drunkenness drieth me up: slander renteth me in pieces: ambition supplanteth: rapine sharply rebuketh: dissension cutteth a sunder: anger disturbeth: lightness maketh me dissolute: faintness weakeneth me: hypocrisy deceiveth: flattery breaketh me: favour lifteth me up: but malice doth gore. 
The wise, the simple, and every degree:  
Are by force compelled to obey unto me.  countrywoman. Away with butter & cheése: For thy life thou must lose. The Nurse. give such no more: For I am at the door. Behold, O my deliverer from this wrath full generation, behold with whom I have lived ever since my birth day, after whom I sought, with whom I kept faith and promise. The life which I loved condemneth me: which I commended disdaineth me. These be my friends in whom I did repose myself, the governors whom I obeyed: masters whom I served: counsellors whom I did credit: Citizens with whom I dwelled: domestical fellows with whom I was familiar. Alas my king and my God that I have so long sojourned among them. Woe is my light that I have dwelled with the inhabitants of Cedar. And seeing that holy David said long, how much more miserable wretch that I am may I say to long hath my soul dwelled among them. O God my strength no flesh shall be justified in thy sight. My help is not in the children of men. Thus death hath brought all things to naught. Set thy mercy aside, whom shalt thou find just when thou judgest? And except thou justify the sinner in thy mercy, who shall be found pure whom thou mayest glorify? For I believe O my saving health that which I have heard: which of thy mercy to bring me to repentance the sweet lips of thy mouth hath spoken, that no man can come to me except my father who sent me draw him. For truly thou hast instructed me, and most favourably with thy instruction hast reformed me. I beseech thee almighty father in thy beloved son with all the strength of my heart and mind: I beseech thee O well-beloved son of god: I beseech thee O most holy and most comfortable spirit of God, so lead me that I may hasten to the sweet smelling favour of thy precious balms. Amen.  
 
Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you. Mat●●5.  
Departed from me ye 〈…〉 everlasting 〈…〉 is prepared for 〈◊〉 Math. 25.    

The conclusion.  
O Lord jesus Christ, thou king of kings, the great counsel and wisdom of the father. O thou the great shepherd of thy Pasture. O thou righteous judge of all judges, preserve our Queen Elizabeth long to live with thy poor Church of England, in health and wealth to thy good pleasure and william.  
Bless thou the wisdom and policy of her counsel to the strengthening of the same thy Church: the tranquillity of our Queen, and Country: inspire the Ministers of thy blessed Gospel, with thy holy spirit, that they may be savoury salt to season, and bright lights to the way of salvation.  
Raise up faithful distributers of right and justice to the poor commons of this Realm: diligent and careful magistrates to execute the laws aright, as they will answer before thy tribunal seat at the day of judgement.  
Finally to every of us thy poor sheep, let thy mighty hand & outstretched arm (O Lord God father of heaven) be still our defence: thy mercy, and loving kindness in jesus Christ thy dear son, our salvation: thy true and holy word our instruction: thy grace and holy spirit our comfort and consolation unto the end and in the end Amen.  
FINIS.   

❧ A Table of the prayers contained in this book.  
A Preface to private prayer. 
1  A prayer to be said at our first waking. 
1  A prayer at our uprising. 
2  A prayer at the putting on of our clotheses. 
3  A prayer to be said at our first going abroad. 
4.  A prayer to be said at our returning home. 
5  A prayer to be said at the setting of the sun. 
6  A prayer to be said at Candle light. 
6  A prayer at the Evening. 
7  A prayer at unclothing of ourselves. 
9  A prayer at our going to bed. 
9  A prayer when we be ready to sleep. 
10  A preparation to public prayer. 
10  A short speech before the lords prayer. 
11  A prayer to God the Father. 
12  A prayer to God the Father in Christ's name 
15  A prayer to God the son. 
16  A prayer to God the holy Ghost. 
19  A prayer for God's spirit to pray effectually. 
20  A prayer for the Realm and Church. 
22  A prayer for the church and states thereof. 
25  A prayer for the universal church. 
32  A prayer for the Queen. 
40  A prayer for the Magistrates. 
48  A prayer of children for Parents. 
49  Prayers for love towards our neighbour. 
50  A prayer for the persecuted. 
51  A prayer for such as are in adversity. 
52  A prayer for them that are in poverty. 
53  A prayer for our evilwillers. 
54  A confession of our sin. 
55  A prayer for remission of our sin. 
56  A comfort after craving of mercy. 
71  A prayer in commendation of God's mercy received. 
72  A complaint of a sinner that he sinneth again after repentance. 
74  A prayer against despair. 
75  Prayers upon the judgement of Christ's passion. 
76  A prayer upon the minding of Christ's resurrection and ascension. 
77  A prayer to Christ ascending to glory. 
87  A prayer at our going to a sermon. 
88  A prayer for understanding. 
89  A prayer to be said before the receiving of the communion. 
89  A prayer after the receiving of the communion. 
94  A prayer for God's grace. 
94  A prayer for faith. 
95  A prayer for trust in God. 
96  A prayer for the fear of God. 
97  A prayer for love towards Christ. 
97  A prayer for cleans of heart. 
98  A prayer for obtaining of a sound mind. 
99  A Prayer for newness of life. 
99  A Prayer for true mortification. 
101  A Prayer for continuance in seeking after Christ. 
103  A Prayer for spiritual joys. 
105  A Prayer to be said in time of sickness. 
106  A Prayer in the plague time. 
110  A Prayer for health of body & mind. 
111  A Prayer in affliction. 
112  A Prayer upon the minding of death. 
113  A Prayer in danger of death. 
114  A Prayer for Christ's direction, and success in all our doings. 
114  A Prayer against temptation. 
116  A Prayer against the world. 
117  A Prayer against the flesh. 
118  A Prayer against the devil. 
120  A Prayer to be said of a woman with child. 
121  A Prayer to be said of such as are under the cross. 
122  A Prayer for God's goodness, and continuance of the same. 
123  A General thanksgiving. 
124  The Litany. 
128  A Prayer to be said at the visitation of the sick. 
133  A Prayer in desire of the life to come 
136  The fear of the judge, and judgement day. 
137   
FINIS.   

AT LONDON. Printed by John day, and are to be sold at his long shop, at the West end of Paul's.  
❧ Cum Privilegio Regiae Majestatis.