❧ A book OF very Godly psalms and prayers, dedicated to the Lady Letice Vicountesse of hereford.  

GEVE GOD THE glory now AND EVER MORE   
¶ IMPRINTED AT London, in Fletestreate at the sign of the falcon, by Wylliam Griffith. 1570.   

❧ TO THE RIGHT honourable and virtuous lady: My lady Letice Vicountesse of hereford. &c.  
madam: amongs many my gracious lord your husbands, bound and faithful vassals: whom his L. bounty and Noble virtues do daily purchase abroad( unknown to your Honour) I am one: who in my late sickly solitariness, for the recreation of my weak soul, compacted and devised these few psalms and prayers, which by the commendation of the godly and learned, I haue published: not to supply the scarcity, but to increase the plenty of heavenly comforts, whereof England floweth: God grant us to use them to his glory, that we may continually possess the light of his loving countenance Amen. Dedications of works both great and small, are common, for diverse respects. Then let my poor little labour, haue liberty to bestow itself, where it would gladliest show the token of a thanckefull heart. Right honourable my good Lady, be it therfore your will, to take this well meant simplo travail, to your use and tuition, that by your estimation of the same, it may grow common and acceptable amongst the virtuous sort of Ladies and gentlewomen: praying it may be so faithfully occupied, as it was of the author zealously purposed, who, your thrall: am of ready endeavour, to honour and to serve my good lord and you: by all the ways I can: humbly beseeching my heavenly Father to preserve and to bless you both with long life in happy dayes, replete with grace and all maner of heavenly blessings, to your permanent assurance, of true felicity. Amen.  
Your good La. assuredly bound. Roger Edwardes.   

¶ The first form of prayer. 1.  

up O sinful soul, and look vpon the lord of light, and life: see thine own state: how thou art clothed with ignorance, sin and shane: how thou art deformed, an abominable filthy, and ouglye Monstar: a caitiff and a bond slave to satan: a fleshly beast and a fool: unworthy to life thy head toward the seat and majesty of our God: or to stand in the assembly of the wise. Therfore shake off thy earthly stuggishnes: and get thee before the lord of grace and mercy, in lowliness and repentance, he is full of fatherly pity and compassion and will not refuse thee: submit thyself with tears: and he will accept thee: he will forgive thee thy sins, and enritche thee with wisdom beauty and glory. Therfore tarry not, and thou shalt be blessed.   

¶ O spare me a little, and suffer me to recover my strength O Lord, before I go from hence and be no more seen.  
TO thee O Lord, belongeth mercy and forgiveness: bow down thy fatherly eye, O God, and pitifullye behold the damnable state of me thy wretched and sinful servant, which am unworthy, but through thy incomprehencible mercy, once to think, much less to lift my head and voice toward thy heavenly seat and majesty. Therfore in the bowels of thy fatherly love and pity, I beseech thee O déere Father for Christ Iesus sake thy sweet son our saviour, to mollify my hart with thy grace, that humbly confessing my manifold sins and wickedness, and from the bottom of my hart thoroughly repenting the same. I may by thaide of thy holy spirit, frame and govern the rest of my life in the ways of thy commandments, that justified in thy grace, I may with the rest of thy chosen sainctes, give continual praise and thanks unto thy eternal majesty, through Christ our déere lord and saviour: Who with thee and the holy Ghost, reigneth in unity of glory and power sanctified for ever and ever. Amen.   

psalms.  
BLessed are they that walk in thy laws O Lord, for they are, undefiled in the way.  
Blessed are they that keep thy testimonies: seeking thee in the truth of their hart.  
I make my humble petition unto thee, with my whole hart: O be merciful unto me according to thy word.  
instruct my hart in thy wisdom, teach me O Lord, and led me forth in thy paths: open my lips to publish thy praise, exalting the glory of thy majesty with thanks giving. For thou art the Lord our God, thou hast fashioned and made us, and not we ourselves.  
We are thy people, whom thou hast prepared in the secrets and power of thy wisdom.  
We are thy sheep whom thou preservest, and fillest with the bounty of thy blessing.  
The heauens & earth with all the things in them contained, are the works of thy hands O God, framed, wrought, governed and preserved, by thy omnipotent will and power.  
All things depend of thee O Lord, and without thee is no being.  
Lord thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another, before the mounteynes wear brought forth: or ever the world was made: thou art our God from everlasting, and world without end.  
Be merciful unto me therfore O my god: let me come before thy presence with songs of thanksgiving, rejoicing in thee O Lord the strength of my salvation.  
My soul cleaveth fast unto the dust, O quicken thou me according to thy truth, facioninge my heart, after thy Testimonies, for therein is life.  
O turn away mine eyes from vanity, and my heart from covetousness, and quicken me in the ways of thy statutes O God.  
Thou art gracious O Lord, make me obedient unto thy word, for thy mercy endureth for ever.  
gracious and righteous art thou lord, thou teachest sinners in the way: her est them when the call vpon thee and savest them in thy mercy.  
Great is thy mercy O Lord, full of compassion long suffering and ready to forgive, plenteous in goodness and truth.  
Thy merciful kindness is ever more and more toward us: thy truth O lord is everlasting.  
mine eyes are looking toward thee O God, patiently waitinge for thy mercy wherein I trust.  
hid not thy face from me O lord, for I am in trouble: O hast thee to succour me.  
deal with me according to thy name, O God, sweet is thy mercy, O deliver me, for I am weak and helpless, my hart is wounded within me: my comfort is in thy word O Lord.  
unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul: in thee is my trust, let me not be confounded, neither, let the enemy triumph over me.  
leave me not in desolation and misery O Lord, least th' enemy hath cause to say, that thou hast forsaken me, and left me to the will of his tirrannye.  
Here me, O Lord, in the multitude of thy mercies, and in the truth of thy salvation deliver me.  
I go hence like the shadow of a cloud, and am driven away as the grass hopper.  
My beauty wythereth as the haye, and my glory fadeth as the flower of the field.  
As the wheel runneth her course, so pass I through this vale, caryinge nothing with me, neither haue I time to behold the things I haue.  
My life is but a span long, I am ever looking into my grave: for the place wherein I now flourish, is redy to refuse me, neither will it receive me any more.  
O Lord teach me to consider the shortness of my dayes, and sapplie my hart to wisdom.  
Thou art of my inheritance the onely portion: I haue chosen thee for my parte, forsake me not O God.  
Thou art always by me, thou O lord hast holden me up by my right hand.  
Whom haue I in heaven but thee, neither is there any in earth that I desire, but onely thee O Lord.  
My flesh and my heart are weak, and ever failing, but thou God art the strength of my soul, and my portion for ever.  
Be thou my strong hold O Lord, whereunto I may alway resort: thou hast promised to help me, thou art my house of defence and my Castle.  
rid me O lord and deliver me in thy righteousness: Incline thine ear to me and save me.  
Through thee haue I been holden up, ever sithence I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb: my praise shalbe always of thee.  
Call to remembrance thy tender mercies which haue been ever of old.  
Remember not the sins and offences of my youth: but according to thy mercy think thou vpon me O lord for thy goodness.  
Cast me not out of thy presence, forsake me not in my weakness, but comfort me in thy mercy O God.  
Sh●we me thy ways, teach me thy truth, and led me forth in the paths therof O lord.  
Teach me thy statutes, O God & quicken me with thy grace for thou Lord art my saviour, in thee onely is my hope and trust foreuermore.  
Go not far from me O God: God hast thee to deliver me.  
Take me out of the mire that I sink not, O save me from them that hate me: Yea out of the hands of the unrighteous and cruel man, Lord deliver me.  
Let not the water flooddes of sin and sorrow drown me, let not the deep swallow me up, let not the pit shut her mouth on me, O my saviour.  
draw nigh unto my soul and save it, O deliver me because of thy righteousness.  
hold up my goinges O Lord, and guide my footsteps in thy paths that I slip not.  
I call vpon thee O lord, for thou wilt here me: incline thine care unto me, and hearken unto my words.  
show thy maruailouse loving kindness, thou that art of them that trust in thee, the gracious Lord and saviour.  
When my heart is in heaviness, I will from the ends of the earth, call vpon thee O God, and thou shalt set me vpon thy rock, for thou art my hope and strong Tower against the enemy.  
I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever, and my trust shalbe under the covering of thy wings O God.  
Thou hast given a tooken to such as fear thee, that they may triumph because of thy truth.  
Thou O Lord hearest the desires of thy servants, and givest an heritage to them that fear and love thy name.  
Therefore are thy beloved delivered, here me O Lord and help me.  
O stablish me according to thy word that I may live, and let me not be disappointed of my hope.  
hold thou me up and I shalbe safe, yea my delight shalbe ever in thy statutes.  
Thou O lord art my defence and my shield, my trust is in thy word.  
Therfore will I go forth in the strength of thy grace, making mention of thy righteousness.  
Then will I joyfully sing to thee, O my God: for thou art my refuge my merciful Lord and saviour.  
THou O God sendest reign vpon thine inheritance, and refreshest it when it is weary.  
Thy congregations shall dwell therein, for thou. O Lord, hast prepared for the poor.  
Thou hast given thy word, O God, great is thy beauty and power of thy messengers, let righteousness possess the land O lord.  
Yea Lord let thy gracious light of thy merciful countenance, shine vpon thy people.  
give knowledge of the ways to the simplo: let all nations see the salvation of thy Sainctes.  
Let all tongues and kinreddes praise thy name O God, and rejoice, for thou wilt judge thy folk in the righteousness of thy truth.  
Thy kingdom is over al, make thy name known, from one end of the earth to the other.  
Thou art our God O Lord, and thou only art to be praised: which helpest us in our distress, and fillest us with thy benifittes.  
Thou art our God, even the God from whom cometh salvation: thou art our Lord and God by whom we scape death and destruction.  
O think vpon thy congregation whom thou hast redeemed and purchased of old.  
think upon the tribe of thine inheritance, and mount Sion wherein thou hast difficult.  
Suffer not thaduersary to triumph, that blasphemeth thy name, pluck thy hand out of thy bosom and consume them.  
lift up thy feet, thou that maiest destroy every enemy, which meaneth to do evil in thy sanctuary.  
Let thine enemies be scattered, O Lord arise and vanquish them for evermore.  
Make them to vanish like the smoke that they be no more sene: yea let the glory and power of the ungodly perish at thy presence O God, so, that it may haue no more place vpon earth.  
Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withall: and let the things that should haue been to there wealth be an occasion of there destruction.  
Let their eyes be blind and see not, and ever bow down their backs.  
Power out thine indignation vpon them, and let all thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them.  
Let them fall, from one wickedness to another, and not come unto thy righteousness.  
Let them be wiped out of the book of life: and not be written amongs the righteous.  
Let all them be ashamed and consumed that seek after the souls of the innocents: yea let them perish without redemption, that, for hatred to thy name, imagine myschéefe to thy Sainctes.  
Thou art our God and king of old, the help that is done vpon earth, it is thou thyself that dost O Lord.  
O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the multitude of her enemies, forget not the congregation of the poor for ever.  
give victory unto thy people, deliver them, and make them to dip their feel in the blood of thine enymies.  
look vpon thy covenant O God, let not the simplo go away ashamed, but let the poor rejoice & be merry in that there saviour:  
Let the righteous give thankes, in thabundaunce of peace, and praise thy name, O Lord for ever and ever. Amen.   

CHAP. XVII. of John.  
THese things spake Iesus, and lift up his eyes to heaven, & said, Father the hour is come: glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thē, As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life, to all them that thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they know thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent. Iesus Christ. I haue glorified thee on the earth: I haue finished the work which thou gavest me to do, And now glorifi me, thou Father, with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I haue declarede thy Name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they haue kept thy word. now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me, are of the. For I haue given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they haue received them, and haue known surely that I came out from thee, and haue believed that thou hast sent me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me: for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now am I no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy Name, even them whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. while I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the child of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee, and these things speak I in the world, that they might haue my joy fulfilled in themselves. I haue given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from evil. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. sanctify them with thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou diddest sand me into the world, so haue I sent them into the world. And for their sakes santifie I myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. I pray not for these alone, but for them also which shall believe in me, through their word. That they all may be one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: even that they may be also one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory that thou gavest me, I haue given them, that they may be one, as we are one, I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know, that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they which thou hast given me, be with me even where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world also hath not known thee, but I haue known thee, and these haue known, that thou hast sent me. And I haue declared unto them thy Name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.  

WE aclowledge and praise thee O glorious God almighty, maker of heaven and earth. creator of all things visible and invisible.  
To thee O Lord, all powers do bow, heaven and earth with all that is in them, are governed by thy will, as obedient to thy commandment.  
each thing doth testify thy glory and power, O God.  
The angels and Sainctes continually cry unto thee, Holy art thou, holy art thou, holy art thou, which was, is, and ever shal be.  
The patriarchs and Prophets with thy chosen Sainctes and witnesses, haue testified and taught thy holy truth will and majesty.  
They haue witnessed the promised messiah, his incarnation, and nativity  
His baptism and anointing, his works, and doctrine, his apprehension and examination. His death and passion, his resurrection, and ascention.  
The procéedinge of the holy Ghost the promised comforter.  
Who purchasing our hartes, by the operation of thy grace, fashioneth the same, to believe the premises.  
And that thy déere son Christ Iesus through his blood and righteousness: hath delivered us from the curse of the lawe, reconciling us to thy favour.  
So that being called through free grace and adoption, we are made coheirs with him whereby we call Father.  
He sitteth on thy right hand, glorified with majesty and power our all.  
He maketh continual intercession for sinners: till the number of thy chosen be filled.  
Then shall the end come, heaven and Earth shalbe dissolved, the living shalbe changed, the dead shall arise: and he shall come with glory to judge them both.  
Him with thee O Father, we praise and glorify: by whose merittes and righteousness thou hast opened the kingdom of heaven, to thine elect, wherefore, O lord help thy servants. Whom thou hast redeemed with the precious blood of thy son.  
Make us to be numbered, with thy chosen to enjoy, the glory and bliss everlasting.  
save thy people O Lord, and bless thine  
inheritage.  
govern us, and guide us, and defend us, against the world and satan.  
Communicate thy grace unto us, that we being filled with thy gifts O lord, may evermore praise thy name with continual thanksgiving.  
Circumsise our harts with thy grace, that being decided from this witching world: we may wholly cleave unto thee, O Lord.  
Lift us up out of the mire O God, that we sink not in corruption. deliver us O Christ our saviour, from sin and death, that we may possess the kingdom which thou hast prepared for thy Sainctes.  
O Lord haue mercy vpon us, haue mercy vpon us Lord, and let the light of thy countenance shine vpon vs.  
Make us to put our trust in thee O Lord, so shall we never be confounded.  
arm our hartes with humility and patience O God, that cleauinge fast unto thee, we may despise and vanquish, the malice, wrath, assaults, and persecutions of satan and this wicked world. For in thee is our help comfort and salvation.    

¶ Prayers.  
O merciful Lord and loving father, that for performance of thy mercy promised, in the secret purpose of thine inserchable will and power: diddest sand thy déere son to take vpon him our fleshly shape & substance: in whom thou art pleased, and by whose merites and righteousness thou art pacified, toward such of Adames loss children, as thou hast chosen and called to salvation, through faith and holy conversation in Christ Iesus. As it hath pleased thy divine majesty of thy free grace and goodness, to reveal thyself unto us wretches by the working of thy holy spirit in believing the Gospel of thy son: So be it thy will O loving Father, pardoninge our frailties, to haue mercy vpon us: aiding our infirmities with the power of thy grace, against the concupiscence of the filthy flesh, against the illusions of the foolish world, and against the craftle suggestions of satan: that we be not ouercomed nor hurted thereby, but fastened in thy son, to grow in all maner of godliness, to that heavenly perfection that is requisite in thy sainctes, for the glorifyinge of thy name: whereby we may possess the glory, bliss, and eternal life which thou hast promised and performest to all them that thou art willing to save, in the blood and righteousness of thy sweet son, Christ the saviour: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost, reigninge in unity of majesty power and glory be all praise honour and thankes for ever more. Amen.  
O Déere Father for thy sweet sons sake Iesus Christ our merciful Lord and saviour, haue mercy vpon vs. And in the bowels of thy fatherly goodness and pity, here us sinners: here us good lord, and for the glory of thy name grant our humble petitions. Which we offer unto thy divine majesty, through Christ our redeemer and advocate.  
O merciful Lord and loving Father that of thine inserchable providence, goodness and power, didst prepare the glorious globe of heavenly light, to walk and appear in the bonds of thy commandment, to the universal comfort, preservation and bliss of man in this transitory being, and the rest of thy creatures, comprehended within the compass of the transitory and visible heauens give us thy frail and drerie servants the light of thy heavenly grace, so to shine in our hartes, that leading our lives in pure holiness and virtue: we may joyfully feel the presence of thy divine majesty in our souls to the invincible, gladness, strength, peace, and salvation of the same: through thy déere son Christ Iesus our saviour, reyguing with thee and the holy Ghost, in unity of majesty, eternal honour and glory, praised and hallowed for evermore. Amen.  
O merciful Lord and loving Father, look favourably vpon me thy frail & wretched creature: humble my heart to the repentant confession of my sins, give me the help of thy holy spirit to amend my life: and O lord, guide and bless all my thoughts, works, and words, with thy heavenly grace, that in all things obeying thy will. I may worthily, through Christ give honor, glory & praise to thee o father, in this & in the world to come amen  
O Father of grace, mercy, and comfort, thou knowest my wants and imperfections, reform me, and bless me, preserve me. In thy tuition, make me obedient, faithful and diligent in my vocation, ever rejoicing in thee O Lord, through my saviour Christ: in whose blood and righteousness thou hast purchased thy chosen saincts to believe in thy promises to their salvation, whereby justified in thy mercy, we are bold notwithstanding thodiouse burden of our sins, through thy déere son Iesus, to call vpon thy most glorious majesty as he hath taught us saying with humble and joyful hartes.  
¶ Our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy willbe done in earth, as it is in heaven: give us this day our daily bread: forgive us our trespasses: as we forgive them that trespass against vs. And led us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thou onely art king, thou onely art mighty, thou onely art glorious, praised in thy works for ever more. Amen.  
O Lord save thy Church, and bless thy congregations.  
Lord make thy name known and feared throughout all the world, and let all nations profess Christ the saviour in the truth of thy gospel.  
Lord destroy th'enimies of thy word, And defend the louers of the same.  
give us plenty of true Preachers and Ministers of thy word.  
And make us habundant in good works. lord comfort the poor.  
And make the rich plentiful in charity.  
lord bless thy people with grace.  
That in all things they may seek the glory of thy name.  
bless me O God, and preserve me in thy fatherly tuition: power forth th'abundante bounty of thy good gifts vpon my poor family and children.  
That in the witches of peace, joy, and love, we may praise and magnify thy name, to the which be all honour and thankes for ever and ever. Amen.    

❧ The second form of prayer.  

O Lord make humble my heart to confess my sins wherein I haue miserable offended, and wretchedly declined, from thy most holy will and majesty: so that I am not worthy to present myself before thee O God: but it liketh thee of thy endless pity to receive sinners whensoever the turn unto thee, it lieth in thy will to convert vs. turn us therfore O Lord, and turn thou unto us and haue mercy vpon us: set us at liberty in thy grace, lose our hartes from worldly affections and purge us from thillusions of the same, strength en us against satan: comfort and instruct our weak blindness, with thy holy spirit, that we may open our mouths through Christ our saviour, to praise thy name O God with thanksgiving, to the which be honour and glory perpetual. Amen.  
¶ learn to know and serve the lord, O my soul: for it is lovely to praise and extol the name of our God.   

psalms.  
THou broughtest a vine out of egypt, thou threwest out the heathen, O lord, and diddest plant it in their habitations where taking roote it prospered, and filled all the Land.  
The hills were covered with the shadow therof, and the boughs of it wear as the Cedar trees.  
She stretched out her branches into the Sea, and her sprayes into the river.  
Plenteous was her fruit, thy people drank of her grapes, and wear refreshed.  
Thou thyself tookest charge therof O lord: with thine own hands didst thou fence it round about, and seemest to take high pleasure there in.  
How is it then come to pass, that her hedges are all broken, her frythes are trodden down, her grapes be common to the spoilers?  
Yea the wild boor doth roote it up, and the wild beasts of the field deuowre it.  
turn thee again, O Lord God of hostes, look down and see thy vyneyarde, which thou thyself with thy right hand hadst planted, making the branches of it beautiful and strong for thine own pleasure, and for the plentiful commodity of thy servants.  
It is cut down and brent, the distroyers haue spoyled it, and laid it wast in despite of thee, O Lord. Behold O God where once thou tookest pleasure, and where thy people wear refreshed, it is now mored up, by the swine of the aduersaries, and is become the harbroughe of Wolfes and Foxes.  
hear O thou shepherd of Israell, thou that leadest Iosephe like a sheep, thou that sittest on the Cherubins: stir up thy strength O Lord, and help thy servants: distroys these men of malice.  
O Lord how long wilt thou be angry? shall thy ieolosie burn like fire for ever?  
turn again, O God, & show us the light of thy countenance, and we shal be whole.  
O remember not our sins, but haue mercy vpon us: and that sone, least we fall into misery.  
help us O Lord, for the glory of thy name: O our saviour deliver us, be merciful to our sins for thy names sake.  
O let the sorrowful sighinges of thy prisoners come before thee: according to the greatness of thy power and mercy, preserve thou those, O God, that are appoynted to die.  
O Lord howe long wilt thou be angry with thy servants: howe long wilt thou feed thiem with the bread of sorrow, and give them plenteousnes of tears to drink?  
Thou hast made them a very strife unto there neighbours: and there enemies laugh them to scorn.  
Tunre thee again O Lord God of hostes, show us the light of thy countenance and and we shal be whole.  
Poure out thine indignation vpon the Heathen, and vpon them that fear not thy name, for they haue devoured thy servants, and laid wast thy dwelling place.  
And for the blasphemy wherewith they haue refiled thy majesty, reward thou them O Lord seuenfolde in there bosoms.  
O my God destroy thine enemies, make them like unto a wheel, like dust before the wind, and like dry straw in the flamme.  
Let thy wrath be kindled against them, O lord, like the fire that bourneth up the wood, and as the flamme that cousumeth the mountains.  
Persicute them with thy tempest, tear them asunder with thy thunder bolts, destroy them with thy storms, make thē to mealt in desperation, for fear of thy majesty, O God most high.  
Let them be confounded and vexed ever, more and more, let them, be ashamed, and known, that thou whose name is Iehoua, are th'onely most high God of power and majesty over all.  
Then we that be thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, shall rejoice and be glad, praising thy name, O Lord, withmelodie and thanksgiving, from generation to generaton world without end. Amen.  
BLessed are the people that rejoice in thee O Lord, they shall walk in the light of thy countenance and be joyful.  
There delight shalbe daily in thy word, and in thy righteousness shall they make their host.  
For thou art the glory of there strength, and in thy loving kindness, shalt thou O lord make sure their habitation and honour.  
Thou art there Lord and defender, there king and onely Souiour.  
whosoever dwelleth under thy defence O most high shall abide under the shadow of th'almightie.  
For thou wilt sand from heaven, to save us from the reproof of them that would eat us up.  
We will say unto thee O Lord, thou art our strong hold, and our hope, our God in whom we trust and rejoice.  
Thou shalt be merciful unto us, O God: for our defence is under the shadow of thy wings: yea Lord thou shalt deliver us from the snare of the hunter and cruel man, from the plague, and from the noisome pestilence.  
Thou wilt sand forth thy mercy O God, our hope and comfort is in thy truth, we dwell among the wolves and Foxes, our souls are among the Lions.  
Thou Lord wilt make us glad through thy works: and the remembrance of thy benifittes shall make us joyful in giving thankes.  
When the ungodly are green as grass, florishinge in their wickedness, as the bay tree, then shall they perish in there thoughts, and in there works shall they be destroyed for evermore.  
The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, and shall spread like a Cedar in Libanus.  
Such as be planted in thy house, O Lord, shall continually prosper in the courts of thy habitation: they shalbe beautified with all maner of blessings: and standing in the glory of thy presence shall extol and praise thy greatness for evermore. Amen.   

CHAP. VIII. to the Romaines.  
NOw then their is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Iesus, which walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For the Lawe of the spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus, hath freied me from the Lawe of sin and of death: For( that that was impossible to the Law, in as much as it was weak because of the flesh) God sending his own son, in the similitude of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, That the righteousness of the Lawe might be fulfilled in us, which walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For they that are after the flesh, savour the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit. For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace, Because the wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please God. Now ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, because the spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man hath not the spirit of Christ, the same is not his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin: but the spirit is life for righteousness sake. But if the spirit of him that raised up Iesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shal also quicken your mortal bodies, because that his spirit dwelleth in you. Therfore brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye moreffye the deeds of the body by the spirit, ye shall live. For as many as are lead by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye haue not received the spirit of bondage to fear again: but ye haue received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father. The same spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. If we be children, we are also heires, even the heires of God, and heires annexed with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. For I count the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shalbe shewed unto vs. For the fervent desire of the creature waiteth when the sons of god shalbe revealed. Because the creature is subject to vanity, not of it own will, but by reason of him, which hath subdued it under hope, Because the creature also shal be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain together unto this present. And not onely the creature, but we also which haue the first fruits of the spirit, even we do sigh in ourselves, waiting for the adoption, even the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is sene, is not hope: for howe can a man hope for that which he seeth: But if we hope for that we see not, we do with patience abide for it. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what to pray as we ought: but the spirit itself maketh request for us with sighs, which can not be expressed. But he that searcheth the hartes, knoweth what is the meaning of the spirit: for he maketh request for the Sainctes, according to the will of God. Also we know that all things work together for the best unto them that love God, even to them that are called of his purpose. For those which he knew before, he also predestinate to be made like to the Image of his son, that he might be the first born among many brethren. moreover whom he predestinate, them also he called, and whom he called, them also he justified, and whom he justified, them also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be of our side, who can be against us? who spared not his own son, but gave him for us all to death, how shall he not with him give us all things also? Who shal lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen? it is God that justifieth, who shall condemn? it is Christ, which is dead, yea or rather which is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, and maketh request also for vs. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake are killed all day long: we are counted as sheep from the slaughter, nevertheless, in all these things we are more then conquerors through him that loved vs. For I am persuaded that neither death, no, life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shalbe able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Iesus our lord.   

¶ Prayers.  

O Merciful Lord and loving father, that of thy free grace and mercy: by the blood and righteousness of thy déere son Christ Iesus, hast delivered us out of the bands of death and darkness, and through the working of thy holy spirit to believe thy gospel, hast called and chosen us to th'assuraunce of the heaunly inheritance everlasting: Haue mercy vpon us, haue mercy upon us Lord: and for thy sweet sons sake our saviour, comfort, guide and strengthen us with thy holy spirit, holding continually thy holy hand over us: so to pass through this blind and fraudfull world, that no flattery, illusions, nor enchantments therof deceive us: and that no troubles, malice, stripes, persecutions, fear, tyranny, torments nor death, may separate us from thee O God: but advanced in triumphant victory, despising the world, the flesh, and the devil: we may in gladsome hope wait and desire the coming of our redeemer, for the diliuery of thy blessed Saincts to appear in thy gracious presence, in our renewed bodies, glorified and immortal, there to dwell, with angels and archangels praising thy majesty with joyful, thanksgiving: for evermore. Amen.   

bless our harts with thy grace, O Lord, And make us joyful in thy peace. save thy Church O God.  
And preserve thy Sainctes, in the bliss of thy countenance.  
Comfort the needy and distressed, O Lord. And gladden the souls of them that trust in thee.  
In the multitude of thy mercies here our prayers.  
And for the love of the déere son our saviour, perform our requests to the glory of thy name.   

O merciful Lord and loving Father, in whose power and blessing all the creatures of heaven and earth do rest and are preserved: as it is proper to thy goodness, to feed and to cherish al them with the immeasurable bounty of thy blessings: So let it please thee, O God, to enritche us thy frail and sinful servants. Not onely with the knowledge of thy heavenly will and majesty, but also with faithful obedience to thy word, in which being taught and guided by the power and grace of thy holy spirit: we may walk in righteousness before thee all the dayes of our life: through Christ thy déere son our saviour: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all praise honour, glory, and thankes, for evermore, Amen.   

lord comfort us in the way, And bless the works of our hands. save us, O God.  
And make us evermore joyful in thee.  
¶ praised be thy name, O God.     

The thurd form of Prayer.  

MErcifully, behold, O heavenly lord and Father, th'infirmities of us thy frail, and Rebellious servants,( whom in thy holy will, thou hast called to the knowledge of the gospel of thy son) and reliue us with thy grace, that being strengthened with thy holy spirit, we may overcome and vanquish, all the suggestions, temptations and conspiracies of satan: withstand the malice, persecutions, and troubles of this wretched world, and so triumphinge in heavenly victory, wholly to rejoice in thee, O God▪ praising and halowinge thy name, through Iesus Christ thy sweet son our saviour, Amen.  
LET all knees, bow: all hartes humble themselves: and all tongues publish the praise of our loving God, for he is glorious merciful and kind, and embraceth repentaunte sinners, with Fatherly pity, and satisfieth there desires whensoever they faithfully call vpon him, through Christ the Lord of grace and redemption. Therfore let us be merry in him and give thankes.   

¶ psalms.  
THy hands haue fashioned and made me, O God: according to thy merciful kindness thou hast given me understanding of thy word.  
The same is my comfort in trouble: it quickeneth me at the heart: they that love thy name are glad when they see me: because I put my trust in thy word.  
O think vpon me according to thy truth: and let mercy embrace me on every side.  
O look vpon me and be merciful unto me, as thou art wont to those that love thy name.  
O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort, according to thy word. Yea let thy merciful kindness come vpon me, that I may live after thy commandments, for therein is my delight.  
Take not the love of thy Lawe from me, O Let my heart faithfully trust in thy word, least I perish in my trouble.  
I am thine, O save me, let me not shrink from thy word, keep my feet from falling and my thoughts from evil ways, O lord.  
show me the light of thy countenance, O God: and stablish me in thy statutes: that if trouble and heaviness take hold of me: my feet slip not from thy testimonies.  
O deliver me from the wrongful dea, linges of men, that in the safety of peace, I may apply myself wholly to thy Lawe, for the great comfort of thy people, O God.  
When the multitude of them that hate me for thy cause, do gether themselves together to confounded me, thou shalt deliver me with thy right hand, O lord.  
The righteousness of thy word is everlasting: thou art the defemder and saviour of thy people: there enemies shalbe dispersed: and in there own inventions perish for evermore.  
Thou shalt avenge thee of them, O God, thy gracious mercy and truth to thy servants is everlasting, for thou wilt not fail them in there troubles.  
Blessed are thy whom thou chastenest and teachest in thy Lawe, thou givest them patience in time of adversity: until the  
pit be didgged for the ungodly.  
Thou preservest the souls of the saints: O lord make us fervent in love, toward thee: and to hate the thing that is evil: then wilt thou with thy right hand deliver us from the hands of the ungodly and deceitful men.  
correct us lord in thy mercy, and give us not over unto death: remember us according to thy favour, that thou wast wont to bear unto thy people, visit us with thy salvation, O God.  
Though we be sometimes afraid, yet is our trust in thee, O God, neither haue we care what flesh is able to work against vs.  
In thy word Lord, will we rejoice: and comfort ourselves in thy promise, our trust is in thee alone, O God, we fear not the power of men.  
The offering of a free heart will we give thee, O God, praising thee with comfortable songs of thanksgiving.  
It is thou, Lord, that deliverest thy folk out of troubles, and givest them there desire vpon there enemies.  
Open unto us the gate of righteousness, O God, that we may see the felicity of thy Sainctes, and rejoice in the gladness of thy chosen, and give thankes with thine inheritance.  
We will thank thee, O God, thou hast heard us, and art become our salvation: thou onely art to be praised, O lord, thou art gracious, and thy mercy endureth for ever.  
praise the Lord, O my soul: and all the secrettes of my heart praise ye his holy name.  
praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not his benifittes.  
He forgiveth thee thy sins, and healeth all thine infirmities.  
He saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindness.  
He satisfieth thee with the plenty of his blessings, and cherisheth thee in th'abundance of his fatherly bounty and goodness.  
He executeth righteousness and iudgement, he delivereth thoppressed, and saveth the poor from the tirrany of the mighty.  
He sheweth his ways unto his seruants, and guideth his people in the ways of his commandments.  
He is full of mercy and compassion, long suffering and of infinite goodness and truth.  
He will not alway be chidinge, neither keepeth he his anger for ever.  
He dealeth not with us after our sins, neither doth he reward us according to our iniquities.  
For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.  
look how wide also the east is from the west, so far hath he set our sins, asunder.  
Yea like as a Father pitieth his déere child: even so is he a merciful Lord to them that fear him.  
For he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembreth, that we are but dust.  
The dayes of man are but as grass and flourisheth as the flower of the field: for so sone as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place therof knoweth it no more.  
But the merciful goodness of the lord endureth for ever and ever vpon them, that fear him, and his righteousness vpon their childers children.  
even vpon such as keep his covenant, and think vpon his commandments to do them.  
The lords seat is in heaven, and his kingdom ruleth over all.  
O praise the lord ye angels of his, ye that excel in strength: ye that fulfil his commandments, hearken unto the voice of his words.  
O praise the lord all ye hostes, ye servants that do his pleasure:  
O speak good of the lord all ye works of his: in all places of his dominion: praise the lord O my soul.   

CHAP. II. to the Ephesians.  
ANd you hath he quickened, that wear dead in tresspasses and sins, wherein, in time past ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the prince that ruleth in the air, even the spirit, that now worketh in the children of disobedience, Among whom we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others. But God which is rich in mercy, through his great love wherewith he loved vs. even when we were dead by sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saved, And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Iesus, That he might show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace, through his kindness toward us in Christ Iesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, Not of works, least any man should boast himself. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Iesus unto good works, which God hath ordained, that we should walk in them. wherefore remember that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, and called uncircumcision of them, which are called circumcision in the flesh, made with hands, That ye were, I say, at that time without Christ, and were aliantes from the common wealth of Israell, and were strangers from the covenants of promise, and had no hope, and wear without God in the world. But now in Christ Iesus, ye which once were far of, are made nere by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken the stop of the partition wall. In abrogatinge through his flesh the hatred, that is, the Lawe of commandments which standeth in ordinances, for to make of twain one new man in himself, so making peace. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by his cross, and slay hatred thereby, And came, and preached peace to you which were a far of, and to them that were nere. For through him we both haue an entrance unto the Father by one spirit. now therfore ye are no more staungers and foreners: but citizens with the Sainctes, and of the household of God, And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Ieuss Christ himself being the chief corner ston, In whom all the building coupled together, groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord. In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the spirit.   

¶ Prayers.  

O merciful Lord and loving Father, that of the incomprehensible riches of thy mercy, toward the disobedient and loss children of Adam,( who serving satan after the blind and unbridled lusts of the vile flesh were carried away through sin and ignorance to damnation.) Hast reconciled us to thy favour through grace and adoption in Christ Iesus the righteous, by faith and holy conversation in whom: we are delivered from eternal death and destruction: Haue mercy vpon us, yea Lord haue mercy vpon us: and for love of thy sweet son our redeemer, defend us against the power of the destroyer, & with thy mighty hand life us up out of the filthy puddle, and deathfull corruption of this abominable world, purifying our harts with thy grace, that, we, being wholly inclined to heavenly desires: may grow perfect in all holiness, and abounding in the good works, which thou hast prepared for thy Sainctes to walk in, for the glorifiinge of thy name: we may grow an acceptable Temple, for thy continual dwelling in vs. O lord: to th'inspeakeable peace and comfort, and to the everlasting bliss and salvation of our souls: Through Christ our saviour. Amen.   

lord let not the darkness of ignorance, comprehend vs.  
lead us by the continual light of thy grace to work righteousness.  
Let us not sleep in sin, O God. Quicken our weak souls against earthly sluggishness.  
give us the heavenly rest of thy unspeakable peace, O Lord.  
And nurrishe us with thy grace to salvation.  
Pitiefully here our complaints O déere Father.  
And grant our requests for thy sweet sons sake our saviour.   

O merciful lord and loving Father, remember th'infirmities of thy frail servants, assisting our weak souls with thy grace, that in all things we may, love, honour, and obey thy heavenly will and majesty, waking and walking in the paths of righteousness, to the scope of perfect holiness, contemning this witchinge world withall her foolish illusions, for the true glorifyinge of thy name, through Christ Iesus our saviour. Amen.  
lord comfort, the needy, the sick, the prisoned, the tormented, the distressed and helpless with the presence of thy grace, and haue mercy vpon them.  
Make us all joyful in thee, O God, with thanksgiving through Christ Iesus. Amen.  
¶ lord into thy hands I committe my body and soul, receive me to thy tuition, O God.     

❧ The fourth form of prayer.  

AWake out of thy swinish slomber, O silly soul: shake off the deathfull sloth of this earthye trunk: and watch for the lord which is at hand: prepared to iudgement: Cease not to pray, for the forgiveness of thy sins, labour fervently in thy duty, then shalt thou be clothed with mercy and righteousness, to enter in, as a beautiful geast, with that joyful bridegroom to the feast of eternal mirth and dilicacye: there to dwell in joys for ever more.  
O merciful lord and loving Father, without whose aid and mosion, I am not able to stir one member toward heavenly service, the burden of this slow, and sinful flesh doth so over charge my weak soul: according to thy Fatherly pity look vpon me, O God, and quicken my dull spirit with thy grace, to rise out of this miry puddle, and to come before thy presence, in humble repentance, crauinge thy mercy for my miserable sins and wickedness: and being released in the blood and righteousness of Iesns Christ, I may joyfully serve honour, and praise thy eternal majesty: through the déere son my merciful Lord and redeemer: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all glory and thankes for ever. Amen.   

praise the lord O my soul.  
I will always give thankes unto the lord, his praise shall ever be in my mouth: My soul shall make her boast of him, the humble shall here therof and be glad.  
O praise the lord with me, and let us magnify his name together.  
I sought the Lord and he heard me, yea he delivered me out of all my fear.  
They that haue an eye to him are lightened, and there faces shall not be ashamed  
The poor cry unto the Lord, and he heareth them: yea and saveth them out of all there troubles.  
The Angel of the lord, tarrieth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.  
O taste how gracious the lord is: blessed is the man that putteth his trust in him.  
O fear the lord, ye that be his Saincts: for they that fear him lack nothing.  
The Liones do lack and suffer hunger: but they that seek the lord, shall want no maner of thing that is good.  
Thou man that desirest to live and see good dayes: keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips that they speak no guile, eschew evil and do good, seek peace and follow it.  
The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to there prayers.  
His countenance is against them that do evil: to roote out the remembrance of them from the earth.  
The righteous cry, and the lord heareth them, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.  
The Lord is nigh to them that are of contrite heart: and will save such as be of humble spirit.  
Great are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of all.  
Misfortune shall slay the ungodly: and they that hate the righteous shal be destitute,  
The lord deliver the souls of his servants, and all they that put there trust in thee shalbe blessed for evermore.  
rejoice in the Lord ye that be righteous: for it becometh well the just to be thankful.  
praise the Lord with harp: sing psalms unto him with Lute and Instruments of ten strings.  
sing unto the Lord a new song, sing praises lustily unto him with a lovely courage.  
For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithful.  
He loveth righteousness and judgements, the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.  
By the word of the Lord wear the heauens made, and all the hostes of them by the breath of his mouth.  
He gathereth the water, of the Sea together, as it wear on a heap, and layeth up the deep as it wear in a treasure house.  
Let all the earth stand in fear of the lord, stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world.  
For he spake and it was made, he commanded and it stood fast.  
The lord bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought, and maketh the devises of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the determinations of princes.  
The counsels of the Lord shall endure for ever, and his determinations are everlasting.  
Therfore blessed are the people, whose God is the lord Iehoua: yea blessed are they that haue chosen him to be their inheritance.  
The lord looketh down from heaven, and beholdeth all the children of men, from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell vpon the earth.  
There is nothing that can be saved by the multitude of an host: neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.  
An horse is a vain thing to save a man: for he shall not deliver him by his great force, neither help him with the swiftness of his foot.  
behold how fatherly the eye of the Lord is vpon them that fear him, and howe lovingly he embraseth all those that put their trust in his goodness.  
He delivereth their souls from death, and feedeth them in the time of dearth.  
Let every soul patiently wait for the lord our saviour, who cometh to deliver his people, then shall the righteous rejoice and be glad.  
Quicken my soul, O God, let thy mercy embrace me, let thy holy spirit comfort me, So shall I be saved in thy grace, to magnify and praise thy name for ever and ever, Amen.   

CHAP. IIII. to the Ephesians.  
I Therfore, being prisoner in the Lord, pray you that ye walk worthy of the vocation whereunto ye are called, with all humbleness of mind, and meekness, with long suffering, supportinge one another through love, Endeuoringe to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your vocation. Their is one lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, which is about all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on hye, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. now, in that he ascended what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest parte of the earth? He that descended, is even the same that ascended, far above all heauens, that he might fill all things) He therfore gave some to be Apostles, and some Prophets, and some evangelists, and some Pastours, and Teahcers, For the gathering together of the Sainctes that for the work of the ministry, and for the edification of the body of Christ, Till we all meet together( in the unity of faith and knowledge of the son of God) unto a perfit man, and unto the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ. That we hence forth be no more children waueringe and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the deceit of men, and with craftiness, whereby they lay in wait to deceive. But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow up into him which is the head, that is Christ. By whom all the body being coupled and knit together by every joint, for the furniture therof( according to the effectual power, which is in the measure of every parte) receiveth increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love. This I say therfore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in vanity of their mind, having their cogitation darkened, and being strangers from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of there heart: Which being past feeling, haue given themselves unto wantonness, to work all vncleanenes, even with greediness. But ye haue not so learned Christ. If so be ye haue heard him, and haue ben taught by him, as the truth is in Iesus, That is, that ye cast of, concerning the conversation in tinie past, the old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind, And put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness, and true holiness. wherefore cast of lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbour for we are members one of another. Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down vpon your wrath, Neither give place to the devill. Let him that stolen, steal no more: but let him rather labour and work with his hands the thing which is good, that he may haue to give unto him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication procede out of your mouths, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister graco unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy spirit of God by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and anger, and wrath crying and evil speaking be put away from you, with all maliciousness. Be ye courteous one to another, and tender hearted, forgiuiuing one another, even as God for Christs sake forgave you.   

¶ Prayers.  

O merciful lord and loving Father: that by impartinge of thy free grace and mercy, unto us: being erst, through sin, dampned in the flesh: hast delivered us from the bands of ignorance and death, to become the children of light and life, through faith and obedience to thy word, revealed and ministered unto us by thy déere son Christ Iesus: our promised saviour: in whom thou hast begotten thy beloved Sainctes enritching them with plenty of all maner of heavenly gifres, to become holy and acceptable in thy sight to their salvation. Haue mercy vpon us, O lord, yea lord haue mercy vpon us: and forthy names sake look favourably vpon thy Sayntes dispersed throughout the whole world: stand fast by them, O God, aydinge their fraylties with the comfort of thy holy spirit, to be constant in faith, humble and obedient to thy holy will and correction, patiently waytinge in joyful hope, thy good pleasure and determination in all things: habounding in meekness and love, rejoicing in true holiness and virtue, gladdinge their hartes with, thassured truth of thy promises: for the more fruition whereof extend yet thy further favour and mercy, O Father: augmenting the number of faithful ministers and preachers of thy word, prospering their labours with the effusion and working of thy grace, for th'enlarginge of the kingdom of thy son amongst all nations: that we and they united in faith, grace, truth, spirit, and baptism, may be framed and knit, one entire and firm body, wrought in adoption, and fashioned in love and obedience, to our bead and saviour Christ Iesus, thy sweet son our lord, for whose love, O Father, we beseech thee to here our humble petitions perfourminge the same to the glory of thy name. Amen.   

lord help our weakness.  
And strengthen us against the power of the enymie.  
lord feed us with thy heavenly gifts.  
And make us acceptable to thyself.  
Increase thy blessing in us, O God.  
That we may be plentifuull in all goodness.  
Augment the kingdom of thy son, O Father.  
Let all knees bow, and give praise to thy name.  
Make our hartes humble and penitent.  
And evermore ready to serve thee with thanksgiving.  
Make us to lift up our voices to thee, O God.  
And for the love of thy déere son, Christ Iesus our saviour here our requests, and grant our just desires, O Lord.   

pray.  
O Father that of thy immeasurable love and mercy dost continually knock at our hartes, with the motion of thy holy spirit, to watch, to pray, and to give thanks: fulfil now, O Lord, all the petitions of thy servants, tending to the praise of thy name: always comforting our weak souls with the presence of thy grace, to dedicate ourselves through faith and holy conversation in Christ: to thy glorious majesty: O God, which with thy sweet son our saviour, and the holy Ghost, reignest, in unity of dominion power and glory praised and hallowed for ever and ever. Amen.   

give victory to thy Sainctes.  
And make them evermore joyful in thee. O God.  
receive thy servants to thy tuition, O lord.  
And deliver thy people from all evil.  
Amen.    

¶ CHAP. IIII. of ieremy.  
O Israell, if thou return, return unto me, saith the Lord: and if thou put away thine abominations out of my sight then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The lord liveth, in truth, in iudgment, and in righteousness, and the nations shalbe blessed in him, and shall glory in him. For thus saith the lord to the men of judah, and to jerusalem, break up your fallow ground, and sow not among the thorns: bee circumcised to the lord, and take away the foreskinnes of your hartes, ye men of judah, and inhabitants of jerusalem, least my wrath come forth like fire, and burn, that none can quench it, because of the wickedness of your inuensions. Declare in judah, and show forth in jerusalem, and say, blow the trumpet in the land: cry, and gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into strong cities. Set up the standert in Zion: prepare to flee, and stay not: for I will bring a plague from the North, and a great destruction. The Lion is come up from his den, and the distrdyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant. wherefore gird you with sackcloth: lament, and howl, for the fierce wrath of the lord is not turned back from vs. And in that day, saith the lord, the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the Princes and the Priestes shalbe astonished, and the Prophetes shall wonder. Then said I, Ah lord God, surely thou hast deceived this people and jerusalem, saying, ye shall haue peace, and the sword pierceth unto the hart. At that time shall it be said to this people and to jerusalem, A dry wind in the high places of the wilderness cometh toward the daughter of my people, but neither to fan nor to cleanse. A mighty wind shall come unto me from those places, and now will I also give sentence vpon them. Behold, he shall come up as the clouds, and his charetes shal be as a tempest: his horses are lighter then eagles. Woe unto us for we are destroyed. O jerusalem, wash thine hart from wickedness, that thou maiest be saved: how long shall thy j thoughts remain within thee? For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. Make ye mension of the heathen, and publish in jerusalem, behold, the scouts come from a far country, and cry out against the cities of judah, They haue compassed her about as the watchmen of the field, because it hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord. Thy ways and thine inventions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickedness: therfore it shalbe bitter, therfore it shall pierce unto thine heart. My bely, my bely, I am peined, even at the very heart: mine heart is troubled within me: I can not be still: for my soul hath hard the sound of the trumpet, and the alarm of the battle. Destruction vpon destruction is cried, for the whole land is wasted: soddenly are my tentes destroyed, and my curteines in a moment. Howe long shall I se the standard, here the sound of the trumpet? For my people is foolish, they haue not known me: they are foolish children, and haue none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do well they haue no knowledge. I haue looked vpon the earth, and lo, it was without form and void: and to the heauens, & they had no light. I beholded the mountaines and lo, they trembled and all the hills shoke. I beholded, and lo, there was no man. and all the birds of the heaven were departed. I beholded, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities therof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce wrath. For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shalbe desolate: yet will I not make a full end. Therfore shall the earth mourns, and the heauens above shal be darkened, because I haue pronounced it: I haue thought it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it, The whole city shal flee, for the noise of the horsemen and bow men: they shall go into thickets, and clyme up vpon the rocks: every city shalbe forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. And when thou shalt be destroyed, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou paintest thy face with coullours, yet shalt thou trim thyself in vain: for thy louers will abhor thee and seek thy life. For I haue heard a noise of a woman trauailinge, or as one laboringe of her first child, even the voice of the daughter Zion that sigheth and stretcheth out her hands: wo is me now for my soul fainteth because of the murtherers.  

THe lord hath plesured his people, and helpeth the meek hearted.  
He healeth the contrite in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.  
He raiseth them up that are fallen, he is loving to every man: and his mercy is over all his works.  
He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him, he heareth their cry, and helpeth them.     

❧ Suffrages.  
O merciful lord and loving Father, that in the blood of thy déere son hast reconciled, the chosen sort of Adames loss children: that through faith and obedience to thy word: wrought in our hartes by thy holy spirit( which in the haboundance of thy mercy thou pourest vpon the faithful.) We might in Christ Iesus our saviour: cry for grace and forgiveness of our sins.  
For his sake O Lord haue mercy vpon us, most frail and wretched offenders: Remember not our sins, nor the sins of our forefathers, neither take thou vengeance of us, Spare us good Lord, spare us O Father, whom with the precious blood of thy son, thou hast delivered out of the power of death and hell: that converted and sainctified in thy grace, we may in newness of life: worthily praise and magnify thy name, in this and in the world to come.  

Spare us O Father.  
¶ Ye spare us, O Father, and so bless us with thy grace: that our hartes being fashioned, by the working of thy holy spirit, to believe and to repent our manifold sins and wickedness:( in gladsome hope of thy mercy) we may fasten ourselves vpon Christ Iesus: to honour thee, to love thee, and to serve thee, with all our hartes, and withall our souls: walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all dayes of our life: extollinge thy name with continual thanksgiving.   

Here us O Father.  
¶ Here us O lord and deliver us from all evil bodily and ghostly: save us from satan and from all his games and false suggestions: let us not taste of thy wrath. In wealth, in woe, in health, insicknesse: in life and death, be thou our merciful lord and comforts: from hell and damnation, save us O God.   

save us O God.  
¶ Yea save us Lord and deliver vs. From all blindness of heart, from pride vain glory and hypocrisy. From ambition envy and disobedience, from swearinge and blasphemy: from fornication, gluttony, and dronkenesse, from all the deceipts of the world the flesh and the devill. From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine, from battle, from murder, and from sudden Death: from sedition, from conspiracy, and treason: from all false doctrine and heresy: from hardness of heart, from contempt of thy holy word and commandments.   

O Father deliver vs.  
¶ By thy power and mercy, by thy word and promise, by thy wisdom and providence by thy fatherly love, and pity, by thy truth and compassion, in the favour of thy sweet son our saviour.   

O Fathe. deliver vs.  
¶ By the incaruation, nativity and circumcision, by the life and doctrine, by the precious death, and burial: by the glorious resurrection and assention, by the righteousness and intercession, by the merites, glory and power of thy déere son our saviour.   

O Fother deliver vs.  
¶ deliver us O Father, and for love of thy sweet son here us sinners, and for his sake grant our humble requests which we demand for the glory of thy name.   

O lord and Father we beseech thee to hear vs.  
¶ Yea lord be merciful unto us, and here us, praying that it may please thy heavenly will and majesty, to save and to defend thy Church rulinge, and prospering the same, by the power of thy grace, in peace, truth and holiness: and strengthening thy seruants, with the continual aid of thy holy spirit, to walk before thee, in righteousness and virtue, Thy glory may shine amongst all nations vpon the earth.   

O lord and Father we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ O Father here us, and let it please thee to teach beautify and to enritche, the preachers and Ministers of thy word, with true knowledge and love of the same, that in all their ways words and works, they may sincerely and diligently seek thy honour and glory, to the comfort of the faithful, and enlarginge of the kingdom of thy son.   

O lord and Father, we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ garnish and adorn our Prince, our magistrates, nobility and rulers, the people and ministers, with plenty of thy heavenly gifts, that shining in the beauty of celestial virtues, and godly conversation, they may worthily and joyfully praise and extol thy name in this and in the world to come.   

O Lord we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ give peace and prosperity to thy Church, O Lord: erect, preserve and defend all faithful Princes and magistrates, to love and to cherish, thy word truth and glory: Rule their hartes in faith fear and obedience to thy gospel: instruct them in thy wisdom, give them grace and aid to execute Iustice: and to maintain truth: advancing the good: and punnishinge the wicked.   

O Lord we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ O lord multiply the number of thy Preachers and ministers of thy word, prosper there labour in thee: increase faith vpon the earth: let all nations, know that thou art the lord, of power and glory, the Lord of truth and salvation, and onely saviour of the world.   

O Lord we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ Let thy peace, love and mercy go over all: comfort the innocents, weakelinges, and distressed: make them humble joyful and patient putting there whole trust in thy goodness that never faileth: and according to thy truth, deliver thou them O God.   

O Lord we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ preserve the faithful fellow-travelers of the Earth, bless their works, and prosper, their just indeuoures: that their labours may turn to the benifitte of thy creatures: wholly dependinge of thy fatherly bounty and goodness: which thou haboundantly pourest vpon all things to the glory of thy eternal and almighty majesty.   

O Lord we beseech thee to here vs.  
¶ preserve thy people O Lord dispersed through out the world: increase their faith and godliness, hold always the holy hand over them, fill them with thy peace and grace, arm them with sure hope and cheerful patience: maintain, bless and preserve, the friendly favourers, helpers, & herboughrers of them: destroy satan and his ministers: poure forth thy wrathful indignation vpon thine enemies: dash their counsels, break their strength, tear their dominions in pieces, consume them with the furious and inquenchable blast of thine anger, spoil and destroy them for ever more.   

O Lord we beseech thee to hear vs.  
¶ O lord direct our ways and lead us forth in the paths of thy truth and righteousness: that framing our lives and conversations after thy will( through the continual aid of thy grace and holy spirit) we may appear, obedient and loving thildren, to the laud and glory of thy name, through Iesus Christ our saviour.   

Lord we beseech thee to hear vs.  
¶ Make our hartes humble, patient, and joyful in thee, abiding thy good will pleasure and determinations in all things: loving one to another: forgiving our aduersaries: habounding in peace: that our joy may be full and irremoueable in thee, O God, through Christ our redeemer and advocate, for whose love, O lord, be merciful unto us and hear vs.  
¶ Be merciful unto us, O Father, and for thy sweet sons sake our dere Lord and saviour: hear us, and grant our petitions to the glory of thy name, O God: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost, reigning in unity of majesty, power and glory be all praise honour and thankes, for ever and ever, Amen.   

O merciful Lord and loving Father, that despisist not the prayers of humble and penitent sinners, haue mercy vpon us: yea lord haue mercy vpon us and hear us, and for thy déere sons sake our saviour, pardon our frail weakness, and help us with thy grace, for thou knowest whereof we are made: turn from us all those evils that we most justly haue deserved: And in all our troubles health, wealth, need, sorrows, joys, life sickness and death, make us to put our whole, stay, hope, and help, in thy Fatherly mercy and goodness: which never faylist them that repose their full trust and confidence in thee: direct and govern us by the power of thy holy spirit, evermore to serve thee, in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory: through our onely mediator and advocate Iesus Christ our Lord: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all laud praise and thankes for evermore. Amen.  
¶ Both now and ever, vouchsafe to hear us, O lord: graciously hear us, O God, and in Christ our déere saviour thy son, fulfil our requests, to the honour and glory of thy blessed name. Amen.  
praised by thy name O God.   

¶ For the preservation of the Sainctes.  
O merciful Lord and loving father, which in the bowels of thine infinite mercy, hast through thy déere son begotten thine ellect children: look favourably vpon thy servants dispersed throughout the whole world, defend them with thy heavenly grace, hold thy holy hand over them, let thy holy spirit be ever more with them, and so preserve them and lead them in the continual profession knowledge and obedience of thy word, that their conversation in this life being holy, they may in th'end obtain everlasting life, through Christ Iesu thy sweet son our saviour. Amen.  
O merciful lord and loving Father, Lord of mercy, truth, grace and comfort, which takest compassion, and sparest sinners: forgive unto me my sins, O lord: forgive me my sins. O just and loving God, that being covered in the multitude of thy mercies, they be not imputed unto me. Yea Lord assist my frayletie with thy heavenly grace, that thoroughly repenting my sinful life past, I may hereafter by the power of thy holy spirit, resist sin, joyfully praising thy blessed majesty with pure and gladsome thankesgiuinge, through Iesus Christ thy déere son my saviour, to whom with thee and the holy Ghost, be all honour glory and thankes for ever and ever. Amen.   

¶ A general prayer.  
almighty God, our merciful lord and saviour, fountain of all grace wisdom and comfort, which knowest our necessities before we ask, and our blind folly in askinge. I beseech thee, O louige father, to haue compassion vpon mine infirmities, and those things, which thy heavenly wisdom knoweth necessary, for the true felicity of my body and soul,( whereof I am both ignorant and unworthy to make request unto thy divine majesty) vouchsafe to give me for the worthenes of thy déere son Iesus Christ my sweet lord and saviour. Amen.  
O lord we beseech thee mercifully here our prayers, and spare all those which confess their sins, unto thee, that they, whose consciences by sin are accused, by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ Iesus our déere lord and saviour. Amen.  
O merciful lord and loving Father, which hast compassion of all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, which wouldest not the death of a finner, but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved: mercifully forgive us our trespasses, receive and comfort us, which be grieved and weryed with the burden of our sins. Thy property is to haue mercy, to thee onely it appertaineth to forgive sins, spare us therfore good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed. Enter not into Iudgement with thy servants, which be vile earth and miserable sinners, and so turn thine Ire from us, which knowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults. So make hast O Father, to succour and help us with thy grace, that we may pass the rest of our life in holy conversation to the honour and glory of thy name: through Christ our sweet Lord and saviour. Amen.  
turn thou us O good lord, and so shall we be turned. Be favourable O Lord, be favourable to thy people, which turn unto thee in weeping fasting and praying, for thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long suffering, and of great pity. Thou sparest when we deserve punishment, and in thy wrath thinkest vpon mercy. Spare thy people good Lord, spare them, and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion, hear us O lord, for thy mercy is great, and after the multitude of thy mercies look vpon vs.   

¶ For grace and strength of spirit.  
O merciful lord and loving Father, which hast voutchsaued in th'aboundaunce of thy mercies, to beget us of the new in the blood and righteousness of thy déere son our saviour, by whom we are made acceptable unto thee, regenerated by water and the holy Ghost, to the free forgeunes of our sins, for the fruition of eternal salvation. Strengthen us we beseech thee O Lord with the holy spirit the comforter: and for the glory of thy name sake, poure vpon us thy manifold gifts of thy grace, the spirit of wisdom and truth, the spirit of meekness and love, the spirit, of peace and patience: the spirit of counsel and ghostly strength, that wemaye walk and continue in all godliness, praising and magnifiinge thy glorious majesty with gladsome and acceptable thanksgiving: through Iesus Christ our déere Lord and saviour. Amen.  
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A Prayer for grace to repent, and amend our life.  
OH Lord God, and heauenle father, which art a just judge to punish all them, that do continue to offend thee: as thou art a Father most pitiefull to receive to mercy all those, which give over themselves to thee: show me thy grace and favour so, that I may be toutched with inward hatred of my sins, and that in the place of flatteringe myself to sleep in sin, I may be so cast down in heart, that the rather I may truly with mouth confess most humbly to give thee, the honour, glory, and praise due unto thy holy name: and that, as thou dost instruct us thereunto by thy holy word, so( for thy names sake) make that the same may so lighten and clear our conscience, that in due examination of all our whole life, we may learn to be angry and displeased with all our former and corrupt living. Oh that it may please thee to draw near unto us, in addressinge and guiding our foot steps, in the true and harlot way of obedience to thy holy laws and commandments. sand thy holy angel to pitch his tent round about us, that satan and his infernal army, never prevail against us: but always with strong faith we may through Iesus Christ withstand all his crafty subtleties, malice, and snares: knowing undoubtedly that thou never forsakest them that put there trust in thee. Oh let us not be led by th'infirmitie of our untoward flesh, but strengthen us by the virtue of thy holy spirit. Suffer us not to lie under thy heavy wrath & vengeance through hypocrisy, but rather toutche us so inwardly, that we may without ceassinge, sigh and groan unto thee, by true and unfeigned repentance. And although we be not always so well disposed, to ask and pray, as we ought to do, yet( good lord) for thy names sake, stretch out thy mighty hand, that by the gracious working of thy holy spirit, our mindes and hartes may be drawn, from al earthly and corrutible things, so that our prayers may procede of an earnest and inward affection, never presuminge to come before thee with a double heart, knowing that whosoever asketh or prayeth for any thing of thee, not askinge in faith, shal not obtain. Increase our faith therfore( Oh merciful Father) that we presently may lively feel the benefits of remission and pardon of all our sins, through the merites and death of Christ Iesu our saviour: and so work in us for ever hereafter to live in the fear of thee, and to stand in awe of thy displeasure: that thou maiest continue our merciful Father world without end. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for th'aide of God to a holy life.  
O most merciful lord God almighty, that of thine inserachable power and wisdom, didst create all things of nothing, in obedience to thy rule and commandment: amongs the which it pleased thy gracious will, not onely to make me a reasonable creature in the celestial form of man kind: but also,( where, by my natural property state and inclination I was conceived and born to ignorance and sin, and thereby to death and damnation.) So to limit the time and place of my birth into this world, that in unity of baptism, communion, and healthful doctrine with thy Saincts, I am governed and taught, to know, to profess, to honour and to serve thine omnipotent majesty, true and eternal God reigninge in trinity of persons inseperablie knit in unity of deity, power, eternity and glory: and also instructed in the truth of the gospel of thy sweet son Iesus Christ my saviour: through faith in whom I feel that blissful operation of thy heavenly grace, by the effusion of thy holy spirit, as the free benefit of thy mercy whereby I am called with the rest of thy chosen children, to th'undoubted hope of eternal life and salvation: so that erst being far from thee through blindness and sin: I am now by grace and adoption in Christ the redeemer, brought nere and reconciled to thy favour, as a son. Therfore as one yet environed, with many sorrows, pereiles, wretchedness and calamities, a midst the swarms of innumerable ennymies visible and invisible, that are prepared to spoil me, even to eternal destruction: I call for thy help, O God: which onely arte, the sure and invincible fortress wherein I may be saved. Streatch forth thy mighty hand, O Father, and give me a joyful victory against the power of the malicious enemy that worketh to spill, whatsoever thou would est haue saved. From the bothome of the deep I cry unto thee O lord to succour me: and for love of thy deere son my saviour to deliver me, from the power of darkness and ignorance: and by thy holy spirit to guide and led me in the light and paths of heavenly grace and knowledge: that finding this transitory and short life to be but a troublesone passage( beset with many storms, perels, and deceipts to perdition) and cleaving fast unto thee and despising all earthly pomp, and vanities: I may pass through it to the port of perpetual peace and safety: there to possess the triumphant, and eternal joys which are prepared for thine elect: sanctified through faith in Christ Iesus our sweet saviour, to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all praise honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for well using of our vocation.  
O merciful lord and God, by whose power and benefit I am formed and endowed with human shape and reason, and called to thassuraunce of eternal life, through free grace and adoption in Christ Iesu my saviour: who by his merites, blood and righteousness, hath purchased thy fatherly favour, mercy, and blessing for me and for all them that are regenerated in faith and obedience to thy word: haue mercy vpon me O God: yea for love of thy déere son my saviour, haue mercy vpon me, and of thy gracious goodness so direct and stablish th'inclination, steps and haviour of my life in this world: that faithfully, obediently, humbly and fruitfully walking in my vocation, I may, through love, subdue my heart and will, to thy ordinances, determination, and pleasure: meekly and patiently sustayning and serving the same, with humble and hearty thanksgiving: And thou Lord of thy plenteous goodness and fatherly blessing, so amplify, the requisite aid of this my worldly life, that of my sufficient portion, I may rather be helpful to the poor and needy: then for want, to be a burden and chargeable to the rich and haboundant. But in all my ways, thoughts, purposes and preachings, remember me to behold, and dulye to consider: wherence I came, and whether I must: whereof I consist, and why I am born to this world: the shortness and frailty of my life: the foolish vanities of this deceivable world, which with all her gauds doth pass away, as a shadow: and so to esteem the same: that my heart and mind being altogether inclined to the love of heavenly things: I may by the help of thy holy spirit, dedicate myself wholly a quick and spiritual sacrifice to thy divine majesty, mortified in the flesh, through faithful and holy conversation in Christ my saviour: to whom with thee and the holy ghost be all praise honour and glory for evermore. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for the christened state.  
O heavenly lord, which alone art God omnipotent gracious and wise, that of one clodde of cleye hast thus innumerablye multiplied, the kindredes, families, cities, states, tongnes, and nations of people, deuidinge them into felowshippes, private and public, maintained and preserved by unity and obedience, to such rule, ordinance, government and power: as thy Fatherly wisdom hath erected, ordained, established and authorized, for our behoof, life and being vpon earth. In thy gracious favour look vpon us: and in thine irrepugnable power, O lord, so order direct and govern our purposes and preachings in this frail, tormoylinge, unstable and transitory state, that all things being done in godly love, truth, meekness, virtuous industry, honest care, brotherly unity, and obedience: we may prove, just, faithful, fruitful and godly each one in his vocation: in all our dealings and behaviour seminge worthy of thy name, to the glory and praise of the same. Of like fatherly love and care toward us, be it thy gracious will, O lord, so to direct, govern and sanctify the hartes thoughts and inclinations of our sovereign Prince and rulers, of this realm of England, and of each other state professinge the gospel of thy son: that in all their purposes counsels, determinations and preachings: they may with constant zeal, to the glory of thy name: work establish and maintain, thy truth and honour, advancing all virtue right and Iustice, embracinge and loving pure godliness, preferring also the louers and followers of the same: and dulye punnishinge each 'vice and disobedience: seeking peace and following it, that thy holy Church, nurished, maintained, and defended by kings and Princes, may rejoice and flourish in th'haboundant of blissful quietness, integrity, and sound doctrine: to th'education and bringing forth of plenty of godly faithful and industrious, ministers and preachers of thy word, to labour for the establishment and enlarginge the kingdom of thy son amongs men: who by the heavenly light of true doctrine and holy conversation, shall also appear lanterns of celestial comfort and brightness for the guidinge of thy strayed and converted servants, by milions repleat with grace and benidiction, through Christ thy déere son our saviour: To whoms with thee and the holy Ghost, be all praise honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for the godly proof of a child.  
O Most merciful Lord God almighty onely which art gracious and good: as by thy divine will and power this child was formed and made a living creature tonsisting of body and soul in the womb of his mother, from whom he is departed into this world, by natural birth, weak and impotent, of frail and sinful substance: by his own property inclined, to ignorance, and sin: and now enuired with thousands of malicious, mighty and subtle, enemies both bodily and ghostly, which wait for the seducinge and leading of him to peril, death and destruction, whereunto all man kind is prove and( wear it not for thy merciful grace and tuition) sone overcome. So be it thy will O most gracious Lord, in th'aboundaunce of thy mercies and love, for Christ thy déere sons sake, with thy fatherly eye to look vpon him: and to bless him, pouringe plenty of thy heavenly gifts vpon him, that being preserved, brought up and nurished in divine knowledge, faith fear and obedience, of thee, through true profession of thy sweet son Iesus in the sincerity of thy gospel: He may grow rich and beautiful in all godliness and virtue: in all his ways and procéedinges, seeking the kingdom of eternal glory, through firm and haboundaunt faith and holy conversation in Christ the saviour: working all righteousness, filled with meekness, brotherly love, obedience, cheerful hope, desire of heavenly things, contempt, of the world: and mightily armed with thy grace, and strengthened by thine asistaunce, to vanquish the power of the sinful flesh and satan: that having victory in the end he may joyfully triumph in thy presence O God, with the rest of thy beloved Sainctes, to give honour and continual praise to thy most holy name, in bliss everlasting: through thy déere son our merciful Lord and saviour. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for the wanderinge poor.  
O Most gracious Lord God, almighty and eternal in whose hand it consisteth, to purpose & to determine of thy creatures, as seemeth good to thine own insearchable pleasure: haue mercy vpon the poor afflicted in spirit, needy and naked: cold comfortless and distressed: which for want of habitation necessary liuelyhode, and succour, are, through distress and penury driven to wander in much misery, and uncertain of relyfe and comfort: cut off from the conversation and fellowship of the civil, virtuous, wise and godly people, and secluded from holy instruction education and doctrine, do range in loathsome liberty, where, by brutish ignorance, and unbridled disorder, their wretched souls( without thy great grace and mercy) may be choked even to eternal death: turn unto them O lord, and of thy fatherly goodness, for Christes, sake, haue mercy vpon them, lighten their hartes with thy grace, O God, and comfort them, that feeling their cross to be of thy sufferance and laying on, they may patiently bear the same, with meek hartes and humble thanksgiving: and their eyes being opened with heavenly understanding, in the grace and power of thy holy spirit, to behold, and truly to judge of the frail vanity, and foolish value of this whirlinge world, whose witches, pleasures, gauds, glory and estimation, do vanish as the smoke: and fly from us as the shadow of a cloud, and this life to be of no moment nor abiding without true joys or felicity: But( wear it not for cheerful hope of eternal life) O most vrkesome and wretched tragidie, to all men. And in this true and celestial consideration to turn wholly unto thee: accepting their wanderinge poverty, distress and misery: a blessefull purpose and determination of thy merciful will, for their good avail, through hope and patience in Christ Iesus: and feeling the operation of thy heavenly grace, to rejoice in their cross and afflictions, embracinge thy will with cheerful humility, and due obedience to the same, dedicatinge theymselues unto thy most gracious favour and tuition: to be comforted, succoured, reliued, defended, cherished and holpen, by thy fatherly bounty and goodness against all, miseries, wretchedness, desperation, and calamities, of body and soul: to the heavenly rejoicing of their troubled spirites, enritched through mercy and geace to the eternal bliss and salvation of the same: in Christ our déere Lord and saviour: for whose love O Father be merciful, and here my faithful request, grauntinge the same: to the glory of thy most holy name: to the which be all praise honour and glory for evermore.   

¶ A prayer for the sick.  
O Most grocious lord God almighty, which hast power over all: thou givest, and at thine own pleasure takest away: Thou O God hast made us, and not we ourselves: thou hast limited our scope, beyond which we cannot pass: man is a vain thing and travaileth in misery: and of all his labours, glory, state and witches,( which vanish as smoke) he hath no parte in the end: all his pomp forsaketh him: his soul will no longer dwell in him: but forsaketh him and leaveth him to death, to be clothed with dust and ashes, for therence he came, and thether returneth with speed. But the soul of the faithful liveth in peace, and rejoiceth in thassurance of eternal life and felicity: for the fruition whereof he shalbe again clothed with his former tabernacle, renewed and raised to glory and immortality, to reign with Christ the redeemer of thine elect, in the perpetual presence of thy most glorious majesty, triumphing in peace and bliss everlasting. O Father that,( through faith and holy conversation, in Christ Iesus) hast ioend and knit thy beloved Sainctes in a loving brotherhood, to honour, to praise, and to serve thee, in unity of faith, truth, hope, obedience, and love: whereby we are moved, and taught to minister and pray one for tother, that our charity may be full: haue mercy vpon thy sick, feeble and pained servants, whom death doth assail, with bitter pangs, by tormentinge gryfes for the privation of this mortal life: yea lord for thy sweet sons sake, haue mercy vpon them, and vpon every of them: turn unto them, and be merciful unto them, show them thy loving countenance, O God, and comfort them, stand by them, hold thy holy hand over them, and defend them against the power of the enemy, assuage their pains: and strengthen their weakness with the presence of thy divine grace: that féelinge the comfortable working of thy holy spirit, they may thoroughly vanquish the destroyer, and triumphinge in victory, in gladsome assurance of thy mercy, to give over cheerful souls into thy fatherly hands, for the perpetual bliss and safety of the same: through Christ our déere Lord and saviour: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost reigning in equality of majesty glory and power: be all praise honour and thankes for evermore. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for our worldly travails.  
O merciful lord God blissful and almighty, that for the behoof of man didst create the whole world: giving him dominion and skill to use them, to the nurrishment preservation, and maintenance, of his transitory life vpon earth: look favourably vpon our faithful industry and travails, and so bless and( for thy déere sons sake) so prosper our faithful labours, and indeuoures, that through the plenteous bounty of thy fatherly goodness, we may reap & gather the hoped fruits, and blesseful increase of che same: that being fed and blessed with sufficience, we may be haboundaunt in alms, and charitable giving, to our infirm comfortless, needy, and distressed brethren: to the glory and honour of thy name: which for love of our sweet saviour Christ, hearest and fulfillest, the godly requests of thy faithful servants. So be it.   

¶ A prayer for the queen and realm.  
O Most gracious lord God, and king almighty just and everlasting, vpon whose will dependeth, the rule, stay and direction of all things both in heaven and in earth: giving men power and dominion over the people and nations of the world: to whom, being obedient to thy most holy will and commandments: thou givest wise, careful, industrious, virtuous, happy, and prosperous, kings, Princes, Rulers, and magistrates: to rule and to govern, to the peace, blessing, comfort, and wealth, of the same: But the unrighteous people, lasciuius, contempteous, Idolatrous, superstitious, blasphemous, and Rebellious against thy word and majesty, shalbe delivered over to the hands and tuition of foolish, Idle, dissolute, negligent and unfortunate Princes, Rulers and gouernours: by whose brutish, disorder, losenes and folly, the state, beauty, strength, and bonds of peace, Iustice, love and government, shalbe neglected, broken, disturbed, spoyled, and by intestine hatereds and discords: or elles, by foren vanquishmentes and discomfitures, destroyed: whereby both land and people, are left a pray, to th' invasion, spoil and johann, of the gréedye and victorious destroyer: who in his merciless rage executeth the plagues of thy just wrath, O lord, so that neither man woman, child, beast, foul nor field, scapeth the stripes therof. Their countries, towns, Cities and dwellings, burnt spoyled, rent torn and made waste: Iustice, Lawe, discipline, nurture, civil fellowship, honest artes and exercises, Religion, knowledge and fear of thee, scorned, banished, and persecuted: And the land being filled, with abomination, beastly tyranny, slaughter, blood, robbery, thiuery rapyne, and murder, the people killed, strangled, starved, spoyled and mocked: bound and carried away to be sold( as beasts) in the market: to servitude and slavery, there to consume their dayes in miserable thrall and sorrows: the kingdom and inheritance transported to the possession of the destroyer: who raised in thy wrath, and armed with the power of thy displeasure: ministereth due punishment, for the sin and disobedience, of each reuoltinge nation that falleth away from thee, and will not be reconciled to grace: witness of all the states, Empires, kingdoms, tongues nations peoples and kyndreds of the earth, from the beginning of the world to this day. But in these later dayes: specially of the Iewes egyptians: Armenianes, Grecians, Italiens, Hungariens, Poloniens, and others: whose servile thrall and calamities, ought never to be out of our remembrance: which should move us continually to behold, the blessing of thy love, and the heavy sorrows, of thy displeasure. Wherefore in the abundance of thy mercies and loving kindness, and for love of thy déere son: whom through the gift of thy grace, we profess in the truth of his gospel, we beseech thee O merciful Father, favourably to look vpon this realm and people, of england: turn not away thy face, O Lord, take not thy grace and holy spirit from us: let us still enjoy the bliss and coumforte of thy loving countenance: keep us in the way, and cover us under the shadow of thy wings: suffer us not to be taken from thee: make us to follow and to put our whole trust and confidence in thee, then shall we be safe: Thy mighty hand O God, giveth the victory: and in the power of thy favour shall the ennimie be vanquished, and his strength brought to nothing. Saf is the city where thou lord art the watchman: but who so standeth out of thy tuition, he is a ready pray to the distroier: Therfore go not far from us, O God. For thine elects sake wear the heauens and the earth, withall their implements, formed and made of nothing: for their preservation and maintenance, was rule and government devised and established, and for their sakes, are Empires, kingdoms, countries, and nations, preserved, saved and blessed: and for injury and ignominy done to them and to thy truth and holy name, are they changed, plagued, subverted and destroyed. Great is thy mercy and compassion O lord, long suffering and ready to forgive: behold us, O Father and haue mercy vpon us: remember not our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers: take not just vengeance of our sins: neither reward thou us after our deserts: spare us good Lord, and for thy sweet sons sake Christ Iesus our saviour haue mercy vpon us: yea Lord haue mercy vpon us and vpon our posterity, holding continually thy holy hand over us, and bless us: Increase our faith, and make our children and childers children obedient to thy word, and through holy conversation in thy son our redeemer, make us and them acceptable unto thyself, O God: that being sanctified in faith and love toward thy heavenly will and majesty, we and they may be delivered from thy wrathful displeasure, for evermore. Poure forth abundance of thy grace and blessing vpon our queen, that in the fullness of thy gracious favour, shée may haue long life in health and happpye dayes: aided with faithful, virtuous and prudent counsellors, and ministers, to do all things to the nurishing and maynteynaunce of true Religion and virtue: Increase the light of thy gospel and the number of faithful and godly preachers and ministers of thy word, whose industry and labour, by the peace and tranquillitie of thy Church, may largely augment the number of thy Sainctes: to the glory of thy name, and to the joy and blessing of the land and people. For the preservation and continuance whereof, in the bowels of the fatherly care and favour remember us, O loving God: leave neither us nor our posterity headless, neither put us over to the yoke of a strange, nor Irreligious Prince: But after the blissful dayes of this thy gracious handmaid our queen( whom O Father let it please thee to preserve in happy and joyful state to th'end) give peace and concord to thy people, with a virtuous wise, godly, and fortunate Prince, whose constant, zeal, care, industry, and indeuoure, toward the cherishinge and advancement of thy truth and glory, may purchase thy fatherly love and furtherance, to fill the land and people, with all maner of blessings, as thy heavenly wisdom knoweth necessary, where beautified with virtue and godliness, it shall prosper and triumph, in continual peace and victory, giving honour and gladsome thankes to thy glorious majesty, that with thy déere son our Lord and saviour, and with the holy Ghost, reignest in unity of power, glory, and dominion: praised for ever and ever. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for constancy in Christ.  
O lord God maker of all things, onely thou that arte to be feared: onely thou that art glorious, righteous, and merciful: Thou which onely art gracious, onely liberal, onely just almighty and everlasting: thou that of thine accustomend and rich mercies deliveredst thine elect from all troubles, voutchsafe for thy sons sake to deliver and preserve us, from all evil, and also from doing those things which thou in thy holy word hast forbidden. Oh be gracious unto us, and think vpon thy covenant made with our forefathers of old, as Abraham, Isaac, and jacob, they true and faithful servants: and give us all, such hartes, that we may vnfaynedly love and serve thee, by true obedience to thy holy laws and commandments. sand us inward peace in conscience that we may be at one with thee, so that thou never forsake us in the time of trouble, be unto us in all our need and necessity as a sure rock, defence buckler and shield, that under the wings of thy divine majesty, we may be safely kept, and covered, that satan and his wicked imps, by any cruel tyranny or oppression, never prevail against vs. But grant( good lord) for thine own glories sake, yea for thy son Christ Iesus sake, that we in the time of trial may show ourselves as valiant warriors, firmly and constantly to fight under thy banner, and not like cowards at every blast of wind, be ready to run away, startinge back, and sliding from the fellowship of thy Saincts: thinking here in this wicked world for a long time to enjoy the witches and pleasures therof: the which time, if we duly consider, is but as one drop of rain compared to th'hole Sea: yea if for this short and momentarye time we might get the whole world, and lose our own souls, what should it profit? or what is their( oh lord) to redeem our souls with all? In every soldier that in this world, taketh in hand under his captain to fight, it is required, that he be stout, valiant, and manly, that when they pinch of the battayls cometh: he then prove mighty and courageous in fight, in assured hope of triumphant victory. even so( oh good lord) it is required in every of us which profess thy holy gospel, that we show ourselves manful in fight for the defence of the same: that when, by thy providence the brunte of persecution is kindled and ministered unto us, we may then show ourselves as true and faithful Christians, to fight that good fight for an eternal triumph and victory: In giving and offering up our own bodies, for a sacrifice unto the lord our God, who is ever ready to strengthen them that put their full trust in him. Oh good lord grant for thy names sake unto us such plenty of thy grace, that when time requireth, as we do believe in heart to justification, even so by mouth we may make true confession to salvation, that the fruit of the same may be to us in the latter day, joy comfort and eternal consolation, through Iesus Christ by whose death and merites, we are made inheritors of his everlasting kingdom. To whom with the father and the holy Ghost, be praise glory and dominion, world without end. Amen.   

¶ A prayer against the workeinge of satan.  
OH lord destroy all the works of satan, comfort them that are in adversity: help those that be in trouble for thy names sake, haue mercy vpon us, and make us thy true faithful obedient and thankful servants: lord incline our hartes to thy testimonies, and suffer us not to serve th'unlawfull lusts of our sinful flesh. O turn away our eyes that they behold not vanity, but quicken thou us in thy lawe: bestow vpon us thy word( oh lord) so that we never abuse it, neither turn it unto wantones: But that entering into the grace of true repentance, we may therein increase, and therein continue till our lives end. Amen.   

¶ A form of prayer to God the Father, the son and the holy Ghost.  
O almighty and euerliuinge God, the eternal father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which of thy unmeasurable goodness, hast opened thyself unto us, and with a loud voice, hast said of the son Iesus Christ our lord, hear him: O maker and preserver of all things with thy coeternal son our Lord Iesus Christ, which reigneth with thee, and was manifested in jerusalem: and with thy holy spirit, which was powred upon the Apostles: O wise God, merciful judge, and mighty lord, which hast said: as truly as I live, I will not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should convert and amend: which also hast said: call vpon me in the day of thy trouble, and I will deliver thee: haue mercy upon us, for Iesus Chrystes sake, whom thou wouldest, of thy sulphuroous and incomprehensible counsel, should be made for us a slain sacrifice, mediator, reconciler, and peacemaker, to the end that thou mightest show thy exceeding great wrath against sin, and thy estimable mercy towards mankind. sanctify and illuminate our hartes and souls with thy holy spirit, that we may truly believe in thee, call vpon thee, be thankful unto thee, and obedient to thy holy will. Defend, govern and cherish thy Church, as thou hast promised, saying: this is my covenant that I haue made with them: my spirit which is in thee, and my word which I haue put in thy mouth, shall not depart from the mouth of thy seed for ever. preserve those kingdoms and common weals, which give harbour to thy people, and maintain the minesterye of thy holy word and gospel, that the kingdom of thy son Iesus Christ may increase and shine throughout all the world.   

¶ A prayer to God the son  
O Iesus Christ, son of the everliving God, crucified for us, and raised also from the dead, and now reigning at the right hand of thy father, that thou mayest give gifts unto men, which hast said, come unto me all ye that labour and be heavy laden, and I will refresh you: haue mercy vpon us, and pray for us unto the eternal father: sanctify and govern us with thy holy spirit: help and succour us in all our necessities, as thou hast promised, saying: I will not leave you comfortless.   

¶ A prayer to the holy Ghost.  
O Holy spirit, poured vpon the Apostles, which waste promised unto us by the son of God our redeemer, to kindle in us a true kuowledge and invocation to God, as it is written: I will poure vpon you the spirit of grace and of compassion: make to arise in our hartes, a true fear of God, and a true faith and knowledge of the mercy which the eternal father of our lord Iesus Christ, hath promised unto us for his sons sake. Be our comforter in all counsels and dangers: illuminate our understanding, & fill our harts with new affects an spiritual motions, and renew us both in soul and body, that we may die to sin, and live to righteousness, and so in true obedience may praise the father of our Lord Iesus Christ, and his son our redeemer, and thee also our comforter euerlastinglye.   

¶ Another prayer to the holy Ghost.  
O Holy and blessed spirit, together with the father and the son, our true and everliving God, full of majesty, & power which with thy heavenly inspiration quickenest the mindes of those that afore were dead in sin, makest joyful the harts of the faithful, penitent, bringest into that way of truth all such as haue erred, & gone astray, comfortest the souls of such as hunger and thirst after righteousness, and plenteously enrichest those with diuers gifts, which ask them in Iesus Christes name: purify our hartes( we beseech thee) and inflame them with the fire of thy love: replenishe them with thy heavenly benefits & spiritual blessings, that they may be made meet temples for thee: led us into all truth, which art th'only fountain of truth, and mortify in us whatsoever proceedeth not of thee. arm us against the crafty assaults of subtle satan, against the vain pleasures of the wicked world, and against the sinful lusts of filthy flesh, that we being endowed with grace from above, by thy holy inspiration, may walk forwards in newness of life, in holiness and righteousness, all the dayes of our life.   

¶ A godly prayer to be said at all times,  
HOnour and praise be given to thee( O lord God almighty) most dere father of heaven, for all thy mercies and loving kindness shewed unto us, in that it hath pleased thy gracious goodness, freely, and of thine own accord, to elect, and choose us to salvation before the beginning of the world, and even like continual thankes be given to thee, for creating us after thine own Image, for redeminge us with the precious blood of thy dear son, when we were utterly lost, for sanctifyinge us with the holy spirit in the revelation and knowledge of thy holy word, for helping and succouringe us in all our needs and necessities, for saving us from all dangers of body and soul, for comforting us so fatherly in all our tribulations and persecutions, for sparing us so long, and giving us so large a time of repentance. These benefits( O most merciful Father) like as we knowledge to haue received them of thy onely goodness, even so we beseech thee, for thy déere son Iesus Christes sake, to grant us always thy holy spirit whereby we may continually grow in thankfulness towards thee, to be led in all truth, and comforted in all our adversity. O Lord strengthen our faith, kindle it more in ferventness and love towards thee, and our neighbours for thy sake. Suffer us not most déere Father to receive thy word any more in vain: but grant us always the assistance of thy grace and holy spirit, that in heart, word, and dede we may sanctify and do worship to thy name. help to amplefie and increase thy kingdom, and whatsoever thou sendest we may be heartily well content with thy good pleasure and will. Let us not lack the thing( O Father) without the which we cannot serve thee: but bless thou so all the works of our hands, that we may haue sufficient, and not to be chargeable, but rather helpful unto others: be merciful( O Lord) to our offences, and seing our debt is great, which thou hast forgiven us in Iesus Christ, make us to love thee, and our neighbours so much the more. Be thou our Father, our captain and defender in all temptations, hold thou us by thy merciful hand, that we may be delivered from all inconveniences, and end our lives in the sanctifyinge, and honour of thy holy name through Iesus Christ our lord and onely saviour. So be it.  
Let thy mighiie hand and out stretched arms( O lord be still our defence, thy mercy and loving kindness in Iesus Christ thy déere 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. So be it.  
O Lord increase our faith.   

CHAP. XXI. of John.  
AND I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven, and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city new jerusalem come down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them: and they shal be his people, and God himself shal be their God with them. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shalbe no more death, neither sorrow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the first things are passed. And he that sate vpon the throne, said, behold, I make all things new: and he said unto me, writ: for these words are faithful and true. And he said unto me, It is done, I am and the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is a thirst, of the well of the water of life freely. He that overcometh, shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shalbe my son. But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shal haue the parte in the lake, which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. And there came unto me one of the seven Angels, which had the seven viales full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come: I will show thee the bride, the lambs wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and an high mountain, and he shewed me the great city, holy jerusalem, descendinge out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her shining was like unto a ston most precious, as a jasper ston clear as crystal. And had a great wall an high, and had twelve Gates, and at the gates twelve Angels, and the names written, which are the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. On the East part there were three gates, on the Northside three gates, on the Southside three gates, and on the Westside three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the lambs twelve Apostles. And he that talked with me, had a golden rede to measure the city with all, and the gates therof, and the wall therof. And the city lay four square, and the length is as large as the breadth of it, and he measured the city with the rede, twelve thousand furlongs: and the length and the breadth, and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall therof, an hundreth, forty and four cubits, by the measure of man, that is, of the angel. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all maner of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper: the second of sapphire: the third of a Chalcedonie: the fourth of an emerald. The fifte of Sardonix: the sixth of a Sardius: the seventh of a Chrisolite: the eight of a Beryl: the ninth of a topaz: the tenth of a Chrysoprasus: the eleventh of a Iacinth: the twelueth an amethyst. And the twelve pearls and enery gate is of one pearl, and the street of the city is pure gold, as shining glass. And I saw no Temple therein for the lord God almighty and the lamb are the Temple of it. And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did light it: and the lamb is the light of it. And the people which are saved, shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour unto it. And the gates of it shall not be shut by day: for there shal be no night there. And the glory & honour of the Gentiles shalbe brought unto it And there shall enter in it none unclean thing neither whatsoever worketh abomination or lies: but they which are written in the lambs book of life.   

¶ A prayer.  
O merciful lord and loving father, God almighty, just and everlasting, that in the inserchable purpose of thy will and wisdom, didst create heaven and earth, withall the things in them contained to depend, to serve, and to continue in obedience to thy irrepugnable order and direction: till the number of thy beloved, which, in thy déere son our saviour, thou hast chosen to eternal life: shalbe filled: at whose delivery from corruption:( whereunto disobedient man brought all things subject through his offence) the transitory, vanished and burnt creatures, shall generally be renewed, and established in permanent state of beauty and glory ever enduringe, filled with the gladsome brightness of the continual presence of thy majesty, dwelling amongst thy Sainctes to their inspeakable joys and bliss everlasting: look vpon us O Father and haue mercy vpon us: and as it hath pleased thy gracious, goodness, O God, by the inspiration of the holy spirit, to frame our hartes to believe the Gospel of thy son, by whom we receive sweet taste of thy fatherly love and mercy: So let it be thy will O God, to comfort our faint souls with the continual presence of thy heavenly grace: that we perfectly féelinge, the being and working of the same in our hartes: may utterly despise this miserable world with all her foolish trifiles and fonde vanities: ever thurstinge after thee with insatiable desire of heanenly things, willing to be dissolved from this corrupt and sinful tabernacle, to rest with thee in the Tabernacle of peace and joys everlasting: through Christ our lord, judge, and redeemer: to whom with thee and the holy Ghost reigninge in equality & unity of majesty, glory, and dominion: be all praise honour and thankes for ever and ever. Amen.    


¶ A psalm to be said in the time of any common plague, sickness, or other cross and visitation of God.  
O Come, let us humble ourselves and fall down before the lord, with reverence and fear.  
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands.  
Come therfore, let us turn again unto our lord, for he hath smitten us, and he shall heal vs.  
Let us repent and turn from our wickedness, and our sins shalbe forgiven vs.  
Let us turn, and the lord will turn from his heavy wrath, and will pardon us, and we shall not perish.  
For we knowledge our faults, and our sins be ever before vs.  
We haue sore provoked thine anger( O lord) thy wrath is waxed hot, and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against vs.  
Thou hast, in thine indignation stricken us with thy grievous sickness, and by and by we haue fallen as leaves beaten down with a vehement wind.  
In dede we aknowledge that our punishment are less then our deservings: but yet of thy mercy Lord correct us to amendment, and plague us not to our destruction.  
For thy hand is not shortened that thou canst not help: neither is thy goodness abated that thou wilt not hear.  
Thou hast promised, O lord, that afore we cry thou wilt hear us: whilst we yet speak thou wilt haue mercy vpon vs.  
For none that trust in thee shall be confounded: neither any that call vpon thee shalbe despised.  
For thou art the onely lord, who woundest and dost heal again, who kyllest and reuiuest, bringest even into hell, and bringest back again.  
Our Fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them.  
They called vpon thee, and wear helped: they put there trust in thee, and wear not confounded.  
O lord, rebuk not us in thine indignation, neither chasten us in thy heavy displeasure.  
O remember not the sins and offences of our youth: but according to thy mercy think thou vpon us, O lord, for the goodness.  
Haue mercy vpon us, O lord, for we are weak: O Lord heal us, for our bones are vexed.  
And now in the vexation of our Spirites and the anguish of our souls we remember, thee, and we cry unto thee: hear lord, & haue mercy:  
For thine own sake, and for thy holy names sake incline thine ear, and hear O merciful lord.  
For we do not poure out our prayers before thy face, trusting in our own righteousness: but in thy great mercies.  
wash us thoroughly from our wickedness: and cleanse us from our sins.  
turn thy face from our sins, and put out all our misdedes.  
Make us clean hartes, O God: and renew a right spirit within vs.  
help us O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: O deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins for thy names sake.  
So we that be thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever, and will always be shewing forth thy praise from generation, to generation.  
Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the holy Ghost,  
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shal be, world without end. Amen.   

The comfort and Prayers of the sick.  
MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery, he cometh up and is cut down like a flower: fleeth as it wear a shadow and never continueth in one state, In the midst of life we are dying, of whom shall we seek succour and comfort but of thee O lord God our maker.  
THou hast made me of nought O lord: and when it shall please thee to nothing shall I return: of earth I came and to earth I shall without tarrying. I brought nothing with me, neither shall I carry ought away, when I depart. Thou art my portion O Lord Christ: by thee came grace and life to the chosen, receive me to thy mercy: thou wast killed for our sakes, and art risen as the first fruits of them that sleep, thou art crwoned with power and glory, thou hast diststroyed death, and given everlasting life to all believers. Thou shalt raise us up at the last day and give us possession of the inheritance, which thou hast purchased in thy blood and righteousness, according to the merciful will of our heavenly father, whom thou hast pacified and pleased, for our redemption and salvation for the performance of the oath, which in his eternal and inserchable, purpose, he promised our forefathers. whereof in thy merciful favour thou hast called me to be partaker: whereby I am taught and comforted by thy holy spirit, to despise the world and this corrupt Tabernacle of sinful flesh, which hath of itself deserved nothing but death and damnation: and wholly to cleave unto thee O my saviour. Therefore stand by me O lord, and defend me against the assaults of satan. That after triumphant victory through the grace and power of thy holy spirit, I may joyfully give over this fleshly being, and come to thy presence, O lord, to rest in blissful peace, till the delivery of thy Sainctes: with whom I am in assured hope( by the witness, of thy spirit) to haue my portion of the inheritance everlasting. Amen.   

¶ The sick saith.  
I Heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, writ, from henceforth, blessed are the dead which die in the lord.   

¶ psalm.  
IN thee, O lord, haue I trusted, let me never be confounded: but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness, incline thine ear to me and save me.  
Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may resort, for succour: thou art just O lord, thou hast promised to help me: therfore I flee unto thee, as the onely castle and fort of my defence and safeguard.  
receive me to thy tuition, O God, and save me, deliver me from the hand, of the enemy, and my soul from the power of the dogges.  
Cast me not away in my last hour O Lord, neither forsake thou me in my weakness, go not far from me, but hast thee to help me, for thou art my hope and salvation, O God.  
Let my heart be filled with gladness, and my mouth with praise, that I may sing of thy glory: and with the real of thy Sainctes, give honour to thy majesty, in the eternal fruition of thy presence, through Christ.  
praised be thy name O loving God, that art merciful unto sinners, and savest them from destruction.  
Remember not O Lord mine iniquities, nor the iniquities of my forefathers, take not vengeance of my sins. Spare me good Lord: spare me whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood, and be not angry with me( a wretch) to death.  
O lord deliver me from the power of the enemy:  
O lord save me thy poor servant, that put my trust in thee.  
sand me help from thy holy place. And evermore mightily defend me.  
Be unto me a strong Tower O lord. And evermore cover me under thy wings.  
O Lord hear my prayer. And let my cry come unto thee.  
¶ I know that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the last day, and shalbe covered again with my skin, and shall see God in my flesh, yea and myself shal behold him, not with other but with the same eyes.  
OH my soul be joyful in the lord, and despise not his correction, neither faint thou at his rebukes.  
For whom the lord loveth, him he correcteth, yea he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.  
Thy sins wear innumerable, neither couldst thou claim ought of duty, but death and damnation.  
Thy merciful lord, hath accepted thy tears and repentant groninges: and turned away his face from thine offences: he freely hath forgiven thee thy sins.  
And because thou hast repented, & trusted his mercy, he hath put them all out of his remembrance, neither will he think on them any more.  
He will receive thee into his house and crown thee with glory and kindness.  
Thou shalt stand before his presence in the sanctuary everlasting.  
With angels and Archangelles, with the patriarchs and Prophettes, with the faithful witnesses, and with all the rest of thy chosen children of grace, to honour him to serve him: to magnify and praise him, with continual thankes, in blissful joy and felicity for ever and ever.  

now O my soul look vpon Christ Iesus the righteous, thy advocate and redeemer, he is ready to receive thee ': therfore be glad in him, and give thankes. rejoicing in the visitation of the lord, whereby he so mercifully and lovingly warneth thee ' to prepare thee ' to the way, that shall bring thee ' out of this vale of misery, care, thrall, labour, and sorrows, to the castle of eternal, joys and felicity. pluck up thy heart with cherefulnes, despise the world with all her painted vanities and illusions, look steadfastly vpon thy saviour who will not fail thee ' in thy distress but stand by thee ', comfort thee ' and deliver thee '. Committe thyself unto him, and giving praises unto his name for that is lovely. And he by death shall receive thee ' to life ever enduringe.    

¶ Prayers.  
O look down from heaven, visit and reliue me thy poor and weak servant: behold me with the eyes of thy mercy O God: give me comfort, and sure confidence, in thee. Defend me from the power of th'ennimie, and keep me in thy perpetual peace and safety, through Iesus Christ my lord and saviour. Amen.  
O My merciful lord and loving Father, which according to the multitude of thy mercies, dost so put away the sins of those which truly repent: that thou remembrest them no more. Open vpon me the eyes of thy fatherly pity O lord, desiring forgiveness of my manifold offences, earnestly repenting the same. renew O loving father, whatsoever hath been or is decayed in me, by the fraud and malice of the devill: or by mine own carnal will and fraylenes: preserve and continue me in the unity of thy Church: Consider my contrition, accept my tears, assuage my pain, give me an obedient hart to thy good will & pleasure, yielding myself unto the same with humble & cheerful thanksgiving. And putting my whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, impute not unto me my sins, but take me in to thy favour and blessing, O Lord: through the merites of thy most dearly beloved son, Christ Iesus my saviour. Amen.  
O Most gracious Lord God almighty merciful and true: which art a most strong Tower, to all them that put their trust in thee: to whom all things in heaven, in earth and under earth do bow and obey, be now and evermore my defence, and make me know and feel to the end, that there is none other name under heaven given unto man, in whom and through whom, I may receive health and salvation but onely the name of Iesus Christ, my lord and saviour: for whose sake oh Father haue mercy vpon me: haue mercy vpon me lord, and stand by me to the end. Oh saviour of the world save me which by thy cross and precious blood hast redeemed me: help me, O God, and save me, for ever, for thine own righteousness sake oh lord.  
¶ O my soul committe thyself unto the lord, for he is ready to receive thee.  
¶ Lord, lord, my redeemer haue mercy vpon me, and receive my spirit.    

❧ thanksgiving.  

¶ praise the name of the Lord.  
praised and magnified be thy name O Lord god everlasting: thy power is infinite, thy counsels unsearchable: thy will almighty: thy promises are true: and thy judgements righteous.  
praised be thy name O Lord, and magnified amongst all thy creatures: that by thy word madest the heauens, the earth, the aer and Sea, and all things in them contained.  
praised be thy name O lord: unto whose order and derection all power do bow and obey.  
praised be thy name O lord: that of thy fatherly goodness and bounty, pourest thy blessings vpon all creatures: without which, is no life, no preservation, no comfort, no succour, no food, nor sustentation.  
praised be thy name O lord God almighttie, that of one clodde of clay: hast multiplied, all the kynreds nations: and generations of the world.  
praised be thy name O Lord: that gavest Adam free will, and reason: and a charge to obey thy commandment: from the which he fell through his own infirmity: to the utter ruin and just damnation of himself, and all his posterity.  
praised be thy name O lord God of mercy: that madest a covenant with our forefathers, and hast performed the same to the salvation of thy chosen.  
praised be thy name O gracious lord God everlasting: that, according to thine eternal truth and mercy, hast satisfied the longinge hope of thy faithful servants the patriarchs and Prophettes.  
praised be thy name O heavenly lord and Father: that didst sand down thy son to become man: to teach us thy will, and to offer himself unto thee, for the redemption of all them that believe.  
praised be thy name oh merciful lord and Father: that, of thine own free grace and mercy: hast begotten us of the new, through faith and obeydience in Christ our saviour: to possess eternal life which erst we had lost, through misbelife and Rebellion.  
praised be thy name oh merciful lord and father: that givest unto thy beloved children: thy holy spirit to sanctify their hartes with faith & obedience to thy word: which as a sure witness of thy grace and favour, worketh love, and joyful peace in their souls: through irremoueable hope of eternal life.  
praised be thy name O merciful lord and father, that knittest all thy faithful children by unity of grace and adoption, in one vnseperable brotherhood in Christ thy son our saviour, whereby we call thee father.  
praised be thy name O gracious lord God almighty: that givest wisdom to the simplo, that exaltest the meek hearted, that enritchest the poor, that comfortest the distressed, that succourest the helpless, that savest thy people from destruction, and givest them joyful victory against there enemies.  
praised be thy name O glorious God everlasting: that in the quarrel of thy Saincts, and defence of thy name: troublest, breakest, tearest asunder, throwest out, disparsest, and utterly distroyest, the counsels, determinacions, dominions, strengths, powers and glory: of the proud, of the malicious, of the cruel, and of the mighty men of the world.  
praised be thy name O lord God of power, that for reuenge of sin and disobedience: dost remove and spoil: the proud nations and kingdoms of the earth consuming them in the fire of thy wrath: as straw in the flamme. And as dust before the wind are they driven from there seats and habitations.  
praised be thy name O lord: that hatest the backebiters, and the proud: and to the humble and meek givest, plenty of all maner of goodness.  
praised be thy name O God most gracious: that never departest from them that vnfaynedly seek after thee: that never faylest them that put their whole trust in thee, that hearest them that call vpon thee, that deliverest the fayythfull out of all their troubles: and crownest them with mercy and loving kindness.  
praised be thy name O good and gracious God: that with the presence of thy grace dost assist thy faithful servants, to live in holiness: and to die in faith, working in them, cheerful assurance of everlasting salvation: to reign with Christ in the joyful presence of thy majesty: praising and magnifyinge, thy most glorious name O God: with continual mirth and thanksgiving.  
Oh praise the name of our loving God: for it is he onely that is worthy to be praised, his power is infinite, his glory eternal, and his mercy is everlasting.  
¶ praise the lord O my soul.  
¶ four forms of prayer divided for every sixth hour in the day and night.  
¶ FINIS.    

¶ IMPRINTED AT LONDON in Fletestreat at the sign of the falcon by Wylliam Gryffith, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstones Church-yarde. 1570.  
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