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fT^HIS book contains the Private Diary of Elizabeth, Vis-
countess Mordaunt, who was the daughter of Thomas
Carey, second son of Robert Earl of Monmouth, and mother
of Charles the celebrated Earl of Peterborough. The Manu
script is all in her own hand-writing, was originally bound
in vellum and closed with a silver lock, and embraces the
period of her life from 1656 till 1678. In it this gifted lady
gives an interesting account of her feelings, with a strict
examination of them, on the various events, both public and
private, which happened during her hfe, with her prayers
and thanksgivings on those occasions, especially the trial
and acquittal of her husband by the High Court of Justice,
his differences and law suit with his brother, Lord Peter
borough, the Restoration (p 59), the Great Plague (pp. 79

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and 95), the Eire of London (p. 91), the births of her children,
&c, &c. This valuable relic was discovered in the Old
Library at Dundalk House, Ireland, where it had remained,
behind some books, for nearly two centuries. How it had
reached this resting-place will be accounted for by the fol
lowing genealogy : —
Anne, daughter of Lord Viscount Mordaunt, by his wife
Ehzabeth Carey, the Authoress of this Diary, was married to
James Hamilton, Esq., of ToUymore Park, in the County of
Down. After the death of her husband, she purchased the
Estate of Dundalk for her son James, then a minor, and
afterwards created Viscount Limerick and Baron Clanboye,
and, in 1757, raised to the Title of Earl of Clanbrassil.
He married Lady Harriet Bentinck, daughter of the Earl of
Portland, and their daughter Anne was married to Robert,
first Earl of Roden, one of whose residences was Dundalk,
House, where the Manuscript of the Diary was discovered.
Perhaps it would be difficult to find any work, ancient or
modern, presenting a truer picture of a pious mind, or better
calculated to separate the affections from things on earth,
and raise them to the " things that are above, where Christ
sitteth at the right hand of God."
That it has not been sooner printed, may be accounted
for, partly, by the strict personality of its character, as the
secret communings of a heart with God, and never intended
for the pubhc eye, and partly, from the difficulty of decypher-
ing the writing. The first difficulty has been removed through
the conviction expressed by several, who had seen the
Manuscript, that its publication would be both acceptable
and useful to many; while the second difficulty has been
overcome by the zeal of a gentleman who has dedicated his
leisure time to studying the hand- writing, copying the whole

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Manuscript, and personally superintending the printing of
it, at his private Press, so as to secure to the work the utmost
accuracy.* In glancing over the Diary, and observing the deep
"searchings of heart" it everywhere reveals— the various
and severe personal, family, and pubhc troubles to which it
refers — the trust, confidence, and triumphs of faith which it
gratefully celebrates — and the refuge in prayer which is
therein exhibited — it will be interesting to learn something
of the life and character of her whose experience it relates.
The poets and historians of her day have sung of, and
recorded, her beauty, wit, and loyalty. Such was her beauty
that one of the Rhymers of the day said that —
" Betty Carey's lips and eyes,
" Make all hearts their sacrifice,"
and Clarendon speaks of her as " a young, beautiful lady,
of a very loyal spirit, and notable vivacity of wit and
humour" — "who concurred with her husband in all honour
able dedications of himself." But beauty did not render her
vain ; her wit ripened into wisdom ; and while from her
loyalty to her earthly sovereign sprung the chief part of her
troubles, those troubles guided her to her " King and her
God," and to the " Throne of Grace," where she found " grace
to help her in time of need."
In 1658, Mr. (afterwards Lord) Mordaunt, her husband,
was brought to trial for High Treason against the Com
monwealth and Cromwell, then Lord Protector. A full
account of the trial will be found in " Howell's State Trials,"
vol. v., p. 907, and, from the notes, it will appear that,
to the intelligence and dexterity of his wife he was mainly
* Edmund Macrory Esq., Barristcr-at-law, Middle Temple.

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indebted for his acquittal. In the Diary (p. 17), will be
found the outpouring of her gratitude to God upon that
happy occasion. "What great reason she had for gratitude
will be seen, when two (Sir Henry Slingsby and Rev. Dr.
Hewitt), not more involved than her husband in their
efforts for the restoration of the Monarchy, were, by the
same judges and on similar evidence, condemned to a cruel
and ignominious death. The account of the trial, taken
from " Thurloe's State Papers," is to the following effect : —
Mr. Mordaunt was accused of holding intercourse with the
exiled King, obtaining a commission from him for one of
his friends, and for the general encouragement of conspiracy
against Cromwell. To those who have been long accustomed
to the protective character of "trial by jury", Cromwell's
High Court of Justice will appear strange and dangerous —
yet, in what seemed most dangerous, there was an element
of safety. This Court— or rather, these Courts — seldom
consisted of less than twenty, and, as stated in Lady Mor-
daunt's Diary (p. 16), they sometimes amounted to forty
judges, but without any jury. Now, amongst such a num
ber, says Clarendon, there were generally some who, " out of
pity, or for money, were inclined to do good offices to the
prisoners " — or at least " communicate such secrets to them"
as would guide them on their trial. " Mr. Mordaunt's lady
had procured some to be very propitious to her husband."
By their private advice, Mr. Mordaunt, who, at his first ap
pearance, had refused to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the
Court, was prevailed upon to submit to their authority; and
by their information, she learned that Colonel Mallory was
the principal witness. Mr. Mordaunt being strictly guarded
in the Tower, to communicate with him there was impossible.
But, on his next return to the Court, a note from his wife

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was conveyed to him, instructing him to submit to its judicial
authority — and by the management of a friend, Mallory
was induced to make his escape from the Hall, into which he
had been conducted as a witness. The result was — nineteen
voted " Guilty," twenty, including the President, John Lisle,
voted "Not Guilty" — a division produced by the absence
of Colonel Pride, one of the Judges, who, through sudden
illness, had been forced to leave the Court, and returned just
as the verdict of acquittal had been pronounced, and happily
too late for its reversal. Such are the circumstances upon
which, apparently casual or accidental, the events of hfe de
pend. But God is in Heaven; and he rules among the
children of men. His Word says — "the very hairs of your
head are all numbered, a sparrow shall not fall to the ground
without your Father." (Matt. x. 29 and 30.) Mr. Mordaunt
was remanded to the Tower by Cromwell, and, on the
discovery of Mallory, a second trial was contemplated ; but
a second trial for the same offence, even upon new evidence,
was so repugnant to the public feeling, that Cromwell dared
not encounter the reproach of it, and was prevailed upon to
set the prisoner at liberty.
In the next year, 1659, he was, by letters patent, created
Baron Mordaunt and Viscount Avalon, and in 1660, M'as
among the first to meet the King, on his return from exile,
and his restoration to the throne. Soon after he was made
Constable of Windsor Castle, and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.
But how strange are the vicissitudes of human hfe ! How
vain to " trust in Princes or Sons of Men" ! In 1666, he was
impeached by the Commons before the House of Lords ;
evidently for no greater crime, than a literal and lenient
enforcement of the warrant of the King, and prosecuted,
with a degree of virulent determination for which, at this

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distance of time, and under our altered circumstances, it is
scarcely possible to account. This was both a source of
trouble and a position of danger ; and Lord Mordaunt owed
his deliverance more to the jealousy of the Houses of Lords
and Commons, in respect to precedents, privileges, and
forms, than to his freedom from fault, or the relenting of his
enemies. It is, however, delightful to contemplate the man
ner in which these troubles drew Lady Mordaunt's heart
still nearer to her God and Saviour ! In " a prayer of thanks
giving (page 96) to he said every Monday, so long as I live,
for this great mercy," how true to the spirit of the Psalmist !
(Psalm civ. 33) " I will sing praise to my God while I have
my being" — and that of Paul (Phil. iv. 6) "in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your re
quests be made known unto God." Lord Mordaunt having
had " great and incomposable differences" with his brother
the Earl of Peterborough (see page 168) about the Estate of
Ryegate, their mother's property, Charles IL, by the ad
vice of the Chancellor Hyde, granted it to Lord Mordaunt.
He died Jan. 5, 1675 (see p. 178), in his 48th year, and it
would appear from the thanksgiving (p. 192) that, after his
death, the King, by patent, granted an extension of the term
of a portion of it to Lady Mordaunt.
She died about the year 1678, when the Diary ceases,
having survived her husband about three years, and left seven
sons and four daughters. Her eldest son, Charles, was the
celebrated Earl of Peterborough, distinguished for his ser
vices in Spain, in the reign of Queen Anne. Her second
son, John, was born 22nd April, 1659 (see p. 28.) Her
third son, Harry, born 29th March, 1663 (see p. 49,) was a
Lieutenant-General in the army, and Treasurer of the
Ordnance, in 1699. Louis, her fourth son, born 22nd

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December 1665 (p. 83), was a Brigadier-General in the army.
Osbert, her fifth son, was born in April 1668 (see p. 104).
Osmund, her sixth son, born in October 1669 (p. 128), was
killed at the Battle of the Boyne, in 1690 ; and George, her
seventh son, born after his father's death, in January 1676
(p. 184), was in holy orders. Her daughters were, Elizabeth,
Carey, bom 29th July 1661 (p. 38), Sophia, born July 1664
(p. 67), and Anne, born 5th March 1666 (p. 93)— the latter
of whom was, as stated above, married to James Hamilton,
Esq., of ToUymore Park.
The portrait of Lady Mordaunt is a copy of an original
picture, painted, in 1665, hy Louise, Princess Palatine, the
daughter of the Queen of Bohemia; the name of the artist
with the date is on the picture, and it is in the possession of
the Earl of Roden. The portrait of Lord Mordaunt is a
copy of an engraving by Faithorne, said to be from a picture
by Vandyck.
RODEN.
Dundalk House,
April, 1856.

[*** A few words in explanation of the terms which occur in the
marginal notes and elsewhere throughout this book are necessary.
As reference to the Manuscript was considered desirable, to shew
the position which each portion occupies in the Manuscript, this
reference has b?cn made by the figures in the margin enclosed
within parentheses, with the words " rec." or " rev." — contractions
respectively for recto and reverse — signifying that the line opposite
which such reference is placed, begins the page on the right or the
reverse side of the leaf in the Manuscript. The use of these symbols
was rendered necessary from the fact of the leaves and not the
pages of the MS. being numbered. All words or figures not so
enclosed (in the margin, within parentheses ; or in the body of the
book, within brackets) are to be found also in the MS., and in Lady
Mordaunt's own writing. Quotations (which are chiefly from the
version of the Psalms in the Book of Common Prayer) are distin
guished by being Italic type.
The orthography of Lady Mordaunt has been closely adhered to,
and her punctuation adopted, as far as practicable ; but, in some
few instances, it was found absolutely necessary to modify the latter
to render the meaning of the passage intelligible.— E. M.]

THE

DIAKLE OF THE

VISCOUNTESS MORDAUNT.

A. D. 1656.
T OED God Almyty, Father, Soun,
.•*-* and Holy Goste, I the unworthyest
of all cretuers Liveing, doe here cunie with
my harte, and mouthe, full of all thanks
Geuing and prays, accept them from me
Lorde, for thou haste inabelede me to
render them unto thee, for the grete and
unspekabel mercy which I have this day
receued from thee, of that sperittuall loy
b which

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which my harte is not abel to contane,
but must burst out in Crys and Praysis
to thee, for so undeserued a blessing.
For I was proude, and uane, Carles
of the things that tended towards Sal-
uation, and too mindfull of the pleshuers
and emty nothings, of this weked world,
and not withstanding all this, and mdions
more of transgreshion, and sins, thou
hast at last geuen me a grete Sence of
them all, and a trubel for them, but so
mixsed with a sperittuall loy and cum-
forte, and with Resolutions of Forsaking
them ah, and only and Holy to cleue
unto thee my Derest Sauier, that I can
not but with wonder crye out and say,
Lorde, what is mane, that thou art so
mindfull of him, or the sons of mane
that thou thus regardest them, and a-
moungst all so petyfull and unworthy a
Cretuer as my selfe. But Lord sence
(1 rev.) out of the abundanc of thy mercy thou
hast in sume meshuer esed me of the
Lode, and burden of my sins, aud geuen me

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me sume hopes of my further amend
ment, Lete me not Lorde reseue thos
in uane, But so derect me thrue the hole
corse of my Life (whether it be sharte
or Longe, that and all things else as it
semes best in thy sight) that it may be
holy spent in thy seruis, and that I may
be an instrument to promote thy Honer
and Glory; Lorde Let my Life be what
thou plesest so it may be that; Lete it
be spent in aflicktions if that be beste,
so it will pies thee to supporte me in
them, or in prosperety, if thou seeste me
so Humbel, as thate I cane supporte it
without arogency and pride, and that
by that menes thy prasis may be the mor
incresed; or els in indeuerency, if thou
Deare Lorde, knowest that my feruency
in thy seruis, will note be shaken by it,
but that the qiuate of that condishion
may a forde menes, to make me spend
more of my time in thye seruis; but Lord
in this as in all things else, Let thy bles
sed will be dune, not my corupte one ; for I

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Reu. vii, 10.

Reu. xviii, 3.

Reu. xiii, 4.

I am thine, Lorde kepe me, thou arte
my father, and my saiitephier, Lorde
take me into thy care, Lorde saue me,
and Lorde instruckt me, and at the
Laste reseue me;
Glory be to thee
Glory be to thee
Glory be to thee
Most blesed Trenety
Ande thrue thy mercy and poure, my
adored Lorde, and for the merits of my
most blesed, and derest Sauer, and by
the unuterabel Grones, of thy most Holy
Speritt, grante that bouthe in this warld,
and after this transetory Life be paste, I
may unsesentely, Cry and Sing,
Sal nation to our God, tvhich sitteth
uppon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Greate and maruellous are thy works,
Lorde Gode AllmigJity, Just and true are
thy ways, Thou King of Saints.
Who shall not feare thee. O Lorde,
ande Glorephie tliy name, for thou onely
art Holy ; for all nations shall come and
worship

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worship befor thee, for tJiy Judgements
are made manifest. Amen.

The furst of thessalonians 5 22
Abstaine from all appearance of Euill.
A medetation of the strictnes we aught
to obserue thrue the holle corse of our
Life, being not onely to account for our
thoughts, words, and actions^ but for the
uery appearance of Euill;
The medetation of the appearance of
Euill.
That sence we must uppon no termes
sufer any action to pass without so strickt
exsamination, of which we may geue an
account as wel of the aperanc as of the
intention of theme. What care and
cation is nedefull then for our owne,
when we ar so fare to anser for outher
pepels falts, as not by any aperanc of
ill, to haue bin an ocation of stumbeling
to our weke brethern, which that we
may

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may the better shune, my aduis is, to
my selfe, that I Lete no day pas, without
taking suche a reuew of my Life, as
that I may render God the Glory, of
any thing which by his grete asistance,
I haue dune that past day, acceptabel
in his sight, and that hi this case I may
allwas think, and say, Not unto us, O
Lorde, not unto us, but unto thee is all
prays due ; for I am the uiiworthyest of
all cretuers Liuing, which I shall soune
be confermed in, when I cume to ac
count for my sins of cummistion, and
omistion, which I must stricktely dow,
and senserely repent of, that by God's
asistanc hauing dune that, I may Laye
me doune and rest in pece, Avith a full
ashuranc, that they shall neuer more be
layde to my charge, so as to condemne
me, but that my Sauiers blude, with all
its merits, shah have quite bloted them
out. That I may the beter kepe this reso
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examen my selfe, by thes foloing rueles
or the hke.
How to examin the integrety of my actions.
Furst, in reuewing the good actions
of ye day whether they wer dune with
integrety or singelnes of harte, and
whether I hade no outher ende in them
than the promoting of God's Glory, and
fuUfilling of his will, and whether no
thing of uanity or aduantage, hade a
share in the performanc of them, if not
to give Gode the Glory, for it was the
Lord's dowing.
If ill, to examin the ocations of them,
and nexte time to shune them, to repent
for what is past, and ernestely to pray
to God for Grace to resiste the hke tem-
tation.How to discouer the senserety of my words.
1. Whether the senserety and truthe
of them be so grete, as that no feare of
bein disprouved, should make me desir
the conselment of them.
2. Whether ther wer nothing in them
tending

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tending to any persens prejudice, ether
out of a pertecoler malis to them, or out
of uane Glory, to be thought beter than
they, my selfe; (a sade princepel to laye
the foundation of my fame uppon, the
distrucktion of an outhers, that may be
mor deseruing than my selfe; from which
pray God to preserue me) and whether
uanity and foly haue not a greter share
in my conuer sation, than any thing of
sound wisdum or knoleg, that might ad
minister any thing to the edephiing of
outhers. By this, I must ether condemne my
words or rather my selfe for them, or
else return thanks most Humbely to
God, for hauing preserued me from of
fending with my tunge;
How dilegent we ought to be
in not mispending our mede-
tations by turning them to
eydell thoughts.
To examin our thoughts.
Our Savior says, out of the harte
cometh

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cometh all evill and nothing is so deceit-
full as the harte of man. Lett me then
so examin this harte of mine that the
thoughts and inclinations of my harte
may be accepted before God, for genar-
aly our thoughts presede our actions; our
Savior says, from within out of the harte
of man procede evill thoughts, adulto-
ries, fornication, murders, thefts, couet-
iosnese, wikenese, laciviousnes, an evill
eye, blasfemi and filthy nese, the thoughts
are the forunners of all ill, and are first
to be taken care of, for preserve them
unblamable and 'tis to be presumed ill
actions will hardly Mow; how hard is
it to haue Chast thoughts and imodest
actions, or just thoughts and unjust deal
ings, puriphi the first sourse and the
channell will hardly be courupted.
Satan our common enimy knows this
very well, and therfore assaults us in that
part which will courupt the whole, and
when he finds that thoughtsof the depest
dye the blackest guilt will not stay long
c with

with us he fayils not to furnish such a
troop of vane and idly ones that find re
sistance in fewplacis, those are so sutable
(4 rev.) to the frailtys of our natures that there
are few so strongly fortiphyed with grace
as to resist the pomps and vanitys of
this world when usherd in with the
temtations of the flesh and the devill, all
which we vow against in babtisme, let
us therfore fight manfuly against it in
the cours of our Lives. Let us consider
that these our thoughts are only known
to God and our selves and therfore ought
to be most pure, with them wee reach
heauen, and may contemplate God him^
selfe, as far as he is reaveled to us by
his holy word, and by his blesed Spirit,
and shaU we lay aside this previleige,
and tran our thoughts to vanitys, 'tis
below the carecter that God has im
printed upon man of wisdowm.

[Pages 5 — 12 of trie MS., -which should follow here, -will be
found post p. 225 el ss.]

SUNDA Y

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11

SUNT) A Y.
Most butyful Jesus, my best beloued
Lorde, O How cane I returne thanks
that am not abell to comprehend the
gretenes of thy mercy towards me, but
How dare I expect the contenuanc of
it, that am so alltogether unworthy of
them. O what ashurance cane I haue
of my blis herafter, that canot pretend
to deserue the lest of thy cumforts here.
O wo is me rech that I am, so uery ill
now, and yet with resen fere to be wors,
for I haue neglected and greued that
blesed Sperit, that hether to hathe pre-
serued me from euerlasting chans, O
geue me grase to crye Aba father, that
my God may not turne his bake uppon
me, and put me quit out of his remem-
branc, whioh I so justly deserue, O the
depthe of this mesery, what shall de-
leuer me from this body of dethe ; I
thank my Lorde Jesus Christ, he cane,
nay he wiU dow it, for I Loue him, I
longe

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longe for his cuming; I fere my owne
unworthynes, but I haue confidenc in
his merits, my God will acsept of his
intersestion for his child, becas he is a
louing father, and I tho' a disobedient
yet a penytent child, a child that he
hathe blest with his Sperit, which tho'
I haue resisted, yet I am greued for it,
and joy in no cumforts but what I re-
seue from thos greues, O blesed Speiit
sele my perden, refreshe my Soule with
the due of thy heuenly cumforts, nureshe
and bring to perfection thos Holy feares
joys and greues that hathe bin produced
this daye in my Harte by the preching
of thy Gospel, O geue me thy perseuer-
ing grace, in all good works, and thy
restraning, to kepe me from all ill.
Amen.

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MUNDAY; 15th of June, 1657.
Thou arte my King O Gode send
helpe unto me, for my enymys ar many that

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13

that so counsel to gether aganst me,
how they may take away, that which
is derer to me than my Life, my Honer.
O lete not the futt of pryde cume aganst
me and lete not the hands of the un-
godely caste me doune, for thou knoest
my innosency, my wase ar not hid from
thee, thou knoest the uery secrets of
my harte, and findest it uperight befor
thee, in this pertecoler of my Justis to
my Husband, for I haue not a thought
I would not haue him know, for the
which I Humbely bles my God, for of
my selfe I am alltogether unworthy and
to thee my derest Lord I am ungrateful
for my ofences are many, and my scins
to grete a burden for me to bere, my
hart is sore trubeled, but turne thee unto
the Lorde O my Soule, and he wiU geue
thee thy Hart's desir, and preuent the
mahs of mine enemys, for he will make
thy enosency as clere as the Light, and
thy Just deling as the noune day, and
this in the fays of mine enemys, but
Lorde

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Lorde rewarde them not after ther del-
ings, but forgeue them and turne ther
harts, and lete it not rise upe in Judges-
ment aganst them, nor none of my
scins aganst me; O lete me not ade to
my Hepe the gdte of reuenge, but geue
me grace to forgeue, and then forgeue
me my scins, and forgeue me if I resent
their ingerys to muehe, and forgeue
my duhies in deuotion, and my neglect
of it, and derect me how to manage my
self in this bisnes. O Lorde sete me upe
and suffer not my fose to tryumphe ouer
me, thou hast bin my sucker, Leue me
not, nether forsake me, O God of my
Saluation, so shall euery good mane sing
of thy Prayse without sesing, O my
God I will geue thanks unto thee for
euer. Amen.

(15 rec.) Clouthe my Soule with the unspoted
robe of Humelety, Mekenes, and Cari-
tabellnes, and grant that hi the midst of

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of all my enemis I may stand un-
mouved, not admiting one thought of
reueng into my brest, for without thy
grete mercy and asistanc, I shall falle
befor them, hauing a harte redy to re-
seue and bring forthe, all sorte of wek-
ednes, but make me a Clene heart O
Lord, aud renue a right sperit within
me, O giue me the cumfort of thy helpe
agane, or else distraction will incumpas
me on euery side; and now that I draw
neare the time of my trauill, inabell me
by the reseuing of thy blesed Sacrement
to support the payns of that day, as be-
cumethe thy seruant, and derest Lorde
prepar me so by thy santephiing sperit,
as that I may with cumfort reseue ether
life or deathe at thy hands, and that the
performanc of thy will, may be a ioy to
me; to whieh end Lord grant my child
life and opertunety of babtisme, and
Lord preserue it from aU deformety
what soeuer, giue it a cumly body, and
an understanding soule, and thy Grace from

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from the Graded to the Graue, and how
soeuer thou shalt dispos of me, ether for
life or deathe, santephi that to my deare
Husband, and grant that by it, he may
becume derer and nerer unto thee; that
at last we may bouthe be united unto
thee, my derest Lorde and Sauier, Je
sus Crist.
Amen.

1658.
June, y" 2nd.
In the y ere of our Lorde 1658, on the
first of June, my Deare Husband was
tryed for his Life by a Corte, calede the
Highe Corte of Justis, and on the second
day of June, was cleerd by one uoys only,
19 condemning of Jiim and 20 saui7ig of
him, and tJios twenty had not preualed,
but by God's emedeate Hand, by striking
one of the Corte with an illnes, which
forsed Jiim to goe out, in wJiousabsens, the
uots wer geuen, and recorded, so that his
returne

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17

returne no way preiudis 'd Mr. Mordaunt
tho' in his thoughts he resolued it, (Prid
was the person J many outher meracolus
blesings wer shod in his preseruation for
which Blesed Be God.
He was the first exampule
that pleded not gilty, that was
cleerd befor thes Cortes.
WENSDA Y; June, f 2nd. 1658.
Prays the Lorde, O my Soule, and all
that is within me prays his holy name.
Prays the Lorde, O my Soule, and
forget not all his benefits, which saved
thee from distrucktion, and crowned thee
with mercy and Louing kindnes.
Prased be the Lorde for euer, for He
hathe preserued the Life of my Deare
Husband, from the poure and malis of
his enemis, and hathe blesed us with
mercis on euery side. It was thy Hand,
and the Helpe of thy mercy, which re-
leued us, when the waturs of aflictions
had nie drounded us, and our sins had
d justely

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18 The Diarie of the

justely deserued it, and our enemis er-
nestely desird, and pursud it ; for they
had preuely layde a nete to destroye
him, without a case, and false witnesis
did rise upe aganst him, they layde to
his charge things that he knue not, and
his owne fameler frinds akused him, re
warding him euell for good, to the grete
discomfort of his soule, but thou O
Lorde didest reuocke that angery sen-
tans (which we had deserued, and which
was gone out aganst us) by frustrating
the desins, and malis, of his enemis, by
turning the Harte of Mal: as thou tur-
nest the reuers of watur, and as thou
broughtest watur out of a stony Eock, to
releue thy seruants the childern of Is
rael, so didest thou turne that stony
harte of his, that where he desined dis
traction, he indeuerd safety, therfor we
will be glade, and reioys in thy mercy,
for thou hast considered our trubell, and
hast knone our souls in aduersety, for
thou gauest not upe my deare Husband into

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19

into the hands of his enemis, but hast
sete his feete in a large roume, for our
Hops wer euer in thee, and thou didest
not deseue us, for we haue sayde, Thou
art our God, our time is in thy Hand, bee
it as it seemethe good in thy sight ; and
thou hast herd my supplecation, and
hast consedered my cumplant, thou hast
granted me my hart's desir, and hast
not refused me the request of my Lips,
when I beged deleueranc for my deare
Husband, from the Hands of his enemis
and from thos that persecuted him, and
thou hast shod thy seruant the Light of
thy countenanc, and hast spared him,
for thy mercys sacke, for thou suffur-
dest him not to be confounded, hi the
fase of his enemis, but supported him
on euery side, for the wisdum of man is
fulishnes befor thee, and thou neuer
forsakest thos that Loue thee. Thanks
be to the Lord, for he hath shoed us
meruelus grete kindnes in this strange
deleueranc. O Loue the Lord all yee his

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20

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his seruants, pras Him, and magnephi
Him together, for the Lord preseruethe
them that ar fathefull and plentuasly re-
wardethe the proud douer.
O Giue thanks unto the Lorde and
call uppon his name, tell the pepel what
things he hathe done ; As for me I will
giue greate thanks unto the Lorde, and
prayse him amongst the multitude.
Blesed be the Lorde God, euen the
Lorde God of Israel, which only douthe
wondrous and gratious things.
And blesed be the name of His Ma-
gisty for euer, and all the earthe shall be
filled with His Magisty.
Amen, Amen.
The PRAYRE.
O my God, my just and mercy full
God, Santyphi this blessing unto me,
and so fill my harte with the aprehen-
tions of thy meraculus mercis to me in
this greate deleueranc of my deare hus
band's, that I may not dayre to ofend thee

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thee, that so highely hathe blest me ;
but grant that bouthe me and my deare
Husband may spend that Life, which
we have agane reseued from thy hands,
with so greate stricktnes that we may
emenently shoe forthe thy mercy to us in
the spending of our time as in the sau-
ing of our hues, make us instrements
of thy mercy, to thy Church, and to thy
Chosen, and as thou hast giuen to my
deare husband a seconde hfe, so giue
him a new on, in all uertu and holynes,
and grant him gras neuer to feare ha-
serding that life, in thy seruis, whous
pour and mercy, can preserue and cary
him thrue, the gretest defecultys ; Lord
euermor behis defender, make us bouthe
thine, and then in thy greate mercy.
kepe us so, for we ar lessur than uanety
it selfe, and without thee cane dow
no good thing, but my God will bles us,
for He shall chuse out an Heretage, for
us, euen the worshipe of Jacob whom he
loued. Amen. A PRAYER

22

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The Diarie of the

A PRAYER
for the 2nd. of June, euery year
and euery Wensday in the week, sine the
death of my Deare Hosband.
I must neuer omit to prayse thee my
Lord and my God, on this day, for the
meracolous deleueranc of my deare
Hosband, from the pour and malis of
his enemies and from the jaues of Death,
for tho' thou hast taken this blesing
from me now, yet so numerous haue bin
thy mercis to this famely sine the first
day of his deleueranc, that they must
allwas be repeted by me, to the great
glory of thy most glorious name, thou
haste geuen to my deare husband and to
me, many yeares of cumfort sine ; thou
has geuen us the Greate Blesing of
many Chddren, the increse of fortuen, of
Honer, of goods, of frinds, and all this
I have been so lyttel worthy of, that
thou hast justely withdrawne my gre-
test worldly comfort, my deare Hos
band

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band ; but merciful Lord doe thou in
crese my spirituall Joys, and giue me
grace, to make so good vse of thy re
maning blesings in this world, that thou
mayest neuer withdraw them in judges-
ment from me, but grant that I may so
intirely leaue myselfe, my chdderme, my
fortune, and interest to thy disposall,
that I may nether think, nor ackte, but
by thy directions, I haue none but thee
my God to asist me, and in hauing thee,
I haue all, doe thou neuer forsake me,
and then I shall be blest for ever.
Amen.

10th July.
O the depthe of thy mercis, and of
my meseris, O my God How unserch-
abeU and past finding out they ar, for
thou hast loued me, thou hast Herd me,
and granted me mor than I was abed
to aske, not forseing the greate nede I
had of thy mercy, and in returne of thy
most

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24

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most unspekabell mercis, blesings, and
deleuerancis,knone and-unknone,I haue
broken my promesis of betur leuing, I
haue uiolated my uows and resolutions
and am becume notorusly weked by
neglecting that prescius time thou hast
geuen me for betur leuing for I dow
not hue acording to my beleue, not la-
bering toplese thee, not desiring to draw
neer to thee, in thy ordenancis, not
longing to inioy thee in Heuen, not fer-
ing thee my God, so, as to kepe from
ofending thee, not amending by thy
corrections, normercis, not thankefull to
thee for them as I ought, not keping
Holy thy Sabouthe days nor festefals,
neglecting to rede and marck thy Holy
Word, not dilegent in prayr, I haue
broken the vow mayde for me at Bab-
tisme by louing the pomps and uanetis
of the world, and foloing its sinfidl
custums, by praing and reseuing with
out that deuotion aught to be had, and
without spirituall afection,by neglecting to

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25

to kepe the promesis mayd in it, by
ometing prayrs, and being glad of any
pretenc of do wing it, my harte not being
purefid from sin when I pray, couldnes
and dednes in it, wandering thoughts at

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it, neglecting the duty of repentanc, not
allwas caling myselfe to a daUy account
for my sins, not so depely consedering
of them as to beget contrishion for them,
not taking reueng uppon my selfe by
lasting and outher acts of mortephica-
tion, but seking the prays of men, not
carfuly exsamening what our estayte
towards God is, not trying our selfes by
the true ruele, God's cummandements,
nor waing the Lafulnes of our actions
befor we undertake them, consulting
our wds only, not exsamening our past
actions so as to repent of the ill, and to
render thee my Lord the prays of all
good ons (if any), not improuuing thy
gifts outward or inward to thy Honer,
spending to much time in Idell deuer-
tions and sleping, neglecting to make
e satisfaction

26 The Diarie of the

satisfaction for the ingoris I haue dune,
not paing the respect due to the qualetys
and gifts of outhers, not seking to intale
a blesing uppon my child by a strickt
and pyos Life, not taking depely to
harte the desolations of the Church, not
forbering to sin, that God might take
his judgments of it, not louing and for-
geuing my enemis, being so sharpe in
my ansers, resenting ingoris so highely,
not bering with the pations of outhers
so mekely as I aught to dow, but pro-
uoking them in it, not bering then
infermetys; for adding to truthes or de-
meneshing from them, by saing things
without truth; for all this, and much mor
remembered, and forgotun, I stand here
GUty, of all thy judgments, but Lorde
forgiue me, giue me a Harty senc and
repentanc for them, and then in Loue
O Lord cummunecate thy mercis unto
me, and that for my Sauier's sacke,
Amen, Amen. the

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the 18 of July.
Euer prasedbe my God for the patienc
he was plesed to giue me uppon this
day, for I was reuiled to my fase and
euel spoken of, O Lord thou gauest pa
tienc in the time of aduersaty, for when
she lift upe her hand aganst me I re
turned it not agane, but sufered her
reproches with patienc, but if the Lorde
Hade not helped me it had not fayled,
but my Soule Had bin put to sdanc in
the graue, so seuer was her usage, but
my God hathe, and will deleuer me, out
of the Hands of my enemis, and will
Lete her see by His blesings, to my
deare Husband, my chdd and me, that
our Hapynes is not, to be reseued from
her hands, as she sayd it was, but from
my God, to whoum, I will pray, and
whoum I will euer bles, asrLong as I
haue any being. Amen.
but Lorde forgeue her her sins, and
impute

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28

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impute not this unto her, but bles her
here and hereafter. Amen.

(20 rec.) April, the 22nd, 1649.
After the berthe of my son John.
My God and my Lord, my defender,
and protectur, reseue I most Humbely
beseche thee my acknoledgments of thy
mercy, and my thanksgeuings for my
saue deleueranc from the payne and
perill of Guide berthe, and for the
grete blesing of anouther Sone, Lord
multyply thes thy blesings uppon me,
making me truly sensabull of thy mer
cis and my owne mesery, Lorde what
am I that thou shouldest thus regarde
me, I am nothing but a dede doge with
out thee, but thou supportest me on
euery side, therefor I will be glade and
reioyce, in tJiy Saluation, I will prayse
thee aiming st much pepul. Amen. O

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O Just andmercyfull God, whoe neuer
forsakest thos that loue thee, nore thos
that Humbull them selues before thee,
for a broken and contrite harte O Lorde
thou dispisest not, acsept therfor I be
seche thee the Humbul request of thy
Hande mayde, whou hathe this day
caste doune my selfe befor thy throne
of mercy to bege it, for this bleding
Church and nation of ours, O Lord shoe
now thy poure and cume amungst us,
and in thy due time restore us, in thy
fauer agane, by giuing us the blesing of
a florishing Church in this nation, such
a one as may be acseptabull to thee, and
bles thine aninted, geuing him grace
and poure, to proteckt it; and O Lord
bles all thos harts and Hands, that in-
deuer this, (in pertecoler my Deare
Husband) for without thee, they cane
dow nothing, therefor O my God, for-
sacke them not, be hi thayre counsels,
and in thayr resolutions, dereckt and
gide

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uer. 9.

uer. 10.

gide thayre actions, and supporte, and
prosper them, in the time of nede ; this
and more than I am abull to bege, for
thy Church, and for thyne aninted, for
thy chosen pepull, and for this bleding
nation, Grante unto them, in thy wis-
dume, and in thy goodnes; for thy
mercy sacke, and for the merits of my
derest Sauier.
Amen.
2. Samuel, ch. 2.
He will keep the feet of His saints,
and the wicked sJiall be silent in DarJt-
nesse ; for by strength sJiall no man pre-
uail. The aduersaries of the Lorde shall be
Broken to pieces, out of Heauen shall he
thunder upon them; the Lorde shall
judge the ends of the earthe, and he shall
giue strength unto his King, and exalt
the Home of his Anointed.

What

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31

What I am to pay out of my peris,
blesed be God.
10 pound a yere to be geuen to a *
begening 1661.
06 pound a yere to Mrs. Broune in
great distres begening 1663.
20 pound a yere to ye keping Mr. Ja-
mot's clhld teU she shall be by ye King
or sumebody else prouided for begen
ing 1663. She is now prouided for.
05 pound a yere to be payd for the
keping of Maris ould father, so long as
it shall pies God to inabell me.
01 pound a yere to y" breding of Ley
ye cocks chdd being faterles and mother-
les. 20 pound a yere to Mrs. Cor: being
fourscor yeres ould teU she has somthing
else to hue on.
4 pound a year to Mis Payne, tell she
be in a betur condetion, begins Christ
mas 1676. 2 pound

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(23 rec.)

2 pound a year to a pour woman by
Mis Enghsh.
10 pound a year to Mr Owen till he be
prouided for, begins Christmas 1676.
4 pound a year apece to tow Juese.
4 pound a year to too women, by Miss
Loyd, ten shillings a quarter apece.

Sep. the 9th. FRIDA Y.
Most pourfull and mercyfuU Lord;
what cane I render of prays fitt to be
payd to thy deuine exselancy, that hathe
bin so bountyftdl in thy mercis to my
deare Husband, thou hast blest him,
thou hast preserued him from the pour
and malis, and reproch, of his enemis,
thou hast multeplid thy mercis to him, by
so many and miracolos dileuerancis, 0
what great trubels and aduersities hast
thou shod him, and yet didest thou turn
and refresh him, yea, and broughtesthim
from the deep of the earth againe, ther-
for shall we daly speak of thy right-
ousnes

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33

ousnes and saluation for we know no
end therof, Lord make us truly sensa-
bull how unworthy we ar of the lest of
thes thy mercis, and Lord forsake us
not, but so contenu thy mercis to my
deare Husband and to me thy unworthy
seruant, that we may glorephi thy name
by them, and Liue to show thy streng-
the to this generation, and thy power to
all them that ar yet for to come, for thy
poure O God is uery high and greate
things ar they that thou hast done for
vs, O God who is lick unto thee, for
thou hast brought us to great Honour
and comforted vs on euery side, therfor
will we praise thee and thy faithefuU-
nesse, O thou Holy one of Israel.
Amen*

1659.
March f 2nd. FRYDAY.
O my God, wheras I did promas and
and voue to thee, vpon the defete and
f taking

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34 The Diarie of the

taking of Sr Gorge Bouthe, that If in
thy mercy thou wouldest preserue his
Life, and the Life of all thos that wer
ingaged in that bisnes, for the Chorch
and King, that I would upon the day I
should reseue the sertanety of so greate
a blesing (which would be a greter com
fort to me than any, becas my deare
Hosband, had so greate a Hand in that
bisnes) reseue the Blesed Sacrement,
and dedecat to the seruis of my God 5
pound sterling in Gould.
I doe in acknoledgment of God's great
goodnes, in the returne of this my Horn-
bell petetion, in to my owne bosom, by
granting that not onely the Life, and Le-
berty, but allso the estayts of Sr Go:
Bouthe, and all thos that wer ingaged in
that designe, (Hoping it was for the
King's, Chorch and nation's good) wer
all secured to them by an ackte of parle-
ment being publeshed Fryday the 2".? of
March, 1659, on which day, I doe with
God's

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35

God's Blesing resolue euery yere, in per-
formons of my voue, to reseue the blesed
sacrement, and to dedecat to the seruis of
my God 5 pound sterling in Gould, kep
ing the eue as a fast, and saing a prayr
of thanJisgeuing euery Fryday wekely, this
grete mercy being publesed on that day.
Lord inabel me to perform this my
resolution. And acsept of my
intentions, when I shall
notbe in a condetion
to doe it.
The prayer for FR YD A Y.
When I was in trubell I called upon
the Lord and he herd me. I lifted upe
myne eyes unto the Hills from whence
cometh my helpe. For in the Lord was
my trust. For when nothing but Bloud
and distrucktion could be expected
when Sr G. B. was taken, the bisnes
destroyd which was designed for the
good of the nation, Chorch and King
and the Liues of my frinds and relations, and

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36

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and many Honest pepull in danger to
be deuoured by the enemy ; I then
Hombeled my selfe before thee my God,
and vnto thee I mayd my supplecations
and my voues, for the Liues of all thos
thy distresed pepull.
And tho' I was alltogether vnwor-
thy to open my mouthe before thee my
God, yet Lord thou hast in mercy con-
sedered my complaynt. For thou hast
turned my Heauynes in to Joy, by
granting me the request of my Lyipes ;
For thou hast not onely most miracu-
lusly preserued the Liues of all thos thy
seruants, in who as behalfe I supplecat-
ed, but thou hast restored unto them
thayr Lebertys, and estayts.
O euer praysed be God that hathe
not geuen us ouer for a pray unto our
enemys, but hathe sete our feete in a
Larg roume. For if the Lord him selfe
had not bin on our side, when men rose
up aganst us, they had swaloed us upe
quike, when they wer so wrathefuly displesed

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displesed at vs, but our Helpe and de
leueranc came from the Lord, wliich
hathe mayd Heuen and yerth, for he
hathe dune great things for vs, wherof
we now reioyce, for many a time haue
our enemys stroue with us, but they haue
neuer prevaled against vs; O my Soule
trust thou in the Lord, for with my God
thayr is mercy and with him thayr is
plentius redemption, and to Him, for
euer be the Glory. Amen.
How infenately mercyfull beyond ex-
preshon hathe thy most Glorus maity
apeard to me the most unworthy of
Creturs, and to my Deare Hosband.
Lord contenu thes thy mercis, and so
santephi them to us, as to betur us by
them, and make us so intyerely thyne,
as that we may spend our hole Liues in
thy seruis. Lord glorephi thy selfe by
us, geuing us grace to glorephi thee
bothe heare and eternaUy Heareafter.
Amen. Agust

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(25 rev.)

AgustyeSlst. 1661.
A Prayr of thanks geuing for
my safe deleueranc from ye payn of
Child berthe of my daughter Cory
borne July 1661. y* 29 th day.
While I hue I will prayse the Lord,
I will sing prasis vnto my God whde I
haue any being ; euery day will I bles
thee, and I will prase thy name for euer
and euer.
I will speke of the glorious Honer of
thy maiesty and of thy wonderous
worcks. For it was my God that supported
me in my distres, geuing me strenthe
in the time of nede and turned my
Heuynes into Joy by Granting me a
safe, and Hapy deleueranc, and the
blesing of a Live and perfit chdde,
afording that the menes of babtisme,
and me, the Joy, and comfort of seing
my selfe safe out of my bed of wekenes,
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39

(26 rec.)

in Helthe, all wliich, with all outher
blesings, I must owne emediately from
thee my God, it is then meete and just
that to thee I returne the prays, and
Glory of it, for great is our Lord, and
great is His poure, yea, and his wisdom
is infenate. O prays the Lord, for it is a good
thing to sing prasis unto our God, yea,
a joyfull and plesant thing it is to be
thankfull, ther for, with Angels and Arch
angels and with all the company of Heven
we Laud and magnifie thy Glorus name,
euer mor prasing thee and saing, Holy
Holy Holy Lord of Hosts, heauen and
earthe ar full of thy Glory. Glory be
to thee O Lorde Most High.
. Amen.

1661, De. f 21th.
before reseuing ye Sacrement.
How Dar I apoch before thy drede-
full Maity that haue so often and so
Justely

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Justely prouoked thy wrathe and indig
nation aganest me, by so many repeted
actes of sin and vanety, of which my
owne contienc acusos me, 0 how cane
I hope that thou wdst sufer me to come
unto thee, and that thou wdst giue thy
selfe unto me, which I ernestely long
after, but knowing my selfe so unwor
thy to reseue thee, I dare not presume
to aske it of thee, when I conseder my
owne udenes ; but when I Locke upe to
thee I am so filed with the sight of thy
infenat mercy and goodnes, that arte
redy to ofer me thyne owne Blod for
my clensing and thyne owne Body, for
my strengthening, and suport in ye was
of Holynes, I then with y" uoys of Joy
and thanksgeuing crye aloude unto thee
for mercy, Mercy my Lord, mercy, bothe
to forgiue and to suporte me, and not
only me, but my deare Hosband, Lord
God of thy goodnes tacke us bothe into
thy care, giue us contretion and amend
ment, make us bothe thine, and then 0
Lord

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41

Lord kepe us so, Lete our Soules be
right Deare and pretious in thy sight,
Lete thy truth and thy mercy, be allwas
with us, and so shaU our delight be daly
in thy name. Amen.

A Prayr of thanks geuing
For my deare Hosband' s recouer from
' His greate and dangerus illnes
Julyf 16th 1662.
Who is hke unto ye Lord our God,
that hathe his dwelling so High, and
yet Humbleth him selfe to behould ye
things that ar in Heauen and earth, he
taketh ye simpul out of ye dust and
Liftethe yB poure out of ye mire, he
Helethe ye scick, and releuethe ye nedy,
eh hathe compation on ye afhckted, for
which I must euer prayse yc Lorde, my
Tunge must euer be shoing forthe his
prayse from Jenoration to ienoration,
for he hathe releued me in all my dis-
g tresis,

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42

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tresis, he hathe supported me in my
gretest aflicktions, and in his dew time
hathe deleuerd me from them, O How
unworthy am I to haue reseued such
mercis, and How unfitt am I to returne
thanks for them, but thou my most
Gratious God and Sauer, that hathe
multeplyed thy blesings to me, by
geuing me ye Life of my deare Hosband
not only out of ye Hands of his enemys,
but Likewis from ye Gase of Death
which he was ney unto by sikines, for
this and for all outher thy mercis and
blesings not to be numbured giue me
leue O my God to prays thee, prays y"
Lord O my Soul and all that is within
me prays His Holy name, for y6 worcks
of y" Lord ar greate sought out of all
them that haue plesur tJiereinn. Ye
mercy full and gratious Lord hathe so
dune his maruelos worcks, that they
ought to be had in rememburanc, he
sent redemtion to his pepull, he hathe
comanded his couenant for euer, Holy and

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43

and reuerent is His name. Ye feare
of jf Lord is ye begening of wisdom, a
good understanding haue all they that doe
therafter, the prayse of it indurethe for
euer. Amen.

What I promos to pay to
j" poure euery yere, so long as God
shall enabell me,
and I hombely bege his Grace to
performe them.
He that geuethe to ye poure lendeth to
ye Lorde, and it shall be returned him
seuen fould. Ye Lord loueth a cherfull
Geuer. On yB 2^.d of June euery yeare, to kepe
a thanks geuing for ye meraculus de
leueranc of my deare Hosband on that
day, from ye perell of Death, and on ye
same day, to giue 5 pound in gould to
yB vse of ye poure; to acknoledg my
Hosband's Life and yc comforts I reseue by

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by it, holy from God's hands, and to
prayse him for it.
To dedecat to ye vse of y" poure ye
tenthe parte of aU ye rent I shall reseue
from my owne land of inherytanc, which
was my owne befor I was to mary.
To pay to my pours box, six pence
euery night, and morning, in ackno-
ledgment that ye safety content and
preseruation of my deare Hosband my
chdderne and my selfe, ye day and night
past, came from ye Hand of God.
To dedecat to my God 5 pound ster
hng in gould upon ye 2nd of Marche,
euery yere, and to reseue ye sacrement
on yB same day, so long as I shall be
abed to doe it, in rememberanc and
acknoledgment of ye greate blesing con
ferred to me on that day 1659, by an
ackte of parlement then publeshed, for
ye Life, fredom, and estaytes, of Sr Gorge
Bouthe and aU thos that had asisted in
that bisnes, for whous safetys I hade
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before mayde this voue.
(The rest of this page in the MS is imperfect.)
Euery Sonday to giue God thanks
for preseruing my deare hosband from
aU unLafull quarels disputs or deuels,
and to dedecat unto him. euery Sonday
sixpenc in acknoledgment I reseue
that blesing from his hand, so long as
in his great mercy he shall preserue my
deare hosband out of them, which I
hombely bege him alwas to doe.

Befor y" Sacrement.
Octo.y 4th 1662.
How vnworthy am I to be admited to
thy tabeU, O blesed Sauier, that haue so
long neglected thy mercis oferd unto
me, in thy most blesed Sacrement ; I
cane haue no confedenc no comfort no
hope, but in that, and so to refus my
owne blis as not to reseue it, when it
was oferd me by ye master of ye feast
who is ye feast him selfe, is to haue ren-
derd my selfe so unworthy of it, that I
canot

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canot see how I dare to presume to
come to it, hauing outher Lodes of sines
upon me, to incres this gdt; but my
comfort is thou didst not Leve this
greate pledg of thy Loue to ye hole, but
to ye sick, for thy owne words, y6 Hole
nedes no phesetion, and agane, Come unto
me all ye that trauilland be Heuy Laden,
and I will refresh you, Lord I come unto
thee so Loden with sine and vanety,
with neglect of thy seruecis, and Lucke-
warmnes and dulnes, in all I haue in-
deuerd to performe, that I am a fitt ob-
iect for thy pety, so wekid that I nede
greate repentancis, and so dull that I
am not capabell of them, but Lord hirst
by thy poure tuch my harte to make it
sensabuU of its vdnes, and then with
thy gentull hand of mercy, tuch it with
a heling tuch, that may bothe dense
and cure it, and so unite it unto thee,
that it may neuer more departe, from
ye Loue, and feare, of thee.
Amen* Dec.

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Dec. ye 24th Christmas Eaue.
befor y" Sacrement.
That thou hast agane O my God
brought me so neare reseuing yfc Blesed
Sacrement, after all my vnworthynes is
a mercy so greate, I canot expres it, for
how often sence thy Last mercy to me
in this kind, haue I greued, and ofended
thee my God, and haue brought my
selfe by my owne wekednes, within
ya compas of ye Snares of Death, nay ye
pains of Hell haue nye gat hould upon
me, but thou my most Gratious God,
hathe deleuered my Soule from Death,
ye Death of sinne, mine eyes from feares,
and my feet from falling, for tho my
sins ar more than ye Hares of my hed,
and doe daly multeply upon me, and ar
becom a burden to heuy for me to
Beare, yet turne thou agane unto thy
rest O my Soul, for y" Lord hathe re-
demed thee. Why then arte thou so
trubeled O my Soule, and whi is my harte

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so

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so greened within me. For I will reciue
y" cup of Saluation and call upon y° name
of jf Lorde, I will pay my vows in ye pre-
sanc of his people, for I will offer to thee
y6 Sacryfice of thanksgeuing and call
upon y" name of my God. Amen.

(30 rec.) Before y° Sacrement March 1, 1662.
Neuerthelese tho I be sumetims afraid
yet put I my trust hi ye Lord, he ueryly
is my hope and my strength, he is my
defenc, so that I shall not greately fall,
for tho my sins be as ye sand of ye sea
innewmerabull, and ye wate of them a
burden to heuy for me to beare, yet my
God will not suffer me to sink under
them, but hathe prepared for me a
Heuenly nurishment, to preserue my
body and soul into euerlasting Liffe,
Lord make me pertaker of thy heuenely
misteris in Faith that neds not be
a shamed, in Loue unfaned; and then
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Lord acsept of my most hombell prasis,
which I am to offer unto thee to morow
at thy tabeU, for ye deleueranc of thos
pour pepull, in whous behalfe I supple-
cated; and in memory of ye blesing of
thayr deleueranc I shall to morow by
thy asistanc, ofer upe the performanc
of my voues, and Likewis bege thy bles
ing upon me, in ye hour of my trauill,
which now drawes nye, Lord clothe me
with ye armer of patience, and giue me
a cherfull submetion to thy will, whether
it be for Liffe, or deathe ; in bothe Lord
make me thyne. Amen.

A thanks geuing to my God for
y" berthe of my sone Hary, and my
Hapy and safe deleuery of him after so
greate a fitt of scicknes and weknes,
he was borne upon a Sonday
y* 29th of March 1663.
Apon that day euery weke I doe
h promas

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promas and resolue by God's asis
tanc (when I am abell) to say this
foloing prayr of thanks geuing, or
sum outher, for this unexpected
mercy. Lord pardune any ometion
I shall make, in this
my resolution.
Y° thanks geuing for SONDAY.
To my God be all ye Glory and prays
for my recouery, and hapy deleuery, and
for ye great blesing of my sone; it was
his goodnes, it was his bounty, it was
his mercy, that granted so greate a bles
ing, to so unworthy a cretuer, for I am
so base, so vde, so ungratefull that I am
not fitt to ofer prasis to my God, but
thou my Gratious God art plesed to say,
(who so offereth me thanks and praise he
Honor ethe me, and to him that ordereth his
conuersation a right will I shew f salua-
tion of God) my dearest Lorde giue me
grace so to order (by thy asistanc) my
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Liffe and Conuersation, that my prasis
may be acsepted in thy sight, for thou
shalt open my Lips O Lord, and my
mouth shall show forthe thy prays, for
thou hast shoed thy strength in my
wekenes, for my God was my Helpe
and strength, a very present helpe in
trubell, O God acording vnto thy name,
so is thy prayse unto ye worlds end ; thy
right hand is full of righteousness and of
thy goodnes and bounty thayr is noe
ende; O make my deare Hosband and I
sensabull of ye abundanc we haue felte
of them, by thy contenuaU preseruation
of us, and mercis to us, therefor this
God shall be our God for euer and euer
he shall be our guide unto Death.
Amen.
The prayer for SONDAY.
Derest Lord in thy mercy preserue
and kepe my deare Hosband, from all
blode gilltynes, preserue him from in-
ioring or horting any person what so
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euer, and preserue and kepe him from
being horte, or iniored by any, make
make him thyne, Lete his Soule be right
deare and pretious in thy sight, and
preserue his person in honer and helthe,
free from all unLafull quarels or disputs
or deuels; and that in thy great goodnes
thou hast bin plesed to preserue him
thus Long out of them, giue us grace
bouthe to prays thee for it ; and acsept
of this sixpenc which I humbely dedecat

(The last line of this pap in the MS is illegible.)
Amen.

(32 rec.) July f 29th 1663.
A thanks geuing
for my deare Hosband's deleueranc
from any dangerus ill, when he
was ouer turned in ye Coche
neare Wabridg.
My Gratious God, thou that multe-
plyes dayly thy mercis to me, increse
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by thy asistanc be inabeled to prays thee
as I ought, for thy goodnes to my Deare
Hosband and me thy vnworthy seruants,
thou gauest thy Holy Angels chardg
ouer him that he should not hort his
futt aganst a stone, thou hast preserued
him from tractor of bones, from ye vio-
lens of enemyes, and chance, and hast
brought him therow this last great dan
ger, with safety and helthe, and for all
this what haue I returned, but sins and
wekednes, but I acknoledg my falte,
and my sin is euer before me, O turne
thy fase from my sines and put out aU
my misdedes, so shaU I be abell to prays
thee, for thou shalt open my Lipes O
Lord, and my mouthe shah sho forthe
thy prays.

Sep. y" 5th 1663.
The vngodly shall not be abell to stand
in y" Judgment, nether y6 siners in ye con
gregation of the RigJiteous, How shall I
dare

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dare then to apear befor thee my God
that am so notorus a siner, yet thou 0
Lord art my defender thou art my wor
ship and y" Lifter vpe of my hed, Lord
Lift thou vpe ye Light of thy countenanc
vpon me, then will I come into thy hous,
euen vpon ye multitude of thy mercy, and
in thy fear will I worship toward thy
holy tempull. Lead me 0 Lord, in thy
righteousnes becas of my enemy, make
thy way plaine befor my Face, Lest he
deuour my Soul like a Lyon and teare
it in pieces whil ther is none to helpe, but
my help cometh of God. Conseder and
heare me 0 Lord my God, Lighten my
eyes, that Islepe not in Death, thou shalt
also Light my Candell, y Lord my God
shall make my Darcknes to be Light, 0
kepe my Soul and deleuer me, lete me not
be confounded, for I haue put my trust
in thee, Lett perfectnes and Righteous
dealing wate vpon me for my Hope hathe
bin in ye Lord.
Amen. Nov:

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Nov: f 1th 1663.
Befor ye Sacrement.
How wonderftdl is thy mercy to me,
O my Gratious God, for when my ne-
gleckt of thy seruis, my Cometions and
ometions hade brede such a Lucke-
warmenes in my Soule, that my harte
grew sade and Heuy, within me, to find
so great a dedenes thayr, thy mercyfull
hand hathe so tuched me with a sence
of my gdet, that I cane now bewale it,
and that with comfort, O Lord Lucres
that soroe, and then my Joy will be
great, in thee, for by that sorow, I shad
be come fitt to entortayne thee, for when
my Soule is bathed in my owne teears I
know that my Lord and Sauier will
thoroly dense it, in his Bloud, and then
present it to my father and his father,
in Hous hands it will be safe for euer-

more.

Amen

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(34 rec.) Dec. f 24th 1663.
befor y" Sacrement.
O the vnbounded mercy of God to
mene, that wdl voutesafe to conseder so
reched a cretuer as I am, and so to con-
seder me, as not only to inuite me to
him, but to come him selfe to me, and
to giue him selfe to me, that am so
vnfitt to reseue him, that I feare to doe
it, and if I doe not, I shall be tene thou
sand times more meserabed than I ame,
hauing no cure, for all my gdt, but this,
this most blesed and pretious body and
blode of my Sauier, for this balme of
Geloed I come, and no way douting
ye cure I come, to reseue it, and when
in thy mercy and by thy purety thou
hast once more clensed me, O suffer me
not to be agane defiled, but establish
thy blesed Sperit with me, that to his
wdl, I may pay so parfitt an obedienc,
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may thrue ye merits of my blesed
Sauier, be acseptabel in thy sight 0 Lord
my God. Amen.

March f 1st 1663.
befor y" Sacrement on my berthe day.
That in thy mercy thou hast bin
plesed, O my God, to ade this yere more
to my days, I will extoU thee, but when
I conseder, how many blesings thou hast
aded to thy former mercis, I know not
How to prays thee as I ought, to recount
them, wer endles, but Lord so fiU my
harte with yc aprehentions of them, that
I may neuer seese to Loue thee, that
hath so blest me, and Lord that I may
be yB fitter to prays thee giue thy selfe
vnto me, in ye blesed vecerest, and Giue
me Grace to resigne my selfe holy vnto
thee, that being once more vnited vnto
thee by the blesed Sacrement, I may
neuer depart from thee, and thy will ;
i but

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but by thy asistanc, renewing my pro-
mas mayd at babtisme, to renounce
ye world ye flesh and ye deuell, I may,
not withstanding all thayr indeuers to
y* contrary, become Holy thine, which
Lord of thy Gret mercy grant.
Amen.
Lete me neuer forgit to prays thee
for ye preseruation of my deare hosband
and chdderne, and for ad ye comforts
I reseue by them, Continu them to me,
O my God of it seme fitt in thy sight.
Amen.

Aprell f 9th 1664.
befor ye Sacrement.
It is yB Lord, that giues him selfe
agane to me, with what confedenc dare
I presume to reseue him, that haue so
often abused of this very mercy, but 'tis
the Lord giues, and shall I not take,
yes Lorde come quickly, for thy seruant
wates for thy coming and Longs to
inioy

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59

inioy thee, not as a gest but as an inha-
bytant, that thou mayst for euer dwell
with me, and I with thee. He that
dwelleth in y" secrete place of jf most
High, shall abide vnder the shadow of
y" Allmighty. O Lete my Harte sore
vpwards and dwell with thee aboue,
then shaU I be sure of thy protecktion
heare beLow ted in thy dew time, thou
shalst transLayte me, from this earthly
tabernaked, to a Hevenly mantion,
where with Angels and Archangels and
with all ye company of Heuen I shad
Laud and magnephy thy Glorious name.
Amen.

A thanks geuing
for ye 29th of May euery yere,
it being y" Day of y" King's Hapy
restoration, and a begening to y"
Churches Setelment
What praysis cane I render vnto thee
my God, worthy thy acseptanc at any
time,

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time, tho' in the gretest aflicktions,
which stdl is Lese than my sines doe
daly deserue, and therfor requirs my
Harty and Hombed thanks for thy
goodnes, in not poneshing them, accord
ing to thayr merit. .
O What prases then, cane I now ren
der vpon this day, on ye which, thou
hast shored such multetuedes of mercis
vpon me, apon me as I partake in
ye pubLeck good, apon me as being a
member of thy Church, apon me, in
ye pertecoler, and personaU comforts,
that my deare Hosband and I, haue
reseued, by ye King's most Hapy and
miracolos restoration apon this day, a
merecol past expectation. For How
did they incres that trubeled ye pese and
prosperety of this Chorch and nation,
and many they wer that rose vpe aganst
ye Just rights of thine aninted, saing
thayr is no Helpe for Jiim in his God,
but thouO Lord wert his defender, and
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arise in thy pouer and in thy mercy and
smotest ad his enemyes, and hast Broken
ye bondes of ye vngodly.
Ad prasis beLonges vnto ye Lord,
for thy Blesing is apon thy peopell.
Heare me when I call 0 God of my
Righteousness for thou hast sete vs at
Leberty when we wer in trubed, haue
mercy apon vs now, and Herkon vnto
our prases. For now that ye Lord hathe
redemed us we wdl not be afrade tho
tenn thousand of pepud should seet them
selues aganst vs, for when we caled
apon ye Lord with our voycesis, he Herd
us out of his Holy Hill, O Lete vs serue
ye Lord in Feare and reioyce befor Him,
for thou hast put gladnes in our Harte
therfor my voyce shalt thou heare betimes
O Lord early in y* morning will I di-
reckt my prases vnto thee, and will Look
vp, and Lete all them that put thayr
trust in thee reioyce, and euer be geuing
of tJianks to thee, becas thou defendest
them that Loue thee, and makest them
JoyfuU

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Joyfud in thee, for thou Lord wilt giue
thy Blesing vnto f Righteous, and with
thy fauerabull kindnes wilt thou defend
them as with a sheled, therfor Lete vs
pute away from vs ad workes of vanety,
and wekednes, for ye Lord hathe herd
y* voyc of our weping, ye Lord hathe
herd our petetion, ye Lord hathe reseued
our prayers; for ad our enemis, ye ene
mis of Chorch, and King, and nation,
ar confounded, and put to shame sud
denly ; twas in y6 Lord I put my trust,
and he hathe saued, and deleuerd us,
from them that persecuted vs, I will
therfor giue thanks vnto the Lord acord-
ing to his righteousnes, and will prase
ye name of if Lord ye most High. 0 Lord
our Governor how exsellent is thy name
in all ye worled, thou that hast sett thy
Glory aboue the Hevenes- Out of the
mouth of very Babes and Sucklings Jiast
thou ordayned strength, becas of thyne
enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy
and y1 Auenger. F

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Ye Prayer.
O Lord ade to thes multetude of
Blesings, this great one, that our ingra-
tetued may not turne them all into
corsis, O Giue vnto our Princ, and to
ye Rulers of this Chorch, and nation, to
me, and-f o my deare Hosband in per-
tecoler, so true a sence of thy mercis, as
that we may not dayre to ofend thee
that so Highely hathe blest vs, O perdon
our sins past, and Lete this day, as it is
a renewing of our prasis, becom an
incres of our deuotions, and a menes of
our repentanc, and amendment. Lead
us O Lorde in thy Eitusnes, becas of
our enemyes, make thy way playne befor
our face, for if our wekednes contenu,
'tis to be feard thou wdst increse our
enemyes, and make vs to flye befor
them; but thou O Lord and Sauier who
arte fud of mercy and goodnes, turne our
Hartes from ad our weked wase, and so
fix them vpon thee, as that we may be
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acsepted by thee, bothe heare, and
eternaly heare after. Amen, Amen.

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My God, to whome I aches my prayers
and my voues, in ad my aflicktions, I
now apeare befor thee to performe a vow
mayd for the recouery of Mr. Bumball;
whous being restored to perfitt helthe
by thy mercy, bringes me now apon my
knees to returne thanks to thee my God,
and to performe my promas mayd vnto
thee in his behalfe, which I hombely
bege of thee my God to acsept, and to
perdun any negleet or misdemenur in
the making or performing any promas
or vow, adrest to thee my God, Blesed
for euer. Amen.

June f 2nd 1664.
O Lord as thou in thy infenate good
nes, douest ade yeares to ye Liffe of my
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deare Hosband and me, ade gratetued to
our Hartes, that as this pertecoler day of
my deare Hosband's deleueranc yearely
retornes, so Lete our duty to thee in
crese, and Lete our prases to thee be
shoed, by our Liues and Conuersations,
as well as by our Lipes. For as thy
good-nes was great and thy pouer won-
derfull, in the deleueranc of my dear
Hosband apon this day, so hathe thy
mercy contenued to us euer sence, by
Heping apon us innumerabull blesings,
as if thou tookest dehght in vs, O what
ar we, and what is our Fathers Hous,
that thou shouldest conseder such ded
doges, O Lete not this mercy be alwas
in vane, and we contenu stdl, ye very
worst of thy creturs, but Lete it haue
that pourfull efect with us, for which I
know thou doust desine it, the Torning
us from our weked ways, and the n aking
us nerer, and derer, vnto thee, to which
blesed end, Lord giue us senser repen
tanc, and wdls perfittly resined to thyne,
* that

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(SSrev.)

that in ad condetions we may reioyc in
thy plesur, and striuing to doe thy will
heare, we may be acsepted by thee
Hearafter. Amen.

June ye 181* 1664.
A thanks giuing
to my God for my recouery
from Scicknes.
I sayd vnto my soule, 0 put thy trust
in God, for I shall yet giue him thanks,
for he is ye Light of my countenanc, and
my God, O that I wer abed to thank
him, for now with Joy cane I say to my
Soule turn to thy rest, for f Lord hathe
bin gratious to thee, for notwithstanding
the wekednes of my Soule, my God
hathe granted ease to my paynes, and
in sume mesuer strenth, to my weke
Body, prays ye Lord O my Soule, for
if ye Lord hade not helped thee, it hade
not fayled but thou hadest bin put to
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67

sdence in ye graue. But in ye midst of
yb trubels that were in my harte thy
comforts haue refreshed my Soule, O
Lete me go with Bouldnes to y6 throne
of Grace, that I may thayr prays thee,
with a deuout and Joyftdl harte, that I
may find mercy in ye time of need.
Amen.

1664: July f 15th.
A thanks geuing
for y° Bearthe of my daughter
Sophia.
Thou art my God, and I will thank
thee, thou arte my God, and I will
prays thee, thou art my God, and I
must Loue thee, for ad thy mercis con-
tenualy voutsafed me, and in parteco-
ler for this Last great deLeuerans from
ye payne and pered of chddberth, and
for ye Great blesing of a perfitt chdd,
thy goodnes is so knowne to me, that
I haue great resen patiently to atend
 apon

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(40 rec.)

apon thy will, in ad condetions what
soeuer, and to prays thee more, and
more, for thou hast showed me great
trubels, and aduersities, and yet hast
thou neuer forsaken me, but hast re
turned in mercy, and brought me out
of them ad, na thou hast brought me to
great Honer and comforted me on
euery side, therfor will I prays thee, and
thy faithefulnes, my Lips will reioyc
when I prays thee, and so wdl my Soule
whom thou hast deliuered, for great
things ar thay that thou hast dune for
me, and for my deare Husband, 0 Lord
who is Like vnto thee, Lete our mouthes
therfor spek of thy righteousness and
saluation, for we know no end therof.
GLor be to f father, #c.

When my Deare Hosband
was with the Ducke of Yorck, to
ingagc aganst the Duch, in Nov: 1664.
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in thy presenc, 0 be mercyfull vnto the
request of my Lipes.
Blesed is he that hathe sett his Hope
in the Lorde.
For great 0 Lorde ar thy wondorus
worcks which thou hast dune in thy
mercy for me, Like as be also thy
thoughts, which ar tow us warde, and
yet thayr is none that ordereth them
vnto thee.
I am sure I doe not, for if I should
declar and speke, of ad thy mercis vnto
me, thay ar more than I am abed to
expres, nay more than my thoughts ar
abed to compreHend.
Let such as feare thee, and haue
knowne thy mercis as I haue dune, be
turned unto thee.
Lorde thou hast Delt gratiously with
me, for I may wed say, it is good for me
that I haue bin aflicted.
For I remember thy mercis 0 Lorde
and reseue comfort,
Thy many and great mercys to me of
oulde,

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oulde, is now my comfort in this trubed,
for the absenc and danger of my deare
hosband. For in this my trubed, Lord what is
my hope, truly my Hope is euen in thee.
Lord thou knowest all my desirs and
my groning is not hid from thee.
It is Lorde for the safety, Honer, and
Helthe of my deare hosband.
Lorde as thou hast so often presented
him in the gretest dangers, and returned
him safe to me, and his deare childerne
agane. Lete not Lord thy mercy now slack,
for in thee O Lorde doe I put my trust,
thou shalt anser for him 0 Lorde my
God. Forsacke him not 0 Lorde be not
thou fare from him.
Haste thee to helpe him 0 Lorde God
of oure saluation.
I haue often wated patientely apon
the Lorde, and he hathe stdl inchned
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And hathe deleuerd me, and my deare
Hosband out of ad our distresis.
With draw not now thy mercy from
vs O Lorde, but Lete thy Louing kind-
nes and thy mercy alwas preserue my
deare Hosband.
Lord Lete it be thy plesur to deleuer
him, be neare O Lorde to Helpe him
in ad his dangers.
And then O Lorde pute a new song
into myne and my deare Hosband's
mouthe, euen a song of thanks geuing
vnto our God.
Then many shall see it and feare, and
shall put thayr trust in the Lorde.
And Lete all thos that seeke thee, be
Joyfull and glad in thee, and Lete such
as Loue thy saluation, say always The
Lord be prased.
And Lete my deare Hosband's, and
my dehght, be alwas in thy comande-
ments, which we haue Loued.
For thou arte oure helper andredemer
make no Long tarying O oure God.
Amen. A

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A Prayr of thanks Geuing
for my Deare Hosband's safe returne
Home, when he went out with
the Duck of Yorck to see.
Wensday Decern: ye 1th 1664.
Blesed O euer Blesed be the Lord
God euen the Lord God of Israel, which
only doth wondrous and gratious things.
O Let my hart be filled with thy
Maiesty, and with the sence of thy
mercis. 0 God thou arte my God, early will I
seek thee.
And I will pay my vows which Ipro-
mased with my Lips, and spake with my
mouthe when I was in trubell.
Derest Lord acsept of them, euen my
voues of prayes and thanks geuing vnto
thee my God.
Praysed be God, wJiich hathe not cast
out my prayer, nor turned his mercy from
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the voyse of my prayre.
For thou O my God hast held the
soule of my deare Hosband in Life, and
hathe not suffered his feet to slip.
For thou hast returned him in safety,
and Honer, Home to me and his deare
Childerne, which was the request of my
Lips. O Come hether and hereon, ad yee
that feare God, and heare what he hathe
dune for me.
I caled vnto him with my mouthe,
in my trubed for the absenc, and danger
of my deare Hosband.
And he hathe turned my trubed into
Joy, for which O Lete me giue him
prayse with my tong.
For ad men that see it must say, this
hathe God done, for thay shad perseue
that it is his work.
The righteous shall reioyce in the Lord,
and put his trust in him, and all they that
ar treue of herte shall be Glade.
T/wu O God arte pray sed in Sion, and
L vnto

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vnto thee shall the vows be performed,
euen my vows of prays and thanks
Geuing. O be Joyfull in God all ye Lands,
sing praysis vnto the Honer of His name,
make his prays be Glorious.
I wid say vnto my God O how won-
dorfull arte thou in thy worcks, in thy
worcks of mercy towards the Sones of
men, for which ad the world shall wor
ship thee, and prays thy name.
O prays our God with me, all ye
peopell, and make the voyse of his praise
to be Herd.
O my derest Lorde Lete me in per
tecoler neuer forgitt to Bles, and prayse
thee, who hathe so often preserued bothe
my deare Hosband, and me, from ad
danger and dishoner, and I Doubte not,
but that in thy Greate Bounty, thou
widest be plesed to contenue this thy
hande of mercy to vs bothe, which I
Hombely bege and expect, not for any
deserts of our owne, but for the sacke, and

and merits, of my Derest Lord and
Sauier. Amen.

March f 1st 1664.
0 Eternall Lord God, whous goodnes
is euer Lasting and whous mercy re-
chethe from generation to generation,
euen to the therd and forthe jenoration
of them that Loue and feare thee. O how
Am I filled with Loue and wonder,
when I medetat apon thy mercis to me
and mine. O Lete me neuer forgitt to
commemorat as I aught, the great bles
ing voutsafed vnto me, by thy bountefud
Leberalety, as apon to morow, in the
preseruation and deleueranc of my deare
Hosband and ad that party ingaged by
him, from the great perells and dangers
thay wer in. O Lord it was thy poure,
it was thy goodnes, that returned my
prayers into my owne bosom, in grant
ing my hombell request, and it is that
same

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same mercy and goodnes that hathe
preserued bothe me, and mine, euer senc,
and voutsafed vnto my deare hosband
and me, once more the opertunety, of
prasing thee, for thes thy mercis, and of
performing my voue vnto thee. Lord
(44 rec.) in thy mercy acsept bothe of my deare
hosband and me, and make vs and ad
that shad reseue with vs acseptabed
gests at thy tabed, and Lord if it seeme
good in thy sight, grant vnto my deare
hosband and me, many yeares of comfort
together, that we may serue and prays
thee in, but not our will but thine, be
dune in all things, be it as it seemethe
good in thy sight. Amen.

Mar: f 25th 1664.
Will my God once more admitt me,
the most vnworthyest of cretuers, to be
reseued a gest at his tabed. O quicken
me then with thy Louing kindnes that
so I may becom acsepted by thee, and
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inabuled by thee, to kepe the testimo
nies of thy mouthe. O Lete me neuer
forgitt thy commandements for with
them thou hast quickened me. I am
thine, O saue me, Thy hands haue mayd
me and fationed me, O giue me vnder-
standing, that I may Lerne thy comand-
ments. Suffer not my sins to defas thy
emage, which with thyne owne hand
thou hast imprinted on me, but so dense
and purephy my gilty Soule, in the
Blod of my derest Sauier, as that thou
maest perserue it to be thyene owne, O
Lete thy Louing mercis come vnto me,
that I may Liue, and that thy Law may
be my delight, so that my hart may be
sound in thy statuetes, that I may not
be ashamed, and derest Lord grant that
my dear hosband, my chdderne and
my selfe, may spend our hole Liues in
thy seruis, to thy Honer, and Glory and
to our Souls comfort, which derest Lord
Grant for my Sauier 's sack.
Amen. O

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O my God how cane I sofetientely
prays thee, that hathe bin plesed to
chuse for me, that which I doubt not
but thou wiliest be gratiously plesed to
make a blesing to me, the stay of my
deare hosband heare. O Lord what am
I or what is my father's hous, that I
should be thus consedered by thee, to
haue my deare hosband preserued at
home, free from the danger of sea and
ware; O thou that canest preserue in
the midst of the gretest dangers, pre
serue my deare hosband from ad harme
or dl whatsoeuer, whoume thou hast
kept by thy mercy out of thos apering
dangers, shelter him safe, under the
shado of thy wkigs, from ad sinn, or
shame, or harmes, ether at home, or
abroude, for thos whoum thou protectest
ar alwas safe, as by experenc we haue
found, therfor Lete bothe my deare
hosband, and me, all was prays thee,
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Lete thy wdl alwas gouerne vs, and
Lete vs alwas submitt so joyfudy to it, as
that for the sacke and merits of my
derest Lord and Sauier, we and ours
may be acsepted by thee. Amen.

Juue y6 1st 1665.
in the Great Plage.
Ponder my words O Lord and Con-
seder, my petetions. O harken thou vnto
the voyce of my calling my King and my
God. For vnto thee doe I make my
prayre, in the Behalfe of the hole nation
in Jenerall, and of my famely in per
tecoler, that thou wdest be plesed to
comand thy Angel to cease from ponesh-
ing, that this plague of pestdenc, which
is begun in this nation, may goe no
farder, but at thy comand may stope,
for tho thy Rothe be just aganst vs, yet
Lord remember mercy.
And that in thy great mercy thou hast

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hast bin plesed hetherto to kepe it out
of my famely, Lete me and mine neuer
forgitt to prayse thee.
Lete vs offer our sacrefice of prayse,
and put our trust in the Lord. For if
we call apon the Lorde he will heare vs,
Lord Lift thou vp, the Light of thy
countenanc apon vs, and defend vs in
this time of danger bothe my deare
hosband and me, my childerne, and ad
my famely, ad mine, and ad that thou
hast bin gratiously plesed to giue vnto
me, ad that I am bound to pray for, my
parents and my frinds, ad that ar neare
and deare vnto me.
Derest Lord direct and gide my deare
hosband, and me, what we shad doe,
wher we shad abide, that in ad things
we may doe thy wdl, and in what playce
soever we be, derest Lord protect bothe
vs, and ours, ether abrod or at home.
Eebuck vs not in thine indignation,
nether chastis vs in thy displeasure.
But haue mercy apon vs O Lord, for we

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we desire to be thine.
Lord make vs so, for thou Lord wilt
giue thy blesing vnto the Righteous, and
with thy fauerabull kindnes wilt thou
defend them as with a shield, for all they
that put thayr trust in thee Reioyce,
O Lord in thee doe I trust, Lete me
neuer be confounded. O Giue thy an
geli charge ouer this famely, that the
destrying angeli may not aproche it.
But Lorde with what confedenc, cane
I aske this mercy at thy hands, conseder-
ing how often I haue prouoked thee to
Rothe and indignation, by a multetued
of sins and transgretions, Knoing that
thou hast prepared for the weked, the
instruments of deathe, and that if a
sener douthe not turne from his weked
ways, thou O Lord wilt whet thy sorde
and bend thy boe, and make it redy to
destry them, but turne thou vs O good
Lord, and so shad we be turned, for
if thou sJiouldest be extreme to mar eke
what is dune amis, O Lorde who could
abyde

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abyde it, but thayr is mercy with thee,
and therfor thou shalt befered.
My helpe comethe of God, for the
Lord wdl be our defender, he will be
oure refuge in this time of nede.
Amen.

Dec: ye 10th 1665.
To thee O God that aboundest in
mercy doe I ,come, relying apon that
mercy, without which confedenc I durst
not aproche thy tabell being alltogether
vnfitt for such a blesing, being ouer-
Loden with sines and infermetis bothe
of Soule, and body, Lord perdun y" one,
and strenthen ye outher, that I may be
inabuled to prays thee as I ought in
y" Land of ye Leuing, my derest Lord
doe not only admit me a wellcom ges at
thy tabed, but so comfort and strenthen
me by it, that I may be inabuled in ye
strenthe of it, to suffer what it shall
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and bed of wecknes, which payns and
wecknes Lord metegate, as it shad seme
fitt in thy sight, and bles my deare
Chdd with the Sacrement of babtisme,
and grant that it may be perfitt in body
and mind, and a comfort to my deare
Hosband and me, that bothe together
we may Long prays and gloryphy thee.
Amen.

A thanks geuing
for the berthe of my sone Louis,
borne in Oxford, Decern: the 22nd 1665.
With all the Vigor of my Harte and Soule
Lete me prayse thee and thy greate name
extole ;
For thou arte gratious, bountyfull, and highe,
0 Lete my prasis vpe to Heven flye,
And perse the clouds and to thy throne asend,
Wilst heare beloe, I one my knees doe bend,
With hombell harte, and mind, desiring still
To have my hole life gided by thy ¦will,
Thou knoest best to chuse, and best to giue,
That with so many mersis, let'st me Hue, To

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To all the rest, thou hast this aded more,
The blesing of a sone, to increse my store,
To tlicc I giue him back, O fill his mind
With all the vertues, may make him inclined
To dedicate his Life vnto thy will,
And sho thy prasis forthe with all his skill,
That for his parents, and thayr childerne all,
His prayers, may on them, lete blesings fall,

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Feb: f 3rd 1666.
Lete thy prasis my Lord and my God
be allwas in my harte and mouthe. For
in all my distresis thou hast deleuerd
me, nay, when my trubeles haue become
sines, euen then, thou hast consedered
my Fralety, and forgeuen my ofence, and
geuen me ease from my trubed, and now
in thy greate mercy thou hast mayd my
feares vane, by returning my deare hos
band in safety to me, Lord perdun my
ofencis, and macke me in sum mesur
thankefull, for all thy goodnes to me the
most unworthy of thy cretuers, and bles
this blesing unto me, by preseruing my
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85

deare Hosband in helthe and safety,
and by preseruing our kindnes for one
an outher, and comfort in one an outher,
to thy honer and Glory, and the good of
our selues, and Deare Chdderne. Amen.

March y' 1st 1666.
O ur Father of mercis, giue me Leue
to prays thee, for being admited once
more to bles thee, for thy great mercy
voutsaued to us about this time, in the
deleueranc of Sr Gorge B: and seuerall
outhers ingaged by my deare hosband
for ye king from the pered thay wer then
in of deathe, derest Lord macke my
harte to be alwas fud of Loue, reuerenc,
and duty for thee, that so hily hathe
blest me, and that now at this time,
hathe in sume mesuer esed the trubed
I was in, for my  my Gratious
God macke me all was to depend apon
thee, to expecte aduis, and releue, only
from

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from thee, and in this trubed of my
 . Lete me relye holy apon
thee, for of my selfe I cane doe nothing,
Lord tacke me holy in to thy carre, for I
am thine, and ernestely desir, (all the
days of my Life) to be so, that after this
Life ended, I may dwell with thee in
Life euerLasting.
Amen.

(52 rec.) Wensday, May y" 2nd 1666.
the day I fell of my Horse.
Let me for euer Loue, and prays the Lord,
That doethe to me, his goodnes so aforde,
He douthe correct me, and yet not destroy,
Sure on his mercis, I must still relye,
He suffer d me to fall, but rased me strayt,
To Lete me know, that from his will, my fate
Did still depend, nor should I euer sofor,
When ferme on him, I did relye for socor,
O Lord forgiue me, that I did ofend
So greate a mercy, and so deare a frend,
Forgeuen I doe hope my sin is now,
Acsepted is my prays, and eke my voue. Which

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Which with a Joyfull harte I here doe pay
Wilst for my hosband, and my selfe I pray,
And for my Childerne deare, that we may
all,
Mercis reseue, and still for mercis calle.

May f 29th 1666.
To thee My God be all dew prasis giuen
For all the blesings I reseue from heven.

June y" 6th 1666.
A thanks geuing
for the Victory obtained by God's mercy
at see, apon Monday Juney" 4th 1666.
O God how greate, and pourfull is thy name,
How farre extended, is thy Glorus fame,
For this meraculus suckses at see,
Vnto thy selfe, Lete all the prasis bee ;
Tho' we were sinfull, pouwerles, and distrest
Thou hast vs wonce agane, with victre blest
And safely hathe, our generals preserued,
Such mercis Lord, we neuer haue deserued,
O Let the next, of all thy mercis bee,
That all the nation, King, and prests, and we,
May haue our hartes, so filled with thy prayse,
That for thy blesings, wc niny all sing Lnyes ;
For

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For to vs mortals, sure no prays is dew,
Senc all we do of good, it comes from you,
O neuer doe withdra thy pourfull arme,
But kepe our Church, nation, and King,
from harme,
That Hapy pease may Croune his glor'us day,
And we our dutis, strickt to thee may pay.

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July f 21th 1666.
The victory that now thou hast geuen7
Shoes my prays acsepted was by Heuen,
To thee a ganc I doe the glory giue,
Senc by thy poure we only hapy Hue.

July y" 1th 1666.
Lete the free will offerings of my mouth
plese thee O Lord, For loe tJtayr is not
a word in my mouthe, but thou 0 Lord
knoest it all to getlter. Derest Lord order
and direct them so that with them I
may euer prays thee, and be shoing
forthe thy goodnes, to my deare hos
band, me, and mine. O Let me neuer
forgitt them, and at this time in per
tecoler

T Iscou n tess Mo r daunt.

tecoler Lete me Laude thy name, and
reioyce in thy mercy, that hathe de-
leuerd my deare hosband in sume mesur
out of the great strayte he was in,
hauing regard to quiat and Honer. O
Let thy goodnes be euer knoAvne, and
admired, for it was thou my derest Lord
that gaue our bisnes Fauer with S1' S.
F. Lord perfitt the worck thou hast
begon, and if it seme fitt in thy sight
bring us altogether out of this trubed,
and ad outhers that douthe or shall
opres vs. Locke downe in mercy apon
this sinking nation, and for thy goodnes
sacke, Laye thy supporting hand to this
church and nation, and notwithstanding
the pryed and strenthe of our enemys,
Let them see it is vane, where thou
takest the mator into thy hand.
Amen.

July ye 21th 1666.
My derest Lord, tho it be still
Thy Hevenly and Gratious will,
N

That

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That I apon the Earthe abide,
Yet Let my Harte with thee reside,
For the Helthe that thou hast geuen,
Thanks I wiU returne to heuen ;
From thy hand I doe reseue it,
O Lete me euer so beleue it,
That vnto thee, I still may pray,
And still my vous to thee may pay,
Which derest Lord acsept aboue,
It is the offer of my Loue,
My childerne, Selfe, and Hosband bles
With helthe and Loue, and good suckses.

(55 rev.) Agist y" 21
That in my Jorny, thou hast Safety sent,
To thee dear Lord Let all my prays be bent,
And that my hosband, and my childerne
deare,
Wer all preserued, by thee, in Safety heare,
And that we all agane, with Joy ar mete,
O hoAV cane I enuf thy prays repete,
But derest Lord, doe thou acsept my will
Which vnto thine, is dedecated still.

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Sep: ye 6th 1666.
Thursday.
A thanks geuing
for the sloping of the Fire
in London.
It is to thee, my Derest Lord, that I
For help, and safety, in distress dowe crye,
To thee tis fitt, I should all prays retorne,
That when the Sety greate inflames didborne,
My hosband, childerne, selfe, and all that's
mine,
Was safely garded by thy powre deuine,
Thy powre I saw, in that deuouring fire,
Admired thy Justis, and yet dared desire
That thou woulds't thy destroying Angelbede
To stop, and heare vnworthy mortals plede
For mercy, which so often I had felte,
The thoughts of it my soule in teares did melt,
And gave me corag constantely to pray,
Tell at the last, thou herd'st, and bede'st
him stay,
Saing it is enuff, I wiU now trye
Once more whether they'l chuse to Hue or dye ;
O lete vs neuer such a blesin louse,
Refusing mercy, and distroction chuse, Let

(56 rec.)

Let the remembranc of thy powr and Loue
Rays all our thoughts and prasis high aboue,
That by the stricktness of our Liues, we may
Shoe our resentment of the Loue, and say
'Tis from thy hands we did this mercy tacke,
0 Let vs neuer thy Just Laws forsack;
That ending our Life heare, we may be blest,
In Abraham's bosom, with eternall rest.
Amen.

(56 rev.) A tJianks geuing
for my deare Hosband's
being relesed from the trubell
oca tio ned him by Mr. Taler, in Parlement.
February the 8th 1666.
Fryday.
'Tis to thy seruants, Lord thou trubell giues,
He is not hapy, that without it Liues,
Thy rod, as weU as staff, douth comfort bring,
And mackes vs equaly thy prays to sing,
For long, thy Rod, thou neuer did'st permit
Apon our Shoulders heuely to sitt,
Thy Comfortes straytdid vs releue andchere,
Taking awav the casis of our feare,
My

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My Hosband, and my selfe, thou ofte hast
brought
To dangers great, whereby Ave still Aver taute
More fermely on our God for to relye,
And patiently to beare Avithout replye
Thy fatherly corection, which in Loue
Thou sent'st to us, for blesings, from aboue,
Who neuer left us Long in any greefe,
But in thy mercy sent us soune relcfe.
As then most gratiously thou did'st alowe
Socor to us, that did with trubell bowe,
Deleuering us, with Honer, and Suckses,
Out of thos hands, who did us sore opres;
0 what retornes of prays ought we to giue
To God, that with such mercis let'st us Liue.
O Let us spend the remnant of our days
In our Creater's, and Redeemer's prays,
Let thy most blesed Sperit, on us rest,
And mack our praysis with acseptanc blest.
Amen.

March f 5th 1666.
A thanks geuing
for my safe deleuery of my
Daughter Anne.
In the time of my trubell I sought the

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the Lord.
I cryed unto God with my voys, euen
unto my God did I crye, and he herd
me. And hathe deleuered me out of my
danger. Thou, euen thou, O my Lord hathe
dun it.
Thy way O God, is Holy, who is so
great a God, as thou arte.
I will remember the mercys of the
Lord, and call to mind his wonderfull
workes. For his power haue I euer seene in
my Aveeknes, and felt his mercis in my
gretest distresis.
O Let me euer be talking of thy
wonderfull worcks, and Let me allwas
be medetating of thy goodnes.
For thy mercis ar infenat, who can
repete them/
For tho' hi thy wisdom thou doest visit
my ofencis with the Rod, and my sins
Avith Scourges, neuer the Les thy Louing
kindnes

kindnes hathe thou neuer taken from
me, nor sufferd thy truthe to fade.
Therfor bles and magnephy the Lord
thy Greater, O my soul, for all his mer
cis and fauers extended to thee, and all
that is within me, holy and pure, giue
prays vnto and bles his holy and greate
name. Amen.

Monday ye 1st of July 1666.
A thanks geuing
for the presentation of my Deare
hosband, myselfe, childerne, and famely,
from the plage of pestelenc, and for our
saffe retorne home, and for the sesing of
that plage of pestilenc in tJiis nation;
for all which I formerly mayd
my hombell request.
How greate my God thy mercy did apeare,
That we in safety aU retorned were,
Free from thos frights, and ills, that sent us
hcnc,
Preserued safe, by thy most sure defenc, Whihl

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Whilst the destrying pestelenc raged heare,
Then great and smaU did falle, both farr and
neare
Felt thy seuerist Rod, thy Aros keene,
And none thayr was, of poAvre, to stand be
tweene
Vs and our sins, except my Sauier deare,
To him I came, and did with hombell feare,
My supplecations macke, resting asured,
Our saftis all, should be by him procured,
To him I mayd my voues, he them acsepts,
And all of us in safety he proteckts,
And now that thrue the nation helthe apeares,
And farr is banesh'd aH our case of feares,
0 Let the pament of my vous now bee
Acsepted gratiously my God by thee,
That we may safe in thy protection Liue,
And unto thee our prasis still may giue,
For 'tis from thee alone that Ave are blest,
0 Let us euer on thy mercys rest.
Amen.

(58 rev.)

(59 rec.) July 2nd: 1661:
A Prayr of thanks geuing
to my God, to be sayd euery Monday
in the yere, so long as I Liue. or sum
outher

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91

outher of tJianks, for the great mercy,
that my deare Hosband past unquestioned
in the Parlement, tJiat was sumoned in
July, by thayr being at tJuit time uery
maletious desins aganst him, bothe
by Mr. Taler and outliers.
Monday.
Thou O Lord art worthy of all Honer
and prays, for thou hast turned for my
deare hosband, and for me, and for bothe
our good, our mourning ; and the greate
persecution of our enemies was fruste-
rated, by thy mercy, and turned to our
advantag. I must therfor bles and pras
the Lord, for ad that he hathe dune unto
me, at ad times, as wed in aduercyty,
as prosperety; and his prays, as it shall
euer be in my mind and harte, so shall it
be contenualy in my mouthe, by declar
ing it to outhers. Let all, who soeuer
thay be, that haue felt God's fauers, as
I haue dune, magnephy and extoll the
mercis of the Lord AA'ith me, for his
o goodnes,

98

TJie Diarie of th

•te

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goodnes, and Let vs Joyfuly with one
accord exalt, and prays his name toge
ther, for when I was in trubell I sought
the Lord by prayr, andhombeled myselfe
before him, and he reiected not my pe-
tetion, but gratiously herd and granted
it, and he not only deleuerd my deare
hosband from the present danger he
Avas hi, but from ad ourfeares adso, Avhen
I conseder and duly weigh thy goodnes
O my God I canot but in the depth of
admeration say What is man that thou
art so mindfull of him, or the son of man
that thou so uisitest and regardest him,
O Lord our God how exselent is thy
name in all the Avoided, and hoAV is thy
glory incresed, by thy abondent mercys
to us meserabell reches. Thy Glory is
far aboue the heuens, and yet thou
hombelest thy selfe so fare as to preserue,
and asist, and deleuer, my deare hos
band, my selfe and all ours (the most
uiiworthyest of thy cretuers,) by thy
wonderfull mercy, therfor out of the
mouthe

mouthe of very babes and sucklings,
shall thy prays be soung, and as for vs
and our famely, we will seme the Lord
our God. Amen .

A thanks geuing
to my God, for tJie recouery of
my Sone Charles.
Agosty' 14th 1661.
I will prayse the Lord, and giue
thanks vnto his holy name, Avith my
hole harte, O harken thou vnto the voys
of my prays, for vnto thee did I mack
my prayer, O my Lord and my God,
therfor to thee will I direckt my prays.
For I Avill prays and bles, and giue thee
thanks all the days of my Life; what
thanks cane I render vnto God, for all
wherin he hathe spared and forbom vs,
and ours, vntell iioav. O Let me euer
in all things, submit to thy will and
depend apon thee my derest Sauier. Doe

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100

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Doe thou 0 Lord I beseche thee, in thy

vnspekable Louingkindnes, so order and

despos of my cleare Hosband, me, and

ad mine, as thou knowest to be best
pleasing to thee and most expedient for
vs.
Amen.
(61 rec.)
A thanks geuing
for the Duclis rernoue out of
the reuer, when the nation was in so
greate danger, to be sayd euery week, so
1
long as I Hue, (this or sum outlier) 1667.
Safer day.
My derest Lord, acsept I pray
The offer of my thanks this day,
1
To thee I Avill for euer pray,
And all my thanks to thee I'll pay,
For so greate mercy to us all
i
As to deleuer us from thrall,
How neare distraction wer we brought
No hope was left, not any thought
Could us direckt, which way to tneke,
Till thou my Cod did us awacke,
And
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101

And mayd us know, 'twas thee alone
That could deleuer us from Scorne,
Thou didest thayr Counsels all destroy,
Not leting them us mor anoy,
But didest thayr hartes to peese inclyne
When our men thay did combine,
And thought of nothing les than Loue,
Which blesing came from thee abouc,
Deare Lord contenu it below,
And macke us all in grace to groe.
Amen.

A thanks geuing
to my God, for my saue pasag at Sea,
and safe landing at Calis.
Ascripe unto the Lord worship and
strength, giue the Lord the honer due
unto his name, for it is the Lord that
commandeth the waters. It is the Lord
that Ruleth the sea, the voice of the
Lord is mighty in operation, the voice
of the Lord is a glorious voice. O
worship the Lord with holy worship,
for the Avonderfull mercis he hatheshoed

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shoed to me, the most unworthyest of
the Daters of men. O Lord my God I
prayed unto thee and thou didest heare
me, and deleuer me, from the greate
dangers we wer in; thou Lord hast
brought my Soule out of hell, thou hast
kepte my Liffe from them that goe
downe to the pit; Sing prasis unto the
Lord, O ye sants of his, and giue thanks
to him, for a rememberanc of his holynes,
for his wrath endureth but the twinkling
of an eye, and in his pleasure is Liffe;
Jieuynes may indure for a nig Jit, but Joy
cometh iu the morning ; O my God I
will giue thanks vnto thee for euer.

Amen.

n\o m. \ We arrived at Mumpiler
y' 22: of Decern: Thorsday, 1667.
0 what am I, the Basest of aU things,
That should be cared for, by the King of Kings,
That his cxseding greatenes should desend,
Me to direckt, and me for to defend. It

It was his mercy, that my stepes did gide
Anto this playce to come, and here reside,
Wher from his goodnes, I doe all expeckt,
Helthe to me heare, and that he will proteckt
My hosband, childerne, selfe, and all that he
Hathe gratiously bin plesed to giue to me,
That when in Joy, we all at home shall meet,
We may our prasis, offer at his feeat,
And then we may to aU the worled declar
His goodnes shoed to us, bothe farre and neare,
And that our childerne all in grace may grow
That Ave may Joy in teching them to know
That gratious God, who cane alone proteckt
Us heare beloe, and vs aboue eleckt,
Thayre with his saints, eternaU prays to giue
Vnto the Lambe, that doeathe for euer Liue.
Amen.

March y \22 1667.
Acsept Deare Lord in mercy, I thee pray,
The weack performanc of my vous this day.

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2 1668.

June yc
O Lord forgiue, and gratiously reseue
My hombell prasis which to thee I giue,

Tho'

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(63 rev.)

Tho' the performanc of my vou be weeke
Acsepte it derest Lord I thee intreate.
Let me for euer sing thy prays
That hathe prolonged thus my days,
And giue me grace to spend them in
Thy worship 0 eternall king.
'Tis thou 0 Lord cane us alowne defend
From all our foes, and sucker to us send.

A thanks getting
for my safe deleuery of my Sone
Osbert, borne at Mumpiler y" — of Apr el
1668.
being Ester Eue.
I canot numbur derest Lord thy mer
cis, that thou contenualy voutsauest to
me, the basest of thy Creturs, this last
deleuranc from so greate a danger, shall
macke me from all shin I hope a stranger,
Dear Lord reneAV thy grace within my
! harte, that on my parte, all prasis I may
render to thee, my Life's defender. O
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for in thy presants is ad end of strife,
the woiied, the flesh, the deuell, shall
loues thayr poure, and by thayr snares
no more strive my Soule for to devoure,
when in thy presants lenioy thos plesurs
which nothing cane distroy.
I doe reioyce and prays my gratious
God, for my deare Sone which- thou
wast plesed to send me, that welingly
I might retorne him back.
O Let me euer vnto thy Avill submit
that I may adwas gouerned be by it,
my hosband and my childerne, derest
Lord protect, and gratiously doe thou
thayr was direckt, and when Ave all at
home in comfort Liue together, Lete thy
most gratious hand that brought us the
ther, stdl shelter and preserue us for
thyn owne, senc that alone^cane macke
vs hapy.
My soul cleare Lord doe thou for ever fill
With Loue, with duty, and with prasis still,
And by thy merits Derest Lord supply
My imperfections, when to God I cry
p For

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(67 rec.)

For mercy for vs all, for all that's mine,
0 doe thou gratiously to vs inclyne.
Amen. Juhl ,f i:reteri.
******
Fryday, yc 1 9: of October.
Mon tp Her.
Kings shall fall downe, and worship thee
0 King,
Nations shall serue thee, and thy prasis sing,
Th' flickted, and the poor, thou hast releued,
Thou neuer falest them, in the time of neede,
Thou comest to them, lick showres upon the
grass,
Gentely, distdling, comforts, when alas
My faint and tyred hopes, wer almost spent,
Thou herd'st the prayers, that vpe to heuen
I sent,
My God, my strenth, and portion is for euer,
Let not my fralety, ease me e're to seuer,
From thee my God, doe thou my futsteps gide,
That in thy presants I may still reside,
That when my flesh, my hart, my life dothe
fade,
My derest Sauier may for me preuaU.
That Fauer in thy countenanc, I may find,
And that my Judg, m ay proue to me most kind, That

That into blis and Glory I may be
Reseued by him, who gaue his Life for me.
Amen.

No: y" 1:
WJien my deare Hosband
was apon his Jorny to Montpiler
and my sone Hary.
To houme, O my Glorus God, but
to thee, shoidd I come, Whome haue I in
heu.cn but tJiee, and what haue I on
Earthe but from thee, ad things with
out thee ar mesery, and all things blest
by thee contrebut to my hapynes, my
hosband and my childern ar blesings
from thee, and mayd so by thee, deare
Lord contenu them so to me, and me to
them; that thro thee, Ave may be com-
fortes to one an outher; and macke vs
all thine ; bles my deare hosband in this
his Jorny, by thy protection and proue-
clenc, bring him safe to me, and our
child, that is a coming ; and bles vs heare
to gether;

(67 rev.)

to gether; and as thou hast euer bin our
most gratious pro teeter (and I trust wdl
euer be) so deare Lord, direckt and
gouerne ad our actions and resolutions,
Let thy wdl allwas gouerne ouers, and
let our will allwas submit to thine; that
AAhich is thy will, alwas conserning vs,
wdl euer be best for us, O Lete thy
mercy allwas direckt vs in it, for Avith-
out that infinit mercy of thine, Ave shad
allwas goe a stray; doe thou O Lord
Lede vs in the pathe of Liffe, for in thy
presens is the fullnes of Joy, and at thy
right hand thayr is plesurs for euer more.
Amen.

(68 rec.) No: if 9: Fiday.
Deare Lorde I am heare befor thee,
most hombely to acknoAvledg thy infenat
goodnes, in votsafmg my deare hosband
a safe and hapy pasag cros the sea, and
in preseruing him so far of his jorny, as
to Paris, O Let thy mercyfull hand goe
along

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109

along with him thoroout, that he may
ariue here in safety, to thy honer, and
our comfort, and O Lorde be with vs,
and ours euery where, that we may al
was walke befor thee, in the light of thy
countenanc, O Let vs and ours serue the
Lord our God, that we may be blesed
for euer. Amen

A Prayr
at my deare Hosband's arming
at Montpiler, No:f 11; 1668.
being Sonday.
'Tis thou my Lord art greate, and good, alone
Thy mercys derest Lord to vs ar knowne,
Throeought our Liues thay constantelyapeare
And helpe to banish our well grounded feare
Which our contenuall giltes create,
Making vs drede our sade deserued faite,
Which to releue, all human helpes ar vane,
Did not thy goodnes rayse us upe againe,
Saing, my grace sofetient is, for thee I dyed.
And will forgiue thee, and with thee reside,
If all thy giltes, thou'lt lay aside,
Who

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110

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Who can that hapy worck efeckt but thee,
Most pourfull Lord, doe it, O do't that we
Most cherfuly may sing thy wondro's prays,
And in thy seruis, end our hapy days,
Let thy pourfull hand that brought him hether
Preserue and kepe vs hapely to gether,
And gouerne so -the remnant of our Liffe
That which shall serue thee best, may be our
striffe,
And that our childerne and our seluesmaybee
For euer hapy, being blest by thee.

(69 rec.) Montpiler. Dec: f 22; Saterday.
A medetation
apon CJirisfs Sermon on the Mount.
Enlighten my eyes, that I may Avalke
not in darcknes, but in the way of thy
comandements, O my Lord, Lede me
in the pathe of Liffe, and suffer me not
to stray. O Let thy wordes be euer
before me, thy blesed Sermont in the
Mount, imprint it in my harte, that it
may be the gide by which I may stere
the hole corse of my Liffe. It is thyne owne

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Ill

owne wordes, O macke me. to valu them
as thine, and to obay them as thine;
To that end, most blesed Sperit, giue me
thy asisting gras, without which, I cane
nether comprehend, nor obay them, and
Avith Avhicb, I cane doe ad things.
O suffer me not to resist thy most
blesed Sperit, that I may haue a plase
in the Kingdom of Heauen.
That I may so morne for my sins, as
that by it I may be comforted.
And that in meeknes I may pas this
earthely pdgremage.
O macke me to honger and thirst
after Righteousness, that I may be filled,
and that I may obtaync mercy, Lord
macke me mercyfull.
Thou oidy Lord canest macke me
pure in harte, (that commandest me to (69 rev.)
be so,) Avash me by vertue of thy most
pretious blod, (shed for me,) and I shall
be whiter than snow, and so dense, and
clothe me Avith thy merits, that I may
see God, for I shall behould thy pre-
santcs

112 The Diarie of the
santes in Riughtusnes; Clothed with
the Rightusnes of my Derest Lord and
Sauier, and when I awack vpe after
thy Licknes, I shall be satisphid with
it. For the pease of God which paseth
ad vnderstanding Let me euer pray, and
that I may be thought worthy to inioy
that pease; O make me to hue pesa-
bely in this world, to secke pease Avith
ad men, and to secke and indeuer, the
pease of all men, that I may not oidy
be caled, but may be thy chdd, O my
God; and that when persecutions come,
I may submit to them as thy chdd, and
reioyes in them, if they be for Right-
eousnes sake, that I may haue a portion
in thy Kingdom, O my Father.
O Lete me neuer deserue to be euel
spoken of, O my Sauier, but if thou
thinkest me worthy to be reuiled and
persecuted, and dispised, for thy name
sake, thy wdl be dune.
O Let my Joy be anserabell, to the
aduantag

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113

aduantag thou promasis to thos that ar
derided for thy sacke, that my reward
may be in Heuen, but I am not worthy,
I am not worthy of it.
But derest Lord doe thou so sesen
my hart with thy grace, that I may neuer
be cast out from thy presanc, but may
by the asistanc of the holy Sperit, so
hue, as that outhers Avho shall see the
Light of thy countenanc shine apon
me, may glorephi the Father which is
in heauen.
And thou O Lord that earnest to ful-
fid, and not to destroy the LaAv, giue
me grace so farre to foloAV thy exsamped,
as to obay thy Holy Commandements,
to the vtmost of my indeuer, that by my
exsampel I may teache them to outliers,
that tho' I am altogether vn worthy of a
greate playse in thy Kingdom, yet thoro
the merits and mercy of my derest Sauier
I may be mayd fitt, to be reseued the
ther tho' into the Last, and the Loist
playse thayr.
q And

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(70 mi.)

And that I may not be shut out from
thes hopes, of entering in to thy King
dom, Grant that my righteousnes may
exceede that of the Scribs and Farisees,
Let it be senser and harty, Lete me so
loue thee, as that for thy sacke I may
loue all man kind, and so loue them, as
that in obedienc to thee, I may not only
obstane from horting of any, but may
to the vtormost of my poure doe good
to ad; Grant that I may forgiue all that
I have aught aganst, and that I may be
reconcyled to all that hathe aught aganst
me, with sorow for hauing ofended them,
becas by it I ofended thee my God.
0 my Lord and my God, Let me not
with thos of old, contente my selfe with
barely refraning from the acte of adul
tery, but giue to me thy Hombed seruant
so strickt a modesty, that I may not ofend
in my thoughts or Looks, but let the
chastety of my conuersation and beha-
uier preuent outhers from ofending in
thayr hartes; and let me suffer any Los
ether

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ether of a parte or of the hole of my
body, rather than ofend thee in my harte ;
O Lete my Duty and afection be so in-
tyre to my hosband, as that he may not
haue the Least case or inclenation to
parte with me, or be diuorced from me.
And let my conuersation be alwas
conformabell to thy instroctions, Let it
be without violens or pation, Let Yea
and Nay, be my most ernest asertions,
and let truthe so constantely apeare in all
my Avas, as that thayr may nede no
greter, to conuinc the truthe of what
I say, Let all swereing be vnknowne
to me, in my conuersation, and obhored
by me, in that of outhers.
Derest Lord grant me this hapynes,
if it be thy Avid, that I may pas my dayes
without greate quareles or disputes, and
that I may inioy my right without being
obliged to sue for it, but if for my chil-
dernes defenc, I am forsed to macke vse
of the Law of the nation, Suffer me not
to abuse of it, bv vndertaking any vnla- full

fud shutes, but let me rather suffer, than
opres, and reseue inioryes, than doe them.
O my God giue me a harte, desirus
to doe good to ad, and if it seme fitt in
thy sight, a poure to doe so, that I may
(71 rec.) turne none a way, that comes to me, for
socor, but may doe good, and right "to
ad, rather by inclination, than force; O
Let the compation of my harte extend
it selfe to enemis, as well as frinds, to
thos that hate, as Avell as thos that loue
me, for the publicanes, loue thos that
loue them, and retorne good to thos that
doe good to them, and shall I that am
the child, of my Father that is in Heuen,
doe no more, shall not I desir to ime-
taytc the perfection of my Father, that
dos good to all, that maketh his sun to
rise apon the euile and ou the good, and
sendetfie rain on tJie iust and on the vniust,
that blesest me the viiAvorthyest of all
cretuers, and shall I retche that I am,
feelc his mercis aiid blesings euery dav
shored apon me, that dal)- multeply my
rebelens

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rebelens against him, and shall I dayre
to retayne any anger or malis aganst my
enemis'? 0 no, suffer me not to hue in
so greate a gilt; but giue me grace to
loue my enemis, to bles them that curse
me, to doe good to them that hate me,
and to pray for them which dispitefully
use me, and persecute me, and derest
Lord heare my prayeres.
And giue me grace O my Sauier, to
desire nothing, to long for nothing, to
couit nothing with pation, but to be
come acseptabell to thee my Gocl, not
caring for the apllas of men, and therfor
let my prayys be oferd vpe in secret to
thee, my God, O Let my charety be
greate but silant, let the voys of it only
reache to heuen, and pleade acseptanc
befor thee.
Let me fast and hombed my selfe for
my sins, and transgretions which ar in
numerable; Let my harte be humbeled,
and greue before thee my God, but Let
my countenanc, seeme Joyfull befor men,

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men, that my father which seethe in
secret may reward me openly, but alas
all my indeuers are so imparfitt, that I
haue to much case to feare, my concre
tion dismad, senc the light of thy grace
in me is by my abomenations become
darcknes, O how greate then is my
darcknes. O Let the light of th}* countenanc
shine apon me, that I may disserne the
true and only treasuer that nether moth
nor rust cane corrupte, nor thieus rauish
from me. O Let my treasuer be in
Heauen, that my hart may be thayr also,
for thether, O thether, haue I longing
desire to goe, that I may behould thy
presants, for in thy presants is thefullnes
of Joy, and at thy right hand thayr is
plesurs for euer more.
Lord, thou saiest, No man can seme
two masters; O Let my harte be so in-
tyerely thine, as that I may nether loue
nor obay, nor serue any, but in obedienc
to thee, my only Lorde and master, vn
der

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(72 rec.)

der whous deuine protection I cane lack
nothing, nor nede tacke thought for any
thing, for my heauenly Father knoweth
Avhat I need, and if I loue and obay
him, and macke it my furst and chefe
carre, the seeking his Kingdome, he
wdl adde all things else to me; O my
Lord, and my God, fill me so Avith the
thoughts of plesing thee, as that I
may haue no playse left in my harte
for the carres of this worled, nether
for the presant day, nor for the mor
row, for sufficient vnto the day, is the euil
therofi O my God it is a thought be
low thy seruants, to tacke carre, and
disorder them selues, for what thay shall
eat, and wherwithall thay shadbe clothed,
doe the bords of the aire, prouid for
thayr nureshment, or doe the flouers of
the fealed, tacke paynes for thayre
adornement, and yet, what erthely glory
cane be licke vnto thayrs, shad I then,
being holy resignede to thy will, mis
trust thy protection, and prouedenc ouer

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me, O retch of lyttud faith, Lord in
crese my faithe, and giue me so resined
a wid, to thine, as that thy will may
alwas gouerne mine, behould thy ser
uant prepared for thy will, becas I de-
she not to hue vnto my selfe, but vnto
thee, the only cheffe and eternall good.
My derest Lord, give me grace I most
hombely beseche thee alwas to judg my
selfe first, and then I canot be so im
pudent, as to condemne outhers, for if I
serusly exsamen my owne contienc, I
shad find thayr so many and greate
gdts, as that ad I cane see in outhers
wid but apeare as motes, compayerd to
(12 rev.) mybeames; for for my in grate tueds to
thee my gratious God, AAdio hathe bin
soabondantelymercyfullto me,ar crimes
so greate, that now outher bodis sines
cane outway them, O macke me seuerly
to judg myselfe, that I may not be
judged by thee my God, Avorthy of
eternad distraction, Avhich my sines haue
to justly deserued, but macke me mer-
cyfull

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cyfull to outhers, that I may find mercy
befor thee.
O my God how dare I hope to reseue
holy giffets, that am a dog, a beste, the
vnworthyest of ah thy cretuers, it will
be throing pearls before swine, to besto
them upon me, that tramped them daly
vnder my feet, hoAv cane I expeckt any
retornes of thos mercis, I haue so often
shghted, and abused, how desperat ar
my hopes, Avhen I conseder my owne
vnworthynes, did not this blesed saing
of my Sauiers, reuiue my sad harte,
Ask, and it shall be giuen yon, seek, and
you shall find, knock aud it sJiall be
opened vnto you, O Derest Lorde retorne
in mercy vnto me, and giue me grace,
so to aske that I may receiue, so to seeke
thee, with my hole harte, that at the
Last I may find thee, and neuer Leue
knocking, ted thou openest vnto me,
and reseuest me into glory, for I canot
aske in vaine, nor seek in vaine, nor
knock in vaine, if, by thy asistanc, I doe
r it

it with that feruer and zele, and Hume-
(73 rec.) lety, as I ought, Lord strenthen my
Aveck indeuers, that I may rest asured
of Avhat I aske, for if erthely fathers
know how to giue good giftes, vnto
thayr chdderne, how much more then
shall my Father which is in Heauen
giue good things to me, that aske and
bege and seek; and that I may reseue
Avhat I aske, derest Lorde giue me grace
to grant vnto outhers in distres, what
thay aske of me, and giue me this grace
that I may doe vnto outhers, as I would
thay should doe vnto me.
O my God Lede me in the pathe of
Liffe, that my futtstepes may not stray
out of that straite and narrow way that
leadeth vnto blise, For few there be
that find it, and without thy asistanc
none cane ataine vnto it; becas broade
is tJie way that leadeth to distinction, and
many thayr ar, to many, that find it,
derest Lord, let not my deare Hosband,
nor me, nor any of ouers, be of that
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number, but let vs and our famely
serue the Lord our God.
Derest Lord, giue me grace, to beware
of false prophets, that thayr shepes
clothing may not deseue me, and lede
me into erers, O Let thy Sperit that
neuer erers direckt my Avaies, for then
I shad discouer them by thayr frutes,
for grapes doe not groe from thornes,
nor figes from thistles, and by the same
rule I may discouer my owne Aveked
harte, for euery good tree bringeth
forthe good frute, but me that am ad to
gether corrupte, produce nothing but
euill, and am good for nothing but to
be hewen doAvne and cast in to the fire,
the fire that's neuer quenched, for tis
not euery on that saithe vnto thee Lord
Lord, that shad enter into thy kingdom,
but he that cloethe the Avid of thy father,
which is in Heuen, O giue me thy asist-
ing grace that I may henceforward obay
that heuenly wid, that in the Last day
I may not heare that dismall sentanc, of

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I neuer knew you, depart from me, ye
that worck iniquity e; but let me be lick
vnto the wise man that budt his hows
upon a rock, the Rock Crist Jesus, apon
which foundation Lord euer more let
me bdd, that when persecutions and
aflictions come, I may stand ferme and
vnmuuabell, and not perish with the
simpell pepell that haue laid thayr foun
dation, on the sandy vanetis of this
worled, for greate wid be thayr fale,
Derest Lord from that dismad fale pre
serue, I most hombely beseche thee,
bothe me and mine, my deare Hosband,
my childerne and famely, all that thou
hast bin gratiously plesed to giue vnto
me, macke vs ad thine, Derest Lord, and
then preserue vs so, and at the Last day
present vs to thy Father, clensed and
purephid in thy Blod, that we may be-
hould thy presants in Rightusnes, and
sing Eternall Halelugeas to the glory of
thy name. Amen. A

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125

A Prayr of thanks geuing
to my God, for the Recouery of
my helthe, and my safe retorne home,
to my Jiosband and childerne, after my
long Jorny to Montpiler, in that week
condetion, to be sayed euery Saterday,
tJiat or sum outher, for I came safe to'
Persens Greene apon Saterday
y' 2: of Apr ell, in the yere
of our Lord 1669.

(75 rec.)

The Prayer for Saterday.

What can I say, what cane I sing,
What offerings can I bring,
To thee my God, to thee my King,
To thee my safety, and my gide,
To thee, in whoume I still confide,
To thee, with whome I Avill reside,
To thee, who hast preserued me still,
By thy deuine, and pourfull skiU,
Preserued, for to fuUfill thy will;
Preserued from all my ills, and feares,
From all my dangers, and my carres,
O Let my Joy, be shoed in feares,

In

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(75 rev.)

In feare, for to ofend my God,
That hathe such mercis to me shode,
And hathe my helthe, to me restored,
That hathe retorned me back againe,
Wher I in safety doe remayne,
Frede from my dangers, and my payne;
My hosband, and my childerne deare,
Wer aU of them, preserued heare,
All of them, to me againe wer
Geuen, with aU that thou befor,
Had'st by thy bounty, mayd my store
Let me for euer thee adore.
Let me, and mine, spend all our days,
In thy high, and heuenly prays,
Singing to thee, in mortall Lays,
0 doe thou all our sins forgiue,
Making vs so for them to greeue,
As that we may for euer Hue,
Which blesing thou alone can'st giue.
Amen.

Oct: f 3; 1669.
The soros of Deathe compas me about
O bring thou me out of my trubell, for
in my trubell I call upon the Lord and
complayne

complayne vnto my God, and he will
heare my vise out of his holy temple,
and my complant shall come before
him, he that hathe taken away the sting
of deathe, wdl macke it swete vnto me,
for the Lord Jiim selfe is the portion of
mine inheretanc, and of my cupe, thou O
my Sauier hathe drunck of the bitter
parte, Avhich my sines deserued, and
hathe so aplyed thy merits to my vise-
rated contienc, that thay ar become my
cure, Avhat nede I then to feare, for the
Lord is my stony Rock, and my defenc,
my Sauier, my God and my might, in
whome I will trust, my buckler, the home
also of my Saluation and my refuge, of
whome nede I be afraid, no, tho' the
the pains of hell came about me, and
the snares of deathe ouertoock me, yet
wdl I trust in thee, for thou shalt giue
me euerlasting felesety, and macke me
glad with the Joy of thy Countenanc,
I haue set God alwas befor me, for he is
on my right hand, therefor I shall not
fall

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fall, Let my sentanc come forthe from
thy presanc, for my desires ar confor-
mabed to thy will, Life or deathe from
thy hands, shall be welcom to me, for
tho I am so sudyed and defiled by my
constant gdtes, as that I am altogether
vnfitt to apeare befor thee, my Judg,
yet washe me in thy blod, and I shall
be clene, Clenes me, by thy merits, and
I shall be whiter then snoAv, and fitte to
apeare befor my Sauier, and to heare
his voyes of Joy and Gladnes, for in
thy presants is the fullnes of Joy, and at
thy Right hand thayr is pleasure for euer
more. Amen.

(16 rev.) A tJianks geuing
for the berthe of my son Osmond
(borne Octo:y" — 1669. ) and
for my restoration to helthe.
Come Holy Gost my Soule inspire,
With such a zeale, with such a fire

Of

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Of Loue, and gratetude, that I
May in thy prasis, Liue and dye,
In my distres, to thee I prayed,
And did implore thy mightty ayed,
On thee I still for helpe relyed,
Which thou had'st neare to me denyed,
For in my worst, and gretest ill,
I found thee my defender stdl,
And tho my sins did all that die
And thousands more deserue, to kdl
Thou hast forborne, and stdl dos giue,
To me thy Cretur, hopes to Liue;
Besides the blesing, of a hopefull Son,
Which from thy hands, I doe reseue as on,
For thou alone canest make him so,
O Grant, that he 4 ay Hue to know
And doe thy wdl, and that we all
May with suckses for mercy call,
That Ave no more rely on worldely toys,
0 doe thou rayes our hartes to truer Joyres,
Leting vs see and thru'ly know
Thayer nothing is, that's heare below
Worthy the lest share in our Loue,
So we shall playes it aU aboue,
And with submetion camely beare
The grefes that thou shallt giuc vs heare,
s Resting

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Resting asured, throw our Sauier's merit,
A plays in Heuen Ave shaU inherit.

(18 rec.) June f 1: 1670.
O Lift thou vpe the Light of thy
Countenanc apon me, For I am in Heui-
nes, by resen of my sines, my many, and
greves sines commeted against thee my
Lord and my God, O bring thou me out
of my trobed, by feting me for thy mercy
which I stand in greate nede of, O Lord
my God in thee haue I put my trust,
Saue me for tbyr mercis sake, me, my
deare hosband, and my childerne, saue,
deleuer and proteckt vs, make us thine,
and then make us any thing, Lete our
soules be right deare and pretious in
thy sight, O Let us and our famely
serue the Lord our God, and that Ave
may doe it acseptabely, O forgiue us ad
our ofencis, purephi, and clens us, by
uertue of thy most pretious blode, O
make us acseptable gests at thy holy
tabel,

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tabel, O my derest Sauier, thou that
didest dye to purches Liffe for us, and
gaue thy selfe for us, to redeme us from
sin, now giue thy selfe to us, and by it,
bring us to thee, to thee in our afec-
tions, and dutis in this Life, to thee in
glory hi the Life to come.
Amen.

June if 12; 1670.
A thanks geuing
for our deleueranc from the fire at
Persens Greene, y* 12; of June, to be
sayed, this or sume outher, euery Sonday.
SONDAY.
Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto us, but
unto tJiy name giue the praise, for thy
Lotting mercy and for tJiy truths sake, it
Avas thou Lord, that didest coreckt us,
and then saue us, thou didest chastise
us, for our henos ofensis daly cometed
before thee, and yet hathe not geuen
vs ouer unto cleathe, Avhich we had so
often

(18 rev.)

(79 rec.)

often deserued, but I called unto the
Lord in my distres, and the Lord herd
me at large, Gracious is the Lord, and
righteous, yea our God is mercyfull, I did
finde trouble and heauiness, but the
Lord deliuerd- my Soul, and ad the
Soules that belonged unto us, ther was
not on sufferd amongst us, for thou
hast deleuered our Souls from deathe,
our eyes from tears, and our feeat from
fading; when the fire of thy heuy Judg
ments Avas kindeled amongst us, for our
daly transgretions, yet Lord in Judge
ment, thou didest remember mercy, O
our God is mercyfull, for I was in misery
and he helped me, Turne againe then
unto thy rest, O my Soule, and giue
thanks vnto the Lord, for the Lord hathe
herd me, and is become my Saluation,
this is the day AAhich the Lord hathe
made, euen the Lord's day, Ave will re
ioyce and be glad in it; helpe us noAAr
O Lord after the time that thou hast
greued us, O Lord send us now prospe rity

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rity, it is better to trust in the Lord, than
to put any confidence in man, it is better
to trust in the Lord, than to put any con
fidence in princes, O Let me and my
hous trust in the Lord, for he is our
succer and defence; O Let us walke
befor the Lord in the land of the leuing,
for he shall Bless them that feare him
bothe small and great. Amen.
O my deare and gratious God one
whoum only I relye, haue mercy apon
me, and santephy to me, thy heuy rodcle
of correcktion, vnder which I haue so
offten groned, so lyttull am I abed to
beare thy displesur, tho' I haue to much,
and to long, deserued it, O forgiue me,
and reseue me in thy fauer againe, Let
the Light of thy Countenanc shine apon
me, Let me heare thy voyce, of Joy and
glaclnes, that the bones which thou hast
broken, may reioyce. Amen.

A

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(80 rec.) A thanks geuing
for my recouery and retorne home
from the bath, Agost tJie 9: 1671, being
Wensday, which was tJie uery day
12 months I sickened the yere before.
WENSDAY.
At once retorn'd to helthe, and home,
With all the vigor of my Soule,
And graitefuU harte, O Let me come,
To thee my God, who dou'ste controul
The worled, for on thy mighty wdl,
Depends the faites, of mortall men,
To thee dew prays, Avith aU my skill
I render, for 'twas euen then,
When all, bothe enemyes, and frinds,
Did dome me, to the gaits of deathe,
Then, euen then, thou bleste the menes,
And did'ste thy sord of tryall shethe,
Alowing me bothe ease and strenthe,
And Avith it, hopes of perfitt helthe,
(80 rev.) Ading vnto my dayes mor length,
And will I hope, incres my welthe
So farr, as thou shalte see it fitt
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135

And mor I would by no mens gitt,
Either of Avelthe or lengthe of days,
To me or myne; for aU I aime,
Is so to Liue, as that thayrby,
In seruing thee, I may remayne
On earth, to mount thy prasis high;
O Let them flow from such a harte,
As may by thee acsepted be,
And I by them may gaine a parte
In my Redemer's Loue, that he
May Lede me/in the pathes of Life,
So with his Saints I may partake
That parfitt blis, that ends all strife,
When the Last trump shall us awake.
Amen

De:f 18; 1672.
To thy greate name aU glory will I bring,
And of thy mercis and thy goodnes sing,
For thay to me so daly doe increase
That to retorne thee prays I nere wdl cease,
But into Heuen my prasis I Avill bring,
And with the Angels glorephy my King.
Amen.

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Good

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(81 rev.) Good Fryday, ye 4: of Aprell 1672.
Holy Father suffer me that am but
dust and ashis to glorifie thee, for the
greate Glory with which thou haste
gloryphid thy Son and my Sauier, and
me in him, derest Sauier, thou that
seteste at the Right hand of thy father
in Glory, and yet hathe humbeled thy
selfe so farr this day, as to giue thy selfe
to me in the blesed Sacryment, acsepte
I beseche thee the humbell prasis of thy
handemad, and thou O blesed Sperit
that haste prepared my Soule for such
a gese, dow thou stdl adorne it, and
make my prayers, and prasis, acsepted
by Father, Son, and Holy Goste, my
only and Eternall God. Amen.

1612:

1672; Ap: f 25; Thorsday.
The day of try all
betwene my Hosband and his brother
about the Estate.
Plede thou our cause, O my God,
with thos that striue Avith vs, and fighte
thou againste those, that fighte againste
us, Laye hould upon thy shelde and
buckler, and stand Ap to helpe vs, not
to destroy our enemis, but to defend vs,
from all thayr designes againste vs;
frustrate ad thayre deuisis, and Lete
truthe, and Justis, take playce, Let thy
moste heuenly wdl and plesur, O my
Lord and my God, be euer don ; not our
wid, but thy will, not our way, but thy
AVtiy, not our time, but thy time, For
not vnto vs, O Lorde, not vnto us, but
to thy ir oste Glorus Maiesty, be all prays
geuen, for all is dew. And merciful
Lord giue vs grace, to haue so resined
a will to thine, as that Ave may Avith a
t cherfull

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cherfull harte, prase thee for the euentc,
though it proue contrary to our desire,
for thou Lord knoeste what is beste for
vs, for thou only can'ste bles the euent,
and bles us, to reseue it, as Ave aughte ;
For I desire to haue thee our King, to
comand and chuse for us; to haue thee,
our Judg, to determine for us; as Avell
as our aduocate to plede for us, and
our Sauier to saue vs; being absulately
satisphide, that Ave ar safe in thy protec
tion; into Avhous blesed handes, I most
humbely commit my hosband, my selfe,
our childerne, and famely, with all our
intureste and consernes; in thy vnspeka-
bed mercy, reseue, and bles vs, uoav, and
for euermor. Amen

(,S2 rev.) Ap: 21. 1612.
After the tryall.
In all my aflicktions I cry vnto my
Lord, for sucker, to whome then can I
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139

retorne prays but to thee, to thee my
Lord and my God, to thee, that dele-
uereth me out of them all; O the depthe
of thy mercy, that is neuer exosted, that
neuer hathe end, but to day, and to-
moroe, and euery day, is redy to releue
me, for though I haue felte the efecktes
of it, in moste wondurfud maner, euer
sine I was borne, in this laste bisnes,
thou haste not slakened thy Arme, but
haste releued vs, to the astonishment of
our enemies, and to the great comfort
of vs thy vnworthy seruants, alltogether
unAvorthy; but that thou Avd'st haue
mercy, AArhare and when thou plesist, it is
of thy OAvne mere boAvnty, and goodnes,
that thou haste pleded our cause; out
of that same fountane of goodnes, con
tenu thy hand of protection ouer vs, and
bles this blesing to us, and end ad dif-
ferencis in the famely, Let pease, and
prosperety be amongste us, and bles vs
with the choysist of thy blesings; and
giue us grace to bles and prays thee, all
the

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(83 rec.)

Salm ye 1, 21

the days of our Liffe, and Let my deare
Husband, and me, Let vs, and our
famely, serue the Lord our God and
holy resine our seleues to his will.
Amen.

May f 25; 1672.
I will reproue thee, and set before thee
the things that thou Jiast done.
Derest Lord giue me a trew sight of
my owne vilnes, and with it, such a
sensere repentanc, as may be acsepted
by thee, that in the Laste greate day, I
may not here the vice of thy reproufe,
and anger, but of thy mercy, and louing
kindnes, 'tis thou only can'ste worcke
this greate worck in me, for thy won
derfull goodnes sake doe it, doe it, I
beseche thee; Avorck in me so intyere a
chang, that I may desire nothing but
thee, serue nothing but thee, loue no
thing, but in obedienc to thee ; wcnc mc so

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Ill

so intyerely from the vanetis of this
warlede, that thuro thy mercyr, and for
thy merits, and by thy asistanc, I may
be fitted, for the gloris of the Avarlecl to
com.
Amen.

Thy prasis, I must euer sing,
Thou arte my God, thou arte my King,
From thee all benefitts arise,
Thou arte only good, thou art only wise.

(83 rev.)

No: y 26; 1672.
I must neuer sese to sins'
Prasis to my heuenly King
For daly he douthe me a forde
Wherwithall to giue him laude,
For the deleueranc of this night
Thanks to him with all my might
I render, he alone must haue it
He alone 'twas gaue it,
That he may my thanks reseue
With all humelety 1 doe it giue,
And on that mercy I depend
That he will alwas us defend,

(84 rec.)

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For in distres
He ner to me was mercyles,
And as thy mercis stiU doe flow
So let my Loue incres and groe.
Amen.

(85 rec.) Jan: y" 1: 1672.
0 Let my Liffe renew, as dothe the yeare,
Fdl me with Loue, with grace, with hope,
with feare,
With all that may adorne me, fitt to be
Acsepted gratiously my God by thee,
Let all my Joyes be, to obay thy will,
And all my carres, that I may that fullfill,
And for all outher worldely thoughts, or
carres,
On thee I lay them all, off'ring by prayers
My wants to thee, thou can'ste supply them all,
To whom but thee should I for sucker call,
Thou can'ste grant aU, that thou se'ste fitt
for me,
And I will think that best, that comes from
thee.
Amen.

Jan :

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Jan: f 8: 16%
A thanks ge it ing for
our deleueranc from Fire that day.
I am as unfitt to praise thee my God,
for this greate mercy, as I am unworthy
to reseue it, nothing can more manefest
the emensety of thy mercy than thy con-
tenuall bountis and deleuerancis, to so
uiiAvorthy a reche as I am; what am I,
and Avhat is my fathers hous, that thou
shoidd'st thus conseder us; I tow wed
know what I am, I am the unworthyest,
the most ungratefudest of all creturs
huing; O the depthe of thy mercy, the
extent of thy goodnes, to reache to such
a meserabell cretur as I am ; that nether
my deare hosband, myselfe, nor chil
derne, nor hous, sufferd in this fire; is
so greate a blesing, that I know not
what to say, but that all must be retorned
to thee, from whenc all is reseued; ac-
septe it Lord.
Amen. LENT.

(85 rec.)

(86 rec.) LENT.
Friday, Feb: y" 21; 167|.
Turne thou us O Good Lord, and so
shall Ave be turned, turne us so from
our euill wais, that we may neuer re
torne to them againe, but walke Avith
thee in trew holynes ad the rest of our
dayes, which great worck nothing but
thy owne hand cane doe, doe it for thy
gloris sake, and for my pour souls sake,
the worck of thine owne hand, the
brethe of thyne owne nostrels, O doe it,
that that soule of mine, may eternaly
gloryphy thee. Amen.
Friday, Feb: y' 28: 1611
Turn thy Face from my sins, and put
out all my misdeeds, make me a dene
heart O God, and renew a right spirit
within me, turne thy face from all my
past sins, and so reneAv thy spirit within
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that by thy merits, and by thyne owne
suffering hast July payed my clebte, to me
be the aduantag, to thee the Glory, most
Glorus Lord. Amen
Friday, March tf 1: 1671.
Cast me not away from thy presence,
and take not thy holy Spirit from me, for
if thou should'ste departe from me, my
Lord, and my God, AAhether could I goe
for refug, aganst the asaltes of the
warled, the flesh, and the deuell, I am
not ablle of my selfe, to withstand the
lest temtation, what can I doe Avithout
my God, perish euerlastingly, be misera-
bed, bothe heare and eternaly hear-
after; but my God will not forsake me,
nor suffer me to forsacke him, I Avid
rest on him, as one my sure reffuge, and
he neuer fades thos that trust in him,
O doe not withdraAV thy Blesed Sperit
from me, but daly reneAv it within me,
increse my zeale, strenthen my faith,
v conferme

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conferme my hope, and make me that
which may render me acseptabed to
thee, make me thine, and then make me
any thing. Amen.
Friday, f 14 of March, 167J.
O giue me the comfort of thy helpe
againe, and establish me with thy free
Spirit, for without thy helpe I cane re
scue no comforte, without thy Spirit no
Joy, and without thy selfe no Liffe, O
Let the Light of thy Countenanc shine
upon me, that the bones Avhich thou
hast broken may reioyce. Amen.
Friday, the 21 of March, 1671.
The Sacrifice of God, is a troubled
Spirit, a broken and a contrite hart, 0
God thou shalt not despise, O Blesed
Spirit, doe thou so absulately gouerne
my Spirit, so as to bennd it to thy
heuenly will, breck it, humbell it, make
it acseptabed to thcc my God, make this
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147

stony hart of mine by thy poure to be
com a plesing sacrifice to thee my God,
O rase my hart to thee, my Lord and
my God, O make it to asend to thee,
thou gauest it to me, Let me retorne it
back agane to thee, O clens it, and wash
it, in the bloud of my Sauier, and then
it canot but be acsepted by thee.
Amen.
Good Friday, Mar: if 28; 1673.
O Blesed Lord and Sauier Jesus
Crist, how dare I apere befor thee at
any time, much les at this time, apon
this dayr,that we commemorat thypation,
that biter pation, ocationed by us mise
rabed siners,how should we hang downe
our hedes like bud rushes, when we
call to mind our henos sines, that mayed
the Lord of Life to lay downe his Liffe,
to purches Life for us, and I, reched and
miserabed cretur that I am, doe daly
forfit that Liffe Avhich coste so deare,
by my continuad sins and transgretions ;
and

and did not thayr daly flow from that
blesed side of thine, Avharwithad to
clens my daly sins, I Aver the redchedest
of all creturs leuing, but that pretious
Blod, is balme to cure ad my sins, be
the burden neuer so heuy, but how shall
I be abell to aply it, with all its merits
to my pour sinfud soule, so unfitt a
haby-tation for the Lord of all purety.
But unto thee I come O Blesed Spirit,
(87 rev.) be plesed to adorne me with thy sauing
Grasis, Clothe me Avith that Aveding
garment, that may render me an acsept-
ablle geste at the feste of the most blesed
Body and Blod of my Sauior Crist Jesus,
and doe thou Blesed Lord so welcom
me thayer, as to giue me of that pretious
foude, conuay th}' selfe and all thy
merits unto me, and then Lord present
me to thy Father and my Father, and
so shall I lie acsepted by my Lord and
my God.
Amen.

June

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149

Juney0 2: 1673.
Lord make me so thankfull for thy
paste, and presant mercis, that thoro
thy Grace, I may be fitted for thos to
com, thy mercis haue been so innume-
rabed to me, that my harte canot con-
tane them, much les 1113" pen expres
them, hoAv infenat in generad, how
greate in pertecoler, this blesing which
I now commemorat; the Liffe, and
Lebortyr, of my deare hosband, and the
preseruation of that Liffe euer sine;
Lord increse his Grace, as Avell as dayes,
and doe not only prolong his Liffe, but
doe thou liue in him, and giue him
Grace to Gloryphy thee heare, by his
Liffe and Conuersation; and if it semefitt
in thy sight, Grant that avc may- bothe
liue with kindnes for on anouther, and
comfort in on an outher, to sec our chil
derne brought up in thy feare and ser
uis, but not our Avid, but thy most
heuenly Avill be dune in all things con
senting

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serning us, and ours, for I most hum
bely desir, that Ave, and our famely, may
serue the Lord our God.
Amen.

(81" rev.) Agost y" 2: 1673.
My thoughts, ar full of cares, and greef,
No mens I see to hope releue,
My debts opres my trubeled hart,
The wants of outhers, is my smart,
Lord ease my cares, no hope is left,
Of outher hopes I am bereft,
But thos which from thy goodnes spring,
And thos one more may make me sing
Halelugas to my God and King.
In all my strates, in all my fears,
In all my dangers, and my cares,
I euer thayr haue found releffe
How is't that I cane Avant beleue,
Hoav cane I doubt of helpe from thee
Holy and undeuided three,
If to thy Hdl my hart asend,
If to thy will my stepes I bend,
What is thayr that I may not hope,
Nothing, that is within the scope

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Of Erthe, or Heuen, but by thy poure
May be mayd mine, this uery houre.
A hart 1 aske to doe thy wdl,
And for the rest, thy wdl fullfill,
And if it be thy Avill to grant,
Let thayr none suffer, by my want,
O rather let me suffer all,
Than any on by me should fall
To want, or greefe, or any los,
That may becom to them a cros,
On thee my God, I doe rely,
In mercy, doe thou me reply.
Amen.

Cristmas Day, 1673.
Glory to God in the Highest, and on
earth peace and Good will towards men,
to thee for euer be glory, for this great
good to man, O Let our prasis neuer
sese, sine our benefitts by this great
mercy neuer can, Let us prase thee in
partecoler, that so great a Lord, so pour
full a God, wid voutsafe to heare, and
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is so vde, and impur, so unfitt to offer
them vpe to thee ether in thought or
Avord, that tho I canot helpe, but must
bothe think and speke thy prasis, yet I
could not hope thay should be acsepted
by thee, did I not reseue incoragment
from thine owne Avorde to beleue it,
Lord conferme this belefe by reseuing,
and incresing my Loue and Gratetud.
Amen.
Offer unto God thanksgiuing, and pay
tJiy voues unto the most High.
WJio so off eretJi prase glory pJiietJt me.

(88 rev.) 1: Jan: 1674.
As euery year is added to my dayes,
Lord giue me grace to multeply thy prase,
To thee let me acknoledg all thats good.
All blesings heare, all blesings for to come
Flos from thy mercis, and thy pretious blod
That brings at last to my eternaU Home
My resteles soule, wldch nothing heare can
plese
Till I cnioy with thee eternall ese, Come

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Come hapy day for which I ere must wish,
Till by thy mercy I 'me reseued to blis.
Amen,

Mar: f 1: 167*.
My berthe day.
O Let that day which gaue me broth,
Be spent in prase to thy great name,
Let it a new, and joyfuU berthe
Become, of grace, of Loue, of fame.
A berth of aU that's good and just,
Of all, that may make me thy owne,
And make me on thy mercis trust,
That I hencforthe may j oy, in none
But thee,
Thee, who alone can'st make me, what I ought
to bee. Amen.

A tJianks getting
after tw is ntiscaring, and a, f euer.
March f 18; 1674.
It is of the Lords mercy that I was
not consumed, but preserued thoro all
thes dies, and wekenes (just punesh-

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ments for my often repeted transgre-
tions,) but his compations fade not, for
the Lord Avid not cast off for euer; tho
he cause grief, yet will he haue compa
tion, according to the multitude of his
mercis, wherfor doth a Liuing man com
plain, a man for the punishment of his
sins. Let us search and trie our waj es,
and turn againe to the Lord, for the
Lord is good unto them that wait for
him, to the Soule that seeketh him, it is
good that a man should bothe hope, and
quietly wait for the Saluation of the
Lord; it is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youthe ; remember mine
affliction and my miseries, the worm
wood and the gall. My soul hath them
still in remembrance, and is humbled in
me ; thus I recad to mind the aflicktions,
and the mercis, I have reseu'd from thy
Allmighty hand, and therefor haue I
hope; O Lord thou hast pleaded the
causes of my Soul, thou hast redemed
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Avith my hands, unto my God, in the
heauens, to prase and to glorephy him;
blesed be the Lord God of Isrell, from
euerlasting, and to euerlasting.

Amen and Amen.

LENT, 167J.
Friday, Mar. f 20 ;
Turne, thee O Lord and deleuer my
Soul, O saue me for thy mercis sake,
(for thos mercis sake, that haue neuer
faled me, neuer, not in my gretest nede,)
doe thou haue mercy vpon me, and for
giue me, and wash away ad my sins and
ah the gilt of them, Let me becom a
new cretur, acseptabed unto thee my
God, on of thy famely, of the houshould
of fathe, partaker of my Sauiers merits,
on Avhich merits I only rely.
Amen.

Mar:ye 23; 1674, Monday.
When my son Charles went to Oxford.
My derest Lord into thy Admighity protection,

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protection, I comit my deare Chdd, giue
thy holy angels charg ouer him, to pre
serue him from all euell, and to leade
him into ad good, butyphy his soule,
inlighten his understanding, giue him, I
beseche thee, the holynes of Dauid, and
the wisdom of Solomon; preserue his
person in honer, and helthe, and grant
him fauer in the sight of all; and if it
seme fitt in thy sight, Let him retorne
to us agane, in safety; to thy Honer and
glory, and to the comfort of vs thy vn-
Avorthy seruants, his father, and my
selfe, that we may prase thee, in the

Land of the Leuing.

Amen.

Mar. ye 26; 167 4.
A thanks geuing
for the recouery of my sonn Hary,
and to beg the same mercy for
my sonn Lowis.
That thou hast bin plesed to restor my

my sonn hrhelthe to me againe, I cane
neuer enugh pras thee, Lord incres my
prasis, Contenu that helthe to him, and
bles it to him, improue him in body/ and
mind, Let his soule be right cleare to
thee, that he may gloryphy thee heare,
and eternaly heare after.
And O Lord let that same goodnes
extend it selfe to the presentation of my
sone LoAvis, to ye preseruing him in this
sicklies, and to the restoring him to
helthe, and grant, that he, that I haue
dedicated to thy seruis, may liue, to doe
thee emenent seruis, in thy Chorch.
Amen.

Mar. f 28; 1673, Lent.
Saue me O God by thy name, and
judge me by tJiy strengtJi, by the strength
of thy mercy, by the strengthe of thy
pour; Judg me in mercy and louing
kindnes, and saue me by thy pour and
thy might, Strcch out thy arme and de
leuer me, from Saton that daly seeks to
deuour

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deuour me, from my owne wicked selfe
that daly betrayes me, by wekenes and
foly; deleuer me from all thes asoltes,
and make me thine owne, and then in
mercy kepe me so. Amen.
(89 rev.) Apr: ye 3: Friday, Lent.
O be fauourable and gracious vnto
Sion; build thou the wals of Jerusalem.
0 Lord sheAV now fauour to thy Sion,
the Chorch in this nation, it had neuer
more nede of thy protection than now,
enemis bcsege it round about, on the
left, and on the right, thay ar redy to
deuour it, na which is wors our sins
deserue this heuy judgment, we canot
complane, though thoushouldest remoue
the Glorus Light of thy Gosped from
amongst us, we must lay our hands
upon our mouthes, and by sdans confes
our selues altogether worthy of it; Omis-
rabell condetion, Avhich our ingratetude
hathe brought us into, but be thou gra
tious

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tious unto Sion , and in that to us ; Let
the enemis of thy Chorch see that thay
canot preuall against us, and that for
thine owne mere goodnes sake, for I cane
draAv no argument in our behalfe, but
from thy selfe, from thine owne good
nes, from thine owne merits; Let that
preuad, doe thou forgiue us, doe thou
torne us from all our euell ways, and
once mor giue us a glorus and a holy
Chorche, and make us an obedient and
a Hapy pepull.
Amen.

Ap. f 18; 1674. Easter Eue.
Thy will, thy way, thy time my God is beste,
Without thy mercy I would not be bleste,
All earthly comforts Avould to me be pane,
If 1, without thy helpe, could them obtane ;
No croked pathes which led out of thy way
Could pleas my humblle Soule; tho' thus to
stray
Should leade to honer, welthe, all worldely
Joys,
What pleasure could I finclin all thos toys,
None;

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None; thar's none, without my God, that I
can find,
Doe thou my heart so fermely to thee bind,
That I Avith pleasur, may atend thy will,
When thou see'st Hapynes is fitt for me,
In that doe thou thy gratious avlLI fulfill,
But if thou wils't the contrary to be,
Euen in that Let tru content be found
Within my heart, the best, and saffest ground
To make it surly be
Acsepted Lord by thee.

Amen.

(91 rec.) After our Try all at Law
May if 18; 1674.
O Lord thou hast showed us how
vane is the helpe of man, thou hast
turned thayr wisdom into foly, and put
us to confution, Avithout an enemy; thou
hast turned our hosting in to sorow, and
humbeded us before thee, we confes Avith
shame that our sins haue justly deserued
it, and Ave submit to thy vvid Avithout
murmuring. Lord thou canst torne
our morning into Joy, and make us to
heare

heare the voyce of Joy and gladnes, that
the bones Avhich thou hast broken may
reioyce. Amen.

June y" A: 1674.
Houe dare I to apeare befor my
ofended Judg, what words can I vse to
expres my gilt, and to apese his wrathe,
thayr is none that I dare make vse of,
thay all want forse to deplor my sad
condetion, or to moue his compation,
nothing thats mine can doe it, hoAv
miserabed and past redres Avar I, avct I
not permeted to haue recors to a mersi-
full Sauier, had I not in him a pourfull
intorsesor, did not his Avounds plede for
me, did not his merits satisphi for my
gilt; to thee my derest Lord I com, to
whom but thcc can I com, doe not be
wery'ed by my claly sins and uanetis,
doe not forsake me, doe not leue me to
my selfe, that war to plonge me in the
depthe of mesery. Sese not O Lord,
y sese

(91 rev.) sese not to pray for me, doe thou bothe
giue to me and obtane a perden for me;
and thou O blesed Sperit, Let thy vn-
utorabed grones intorsed for me, and
O my Lord and my God doe thou ac
sept me, and admit me one more to re
seue the blesed Sacriment of the most
pretious body and blod of thy Son and
my Sauier, admit me to be a gest, and
make me a worthy gest; one at that
most blesed feste. Amen

Befor our Try all at Law, or Refer enc.
June if 28; 1674.
Remember me (my dear Hosband,
and ad mine) O my God for good, and
now that thou hast shoed us how vane
is the helpe of man, now let us see and
knoAV hoAV pourful is thy Almighty hand,
from whome only we expeckt, or desir
good, doe thou O Lord, clispos and
gouerne this bisnes, Let thy wisdom and
thy mercy doe greter things for us than Ave

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Ave doe deserue or can desir, for we
know our unworthynes, and dare not
presume upon our owne accounts to
aske anything from thy dredf till Maiesty,
but for my Sauiers sake, for his alone
merits doe thou in thy goodnes take our
case into thy hand, doe thou pled it,
doe thou grant such a suckses, as shad
seme fitt in thy infenite mercy, doe thou
grant pese and prosperety to this famely,
and aboue all doe thou grant that Ave
and our famely may serue the Lord our
God. Amen.

After our bisnes was referd
June y" 29; Monday, 1674; in Cort.
O thou Avho hast taught us that he
who prouideth not for his owne house
is worse than an infided, doe thou bles
the bisnes noAV in hand, for the good of
our famely, for all indeuers of ours wid
be uane, exsepte in thy infenat mercy
thou art plesed to giue suckses, Lord Ave

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ic

Ave desir pease, we indeuer pease, doe
thou grant it, doe thou bles all indeuers
toAvards it, doe thou in thy great Avis-
dom, bring to pas a hapy conclution of
this bisnes, to thy honer and glory, and
if it seeme fitt in thy sight, for the good,
hapynes and prosperety of my deare
hosband, my selfe and childrene; That
Ave may prase thee in the Land of the
Leuing, for to thee only is all prays clew,
Pras the Lord O my Soul, and all that
is within me pras his holy name.
Amen.

After the sesing of my Jious and goods,
July 1614: Satorday, y" 4: day
of the month.
Hoav many ar my iniquities and my
sins; make me to knoAV my transgres- I
sions, tis for them I iustely suffer, I avrs
at ease but he hathe broken me asonder, j
tho I spck, my grefe is not aswaged, tho
I conuers with the hole world, it aualeth
me

me nothing, thayr is no helpe for me
but in my God, to him then I come,
bothe by duty and by choys, and thou
O my Lord and my God hast conse-
derd me, in thee O Lord did I put my
trost, and thou hast deleuerd me, thou
hast don it, and non but thee, thou
tornest the hart of men as the reuers of
water, thou hast inclined the harte of
our acluersary, to pes and composeyer,
that was bent upon deuetion and ruin;
O Lord in thy infenat wisdom, in thy
immenc goodnes, doe thou perfitt this
blesing, enabell us to pay pur debts,
giue us grac to do it, bles our indeuers,
direckte us, and asist us, and giue us
grace to acknoledg it all from thee, the
founton of all good, Avho I can neuer
enuff prays, nor neuer enouff loue, nor
neuer be hapy tdl I can inioy thee my
Lord and Sauier, in eternad blis.
Isaiah y" 26 ; ye 3:
TJiou wilt keep him in perfect peace
wJiose minnd is stayed on thee; because he

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he trusteth in thee.
Let Jiim that glorieth, glory in the
Lord. For as much as tJiere is none lilte vnto
thee O Lord, tJiou art great, and thy
name is great in migJit.
O Lord I know tJiat the way of man is
not in him selfe, it is not in man that
walketh to direct his steps.
O Lord, correct me, but with Judge
ment, not in thine anger, Lest thou bring
me to nothing.

After the recottery of y" sprane in
one fut, and illnes in if outher.
Sep. y" 4: 1674.
O Lord in mercy hast thou aflicted,
thou hast dun it sparingly, thou hast
Avithdrane thy hand, almost as soune as
lade it on, O what haue my sins de
serued, and yet hoAV lyttull has thy
goodnes punished, in Avrathe thou hast
rememberd mercy", what can I say, I
am

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am astoneshed at thy goodnes, and not
abell to expres it, I am confounded Avith
the sence of it, that so great, so glorus
a Maiesty should Arotsafe to take carre
of, and prouid for, so meane, so wretched,
nay, so weked a cretur as I am ; O giue
me a harte fitt to prase thee, clens it
purephy it, and then acsepte it, admit
me to be a worthy gest at thy tabed,
thou only can'st make me so, I haue
defased thy emag, that was by thee im
printed in my heart, what shall I doe
thus locled with sin and vanety, how
dare I apear befor my ofended Judg,
but I haue an aduocat, to him I come?
my derest Sauier, reseue me, clens me,
intersede for me, and dwed in my hart
heare tell thou bringest me to dwed
with thee for euer in the world to come.
Amen.

(91 rec.) A thanks geuing
to my God, for the great mercy
by him granted, of the reconcilement
of my Lord and his Brouther, and the
setehncnt of the estate vpon the ayre male
of the famely, agread upon Wensday
if 18; of Non. 1674.
WENSDA Y.
When hearts and inturest Avar deuided,
None but my great God could haue desided
So great a striffe, nor coidd haue geuen
A concord, like the gifft of heuen ;
All blesing Ave from thy great hand reseue,
To whome but thee, should we our prasis
giue;
I come with joy, this duty for to pay,
Let not my" thoughts on moment from thee
stray,
Let them for euer, on thy goodnes dwell,
That to the world I may thy wonders teU;
0 let me serue thee, pray, and prays, and
loue,
TiU throAV thy merits, I'm rescu'd aboue. 0

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This agrement
was brock, \>y
my Lord Fi/er-
burgh.

O Let this blesing bring mor blesings on,
That endles may be bothe our pras and song,
O Let it reache to all my welthe below,
My beloued hosband, and my childerne too,
O Let us all Avith hartes united joyne,
, alredy thine.
Amen.

To giue our hartes to ther

Jan. if 2; 1674.
O Lord, my trust is in thy mercy, and
my heart is joyfull hi thy Saluation, for
thou neuer falest me in time of nead,
tho' greeff indur for a night, yet Joy
cometh in the morning. O that I were
freed, from the carres of this worled,
that my harte might be tided with
heuenly Joyes, but so erthy is this heart
of mine, that it is wayed downe with sin
and vanety, filled with the carres of this
worled, and led by the vanetis of it, dis
turbed by euery cros I mete Avith in this
worled, tho' thos crosis haue often, by
thy infenit mercy, bin turned to bles
ings, my derest Lord giue me a hart so
z holy

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holy resined to thy will, that all things
may be welcom to me, coining from thy
hand; into thy Almighty hands I com
mit my selfe, my hosband, my childerne,
and famely, all our consernes and in-
turestes, dispos of vs as it shall seeme
fitt in thy sight, if it be thy will pre
serue A's from sin and shame, and let
vs and our famely serue the Lord our
God. Admit me, my God to thy tabed,
and so fill me thayr with thy Joyes, that
I may no more haue any roume for the
carres and trubels of this world, that I
may be constantely prepared for that to
come. Amen.

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Jim. f 8: 167t
Lord in thy infenat mercy doe thou
take in to thy Almighty protection, my
deare childerne, and my poure afhckted
famely, thos that at presant ar in helthe,
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thy heuy hand of sicknes, Lord preserue
the on, and support the outher; and
giue me pations to submit to thy deuine
will in all things, make me worthy
(through thy merits) of thy preseruation,
and then take me and mine into thy
protection, that we may acknoledg ad
from thy mercy, Avhich has euer been
so great to me, that no tung can expres
it, derest Lord make my harte sensabell
of it. Amen.

For the recottery of my dear childerne
from the small pox, Jan : 161\.
Praise the Lord of heauen, praise him
in the height, for his mercy neuer fails
them that serue him, how often haue I
prouoked him, and yet so abundant is
his mercy, that he hathe not refused the
request of myr Lipes, but hathe herd, and
granted the humble desir of his hand
made, AAhich I offerd in the behalfe of
my

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my pour sick chdderne, he hathe pre
serued them upon thayr beds of weke
nes, and hathe restored them to strenthe
and helthe again, and this for his owne
mercy sake, how cane I sofetientely
prase thee my God, I neuer can, but
Lord acsept I humbely pray, the offer
of my thanks this day, I neuer can enuff
admir, I neuer can enuff desir, to be
Avith thee my God, for wilst I'm hear
belo, my harte's so heuy and so slow, so
lyttull fitt for to asend, so lyttull capa-

bull to bend, to Avhat it aught, that I
myselfe obhor, and wish Avith thee to
bee, that I from sin and uanety ma be
as free, as thos blest Sperits aboue, that
ar all extecy of Loue. Amen.

TJie morning befor our tryall.
Feb.yr8: Monday, 161\.
0 Lord doe thou my Hosband and my selfe
direckt,
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Let us and ours be alwas in thy care,
That we thy choysest blesings still may share,
O Lor d preserue our going out, our coining in.
Let aU be done without or shame, or sine,
That aU the glory, we to thee may pay,
Of all good fortun, and suckses, this day,
For to thy will our case we doe submit,
Doe thou direckt, and gide, and gouerne it.

A Prayre of thanks geuing
after my Lords tryall at the Kings Bench
in Wesminster Hall, for 4000 pound a
year, Monday y" 8; of Feb. 161\: tryed
on, Monday, and the verdect geuen on
Tusday y" 9; of Feb. 1611 this thanks-
geuing or sum outher to be sayed
euery Monday and euery Tusday
in the wek.
MONDAY.  ' TVS DAY.
Troubles, my God, so many ar my clew,
That if thay daly did my stepes pursu,
And the remander of my Liffe wer spent
In greff and care, that aUmy thoughts wer bent
On nothing else, I aught not to complane,
Sine all my murmuring Avould be in vane; For

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For what so ere my Judg for me thinks fitt,
I, humble to his will, aught to submitt.
With what an extasy am I now ses'd,
When I find my God is gratiously apes'd;
His anger is no more, his loue is stdl
The subiect of my theme, 0 let that fill
My hart with Joy, my tong with prase,
That I may spend the remnant of my dayes,
In taking care to let the hole world know,
How much I to my gratious God doe owe,
For 'twas my God, that free'd us from the
strife
Of thos, that did the comforts of our Liffe
Destroy, with thayr dl natuerd and vnkind
Disturbanc, of estate, and pease of mind;
To ease this greffe Avas thy great work alone,
For when to thee, my Lord, 1 made my mone,
And did with all humelety resigne
My will, holy to be led by thine,
'TAvas then my God did gratiously arise
With heling in his wings, loue in his eyes,
And did my cause with delegenc defend,
Tell at the last with Joy he crouned the end;
0 Let my Soule with loue that loue retorne,
That it with zeale and feruor still may borne,
And I no Joy may take in aught I say,
But when to thee my vowes and thanks I pay; O

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0 croune this blesing with on blesing more,
Melions thou hast, my God, I know, in store
For thos that loue thy name, Let loue andpese
BetAvene the brouthers rise, and discord sese,
Let them contend no more, unlesse it bee
Which of them most shaU praise and wor
ship thee.
Amen.
Most Avis and gratious Lord, doe
thou in thy infenate mercy dheckt my
deare hosband and me, the most vnwor-
tyest of thy creturs, how to prosede in
this great afaire, of disposing of my
sonn. Let it not be Avithout thy blesing,
doe thou direckt the way, the menes,
the time, and whether we shall prosede
with my  on thes last proposals, for
not our Avid, but thine be euer done, in
all our concernes. Amen.

Apr: y" 1: 1675.
Blessed is lie ivhose transgression is
forgiuen, whose sinn is couered.
O that I Aver thus blesed, but who can

(97 rec.)

can forgiue my sins, AAhich ar innume-
rabde, my God, and my Lord, cane and
wid doe it, when thay ar couered by the
Blood of my derest Sauier; then thrise
hapy and blesed shall I be, Lord doe
thou thoro thy merits, make me Avorthy
of this infenat Blesing, admit me to thy
tabed, conuay thy selfe to me thayr, and
doe thou O Blesed Sperit, so adorne my
Soule, that this naro hart of mine, may
be mayd capabed of reseuing my Blesed
Sauier, and not only reseuing but retan-
ing him for euer, that he may neuer de
part from me, nor I from him, tid I am
reseued by him into eternall Joyes.
Amen

(97 rev.) The Lord sayes: And it shall come to
passe, when he crieth unto me, that I will
hear; for I am gracious.
Thayr is none in heuen nor in yl earth
to Avhom I can crie, but to the Eternad
God, but how durst I haue presumed,
to haue aproched to his deuine Magesty, that

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that am but sinfud dust and ashis, how
must I haue sunk vnder the burden of
my aflicktions, without daring to haue
layed them opun befor so Dredfull a
Magesty, had not thy infenat goodnes
bin gratiously plesed to promas to vs,
miserabed Seners, that thou wouldest be
plesed to hear us when we crie vnto
thee, and that graciously; with this assur-
anc, I dare apeare befor thee, to implor
thy mercy and asistanc, furst to forgiue
my ofencis, and next, to releue my dis-
tresis, Lord in thy dew time inabed me
to pay this debt, that lyes so heuy upon
me, and to prouid for my clear childerne
and giue me gras to doe it, that I and
mine may reioyce in thy mercis, in the
Land of the Leuing.

Amen.

No thoughts can reach, no tong can tell, (98 rec. )
The wonders that with thee doe dweU,
Thou art my God, aH good, aU wis,
Yet doest not thou disdane the cryes
AA Of

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Of humbeH mortals, which we send
To implor thy asistanc, when we bend
Our thoughts to thee, which near can fly
Without thy helpe, aboue the skye.
O when shall this frale and sinfull dust
Apeare befor the only Just,
When shaU this sinfull body be
Crowned with immortalety,
When shaU I sin no more,
And sese thy perden to implor,
That aU my prayers may into prasis torne,
And I with extecy of Loue may borne.
Amen.

(99 rec.)

After the Death of my deare Hosband,
who dyed June ye 5: 1675, Satorday in
the afternoune.
{wreton July ye 30:),
Psalme ye 37 y" 39 vers.
But tJie Saluation of the Righteous, is
of the Lord, he is their strength in time
of troublle.
O Lord be thou my strength, in this
my clay of tryad, in this my day of hu-
melyation, tho uery bitor, yet Just
corection,

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corection, for my many sins and trans-
gretions. Lord make it a day of Salua
tion to me, fix my heart on thee, wheare
true joys ar only to be found; and suffer
not my greefe to haue any thing of re-
pyning in it, Let a perfitt submetion be
found by thee, hi all my thoughts words
and actions, and if in the exsesse of
sorow, anything has euer bin thought
or sayed by me, that has ofended thee
my Lord and my God, doe thou wipe it
away, doe thou blot it out with thy
most pretious blod, and acsepte me, tho
altogether vnworthy, yet through thy
mercis, make me a wellcom gest at thy
holy tabed; andperdon derest Lord, the
disstracted thoughts with which I re
seued the Blesed Sacrement during my
hosbands sickness, and let not this great
trubble I labor voider, make me forgitt to
prase thee my God for thy infenat
mercy showed to the Soid of my cleare
Hosband in his sicknes,and for his being,
through the merits of my Sauier, tranc- lated

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lated into Glory, of which I make no
doubt, so pourefuly and manefestely,
did thy Blesed Sperit asist him, in his
gretest extremety.
The thoughts of this aught to be a
Joy to great to admit of any trubble;
but so frale is this vile natur of mine,
and -so pourefuly does Selfe Loue pre-
uale with me, that this, which ought to
be my Joy, is dround by my greefe, O
make me to greeue for this my greefe.
And let me not forgitt to prayse thee,
for thy yet remaning mercis, of my deare
children; Lord doe thou make them
truly blesings to me, by making them
Avhat thay aught to be to thee, make
them to abound in ad vertu and God-
lynes of leuing, and inablle me by thy
asistanc to prouid for them in sume
mesure, as to worldly supports and
cumfortes. Most Bountyfull Lord I prayse thee
that thou hast geuen me a posibelety of
paing my hosbands debts, Lord giue me
grace

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grace to doe it, and if it seeme fitt in
thy wisdom, giue me such a proportion
of helthe, and strenthe, bothe of body,
and minde, as may inabde me to doe it.
It was thou my God, that inspired the
harte of the King, with charety to asist
me in my desires, arid it was thou alone
that put it into the harte of so many to
intorsede for me, with him; Lord re
ward them ad, bothe Princ and Subiect,
and may thay neuer Avant mercy, ether
in this world, or an outher, in there
gretest extremety ; and may I euer spend
my days in thy prays; and so Liue, as
not to dishoner the carector thou hast
imprinted uppon me, of thy seruant,
which I am no was abde to make good,
Avithout thy asistanc. O Blesed Sperit
doe thou gide me thorugh out the hole
corse of my Life, and asist me in the last
houre of my death.
O Holy, and blesed Sperit, doe
thou worke so efecktualy with me,
as to perden what is past, to recty- phy

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phy what is presant, and to preuent
what is to come, and to bles me,
and mine.
Deuteronomie chap: 10; tiers 18;
He doth execute the Judgment of the
Fatherlesse and widow.
Lord make me to worship thee, in
Spirit, and in truth.
B. L. D: Now Lord help: now, and
euer, Lord helpe.

(101 rec.) Psalme y" 130; y° 5: uerse.
Sep. f 12; 1675.
I wait for tJie Lord, my Soul doth wait,
and in Jiis ivord doe I Jiope. O suffer
me not, my Lord and my God, to fad
from this my hope, but in the strength of
it, inable me to pas thorough ad the
difecultys of this Liffe, and Let not this
hope fade me, till I come from hoping
to inioying, from praying to praysing,
from soroing to reioycing, cternady;
and tdl that hapy houre come, doe thou
neuer

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neuer forsake me, any on moment of my
Liffe, that I may neuer dishoner thy
name hear; O my Lord doe thou asist
me iri the condetion I am now in, pre
serue the chdd within me, the time it
has to stay, from euery id aetident, and
when my hower of traued comes, Let
thy Holy Angels be asisting; grant me
a saffe deleuery, support me in my
gretest extremety; and bles my chdd
with perfitt shapes, make it butyfull in
body and mind, and reseue it into thy
Chorch, by the blesed Sacrement of bab-
tisme, and reseue both that and me, and
ad mine, in to thy Allmighty protection,
now and for euer mor. Amen.

For CJiristmas Day, 1675.
Glory be to our God on high,
On earth peas, good will towards men,
The angels with this news did fly,
And did with Joy proclame it then
When all of us wer lost in sin,
And all of vs had ruin'd bin,

(101 rev.)

If

If this Glorious Lord had stayed
In the Heuens for him war mayed;
But his vast goodnes did desend,
For our Souls good, thus low to bend,
He our owne natuer did asume,
In our weke nature he did com,
Tho' he from sin vnspoted war,
The burden of our gdt did beare,
And freed us from that dismaH smart,
And will his Joys to us impart;
What extacy should sease our brest,
When on this theme our thoughts doe rest,
Wher can we serch, wher can we find
Words to expres our gratefull mind,
0 Let our Souls melt into Loue,
And our Joy'd prasis mount aboue
And thayr fix, tell throw his merit,
We thos Joys com to inherit.
Amen..

(102 rec.)

Jan. 1671

After the berthe of my son Gorg.
What prays, what gratetud aught I to pay,
That I haue liued to retorne thanks this day,
So many ills, and so much greef outliued,
Could only from the Allmighty be reseued; Let

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Let not thy rod, nor comforts, come in vane,
Let them not add to my eternall payne,
But let them aU contrebut to my blis,
Sine aH my sins now ar become his
Who dyed for me, and fuly payed my score,
His merits mine, his mercis I implore;
His praysis to the world I will proclame,
Wdst hear on yerthe to serue him I remane,
TiU he reseue me in his armes of Loue,
And satisphy my Soule with Joyes aboue.
Amen.
My derest Lord doe thou take into
thy armes of mercy, my dear son Gorg,
be his father, he that was borne with
out father, brought into the world by
an aflicted mouther, preserued only by
thy Almighity poure. Let him be pro
tected by thy prouedenc, defended by
thy goodnes, instrocted by thy wisdom,
and mayd a hapy instrement of good to
thy Chorch and Nation, and if in mercy
thou seest it fitt, grant that he may be
a comfort to me thy most vnworthy
seruant, and ad this I humble beg for
my derest Sauier's sake. Amen.
bb Feb.

(103 m-.) Feb. f 5: 167?.
Sine all by prays, thayr gratetude expres
To thee, my God, sure I can dou no les,
My hart is full, my Soul dos ouer flow,
Let notmytong proue in the expretion slow,
Let aU my actions, and my words make
knowne
That I am guided by thy poure alone,
And let that poure for euer me asist,
That I may neuer thy great wdl resist,
But may with all humelety resine
My stoborne will, for to be led by thyne,
For all that euer I haue don, or thought,
Or shon'd, or wish'd, or acted, as I aught,
Was from, my Lord, thy mighty pour deuine,
I canot dialing, any part for mine.
For if thy care, my God, thou shou'dst dechne,
Leuing me to my selfe, how sad afait wer mine,
I should the vilest of all cretuers be,
Weked, and reched, to the last degree,
But thgt, I hope, wiU neuer be my faite,
My God 1 loue, all that he hates I hate,
On his great goodnes I will stiU rely,
And in his seruis wiU I liue and dy,
This resolution he wdl strenthen so,
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All greefs, that shall in oposetion stand,
Or tempt me to resist his high command,
That I with cherfull hart, with cherfull voys
May heare for euer make it my lou'd choys
To show by all my actions how I loue
To prays thee hear, that I may do't aboue.
Amen.

(103 rev.)

A Prayr
for my son Mordaunt when he was
in Franc, he begon his Jorny thether
Monday, f 28; Feb. 161\.
Lord in thy mercy doe thou adorne
the early years of my son with thy grace,
and let him thorow thy mercy improue
it euery day, that he may be a hapy, and
a glorious instrement of good, to this
Chorch, and Nation, to which end derest
Lord preserue him bothe abroad, and at
home. Let not the coruptions of any
playce or agg infeckt or defile his mind ;
but if in thy infenat mercy thou seest it
fitt, let him retorne home, in honer, and
safety, with the fauer of thee my God, and

and the oplas of man. Let him be
emenent in uertu, and pyety, and ad to
thy honer and glory, and if it pleses thee,
to the comfort of me thy vnworthy ser
uant, and all my famely.
Amen.

(104m-.) Mar: if 24; 167!;, Good Friday.
After rescuing the Sacrement.
Psalm y" 116; v. the 1: 2:
1. lam well pleased that the Lord hatJie
heard the voyce of my prayer.
2. That he hath inclined his ear unto me,
therfore will I call vpon him as long as
I line. O Lord I am not oidy to prays thcc
for the infenat mercy shoed to the hole
world in generail upon this day, by thy
meretorious pation, but for thy infenat
mercy voutsafed to me in pertecoler
upon this day, thou hast aployed all thos
merits to my Soule, thou hast Amited me
to thy owne selfe, thou hast noreshed and

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and fed my Soule, with thy owne pre
tious Body and Blod, O Let me neuer
doe any thing to dishoner thy name. I
am now becom a part of thee, O let
* me be thy pertecoler carre, and giue me
grace to make it my care, to please, and
serue, and obay thee in ad things, and
in thy dew time reseue me to thee, into
thy eternall Joyes.
Amen.

On Ester Day, 1676.
The Lord is resen, Let us be so Avise,
With him from sin, from sham, from slothe,
to rise,
Let not one stane remaine this glorious day
Vpon our Soules, Let all be wip'd away
With his most sacred body, and his blod,
That purchest has for us so great a good;
The Lord has resin, and we now shall Rise
With Loue and wonder to behould his eyes.
I trembeling doe expeckt, yet Avish, that day
In which I hope to here my Sauier say,
' Com all ye blesed of the Lord, and see
' The Kingdom, which is purchest you by me;
'My

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' My blod for you this purchas shure has mayd
' Your heuy debts of sins by me ar payd,
' And the bles't purchas is to you conuay'd
f Sealed in my blod, 0 be not then afraid,
' But com with Joy, your blis is shure,
' Reseue thos Joys, that shall for euer dure.'
Amen .

(105 rev.) 1: of Apr ell 1616.
A thanks geuing
for deleueranc from fire
in. my chamber begun.
My Gardien Angel, that behoulds thy Faise,
And dos by thy command defend the playse
Of my abode, has vs in safety kepte
From dismall fire, preserued us wdst we slept,
And waked me when the danger great did
grow;
It was thy goodnes, derest Lord, I know
Thus to command; that all of vs might liue,
With Loue and Joy our praysis thus to giue
To thee, our God, whous mercy still exsedes
All outher of thy great and glorious dedes.
Amen.

At

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At my sons Louis and Osmond
going into France, thay begon thayr Jorny
Mayf 24; 1676.
Most pourfud Lord God doe thou
defend my cleare chdderne, take them
into thy Almighity protection, preserue
them as wed abroud, as thou hast in
mercy don at home; and grant that this
thayr Jorny, and thayr being in Franc,
may proue much to thayr aduantag, and
to the comfort of me thy uery vnworthy
seruant. My derest Lord, thou that art the pro
tector of the fatherles and widdo, be my
protector, and in all things my dyrector ;
in all things that consernes my selfe,
my childerne, my famely, my interest,
let me consolt nothing but thy wid, let
me ayme at nothing but thy Honer and
glory, and the good of our Soules; and
then I know in mercy thou wdest be
plesed to besto ad things that shall be
requesed for me, and mine; which derest

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derest Lord grant for my Sauiers sake.
Amen.

(106 rev.) 0 Lord I prays thy holy name for the
saffe deleuery of my deare Sistor, Lord
in mercy preserue her in this her bed of
wekenes, and restore her to perfitt helthe
and strenthe, and this I humbely beg hi
the name, and for the merits of my derest
Lord and Sauier.

EUERY DAY
after the King's granting
a patent for the incres of tJie years
of the Cole Farme; to be sayed euery day,
or som outher of thanks,
when I am able.
O God how miraculos was tlry mercy
to me thy poure distresed and unworthy
seruant, left by the death of my dear
Hosband destetute of all worldly helpe,
when thou didst torne to me in mercy,
and let me see none euer perished that
reloyed

reloyed on thee; in thee did I put my
trost, and thou clid'st deleuer me, and
mine, from the id condetion we wer left
in ; thou did'st stor up the hartes of my
frinds to plead for me, thou did'st moue
the harte of the King to grant, thou
did'st incres my welthe, and Avid I hope
let thy blesing goe along with it, that I
may pay my debts, prouid for my chil
derne, and acording to my abilety asist
my poure bretherne; that as I haue
found fauor in thy sight, so they may
find releue at my hands.
Lord incres my sperituall tresur, that
I, not abusing of thy worldly gifts, of
chddren, frinds, reputation and fortune,
may be mayrd partaker of thy heuenly
Joys, Avhich ar purchased for me, by my
derest Sauier.
Amen.

ce

Sal.

(107 rec.) Sal y" 44; uers. ye 3: and 4:
July the 2: 1676.
After taking up money to 'pay my debt.
Lord it was not mine owne arm that
helped me.
But thy right hand and thyne arm, and
the Light of thy Countenance, becas thou
Jtadst a fauer unto me.
My Lord and my God, how vnworthy
am I of the least glimce of thy mercy,
but how much mor unAVorthy of thy
abondant goodnes, by which I haue bin
so pourfuly asisted in my gretest nedes
and aflictions, thou hast difended me
with thyne arme, and soported me with
thy right hand, thou hast caryed me
thoroughmany difecultis, and hastgeuen
me fauer in the sight of thos I had to
doe with, inabling me to satisphy the
desirs of so many poure peped, to whom
I Avas indebted, and geuen me wheare
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and Avid I hope, in thy clew time, asist
me hi prouiding for them, and paing
thos that haue asisted me, in my extre
mety, with money to pay thos pour pe-
pell, and ad this out of thyne owne
meere goodnes, becas thou hadst a fauor
unto me. O how doe I desir the con
tenuanc of thy Loue, but how lyttull doe
I deserue it, yet I am thyne, and tho'
unworthy to be oned by thee, yet will
I neuer forsake thee, tho' thou shouldest (107 rev.)
kd me, yet wid I put my trost in thee,
tho' thou shouldest Avithdraw the Light
of thy Countenanc from me, yet wdl I
delight in thee, but derest Lord leaue
me not to my selfe, I trost not to any
strenth or wisdom of my owne, but I
throe my selfe into thy armes of mercy,
and fermely rest upon my rock, Christ
Jesus. Amen.

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A Prayer
to be sayed in thonder and lytening.
O God whous neuer ering prouedenc
gouernes all things bothe in heuen and
in yerthe, preserue, we beseech thee, this
thy famely, and all that belonges unto
it, from the dismall efects of thonder
and lytening; from soden, and unpre
pared death, and from euery dl actident,
Let thy Almighity hand of protection,
be ahvas ouer us for good, and suffer us
not to fall into sin or shame.

(108/-ec.) Befor the Sacrement.
Sep. f 30; 1676.
O that my Soul Avere so inlarged, that
it might reseue thee my Sauier, with all
the transportes of Joy and Loue it is
capable of, wilst it is confined Avithin
this masse of sinfull dust and ashis, that
I may haue sum taste of those Joys thou
hast prepared for thos that loue thee,
which

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which for thy merits I shad inioy Avhen
this mortall body shall haue put on im
mortality, and this corruptable body
shall be rayesd in incoruption, when O
Lord, when shad that hapy and wishte
for day com.

When my sister Linch had the smallpox.
Oc. y 8:
O God, full of mercy and compation,
take, I most humbley besech thee, in to
thy Allmighty protecktion, my deare Sis
ter Linch, preserue her on this her bed
of wekenes, Souffer not the deses she now
grones vnder to haue any poure ouer
her Liffe, nor any way hinder her futur
hapynes in this woiied, but aboue all
fitt and prepar her for thee in the worled
to com, and all this I presume to beg
for my Sauiers sake. Amen.

Wensday,

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Wensday, Feb. f 14; 16%
When I was asolted thrise in my cJiare,
and preserued from all ill, by tJie
great mercy of my God.
No danger sure I need to feear,
Sine my God is alwas near,
Near to all thos on him depend,
Them to preserue, them to defend.
Tho his blest imag I defais,
And doe neglect his offerd grac,
He has mercy stdl in store,
When his ayde Ave doe implor;
He dos forgiue and dos releue
AU that Avith loue and faith beleue;
Let me for euer thee adore,
And Avith faithe thy ayd implore,
And thy praysis aU was sing,
Thou art my Lord, thou art my King.

1 Tim. y 2; chap, y" 1: uers.
I exhort therefore, that, first of all,
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and
giuing of thanks, be made for all men.
I durst not presume to apear befor thy

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thy deuine Maty oprest with sin and
uanety, did not the aduis of thy Aposted
St. Pad incorag me to it, that exhorts
us to pray and giue thanks for ad men.
Lord hear my vnworthy prayers, for
ad Christen pepell, furst I presume to
bles thy name, to magnefie thy mercy,
for hauing spred thy Gospell so fare,
Lord suffer not thy name any longer to
be abused by thos, that ar caded by that
name; giue unto us all forgiuenes for
all thats past, pure harts and holy hues
for the time to com, and for all that ar
yet in ignoranc, Lord in mercy giue them
menes to knoAV thee, and send thy Sperit
into thayr hartes, to inable them to im-
bras, and hould fast, thy holy doctrin,
and the loue of thee. Lord comfort all
aflicted, bles all in prosperety, and san-
typhy ad condetions to all peped, and
this I humble beg, my derest Lord, for
my Sauiers sake. Amen.

Mar.

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Mar.f 3: 161\.
My God, all things below of joy, or grefe,
I from thy hands most cherfuly reseue.
Thy rod I kis when soro fiUs my brest,
Thy name I laude when I with Joys am blest,
I know that bothe ar from a father sent,
Who will in ether croune the blest euent.
Let my blest Jesus fill alone my hart,
Let not the world or deuell haue a part
Where thou, my derest Lord, inthroned art.
Doe thou, blest Sperit, sese my Soul intyer,
And from thy allter set it all on fire,
And burne up all the dros, leve it refined,
And so preserue it, till with thee 'tis joyned.

Maytf—: 1677.
When my son Mordaunt went to sea.
My Lord and my God, into thy Al-
mighity protection I commit my deare
son, thou alone cans't preserue him from
the Raging of the sea, from the violents
of the Avinds, and from euery ill actident;
preserue his mind from all coruption,
and his person from all danger, retorne him

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him (O my Lord,) to me agane, in safety,
and honer, and if in thy infenat Avisdom
thou seest it fitt, make him a comfort to
me thy vnworthy seruant, an honer to
his famely, and an aduantag to his
Church and Nation; and grant that this
jorny may proue much to his aduantag
in euery respeckt, but aboue ad, in the
improuement of his mind, Let him see
and admir thy wonders in the depe, Let
thy holy Sperit so pourfuly incline his
soul to loue, and adore thee, that he
may in ad things cherfuly submit to thy
wid. Ad this I presume to beg in the
name and for the sake of my derest Lord
and Sauier Jesus Christ. Amen..

Sep. ye 12; 1677.
Of Long Liffe.
Length of dayes hathe bin by most
accounted a blesing, but alas tis only so
when tis blest with opertunetis of glore-
dd phying

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(114 rey.)

phying God, of being emenent in his
seruis, and of being usfull to our bre-
theren, aduancing ther good, both of
soul and body, this inded maks it a
blesing; but in it selfe, it canot be ac
counted so, it being a delay to (our
futur hapynes) a Joy so great none can
comprehend it, much les expres it, the
being with God, the buoying all perfec
tion in him, the being fild with vninter-
rupted Joyes, the being inflamed with
Loue which is alwas satisfied, the uery
thought of this, dos so inflame my soul,
that I pationately wish, I could this
minnit hear my Sauier say, This day
thou shalt be with me in Paradis; but I
am not worthy, I am not worthy, and
nothing but the merits of my Sauier
can make me so.
But I know not what I aske, nor of
Avhat Sperit I am mayd, thy wid is best,
thy wdl be dun.
Long Liffe to me no Joy can bring,
Exsept it glorephy my King; To

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To loue and to obay his wiU,
To sf rue him with my utmost skill
Is all can make this Liffe a blis,
So frdl of cares and thornes it is;
Na, which is yet the gretest payne,
From joys immenc it dus detayn
My soul, that naught can pleas
TiU in thy armes it is at ease;
And yet securely hear 1 rest,
Only becas by thee I'me blest;
For if my God did not proteckte,
And aU my feeble steps dheckt,
What unknowne pathes they'd tred,
Sin, and dispayr thats by it bred,
Would quit destroy my rest,
And make this world a hell at best,
In which a pathe by thee is ehalk'd to Joy,
Thether thy gentdl hand dos me conuay.
Amen.

A Sal. the 73; f 24; vers.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,
and afterward receitte me to Glorie.
Thy counsels first my God shaU gide my wais,
Then croun'd Avith Glorie I thy name shall
prays, Words

(115 rec.)

Words fuU of Joy and wonder, thy poure
deuine
WiU condesend upon my pathes to shine;
My God wiU gide my ways and bend my will,
So that his pleasuer I shall stiU fullfdl;
His counseles ar my Joy, nothing but hee
My comfort hear, aboue my blis, can be.
Let not my sins thes glo'rus hopes destroy,
Reseuing me to Glory, 0 my Joy;
The very hopes dos make a heuen near,
And I alredy doe inioy it hear
In sum degree ; but 0 the thornes, the bryers
That stop the way, my vnbounded desires
Doe terephy my thoughts, when them I see,
My fears all uanish when I look on thee;
My confedenc is grounded on thy word,
And that defends me, like the flaming sword
Was place'd in Paradic, from all my fears ;
I haue no roum within for greef or tears,
I am aU ouer Joy, and long to be
Wher I thy presans may for euer see.
Amen. De, ,/ 25.. 1077.

(115 rec) Jan. if 28; 1677.
A Prayr for my Mother.
My God, permit me, I most humbley besech

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besech thee, to appere in thy presants,
to make my vnworthy adresis in the
behalfe of my dear mother; Lord giue
her the comforts, and blesings, of this
Liffe, releue her acording to her seuerad
nesesatys, and make her chddren com
forts to her; but aboue ad, fitt her for
thy eternall Joys, and grant, that her
pasag henc may be without great payns
or terers; Lord thou hast chunk that

bitor cup, make hers plesant to her.
Amen.

The 1 of the Cor: 2: chap. 9: uerse.
It is writen, eye hathe not seen, nor
eare heard, neither haue entred into the
hart of man, the things which God hathe
prepared, for them that loue Jiim.
0 that I wer all Loue,
And that the sentor of that loue might be
God, who gaue his Son, who gaue him selfe,
for me;
I am conuinc'd, Avhen e'are my thoughts doe
stray
From that on obgeckt,thay haue lost thar way
And

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And moue ereguler; doe thou, blest Sperit,
With thy soft brethe, reduce my ering Sperit,
Bio of the dros, and bring it back to thee,
That I may joy in naught but the blest three,
The on immortall God, my God, in whome
My hapynes hear, and all the Joys to com,
AU that is good, all that's to be desir'd,
Buty, wisdom, all that's to be admired,
All that deserues our loue, or maks our blis
As much aboue our thoughts as Ave're belo his,
Dos dweU;
Can my duU soul be plesed to stay belo
When so much blis about my God dos flow,
And that prepar'd, if I doe loue, for me,
That neuer entor'd hart, nor ey nere see,
My God, thou hast my loue, I canot chus,
Into my heart stiU more, and more, infuse.
Amen.

(Ill rec.) On Good Friday, at Reding.
Mar: y' 29: 1678.
This day's a day of joy and greeffe,
Joy, as it brought us all releue,
Droun'd in our dedly sins, and los
Of Joy ; had not his sauing Cros

This

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This day restored us all to blis,
By taking all our sins for his;
And loded with our heuy gilt,
Upon the Cros his Blod he spdt
For us, how great then is our grefe,
That nothing les could bring releue ;
Nothing, but thy owne pour deuin
Could satisphy for ower crime ;
Nothing but Christ, bothe God and man,
This unspoted sacrefis can
Make to God the father's Justis;
No Loue, but on emence like his,
This beetor cup would haue acsepted;
Yet he with Joy has it efected.
What Loue, what prays aught wc to bring
When we apear befor this King
Of Loue ; when thus my thoughts ar bent,
I find no words my Loue to uent.
Amen.

Woton, Ap.f 1: 1678.
For my Childeren, to be sayd
in ther behalfe, by me.
Lord perden the presumtion of thy
unworthy hand maycl that uentors to
recommende

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recommende to thee, all my dear chd
deren, that thou in mercy hathe blest
me with, where euer thay be, abroud or
at home, be pleased to take them into
thy Allmighty protection; make them
in thayre seuerad stations instrements
of thy Glory; preserue them to me in
this worled longer, or reseue them in
mercy to thee, as seemes best in thy
sight; only if I may be permited to
make this humble request before thee,
preserue them, as far as may be, Avith
out sm or shame, preserue them from
euery ill action and from euery ill acti-
dent, and grant that all may proue for
ther Souls good, and thy great Glory,
Avhich, I trust, shall euer be the ayme
of me, and min. Lord owne us so for
thyne, as to direckt the hole cors of our
Liues, direckt me how to aduis and then
how to acte, and let thy blesing goe
a long with all our endeuers. Amen. After

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After my retorne from Bathe.
June f 20; 1678.
Sal. ye 40 ; tier y" 3 ; and 4 :
My God thou hast put a new song in
my mouth, euen of praise unto thee my
Lord; many shall heare it and fear and
shad trust in the Lord.
Blesed is the ma it that maketh the
Lord his trust.
I haue neuer trusted but in thee my
God, and thou hast forsaken me; O leue
me not to my selfe, but asist me in all
things, euen in praising thee, for Avith
out thee I doe not know how to pleas
thee. How dare I aproch thcc with words
of my owne, Silanc best becoms my atI-
nes, when I apear befor thy throne, ex-
sept thou inspir me from aboue, and
teach me hoAV to aproch thee wdst I am
hear beloAV, my thoughts ar fidd Avith
Joy and wonder when I conseder thy
ee infinat

(11 8 rec.)

infinat goodnes.
By thy deuine prouedenc I haue bin
(118 reu.) preserued in all my AA'ekenes, retorned
in safety home, ad my dear chdderen
well, my helthe in sum mesuer restored,
my frinds kind, ad that by thy bounty
I can cad mine, preserued by thee.
O what am I, euen the worst of all
thy cretures, and yet thou hast bin
pleasd to incompas me about with thy
Saluation; Avhat can I say, I will adore
thee, bles thee, prays and magnephy
thee, loue and serue thee, all the days
of my Liffe.
Amen.

(119 rec.)

After a deleueranc from fire.
July f 27;
Hoav daly doe thy blesings Aoav
Vpon us mortals hear below,
I am astonished when I think
How oft I'm snached from the brink
Of death, preserued by thy pour
Or else might perish euery hour;

O

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O let me more and more admir,
Let my blest soul to thee aspir,
Let me neuer seese to prays,
TUl ending of my hapy dayrs
I may to sertan Joys atan,
And Avith thy Christ in Bliss remain.
Amen.

Ariued at Depe, Thorsday night
De: f 22 French still, f 12 English.
A Prayr of thanks geuing
O Eternall and merciful Father, all
prays is thyne, to thee it is alone cleAV,
to thee my thankfull hart shad euer pay
it, but becase Avithout thee, we doe not
know hoAV to pleas thee, let thy holy
Sperit inspir me how to prase thee ac
ceptable. Amen

A Prayer

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j( 144 rec.) A Prayer
mayd by my owne father, before receiuing
of the Blessed Sacrament.
O Eternall and most gratious God,
whose greatnesse is as much beyond our
thoughts, as thy goodnes is beyond our
meritts, who art so farre aboue us in thy
Maiesty, and yet art round about us in
thy mercy, whose Glory was to create
man, but Avhose delight is to saue him;
be pleased (O Lord) to pardon this my
presumption uppon thy fauour, who not
contented with that leasure thou art
pleasd to promise to the entreaties of
any that are asembeled in thy name, am
bold to sollicite thine eare at this time
to the cryes and humblle desires of so
poore a particular wretched sinner as I
am, AAdiose Soule thou hast brought so
farre on towards Saluation, as that it
Andes it selfe loaden with sine, is sensi
ble of the weight of it, and hathe im
patient and feruent longings to bee freed from

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from the subiection to it; to whom then
(Lord) should I adresse my selfe, but
unto thee that arte the author of all
comforts, whom should I entreat to
make my Soule cleane, but thee who
didst giue it mee such; whom shad I
beseech to inuest it Avith purity, but thee
who art nothing else; Avho is so much
concernd by my Saluation, as thou who
madest me; Avho hathe so great a losse
by my perdition as thou Avho didst in
tend me to be thine owne; who wid
haue so tender a sence of my misery
and misfortune, as thou my God, who,
besides thy naturall indulgency to man
kind, vouchsafest a peculiar compation,
and commiseration to the sighs, and
sorrowes of euery repenting and beleu-

And Avhen (Lord) should I secure
myr Soule of mercy, if not noAV when I
come unto thee in the name and me
diation of thy clear and only sonne Crist
Jesus when I represent at once to thee
my

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my repentance and his pations, my sor
row and his sufferings for my shins,
Avhen for the many transgretions of my
youth I present to thee the many more
tortures of his Crosse, Avhen to the shins
of my Soule I apply the wounds of his
body and desire to be clensed from
them, not by the riuers of mine owne
teares, but by that immense sea of
mercy, euen the plentifull and pourfull
effusion of his owne most pretious and
incorruptible blood.
Vnto that blessed Sacrament, O Lord
doe I haste, as vnto the only sure rock
of my Saluation, and since thou hast
been pleased to incline my heart that
Avay, and to inspire it with so good de
sires, AAhich are the first steppes in that
blessed Journey, let me be so guided
thorough it ad by thy holy Spiritt, and
so strengthened by it against all the
interruptions and distractions that I shall
be sure to meet in the way, that I may
neither entertaine the remembrance of
my

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my past sums with delight, nor welcom
the occasions of new ones Avith greedi-
nesse, that nether the Loue of this world,
nor the feares of the next may disturb
mee, that I may not be led aside into
security by confidence in thy goodnes,
nor in chspaire by consciousnesse of
myne owne Avickednesse, that my pace
may not bee slackned by ouerloading
my selfe with my sinns; nor to much
hastened by laying aside ad the weight
of them; that mine eyes be not allwayes
so lifted vp as that they looke not also
into mine owne heart, nor so amused in
the consideration of that, as that they
fix not at last for their onely refuge vpon
my deare and only Lord and Sauiour
Jesus Crist.
But let thy right hand direct mee
Avhen I stray, and thy outstretched arme
support me when I faint; against the
hot assaults of the flesh let me be re-
fresht by the continuad clew of thy
blesings; against all could numnes and
insensibdetv

insensibdety either of thy Loue, or mine
owne danger, let me be warmd Avith a
coale from thine altar; Let me bee
sheltred from the dazeling sunshine of
worldly allurments under the shadow of
thy Avings; and releiued from the dan
gerous clouds of darkenesse, and igno
rance, by the Light of thy Countenance;
Let thy grace remaine with me, and thy
(145 rec.) Spirit take such charg ouer mee, as it
may present mee a worthy guest at thy
Holy table; worthy in the knowledge
and confession of mine owne vnworthy-
nes, and in a constant, certaine hope
and beleife in the mercyes and meritts
of my dearesst Lord and Sauiour Crist
Jesus, in the breaking of his blessed
body, and the shedding of his immacu
late blood.
And that I may bee sertainely per-
SAvaded of my welcom at thy blessed
tablle, furnish my Soule with all thos
vertues and graces, Avhich thou requirest
at the hands of all thos Avhom thou in-
uitest

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uitest to that holy asembly. Giue me
a sound and sanctified knowledge of all
that may any way conserne or conduce
ati to my Saluation; enlighten my Soule
with such a glimpse of the lustre of thy
Maiesty, as may let me see how much to
narrow it is for the comprehension of it
all; but fid it (Lord) with such a liuely
sense and experience of the riches of thy
mercy, that I may be as joyfull in respect
to their plenty, that they can neuer be
exhausted, as ferfull in respect of their
value, that they cannot easily be pur
chased; teach mee, Lord, so to know thee
as that I may truly loue thee, and make
me then think I know thee in a suf
ficient measuer, when I loue thee out of
all measuer; and let all my Liffe cheifny
tend to the heightning and increasing
of that Loue, and of the true Joy and
Comfort that doe euer acompany it.
And that I may make my knowleclg
auadable to me, giue me grace so to
apply it to mine OAvne Soule, as that it
ff may

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may grow to bee faith in me allso. And
yet proportion not, Lord, my faith to
my knowledg, but when the scantnesse
of myne vnderstanding cannot fully
comprehend the immensnesse of thy
Maiesty and mercy, let my faith reach
after them, and Avhen it falls short let
it be in weaknesse, and not in willing-
nesse, and then Lord thou wilt, I know,
rather supply it, than punish it.
Aboue ad let my Soule bee satisfied in
the liuely apprehention and perswation
of the death of my Lord and Sauiour
Crist Jesus, and of my large and full
share in the mercies and meritts of it.
Let my hert not beleue this only, but
feele it, let me not owe my faith only
to my Joyes in this particular, but let
euen my sence secure them unto me,
by that ineffable experience of Joy and
Comfort, and acquiescence that I enioy
by it, and the fearfull disturbances and
distractions that thay ar subiect too,
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in that security. To thes, Lord, add a
hearty sorrow and vnfained repentance
for all my sins past, with a constant re
solution of neuer retorning to them
againe, make me auoid sin not so much
becase it brings me neere punishment,
as becas it puts me farre of from thy
fauour; and let me not be satisfied to
hate it upon consideration only, vntill
I haue brought my heart to a naturall
and pressent auertion and detestation
of it, and to a holy ambition of ap
proaching it selfe, as near as humanity
Avid giue it leaue, unto that first degree
of purity and integrity in which thou
wert pleasd to create it.
Make me to take so strict an account,
Lord, of myne owne Soule, that no sin
of Avhat nature soeuer may escape mc;
let my penitent sighs and grones make
a greater noise in thine eares, than my
loud and crying sins; let the silent com-
ponction and anguish of my heart per-
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to doe away my wispering and my secret
sins; and let that infinit Loue whear-
with Crist Jesus loued mankind, and
Avhich I shad teach my heart to retorne
in some degree to him againe, driue from
thence and out of thy sight, my darling,
and nry bosome, and my beloued sins.
And wash, good Lord, out of my
Soule, euen Avith the blood of thy sonne,
Avhat soeuer hath beene vnpleasing and
vnacceptablle in thine eyes, and let it
leaue there behind it such a tincture of
purity, as may not bee sudyed, or spotted
againe by any temptations AA'hatsoeuer.
And finish, Lord, this thy great worke
of mercy all to me, by bringing me vnto
thyr holy tablle in perfect loue and cha
rity Avith all the world; let me bothe
freely in my heart forgiue all that haue
iniurd mee, and giue them such assur
ance of it by my outward expressions,
as thay may be inuited to forgiue mee
too. And let not my charity be con
fined to thos of my acquaintance, but
dilated

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dilated euen to all those that professe
the name of Crist Jesus, let me expres
it to ad that truly call vpon him, with
feruency and pation, and euen to those
that haue not yet heard of his name, by
prayers and compassion.
To my superiours 
[Unfinished in the MS.]

B: W:

2 Sacrements: — Babtisme, and the
Lord's Souper; the furst giues Sperituad
Liffe, and the secont Sperituad Norish-
ment; Avithout Liffe, you can reseue no
Norishment; and without Nourishment,
Liffe will soune decay.

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APPENDIX.

[ r** In consequence of the chang-e of type and style, requisite
for the following pages, it was necessary to omit them at the
place where they occur in the MS. In the order of the MS. they
should he, ante between pages H> and 11, — E. M.]

IN

THE YEARE OF OUR LORDE

1657.

SUNDAY.

To returne thanks for
Reseued the Blesed Sacrement
and in sume meshuer spent the
remaning parte of the day beter
than I used to dow, not to my
knolege tould any untruthe, not
mist the publioke seruis of the
Church, and am returnd safe in
body and mind.

To aske per den for
Ofended by disputing with my
Husband, and therby geuing him
a trubel, hauing bin weded to my
owne openion, and not yelding,
tho I thought my selfe conuinced,
by loking uppon a mane when
my harte tould me, it might re-
nue his pashon agane for me
which being marryed was unla-
full, by not spending this thy
Sabethe day so well as I aught
to dow; but was drowsy at the
euening sermon.

MUNDAY.

To returne thanks
That I haue not falen into any
a willful

To repent of
Hauing spent this day in veset-

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willful sin, and that I am saue ing, I feare I may haue ofended
in body and mind. with my tung, I am shure I haue
by not saing ' my prayrse this
afternoune and by making outher
pepels indiscrestion, my deuer-
tion.

TUSDAY.

To returne thanks for To aske per den for
For my helthe and safety, and I haue sayd one or to things
that of my Husbands and for the that wer not exactely true. I
contenuanc of his kindnes. haue omited parte of my deuo
tions to day, and spent my time
in the uanety of discors and cum-
pany.

FRYDAY.

The sins and omistions I haue cummeted in my grete sciknes ar
innumerabel, for I was impationt, and when I stroue aganst it, it
was mor to pies cretuer than my Creator for which I humbely bege
perden; I was pashionat in it, and angered my husband, and oca-
tioned his ofending thee, my God; forgeue Lorde, I did not returne
that Harty thanks for my recouery as was mete, and when I re
seued the Sacrement after it, it was not with that deuotion, so
blesed a Sacrement requird, but I trust my God reseued my desir
of dowing it, I dow now returne most Humbel and harty thanks
for my recouery, and for my being  -which God grant, and that
I may savely goe thoro with it, to his Glory, and my cumfort. I
haue ofended this day, in ometing my pryuet prayrs in the morn
ing ; and in eydel discors ; and in the uane desirs of being thought
handsum; and in thinking ill of outhers my selfe, and by being
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angery at my deuotion this euening, O Lord forgeue and acsept
and daly increse my repentanc.
Amen.

SATURDAY.
I Humbely returne thanks I bege perden, for
That I haue past this day with- Hauing bin angery to day in
out any grete perel, and without my house with Lady P  and
ometing my set time of  for hauing bin dull at prayrs, and
[The page here is imperfect.] for hauing in returne to a com
plement tould a lye.

SUNDAY.

Reseued the blesing
Of helthe, and my husbands
kindnes, and of hering thy word
preched, and of ganing the kind
nes of thos I am withe, which I
no way deserue, and milions mor
of blesings.

Ofended
I haue ometed all my pryuat
prayrs, and bin dull at the pub-
lek seruis ; that the pleshuer of
waking and diseorsing, hath hin-
derd my retyrments to day ; that
I tould a thing to one that might
insence her against an outher
which was ill tho the thing wer
true.

MUNDAY.

To returne thanks for the
Continuanc of my Husbands
kindnes, and all outher thy bles-
-ings, which ar innumerabel.

I haue ofended
In the being dull at my prayrs
and by being plesed with the
folis of outhers, and with things
sayde to ther reproch.
TUSDA Y.

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TUSDAY.
To returne thanks for I haue ofended by
The contenuanc of all thy us- Sufering my illnes to slaken
eall mercys; and the daly incres my deuotion, and by spending
of them. mor of my time in reding a foul-
ish play, than was spent in thy
seruis.

WENSDAY.
The mercys I reseue arinfenate I haue ofended in euery parte
0 acsept of my praysis Lorde. of the day, by implying it in no
good thing, I haue not only
ometed pryuat, but some parte
of publeg prayrs, and that by resen
of slothe, my sieknes geres me.

THURSDAY.
O Lorde forgeue my hauing ometed this days account.

FRIDAY.

Thymercisarunspekabelmul- O Lord forgeue my hauing
teplying euery day, in geuing me spent this day so long a bed, and
this day an opertunety of juste- if I haue tould any thing of un-
phiing my selfe, and in granting truthe or to Lady  's preiudis,
me my helthe sumthing beter, in my relation of her oarage to
the Lorde be prased. Lady  forgeue dere Lord,
and all my secret and past sins.

SATERDAY.
O my God, How daie I to aproche to thy tabel to moro, hauing
so many and sundery was ofended thy deuine Maity sine my Last

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reseuing that most blesed Sacrement here; I may see thos sins I
haue remembered, which ar many, but my forgoten ons, are innu-
merabel, and the sins of my past Life, ar a burden to heuy for me to
bere, but that which ads to my gilte, is the weknes of my repentanc ,
0 what shall I dow, Carest thou not that I perish. O Lorde loue
me, and help me, for I am thine, for tho a straing shepe, yet not a
lost one, I am returning to thee, and implor thy ayde, O deny it
not ; did euer any goe a way unsatisphid that came to my Sauier,
no, Lord, I kno thou wilst haue mercy uppon me, for I loue my
Sauier, and he will not forsake me, yet I haue sened and that
greuesly, and my Lord herethe not Seners, exsept penetent ons,
O then that my hed were a fountane of teares that I might wepe
day and night, for my many ofenoes, as they ar reten in this booke,
so blote them out of thine, and imprint thy meroys euer in my
harte, that it may euer be full of thy prayses, for thy louing kind
nes is beter than life itself, and the remembranc of it swet unto me ;
but my sins ar dethe it selfe, and the gale of them will undow me,
if thy mercy sustane me not ; but in that I will euer trust, thy merits
haue satisphid for my gilt, and thy blud shall make me whiter
than snow.
Amen.

I prays thy name for that pro- This days preperation hathe
portion of repentanc I haue found bin uery impernt, for I haue bin
this day, and for all outher thy dull at my deuotion, and haue not
mercis, contenu them deare Lorde bin so greued for my sins as I
and prepar me for cuming to thy aught, O Lorde incres my re.
tabel to moro. pentanc.
SUNDAY.

FRYDAY.
A thanks geuing for my recouery from sickness.
O Father of mercys, in thy mercy acsept of my thanks geuing
b tho

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tho so layt performed for my recouery from my grete illnes, and
not only for this thy mercy, but I must most Humbely acknoleg
that the ocation of my illnes is an unspekabel blesing, for it hath
plesed thee to here my requeste, by granting me a Hapy recouery
so far. O denye me not a saue deleueranc, and bles the Child with
exaote shape, and preserue it, from all kind of deformety, the grete
blesing of babtisme lete it liue to reseue, and if it be thy blesed
will lete it be a boy, and geue bouthe my deare husband and me
the cumfort of leuing to see it educated in thy feare, and acsepta-
bel in thy sight, but Lorde not my will but thine be fulfild in all
things; O let it be thy heuenly will to make me thine, and then
thy will be euer dune, and euer lete me bles that Holy will that
hath bin so mercyfull to me; O my God and my Lord, most gret
and most Glorus, most mercyfull and most Good to me thy most
unworthy Seruant, my harte douthe reioys in thy mercys, and I
am euer mayd glade by thy louing kindnes, for I loue my Lorde,
and I am greued at mine inequety, forgeue and reseue me, and
make me euer thine.
A men.

SATERDAY.
To returne thanks for To Oraue most Humbely
The gret mercy that nether me, Thy perden for hauing spent
nor my husband, nor any that my time so eydely, for hauing
belongs to me hathe reseued any bin absent at euening prayrs
preiudice this day, and that I and for geuing ere to discorsis
haue bin abel to ete mete with- to the preiudice of outhers.
out being uery ill after it, and
for all outher thy unspekabel
mercys I prays thy Holy name.

SUNDAY.

MUNDAY.
O Lorde How grete and many O my God forgeue me this
fould aayg

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fould ar thy mercis,^ and How days ofences, and thos of my hole
ought I to prays thy Holy name, Life. I haue ofended by being
for that I yet poses the afections to sensabel of Lady P's ingerys,
of my husband notwithstanding and by hauing sayd to many
the desins that ar to breke it, things to her disaduantag. O
and that this day thru thy grete Lord send my deare Husband
mercy I haue discouered them; saue to me agane, and forgeue
O Lorde giue me grace to preuent my knone and secret sins, I feare
them, and euer to prays thy holy I tould a Lye this day.
name. A. A.

TUSDAY.

To prays thy holy name, my O Lord for geue my ofenses,
God, for all thy mercys, and in and make me sensabel of them,
pertecoler for thos today which I haue ofended this day becas I
haue bin many, and agan I must canot remember my ofenses my
prays thy holy name, for the dis- illnes hathe mayd me omet sum
couery I haue mayd by thy asis- prayrs, Lorde forgeue.
tano of  's trechery to her
brouther.

WENSDAY.
I bles my God for his Gretnes I am Gilty, Lorde klens me
for his Glory, and for his Good- I haue this day desembled if not
nes towards pour unworthy me, lyed, and I haue sayd sumthing
which is yet greter then my un- to a persens preiudice tho it wer
worthynes for he douthe not only truthe, is ill; I haue right many
preserue me a live, but blesis me Leters to day and I feare ofended
with all things emagenabel. O in words, but O forsak me not
what can I say, only admir, and by geuin me ouer to myselfe;
wonder to, that his grete magesty lete me daly incres in Grace and
will reseue an admeration from in thy fauer, to which end geue
unworthy me. A. me a harty repentanc. A.
THURSDAY.

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THURSDAY.
My prasis are to thee O God I haue ofended my God this
derected for my preseruation this day,by shortening my prayrs, and
day, and that I haue past it with- by telling an untruthe, and by
out any gret ill, and prety well being to much plesed^with sum-
in helthe and oherfulnes for thing to ete, O my Lord and my
which I shall euer bles my God. God forgeue me, euen me.

FRYDAY.

I prays thy holy name my God forgeue"' my ofencis my
Lorde for geuing me pations to often ometing my prayrs, by re-
ber my illnes this day, and that sen of my illnes, O Lord forgeue
I herd that my sister was well, my being thought better than
and for all outher thy mercys. I am, and my speking untruthe
to the preiudice of Lady  .

SATERDAY.

O my God how grete ar thy
mercys to pour me, and how un
worthy am I of them, by preseru
ing me this day that I haue spent
so lyttel of in thy seruis ; I prays
thy name for that I haue herd
from my husband and that he is
well and my deare sister to, O
my God contenu thy grete mer
cis unto me. A.

Forgeue Lord forgeue me thy
unworthy altogether unworthy
seruant, for I haue spent this day
altogether in uanety, and haue
ometed the seruis of my God that
neuer forsakes me, O rech that I
am ; but Lorde dow not only for
geue but geue me grace to mend,
and that for my Sauior's sake, for
my desir to it is gret. A.

SUNDAY.

O my God acsept of my thanks
geuing

My God my God forgiue me for

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geuing and derect me in this for I haue sined and dune greues-
strayt whou to beleue and what ly, by geuing myselfe so much tru-
to dow. O Grant that I may bel this day for worly afiiotions,
dow that which is most just and. and by it disinabeling myselfe
most plesing in thy sight, thy for thy seruis, and so haue omet-
mercy hathe bin gret to me, and edit, but thou art mercyful or els
that maks me so ernestly im- my sins wer a burden to hevy for
plor it and with such Joy expect me to bere, but O forgeue and
it. direct me, and by thy cumforts
cary me out of thes trubels.

MUNDAY.

Thy mercy, my God, is aboue O my God how ashamed am I
all thy works, for thou arte pety- and blush, so often to repete a
ful to me, a Siner, a great Siner, neglect of my seruis to thee my
for my inequetys ar gone ouer God, and this day it was dune not
my hed, and ar to many for me out ofwekenes and illnes, but out
to bere, and yet I liue and brethe of willful neglect, and I haue bin
and haue a being and that a obstenate not yelding in my ope-
Hapy on to, prays the Lord, O nion to thos wiser than my selfe,
my Soul, and all that is within how oane I beg parden or pety
me prays thy holy name. hauing so highely ofended so
just a God, but he is my God and
a mercyful God, and in him I
trust. A.

TUSDAY. 111.
WENSDAY.
I prays my God I haue spent My God and my Lord forgeue
this day sumthing beter, and I me the ofences of my youthe and
c haue thos

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haue reseud many blesings, as
the expreshions of my Ladys
kindnes, and the contenuanc of
all outher thy acustomed blesing,
for which I will neuer sese to
bles thy holy name, my harte
douthe lepe for Joy when I con
sider thy Louing kindnes. O
contenu it euer to me, and by
thy blesed Sperit geue me grace
euer to acknoleg it. A.

thos of my riper years, forgeue
me my ofences of this and euery
day, if in the leters I haue sayd
any thing in exkus that was not
exact truthe Lord forgeue, and
the spending of my time not so
well as I aught, my Sauier for
geue. A.

THURSDAY.

My Lord and my God, I must
euer prays thy grete and glorus
Mai*y for all thy mercys, but in
perteculer maner for that grete
on granted this day of my dere
Husbands saue returne to me,
euer lete thy name be prased for
it, and thy mercy contenu to grant
it me. A.

O forgeue derest Lord the
ofences of this day, my ometing
to returne thee prays, for my
deare Husbands returne tell. now,
and my telling him sum things
that may insence him aganst his
mouther, forgeue my derest Lord
forgeue euen me, me thy unwor
thy seruant all. A.

FRYDAY.

My God I bles and I prays thy O my God dow not only for-
glorus Mai*y for all mercys gene, but geue me Grace to mend
granted, that my Lady P  my Life, that I may not be thus
hathe not bin angery with her often to importune thy deuine
sone, and that she hath layd aside Mai*y for one sine, that of spend-
the desins to breke his kindnes ing so ill my time, in the which
for me, which euer deare Lorde so many ills ar concluded, O for-
preuent I beseche thee. A. geue and resceue me. A.

SATERDAY.

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SATERDAY.
I bles and I prays thy Holy Forgeue Lorde my keping upe
name Lorde God Allmyty, and my husband tell his slepynes
neuer will sese to dow it, for thy mayd him neglect his prayrs, and
mercys ar infenate, and thy loue my neglecting them to often my
past finding out, that so regardes selfe, and the pryd I exprest to
an unworthy cretuer as to aford day by being angery at my Lady
to me not only a being but that P  not staying for me, and all
with oherfulnes and content, and outher my ofences bouth of this
all cumforts emagenabel, contenu day and all past, my derest Lorde
derest Lorde thes thy mercys, forgeue, blote out, remember
and incres them, by granting to them no mor, and that for my
me a saue deleueranc of the Child Sauiers sake. Amen.
I now goe with, and if it be thy
pleshuer lete it be a sonne, but
not mine but thy will be dune.

SUNDAY.

I prays thy name for the good Forgeue my derest Lord de-
sermon I haue rede to day, and fering my pryuat deuotion so
for the impreshion it mayd with long to day, and not remember-
me, euer nuresh this desir of re- ing all my wekednesis ; O bring
pentanc in me, my derest Lord, them to my rememberanc, and
and contenu thy mercy. A. forgeue me my secret falts. A.

MUNDAY.
Blesed be my God for all My ofenses ar many, geue me
mercys granted me to day, and a harty repentanc my derest
for all Judgements preuented. Sauier, and forgeue them, and
all cummeted this day, the ill
spending of my time, the being
plesed to take notis of outhers folys,

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folys, and in sume degre coun
tenancing them in me.

WENSDAY.

I bles my God for geuing me
patienc to ber with my Husband
when he is in his pastionat Hu-
mers, 0 Lorde breke him of them,
or if thou hast desined them for
a scurdg for me, geue me grace
to reseue them as may best pies
thee my God, for as thy mercis
hathe bin infenate, so contenu
themthat I may euer bles.

O forgeue my derest Sauier
my sins for they ar far to many
and multeply daly, what shall I
dow or how cane I expect per-
den, that contenu still in the so
ill spending of my time in idel-
nes and uanety, but my Sauier's
merets permets me to hope for
perden, sine I desir it.

TUSDAY.

Praysed be my euer mercyfull Forgeue my ofenses and blote
God for all mercys this day be- them out of thy remembranc my
stood, for my Lady Peter, being derest Lorde, the sins of my hole
kinder then she uses to be, and Life and thos of this day, my
for my deare Husbands helthe, ometing sume of my prayrs, and
and hapynes, and his kindnes to defering bisnes for to play at
me, and for the contenuanc of cards, my God forgeue. A.
mine. A.

WENSDAY.

THURSDAY.
Euer laded be my God for his Forgeue me my God the sins
grete mercy to me this day in of my hole Hfe, for they haue bin
granting me a saue returne home, many, and my yesterdays sins
and which

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and without hauing ben ill in my which I haue forgoten, and all
helthe this day, and the contenu- that I haue cummeted this day,
anc of all outher thy mercys unto my minding the uanetys of this
me, O euer blesed be thy Holy world before thy seruis, and my
name. so often neglecting it, with all
outher my wekednesis, good God
blote out of thy rememberanc
and that for my Sauier's sake.

FRYDAY.
Blesed be God for all mercys O my derest Sauier perden my
granted this day to me his most ofending thee, and that bisnes
unworthy seruant, and euer in this day hathe hindered my re-
thy mercy let this blesing be tyrment and my intended adres
contenued to me. A. to thee, 0 my blesed Lord for
geue me and all outher my
ofenses. A.

SATERDAY.

Euer praysed be my derest
Sauier for he is gratious and his
mercy endurethe for euer, for I
dayly fele it, and they ar multe-
plyd to me, me euen unworthy
me, what cane I say, what cane I
render, I cane but wonder, bles,
and prays my Lorde, that leuethe
for euer. A.

O my God forgeue me and
cumfort me in my aflicktions, for
tho my sins hathe justely de-
serned milions mor, yet the fra
lety of my fleshe canot support
this without thy asistanc, O my
God cure myHusbandof thissad-
nes, and make him thine with
mor of mekenes, but my scins
haue deserued so ill, how dare I
expect so good, but in the mercy
of my God ther is Joy euerlast- .
ing. A.

TUSDAY.

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TUSDAY.

Thy mercys, my Lorde, in-
cumpas me on euery side, for
thou geuest me a cherful, and
contented mind, a kind husband,
the kindnes of my frinds, Hops
of an ayr to my famely, of Joy,
my helthe, a mens to deuert my
selfe plesingly and enosentely by
panting, and all outher thy mer
cys ar unspekabel, 0 geue me a
harte euer to acknoleg them, and
one so acseptabel in thy sight as
to make my thanks geuings ples-
ing to my derest Lord. A.

O forgeue my inequety, for I
am an ungrateful reche reseuing
so many mercys and returning
so much of ill and unplesing to
my derest Lord, 0 rech that I
am, whou but my Lord cane
perden such ofences, but my God
is gratious and mercyful, slo to
routhe, and delytethe in mercy,
in which I will euer put my
trust. A.

FRYDAY.

O How abundant ar thy mer
cys, and thy ways past finding
out, O my God whou cane but
prays thee, and yet whou dayrs
to dow it, thy mercy alows it, for
that perdens the weknes of the
performanc, and O Lord perden
this my Humbel thanks geuing
for all thy mercis. a.

O my derest Sauier perden my
neglect of this way of exsamin-
ing my selfe, and O like wis all
the sins cummeted thos days, and
this, and thru the hoi cors of my
Life, O geue me grace to be a pece
maker in the famely I am in,
and geue me more of feruency
in my deuotion for I want zele,
I want zele. A

SUNDAY.
T ^ f TvBm ^ ^ my ° f01'Seue m>' deres* Lord all
Lorde, for all Ins blesmgs unto seine paste, present, what fe
to

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me, and for the desir I haue to to cume, and grant that I may
serue him, tho my performanc be neuer dow preiudice to any, but
uery uery weke, but Lord in- make me allwas a pece maker,
crese my zele. for I haue this day ofended by
being plesed at outhers folys,
perden me, euen me, my derest
Lord.

SUNDAY.

Euer euer blesed and praysed
be my God for he hathe dune for
me mor than I am abel to ex-
pres, and I, reched I, am altoge
ther unworthy to acknoleg them,
for my Lips ar not undefild and
my hands ar to poluted to be held
upe in his presanc, but my Lord
will be mercyful, he hathe sayde
it, and his truthe endurethe for
euer, therfor prays the Lord O
my Soul and all that is within
me prays his holy name. A.

Lord my ofences ar many and
my account but seldum mayde,
and then so imperfit that my
uery forgoten sins are mor in
number than the hayrs of my
hede, O wo is me, but I haue a
Sauier, and in his merits ar my
sure confedens. Amen.

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