WOrship , Praise , Honour , Glory , & Maiestie , be giuen vnto thee , O God , my Creator ; to thée , O Christ , my Redéemer , and to thee , O holy Ghost , my Sanctifier ; for all the blessings of thy grace most plentifully powred vpon mee : for my election , my Creation , my Redemption , my sanctification , and for all other thy good giftes and benefites : beséeching thée ( O swéet Sauiour , ) that as by thy bitter death and passion , the power of sinne was suppressed , the concupiscence of the flesh subdued , the wickednes of the world asswaged , and the maliciousnesse of Satan quenched ; so it would please thee to ouer-shadow mee with the Shield of thy fauour , that I a painefull pilgrim , and weary wanderer in the world , may passe my pilgrimage in peace of conscience : comforting me with the hope of thy promises , which wilt & canst refresh the fainting soule , and restore it when it is attainted with any dangerous disease . O Christ , my Phisician , so prepare the thoughts of my heart vnto thee , that I may be swallowed vp in the contemplation of Heauen , and heauenly ioyes , not regarding the vanities of this world , which are but baits and snares to intangle vs , and to make vs lothsome in thy sight . Giue me grace ( O thou Son of Dauid ) to liue in the world , as ready to leaue the world . Let the world continue as thou diddest make it , euen a seruant for the maintenance of men : and not a soueraign to rule and haue them at commandement . And because thy Kingdome , O Christ , is not of this world , giue me ( I beséech thee ) such a renewed heart , such a sanctified soule such a godly desire , and such an earnest endeauour to do thy wil , that I contemning this wicked world , with all the transitory pleasures of the same , may raigne with thee in thy kingdome , purchased for the faithful , euen by thy precious Blood , Death & Passion : Graunt this , O Christ , my Mediator , at the appointed time of thy good will and pleasure . Amen .

LIghten my heart , O Lord GOD , with the lampe of thy holy and blessed word , which is the weapon of euery true Christian souldier , and the sword of the spirit , to cut off all the temptations of the Diuell , the world , and the flesh , if it be vsed according to thy wil , O Lord which art the giuer and author of the same . And for so much , O Lord , as thy worde is the rule , whereby wée are bound to direct all our doings : and the square , whereat to frame the whole course of our life : I beséech thée , to circumcise my heart , that all carnall cogitations and thoughtes expelled and driuen out , I may betake my selfe wholy vnto the reading , hearing , studying , & folowing of thy word , which is the food of our soules : the comfortable bread , which killeth hunger and the pleasant drinke , which quencheth thirst : not the hunger & thirst of the body , against the which , it hath pleased thée to prouide most healthfull remedies : but the hunger and thirst of the soule , which are no way else asswaged , but by the vertue and heauenly working of thy word . This word , O Lord , vouchsafe to make florish and fruitifie in vs , that thereby wee may bée wonne to the worshipping of thée , in true feare , vnfained faith , and perfect holinesse of life , through Iesus Christ our Sauiour , Amen .

IN sinne , O Lord , was my conception , in sinne my education , in sinne the whole course of my life . Nothing is cleane and vnspotted in mée : nothing is sound , nothing perfect , nothing holy , nothing sanctified . I am full of sinne and iniquitie , my thoughts & desires are attainted with sinne : my labours and handy works are defiled with wickednes , my words and communications are tempered with the leauen of iniquity : my hart is corrupt & putrified ; there is nothing sound in me , but all mine entrails are infected , and poysoned with sin , the high way to euerlasting shame , death , and condemnation . O miserable wretch that I am , to whom shall I run for succour : To whom shall I make my sorrowes knowne : Before whom shall I powre my plaintes : Art not thou the Samaritane , which with the oyle of mercie souplest my festered woundes : Art not thou the good Sephearde , which bringest home the straying Shéepe to the shéepefold : Art not thou the good Captaine , which fightest in defence of thy Souldiers : O , yes Lord , thou art euen he : and doubtlesse , had not the oyle of thy mercy healed my filthy Botches : had not thy hand fetcht me home to the flocke : had not thy loue and grace ouer shadowed me in danger , I had rotted in my filthinesse ; I had perished in my wandering , and I had béen vtterly ouerthrowne in combate . O Lord my God , circumcise my heart , and clense it from all euill thoughts , deuises , imaginations , & consentes to sinne . Sanctifie my soule , renew my spirit , and garnish mée with the garment of regeneration , that I may become a swéete smelling sacrifice before thée a sacrifice of acceptable incense , a sacrifice of holines , & righteousnes : so shall I prayse thée in the assemblie of the iust , & extoll thy glorious name among thy people . Amen .

ACcording to thy louing kindnesse , O Christ , heare the praiers of thy seruant ; & that request which Hope inboldeneth mee to make , vouchsafe in mercy to grant . And because the Deuill is the father of all falshood and lying ; and thou the fountaine of all truth and righteousnes ; as thou saiest of thy selfe ; I am the Way , the Truth , and the Life : therefore I beseech thee ( O gracious God & Sauiour ) to plant in me the Trueth ; without the which , all entrance into heauenly ioy is stopt vp : & to banish out of my heart , ( which by nature is a nest of wickednesse ) all maner of sinne , resisting the Truth . And for so much as Truth is a pearle of price , and a Iewell of great value to the godly , the ornament of the faythful , and the treasure of the true Christian : therefore I beséech thée , O Christ , giue me grace , to thirst after truth , & to hunger after the taste of that heauenly foode : that my desiring soule may be succoured , & my longing heart refreshed euen with the fulnes of the same . And wheras by nature we are bondslaues of sinne , and by that meanes vtter enemies of truth : we beseech thee notwithstanding , to make vs partakers of mercy , and not of iudgement : remembring that thy death and bloodshed paid the price of redemption for all mankinde . Thou God of truth , heare my prayer , and let the suite of me thy poore Seruant , come before thy presence : and that which I haue asked with boldnesse , vouchsafe to graunt of thy speciall goodnesse , Amen .

MOst mighty , most iust most mercifull , most louing , most tender & deare Father ; forsomuch as there is no way to heauen , but by doing thy wil : we say with humblenes of heart , as Iesus ●hrist thy Sonne , and my swéete Sauiour hath taught : Fiat voluntas tua , sicut in Coelo , & in Terra ; Thy will be done in earth , as it is in Heauen And , because it is thy will , that we should walk in holines and righteousnes before thée , all the dayes of our life ; we beséech thée , to be the Schoolemaster of our Soules and Spirites , that thy Wisedome instructing and teaching vs , to make a difference betwéene good and bad , we may follow the one , and forsake the other : considering , that the doers of thy wil , and not the knowers of the same , shal be partakers of the promises of life and saluation . For thy Sonne Iesus Christes sake , my onely Sauiour and Redeemer , grant this request ( O most gracious God , both vnto mee , and to all thy people . Amen .

LOrd God , maker of heauen & earth , Iudge of the quicke and the dead ; thou that by wisedome séest all things , and by thy prouidence orderest all creatures ; wee beséech thée , to cast thine eyes of care and compassion vpon vs miserable sinners , who from the day of our birth , haue liued in wantonnes , and all kind of wickednes , therby kindling thy wrath and Iustice against vs to our confusion . O let vs yet at length , haue our eyes opened , and sée the brightnesse of thy glorie , which the blindnesse of our minds , will not suffer vs to behold . Let vs not pamper our selues in securitie , lyuing out of rule , and abandoning all godlinesse ; which is a kinde of surfetting in iniquity , and ouercharging our hearts with heapes of abominations : but let vs become new Schollers in the Schoole of Christianitie , walking warily , redeeming the time , louing light , and detesting darknesse . O Lord , vouchsafe to be mindfull of vs thy creatures , and of thine owne glory , which art our Creator . Teach vs to fast aright , not superstitiously , in abstaining from this or that kind of meate , vsing a vaine order in dyet , and differences of meates : but as thine holy ones haue in times past , fasted the true Fast , which thou in thy Word requirest : so grant , I beséech thee , that I , and all people , may fast after the same fashion : to fast from sin & wickednes , that the flesh may bee brought into subiection , and the spirit quickened . Graunt this , O Lord , for thy Sons sake , Iesus Christ my Redéemer and Sauiour . Amen .

MOst comfortable Sauiour , most victorious Captaine , most triumphant Redéemer , most mercifull Mediatour , Iesus Christ , thou beloued Sonne of the eternall God spread abroad the brightnesse of thy Maiestie , to the consolation of all people . And , forsomuch as without thée , the whole world is nothing else but a solitarie Wildernesse , destitute of faith , hope , charitie , loue , gentlenes , compassion , forbearance , and all other workes of Christianitie : we beséech thée , to be a gracious God , as thou art an omnipotent God ; that where thy power is séene , thy mercie may likewise be perceiued . Let not thy creatures continue in ignorance of thée their Sauiour , but so assist them with the present aide of thy comforting Spirit and the holy Ghost , that they may sée in what by-wayes of destruction & dangers they trauerse . Let thy holy Ghost be their lodesman , let the holy Ghost be their teacher , let the holy Ghost be their right hand , and their left : let the holy Ghost be to them all in all ; that they being thus inspired , & filled with the power of thy sanctifying Spirit , may feele in themselues a spiritual inclination & working , all desires of the flesh being cut off , & cast away : and may also be receiued into thy shéepfold , & be reckoned among the number of the faithfull . Graunt this , O Christ , thou tender Sauiour of our soules . Amen .

BOuntifull God , which hast giuen vs commandement to loue all men , and to hate none : to be angry , but not to sinne : to be displeased a little , but not to let the Sunne set vpon our wrath : wée beséech thée , to purge our heartes cleane from all hatred , from all enuie , from all malice , from al vncharitablenesse , from all vntowardnesse , from all bitternesse , from all quarrelling , from all misreporting , from all backbyting , from all reuengement seeking : sinally , from al the motions of a wicked spirit . Let loue banish hate , let friendlines displace vnkindnes , let charitie remooue ouerthwartnes , let forbearance dispossesse maliciousnes : al which are most shamefull sinnes , and so hatefull in thy sight , O God , that he is no Christian , but an Antichristian ; no child of blisse , but of Baall , no heire of Heauen , but of Hell ; no vessell of election , but of reprobation ; no partaker of ioy , but of woe ; no souldier of the Church , but of the Synagogue , in whom they beare rule . And therefore ( most gracious God ( root out of our hearts all such wéedes of wickednesse , that we may become new griftes of righteousnesse , through Iesus Christ our Sauiour , Amen .

IVdge me not , O Lord , in the heate of thine indignation : O consume me not in the furie of thy rage . I confesse , that mine offences cry out for vengeance , euen as a dry & sandy soyle gapeth for raine . Howbeit ( O most mercifull Father ) remember thy mercy , and let not sentence passe in iudgement to my condemnation : my sinnes haue laid out my lot , euen thy vengeance , O Lord , I cannot say the contrary : but thou hast Mercy in store , which pleadeth against Iustice ; so that thy Wrath ( I hope ) shall not ouerthrow me , though my wickednesses ( like waues ) ouerwhelme my soule . O Lord , heare my prayer , and for the honour of thy name , turne from me the punishments which thou hast denounced against mee in iudgement . I am a worme , and no man ; yea , the off-scowring of men , a wretch , and forsaken , an outcast , and an alien from the Common wealth of Israel : my sinnes haue made a separation of thy fauour from me : but the death of thy Sonne hath put out the handwriting , and broken downe the partition wall betwixt thée and mee . And therefore I come with boldnesse and confidence to thee , hoping to taste the swéetnes of thy Mercy , though I haue deserued the sharpnes of thy Iustice . As thou wilt , O Lord , so be it . Amen .

LEt the light of thy countenan e shine vpon vs , ( most mercifull Father , ) let the comfort of thy spirit drop into our hearts , let thy fauour & louing kindnesse be vnto vs a pauilion in the warfare of this life . Bee thou vnto vs a gracious God , and a Father inclined to compassion : that whereas the horror of our sinnes , and their haynousnesse , together with the manifoldnesse of our offences , kindleth in vs a kind of feare vnto death , disquieting our consciences , and raising vp within vs accusers to giue in euidence against vs , for the violating & breaking of thy commaundements : it would please thee , like a Father , tenderly to deale with vs as with thy children , and not like a seuere Iudge to handle vs , as guilty persons , giuing vs ouer , and leauing vs to the spoyle of our mortall enemies . Our conscience indeed , layeth dayly to our charge , that we haue playd the back-sliders , that we haue not kept vs within the compasse of thy holy precepts , that wee haue withstood thy heauenly will , and like stubborne rebels , denied thée the honour due vnto thy Name : neuerthelesse ( O Lord God ) cast vs not off into confusion , neither leaue vs to continuall torment , and vexation of conscience for our sinnes : but looke vpon vs with the eyes of mercy , that the terrour of conscience which we feele for sinne , may bee turned into rest and quietnesse : least if it happen otherwise , wee be driuen ( with Iudas ) into desperation : From the which we beseech thee to deliuer vs , for the honour of thy name ( O GOD Almighty , Amen .

LOuing Father & gracious God , forsomuch as thy word is the rule of life , and the high way to happines , we beséech thee , to kindle in vs an earnest desire to heare the same , and that not only with the outward eares of the body , but with the inward eares of the heart : which is the hearing in deed , whereby profit and comfort is gathered . Thy Word is the Sword to cut downe sinne ; thy Word is the weapon which thy Ministers vse , to conquer the kingdome of Satan : It is the felicitie of the faithfull in this life : it is the stumbling blocke of offence to the wicked : yea , to the vncircumcised Philistine , it is the sauour of death vnto death : but to the circumcised Israelite , it is the sauour of life vnto life . Vouchsafe therefore , ( O bountifull God ) to kindle in mee the fire of zeale vnto thy word , that I may so estéeme and count thereof , as of the chiefest treasure of a Christian in this vale of misery , hauing mine eares alwayes open to heare it , and my hart ready to receiue it : my tongue plyant to speake of it , and my mind earnest to meditate in it : so shall I reape such profit thereby , as thou hast prepared for them that come reuerently therunto . This , and all things néedfull for this life , graunt ( O most mercifull Father ) for thy Sonnes sake our onely Mediatour and Aduocate . Amen .

IN all afflictions and tribulations ( O GOD Father of all mercy and consolation ) wée beséech thee to looke vpon vs . & in the bowels of compassion to mittigate and asswage our miseries . And as it hath pleased thée of thy fatherly pitty , to call vs to thée the running Riuer of all refection and comfort ; so we beséech thée , euen then specially to heare our cryes & lamentations , when we lie groning vnder the heauie burthen of affliction and trouble . Thou hast commanded vs , to make our meane vnto thée , saying ; Call vpon me in the time of thy trouble , and I will heare thee . O bountifull and gracious God , doe therefore with thy seruants according to thy word : and as thou art faithfull in thy promises ; so I humbly beséech thée , that I , among the rest of thy people , may féele and tast the swéetnes of thy fauour and grace ; which is the most soueraigne succour that can be , in al necessities and distresses . To thee therefore which art the rich treasure , of all goodnes , & the healthfull welspring of all perfect peace , we approch ; submitting our selues before thy face , and crauing at thy handes the spirit of patience , wherwith , as with an vnpeaceable target being defended , we may constantly abide and weare out any kind of crosse and tribulation , wayting the good time of thy pleasure for our deliuerance . Amen .

ALmightie GOD , Father of our Lord Iesus Christ , which madest Heauen and earth , the sea , & all the wonders of the Déepe : wée confesse , that thou art the author of al things , and that vpon thee the whole estate of man doth depend : humbly beséeching thée , of thy goodnes , to guide vs so farre with thy grace , that if we sée our selues blessed with the Wealth of this world , which winneth worship and credit among people : or oppressed with pouerty , which bréedeth contempt and abasement : we may notwithstanding , neither by the one wax proud or insolent : neither yet by the other become mistrustfull , or desperate : but referring all to thee , which distributest thy giftes to thine owne liking vpon the tryall of thy seruants , wée may learne this ; that as thou art able to make the rich poore , & the poore rich : so in thée it is , to giue euery man an inward knowledge and assurance of thy will , whatsoeuer estate it hath pleased thée to place him , or them in : the which inward knowledge , I beséech thee , powre into my spirit , that as well in pouerty , as in riches , I may glorifie thy name : vsing my riches as thy blessing , in signe of thy careful prouidence ; and not repining , but well contenting my selfe with pouerty , as thy chastisement , to kéepe me vnder awe and obedience : thy will , and not my will , O Lord , be done and fulfilled . Amen .

MOst mighty God , and merciful father ▪ from whom all good things do procéed , as tokens of thy kindnesse : and all punishments for sinne ▪ as signes of thy displeasure : which giuest life , & takest away the same againe at thine appoynted time : which inrichest thy seruants with goods of sundry sorts , and changest their condition in a moment : which blessest thy creatures with Lands and Possessions , and turnest all in an instant , into extreame need and nakednesse ; as thou didst deale with Iob. that perfect paterne of patience : We beséech thee , to inspire vs with an vnderstanding heart , that we may so liue , as willing to die : that we may enioy our goods , as not grudging to forgoe them : and that wée may hold vs to our Lands , as not loth to loose them ; considering , that as they came from thée , so in thée it is to dispose them as thou wilt , either to blessing , or to cursing . O gracious God , let vs not grow in forgetfulnesse of the life to come , by too much louing this present transitorie Life , which is but a shadow , a smoke , and a dreame . Let vs not bee drowned in the desires and delights of worldly goods , least wee neglect the riches of Paradise ; which nothing can purchase , but Faith in the blood and death of Christ : let vs not wed our willes and witts to Landes and Possessions , which are but momentany maintenances ▪ least in ouerliking them , wee loose the sweet inheritance of the holy land , Ierusalem , not built with hands , but glorious and triumphant : wherto bring vs , O God , for his sake that bought vs , Iesus Christ the righteous , Amen .

LORD Iesus , the Redéemer of all mankind , which vouchsafedst to shed thine owne heart Blood vpon the Crosse , for the saluation of our soules , which else through sinne had miserably perished ; we praise thée , we magnifie thée , we worship thée , we glorifie thee , wee giue thankes to thée , for thy great kindnes , for thy tender loue , for they zealous affection , and for thine excéeding goodnesse , in caring for vs , in louing vs , in tendering vs , in susteining vs , in relieuing vs , and in supplying all our wantes and necessities . Thou numbrest all the haires of our head ; and without thy wil , they waxe not one lesse . Thou giuest vs food & nourishment , to comfort and strengthen our bodyes . Thou giuest vs Garments of sundry wearing , both for the safegard of health , & also for comelines . Thou giuest vs Houses to harbour in : & whatsoeuer wee stande in need of , thou of thine abundant grace , pourest the same most plentifully into our bosomes . Thou féedest the young Sparrowes , thou cloathest the Lillies of the field , thou garnishest the trées of the Forrest with gréene leaues , thou inrichest the secretes of the earth , and the sea , with precious treasure , & is it like , that thou wilt not haue an eye to man , a creature fashiōed after thy owne image and likenesse , for whom all these thinges were made and created ? No , no , thy loue is euerlasting , and thy mercie excéedeth all measure . They shall lacke nothing , that pitch the pauilion of their pilgrimage vpon thy Prouidence : which that wee may euer do , and so be blessed with aboundance ; wee beséech thee , giue vs thy Grace , so shall we laude and magnifie thee with heart and voyce , for euermore , Amen .

ALl glory , honor , praise , dominion , & thankes , be giuen vnto thée , O King euerlasting , which hast made me a reasonable creature , furnished mee with discretion and iudgement , indued me with knowledge and vnderstanding , and bestowed vpon me benefits of most singular excellencie . Like glory and thankes be giuen vnto thée , for thy prouidence and care for me , vile créeping worme of the earth , who in comparison of thée , am much woorse than stinking doung , and filthy offscowring of the earth . Thou dayly assistest me , thou continually regardest me , thou euermore defendest me from dangers , both bodily and ghostly : for had not thy hand ouershadowed me , I had sunke long since in mine owne shame and confusion . And because , Lord , manifold are the calamities belonging to this life , hurtful to the outward man , & noisome to the inner man , I beséech thée stretch out the shield of safty in full breadth ouer me , that I may walke without feare , not troubled with wicked thoughtes , not tempted with euill words , not prouoked to deedes of darknes : but keeping my feete in the path of light , looking alway to the lampe of thy word , which shineth vnto sinners sitting in the shadow of death , and leadeth the righteous and true repentant to life euerlasting , Amen .

MOst truely spake thy seruant Saint Iames , ( O my swéete Sauiour , ) that the Tongue being but a little member , was notwithstanding a world of wickednesse . Which to be so , thou knowest in thy secret counsell , and thou thy selfe haddest proofe thereof , whiles thou keptst thy standing in the faire of this life . It pleased thée therefore to instruct and teach thine Apostles before hand , what they should be subiect vnto in time to come : namely , to backbitings , slanders , acursed spéeches , tauntes , & controlments : yea , to reuilings , buffettings , & imprisonments . For if they spared not the Lord and Master , much lesse will it sinke into their hearts to fauour the Seruants ; whom they hate vnto the death , for their masters sake . From euill Tongues therefore , O Lord wee beseech thee , to saue vs : not from suffering the bitternesse which procéedeth from them ; for we are content to tast that which thou hast tasted before vs : but from offending in our tongue , which oftentimes woundeth the very soule . O Lord , giue vs grace , to set a watch before our Tongue , that we trip not in our talke , & hurt not onely them , against whom wee are maliciously minded ; but also our selues , whom we cannot but greatly annoy , whiles we séeke , either in thought , word , or deed , to wreake our wrath vpon others , considering that thou hast reserued all vengeance to thine owne selfe . O Lord , be gracious vnto vs ; and as thou art the Shepheard of our soules , feeding vs in the sweete pastures of thy grace : so we beséech thee , to kéepe vs from all manner of spirituall diseases : vs ( wee say ) which are thy people , and the sheepe of thy pasture . Amen .