SAINT IOHN the Euangelist , in the first Chapter of his Gospel writeth , that our Sauiour Christ comming into the worlde , which was made by him , was vnknowen of it : yea , comming among his owne , of his owne was not receiued : but yet to as many as receiued him , he gaue this dignitie , that they should be called the sonnes of God , which are borne not of flesh , nor of blood , nor of the will of man , but of God . By which testimonie of the holy Ghost , wee may vnderstande howe great and excellent is the dignitie of true Christians : namely , that they be the children of God , begotten not carnally , but spiritually of God himselfe . And that we should not deceiue our selues , by a false imagination of christianitie , as it is commonly called and reputed in the blinde world , the same scripture teacheth vs who be true Christians in deede : not euery one that is so called , or would be so accounted , not euery one which hath taken vpon him the outward signe and badge of christianitie , which is the Sacrament of Baptisme : but onely those which receiue Christ , are true Christians , and the children of God . But who are they that haue receiued Christ , that they may be partakers of so high a dignitie ? euen they which seeing , acknowledging and confessing their owne shameful , miserable , and damnable estate , which they haue not onely receiued by propagation from their parents , but also haue wilfullye incurred through the iust iudgement of God for their owne sinnes , do willingly , ioyfully , and thankfully heare & obey this voyce of our Sauiour Christ , Mat. 11. and 28. Come vnto mee all ye that labour , and be heauy laden , and I will refresh you . And so reposing their whole trust and confidence in the mercie of God ( whose iustice they know to be satisfied in the merites and sufferings of his onely begotten sonne our Lorde and Sauiour Christ , their whole and onely Redeemer ) doe willingly take vpon them the sweete & easie yoke of Christ , which he requireth in the next verse to bee taken of all them that come vnto him , & looke to be refreshed by him : which yoke of obedience vnto the rule of Christ , though it seeme harde and vnpleasant to bee borne , vnto the corrupt nature of man , yet vnto the children of God , ( whose weakenes is assisted by the holy Ghost , & their faults committed of weaknesse , are washed away with the blood of Christ ) there is nothing more sweete , pleasant , and delectable : insomuch that Dauid vpon this consideration , preferreth the Lawe of God before hony , and the hony combe in sweetenesse , protesting that it is more to bee desired then all iewels of gold and precious stones . Beholde , these are true Christians which haue receiued Christ by faith , and gladly bring out the fruits of faith in all godlinesse of life , to the glory of God their Father , and the profite of Gods children , their brethren and sisters . Therefore if we be such , whatsoeuer we be in the estimation of the worlde , wee are most honourable . And if wee haue all the vaine titles of worldly honour heaped vpon vs , & be not such , we are most vile and contemptible in the sight of God : for God maketh more accompt of his children , then of all the creatures of the worlde beside : as euery father more esteemeth his naturall sonnes and daughters , then any other thing hee hath in the world . yea for them the world was made , for them the sonne of God became man , and suffered death for their redemption : for them the worlde is continued , that their full nomber out of all ages might bee gathered , in which God hath appointed them to liue : and when the nomber of them is once accomplished and fulfilled , this worlde shal be at an ende , and Christ shall come to giue them all together that perfect rewarde , which God hath promised , & he for them hath deserued . What worldly dignitie , haue it neuer so swelling titles of honour and glory , can be comparable to this high dignitie of true Christians ? If we should speake of the sonnes of Knights , Lordes , Earles , Dukes , &c. they are all surmounted and excelled by the children of Kings & Emperors : and for what cause , but that the maiestie of Kings and Emperours so farre passeth those meaner titles of honor before rehearsed ? It followeth then of necessitie , that the more excellent the parents are , the greater is the dignitie of the children : and consequently , by howe much the eternall glory and maiestie of God excelleth the honor & dignitie of earthly Kinges and Emperours , by so much the dignitie and honour of Gods children exceedeth the honour and dignitie of Kings and Emperours children . Wherefore , if in respect of worldly honor , we worthily esteeme those happy , which haue bin borne of earthly princes : much more ought we to accompt them blessed in heauenly & spirituall dignitie , vnto whom this prerogatiue is graunted , that they should be called the sonnes of God . For thereby they are assured , not onely to bee mainteined and protected by the gouernour of all things in heauen and earth , but also they are certainly perswaded to receiue such an inheritance , as it is meete for the Almightie creator of al things to bestowe vpon them , whom he accepteth & taketh for his welbeloued children : yea , such is his bountifull goodnesse towardes vs his adopted sonnes and daughters , that as his chosen vessels , S. Paul doeth testifie , he hath made vs assurance , and by the earnest of his holy Spirit , put vs in possession , ( though not yet in full fruition ) of that most roial inheritance , which he giueth to his onely naturall sonne , our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ . Rom. 8. And as the Spirit of adoption , by which we crie , Abba , father , which is the Spirite of trueth , and therefore can not deceiue vs , beareth witnes inwardly to our spirits , that we are the sonnes of God : So it hath pleased our heauenly Father , outwardly by holy signes and Sacraments , to testifie the same vnto vs : which Sacraments , as seales of his promises which are dayly preached vnto vs out of his holy worde , he hath giuen for a further and more full confirmation and strengthening of our faith , and most perfect assurance of those things which hee hath promised : by which Sacraments also he doeth not onely signifie and shewe what he hath purposed to doe for vs , but also worketh effectually in those that bee his true children , the same thinges which he doeth signifie and teache by them . For as by his holy worde hee teacheth vs , that after he is reconciled with vs for Christ his sake , hee accepteth vs for his deare children , and assureth vs that he will neuer forsake vs , but continue his mercie and loue towardes vs for euer and euer : euen so he testifieth and ratifieth the same by his holy Sacraments . For in as much as it is necessary , that if we be the children of God , we must know that wee are borne of God , it hath pleased him in the Sacrament of Baptisme , which is the lauer of regeneration or newe birth , to testifie vnto vs , that by vertue of the blood of Christ washing away our sinnes , as water doeth the vncleannesse of our bodies , & by the grace of his holy Spirite working wonderfully in our soules , our olde man is abolished , and we borne anewe of water and of the holy Ghost , to be the children of God . Being thus assured of our spirituall birth , that we shoulde not doubt of our euerlasting preseruation in the same state of Gods deare children , hee hath prepared vs also a spirituall nourishment of meate and drinke , by which we should be fedde to euerlasting life : namely , the flesh & blood of Iesus Christ , which was broken and shedde for vs vpon the crosse , that it might be spirituall foode to all them that shal be partakers of it by faith . Of which euerlasting foode and nourishment , hee hath giuen vs a seale or sacrament in his holy Supper , that , receiuing that bread and cup of the Lorde worthily , according to his holy institution , we shoulde no more doubt that our soules are spiritually fedde and nourished with the precious body and blood of Christ , to the forgiuenes of our sinnes and life euerlasting , then wee doubt that the outwarde elements , which wee haue taken into our bodies , according to their quantitie doe feede and nourish the same , vnto the maintenance of this temporal life . Whereby wee may easely see vnto howe great honour wee are called of our Sauiour Christ , when we are made partakers of that most holy and heauenvly Table , wherein he setteth forth vnto vs , most vnworthy wretches of our selues to sitte at his high Table , no meaner foode then his owne flesh & blood , to be a spirituall nourishment vnto our soules , whereby wee are made one body with him , and members one of an other , and an holy temple of GOD , through the Spirite of Christ dwelling in vs , and Kinges and Priestes do reigne with him , and praise his holy name for euermore .

SALOMON , in the 23 Chapter of his Prouerbs , exhorteth them which shal be partakers of an earthly princes table , to haue due consideration of their behauiour thereat to be vsed , and of such meates as shal be set before them : how much more ought a Christian diligently to weigh with him selfe when he is called vnto the high Table of the Lord , by whom hee is called , whither he is called , vnto what he is called , and for what end he is called . Verely , a Christian man , when hee is bidden to this royall banket , is called by no person of meane estate in this life , nor by any of the highest dignitie in this worlde , but by him that made them all : and in comparison of whose excellencie they all are but dust and ashes . It is euen the Lord our GOD , the creator & maker of all things , most holy , most righteous , hating and abhorring all sinne and wickednes , in whose sight no vncleane or filthie person may abide to stand : but such as are holy , righteous , cleane , and pure in heart , are acceptable before him . The place whereunto a Christian man is called , when he is required to be partaker of the holy Sacrament , is the Lordes Table , whereof this earthly & corruptible table is but a figure & shadowe : for euen as he that calleth vs , which is God our Father , and that whereunto we are called , which is the body and blood of Christ , is in heauen at the right hand of God in glory & maiestie : euen so the Lords Table , on which we shall be partakers of the same , is lifted vp aboue all height of the visible skies , into that place of Gods eternall glory , and maiestie , where Iesus Christ is resident in the throne of his magnificence . The holy feast & banquet , whereunto a Christian man is called , consisteth not of earthly dainties prepared by the arte of man , to please the bodily taste , which as soone as they are receiued into the body , tende to putrifaction and corruption : but of that liuely bread which came downe from heauen , and giueth life to the world , euen the flesh & blood of our Sauiour Christ , the immaculat lambe of God , which gaue himselfe an holy and vndefiled sacrifice vnto God his Father once for all , and found thereby euerlasting redemption : of which most holy and heauenly meate and drinke , whosoeuer is partaker , shall liue for euer . The ende wherefore a Christian man is called to be partaker of this holy Sacrament , is , that hee might be assured , that hee is regenerate and borne againe by the holy Ghost , to be the child of God , and inheriter of the kingdom of heauen , notwithstanding that hee remaineth still as yet subiect vnto death of his body , and ( that which is more to be feared ) through infirmitie falleth often times into sinne , the reward whereof by the iustice of God , is death both of body and soule : yet being nourished and fedde with the foode of immortalitie and euerlasting life , which is the flesh & blood of our Sauiour Christ ( as hee him selfe testifyeth in the sixt Chapter of Iohn ) hee shall by the diuine vertue and quickening spirite of our Sauiour Christ , be raysed vp in the last day vnto euerlasting felicitie . These thinges if a Christian man doe duely consider , before hee presume to come to the Lordes Table , he will not thrust forwarde himselfe rashly , vnaduisedly , & contemptuously , but with such reuerence , preparation , and examination , as is meete for him that is called by so great a person vnto so high a place , to be partaker of so holy , and so fearefull mysteries , for so waighty and necessarie an ende and purpose . For in respect of him that calleth , which is most holy and righteous , he will remember , that it is his part to cleanse his soule from all vncleannesse of sinne and wickednesse , by true and hearty repentance : he dare not appeare in his presence , ( which seeth and knoweth the secrets of his heart ) with an outward shewe of fained holinesse and counterfet sorowfulnesse for his sinnes , which he purposeth not to leaue and forsake , but to continue in them , after the receite of the Sacrament , and to delight in them as much as euer he did before . He will not presume to deride and mocke the Iudge of al the worlde , with a faigned countenance of modestie , taken vpon him for a few houres while he is in the Church , and laide aside againe almost assone as he steppeth ouer the threshholde of the Church doore , to returne no lesse to his former lightnes , vanitie , pride , lust , couetousnesse and other vngodlines , then to his priuate house and lodging . And when hee considereth that hee is called into heauen , where no vncleannesse or corruption can abide , where holinesse & righteousnesse doth dwel , he will call to mind the answere which God maketh to Dauid in the 15. Psalme , where hee inquireth who shall dwell in his Tabernacle , and rest in his holy hill : Euen hee that leadeth an vncorrupt life without hypocrisie , without fraude and guile , couetousnes or oppression , that dealeth iustly , faithfully , and mercifully with all men : such a one shall neuer be remoued . Hee that is called into heauen , where Christ is sitting at the right hand of GOD , and willingly obeyeth his calling , acknowlegeth that he must forsake the earth , with all earthly affections , and set his minde vpon heauenly thinges , vpon those thinges that are aboue , and not vpon the earth , as S. Paul exhorteth , Colossians the 3. Chap. hee must mortifie his members that are on earth , fornication , and all vncleannesse , couetousnesse , and deceitfulnesse , wrath , malice , blasphemie , and filthie speaking : and putting off the olde man with his workes , he must put on the newe man , which is renewed according to the image of him that created him , in holinesse and righteousnesse , in mercifulnesse , humilitie , meekenesse , long suffering , and forgiuenes of all them that haue offended vs , euen as God hath forgiuen vs in Christ Iesus . And for as much as the distance betwene the earth , where we are strangers , and the Heauen , whereunto wee are called , as to the place of our inheritance , is so great , that it is not possible for our heauy & lumpish bodies to ascende thither , before they be made conformable & like to the glorious bodie of our Sauiour Christ , which is gone thither before vs to prepare a place : a Christian man will consider , that as yet he can no otherwise bee lifted vp into heauen , but in heart and soule , by the winges of faith . And therefore he wil seeke to confirme and strengthen his faith , by the often and diligent meditation of the most comfortable promises of God conteined in the holy Scriptures , and by earnest and feruent prayer vnto God for Christ his sake , to increase his faith by the vertue of his holy Spirit , as well in this time of his participation of the heauenly mysteries , as at all other times , vnto the ende of his life . Yea , that spirituall foode of the body & blood of Christ , whereof he is called to be a partaker , wil admonish & put a Christian man in minde , as well of repentance , purpose of amendment , reuerence & humilitie , with which hee ought to bee prepared that shall receiue the Sacrament worthily : as also , that faith and constant beliefe in the promises of God is necessarily required of him that shal be nourished with so wonderfull & heauenly foode . For were it not that the sonne of God , which is trueth it selfe , hath promised by his holye worde , to giue vs his body and blood to bee meate in deede , and drinke in deede , to feede vs vnto euerlasting life : and for assurance of this his promise , doth giue vs his seale in bread and wine , which therefore hee calleth by the name of his body and blood , because they do truely , and not vainely represent vnto vs the trueth of his promise , and effectuall performance of the same : howe should we differ from the vnbeleuing Iewes , which vnderstanding carnally , that which our Sauiour Christ spake spiritually , demaunded howe it were possible to giue his flesh to be eaten , and his blood to be drunken ? But being instructed by faith , although the mysterie farre passe the reache of any mans vnderstanding , yet doe we nothing doubt , but according to his holy word and promise , after a heauenly and spiritual maner , he giueth to al them that are worthily partakers of that holy Sacrament , his very body and blood to be spirituall meate and drinke , whereby they are fed & nourished vnto that life which is immortall and incorruptible . Which faith of ours receiueth strength and increase by worthie participation of this holy mysterie : for which ende and purpose it was instituted and ordeined to our comfort . In consideration whereof , and of all & euery the respects before mentioned , a Christian man is compelled to fall down before the throne of Gods grace , and from the bottome of his heart to yeelde most humble and vnfeigned thanks to God the Father , with the sonne our Lord Iesus Christ , & the holy Ghost , by whose infinit mercy and goodnesse , without al merite and desert of himselfe , hee is called to so high honor and dignitie , that he is admitted to be a ghest at the Lords Table , in which hee is made partaker of the flesh and blood of the sonne of GOD , who so loued the worlde , that hee gaue his only begotten sonne , to suffer most cruell & shamefull death for the redemption of mankinde , to satisfie the wrath of God , & to reconcile vs againe into his fauour , of his enimies to make vs his children , and of his children to make vs ioynt heyres with his onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour . Last of all , a Christian man thus assured , that hee is made partaker of the body & blood of Christ his head , of whom hee is nowe made a liuing member , must acknowledge & purpose with himself , that it is his bound duetie , not onely to be more circumspect & watchful of himselfe , that he bee not forgetfull for so high and incomparable a benefite , nor vnthankfull to so mercifull a Lord that hath thus loued & saued him : But also to shewe all loue & tender affection towardes all them , which by the same meanes are made fellow members with him of the same mysticall body : and as occasion and abilitie shall serue , like a liuing member , to feele ioye and comfort at the prosperitie of his fellowe members , and to be so grieued at the hurt or affliction of any of them , that he be redie to relicue & comfort them , to ayde and assist them , as we see by the example of the members and partes of our naturall bodye . Hee therefore that examineth him selfe after these rules , shall be rightly prepared to receiue the Sacrament worthily , to his euerlasting comfort .

VNworthily they come to the holy Communion , not whosoeuer are vnworthy of that high honour , which GOD vouchsafeth them whom hee calleth to his holy Table : ( for then should all men , euen the most righteous come vnworthily . For no man is worthy to stand in the Lordes presence , much lesse to sitte as a bidden gheste at the mariage of his Sonne , or rather as a childe , at the high Table of Almightie God the Father , but that hee of his infinite mercie , whereby hee accepteth them to bee his children , vouchsafeth also to giue them this heauenly nourishment . ) But all they come vnworthily , not onely which come like hypocrites , with fained hearts and contemptuous mindes against the Lord , whom they pretende to worship : but also euen as many as presume rashly , negligently , and vnaduisedly to receiue the holy Sacrament without due examination of themselues , and consideration of the excellent benefite whereof they come to be partakers . Of them S. Paul writeth , that they eate and drinke , not the body of Christ , whom they despise in his holy mysteries , but their own damnation , because they discerne not the Lordes body , from other bodily meates & drinkes : For seeing our Sauiour Christ hath adorned these holy mysteries with the name of his most precious body & blood ; whosoeuer contenneth or lightly regardeth the fame , must needes deserue such punishment and condemnation , as they which abuse not only the name of GOD , ( of whom hee protesteth that he wil not hold them guiltles : ) but also the seale of God , whereby hee offereth them assurance of their redemption , and euen the very bodie and blood of Christ , whereof this Sacrament is a true and liuely representation . Wherefore the Apostle sayth , Whosoeuer eateth this Bread , and drinketh of this Cuppe of the Lord vnworthily , shall not be guiltie of abusing of bread and wine , and other such like creatures , ( the abusing whereof is neuerthelesse vnanswerable before GOD : ) but he shal be guiltie of the body and blood of Christ . Which sinne , howe horrible and gricuous it is in the sight of God , to be guiltie of the body & blood of Christ , we may easely perceiue , if we call to remembrance the example of those , who moste cruelly and despitefully betraied , condemned , scourged , and crucified his most holy and innocent bodie , when hee liued vpon the earth . The guiltinesse of whose treason , false witnessing , vniust condemning , cruel scourging , and crowning with thornes , & most dispitefull crucifiyng , and shedding of his most precious blood , beside spitting , scorning , and reuiling : the guiltinesse ( I say ) of all which iniuries and villenies they do most iustly heape vpon themselues , which vnworthily , vnaduisedly , rashly , or negligently presume to come to the Lords Table , and so become guiltie of the body & blood of our Sauiour Christ : whereby they procure vnto themselues ( if GOD should deale with them in iustice ) such punishment , as was deserued by Iudas Iscarioth , the false suborned witnesses , Annas and Caiaphas , with the rest of the high Priestes and Pharises , Pilate with his souldiers , and the people that cryed out vpon him , Crucifie him , Crucifie him . And more worthily deserue they such punishment , then many of these before named : for of them the holy Ghost testifieth , that they did it ignorantly : for if they had knowen him , they would not haue crucified the Lord of glory . But these men contemne and despise him , whom they knowe and confesse to be the Lord of glory , and the eternal Sonne of God : the other despised him in the estate of his humilitie , when his Godhead was couered with the shape of a seruant : but these men set light by him , and contemne him , nowe hee sitteth in his throne of magnificence and maiestie . Therfore , much greater is their guiltinesse , & more grieuous is their condemnation , if the Lorde shoulde deale with them according to their desertes . But although hee be ready to pardon and forgiue such as haue so despised him , vpon their heartie and earnest repentance , euen as hee was ready to pardon them which crucified him : yet doth he not suffer his children to bee altogether without chastisement , but that they may more deeply consider howe grieuously they haue trespassed against him , hee punisheth them oftentimes with sharpe sicknes and sudden death , which haue presumed vnworthily to bee partakers of his holy mysteries , euen as the Apostle saith : For this cause many among you are sicke , and some are fallen asleepe , by which temporall punishments , if the residue can beware , and learne to iudge themselues , they shall escape the iudgement of God : but if neither by Gods threatning , nor example of punishment , they will be taught to amend this great & grosse contempt of Gods lenitie & mercie , they shall heape vpon themselues vengeance in the day of wrath : from which , our most mercifull GOD for Christ his sake , vouchsafe to deliuer vs .

O Eternall , and most mercifull Father , we most vile and wretched sinners ( and yet thy children through thy singular grace and mercie ) fall downe before thee , most humbly acknowledging and confessing our owne vilenesse and vnworthinesse , through our infinite sinnes and wickednesse , to come into the presence of thy maiestie , or stande before thy face , whom wee haue so grieuously offended , & dishonoured thy glorious name , by which we are called . O Lord , we are ashamed to present our selues into thy sight , who seeest and knowest all our wickednesse , much more clearely then wee our selues , and yet such is our miserable estate , that when wee looke backe to our former life that is past , we see nothing in a maner , but a monstrous heape of ignorance , error , sinne , wickednesse , and vngodlinesse : for which , O Lorde GOD , we are so farre off from making any satisfaction or amendes , that we are not sufficiently displeased with our selues for so great vnworthinesse , nor sorowfull inough for so great wickednesse . Therefore most mercifull Father , wee flie vnto thy onely grace , and bountifull mercie , which art the onely fountaine of all good giftes : most humbly beseeching thee to mollifie our stony heartes with the deawe of thy holy Spirite , to subdue the pride of our nature with the terror of thy iustice , to graunt vs true repentance , that we may be truely turned vnto thee . Conuert vs , O Lorde God , & then shall we be conuerted : yea , turne vnto vs the light of thy countenance , and then shall wee bee saued . And for as much as thou hast giuen the holy Sacrament of the body and blood of thy sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ , to bee a seale of thy promised mercies and our redemption , to bee a confirmation of our faith , and medicine of our infirmitie : we heartily beseeche thee , most mercifull Father , that as wee humbly present our selues to celebrate this thy holy institution , not in presumption of our worthines , but imboldned by thy heauenly voyce commanding vs : so wee may be partakers of thy holy mysteries to our comfort , that we may feele the fruite and effect ofthy promise adioined vnto them , liuely working in vs . Preuent by thy grace ( O Lorde God ) least through our negligence & default , the same bee not onely made vnfruitfull vnto vs , but also hurtfull , which thou hast ordeined and graciously giuen for our profite and comfort : but graunt that thy grace and goodnes assisting vs in all things , wee may enioy thy benefites to thy glory , and our euerlasting felicitie , through our Lorde and onely Sauiour Iesus Christ : to whom with thee and the holy Ghost , bee all glory , praise and dominion , both nowe and for euer , AMEN .

MY soule , prayse thou the Lorde , & all that is within mee , prayse his holy Name .

2 My soule , prayse thou the Lorde , and forget not all his benefites .

3 Which forgiueth all thine iniquitie , and healeth all thine infirmities .

4 Which redeemeth thy life from the graue , and crowneth thee with mercie and compassions .

O Almightie eternall God , Creator , gouernour , and preseruer of all thinges , Lorde of all lordes , and King of all kings , who madest man like vnto thine owne image , that he shoulde honour , serue , and obey thee onely , and that all other thy creatures shoulde serue to his vse and commoditie , ouer whom thou madest him lorde and ruler , the forbidden fruite only except : but hee most miserable man , by his owne disobedience in eating thereof , lost not only that kingly prerogatiue , but broght himselfe , and all his posteritie , into the state of eternall damnation . Yet thou ( O Lord ) in thine vnspeakable mercy didst then promise , and in time broughtest to passe , that thine onely sonne became man like vnto vs , sinne except , and was borne of a pure virgine by thy diuine prouidence and power : who to restore this , now , most miserable man , with all vs , whose children by nature wee are , vnto the state of eternall saluation , did suffer moste shameful , most vile and bitter , yea most cruel & painful death on the crosse , whereon his glorious body was broken , and his precious blood shed , a sufficient ransome , a ful satisfaction and iust recompence of thy iustice and lawe , for all them that beleeue and embrace thy Gospel and sacred trueth . But , O Lorde our good God , bee mercifull vnto vs , who by our infirmitie ( through the fall of this lordely man , our greate grandfather Adam ) can not now liue in any peaceable or good condition & state , without magistrates and kinges to rule and gouerne vs : we therefore most humbly and heartily beseeche thy diuine Maiestie , for the loue of thine onely sonne Iesus Christ , to looke downe with thy fatherly compassion vpon thy seruant Elizabeth , our most gracious Queene & dread Soueraigne . Graft in her royall heart , by the working of thy holy Spirite , thy manifolde good gifts and benefites , as wisedome , grace , perseuerance in thy trueth , encrease of faith and affiance in thee : defende her ( O Lorde ) with thy mightie hand , and outstretched arme : graunt vnto her a most honorable , long and prosperous reigne ouer vs . Moreouer ( O Lorde ) if the seruice of golden vessels in thy Temple at Ierusalem , were accetable vnto thee : vouchsafe this thy seruant to bee esteemed in thy sight , as a most honorable ornament in the new Ierusalem , not built with money , by the labour of the seruants of the first Salomon , but bought with the precious blood of the seconde Salomon thy sonne our Sauiour . Beholde her , & make her to be , O Lorde , as the precious stone or signet of thine owne hande , and as the apple of thine eye , for thy truethes sake : to the enemies whereof , make her name most dreadfull , and to thy Church wheresoeuer dispersed , most acceptable and ioyfull . Confounde and put to shame , O Lord , all those that wish or procure any euill to her royall person , or diminution of her kingdomes , and imperiall dignitie ouer them . And when for the multitude of our sinnes , O Lorde , thou wilt punish vs with the winde of thy displeasure , by taking from vs this our fragrant and sweete smelling flower , which we beseech thee for thine owne names sake long to deferre : then ( O Lord ) plant her in the garden of thy presence , where shee may growe and dwell in felicitie incomparable , which the eye hath not seene , the eare hath not hearde , neither euer came it into the vnderstanding of man , those ioyes which thou hast prepared for her , and all thine elect . Moreouer ( O Lorde ) graunt thy heauenly wisedome and grace vnto all vs her subiects , that wee may aduisedly consider , and duetifully call to our remembrance , the manifolde blessings that wee so long time haue enioyed , and doe presently possesse through thy mercie by her ministerie authoritie , and the execution of her kingly office , vnder the which wee doe not only reape , and peaceably enioye the fruites of our labours , and other corporall commodities : but also ( that which is more worth then all this ) euen the freedome and libertie of conscience , the preaching and hearing of thy most holye worde , and the administration and receiuing of thy holy Sacraments . For all which , and many other thy blessings , O Lorde , worke in vs thy grace to yeelde vnto thy diuine Maiestie all possible and continuall prayses and thankesgiuing , that it bee not saide vnto vs , Are there not tenne cleansed ? or , Is not Englande preserued from all tyrannie , and enioy all these benefites ? But where are nowe they returning to giue thankes ? Quicken our memories therefore , ( O Lorde ) that wee neuer bee forgetfull of thy great goodnesse towardes vs , and make vs more & more , for thy sake , reuerently to feare her , duetifully to obey her , and faithfully to loue , honour and serue her , as our naturall louing Prince , and mother , and as the meane by whom wee receiue all these thy good blessings , that her Maiestie perceiuing our diligence , and readinesse to obey and serue her , may be the oftener put in minde to feare , honour , loue , serue and obey thy diuine and incomparable Maiestie . Furthermore , inspire her royall heart ( O Lorde ) with thy diuine grace , that as shee hath begun to set forth and maintaine thy sacred trueth , so shee may zealously and boldly encrease , perseuere and continue in the same , whereby the filthinesse & nakednesse of Antichrist may be more and more reuealed , superstition and idolatrie more and more abolished and remoued , and that olde lying serpent , and roaring lyon Sathan , our auncient enemie , may be more & more restrained and kept backe from his malicious purpose , in seeking to deuoure and drowne vs all in ignoraunce and securitie . Graunt all this , O Lorde , to our great comfort , her honour and immortal fame , yea to the discharge of her owne conscience , and kingly duetie : and euermore rewarde these thine owne good giftes in her , O Lorde , not for the worke sake , but for Iesus Christ his sake . And when thou shalt , to our great sorowe and losse , but to her great ioy and profite , take her from vs , crowne her , O most mercifull God , with a crowne of euerlasting glorie , and giue her the full possession of that eternall kyngdome , purchased by the blood of that immaculate lambe , thine only sonne our Sauiour and redeemer Iesus Christ : to whome with thee and the holy Ghost , three persons and one immortall and euerlasting GOD , be all honour , dominion , prayse , and thankesgiuing , for euer and euer , AMEN .