I.

SOn of Daivd, Blessed Redeemer, Lamb of God, that takest away the sinnes of the world have mercy upon me. O Iesu, be a Iesu unto me, thou that sparedst thy servant Peter that denyed thee thrice, thou that did'st cast seven Devils out of Mary Magdalen, and forgavest the woman ta­ken in adultery, and didst beare the convert thief from the Crosse, to the joyes of Paradise, have mercy upon me also; for although I have amassed together more sinnes, then all these in conjuncti­on, yet nor their sinnes, nor mine, nor the sinnes of all the world can equall thy glorious mercy, which is as infinite, and eternall as thy selfe. I ac­knowledge, O Lord, that I am vile, but yet re­deemed [Page 11] with thy precious bloud; I am blinde, but thou art the light of the world; I am weak, but thou art my strong rock; I have been dead in tres­passes and sinnes, but thou art my resurrection and my life. Thou, O Lord, lovest to shew mercy, and the expressions of thy mercy, the nearer they come to infinite, the more proportionable they are to thy essence, and like thy selfe. Behold then O Lord, a fit object for thy pitty: my sinnes are so great and many that to forgive me, will be an act of glorious mercy, and all the praises which did acrue to thy name, by the forgiuenesse of Da­vid, and Manasses, and S. Paul, and the adul­tresse, and the thiefe, and the Publican will be multiplyed to thy honour, in the forgiuenesse of me so vile, so unworthy a wretch, that I have no­thing to say for my selfe, but that the greatnesse of my misery, is a fit object for thy miraculous and infinite mercy. Despise me not, O Lord, for I am thy creature, despise me not, for thou didst dye for me, cast me not away in thine anger, for thou camest to seek me, and to save me. Say un­to my soul I am thy salvation; let thy holy spirit lead me from the errours of my wayes, into the paths of righteousnesse, to great degrees of repen­tance, and through all the parts of a holy life, to a godly & a holy death. Grant this, O blessed Iesu, for thy mercies, and for thy pitty sake. Amen.

II.

O Lord God, Blessed Iesu, Eternall Iudge of quick and dead, I tremble with horror at the apprehension when I call to mind with what terrors and Majesty thou shalt appeare in judge­ment; a fire shall go out from thy presence and a tempest shall be stirred up round about thee, such a tempest as shall rend the rocks levell the moun­taines, shake the earth, disorder and dissolve the whole fabrick of the heavens, and where then shall I, vile sinner, appear, when the heavens are not pure in thy sight. Lord I tremble when I re­member that sad truth, If the righteous scarcely be saved, where then shall the wicked and the ungodly appeare? I know, O Lord, that all my se­cret impurities shall be laid open before all the Nations of the world, before all the orders and degrees of Angels, in the presence of innumera­ble millions of beatified spirits. There shall I see many that have taught me innocence and sancti­ty, many that have given me pious example, many that have dyed for thee, and suffered tortures ra­ther then they would offend thee. O just and dear God, where shall I appeare, who shall plead for me that am so loaden with impurities, with va­nity, with ingratitude, with malice, and the ter­rors of an affrighting conscience? Lord what shall [Page 13] I do, who am straitned by my own covetousnesse, accused by my own pride, consumed with envy, set on fire by lust, made dull with gluttony, and stupid by drunkennesse, supplanted by ambition, rent asunder with faction and discord, made dis­solute with lightnesse and inconstancy, deceived with hypocrisie, abused with flattery, foold with presumption, disturb'd with anger, and disorde­red by a whole body of sinne and death? But thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God, thou art my judge and my advocate, and thou art to passe sentence upon me for those sinnes, for which thou diedst. O reserve not my sinnes to be punished in the life to come, for then I dye eter­nally, but bring me in this world to a holy, a sharp and Salutary repentance. Behold I am in thine hands; grant I may so weep, and be contrite for my sinnes, that in the houre of my death I may finde mercy, and in the day of judgement I may be freed from all the terrors of thy wrath, and the sentence of the wicked, and may behold thy face with joy and security, being set at thy right hand, with all thy saints and Angels to sing an eternall Alleluiah to the honour of thy mercies. Amen, sweet Iesu. Amen.

III.

MOST Mercifull and indulgent Iesu, hear the complaint of a sad and miserable sin­ner, for I have searched into the secret recesses of my soul, and there I finde nothing but horror, and a barren wildernesse, a neglected conscience over­grown with sinnes and cares, and beset with fears and sore amazements. I finde that I have not ob­served due reverence towards my superiors, nor modesty in my discourse, nor discipline in my manners. I have been obstinate in my vain purpo­ses, cosen'd in my own semblances of humility, pertinacious in hatred, bitter in my jesting, impa­tient of Subjection, ambitious of power, slow to good actions, apt to talke, ready to supplant my neighbours, full of jealousies and suspition, scorn­full and censorious, burdensome to my friends, in­gratefull to my benefactors, imperious to my in­ferious, boasting to have said what I said not, to have seen what I saw not, to have done what I did not, and have both said, and seen, and done what I ought not, provoking thy divine Majesty with a continuall course of sinne and vanity. And yet, O Lord, thou hast spared me all this while, and hast not taken away my life in the midst of my sinnes, which is a mercy so admirable and of so vast a kindnesse, as no heart or tongue can [Page 15] think, or speak. If thou hadst dealt with me ac­cording as I had deserved, and might justly have expected, I had been now, now at this instant seal'd up to an eternity of torments, hopelessely miserable, fearing the revelation of thy day with an insupportable amazement: and now under the sweet influences of thy mercies, J am praying to thee, confessing my sinnes, with shame, indeed at my basenesse and ingratitude, but with a full hope and confidence in thy mercy. O turne the eyes of thy divine clemency with a gracious as­pect upon a wretched sinner, open the bowels of thy mercy, and receive me into favour. O my dear God, let thy grace speedily worke that in me for which thou so long hast spared me, and to which thou didst designe me in thy holy purposes and mercies of eternity, even a true faith, and a holy life, conformable to thy will, and in order to eternall blessednesse. I remember, O Lord, the many fatherly expressions and examples of thy mercies to repenting sinners, thy delight in our conversion, thy unwillingnesse to destroy us, thy earnest invitation of us to grace and life, thy dis­pleasure at our dangers and miseries, the infinite variety of meanes thou usest to bring us from the gates of death, and to make us happy to eternity. These mercies, O Lord, are so essentiall to thee, that thou canst not but be infinitly pleased in de­monstrations [Page 16] of them. Remember not, O Lord▪ how we have despised thy mercies, sleighted thy judgements, neglected thy Commandments; but now at length establish in us great contrition for our sinnes, leade us on to humble confession and dereliction of them, and let thy grace make us bring forth fruits meet for repentance, fruits of justice, of hope, of charity, of religion and devo­tion, that we may be what thou delightest in, ho­ly, and just, and mercifull, vessels prepared for honour, temples of the holy Ghost, and instru­ments of thy praises to all eternity, O blessed Ie­su, who livest and reignest, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

O Lord Jesu Christ, Son of the eternall God, interpose thy holy Death, thy Crosse and Passion between thy judgement and my soule, now and in the houre of my death, granting unto me grace and mercy, to all faithfull people par­don and peace, to the Church unity and amity, and to all sinners repentance and amendment, to us all life and glory everlasting, who livest and reignest ever one God, world without end. Amen,

I. Prayers preparatory to the receiving of the blessed Sacrament.

O Most immaculate and glorious▪ Iesu, be­hold me miserable sinner, drawing neare to thee with the approaches of humility, and ear­nest [Page 25] desire to be cleansed from my sinnes, to be united to thee by the nearest and most mysterious union of charity and Sacramentall participation of thy most holy Body and Bloud: I presume no­thing of mine owne worthinesse, but I am most confident of thy mercies and infinite loving kindnesse. I know, O Lord, I am blinde and sicke, and dead, and naked, but therefore I come the rather: I am sicke, and thou art my Physitian, thou arisest with healing in thy wings, by thy wounds I come to be cured, and to be healed by thy stripes: I am unclean, but thou art the Foun­tain of purity, I am blinde, and thou art the great Eye of the world, the Sun of righteousnesse, in thy light I shall see light: I am poore, and thou art rich unto all, the Lord of all the creatures. I therefore humbly begge of thy mercy that thou wouldest be pleased to take from me all my sinnes, to cure my infirmities, to cleanse my filthi­nesse, to lighten my darknesse, to clothe my na­kednesse with the robe of thy righteousnesse, that I may with such reverence, and faith, and holy intention receive thy blessed Body and Bloud in the mysterious Sacrament, that it may be unto me life, and pleasantnesse, and holy nourishment, and that I may be firmely and indissolubly united to thy mysticall Body, and may at last see clearly and without a vaile thy face in glory everlasting, [Page 26] who livest and reignest, ever one God world without end. Amen.

II.

I Adore and blesse thy glorious Majesty, O bles­sed Iesu, for this great dignation and vouch­safing to me, that thou art pleased for all the infi­nite multiplication of my sinnes, and innumera­ble violations of thy holy Law, still to give thy selfe unto me, to convey health, and grace, and life, and hopes of glory in the most blessed Sa­crament. I adore thee, O most righteous Re­deemer, that thou art pleased under the visible signes of Bread and Wine, to convey unto our soules thy holy Body and Bloud, and all the bene­fits of thy bitter Passion. O my God, I am not worthy thou shouldest come under my roofe, but let thy holy Spirit with his purities prepare for thee a lodging in my soule. Thou hast knocked often, O blessed Iesu, at the doore of my heart, and wouldest willingly have entred; behold, O Lord, my heart is ready to receive thee, cast out of it all worldly desires, all lusts and carnall ap­petites, and then enter in, and there love to inha­bit, that the Devill may never returne to a place that is so swept and garnished, to fill me full of all iniquity. O thou lover of soules, grant that this holy Sacrament may be a light unto mine eyes, a [Page 27] guide to my understanding, and a joy to my soule, that by its strength I may subdue and mortifie the whole body of sin in me, and that it may produce in me constancy in Faith, fulnesse of wisedome, perfection and accomplishment of all thy righ­teous commandments, and such a blessed union with thee, that I may never more live unto my selfe, or to the world, but to thee onely, and by the refreshment of an holy hope, I may be lead through the pathes of a good life, and persevering piety to the communion and possession of thy Kingdome, O blessed Iesu, who livest and reign­est ever one God, world without end. Amen.

III.

O Lord God, who hast made all things of nought, producing great degrees of es [...]ence out of nothing: make me a new creature, and of a sinfull man, make me holy, and just, and merci­full; that I may receive thy precious Body, de­voutly, reverently, with meeknesse, contrition, and great affection, with spirituall comfort and gladnesse at thy mysticall presence. Feed my soule with Bread from Heaven, fill me with charity, conform me to thy wil in all things, save me from all dangers bodily and ghostly, assist and guide me in all doubts and feares, prepare and streng­then me against all surreptions and sudden incur­sion [Page 28] of temptations, cleanse me from all staines of sin, and suffer nothing to abide in me but thy selfe onely, who art the Life of soules, the Food of the Elect, and the joy of Angels. Give me such a gust and holy relish in this Divine nutriment, that nothing may ever hereafter please me but what savours of thee and thy miraculous sweetnesse. Teach me to loath all the pleasures and beauties of this life, and let my soule be so inebriated with the pleasures of thy Table, that I may be comprehended and swallowed up with thy love and sweetnesse: let me thinke nothing but thee, covet nothing but thee, enjoy nothing but thee, nothing in comparison with thee, and neither do nor possesse any thing but what leades to thee, and is in order to the performance of thy will and the fruition of thy glories. Transfixe my soule, O blessed Jesu, with so great love to thee, so great devotion in receiving the holy Sacra­ment, that I may be transformed to the Fellow­ship of thy sufferings, and admitted to a parti­cipation of all the benefits of thy Passion, and to a communion of thy graces and thy glories. I de­sire to be with thee, dissolve all the chaines of my sin, and then come Lord Jesus, come quickly. Let my soule feed on thee greedily, for thou art the spring of light and life, the Fountaine of wisedome and health, a torrent of divine plea­sure [Page 29] and tranquillity, the Authour of peace and comfort: enter into me, sweet Jesu, take thou possession of my soule, and be thou Lord over me and all my faculties, and preserve me with great mercy and tendernesse, that no doubting or infi­delity, no impenitence or remanent affection to a sin, no impurity or irreverence may make me un­worthy and uncapable of thy glorious approach. Let not my sinnes crucifie the Lord of life again, let it not be said concerning me, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table: that this holy Communion may not be unto me an oc­casion of death, but a blessed peace-offering for my sinnes, and a gate of life and glory. Grant this, O blessed God, for his sake who is both Sa­crifice and Priest, the Master of the Feast, and the Feast it selfe, even Iesus Christ, to whom with thee, O Father and the holy Spirit, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

I. A Prayer for a blessed ending, to be said in time of health or sicknesse.

O Blessed Iesu, Fountaine of eternall mercy, the Life of the soule, and glorious Con­querour over Death and sin, I humbly beseech thee to give me grace so to spend this transitory life in vertuous and holy exercises, that when [Page 33] the day of my death shall come, in the midst of all my paines, I may feel the sweet refreshings of thy holy spirit comforting my soul, sustaining my infirmities, and releeving all my spirituall neces­sities: and grant, that in the Vnity of the holy Ca­tholique Church, and in the integrity of Christi­an faith, with confidence and hope of thy mercy, in great love towards thee, in peace with my Neighbours, and in charity with all the world, I may through thy grace depart hence out of this vale of misery, and go unto that glorious country, where thou hast purchased an inheritance for us, with the price of thy most precious bloud, and raignest in it gloriously, in the Vnity of thy Father and ours, of thy holy Spirit, and our Ghostly Comforter, ever one God world without end. Amen.

II. A Prayer to be said at the beginning of a sicknesse.

O Lord my God, who chastisest every one whom thou receivest, and with thy Father­ly correction smitest all those whom thou con­signest to the inheritance of sonnes; write my soul in the book of life, and number me amongst thy Children, whom thou hast smitten with the [Page 34] rod of sicknesse, and by thy chastisements hast brought me into the Lot of the righteous. Thou, O Blessed Iesu, art a helper in the needfull time of trouble; lay no more upon me then thou shalt enable me to beare, and let thy gentle correction in this life prevent the insupportable stripes of thy vengeance in the life to come. Smite me now that thou mayest spare me to all eternity: and yet, O blessed High Priest, who art touched with a sense of our infirmities, smite me friendly, and reproove me with such a tendernesse as thou bea­rest unto thy Children, to whom thou conveyest suppletory comforts, greater then the paines of chastisement, and in due time restore me to health, and to thy solemne assemblies again, and to the joy of thy Countenance. Give me patience and humility, and the grace of repentance, and an ab­solute dereliction of my selfe, and a resignation to thy pleasures and providence, with a power to do thy will in all things, and then do what thou plea­sest to me; only in health or sicknesse, in life or death, let me feel thy comforts refreshing my soul, and let thy grace pardon all my sinnes. Grant this, O Blessed Iesu, for my trust is in thee onely, thou art my God, and my mercifull Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

III. A Prayer to be said in the progresse of a sicknesse.

O Lord my God, Blessed Iesu, who by thy bitter death and passion hast sweetned the cup of death to us, taking away it's bitternesse and sting, and making it an entrance to life and glory, have pitty upon me thy servant, who have so deep a share in sinne, that I cannot shake off the terrors of death▪ but that my nature with it's hereditary corruption still would preserve it selfe in a disu­nion from the joyes of thy Kingdom. Lord I ac­knowledge my own infirmities and begge thy pitty. It is better for me to be with thee, but the remembrance of my sinnes doth so depresse my growing confidence, that I am in a great streight between my feares and hopes, betwen the infir­mities of my Nature, and the better desires of conforming to thy holy will and pleasure. O my Deare Redeemer, wean my soul and all my desi­res from the flatteries of this world; pardon all my sinnes, and consigne so great a favour by the comforts, and attestation of thy divinest Spirit, that my own feares being masterd, my sinnes pardoned, my desires rectified, as the Hart thirsts after the springs of water, so my soul may long af­ter thee, O God, and to enter into thy Courts. [Page 36] Heavenly Father, if it may be for thy glory, and my ghostly good, to have the dayes of my pilgri­mage prolonged, I begge of thee health and life; but if it be not pleasing to thee, to have this cup passe from me, thy will be done: my Saviour hath drunk off all the bitternesse. Behold, O Lord, I am in thine hands, do with me as seemeth good in thine eyes; though I walke through the vally of the shadow of death, I will fear no evill, for thou art with me, thy rod, and thy staffe comfort me. I will lay me downe in peace, and take my rest, for it is thou Lord only who shalt make me to dwell in everlasting safety, and to partake of the joyes of thy Kingdom, who livest and raign­est eternall God, world without end. Amen.

IV. A Prayer for a sick Person, in danger of death.

O Lord Iesus Christ, our health and life, our hope, and our resurrection from the dead: I resigne my self up to thy holy will and pleasure, either to life, that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment; or to death, to the perpetu­all enjoyment of thy presence, and of thy glories. Into thy hands I commend my spirit, for I know, O Lord, that nothing can perish, which is com­mitted to thy mercies. J believe, O Lord, that I [Page 37] shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the just; I relinquish all care of that, only I beg of thee mercy for my soul; strengthen it with thy grace against all temptations, let thy loving kind­nesse defend it, as with a shield against all the vi­olences and hostile assaults of Sathan: let the same mercy, be my guard and defence, which protect­ed thy Martyrs, crowning them with victory in the midst of flames, horrid torments, and most cruell deaths. There is no help in me, O Lord, I cannot by my own power, give a minutes rest to my wearied body, but my trust is in thy sure mer­cies, & I call to mind, to my unspeakable comfort, that thou wert hungry, and thirsty, and wearied, & whipt, and crown'd with Thornes, and mock'd, & crucified for me. O let that mercy which made thee suffer so much, make thee do that for which thou sufferedst so much, pardon me, and save me. Let thy merits answer for my impieties, let thy righteousnesse cover my sinnes, thy bloud wash a­way my staines, and thy comforts refresh my soul. As my body growes weak let thy grace be stron­ger, let not my faith doubt, nor my hope tremble, nor my charity grow cold, nor my soul be affright­ed with the terrors of death; but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death eternall; and when my tongue failes, let thy spirit teach my heart to pray, with strong [Page 38] cryings and groanes that are unutterable. O Let not the enemy do me any violence, but let thy holy mercies, and thy Angels repell and defeat his malice and fraud, that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joyes of eternity, in the fruition of thee, my life, my joy, my hope, my exceeding great reward, my Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen.

V. For a dying Person in, or neare the ago­nies of death.

MOst mercifull and Blessed Saviour, have mercy upon the soule of this thy servant; remember not his ignorances, nor the sins of his youth, but according to thy great mercy remem­ber him in the mercies and glories of thy King­dome. Thou, O Lord, hast open'd the Kingdom of Heaven to all beleivers, let the everlasting gates be open'd, and receive his Soul: let the Angells, who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner, tri­umph, and be exalted in his deliveranee and sal­vation. Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy incarnation, life and sanctity, passion and death, resurrection and ascension, and of all the prayers of the Church, of the joy of the elect, and all the fruits of the blessed communion of Saints; [Page 39] and dayly adde to the number of thy beatified ser­vants such as shall be saved, that thy comming may be hastned, and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled, and the glory of thee, our Lord Iesu, be advanced, all the whole Church singing prayses to the Honour of thy name, who livest and raignest ever one God world without end. Amen.

VI.

O Most mercifull Iesu, who didst dye to re­redeem us from death and damnation, have mercy upon this thy servant, whom thy hand hath visited with sicknesse: of thy goodnesse be pleased to forgive him all his sinnes, and seal his hopes of glory, with the refreshments of thy ho­ly Spirit. Lord give him strength and confidence in thee, asswage his pain, repell the assaults of his Ghostly enemies by thy mercies, and a guard of holy Angels: preserve him in the unity of the Church, keep his senses intire, his understanding right, give him great measure of contrition, true faith, a well grounded hope, and abundant chari­ty: give him a quiet and a joyfull departure, let thy ministring spirits convey his soule to the man­sions of peace and rest, there with certainty to ex­pect a joyfull resurrection to the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand, where there is pleasure for ever­more, Amen.

VII. A Prayer for the joyes of Heaven.

O Most glorious Iesu, who art the portion and exceeding great reward of all faithfull people, thou hast beautified humane Nature with glorious immortality, and hast carried the same above all Heavens, above the seat of Angels, be­yond the Cherubims and Seraphims, placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father, grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity, that we may live in thy feare, and die in thy favour. Prepare our soules with heavenly vertues for hea­venly joyes, making us righteous here, that we may be beautified hereafter. Amen.

I. For the Church.

ALmighty and everlasting God, who hast re­vealed thy glory to Iewes and Gentiles in our Lord Iesus Christ, extend thy hand of mercie over all the world, that thy Church may spread like a flourishing vine, and enlarge her borders to the uttermost parts of the earth, that all Nations partaking of the sweet refreshings of thy Gos­pell, thy name may be glorified, the honour of [Page 51] our Lord Iesus advanc'd, his prophecies fullfilled; and his comming hastened. Blesse, O Lord, thy holy Church with all blessings of comfort, assist­ance, and preservation; extirpate heresies, unite her divisions, give her patience and perseverance in the faith, and confession of thy name, in despite of all Enmities, temptations, and disadvantages; destroy all wicked counsells intended against her, or any of her children, by the Divell or any of his accursed instruments. Let the hands of thy grace and mercy lead her from this vale of misery, to the triumphant throne of her Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen.

II. For the King.

O Lord our heavenly Father, High and Migh­ty, King of Kings, who in thy hands hast the hearts of Kings, and can'st turne them as the rivers of water, send the light of thy counte­nance, and abundance of blessings upon thy ser­vant, our Soveraigne Lord King Charles, make him as holy, valiant, and prosperous as King Da­vid, wise and rich like Solomon, zealous for the honour of thy Law and temple as Josiah; and give him all sorts of great assistances, to enable him to serve thee, to glorifie thy name, to protect thy Church, to promote true religion, to overcome [Page 52] all his enemies, to make glad all his leige people, that he serving thee with all dilligence and the utmost of his possibility, his people may serve him with honour and obedience, in thee, and for thee, according to thy blessed word and ordinance, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

III. For the Queen.

O God of heaven, Father of mercies, have mercy upon our most gracious Queen, unite her unto thee with the bands of faith and love, preserve her to her lives end in thy favour, and make her an instrument of glory to thy Name, of refreshment to the Church, of joy to all faithfull people of this Kingdome, of a plenteous and bles­sed Issue to his Majesty, and Crowne her with an eternall weight of glory, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

IV. For the Prince of Wales.

O Most blessed Iesu, Sonne of God, who ca­mest from thy Fathers bosome with myri­ads of blessings to the sonnes of men, blesse us all by thy especiall care and providence, over the [Page 53] body and soul of the most Illustrious Prince, CHARLES. Prepare him with plenty of thy grace, and with great abilities to succeed his Roy­all Father, in the service of thy Majesty, in defen­ding the Catholique Faith, in comforting thy ho­ly Church, in governing all the people prudent­ly, justly, and religiously, that being partaker of all thy mercies here, in proportion to his necessitie and capacity, he may enjoy a fulnesse of thy glory hereafter, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

V. For the Bishops.

O Thou great sheep-heard and Bishop of our soules, most glorious Iesu, blesse all holy and religious Prelates, especially the Bishops of our Church. O God let abundance of thy grace and benediction descend upon their heads, that by a holy life, by a true and Catholique beleife, by a confident confession of thy Name, and by a Fa­therly care, great sedulity and watchfullnesse o­ver their flock, they may glorifie thee our God, the great lover of Soules, and set forward the sal­vation of their people, and of others by their ex­ample, and at last after a plentifull conversion of soules, they may shine like the Starres in glory, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

VI. For our Parents.

O Almightie God, and mercifull Father, who from the loines of our first Parents Adam and Eve, hast produced mankinde, and hast com­manded us to honour our Parents; in pursuance of thy holy Commandment and of our dutie to thee our God, and in thee to them, do with all hu­militie begge a blessing of thee for our Parents, who from thy mercie and plentie have conveyed many to us; pardon and forgive all their sinnes and infirmities, increase in them all goodnesse, give them blessings of the right hand, and bles­sings of the left; blesse them in their persons, in their posteritie, in the comforts of thy holy Spi­rit, in a persevering goodnesse, and at last in an eternall weight of glorie, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

VII. For our Children.

O Father of Heaven, God of all the Crea­tures, by whose Providence mankinde is increased, I blesse thy Name for bestowing on me that blessing of the righteous man, the bles­sing of Children. Lord blesse them with health▪ [Page 55] with life, with good understanding, with faire opportunities and advantages of education, so­cietie, tutours, and governours; and above all with the graces of thy holy Spirit, that they may live and be blessed under thy protection, grow in grace, and be in favour with God and Man, and at last may make up the number of thine elect Children, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

VIII. For our Patron, our Friends, and Benefactours.

O Almightie God, thou Fountain of all good, of all excellencie both to Men and Angels, extend thine abundant favour and loving kind­nesses to my Patron, to all my Friends and Bene­factours; reward them and make them plenti­full compensation for all the good which from thy mercifull Providence they haue conveyed unto me. Let the light of thy countenance shine upon them, and let them never come into any desertion, affliction, or sadnesse, but such as may be an instrument of thy glorie and their eternall comfort, in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

IX. A Prayer of a wife for her Husband.

O My God, who hast graciously pleased to call me to the holy state of Matrimonie, blesse me in it with the grace of chastitie, with loyal­tie, obedience, and complacencie to my Hus­band; and blesse him with long life, with a health­full bodie, with an understanding soule, with abundance of all thy graces, which may make him to be and continue thy servant, a true son of the Church, a supporter and a guide to me his wife, a blessing and a comfort to his children, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

X. Of a Husband for his Wife.

O Mercifull God, who art a Father to us thy Children, a Spouse to thy holy Church, a Saviour and Redeemer to all mankinde, have mercie upon thy Handmaid my wife, endue her with all the ornaments of thy heavenly grace, make her to be holy and devout as Hester, loving and amiable as Rachel, fruitfull as Leah, wise as Rebeccah, faithfull and obedient as Sarah, that being filled with thy grace and benediction here, [Page 57] she may be partaker of thy glorie hereafter▪ through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

XI. For a Curate to say in behalfe of his Parish.

O Blessed Jesu, thou that art an eternall Priest, an universall Bishop, and the Foun­tain of all ghostly good, have mercy upon this Parish which thou hast concredited to my charge. Lord, I am unfit for so great a burden, but by thy aide and gracious acceptation I hope for mercy, pardon and assistance. O Lord, send thy holy Spi­rit to dwell amongst us: let here be peace and charity, and true Catholike Religion, and holy Discipline. Comfort the comfortlesse, heale the sicke, relieve the oppressed, instruct the igno­rant, correct the refractory, keep us all from all deadly sin, and make them obedient to their su­periours, friendly to one another, and servants of thy Divine Majestie, that so from thy favour they may obtain blessings in their bodies, in their soules, in their estates, and a supply to all their necessities, till at last they be freed from all dan­gers and necessities in the full fruition of thy everlasting glories, O blessed Saviour, and Re­deemer Iesu. Amen.

XII. For a Parishioner to say in behalfe of his Curate.

O God Almighty, who art pleased to send thy blessings upon us by the Ministration of the Bishops and Priests of thy holy Church, have mercie upon thy servant, to whom is committed the care of my soule, that he, by whose meanes thou art graciously pleased to advance my spiritu­all good, may by thy grace and favour be protect­ed, by thy providence assisted, by thy great mer­cies comforted and relieued in all his necessities bodily and ghostly, through Iesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

XIII. For safe Child-birth.

O Blessed Iesu, Son of the eternall God, who according to thy humanitie wert borne of a holy Maid, who conceived thee without sin, and brought thee forth without pain, have mercie upon me thy humble servant, and as by thy bles­sing I have conceived, so grant that by thy favour­able assistance I may be safely delivered. Lord, grant me patience, and strength, and confidence in thee, and send thy holy Angel to be my guardian [Page 59] in the houre of my travaile. O shut not up my soule with sinners, nor my life with them that go down into the pit. I humbly also begge mer­cie for my childe, grant it may be borne with it's right shape, give it a comely bodie, an under­standing soule, life, and opportunitie of Baptisme, and thy grace from the cradle to the grave, that it may increase the number of Saints in that holy Fellowship of Saints and Angels, where thou livest and reignest eternall God, world without end. Amen.

XIV. Before a journey.

O God, who didst preserve thy servants Abraham and Jacob, thy People Israel, thy servant Tobias, and the wisemen of the East in their severall journies, by thy Providence, by a ministerie of Angels, by a pillar of fire, and by the guidance of a Starre, vouchsafe to preserve us thy servants in the way we are now to go. Be (O Lord) unto us a Guide in our preparation, a shadow in the Day, and a covering by Night, a rest to our wearinesse, and a staffe to our weak­nesse, a patron in adversitie, a protection from danger, that by thy assistance we may performe our journey safely to thy honour, to our owne [Page 60] comfort, and with safetie may returne, and at last bring us to the everlasting rest of our hea­venly Countrey, through him who is the way, the truth, and the life, our blessed Lord and Savi­our Iesus. Amen.

XV. For afflicted persons.

O Lord God, mercifull and gracious, whose compassion extends to all that are in mise­rie and need, and takest delight in the relieving the distresses of the afflicted, give refreshment to all the comfortlesse, provide for the poore, give ease to all them that are tormented with sharpe paines, health to the diseased, libertie and redemption to the captives, chearfulnesse of spi­rit to all them that are in great desolations. Lord, let thy Spirit confirme all that are strong, streng­then all that are weake, and speake peace to af­flicted consciences, that the light of thy counte­nance being restored to them, they may rejoyce in thy salvation, and sing praises unto thy Name, who hast delivered their soules from death, their eyes from teares, and their feet from falling. Grant this for the honour of thy mercies, and the glorie of thy Name, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

XVI. For our Enemies.

O Blessed Iesu, who wert of so infinite mer­cies, so transcendent a charitie, that thou didst descend from Heaven to the bowels of the earth, that thou mightest reconcile us who were enemies, to the mercies of thy heavenly Father; and in imitation of so glorious example hast commanded us to love them that hate us, and to pray for them that are our enemies; I beseech thee of thine infinite goodnesse, that thou wouldst be pleased to keep me with thy grace in so much meeknesse, justice, and affable disposition, that I may, so farre, as concernes me live peaceably with all men, giving no man occasion of offence, and [...] them who hate me without a cause, I beseech thee give thy pardon, and fill them with cha [...]i [...]e towards thee and all the world, blesse them with all blessings in order to eternitie, that when they are reconciled to thee, we also may be united with the bands of Faith, and Love, and a com­mon hope, and at last we may be removed to the glories of thy Kingdome, which is full of love and eternall charitie, and where thou livest [...] reignest, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

XVII. A Prayer to be said upon Ember-dayes.

O Mercifull Iesu, who hast promised perpe­tuitie to the Church, and a permanencie in defiance of all the powers of darknesse, and the gates of hell, and to this purpose hast constituted severall orders, leaving a power to the Apostles, and their Successours, the Bishops, to beget Fa­thers of our soules, and to appoint Priests and Deacons for the edification of the Church, the benefit of all Christian People, and the advance­ment of thy service; have mercie upon thy Mi­nisters the Bishops, give them for ever great mea­sure of thy holy Spirit, and at this time particular assistances, and a power of discerning and trying the spirits of them who come to be ordained to the Ministerie of thy Word and Sacraments; that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but maturely, prudently, and piously, they may appoint such to thy service and the Ministerie of thy Kingdome, who by learning, discretion, and a holy life are apt instruments for the conversion of soules, to be examples to the People, guides of their manners, comforters of their sorrowes, to sustaine their weaknesses, and able to promote all the interests of true Religion. Grant this, O [Page] great Shepheard [...] Bishop of our soules, [...]es­sed Iesus, who livest and reignest in the King­dome of thin [...] [...]rnall Father, one God, world without end [...].

Sanctus Deus. Sanctus Fortis. Sanctus Immortalis.