A sinfull mans solace most sweete and comfortable, for the sicke and sorowful soule: contriued, into seuen seuerall daies conference, betweene Christ and a carelesse sinner. Wherin, euerie man, from the highest, to the lowest: from the richest, to the poorest: and aboue all, the sorowfull sinner: maye take such sweet repaste of resolution, to amendment of lyfe, and confirmation of fayth: that (in respect of the heauenlie solace, therin faithfully remembered:) all the pompes and pleasures of this wicked worlde, shall be plainely perceiued to be meere miserie. Writcen [sic], by Iohn Norden.

A PRAYER TO God the Father, for pardon, in Iesus Christ, for transgressing his Commaundements, & for grace, to bee directed to the true ful∣filling of the same.

OH God, my God, oh foun∣taine & welspring of al mercy & louing kindnes, vouchsafe (fauourably) to looke down, vpon my corruptiō and wic∣kednesse: and set before the eyes of thy Iu∣stice, the merites of thy Sonne Iesus Christ, for whose desertes and due obedience sake, leaue to be angrie and turne to me in loue: take away the curse, which is due for my transgressions, and wilfull disobedience. A∣las, what should become of mee, if I should receiue according to my desertes? for which there is nothing due but the iust reward of death. For, merciful Lord God, when I com∣pare the whole course of my life past, with the righteousnesse of thy deuine institutiōs and most sacred Commaundements, I find

my selfe a very Traytour, a most monstrous Rebell against thee, the God of my welfare. Oh Lorde, when the Iustice and iust iudge∣ments of thy deuine Maiestie, shew themsel∣ues vnto my deserts, wherby my conscience accuseth mee, to haue deserued eternall death, I cannot but fall into vtter dispayre, of being acquitted before thee. Only here∣in a•• I comforted (sweete Lord) that I haue pardon promised, in the death and merites of thy deare Sonne, mine onely Sauiour and Redemer, Iesus Christ: in whose name I here present and prostrate my self vnto thee, and for his sake, most humbly pray thee, to for∣giue my transgressions, and to pardon al my sinnes: vouchsaueing me grace from hence∣forth faithfully and truely to frame all my desires, vnto the fulfilling of all thy most godly Commaundements, and that in vn∣feyned loue of thee aboue all things, and to shew the same outwardly, to the performāce of my duety to my neighbours, whom thou hast cōmaunded me to loue, succour, helpe, releeue, and doe vnto, as I would that other men should doe vnto me. Graunt me sweet Lorde, for Iesus Christes sake, grace to doe that which I am commaunden in thy lawes, and carefully to shunne and auoyde that which I am herein forbidden, that I may keepe not onely mine handes, but all mine

actions and doinges, yea, mine heart and thoughtes free from displeasing thee. And for asmuch as my corruptiō, keepeth doune mine vnderstanding, and will, so that I am not able to performe that which I ought, but am ready to do that which I ought not: vouchsafe to accept the merits of thy Sonne Iesus Christ, as a sufficient discharge for that which I cannot do, and for his sake to forgiue mine insuffi∣ciencie to performe thy will: Sweete God, Amen.