The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.

A prayer to be said in a storm at Sea.

O my God, thou didst create the earth and the Sea for thy glory and the use of Man, and doest daily shew wonders in the deep: look upon the danger and fear of thy servant: my sins have taken hold upon me, and without the supporting arm of thy mercy I cannot look up; but my trust is in thee. Do thou, O Lord, rebuke the Sea, and make it calm; for to thee the windes and the sea obey: let not the wa∣ters swallow me up, but let thy Spirit, the Spi∣rit of gentlenesse and mercy move upon the waters: Be thou reconcil'd unto thy servants, and then the face of the waters will be smooth. I fear that my sinnes make me like Ionas the cause of the tempest. Cast out all my sins, and throw not thy servants away from thy presence, and from the land of the living into the depths where all things are forgotten: But if it be thy wil that we shall go down into the waters, Lord receive my soul into thy holy hands, and pre∣serve it in mercy and safety till the day of resti∣tution of all things: and be pleased to unite my death to the death of thy Son, and to accept of it so united as a punishment for all my sinnes, that thou mayest forget all thine anger, and blot my sinnes out of thy book, and write my soul there for Jesus Christ his sake, our dearest Lord and most mighty Redeemer. Amen.