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O God our Maker, thou most mighty and ho∣ly IEHOVAH, in thy name, and to thine ho∣nour and glory, we begin, continue, and end these our Prayers. And we offer this our dutifull seruice vn∣to thy diuine Maiestie, as to our Soueraigne Lord, and mighty Creator of Heauen and Earth, and of all things therein contai∣ned.
O sweet Lord Iesus Christ, wee offer vnto thee our selues, body and soule, and all the powers & parts thereof within vs, and without; for by right they are all thine, because thou hast dearely bought and paid for the same, with the peerelesse price of thy pre∣cious bloud. And wee most humbly beseech thee, O holy Ghost our Com∣forter, to giue vs grace and strength to doe thy will in all things, and to offer these our prayers with cleannesse of heart, vp∣rightnes of action, and in the vnity of thy true
Church, and Catholike Faith; that so they may ascend into thy sight as a sweet sacrifice of incense, for our health, help, and o∣ther things necessarie for our bodies and soules; for the true mortification of our flesh, and the right di∣rection of our whole life, that hereafter it may bee pleasing and acceptable vnto thee; and so by faith in Iesus Christ, bring vs to euerlasting blisse. And we offer the same for the health and help of all o∣ther persons, that thy bles∣sed will is to haue prayed for, within the Church,
and without, in speciall, and in generall. And for whom and whatsoeuer else thy wisedome know∣eth necessary, and our frailetie cannot aske, that may be most conuenient for vs to receiue, and best becommeth thee to giue. That it may please thee of thy gracious goodnes, to grant vnto vs true and vn∣fained repentance for our former sinfull life; patience in all our temptations and tribulations, ghostly and bodily: protection and defence against our ene∣mies, visible and inuisible: constancie and perseue∣rance
in all vertue & good∣nes: help and reliefe in all our needs and necessities: succour and comfort, in all our woe and distresse: ease and deliuerie out of all our troubles, calamities, & af∣flictions, that we are in, or may any way happen vnto vs. O most tender God, & deare Father, we beseech thee also of thy mercy and forgiuenes of sinnes, for our selues, and all others: and mitigation of thy iu∣stice towards vs, now and in the houre of our death and last iudgement parti∣cular and generall. Open vnto vs (O Lord) we most
humbly beseech thee, the plentifull streame and fountaine of the bloud of CHRIST IESVS which for our sake, and for our saluation, issued most aboundantly out of his grieuous wounds han∣ging on the Crosse: Drowne vs in them: hide vs in them: wash vs in them: write & print them deepely in our hearts, that all our sinnes may bee so bathed in his bloud, buri∣ed in his death, and hid in his wounds, that they neuer more be seene to our confusion in this world, or to our condemnation in
the world to come: But put them al into his most dear∣ly beloued wounds, and cast them into the bot∣tomelesse depth of his mercie and merits. We call and cry dayly vpon thee for thy fatherly assi∣stance, that we may con∣quer al our enemies. Heare vs therefore (O Lord) in that mercie which hath no measure, and looke not vpon vs with the eyes of Iustice; neither draw a∣gainst vs the sword of iudgement; for then wee are vtterly lost, and perish for euer: But subdue all power of Satan and sinne
in vs; and giue vs strength to resist; patience, to en∣dure; and constancie, to perseuer. And if men as∣sault or tempt vs to any e∣uill, good Lord, giue vs wisedom to discern them; feare to follow them; and zeale to defie them. And rule thou euer as Lord and King ouer vs, and ouer all that wee haue: ouer body and soule; ouer heart and minde; ouer worke and word: for Iesus Christ his sake, we heartily craue it, euen in fauour at thy Fa∣therly hands. And fur∣thermore, wee commend vnto thee (O Lord) in
these our Prayers, the whole Catholike Church. Renue in it (wee beseech thee) puritie and sinceritie of life and conuersation, from the which in these euill and latter dayes it is vtterly declined and wan∣ting, in all sorts of persons, as well Ecclesiasticall, as Ciuill. And grant vnto e∣uery member therof from the highest to the lowest; from the Prince vnto the People, that they may cor∣rect and amend in them∣selues, that which is amisse. Nourish and keep among them, vnitie, peace, & mu∣tuall charitie, to loue thee
aboue all, and their neigh∣bours as themselues. Make their hearts so meeke and gentle (good Lord) by thy working power, that they may gladly, and vnfained∣ly, freely and frankely, heartily and wholly, for∣giue all men that haue ha∣ted or hurted them by word or by deede. Such as doe erre and goe astray in the path of Perdition, call back and bring againe into the way of Saluation, and vnderstanding. Extin∣guish all Sects, Schismes, Innouations, Diuisions, O∣pinions & Heresies, wher∣by, and wherewithall thy
Church in these euill and latter dayes hath beene wonderfully molested and troubled, and as it were e∣uen rent and shaken in pie∣ces: and conuert all those to the knowledge of thy true, ancient, Catholike, Apostolike, holy and Chri∣stian Faith, which as yet goe astray and wander out of the right way. O Lord, of thy gracious goodnes fetch them home, as sheep of thy pasture, to thine owne Fold and Family: preserue and keepe them euer safe in the lap and vnitie of thy Catholike Church: And grant vn∣to
them true vnderstand∣ing to know thee; dili∣gence, to seeke thee; wise∣dome, to finde thee; con∣uersation, to please thee; and euermore faithfully to serue thee vnto their liues end. Comfort and lift vp (O Lord) all those that are troubled & vexed in minde, or in body: and teach them to see their owne happinesse, through tentations and troubles, and that the readiest way to Heauen, is euen to goe thither by Hell, and that euery paine heere, is as it were a preuention of the paines of Hell, and eue∣ry
ease in paine a foretaste of the ease and ioyes of Heauen.
And finally, grant that wee may all with quiet mindes, and good con∣science, patiently passe the time of this our pain∣full pilgrimage heere on earth, peaceably spend and end our dayes in thy seruice; and so at the last come to thy heauenly Kingdome, & life euerlast∣ing thorough Iesus Christ the Author of life: In whose holy name wee are bold to lift vp our hearts, hands, and voices, praying vnto thee, as hee hath
taught vs, saying, Our Fa∣ther, which, &c.