A manual of prayers nevvly gathered out of many and diuers famous authours aswell auncient as of the tyme present. Reduced into. 13. chap. very commodious and profitable for a deuout christian.

THE THYRTIENTH CHAP∣TER CONTAYNING DEVOVT praiers, healthfull for the departed soules.

An exhortation by the vvhich vve are shevved and admonyshed to praye for soules, departed in the Catholicque Church. Clemens I. Ponti. Max. Ca. 47. lib. 8. constit. Apostol.

MY brethren, lett vs praye for our brother that res∣teth in Iesu Christ, to the ende that our good God which hath recieued his soule, may forgyue him all his sinnes willing∣ly or vnwillingly committed, and that he obteining forgyuenes may be receyued into the kingdome of the blessed: in the bosome of A∣braham, Isaac and Iacobe, with all those that from the begining haue pleased God, and haue done his

will: from whom all sorow, griefe and payne is secluded.

Commendations of the soule that is late∣ly departed. Albertus Castella. Sacer. Rom. part. 1.

O Lorde we commend the soule of thy seruant that being late∣lye departed this lyfe, he may lyue in thee, and according to thy mer∣cye, pardone him his sinnes which he hath committed throughe hu∣mayne frayeltie.

VVe commende O Lorde the soule of this thy seruante, into the handes of the holy and moste glo∣riouse virgin Mary, the mother of mercye and clemency, Also into the handes of all the holy Archan∣gels, Angels, and celestiall courte of heauen, into the handes of the holy Patriarches and prophets: in∣to the handes of the blessed Apos∣tles,

Euangelistes and disciples: in∣to the handes of the martyrs and confessors: into the handes of the virgins, widowes and all votaryes who-soeuer.

And finally we commend the soule of this thy seruaunt into the hands of all such thy blessed saynts and seruaunts, as haue pleased thee from the first creatiō of the world, that by their intercession and suc∣cour, he may be deliuered from the prince of darknes, and from all dreadfull torments: graunt this O God almightye, omnipotente and full of mercy, through the bitter passion of thy sweet sonne our sa∣uiour Iesu, to whom with thee and the holy Ghost, be all honour and glorye for euer and euer. Amen.

A prayer for the faythfull soule depar∣ted.

Precat. Ecclesi. in Missa.

O Eternall and almightye God, to whom we neuer pray with∣out hope of mercy: Haue mercy of the soule of thy seruaunt N. and make him to bee vnyted to that companye of Saintes, which is de∣ceased from this life, in the confes∣sion of thy name: through Iesus Christe our Lorde. Amen.

Another prayer. Pontifical. Rom. part 3.

O God by whom all thinges ly∣ueth, and through whom our bodies diminisheth not in dyeng, but are chaunged into better: we moste humblye beseech thee, to commaunde the soule of thy ser∣uant to be receyued by the handes of thy holy Angels, to bring him vnto the bosome of thy friend the Patriarch Abraham, to ryse againe at the laste greate iudgement day,

pardonning him mercyfully all his sinnes which he hath committed, throughe the false deceiptes and suggestion of the deuill: through Iesus Christe our Lorde. Amen.

Another prayer. Clemens Aposto. discip. lib. 8. cap. 47. constit. Apostol.

O God of Abraham, God of I∣saac, God of Iacob, which art God of the liuinge and not of the deade, for as much as all soules of the righteouse lyueth with thee, and are in thy handes: they shall not be touched with any payne or torment.

Looke bountifully vpon this thy seruaunt, which thou haste re∣ceyued into another lyfe, pardone him that, which he hath committed through the frayeltye of his will: Appoynt him thy louing Angels, to carye him into the bosomes of

Patriarches, Prophetes and Apos∣tles, and of all those that hath plea∣sed thee from the begining of the worlde, where is neither sorowe, griefe, nor horrour, but an assem∣blye of Saintes whiche are reioy∣sing in the countrye of the happye and iuste, seeing the glory of thy Christ: through whom be to thee glory, honour, seruice and adora∣tion in the holy Ghost eternallye.

Amen.

A prayer for the soule of thy father. Io. Damase in historia barl. & Iosa.

O Lorde God of insearcheable, and ineffable bountye, bringe my father to the place of rest and refreshing: where the light of thy countenaunce dothe gloryouslye shine: do not remembre his former offences, but accordinge to thy great mercy, blotte out & cancell the obligations of his sinnes, teare

and rent them asunder, for thou art worthy of all glorye, for euer and euer. Amen.

A prayer for the soule of thy mother. B. Agustinus ca. vlti. li. 9. confessionum.

O The God of my hart, my life and my prayse, I humbly de∣sire thee to pardone the sinnes of my mother: graciously heare me for his sake, which is the medicyne of our woundes, whiche did hange vpō the tree, & now sitting on thy righte hande maketh intercession for vs sinners: I know that she hath delt charitably, & frō her hart hath forgyuen all her debtors: release also vnto her all those sinnes what soeuer, since her baptisme, she hath fallen into.

Release them O Lorde, release them I beseech thee, and enter not into iudgemente with her: let thy mercy exceede thy iudgement, for

thy wordes are true, and thou haste promised mercy to the mercyfull.

For my mother (when the day of her death approched) did re∣quest and desire this, that we wolde remember her soule, at thy holye Aultar where she had serued thee: wherby she did know and beleeue, that the holy oblation of the bo∣dy and precious bloode of our sa∣uiour Iesus Christ, was made: wher∣by the obligation made against vs, was cancelled: whereby the ene∣mie was vanquished, counting our sinnes, & searchinge what he might obiecte against vs, and finding no∣thinge in vs by the meanes of Iesus Christ in whom we haue victorye: whoe shall render to Iesus Christe his innocent bloode? who shall re∣quite the pryce wherwith he hath bought vs, that he might pull and draw vs, from our enemye.

To the misterye of the which price, thy seruaunt hath vnited and bounde her soule by the bonde of fayth: let no man withdrawe her furth of thy protection: let not the dragon nor lyon intrude him selfe neither by force nor deceipt: nei∣ther as yet, will thy hand-mayd an∣swere that she is not in debte, leste she be conuinced and possessed of that crafty accuser: but she will an∣swere, that her debtes are released by him, whom none cā repay that, which he owinge nothinge hath payed for vs: let her therefore rest in peace with her husband, before whom and after whom, she was ne∣uer maried to any other, whom she hath serued, and broughte foorth fruite to thee with great patience, to the ende she mighte gayne him to thee.

Inspire O my Lord God, inspire

thy seruauntes my brethren, thy childrē my superiours, whom with voyce, harte & penne I doe serue: that, who soeuer shall reade these, they may remember at thy Aultar thy seruant Monica, with Patricius her late husband: by whose fleshe thou haste broughte me into this worlde, by what meanes I knowe not how: let them remember with deuoute zeale my parentes in this transitorye lyfe, and my brethren vnder thee their Father, in the lapp of their Catholicke Mother, and my countrye-men in the eternall Ierusalem, which thy people in their pilgrymage, from their de∣parture vntill their returne, desire to attayne vnto, that shee may at∣taine by the prayers of many, those thinges which she requyred at my handes when she departed.

Amen.

A prayer for the soule of thy parentes.

O God which haste commanded vs, to honour and reuerence our father and mother, haue mercy I beseeche the on the soules of my father and mother: and of all my other parentes, forgyue them their offences, and graunt that I may see them in the ioye of thy euerlasting blysse. Amen.

A prayer for thy friend departed.

O God the gyuer of pardon and louer of mans saluatiō, we be∣seeche thy clemency, through the intercession of the glorious Virgin Marie, and of all the holy Saints of heauen: that thou wilt graunt, that the brethē sisters & friends depar∣ted (in the vnitie of the Catholicke Church) with all our benefactours, maye come to the blysse of thy euerlastinge kyngdome, throughe Iesus Christ our Lorde. Amen.

A prayer for the lyuing & the deade.

ALmighty and euerlasting God, Lorde of the lyuinge and the dead thou shewest mercye to all those, whome by faythe and good worcks, thou knowest to be thine: we humbly beseech the, that those for whome we haue determined to pray, whom ether this presēt world yet retayneth in fleshe: or the worlde to come hath alredie re∣ceyued, maye through the clemen∣cye of thy bountye, & intercession of all thy blessed Saints, obtayne full remission of their sinnes. Amē.

A prayer for the departed to be sayd at masse. B. Ambr. praecatio. 1. praepa.

VVE humbly beseech thee O holy father for the soules of the faythfull departed this life, that the holy Sacrifice of the masse may

be to them eternall saluatiō: perpe∣tuall health, ioy & rest euerlasting. O my Lorde God, lett this woun∣derfull and excellent mysterye of pyetie, and bountie, be vnto them this day, full & perfect ioye: graunt that they maye bee replenished with thee, the lyuing & true bread, which descēdest from heauen, and gyuest lyfe to the world: and with that holy and blessed flesh of thee, the immaculate Lambe, which ta∣kest awaye the sinnes of the world: and make them to drinke of that fontaine of thy pyetie, whiche by force of the souldiars lance issued from the syde of our Lorde Iesus Christ crucified, that so beinge cō∣forted they may reioyce in thy holy laude and glorie. Amen.

The ende of the thyrtienth Chapter. FINIS.