Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.

¶ 3. Prayer for a Penitent Confessing Sins and Deprecating Judgments.

O Thou Holy and Dreadfull Ma∣jestie! I am ashamed to lift up my eyes unto thee for the sins I have committed against thee. Woe is me for the undue thoughts, and lusts, and words, and deeds, of which I stand guilty before thee!

I have, like a prodigall Child, wasted those goods and daies in the delights of vanity, which thou O Father, didst give me, not to sinne with, but to serve thee. And even for those few houres which I have spent best, privately in thy service, and in thy Sanctuary, I have need to aske thy forgivenesse and mercy; So coldly, so carelesly, so di∣stractedly, so irreverently, have I then, and there, behaved my selfe before thee.

By thy holy lawes, by thy many mer∣cies, by my often vowes & promises, I stand at this day deeply obliged unto thee: But I have broken all those bonds, and even to this houre am not free from rebelling against thee.

For this I doe confesse, thou mightest

sentence me to as many judgments, as the mercies are with which thou hast blessed, and yet blessest me. Thou mightest cast away that soule, which I have so much polluted with sinne, and smite that body which hath been so much a servant to it in the acts of va∣nity. Thou mightest take away all Hope and Comfort from me, and at once bereave me both of Life and Soule.

Of all these plagues, O Lord, I am most guilty, by my sinnes; and if thou shouldest execute them all upon me, thou wert but righteous in thy judge∣ments. But in judgment Lord, remem∣ber mercy! To thy poore servant, to thy penitent, prostrate Child, grant thy pardon, Deare Father, and reach to my soule thy hand of mercy! I have guilt, but thou hast Bloud, O Blessed Redeemer! I have staines, but thou hast Grace, O Holy Comforter! O Holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, Spare my life, and save my soule, I be∣seech thee, who have condemned my selfe for sinning so much, and resolve by thy grace to serve the more con∣scionably!

And Lord! save thy poor distracted

Church, O forgive her sinnes, and build up her wal••s. And in Her, preserve all that are dutifull Children and faith∣full to thee and her; especially those who are in Place and Power to pre∣serve Her: Lord doe thou preserve Her, and Them; and all who are deare and neare to me, and Thee! Comfort all that are cast down, especially those whose soules bleed for their sinnes, all poor-penitent-broken Spirits. Have mercy on them, O Lord, and comfort for them, and heale them (thou good Physitian, who alone canst help them) by the pretious wounds and death, and bloody passion of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

• ...Daily Prayers.
• ...Letanie.
• ...Ten Commandements.
• Epistle, 2 Cor. 11. 18.
• Gospel, Mark 4. v. 35.
• ...Prayer for Catholike Church.