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.

Prayer for a Woman in Travaile.

LOe! this is the fruit of the for∣bidden Tree: our first Mother brought forth sin, and we bring forth in paine for it: justly O Lord! for I am the Daughter of my Mother: as I sinned in her loynes, so since I came into the world I have justified often what she did once. I have sinned, O Lord! I have sinned! O how often have I coveted, what thou hast for∣bidden! done ill in thy eyes, to doe what was pleasing to my owne: and been both tempted and Tempter unto evill.

By inheritance therefore and pur∣chase wrath is my due, misery my por∣tion, and this paine my proper lot: and thy great mercy it is in Christ my Saviour that the pangs of everlasting death, are not my! but O thou Judge

of the world, remember that thou art the Preserver of men, preserve me in it, support me under it; make haste, make haste good Lord to deliver me from it, and comfort me after it. O remember not what the first Adam hath done, but the second suffered! and by his imma∣culate Conception, and holy Birth and Life; by the bitter passion, and pangs, and death of the holy Child Jesus; deliver me deare Father, in this my ex∣tremity. Let the paines of my Tra∣vaile end in the joies of a blessed Birth, that may (to the comfort of my soule) live and be made an Heire of thy king∣dome. Amen, Amen.