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O Lord, who hast ordained Mariage, the meanes to propagate Man∣kind, and mak'st it fruitfull to that purpose, by thy providence, at thy pleasure: I beseech thee, as that is my state, let this be my blisse. Give me the blessings of the Womb, a healthy and holy seed; which may be Heires of thy blessings on earth after us, and at last inheritance of thy eternall bles∣sednesse in heaven with us: even for the sake of thy onely begotten Sonne
my deare and onely Saviour, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
LOrd! who hast blessed me with a hopefull Conception, crowne thy mercy in mee with a happy Delive∣rance: From all frights and harmes which may cause miscarriage to me, let thy providence shield me: From all errors and ills which may draw thy displeasure upon me, let thy grace pre∣serve me: And for all my faults and failings past, let thy mercy pardon me: And Lord! let not the Child for the Parents sake be any way unhappy: The blessing of shape, and perfectnesse of Body and mind be upon it I be∣seech thee: so shall the Church have a Child, and thou a Servant; my Fa∣mily a pillar, and thy kingdome an heire: mine shall be the comfort, but thine shall be the gaine. O thou that thy selfe wast once enclosed in a Mo∣thers womb, conceived, bred, and born; shew this mercy to me: doe it for me deare Iesus thou holy Sonne of God. Amen, Amen.
LOrd keep me from all harmes and frights this day, * 1.1 and that my Womb by no ill acccident may mis∣carry within me, let not my heart by any ill act miscarry before thee: Body and Soule, let thy mercy & grace pre∣serve me, now and ever deare Iesus. Amen, Amen.
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.
LOrd! that hast look'd downe on thy poore hand maid in her great distresse, I looke up unto thee and blesse thy Name for my happy delive∣rance, that thou hast made me the joy∣full Mother of a hopefull Child, with∣out visible infirmity or deformity, which might take from my joy! Goe on good God in mercy to me and it. Support me on my bed of weaknesse, and in thy due time raise me from it with strength. Let my Child live till thou by holy Baptisme hast made it
thy Heire, and in that holy and happy state of soule preserve it to thy king∣dome: and let it be my continuall care by all good meanes to preserve it. And good Lord! from the pangs of e∣ternall death and paines of Hell keep me and it for ever. And whatsoever burden of woe I shall travaile under on earth, let me not despaire of mer∣cifull deliverance, whom thou hast so graciously eased of my late paine and burden.
Thy power & mercy is the same for ever, O Lord let it be shewed to thy Servant in all her extremity, according as her hope and trust is in thee, by the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. A∣men.
WHat an honour hast thou done unto thy Servant, O Lord▪ thou hast given me a naturall birth, and my Child a new one: what came polluted into the world, is washed cleane in thy laver; for the raggs of Adam, thou hast put on it thy Sonnes robes. My Child is made thy heire, and what was borne by me to a Crosse, thou hast begotten againe to a Crown of glory. O Lord! let it be my care
to keep my Child thine; thy Sonnes righteousnesse on him, and Spirit in him: and my ambition so to be thy Child, that I may with it, be Inheritor of thy Crowne. By the merits of him, who is the first-borne of his Brethren, thy Son, and Heire of all things, Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
At Eve∣ning, say, this Night.