ANOTHER.

ETERNAL God, the

very God of peace and all consolation, which broughtest again from death our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make us fruitful in all good works to do thy will, and work in us that which is acceptable in thy sight: sanctify us throughout, and keep our whole spirit, soul, and body faultless unto the coming of thy dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Thou art faithful, O Father, who hast promised this, who also shalt bring it to pass: to thee therefore be given everlasting praise, honour, and glory. Amen.

ANOTHER THANKSGIVING AFTER MEALS.

ETERNAL God, the preserver of our life, and giver of all good gifts, we render unto thee most humble thanks, for that of thy abundant goodness it hath pleased thee at this present to feed our bodies with these corporal meats and drinks; beseeching thee also to feed our souls with the spiritual food of thy lively word, that in the heavenly brightness of thy knowledge we may truly serve, love, and obey thee, and lead a life worthy of this thy kindness; that thou, finding us not unthankful for these and all other thy good blessings, mayest go forward daily more and more to increase thy gifts in us, and at the last take us unto thee, and place us in thy joyful kingdom amongst thy holy angels and blessed saints, where thou, with thy dearly beloved Son and the Holy

5 Heb. xiii.

Ghost, livest and reignest one true and everlasting God, in all honour and glory, worlds without end. Amen.

ANOTHER THANKSGIVING AFTER MEALS.

LORY, praise, and honour be unto thee, most

infinite goodness hast created man to thine own image and similitude; who also hast fed and daily feedest of thy most bountiful hand all living creatures: grant unto us, that as thou hast nourished these our mortal bodies with corporal food, so thou wouldest replenish our souls with the perfect knowledge of the lively word of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ; to whom be praise, glory, and honour, for ever. So be it.

MOST

ANOTHER.

OST bountiful and gracious God, which feedest all flesh, and hast promised that, asking of thee, we shall not lack, if we first seek thy kingdom and the righteousness thereof; we, feeling presently the benefit of this thy gracious promise in feeding our bodies with this corporal food, do render unto thee most hearty thanks for the same, beseeching thee likewise to feed our souls with that heavenly food which perisheth not, but abideth unto everlasting life': so that we, being nourished by thy goodness both in body and soul, may be apt and ready to do all good works which thou hast prepared for us to walk in, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 John vi.

Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood, and made us kings and priests unto God his Father, be all glory, power, and dominion for evermore2. Amen.

THE

ever.

ANOTHER.

HE God of glory and peace, who hath created, redeemed, and presently fed us, be blessed for So be it.

The God of all power, who hath called from death that great Pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus, comfort and defend the flock which He redeemed by the blood of the eternal testament, increase the number of true preachers, repress the rage of obstinate tyrants, lighten the hearts of the ignorant, relieve the pains of such as be afflicted, but especially of those that suffer for the testimony of his truth; and finally confound Satan by the power of our Lord

Jesus Christ.

So be it.

21 Peter v. [Rev. i.]

PRAYERS TO BE USED OF EVERY CHRISTIAN IN PARTICULAR.

When you awake out of your sleep, pray thus:

MOST dear Father of our Saviour Jesus

Christ, whom none doth know but of thy gift, amongst other thy manifold and great benefits grant me this also, that like as thou hast awaked my body from sleep, so thou wouldst throughly awake, yea, deliver my soul from the sleep of sin and darkness of this world, and that which now is awaked out of sleep, thou wouldest after death restore to life; for that is but sleep to thee, which is death to us. Dear God, I most heartily beseech and humbly pray thy goodness to make my body such a companion, or rather a minister of godliness to my soul in this present life, that in the life to come it may be partaker with the same of everlasting happiness by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shew light unto thee1.

HERE

OCCASIONS TO MEDITATE.

ERE call to mind the great mirth and blessedness of the everlasting resurrection. Also remember to muse upon that most clear light and bright morning, and new clearness of our bodies, after the long darkness they have been in: all then shall be full of joy.

1 Ephes. v.

So soon as you behold the day-light, pray thus:

O LORD, thou greatest and most true light, from whence this light of the day and sun doth spring! O Light, which dost lighten every man that cometh into this world! O Light, which knowest no night nor evening, but art always a mid-day most clear and fair; without whom all is most dark darkness, by whom all things are most splendent! O thou Wisdom of the eternal Father of mercies, lighten my mind that I may only see those things that please thee, and may be blinded to all other things. Grant that I may walk in thy ways, and that nothing else may be light and plea

sant unto me.

Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, that I sleep not in death, lest mine enemies say, I have prevailed against him.

OCCASIONS TO MEDITATE.

MUSE a little how much the light and eye of

the mind and soul is better than of the body. Also, how much more we ought to care for the soul that it may see well, than for the body. Moreover, that beasts have bodily eyes as well as men; but men have eyes of the mind, and that only such as are godly-wise.

When you arise, pray thus:

UR first father cast down himself from a most excellent, high, and honourable estate, into shame and misery, and into the deep sea of all

2 Ps. xiii.