DEPRECATIONS. 1. O LORD', Thou knowest, and canst, and willest the good of my soul. Miserable man am I; I neither know, nor can, nor, as I ought, Thou, O LORD, I beseech Thee, in Thine ineffable affection, and so dispose, as Thou knowest to be most pleasing to Thee, and most good for me. [Thine is] goodness, grace; love, kindness; benignity, gentleness, consideration; forbearance, long suffering; much pity, great pity; mercies, multitude of mercies, yearnings of mercies; kind yearnings, deep yearnings; in passing over, in overlooking, in disregarding; many seasons, many years; not correspondently, in wrath remembering mercy, 1 Vide p. 92, edit. 1675. 8 compensating doubly, to be reconciled, 2. LITANY 1. FATHER, the Creator, SON, the Redeemer, SPIRIT, the Regenerator, whom Thou hast created, redeemed, regenerated. nor the sins of my forefathers; neither take vengeance for our sins, theirs, nor mine. spare Thy people, and, among Thy people, Thy servant, 1 Page 180, edit. 1675. 2 Thus in St. Gregory's Sacramentary." Præsta, quæsumus, omnipotens Deus, ut animam famuli, &c.....in congregatione justorum æternæ beatitudinis jubeas esse consortem. Per Dominum, &c." "Præsta, &c. ut animam, &c. ab angelis lucis susceptam in præparata habitacula deduci facias beatorum. Per Dominum, &c." Suscipe, Domine, preces nostras, pro anima famuli tui.... ut si quæ ei maculæ de terrenis contagiis adhæserunt, remissionis tuæ remedio deleantur." For similar language in the second century vide Ussher as quoted in Tract 72. 66 Deal not, O Lord, deal not with me after mine iniquities, and according to the multitude of Thy mercies, after that so great pity, and that multitude of mercies, in the times of old ;- From all evil and adversity, from this evil and this adversity, raise me, rescue me, save me, O LORD. and destroy me not. in the hour of death; in the day of judgment, in that dreadful and fearful day, rescue me, LORD, and save me ;— from seeing the Judge's face overcast, from being placed on the left, from hearing the dreadful word, Depart from Me, from being bound in chains of darkness, from being cast into the outer darkness, from being tormented in the pit of fire and brimstone, where the smoke of the torments and destroy us not for ever, deliver and save us. Let it not be, O LORD; and that it be not, desperateness after sinning, blindness of heart, contempt of Thy threats, a cauterized conscience, a reprobate mind, the sin against the HOLY GHOST, the four crying sins1; the six which forerun 2 the sin against the HOLY GHOST. from all ills and abominations of this world, from plague, famine, and war; earthquake, flood, and fire, the stroke of immoderate rain and drought, thunder, lightning and tempest; from ills and difficulties in the Church, from innovation in things sacred, from heterodox teaching; from unhealthy nquiries and interminable disputes, 1 Wilful murder, the sin of Sodom, oppressing the poor, defrauding workmen of their wages. 2 Despair of salvation, presumption of God's mercy, impugning known truth, envy at another's grace, obstinacy in sin, and impenitence. 3 Тns àπоlεwoεwc, vid. Acts xii. 22. Mr. Waller "going to see from flattering of the people, from the scorn of Michal, from the priesthood of Micah, from the brotherhood of Simon and Judas, from the people resisting the priest : from ills and difficulties in the state, from Asher, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Gallio, Haman, the foolishness of Zoan 1, the statutes of Omri, the justice of Jezebel, the overflowings of Belial, the valley of Achor, incursion of enemies, civil war, bereavement of good governors, accession of evil and unprincipled governors; the king at dinner, overheard a very extraordinary conversation between his Majesty [King James] and two prelates, the Bishop of Winchester [Andrews] and Dr. Neale, Bishop of Durham, who were standing behind the king's chair. His majesty asked the bishop, 'My lords, cannot I take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this formality in parliament?' The Bishop of Durham readily answered, God forbid, Sir, but you should; you are the breath of our nostrils.' Whereupon the king turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, 'Well, my lord, what say you?' 'Sir,' replied the bishop, 'I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases.' The king answered, 'No put-offs, my lord, answer me presently.' 6 Then, Sir,' said he, 'I think it lawful for you to take my brother Neale's money, for he offers it.'"-Waller's Life, quoted in Biograph. Brit. 1 Isai. xix. VOL. V.-88. 2 Ps. xviii. 4. G |