58 MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



few days here, so it will be with us for ever hereafter ; that we shall all 

 appear before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive, according to what we 

 have done in the body, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Help us 

 therefore to work, while we have the light and the day, because the night 

 comes, in which no man can work ; and to pass the time of our dweUing and 

 sojourning here in thy fear. And for thy deceased servant, give us to imitate 

 his meekness and humility, his temperance and sobriety, his exemplary 

 chastity and purity, his dutifulness and obedience, his justice and righteous- 

 ness, his faithfulness and constancy, his patience and submission to thy will, 

 and all those other eminent graces and virtues, wherewith thou wert pleased 

 to beautify and adorn his soul ; that so we, together with him, may, after 

 this life ended, be made partakers of thine everlasting kingdom and glory in 

 the world to come. 



II. 



1673. — About the latter end of November, we received the news of the death of 

 Sir Thomas Wendy, of Haslingford, near Cambridge. 



Most holy and ever blessed Lord God, upon whom we have our constant 

 and necessary dependence, and to whom, therefore, we owe all duty, service, 

 and obedience, we bless thy holy name for all thy mercies hitherto con- 

 tinued to us ; for our health, and peace, and liberty ; for all the necessary 

 supports and comforts of this present life, but more especially for thy spi- 

 ritual mercies in things that concern a better life ; for our redemption, by 

 the precious blood of thy Son ; for thy word and ordinances, the means of 

 grace and salvation, the motions of thy Holy Spirit, and assistances of thy 

 grace; and for thy patience and long-suffering exercised towards us. 0 

 Lord, we confess that we are less than the least of thy mercies, and have 

 justly deserved, by reason of our sins, to have been long ago deprived of 

 them all. We have violated and broken thy holy and righteous laws, 

 omitting and neglecting those good duties which thou has commanded us, 

 and by committing those evils which thou hast forbidden us. We have lived 

 much under the power and command of our lusts and passions, of our sensual 

 appetites and inclinations, and have not resisted them, nor striven against 

 them, as we ought to have done. Our iniquities are gone over our heads as 

 a burthen too heavy for us to bear ; but there is mercy with thee, therefore 

 shalt thou be feared ; and thou art a God that hearest prayers, therefore unto 



