world without end Amen V. O Lord God that dost build up Hierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel Wherefore art thou absent so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the dwelling places of thy name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord which was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven â—…teth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge 〈◊〉 quick and the dead I belâ—…ve in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them thâ—… trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen I. O Lord this is a day of trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was committed in our land most sacred â—…nnocent blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to parallel on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this evill work hath not been exâ—…ed speedily the hearts of this people are wholy set in them to do evill this respite which thou hast given us to work our Repentance hath served onely to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to the former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear 〈◊〉 voice and if that finall 〈◊〉 tence be not irreversibly gâ—… out against us be pleased 〈◊〉 turn thy wrath away 〈◊〉 to suffer thy whole displeasâ—…e to arise To this end thou O 〈◊〉 who breakest the gates of 〈◊〉 and smitest the bars of 〈◊〉 sunder be thou pleased to 〈◊〉 these unrelenting hearts of 〈◊〉 to work in every one of us 〈◊〉 sense of our horrid abomâ—… ons especially that of this day as may cast us down in the 〈◊〉 est degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that 〈◊〉 we may be capable of that â—…tation which thou hast promiâ—… to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen II. BLessed Lord in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull effusious of thy grace on our late Martyred Soveraign which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities and at lost resisting even unto blood and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern and praying for his Murtherers Let his Memory O Lord be ever blessed among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he followed Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry his Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designs of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remain upon his head and upon his â—…ed for euermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our crycome unto thee III. O Lord God Infinite in Power by whom the Thrones of Kings are established and their persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thine immediate and divine protection thine anointed Servant the King that no sacrilegious profane hand may come near to touch him In all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their tents about him O Lord comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his cause shew some token on him for good even now O God when the Sons of violence are in their pride and triumph over him whom thou hast exalted designing and rejoycing to root out that religion which thine own right hand hath planted Defeat their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischeivous imaginations any longer prosper but blast all their Counsels wither away all their Armies like grass scorched by the Sun Bow down at last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that peace which hath so long been an abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own ruin but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thine anger for this unnatural division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of our defamed religion the comfort of our afflicted King and the happiness of this yet bleeding dom And confirm all this to Us O Lord by the merits and through the
appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and defires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed â—…ecause thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou dist those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread beforâ—… thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and send deliverance to his people in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and qatiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good And here O Lord we offer unto thee all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace that hath shined forth in thine Anointed our late Soveraign and that thou wert pleased to own him this Day especially in the midst of his Enemies and in the hour of death and to endue him with such eminent Patience Meekness Humility Charity and all other Christian Virtues according to the example of thine own Son suffering the fury of his and thine Enemies for the preservation of thy Church and People We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party by that owning and assisting him or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end by a Careful studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs that have gone before us that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers which they in Communion with thy Church Catholick offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant and yet in sight with and danger from the flesh that following tâ—…e Blessed stepps of their Holy Lives and Deaths we may also â—…hew forth the Light of a good example for the Glory of thy Name the Conversion of Enemies and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us and then with all those that have born the Heat and burthen of the day thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate receive the Reward of our Labours the Harvest of our Hopes even the Salvation of our own souls and that for the merits and through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Evening Prayer FOR the thirtieth of Ianuary The Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evill and mischief from sin from the crafts and affaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting â—…ation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy nativity circumcision by thy baptism fasting and temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy Cross and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear Us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and
and â—…bey him as thy Minister not â—…nly for wrath but for consciâ—…ce sake least contemning â—…ine ordinance we incur that damnation thou hast threatneâ—… to all those that resist the highâ—… powers Hear us O Lord fâ—… his sake who is the Prince 〈◊〉 the Kings of the Earth eveâ—… Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Most gracious Lord God the Ruler of Princes wheâ—… they are in their thrones anâ—… their Protector when they aâ—… in perill look down mercifullâ—… from Heaven we most humbly pray thee upon the low estate 〈◊〉 thine anointed our King comfort him in his troubles defenâ—… him in his dangers strengthen him in his good resolutions and command thine Angels to pitcâ—… their tents round about hiâ—… that he may be defended froâ—… the hands of all those that desire his hurt and may be re-established in the just rights oâ—… his throne through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon him and deâ—…er him O God the Father c. O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon him â—…nd deliver him O God the Son c. O God the holy Ghost proâ—…eeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon him â—…d deliver him O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious â—…rinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon him and deliver him O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord his offences nor the offences of his fore-Fathers neither take thou â—…engeance of his sins spare him good Lord spare thy servant â—…om thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with him for ever Spare him good Lord. From all evill and mischief from the Insurrection of wicked doers from the frowardness and madnesse of the People Good Lord deliver him From mouths full of cursing and bitternesse from all thosâ—… that speak evill of dignities and from those that slander the foot steps of thine Anointed Good Lord deliver him From them that are confederates and speak so disdainfully against him and from all thosâ—… that hate him without a cause Good Lord deliver him We sinners do beseech thee tâ—… hear us O Lord God and thaâ—… it may please thee to look upoâ—… the face of thine Anointed and to visit him with thy salvation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to plead his cause against them thaâ—… strive with him and to fighâ—… against those that fight againâ—… him We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to hear him in these dayes of his trouble and to send him help from thy Sanctuary We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to arise and maintain his cause and to remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to give him patience in this time of adversiâ—…y untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly We beseech thee c. That it may please thee in the multitude of the sorrows that he hath in his heart to let thy comforts refresh his soul. We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to deliver him over to the will of his adversaries nor to false witnesses risen up against him or to such as speak wrong We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to defend him under thy wings and that thy faithfulnesse and truth may be his Shield and Buckler We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to satisfie him with thy mercy and that soon so that he and we may rejoyce all the dayes of our life We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. A Prayer For the Church LOrd who hast promised to thine Apostles to be with them alwayes unto the end of the world and for a supply of their mortality hast in thy gracious providence over thy Church continued a perpetuall succession of Bishops and Pastors to feed their severall Flocks whereof the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers Inspire them by thy grace that their lips may preserve knowledge and the people seek thy Law at their mouth Bless them O Lord with the blessings of Levi blesse their substance and accept the work of their hands smite through the loyns of them that rise up against them and of them that hate them that they rise not again that they may shine forth as lights before us holding forth the word of life till we all come in the unity of Faith and the knowledge of Jesus Christ unto that perfection and fulnesse of thine everlaâ—…ing Kingdome Amen ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgements that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdomes and this Church which is now under the Crosse and neer to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy step in between thy fierce wrath and our hainous sins And howsoever the voice of our crying sins hath ascended into thine ears and stirred up destroyers to root us out that we be no more a people and that thy name be no more called upon nor hallowed by us yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Crosse and in the garden and which he daily represents unto thee And for his all-sufficient merits which speak better things than the blood of Abel hear not the cry of our sins but the cry of his blood and therein wash all our sins Let our great miseries and dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Oratour in thy own bosome even thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us and purchase our deliverance and safety Hear us for our selves and others Look upon us with the eyes of pitty and compassion consider our enemies how many and how mighty they be and they bear a tyrannous hate against us Our goods our lands our lives will not suffice their boundlesse ambition our religion our souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their anger for it is fierce and their wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel As for us deliver us out of their hands and unite us together in the bond of peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy name and evermore serve thee without fear in all holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evill deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully
Refuge and strong Tower of defence to all them that put their trust in thee receive our humble Petition save this City this Nursery of thy Church and thy afflicted People from the hand of their Enemies We know that unlesse thou keep the City the Watchman watcheth but in vain unâ—…sse thou defend us our Foundations which are laid in dust cannot stand firm We acknowledge our own weaknesse and â—…t which makes us weaker our â—…full demerit But thou art â—…oth the Lord of Hosts Prince of Peace able to destroy the strongest Army with an Army of most despicable Creatures with things of nothing with sudden weaknesse and follies with a â—…mour or imagination Thou canst bring us to the brink of destruction and call us back again Look down therefore most mercifull Lord upon this Place and according to thy â—…onted goodness resist the proud and give grace to the humble that run to the shadow of thy wings for succour Thou that stillest the raging of the Sea and the madnesse of the People say to the one as to the other hither shall thy proud waves come and no further Suffer not the purpose of our Oppressors to stand nor their Counsells to prosper nor their Force to prevail But set thy hook into their nostrils to turn them back or confound them according to thy good pleasure and secret wisdome by which thou disposest all Events beyond the means and reach of man But arme thy lowly Servants with Faith and Patience raise our Spirits guide our Consultations strengthen our hands help our wants bless our endeavours with success That we being delivered like them that dream may praise thee as men awaked out of dust and having seen and escaped thy Roâ—… may serve thee ever hereafter with true obedience through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer drawn by his Majesties speciall direction and Diâ—…ates for a blessing on the Treaty at Uxbridge O Most Mercifull Father Lord God of Peace and Truth we a People sorely afflicted by the Scourge of an unnatural War do here earnestly beseech thee to command a blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty begun for the establishment of an happy Peace Soften the most obdurate Hearts with a true Christiâ—… desire of saving those mens blood for whom Christ himself hath shed his Or if the guilt of our great sins cause this Treaty to break off in vain Lord let the Truth clearly appear who those men are which under pretence of the Publick good do pursue their own private ends that this People may be no longer so blindely miserable as not to see at least in this their day the things that belong unto their peace Grant this gracious God for his sake who is our Peace it self even Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for Peace ALmightyGod terrible in thy Iudgements but more wonderfull in thy Mercies who turnest man to Destruction and again thou sayst Come again ye children of Men we miserable sinners prostrate this day before thee humbly confesse with Horror in our Hearts and Confusion in our Faces that every one of us hath more or lesse contributed to that vast heap of crying fins which hath now in so high a measure draw down thy vengeance on us that we have abused thy Patience so long till we have at last turn'd it into Fury compelling thee by our often provocations to visit us in blood to make us tear out our own bowells and by a strange unnaturall War raised we know not why thy Iustice and our Sins excepted to become executioners of our selves and so to sin afresh in the very punishments of sin But alas what profit is there in our Blood or what Glory can come to thee by our Ruine Let it suffice O God that thou hast thus far rebuked us in thine Anger but consume us not utterly for we are all thy People Say to the destroying Sword It is enough and let it be no longer drunk with the blood of thine Inheritance But look down upon our unfamed Humiliation hear the Prayer which in the bitternesse of our Souls we pour out this day before thee accept of our Repentance and where it is defective let thy Holy Spirit make it up with Groanes that cannot be expressed Look upon thy Moses who standeth in the gap beseeching thee to turn thine anger from thy People remember what he hath suffer'd and the heavy things that thou hast shewn him and in the day when thou makest Inquisition for Blood forget not his desires of Peace the endeavours which he hath used and the Prayers which he hath made to thee for it Return all this O Lord with comfort into his Bosome And since thou hast already wrought so much for him as to bring these unhappy entangled differences to a Treaty take not off thine hand till thou hast untied every knot and cleared every difficulty Send thy Spirit into their hearts who are entrusted with this great work give them Bowels of Compassion toward their bleeding and â—…piring Country strike a Sense into them of the blood already shed and the Desolation to come which threatneth all if they prevent it not But above all let thy feare run through all their consultations that remembring the sad account which in the last great day will be required of them they may lay aside every Sin and every Interest that may divert them from the wayes of Peace and by the guidance of thy Wisdom for in this all humane wisdom failes find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of Joy and Peace into our Dwellings in such a way as may be most to the Glory of thy Great Name the Settlement of the true Religion so long professed among us the Honour and Safety of the Kings Sacred Person and the Good of all his People Hear these our Prayers and perfect this great work through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the ending of the present Troubles O Most just and powerfull Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth we cannot but acknowledge that the manifold miseries which have befallen us are the due reward of our deeds and that we have deserved that the things which belong to our Peace should still be hid from our eyes For when of thy own free mercy thou wert pleased to grant us a long time of plenty and prosperity more then thou gavest to any the Nations that are about us we became weary of our happinesse and by our ingratitude pulled down upon us those judgements which now threaten desolation to this late flourishing kingdom And since the time of our affliction thou hast given us space to repeat and we repented not Iniquity hath still more and more abounded As heretofore thy mercies did not allure us so now thy judgements have not humbled us to a serious consideration of our misdeservings Now O Lord we finde our selves intangled and wearied by our own Counsells The troubles of our
imployments and not keeping the spiritual sabath unto thee in serving thee truly all the dayes of our life By not duely observing the times of Festivity or fasting appointed by just Authority according to the example of thy people in all ages we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnes belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By not duely acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority in the Persons of our Superiours by speaking evill of Dignities and reviling the Rulers of thy People by groundlesse jealousies and suspicions misjudging and censuring their Actions And at lâ—…st proceeding to that 〈◊〉 and most â—…rrid pitch of violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them by being as a People that strive with their Priests by our not obeying them that have the rule over us and not submitting our selves to them who by thy appointment watch over our souls by neglecting our care of those Committed to our Charge not Correcting those sins which have Cryed loud for exemplary Punishment we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By rash Anger Malice Hatred and Revenge and the bloody effects thereof by uncharitable Contentions and Divisions Factions and Animosities by Cruelty and Unmercifulnesse and communicating in the sinnes of Blood we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusâ—…on of face as at this day By the manifold sins of Uncleannesse by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof by Idlenesse Intemperance and Drunkennes by immodest words and gestures by our shamelesse boasting or not blushing at those sinnes we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By Thefts Rapines and Oppressions scandalizing thereby the Honour and Iustice of a good Cause by vexatious suites so much practised and countenanced by exactions by unjust gains in bargaining by defrauding the labourer of his hire by want of due care in expending what we have and a good Conscience in acquiring more We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By lying detraction and contumely by endeavouring to advantage a good Cause by falshood and unjust means by censuring and rash judgments by false witness and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By desire of change and uncontentednesse in our Estates by giving our selves over to lustfull covetous and inordinate affections by desiring Peace not so much for thine honour or the publick good as the satisfaction of our own private lusts by neglecting acts of Charity and doing as we would be done to and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian duties of humiliation and godly sorrow for sins of due indignation and revenge upon ourselves for them of confessing and forsaking of restitution and satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By impatience under thy correcting hand by not endeavouring our amendment by it in reflecting upon our own sins as the causes of it by despising thy chastisements in not rejoycing in â—…lations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for righteousness sake we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By fretting ourselves because of the ungodly and being envious against the evill doers by not loving our enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us nor praying for those that despightfully use us and persecute us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By presuming to do evill that good may come thereon by placing piety in opinions by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels in scrupling at indifferent things and making no conscience of known sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By running into open prophaneness under colour of avoiding superstition by guiding our conscience by humourâ—… and fancies and not by the certain rules of thy Law by having itching ears and heaping to our selves teachers and by having mens persons in admiration because of advantage we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from these and from our secret sins Try us O good God and search the ground of our hearts prove us and examine our thoughts and look well if there be any other way of wickedness in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer for forgivenesse O Almighty and most mercifull Father who art the Lord the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity transgressions and sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes who are here before thee in the bitterness of our soules and doe now with troubled spirits with broken and with contrite hearts most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the bloud of thy Sonne which speaks better things then that of Abelâ—… for his sake spare us Lord spare thy people that these sins rise not up against us for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruell hands who would both devour and deride us R. Spare us O Lord spare thy people for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull to all these our sins through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest onely ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodneâ—… and bring you to everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen The Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will â—…e done in earth as it is in heaâ—…en Give us this day our 〈◊〉 bread And forgive us 〈◊〉 â—…espasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And
and that soon so shall we that be thy people and sheep of thy pasture give thee thanks for ever and will alwayes be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation Grant this O mercifull Father we beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen II. OEternal God and most gracious Father we confesse thâ—… by our manifold transgressions we have deserv'd whatsoever thy Law hath threatned against sinners Our contempt of thy Divine Service is great and we hear thy Word but obey it not Our charity to our Neighbour is cold and our disobedience abounds Religion is with many of us as in too many places besides made but a pretence for other ends then thy service and there hath been little or no care among us to keep Truth and Peace together for the preserving of both Church and State Forgive us O Lord forgive us these and all other our grievous sins Send us light in our understandings readiness and obedience in our wils discretion in our words and actions true serious and loyal endeavours for the peace and prosperity of our Ierusalem the unity and glory of this Church and State that we may love it and prosper in it that we may be guided by thy grace in this life and received to thy glory in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evill deeds and our great unthankfulness are worthily punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen IV. ALmighty and most mercifull Father who for our many and grievous sins those especially which we have committed since our last solemn Humiliation before thee mightest most justly have cut us off but in the multitude of thy mercies hast hitherto spared us Accept we most heartily beseech thee our unfeigned sorrow for all our former transgressions and grant we may never so presume of thy mercy as to despise the riches of thy goodnesse But that thy forbearance and long suffering may lead us to repentance and amendment of our sinfull lives to thy honour and glory and our eternal salvation at the last day through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen V. ALmighty and everlasting God which hatest nothing that thou hast made and doest forgive the sins of them that be penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchednes may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. VI. GRant Lord we beseech thee that the course of this world may be so ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ Amen VII ALmighty and Everlasting God mercifully look upon our infirmities and miseries and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen VIII O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people that we which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Saviour who liveth c. Let us pray for the whole state of Christs holy Catholick Church particularly of our distressed Mother the afflicted Church of England O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayer and Ministery of thy Church let our prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Sonne thou hast watered it with the blood of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heat and graces of thy Holy Spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Lawes and righteous Commandments have been a scorne and derision to Iews and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants hath been meat for the beasts of the land And still she wears the purple robe of mockery and the crown of thorns which at first she took from the head and side of her dearest Lord. At last O Lord be gracious unto thine inheritance help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name let not thine enemies devoure the Church and lay wast her dwelling places Be mercifull unto our sins preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appointed to death or prison or any other misery Let us still enjoy the freedome of thy Gospel the food of thy Word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publick Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sins cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us But make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen O Thou Shepherd of Israel thou that sittest upon the Cherubims stir up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and Protection Thou hast made Affliction the portion of thy children in this life thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink Yet be pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve our miseries to heale our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her Neighbours but reunite her Divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devoure her and then laugh her to scorn O Lord hedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the Patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence 〈◊〉 the whole secular Arm least the wilâ—… Beasts of the field pluck off 〈◊〉 Grapes destroy the Vintage aâ—… root up the Vine it self but let 〈◊〉 so flourish under the beams of thy fa vour and providence that it may 〈◊〉 root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy rigâ—… hand the God and man Christ Iesâ—… may be glorified thy Church enlargâ—… and defended and we blessed with 〈◊〉 health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen O Saviour of the world save us which by thy Cross and precious blood hast redeemed us help us we beseech thee help this â—…eeding Church O thou God of our salvation Though thou hast noâ—… a long tiâ—… giuen Satan and his instruments power 〈◊〉 all that she hath yet O Lord spare her life Let there be still a reâ—…nant left to praise thee And when by these sharp trials thou hast vindicated her integrity be pleased to blesse her as thou didst Job ' s latter end by giving her a double portion of all reall
advantages And though thou hast now violently removed thy Tabernacle yet O Lord let not one pin of it be lost But erect it again amongst us in the wonted order and beauty for thy goodnesse sake for thy merâ—… sake for thy Son Christ Iesus sake â—…ur onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord which dost teach us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth send thy holy Ghost poure into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity the very bond of peace and all virtues without whicâ—… whosoever liveth is counted deaâ—… before thee Grant this for thine onely Son Jesus Christ's sake The Conclusion THe Almighty Lord which is a most strong tower to allâ—… them that put their trust in him to whom all things in Heaven iâ—… earth and under the earth doâ—… bow and obey be now and evermore our defence The defence of this afflicted Church The defence of these diâ—…cted Realmes The defence of all â—…ch who do or suffer for the testimony â—…f a good Conscience The defence of â—…e blessed and holy offices of our Moâ—…r the â—…hurch The defence of this â—…nd all other congregations that meet â—…gether in thy holy fear The defence 〈◊〉 our dear relations both at home â—…nd abroad The defence of our â—…n persons The defence of our souls â—…dies and estates And make us all to know and â—…el that there is no other name â—…nder heaven given unto man 〈◊〉 whom and through whom we â—…ay receive re-establishment in our â—…eligion restauration of our Liâ—…rties reconciliation with thee â—…r God together with peace and â—…fety among men felicity here â—…d salvation hereafter but oneâ—… the name of our Lord Iesus â—…rist To whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit 〈◊〉 ascribed as iâ—… most due all Hâ—… nour and Glory Praise Might Majesty Dominioâ—… and Adoration of all Aâ—…gels of all Men and of 〈◊〉 Creatures now and for 〈◊〉 Amen Amen A FORME OF Prayer FOR the Thirtieth of Ianuary A form of Prayer for the 30th of January Preface to be read standing 1. RIghteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee yet let me talke with thee of thy judgments whereâ—…ore doth the way of the wicked â—…rosper wherefore are all they â—…appy that deal very treacherâ—…usly 2. Thou bast planted them yea â—…ey grow and bring forth fruit â—…ou art neare in their lips and â—…rre from their reines whereâ—…re holdest thou thy tongue â—…ile the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous thâ—…â—…e 3. They have condemned anâ—… killed the Just and he doth noâ—… refist them 4. They make a man an offendâ—… for a word and lay snares for him that reproâ—…eth thâ—…m in the gate 〈◊〉 turn aside the Iust for a thing of nought 5. They say let us lay wâ—… for blood let us lurke privily foâ—… the Innocent blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cause we shall findâ—… 〈◊〉 substance we shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…es with spoile 6. Wherefore they 〈◊〉 their Net and burn Iucense 〈◊〉 their Drâ—…gg because by it theiâ—… pâ—…tion is fat and their â—…eat plenâ—…â—…s 7. Art not thou from everlasting my Lord my God my holy one O Lord thou hast 〈◊〉 them for Judgment 〈◊〉 mighty God thou hast establiâ—…ed them for Correction 8. But thougâ—… the righteous be prevented by death yet shall he be at rest 9. For his soule pleased the Lord therefore he hath hasted to take him from among the wicked 10. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die and their departure is taken for misery and their going from us for utter destruction but they are in peace 11. For though they be punished in the sight of men yet is their reward full of immortality 12. And after a little chastenlug they shall be greatly rewarded for God hath proved them and found them worthy for himself 13. As Gold in the fire hath he tried them and received them as a burnt offering 14. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works follow them 15. For if we have been planted with him in the likenesse of his death we shall also be in the likenesse of his resurrection 16. O our God we are ashamed and blush to lift up our faces to thee for our iniquities are increased over our beads and our trespasse is gone up to Heaven since the dayes of our Fathers have we been in a great trespasse unto this day and for our Iniquities have we our Kings and our Priests been delivered to the sword to captivity to a spoil and to confusion of face as it is this day 17. What shall we say or how shall we clear our selves God hath found out the Iniquity of his Servants We have transgressed and rebelled thou hast not pardoned 18. Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast slain and not pittied 19. The Lord hath kindled a fire in Zion and it hath devoured the foundations thereof 20. For the sins of her Prophets and her Priests that have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her 21. And now O Lord thou art most Just in all that is come upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly 22. Behold we are before thee in our trespasse for we cannot stand before thee because of this 23. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us yet do thou it for thy names sake for we have sinned against thee 24. Be not wrath very sore neither remember iniquity for ever 25. Be mercifull O Lord to thy people whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people 26. Deliver us from bloud-guiltiness thou God of our health and our tongue shall sing of thy righteousness Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O come let us worship let us bumble our selves let us fall low and kneel before the Lord our Maker Then this General Confession to be said All kneeling OThou Judge Eternall we the sinfullest of all the sons of men that have abused thy Mercies provoked thy Judgements unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts of thy Quiver and with our multiplied abominable crying sins brought down a desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the glory of all Lands We that after thy wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our sins as thou hast encreased the weight and number of thy Judgements upon us walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visitations suffered all thy pretious methods of reducing us thine admonitions and thy â—…ripes to be utterly lost and â—…ate amongst us brought down a blast mildew upon all that has been undertaken to repair our breaches reduce our peace We do now at length in the remorse and bitterness of our souls desire to cast our selves down upon the ground before thee to
confess and acknowledg thy patience and long-suffering that we have not been under the sharpest of thy displeasures and to adore thy goodness whatsoever becomes of us though it be in the shame and confusion and condemnation both of our bodies and soules Lord this is the mildest that we have reason to expect from thy Justice in retribution to our sinnes And whatever is lesse then this whatsoever the bitterness of our cup be in this life though thou shouldest cast us into the place of Dragons give us to drink of the Wine of astonishment the most stupifying deadly potion number us all to the sword pour out thy fire and brimstone upon us Yet if by thus chastizing of us here thou please to rescue us from that sadder doom of being condemned with the world this is a most inestimable mercy of thine beyond all that we have hitherto so unworthily enjoyed Lord we desire and profess to acquit thy Justice in thy proceedings to adore the bounty of thy Goodness and patience towards us that we have not long ago been as Admah and Zeboim as Sodom and Gomorrah that we have this day liberty to approach thâ—… Lord that it may yet be tâ—… good pleasure to come home 〈◊〉 every one of our soules to strike our hearts to break up these fallow grounds of ours that all thâ—… pretious seed be no longer 〈◊〉 cast away amongst thornes And by the power of thy mighty controuling convincing Spirit that thou wouldest once subdue all the resistances of our spirits against this most reasonable motion of humiliation within us Lord this is the one earneâ—… desire of our souls that hath caâ—… us low this day before thy fooâ—… stool with cries and tears earnest groans that thou wouldst have this mercy upon us that thou wouldest thus powerfully reveal thy self unto us who hast thus long smitten and importunately called unto us that being at last returnd unto thee in weeping fasting and mourning and renting of our hearts we might be capable of thy returns to us of the further impressions of thy grace and never more contradict or quench or grieve that spirit of thine which hath thus long contended and wrestled with us that so it may be seasonable with thee to give us the comfort of thy help again and the confidence to approach thy presence to praise that Majesty which hath not cast out our prayer nor turned his mercy from us to whom be all honour power glory and praise now and for ever Amen O LORD the great and dreadfull God keeping Covenant and mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments we have finned with our forefathers We our Kings our Priests our Nobles and all the People of this Land and have Rebelled evâ—… by departing from thy Precepts and thy judgements BY our impious and godlesse thoughts of thee our confidences in the Arm of Flesh by placing our affections too much upon earthly things by neglecting to love and delight in thee by presuming of thy mercies and yet continuing in our sinâ—… we have provoked and Rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want of Reverence to thy Service not considering the awfulness of thy presence and that honour due to thee in thy house by our formall and hypocritical worship by open prophanation and sacriledge by shews and pretences of piety to cover our worldly and wicked designes we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By vain and rash Oaths blasphemies and perjuries especially our careless breaches of Oaths made to our Soveraign forgeting that such are the Oaths of God and that thou thy self in a more especiall manner art a strict avenger of them by our execrations of our selves our Brethren and our Enemies we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnes belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By undervaluing thy publick Service and neglecting to beaâ—… a part in it by mispending oâ—… that time either there or elsewhere in wanton or worldly thoughts and imployments and not keeping the spiritual Sabboth unto thee in serving thâ—… truly all the dayes of our life by not duely observing the times of Festivity or Fasting appointed by just Authority according to the example of thy people in all ages we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By not duely acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority in the persons of our Superiours by speaking evill of Dignities and reviling the Rulers of thy People by groundless jealousies and suspitions misjudging and censuring their actions and at last proceeding to that highest and horrid pitch of violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them By being as a People that strive with their Priests by not obeying them that have the rule over us and not submitting ourselves to them who by thy Appointment watch over our souls by neglecting the care of those committed to our charge not correcting those sins which have cryed loud for exemplary punishment We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By rash anger malice hatred and revenge and the bloody effects thereof by uncharitable contentions and divisions factions and animosities by cruelty and unmercifulness and communicating in the sins of blood We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By the manifold sins of uncleannesse by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof by idlenesse intemperance and drunkennesse by immodest words and gestures by our shamelesse boasting or not blushing at those sins We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By Thefts Rapines and Oppressions scandalizing thereby the Honour and Justice of a good Cause by vexatious suites so much practised and countenanced by exactions by unjust gains in bargaining by defrauding the labourer of his hire by want of due care in expending what we have and a good conscience in acquiring more We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By lying detraction and contumely by endeavouring to advantage a good Cause by falshood and unjust means by censuring and rash judgments by false Witnesse and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By desire of change and uncontentednesse in our Estates by giving ourselves over to lustfull covetous and inordinate affections by desiring Peace not so much for thine honour or the publique good as the
satisfaction of our own private lusts by neglecting acts of Charity and doing as we would be done to and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian duties of humiliation and godly sorrow for sins of due indignation and revenge upon ourselves for them of confessing and forsaking of restitution and satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By impatience under thy correcting hand by not endeavouring our amendment by it in reflecting upon our own sins as the Causes of it by despising thy chastisements in not rejoycing in tribulations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for righteousnesse sake We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By fretting ourselves because of the ungodly and being envious against the evill doers by not loving our enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us nor praying for those that despightfully use us and persecute us We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By presuming to do evill that good may come thereon by placing piety in opinion by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels in scrupling at things indifferent and making no conscience of known sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By running into open prophanesse under colour of avoiding superstition by guiding our conscience by humours and fancies and not by the certain rules of thy Law by having itching ears and heaping to our selves teachers and by having mens persons in admiration because of advantage We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from these and from our secret sins Try us O good God and search the ground of our hearts prove us and examine our thoughts and look well if thâ—…re be any other way of wickednesse in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer for forgiveness O Almighty and most mercifull Father who art the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity transgressions and sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes who are here before thee in the bitternesse of our soules and doe now with troubled spirits with broken and with contrite hearts most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the blood of thy sonne which speaks better things then that of Abell for his sake spare us Lord spare thy people that these sins rise not up against us for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruell hands who would both devoure and deride us R. Spare us Lord spare thy people for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull to all these our sins through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily ly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen O Lord open thou our lips And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen LAMENTATIONS out of Jeremy the Prophet LOok down O LORD in the Bowels of thy pitty and lend a tender ear unto the voice of our Lamentations Our Adversaries are the chief our enemies prosper For thou hast afflicted us for the multitude of our transgressions The Crown is fallen from the head wo unto us that we have sinned O Lord behold our afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself The Adversary hath spread out his hand upon all our pleasant things they have entred into and have prophaned thy sanctuaries They have seen us low and they have mocked at our Sabboaths our solemn feasts are become their scorn and our devotions their derision O Lord behold our afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thou art become our Enemy thou hast increased among us Mourning and Lamentation because thou hast despised in the indignation of thine anger both the King and the Priest See O Lord and consider for we are become very vile All our people sigh The yoak of our transgressions is bound by thy hand they are wreathed and come up upon our necks thou hast made our strength to faile thou hast delivered it into their hands from whom we are not able to rise up Thou hast troden us as in a Winepresse our enemies heare our trouble and they are glad thou hast done it Behold O Lord for we are in distresse Our bowels are troubled our heart is turned within us for we have grievously Rebelled abroad the sword devoureth at home there is 〈◊〉 death Our enemies have opened their mouth against us they hiss and they gnash their Teeth they say We have swallowed them up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it Thus are we in derision all the day long Wee are become their Song and their Musick O Lord behold our afflictions fâ—… the enemy hath magnified himself They have cryed unto us depart ye ye are unclean depart depart touch not yea theâ—… men have said they shall no more soâ—…ourn here O Lord behold our afflictions for the enemy hath magnified himself The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is taken in their pits and slaughtered by their hands of whom yet we said under his shadow we shall live among the midst of these sad distractions O Lord behold this and behold our afflictions for the enemy hath very highly magnified himself Thus do we call to minde our afflictions and our miseries the Wormwood and the Gall our souls have them in remembrace and they are humbled in us and therefore have we hope It is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed because his compassions faile not They are new every morning great is his faithfulnesse For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his Mercies For he doth not afflict willingly nor
evill work hath not been erecuted speedily the hearts 〈◊〉 this people are wholy set in thâ—… to doe evill this respite which thou hast given us to work oâ—… Repentance hath served onâ—… to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to 〈◊〉 former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear our voice and if that finall sentence be not irreversibly gone 〈◊〉 against us be pleased yet to turn thy wrath away and not to suffer thy whole displeasure to arise To this end thou O Lord who breakest the gates of brasse and smitest the bars of Iron in â—…der be thou pleased to rend these unrelenting hearts of ourâ—… to work in every one of us such a sense of our horrid abominations especially that of this day as may cast us down in the lowest degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that so we may be capable of that exaltation which thou hast promised to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. O Lord God that rulest over all the Kingdomes of the earth that hast threatned that for the sinnes of the Land the Kings thereof should be many and hast told us that if we doe wickedly we should be consumed both we and our King We miserable and wretched sinners do here in the bitternesse of our soul â—…ostrate our selves before thy Throne of Grace acknowledging against our selves that we have made thee to serve with our sins and wearied thee with our iniquities so that in the fiercenesse of thine anger thou hast wounded us with the wound of an enemy and chastised us with the chastisement of a oruel one for in the indignation of thy fury thou hast despised the King and the Priest Wo unto us that we have sinned the Crown is fallen from our Head and the beauty of our Israel is slain by the hands of wicked men Thou hast suffered the Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord to be taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall have Peace and Protection The fire out of the Bramble hath devoured the lofty Cedars the Base are risen up against the Honourale the Subjects against their King whom after much contumelious usage forgetting the Oath of God their own Covenant their own Protestation and their often reiterated Vows to preserve his Person Crown and Dignity and all this with their hands lifted up to thee our God of Truth have yet brought him as a Lamb to the slaughter and with wicked hands hâ—… murdered thy Vice-gerent 〈◊〉 though he had not been anointed with oyle A wonderfull and horrible sin is committed in the Land over passing the deeds of the wicked a sin that no Nation no people ever committed and such as the Sun never saw since it withdrew its light at the Passion of thy dear Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Other Rebels have murdered Kings but as it was in it self a deed of darknesse so they acted thâ—… sin in darknesse shunning the light But this Paricide 〈◊〉 committed with a high hand presumptuously in the fight of the Sun and owned as an Act of Justice The cry of this Innocent blood of a righteous King of our own King a King too good for so wicked a People is entered into thy presence and cals loud to thee for vengeance upon this whole Nation so that we may justly expect that thou shouldest â—…ot us and our posterity out of this Land which is made an abomination stained polluted with the blood of thine Anointed Servant and Martyr But the Judge of all the earth will not destroy the Innocent with the Guilty for though our sins are many and grievous yet in our tears we will wash our hands from this sin saying our hands have not shed this blood And therefore when thou shalt make inquisition for blood lay not we beseech thee this blood to our Charge Be mercifull O Lord be mercifull unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and let not this Innocent blood be required neither of us nor of our Posterity For as before this great wickednesse was committed we prayed against it and in our Devotions entred our Protestation in Heaven before thee against so impious so hâ—… lish Resolutions of the bloody Assassinates So since these sons of Belial have brought their mischievous imaginations to passe for which our soules are wounded and humbled within us we do from our hearts detest this Damnable Parricide and doe from our souls renounce this abhorred Murder of thine Anomted Servant our late Soveraigne King Charls Saying with Iacob O my soul come not thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they have slain a man the best of men the Lords Anointed Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel yea we wil yet pray against their wickednes for now they go on to strengthen one wickednesse with another They Decree unrighteous Decrees and write grievous things which they have prescribed thereby to establish wickedness by a Law to remove the bounds of the People and destroy the very Foundations But O thou preserver of men and God of all order blast all their designes which tend to nothing but Anarchy and Confusion and destruction and scandal of the Christian Religion but let all their turning of things upside down be esteemed as the Potters clay Let it be in thy sight as the Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram and now O Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh let not the Congregation of the Lord be as sheep which have no shepheard Though our breach be great like the sea yet thou canst heal it Be mercifull we beseech thee to these three Kingdomes united under one Crown by establishing the King in his Fathers Throne Plead thou his cause and that thou mayest give rest unto the Land make his wâ—… prosperous direct all his Coâ—… sels and Crown all his Designâ—… with success raise him up frieâ—… abroad and at home turn 〈◊〉 hearts of the People to their Soveraigne upon whom we 〈◊〉 seech thee to double the Gâ—… and Graces of his Father as tâ—… didst the spirit of Elijah on 〈◊〉 sha Cloath him with Majâ—… Power that he may subdue 〈◊〉 Rebellious and appear terrible to thine and his Enemies that so he may restore the daily Sâ—…crifice thy publique Worship 〈◊〉 Service relieve the Oppressâ—… and bring the punishment of tâ—… Innocent blood of his Father upon those Murderers that shed it as water spilt upon the ground Hasten O Lord by him to restore Peace and Righteousnesse Truth and Equity Let them kiss each other under his
government O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end but guide thou the just Give O Lord rest from our fears 〈◊〉 from our sorrows and from â—…he oppressions under which we â—…n Let thine hand O Lord 〈◊〉 â—…own towards thy servants â—…nd thine indignation towards â—…hine and the Kings Enemies 〈◊〉 down O Lord from heaâ—… and behold from the habiâ—…tion of thy holinesse and of thy glory restraine not we beâ—… thee thy zeale nor thy strength nor the soundings of thy Bowels and of thy Mercies â—…rds us Heare us O Lord 〈◊〉 King of Heaven when we câ—…l upon thee and grant our 〈◊〉 and that for Jesus Christ sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen IV. BLessed Lord in whose fight the death of thy Saints 〈◊〉 most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull 〈◊〉 â—…ions of thy Grace on our 〈◊〉 Martyred Soveraigne which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignitiâ—… and at last resisting even 〈◊〉 blood and even then pursuiâ—… that glorious Pattern and praâ—…ing for his Murtherers Let 〈◊〉 Memory O Lord be ever bleâ—… among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he follow'd Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry hiâ—… Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandall of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen V. O Just and Righteous Judge who didst once for the inquity of thy People Israel give up thy Ark into the hands of the Philistines We thy sinfull Creatures that are now under as great a degree both of guilt and punishment doe here cast our selves down before thee acknowledging that we are not worthy any longer to retain the honour of Christian Profession that have so long defamed it by enormous Practises and that we who loved darknesse more then light deserve to have our Candlestick removed and to be given up to that â—…undation of Atheism and Prophanenesse which now invades this gasping Church yet O Lord deale not with us after our sins but turn thee again thou Lord of Hosts look down from heaven behold and visite this Vine do not abhor us for thy names-sake do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy People though a rebellious and stiff-necked generation yet thy name is called upon us leave us not neither forsake us O Lord God of our salvation but though thou feed us with bread of Adversity and water of Affliction yet let not our Teachers be removed into a corner but let our eyes see our Teachers let not Sion complain that she hath none to lead her by the hand among all the Sons that she hath brought up but provide her such supports in this her declining Condition that she may have a seed and Remnant left And in what degree soever thou shalt permit this storm to encrease upon this poor Church be pleased proportionably to fortifie and confirm all those that are Members of it that no one may be shaken or moved with these Afflictions nor pervert that glorious advantage of suffering for thee into an occasion of Apostatizing from thee But that we may all run with patience the race that is set before us and cheerfully partake of the Afflictions of the Gospel that in suffering for Christ here we may reign with him for ever hereafter and all for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designes of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remaine upon his Head and upon his Seed for evermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our Cry come unto thee VI. O Lord God of Hosts who didst deliver David thy servant from the perill of the Sword Hear us we beseech thee most miserable sinners who do here poure out our souls before thee intirely desiring the protection of thy hand upon thy Servant the King let him finde safety under the shadow of thy wings and preserve his Person as the Apple of thine own Eye Suffer not that Sword which thou hast put into his Hands to be wrested out by the hand of man but blesse his Counsels with successe and his enterprises with Victory that he may become a terrour to all those that oppose him and as the dew of the latter rain upon the hearts of all those that do still continue loyall to him And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner spare mercifull Lord spare a great though most sinfull Nation pitty a despised Church and a distracted State heale those wounds which our sins have made so wide that none but thine own hands can close them and in the tendernesse of thine unspeakable compassion hasten to put so happy an end to these wasting Divisions that thy service may be more duly celebrated thine Anointed more conscienciously obeyed that the Church may be restored to a true Christian Unity and the Kingdome to its former Peace And that for his sake who is the Prince of peace and that shed his precious blood to purchase our peace even Jesus Christ the righteous to whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit be all Honour and Glory world without end Amen VI. O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Governour of all that hast for our sins and provocations given us to drink of a most bitter astonishing cup and demonstrated by thy late proceedings with us how inexorable thou art towards us who have been so obstinate and obdurate toward thee that would not hear in that our Day the things belonging to our peace and now they are hid from our eyes We those wretched Creatures of thine do yet desire to adore and prostrate our soules before thee to put our hands upon our mouthes and our mouths into the Dust and acknowledge all Honour and Glory to be due unto thee whatsoever becomes of us Though to these amazing Calamities thou shouldest yet super-add thy fire and Brimstone from Heaven and all the horrors of astonished hearts and the eternal Worm and Flames the due portion of the damned in Hell O Lord thou art most just in all thy judgments and infinitely merciful that we live to call upon thee this day O that these sharp last necessary methods of thine may at length prove
successefull on these thy gasping forlorn patients that thy great work of recovery and change the cleansing of our polluted leprous souls may be effectually wrought upon us by this hand of thine Lord save us from these sad effects by a powerfull removall of the Cause or else we certainly perish To this end O Lord we resigne our selves up to thy divine Methods be they the sharpest that thou seest necessary to dispense to us we desire to embrace them cheerfully and not to interpose any thought of ours in contradiction to thy most safe most medicinable prescriptions It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good not ours but thy sacred will be done Be it unto us according to thy good pleasure In the mean time Lord permit us to intercede for others that are not worthy to pray for our selves O let the sorrowfull sighing of the poore of the oppressed and there is no Comforter let the black gloomy Calamities that are fallen upon him that is more worth then ten thousand of us come before thee Let thy Protection still continue unto him if it be thy sacred Will Thy Host of guardian Angels that once appeared in the Mount the Horses and Charriots round about Elisha environ and surround that sacred Head and by thine own wayes and means and in thine own season restore him with out the effusion of any more blood to his Fathers Crown Thron And Lord that it might yet be an acceptable time a season wherein thou mightest be accessible to our Prayers which we offer up in great Humility for thy poore wasted disconsolate Church amongst us That thou wouldest repair her breaches restore her dayes as of old that thou wouldest arise and have mercy upon Sion and Compassionate to see her in the Dust Lord where is thy Pitty And the sounding of the Bowels thy zeale to the place where thy rest dwelleth Will the Lord absent himself for ever And will he be no more entreated Are his mercies clean gone for ever and his promises come utterly to an end for evermore Lord remember thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth Arise O Lord and come into thy Rest thou and the Ark of thy strength But if these Calamities and Desolations must still go on and advance to the height of an irremediable ruine yet O Lord intermix thy sweet and Comfortable Allays with this bitter Cup Take us into thine immediate hand of Protection and Guidance sanctifie all thy methods unto us and by the same omnipotent work whereby thou bringest a most glorious light out of the blackest darknesse be pleased to produce all thy Divinest good things out of the saddest evils and if it may yet be thy blessed will to work the same work by the return of thy Mercies which the continuance of thy punishments is wont to be assigned for And Lord receive us all under the safe guard of thy Divine Presence the pillar of fire and Cloud to cover and direct us That in every turn of thy hand we may see and admire thy glorious and gracious Disposals and by the happy experience that even this also is to us for good we may be for ever engaged to ascribe unto thee all Honour and Glory and render unto thee the uniform obedience of our hearts world without end Amen Amen VIII O Most gracious Lord God the Creator of all things but of men and all mankinde a tender Compassionate Father in Jesus Christ Thou that hast enlarged thy designes and purposes of Grace and mercy as the Bowels and blood-shedding of thy Son with an earnest desire that every weak or sinfull man should partake of that Abiss that infinite treasure of thy Bounty Thou that hast bequeathed unto us that Legacy and Example of a sacred inviolable Peace a large diffusive Charity we meekly beseech thee to overshadow with thy heavenly grace the souls of all men over all the world O Lord thou lover of soules to bring home to the acknowledgment and embraces of thy Son all that are yet strangers to that profession and in whatsoever any of us who have already received that mercy from thee may be any way usefull or instrumentall to that so glorious an end to direct and encline our hearts towards it to work in us all an holy zeale to thy Name and tender Bowels to all those whose eternity is concern'd in it O give us a true serious full comprehension and value of that one great Interest of others as well as of our selvâ—… shew us the meanest of us some way to contribute towards it if it be but our daily affectionate Prayers for the enlarging of thy Kingdome and the care of approving all our Actions so as may most effectually attract all others to this profession And for all those that have already that glorious name of thy Son called upon them blessed Lord that they may at length according to the many Engagements of their profession depart from iniquity That that holy City that new Ierusalem may at length according to thy promise descend from Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Christ That that Tabernacle of God with men may be illustriously visible among us that we may be a peculiar People and thou inhabiting in power among us That we which have so long professed thee may no longer be content with that form of knowledge which so often engenders strife contentions animosities separating from and condemning one another and that most unchristian detestable guilt of blood but endeavour and earnestly contend for the uniform effectuall practise of all the precepts of thy Son the Fruit and Power of Godlinesse That all the People and Princes of Christendom the Pastors and Sheep of thy fold may at length in some degree walk worthy of that light and warmth that knowledge of those graces that the Sun of righteousness with healing on his wings hath so long poured out upon us Lord purge and powerfully work out of all our hearts that prophanenesse and Atheisticalnesse those sacrilegious thirsts and enormous violations of all that is holy those Unpeaceable Rebellious Mutinous and withall Tyrannizing cruell spirits those prides and haughtinesses judgeing and condemning defaming and despising of others those unlimited ambitions and covetings joyned with the Invasion violation of others rights those most reproachfull excesses and abominable impurities which to the shame of our unreformed obdurate hearts do still remain unmortified unsubdued among us but above all those infamous Hypocrisies of stiborning Religion to be the Engine of advancing our secular designes or the disguise to conceale the foulest intentions of bringing down that most sacred name whereby we should be saved to be the vilest instrument of all Carnalities And by the power of thy controwling Spirit Lord humble and subdue all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ And when thou hast cast out so many evill spirits be thou pleased thy self to possesse and enrich our souls to
plant and root and confirm and secure in us all those precious fruits of Piety and Faith and Obedience and Zeal towards thee of Purity and Meeknesse and Simplicity and Contentednesse and Sobriety in our selves of Justice and Charity and Reaceablenesse and Bowels of Mercy and Compassion towards all others That having seriously and Industriously as our Holy Vocation engageth us used all Diligence to add unto our Faith Virtue and to Virtue patience and Perseverance in all Christian Practise we may adorn that Profession which we have thus long depraved and having had our Fruits unto Holynesse we may attain our End ever asting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen IX O Long suffering and eternal King that for the Condemnation that for sin came into the World wert lifted up upon the Cross and taken from this earth by that shamefull death and hast shewed forth thy self to all that Chuse to follow thy stepps a Pattern and Copy of long-sufferance and Patience and offeredst up thy Intercession tothy Coeternal Father for those Enemies of God which Crucified Thee Do thou O Lord Thou the same Lover of Mankind afford thy Mercy and pardon to all those that are Enemies to us which either by Treachery or Reproach or Contumely or Envy or by any other means through the subtilty of Calumny of the Devil that lover of Hatred have expressed their Madness or Malice against us But especially those that have embrued their hands in the blood of thine Anointed Father forgive them for they know not what they do Lord lay not this sin to their Charge or to the Charge of a sinfull wretched People Change thou their Counsels from that mischievous to a sweet Christian temper of gentleness infuse into their hearts sincere and unfeigned Love bind them fast to us in the inviolable Bands of Spiritual friendship and by what means thou knowest most fit make them Partakers of eternal Life and O thou Father of Compassions pitty all those afflicted that trust in Thee draw all to the divine love of thee be thou president in all things and assistant to all together with us thy sinful and unprofitable Servants and make us all Heirs of thy Kingdom for unto Thee it belongeth to shew Mercy and to save us O our God for thine is the Power for ever Amen X. O Lord We beseech thee Mercifully Hear our Prayers and spare all those which Confess their sins unto thee that They whose Consciences by sin are accused by thy Mercifull Pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord Amen XI O Most mighty God and Mercifull Father which hast Compassion on all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made which wouldest not the Death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our Trespasses receive and Comfort us which are grieved with the Burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have Mercy to thee only pertaineth to forgive sins spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into Judgment with thy servants which are vile earth and Miserable sinners but so turn thine ire from us which meekly acknowledge our Vilenesse and truly repent us of our Faults so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen XII TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy People which turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying for thou art 〈◊〉 Merciful God long-suffering and of great pitty Thou sparest when we deserve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy spare thy people O Lord spare them and let not thine Heritage be brought to nought Hear us O Lord for thy Mercy is great and after the Multitude of thy mercies look upon us through Iesâ—… Christ our Lord Amen XIII O Lord the only begotten Son Jesus Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the world have Mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our Prayers Thou that sittest at the Right hand of God the Father have Mercy upon us for thou only art holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father Amen The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your Hearts and Minds in the Knowledge and Love of God and his Son Iesus Christ our Lord. And the Blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you alwayes Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day besel us in thy permitting cruel men sons of â—…eliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes sore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitude of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial then to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merfull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our vifitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may
which for our evill deeds are worthily punished by the Comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen X. ALmighty God we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy Family for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked men and to suffer death upon the Cross who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XI ALmighty and Everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified receive our supplications and prayers which We offer up before thee for all eâ—…ates of Men in thy holy congregation that every member of the same in his vocation and Ministery may truly and godly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XII Assist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants toward the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen XIII ALmighty God which hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to Us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto Thee and grant that those things which We have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the Justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day befell us in thy permitting cruel men sons of Beliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Mur der of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes fore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitudes of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and mercifull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our visitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and desires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread before thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and will send deliverance to his people in their needfull time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and patiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may
O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thine Inheritance which thou hast purchased and Redeemed of old Lift up thy feet that thou mayst utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done Evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the caâ—…ed Works thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether And thus have they designed to ruin all the Houses of God in the land But O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God maintain thine own Cause Remember how the Foolish man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the soul of thy Turtle Dove into their Hands For the Presumption of them that hate Thee increaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us II. O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that Prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us plenteousnesse of Tears to drink O Turn us again Thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that Thou didst once plant a Vine amongst us And when it had taken Root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the shadow of it and the Boughs thereof were like the Goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her Hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Boar of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall â—…ll upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us III. HOld not thy Tongue O God keep not still silence Refrain not thy self O God For â—…o Thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate Thee have lift up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken Counsell against thy secret ones Behold they have cast their heads together with one Consent and are Confederate against Thee They have said Come let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about 〈◊〉 like Water and compasse us on every side But O my God make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind Who say Let us take unto Our selves the Houses of God in Possession O make their Faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek Thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us IV. O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad Thou hast been displeased at us O Turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn Thy People heavy things and given us a Drink of Deadly Wine Thou hast made us to turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate Us spoil our Goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laugh'd to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget Thee nor â—…ave our selves frowardly in Thy Coâ—…ant Our heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy Way No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of Death Up Lord Why sleepest thou Awake and be not absent from Us for ever But O why hidest Thou Thy Face and forgettest our Misery and Trouble For our soul is brought low even unto the Dust and our Belly â—…eaveth unto the ground Arise help us and deliver us for Thy Mercies sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken Thine Anointed and art displeased with him For Lo Thou hast broken the Covenant of thy servant and cast his Crown to the Ground Thou hast overthrown all his Hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and hast cast his Throne down to the Ground The Dayes of his Youth hast Thou seasoned with Bitternesse and covered him with dishonor But Lord how long wilt thou â—…ide thy self for Ever and shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that Thy Servant hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the Rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be clothed with sham But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save Him O Lord make haste to help Him Jeremiah's Lamentations Propheticall of these Times HOw hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his anger and cast down from Heaven unto Earth the Beauty of Israel and remembred not his Footstool in the Day of his Wrath For Lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy He hath swallowed us up and hath not pittied He hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Palaces He hath caused our solemn Feastâ—… and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his ' Fury He hath poured out his fierce Anger He hath kindled such a Fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the sins of the Prophets and and the Iniquities of the Priests who have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her For the Breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits Of whom we said under his shadow shall we live in Peace But we have Transgressed and Rebelled and Thou hast not pardoned And therefore our eyes have as yet failed in our vain help For in our Watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and Consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord Thou hast seen his Wrong Judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard all their Reproach O Lord and all their Imaginations against him The lips of thos that have risen up against him and their Devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him II. REmember O Lord what
satisfied with the blood already spilt among us but standest thou still â—…ith a sword upon thine Altar Must Aarons rod be suffered to â—…ther in thine own house in thine 〈◊〉 sight while Corah's and Daâ—…han's do bud and blossom Canst thou O God look on and see the golden pot ravish'd from thine own Tabernacle Canst thou endure to be in the Temple and see those Lights of the Sanctuary put out which thou thy self hast light up Wilt thou suffer the Labourers to be driven out of thy own Vineyard after their working so long there by thy Divine appointment Shall thy House of Prayer become at length a den of Theives and thou thy self stand by as unconcernd whilst they rob thee of thine Honour Thou that saidst to the waves be ye still wilt thou suffer the winds to arise the contrary winds of false Doctrine and to blow against this Ship which thy self hast so long been inâ—… wilt thou sleep in the Ship while thy Disciples are cast over board Lord carest thou noâ—… we perish When shall thy Ministers takâ—… down their Harps from the Wilâ—… upon which they hang. When shall they be permitted openly to sing the Lordâ—… song though in this strangâ—… Land When O when shall we see the Ark of God to return back from the House of Dagon and David dancing before it When wilt thou open the mouths of thine own Zacharias's the Priests of the Lord that were called to wait upon thee at thine Altar but who are now struck dumb from ofâ—…ating before thee When wilt thou extend merâ—… into us in the sight of those â—…at hate us who are set over us 〈◊〉 give us a reviving to set up the â—…ouse of God and to repair â—…he Desolations thereof and to give a Wall in Iudah and in Ieâ—…salem When shall we accompany the Tribes even the Tribes of the Lord unto the Lords House there to testifie unto Israel to give thanks unâ—… the Name of the Lord for the â—…ation of our Religion in the 〈◊〉 of so many fiery trialls and the restauration of our Liberties afâ—…r so sharp a captivity When Lord shall we be allowed to eat bread again freely in thy House yea though it be but to gather the â—…rums that fall from our Masters table How long shall it be ere thou bid 〈◊〉 look with joy vpon Zion the Citty of our Solemnities as thou didst bid thy People the Jews When wilt thou comfort us and say your eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken O how amiable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into thy Courts and to go unto thine Altars But Lord It is not for us to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his own Power And therefore I desire humbly to submit the successe of all our Prayers and Supplications of our actions and sufferings together with the time of our deliverance unto thy sole pleasure earnestly beseeching thee for thy Grace which is alone sufficient for us that we may cheerfully wait upon thee without thinking thy stay too long till thou have mercy â—…on us The Lord our God is a God of â—…compences and shall surely requitâ—…â—…r Enemies But The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Lawgiver the Lord is our King he will save us Thou art the Lord and therefore Lord even when thou pleasest and what thou pleasest Not our time but thy time Not our way but thy way Not our Will but thy Will be done Thy Will be done in Earth as it is Heaven Amen A Prayer for the Church 〈◊〉 England O Lord look down in mercy and compassion upon oâ—… dear Mother the afflicted Church of England to whose breasts thou hast applyed us And grant that we may draw from thence neither blood nor wind but the sincere milk of thy word of an holy Conversation Behold Lord she is none of those Mothers which are for the dividing of their children O preserve thou her children that they also may none of them be for the dividing of their Mother Make her yet once more happy in a Moses and an Aaron in nursing Fathers to go in and out before this People and holy Ministers to stand before thee our God and suffer not â—…e sins of this Nation to be â—…onger to pull down the walls â—…our Sion and Ierusalem then â—…s thy goodness and mercy to â—…ild them up again O that this Church of England â—…ay live in thy sight For which end behold her Priests how they keep silence even from good words which is pain and grief unto them and are denied even a place between the Porch and the Altar though only to weep there for the sparing of the Temple Behold her Virgins how they 〈◊〉 least for want of a Vision the People perish and her Widdows 〈◊〉 they make Lamentation to see Iudgement begin so severely at the House of God Behold how she her self like another Racheb weeps for her children because they are not because they are not suffered to comfort their own Mother and to defend her from all such whâ—… mock at her Sabbaths and sâ—… lemn Feasts and make her seâ—… vice and Devotions their deâ—… sion and scorn O Lord behold her Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified him self against her See O Lord and considerâ—… for she is become very vile But we trust by how much she iâ—… become vile in the eyes of man she shall be the more precious in the sight of thee her God And though others set light by her blood yet thou hast promised not to despise her team especially when thou thy self hast washed them in the blood of thy Son O therefore we beseech thee put thou her Tears in thy bottle and let not her sighs and her groans seem little in thy sight Accept of those Humiliations and graciously answer the Prayers which are offered up in secret for her Visit O visit her in Mercy and Compassion now after the time that thou hast afflicted her and for the many years wherein she hath suffered Adversity Let that purple Robe of mockery wherewith first thy self wert clad and now of late this Church of thine be changed at length into garments of joy and gladnesse Let that Crown of thorns which was taken from thy Temples and platted upon hers be now taken from both and crown her instead thereof with Roses out of her own Sharon Let the Print of the nails in thy hands and feet be as the Balm of Gilead to heal and close up the wounds which are made in hers And let the hole in thy precious side be a safe hiding-place and Sanctuary till this
heart are in larged Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them are a burden too heavy for us to bear And therefore in the anguish and bitternesse of our souls we return unto thee humbly beseeching thee in whom alone is our help to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants O shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter How long O Lord holy and true doest thou forbear to command deliverances Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old and save us as thou hast done heretofore Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for verigeance O then hearken unto the voice of thy Sons blood which speaks better things behold the Lamb of God who was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities And to this end regard the sincerity of thine Anointed maintain thine own cause and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him bind his soul in the bundle of life let mercy and truth preserve him and let his Throne be established for ever before thee Blesse them that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land And as for those that have risen up against him we beseech thee melt and mollifie their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love reclaim them to obedience lay not their sin to their charge but guide their feet into the way of Peace Give to those that have done wrong the grace to repent and to those that have suffered wrong minds ready to forgive And if any shall be averse from Peace O thou that art the wonderfull Counsellor turn their wisdome into foolishness confound their practises and let their mischief return upon their own heads And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands give 〈◊〉 grace to embrace it with all thankfulnesse to obey our Governours to live at unity among our selves evermore blessing thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Collects I. LOrd raise up we pray thee thy power and come amongst us and with great might succor us that where as through our sins and wickednesse we be sore let and hindred thy bountifull grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honour and glory world without end Amen II. ALmighty and everlasting God which dost govern all things in heaven and earth mercifully hear the supplications of thy people and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our afflictions and in all our dâ—…ngers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen IV. GOd who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailnesse we cannot alwayes stand uprightly Grant to us the health of body and soul that all those things which we suffer for sin by thy help we may well passe and overcome through Christ our Lord Amen V. O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy People that we which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the Glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth world without end Amen VI. LOrd We beseech thee to keep thy Church and houshold continually in the true Religion that they which do leane only on thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VII WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VIII GOd the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporall that we finally lose not things eternall Grant this Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord Amen XI LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitty cleanse and defend thy congregation and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Certain additionall Prayers In the time of War O Almighty God who art high above all Nations and whose glory is above the Heavens the comfortable successe of all enterprises is from thee onely to be looked for Thou art he which givest victory unto Kings to thee it is all one to save by many or few thou canst make one to chase a thousand thou canst cause the hearts even of the most valiant to melt their hands to be weak their minds to faint and their knees to fall away like water If thou fight for us we cannot miscarâ—…y If thou favour us not we must needs be discomfited O be gracious unto us and be on our side now that men are risen up against us They take crafty Counsell against thy Church and consult how to cut us off from being a Nation and by what means to quench the light of thy Truth which hath shined in our streets Their desire is to imbrue their hands in blood and to advance their own ambition by our overthrow O turn their Counsels into foolishness Let not their mischeivous imaginations prosper lest they be too proud O our God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde Scatter the People that delight in War Go out O Lord with our Armies give wisdom and courage to our Captains gird them with strength unto the battell be with our Souldiers teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight Assist all the Consultations prosper the Policies crown those enterprises with good successe which are undertaken for the common good and comfort of the Weal-publique Doubtless O Lord we have deserved thine anger and our sins do cry loud in thine ears for vengeance and it were but just with thee if thou shouldst make us a prey and â—…spoil unto our Enemies But O Gracious God let us now fall into thy hands for thy mercies are great and let us not fall into the hands of men whose displeasure at us is not for our sins but for our Profession and Religions sake and that they may fill their own inlarged and insatiable desire with those blessings of wealth which thou hast given us Put therefore thy hook into their nostrills and
bring them back by the same way they came Let it appear that thou art in the midst of us and that we shall not be moved That thou wilâ—… help us and that very early Let there be no invasion no going out nor no crying in our streets But set thou Peace in our Borders Make strong the bars of our gates especially let the Gospel of thy Son sound yet lowder among us that by it many Souls may be gathered unto thee So we thy People and thâ—… sheep of thy Pasture shall praise thee for ever and from Generation to Generation we will set forth thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Souldier O Lord it is thy glory to be called The Lord of Hosts and it is thou alone from whom when men have made their most politick and puissant preparations the victory must be looked for Draw my heart I beseech thee from all relying upon my own valour or upon the strength of the battail in which I stand and teach me to look upward and to wait and trust only upon thee Thou givest conquest and thou givest courage thou deliverest from the perill of the Sword or else makest death a means of happinesse to thy servants Forgive my sins I pray thee and assure me of pardon by the witnesse of thy Spirit that the guilt thereof make not my heart to tremble within me and to behold death as a messenger to convey me into hell If thou O Lord bee on my side peace being made betwixt thee and my soul through Christ what can be against me what hazard can befall my soul Nothing shall be able to deprive me of thy love Let not spoil or blood or mine own advancement be the ends of mine attempts but make me to aim only at thy glory in the defence of thy truth and in the good and safety of the Kingdome wherein I live The issue of all things to thee O Lord is known but to man it is hidden Prepare me therefore indifferently to whatsoever shall befall me If I die give me comfort in my last breathing and take my soul into thy gracious hand If I be taken captive give me patience give me wisdom and godly courage to do nothing contrary to the honour of my Country or prejudicial to the profession of a faithfull Christian If I return with life and victory make me thankfull Keep me from taking from thee any part of thy glory Preserve me from those riotous lascivious and blaspheming courses which are the usuall fruits of good successe let me not think devotion to be an enemy to resolution or that a religious fear of thy Majesty doth abate the spirit that should be in a Souldier but settle me in this that the assurance of a lawfull cause the hope and confidence of a better life by the merits of Christ the care to please thee and to depend upon thy power are the only true grounds of valour which can give a man boldnesse and life in the day of battel Vouchsafe me these and all other needfull favours in and for Christ Jesus sake Amen A Prayer upon the strange revolution on the twenty first of February 1659. when the formerly secluded Members were readmitted into the House of Commons O Most mighty God who sittest upon the Cherubims be the people never so impatient and after thine own counsells governest all that is done among the children of Men. We most humbly confess that it is for our sins that thou hast so often changed thy rod and brought such variety of confusions upon us that all the world stands a gaze to see what will become of such a people that will not see the things that belong unto their peace But O gracious God though we forget our selves forget not thou thine own goodnesse for there is yet time for mercy and such an expedient left as may cure all our wounds and close up all our divisions by restoring him who was once designed by thee to be the common Father of us all though we like rebellious children have disdainfully cast him from us And as thou hast begun already to shew some glimmerings of our future happiness by unexpectedly dissolving the Assembly of those Achitophels who by their dark counsels have so long obstructed it so go on we most earnestly beg of thee and let not the sins of this wretched Nation hinder thee from compleating what thou hast for thine own glory so wonderfully begun Work powerfully upon the minds of all that are any wayes concerned in the redeeming of our peace Give them but as much honest courage to do right as they have formerly shewn in acting all those mischiefs that have been done among us O plead the cause of an oppressed KING strenghthen the hands and hearts of all that appear for him direct his counsels prosper his enterprizes make his very enemies to be at peace with him and when thou shalt vouchsafe to us our former happiness both in Church and State give us then thankfull hearts to imbrace it as a blessing from thy hands alone who hast wrought these great wonders for us for Iesus Christ's sake Amen A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament April 25. 1660. O Most great most wise and most powerfull Lord God in whose hands are the hearts of all men and turned them as thou doest the rivers of waters Shew thy power and come among us and be present at this great meeting when after so many years of confusion there 's once more a consultation had to settle this distracted Church and Nation and as there is nothing hid from thee who seest the very thoughts and ends and divided interests of them that meet together so there is nothing so impossible to thee but that thou canst by the hidden workings of thy Providence unite what thou findest divided and oversway every counsell and design and every imagination that shall set it self against thee Let there be no root of bitternesse among them which are intrusted in this great work no thoughts of revenge No Ambition of making themselves great no particular or separate interest of their own but instead of these give them bowels of compassion towards their bleeding and expiring Country strike a sense into them of the blood already shed and the desolation yet to come if they prevent it not And let thy fear run through all their consultations that remembring the sad account which in the last great day will be required of them they may unanimously set themselves to find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of joy and peace into our dwellings in such a way as may be most for the glory of thy great Name the righting of those that are opprest and the setling of the happinesse of this Church and Nation upon the right basis of that former government from which it hath stood so long so unhappily divided And â—…his as being neither impossible to thy