the Lord in the beautie of Holinesse ¶ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters the God of glory thundreth the Lord is upon many waters * The voice of the Lord is powerfull the voice of the Lord is full of Majesty ¶ The voice of the Lord maketh the hindes to calve and discovereth the forests and in his temple doth every man speake of his glory * Be glad in the Lord and rejoyce ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in Heart ¶ For this God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide unto death Glory be to the Father c. Then read a lesson out of one of the four Gospells or the Acts of the Holy Apostles in order or by choice upon extraordinary occasions After which recite one of these following Psalmes * THe mighty God even the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going downe thereof ¶ Out of Sion the perfection of beauty God hath shined * Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him ¶ He shall call to the heavens from above to the Earth that he may Judge his people * And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is Judge himselfe ¶ His Name shall endure for ever his name shall be continued as long as the Sun and men shall be blessed in him all Nations shall call him blessed * Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things ¶ And blessed be his Glorious Name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or this to be said especially on Communion daies Psalme 23. * THe Lord is my Shepherd I shal not want ¶ He maketh me to lie down in Green pasture he leadeth me beside the still waters * He restoreth my soule he leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his Names sake ¶ Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me * Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oyle my cup runneth over ¶ Surely goodnesse and mercy shall follow me all the daies of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever Glory be to the Father c. Then say the Apostles Creed or the Nicene creed if it be a great festival of the Church 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 borne of the Virgin Mary * suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried * He descended into hell * The third day he rose againe from the dead * He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty * From thence he shall come to judge the quicke and the Dead * I believe in the holy Ghost * The holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints * the forgivenesse of sins * the resurrection of the body * and the life everlasting Amen The Nicene Creed to be said upon the great Solemnities of the yeare I Beleive in one God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father by whom al things were made who for us men for our salvation came downe from heaven and was incarnate by the holy Ghost of the virgin Mary and was made man and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried and the third day he rose againe according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father And he shall come againe with glory to judge both the quick the dead whose kingdome shall have no end And I beleive in the holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified whospake by the Prophets And I believe one Catholique and Apostolique Church I acknowledge one Baptisme for the remission of sins And I looke for the resurrection of the Dead and the life of the world to come Amen After the Creed Minister The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Let us Pray 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 that trespasse against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen I. O Great King of heaven and earth the Lord and patron of all ages receive thy servants approaching to the throne of grace in the Name of Jesus Christ give unto every one of us what is best for us cast out all evill from within us work in us a fulnesse of holinesse of wisedome and spiritual understanding that we increasing in the knowledge of God may be fruitfull in every Good worke through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The collect for the morning II. O Almighty Father great God of all the world who dwellest in the light to which no man can approach in thy presence there is no night in the light of thy countenance there is perpetuall day We thy servants whom thou hast preserved this night who blesse and glorifie thee this day who live by thy power who desire to walk by thy lawes to be blessed by thy providence to be defended by thy Almighty hand humbly pray unto thee that this day and all the daies of our lives may be holy and peaceable send thy holy spirit the spirit of peace to be the guide of our waie the guard of our soules and bodies Grant that all the chances and accidents of this day may be healthfull to our bodies and profitable to our soules and that we may spend the remaining portion of our life in blessing and peace and holinesse Make thou the latter end of our daies to be Christian without shame without torment and when we shall appeare before thy dreadfull seat of Judgement grant that we may not be confounded but may stand upright in the congregation of the Saints acquitted by the death of Christ justified by his resurrection pardon'd by his sentence saved by his mercy that we may rejoyce in his salvation and sing thy praises for ever and ever
but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them ¶ But I will declare for ever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. * For thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth ¶ By thee have I been holden up from the wombe thou art he that tooke me out of my Mothers bowels my praise shall be continually of thee * For the Lord is a sun and a sheild the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that live a godly life ¶ O Lord of Hosts Blessed is the Man that putteth his trust in thee Glory be to the Father c. Or this * GOd is greatly to be fear'd in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him ¶ Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them * The heavens are thine the earth also is thine as for the world and the fulnesse thereof thou hast founded them ¶ Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne mercy and truth shall go before thy face * For loe thine enemies O Lord loe thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered ¶ The righteous shall flourish like a Palme tree he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon * Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God ¶ They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing ¶ To shew that the Lord is upright he is our rock and there is no unrighteousnesse in him Glory be to the Father c. Then read a lesson out of the Epistle of S. Paul or any of the Canonical Epistles in order or selected upon special occasions After the lesson say this Psalme * GIve eare O Lord unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications ¶ Turne us O God of our salvation and cause thine anger towards us to cease * For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon thee ¶ O Remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us * Helpe us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake ¶ Teach us thy way O God and we will walke in thy truth unite our hearts to fear thy Name * O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoyce and be glad all our daies ¶ So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thankes for ever we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation Glory be to the Father c. Or this * IN thee O Lord doe I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse ¶ Into thy hand I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth * Make thy face to shine upon thy servants save us for thy mercies sake ¶ For great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men * The Angel of the Lord encamped round about them that fear him and delivereth them ¶ Thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance * Thou makest darknesse and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forest doe creep forth ¶ O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches * The Glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his workes ¶ He appointed the moone for certaine seasons and the sun knoweth his going downe * I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being my meditation of him shall be sweet I will rejoyce in the Lord. ¶ I will both lay me downe in peace and sleep for thou Lord makest me dwell in safety Glory be to the Father c. Or else say 103. Psalme or the 91. or the 121. Then shall follow the Apostles Creed I Beleeve 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 borne of the Virgin Mary * suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried * He descended into hell * The third day he rose againe from the dead * He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty * From thence he shall come to judge the quicke and the Dead * I believe in the holy Ghost * The holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints * the forgivenesse of sins * the resurrection of the body * and the life everlasting Amen Minister The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Let us Pray 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 that trespass against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Then followes the first collect as at Morning Prayer I. O Great King of heaven and earth the Lord and patron of all ages receive thy servants approaching to the throne of Grace in the Name of Jesus Christ. Give unto every one of us what is best for us cast out all evil from within us work in us a fulnesse of holinesse of wisedome and spiritual understanding that we increasing in the knowledge of God may be fruitful in every Good worke through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this SAve us defend and keep us in thy fear and love O thou God of mercy and grace Give unto us the light of thy countenance pardon of our sins health of body sanctification of our spirits peace from heaven and salvation of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus Amen I. For repentance and a Holy life ALmighty God the fountaine of holinesse and felicity who by thy word and by thy spirit dost conduct all thy servants in the waies of peace and sanctity inviting them by promises and winning them by love endearing them by necessities and obliging them by the perpetual testimonies of thy loving kindnesse grant unto us so truly to repent us of our sins so carefully to reforme our errors so diligently to watch over all our actions so industriously to doe all our duty that we may never transgresse thy Holy lawes willingly but that it may be the worke of our lives to obey thee the joy of our soules to please thee the satisfaction of all
eternal anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then all rising up There shall be made a collection for the poor by the Deacon or Clerk while the Minister reads some of these sentences or makes an exhortatation to charity and almes TO doe good and to distribute forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Hebr. 13. 16. Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him into the will of his Enemies The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness Psal. 41. 1 2 3. He which soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver 2 Cor. 9. 6 7. Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations Luke 16. 9. Give almes of such things as ye have and behold all things are clean unto you Lu. 11. 41. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed children of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me Matth. 25. 34 35. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Gal. 6. 6 7. If there be none fit to gather the Minister himself shall gather it And when he hath done or received it from the hand of him that gathered it let him in an humble manner present it to God laying it on the Communion table secretly and devoutly saying LORD accept the oblation and almes of thy people and remember thy servants for this thing at the day of Judgement Then shall follow the address to the H. Mysteries the poeple shall come up to the H. Table where it is the custome or neer it where it is most fit to communicate and then The Minister shall say Let us pray O God who by thy unspeakable mercy hast sent thy onely begotten Son into the world that he might bring the wandring sheep into his fold turn not away from us miserable sinners who worship and invocate thee in these Holy Mysteries For we doe not approach to thee in our own righteousness but in the hope and confidence of that glorious mercy by which thou hast sent thy holy Son to redeem miserable and lost Mankind We humbly beseech thee to grant that these mysteries which thou hast ordein'd to be ministeries of salvation to us may not become an occasion of our condemnation but of pardon of our sins of the renovation of our souls of the sanctification and preservation of our bodies that we may become well pleasing to thee our God in the obedience of our Lord Jesus with whom and with thy holy Spirit thou reignest over all one God Blessed for evermore Amen Minister Lift up your hearts People We lift them up unto the Lord. Minister Let us give thanks unto our Lord God People It is just and right so to doe Minister It is indeed truly just righteous and fitting to praise and to glorifie to worship and adore to give thanks and to magnifie thee the great Maker of all creatures visible and invisible the treasure of all good temporal and eternal The fountain of all life mortal and immortal The Lord and God of all things in Heaven and Earth the great Father of his Servants the great Master of his Children The Heavens and the Heaven of Heavens and every power therein the Sun and the Moon and all the starres of the sky the sea and the earth the heights above and the depths below Jerusalem that is from above the Congregation celestial the Church of the first-born written in the Heavens the spirits of the Prophets and of just men made perfect the souls of the Apostles and all holy Martyrs Angels and Arch-angels Thrones and Dominions Principalities and Powers the spirits of Understanding and the spirits of Love with never ceasing Hymns and perpetual Anthemes cry out Night and Day Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of thy glory Hosanna Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest Here beginneth the COMMUNION After a decent pause for short Meditation The Minister shall with a loud voice say Our Father c. And then this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Denunciation LET all corruptible flesh be silent and stand with fear and trembling and think within it self nothing that is earthly nothing that is unholy The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords Christ our God comes down from Heaven unto us and gives himself to be meat for the souls of all faithful people * All the glorious companies of Angels behold this and wonder and love and worship Jesus Every throne and Dominion the cherubims with many eyes and the Seraphims with many wings cover their faces before the majesty of his glory and sing a perpetual song for ever Allelujah Allelujah Globe to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men Allelujah Then shall follow this Prayer of Consecration to be said by the Minister standing I. HAve mercy upon us O Heavenly Father according to thy glorious mercies and promises send thy Holy Ghost upon our hearts and let him also descend upon these gifts that by his good his holy his glorious presence he may sanctifie and enlighten our hearts and he may blesse and sanctifie these gifts That this Bread may become the Holy Body of Christ. Amen And this Chalice may become the life-giving Bloud of Christ. Amen That it may become unto us all that partake of it this day a Blessed instrument of Union with Christ of pardon and peace of health and blessing of holinesse and life Eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. Holy and blessed art thou O king of Eternal ages fountain and giver of all righteousness * Holy art thou the eternal and onely begotten son of God our Lord Jesus Christ Redeemer of the world * Holy art thou O Blessed Spirit that searchest all things even the depths and hidden things of God Thou O God art Almighty thou art Good and gracious Dreadful and venerable Holy and merciful to the work of thine own hands Thou didst make man according to thine image thou gavest him the riches and the rest of Paradise
and truth good laws and good government an excellent religion undivided undisturbed temperate air seasonable showers wholesome dewes fruitful seasons Crown the year with goodness and let the clouds drop fatness that we may glorify thy name and confess thy goodness while thou bearest witness to us from heaven filling our hearts with food and gladness III. With a propitious eye a great pity behold the miseries of mankind put a speedy period to all our sins and to all our calamities Hear the sighings of the distressed the groans of the sick the prayers of the oppressed the desires of the poor and needy support the weakness of them that languish and faint ease the pains of them that are in affliction and call to thee for help Take from the miserable all tediousness of spirit and despair Pardon all the penitents reform the vitious confirme the holy and let them be holy still pity the folly of young men their little reason and great passion succour the infirmities and temptations of the aged preserving them that they may not sin towards the end of their lives for Jesus Christ his sake IV. Admit O Blessed God into the society of our prayers and the benefits of this Eucharist our Fathers and Brethren our wives and children our friends and Benefactours our charges and relatives all that have desired our prayers and all that need them all that we have and all that we have not remembred thou knowest all their necessities and all their dwellings their joyes and their sorrows their hopes and their fears the number of their sins and the measures of their repentances O dear God sanctifie them and us let our portion be in the good things of God in religion and purity in the peace of Conscience and the joyes of the Holy Ghost in the love of God and of our Neighbours O gather us to the feet of thy elect when thou wilt and in what manner thou art pleased onely let us appear before thee without shame and without sins through the merits of JESUS Christ our most mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen Then shall follow the Eucharistical prayers I. GLory be to thee O God our Father who hast vouchsafed to make us at this time partakers of the Body and Bloud of thy holy Son We offer unto thee O God our selves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and living sacrifice unto thee Keep us under the shadow of thy wings and defend us from all evil and conduct us by thy Holy Spirit of grace into all good for thou who hast given thy holy Son unto us how shalt not thou with him give us all things else Blessed be the Name of our God for ever and ever Amen II. Glory be to thee O Christ our King the onely begotten Son of God who wert pleas'd to become a sacrifice for our sins a redemption from calamity the Physician and the Physick the life and the health the meat and the drink of our souls thou by thy unspeakable mercy didst descend to the weakness of sinful flesh remaining still in the perfect purity of spirit and hast made us partakers of thy holy Body and Bloud O condemne us not when thou comest to judgement but keep us ever in thy truth in thy fear and in thy favour that we may have our portion in thine inheritance where holiness and purity where joy and everlasting praises doe dwell for ever and ever Amen III. Proceeding from glory to glory we still glorifie thee O Father of Spirits and pray thee for ever to continue thy goodness towards us Direct our way aright establish us in holy purposes keep us unspotted in thy faith let the enemy have no part in us but conforme us for ever to the likeness of thy holy Sonne lead us on to the perfect adoption of our Souls and to the redemption of our bodies from corruption and fill our hearts and tongues with everlasting praises of thy name thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing The peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty and Father Son and Holy Spirit be upon you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen The end of the Communion Office A form of Administration of the Holy Sacrament OF BAPTISME A FORM OF Administration of the Holy Sacrament OF BAPTISME Pure water being provided and put into the Fount or into a Lavatory of silver or some other clean vessell fit and decent for this sacred action the Minister being vested in an Ecclesiastical habit shall begin with this exhortation Dearly beloved Brethren FOrasmuch as from our first parents we derive nothing but flesh and corruption and that flesh and bloud cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven it is necessary that every man who is reckoned in Adam should be also reckoned in Christ that every one who is born of the flesh be also born again and born of the spirit that every son of man by nature may become the son of God by Adoption be incorporated into Christ intitled to the promises and become heir of heaven by grace and faith in Jesus Christ and that this cannot be done but by being admitted to the Covenant of grace in Baptisme our Blessed Saviour saying that except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God let us humbly and devoutly pray unto God in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that he will be pleased to send down his holy Spirit upon these waters of Baptisme that they may become to this infant all that shall be washed in them a laver of regeneration and a well of water springing up to life eternal and that this infant may be admitted to the Covenant of grace and pardon of mercy and holiness receiving from grace what by nature he cannot have that being baptised in water to the remission of sins he may all his life walk in this Covenant of grace and holiness as a lively member of the holy Church which is the mysticall body of Christ our Head Let us Pray I. O Almighty and Eternal God Father of Men and Angels Lord of heaven and earth whose spirit moving upon the waters at the beginning of the world produced every living and every moving creature thou by the flood of waters did wash away the iniquity of the old world and by preserving to thy self a generation of holy persons whom thou didst bring up from those waters didst consign to us a type of regeneration Look O Lord graciously upon the face of thy Church and multiply in her thy regenerations and the new births of thy Spirit With the abundance of thy grace make thy holy city to rejoice and still open this holy fountain of Baptisme for the reformation and sanctification of all the nations of the world that thy blessed Spirit
caused waters to run down like rivers 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wildernesse 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust 19 Yea they spake against God they said Can God furnish a table in the wildernesse 20 Behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people 21 Therefore the Lord heard this and was wroth so a fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also came up against Israel 22 Because they believed not in God and trusted not in his salvation 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven 24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven 25 Main did eate angels food he sent them meat to the full 26 He caused an east-wind to blow in the heaven and by his power he brought in the south-wind 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp round about their habitations 29 So they did eate and were well filled for he gave them their own desire 30 They were not estranged from their lust but while their meat was yet in their mouths 31 The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them and smote down the chosen men of Israel 32 For all this they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous works 33 Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble 34 When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God 35 And they remembred that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth and they lied unto him with their tongues 37 For their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant 38 But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath 39 For he remembred that they were but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not again 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieve him in the desert 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy one of Israel 42 They remembred not his hand nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 44 And had turned their rivers into blood and their floods that they could not drink 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed them 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the locust 47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycomore-trees with frost 48 He gave up their cattell also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts 49 He cast upon them the fiercenesse of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them 50 He made a way to his anger he spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham 52 But made his own people to goe forth like sheep and guided them in the wildernesse like a flock 53 And he led them on safely so that they feared not but the sea overwhelmed their enemies 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased 55 He cast out the heathen also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God and kept not his testimonies 57 But turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers they were turned aside like a deceitfull bow 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousie with their graven images 59 When God heard this he was wroth and greatly abhorred Israel 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh the tent which he placed among men 61 And delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemies hand 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance 63 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage 64 Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation 65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder-parts he put them to a perpetuall reproch 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim 68 But chose the tribe of Judah the mount Sion which he loved 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces like the earth which he hath established for ever 70 He chose David also his servant took him from the sheepfolds 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands No. Pr. PSAL. LXXIX Asaph describes the cruelty and impiety of the churches Enemies he prayes to God to turne his anger against them that know him not to pardon the sins of his people to deliver them they shall praise him O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled they have laid Jerusalem on heaps 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth 3 Their bloud have they shed like water round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them 4 We are become a reproch to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us 5 How long Lord wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousie burn like fire 6 Poure out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name 7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid wast his dwelling-place 8 O remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake 10 Wherefore should the heathen say Where is their God let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before
arguings every impure lust and filthy desire all pride and envie all hypocrisie and lying all inordinate love of this world and base Covetousnesse all hardnesse of heart and unrelenting dispositions all peevishnesse and hasty anger all mindfulnesse of injuries and revengfulnesse all blasphemy and irreligion and every motion of soule and body which can withdraw us from thee and is against thy will and commandement II. Gracious Father give us perfect pardon for what is past and a perfect repentance of all our evills that for the time to come we may with pure spirits with broken and contrite hearts with sanctified lips and holy desires serve thee religiously walke humbly with our God converse justly and charitably with men and possesse our soules in patience and holinesse and our bodies in sanctification and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause not frequently OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great shepheard and Bishop of our soules that lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world who promised paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devil have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternal anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer 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 that trespas against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever end ever * All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalter be read in order as shall be judged convenient that is to say The ordinary portions for every day Morning and Evening prayers and Psalmes particularly chosen for speciall dayes of festivity or of Humiliation respectively After the Psalmes ending with Glory be to the Father c. Read a chapter in the old Testament The chapter out of the old Testament is to be read on Sundaies and Festivals and not omitted without great occasion but on ordinary daies it may suffice after the Psalmes immediately to reade the lesson out of the new Testament After which recite this Hymne to the honour of God saying the verses interchangeably * REjoyce in the Lord ye righteous for praise is comely for the Upright ¶ The word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull * He loveth righteousnesse and judgement the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. ¶ By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth * He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as an heape he layeth up the depth in storehouses ¶ Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him * Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercie ¶ To deliver their soules from death and to keep them alive in the time of famine * Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all ¶ Evill shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate * Incline not my heart to any evill thing to practise wicked works with Men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties ¶ Cause me to heare thy loving kindenesse in the morning for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift up my soule unto thee * Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the Land of uprightnesse ¶ Gather not my soule with sinners nor my life with bloody men * The poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles ¶ O tast and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him * O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of Men. ¶ Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of Man Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavillion from the strife of tongues * O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer ¶ Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all you that hope in the Lord. Glory be to the Father c. Or this * SIng praises unto God sing praises sing praises unto our King sing praises For God is the King of all the Earth sing ye praises with understanding ¶ God reigneth over the Nations God sitteth upon the throne of his holinesse * He is our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble ¶ Many O Lord our God are thy wonderfull workes which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are towards us They cannot be reckon'd in order * For God is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the Earth ¶ Thou didst cleave the fountaine and the floud thou driest up mighty rivers * The daye is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the Sunne ¶ Thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made Summer and Winter * Give unto the Lord the glorie due unto his name worship
when thou hadst taken upon thee our Nature and our sin and appeased thy Fathers wrath and perform'd all his will and overcome death and rescued all obedient soules from the hand of the enemy didst ascend to thy Eternall Father and open the Kingdome of Heaven to all beleivers thou hast espoused thy Church unto thy selfe with the eternall circles of thy providence with thy love and with thy care with thy word and with thy Spirit thy promises and thy holy intercession thou hadst a feeling of our infirmities and art our mercifull High Preist makeing intercession for us for ever O be pleased to represent and supply all our wants excuse all our infirmities pity all our calamities pardon our sins and send downe thy holy spirit of grace into our hearts that though we walke upon the earth yet our conversation may be in heaven and there also may be our portion and inheritance for ever through thy mercies O most Gracious Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen For Whitsunday Psalmes for Morning Prayer Psalme 87. Morning Prayer Psalme 89. Evening Prayer Psalme 2. Evening Prayer Psalme 45. Evening Prayer Psalme 110. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * SIng a loud unto God our strength make a joyfull noise unto the God of Jacob. ¶ I will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate of all thy workes and talke of thy doings * Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Vow and pay unto the Lord your God let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared * He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth ¶ Say unto God how terrible art thou in thy workes thorough the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee * Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O Lord. ¶ For thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted farre above all Gods * Light is sowne for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart ¶ Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thankes at the remembrance of his Holinesse * The Lord hath made knowne his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the Heathen ¶ He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seene the salvation of our God * Give unto the Lord O ye kinreds of the people give unto the Lord glory and strength ¶ For he commeth For he commeth to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. O Eternall God the Great Father of spirits the great Lover of soules who didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Church in the day of Pentecost and hast promised that he shall abide with thy Church for ever let thy holy Spirit lead us into all truth defend us from all sin enrich us with his gifts refresh us with his comforts rule in our hearts for ever conduct us with his truth and lead us in the way everlasting that we living by thy Spirit and walking in him may by him be sealed up to the day of our redemption O let thy Spirit witnesse to our spirits that we are the children of God and make us to be so for ever through Jesus our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Upon Trinity Sunday O Blessed ineffable and most mysterious Trinity how admirable are thy beauties how incomparable are thy perfections how incomprehensible are those relations of the three most Blessed Persons which we believe and admire and adore but understand not The Angels are amazed in the unimaginable beauties of that glorious presence and are swallowed up with the Ocean of thy infinity How then can we who are in the lowest order of understanding creatures and have removed our selves further from thee and the participation of thy excellencies by a sinfull life praise thee either according to our duty or thy glories yet be pleased to accept the humblest adorations and with a favourable and a gracious eye behold the lowest worshippings and duty of thy servants We confesse and glory in thy omnipotency thy immensity thy goodnesse thy uncircumscribed Nature thy truth thy mercy thy omniscience O let us also receive thy blessings and gracious influences that we may adore thee with all our powers and possibilities for ever love thee with all our affections for ever serve with our best and earliest and all our industry that being here wholly inebriated with love and busied in thy service and the duties of a holy obedience we may to all eternity rejoyce in the beholding of those glories which are above all capacities above all heavens above all Angels even those glories which streame forth from the throne of the Eternall God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to whom be glory and dominion honour and adoration eternally confessed due and humbly paid by all men and all Angels world without end Amen A Collect to be used upon any of the Festivals or Commemoration of the Apostles ALmighty God who hast built thy holy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the cheife corner stone we blesse and magnifie thy Name thy holy and ever glorious Name for thy great graces which thou gavest to thy Apostles and Prophets and Martyrs in the daies of their flesh and this day we have thy servant S. Paul S. Peter S. James c. here name the Apostle c. in remembrance praising thee for the benefits which the church hath received by his ministery and example we pray unto thee to give us thy grace that we obeying thy doctrine which he taught and publish'd and following his example as he followed Christ we also may with safety and holinesse passe through this vally of tears that serving thee in our generation advancing thy honour and obeying thy lawes we may in the society and communion of Saints and Angels sing eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of thy mercy and of thy majesty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office or Order for the Holy Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER An Office or order for the Administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the way of the Apostolicall Churches and the doctrine of the Church of England THE ANTECOMMUNION 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
office published by the authority of Queene Elizabeth 1597. I. A prayer for an Army or Navy in time of VVarre O Almighty Lord God of hosts the prince of peace and the everlasting Counsellor we humbly beseech thee so to conduct encourage and defend our Armies and Fleets with thy mighty arme and thy wise providence that what they shall attempt or take in hand for defence of this Church and State may be prosperous and blessed Direct and lead them all in safety strengthen their Governours and leaders with sound counsell and wise Conduct The officers and souldiers with ready obedience and valiant resolution Blesse their conflicts with signal victories give them blessed opportunities of effecting the purposes of peace and justice with the least bloodshed Preserve them from contagious diseases from the violence of sword and sicknesses from evill accidents or crafty designes from treachery or surprise from carelesnesse of their duty and fromall irreligion from confusion or feare from mutiny and disorder Give them an happy and an honourable returne that we being defended from our enemies thy servant our Soveraigne or Supreme may rejoice in thy mercies and thy church may give thee thankes in the daies of peace and all thy people may worship thee in a holy religion giving thee praise and honour and glory for ever in Eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this I. O Most mighty Lord God who reignest over all the Kingdomes of Men thou hast power in thy hand to cast downe and to raise up to save thy servants and to rebuke their enemies and in all ages hast given victory to the people effecting by small numbers what man cannot doe by the multitude of an Host Let thy eares be now open unto our praiers and thy merciful eyes upon our trouble and our danger O Lord doe thou judge our cause in righteousnesse and mercy prosper our armes and defend our armies Establish us in the rights thou hast given us in our lands and in our goods in our Government and in our lawes in our Religion and in all the holy orders which thou hast appointed to minister to all who shall be heires of salvation II. Never let ambition or Cruelty thirst of Empire or thirst of blood the greedinesse of of spoile or the pleasures of a victory make us either to love warre or to neglect all the just wayes of peace and grant unto the Army such piety and prudence such happy circumstances and blessed events that none of them may doe any act misbecoming Christians Disciples and servants of the prince of peace Doe thou O God blesse them in all their just actions and necessary defences that they may neither doe wrong nor suffer any Let not our enemies have their unjust desires nor their mischeivous imaginations prosper leaft we become a scorne and derision to our oppressors The race is not to the swift nor the battle to thestrong and a horse is counted but a vaine thing to save a man but our trust is in the name of the Lord our God he is our strength and our defence for it is thou O Lord who canst indifferently save with many or with few III. Wherefore from thy holy sanctuary open thine eyes and behold stretch forth thy hand and helpe defend and save our Armies and Navies O thou God of power from all evil of man and all evil of chance Cover their heads in the day of battle and danger send thy feare before thy servants that our enemies may flee before them let thy faith make them valiant in fight and put to flight the armies of Aliens Rebels c. and by this shall thy servants know thou favourest us in that our Enemy doth not triumph against us and shall alwaies confesse to the praise of thy name that it was thou Lord the sheild of our hope and the sword of our glory who hast done great things for us and evermore say Praised be the Lord that hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants Heare us O Lord for the glory of thy name for thy loving mercy and for thy truth sake through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office for Prisoners THe foregoing ordinary Offices are fitted for all mankind in General and so may be also used by these in their Prisons To which they may adde what is fit for them in the following devotions and upon Solemne occasion or upon special necessity or devotion they may intirely and distinctly use the following prayers and psalmes c. In the Name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father which art in Heaven c. Versicle O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme I Will cry unto God with my voice even unto God will I cry with my voice and he shall hearken unto me ¶ In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord in the night my sore ceased not my soule refused to be comforted * When I am in heavinesse I will thinke upon God when my heart is vexed I will complaine ¶ O remembet how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought * I goe hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grashopper But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath also prepared his seat for judgement ¶ For he shall judge the world in righteousnesse and minister true judgement unto his people * The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble ¶ And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seeke thee * Deliver me O Lord from the evil man preserve me from the violent man ¶ I know that the Lord will maintaine the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poore * Surely the righteous shall give thankes unto they Name the upright shall dwell in thy presence ¶ O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die * The humble shall consider this and be glad Seeke ye after God and your soule shall live ¶ For the Lord heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners * Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high ¶ Who humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heaven and earth * He raiseth up the poore out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the Dunghil ¶ Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore * For he satisfieth the longing soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse ¶ Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron * He bringeth them out of darknesse and the shadow of death and breaketh their bands in sunder ¶ O that men would praise the Lord for
shall never be moved PSAL. XVI David confesses God to be his Gâ—â— and protests against all idolatrous worshippings he rejoyces in God for his present blessings his preservation and prosperity the aides of his grace and the hopes of Eternall life through the resuâ—rection of Christ. PReserve me O God for in thee do I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my Lord my goodnesse extendeth not to thee 3 But to the Saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplyed that hasten after another God their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer nor take up their names into my lips 5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot 6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage 7 I will blesse the Lord who hath given me counsell my reins also instruct me in the night seasons 8 I have set the Lord alwayes before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulnesse of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore PSAL. XVII David appealing to God concerning his innocency does passionately implore his patronage against his prosperous enemies he prophesies of the resurrection HEar the right O Lord attend unto my cry give eare unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence let thine eyes behold the things that are equall 3 Thou hast proved mine heart thou hast visited me in the night thou hast tryed me and and shalt find nothing I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgresse 4 Concerning the works of men by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not 6 I have called upon thee for thou wilt hear me O God incline thine eare unto me and hear my speech 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnesse O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the wicked that oppresse me from my deadly enemies who compasse me about 10 They are inclosed in their own fat with their mouth they speak proudly 11 They have now compassed us in our steps they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth 12 Like as a Lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places 13 Arise O Lord disappoint him cast him down deliver my soul from the wicked which is thy sword 14 From men which are thy hand O Lord from men of the world which have their portion in this life and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure they are full of children and leave the rest of their substance to their babes 15 As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse Ev. 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XVIII David toward the end of his life sings a song of victory to God for all his triumphs and greaâ— successes in his warres he gives thanks puts his trust in God I will love thee O Lord my strength 2 The Lord is my rock and my fortresse and my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower 3 I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from mine enemies 4 The sorrowes of death compassed me and the flouds of ungodly men made me afraid 5 The sorrowes of hell compassed me about the snares of death prevented me 6 In my distresse I called upon the Lord and cryed unto my God he heard my voyce out of his temple and my cry came before him even into his ears 7 Then the earth shook and trembled the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it 9 He bowed the heavens also and came down and darknesse was under his feet 10 And he rode upon a cherub and did flie yea he did flie upon the wings of the wind 11 He made darknesse his secret place his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies 12 At the brightnesse that was before him his thick clouds passed hail-stones and coals of fire 13 The Lord also thundred in the heavens and the Highest gave his voice hailstones and coals of fire 14 Yea he sent out his arrows and scattered them and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them 15 Then the channels of waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke O Lord at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils 16 He sent from above he took me and drew me out of many waters 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me for they were too strong for me 18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the Lord was my stay 19 He brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me because he delighted in me 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me 21 For I have kept the wayes of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God 22 For all his judgments were before me and I did not put away his statutes from me 23 I was also upright before him and I kept my self from mine iniquity 24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my rightâ—nesse according to the cleannesse of my hands in his eye-sight 25 With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy self mercifull with an upright man thou wilt shew thy self upright 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure and with the froward thou wilt shew thy self froward 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people but thou wilt bring down high looks 28 For thou wilt light my candle the Lord my God will enlighten my darknesse 29 For by thee I have run through a troop and by my God have I leaped over a wall 30 As for God his way is perfect the word of the Lord is tryed he is a buckler to all those that trust in him 31 For who is God save the Lord or who is a rock save our God 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength and maketh my way perfect 33 He maketh my feet like hindes
kinsmen stand afar off 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long 13 But I as a deaf man heard not and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs 15 For in thee O Lord do I hope thou wilt hear me O Lord my God 16 For I said Hear me lest otherwise they should rejoice over me when my foot slippeth they magnifie themselves against me 17 For I am ready to halt and my sorrow is continually before me 18 For I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sin 19 But mine enemies are lively they are strong and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplyed 20 They also that render evill for good are mine adversaries because I follow the thing that good is 21 Forsake me not O Lord O my God be not far from me 22 Make haste to help me O Lord my salvation PSAL. XXXIX David being sick restrains himself from repining against God tells of the vanity of life prayes for deliverance from his affliction for pardon of his sins and space and time of further repenâ—ance The Psalm is paenitenâ—ial I Said I will take heed to my wayes that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me 2 I was dumb with silence I held my peace even from good and my sorrow was stirred 3 My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned then spake I with my tongue 4 Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how frail I am 5 Behold thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity Selah 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew surely they are disquieted in vain he heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them 7 And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions make me not the reproch of the foolish 9 I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it 10 Remove thy stroak away from me I am consumed by the blow of thine hand 11 When thou w th rebukes dost correct man for iniquitie thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth surely every man is vanity Selah 12 Hear my prayer O Lord and give ear unto my cry hold not thy peace at my tears for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were 13 O spare me that I may recover strength before I goe hence and be no more PSAL. XL. David praiseth God for his delivery from troubles and prayeth to be desended from imminent and approching dangers The obedience of Christ and his sacrifice and the abolition of the Mosaic rites are prophetically declar'd I Waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the mirie clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth even praise unto our God many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord. 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust and respecteth not the proud nor such as turn aside to lies 5 Many O Lord my God are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are to us-ward they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee if I would declare and speak of them they are mo then can be numbred 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine ears hast thou opened burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required 7 Then said I Lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me 8 I delight to doe thy will O my God yea thy law is written within my heart 9 I have preached righteousnesse in the great congregation lo I have not refrained my lips O Lord thou knowest 10 I have not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart I have declared thy faithfulnesse thy salvation I have not concealed thy loving kindnesse and thy truth from the great congregation 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me O Lord let thy loving kindnesse and thy truth continually preserve me 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up they are mo then the hairs of my head therefore my heart faileth me 13 Be pleased O Lord to deliver me O Lord make haste to help me 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me Aha aha 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee let such as love thy salvation say continually The Lord be magnified 17 But I am poor needy yet the Lord thinketh upon me thou art my help and my deliverer make to tarrying O my God Ev. 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XLI The blessings and rewards of the Charitable man David complains that his pretended friends were real enemies he prayes to God and gives him thanks for his recovery from his sicknesse BLessed is he that considereth the poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble 2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him into the will of his enemies 3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sicknesse 4 I said Lord be mercifull unto me heal my soul for I have sinned against thee 5 Mine enemies speak evill of me when shall he die and his name perish 6 And if he come to see me he speaketh vanitie his heart gathereth iniquity to it self when he goeth abroad he telleth it 7 All that hate me whisper together against me against me do they devise my hurt 8 An evill disease say they cleaveth fast unto him and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more 9 Yea mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted which did eat of my bread hath lift up his heel against me 10 But thou O Lord be mercifull unto me and raise me up that I may requite them 11 By this I know that thou favourest me because mine enemie doth not triumph over me 12 And as for me thou upholdest me in mine integritie and settest me before thy face for ever 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting Amen and amen PSAL. XLII David as some suppose being driven beyond Jordan and forc'd
his delivery SAve me O God by thy name and judge me by thy strength 2 Hear my prayer O God give eare to the words of my mouth 3 For strangers are risen up against me and oppressors seek after my soul they have not set God before them Selah 4 Behold God is mine helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evill unto mine enemies cut them off in thy truth 6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee I will praise thy name O Lord for it is good 7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies PSAL. LV. David upon his fear of being discover'd by the men of Keilah or upon the conjunction of Achitophol with Absalom prays to God for his own safety and the division and confusion of his enemies counsel he complains of his own restlesse and insecure condition the falsenesse of his supposed friends encourages himself and others to put their whole trust in God and foretels the suddain and immature death of his Enemies GIve ear to my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my supplication 2 Attend unto me and hear me I mourn in my complaint and make a noise 3 Because of the voice of the enemie because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me in wrath they hate me 4 My heart is sore pained within me and the terrors of death are faln upon me 5 Fearfulnesse and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me 6 And I said O that I had wings like a dove for then would I flie away and be at rest 7 Lo then would I wander far off and remain in the wildernesse Selah 8 I would hasten my escape from the windie storm and tempest 9 Destroy O Lord divide their tongues for I have seen violence and strife in the citie 10 Day and night they go about it upon the wals thereof mischief also sorrow are in the midst of it 11 Wickednesse is in the midst thereof deceit and guile depart not from her streets 12 For it was not an enemie that reproched me then I could have born it neither was it he that hated me that did magnifie himself against me then I would have hid my self from him 13 But it was thou a man mine equall my guide and mine acquaintance 14 We took sweet counsell together and walked unto the house of God in company 15 Let death seise upon them let them goe down quick into hell for wickednesse is in their dwellings and among them 16 As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me 17 Evening morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and and he shall hear my voice 18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battel that was against me for there were many with me 19 God shall hear afflict them even he that abideth of old Selah because they have no changes therefore they fear not God 20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him he hath broken his covenant 21 The words of his mouth were smoother then butter but war was in his heart his words were softer then oil yet were they drawn swords 22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved 23 But thou O God shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction bloody and deceitfull men shall not live out half their dayes but I will trust in thee Mo. Pr. PSAL. LVI David being in Gath and known by the Courtiers of Achish prayes to God to be defended from his cruell enemies complains of their snares and their injuries comforts himself in God and promises to give him thanks and praise for his delivery BE mercifull unto me O God for man would swallow me up he fighting daily oppresseth me 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up for they be many that fight against me O thou most High 3 What time I am afraid I will trust in thee 4 In God I will praise his word in God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh can doe unto me 5 Every day they wrest my words all their thoughts are against me for evill 6 They gather thēselves together they hide themselves they mark my steps when they wait for my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity in thine anger cast down the people O God 8 Thou tellest my wandrings put thou my tears into thy bottle are they not in thy book 9 When I cry unto thee then shall mine enemies turn back this I know for God is for me 10 In God wil I praise his word in the Lord will I praise his word 11 In God have I put my trust I will not be afraid what man can doe unto me 12 Thy vowes are upon me O God I will render praises unto thee 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light of the living PSAL. LVII When David had been hid in a cave in the desert of Engedi he prayes this prayer to be deliver'd from Saul complains of his sad condition describes their impiety and rejoyces in God and adores his greatnesse BE mercifull unto me O God be mercifull unto me for my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge untill these calamities be overpast 2 I will cry unto God most high unto God that performeth all things for me 3 He shall send from heaven save me from the reproch of him that would swallow me up Selah God shall send forth his mercy and his truth 4 My soul is among lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire even the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth 6 They have prepared a net for my steps my soul is bowed down they have digged a pit before me into the midst whereof they are faln themselves Selah 7 My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise 8 Awake up my glory awake psalterie and harp I my self will awake early 9 I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing unto thee among the nations 10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens and thy truth unto the clouds 11 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth PSAL. LVIII When David was by Abner and Sauls Councel condemned of Treason be complains of their injustice prayes against them and foretells their destruction DO ye indeed speak righteousnesse O congregation doe ye judge uprightly O ye sons of men 2 Yea in heart you work wickednesse you weigh the violence of your hands in
as showrs that water the earth 7 In his dayes shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth 9 They that dwell in the wildernesse shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts 11 Yea all kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him 12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth the poor also and him that hath no helper 13 He shall spare the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy 14 He shall redeeme their soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their blood be in his sight 15 And he shall live and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised 16 There shall be an handfull of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon and they of the city shall flourish like grasse of the earth 17 His name shall endure for ever his name shall be continued as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him all nations shall call him blessed 18 Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen and amen 20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended Ev. 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LXXIII Asaph being troubled at the afflictions of the Godly and the prosperity of the wicked and disputing concerning the providence at last concludes it to be certain that God loves the pious exhorts the church not to be offended at this dispensation but depend on God and wait for deliverance at the end of things TRuly God is good to Israel even to such as are of a clean heart 2 But as for me my feet were almost gone my steps had wellnigh slipt 3 For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death but their strength is firm 5 They are not in trouble as other men neither are theyplagued like other men 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment 7 Their eyes stand out with fatnesse they have more then heart could wish 8 They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression they speak loftily 9 They set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth 10 Therefore his people return hither and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them 11 And they say How doth God know and is there knowledge in the most High 12 Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world they increase in riches 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocencie 14 For all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning 15 If I say I will speak thus behold I should offend against the generation of thy children 16 When I thought to know this it was too painfull for me 17 Untill I went into the sanctuary of God then understood I their end 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places thou castedst them down into destruction 19 How are they brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors 20 As a dream when one awaketh so O Lord when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image 21 Thus my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins 22 So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee 23 Neverthelesse I am continually with thee thou hast holden me by my right hand 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that Idesire besides thee 26 My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever 27 For lo they that are far from thee shall perish thou hast destroyed all them that goe a whoring frō thee 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God I have put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all thy works PSAL. LXXIV Asaph expostulates with God his delay to help his people and of the greatnesse of their calamity he prayes for help h◠commmorates the blessings of old represents the horrid cruelty and impiety of the Churches enemies and particularly their sacrilege he complains that Gods Oracles are ceased the Prophets gone the Enemies suppose that God also is departed that his name suffers h◠prayes for the safety of the Church the glory of God the overthrow of his enemies O God why hast thou cast us off for ever why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture 2 Remember thy cōgregation which thou hast purchased of old the rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetuall desolations even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations they set up their ensignes for signs 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers 7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground 8 They said in their hearts Let us destroy them together they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land 9 We see not our signs there is no more any prophet neither is there among us any that knoweth how long 10 O God how long shall the adversary reproch shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand pluck it out of thy bosome 12 For God is my king of old working salvation in the midst of the earth 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wildernesse 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood thou driedst up mighty rivers 16 The day is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sun 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter 18 Remember this that the enemy hath reproched O Lord and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the multitude of the wicked forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever 20 Have respect unto
When I said My foot slippeth thy mercy O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by a law 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous condemn the innocent blood 22 But the Lord is my defence and my God is the rock of my refuge 23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse yea the Lord our God shall cut them off Mo. Pr. PSAL. XCV An invitation to the worship and the service of God to a speedy repentance The example of obâ— durate and impenitent persons Gods wâ—ath and zeale against them O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us make a joyfull noise to the rock of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyfull noise unto him with psalms 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all Gods 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth the strength of the hills is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands formed the drie land 6 O come let us worship bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker 7 For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand to day if ye will hear his voice 8 Harden not your heart as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 When your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my work 10 Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do erre in their heart and they have not known my wayes 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest PSAL. XCVI Jewes and Gentiles are invited to praise God a prophesie of Christs kingdome and of his coming to judgement O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the earth 2 Sing unto the Lord blesse his name shew forth his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his glory among the heathen his wonders among all people 4 For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols but the Lord made the heavens 6 Honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary 7 Give unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people give unto the Lord glory strength 8 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name bring an offering and come into his courts 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse fear before him all the earth 10 Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved he shall judge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens rejoyce let the earth be glad let the sea roar and the fulness thereof 12 Let the field be joyful all that is therein then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce 13 Before the Lord for he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth PSAL. XCVII A prophetical description of the day of judgment a curse to idolaters an exhortation to good life the joyes of the Godly THe Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the multitude of isles be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and judgement are the habitation of his throne 3 A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about 4 His lightnings enlightened the world the earth saw and trembled 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens declare his righteousnesse and all the people see his glory 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images that boast themselves of idols worship him all ye Gods 8 Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O Lord. 9 For thou Lord art high ahove all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods 10 Ye that love the Lord hate evill he preserveth the souls of his saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked 11 Light is sown for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart 12 Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks at the remembrance of his holinesse Ev. 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XCVIII A hymne of glorification of Christ triumphing over his enemies and giviâ—g judgement against them O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory 2 The Lord hath made known his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 3 He hath remembred his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God 4 Make a joyfull noise unto the Lord all the earth make a loud noise and rejoyce and sing praise 5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp with the harp and the voice of a psalme 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyfull noise before the Lord the king 7 Let the sea roar and the fulnesse thereof the world and they that dwell therein 8 Let the flouds clap their hands let the hills be joyfull together 9 Before the Lord for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousnesse shall he judge the world and the people with equity PSAL. XCIX The glory of the kingdome of Christ his justice and his power his mercifulnesse and his praise THe Lord reigneth let the people treÌ„ble he sitteth between the cherubims let the earth be moved 2 The Lord is great in Zion and he is high above all people 3 Let them praise thy great terrible name for it is holy 4 The Kings strength also loveth judgement thou dost establish equity thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his Priests and Samuel among them that call upon his name they called upon the Lord and he answered them 7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimonies and the ordinance that he gave them 8 Thou answeredst them O Lord our God thou wast a God that forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance on their inventions 9 Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy PSAL. C. A glorification of God a commemoration of his excellencies his truth and his mercy MAke a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye lands 2 Serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God
thy self with light as with a garment who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters who maketh the clouds his chariot who walketh upon the wings of the wind 4 Who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming fire 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment the waters stood above the mountains 7 At thy rebuke they fled at the voyce of thy thunder they hasted away 8 They go up by the mountains they goe down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not passe over that they turn not again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills 11 They give drink to every beast of the field the wild asses quench their thirst 12 By them shall the fowles of the heaven have their habitation which sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattel and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man oyl to make his face to shine and bread which strengtheneth mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted 17 Where the birds make their nests as for the stork the fir-trees are her house 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies 19 He appointeth the moon for seasons the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darkness and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forrest doe creep forth 21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God 22 The sun ariseth they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour untill the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is this great wide sea wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There goe the ships there is that leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season 28 That thou givest them they gather thou openest thine hand they are filled with good 29 Thou hidest thy face they are troubled thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth 31 The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his works 32 He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the Lord O my soule Praise ye the Lord. Mo. Pr. PSAL. CV David exhorts the Church of God to praise him for the gracious covenant he made with Abraham and all the favours from that time to the time of their departure out of Egypt O Give thankes unto the Lord call upon his name make knowne his deeds among the people 2 Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wondrous works 3 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. 4 Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen 7 He is the Lord our God his judgements are in all the earth 8 He hath remembred his covenant for ever the word which he commanded to a thousand generations 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham and his oath unto Isaac 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant 11 Saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When they were but a few men in number yea very few and strangers in it 13 When they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sakes 15 Saying Touch not mine anoynted and doe my prophets no harm 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land he brake the whole staffe of bread 17 He sent a man before them even Joseph who was sold for a servant 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters he was laid in iron 19 Untill the time that his word came the word of the Lord tried him 20 The king sent and loosed him even the ruler of the people and let him go free 21 He made him Lord of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure and reach his senatours wisdome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people greatly and made them stronger then their enemies 25 He turned their heart to hate his people to deale subtilly with his servants 26 He sent Moses his servant Aaron whom he had chosen 27 They shewed his signs among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness and made it dark and they rebelled not against his word 29 He turned their waters into blood and slew their fish 30 The land brought forth frogs in abundance in the chambers of their kings 31 He spake and there came divers sorts of flies and lice in all their coasts 32 He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees and brake the trees of their coasts 34 He spake and the locusts came and caterpillars and that without number 35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 36 He smote also the first-born in their land the chief of all their strength 37 He brought them forth also with silver gold and there was not one feeble person among their tribes 38 Egypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them fell upon them 39 He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night 40 The people asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven 41 He opened the rock and the waters gushed out they ran in the dry places like a river 42 For he remembred his
Maon sings praises to God in this psalm I Love the Lord because he hath heard my voice and my supplications 2 Because he hath inclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The sorrowes of death compassed me and the pains of hell gat hold upon me I found trouble sorrow 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me 7 Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I believed therefore have I spoken I was greatly afflicted 11 I said in my haste All men are liars 12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 16 Oh Lord truly I am thy servant I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid thou hast loosed my bonds 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving will call upon the name of the Lord. 18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people 19 In the courts of the Lords house in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXVII A Doxology to God for his mercy and truth it is also propheticall of the calling the Genâ—iles O Praise the Lord all yee nations praise him all ye people 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is great towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXVIII A thanksgiving and gratulation to God for his being victorious over the Philistims and his establishment in his kingdome it figures the Church going to her Temples giving thanks to God praying for blessing and the priests blessing God and thâ— people and appointing sacrifices The coming of the Messias and the joyes of the world at his coming O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Let them now that fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in distresse the Lord answered me and set me in a large place 6 The Lord is on my side I wil not fear what can man do unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them 11 They compassed me about yea they compassed me about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them 12 They compassed me about like bees they are quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me 14 The Lord is my strength and song and is become my salvation 15 The voyce of rejoycing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly 16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly 17 I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened me sore but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness I will go in to them and I will praise the Lord. 20 This gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter 21 I will praise thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner 23 This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it 25 Save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath shewed us light bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will praise thee thou art my God I will exalt thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Ev. 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CXIX David teaches that all true happiness consists in keeping the commandments he prayes to God to produce in him a great love of them and to give him right understanding in them promises and threatnings are intermingled with great variety of expressions of the same earnest dâ—sire he had keep to the laws of God BLessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart 3 They also do no iniquity they walk in his wayes 4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently 5 O that my wayes were directed to keep thy statutes 6 Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments 7 I will praise thee with uprightnesse of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgements 8 I will keep thy statutes O forsake me not utterly BETH 9 VVHerewithall shal a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not wander from thy commandments 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee 12 Blessed art thou O Lord teach me thy statutes 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgements of thy mouth 14 I have rejoyced in the way of thy testimonies as much as in all riches 15 I will meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy wayes 16 I will delight my self in thy statutes I wil not forget thy word GIMEL 17 DEal bountifully with thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 18 Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law 19 I am a stranger in the earth hide not thy commandments from me 20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgements at all times 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed which
have spread a net by the way-side they have set gins for me Selah 6 I said unto the Lord Thou art my God hear the voice of my supplications O Lord. 7 O God the Lord the strength of my salvation thou hast covered my head in the day of battell 8 Grant not O Lord the desires of the wicked further not his wicked device lest they exalt themselves Selah 9 As for the head of those that compasse me about let the mischief of their own lips cover them 10 Let burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire into deep pits that they rise not up again 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him 12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name the upright shall dwell in thy presence PSAL. CXLI David being in his flight and trouble prayes that God would so compose his mind and restraine his tongue that through anger or impatience he may not offend and that he may have no part or society with the wicked he prayes to be defended from their snares and that they may perish with their own arts LOrd I cry unto thee make haste unto me give ear unto my voice when I cry unto thee 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice 3 Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties 5 Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindnesse and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent oyl which shal not break my head for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places they shall hear my words for they are sweet 7 Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth 8 But mine eyes are unto thee O God the Lord in thee is my trust leave not my soul destitute 9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me and the gins of the workers of iniquity 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets whilest that I withall escape Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXLII David being imprison'd in a cave and besieged by Saul prayes to God to be delivered out of his present danger he intends this delivery to be in order to the glorification of God I Cryed unto the Lord with my voice with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication 2 I poured out my complaint before him I shewed before him my trouble 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me then thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me 4 I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know me refuge failed me no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto thee O Lord I said Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living 6 Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low deliver me from my persecutours for they are stronger then I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise thy name the righteous shall compass me about for thou shalt deale bountifully with me PSAL. CXLIII David being persecuted by Absaloms party implores Gods ayde confesses his unworthinesse and sinne describes his sad state of affairs he comâ—orts himself with the memory of Gods greatworks he prayes for defence against his enemies and deliverance from them and to be conducted by the good spirit of God and that his Enemies may be cut off The psalme is paenitential HEar my prayer O Lord give ear to my supplications in thy faithfulness answer me and in thy righteousnesse 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath smitten my life down to the ground he hath made me to dwell in darknesse as those that have been long dead 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me my heart within me is desolate 5 I remember the dayes of old I meditate on all thy works I muse on the work of thy hands 9 I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land Selah 7 Hear me speedily O Lord my spirit faileth hide not thy face from me lest I be like unto them that goe down into the pit 8 Cause me to hear thy loving kindnesse in the morning for in thee doe I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walk for I lift up my soul unto thee 9 Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies I flee unto thee to hide me 10 Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the land of uprightnesse 11 Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soul out of trouble 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies and destroy all them that afflict my soul for I am thy servant Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXLIV David praises God for helping him in battels against the Philistims and giving him an intire possession of his kingdome he admires Gods goodnesse to man and the condescensions of his providence he prayes for defence against the preparations of other Enemies against him and for prosperity to his people and plenty in the field and in the stall the blessednesse of the servants of God Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My goodnesse and my fortresse my high tower and my deliverer my shield and he in whom I trust who subdueth my people under me 3 Lord what is man that thou takest knowledge of him or the son of man that thou makest account of him 4 Man is like to vanity his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away 5 Bow thy heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them shoot out thine arrows and destroy them 7 Send thine hand from above rid me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falshood 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings who delivereth David his servant from the hurtfull sword 11 Rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falshood 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth that
not for the foulnesse but if we were tempted we did fall and where we did fall there we did love to lie we have sinn'd worse then the adulteresse or the theife more then the publican or the prodigal oftner then David or Manasses we have sinn'd against greater mercies a more determin'd conscience a better law a clearer revelation more terrible threatnings and better much better promises II. We know O God and tremble at the sad remembrance that all our sins shall be plac'd before our faces at the day of thy dreadfull appearance O looke upon us with a mighty pity let not the Angel of wrath snatch our precious soules from thy beatifick presence Take not the sweet refreshments of thy Spirit from us one houre O Dearest Lord thou lover of soules take not our lives from us while our soules are unprepared and unready unexcus'd and unpardon'd for thou knowest the abysse of our sins and thou knowest what is that abysse of flames and anger which is prepared for foolish and unwary soules III. Most Blessed Saviour Jesus thou gavest thy life to redeeme us from death and thou art the Judge of those actions for which thou wert a sacrifice and to give sentence upon those men for whom thou art an advocate and makest perpetuall intercession O suffer us not to fall under thine eternall anger destroy the whole body of sin in us bring our understandings into the obedience of God our affections under the dominion of reason our reason into a perfect subordination to thy Holy Spirit that we may love thee and feare thee and by repentance and charity may enter into thy favour and dwell there by a holy perseverance all our daies through Jesus Christ our Lord. IV. The Prayers DOe thou open our eyes that we may see our own vilenesses and forsake them and our foolish errors that we may amend them and all our infirmities that we may watch against them and all our dutie that we may pursue it earnestly and passionately prudently and intirely presently and for ever Cause us to returne to our duty with greater fervor and devotion then ever we have sinn'd against thee with pleasure and delight and as we have dishonourd thee by our unworthinesse so grant that we may glorifie thee tentimes more weeping bitterly for our sins watching against them strictly hating them infinitely and forsaking them utterly O grant that we may every day renew our repentances and vowes of a better life and make us to doe every day what we promise and what is our dutie so imprinting a holy religion and a severe repentance in our spirits that we may confesse our sins with a reall and humble sorrow and beg for pardon because we desire it and aske for thy helpe because wee will make use of it and number our sins because wee will leave them not resting in formes of godlinesse but living in the power of it in love and duty in holinesse and godly choice through Jesus Christ our Lord. V. MOst Gracious God and Father imprint in our hearts great apprehensions of thy power and thy glories of thy judgement and thy mercies of our sins and of our change approaching of our fugitive life and the day of our death of our duty and our danger and the inexpressible terrors of the day of Judgement and in proportion to such apprehensions teach us O God to walke in this world with fear and caution with hope and purity with diligence and devotion religiously and usefully humbly and charitably with love and obedience to thee with love and Justice to our neighbours with sober spirits and chast bodies with temperance and peace with faith and patience with health and holinesse in the favour of God and the friendlinesse of our neighbours in the communion of the Church and in obedience to all good lawes that we being blessed by thy providence defended by thy ministring Angels conducted by thy good Spirit instructed by thy word nourished by the body of Christ cleansed by his blood and clothed with his righteousnesse may grow from grace to grace in the increase of God to the fulnesse of Christ being subjects of thy Kingdome of grace in this world and heirs of the Kingdome of glory in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. VI. GIve us pardon O thou God of mercy and peace for all the errors and follies the ignorances and omissions the rash words and imprudent actions of which any of us hath been guilty this day or at any time before we confesse our sins every day and yet every day sin against thee and we pray unto thee for all the blessings that we neede and thou givest us all that we pray for and much more but yet we regard thee not but every day have new matter of shame and sorrow Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us FOr if thou Lord wilt be extreme to marke what is done amisse we shall not be able to abide or stand upright in judgement Thy mercy is great and thou hast blessed us this day and kept us from the evils of our inclination and the evils of temptation and though in the things wherein our consciences doe not accuse us we are not justified but by thy mercies loving-kindnesse in Christ Jesus yet we rejoyce in thy goodnesse to us and praise thy bounties and thy love and hope in thy mercies and beg of thee that thou wilt pardon us and keepe us this night and ever sanctify and save us blesse us at home and abroad in the workes of our calling and the duties of religion in our persons and relations make us to doe what pleaseth thee and to be what thou hast designed us to be and to receive what thou hast promised and to keepe us from all the evill we have deserved for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen THe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us and with all our relatives and with all the servants of God for ever and ever Amen Varieties to be added upon the great Festivals of the Yeare Upon Christmas day The Psalmes appointed at Morning Prayer Psalme 2. Psalme 45. Psalme 110. Evening Prayer Psalme 87. Psalme 89. The Hymne for Christmas day to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * PRaise waiteth for thee O God in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed * O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come * Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts He shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy Holy Temple * By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are a far off upon the sea *
Come and hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soule * The people that walked in darknesse hath seen a great light and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shin'd * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of men * He turneth the wildernesse into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs * He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyfull mother of Children * For unto us a child is borne unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders * His name shall be called wonderfull counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the prince of peace * Of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end * He shall sit upon the throne of David to order his Kingdome and to establish it with judgement and justice for ever and ever * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of Men. Minister Glory be to God on high Answer And on earth peace good will towards men Minister Amen Answer Amen Then proceed to the Nicene Creed The collect to be inserted after the first collect of the Morning and Evening prayer and may be said during the twelve daies ALmighty God who hast so loved the world that for our redemption from sin misery thou gavest thy son that he taking upon him our nature and being borne of a Virgin might performe to thee the obedience which mankind owed and pay the price in which we were indebted and teach us what thou wouldest have us to doe and convey to us all the good which thou didst designe for us overshadow us with thy holy Spirit of grace that we may conceive Christ in our hearts by faith relyup on him in a holyhope and expresse him in anexcellent charity that as he was pleased to take upon him our nature so we may be borne againe and be partakers of the Divine nature that conforming to his image following his example and being filled with his Spirit we may grow in the knowledge and love of God and live in righteousnesse that being thy sons by a holy adoption we may partake of the inheritance of thy welbeloved son the firstborne of all the creatures our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Upon Good Friday Instead of the Psalmes of the day read at Morning Prayer Psalme 22. Psalme 25. Psalme 51. Evening Prayer Psalme 81. Psalme 85. Psalme 86. Psalme 88. or any three of them The Collect. O Most Blessed most gracious Saviour Jesus who by thyobedience unto death even the death of the crosse didst become the sacrifice of the world the great example of patience the Lord of life the good shepherd laying downe thy life for thy sheepe and the mediator betweene God and man let thy wounds heale thy blood cleanse thy death make us to live and thy Spirit make us to worke righteousnesse all our daies that we may by thy aide and by thy example obey our heavenly Father with all our powers and all our faculties with our reason and our affections with our soules and with our bodies with our time and with our estate in prosperity and adversity that we may beare our crosse patiently and doe thy worke cheerefully and be ready to benefit mankind with great charity and great industry that being followers of thy life and partakers of thy death we may receive a part in the resurrection of the just to the joyes of God in thy inheritance O most blessed most Gracious Saviour Jesus Amen For Easter day The Psalmes appointed for Morning Prayer Psalme 30. Psalme 45. Psalme 47. Evening Prayer Psalme 57. Psalme 66. Psalme 72. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening prayer IN thee O Lord I have put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse incline thine ear unto me and save me ¶ Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to helpe me for thou art my house of defence and my Castle * For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth ¶ Thorough thee have I beene holden up ever since I was borne thou art he that tooke me out of my mothers wombe my praises shall be alwaies of thee * O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long ¶ Thy righteousnesse O God in very high and great things are they which thou hast done O God who is like unto thee◠* O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turne and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deepe of the earth againe ¶ Thou hast brought to me great honour and comforted me on every side * Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel ¶ My lips will be faine when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered * Blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things ¶ And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the earth shall be filled with his Majesty Amen Amen Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect O Most Holy most Glorious Saviour and redeemer Jesu who for our sakes didst descend from the glories of God to the paines and labours of the earth and didst passe from a painfull life to an ignominious death from the bitternesse of death to the darkenesse of the grave and by thy divine power didst raise thy selfe from death to life againe we give thee thanks for thy infinite love to us and all mankind we acknowledge thee to be our Lord and confesse thee to be our God we adore thy Majesty and rejoyce in thy mercies we humbly pray thee to enable us with thy Spirit to beleive all thy doctrines and to obey all thy Commandements that after a holy and a religious life spent in doing honour to thy holy Name we may be partakers of thy holy resurrection passing from death to life from the darkenesses of the grave to the light of Heaven from an imperfect duty to the perfection of holinesse in the fruition of the joyes of God in thy eternall Kingdome O Most holy Most Glorious Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Upon Ascension day Instead of the Psalmes of the day read at Morning Prayer Psalme 15. Psalme 21. Psalme 24. Evening Prayer Psalme 92. Psalme 96. Psalme 97. The Collect. O Blessed High Priest Holy Jesus King of the world and head of the Church who