at this Day By Lying Detraction and contumely by censuring and rash Judgments by false Witness and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Desire of Change and Uncontentedness in our Estates by giving our selves over to lustful covetous and inordinate Affections by desire of Peace not so much for thine own Honour or the publick Good as the Satisfaction of our own private Lusts by neglecting Acts of Charity and doing as we would be done unto and not doing our Duty in that State of Life unto the which it hath pleased thee to call us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian Duties of Humiliation and godly Sorrow for Sins of due Indignation and Revenge upon our selves for them of confessing and forsaking of Restitution and Satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth Fruits worthy of Repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Impatience under thy correcting Hand by not endeavouring our Amendment by it in reflecting upon our Sins as the Causes of it by despising thy Chastisements in not rejoycing in Tribulations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for Righteousness sake we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By fretting our selves because of the ungodly and being envious at the evil doers by not loving our Enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us not praying for those that despitefully use us and persecute us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By presuming to do evil that good may come thereon by placing Piety in Opinions by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels by scrupling at Things indifferent and making no Conscience of known Sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By running into open Prophaneness under Colour of avoiding Superstition by guiding our Conscience by Humours Fancies and not by the certain Rules of thy Law by having itching Ears and heaping to our selves Teachers and by having Mens Persons in Admiration because of advantage we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our unreformed continuing in our former Sins since thy heaviest Judgments came out against us our not melting not turning to thee in Humiliation and Contrition and Change of Life or not preparing to meet our God when he is come out in Fury against us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By those open or secret but still unmortified crying Sins of a wretched People which have so enraged a long suffering God as to deliver up our Glory the Joy of our Hearts and the Breath of our Nostrils into the Power and Malice of bloody Men to be assaulted with a Rage that reacheth up to Heaven we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our fatal Stupidity under this Vengeance of thine our Want of Zeal of Courage of a due Detestation of so vile an Enterprize our not confessing of thee when we have been most signally called unto it we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By bowing our Shoulders to bear and crouching down with Issachar under our Burthens because the Land is pleasant and Rest seemed good unto us by not putting out our selves and restoring our Soveraign but neglecting that Prize that thou wast pleased lately to put into our Hands and forsaking our own Mercy we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our too much Formality and Coldness in our Devotion by being wearied at the Return of our Days of Humiliation and secretly repining at the length and frequency of our Prayers by honouring thee with our Lips while our Hearts have been far from thee especially we of this Family have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By preferring Sacrifice before Obedience and by holding fast our Iniquities and yet thinking to be heard for our much speaking we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret Sins Try us O Lord God and search the ground of our Hearts prove and examine our Thoughts and look well if there be any other way of Wickedness in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer O Almighty and most Merciful Father who art the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth keeping Mercy for Thousands and forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate Eyes who are here before thee in the Bitterness of our Souls and do now with troubled Spirits with broken and contrite Hearts most humbly beg Pardon for these Multitude of our Offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the Blood of thy Son which speaketh better Things than that of Abel for his sake spare us Lord spare thy People that those Sins rise not up against us for his Passions sake expose us not for a Prey to their cruel Hands who would both devour and deride us Spare us Lord spare thy People for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and be merciful to all these our Sins through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest only ALmighty God our Heavenly Father who of his great Mercy hath promised Forgiveness of Sins to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your Sins confirm and strengthen you in all Goodness and bring you to everlasting Salvation both of Body and Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Lord's Prayer OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom 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
PRAYERS OF Intercession FOR THEIR Use who Mourn in Secret FOR THE Publick Calamities OF THIS NATION WITH An Anniversary Prayer for the 30th of January Very Necessary and Useful in Private Families as well as in Congregations By Jo. Huit D. D. LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. Prayers of Intercession for their Use who Mourn in Secret for the Publick Calamities of this Nation A Preparatory Prayer O Lord I find in that Book of thine which cannot deceive me that the oftner thy Servant Abraham prayed to thee the more he got ground upon thee and came at last to that holy Confidence as not only to pray to thee for himself but to be importunate and press thee in the behalf of others Lord I confess my Case is different for Abraham was the Father of the Faithful but I am not worthy to be reckoned among his Children He had the Honour to be called thy Friend but my Sins have been such that unless thy Mercy interveen may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy He prayed unto thee for a People of whose Sins he was no Partaker But my Address is to thee for them in whose Iniquities I am involved and have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastning and bringing down those terrible Judgments of thine which now lye so heavy upon us So that alas I am unworthy to appear before thee for my self and how shall I dare to supplicate thee for others O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathful Indignation from us O that there were a David a Daniel or a Jeremiah to pour out their Souls before thee yet hear me O my God for though these holy Saints of thine have now no being upon Earth yet their Prayers remain upon Record for every Soul that mourns in secret to make use of O Holy and Blessed Spirit kindle but the same fervency in my Heart while I repeat their Words as was in them and I know I shall be heard King David's Prayers for the Church and People The First Prayer O God! wherefore art thou absent from us so long or why is thy Wrath so hot against the Sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thine Inheritance whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Lift up thy Feet that thou mayest utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their Hearts let us make havock of them altogether and thus have they designed to ruine all the Houses of God in the Land But O God! how long shall the Adversary do this Dishonour How long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God! maintain thine own Cause remember how the foolish Man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the Soul of thy Turtle Dove into their hands for the Presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Second Prayer O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us Plenteousness of Tears to drink O turn us again thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that thou diddest once plant a Vine among us and when it had taken root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the Shadow of it and the Boughs were like the goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Bore of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us The Third Prayer HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy self O God For lo thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lifted up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken counsel against thy sacred Ones Behold they have cast their Heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee They have said come and let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about us like Water and compass us together on every side But O my God! make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind. Who say let us take unto our selves the Houses of God in possession O make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Fourth Prayer O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad thou hast been displeased at us O turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the Sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn thy People heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine Thou hast made us turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate us spoil our goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laughed to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy Covenant Our Heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy way No not when thou hast smitten us into the Place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of death Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever But O! wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble For our Soul is brought low even unto the dust and our belly cleaveth to the grave Arise help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken thine anointed and art displeased with him For lo thou hast broken the Covenant of thy Servant and cast his Crown to the ground Thou hast overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and cast his Throne down to the Ground The Days of his Youth hast thou seasoned with bitterness and covered him with dishonour But Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever And shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that thy Servant
against him and with eight hundred thousand chosen Men being mighty Men of Valour 4. And Abijah stood up upon Zemaraim which is in Mount Ephraim and said hear me thou Jeroboam and all Israel 5. Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the Kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his Sons by a Covenant of Salt 6. Yet Jeroboam the Son of Nebat the Servant of Solomon the Son of David is risen up and hath rebelled against his Lord 7. And there are gathered unto him vain Men the Children of Belial and have strengthned themselves against Rehoboam the Son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted and could not withstand them 8. And now ye think to withstand the Kingdom of the Lord in the Hand of the Sons of David and ye be a great Multitude and there are with you golden Calves which Jeroboam made you for Gods 9. Have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord the Sons of Aaron and the Levites and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands So that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young Bullock and seven Rams the same may be a Priest of them that are no Gods 10. But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests which minister unto the Lord are the Sons of Aaron and the Levites wait upon their Business 11. And they burn unto the Lord every Morning and every Evening burnt Sacrifices and sweet Incense the Shew-bread also set they in order upon the pure Table and the Candlestick of gold with the Lamps thereof to burn every Evening for we keep the charge of the Lord our God but ye have forsaken him 12. And behold God himself is with us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry alarm against you O Children of Israel fight ye not against the Lord God of your Fathers for you shall not prosper 13. But Jeroboam caused an Ambushment to come about behind them so they were before Judah and the Ambushment was behind them 14. And when Judah looked back behold the Battel was before and behind and they cryed unto the Lord and the Priests sounded with the Trumpets 15. Then the Men of Judah gave a shout and as the Men of Judah shouted it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah 16. And the Children of Israel fled before Judah and God delivered them into their Hands 17. And Abijah and his People slew them with a great slaughter so there fell down slain of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen Men 18. Thus the Children of Israel were brought under at that time and the Children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God of their Fathers 19. And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took Cities from him Bethel with the Towns thereof and Jeshanah with the Towns thereof and Ephraim with the Towns thereof 20. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the Days of Abijah and the Lord struck him and he died Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest We will cry unto the Lord with our voice yea even unto God will we cry with our voice and he shall hearken unto us for the Lord is gracious and long suffering and of great mercy to them that call upon him People The Lord is nigh to all that be of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble Spirit Priest And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thee People For our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them they called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded Priest The Lord 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 never failest them that seek thee People The merciful Goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his Righteousness upon Childrens Children even upon such as keep his Covenant and think upon his Commandments to do them Priest Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdeth all such as are falling and liftest up such as be down thou that healest the broken in heart and givest Medicine to heal their Sickness thou that art the Father of Mercy and God of all Consolation thou that art comfort to the Sad and strength to the Weak hear thy Servant we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visit us with thy Salvation Glory be to c. The Lord be with you And with thy holy Spirit OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom 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 Amen A Prayer O Lord of Heaven and Earth God of the Spirits of all Flesh we a most sinful and therefore now a most miserable People do in the bitterness of our afflicted Souls humbly fall down at the Footstool of thy Grace most sadly bewailing our many and most heinous Sins we have multiplied our Iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law having neither performed to thee our God nor to Man the Duties thou requirest of us so that by our wicked Works we have denyed that most holy Faith whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made Profession and now in thy just Judgment thou hast set our Sins in order before our Eyes yet return O God in great Mercy unto the many thousands of thy People do thou accept and encrease in our Hearts a Detestation of all Wickedness O let not thy Scourge end in a Desolation or thine Anger go on unto the height of an everlasting Ruin but hear us merciful Father hasten the Aversion of these thy sharp Judgments from us scatter thou the People that delight in War And let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those that strive and pray for this Blessing and that for his sake by whom thou givest every blessing even Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Priest Hear our Voice O Lord out of thy holy Temple let our Complaint come before thee let it enter even into thy Ears People Our Hearts are in heaviness O let us make our Prayers unto thee in an acceptable time Priest O Lord our Iniquities are against us our Rebellions are many with which we have transgressed against thee but we confess our Wickedness and are sorry for our Sins People Our Confusion is daily before us Fearfulness and Trembling are come upon us and