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 The Collect. O King of Glory Lord and Maker of the World thou art a God knowing all things and all thoughts even long before they are be thou present with us in this religious solemnity calling upon thee Deliver us from the shame of our sins from the corruption and evill inclinations that attend them anâ— from all the evils that may justly follow them Cleanse our wills and our understandings from all evill lusts and concupiscence from the deceits of the world from the violence and snares of the Devill from all guile and hypocrisy from every evill word and worke that we may serve thee faithfully worship thee religiously and pray unto thee acceptably through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Minister humbly say this prayer of preparation first in behalfe of himselfe then of the congregation O Lord God who in mercy and great compassion doest consider thy people and hast given unto us thy unworthy servants miserable sinners confidence and commandement to present our selves before thee at thy holy table to represent a holy venerable and unbloody sacrifice for our sins and for the errors and ignorances of all thy people looke upon me the meanest and most polluted of all them that approach to thy sacred presence Pity me O God and wash away all my sins Cleanse my heart and my hands my head and my lips from all impurities of the flesh and spirit and remoove far from me all irreverence and undecency all foolish imaginations and vaine reasonings and by the power of the Holy Ghost make me worthy for this ministery accepting this service for his sake whose sacrifice I represent and by whose commandement I minister even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen HAve mercy upon this thy people who with hungry and thirsty soules come to be refreshed comforted by the divine Nutriment of thy Holy Body and Blood Pity our infirmities despise not our unworthynesse Curse not our follies and take not from thy servants thy grace and the light of thy Divine Countenance but according to the multitude of thy great mercies doe away all our offences that without selfe condemnation we may appear before thy glory covered with the vaile of Jesus adorned with the robe of his righteousnesse and illustrated with the brightnesse of thy Divine spirit that we may live by thy grace and feel thy mercy and pardon in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Minister rising up rehearse with a loud voice the Eight Beatitudes the people still kneeling Minister Our Lord Jesus seeing the multitudes went up into a mountaine and he opened his mouth and taught them saying 1. BLessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 2. Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 3. Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the Earth People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 4. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for they shall be filled People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 5. Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 6. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 7. Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 8. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven People Lord make us ready in heart and body to obey thee in every thing that we may inherit all these blessings in the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Amen Let us Pray O Lord God our Creator who hast given us life and being and hast showne unto us the way of salvation vouchsafing to us the revelation of Heavenly Mysteries and hast commanded to us this service in the power of the Holy Ghost and obedience of the Lord Jesus be thou well pleased O Lord with this our service and dutie and grant that with a holy fear and a pure conscience we may finish this service presenting a holy sacrifice holily unto thee that thou maist receive it in heaven and smell a sweet odor in the union of the eternall sacrifice which our Blessed Lord perpetually offers and accept us graciously as thou didst entertaine the gifts of Abel the sacrifice of Noah the services of Moses and Aaron the peace-offering of Samuel the repentance of David and the incense of Zecharias and as from the hands of thy Holy Apostles thou didst accept this ministery so vouchsafe by the hands of us miserable sinners to finish and perfect this oblation that it may be sanctified by the Holy Ghost and be accepted in the Lord Jesus that we being adopted into the society and participation of his holinesse and sufferings admitted to his service incorporated to his body united to his purity made partakers of his intercession pardoned by his mercy sanctified by his grace confirmed by his strengths professing his religion beleiving in his word hoping in his promises and keeping all his commandements may receive the reward of faithfull and wise stewards in the day of righteous judgement Grant this O God for his sake who is the food of our soules and the joy of our hearts the object of our faith and hope and the great example of charity and all excellencies our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Then all arising from their knees shall be read some portions of scripture relating to the present Mystery viz. 1 EPistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians 11 chap. from verse 23. to the end The Gospel according to S. Marc. 14. 2. verse unto verse the 26. Or 1 Epistle of S. Paul written to the Corinthians 10 chapter from verse 1. to the 18. Gospel according to S. Matthew 26. verse 17. to verse 30. Sometimes one of these may suffice but never above two are to be us'd at once one out of the Epistles one out of the Gospels Then shall follow this Eucharistical Hymne all standing up reciting the verses interchangeably ONe thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of my life to
dealt graciously with us so deal with this infant whom we humbly bring and offer to our blessed Saviour Jesus that he should receive him and blesse him with the blessings of an everlasting love Receive him O most gracious Lord who is thy child by creation make him thine also by adoption into thy covenant of grace and favour let him be consigned with thy Sacrament be admitted into Christs kingdome enter into his warfare beleeve his doctrine labour and hope for his promises that this child witnessing here a good confession may have his understanding for ever brought unto the obedience his affections to the love and all his faculties to the service of Christ and after he hath served thee in his generation he may receive his part and portion in thy glory thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Then arising from their knees the Minister shall say unto the Godfathers and Godmothers as followeth WEl beloved friends you have brought this child to be presented unto Christ as a servant of his laws and a Disciple of his doctrine ye have prayed that God would receive him and give him a portion in the Gospel and kingdome of his Son ye have heard what promises God hath made on his part and ye beleeve and know all his words are yea and Amen and not one tittle of them shall pass unaccomplished now therefore because it is a Covenant of grace and favour on Gods part and of faith and obedience on ours though God prevents us with his grace and begins to doe for us before we can doe any thing to him yet you under whose power this child is and by whose faith and charity this child comes to Christ in holy Baptisme must also on his or her behalf promise that he will forsake the devil and all his wicked works that he will faithfully beleeve Christs holy Gospel and dutifully keep all Christs Commandements Minister Dost thou abjure and renounce and promise to forsake the Devil and all his wicked works not to listen to his temptations not to be led by the flesh by the vain powers of the world by carnal or covetous desires but thou wilt be the servant of the Lord Jesus Answer I forsake them all and will be a servant of Jesus Minister Dost thou beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his onely begotten Son our Lord And that he was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary that he suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried that he went down into hell and also did rise againe the third day that he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence he shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quicke and the dead And dost thou believe in the holy Ghost the Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the remission of sins the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life after death Answer All this I will profess and stedfastly beleeve Minister Wilt thou be baptized into this faith Answer That is my desire Let us Pray O Almighty God who hast given the promise of thy Spirit to us and to our children even to as many as the Lord our God shall call Give thy holy Spirit to this infant that the evil spirits of darkness may not take thy portion from thee nor hurt the body nor deceive the understanding nor corrupt the will nor tempt the affections of this infant but that thy Spirit who bloweth where it listeth no man knows whence he cometh nor whether he goeth may be in this child as the seed of God springing up to life eternal that the kingdom of God which is within and commeth not with observation may early rule and conduct this infant prevent the folly of his childhood from growing up to sins in his youth and may work strongly in him when his weakness his ignorances and temptations are most powerful to prevail upon him that from his cradle to his grave he may be guided by the Spirit of God in the paths of the divine Commandements Admit him O God into the bosome of the Church into the armes of thy mercy into a right of the promises into the service of Christ into the Communion of Saints and give him power to become the Son of God that being buried with Christ in Baptisme he may also rise with him thorough the faith of the operation of God thorough the same our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Then the Minister of the Sacrament shall take the child in his armes and ask the Name Then naming the child aloud he shall dip the head or face or body of the child in the water saying N. I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Dipping the head at the naming of the holy Trinity If the child be weak or any other great Cause intervene it may suffice instead of dipping to sprinkle water on the face using the same form of words Then shall the priest make the sign of the Cross upon the childs forehead saying WE sign this child with the sign of the Cross and enroll him a Soldier under the banner of Christ to signifie and in ceremony to represent that the duty of this and all baptized persons is manfully to fight under the banner of Christ against the flesh the world and the Divel all the daies of their life and by the power which Christ our Blessed Lord who hath the key of David hath given unto me I admit this child into the Communion of Saints into the bosome of the visible Church the kingdome of Grace and the title to the promises Evangelical and the hopes of glory OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus who when he had overcome the sharpness of death did open the kingdom of heaven to all beleevers and gave unto his Church the keyes of the kingdome that his ministers might let into it all that come to him he of his infinite goodness and truth make good his gracious promises upon this infant that what we doe on earth according to his will he may confirme in heaven by his spirit and by his word to the glory of the blessed and undivided Trinity God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then shall the Minister adde this Invitation SEeing now dearly Beloved that this infant hath received holy Baptisme and is washed in the laver of regeneration admitted into the bosome of the Church into the Covenant of faith and repentance pardon and holiness let us give thanks to God for these graces and pray that this child may lead his life according to the present undertaking I. WE give thee thanks and praise O heavenly and most gracious Father that it hath pleased thee to call this child to thy holy Baptism to renew him with thy holy Spirit to admit him into the Church to adopt him for thy child and to receive him
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
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
Amen A prayer against temptations III. O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ thy Name is great thy essence is infinite thy goodnesse is eternal and thy power hath no limit thou art the God and Lord of all Blessed for evermore Looke downe in mercie and compassion from thy dwelling heare our prayers and supplications and deliver us from all temptations of the world the flesh and the Devill Take not thy grace from us let us never want thy helpe in our needs nor thy comfort in the day of our danger and calamity Never try us beyond our strengths nor afflict us beyond our Patience nor smite us but with a Fathers rod * We have no strengths of our owne thou art our confidence our rock and our strong salvation Save us O God from the miseries of this world and never let us suffer the intolerable calamities of the next Rescue us from the evils we have done and preserve us from the evils we have deserved that we living before thee with clean hearts and undefiled bodies and sanctified spirits may at the day of Judgement be presented pure and spotlesse by the blood of the lamb that we may sing eternall Allelujahs in heavenly places to the honour of God our Saviour who hath redeemed our soules from death our eyes from tears and our feet from falling Grant this in the richnesse of thy mercy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall be added upon all Sundaies and Festivals of the yeare this following prayer and upon other daies as opportunitie is to be had all or some portions The prayers for kings c. and the state Ecclesiastical are never to be omitted but on ordinary daies it may suffice to recite them omitting so much of either as is included in the Columnes * The prayer of intercession for all states of Men and Women in the Catholick Church I. 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 our body sanctification of our spirits peace from heaven and salvation of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus Amen For the Catholick Church II. HEar our praiers for thy holy Church Catholick which thou hast redeemed with thy blood sealed and sanctified with thy spirit Extirpate all heresies and false doctrines unite all her divisions let her be prosperous under thy favour and the protection of Kings and Princes and the whole secular arme that she may daily celebrate thy Name with strict obedience and pure spiritual sacrifices that she may be accepted and prevaile in her daily and nightly prayers and that the gates of hell may never prevaile against her let her live in the spirit and reigne in thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the supreme power III. WE pray unto thee O great King of Heaven and earth for all Christian Kings Princes Governours and states Crowne them with justice and peace and with the love of God and the love of their people * let holinesse be the ornament of their heads invest them with the armour of righteousnesse and let the anointing from above make them Sacred and venerable wise and holy * that being servants of the King of Kings friends of religion Ministers of justice and patrons of the poor they may at last inherit a portion in the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus For the state Ecclesiastical IV. REmember all them that doe the Lords worke in the ministery and conduct of soules Give them great gifts and great holinesse * that wisely and charitably diligently and zealously prudently and acceptably they may be guides to the blind comforters to the sad and weary that they may strengthen the weake and confirme the strong separate the vile from the precious boldly rebuke sinne patiently suffer for the truth and be exemplary in their lives * that in all their actions and sermons in their discipline and ministrations they may advance the good of soules and the honour of our Lord Jesus Amen For all orders and states of men c. V. O Blessed God who art rich in mercie and compassion take care of all states of Men and Women in the Christian Church the Nobility and Gentry Magistrates and Judges Advocates and Physicians Merchants and Artificers Husbandmen and Tradesmen the Labourers and the Hirelings give them grace in their several callings to glorifie thee and to keep a good conscience both towards God and towards Man that they may find eternal comfort in the glorious day of our Lord Jesus For the miserable and afflicted VI. In mercie remember the poor and needy the widdowes and the Fatherlesse the strangers and the friendlesse the oppressed and the greived the Decrepit and the sickly the yong men and the tempted the weake of heart and the weake in body them that languish and them that are dying Releive their necessities comfort their sorrowes sanctifie their calamities strengthen their weaknesses and suffer not the Devil to prevaile over them in the daies of their sorrow and disadvantage and in thy due time deliver them from their sad bondage into thy glorious liberty of the sons of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. VII BE a guide to the travellers a star and a port to Mariners the comfort and strength of Miners and Gallislaves Pity good God all Gentlemen that are fallen into poverty and sad misfortunes strengthen and deliver all women that are in sharp and dangerous labour all them that roar and groane with intolerable paines and noisome diseases Have mercy and compassion upon all that are afflicted with illusion of the night and frightfull apparitions that are haunted or possessed with evill spirits or troubled with despairing or amazed consciences with the stone and with the gout with violent colics and greivous ulcers give them pity and give them patience a speedy deliverance from their calamity and a sanctified use of the rod of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. VIII WE pray unto thee O Blessed Father in behalfe of all that are in banishment captivity in fetters or hard services in want or extreme poverty in great fear or in any great passion Keep them from sinning against thee and from being swallowed by too great a sorrow Let the accidents of their lives be under the command of reason and of thy holy spirit and end in holinesse and comfort in peace and joyes eternall through the mercies of our God in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen For the preservation from danger and evill IX KEep us O God from famine and pestilence from Earthquakes and inundations from fire and sword from invasion by foreign enemies and from civil warres from false religion and from discountenancing the true let every Christian soule find pity at the throne of grace let all our errors and ignorances find pardon by Christ and remedie by the holy spirit of Christ hear all our praiers releive all our necessities
sanctifie all the events of thy providence and the changes of our life that we may for ever love and for ever fear thee and all things may worke together for our Good unto thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The blessing 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 this day and for evermore Amen The end of Morning Prayer EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences O Lord the hope of Israel all that forsake thee shall be ashamed because they have for saken the Lord the fountaine of living waters O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us have mercy upon us for thy names sake for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee Seeke the Lord while he may be found call upon him when he is neer There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the remnant of the transgression of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercie Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to renew the heart of them that are contrite After which adde this short exhortation I Beseech you that are present to joyne with me in a humble confession of sins to Almighty God casting your selves downe with all humility before the throne of Grace The Confession I. ALmighty God powerfull and mercifull thou art a jealous God against persevering sinners but a gracious father to the penitent let thy mercifull eares be opened to the petitions of thy servants who with sorrow and shame confesse their sins unto thee II. We have loved the world not thee we have obeyed the desires of our owne hearts not thy holy lawes and Commandements we have often left our dutie undone but cease not to please our senses and to feed greedily upon vanity thou hast commanded us to love our brethren and instead of loving them we have slandered and reproached injured and tempted them envied their good and rejoyced in their calamity III. O Blessed God we are asham'd when we rememberd our owne follies our violent passions our peevishnesse and pride our vaine thoughts and unprofitable words our uncharitable and uselesse conversation we spend our daies in idlenesse and folly our nights in the images and causes of death and though our sins are so many that we cannot number them yet we so little apprehend our owne dangers that we neither leave them utterly nor heartily deplore them IV. But O God thou God of pity and compassion have mercy upon us For thou art our Father mercifull and gracious and thou hast revealed to mankind an infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. For his sake be pleased to give us repentance and to give us pardon and grant that our soules being wash'd in the blood of the holy Lambe and the Baptisme of repentance we may live a gracious a holy and a blessed life in all godlinesse and honesty and sobriety and may die in the love of God in the charity of our neighbours in the Communion of the Church and in a sure and certaine hope of life eternal 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 OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great Shepherd and Bishop of our soules that lambe of God that 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 Devill 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 eternall 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 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 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 and 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 Psalme's be said in order unlesse some extraordinary occasion doe intervene in which case let Psalmes be selected according to the occasion or as is afterwards described concluding with Glory be to the Father c. Then read upon all Sundaies and Festivals of the yeare a chapter in the old Testament either in order or by choice After the lesson recite this Hymne * I Will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember the wonders of old I will meditate of allthy 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 ¶ Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry * For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he powreth out of the same
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
thy power and among the diversities of opinions and judgments in this world from all errors and false doctrines and led into all truth by the conduct of thy holy spirit may for ever obey thy heavenly calling that we may not be onely hearers of the word of life but doers also of good workes keeping faith and a good conscience living an unblameable life usefully and charitably religiously and prudently in all godlinesse and honesty before thee our God and before all the world that at the end of our mortal life we may enter into the light and life of God to sing praises and eternall hymnes to the glory of thy name in eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In whose name let us pray in the words which himselfe commanded saying 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 A prayer of Thanksgiving after Sermon if it be convenient by reason of the time or other circumstances I. ALmighty God our glory and our hope our Lord and Master the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort we humbly present to thee the sacrifice of a thankfull spirit in a joyfull acknowledgment of those infinite favours by which thou hast supported our state enriched our spirits comforted our sorrowes releiv'd our necessities blessed and defended our persons instructed our ignorances and promoted our eternall interest * We praise thy name for that portion of thy holy word of which thou hast made us partakers this day Grant that it may bring forth fruit unto thee and unto holinesse in our whole life to the glory of thy holy name the edification of our Brethren and the eternall comfort of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus II. Have mercy upon all that desire and upon all that need our praiers Ease the paines of the sick support the spirit of the disconsolate heare the cries of Orphans and Widdowes in their calamity and restore all that are oppressed to their rights and sanctify to them all their wrongs pity the folly and pity the calamities of poor mankind in mercy remembring them that are appointed to die comfort and support their spirits perfect and accept their repentance and receive the soules returning unto thee whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood III. Lord pity and pardon direct and blesse sanctify and save us all Give repentance to all that live in sinne and perseverance to all thy sons and servants for his sake who is thy beloved and the foundation of all our hopes Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory praise and adoration love and obedience now and for evermore Amen If this whole office be said at Morning or Evening Prayer respectively the Collect before sermon here put downe may be used instead of the Usual prayer before sermon ending with the Lords prayer and the Sermon to begin immediately before the blessing The Sermon being ended the prayer of thankes-giving may be said and the congregation dismissed with the blessing set downe at the end of Evening Prayer A prayer when a sick person desires to be publikely prayed for I. O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of life and health and pardon hear the prayers of thy servants in behalfe of our Brother or Sister the miserable for the afflicted of sinners for him or her whom thou hast smitten Lord lay no more upon him then thou shalt enable him to beare but give him patience and doe thou thy selfe open a door for his escape even by a holy and a reformed life and a speedy recovery or else by a blessed death as thou in thy infinite loving kindnesse shalt choose for thy glory and his eternall interest II. Lord give unto thy servant a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon of all his sins Remember not the errors of his youth the weaknesse of his spirit the surprises of his life and the crimes of his choice but joyne his present sufferings to the passion his prayers to the intercession and his repentance to the merits of our dearest Saviour Jesus that he may be pardoned and pitied comforted and supported sanctified and saved in the day of recompenses III. Blessed Jesus who hast overcome all the powers of sinne Hell and the grave take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death give him a perfect resignation of his will and conformity to thine restraine the power of the enemy that he may not prevaile against the soule which thou hast redeemed If it be thy will give him a speedy restitution of his health and a holy use of the affliction or if thou hast otherwise decreed preserve him in thy fear and favour and receive his soule to mercy to pardon and eternal life through thy mercies and for thy compassion sake O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen I. For seasonable weather in time of drowth immoderate raine or scarcity or death of Cattel c. O Lord God whose providence is universal and sufferest nothing to happen in vaine have mercy upon thy servants who have deserved thy wrath and to suffer thy indignation in every expression by which thou art pleas'd to signifie it Thou O God coverest the Heaven with clouds and preparest raine for the earth thou makest the grasse to growe upon the mountains and herbe for the use of men Thou givest fodder unto the cattel and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Heare us O God who are thy servants and the sheep of thy pasture we have indeed wandered and gone astray but doe thou be mercifull unto us and bring us home to thee Take away thine anger from us Blesse the labours of the husbandman and the fruits of the feild refresh the weary earth with seasonable showers or seasonable weather for thou hast the key of raine and the key of providence thou didst bind up the heavens with ribs of iron and thou didst open againe the sluces of water at the prayer of thy servant Elijah and thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies have no limit II. Open thy hand O God and fill us with thy loving kindnesse that the Mower may fill his hand and he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome that our garners may be full with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in or going out that our hearts may be replenish'd with food and gladnesse that there be no complaining in our streets Give us sufficient for this life
food and raiment the light of thy countenance and contented spirits and thy grace to seeke the Kingdom of heaven and the righteousnesse thereof in the first place and then we are sure all these things shall be added unto us Grant the desires and heare the prayer of thy servants for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely saviour Amen Or this upon the same occasion or in the time of any other judgement ALmighty Father Lord of Heaven Earth we have sinned and thou hast smitten us al our evils that we suffer are drawne upon our heads by our owne impious hands let thy threatnings and thy judgments thy love and thy feare thy promises and thy precepts worke in thy servants an excellent repentance and let our repentance obtaine thy favour and thy favour remove the present evil of Drowth of immoderate raine of Murren of Plague of Warre of Sicknesse from us according to the present occasion sanctify unto us thy rod and support us with thy staffe and restore us to those comforts which we need and which thou hast promised to give to them that love and feare thee that repent of their sins and beg for pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A shorter forme of Morning prayer for a Family A more private office for the family to be said betimes in the Morning on Sundaies or at any houre of the morning upon the other daies of the weeke In the name of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father c. The morning Hymne * HEarken unto the voice of my cry my King and my God for unto thee will I pray ¶ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will looke up * Great is our Lord and greatly to be praised his eyes are ever upon the righteous and his ears are open unto their cry ¶ Thy mercy O Lord is in the heavens and thy faithfulnesse reacheth unto the clouds * Thy righteousnesse is like the great mountaines thy judgements are a great deep O Lord thou preservest both man and beast ¶ How excellent is thy loving-kindnesse O Lord therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings * For with thee is the fountaine of life in thy light we shall see light ¶ According to thy name O God so is thy praise to the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousnesse * The Lord the Lord God is mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty ¶ What is man that thou shouldest magnifie him and that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him * And that thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him every moment ¶ If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes and make thy supplication to the Almighty * If thou wert pure and upright surely now he would awake for thee and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous ¶ O Lord be gracious unto us we have waited for thee be thou our arme every morning our salvation also in the time of trouble * O send out thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them bring me to thy holy hill unto thy dwelling ¶ O put your trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption he shall redeem his people from their sins * Then shall their light breake forth as the morning and their health shall spring forth speedily for the glory of the Lord shall be their reward Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end If there be time and conveniency let a chapter be read out of the Sapiential bookes in order viz. The proverbs of Solomon Ecclesiastes the Wisedome of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Then shall follow the Creed To be said by all together 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 I. Let us pray O Eternall and most blessed Saviour Jesus thou art the bright morning star and the sun of righteousnesse thou dost enlighten our eyes with thy beauties and our hearts with thy comfort and with the joyes of God thou art the fountaine of health and life of peace and truth of rest and holinesse thou givest to them that want thou comfortest them that suffer thou forgivest them that repent and hearest the prayers of all them that call upon thee we adore thee and praise thy glories and rejoyce in thy salvation and give thee thanks for thy blessing and defending us this night from all the evill which we have deserved every day and from all the violences and snares by which the enemie of mankind would have hurt us or destroyed us unlesse he had been restrained by thy eternall goodnesse and thy almighty power Blessed be God II. We acknowledge O God and Father of our life that we are lesse then the least of all thy mercies and our iniquity is greater then we can bear our thoughts are vaine our words are foolish and uselesse injurious and uncharitable our actions criminall and hatefull our devotion cold our passions violent and unreasonable our duties imperfect our repentance little our holinesse none at all O God our Judge we confesse before thee that we neither know thee as we ought nor have taken care that we might we live in the world to our selves but without just regards of thee and of religion we daily receive thy blessings and yet we provoke thee every day we tremble not at thy judgements though we have deserved them nor fear till the evil day comes upon us we are greedy of doing evill but impatient of suffering any in prosperity we forget thy severity and justice in afflictions we are timorous and amazed dare not relie upon thy goodnesse nor with confidence and love expect the effects of thy mercies and forgivenesse Every thing can tempt us to sin and we fall infallibly but by all the arts of thy Spirit and the methods of thy mercy we are not brought to obey thee as we ought Our state is sad our condition is sinfull our hopes are broken and we
often forget our selves and still neglect and despise our owne danger III. BUt O God our Father mercifull and gracious have mercy upon us Be pleased to admit thy servants to a full pardon of all our sins let us not persevere in any one sinne nor passe from one sin to another Smite us not O God in thy anger and let not thy wrath descend upon our guilty heads Thy anger O God is insufferable thy vengeance is the portion of accursed soules and thou hast prepared the everlasting fire for the Devill and his Angels for ever O Lord thou Father of our life and lover of soules let us never have our portion in the bottomlesse pit in the lake that burueth with fire and brimstone for ever but let our portion be in the actions of repentance in the service of God in the aids and comforts of thy Spirit in dutie and holinesse in the light of thy countenance and in the likenesse and in the inheritance of our Lord Jesus O God let not thy arrowes smite us nor thy judgements consume us keep us from all expressions of thy wrath and let us rejoice in thy mercies and loving-kindnesses for ever and ever Amen IV. And that thy servants may reasonably and humbly hope for thy final mercies and deliverance be pleased to give us all that we need in order to the performance of our dutie and worke all that in us by which we may please thee Instruct us in thy truth and prepare the means of salvation for us providing for the necessities and complying with the capacities of evey one of us Take from us all blindnesse of heart and carelessenesse of spirit all irreligion and wilful ignorance Create in us a love of holy things and open our hearts that we may perceive and love and retaine the things of God with diligence and humility and industry O God our Father pity our weaknesses temptations our avocations and unavoidable divertisements the prejudices and evill contingencies happening in the state of our lives Enable us with sufficient and active graces to doe whatsoever thou requirest of us severally Require no more of any one of us then thou hast or shalt give unto us neither doe thou exact all that for we all confesse our weaknesses and defects our strange imperfections and inexcusable wandrings and omissions but be pleased to cure all our vitious inclinations and take care to remoove from us all those temptations which without thy mighty grace are not to be avoided and if they come are by our weaknesses not to be overcome Keep us O God from flattery and irreligion from vicious complyances and evill customes and let not the reverence of any man cause us to sin against thee keep us upright in our religion and worshippings of thee and let no change of the World engage us in a state of life against our duty for Jesus Christ his sake our Dearest Lord and Saviour V. Keep us O God by thy holy Spirit of grace from all the sins of idlenesse and intemperance from injustice and sensuality from the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes from the pride of life and vanity of spirit from being carelesse of our dutie of false in our trust from breach of promise or reproachfull language from slandering or traducing any man from false accusation and false witnesse from faction and envie Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse just in our charges provident of our time watchfull in our dutie carefull of every word we speak O make us to be pleased in the offices of religion usefull to those that imploy us dutifull to our superiors loving to each other conscientious in private humble in publick patient in adversity religious and thankful in prosperity VI. O Blessed God take care of our soules and of our bodies keep us from sharp and tedious sicknesses let us never fall into want or be unprovided for in our age and forsake us not O God when we are gray-headed Grant us great measures of thy Spirit that we may abstaine from all appearances of evill and from all occasions of it and that we may take care to doe whatsoever is honest and of good report that having laid up a treasure of good workes against the day of thy visitation we may rejoyce in the day of our death and find mercy at the day of judgement through the goodnesse of our God and by the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VII Blesse and sanctify defend and save all Christian Kings Princes Governors and States Grant that all powers Civil and Ecclesiasticall may joyne together in the promoting the honour of God and the kingdome of the Lord Jesus and may find the blessings of God and the rewards of the Lord Jesus in this world and in the world to come Give health and comfort peace and holinesse long life and increase of grace to the cheifest of this family his Wife and children grant that their portion may be in religion and the love of God keep them from all evill by the guard of Angels and lead them into all good by the conduct of thy good Spirit VIII In mercy and great compassion remember all them that are miserable and afflicted persecuted or poore that have lost their estates or lost their liberty their health or their peace their innocence or their hopes restore them O Lord to all good and to all usefull comforts and let not the enemie of mankind invade thy portion or destroy any soule for whom thou hast paid the price of thy most precious blood Hear us O God in mercy and blesse all our relations and prosper all our labours and sanctify all our intentions and forgive us all our sins and releive all our necessities and defend us from all dangers and especially from our own selves from our evill habits and foolish customes from our weake principles and sad infirmities from our evill concupiscence and vitious inclinations from the power of the Devill and from thy wrath and bring us in mercy and truth in holinesse and comfort in labour and certainty to a fruition of the glories of God in the inheritance of our blessed Saviour Grant this O God our Father for the merits and by the redemption and intercession of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 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 defend and guide sanctify and save us and al our relatives and all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen A short forme of Evening prayer for a family In the name of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father c. The HYMNE O* Lord our Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the Earth thou hast set thy glory above the Heavens ¶ When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moone and the stars which thou hast ordained *
When he fell and broke thy easy Commandement thou didst not despise his folly nor leave him in his sin but didst chastise him with thy rod and restrain him by thy law and instruct him by thy Prophets and at last didst send thy Holy Son into the world that he might renew and repair thy broken image The People shall answer Blessed be God He comming from heaven and taking our flesh by the power of the Holy Ghost of the Vâ—rgin Mary conversed with men and taught us the way of God and the dispensation of Eternal life People Holy Jesus Blessed be God But when for the redemption of us sinners he would suffer death upon the Cross without sin for us who were nothing but sin and misery in the night in which he was betrayed he took bread he looked up to heaven he gave thanks he sanctified it he brake it and gave it to his Apostles saying Take eat This is my body which is broken for you Doe this in remembrance of me Likewise after Supper he took the Cup and when he had given thanks and blessed it he gave it to them saying Drink ye all of this for this is my bloud of the new Testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins Doe this in remembrance of me For as often as ye shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shall shew forth the Lords death till he come The people shall answer Amen Minister We beleeve and we confess People We declare thy death and confess thy resurrection Then the Minister kneeling shall say this prayer of Oblation I. WE sinners thy unworthy servants in remembrance of thy life-giving passion thy Cross and thy pains thy death and thy burial thy resurrection from the dead and thy ascension into Heaven thy sitting at the right hand of God making intercession for us and expecting with fear and trembling thy formidable and glorious return to judge the quick and dead when thou shalt render to every man according to his works doe humbly present to thee O Lord this present sacrifice of remembrance and thanksgiving humbly and passionately praying thee not to deal with us according to our sins nor recompence us after our transgressions but according to thy abundant mercy and infinite goodness to blot out and take away the hand-writing that is against us in the book of remembrances which thou hast written and that thou wilt give unto us spiritual celestial and eternal gifts which neither eye hath seen nor ear hath heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to understand which God hath prepared for them that love him thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall follow the reception and distribution of the Holy Sacrament The Minister first receiving and privately saying this short prayer O Blessed Jesus My Lord and my God thou art the celestial food and the life of every man that cometh unto thee I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am not worthy to partake of these holy Mysteries but thou art my merciful Saviour grant that I may religiously thankfully and without reproof partake of thy Blessed body and blood for the remission of my sins and unto life eternal Amen Then reverently taking in his hand the consecrated bread that he means to eat let him say THE Body of our Lord Jesus which was broken for me preserve my body and Soul into everlasting life Amen Then praying a while privately let him receive the Chalice saying THE Bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for the remission of my sins cleanse my Soul and preserve it into everlasting life Amen Then let him pray awhile privately and recommend to God his own personal necessities spiritual and temporal and the needs of all his Relatives c. After that let him distribute it first to the Clergy that helps to officiate and after that to the whole Congregation that offers themselves saying the same words changing the person While the Minister of the Mysteries is praying privately the people may secretly pray thus or to this purpose I Beleeve O God and confess that thou art Christ the Son of the living God who came into the world to save sinners whereof I am chief Lord make me this day partaker of thy heavenly Table for thou dost not give thy secrets to thy enemies but to the sons of thine own house Let me never give thee a Judas kiss I confess thee and thy glories I invocate thee and thy mercies I trust upon thee and thy goodness like the thief upon the Cross Lord remember me in thy kingdome with the remembrances of an everlasting love Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof but as thou didst safe to lie in a Manger with beasts and to enter into the house of Simon the leper nor didst despife the repenting harlot when she kissed thy feet so vouchsafe to lodge in my soul though it be a place of beastly affections and unreasonable passions throw them out and dwell there for ever purifie my soul accept the sinner cleanse the leper so shall I be worthy to partake of this Divine Banquet Amen When every of the Communicants hath received in both kinds let the Paten and Chalice if any of the consecrated Elements remain be decently covered and then shall follow these prayers THE POSTCOMMUNION The Minister and People devoutly kneeling shal say the Lords prayer the people repeating every petition after the Minister 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 aganist 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 the Minister shall pray this prayer for the Catholick Church I. REceive O Eternal God this sacrifice for and in behalf of al Christian people whom thou hast redeemed with the bloud of thy Son and purchased as thine own inheritance From the fountains of mercy the springs of our Blessed Saviour let all thy people upon whom the name of Jesus is called receive confirmation and increase of grace fruitfulness in good works and perfect understanding in the way of godliness Defend O God thy Church and preserve her from all heresy and scandal from sacrilege and Simony from covetousness and pride from factions and schism from Atheisme and irreligion from all that persecute the truth from all that work wickedness and let not thegates of hell prevail against her nor any evil come neer to hurt her II. Give thy blessing O God to this Nation remember us for good and not for evil be reconcil'd unto us in the Son of thy love and let not thine anger be any longer upon us nor thy jealousy burn like fire Send us health and peace justice
sanctifying these waters a new and heavenly off-spring may hence arise full of health and light that humane nature which was made after thy own image being reformed and restored to the honour of its first beginning may be cleansed from all the impure adherencies of sin preserved from the Dominion of it and rescued from all its sad effects that what shall be so born in the wombe of the Church may dwell in the house of God and Reign with thee for ever in the inheritance of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen II. OUR Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus who was baptized of John in Jordan who walked upon the waters who converted water into wine who out of his precious side shed forth bloud and water the two Sacraments of life unto his holy Church and commanded his disciples to teach all nations baptizing them with water in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost he blesse and sanctifie by his holy Spirit this water that it may be instrumental and effective of grace of pardon and sanctification Hear us O most gracious God that whoever shall be baptized in this water may be renewed by thy grace justified by thy mercy sanctified by thy Spirit preserved by thy providence and guided by thy word that in this water springing from the Paradise of God the Soul or Souls presented unto thee may be cleansed and purified and that there may be added to thy Church daily such as shall be saved in the day of thy glorious appearing O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then the Minister and People arising from their knees the following Gospel shall be read Hear the words of the holy Gospel written by S. Matthew in the third chapter c. Verse 13. to verse 17. inclusively THen cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him * But John forbad him saying I have need to be baptized of thee and commest thou to me And Jesus answering said unto him Suffer it to be so now for thus it becommeth us to fulfill all righteousness Then he suffered him And Jesus when he was baptised went up straitway out of the water and loe the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lighting upon him * And loe a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Hear likewise what S. Mark writeth in his tenth chapter Verse 13. 17. exclusively THE Jews brought children to Christ that he should touch them and his Disciples rebuked those that brought them * But when Jesus saw it he was much displeased and said unto them Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdome of God Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not receive the kingdome of God as a little child he shall not enter therein * And he took them up in his armes put his hands upon them and blessed them FRiends in these Gospels you see the actions and hear the words of our Blessed Saviour how he commanded little children to be brought unto him how he rebuked those that would have kept them away how readily he blessed them how kindly he embraced them how he pronounced them capable of and entitled to the kingdome of God how he commanded us to receive the kingdome as infants received it and affirmed that we can no way receive it but by being like them you know also that although Christ commanded them to be brought unto him there is no ordinary and appointed way for Infants to come to Christ and no way poâ—â—â—ble for them to be brought to Christ but by this new birth and regeneration in the laver of Baptisme you see also by the example and words of our Blessed Lord himself that even the most innocent persons ought to be baptized For he himself who knew no sin was yet baptized in the Baptisme of Repentance and so to doe was the fulfilling of righteousness we may therefore easily perceive that the innocence of infants and their freedom from actual sin cannot excuse them from Baptisme and if we remember that although our Blessed Saviour required faith of them who came to be healed of their diseases yet by the * faith of others who came in behalf of such as could not be brought or could not come the sick person was healed we are sufficiently instructed that although Infants have no more actual faith then they have actual sin yet the faith of others can be is by the usual and revealed method of the divine mercy as well imputed to them to the purposes of grace and life as the sin of Adam can be imputed to the purposes of death that as in Adam all die so in Christ all should be made alive we may therefore from these certain evidences conclude that God alloweth in you this obedience and charity in bringing this child to Christ to receive all blessings of which he is capable a title to the promises and adoption to be the child of God a sanctification by the spirit a designation to the service of Christ and putting him into the order of eternal life Therefore as circumcision was the seal of the righteousness of faith and yet minâ—stred to infants eight daies old and commanded so severely that God said the uncircumcised child whole flesh is not circumcisedâ— that soul shall be cut off from his people so Baptisme which is now the seal of the same faith and the same righteousness and a figure like unto the former is to be administred to infants although they have no more actual faith then the children of the Israelites had our Blessed Saviour having made Baptisme as necessary in the new Testament as Circumcision in the Old For because little children can receive the kingdome of God and in infants there is no incapacity of receiving the mercies of God the adoption to be children of God a title to the promises the covenant of repentance and a right to pardon whosoever shall deny to baptize infants when he is justly required is sacrilegious and uncharitable Since therefore the Church of God hath so great so cleer so indubitable a warrant to baptize infants and therefore did alwaies practice it let us humbly and charitably give thanks to God for his great mercies unto us all and with meekness and love recommend this child to the grace of God Let us pray O Almighty and eternal God who hast redeemed us from sin and shame from the gates of hell and the sting of death and from ignorance and darkness by thy holy Son who is that light which lightneth every man that cometh into the world we praise and glorifie thy name that thou hast called us to the knowledge of thy will and the love of thy name and the service of thy majesty which is perfect freedome the freedome of the sons of God II. As thou hast
design it for the production of mankind and didst give it as one of the first blessings of mankind O be pleased to look upon thy handmaid who waits for thy mercy and humbly begs of thy infinite goodness to make me partaker of that blessing which thou didst design to all the sons and daughters of Adam thou O God hast the keyes of heaven and hell of rain and providence of the womb and the grave O let not thy servant feel the curse of dry breasts and a barren womb but make me a joyful Mother of children that thy handmaid may serve thee in increasing the number of thy redeemed ones and may minister blessings to this family into which thou hast adopted me and may bring comfort to my dear husband whom doe thou bless and love and sanctifie for ever II. O God I confess I am unworthy of this or any other favour I am less then the least of thy mercies yet our weakness and unworthiness cannot be the measures of thy mercy thou art good and gracious infinitely gracious essentially good and delightest in shewing mercy to them that call upon thee put their trust in thee O dear God I remember that thou didst releive the sorrows of thy servant Hannah and gavest her the blessing of children thou didst blesse the womb of Elizabeth who was barren thou spakest the word and the rocks did rend and they sent forth a pleasant stream Thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies are not less then ever no less then infinite and why should not thy servant hope that thou wilt hear my prayer and grant the desire of my soul Even so O gracious father let it be as thou pleasest thy wisedom is infinite and thy counsels are secret and the waies and lines of thy providence are like the path of a bird in the aire not to be discovered by our weak sight III. I Know O God that thou lovest to hear our prayers and thou delightest in the humble passionate and resigned desires of thy servants Although O God I desire this blessing with an earnestness as great as any temporal favour yet I humbly submit my desires my interests my content and all that I am or have to thy holywill and pleasure humbly begging of thee that I may cheerfully suffer and obediently doe thy will and choose what thou choosest and observe the waies of thy providence and revere thy judgement and wait for thy mercy and delight in thy dispensation and expect that all things shall work together for good to them that fear thee O let thy holy Spirit for ever be present with me and make me to fear thee and to love thee above all the things in the world for ever and then no ill can come unto thy servant for whosoever loves thee cannot perish Hear the prayer of thy servant and releive my sorrow and sanctify my desires and accept me in the Son of thy love and of thy desires our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen A prayer to be used by an afflicted wife in behalf of a vitious Husband I. O Eternal Father thou preserver of men thou great lover of souls who didst send thy holy Son to die that mankind might be redeemed and sin might be destroyed Thou knowest how intolerable a thing it is that a Soul should to eternal ages be incircled with thy wrath and the indignation of a mighty and an angry God and therefore dost love to doe miracles of mercy because thou lovest not that a sinner should perish Be pleased to give thy handmaid leave to present her humble desires in behalf of a sinner one sinner for another the miserable for him that is ready to perish Lord look down in mercy upon my Husband snatch him from the jawes of Hell suffer him not to perish in his sin but open his eyes with the light of thy word and of thy Spirit that he may espy his danger that he may behold the deformity of his sins the injuriousness of his actions the folly of his pleasures the iniquity of his vowes II. CLeanse his hands and heart from all unrighteousness from bloud-guiltiness from rapine from violence from cruelty O Lord and purifie his soul and body from all impurity from all intemperance from the violence and fury of passion giving him a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon and if it be thy will let me also some way or other cooperate towards the recovery of his precious soul and be pleased to remember the sufferings of thy handmaid not that he may receive evil but that I may find good from thy gracious hands in the day of recompence thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen If she have escaped any violence intended against her by his malice or passion then adde this prayer of thanksgiving O God my God and Father thou hast strangely preserv'd and rescued me from evil thou hast made decrees in heaven for my safety and preservation and for the glory of thy own name thou hast diverted the arrow that was directed against me What am I O Lord and what can I doe or what have I done that thou shouldest doe this for me I am O God a miserable sinner and I can doe nothing without a mighty grace and I have done nothing by my self but what I am asham'd of and yet I have received great mercies and miracles of providence I see O God I see that thy goodness is the cause and the measure of all my hopes and all my good and upon the confidence and greatness of that goodness I humbly beg of thy sacred Majesty to keep and defend me from all evil by thy wise providence to lead me into all good by the conduct of thy divine Spirit and where I have done amiss give me pardon and where I have been mistaken give me pity and where I have been injured give me thy favour and a gracious exchange that I may serve thee here with diligence and love and hereafter may rejoice with thee and love thee as I desire to love thee and as thou deservest to be loved even with all the powers and degrees of passion and essence to eternal ages in the inheritance of Jesus whom I love for whom I will not refuse to die in whom I desire to live and die to whom with thee O gracious Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory love and obedience for ever and ever Amen A Mothers prayer for her children I. MOst Gracious and Eternal God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Father of Men and Angels Father of mercies and God of all comforts thou hast promised to be a Father to a thousand generations of them that love and fear thee be thou a God and a Father to me and the children which thou hast given me Enable me O Lord to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and in the fear of God to the praise of thy holy Name O give me thy grace and favour that
affections of thy loving kindnesse and thou art displeased when our vilenesses constraine thee to powre down thy judgements on us O be pleased to grant that they living in holy obedience to thee may feel a perpetuall streame of mercy refreshing and supporting them and let them not bear anothers burthen for thou art just and merciful righteous and true and hast sentenc'd every one to bear their own iniquity VI. GReat God of mercy heale all the breaches of this family preserve and encrease the remaining comforts and advantages of it support the estate renew thy favour to it and perpetually poure down thy blessings upon it for the light of thy countenance and thy gracious influence does preserve and blesse support and nourish honour and advance persons and families and kingdomes Blesse my eldest son give him an obedient and a loving spirit a provident and a wise heart a worthy and a pious comportment a blessed and an honourable posterity to my younger sons give health and holinesse wisdom and faire fortunes the love of God and good men to my daughters give thy perpetuall grace and favour that they may live in honour and a severe chastity free from sin and shame from temptation and a snare and let their portion be in the blessing in the love and service of God Let them live in the favour of God and man usefull to others and honour to their family a comfort to all their relatives and friends and servants to thy divine Majesty VII PReserve me thy servant from all evil lead me into all good change my sorrowes into comforts my infirmity into spirituall strength take all iniquity from mee and let thy servant never depart from thee I am thine O save mee I am thine sanctify me and preserve me for ever that neither life nor death health nor sicknesse prosperity nor adversity weakeness within nor crosse accidents without may ever separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen Blessed Jesus Amen The Offices or Formes OF Prayer and Devotion for The Miserable and Afflicted An Office to be said in the daies of persecution of a Church by sacrilegious or violent persons Our Father which art in Heaven c. Minister O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to help us Minister Glory be to the Father c. Answer As it was in the beginning c. I. A Hymne petitory and complaining O God the Heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple have they defiled and made Jerusalem an heape of stones ¶ The adversaries roare in the midst of the congregations and set up their banners for tokens * They have set fire upon thy holy places and have defiled the dwelling places of thy Name even unto the ground ¶ They have destroyed all the carved worke thereof with axes and hammers * Yea they have said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether thus have they spoiled the houses of God in the land ¶ O God how long shall the adversary doe this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever * Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand pluck it out of thy bosome for they have devoured Jacob and laid wast his dwelling place ¶ They have said come and let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance * Hold not thy tongue O God keepe not still silence refraine not thy selfe O God for they have cast their heads together with one consent and are conâ—ederate against thee ¶ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones * O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth ¶ Thou feedest them with the bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drinke * Wil t thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another ¶ Wilt thou not turne again and quicken us that thy people may rejoice in thee * Will the Lord absent himselfe for ever and will he be no more intreated Is his mercy cleane gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore ¶ Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure * O doe thou bring the wickednesse of the ungodly to an end but guide thou the just ¶ Bring downe the ungodly and malicious take away his iniquity and thou shalt find none * Shew thy marvellous loving kindnesse thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee from such as resist thy right hand ¶ So will not we goe back from thee quicken us and we will call upon thy name * Turne us again O Lord God of Hosts ¶ Cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. I. A Hymne consolatory in time of persecution * THE Lord is in his Holy temple the Lords seat is in Heaven his eyes consider the poore and his eyelids trie the children of men ¶ Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his owne inheritance * For thou shalt save thy people that are in adversity and shalt bring downe the high lookes of the proud ¶ Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse his countenance will behold the thing that is just * For the oppression of the poore for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that swelleth against him ¶ For the Lord will not faile his people neither will he forsake his inheritance untill righteousnesse turne againe unto judgement and all such as be true in heart shall follow it * O how plentifull is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sons of men ¶ Thou shalt hide them privily by thine owne presence from the provoking of al men thou shalt keepe them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues * Great plagues remaine for the Ungodly but who so putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side ¶ He calleth upon the Lord and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles * He delivers their soules from death and feedeth them in the daies of famine They shall not be confounded in the perillous time and in the daies of dearth they shall have enough ¶ The Lord ordereth a good mans going and maketh his way acceptable to himselfe * Though he fall he shall not be cast away for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand ¶ Thou Lord shalt save both man and beast
this Psalme * PLeade thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me for they have laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soule ¶ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoyce over me neither let them winke with the eye that hate me without a cause * For they speake not peace but they devise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land ¶ They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soule * Stirre up thy selfe and awake to my judgement even unto my cause my God and my Lord. ¶ Judge me O Lord my God according to my righteousnesse and let them not rejoyce over me * And my soule shall be joyful in the Lord it shall rejoyce in his salvation ¶ All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poore from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and needy from him that spoileth him * Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my righteous cause yea let them say continually let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants ¶ Trust in the Lord and doe good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed * Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thy selfe because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe ¶ For the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is comming * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Collect. ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and lovest not that a sinner should die before thee and before thy Angels there is joy in heaven at the conversion of a sinner thou hast promised pardon to the penitent and salvation to them that persevere O grant that we may never presume on thy mercy or despise the riches of thy goodnesse but that thy forbearance and long suffering may lead us to repentance create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we truly mourning for our sins and forsaking them condemning our selves and justifying thee crucifying the old man and becomming new creatures may obtaine of thee mercy and remission that though we are now worthily punished for our sins by the comfort of thy grace we may be mercifully releived through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen I. The prayer for the Church O Eternal God thou preserver of men and the Great lover of soules have pitty and compassion upon thine afflicted handmaid the Church of England Thou hast humbled us for our pride and chastised us for our want of discipline O forgive us all our sins by which thou hast been provoked to anger and to Jealousie to despise our sorrowes and to arme thy selfe against us II. Blessed God smite us not with a final and exterminating judgement call not the watchmen off from their guards nor the Angels from their charges let us not die by a famine of thy Word and Sacraments If thou smitest us with the rod of a man thou canst sanctify every stroke unto us and canst bring good out of the evil and delightest to doe so but nothing can bring us a recompence if thou hatest us and sufferest the soules of thy people to perish III. Unite our hearts and tongues take away the Spirit of error and division from amongst us and so order all the accidents of thy providence that religion may increase and our devotion may be great and popular and truth may be incouraged and promoted and thy Name glorified and thy servants comforted and instructed that thy holy Spirit may rule and all interests may stoope and obey publish and advance the honour of our Lord Jesus Amen For the Superiour Clergy O Most blessed Saviour Jesus King of Heaven and earth the head and prince of the Catholick Church who hast appointed thy servants Ministers and stewards in the house of thy Father to give bread to the hungry and drinke to them that thirst after the water of life flowing from the Fountaines of our Saviour continue and blesse sanctify and adorne with thy gifts and graces all the Spiritual guides and governours which thou hast appointed over us that they may continue in thy service to comfort the afflicted to instruct the ignorant to confirme the strong to defend and promote thy truth to intercede for thy servants to open the kingdome of heaven to all beleivers and to shut up the disobedient and rebellious in everlasting prisons by the keyes of the Kingdome by thy word and Sacraments by thy power and by thy Spirit remove not the Candlestick from us neither doe thou quench the light of Israel but let thy servants our Bishops and Priests be like burning and shining lights in the Temple of God by a continual never failing never broken succession offering up the daily sacrifice rejoycing in the plenty of peace and the imployments of thy house in holy offices and a daily ministration that thou being for ever pleas'd and for ever glorified we may be thy peculiar people a chosen generation a royal priest-hood clothed with righteousnesse and singing with joyfulnesse Eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Priests and the Inferiour Clergy MOst Blessed and Eternal Jesu who art a Preist for ever after the order of Melchisedek and hast separated thy servants to minister to thee in holy offices and to convey holy things unto the people give unto all thy servants the Ministers of thy word and Sacraments the spirit of prudence and knowledge of faith and charity of watchfulnesse and holy zeale that they as good helpes in Government may declare thy will faithfully to their congregations and administer the Sacraments purely and devoutly and by their holy life become an example to thy litle flock that so they with cheerfulnesse and joy may render an account of their charge and may by thy mercy obtaine the blessing of thy Preisthood the glories of thy Kingdome O most Blessed and Eternall Saviour who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Spirit eternal God world without end Amen The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. To this office may be added the confession of sins taken out of S. Ephraim the Syrian in the Evening prayer for a family and said immediately before the collect Or else Immediately before the blessing as opportunity shall require or permit may be said the Let any described at the end of these devotions Any of these prayers or psalmes may upon any occasion ordinary or extraordinary be used in any of the other offices In time of VVarre to the foregoing offices may be added these following prayers taken out of a special
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
woman c from all the violence and fraud of the Spirits of darknesse from the weakenesse of humane nature from the curse and power of evil habits and from Eternal damnation through the mercies of God and the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen I. For Prisoners under oppression by false accusation by unjust warre for a good Conscience or unreasonable dealings of men by vexatious law-suits and violent injurious bargaines O Almighty God most mercifull most gracious Father who hast glorified thy eternal son and exalted him to be a covenant for the people a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkenesse out of the prison-house Thou standest at the right hand of the poore to save his soule from unrighteous Judges thou art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time in the time of trouble O looke upon thy servants who suffer wrong from the violent and unjust usages of our oppressors If it be thy will speedily rescue us from our calamity we submit to thy will and pleasure and adore thy providence and thy wisedome in every dispensation but we begge of thee together with the suffering give us patience and a way for us to escape and sanctify both thy justice in our suffering and thy mercy in our delivery Doe thou judge our cause O Lord defend our persons give good unto our persecutors and not evil give them a love of justice and repentance pardon and holinesse send peace O Lord in all our daies and in al our dwellings let there be no leading into captivity no complaining in the houses of bondage and let not our portion be with persecutors but with the poore and the persecuted with the harmelesse and the innocent with them that doe good and suffer evil for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen II. O God of mercy extend thy loving kindnesse to all thy servants who are under the same or any other great affliction deliver them O God from all evil from their owne weaknesse and their enemies power blesse them with thy providence sanctify them by thy grace pardon them by thy mercy defend them with thy power conduct them by thy Spirit enrich them with thy wisedome and bring them to all holy and usefull comforts in this world and to never ceasing glories in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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 An office or forme of prayer for Sailers or Mariners 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 * BLessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his helpe and whose hope is in the Lord his God ¶ Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which feedeth the hungry * The Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all Gods ¶ His dominion is from one sea to the other and from the floud unto the worlds end * Whither then shall I goe from thy Spirit or whither shall I goe from thy presence ¶ If I climbe up into heaven thou art there If I goe down to hell thou art there also * If I take the wings of the morning and remaine in the uttermost parts of the sea ¶ Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me * They that goe downe to the sea in ships and doe businesse in great waters ¶ These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deep * For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof ¶ They mount up to the heaven they goe downe againe to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble * They reele to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits-end ¶ Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses * He maketh the storme a calme so that the waves thereof are still ¶ Then are they glad because they be at quiet so he bringeth them unto the desired haven * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the sons of men ¶ O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side * Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise ¶ Thou shalt shew us wonderful things in thy righteousnesse O God of our salvation thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them in the broad sea * They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens thou that makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee ¶ The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan mine owne will I bring again as I did some time from the deepe of the sea * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Or this to be said especially in a storme or danger of Shipwrack * THE Lord is King Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting ¶ The flouds are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voice the flouds lift up their waves * The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier ¶ Awake awake put on strength O arme of the Lord awake as in the ancient daies in the generations of old * Art not thou he which hath dried the sea the waters of the great deepe that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to passe over ¶ Thou art the God that doeth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people * Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sons of Jacob and Joseph ¶ The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled * The clouds powred out waters the aire thundred and thine arrowes went abroad ¶ The voice of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was mooved and shooke withall * Thy way is in the sea and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not knowne ¶ Therefore I will cry unto God with my voice even unto God will I cry with my voice and he shall hearken unto me * Heare me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation ¶ Take me out of the mire that I
his infinite mercy bring thee to the regions of holinesse and eternal peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I. A prayer to be used in behalfe of Fooles or Changelings O Eternal and most blessed Saviour Jesus who art the wisedome of the Father and art made unto us wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and Redemption have pity upon the miserable people to whom thou hast given life and no understanding Thou didst create us of nothing and gavest us being when we were not and createdst in us capacity of blessings when we had none and gavest us many when we did not understand them thou bringest infants from the wombe and from the state of nature to the state of grace and from their mothers breasts thou doest often convey them to the bosome of Jesus and yet they doe nothing but thou art glorified in thy free gift O be gracious to all Natural fooles and innocents for thou hatest nothing which thou hast made and lovest every soule which thou hast redeemed we that have reason can deserve heaven no more then these can but these doe not deserve hell so much as we have done Impute not to them their follies that are unavoidable nor the sins which they discerne not nor the evils which they cannot understand keepe them from all evil and sad mischances and make supply of their want of the defences of reason by the special guard of Angels and let thy obedience and thy sufferings be accepted and thy intercession prevaile for them that since they cannot glorify thee by a free obedience thou mayest be glorified by thy free mercies to them and for their destitution of good in this world let them receive eternal blessings in the world to come through thy mercies O eternal and most Blessed Saviour Jesus Amen II. A prayer for Madmen ALmighty God whose wisedome is infinite whose mercy is eternal whose tranquillity is essential and whose goodnesse hath no shore In judgement remember mercy and doe thou delight to magnify thy mercy upon them who need it but cannot aske it who are in misery but feele it not who doe actions without choice and choose without discretion and sober understanding Pity the evil they suffer and pardon the evils that they have done and impute not unto them the evils which they rather beare then act and let not their entry into this calamity be an exclusion from their future pardon but let this sad calamity and judgement which they beare be united to the sufferings of our Lord and be sanctified by his intercession and become an instrument of their peace Lord restore them to their health and understanding take from them all violent passions and remove all evil objects far from their eyes and eares create a cleane heart and renew a right Spirit in them Give them sober thoughts and meeke Spirits contempt of the world and love of holy things suffer them not to doe violence to any man and let no man doe violence to them let them be safe under the conduct of thy providence and the publick lawes and be innocent under the conduct of thy holy Spirit that when thou shalt returne and speake peace to thy people they may rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation thou didst O God shew mercy to Nebuchadnezar gavest to him the heart of a man after he had sin'd and fallen into the lot of beasts and wildnesse and thy hand is not shortned that thou canst not helpe but let thy mercies and loving kindnesse returne upon thy servants as at first that thou mayest rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy Servants Grant this Almighty God and Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and dearest Saviour Amen III. A prayer in behalfe of Hereticks and seduced persons O Most blessed most Gracious Saviour Jesus who art the way and the truth and the life thou art a light to them that sit in darkenesse the light that lightneth every man that commeth into the world preserve thy Church in peace and truth in love and holinesse to thy second comming Reduce every misbeleiver to the fold of thy Church instruct every ignorant person in the wayes of Godly wisedome subdue the pride of man and bring every understanding to the obedience of thy sacred law Let no mans vanity or ignorance divide the church let not any holy truth be sullied with the mixture of impure and heretical doctrines nor evil principles disorder the beauties of religion and godly living nor any doctrines of men be taught as the commandement of God but grant that the truth of God may be publikely maintained constantly taught hūbly beleived zealously practized by all men in their several stations that in the church of God there be no contention but in giving honour to each other and glory to God in all the wayes of faith and charity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. Blesse the ministery of thy holy word in its ordinary dispensation grant it may prevaile mightily for the convincing of them that have no faith for the reprooving of the errors of them whose faith is not pure for the confirming them who are weake in faith for the perfecting them who are novices in faith open the hearts of all gainsayers take from them all their prejudices and all their passions their secular interests and confident opinions that they may humbly and meekely attend to the voice of God in the mouths of thy servants in the pages of scripture in the doctrines of the Spirit that they may doe nothing against the truth but for the truth that they may not quench the Spirit nor despise prophecying nor shut their eyes against the light and their hearts against the love of God but grant that in all things being obedient to the heavenly calling they may receive the blessings of truth and peace in this world and in the world to come exalting the kingdome and partaking the glories of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen These three last prayers are to be used upon any of the great Festivals of the yeare especially Easter day Ascension day Whitsunday and upon 8 dayes after these Festivals or upon good Friday Prayers and Psalmes to be used by the Minister and Curate of Soules at the Visitation of the sick In the Name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father which art in Heaven c. Minister 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. Then recite this Psalme * REbuke me not O Lord in thine anger neither correct me in thy heavy displeasure ¶ Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weake O Lord heate me for my bones are vexed * My soule is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me ¶ Turne thee O Lord and deliver my soule O save me for thy mercies sake * For in death no
man remembreth thee and who will give thee thankes in the pit ¶ Shall the dust give thankes unto thee or shall men declare thy truth in the grave in the land where all things are forgotten * My time is in thy hand O let me not be confounded shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercy sake ¶ My life is waxen weake with sorrow and my yeares are consum'd in mourning * Mine eye is consum'd with very heavinesse and my strength faileth me because of mine iniquity ¶ For thine arrowes stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore * There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sins ¶ For my wickednesses are gone over mine head and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to beare * But I will confesse my wickednesse and be sorry for my sin ¶ Against thee have I sinned and done evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and cleare when thou art judged * O give me the comfort of thy helpe againe cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me ¶ Be thou my strong rock and the house of defence that thou mayest save me be thou also my guide lead me for thy Names sake * Into thy hand I commend my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth ¶ In God is my health and my glory he is the rock of my might in God is my trust * Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee he shall dwell in thy court and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house even of thy holy temple ¶ O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard which holdeth our soule in life and suffereth not our feet to slip Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or this * IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse ¶ Lord let me know mine end and the number of my dayes that I may be certified how long I have to live * Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity ¶ And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee * Deliver me from all mine offences take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand ¶ When thou with rebukes doest chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity * Heare my prayer O Lord and with thine eares consider my calling hold not thy peace at my teares ¶ For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were * O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I goe hence and be no more seen ¶ O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make hast O Lord to helpe me * O send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy dwelling ¶ Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever hide not thy face from us and forget not our misery and trouble * For our soule is brought low even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground ¶ Arise and helpe us and deliver us for thy mercies sake * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Then may the Minister read John XI from the first verse to the 47. or else this short lesson Matthew 25. from verse 1 to the 14. THen the kingdome of heaven shall be likened unto ten virgins which tooke their lamps and went to meete the bridegrome And five of them were wise and five foolish The foolish tooke their lamps but tooke no oyle with them But the wise tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes Now while the bridegrome tarryed long all slumbred and slept And at midnight there was a cry made Behold the bridegrome cometh goe out to meet him Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps And the foolish said to the wise Give us of your oyle for our lamps are out But the wise answered saying we feare left there will not be enough for us and you but goe ye rather to them that sell and buy for your selves And when they went to buy the bridegrome came and they that were ready went in with him to the wedding and the gate was shut Afterwards came also the other virgins saying Lord Lord open to us But he answered and said verily I say unto you I know you not Watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the houre when the Sonne of man will come After the lesson as he sees occasion let him adde some discourse of his owne short and pertinent to the necessities of the sick person ever being careful that he doe him all his assistances and call upon him to perfect that which can never be perfected but in this world i. e. his repentance Immediately after this exhortation or if it was done before or is better reserv'd to another time then immediately after the lesson or the Psalme according to the discretion of him that ministers and according to the circumstances of the sick man let him adde these prayers Let us pray I. A prayer for repentance O Almighty God and most merciful Father who delightest not in the death of a sinner but that he be converted from his sin and thou be turned from thine anger give unto thy servant a deepe contrition for his her sins a perfect hatred of them a timely and an intire dereliction of them grace to feare thee and grace to love thee powers to serve thee and time and grace to finish all the worke of God which thy servant ought to doe that the soule of thy servant being washed white in the bloud of Jesus may be justified by thy mercy sanctified by thy Spirit blessed by thy providence saved by thy infinite and eternal goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. II. For Patience and Ease O Almighty and most gracious Saviour who didst suffer with meeknesse and patience those severe stripes of thy Fathers wrath which we did deserve but thou didst feele and hast established with mankind a Covenant of faith and patience a law of sufferings making the way of the crosse to be the way of heaven give to thy servant thy grace that according to thy excellent example and holy commandement he may beare the burden of the Lord with an even and a willing an obedient and a loving Spirit O let him never charge thee foolishly nor murmure secretly nor make too much hast but
never heard and know what was never revealed below O grant that she may have aydes that her she never did neede even mighty assistances in proportion to her new and strang erstate that whatsoever is in the darkenesse or in the fire in the secret regions of wrath and the horrible places of torment and fearful exspectations may not afflict or affright the lambe of thy flock the price of thy bloud the child of thy kingdome and the portion of thine owne inheritance Amen V. O sweetest Jesu say unto this soule This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise say unto this foule Feare not for it is my Fathers pleasure to give thee a Kingdome Let this soule dwell in safe and pleasant regions and be supported with the hope of God comforted with a holy conscience rejoyce in a confirm'd pardon be recreated with the visitation of Angels and walke in white whithersoever the Lambe shall goe Amen VI. Give unto this decaying dying body a blessed and a glorious resurrection to this weary and afflicted this penitent and redeemed soule a portion in the blessed sentence of the right hand amongst the blessed children of thy Father who shall receive the Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the world Amen VII Remember O God the good things which by thy grace and by the aides of thy holy Spirit thy servant hath done in all his life and remember not his evil deedes which by the weakenesse of the flesh and the temptations of the Devil and the evil contingencies of this world have afflicted and humbled the soule of thy servant remember thy holy Son did die for these and thy holy Spirit was the cause of those and for whom thou hast given thy Son and to whom thou hast given thy Spirit give thy eternal pardon and thy eternal glories thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After the soule is departed the Minister may say this prayer in behalfe of the living friends and relatives of the dead ALmighty God who governest all things in heaven and earth with infinite wisedome and infinite mercy and bringest good out of evil comfort out of sorrow and after a gentle visitation dost refresh thy children with the light of thy countenance with the blessings of thy providence with the returnes of thy grace and the comforts of thy holy Spirit have mercy upon this family and returne to them all with thy loving kindnesse exchanging their present sorrow into the advantages of holinesse and blessing Be thou now and ever what thou gloriest in a Father of the Fatherlesse a Husband to the Widow a God of comfort to them that mourn◠in secret Grant that thy servant may not weepe as men without hope nor murmure at thy dispensation nor complaine of any thing but themselves nor desire any thing but that thy will be done nor doe any thing but what is agreeable to thy holy word and commandement and grant that when thou smitest any of us it may increase thy feare in us and when thou doest good to any of us in smiting or forbearing in chastising or comforting it may increase thy love in us and let thy holy Spirit so prevail over all our wills and understandings our affections and the outward man our interests and our hopes that we may live in this world pleasing to thee and may goe out of this world with the peace of a holy conscience and may have a joyful resurrection in the last day to a participation of the glories of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing THE Lord blesse you and keepe you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen Prayers and devotions to be us'd at the Burial of the Dead The Minister before the Corps entring at the Church doore may begin with one or more of these sentences A Good name is better then precious ointment and the day of death then the day of ones birth It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to goe to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord He that beleiveth in me yea though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall not die for ever It is appointed to all men once to die and after death comes judgement I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleepe that we sorrow not even as others without hope For if we beleive that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him After the Corps is set downe in the body of the Church let Morning or Evening prayer be read according to the time of the day with this difference onely Instead of the usual Psalmes Read Psalme 39. Psalme 49. Psalme 90. For the first lesson read Job 14. or 19. After the first lesson read Psalme 88. For the second lesson read 1 Corinth 15. from verse 12 to the end After the second lesson read Nunc dimittis * LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word ¶ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation * Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people ¶ To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. After the usual prayers are done then the Corps carried being to the grave the Minister shall read this lesson Ecclesiastes 12. REmember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil daies come not nor the yeers draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned nor the clouds return after the rain In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and feares shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowle be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern Then shall the dust retrun
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. Pr. PSAL. 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
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. Pr. PSAL. 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
sinke not O let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deepe waters * Let not the water-flood drowne me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me ¶ Heare me O Lord for thy loving kindnesse is comfortable turne thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies * Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like thee glorious in holinesse fearfull in praises doing wonders ¶ O hide not thy face from thy servants for we are in trouble O hast and heare us * Our soules are full of trouble and our life draweth nigh unto the grave ¶ O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come O let our prayer enter into thy presence incline thine eare unto our calling Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. If there be time and opportunity to read any portions of scripture suitable to the necessity then read If they be pursued by Pirates Exodus 14. from verse 21. to the 20. verse of the 15. chapter If they be in danger of Shipwrack Read Jonah 1. or Jonah 2. or Acts 27. At other times Read Matthew 8. or Matthew 14. or Marke 4. or Luke 8. The Prayer I. O Almighty God and Father of heaven and earth who settest a bound to the sea and restrainest his waves by a heap of sand by mountaines and by rocks by thy word and by thy Spirit saying hither shall thy proud waves passe and no further looke upon us thy servants whose lives are in our hands and we dwell in the shadowes of death night and day we know O Lord and confesse the floods and waves of passion doe frequently overrun us and we are drown'd in the stormes and overwhelmed with iniquity Our Oaths Blasphemies Impieties Irreligious actions are lowder then the fiercest winds and call aloud upon thee for vengeance and many of us in our greatest danger provoke thee with the greattest unreasonablenesse and violence of impiety But O God our God be gracious unto thy people who accuse our selves and confesse our guilt and acknowledge thy justice and beg thy goodnesse and pray to thee for safety and defence for deliverance and for pardon for thy conduct and thy blessing Keepe us O God from stormes and quicksands from Pirats and Rocks from error and impieties from all evil contingencies and all evil actions let our voyage be safe to our persons and to our goods let it be blessed by thy providence and thy holy Spirit that we may returne with comfort and with advantages of trade or successe and thy servants may glorify thee in the land of the living in the church of the first-borne the congregation of thy redeemed ones through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. In a storme or danger of Pirates or Shipwrack O Eternal and most holy Saviour Jesus who in the daies of thy flesh and thy infirmity didst command the winds and rebuke the seas and they obeyed thee and thou art now exalted farre above all principalities and powers above all heavens and all Angels and art the King of the world and the great Prince of the whole Creation and thou hast commanded us to come boldly to the throne of grace and hast promised we should find help in time of need looke downe upon thy servants who in the abysse of the seas and the abysse of our trouble invocate the abysse of thy mercies speak peace unto our consciences and command our enemies to be in peace with us or to have no power against us rebuke the winds restrain the violent and injurious thou art our refuge be thou therefore our defence and our security and rescue us from the present danger we know O God that the Devil is a great prince and rules in the aire and in the hearts of the children of disobedience but thou art the King Lord over him and all princes of the world thou art the prince of Spirits and restrainest the Spirits of princes let not the enemy of mankind execute his cruel envy against us nor any of the elements nor any of his instruments be able to doe us any violence III. O refuse not to heare the prayers and to consider the cries and to behold and pity the neede of them that call upon thee that put their trust in thee that have laid up all their hopes in thee and thy infinite and eternall goodnesse we have no strengths of our owne but thou art our confidence be thou also our portion and our guide our defence and our shield a star in the night and a covering by day Strengthen our faith O God and increase our hope that in the greatest danger we may against hope beleive in hope and with faith and love expect the salvation of the Lord and may find thy goodnesse rescuing us from this present feare and defending us in all our difficulties and sanctifying every accident and sweetning every event of providence and consigning us bythese blessings to a finall delivery from all our sins and from the evils which our sins deserve to the glory of God to the salvation of our soules in thy day in thy glorious day O Eternal and most holy Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. A forme of prayer and blessing to be used over him that in the beginning of a journey by Land or Sea begs the prayers of the Minister of the Church The Prayer O Almighty God most gracious and most merciful who art a God afar off as well as nigh at hand and hast sent thy Ministring Angels to Minister good to them that shall be heires of salvation be thou pleased to send thy holy Angel before this thy servant N. to defend him from the heat of the day and the cold of the night from the arrow that flies at noone and the evil spirits that walke in darknesse from errors falls from precipices and fracture of bones from pirates and robbers from evil intentions and evil accidents from violent weather and violent feares from all impressions of evil men and evil spirits let this journey be safe and usefull to thy servant comfortable to his relatives holinesse to the Lord and glory to thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Blessing THe Lord blesse thee and keepe thee the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee He keepe thee from all evil by the custody of Angels and lead thee into all good by the conduct of his good Spirit Amen Let the providence and love of God be thy defence and thy security his grace be thy portion his service thy imployment He goe in and out before thee and keepe thee in all thy wayes and lead thee in all his He bring thee back againe in peace and safety and prosper all thy innocent and holy purpofes and when the few and evil daies of thy pilgrimage are ended he of
a sojourner as all my Fathers were ¶ O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I goe hence and be no more seen * Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee Let such as love thy salvation say continually The Lord be magnified ¶ But I am poor and needy yet the Lord careth for me thou art my helpe and my deliverer make no tarrying O my God Amen Amen Amen Then Read The second Chapter of Ecclesiasticus or The sixt Chapter of S. Matthews Gospel or The twelfth Chapter to the Romans or The 5 Chapter of the 2 d Epistle to the Thessalonians or The 1 of Timothy the 6. Chapter or Hebrews 12. or James 5 th These at several times After the chapter is read sit still a while and consider of such comforts or instructions as are in the chapter fitted to your needs If this office be said by a Minister in the company of the afflicted person then he may adde such useful and comfortable discourses as are occasion'd by the chapter and then say the following Collect. After meditation or discourse humbly kneel down and pray I. An act of Repentance O My God and Father in vaine doe we beg to have thy heavy hand taken from us so long as the cause remaines Our sins O God our sins are so great so numerous so intolerable that we must needs with shame hide our face and confesse we have deserved all the evill that we suffer and all that which thou hast threatned we have O God more to give thee thanks for then we have to deplore It is thy infinite mercy that we are yet kept from feeling thy severest judgements It is thy mercy that we have our senses and our understandings that we have the use of thy word and sacraments that we have not intolerable pains of body and unsufferable troubles in our mind It is thy blessing that we have bread that we have many friends that we have the praiers of thy faithfull servants that we have faith in thee and that we have hope It is thy infinite mercy that are we yet kept from the unsufferable pains of hell are permitted to pray to thee to relie upon thy mercies to worke out our salvation and to expect thy loving kindnesse in the Land of the living II. All the evils that we suffer we have deserved but nothing of this good have we deserved we are lesse then the least of all thy mercies and our sins are greater then the greatest of all our sufferings * And now O God thou who hast so mercifully dealt with thy servants in taking a lesse fine of us then in justice thou mightest have exacted be pleased also to proceed in the methods of thy mercy and make our present sufferings be instrumental of thy glory of the pardon of our sins of the sanctifications of our Spirits of the humiliation of our soules that like silver tried in the fire we may come forth more pure vessels of honour pleasing and acceptable to thee in Jesus Christ. II. An act of patience and resignation WEE know O God that thou art infinietly wise and infinitely good and thou disposest all the events of thy creatures of excellent purposes and delightest to bring good out of evill Behold O God we are thy servants and thy creatures do to us as seemeth good in thine eyes onely give us patience and a long suffering Spirit that we may not murmure secretly when we complaine openly that we may not make hast in the day of our calamity but with a quiet spirit expect and wait for the time of our redemption But make no long tarrying O Lord make hast to helpe us O God of our salvation and be pleased to give us a light from heaven that with the eye of faith we may see beyond the cloud and looke for those comforts which thou didst prepare for thy servants that love thee and put their trust in thee and have laid up all their hopes in the bosome of God IV. An act of hope O God our God thou hast said unto us I will never leave you nor forsake you thou hast often eased our calamities and taken off thy severe hand thou hast promised to be with us in time of need thou delightest to deliver them whose confidence is in thy goodnesse Thou hast supported our spirits in the day of our sorrow and hast given us many intervals and spaces of refreshment and renewest thy loving kindnesse day by day O let us never have our portion amongst the hopelesse and desperate Let us alwaies pray to thee and hope in thee and in every period of our affliction let us doe some actions of virtue by which we may please thee and be accepted so long as we can pray Thou hast commanded us to hope and we doe hope that these comforts shall refresh our soules that thy mercies will support us under our afflictions that thy Spirit shall comfort us in it and thy grace and thy glorious providence shall speedily deliver us from it Amen Blessed Jesu Amen V. The Petition ANd now O most mercifull Father give thy servants admittance to present our complaint before the throne of grace and let our petition enter into thy presence thy arrows stick fast in us and thy hand presseth us sore Open thy heart the treasure and spring of mercie and thence let comforts and refreshments descend upon thy servants Put a blessed period to our sorrows but first put a stop to our sins let us not sin against thee when for sinne thou art smiting us Let us never charge thee foolishly nor behave our selves peevishly towards others but use all the means we can to ease their sorrows to lighten their burdens to sweeten their lives that so we may expect from thy goodnesse a more plentifull and abundant measure of loving kindnesse VI. Lord put a barr and stop unto our passions make them to be humble ministers of religion and prudent government but never let us suffer any violent transportations in our selves never be provoked to any bitternesse never to be harsh or cruell towards any never to speak any thing peevishly and undecently never to put too much upon any temporall interest In all things let us behold thy providence and reverence thy justice and adore thy majesty and feel thy mercy and obey thy Spirit and if thou shalt still persevere to smite us and to try thy servants let not thy punishing us ever cause us to sin against thee Let not our own follies be our scourges lest we sin against thee and loose thy blessing for ever VII Be pleased O my God to adde this favour unto thy servants that our trouble may not be doubled or increase by our own infirmities take from us all troublesome fancies and too quick apprehensions of our sorrows Blessed be thy Name they are finite and they are temporall sorrows they are lesse then our sins and they are lesse then thy mercies
Give me grace to despise the world and all its interests and possessions that while we set not our affections upon them we may not be too much afflicted when we are crossed in them but let our great care be to please thee our greatest fears least we should sin against thee let our dutie be our imployment thy providence our portion thy Spirit our guide thy law our rule That when this cloud is passed over we may see the brightnesse of thy face and perpetual showers of grace and mercy refreshing our sad and weary spirits so shall thy servants sing praises to the honour of thy Name when thou shalt have saved our soules from death our eyes from teares and our feet from falling grant these mercies O blessed God and Father for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen A private prayer to be said by or for a person mutatis mutandis apt to be afflicted with feare of death or Gods anger and the uncertaine state of his of her soule O Eternal God most gracious Father in much mercy compassion behold me thy servant loaden with my sins encompassed with infirmity assaulted by enemies without and apt to be betrayed by my owne weaknesses within If I am cheerfull I am apt to be carelesse of my dutie If I am sad I am timorous and unsafe too ready to distrust thee and to sinke under the burden of those calamities which by my sins I have deserved O God I confesse with sorrow and shame that I resolve often to give my selfe intirely to thy service but I am so perpetually beaten with the violent tempests and stormes of passion that all my hopes and all my feares grow unactive and uselesse and are overcome by them and sinke under my owne evil customes and infirmities Lust Pride Ambition Anger And under this state of infelicity I groane and labour and to thee I humbly make my complaint for thou art my hope and my strength my rock and my might my Saviour and defender my support and my deliverer O hear the saddest cries of thy humble and afflicted servant and give me ease from my greatest sorrowes Give me a cheerfull heart and a severe spirit a love of thy mercies and a trembling at thy judgements an infinite desire to please thee and a great fear to offend thee and though I humbly desire of thy glorious goodnesse to secure and promote my eternall interest by what instruments thou pleasest yet because thou art my Father and my mercifull God I begg of thy infinite goodnesse to take care of my infirmities and to pity my weaknesses and make my religion to be to me the pleasantest thing in the world that nothing may tempt me from thee and prevaile in the daies of my weaknesses and disadvantage II. O Blessed God be pleas'd to give me a perfect repentance for all my sins and admit me to a full pardon and not onely so but if it be thy gracious will consigne this my pardon by some testimony from heaven by a holy and humble hope by a strong faith and a cheerfull spirit by joy in God and a command over my passions by meeknesse and charity by forgiving every one that troubles me and every one that offends me O God my God give to thy servant an excellent religion and a devout spirit and grant that I may take great pleasure in the service of God in obedience to my spirituall superiors in doing the works of that dutie to which thou hast called me in my present state of life and never suffer me to fall into a despairing or an amazed conscience into the evils of a tedious or impatient a wounded or an afflicted spirit but grant that rejoycing in thee evermore and delighting in doing my dutie in mortifying my passions in loving and serving my dearest Relations I may be preserved in thy fear and thy favour and nothing may be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus Amen III. O my deareft Saviour take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death and give me a great desire after heaven and heavenly things and when thou shalt call me from this world conduct me by the graces and comforts of thy Holy Spirit evenly and holily certainly and cheerfully to the regions of hope and joy that in thy armes I may expect and long for the day of recompences and of thy glorious appearing O God hear the prayer and most passionate desires of thy servant and since thou hast commanded us in the time of need to come with boldnesse to the throne of grace grant that I may be accepted by thy mercies and loving kindnesse through the merits and intercession of my Lord in whom I desire to live and for whom I will not refuse to die our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with thee O blessed Father and most Holy Spirit I humbly give all honour and thankes and glory and love and service and desire to doe so for ever Amen A forme or prayer of Thanksgiving The Preface to the following office Since it hath pleased God to heare our prayers and to give us the blessing we now feele and rejoyce in the blessing of Peace Health Plenty Victory c. let us faithfully and devoutly give thankes unto God for his great benefit and grace and say Psalmes Eucharistical or of thanksgiving upon special times of festivity to be added to any of the foregoing offices or to be said distinctly After a plentifull Harvest Our Father which art in Heaven c. * O Be joyful in God all ye lands sing praises unto the honour of his Name make his praise to be glorious ¶ O come hither and behold the works of God how wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of men * Thou visitest the earth and blessest it thou makest it very plenteous ¶ Thou waterest her furrowes thou sendest raine into the little vallies thereof thou makest it soft with the drops of raine and blessest the increase of it * Thou crownest the yeare with thy goodnesse and thy clouds drop fatnesse ¶ They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wildernesse and the little hils shall rejoyce on every side * The folds shall be full of sheepe the vallies also shall stand so thick with corne that they shall laugh and sing ¶ Praised be God which hath not cast out our prayer nor turned his mercy from us * Let us now feare the Lord our God that giveth raine both the former and the latter raine in his season ¶ He reserveth unto us the appointed weekes of the harvest * Lord what is man that thou hast respect unto him or the Son of man that thou so regardest him ¶ The eyes of all waite upon the O Lord and thou givest them their meat in due season * Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse ¶ The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workers * The Lord is
shall not perish for ever 19 Arise O Lord let not man prevaile let the heathen he judged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the nations may know themselves to be but men PSAL. X. The Church under the oppression of persecutors sadly complains to God describes their mâ—â—ice and violence and implores the Divine aid against atheisticall and cruell persons WHy standest thou afar off O Lord why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined 3 For the wicked boasteth of his hearts desire and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth 4 The wicked thorow the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts 5 His wayes are alwayes grievous thy judgements are far above out of his sight as for all his enemies he puffeth at them 6 He hath said in his heart I shall not be moved for I shall never be in adversity 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanity 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages in the secret places doth he murder the innocent his eyes are privily set against the poor 9 He lyeth in wait secretly as a lyon in his den he lyeth in wait to catch the poor he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his â—et 10 He croucheth humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones 11 He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it 12 Arise O Lord O God lift up thine hand forget not the humble 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God he hath said in his heart Thou wilt not require it 14 Thou hast seen it for thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite in with thy hand the poor committeth himself unto thee thou art the helper of the fatherlesse 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evill man seek out his wickedness till thou find none 16 The Lord is king for for ever and ever the heathen are perished out of his land 17 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thine eare to hear 18 To judge the fatherlesse and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppresse PSAL. XI The Church afflicted with the arts and fraud of false brethren runs to God in hope and prayer acknowledges God to be a just Judge both to the godly and to the wicked IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye to my soul Flee as a bird to your mountain 2 For lo the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart 3 If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe 4 The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men 5 The Lord tryeth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse his countenance doth behold the upright Ev. Pr. PSAL. XII David complains of the iniquity of his time the falshood all flattery of men he declares Gods care of the poore and the oppressed and the excellency of the Word of God HElp Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithfull fail from among the children of men 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips with a double heart do they speak 3 The Lord shall cut off and flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things 4 Who have said With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is lord over us 5 For the oppression of the poore for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him 6 The words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times 7 Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve them froÌ„ this generation for ever 8 The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted PSAL. XIII David expostulating concerning his own infirmity the importunity of his enemies and the delaying of the Divine aides prayes to God for deliverance hopes and rejoyces in his mercy HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul having sorrow in my heart daily how long shall mine enemie be exalted over me 3 Consider and hear me O Lord my God lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death 4 Lest mine enemies say I have prevailed against him and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy my heart shall rejoyce in thy salvation 6 I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me PSAL. XIV The practical atheisme of the world and the universal iniquity of mankind is here complained of and their readinesse to oppresse the poore but God will call them to judgment and relieve the oppressed THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doth good 2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God 3 They are all gone aside they are all together become filthy there is none that doth good no not one 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eate up my people as they eate bread and call not upon the Lord. 5 There were they in great fear for God is in the generation of the righteous 6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor because the Lord is his refuge 7 O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Mo. Pr. PSAL. XV. The godly and they who are to be heirs of heaven are describ'd by their integrity of life their truth their justice and contempt of money LOrd who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill 2 He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth evill to his neighbour not taketh up a reproch against his neighbour 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned but he honoureth them that fear the Lord he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not 5 He that putteth not out his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent He that doth these things
perfection of beauty God hath shined 3 Our God shall come shall not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him 4 He shall call to the heavens from above to the earth that he may judge his people 5 Gather my saints together unto me those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is judge himself Selah 7 Hear O my people and I will speak O Israel and I will testifie against thee I am God even thy God 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings to have been continually before me 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house nor he-goats out of thy folds 10 For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattel upon a thousand hils 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains and the wilde beasts of the field are mine 12 If I were hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fulnesse thereof 13 Will I eat the flesh of buls or drink the blood of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most High 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me 16 But unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to doe to declare my statutes or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee 18 When thou sawest a thief then thou consentedst with him and hast been partaker with adulterers 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evill and thy tongue frameth deceit 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother thou slanderest thine own mothers son 21 These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes 22 Now consider this ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver 23 Who so offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God PSAL. LI. David upon Nathans reproving him in the matter of Uriah and Bathsheba confesseth his sin humbles himself prayes for pardon and for the restitution of Gods holy Spirit for the taking away his sin and the cleansing of his soul He prays for and prophetically describes the Repentance Evangelical and the time of the Gospel and the kingdome of the Messias The psalm is paenitentiall HAve mercy on me O God according to thy loving kindnesse according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me 4 Against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest 5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me 6 Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdome 7 Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 8 Make me to hear joy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce 9 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities 10 Create in me a cleane heart O God and renew a right spirit within me 11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy wayes and sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from blood-guiltinesse O God thou God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousnesse 15 O Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt-offering 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise 18 Doe good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnesse with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar PSAL. LII Upon Doegs informing Saul against Abimelech and the Priests and their sad death consequent David exclaims against the falshood and fact of Doeg denounces the Divine Judgments against him he comforts the godly and incourages himself in hope of his own prosperity through the goodnesse of God WHyboastest thou thy self in mischief O mighty man the goodnesse of God endureth continually 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefes like a sharp rasor working deceitfully 3 Thou lovest evill more then good and lying rather then to speak righteousnesse Selah 4 Thou lovest all devouring words O thou deceitfull tongue 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living Selah 6 The righteous also shall see and fear and shall laugh at him 7 Lo this is the man that made not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickednesse 8 But I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever 9 I will praise thee for ever because thou hast done it and I will wait on thy name for it is good before thy saints Ev. Pr. PSAL. LIII The practical Atheist is describ'd The universal iniquity of the world he â—â—rophesies of the miseries of the Church under Antiochus and encourages them to expect deliverance from the goodnesse of God THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God corrupt are they and have done abominable iniquity there is none that doth good 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand that did seek God 3 Every one of them is gone back they are altogether become filthy there is none that doth good no not one 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eate bread they have not called upon God 5 There were they in great fear where no fear was for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee thou hast put them to shame because God hath despised them 16 O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion wheÌ„ God bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad PSAL. LIV. David complains of his being discover'd to Saul by the men of Ziph he prayes for help from God and to be avenged of his enemies promises to glorifie God upon
will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth yea I will praise him among the multitude 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from those that condemn his soul. Mo. pr. PSAL. CX David prophesies of the Kingdome and Priesthood of Christ of his glorious victories over his enemies but of his passion in the way to it THe Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion rule thou in the midst of thine enemies 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties of holinesse from the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth 4 The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall judge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies he shall wound the heads over many countries 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way therefore shall he lift up the head PSAL. CXI A Paschal hyma reciâ—ing the great benefits the Church receives by our redemption wrought by Christ. PRaise ye the Lord I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation 2 The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 He hath made his wonderfull works to be remembred the Lord is gracious and full of compassion 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him he will ever be mindful of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment all his commandments are sure 8 They stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightnesse 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever holy and reverend is his name 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome a good understanding have all they that do his commandments his praise endureth for ever PSAL. CXII The blessednesse of the just the stability of the charitable the envies of the wicked PRaise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness he is gracious and full of compassion and righteous 5 A good man sheweth favour and lendeth he will guide his affairs with discretion 6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever the righteous shall be in everlasting remembance 7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. 8 His heart is established he shall not be afraid untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed he hath given unto the poor his righteousness endureth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour 10 The wicked shall see it and be grieved he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away the desire of the wicked shall perish PSAL. CXIII A publication of the Divine providence Gods graciousnesse to the humble and aâ—â—â—icted PRaise ye the Lord praise O ye servants of the Lord praise the name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lords name is to be praised 4 The Lord is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high 6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghil 8 That he may set him with princes even with the princes of his people 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyfull mother of chidren praise ye the Lord. Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXIV The miracles which God wrought for Israel in the widerness when they came from Egypt WHen Israel went out of Egypt the house of Jacob from a people of strange language 2 Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw it and fled Jordan was driven back 4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs 5 What ailed thee O thou sea that thou fleddest thou Jordan that thou wast driven back 6 Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and ye little hills like lambs 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob 8 Which turned the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of waters PSAL. CXV A glorification of God for his truth and mercy the vanity of idols no trusting in them all sorts of men are exhorted to praise God and to hope in him God blesses us and we must blesse God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truthes sake 2 Wherefore should the heathen say Where is now their God 3 But our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased 4 Their idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands 5 They have mouths but they speak not eyes they have but they see not 6 They have eares but they hear not noses have they but they smell not 7 They have hands but they handle not feet have they but they walk not neither speak they thorough their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 9 O Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their help and their shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in the Lord he is their help their shield 11 Ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield 12 The Lord hath beeen mindfull of us he will bless us he will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron 13 He will bless them that fear the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall encrease you more and more you and your children 15 You are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth 16 The heaven even the heavens are the Lords but the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence 18 But we will bless the Lord from this time forth for evermore Praise ye the Lord. Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXVI David being delivered from Saul in the wilderness of