plant and root and confirm and secure in us all those precious fruits of Piety and Faith and Obedience and Zeal towards thee of Purity and Meeknesse and Simplicity and Contentednesse and Sobriety in our selves of Justice and Charity and Reaceablenesse and Bowels of Mercy and Compassion towards all others That having seriously and Industriously as our Holy Vocation engageth us used all Diligence to add unto our Faith Virtue and to Virtue patience and Perseverance in all Christian Practise we may adorn that Profession which we have thus long depraved and having had our Fruits unto Holynesse we may attain our End ever asting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen IX O Long suffering and eternal King that for the Condemnation that for sin came into the World wert lifted up upon the Cross and taken from this earth by that shamefull death and hast shewed forth thy self to all that Chuse to follow thy stepps a Pattern and Copy of long-sufferance and Patience and offeredst up thy Intercession tothy Coeternal Father for those Enemies of God which Crucified Thee Do thou O Lord Thou the same Lover of Mankind afford thy Mercy and pardon to all those that are Enemies to us which either by Treachery or Reproach or Contumely or Envy or by any other means through the subtilty of Calumny of the Devil that lover of Hatred have expressed their Madness or Malice against us But especially those that have embrued their hands in the blood of thine Anointed Father forgive them for they know not what they do Lord lay not this sin to their Charge or to the Charge of a sinfull wretched People Change thou their Counsels from that mischievous to a sweet Christian temper of gentleness infuse into their hearts sincere and unfeigned Love bind them fast to us in the inviolable Bands of Spiritual friendship and by what means thou knowest most fit make them Partakers of eternal Life and O thou Father of Compassions pitty all those afflicted that trust in Thee draw all to the divine love of thee be thou president in all things and assistant to all together with us thy sinful and unprofitable Servants and make us all Heirs of thy Kingdom for unto Thee it belongeth to shew Mercy and to save us O our God for thine is the Power for ever Amen X. O Lord We beseech thee Mercifully Hear our Prayers and spare all those which Confess their sins unto thee that They whose Consciences by sin are accused by thy Mercifull Pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord Amen XI O Most mighty God and Mercifull Father which hast Compassion on all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made which wouldest not the Death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our Trespasses receive and Comfort us which are grieved with the Burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have Mercy to thee only pertaineth to forgive sins spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into Judgment with thy servants which are vile earth and Miserable sinners but so turn thine ire from us which meekly acknowledge our Vilenesse and truly repent us of our Faults so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen XII TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy People which turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying for thou art 〈◊〉 Merciful God long-suffering and of great pitty Thou sparest when we deserve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy spare thy people O Lord spare them and let not thine Heritage be brought to nought Hear us O Lord for thy Mercy is great and after the Multitude of thy mercies look upon us through Iesâ—… Christ our Lord Amen XIII O Lord the only begotten Son Jesus Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the world have Mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our Prayers Thou that sittest at the Right hand of God the Father have Mercy upon us for thou only art holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father Amen The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your Hearts and Minds in the Knowledge and Love of God and his Son Iesus Christ our Lord. And the Blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you alwayes Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day besel us in thy permitting cruel men sons of â—…eliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes sore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitude of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial then to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merfull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our vifitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may
appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and defires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed â—…ecause thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou dist those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread beforâ—… thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and send deliverance to his people in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and qatiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good And here O Lord we offer unto thee all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace that hath shined forth in thine Anointed our late Soveraign and that thou wert pleased to own him this Day especially in the midst of his Enemies and in the hour of death and to endue him with such eminent Patience Meekness Humility Charity and all other Christian Virtues according to the example of thine own Son suffering the fury of his and thine Enemies for the preservation of thy Church and People We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party by that owning and assisting him or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end by a Careful studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs that have gone before us that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers which they in Communion with thy Church Catholick offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant and yet in sight with and danger from the flesh that following tâ—…e Blessed stepps of their Holy Lives and Deaths we may also â—…hew forth the Light of a good example for the Glory of thy Name the Conversion of Enemies and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us and then with all those that have born the Heat and burthen of the day thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate receive the Reward of our Labours the Harvest of our Hopes even the Salvation of our own souls and that for the merits and through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Evening Prayer FOR the thirtieth of Ianuary The Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evill and mischief from sin from the crafts and affaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting â—…ation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy nativity circumcision by thy baptism fasting and temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy Cross and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear Us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and
mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen IV. O Eternal and supreme Majesty we most humbly beseech thee to pour down the Richest of thy Mercies on thy servant the King to take him into thine Immediate and especial protection and proportion thine Assistances and RElief to the Greatness of his Needs and Destitutions O what great troubles and Adversities hast thou shewed him Thou hâ—… set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce thou hast taken away the Edge of his Sword and givest him not Victory in the day of Battail thou hast put out his Glory and Cast his Throne down to the ground Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever Behold O God our Defender and look upon the face of thine Anoynted and though thou hast permitted our sins to reduce his Affairs to this Hopelesse Condition yet from thence let thy Soveraign Mercy raise him O Lord we know not what to do only our Eyes are upon Thee O magnifie thy strength in this his greatest weakness and by thine own power effect that towards which he hath nothing of Humane Contribution create peace for 〈◊〉 and Create the means for the obtaining it Protect his â—…red person direct and prosâ—…er all his designes fasten him as 〈◊〉 Nail in a sure place and hang â—…on him all the Glory of his â—…hers House that he â—…ay be the Repairer of the Breach the Restorer of Cities to dwell in that he may be a Nursing Father to thy Church and may Comfort the waste places of Sion But if our sins have so far incensed thee that as thou hast taken away one King in thy wrath so thou wilt not give us another except it be in thine Anger if thou hast designed him to succeed his blessed Father not in his Throne but in his sufferings grant him likewise to succeed him in his Virtues Confirm to him that inward Soveraignty over his own Passions more valuable then a Thousand Kingdoms Chuse him for thy self in the Furnace of afflictions and make him so cheerfully to wear his Crown of Thorns with his Saviour here that he may receivâ—… a Crown of Glory from him hereafter and that for the Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen V. O Thou blessed and only Potentate most just in thy Judgements and wondeâ—…ull in thy mercies we thy sinfull Creatures cast our selves down before thee desiring in all humility to adore that Justice of thine which hath suffered our iniquities to prevail against the cause and enterprises of our Soveraign and yet to praise and magnifie that mercy which hath 〈◊〉 suffer'd them to prevail â—…inst his person but hath in 〈◊〉 midst of the greatest and â—…ost amazing dangers provided him a way of escape plucked him as a brand out of the fire and by thine own gracious proâ—…ction at once defeated both the fears of his friends and â—…nd the hopes of his Enemies Praised be the Lord which hast not given him over for a prey unto their teeth And since thou hast been pleased thus far to condescend to the prayers and groaâ—… of thy servants O 〈◊〉 not our Lord be angry and we will speak beseeching thee who hast thus powerfully rescued him from Egypt not to suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his passage be through the red sea yet at last to bring him to a Canaan O thou whose wayes are in the great deep who madest Iosephs imprisonment the way to hiâ—… advancement and the impoverishing of Iob the means of doubling his wealth let the same over-ruling Providence dispose of all late adverse events to those ends which all Loyall hears gasp after Lord be thou pleas'd to breathe upon theâ—…â—…y bones and they shall 〈◊〉 livâ—… in thy sight In the meaâ—… time O Lord let thy comforts refresh his soul in the midst of these sad calamities sanctifie them unto him that he may come out of these tribulations like gold out of the fire purified but not consumed that so whatsoever becomes of his transitory Crown here he may by a constant enduring of temptations be secured of that Crown of life which fadeth not away grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen VI. O Thou King of Nations who dost according to thy will in all the Kingdoms of the Earth who hast made us drink deep of the Cup of trembling and yet seemest to have bitter dregs behinde for us We thy wretched Creatures that have highly contributed to that common weight of sin under which the Land sinks humbly prostrate our selves at thy feet desiring with all sincere contrition to confesse that thou art Righteous in all that is hitherto come upon us All that we have hitherto sufferd being but the sad arrears of the sins of our Peace when we waxed fat and kicked against thee And that thou shalt likewise be most just in the utmost of thy future inflictions which what ever they prove cannot exceed the sins of our calamitous dayes who in the time of our distress have sinned yet more against the Lord who have passed through the fire to Moloch with an undaunted obstinacy suffer'd all the flamings of thy wrath rather than we would renounce any of our detestable things Nay as if our old were too infirm we have made new Leagues with death new agreements with hell proceeding from evil to worse and making every new Calamity thou sendst to reclaim us the occasion of some fresh impiety And now O Lord wilt thou not visit for these things shal not thy soul be avenged on such a Nation as this We are they O Lord that have perverted all thy dispensations toward us grown wanton under thy mercies and desperate under thy Judgements and is there any third method left for those that have frustrated both these Behold O Lord these desperate these gasping Patients at thy feet who have lost sense and motion to all things but the resistance of their remedy O give us not utterly over but continue to administer to us whatsoever may remove this stupefaction and bring us to a feeling of our own condition And what sharpnesse and severity soever thou disceruest necessary for that purpose forbear not O Lord to give us those wounds of a friend O say not concerning us why should ye be smitten any more but rather cast us into the place of Dragons and cover us with the shadow of death if by so doing we may be brought to remember the Name of the Lord our God Lord this is the one great necessary wherein we are principally concern'd to sollicite thee that our Eyes may be opened that we may see every one the plague of his own heart that so instead of those Atheâ—…cal disputes we make of thy providence we may all â—…oyn in an humble Adoration of thy Justice and confessing that our destruction is of our selves abhorre our selves and Repent in dust and ashes And when by thâ—… greater
for the Clergy 332 A prayer to be said during these sad times of trouble 304 A prayer for preservation from the enemy 312 A Confession of sins and prayer for pardon 314 A Prayer for the King 318 A prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford 330 A prayer drawn by his Majesties speciall directions and dictates for a blessing on the treaty at Uxbridge 323 A prayer for peace 325 A prayer for the ending of the present troubles 329 IX Collects I. 334 II. III. 335 IV. V. 336 VI. 337 VII VIII 338 IX 339 Certain additionall Prayers In the time of war 339 A Prayer for a Souldier 3â—… A Prayer upon the re-admission of the formerly Secluded Members Februaryâ—…1 â—…1 1659. 348 A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament April 25. 1660. 351 A Thanksgiving for his Majesties safe arrivall and return to his kingdome May 25. 1660. 354 Private Forms of Prayer fit for these sad Times Psalm 10. vers 1. WHy standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble Psal. 3 v. 1 2 3. Lord how are they increased that trouble us many are they that rise up against us Many one there be that say of our soules there is no help for them in their God But thou O Lord art our desender thou art our worship and the lifâ—…r up of our heads Ier. 10. 24. Correct us O Lord and yet in thy judgement not in thy fury least we should be consumed and brought to nothing Psal. 130. 3. If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it O come let us worship let us humble our selves let us fall low and kneel before the Lord our Maker Then this generall Confession to be said all kneeling O Thou Judge eternall we the finfullest of all the sons of Men that have abused thy Mercies provoked thy judgments unsheathed thy glittering sword forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver and with our multiplied abominable crying sins brought down a desolation on a most pleasant land that former delight of thine the glory of all lands We that after thy wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our sinns as thou hast encreased the weight and number of thy Judgments upon us walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visiâ—…ations suffered all thy pretious methods of reducing us thine admonitions and thy stripes to be utterly lost and frustrate among us brought down a blast and mildew upon all that hath been undertaken to repaire our breaches and reduce our Peace We do now at length in thâ—… remorse and bitterness of our soules desire to cast our selves down upon the ground before thee to confess and acknowledge thy patience and Long suffering that we have not been under the sharpest of thy displeasure and to adore thy goodness whatsoever becomes of us though it be in the shame and confusion and Condemnation both of our bodies and our soules Lord this is the mildest that we have reason to expect from thy Iustice in retribution to our sins and whatsoever is less then this whatsoever the bitternesse of our â—…up be in this life though thou shouldest cast us into the place of Dragons give us to drink of the wine of astonishment the most stupifying deadly poâ—…ion number us all to the sword poure out thy fire and brimstone upon us Yet if by thus chastizing of us here thou please to rescue us from that sadder doome of being condemned with the world This is a most inestimable mercy of thine beyond all that we have hitherto so unworthily enjoyed Lord we desire and professe to acquit thy justice in thy proceedings to adore the bounty of thy goodness and patience towards us that we have not long ago been as Admah and Zeboim as Sodom and Gomorrah that we have this day liberty to approach thee Lord that it may yet be thy good pleasure to come home to every one of our soules to strike our hearts to break up these fallow grounds of ours that all thy pretious seed be no longer so cast away among thorns And by the power of thy mighty controwling convincing spirit that thou wouldest once subdue all the resistances of our spirits against this most holy most reasonable motion of humiliation within us Lord this is the one earnest desire of our soules that hath cast us low this day before thy footstoole with cryes and tears and earnest groans that thou wouldest have this mercy upon us that thou wouldest thus powerfully reveale thy self unto us who hast thus long smitten importunatly called unto us That being returned unto thee in fasting weeping and mourning and renting of our hearts we might be capable of thy returns unto us of the further impressions of thy grace and never more contradict or quench or grieve that spirit of thine which hath thus long contended and wrestled with us that so it may be seasonable with thee to give us the comfort of thy help again and the confidence to approach thy pâ—…ce to praise that Majesty 〈◊〉 hath not cast out our Prayer nor turned his mercy from us To whom be all honour and glory power and praise now and for ever Amen O Lord the great and dreadfull God keeping Covenant and Mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments We have sinned with our fore-fathers We our Kings and our Priests our Nobles and all the People of this Land and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and thy judgements By our impious and godlesse thoughts of thee our confidences in the arme of flesh by placing our affections too much upon earthly things by neglecting to love aâ—…d delight in thee by presuming of thy meâ—… and yet continuing in 〈◊〉 we have provoked and râ—…ed against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want of reverence to thy service not considering the awfulnesse of thy presence and that honour due to thee in thy House by our formall and hypocritical worship by open prophanation and sacriledge by shews and pretences of Piety to cover our worldly and wicked designes we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By vain and rash Oaths Blasphemies and Perâ—…uries especially our carelesse breaches of Oathes made to our Soveraigns forgetting that such are the Oaths of God and that thou thy self in a more especial manner art a strict avenger of them by our execrations of our selves our brethren and our enemies we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our undervaluing thy publique Service and neglecting to bear a part in it by mispending of that time either there or elsewhere in wanton or worldly thoughts and
done it Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen III. VVE will cry unto the Lord with our voyce yea even unto God will we cry with our voyce and he shall hearken unto us For the Lord is gracious and long-suffering and of great mercy to them that call upon him The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart and will save such as are of an humble â—…irit And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thee For our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou did'st deliver them they called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded The Lord 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 never failest them that seek thee The merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousness upon Childrens Children even upon such as keep his Covenant and think upon his Commandments to doe them Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdest all such as are falling and liftest up such as be down thou that healest the broken in heart and givest medicine to heal their sickness thou that art the Father of mercy and God of all consolation that art comfort to the sad and strength to the weak hear thy servants we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visit us with thy salvation Glory be to the Father and to the Sâ—… and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now â—…d ever shall be world without end Amen After the Second Lesson Psal. 51. All kneeling 1. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies doe away mine offences 2. Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin 3. For I acknowledg my faults and my sin is ever before me 4. Against thee onely have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged 5. Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me 6. But loâ—… thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdome secretly 7. Thou shalt purge me with Hysope and I shall be cleane Thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter than Snow 8. Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce 9. Turne thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeedâ—… 10. Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me 11. Cast me not away from thy presence and take nâ—… thy Holy Spirit from me 12. O give me the comfort of tâ—… help again and stablish me with tâ—… free spirit 13. Then shall I teach thâ—… wayes unto the wicked and sinners shal be converted unto thâ—… 14. Deliver me from blood-guiltinesse O God thou that 〈◊〉 the God of my health and 〈◊〉 tongue shall sing of thy righteousnesse 15. Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise 16. For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt offerings 17. The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit A broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise 18. O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem 19. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt offerings and oblations Then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine Altar Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in heaven c. Minister O Lord save thy servants Answer Which put their truâ—… in thee Min. Send unto them help froâ—… above Answ. And evermore mightily defend them Min. Help us O God our Savioâ—… Answ. And for the glory 〈◊〉 thy names sake deliver us bâ—… mercifull unto us sinners foâ—… thy names sake Min. O Lord hear our prayer Ans. And let our cry come untâ—… thee Let us pray O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those which confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy mercifull pardon may be absolved thorough Christ our Lord Amen O Most mighty God and mercifull Father which hast compassion of all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made which wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us which he grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore O Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed Enter not into judgement with thy Servants which be vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine ire from us which meekly knowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Then shall the people say thiâ—… that followeth after the Minister TUrn thou us O good Lord aâ—… so shall we be turned be favoâ—… rable O Lord be favourable to tâ—… people which turn to thee in weepiâ—… fasting and praying For thou art mercifull God full of Compassion lâ—… suffering and of great pity Thou spâ—… rest when we deserve punishment 〈◊〉 in thy wrath thinkest upon mercyâ—… Spare thy people good Lord spâ—… them and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us I. O Most mercifull and gracious Lord we wretched and miserable sinners humbly beseech thee in mercy and compassion to behold our great afflictions for thy wrath is gone out and thine indignation is kindled against us We confesse O Lord that thy â—…udgements are just for we have multiplied our transgressions like the sand of the Sea and the cry of them hath been so great that it hath pierced the heavens and called for vengeance against us But we beseech thee O Lord forget not thou to be gracious and shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure turn thee again and be mercifull unto thy Servants Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto our sinnes for thy names sake Take thy sword and all other judgements from us that we be not consumed by the means of thy heavy hand upon our sins O satisfie us with thy mercy
advantages And though thou hast now violently removed thy Tabernacle yet O Lord let not one pin of it be lost But erect it again amongst us in the wonted order and beauty for thy goodnesse sake for thy merâ—… sake for thy Son Christ Iesus sake â—…ur onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord which dost teach us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth send thy holy Ghost poure into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity the very bond of peace and all virtues without whicâ—… whosoever liveth is counted deaâ—… before thee Grant this for thine onely Son Jesus Christ's sake The Conclusion THe Almighty Lord which is a most strong tower to allâ—… them that put their trust in him to whom all things in Heaven iâ—… earth and under the earth doâ—… bow and obey be now and evermore our defence The defence of this afflicted Church The defence of these diâ—…cted Realmes The defence of all â—…ch who do or suffer for the testimony â—…f a good Conscience The defence of â—…e blessed and holy offices of our Moâ—…r the â—…hurch The defence of this â—…nd all other congregations that meet â—…gether in thy holy fear The defence 〈◊〉 our dear relations both at home â—…nd abroad The defence of our â—…n persons The defence of our souls â—…dies and estates And make us all to know and â—…el that there is no other name â—…nder heaven given unto man 〈◊〉 whom and through whom we â—…ay receive re-establishment in our â—…eligion restauration of our Liâ—…rties reconciliation with thee â—…r God together with peace and â—…fety among men felicity here â—…d salvation hereafter but oneâ—… the name of our Lord Iesus â—…rist To whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit 〈◊〉 ascribed as iâ—… most due all Hâ—… nour and Glory Praise Might Majesty Dominioâ—… and Adoration of all Aâ—…gels of all Men and of 〈◊〉 Creatures now and for 〈◊〉 Amen Amen A FORME OF Prayer FOR the Thirtieth of Ianuary A form of Prayer for the 30th of January Preface to be read standing 1. RIghteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee yet let me talke with thee of thy judgments whereâ—…ore doth the way of the wicked â—…rosper wherefore are all they â—…appy that deal very treacherâ—…usly 2. Thou bast planted them yea â—…ey grow and bring forth fruit â—…ou art neare in their lips and â—…rre from their reines whereâ—…re holdest thou thy tongue â—…ile the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous thâ—…â—…e 3. They have condemned anâ—… killed the Just and he doth noâ—… refist them 4. They make a man an offendâ—… for a word and lay snares for him that reproâ—…eth thâ—…m in the gate 〈◊〉 turn aside the Iust for a thing of nought 5. They say let us lay wâ—… for blood let us lurke privily foâ—… the Innocent blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cause we shall findâ—… 〈◊〉 substance we shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…es with spoile 6. Wherefore they 〈◊〉 their Net and burn Iucense 〈◊〉 their Drâ—…gg because by it theiâ—… pâ—…tion is fat and their â—…eat plenâ—…â—…s 7. Art not thou from everlasting my Lord my God my holy one O Lord thou hast 〈◊〉 them for Judgment 〈◊〉 mighty God thou hast establiâ—…ed them for Correction 8. But thougâ—… the righteous be prevented by death yet shall he be at rest 9. For his soule pleased the Lord therefore he hath hasted to take him from among the wicked 10. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die and their departure is taken for misery and their going from us for utter destruction but they are in peace 11. For though they be punished in the sight of men yet is their reward full of immortality 12. And after a little chastenlug they shall be greatly rewarded for God hath proved them and found them worthy for himself 13. As Gold in the fire hath he tried them and received them as a burnt offering 14. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works follow them 15. For if we have been planted with him in the likenesse of his death we shall also be in the likenesse of his resurrection 16. O our God we are ashamed and blush to lift up our faces to thee for our iniquities are increased over our beads and our trespasse is gone up to Heaven since the dayes of our Fathers have we been in a great trespasse unto this day and for our Iniquities have we our Kings and our Priests been delivered to the sword to captivity to a spoil and to confusion of face as it is this day 17. What shall we say or how shall we clear our selves God hath found out the Iniquity of his Servants We have transgressed and rebelled thou hast not pardoned 18. Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast slain and not pittied 19. The Lord hath kindled a fire in Zion and it hath devoured the foundations thereof 20. For the sins of her Prophets and her Priests that have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her 21. And now O Lord thou art most Just in all that is come upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly 22. Behold we are before thee in our trespasse for we cannot stand before thee because of this 23. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us yet do thou it for thy names sake for we have sinned against thee 24. Be not wrath very sore neither remember iniquity for ever 25. Be mercifull O Lord to thy people whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people 26. Deliver us from bloud-guiltiness thou God of our health and our tongue shall sing of thy righteousness Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O come let us worship let us bumble our selves let us fall low and kneel before the Lord our Maker Then this General Confession to be said All kneeling OThou Judge Eternall we the sinfullest of all the sons of men that have abused thy Mercies provoked thy Judgements unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts of thy Quiver and with our multiplied abominable crying sins brought down a desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the glory of all Lands We that after thy wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our sins as thou hast encreased the weight and number of thy Judgements upon us walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visitations suffered all thy pretious methods of reducing us thine admonitions and thy â—…ripes to be utterly lost and â—…ate amongst us brought down a blast mildew upon all that has been undertaken to repair our breaches reduce our peace We do now at length in the remorse and bitterness of our souls desire to cast our selves down upon the ground before thee to
which for our evill deeds are worthily punished by the Comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen X. ALmighty God we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy Family for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked men and to suffer death upon the Cross who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XI ALmighty and Everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified receive our supplications and prayers which We offer up before thee for all eâ—…ates of Men in thy holy congregation that every member of the same in his vocation and Ministery may truly and godly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XII Assist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants toward the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen XIII ALmighty God which hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to Us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto Thee and grant that those things which We have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the Justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day befell us in thy permitting cruel men sons of Beliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Mur der of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes fore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitudes of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and mercifull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our visitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and desires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread before thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and will send deliverance to his people in their needfull time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and patiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may
and â—…bey him as thy Minister not â—…nly for wrath but for consciâ—…ce sake least contemning â—…ine ordinance we incur that damnation thou hast threatneâ—… to all those that resist the highâ—… powers Hear us O Lord fâ—… his sake who is the Prince 〈◊〉 the Kings of the Earth eveâ—… Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Most gracious Lord God the Ruler of Princes wheâ—… they are in their thrones anâ—… their Protector when they aâ—… in perill look down mercifullâ—… from Heaven we most humbly pray thee upon the low estate 〈◊〉 thine anointed our King comfort him in his troubles defenâ—… him in his dangers strengthen him in his good resolutions and command thine Angels to pitcâ—… their tents round about hiâ—… that he may be defended froâ—… the hands of all those that desire his hurt and may be re-established in the just rights oâ—… his throne through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon him and deâ—…er him O God the Father c. O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon him â—…nd deliver him O God the Son c. O God the holy Ghost proâ—…eeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon him â—…d deliver him O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious â—…rinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon him and deliver him O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord his offences nor the offences of his fore-Fathers neither take thou â—…engeance of his sins spare him good Lord spare thy servant â—…om thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with him for ever Spare him good Lord. From all evill and mischief from the Insurrection of wicked doers from the frowardness and madnesse of the People Good Lord deliver him From mouths full of cursing and bitternesse from all thosâ—… that speak evill of dignities and from those that slander the foot steps of thine Anointed Good Lord deliver him From them that are confederates and speak so disdainfully against him and from all thosâ—… that hate him without a cause Good Lord deliver him We sinners do beseech thee tâ—… hear us O Lord God and thaâ—… it may please thee to look upoâ—… the face of thine Anointed and to visit him with thy salvation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to plead his cause against them thaâ—… strive with him and to fighâ—… against those that fight againâ—… him We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to hear him in these dayes of his trouble and to send him help from thy Sanctuary We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to arise and maintain his cause and to remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to give him patience in this time of adversiâ—…y untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly We beseech thee c. That it may please thee in the multitude of the sorrows that he hath in his heart to let thy comforts refresh his soul. We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to deliver him over to the will of his adversaries nor to false witnesses risen up against him or to such as speak wrong We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to defend him under thy wings and that thy faithfulnesse and truth may be his Shield and Buckler We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to satisfie him with thy mercy and that soon so that he and we may rejoyce all the dayes of our life We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. A Prayer For the Church LOrd who hast promised to thine Apostles to be with them alwayes unto the end of the world and for a supply of their mortality hast in thy gracious providence over thy Church continued a perpetuall succession of Bishops and Pastors to feed their severall Flocks whereof the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers Inspire them by thy grace that their lips may preserve knowledge and the people seek thy Law at their mouth Bless them O Lord with the blessings of Levi blesse their substance and accept the work of their hands smite through the loyns of them that rise up against them and of them that hate them that they rise not again that they may shine forth as lights before us holding forth the word of life till we all come in the unity of Faith and the knowledge of Jesus Christ unto that perfection and fulnesse of thine everlaâ—…ing Kingdome Amen ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgements that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdomes and this Church which is now under the Crosse and neer to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy step in between thy fierce wrath and our hainous sins And howsoever the voice of our crying sins hath ascended into thine ears and stirred up destroyers to root us out that we be no more a people and that thy name be no more called upon nor hallowed by us yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Crosse and in the garden and which he daily represents unto thee And for his all-sufficient merits which speak better things than the blood of Abel hear not the cry of our sins but the cry of his blood and therein wash all our sins Let our great miseries and dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Oratour in thy own bosome even thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us and purchase our deliverance and safety Hear us for our selves and others Look upon us with the eyes of pitty and compassion consider our enemies how many and how mighty they be and they bear a tyrannous hate against us Our goods our lands our lives will not suffice their boundlesse ambition our religion our souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their anger for it is fierce and their wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel As for us deliver us out of their hands and unite us together in the bond of peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy name and evermore serve thee without fear in all holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evill deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully
make him great put a stop at last to the madnesse of the people say to the destroying Sword it is now enough send us a seasonable and quiet calm visit us with the joy of thy Countenance and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us O restore to us our solemn Assemblies bring us back into thy Courts to praise thee and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holinesse Save us O Lord from our Enemies and from the hands of all that hate us That so we may serve thee without fear living a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty looking for the blessed appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. To whom with thee and the holy Spirit be all honour and praise world without end AMEN A Prayer for preservation from the Enemy O Eternall God and most mercifull Father we humbly beseech thâ—… to be mercifull unto us and in the Riches of thy unspeakable mercies be near to help and succour us in all those extremities which our sins threaten to bring upon us The Rebellious are strengthned against us by our multiplied Rebellions against thee and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten even suddain surprizall and destruction to desolation But there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared and there is mercy with thee that they may not be fearâ—… Shew us therefore thy merâ—…y O Lord and let us so fear â—…ee that we may be never forâ—…d to feel or fear them And â—…hen thou wilt correct us for â—…ur sins O Lord in judgement â—…emember mercy and let us â—…all into thy hands and not into the hands of men let us fall â—…to thy hands and not into â—…he hands of ungracious and â—…godly men into thy hands â—…nd not into the hands of sacriâ—…gious and seditious men into thy mercifull hands and not into the cruell hands of thine and our enemies even for Jesus Christs sake our only Mediator and Redeemer AMEN A Confession of Sins and Prayer for Pardon O Lord of heaven and earth God of the spirits of all flesh we a most sinfull and therefore now a most miserable People do in the bitternesse of our afflicted Souls humbly fall down at the foot-stool of thy grace most sadly bewailing our many and most hainous sins We have multiplied our iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law having neither performed to thee our God nor to man the duties thou requirest of us so that by onr wicked works we have denied that most holy faith whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made profession These things O Lord have we done and because in goodnesse thou wert pleased to â—…eep silence how many of us have thought wickedly that thou â—…ert altogether such an one as â—…ur selves which either didst approve or at least wouldst not punish the Crimes that we doâ—…ed on And now in thy just judgments thou hast set our sins in order before our eyes in the continued scourge of this â—…sting Rebellion we may well perceive that the sins we have done have not been barely infirmities but Rebellions against thee In the Rapines acted upon the substance thou hast given 〈◊〉 we cannot but consider that by Oaths and Blasphemies we have robbed thee of thine Honour and have oft-times stollen much of that precious time which should have been spent in thy service Nay we have added sin to sin so that one Crime hath brought forth another Transgression and thou hast shewed us even this in thy Judgâ—… ments we now feel in that thâ—… present War hath brought forth an infectious disease and dotâ—… now threaten famine to us We confesse O Lord with all thankfulnesse of heart that thou hast been pleased to sweeten the bitterness of this Cup by many strange successes by frequent and unexpected Victories and yet thou hast so allayed each favour of thine hand with the mixture of some sudden crosse that herein thou hast set our Repentance too before the sight of our eyes and lets us see 't is mixt with so much coldnesse Hypocrisie that there may be as much guilt in such a kind of Repentance as before there was in our sins Yet return O God in great mercy return unto the many thousands of thy people do thou accept and increase in our hearts detestatioÌ„ of all wickedness that our sorrows for sin may be as compleatly perfect 〈◊〉 we desire thou shouldst make â—…ur Peace and that for times â—…ereafter our hearty observance of thy whole Law may still run along with such sorrows O let â—…ot thy scourge end in a desolation nor thine anger go on unto the height of an everlasting mine But hear us mercifull Father hasten the aversion of these thy sharp judgements from us and let not the noise of this accursed Rebellion be any longer heard in our streets Scatter thou the People that delight in War and let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those who strive and pray for this blessing and that for his sake by whose hand thou givest every blessing Jesus-Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the KING O Lord God infinite 〈◊〉 power by whom thâ—… thrones of Kings are established and their Persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thy immediate and divine protection thine Anointed Servant the King that no Sacrilegious prophane hand come near to touch him in all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their Tâ—…s about him Comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his Cause blesse him in the confusion of all those that rise up against him shew some token on him even now O God when the Sons of Violence are in the highest of their Pride when they have joyned Nation â—…o Nation Covenant to Covenant and Army to Army to â—…ull down him whom thou â—…ast exalted and to Root out â—…hat Religion which thine own â—…ght hand hath planted Deâ—…t their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischievous imaginations â—…ny longer prosper but blast â—…ll their Counsells wither away their Armies like grasse â—…orched by the Sun bow down a last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that Peace which hath so long been 〈◊〉 abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own Ruine â—…d take pleasure in shedding their own blood but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thy Anger for this unnaturall division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of oâ—… defamed Religion the joy 〈◊〉 our afflicted King and the hapâ—… pinesse of this yet bleedinâ—… Kingdom And confirm all thâ—… to us O Lord by the merits and through the mediation oâ—… thine own dear Son Jesus Chrisâ—… our Lord Amen A Prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford O Almighty God who are the only sure