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
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
do erre from thy commandments 22 Remove from me reproch and contempt for I have kept thy testimonies 23 Princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors DALETH 25 MY soul cleaveth unto the dust quicken thou me according to thy word 26 I have declared my wayes and thou heardest me teach me thy statutes 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts so shall I talk of thy wondrous works 28 My soul melteth for heaviness strengthen thou me according to thy word 29 Remove from me the way of lying and grant me thy law graciously 30 I have chosen the way of truth thy judgements have I laid before me 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies O Lord put me not to shame 32 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt inlarge my heart Mo. Pr. HE. 33 TEach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it unto the end 34 Give me understanding I shall keep thy law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments for therein do I delight 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies not to covetousness 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way 38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear 39 Turn away my reproch which I fear for thy judgements are good 40 Behold I have longed after thy precepts quicken me in thy righteousness VAU 41 LEt thy mercies come also unto me O Lord even thy salvation according to thy word 42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reprocheth me for I trust in thy word 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth for I have hoped in thy judgments 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever 45 And I will walk at liberty for I seek thy precepts 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed 47 And I will delight my self in thy commandments which I have loved 48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I have loved and I will meditate in thy statutes ZAIN 49 REmember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused to me hope 50 This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickned me 51 The proud have had me greatly in derision yet have I not declined from thy law 52 I remembred thy judgements of old O Lord and have comforted my self 53 Horrour hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage 55 I have remembred thy name O Lord in the night and have kept thy law 56 This I had because I kept thy precepts CHETH 57 THou art my portion O Lord I have said that I would keep thy words 58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart be merciful unto me according to thy word 59 I thought on my wayes and turned my feet unto thy testimonies 60 I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me but I have not forgotten thy law 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgements 63 I am a companion of all them that feare thee and of them that keep thy precepts 64 The earth O Lord is full of thy mercy teach me thy statutes TETH 65 THou hast dealt well with thy servant O Lord according to thy word 66 Teach me good judgment knowledg for I have believed thy commandments 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word 68 Thou art good and doest good teach me thy statutes 69 The proud have forged a lie against me but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart 70 Their heart is as fat as grease but I delight in thy law 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me then thousands of gold and silver Ev. Pr. JOD 73 THY hands have made me and fashioned me give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments 74 They that feare thee will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in thy word 75 I know O Lord that thy judgements are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me 76 Let I pray thee thy mercifull kindness be for my comfort according to thy word unto thy servant 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me that I may live for thy law is my delight 78 Let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversely with me without a cause but I will meditate in thy precepts 79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me and those that have known thy testimonies 80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I be not ashamed CAPH 81 MY soul fainteth for thy salvation but I hope in thy word 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word saying When wilt thou comfort me 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke yet doe I not forget thy statutes 84 How many are the dayes of thy servant when wilt thou execute judgement on them that persecute me 85 The proud have digged pits for me which are not after thy law 86 All thy commandments are faithfull they persecute me wrongfully help thou me 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth but I forsook not thy precepts 88 Quicken me after thy loving kindness so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth LAMED 89 FOr ever O Lord thy word is setled in heaven 90 Thy faithfulnesse is unto all generations thou hast established the earth and it abideth 91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances for all are thy servants 92 Unlesse thy law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine affliction 93 I will never forget thy precepts for with them thou hast quickned me 94 I am thine save me for I have sought thy precepts 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me but I will consider thy testimonies 96 I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad MEM. 97 O How love I thy law it is my meditation all the day 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser then mine enemies for they are ever with me 99 I have more understanding then all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation 100 I understand more then the ancients because I keep thy precepts 101 I have refrained my feet from every evill way that I may keep thy word 102 I have not departed from thy judgments for thou hast taught me 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter then honey to my mouth 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding
this Church State saw it necessary to fixe where with advice she had begun and with counsel she had once mended And to have altered in things inconsiderable upon a new design or sullen mislike had been extreme levity and apt to have made the men contemptible their authority slighted and the thing ridiculous especially before adversaries that watch'd all opportunity and appearances to have disgraced the Reformation Here therefore it became a Law was established by an Act of Parliament was made solemne by an appendant penalty against all that on either hand did prevaricate a sanction of so long and so prudent consideration 14. But the Common Prayer-book had the fate of S. Paul for when it had scap'd the storms of the Romane Sea yet a viper sprung out of Queen Maries fires which at Frankford first leap'd upon the hand of the Church but since that time it hath gnawn the bowels of its own Mother and given it self life by the death of its Parent and Nurse 15. For as for the Adversaries from the Romane party they were so convinc'd by the piety and innocence of the Common Prayer-Book that they could accuse it of no deformity but of imperfection of a want of some things which they judged convenient because the error had a wrinckle on it and the face of antiquity And therefore for ten or eleven years they came to our Churches joyn'd in our devotions and communicated without scruple till a temporal interest of the Church of Rome rent the Schism wider and made it gape like the jaws of the grave And let me say it addes no small degree to my confidence and opinion of the English Common Prayer-Book that amongst the numerous Armies sent from the Romane Seminaries who were curious enough to enquire able enough to finde out and wanted no anger to have made them charge home any errour in our Liturgy if the matter had not been unblameable and the composition excellent there was never any impiety or heresy charg'd upon the Liturgy of the Church for I reckon not the calumnies of Harding for they were onely in general calling it Darkness c. from which aspersion it was worthily vindicated by M. Deering The truth of it is the Compilers took that course which was sufficient to have secur'd it against the malice of a Spanish Inquisitor or the scrutiny of a more inquisitive Presbytery for they put nothing of controversy into their prayers nothing that was then matter of question onely because they could not prophecy they put in some things which since then have been called to question by persons whose interest was highly concerned to finde fault with something But that also hath been the fate of the Penmen of holy Scripture some of which could prophecy and yet could not prevent this But I doe not remember that any man was ever put to it to justify the Common Prayer against any positive publick and professed charge by a Romane Adversary Nay it is transmitted to us by the testimony of persons greater then all exceptions that Paulus 4 tâ—s in his private entercourses and Letters to Queen Elizabeth did offer to confirm the English Common Prayer Book if she would acknowledge his Primacy and authority and the Reformation derivative from him And this lenity was pursued by his Successor Pius 4 tus with an omnia de nobis tibi polliceare he assured her she should have any thing from him not onely things pertaining to her soul but what might conduce to the establishment and confirmation of her Royal Dignity amongst which that the Liturgy newly established by her authority should not be rescinded by the Popes power was not the least considerable 16. And possibly this hath cast a cloud upon it in the eyes of such persons who never will keep charity or so much as civility but with those with whom they have made a league offensive and defensive against all the world This hath made it to be suspected of too much compliancâ— with that Church and her Offices of devotion and that it is a very Cento composed out of the Mass Book Pontifical Breviaries Manuals and Portuises of the Romane Church 17. I cannot say but many of our Prayers are also in the Romane Offices But so they are also in the Scripture so also is the Lords Prayer and if they were not yet the allegation is very inartificial and the charge peevish and unreasonable unless there were nothing good in the Romane Books or that it were unlawful to pray a good prayer which they had once stain'd with red letters The Objection hath not sense enough to procure an answer upon its own stock but by reflection from a direct truth which uses to be like light manifesting it self and discovering darkness 18. It was first perfected in King Edward the sixths time but it was by and by impugned through the obstinate dissembling malice of many They are the words of M. Fox in his Book of Martyrs Then it was reviewed and published with so much approbation that it was accounted the work of God but yet not long after there were some persons qui divisionis occasionem arripiebant saith Alesius vocabula penè syllabas expendendo they tried it by points and syllables and weighed every word and sought occasions to quarrel which being observed by Archbishop Cranmer he caused it to be translated into Latine and sent it to Bucer requiring his judgement of it who returned this answer That although there are in it some things quae rapi possunt ab inquietis ad materiam contentionis which by peevish men may be cavill'd at yet there was nothing in it but what was taken out of the Scriptures or agreeable to it if rightly understood that is if handled and read by wise and good men The zeal which Archbishop Grindal Bishop Ridly D r Taylor and other the holy Martyrs and Confessors in Queen Maries time expressed for this excellent Liturgy before and at the time of their death defending it by their disputations adorning it by their practice and sealing it with their blouds are arguments which ought to recommend it to all the sons of the Church of England for ever infinitely to be valued beyond all the little whispers and murmurs of argument pretended against it and when it came out of the flame and was purified in the Martyrs fires it became a vessell of honour and used in the house of God in all the days of that long peace which was the effect of Gods blessing and the reward as we humbly hope of an holy Religion and when it was laid aside in the days of Queen Mary it was to the great decay of the due honour of God and discomfort to the Professors of the truth of Christs Religion they are the words of Queen Elizabeth and her grave and wise Parliament 19. Archbishop Cranmer in his purgation A. D. 1553. made an offer if the Queen would give him leave to prove All that
Penitential Letanies The Psalter or Psalms of David after the Kings Translations with Arguments newly fitted to the design and sense of every Psalm An Advertisement to them that shall use these PRAYERS BEcause no prayers are the more pleasing to God for being long and they are oftentimes displeasing even to good men if they be very long and yet on the other side if the devotion be long it is the better and if that be lasting it ought to be supplied with materials like gummes to the Altar of incense and fuel for the holy fires he that collected these devotions did design to serve the advantages both of length and shortness that the most devout may be fitted and the most secular and imployed may not be wearied 1. Therefore although every thing is set down at length that the trouble of references and turnings back might be avoided and therefore seem longer then they are and the Hymnes are sometimes double that the variety might be more apt to please and to instruct and the Offices are made full that upon the more solemne days when people come with a greater and more active devotion and greater leisure their time and their piety might be imployed yet on other days there is but one Lesson appointed and one Hymne to follow it 2. The prayers are divided into smaller portions that with ease any of them may be omitted by persons whose occasions force them from their attendance on longer Offices besides that there are two forms of Morning and Evening Prayer the one shorter the other longer 3. In the beginning of Morning and Evening Prayer some of the devotions which are set down are desired and intended to be used but seldome not onely to avoid tediousness but for other reasons very obvious that the Ministers more solemn power and office might not be less regarded by being daily and consequently very often without just dispositions offered I mean it concerning the form of Absolution The Confession may be shortned as there is cause by making use onely of some of the sections and leaving out the other 4. If upon Communion days the morning Prayer and the Communion Office be not read at one time but the morning Prayer be read at seven or eight of the clock in the morning and the Communion office at the time of celebration or if it be convenient that they be both together if then the Sermon be in the afternoon the length will be very tolerable 5. These Prayers being intended onely as a charitable ministery to them who are not permitted to use those which were appointed formerly there is no necessity upon any one and he may use as much or as little as he please and therefore no man will have cause to complain of length or shortness ☞ For the Offices themselves I pray God bless them to all those ends whither they are designed and to which in their own nature they can minister And as I humbly recommend them to Gods blessing so I doe submit them to the judgement of my afflicted Mother the Church of England and particularly to the censure of my spiritual Superiours and I desire that these Prayers may no longer be used in any publick place then my L ds the B ps upon prudent enquiries and grave considerations shall perceive them apt to minister to Gods glory and useful to the present or future necessities of the Sons and Daughters of the Church of England MORNING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences HE that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his lawes which he hath set before us by his servants the prophets Dan. 9. 10. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse 1 John 1. 8 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise â—sal 51. 17. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit For why will ye die I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live ye Ezek. 18. 31 32. After which say Draw nigh therefore unto God and he will draw nigh unto you Cleanse your hands and purifie your hearts Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and make a confession of your sins unto him with a hearty sorrow and a humble hope begging for pardon at the throne of Grace Let us pray The Confession I. O Almighty God Great Lord of Heaven and Earth we miserable sinners with fear and shame cast our selves downe before thee humbly confessing our manifold sins and unsufferable wickednesses by which we have deserved thy wrath and that we should be separated from the sweetest comforts of thy presence for ever II. We confesse O Great God we have sinned against thee by knowledge and by ignorance by folly and by surprize by word and deed by anger and desires by night and by day in private and in publick by the lusts of the flesh and the vanity and pride of our spirits our sins of omission are infinite and the sins of our tongue cannot be numbred O God thy words and lawes are holy and thy judgements are terrible but we have broken all thy righteous lawes and commandements and we have great cause to be afraid of thy severest judgements and where shall we appeare when thou art angry with us III. But thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Thou art our Judge but thou art our Redeemer we have sin'd but thou O Blessed Jesus art our Advocate Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most miserable sinners Enter not into judgement with us least we die let not thine anger arise least we be consumed but spare us gracious Lord spare thy servants whom thou hast redeem'd with thy most precious blood O reserve not evil in store for us against the day of vengeance but shew thy goodnesse in us and let thy mercies be magnified upon us deliver us O Lord from the power of sin and preserve us from the punishments of it through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Deprecation to be used upon solemn daies or at the discretion of him that ministers I. O Lord our God whose power is infinite whose glory is supreme whose mercie is without measure whose goodnesse is unspeakeable despise not thy returning servants who earnestly beg for pardon and to be reconciled to thee sanctify O God our bodies and soules search out our spirits and cast out all iniquity from within us all weak principles and false
not for the foulnesse but if we were tempted we did fall and where we did fall there we did love to lie we have sinn'd worse then the adulteresse or the theife more then the publican or the prodigal oftner then David or Manasses we have sinn'd against greater mercies a more determin'd conscience a better law a clearer revelation more terrible threatnings and better much better promises II. We know O God and tremble at the sad remembrance that all our sins shall be plac'd before our faces at the day of thy dreadfull appearance O looke upon us with a mighty pity let not the Angel of wrath snatch our precious soules from thy beatifick presence Take not the sweet refreshments of thy Spirit from us one houre O Dearest Lord thou lover of soules take not our lives from us while our soules are unprepared and unready unexcus'd and unpardon'd for thou knowest the abysse of our sins and thou knowest what is that abysse of flames and anger which is prepared for foolish and unwary soules III. Most Blessed Saviour Jesus thou gavest thy life to redeeme us from death and thou art the Judge of those actions for which thou wert a sacrifice and to give sentence upon those men for whom thou art an advocate and makest perpetuall intercession O suffer us not to fall under thine eternall anger destroy the whole body of sin in us bring our understandings into the obedience of God our affections under the dominion of reason our reason into a perfect subordination to thy Holy Spirit that we may love thee and feare thee and by repentance and charity may enter into thy favour and dwell there by a holy perseverance all our daies through Jesus Christ our Lord. IV. The Prayers DOe thou open our eyes that we may see our own vilenesses and forsake them and our foolish errors that we may amend them and all our infirmities that we may watch against them and all our dutie that we may pursue it earnestly and passionately prudently and intirely presently and for ever Cause us to returne to our duty with greater fervor and devotion then ever we have sinn'd against thee with pleasure and delight and as we have dishonourd thee by our unworthinesse so grant that we may glorifie thee tentimes more weeping bitterly for our sins watching against them strictly hating them infinitely and forsaking them utterly O grant that we may every day renew our repentances and vowes of a better life and make us to doe every day what we promise and what is our dutie so imprinting a holy religion and a severe repentance in our spirits that we may confesse our sins with a reall and humble sorrow and beg for pardon because we desire it and aske for thy helpe because wee will make use of it and number our sins because wee will leave them not resting in formes of godlinesse but living in the power of it in love and duty in holinesse and godly choice through Jesus Christ our Lord. V. MOst Gracious God and Father imprint in our hearts great apprehensions of thy power and thy glories of thy judgement and thy mercies of our sins and of our change approaching of our fugitive life and the day of our death of our duty and our danger and the inexpressible terrors of the day of Judgement and in proportion to such apprehensions teach us O God to walke in this world with fear and caution with hope and purity with diligence and devotion religiously and usefully humbly and charitably with love and obedience to thee with love and Justice to our neighbours with sober spirits and chast bodies with temperance and peace with faith and patience with health and holinesse in the favour of God and the friendlinesse of our neighbours in the communion of the Church and in obedience to all good lawes that we being blessed by thy providence defended by thy ministring Angels conducted by thy good Spirit instructed by thy word nourished by the body of Christ cleansed by his blood and clothed with his righteousnesse may grow from grace to grace in the increase of God to the fulnesse of Christ being subjects of thy Kingdome of grace in this world and heirs of the Kingdome of glory in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. VI. GIve us pardon O thou God of mercy and peace for all the errors and follies the ignorances and omissions the rash words and imprudent actions of which any of us hath been guilty this day or at any time before we confesse our sins every day and yet every day sin against thee and we pray unto thee for all the blessings that we neede and thou givest us all that we pray for and much more but yet we regard thee not but every day have new matter of shame and sorrow Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us FOr if thou Lord wilt be extreme to marke what is done amisse we shall not be able to abide or stand upright in judgement Thy mercy is great and thou hast blessed us this day and kept us from the evils of our inclination and the evils of temptation and though in the things wherein our consciences doe not accuse us we are not justified but by thy mercies loving-kindnesse in Christ Jesus yet we rejoyce in thy goodnesse to us and praise thy bounties and thy love and hope in thy mercies and beg of thee that thou wilt pardon us and keepe us this night and ever sanctify and save us blesse us at home and abroad in the workes of our calling and the duties of religion in our persons and relations make us to doe what pleaseth thee and to be what thou hast designed us to be and to receive what thou hast promised and to keepe us from all the evill we have deserved for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen THe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us and with all our relatives and with all the servants of God for ever and ever Amen Varieties to be added upon the great Festivals of the Yeare Upon Christmas day The Psalmes appointed at Morning Prayer Psalme 2. Psalme 45. Psalme 110. Evening Prayer Psalme 87. Psalme 89. The Hymne for Christmas day to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * PRaise waiteth for thee O God in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed * O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come * Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts He shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy Holy Temple * By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are a far off upon the sea *
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
thy Majesty that she walking humbly and devoutly before thee piously and dutifully to her Relatives doing justice and giving good example to those with whom she shall converse may find the rewards of holiness and the eternal mercies of God in the day of thy glorious appearing O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen Then shall be added this form of blessing THE Lord bless you and keep 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 Father Son and Holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen A Prayer to be said immediately after the Womans delivery either by the Priest or by any other in attendance O Almighty Lord and Father who healest every sickness and every disease and art ever gracious and alwaies present to the prayers of them who in the day of trouble call upon thy holy Name thou hast given delivery to this thy servant and made her the mother of a living child still be pleased to continue and renew thy loving kindness unto her keep her from all violent accidents and intolerable pains from colds and feavers defend her by the custody of thy holy Angels of light from all impresses of the powers of darkness give her rest and â—eep a quiet spirit and an easie â—ody Confidence in thee and a daily sense of thy â—â—ercies a speedy restitution of health and strength and a thankful heart to praise thee in the Congregation of Saints and to serve thee with an increasing and a persevering duty all the daies of her life thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then if there be time and fitted circumstances adde this prayer for the Child O Eternal God who hast promised to be a Father to a thousand generations of them that love and fear thee be pleased to bless this child who is newly come into a sad and most sinful world O God preserve his life and give him the grace and Sacrament of Baptismal regeneration doe thou receive him and enable him to receive thee that he may have power to become the child of God keep him or her from the spirits that walk at noon and from the evil Spirits of the night from all charms and inchantments from suddain death and violent accidents give unto him a gracious heart and an excellent understanding a ready and unloosed tongue a healthful and a useful body and a wise soul that he may serve thee and advance thy glory in this world and may increase the number of thy Saints and servants in the kingdome of our Lord Jesus Amen To God the Father of our Lord Jesus To the eternal son of God the son of man To the Spirit of the Father and the Son Be all honour and glory praise and thanksgiving love and obedience now and for evermore Amen A prayer to be said by a new married wife entring into a family I. O Eternal God the Father of wisedom and mercy thou hast been my guide and my defence all my daies thou didst take me from my mothers womb and didst conduct me thorough the varieties of my life with much mercy and the issues of a loving and wise providence I bless thy name O Lord for all thy dispensations thou hast done all things with infinite goodness and infinite wisedome thou hast kept me from the effects of thy wrath and the evils of my own infirmities thou didst defend me from evils by the guard of Angels and didst lead me into good by the conduct of thy holy Spirit Thou hast alwaies heard my prayer ever being more ready to bless me then I to ask it thou hast said unto me I will never leave thee nor forsake thee be therefore graciously pleased to hear the prayer of thy hand-maid that I may have the aids of an excellent providence and a mighty grace to doe my duty in all my relations in all varieties and changes of the world until my great change shall come II. GIve thy blessing to thy servant my dear husband give him a long life and a confirmed health encircle him with blessings adorne him with thy grace nourish him with content refresh him with a perpetual succession of comforts let the light of thy Countenance be upon him in all his actions and the accidents of his life and grant that he may still more and more increase in the love and fear of thy holy name that despising the things of this world he may hunger and thirst after the things of God and of religion and may have his portion in the gathering together of the Saints in the kingdome of grace and glory III. BLess me even me O my Father and grant that I may in all things doe my duty to thee my God give me a perfect command over all my passions and affections that they being subject to my will and my will guided by reason and my reason by religion I may never suffer any undecency or violent transport but may pass thorough all the accidents of my life with meekness and a sober spirit with patience and charity with prudence and holiness O be pleased to give thy servant a right judgement in all things that I may not be amazed at trifles nor discomposed by every contrariety of accidents nor passionate for the things of the world nor discontent if thou shouldest smite me but that I may with an even and a quiet spirit doe my duty and comply with every variety of thy providence and obey my husband and be amiable in his eyes and useful and careful for his children ever desiring to approve my self to thee in a holy and hearty obedience in piety and devotion in patience and humility in chastity and purity in all holiness of conversation and doe thou give thy holy and blessed Spirit to guide and teach me all my daies that I may overcome all my infirmities and comply with and bear the infirmities of others and charitably pardon their errors and fairly expound their actions and wisely perceive their intentions and with a Christian ingenuity deport my self in all things giving offence to none but doing good to all I can that I may receive pardon from thee for all my sins and a pity for all my infirmities and thy blessing upon all my actions and a sanctification of all my intentions and when my life is done I may have the peace of God and the testimony of a holy Conscience to accompany me to my grave and to consign me to a holy and a blessed resurrection to partake of the inheritance which thou hast provided for thy saints and servants Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen For a fruitful Womb. I. O Most gracious and eternal God Father and Lord of all the creatures thou didst sanctifie marriage in the state of Innocence in the dwellings of paradise didst
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
of duty that so we may passe through this valley of teares in peace and meeknesse in faith and charity with the confidence of a holy hope and in the strength of thy righteous promises to the fruition of those mercies which are the portion of willing and obedient soules through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The great penitential Letanies To be said according to the discretion of him that ministers especially in the time of Lent and upon solemn Fasting daies O Blessed God Father of mercies who hast sent thy Son to redeeme us from sin and wrath have mercy upon us rebellious and perishing children lost and miserable sinners O Blessed Saviour Jesus who wert the price of lost mankind and gavest thy selfe a sacrifice for our sins have mercy upon miserable and lost but sorrowful and returning sinners O Blessed Spirit of the Father who didst come into the world to sanctify and to teach to illuminate and to guide it have mercy upon us foolish and ignorant lost and miserable sinners O most Blessed and Mysterious Trinity God the Fathers Son and holy Spirit have mercy upon us perishing and miserable sinners 1. Pardon O God the vanities of our childhood and the sins of our youth our backward and dull ignorance our forward and active malice our early sins and slow repentances our hastinesse to all evil and our unwillingnesse to all good things whatsoever If thou Lord wilt be extreme to marke what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 2. O God of mercy pardon our want of discipline our aversenesse to learne good things our desires of evil the first insinuations of sin our morose delectation in vaine thoughts our pleasure in evil remembrances our entertaining little images of sin our love of the temptation our fondnesse after trifles our want of love and want of understanding of the things of God Cast us not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from us 3. O God of mercy pardon the infinite number of our foolish thoughts and voluptuous desires our proud imaginations phantastick pleasures our secret deliciousnesse in what thou hast forbidden our desires to die our contempt and neglect of life our foolish contrivances and trifling purposes our ridiculous designes and unreasonable intentions Turne thy face from our sins O Lord and put out all our misdeeds 4. O God of mercy pardon the infinite omissions of our duty our seldome prayers and frequent wandring of our head and heart our foolish arts to cosen our selves and to cheat our soules of duty and reward our wicked rejoycings when we were forc'd to omit our devotion and our listlesse manner of attending to them our dulnesse in hearing our deadnesse in observing our excuses and pretences our wearinesse of body and tediousnesse of Spirit our dulnesse and sleepinesse our seldome reading and more seldome meditating our losse of many opportunities of receiving the holy Communion and our making use of all opportunities of pleasure and vanity But there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5. O God of mercy pardon all the sins of our proud and prejudicate understandings our wilful ignorance and voluntary neglect of the instruments of salvation the weaknesse imperfection of our faith and our trifling notices of things our distrust of thee and our confidence in the creatures our superstitious fancies and foolish opinions our weake conjectures and easinesse to beleive our suspicions and jealousies of thee and our wicked sentences and evil reportings concerning thy actions and thy attributes our relying upon dreames and our not relying upon thy world our love of being abus'd in our perswasions and our beleiving doctrines for interest and passion our weake inquiries and confident opinions our doubtings trepidations in the day of temptations and our unreasonable confidences boastings and presumptions when we are properous easy and untempted Lord be merciful to our sins for they are very many 6. O God of mercy pardon the sins of our will our violent prosecutions of pleasure and our hatings of religion our unwillingnesse to please thee and our fiercenesse of desire to please our selves our unwillingnesse to submit to thylawes to the events of thy providence our disobedience to revelations to the advices of the wise and the discourses of the learned to the voice of God and the lessons of the Spirit our unreasonable choice and malicious determinations our yeildings to the whispers of the flesh and our obstinacy against the motions of illuminated reason O give us the comfort of thy helpe againe and establish us with thy free Spirit 7. O God of mercy pardon the inordination and irregularity of our affections our anger is hasty and quick unreasonable and immoderate a perpetual storme and a perpetual folly our desires are passionate and great sensual and intemperate we fear the feares of men and our hopes are of things that profit not we love that which destroyes us and doe not love that by which we can be made alive we rejoyce in the wayes of death and our sorrow is not unto amendment of life every sad accident of the world does amaze us but we are not afflicted when we loose thy favour when we doe foolish things and enter into the portions of thy displeasure Lord be merciful unto us for our sins are very great 8. O God of mercy pardon the hypocrisy of our lives our desires to seeme holy our neglect of being so our being satisfied with shadowes and outsides with an unactive faith with the faith of Devils and the hope of hypocrites with the comforts of the presumptuous and the confidences of the proud we have rested in outward workes and have not secur'd the truth of the Spirit we confesse our sins and still commit them we pray against them and yet we love them we call thee Father and obey thee not we say thou art our Lord and yet we doe not feare thee we approach thee with our lips and our hearts are far from thee wee bow our heads and lift up our hearts and hands against thee we humble our selves in flattery and mortifie our affections with deceit we pretend religion to serve our owne worldly ends resting in formes of godlinesse but denying the power of it O God be merciful unto us for our state is very miserable 9. O God of mercy pardon our impatience and immortification our secret murmures and open rebellions our temptings of God our provocations of thee to anger our entring into needlesse dangers the deferring of our repentance and the hardning of our faces against thy judgements our contempt of thy mercies and turning thy grace into wantonnesse despising thy long suffering and thy goodnesse and trusting boldly where thou hast given us no ground of hope or comfort O Blessed Jesu that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us 10 O God of mercy pardon the innumerable sins of our tongue our vaine and common swearings our bold affirmatives of what we know
out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoyce let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them also that love thy name be joyfull in thee 12 For thou Lord wilt blesse the righteous with favour wilt thou compasse him as with a shield Ev. Pr. PSAL. VI. David being afflicted with sicknesseâ— and sensible of Gods anger prayes against it implores the Divine mercy renounces all communion with evill men and evill works prayes for life and health ease and remâ—ssion and finding ease nad comfort gives thanks to God O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heale me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul is also sore vexed but thou O Lord how long 4 Return O Lord deliver my soul oh save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks 6 I am weary with my groaning all the night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with my tears 7 Mine eye is consumed because of griefe it waxeth old because of all mine enemies 8 Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my supplication the Lord will receive my prayer 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed let them return and be ashamed suddenly PSAL. VII David justifies himself against the reproches of Shimei who accus'd him to have caused the death of King Saul and his family and to have usurp'd the Kingdome he prayes to be delivered from the injuries of his adversary to be restored to his Kingdome and to be a veng'd of his enemy O Lord my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver 3 O Lord my God if I have done this if there be iniquity in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that was at peace with me yea I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it yea let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust Selah 6 Arise O Lord in thine anger lift up thy self because of the rage of mine enmies and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded 7 So shall the congregation of the people compasse thee about for their sakes therefore return thou on high 8 The Lord shall judge the people judge me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to my integrity that is in me 9 O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end but establish the just for the righteous God tryeth the hearts and reins 10 My defence is of God which saveth the upright in heart 11 God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day 12 If he turn not he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors 14 Behold he travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood 15 He made a pit and digged it and is faln into the ditch which he made 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate 17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high PSAL. VIII The glory and magnificence of God his love to Man his providence over the world an act of praise and adoration of God O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemie and the avenger 3 When I consider thy heavens the work work of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 For thou hast made him a little lower then the angells and hast crown'd him with glory and honour 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earthâ— Mo. Pr. PSAL. IX The Church praises God for her victory over her enemies God takes care of his Church will destroy them that oppose her The faithfull are exhorted to put their trust in God I Will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and rejoyce in thee I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high 3 When mine enemies are turned back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou saâ—est in the throne judging right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroyed the wicked thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end and thou hast destroyed cities their memoriall is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath prepared his throne for judgment 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousnesse he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightnesse 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not for saken them that seek thee 11 Sing praises to the Lord which dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them he forgetteth not the cry of the humble 13 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Sion I will rejoyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken 16 The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poor
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
Maon sings praises to God in this psalm I Love the Lord because he hath heard my voice and my supplications 2 Because he hath inclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The sorrowes of death compassed me and the pains of hell gat hold upon me I found trouble sorrow 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low and he helped me 7 Return unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I believed therefore have I spoken I was greatly afflicted 11 I said in my haste All men are liars 12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me 13 I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 14 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 16 Oh Lord truly I am thy servant I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid thou hast loosed my bonds 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving will call upon the name of the Lord. 18 I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people 19 In the courts of the Lords house in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXVII A Doxology to God for his mercy and truth it is also propheticall of the calling the Genâ—iles O Praise the Lord all yee nations praise him all ye people 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is great towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXVIII A thanksgiving and gratulation to God for his being victorious over the Philistims and his establishment in his kingdome it figures the Church going to her Temples giving thanks to God praying for blessing and the priests blessing God and thâ— people and appointing sacrifices The coming of the Messias and the joyes of the world at his coming O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now say that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Let them now that fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in distresse the Lord answered me and set me in a large place 6 The Lord is on my side I wil not fear what can man do unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them 11 They compassed me about yea they compassed me about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them 12 They compassed me about like bees they are quenched as the fire of thorns for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me 14 The Lord is my strength and song and is become my salvation 15 The voyce of rejoycing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly 16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly 17 I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened me sore but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness I will go in to them and I will praise the Lord. 20 This gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter 21 I will praise thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner 23 This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it 25 Save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath shewed us light bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will praise thee thou art my God I will exalt thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXIX David teaches that all true happiness consists in keeping the commandments he prayes to God to produce in him a great love of them and to give him right understanding in them promises and threatnings are intermingled with great variety of expressions of the same earnest dâ—sire he had keep to the laws of God BLessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart 3 They also do no iniquity they walk in his wayes 4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently 5 O that my wayes were directed to keep thy statutes 6 Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments 7 I will praise thee with uprightnesse of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgements 8 I will keep thy statutes O forsake me not utterly BETH 9 VVHerewithall shal a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not wander from thy commandments 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee 12 Blessed art thou O Lord teach me thy statutes 13 With my lips have I declared all the judgements of thy mouth 14 I have rejoyced in the way of thy testimonies as much as in all riches 15 I will meditate in thy precepts and have respect unto thy wayes 16 I will delight my self in thy statutes I wil not forget thy word GIMEL 17 DEal bountifully with thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 18 Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law 19 I am a stranger in the earth hide not thy commandments from me 20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgements at all times 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed which
therefore I hate every false way Mo. Pr. NUN 105 THy word is a lamp unto my feet a light unto my path 106 I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments 107 I am afflicted very much quicken me O Lord according unto thy word 108 Accept I beseech thee the free-will-offerings of my mouth O Lord teach me thy judgments 109 My soul is continually in my hand yet doe I not forget thy law 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me yet I erred not from thy precepts 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoycing of my heart 112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway even unto the end SAMECH 113 I Hate vaine thoughts but thy law do I love 114 Thou art my hiding-place and my shield I hope in thy word 115 Depart from me ye evil doers for I will keep the commandments of my God 116 Uphold me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be ashamed of my hope 117 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually 118 Thou hast trodden down all them that erre from thy statutes for their deceit is falsehood 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements AIN 121 I Have done judgement and justice leave me not to mine oppressours 122 Be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation and for the word of thy righteousness 124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy and teach me thy statutes 125 I am thy servant give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 126 It is time for thee Lord to work for they have made void thy law 127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way PE. 129 THy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding unto the simple 131 I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy commandments 132 Look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name 133 Order my steps in thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man so will I keep thy precepts 135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law TSADDI 137 RIghteous art thou O Lord and upright are thy judgements 138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithfull 139 My zeal hath consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 140 Thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it 141 I am small and despised yet do not I forget thy precepts 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me yet thy commandments are my delights 144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting give me understanding and I shall live Ev. Pr. KOPH 145 I Cryed with my whole heart heare me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 146 I cryed unto thee save me I shall keep thy testimonies 147 I prevented the dawning of the morning and cryed I hoped in thy word 148 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might meditate in thy word 149 Hear my voyce according unto thy loving kindness O Lord quicken me according to thy judgement 150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief they are far from thy law 151 Thou art near O Lord and all thy commandments are truth 152 Concerning thy testimonies I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever RESH 153 COnsider mine affliction and deliver me for I doe dot forget thy law 154 Plead my cause and deliver me quicken me according to thy word 155 Salvation is far from the wicked for they seek not thy statutes 156 Great are thy tender mercies O Lord quicken me according to thy judgements 157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do I not decline from thy testimonies 158 I beheld the transgressours and was grieved because they kept not thy word 159 Consider how I love thy precepts quicken me O Lord according to thy loving kindness 160 Thy word is true from the beginning and every one of thy righteous judgements endureth for ever SCHIN 161 PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in aw of thy word 162 I rejoyce at thy word as one that findeth great spoil 163 I hate and abhor lying but thy law do I love 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgements 165 Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them 166 Lord I have hoped for thy salvation and done thy commandements 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and I love them exceedingly 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies for all my waies are before thee TAU 169 LEt my crye come near before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word 170 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 171 My lips shall utter praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 172 My tongue shall speak of thy word for all thy commandments are righteousness 173 Let thine hand help me for I have chosen thy precepts 174 I have longed for thy salvation O Lord and thy law is my delight 175 Let my soul live and it shall praise thee and let thy judgements help me 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXX The Psalmist being compelled to live amongst ungodly and factious people complains to God and craves help and remedy IN my distress I cryed unto the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soul O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue 3 What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false tongue 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of Juniper 5 Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak they are for war PSAL. CXXI This Psalm is an act of trust in God our great preserver by day and night at home and abroad I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help 2 My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved he that keepeth thee will not
our daughters may be as corner-stones polished after the similitude of a palace 13 That our garners may be full affording all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our streets 15 Happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. PSAL. CXLV This Psalm is part of the Allelujah it is wholly a celebration of the Divine praises from the greatnesse of God his infinite power his immense Majesty his goodnesse his clemency his justice his providence and bounty and his readinesse to hear the prayers of them that fear him I Will extoll thee my God O King and I will blesse thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I blesse thee and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatnesse is unsearchable 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will declare thy greatnesse 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodnesse and shall sing of thy righteousnesse 8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy 9 The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works 10 All thy works shal praise thee O Lord and thy saints shal blesse thee 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdome and talk of thy power 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdome 13 Thy kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations 14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee thou givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing 17 The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth 19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh blesse his holy name for ever and ever PSAL. CXLVI An exhortation to praise God in him alone we are to trust he is the Creator of all his truth is eternall he is just bountifull and gracious and King for ever PRaise ye the Lord praise the Lord O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being 3 Put not your trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help 4 His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God 6 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever 7 Which executeth judgement for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the Lord looseth the prisoners 8 The Lord openeth eyes of the blinde the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down the Lord loveth the righteous 9 The Lord preserveth the strangers he relieveth the fatherless and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down 10 The Lord shall reign for ever even thy God O Zion unto all generations Praise ye the Lord. Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXLVII An exhortation to recite Gods praises from the consideration of his blessings to his people his defence and establishment of them his power and wisdome manifested in the heavens his care over all the creatures men and beasts from summer and winter and especially from consideration of the excellency of his Law and of his Word communicated to his people PRaise ye the Lord for it is good to sing praises unto our God for it is pleasant praise is comely 2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth the broken in heart bindeth up their wounds 4 He telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and of great power his understanding is infinite 6 The Lord lifteth up the meek he casteth the wicked down to the ground 7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing praises upon the harp unto our God 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds who prepareth rain for the earth who maketh grasse to grow upon the mountains 9 He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man 11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wool he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who can stand before his cold 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgements unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgements they have not known them Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXLVIII All the Creation in the severall ranks of creatures is called upon to be instrumental in the celebration of the Divine praises PRaise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens praise him in the heights 2 Praise ye him all his angels praise ye him all his hosts 3 Praise ye him sun and moon praise him all ye stars of light 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord for he commanded and they were created 6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever he hath made a decree which shall not passe 7 Praise the Lord from the Earth ye dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapour stormy wind fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell creeping things and flying fowl 11 Kings of the earth
our hopes and the perfection of our desires to live with thee in the holinesse of thy Kingdome of grace and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. For Peace O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of peace and the Father of Unions we pray unto thee for peace for love and for thy salvation Let a holy peace for ever dwell in our consciences Let peace and holinesse and Gods blessing for ever adorne support and enlarge this family Let there be peace and Union of minds in all Christian assemblies one heart and one voice the same faith and an eternal charity Make warrs to cease in all the world that the peace and the designe of the Gospel may be advanced the lawes of the holy Jesus may be obeyed and his Name be magnified in all the world for ever and ever Amen III. For all Christian Princes and the Ecclesiastical state ALmighty God who rulest in the Kingdomes of men and in all events of the world defend those with thy mercy whom thou hast adorned with thy power lift up the horne advance the just interests of all Christian Kings Princes and states by the power of thy venerable and lifegiving passion *** Give unto all them who serve thee in the ministeries of religion wisedome and holinesse the blessings of peace and great abilities to minister prosperously to the good of soules by the power and aides of thy holy Spirit of wisdome IV. Pardon all our sins take away our iniquities from us all and preserve us from all danger and trouble from need and persecution from the temptations of the Devill from the violence and fraud of all our enemies Keep us O God from sinning against thee and from suffering thy wrath through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen V The collect for the Evening O Almighty Father who givest the Sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the Moone and of the Stars for a light by night vouchsafe to receive us this night and ever into thy favour and protection defending us from all sad casualties and evill accidents ruling and governing us with thy holy spirit that all darknesse and hurtfull ignorance all infidelity and weaknesse of heart all inordinate fear and carnall affections may be remooved far from us that we being justified by the mercies of God in our Lord Jesus may be sanctified by thy spirit and glorified by thy infinite mercies in the day of the glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VI. For a blessed death O Most gracious and most holy Redeemer who by dying for us becamest the author of life unto us and hast subdued all the powers of hell and the grave taking away the sting of death and breaking in peices the powers of darknesse have mercy upon us now and at the hour of our Death Let thy holy Spirit governe all our words and actions our thoughts and designes our civill entercourse and the duties of religion and grant to us so perfectly to obey his commandements and attend his motions all the daies of our life that we may by holy habits and a constant performance of our dutie waite for the coming of our Lord and be ready to enter with him at whatsoever hour he shall come VII O be mercifull unto us in the day of our calamity and of thy visitation strengthen our faith in the day of our sicknesses trial when the Cloud is thicke the storme is great that we may rely upon thy grace invocate thy mercies hope in thy goodnesse and receive the end of our hopes the salvation of our soules O Let us never descend into the dwellings of the wicked nor into the place of them that know not God but be pleas'd here to guide us with thy councell and after that receive us with thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this O Eternall God thou fountaine of life and pardon there is no number of thy daies nor of thy mercies be mercifull unto us now and at the hour of our death let not thy servants be arrested with sudden death that we be neither unready in our accounts nor snatched hence with an imperfect duty nor surprised in an act of sin nor called upon when our lampes are untrimm'd let it be neither violent nor untimely hasty nor unblessed but after the ordinary visitation of men having in it an excellent patience and an exemplar piety and the greatest senses and demonstrations of thy eternall mercies Preserve O God our reason and religion our faith and our hope our sense and our speech perfect and usefull till the last of our daies and grant that we may die the death of the righteous and let our last end be like to his free from debt and deadly sin having first discharg'd all our obligations of justice and made competent provision for our relatives that none of ours be left miserable and unprovided in our departure but grant that being blessed by thy providence and sanctified with thy spirit they may for ever be servants of the Lord Jesus II. Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not up thy mercifull eyes and eares unto our prayers but spare us O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternall suffer us not at our last hour for any paines of death to fall from thee but strengthen us with a mighty grace and support us with an infinite mercy giving us perfect measures or repentance and great treasures of charity that at the generall resurrection in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy welbeloved son shall then pronounce to all them that love and feare thee saying Come ye Blessed children of my Father receive the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world * This mercy O most mercifull Father vouchsafe to give unto us and all thy servants through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer Amen Here may be inserted any of the portions of the prayer of intercession which is at the end of Morning Prayer The Blessing THe Lord blesse you and keep 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 The end of Evening Prayer To be added to the foregoing Offices upon speciall occasions immediately before the blessing at Morning or Evening Prayer A prayer before Sermon O Lord God fountaine of life giver of all good things who givest to men the blessed hope of eternall life by our Lord Jesus Christ and hast promised thy holy Spirit to them that aske him Be present with us in the dispensation ofthy holy word and Sacraments grant that we being preserved from all evil by