triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgresse without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy wayes O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which hath been ever of old 6 Oh remember not the sinnes and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodnesse 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that be meek shall he guide in judgement and such as be gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy names sake O Lord be mercifull unto my sinne for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrowes of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sinne 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectnesse and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles The Prayer O Gracious and Righteous Lord God who art the guide of the meek and teachest the humble and gentle in thy way forgive the sins and offences of our youth and although by them we have deserved thy wrath and that we be put to confusion yet be pleased to think upon us for thy goodnesse and according to thy mercy that when thou hast forgiven us all our sinne and taken away our adversity and all our misery thou maist keep our soules in perâ—ectnesse and righteous dealing that at last we may dwell at ease free from trouble and safe from all our enemies even when we shall inherit the land of everlasting rest where thou livest and raignest eternal God world without end Amen PSALME 26. A Prayer of preparation to the holy Sacrament and to death BE thou my judge O Lord for I have walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall 2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart 3 For thy loving kindnesse is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth 4 I have not dwelt with vain persons neither will I have fellowship with the deceitfull 5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the ungodly 6 I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I goe to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voyce of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works 8 Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners nor my life with the bloud-thirsty 10 In whose hands is wickednesse and their right hands are full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O Lord deliver me and be mercifull unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations The Prayer O Lord our Judge whose loving kindnesse is great and alwayes before our eyes manifested in the abundant acts of thy grace and providence make us to love and frequent all the actions ministeries and conveyances of thy graces to us especially thy holy Sacraments O dear God endue our Soules with faith and charity and holy penitence that our hands and hearts our Souls and bodies being washed in innocency and penance we may goe to thy holy Table and may in the whole course of our life walk righteously and in obedience to thee that in this world hating the congregation of the wicked and the fellowship of the deceitfull and vain persons at last our Soules may not be shut up with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty but wee may have our portion in the eternall habitation of thy house where thine honour dwelleth and reigneth world without end Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 27. A Prayer that being freed from our Enemies we may attend the services of Religion and serve God in his holy Temple THe Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid 2 When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell 3 Though an host of men were laid against me yet shall not my heart be afraid and though there rose up War agaist me yet will I put my trust in him 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the faire beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me and set me up upon a rock of stone 6 And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladnesse I will sing and speak praises unto thâ— Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voyce O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me 9 My heart hath talked of thee seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek 10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure 11 Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 12 When my father and my mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up 13 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against me and such as speak wrong 15 I should utterly have fainted but that I beleeve verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisuâ—â— be strong and he shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God thou hast been our succour
the chains of obedience discipline and subordination to all thy holy Laws and grant to us thy servants that thy Laws may be so fixed in our hearts and thy praises in our mouthes and righteousnesse in all our actions that we may be written among the righteous and have our portion with the Saints who rejoyce in their beds of eternall rest and are joyfull in the glories of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 150. An invitation to praise God with all our faculties and powers O Praise God in his holinesse praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet praise him upon the lute and harp 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances praise him upon the strings and pipe 5 Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals praise him upon the loud cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Prayer O Eternall God thy holinesse and power and excellent greatnesse are farre above all the praises of men and Angels and yet thou art pleased in the harmony and concent of a thankfull heart and a thanks-giving tongue touch our hearts with admirable apprehensions of thy Divine perfections that our songs of thy honour may be devout and illuminate to the height of extasies and the devotions of a Seraphim for nothing is proportionable to thy glories but what is infinitely beyond our infirmities Make us to sing Thee and thy Name while we have breath and when we are breathlesse let our hearts fill up the harmony and think thy praises so cordially till our souls being separated from the harsh sound of our bodily organs we may praise thee when we are all spirit in the state of separation and in the re-union when our bodies shall be made spirituall singing to thee exalted praises for ever and ever To thee O blessed and glorious God be praises and honour and glory ascribed now and to all eternity Amen Amen DEVOTIONS FOR THE Help and Assistance OF ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE In all occasions and necessities The third EDITION LONDON Printed for R. Royston 1647. DEVOTIONS FOR SEVERALL OCCASIONS A Prayer against wandring thoughts to be said at the beginning of our devotions ALmighty God who hast commanded us to pray unto thee without ceasing and hast added many glorious promises for our incouragement let thy holy Spirit teach me how to pray give me just apprehensions of my wants zeal of thy glory great resentment of thy mercies love of all spirituall employments that are pleasing unto thee and do thou help mine infirmities that the Devill may not abuse my fancy with illusions nor distract my minde with cares nor alienate my thoughts with impertinencies but give me a present minde great devotion a heart fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention and perseverance in my prayers that I may glorifie thy Name doe unto thee true and laudable service and obtain relief for all my necessities Hear me O King of Heaven when I call upon thee for thou hast promised mercy to them that pray in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Penitentiall Prayers and a Form of Confession of sinnes to God to be said upon days of publike or private humiliation O Lord God of mercy and pardon give me a just remembrance and sad apprehensions of my sins teach me to bewail them with as great an indignation and bitternesse as I have committed them with complacency and delight Let my prayers and my confession come into thy presence and obtain a mercy for me and a pardon Let not thy justice and severity so remember my sins as to forget thine own mercy and though I have committed that for which I deserve to be condemned yet thou canst not lose that glorious attribute whence flows comfort to us and hopes of being saved Spare me therefore O mercifull God for to give pardon to a sinner that confesseth his sinnes and begges remission is not impossible to thy power nor disproportionate to thy justice nor unusuall to thy mercy and sweetest clemency Blessed Jesu acknowledge in me whatsoever is thine and cleanse me from whatsoever is amisse Have pity on me now in the time of mercy and condemne me not when thou commest to judgement for what profit is there in my bloud Thou delightest not in the death of a sinner but in his conversion there is joy in Heaven and when thou hast delivered me from my sins and saved my soul I shall praise and magnifie thy Name to all eternity Mercy sweet Jesu Mercy Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. I am not worthy O Lord to look up to Heaven which is the Throne of thy purity for my sins are moe in number then the hairs upon my head and my heart hath failed me Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have not lived according to thy will but in the vanity of mine own thoughts in idle sinfull and impertinent language in foolish actions in blindnesse of heart in contempt of thy holy Word and Commandments I have not loved thee my God with all my heart nor feared thee with all my soul nor served thee with all my might according to thy holy precept nor loved my neighbour as my self Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have been unthankfull to thy Divine Majesty forgetting that thou madest me and preservest me to thy Son my blessed Saviour forgetting the bitter pains he suffered for me and to the holy Ghost forgetting how many gracious influences I have received from him for my help comfort and promotion in the wayes of holy Religion but have rebelled against thee my Maker have sold my self to work wickednesse from whence by the passion of thy holy Son I was redeemed and have resisted the holy Ghost Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee my God in an inordinate estimation of my self in vain complacencies and desires to be esteemed as much or more then others in not suffering with meeknesse indifference and obedience the humiliations sent to me by thy divine providence in haughty deportment toward my superiours equals and inferiours and in accepting such honours as have been done to me without returning them to thee the Fountain Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee my God in impatience in anger intemperate in degree inordinate in the object growing peevish and disquieted by trifling inadvertencies of others and sleight accidents about me Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee my God by being envious at the prosperous successes and advantages of my neighbours and have had resentments of joy at their displeasures and sadnesses Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have been negligent in performance of my charge idle in doing my duties soft and effeminate in my life indevout
with thee but the remembrance of my sins doth so depresse my growing confidence that I am in a great straight between my fears and hopes between the infirmities of my nature and the better desires of conforming to thy holy will and pleasure O my dear Redeemer wean my soul and all my desires from the flatteries of this world pardon all my sins and consign so great a favour by the comforts and attestation of thy divinest Spirit that my own fears being mastered my sins pardoned my desires rectified as the Hart thirst after the springs of water so my soul may long after thee O God and to enter into thy Courts Heavenly Father if it may be for thy glory and my ghostly good to have the days of my pilgrimage prolonged I begge of thee health and life but if it be not pleasing to thee to have this cup passe from me thy will be done my Saviour hath drunk off all the bitternesse Behold O Lord I am in thine hands do with me as seemeth good in thine eyes though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely who shalt make me to dwell in everlasting safety and to partake of the joys of thy Kingdom who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen IV. A Prayer for a sick person in danger of death O Lord Jesus Christ our health and life our hope and our resurrection from the dead I resign my self up to thy holy will and pleasure either to life that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment or to death to the perpetuall enjoyment of thy presence and of thy glories Into thy hands I commend my spirit for I know O Lord that nothing can perish which is committed to thy mercies I believe O Lord that I shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the just I relinquish all care of that onely I begge of thee mercy for my soul strengthen it with thy grace against all temptations let thy loving kindness defend it as with a shield against all the violences and hostile assaults of Satan let the same mercy be my guard and defence which protected thy Martyrs crowning them with victory in the midst of flames horrid torments and most cruell deaths There is no help in me O Lord I cannot by my own power give a minutes rest to my wearied body but my trust is in thy sure mercies and I call to minde to my unspeakable comfort that thou wert hungry and thirsty and wearied and whipt and crown'd with Thorns and mock'd and crucified for me O let that mercy which made thee suffer so much make thee do that for which thou sufferedst so much pardon me and save me Let thy merits answer for my impieties let thy righteousnesse cover my sins thy bloud wash away my stains and thy comforts refresh my soul. As my body grows weak let thy grace bestronger let not my faith doubt nor my hope tremble nor my charity grow cold nor my soul be affrighted with the terrors of death but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death eternall and when my tongue fails let thy spirit teach my heart to pray with strong cryings and groans that are unutterable O let not the enemy do me any violence but let thy holy mercies and thy Angels repell and defeat his malice and fraud that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joyes of eternity in the fruition of thee my life my joy my hope my exceeding great reward my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen V. For a dying Person in or near the agonies of death MOst mercifull and Blessed Saviour have mercy upon the soul of this thy sâ—rvant remember not his ignorances nor the sins of his youth but according to thy great mercy remember him in the mercies and glories of thy Kingdome Thou O Lord hast opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers let the everlasting gates be open'd and receive his Soul let the Angels who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner triumph and be exalted in his deliverance and salvation Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy incarnation life and sanctity passion and death resurrection and ascension and of all the prayers of the Church of the joy of the elect and all the fruits of the blessed communion of Saints and daily adde to the number of thy beatified servants such as shall be saved that thy comming may be hastned and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled and the glory of thee our Lord Jesu bee advanced all the whole Church singing praises to the Honour of thy Name who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen VI. O Most mercifull Jesu who didst die to redeem us from death and damnation have mercy upon this thy servant whom thy hand hath visited with sicknesse of thy goodnesse be pleased to forgive him all his sinnes and seal his hopes of glory with the refreshments of thy holy Spirit Lord give him strength and confidence in thee asswage his pain repell the assaults of his Ghostly enemies by thy mercies and a guard of holy Angels preserve him in the unity of the Church keep his senses intire his understanding right give him great measure of contrition true faith a well grounded hope and abundant charity give him a quiet and a joyfull departure let thy ministring spirits convey his soul to the mansions of peace and rest there with certainty to expect a joyfull resurrection to the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore Amen VII A Prayer for the joyes of Heaven O Most glorious Jesu who art the portion and exceeding great reward of all faithfull people thou hast beautified humane Nature with glorious immortality and hast carried the same above all Heavens above the seat of Angels beyond the Cherubims and Seraphims placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity that we may live in thy fear and die in thy favour Prepare our souls with heavenly vertues for heavenly joys mâ—king us righteous here that we may be beautified hereafter A Morning Prayer In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Eternall Sun of righteousnesse who camest from the bosome of thy Father the Fountain of glorious light to enlighten the darknesses of the world I praise thy Name that thou hast preserved me from the dangers of this night and hast continued to me still the opportunities of serving thee and advancing my hopes of a blessed eternity Let thy mercies shine brightly upon me and dissipate the clouds and darknesses of my spirit and understanding rectifie my affections and purifie
in pieces like a potters vessell 10 Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye that are judges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in fear and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kisse the Son lest he be angry and so he perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him The Prayer O Blessed Jesu into whose hands is committed all dominion and power in the Kingdomes and Empires of the world out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it thou mightest smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of yron on whose vesture and on whose thigh a name is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords we adore thee in thy infinite excellency and most glorious exaltation beseeching thee to reveale thy name and the glory of thy Kingdome to the Heathen which know thee not and to the uttermost parts of the earth which are given thee for thy possession and inheritance And to us give thy grace to serve thee in fear and plant the reverence of thy law and of thy name in our hearts lest thy wrath be kindled against us and thou break us in pieces like vessels of dishonour Have mercy on us O King of Kings for we have put our trust in thee thou art our Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 3. A Prayer for defence against all our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise against me 2 Many one there be that say of my soul There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the lifter up of mine head 4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill 5 I laid me down and slept and rose up again for the Lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Up Lord and help me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the check-bone thou hast brokâ—n the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people The Prayer O Lord our defender have pity upon us behold the armies of the Flesh the World and the Devill fight against our Soules and multiply against us every day temptations and disadvantages We are not able of our selves as of our selves to think a good thought much lesse to put to flight the armies of them that have set themselves against us round about But thou O Lord art our defender thou art our worship and the lifter up of our heads Up Lord and help us arme us with the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit and in all times of temptation and battell cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation so shall we not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies for salvation belongeth unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 4. A Prayer in which we exercise an act of hope in God and desire his providence over us HEare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse for thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2 O ye sonnes of men how long will ye blaspheme mine honour and have such pleasure in vanity and seek after leasing 3 Know this also that the Lord hath chosen to himself the man that is godly when I call upon the Lord he will heare me 4 Stand in awe and sinne not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say Who will shew us any good 7 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 8 Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart since the time that their corn and wine and oyle increased 9 I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely that makest me dwell in safety The Prayer O God who art the author of all righteousnesse from whom all grace and safety and glory does proceed hear the prayers of thy humble servants whensoever we call upon thee in our trouble for our trust is in thee alone and no creature can shew us any good unlesse it derives from thee shew the light of thy countenance upon us let thy providence guide all our actions and sufferings to thy glory and our spirituall benefit and consigne us to the blessednesse of thy Kingdome by the testimony of thy holy Spirit that we may not place our ioyes and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfie but in the eternal fountain of all true felicities that thou being our treasure our hearts may be fixed upon thee by the bands of Charity and Obedience that thou maist make us to dwell in safety here and when our days are done we may lay us down in peace and take our rest in thy armes expecting the comming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 5. A prayer for blessing upon all pious people and for protection against the malice of wicked men POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voyce shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up 4 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickednesse neither shall any evill dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhorre both the bloud thirsty and deceitfull man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house even upon the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple 8 Lead me O Lord in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulnesse in his mouth their inward parts are very wickednesse 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 11 Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their own imaginations cast them out in the multitude of their ungodlinesse for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoyce they shall ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy name shall be joyfull in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindnesse wilt thou defend him as with a shield The Prayer O Most holy and blessed Lord God who canst take no pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the
it again and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof 7 The Law of the Lord is an undefiled law converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure and giveth wisdome unto the simple 8 The statutes of the Lord are right and rejoyce the heart the commandement of the Lord is pure and giveth light unto the eyes 9 The fear of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether 10 More to be desired are they then gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony and the hony combe 11 Moreover by them is thy servant taught and in keeping of them there is great reward 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret faults 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins lest they get the dominion over me so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy sight 15 O Lord my strength and my Redeâ—mer The Prayer O Most blessed Jesu thou Sun of righteousnesse who camest forth from the bosome of thy eternall Father as a Bridegroom out of his chamber be pleased to plant in our hearts the fear of the Lord and in our bodies the purity and cleannesse of chastity and make them to abide there for ever Lighten our eyes with the light of thy Gospel and the bright revelation of thy whole will and pleasure that so being guided by thy grace wee may be cleansed from all our secret sins and preserved from presumptuous and great offences so shall the thoughts and meditation of our heart the words of our mouth and all our actions be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord our Saviour our strength and our Redeemer Jesus Amen PSALME 20. A Prayer that God would heare our petitions which we make to him in times of trouble THe Lord hear thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Jacob defend thee 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion 3 Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt-sacrifice 4 Grant thee thy hearts desire and fulfill all thy minde 5 We will rejoyce in thy salvation and triumph in the name of the Lord our God the Lord perform all thy petitions 6 Now know I that the Lord helpeth his anointed and will hear him from his holy heaven even with the wholesome strength of his right hand 7 Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God 8 They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright 9 Save Lord and hear us O King of heaven when we call upon thee The Prayer O king of heaven who art the health and strength of our right hand have mercy upon us and hear us when we call upon thee let our prayers come into thy presence like a burnt offering of a sweet savour for in all our troubles we disclaim all confidences in any of thy creatures and remember thy name onely O Lord our God Teach us what to ask and how to come into thy presence that we may never begge of thee any thing but what is agreeable to thy will and may then promote thy glory when thou suppliest our necessities through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 21. A Prayer for the King THe King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation 2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lips 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse and shalt set a Crown of pure gold upon his head 4 He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life even for ever and ever 5 His honour is great in thy salvation glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him 6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance 7 And why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry 8 All thine enemies shall feel thine hand thy right hand shall finde out them that hate thee 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath the Lord shall destroy them in his displâ—â— sure and the fire shall consume them 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth and their seed from among the children of men 11 For they intended mischiefe against thee and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them 13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power The Prayer O Eternall God King of Kings and Lord of Lords have mercy upon thy servant the King as thou hast set a Crown of gold upon his head and given him power and command to rule thy people with justice and piety so do thou heare the request of his lips grant him the desire of his heart and prevent both his desires and requests with the blessings of thy goodnesse give him great honour and reverence in the sight of his People and of all the Nations round about let all his enemies feel thine hand and put them to flight that rise up against him that when thou hast given him the blessings of a long life and prosperous and made him glad with the joy of thy countenance at last he may be crown'd with everlasting felicity and reign with thee in thy eternall Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 22. A meditation upon the Passion of our Blessed Saviour MY God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint 2 O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season also I take no rest 3 And thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel 4 Our fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them 5 They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 6 But as for me I am a Worm and no man a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out their lips and shake their heads saying 8 He trusted in God that he would deliver him let him deliver him if he will have him 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers breasts 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born thou art my God even from my mothers womb 11 O goe not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none
heard 8 Which holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not ouâ— feet to slip 9 For thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us like as silver is tried 10 Thou broughtest us into the snare and layedst trouble upon our loyns 11 Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place 12 I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rams I will offer bullocks and goats 14 O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul. 15 I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue 16 If I encline unto wickednesse with my heart the Lord will not hear me 17 But God hath heard me and considered the voyce of my prayer 18 Praised be God which hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me The Prayer O Lord God who art wonderfull in thy works and in thy doings towards the children of men thou chastisest every one whoÌ„ thou receivest proving us and trying us like as silver is tried let thy mercifull hands lead us through the fire of afflictions and the waters of temporall chastisements so as we may not be consumed with the flames of thy wrath nor the waters go over our souls but that we being sustained by the comforts of thy Spirit and refreshed with the dew of thy graces we may at last be brought out into a wealthy place even the place of eternall treasures O give us thy grace that our hearts encline not to wickednesse and that our feet slip not that so we regarding thy laws and having respect to obey thy holy will and pleasure thou mayest hear our prayers the greatnesse of thy power may cast down all our enemies that they may never be able to exalt themselves that while thou holdest our souls in life we may never cease praising thee who hast never turn'd thy mercy from us through Jesus Christ our Lord· Amen PSALME 67. A prayer that all men may blesse God and God may blesse all men GOd be mercifull unto us and blesse us and shew us the light of his countenance and be mercifull unto us 2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all Nations 3 Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee 4 O let the Nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the Nations upon earth 5 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing 7 God shall blesse us and all the ends of the world shall fear him The Prayer O Lord God thou Governour of all Nations and the righteous Judge of the whole earth be mercifull unto us and blesse us Thou makest the Sun to shine upon all the corners of the habitable world giving his light both to the good and bad let the light of thy countenance diffuse it self to all Nations and to all men Lighten all our darknesses with the beams of thy divine favour teach thy wayes unto all the people of the earth and give thy saving health to all Nations that while all joyn with one consent to fear thee and to give thee praises thou mayest govern us all in peace and righteousnesse and when thoâ— shalt come to judge us we may receive thy everlasting mercies Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Mediator and Advocate Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 68. A Prayer for defence and propagation of the Catholike Church LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him 2 Like as the smoak vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as waxe melteth at the fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God 3 But let the righteous be glad and rejoyce before God let them also be merry and joyfull 4 O sing unto God and sing praises unto his name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an horse praise him in his name yea and rejoyce before him 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse and defendeth the cause of the widows even God in his holy habitation 6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one minde in an house and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity but letteth the runnagates continue in scarcenesse 7 O God when thou wentest forth before the people when thou wentest through the wildernesse 8 The earth shook and the heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel 9 Thou O God sentest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance and refreshedst it when it was weary 10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy goodnesse prepared for the poor 11 The Lord gave the word great was the company of the preachers 12 Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the houshold divided the spoil 13 Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold 14 When the Almighty scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon 15 As the hill of Basan so is Gods hill even an high hill as the hill of Basan 16 Why hop ye so ye high hils this is Gods hill in the which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy place of Sinai 18 Thou art gone up on high thou hast led captivity captive and received gifts for men yea even for thine enemies that the Lord God may dwell among them 19 Praised bee the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us 20 He is our God even the God of whom commeth salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death 21 God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickednesse 22 The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the sea 23 That thy foot may bee dipped in the bloud of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogges may be red through the same 24 It is well seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and King goest in the sâ—nctuary 25 The singers go before the Minstrels follow after in the midst are the
cry unto God with my voyce even unto God will I cry with my voyce and he shall hearken unto me 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not in the night season my soul refused comfort 3 When I am in heavinesse I will think upon God when my heart is vexed I will complain 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak 5 I have considered the dayes of old and the yeares that are past 6 I call to remembrance my song and in the night I commune with mine own heart and search out my spirits 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever and will hee be no more intreated 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure 10 And I said It is mine own infirmity but I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most highest 11 I will remember the works of the Lord and call to minde thy wonders of old time 12 I will think also of all thy works and my talking shall be of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sons of Jacob and Joseph 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 The clouds poured out water the aire thundred and thine arrows went abroad 18 The voyce of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was moved and shook withall 19 Thy way is in the sea and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron The Prayer O God who dost wonders and hast declared thy power amongst all people let the observation of thy mercies and loving kindnesses make such deep impression in our hearts and memories that when we are in heavinesse we may remember the years of thy right hand and call to mind the wonders of old time that although thou somtimes withdrawest the brightnesse of thy countenance from us and shuttest up thy loving kindnesse in a short displeasure yet the experience of thy old mercies which never fail may sustain our infirmities and the expectation of thy loving kindnesses may cure all our impatience till in thy due time the sense of thy favours may actually relieve all our distresses and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternall rest and security through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 78. A Commemoration of Gods blessings to his Church of old of his Judgements upon sinners and his mercies to the penitent HEar my law O my people encline your eares unto the words of my mouth 2 I will open my mouth in a parable I will declare hard sentences of old 3 Which we have heard and known and such as our fathers have told us 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to shew the honour of the Lord his mighty and wonderfull works that hee hath done 5 He made a covenant with Jacob and gave Israel a law which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children 6 That their posterity might know it and the children which were yet unborn 7 To the intent that when they came up they might shew their children the same 8 That they might put their trust in God and not to forget the works of God but to keep his Commandements 9 And not to be as their forefathers a faithlesse and stubborn generation a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit cleaved not stedfastly unto God 10 Like as the children of Ephraim which being harnessed and carrying bows turned themselves back in the day of battell 11 They kept not the covenant of God and would not walk in his law 12 But forgat what he had done and the wonderfull works that he had shewed for them 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt even in the field of Zoan 14 He divided the sea and let them goe through he made the waters to stand on a heap 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud and all the night through with a light of fire 16 Hee clave the hard rocks in the wildernesse and gave them drink thereof as it had been out of the great depth 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock so that it gushed out like the rivers 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against him and provoked the most Highest in the wildernesse 19 They tempted God in their hearts and required meat for their lust 20 They spake against God also saying Shall God prepare a table in the wildernesse 21 He smote the stony rock indeed that the water gushed out and the streams flowed withall but can he give bread also or provide flesh for his people 22 When the Lord heard this he was wroth so the fire was kindled in Jacob and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel 23 Because they beleeved not in God and put not their trust in his help 24 So he commanded the clouds above and opened the doores of heaven 25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat and gave them food from heaven 26 So man did eat Angels food for he sent them meat enough 27 He caused the east winde to blow under heaven and through his power he brought in the south-west-winde 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea 29 He let it fall among their tents even round about their habitation 30 So they did eat and were well filled for hee gave them their own desire they were not dissapointed of their lust 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God came upon them and slew the wealthiest of them yea and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel 32 But for all this they sinned yet more and beleeved not his wondrous works 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble 34 When he slew them they sought him and turned them early and enquired after God 35 And they remembred that God was their strength and that the high God was their Redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did but flatter him with their mouth and dissembled with him in their tongue 37 For their heart was not whole with him neither continued they stedfast in his covenant 38 But he was so mercifull that hee forgave their misdeeds and destroyed them not 39 Yea many a time turned he his wrath away and would not suffer his whole displeasure
people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayers and ministery of thy Church let our prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Son thou hast watered it with the bloud of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heat and graces of thy holy Spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Laws and righteous Commandements have been a scorn and derision to Jews and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land and still she wears the purple robe of mockery and the crown of thorns which at first she took from the head and side of her dearest Lord At last O Lord be gracious unto thine inheritance help us ô God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name let not thine enemies devour the Church and lay waste her dwelling places be mercifull unto our sins preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appointed to death or prison or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospel the food of thy word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publike Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sins cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 80. A Prayer for the Church HEar me O thou Shepheard of Israel thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that sittest upon the cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses stirre up thy strength and come and help us 3 Turn us again O God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 4 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of tears to drink 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scorn 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land 10 The hils were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge that all they that goe by pluck off her grapes 13 The wilde bore out of the wood doth roâ—t it up and the wilde beasts of the field devoure it 14 Turn thee again thou God of hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this vine 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the sonne of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self 18 And so will not we go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole The Prayer O Thou Shepheard of Israel thou that fittest upon the Cherubims stirre up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy children in this life thou feedest them with bread of tears and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drink yet bee pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve ouâ— miseries to heal our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours but reunite her divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devour her and then laugh her to scorn O Lord fiedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence of the whole secular arm lest the wilde beasts of the field pluck off her grapes destroy the vintage and root up the vine it self but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence that it may take root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy right hand the God and Man Christ Jesus may be glorified thy Church enlarged and defended and we blessed with thy health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 81. A Festivall song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to Gods Laws SIng we merrily unto God our strength make a chearfull noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take the psalm bring hither the tabret the merry harp with the lute 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon even in the time appointed and upon our solemne feast day 4 For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt and had heard a strange language 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife 9 Hear O my people and I will assure thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 10 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any other god 11 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it 12 But my people would not hear my voyce and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkned unto me for if Israel had walked in my waies 15 I should soon have put down their enâ—mies and â—urned my hand against their adversaries 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liers but their time should have endured for ever 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-floure and with hony
live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of â—â—sts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angels and millions of beatified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy help that we going through the vale of misery the pools may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may run over with tears of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sins that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appear in Sion unto the God of gods beholding the face of thine Anointed thy Christ and our Jesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gracious unto thy land thou haâ—t turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and â—overed all their sins 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turâ—ed thy self from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine â—nger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us that thy people may rejoyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to â—is saints that they turn not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissâ—d each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shal shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her encrease 13 Righteousnesse shall goe before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Jesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people covered all their sins with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in the hope of actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our souls and reconciled us to thy self in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turn again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our days and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 86. A Prayer for sanctity and preservation BOw down thine ear O Lord and hear me for I am poor and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give ear Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and â—orship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wondrous things â—â—ou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walk in â—hy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy Name 12 I will thank thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion â—nd mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and help the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon mee for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give ear unto our prayers ponder the voice of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the souls of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turn thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy laws make us to walk in thy truth give us the fear of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our souls being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord and glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Jerusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hils the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know thee 4 Behold yee the Philistines also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he born 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was born there 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall be rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy
A thousand shall fall beside thee and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Yea with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the ungodly 9 For thou Lord art my hope thou hast set thine house of defence very high 10 There shall no evill happen unto thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways 12 They shall bear thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet 14 Because he hath set his love upon me therefore shall I deliver him I shall set him up because he hath known my name 15 He shall call upon me and I will hear him yea I am with him in trouble I will deliver him and bring him to honour 16 With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation The Prayer O Lord God our hope and our strong hold have mercy upon us and defend us under the shadow of thy wings that we trusting under thy defence may by thy faithfulnesse and truth be covered as with a shield and buckler Give thy Angels charge concerning us and our habitations that we may be preserved and kept in all our ways that no evill happen uâ—to us no plague come nigh our dwelling no terrors of the night no arrows of thy vengeance by day may disturb our peace or safety Let thy ministring Spirits bear us in their hands and keep us from precipice fâ—om frâ—cture of bones from dislocations noisome 〈◊〉 sharp diseases stupidities and deformities that we may tread under our feet all the snares of the roaring lion and the great dragon the Devill who seeks our bodily and ghostly hurt Doe thou set thy love upon us and deliver us from all our troubles and at the end of our days shew us thy salvation and satisfie us with long life even of a blessed eternity in thy Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 92. A meditation of the great works of God in the destruction of the wicked and the preservation of the godly IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name O most Highest 2 To tell of thy loving kindnesse early in the morning and of thy truth in the night season 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute upon a loud instrument and upon the harp 4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands 5 O Lord how glorious are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this and a fool doth not understand it 7 When the ungodly are green as the grasse and when all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish then shall they be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore 8 For lo thine enemies O Lord lo thine enemies shall pâ—rish and all the workers of wickedness shall be destoyed 9 But mine horn shall bee exalted like the horn of an unicorn for I am anointed with fresh oyle 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wicked that rise up against me 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree and â—hall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking 14 That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousnesse in him The Prayer O Lord God thou art the most highest for evermore thy works are glorious and thy thoughts are very deep make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy praises that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning of thy truth in the night and that we may rejoyce in giving thee thanks for the operations of thy hands all the days and nights of our life Let thy mercifull kindnesse descend evermore upon the righteous that they may flourish like a palm tree being continually watered with the dew of temporall and spirituall blessings and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation and grant that we thy servants being planted in the house of God and firmly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints may flourish in the Courts of thy house thy celestial temple to all eternity O let not our portion be amongst the ungodly and unrighteous make us not to communicate in their wickednesse so much as by consent or approbation that we may never perish and be destroyed in the furiousnesse of thine anger which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance and righteous judgement even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 93. A Prayer that God would preserve his Church against the storms and flouds of persecution THE Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparell the Lord hath put on his apparell and girded himself with strength 2 He hath made the round world so sure that it cannot be moved 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting 4 The flouds are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voice the flouds lift up their waves 5 The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier 6 Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure holinesse becommeth thine house for ever The Prayer O Lord our King who art girded with strength and hast prepared thy seat from everlasting establish thy testimonies in our hearts as a sure foundation of temporall and eternall happinesse Preserâ—e thy house the holy Catholique Church in peace and holinesse which is its defence and ornament and although the flouds of persecution and secular disadvantages have lift up their waves to overthrow it yet because it is built upon a rock the rock Christ Jesus make it to stand firm and sure against all the malice of hell and earth and all the powers of them both for thou ô Lord art mightier theâ— all the waves and storms of her enemies To thee O Lord who dwellest on high and art mightier be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 94. A Prayer for patience comfort and assistance to the godly and that God would disappoint the designes of the wicked O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self 2 Arise thou judge of the world and reward the proud after their deserving 3 Lord how long shall the ungodly how long shall the ungodly triumph 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting 5
give the praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say Where is now their God 3 As for our God he is in heaven he hath done whatsoever pleased him 4 Their idols are silver and gold even the work of mens hands 5 They have mouthes and speak not eyes have they and see not 6 They have eares and hear not noses have they and smell not 7 They have hands and handle not feet have they and walk not neither speak they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them 9 But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their succour and defence 10 Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Ye that fear the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he shall blesse us even he shall blesse the house of Israel hee shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that fear the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall encrease you more and more you and your children 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth 16 All the whole heavens are the Lords the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not thee O Lord neither all they that go down into the silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for evermore Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God omnipotent whose seat is in Heaven and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth give us thy grace that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence and put our trust in thee onely that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousnesse and loving kindnesse we may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing to our selves any honour or the glory and thanks of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Author and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatry from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God that so thou mayest be mindfull of us and blesse us in all our ways and when we die and go down into the silence we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sin and death I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voyce of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 4 The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall find trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 Any why thou hast delivered my soul from deâ—th mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I beleeved and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my haste All men are liars 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me 12 I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 14 Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercies Gracious and Righteous give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy Name for thou hearest our prayers thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sins thou deliverest our souls from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the pains of hell O mercifull God let our souls rest in thee and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house in the midst of the celestiall Jerusalem through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yea heathen praise him all ye Nations 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Blessed Jesu who art not only the glory of thy people Israel but the light of the Gentiles let thy mercifull kindnesse be ever more and more towards the sons of men that the nations which have not known thee may â—ear thy truth and feel thy mercies and call â—pon thy Name and thy grace may be confirmed upon us till we receive the fulnesse and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Jesus Christ. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth forever 2 Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that fear the Lords confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large 6 The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man doth unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in Princes 10 All nations compassed me round about but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 11 They kept me in on every side
with our whole hearts and do thou hear in heaven when we call upon thee deliver us from all them that of malice draw nigh to persecutâ— and afflict us be thou also nigh at hand and nothing can disturb our safety Make us to seek to thee early in the morning let our eyes and our prayers prevent the night-watches that we may be safe in our conversation with thee and our daily approaches to thy Mercy-seat where thou sittest attended with Cherubims and Seraphims glorious in thy self incomprehensible in thy Attributes and infinitely rejoycing in thy mercies which thou shewest unto us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen XX. O Consider mine adversity and deliver me for I doe not forget thy law 2 Avenge thou my cause and deliver me quicken me according unto thy word 3 Health is far from the ungodly for they regard not thy statutes 4 Great is thy mercy O Lord quicken me as thou art wont 5 Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet doe I not swerve from thy testimonies 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors because they keep not thy law 7 Consider O Lord how I love thy commandements O quicken me according to thy loving kindnesse 8 Thy word is true from everlasting all the judgements of thy righteousnesse endure for evermore The Prayer O Lord thy mercy is great thy Word is true from everlasting and in the truth of thy Word and in the mercies of thy promises and loving kindnesse thou lovest to be known to the sons of men O give us thy health and salvation that our souls being delivered from the heavy pressure of sin and quickned in thy Word thou mayest avenge us of all our ghostly enemies and deliver us in thy righteousness in the day of thy eternall vengeance upon the ungodly through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXI PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in aw of thy words 2 I am as glad of thy word as one that findeth great spoils 3 As for lies I hate and abhorre them but thy law doe I love 4 Seven times a day doe I praise thee because of thy righteous judgements 5 Great is the peace that they have which love thy law and they are not offended at it 6 Lord I have looked for thy saving health and done after thy commandements 7 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and loved them exceedingly 8 I have kept thy commandements and testimonies for all my ways are before thee The Prayer ALL our ways O God are before thee let all our ways be directed by thee teach us to walk as in thy presence Make us to hate and abhorre lies and vanity and give us so much love and so much zeal of thy Name and honour that we may make it a businesse to give thee praises with a frequent and daily devotion that we standing in awe of thy Word and holy Laws and doing after thy Commandements our expectations may be satisfied with thy saving health and we may at last enjoy the peace which they have that love thy Law even the peace of a good conscience here and of a blessed eternity hereafter through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXII LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word 2 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 3 My lips shall speak of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 4 Yea my tongue shall sing of thy word for all thy commandements are righteous 5 Let thine hand help me for I have chosen thy commandements 6 I have longed for thy saving health O Lord and in thy law is my delight 7 O let my soul live and it shall praise thee and thy judgements shall help me 8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost Oh seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandements The Prayer O Lord God we have gone astray from thy Commandments and been like lost sheep thou art our Shepheard and our mercifull Guide O seek thy servants let thy hand help us let thy care and providence reduce us into the way of thy statutes that we being delivered according to thy Word from thy wrath and from our own corruptions and irregularities may at last be satisfied with thy saving health and our lips may speak of thy praise in the quire of Saints and Angels singing glorious Anthems to all eternity to the honour of thee O Lord God eternall who livest and reignest world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 120. A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues and cohabitation with wicked persons WHen I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soul O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue 3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee thou false tongue even mighty and sharp arrows with hot burning coals 4 Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Cedar 5 My soul hath long dwelt among them that be enemies unto peace 6 I labour for peace but when I speak unto them thereof they make them ready to battell The Prayer O Lord God who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their calamities and distresses have mercy upon us thy servants who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation whereof we our selves make too great a part we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportunities of our life that we may live in the society of holy people whose example and conversation may be a continuall incentive to the ways of peace and righteousnesse and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbulent spirits angry and unpeacefull dispositions who upon all occasions make themselves ready to battell Sanctifie our hearts and lips with a burning coal from thy altar that our words may be holy and profitable and keep us from all slander and scandall and the rewards of both the sharp arrows of thy vengeance the hot burning coals of thy wrath Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 121. A Prayer for Gods protection over us I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hils from whence commeth my help 2 My help commeth even from the Lord which hath made heaven and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved and he that keepeth thee will not sleep 4 Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep 5 The Lord himself is thy keeper the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand 6 So that the Sun shall not burn thee by day neither the moon by night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evill yea it is even he that shall keep thy soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy comming in from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God our keeper who dwellest upon
dream 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with joy 3 Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 4 Yea the Lord had done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce 5 Turn thou our captivity O Lord as the rivers in the south 6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtlesse come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised salvation to thy people and hast done great things for us already deliver us from the captivity and bondage of sinne and misery Fill our hearts with holy sorrow and compunction when ever we trespasse against thee and teach us so to deny our selves to mortifie our affections to crucifie our lusts and all the temptations of the flesh that we going on our way with mourning and weeping despising the pleasures of this life may when thy great harvest shall come and thy reapers the Angels shall separate the wheat from the tares come before thee with joy and bring our sheaves with us to be laid up in thy granary that so we may escape the everlasting burning through the mercies of Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 127. A Prayer for Gods blessing to goe along with the temporall good things he gives us EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it 2 Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 3 It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulnesse for so he giveth his beloved sleep 4 Lo children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord. 5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate The Prayer O Lord God without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance our children and our dwelling that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee issues of thy favour and an earnest of a greater blessing make our souls diligent in thy service not importunate and greedy for the encrease of riches let our dwellings be safe and peaceable and our families increase in thy blessings that we feeling the comforts of thy favour here may be stirred up to great desires after the blessings of eternity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 128. A Prayer for the fear of God and the blessings of the godly BLessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his ways 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be 3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitfull vine upon the wals of thine house 4 Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table 5 Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 6 The Lord from out of Sion shall so blesse thee that thou shall 〈◊〉 Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long 7 Yea thâ—t thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised to multiply thy blessings upon them that fear thee teach us the fear of the Lord and let thy Spirit so assist us that we may walk in thy ways with great observation of all our actions and much diligence to perform thy holy will that we may receive the blessings of the righteous blessings of the right hand and of the left hand and may rejoyce in the blessing and peace of thy Church waiting for the consummation of all blessing and peace in thy eternall Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 129. A Prayer against the enemies of the Church MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israel now say 2 Yeâ— many a time have they vexed mee from my youth up but they have not prevailed against me 3 The plowers plowed upon my back and made long furrows 4 But the righteous Lord hath hewen the snares of the ungodly in pieces 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward as many as have evill will at Sion 6 Let them be even as the grasse growing upon the house tops which withereth afore it be plucked up 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome 8 So that they which goe by say not so much as the Lord prosper you we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord. The Prayer O Most blessed Iesu who for our sins didst suffer the plowers to plow upon thy back and make long furrows suffering shame and whipping for our sakes and all the contradictions of sinners and didst leave sorrows and afflictions intailed upon thy Church that by suffering with thee she might at last reign with thee in glory Deliver us and all thy holy Church from all that fight against us hew the snares of the ungodly in pieces let the designes of them that have evill will at thy Church be like the grasse growing upon the house tops withered and blasted before it comes to maturity and make us to prosper under thy mercies and in the good wishes and devout prayers of holy people through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 130. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for pardon and redemption from sins OUt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voice 2 Oh let thine eares consider well the voice of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 4 For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5 I look for the Lord my soul doth wait for him in his word is my trust 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watch 7 O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins The Prayer O Lord God blessed Iesu with whom is mercy and plenteous redemption who didst redeem thy people from all their sins paying the ransome of thine own bloud to purchase us freedome and salvation let the height of thy mercy take us up from the deep abysse of sin and misery O be not extream to mark what we have done amisse for it is impossible we should abide the extreamity of thy severest judgements and as thy mercy pardons what is past so let the sweetness of it beget thy fear in our hearts that we may not dare to offend so gracious so mercifull a God but that trusting in thy Word and flying unto thee for succour
the sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever 6 Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the hungry 7 The Lord looseth men out of Prison the Lord giâ—eth sight to the blinde 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous 9 The Lord careth for the strangers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widow as for the way of the ungodly he â—urneth it upside down 10 The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer O Lord God who reignest a King for evermore give us grace that we may make thee our help and fix our hopes in thee for thou onely art able to give deliverance Feed our souls O Lord and satisfie us with thy salvation when we hunger and thirst after righteousnesse help us to right when we suffer wrong heal our back-slidings raise us when we are fallen enlighten the eys of our souls that we walk not in darknesse and the shadow of death and do thou take care for us in all our ways and in all our necessities that when our breath goeth forth and we turn again to our earth we may reign with thee in Sion thy celestiall habitation for evermore through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 147. A celebration of Gods wisdome and providence in the ministration of the things of this world and of his goodnesse towards them that fear him O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankfull 2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heal their sicknesse 4 He telleth the number of the stars and calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisdome is infinite 6 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground 7 O sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing praises upon the harp unto our God 8 Which covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh the grasse to grow upon the mountains and herb for the use of men 9 Which giveth fodder unto the cattell and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legs 11 But the Lords delight is in them that fear him and put their trust in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Sion 13 For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the floure of wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandement upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wooll and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who is able to abide his frost 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them hee bloweth with his winde and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws The Prayer O Lord God whose power is great and thy wisdome infinite give us broken and contrite hearts meek spirits a fear of thy Name and a trust in thy mercy that thou maist arise upon us with healing in thy wings giving us medicine to heal all our ghostly sicknesses and thy delight may be in us delighting to doe us good to feed us when we call upon thee to set us above our enemies to give us knowledge of thy Laws to build up Jerusalem and to repair the breaches of thy Church that we may sing praises unto thee O God and be thankfull to all eternity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 148. An invitation of all the creatures of the world to praise God O Praise the Lord of heaven praise him in the height 2 Praise him all ye angels of his praise him all his host 3 Praise him sun and moon praise him all ye stars and light 4 Praise him all ye heavens and ye waters that bee above the heavens 5 Let them praise the Name of the Lord for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given them a law which shall not be broken 7 Praise the Lord upon earth yee dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapours winde and storm fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hils fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell worms and feathered fowls 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the world 12 Young men and maidens old men and children praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth 13 He shall exalt the horn of his people all his saints shall praise him even the children of Israel even the people that serveth him The Prayer O Lord God whose Name onely is excellent and thy praise above heaven and earth we adore and blesse thy mercy and thy power for creating us after thine own Image thou spakest the word and we were made thou commandedst and we were created and as thou hast established thy Creation with a Law for ever that all should minister to thy praises in their severall proportions so give us grace that the laws of sanctity of faith and obedience which thou hast given to us may never be broken that we serving thee not onely in the order of thy creatures but in the capacity of thy children may sing thy praises amongst the Angels and the numerous host of Saints reigning in thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 149. A meditation of the joyes of Heaven prepared for the Saints O Sing unto the Lord a new song let the congregation of saints praise him 2 Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him and let the children of Sion be joyfull in their King 3 Let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the meek hearted 5 Let the saints be joyfull with glory let them rejoyce in their beds 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hands 7 To be avenged of the heathen and to rebuke the people 8 To binde their kings in chains and their nobles with links of iron 9 That they may be avenged of them as it is written Such honour have all his Saints The Prayer O Lord our King in whose honour and salvation all thy Saints rejoyce give unto thy holy Gospel a free passage in all the world that Kings and Nobles may be bound with
offend thee O just and dear God where shall I appear who shall plead for me that am so loaden with impurities with vanity with ingratitude with malice and the terrors of an affrighting conscience Lord what shall I do who am straitned by my own covetousnesse accused by my own pride consumed with envy set on fire by lust made dull with gluttony and stupid by drunkennesse supplanted by ambition rent asunder with faction and discord made dissolute with lightness and inconstancy deceived with hypocrisie abused with flattery fool'd with presumption disturb'd with anger and disordered by a whole body of sin and death But thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God thou art my judge and my advocate and thou art to pass sentence upon me for those sins for which thou diedst O reserve not my sins to be punished in the life to come for then I die eternally but bring me in this world to a holy a sharp and salutary repentance Behold I am in thine hands grant I may so weep and be contrite for my sins that in the hour of my death I may finde mercy and in the day of judgement I may be freed from all the terrors of thy wrath and the sentence of the wicked and may behold thy face with joy and security being set at thy right hand with all thy saints and Angels to sing an eternall Hallelujah to the honour of thy mercies Amen sweet Jesu Amen III. MOST mercifull and indulgent Jesu hear the complaint of a sad and miserable sinner for I have searched into the secret recesses of my soul and there I finde nothing but horror and a barren wilderness a neglected conscience overgrown with sins and cares and beset with fears and sore amazements I finde that I have not observed due reverence towards my superiours nor modesty in my discourse nor discipline in my manners I have been obstinate in my vain purposes cosen'd in my own semblances of humility pertinacious in hatred bitter in my jesting impatient of Subjection ambitious of power slow to good actions apt to talk ready to supplant my neighbours full of jealousies suspition scornfull and censorious burdensome to my friends ingratefull to my benefactors imperious to my inferiours boasting to have said what I said not to have seen what I saw not to have done what I did not and have both said and seen and done what I ought not provoking thy divine Majesty with a continuall course of sinne and vanity And yet O Lord thou hast spared me all this while and hast not taken away my life in the midst of my sins which is a mercy so admirable and of so vast a kindness as no heart or tongue can think or speak If thou hadst dealt with me according as I had deserved and might justly have expected I had been now now at this instant seal'd up to an eternity of torments hopelesly miserable fearing the revelation of thy day with an unsupportable amazement and now under the sweet influences of thy mercies I am praying to thee confessing my sinnes with shame indeed at my basenesse and ingratitude but with a full hope and confidence in thy mercy O turn the eys of thy divine clemency with a gracious aspect upon a wretched sinner open the bowels of thy mercy and receive me into favour O my dear God let thy grace speedily work that in me for which thou so long hast spared me and to which thou didst design me in thy holy purposes and mercies of eternity even a true faith and a holy life conformable to thy will and in order to eternall blessednesse I remember O Lord the many fatherly expressions and examples of thy mercies to repenting sinners thy delight in our conversion thy unwillingnes to destroy us thy earnest invitation of us to grace and life thy displeasure at our dangers and miseries the infinite variety of means thou usest to bring us from the gates of death and to make us happy to eternity These mercies O Lord are so essentiall to thee that thou canst not but be infinitely pleased in demonstrations of them Remember not O Lord how we have despised thy mercies sleighted thy judgements neglected thy Commandments but now at length establish in us great contrition for our sins lead us on to humble confession and dereliction of them and let thy grace make us bring forth fruits meet for repentance fruits of justice of hope of charity of religion and devotion that we may â—e what thou delightest in holy and just aâ—d mercifull vessels prepared for honour temples of the holy Ghost and instruments of thy praises to all eternity O blessed Jesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O Lord Jesu Christ Sonne of the eternall God interpose thy holy Death thy Crosse and Passion between thy judgement and my soul now and in the hour of my death granting unto me grace and mercy to all faithfull people pardon and peace to the Church unity and amity and to all sinners repentance and amendment to us all life and glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen A Forme of thanksgiving with a particular enumeration of Gods blessings MOst glorious Lord God infinite in mercy full of compassion long-suffering and of great goodness I adore and praise and glorifie thy holy Name worshipping thee with the lowliest devotions of my soul and body and give thee thanks for all the benefits thou hast done unto me for whatsoever I am or have â—or know or desire as I ought it is all from thee thou art the Fountain of beeing and blessing of sanctity and pardon of life and glory Praise the Lord O my soule and all that is within me praise his holy Name Thou O God of thine infinite goodness hast created me of nothing and hast given me a degree of essence next to Angels imprinting thine Image on me enduing me with reasonable faculties of will and understanding to know and choose good and to refuse evill and hast put me into a capacity of a blessed immortality O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his Name together Thou O God of thy great mercy hast given me a comely body a good understanding straight limbs a ready and unloosed tongue whereas with justice thou mightest have made me crooked and deformed sottish and slow of apprehension imperfect and impedite in all my faculties O give thanks unto the God of Heaven for his mercy endureth for ever Thou O God of thy glorious mercies hast caused me to be born of Christian Parents and didst not suffer me to be strangled in the womb but gavest me opportunity of holy Baptism and hast ever since blessed me with education in Christian Religion Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God Thou O God out of thine abundant kindnesse hast made admirable variety of creatures to minister to my use to serve my necessity to preserve and restore my
Sacrifice and Priest the Master of the Feast and the Feast it self even Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen A Prayer after receiving the consecrated Bread I Give thanks unto thee Almighty and eternall God that thou hast not rejected me from thy holy Table but hast refreshed my soul with the salutary refection of the Body of thy Son Jesus Christ. Lord if I had lived innocently and had kept all thy Commandments could have had no proportion of merit to so transcendent a mercy but since I have lived in all manner of sin and multiplied provocations against thy Divine Majesty thy mercy is so glorious and infinite that I am amased at the consideration of its immensity Goe on O my dear God to finish so blessed a redemption and now that thou hast begun to celebrate a marriage and holy union between thy self and my soul let me never throw off the wedding garment or stain it with the pollutions of deadly sin nor seek after other lovers but let me for ever and ever be united unto thee being transformed into thy will in this life and to the likenesse of thy glories in the life to come who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen After receiving the Cup. O Just and dear God who out of the unmeasurable abysses of wisdome and mercy hast redeemed us and offered life and grace and salvation to us by the reall exhibition of thy Son Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of his Death upon the altar of the Crosse and by commemoration of his bitter agonies in the holy Sacrament Grant that that great and venerable sacrifice which we now commemorate sacramentally may procure of thee for thy whole Church mercy and great assistance in all trials deliverance from all heresies schismes sacriledge and persecutions to all sick people health and salvation redemption for captives competency of living to the indigent and necessitous comfort to the afflicted relief to the oppressed repentance to all sinners softnesse of spirit and a tender consience to the obstinate conversion to the Jews Turks and remedy to all that are in any trouble or adversity And grant to us O Lord that this blessed Sacrament and sacrifice of commemoration in vertue of that dreadfull and proper Sacrifice upon the Crosse may obtain for me and for us all who have communicated this day pardon and peace and that we may derive from thee by this ministery grace to expell all our sins to mortifie all our lusts to exterminate all concupiscence to crucifie all inordination and irregularity to produce in us humility and chastity and obedience and meeknesse of spirit and charity and may become our Defence and Armour against the violences and invasions of all our ghostly enemies and temporall disadvantages and give us this grace and favour that we may not die in the guilt and commission of a sin without repentance nor without receiving the blessed Sacrament but that we may so live and die that we may at last rest in thy bosome and be imbraced with the comprehensions of thy eternall charity who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen All blessing and praise and honour be unto thee O blessed Redeemer to thee we the banished and miserable sons of Adam do call for mercy and defence to thee we sigh and cry in this valley of tears O dearest Advocate turn those thy mercifull eyes towards us and shew us thy glorious face in thy Kingdom where no tears or sighing or fears or sadnesses can approach Amen sweetest Jesu Amen Prayers preparatory to death I. A Prayer for a blessed ending to be said in time of health or sicknesse O Blessed Jesu Fountain of eternall mercy the Life of the soul and glorious Conquerour over Death and sin I humbly beseech thee to give me grace so to spend this transitory life in vertuous and holy exercises that when the day of my death shall come in the midst of all my pains I may feel the sweet refreshings of thy holy Spirit comforting my soul sustaining my infirmities and relieving all my spirituall necessities and grant that in the Unity of the holy Catholique Church and in the integrity of Christian faith with confidence and hope of thy mercy in great love towards thee in peace with my Neighbours and in charity with all the world I may through thy grace depart hence out of this vale of misery and go unto that glorious country where thou hast purchased an inheritance for us with the price of thy most precious bloud and raignest in it gloriously in the Unity of thy Father and ours of thy holy Spirit and our Ghostly Comforter ever one God world without end Amen II. A Prayer to be said at the beginning of a sicknesse O Lord my God who chastisest every one whom thou receivest and with thy Fatherly correction smitest all those whom thou consignest to the inheritance of sons write my soul in the book of life and number me amongst thy children whom thou hast smitten with the rod of sicknesse and by thy chastisements hast brought me into the Lot of the righteous Thou O Blessed Jesu art a helper in the needfull time of trouble lay no more upon me then thou shalt enable me to bear and let thy gentle correction in this life prevent the insupportable stripes of thy vengeance in the life to come Smite me now that thou mayest spare me to all eternity and yet O blessed High Priest who art touched with a sense of our infirmities smite me friendly and reprove me with such a tendernesse as thou bearest unto thy Children to whom thou conveyest suppletory comforts greater then the pains of chastisement and in due time restore me to health and to thy solemne assemblies again and to the joy of thy Countenance Give me patience and humility and the grace of repentance and an absolute dereliction of my self and a resignation to thy pleasures and providence with a power to do thy will in all things and then do what thou pleasest to me onely in health or sicknesse in life or death let me feel thy comforts refreshing my soul and let thy grace pardon all my sins Grant this O Blessed Jesu for my trust is in thee only thou art my God and my mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen III. A Prayer to be said in the progresse of a sicknesse O Lord my God Blessed Jesu who by thy bitter death and passion hast sweetned the cup of death to us taking away its bitternesse and sting and making it an entrance to life and glory have pity upon me thy servant who have so deep a share in sin that I cannot shake off the terrors of death but that my nature with its hereditary corruption still would preserve it self in a dis-union from the joys of thy Kingdome Lord I acknowledge my own infirmities and begge thy pity It is better for me to be
from treason and private conspiracies ps 41 55 109. For the King ps 21 61 89 352. For deliverance from death and damnation ps 28 30 102 125. Col. p. 250. For health ps 91 102. For all Christian Princes and Judges ps 82. For advancement of Religion Col. p. 272. 275. For deliverance from power of the devill ps 57. Col. p. 226 For peace 46 122 133 144. Col. p. 257 269. For comfort in sadnesse ps 101 102 142. Col. p. 226 283 For spirituall blessings ps 65 73. For fruitfulnesse of the Earth ps 65. For coÌ„petency of living ps 127. Col. p. 119 133 297 299 For tranquillity of spirit Col. p. 143 144. For Victory ps 144. For comfort of Gods Spirit ps 34 42 43 51 61 102 142 Col. p. 226 239. Prayers for particular graces FOr Repentance Col. p. 243 275. For Mortification ps 131. Col. p. 275. For humility ps 131. Col. p. 253. For patience ps 94. For perseverance Col. p. 165 166 248 249 250. For Devotion Religion ps 27 33 42 43 99 119 141. Col. p. 285. For charity ps 41 112. For liberality and contempt of riches ps 4 49 73. Col. p. 114 240. For hope and trust in God ps 33 37 46 49 56 57 62 77 115 125 146. Col. p. 138 242. For reverence and fear of God ps 2 33 112 128. Col. p. 271 272. For watchfulnesse over our ways ps 56. For zeal ps 119. Col. p. 238 241.246 247. For health and newnesse of life Col. p. 170 171. Prayers for severall times and occasions IN time of sadnesse ps 61 102 142 Col. p. 226 283. In time of persecution and oppression ps 7 9 10 52 53 58 64 69 63 137 142 Col. p. 279. In time of War ps 18 44 46 60 89 108. In time of slander ps 52 57 64 120. In time of temptation ps 13 19 60 Col. p. 191 192 235 239. In time of sicknesse ps 30 31 88 90 102 142. In time of publike calamity and distraction ps 46 89 91. In time of spirituall desertion ps 34 42 43 51 61 102. Col. p. 239. In time of after lapse into sin ps 51 Col. p. 258. In time of solemne devotion ps 20 81. On Good Friday ps 22. On Ascension day ps 24. Prayers preparatory TO the Sacrament ps 23 26 111 Col. p. 151. To death ps 26 30 31 39 71 88 90 142 viz. to bee said in sicknesse or old age Deprecations AGainst Atheisme and Irreligion ps 14. Against Idolatry ps 115. Against Heretiques and Heresie ps 59. Against danger of evil company ps 1 12 120. Against Sacriledge and sacrilegious persons ps 74 83. Against fearfulnesse and doubting ps 77. Against covetousnesse ps 4 37 Col. p. 240. Against enemies of the Church ps 59 68 74 83 199 129 Against death ps 88. Meditations ON the day of Judgement ps 50 97 On the Passion of Christ ps 22. On the joys of Heaven ps 126 149. On the perfections and excellencies of God manifested in his creatures ps 8 104. On Gods providence over his people and mercy to the penitent ps 74 105 92 106 147. On Gods Justice and Judgements on sinners ps 78 92. On his Omnipotence and Omnipresence ps 139. Acts of Vertue ADoration of God ps 8 29 67 95 96 145. Col. p. 22. Adoration of the second Person in the Trinity ps 2 4â— 72 110. Acts of hope in God ps 4 11 18. Acts of Religion ps 134. Acts of praise to God ps 17 135 148 150. Acts of love to God ps 116. Desire after God and heavenly things ps 63 84 87. Of Election or preferring spirituall blessings before temporall ps 37 73. Thanksgivings FOr all Gods mercies ps 103 136 138. For his mercy and truth ps 100. For delivering from sicknesse and all other dangers ps 40 107 114 116. For delivering from enemies and all other troubles ps 81 107 124 144. For pardon of our sins ps 85 106 116. For redemption by Christ ps 98 118. For the blessings of the Gospel ps 111. For Acts of Gods Providence and particular care over us ps 113 121. For Victory ps 144. THE PSALTER of DAVID With Titles and Collects fitted to each Psalme c. The j day Morning Prayer PSALME 1. A Prayer that we may continually meditate in Gods law and have no fellowship with wicked persons in the manner of their living or dying BLessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsell of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners and hath not sit in the seat of the scornfull 2 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord and in his Law will he exercise himself day and night 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the water side that will bring forth his fruit in due season 4 His leafe also shâ—ll not wither and look whatsoever he doth it shall prosper 5 As for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaffe which the winde scattereth away from the face of the earth 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgement neither the sinners in the Congregation of the righteous 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Holy Jesu fountain of all blessing the word of the Eternall Father be pleased to sow the good seed of thy word in our hearts and water it with the dew of thy divinest Spirit that while we exercise our selves in it day and night we may be like a tree planted by the water side bringing forth in all times and seasons the fruits of a holy conversation that we may never walk in the way of sinners nor have fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but that when this life is ended we may have our portion in the congregation of the righteous and may be able to stand upright in judgement through the supporting arme of thy mercy O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 2. A Prayer to promote Christs Kingdome and for grace to serve him with feare and reverence WHy doe the heathen so furiously rage together and why do the people imagine a vain thing 2 The Kings of the earth stand up and the rulers take counsell together against the Lord and against his Anointed 3 Let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in derision 5 Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure 6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion 7 I will preach the law whereof the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee 8 Desire of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of yron and break them
we go unto thy dwelling places where thou manifestest thy presence we may approach unto thee with joy and gladnesse rejoycing in nothing more then in doing thee service and singing praises to thy name for the help of thy countenance which thou givest us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 44. A Prayer in time of Warre WE have heard with our eares O God our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old 2 How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand and plâ—nted them in how thou hast destroyed the Nations and cast them out 3 For they gat not the Land in possession through their own sword neither was it their own arm that helped them 4 But thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto them 5 Thou art my King O God send help unto Jacob 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us 7 For I will not trust in my bow it is not my sword that shall help me 8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies and puttest them to confusion that hate us 9 We make our boast of God all day long and will praise thy name for ever 10 But now thou art far off and puttest us to confuson and goest not forth with our Armies 11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enâ—mies so that they which hate us spoil our goods 12 Thou lettest us to be eaten up like sheep and hast scattered us among the Heathen 13 Thou sellâ—st thy people for nouâ—ht and takâ—st no money for them 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us 15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen and that the people shake their heads at us 16 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face hath covered me 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer for the enemy and avenger 18 And though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy covenant 19 Our heart is not turned back neither our steps gone out of thy way 20 No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of death 21 If we have forgotten the name of our God and holden up our hands to any strange God shall not God search it out for hee knoweth the very secrets of the heart 22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain 23 Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble 25 For our soul is brought low even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground 26 Arise and help us and deliver us for thy mercie sake The Prayer O Lord God of hosts who for our sins hast suffered the sword to take vengeance upon us and to plead thy cause against us O hide not thy face from us and forget not our misery and trouble We are killed all day long and are accounted as sheep appointed to be slain we are covered with the shadow of death and they which hate us spoile our goods Deal with us in pity and as thou hast done to our Fathers of old time when they called upon thee in their trouble so deal with us thou overthrewest their enemies and didst tread them under that arose up against them Arise and help us and deliver us also for thy mercy sake our own sword cannot help us but let thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance work deliverance and salvation for us Go forth with our Armies O thou God of Hosts do thou fight our Battels that we may not turn our backs upon our enemies but crown us with Victory and Peace that we may make our boast of thee all day long and praise thy Name for ever who art holy and just and mercifull the great God of Battels and recompences From thee let mercy now and ever proceed and to thy Name let honour be for ever ascribed of all the Hosts of Heaven and Earth world without end Amen PSALME 45. A Prayer for the conversion of the Heathen and prosperity of the Church MY heart is enditing of a good matter I speak of the things which I have made unto the King 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer 3 Thou art fairer then the children of men full of grace are thy lips because God hath blessed thee for ever 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh O thou most mighty according to thy worship and renown 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour ride on because of the word of truth of meeknesse and righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things 6 Thy arrows are very sharp and the people shall be subdued unto thee even in the midst among the Kings enemies 7 Thy seat O God endureth for ever the scepter of thy Kingdome is a right scepter 8 Thou hast loved righteousnesse and hated iniquity wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladnesse above thy fellows 9 All thy garments smell of myrrhe aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad 10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a vesture of gold wrought about with divers colouâ—s 11 Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine eare forget also thine own people and thy fathers house 12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty for he is thy Lord God and worship thou him 13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee 14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work the virgins that be her fellows shall beare her company and shall be brought unto thee 16 With joy and gladnesse shall they be brought and shall enter into the Kings Palace 17 In stead of thy fathers thou shalt have children whom thou mayest make Princâ—s in all Lands 18 I will remember thy name from one generation unto another therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee world without end The Prayer O Blessed Jesu Prince of the Catholike Church thou art fairer then the children of men thy lips are full of grace thine Armies mighty thy head is Crowned with Majesty and clothed with worship and renown have mercy upon thy holy Church blesse her for ever with righteousnesse and let the oyle of gladnesse refresh her amidst the multitude of her sorrows and afflictions And because
loving kindnesse that according as thy Name is so may thy praise be infinite and eternall world without end Amen PSALME 49. A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches and put our trust in God onely O Hear ye this all ye people ponder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the world 2 High and low rich and poor one with another 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom and my heart shall muse of understanding 4 I will encline mine eare to the parable and shew my dark speech upon the harp 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickednesse and when the wickednesse of my heels compasse me round about 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches 7 But no man may deliver his brother nor make an agreement to God for him 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls so that hee must let that alone for ever 9 Yea though he live long and see not the grave 10 For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together as well as the ignorant and foolish and leave their riches for other 11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another and call the lands after their own names 12 Neverthelesse man will not abide in honour seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish this is the way of them 13 This is their foolishnesse and their posterity praise their saying 14 They lie in the hell like sheep death gnaweth upon them and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling 15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell for he shall receive me 16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich or if the glory of his house be increased 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pomp follow him 18 For while he lived he counted himself an happy man and so long as thou dost well unto thy self men will speak good of thee 19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers and shall never see light 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding but is compared unto the beasts that perish The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou only Redeemer of souls who by thy death and passion hast delivered us from the place of Hell give us grace to put our whole trust in thee and in the riches of thy mercy and loving kindnesse always remembring our end the vanity and shortnes of our lives the certainty of our departure Teach us to despise the world and worldly things and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion that while we live here wee may have our conversation in heaven by love by hope and by desires that when our beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of our earthly dwellings we may be received into everlasting habitations always to enjoy thee who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 50. A Prayer that we may lead a holy life and find mercy in the day of judgement THe Lord even the most mighty God hath spoken and called the world from the rising up of the sunne unto the going down thereof 2 Out of Sion hath God appeared in perfect beauty 3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silenceâ—â— there shall goe before him a consuming fire and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him 4 He shall call the heaven from above and the earth that he may judge his people 5 Gather my Saints together unto me those that have made a covenant with me with sacrifice 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is Judge himself 7 Hear O my people and I will speak I my self will testifie against thee O Israel for I am God even thy God 8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt-offerings because they were not alway before mee 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house nor hee-goats out of thy folds 10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine and so are the cattels upon a thousand hils 11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains and the wilde beasts of the field are in my sight 12 If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the whole world is mine and all that is therein 13 Thinkest thou that I will eat buls flesh and drink the bloud of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vowes unto the most Highest 15 And call upon me in the time of trouble so will I hear thee and thou shalt praise me 16 But unto the ungodly said God Why dost thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth 17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behinde thee 18 When thou sawest a Theef thou consentedst unto him and hast been partaker with the Adulterers 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickednesse and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit 20 Thou satest and spakest against thy brother yea and hast slandered thine own mothers son 21 These things hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest wickedly that I am even such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set before thee the things that thou hast done 22 O consider this ye that forget God lest I pluck you away and there be none to deliver you 23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise he honoureth me and to him that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of God The Prayer O Most mighty God who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving and the oblation of our souls in the vows of obedience and a holy life then with the burnt-offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goats let thy grace reform our lives and manners keep our mouth from slander and obloquy from guile and deceit let us never consent to actions of injustice or uncleannesse that we partake not with Thieves or with Adulterers either in their sin or punishment that when thou shalt appear in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee and a tempest round about thee with terrors and glorious Majesty calling the heavens and the earth together that thou maist judge all thy people thou maist gather us among thy Saints and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheritance that so we may honour thee by an eternall oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens where thou O God declarest thy salvation to all thy elect people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 51. A Prayer for pardon of sinnes and the restitution of Gods favour HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodnesse according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2 Wash me throughly from my wickednesse and
cleanse me from my sinne 3 For I knowledge my faults and my sinne is ever before me 4 Against thee onely have I sinned and done this evill in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged 5 Behold I was shapen in wickednesse and in sinne hath my mother conceived me 6 But lo thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdome secretly 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssope and I shall be cleâ—n thou shalt wash me I shall be whiter then snow 8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladnesse that the bones that thou hast broken may rejoyce 9 Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds 10 Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me 11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me 12 O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit 13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from bloud-guiltinesse O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousnesse 15 Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the wals of Jerusalem 19 Then shalt thou bee pleased with the sacrifice of righteousnesse with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose goodnesse is great and the multitudes of thy mercies are innumerable have mercy upon us for our sins are ever before us presented by the continuall accusations of a troubled conscience We have sinned against thee and done evill in thy sight and yet because thou art the God of mercy and fountain of eternall purity delighting in the conversion and salvation of a sinner we present unto thee the sacrifice of a troubled spirit of broken and contrite hearts beseâ—ching thee to let the dew of thy favour and the fire of thy love wash away our sinnes and purifie our souls Make us clean hearts O God and pure hands though our sins be as scarlet yet make them like wooll though they be as purple yet make them as white as snow Restore the voice of joy and gladnesse to us let us not be for ever separate from the sweet refreshings of thy favour and presence but give us the comforts of thy help again and let thy free Spirit loose us from the bondage of sin and establish us in the freedome and liberty of the Sons of God so shall we sing of thy righteousnesse and our lips shall give thee praise in the congregation of thy redeemed ones now henceforth and for ever Amen PSALME 52. A Prayer for deliverance from tyranny oppression and slander WHy boastest thou thy self thou â—yrant that thou canst doe mischief 2 Whereas the goodnesse of God endureth yet daily 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickednesse and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp rasour 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousnesse more then goodnesse and to talk of lies more then righteousnesse 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt O thou false tongue 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever hee shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy dwelling and root thee out of the land of the living 7 The righteous also shall see this and fear and shall laugh him to scorn 8 Lo this is the man that took not God for his strength but trusted unto the multitude of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickednesse 9 As for me I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever 10 I will alwayes give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done and I will hope in thy name for thy Saints like it well The Prayer O Almighty God whose goodnesse endureth daily extend this thy goodnesse towards us thy servants and defend us from the tyranny and malice of all our Enemies who boast themselves in mischief keep us from the obloquy of false tongues and from the slander of lying persons who talk of lies more then righteousness that we being nourished by thy goodnesse and watered with the dew of divine blessings may flourish like a green olive in the house of God bringing forth the fruits of tender mercy and abounding in peace and that we may by the suffusion of anointing of the holy Ghost be consign'd to thy everlasting Kingdome there to reign with thee who reignest eternally one God world without end Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 53. A Prayer for Redemption of the Church from the persecution of Atheists and persons irreligious THE foolish body hath said in his heart There is no God 2 Corrupt are they and become abominable in their wickednesse there is none that doth good 3 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God 4 But they are all gone out of the way they are altogether become abominable there is also none that doth good no not one 5 Are not they without understanding that work wickednesse eating up my people as if they would eat bread they have not called upon God 6 They were afraid where no fear was for God hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee thou hast put them to confusion because God hath despised them 7 Oh that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity 8 Then should Jacob rejoyce and Israel should be right glad The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in heaven and lookest down from thence upon the children of men be pleased to give salvation to thy people out of Sion thy holy habitation and preserve thy Church from the malice of such persons as have not called upon thee but would eate up thy people as they would eate bread that we being delivered from the captivity of sins and miseries may serve thee with freedome of spirit in joy and spirituall rejoycing all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 54. A prayer for deliverance from our Enemies SAve me O God for thy names sake and avenge me in thy strength 2 Hear my prayer O God and hearken unto the words of my mouth 3 For strangers are risen up against me and tyrants which have not God before their eyes seek after my soul. 4 Behold God is my helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evill unto mine enemies destroy thou them in thy truth 6 An offering of a
confidence in God BE mercifull unto me O God be mercifull unto me for my soul trusteth in thee and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge untill this tyranny be overpast 2 I will call unto the most high God even unto the God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand 3 He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproof of him that would eat me up 4 God shall send forth his mercy and truthâ— my soule is among Lions 5 And I lie even among the children of men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and thâ—ir tongue a sharp sword 6 Set up thy self O God above the heavens and 〈◊〉 glory above all the earth 7 They have laid a net for my feet and pressed down my soul they have digged a pit before me and are fallen into the midst of it themselves 8 My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise 9 Awake up my glory awake lute and harp I my self will awake right early 10 I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the people and I will sing unto thee among the Nations 11 For the greatnesse of thy mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy truth unto the Clouds 12 Set up thy self O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth The Prayer O Most high and mighty God who hast set thy self above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth do thou send from heaven and save us from the reproof of all our ghostly Enemies who would eate us for our soul is among Lions and the Devil is busie seeking to devour us O send out thy mercy and truth deliver us from the malicious slander of men and from the dreadfull accusations of the Devils at the day of judgement who are set on fire against us and their teeth are spears and arrows gnashing at us to tear us in pieces Let thy mercy sustain us let thy righteousnesse be interpos'd in answer for us that as our enemies accuse us thy mercies may acquit us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 58. A Prayer that Gods people may be delivered from the malice of wicked men ARE your minds set upon righteousnesse O ye congregation and doe ye judge the thing that is right O ye sons of men 2 Yea ye imagine mischiefe in your heart upon the earth and your hands deal with wickednesse 3 The ungodly are froward even from their mothers wombe assoon as they be born they go astray and speak lies 4 They are as venemous as the poyson of a serpent even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her eares 5 Which refuseth to hear the voyce of the charmer charm he never so wisely 6 Break their teeth O God in their mouthes smite the jaw-bones of the Lions O Lord let them fall away like water that runneth apace and when they shoot their arrows let them be rooted out 7 Let them consume away like a snaile and be like the untimely fruit of a woman and let them not see the sun 8 Or ever your pots be made hot with thorns so let indignation vexe him even as a thing that is raw 9 The righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his footsteps in the bloud of the ungodly 10 So that a man shall say Verely there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that judgeth the earth The Prayer O Almighty Lord thou God that judgest the earth who preparest rewards for the righteous and executest vengeance against the ungodly deliver all thy chosen people from the peevishnesse of froward and ungodly men whose hands deale with wickednesse and they imagine mischief in their hearts And to thy servants give thy grace that our minds may be set upon righteousnesse that we may judge the thing that is right never refusing to hear thy voyce or stopping our ears like the deaf adder against thy holy precepts that we may have no iniquity in our mouths nor unrighteousnesse in our actions and at last we may have the reward of the righteous the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 59. A Prayer against Hereticks and all other Enemies of the Church DEliver me from mâ—ne enemies O God defend me from them that rise up against me 2 O deliver me from the wicked doers and save me from the bloud-thirsty men 3 For lo they lie waiting for my soul the mighty men are gathered against me without any offence or fault of me O Lord. 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault arise thou therefore to help me and behold 5 Stand up O Lord God of hosts thou God of Israel â—o visit all the heathen and be not mercifull unto them that offend of malicious wickednesse 6 They go to and fro in the evening they grin like a dog and run about through the city 7 Behold they speak with their mouth and swords are in their lips for who doth hear 8 But thou O Lord shalt have them in derision and thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn 9 My strength will I ascribe unto thee for thou art the God of my refuge 10 God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies 11 Slay them not lest my people forget it but scatter them abroad among the people and put them down O Lord our defence 12 For the sin of their mouth and for the words of their lips they shall be taken in their pride and why their preaching is of cursing and lies 13 Consume them in thy wrath consume them that they may perish and know that it is God which ruleth in Jacob and unto the ends of the world 14 And in the evening they will return grin like a dog and will goe about the City 15 They will run here and there for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied 16 As for me I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercy betimes in the morning for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble 17 Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my refuge and my mercifull God The Prayer O Lord God of Israel visit us with thy salvation and deliver us from the malice of wicked doers and the violences of blood-thirsty men Let not them prosper O Lord in their machinations whose preaching is of cursing and lies and who offend of malicious wickednesse shew us thy goodnesse plenteously that we may never forget thy mercies or thy Laws for thou art our defence and refuge and our mercifull God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 60. A Prayer in time of Warre or Temptation O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad thou also hast been displeased O turn thee to us again 2 Thou hast moved the land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh
to arise 40 For he considered that they were but flesh and that they were even a winde that passeth away and cometh not again 41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieved him in the desert 42 They turned back and tempted God and moved the holy One in Israel 43 They thought not of his hand and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy 44 How hee had wrought his miracles in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 45 He turned their waters into bloud so that they might not drink of the rivers 46 He sent lice among them and devoured them up and frogs to destroy them 47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the grashopper 48 He destroyed their vines with hailstones and their mulberry trees with the frost 49 He smote their cattell also with hailstones and their flocks with hot thunderbolts 50 He cast upon them the furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure and trouble and sent evil Angels among them 51 He made a way to his indignation and spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence 52 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the most principall and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. 53 But as for his own people hee led them forth like sheep and carried them in the wildernesse like a flock 54 He brought them out safely that they should not fear and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea 55 And brought them within the borders of his sanctuary even to his mountain which he purchased with his right hand 56 He cast out the heathen also before them caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents 57 So they tempted and displeased the most high God and kept not his testimonies 58 But turned their backs and fell away like their forefathers starting aside like a broken bow 59 For they grieved him with their hill altars and provoked him to displeasure with their images 60 When God heard this he was wroth and took fore displeasure at Israel 61 So that he forsook the tabernacle in Silo even the tent that he had pitched among them 62 He delivered their power into captivity and their beauty into the enemies hand 63 He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance 64 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage 65 Their Priests were slain with the sword and there were no widows to make lamentation 66 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a Giant refreshed with wine 67 He smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame 68 He refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim 69 But chose the tribe of Juda even the hill of Sion which he loved 70 And there he builded his temple on high and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually 71 He chose David also his servant and took him away from the sheepfolds 72 As he was following thâ— ewes great with young ones he took him that he might feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance 73 So he fed them with a faithfull and true heart and ruled them prudently with all his power The Prayer O Lord God of our Fathers God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob thou that leddest thy people through the Wildernesse with a light and with a cloud and with thy bright Angel for their sakes turning rocks into a springing well and making the Sea and the River become dry land so making demonstration of the greatnesse of thy mercy by the greatnesse of thy miracles and didst still go on to make all thy creatures leave their natures to serve them even then when they tempted and provoked thee ten times in the desert O be pleased to do unto us as thou didst to them lead us through the desert of this World with the light of thy holy Spirit and from the rock which for our sakes thou didst smite with thy heavy rod the rock Christ Jesus let water and bloud stream forth to cleanse and to refresh us Give us of the bread that came down from heaven the flesh of thy dear Son to eat that we being purified by his bloud and nourished by that celestiall Manna our hearts may be set aright and our spirits may cleave stedfastly unto thee O God that we may remember thy works and trust in thy mercies and may keep thy Commandements O never let the fire of thy wrath be kindled towards us nor thy heavy displeasure come up against us let us not consume our days in folly and vanity lest our years be spent in trouble but when through infirmity we fall let thy gentle correction call us home that we may turn us early and seek after thee our God who art our strength and our mercifull Redeemer that we may never feel the furiousnesse of thy eternall wrath nor have our portion amongst the evill Angels but may be conducted by thy mercies and providence to the border of thy sanctuary and to the mountain where thou reignest over all the creatures one God world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 79. A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the cruelty of all her persecutors O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled and made Jerusalem an heap of stones 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the airâ— and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the â—and 3 Their bloud have they shed like water on every side of Ierusalem and there was no man to bury them 4 Wee are become an open shame to our enemies a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us 5 Lord how long wilt thou be angry shall thy jealousie burn like fire for ever 6 Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the Kingdomes that have not called upon thy name 7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling place 8 O remember not our old sinnes but have mercy upon us and that soone for we are come to great misery 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto our sinnes for thy names sake 10 Wherefore do the heathen say Where is now their God 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants bloud that is shed be openly shewed upon the heathen in our sight 12 O let the sorrowfull sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnâ—sse of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewiâ—h our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven fold into their bosome 14 So we that be thy
habitation and a residence for thy holy Spirit grounding us in faith building us up in hope and perfecting us in charity that we being joyned in the communion of Saints in the union of the holy Catholique Church militant on earth may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God in the celestiall Jerusalem where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 88. A Prayer in time of sicknesse and danger of death O Lord God of my salvation I have cryed day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine ear unto my calling 2 For my soul is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell 3 I am counted as one of them that goe down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength 4 Free among the dead like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave which be out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darknesse and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me and made me to be abhorred of them 8 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth 9 My sight faileth for very trouble Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee 10 Doest thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindnesse be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark and thy righteousnesse in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee have I cried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorrest thou my soul and hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde 16 Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the fear of thee hath undone me 17 They came round about me dayly like water and compâ—ssed me together on every side 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight The Prayer O Lord God of our salvation who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead and by thine own power didst arise again with victory and triumph have mercy upon thy servant for thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sins and my life draweth nigh unto the grave restore me unto thy favour and let me not go down into the dark nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten but let me shew forth thy loving kindnesse amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living for the living the living he shall praise thee and confesse the holinesse and the mercies of thy holy Name O hide not thou thy face from me but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousnesse and so blesse me with opportunities of doing thee service that I may redeem the time past and by thy grace may grow rich in good works always abounding in the work of the Lord that when thou shalt demand my soul to be rendred up into thy hands my soul may not be abhorred of thee nor suffer thy terrors but may feel an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Wars or any publike calamity MY song shall be alway of the loving kindnesse of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another 2 For I have said mercy shall be set up for ever thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever and set up thy throne from one generation to another 5 O Lord the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works and thy truth in the congregation of the saints 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord 7 And what is he among the gods that shall be like unto the Lord 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsell of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him 9 O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt and destroyed it thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm 12 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is 13 Thou hast made the North and the South Tabor and Hermon shall rejoyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousnesse and equity is the habitation of thy seat mercy and truth shall goe before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can rejoyce in thee they shall walk in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our horns 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints and saidest I have laid help upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him 22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arme shall strengthen him 23 The enemy shall not be able to doe him violence the son of wickednesse shall not hurt him 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him and in my Name shall his horn be exalted 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the flouds 27 He shall call me Thou art my Father my God and my strong salvation 28 And I will make him my first-born higher then the Kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven 31 But if his children forsake
holy hill in thine everlasting habitation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalm of praise to God for his mercy truth O Be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before him presence with a song 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O goe your way into his gates with thanskgiving into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindness when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition revealing thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospel teach us to walk as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouths to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall be of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Who so privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomack I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the City of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sins of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the Saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the City of the Lord and banished from the sweetnesse of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction HEar my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble encline thine ears unto me when I call O hear me and that right soon 3 For my days are consumed away like smoak and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My days are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and â—hy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants think upon her stones and it piâ—ieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy majesty 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glory shall appear 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore dâ—stiâ—ute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be born shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as be in captivity and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey and shortened my days 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy years they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and â—heir seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pity upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse hear the voice of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us our sins have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorn into our wounded consciences O build up the ruines of our souls repair the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glory now appear for that shines brightest in the beams of thy mercy and when thou turnest
example and illumination of thy holy Spirit let thy Spirit lead us thy example guide us thy word teach us that we may not love darkness more then light but may keep thy righteous judgments according to our many purposes our vow of baptisme keep us from the snare of the ungodly and from our own selves the dangers of our own concupiscence and thâ— miseries of our infirmity leave not our souls in our own hands but keep them under thy protection and government lest we swerve from thy commandments but that applying our hearts alway to fulfil thy statutes even unto the end we may possesse thy law as our portion inheritance for ever Grant this O blessed Jesu for thy promise and for thy mercies sake that we may glorifie thee in the unity of the most mysterious Trinity now and for evermore Amen XV. I Hate them that imagine evil things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in â—hy word 3 Away from me ye wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be disappointed of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements The Prayer O God our defence shield thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like drosse let thy mercies hold us up that we may be safe from sin and death eternall make us to hate all evill things all evil imaginations that we being stablished with a trust in thee and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises we may not be disappointed of our hope but may live with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI I Deal with the thing that is lawfull and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy Statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false wayes I utterly abhorre The Prayer O Lord God thou seest with what miseries dangers we are encompassâ—d our ghostly enemies seek to doe us wrong and to oppresse our souls give us not over unto their malice but arm us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word by hope of thy mercies and looking for thy health and by love unto thy commandments that so in this world in the eternall retribution of the Saints thou maist deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen XVII THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my â—elight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as â—hou usest to do unto those that love thy name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickedâ—esse have dominion over 6 O deliver me from the wrongfull dealings of men â—nd so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eles gush out with water because men keep not thy law The Prayer O Just and dear God shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servants let this light give unto us understanding in thy law that our steps being ordered in thy word thou maist deliver us from the wrongfull dealings of men and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries that by their temptations and our own weaknesse we may never be brought under the dominion of sin and wickednesse that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgment all people quick dead thou maist be mercifull unto us and save us as thou usest to doe unto those that love thy name Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen XVIII RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy judgement 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandements 6 Thy righteousnesse is an evâ—rlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heavinesse have taken hold upon mee yet is my delight in thy commandements 8 The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live The Prayer O Righteous Lord God whose judgements are true and thy testimonies exceeding righteous enkindle our souls with zeal to thy Laws and service that the continuall remembrance of thy Commandements may so enable our souls as to give a greatnesse and reputation to us in thy estimation even the greatnesse of humility and obedience which are more honourable in thy eyes then all the pomps and vanities of this world Grant this for his sake who for our sakes humbled himself to the form of a servant and became obedient to the death of the Crosse even Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen Evening Prayer XIX I Call with my whole heart hear me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even upon thee doe I call help me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning doe I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Hear my voyce O Lord according unto thy loving kindnesse quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandements are true 8 As concerning thy testimonies I have known long since that thou hast grounded them for ever The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercy and truth give us hearts fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention in our prayers that we may call upon thee
fear thy Majesty to admire and tremble at thy omniscience and omnipresence and to contemplate with the greatest zeal and affections all those glories which thou communicatest to the sons of men in the revelations of thy gospel of thy creatures and of thy miracles that we may tell of thy greatnesse and declare thy salvation from day to day and when thou commest with righteousnesse to judge the earth and all people with thy truth we may rejoyce in thee everlastingly and sing an eternall Allelujah to thee in thy sanctuary Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 97. A meditation upon the day of Judgement and a prayer for mercy and salvation THE Lord is King the earth may be glad thereof yea the multitude of the Isles may be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and judgement are the habitation of his seat 3 There shall goe a fire before him and burn up his enemies on every side 4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world the earth saw it and was afraid 5 The hils melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens have declared his righteousnesse and all the people have seen his glory 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved images and that delight in vain gods worship him all yee gods 8 Sion heard of it and rejoyced and the daughters of Judah were glad because of thy judgements O Lord. 9 For thou Lord art higher then all that are in the earth thou art exalted farre above all gods 10 O ye that love the Lord see that ye hate the thing that is evill the Lord preserveth the souls of his Saints he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly 11 There is sprung up a light for the righteous and joyfull gladnesse for such as be true hearted 12 Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holinesse The Prayer O Lord our King Lord of the whole earth have mercy upon us and sanctifie us with thy grace that we may hate every thing that is evill that we may love thee give thanks unto thy name and rejoyce in remembrance of thy holinesse that in the day of judgement and great terrors when thou shalt fit in thy seat supported with righteousnesse and judgement and a fire shall go forth from thy presence to burn up thy enemies on every side thou maist preserve our souls in safety from the hand of our enemies and a light may spring up unto us to preserve us from eternall darknesse and the want of the light of thy countenance through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 98. A thanksgiving for the redemption of mankinde by Jesus Christ. O Sing unto the Lord a new song for hee hath done marvellous things 2 With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory 3 The Lord declared his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 4 He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God 5 Shew your selves joyfull unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks 6 Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a psalme of thanksgiving 7 With trumpets also and shawmes O shew your selves joyfull before the Lord the King 8 Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein 9 Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hils bee joyfull together before the Lord for he is come to judge the earth 10 With righteousnesse shall he judge the world and the people with equity The Prayer O Most glorious and powerfull Jesu who with thine own right hand and with thy holy arm hast gotten to thy self on our behalf the victory over sin hell and the grave remember this thy mercy and truth which thou hast promised to all that beleeve on thee give us pardon of our sins seal'd unto us by the testimony of the holy Spirit and of a good conscience and grant that we by thy strength may fight against our ghostly enemies and by thy power may overcome them that we may rejoyce in a holy peace and sing and give thee thanks for our victory and our crown Extend this mercy and enlarge the effect of thy great victories to the heathen that all the ends of the world may sing a new song unto thee and see the salvation of God that when thou commest to judge the earth we may all find mercy and be joyfull together before thee in the festivity of a blessed eternity through thy mercies O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 99. A Prayer for the vertue of religion and devotion in holy places THe Lord is King be the people never so unpatient he sitteth between the Cherubims be the earth never so unquiet 2 The Lord is great in Sion and high above all people 3 They shall give thanks unto thy Name which is great wonderfull and holy 4 The kings power loveth judgement thou hast prepared equity thou hast executed judgement and righteousnesse in Jacob. 5 O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among such as call upon his Name these called upon the Lord and he heard them 7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar for they kept his testimonies and the law that he gave them 8 Thou heardest them O Lord our God thou forgavest them O God and punishedst their own inventions 9 O magnifie the Lord our God and worship him upon his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy The Prayer O Great God and King of Heaven and earth thou that sittest between the Cherubims unmoved in the centre of thy own felicity and essentiall tranquillity undisturbed in the great concussions and unquietnesse of the earth give unto us thy servants venerable and dreadfull apprehensions of the sanctity and perfections of thy Name and Nature which is great wonderfull and holy Teach us in all the addresses of our devotion and in all places appointed for thy service by all reverence holinesse of soul and body to expresse the greatnesse of thy power and our weaknesse the majesty of thy glory and the unworthinesse of our persons the distance of God and man of finite and infinite of Lord and Servant that the awfulnesse of thy dread majesty may check every unreverent gesture and thought in us teach us to make approaches of humility and fear that we calling upon thy Name according to our duties by the fear of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies and never to forget the Law thou givest us we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment and at last praise thee upon thy