we humbly beseech thee from our Enemies that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved to glorify thee which art the giver of all Victory through the merits of thy Sonne and our Saviour Iesus Christ AMEN Vpon ill Successe WE find Iosua humbling himselfe upon the defeat before Ai Ios 7.6 and the Israelites applying to God in fasting and prayer when they were smitten before Benjamin Iud. 20. upon which occasion the Psalmist will tell you what thoughts and desires should possesse your hearts The PSALME O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us thou hast also been displeased O turn thee unto us again Ps 60.1 Thou standest a farre off and goest not forth with our Armies Ps 44.10 Thou makest us to turne our backs upon our enimies so that they which hate us spoyle our goods v. 11. And though all this be come upon us yet will we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy Covenant v. 18. Turn us again O Lord God of Hoasts shew us the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole Ps 80.19 Oh be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man Ps 60.11 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and his blessing shall be upon his People Ps 3.8 The Prayer O Most mercifull Lord God we acknowledge we have not feared thee nor served thee as we ought and therefore thou hast smittenus that we may know thee turne us ô Lord unto thee and be thou mercifull unto us deliver us from our Enimies and save us for thy mercy sake in Iesus Christ AMEN AFTER VICTORY The Psalme VVE will magnify thee O Lord for thou hast set us up and not made our foes to triumph over us Ps 30.1 Thou art the God of whom cometh salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death Psal 68.20 Thou hast sent forth strength establish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us v. 28. Thou hast girded us with strength of Warre Ps 18. and covered our head in the day of Battell Ps 140. and compassed us about with songs of deliverance Ps 32. God is our refuge and strength a very present help in time of trouble therefore will we not fear though the Earth be moved and Waters rage and swell Ps 46.1.2 For the Lord is King be the people never so unpatient he sitteth between the Cherubins be the Earth never so unquiet Psal 99.1 He stilleth the raging of the Sea and the noyse of his waves and the Madnesse of the People Ps 65.7 He hath broken the arrowes of the bow the shield the sword and the speare Ps 76 3. At thy rebuke O God of Iacob both the Charâ—… and Horse are falne v. 6. The fiercenes of man shall turne to thy praise and the fiercenesse of them shalt thou refraine v. 10. Praise the Lord with a new song for he hath done marvailous things with his own right hand and his holy arme hath he got himselfe the Victory Psal 98.1,2 The Vote of the People for Peace O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy Pasture Ps 74.1 Thou hast moved the Land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh Ps 6.2 Thou hast shewed thy People heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine v. 3. Thou hast proved us thou hast brought us into the suare and laid trouble upon our Loynes thou sufferest men to ride over our heads ps 66.10,11 The high Wayes are unoccupied the Travellors walk through bywayes and the Inhabitants of the Villages cease Iudg. 5.6 For all the Earth is full of darknesse and cruell habitations ps 74.21 Vp Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever ps 44.23 O remember not our old sinnes but have mercy upon us and that soon for we are come to great misery ps 79.8 Turn thee again at last and be gratious unto thy servants ps 90.13 Comfort us now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity v. 15. Oh that salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of Captivity then should Iacob rejoyce and Israel should be right glad ps 53.7,8 He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house and bringeth the prisoners out of Captivity ps 68.6 He maketh VVarres to cease he breaketh the bow and knappeth the speare in sunder ps 46.9 The Lord shall give strength to his People the Lord shall give his People the blessing of Peace ps 29.10 That our Garners may be full and our sheep bring forth thousands in our streets ps 144.13 That our Oxen may be strong to Labour thaâ— there be no decay no leading into Captivity and nâ— complaining in our streets v. 14. Happy are the People that be in such a case yeaâ— blessed are the People which have the Lord foâ— their God v. 15. FINIS
these things written in thy book v. 8. Hide me from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of wicked doers Psal 64.2 For under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge till this Tyranny be overpast Ps 57.1 J will call unto the most high God even unto the God that shall performe the Cause which I have in hand v. 2. He shall send from Heaven and save me v. 3. Yea his right hand shall hold me up and his loving correction shall make me great Ps 18.35 Let them rejoyce and be glad that favour my righteous dealing yea let them say blessed be the name of the Lord that hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant Ps 35.27 Then cannot you but think you are invited to apply unto God in the behalfe of your King your selves and your Cause as followeth The PSALME PLead thou our cause O Lord with them that strive with us and fight thou against them that fight against us Ps 35.1 Lay hand on shield and buckler and stand up to help us v. 2. Help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto out sinnes for thy Names sake Ps 79.9 Lead us in the right way because of our Enimies and deliver us not over to the will of our Adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against us and such as speak wrong Ps 27.14 Remember O Lord the rebuke that thy servants have and how thine Enemies have slandered the footsteps of thine Annoynted Psal 89.49 Stand up O Lord of Hoasts and be not mercifull unto them that offend of malitious wickednes Psal 59.5 For the sinne of their mouth and for the words of their lips they shall be taken in their pride for why their preaching is of cursing and lyes v. 12. Oh turne not away the face of thine Annointed Psal 132. Oh prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulnes that they may preserve Him Psal 61.7 Stretch forth thy hand upon the furiousnes of His Enemies and let thy right hand save Him Ps 138.7 Yea let Them be cloathed with shame but upon Himselfe let His Crowne flourish Psa 132.19 So shall the King rejoyce in God and the mouth of them that speakes lyes shall be stopped Ps 63.12 Yea their owne tongues shall make them fall insomuch that they which see it shall say This hath God done for they shall perceive it is his worke Psa 64.8,9 The Prayer for the Morning O Almighty Lord God I blesse thy Name for that thou hast kept me this night past from all dangers notwithstanding all my sinnes and ill deserts I beseech thee to pardon them all in Iesus Christ and to guide me this day by thy Grace that I fall not into any presumptuous sinnes but may have thee alwayes before mine eyes to feare thee in all my wayes And seeing nothing is safe without thy defence or prosperous without thy blessing keep I beseech thee and defend Our gratious King protect Him in His Person blesse Him in his Counsells prosper Him in his Just Designes Blesse also and protect all his Armies Vs especicially that attend here to serve Him under thee who art the Everliving God Grant this for Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour AMEN The Prayer for the Evening O Almighty Lord God which hast made the out goings of the Morning and of the Evening to praise thee blessed be thy Name for that thou hast kept and preserved me this day I acknowledge my manifold sinnes and transgressions in thought word and deed committed against thee beseeching thee to pardon what I have done amisse for thy mercyes sake in Jesus Christ Defend O Lord the Kings Majesty and His Army watch thou over us and keepe us all from the dangers of this night through Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour AMEN Occasionall Devotion AS every day requires the performance of your Duty to God so doth every speciall occasion in order to the Battell and the Issue thereof call you to some Act of Devotion which may be performed either more solemnely or abruptly according to the straits of time We have King Asa's prayer when he went out against the Ethiopians 2. Chr. 14.11 and King Iehosaphats upon the like occasion 2. Chr. 20. v. 6. Now as it belongs to Authority and is the duty of every General to command the publique and solemne performance of this duty before the joyning of Battell if the time will permit so doth it concerne every Souldier to lift up his heart to God in order to the occasion and performe this duty in some sort answerable to the straits of time And therefore be your service and imployment never so suddain and urgent yet will it admit the private ejaculations of the heart be you in a March or Motion towards the Enemy the mind can move faster towards heaven or be you in the very Encounter the suddain thoughts and desires darted from the Soule are more ready then the dischargings of your Gunns more quick then fired Powder or flying Bullet Moses being in a strait between the Red-Sea and the pursuing Enemie is said to cry unto the Lord yet we read not that he speak any thing Exod. 14.15 it was the cry of the heart and that also sounds in Gods eares Iehosaphat when oppressed in battel by the Syrians cryed unto the Lord and God moved them to depart from him 2. Chr. 18.31 So the men of Iudah when the battel was before and behind them cryed unto the Lord 2. Chr. 13.14 The good Emperour Theodosius in the like danger prayed and was delivered the darts and arrowes that came from the Enemie being by a mighty wind borne back again upon them And we read of the Christian Legion which serving under Antoninus an heathen Emperour did by prayer save the whole army from the necessity of perishing either by drought or by the Enemy for out of the same cloud at their prayer did issue Raine to refresh the Army and Thunder and Lightning to strike and confound the Enemy For direction of your thoughts and desires in order to the Battell take what followeth The PSALME THou art our King O God send help unto Iacob Psal 44. v. 5. Through thee will we overthrow our Enemies and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us v. 6. For we will not trust in our Bow it is not our sword that shall help us v. 7. There is no King can be saved by the multitude of an Hoast neither is any man delivered by much strength Psal 33.15 But it is thou that savest us from our Enemies and puttest them to confusion that hate us Psal 44.8 Through God will we doe great Acts for it is he that shall tread downe our Enemies Psal 60.12 The Prayer O Almighty God King of Kings and Lord of Hoasts it is nothing with thee to helpe whether with many or with them that have no power Helpe us O Lord and deliver us