seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve CATHERINE the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our fins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then shall the Priest and the People with him say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities ¶ Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful Mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously here us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us he brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine Honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee ¶ Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father Mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer of St. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen Here endeth the Litany PRAYERS and THANKSGIVINGS upon several Occasions to be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany or of Morning and Evening Prayer PRAYERS
the Lord ye that mind to come to the holy Communion of the body and bloud of our Saviour Christ must consider how Saint Paul exhorteth all persons diligently to try and examine themselves before they presume to eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. For as the benefit is great if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament for then we spiritually eat the flesh of Christ and drink his bloud then we dwell in Christ and Christ in us we are one with Christ and Christ with us So is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily For then we are guilty of the body and bloud of Christ our Saviour we eat and drink our own damnation not considering the Lords body we kindle Gods wrath against us we provoke him to plague us with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death Judge therefore your selves brethren that ye be not judged of the Lord repent you truly for your sins past have a lively and stedfast faith in Christ our Saviour amend your lives and be in perfect charity with all men so shall ye be meet partakers of those holy Mysteries And above all things ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ both God and man who did humble himself even to the death upon the Cross for us miserable sinners who lay in darkness and the shadow of death that he might make us the children of God and exalt us to everlasting life And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by his precious bloud-shedding he hath obtained to us he hath instituted and ordained holy Mysteries as pledges of his love and for a continual remembrance of his death to our great and endless comfort To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost let us give as we are most bounden continual thanks submitting our selves wholly to his holy will and pleasure and studying to serve him in true holiness and righteousness all the days of our life Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say to them that come to receive the holy Communion YE that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins and are in love and charity with your neighbours and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his holy ways Draw near with faith and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort and make your humble confession to Almighty God meekly kneeling upon your knees ¶ Then shall this general Confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the holy Communion by one of the Ministers both he and all the People kneeling humbly upon their knees and saying ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness Which we from time to time most grievously have committed By thought word and deed Against thy divine Majesty Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us We do earnestly repent And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings The remembrance of them is grievous unto us The burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake Forgive us all that is past And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life To the honour and glory of thy Name Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest or the Bishop being present stand up and turning himself to the People pronounce this Absolution ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them that with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to him COme unto me all that travel and are heavy laden and I will refresh you S. Matth. II. 28. So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son to the end that all that belive in him should not perish but have everlasting life S. John 3.16 Hear also what Saint Paul saith This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners I Tim. 1.15 Hear also what Saint John saith If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins I S. John 2.1 ¶ After which the Priest shall proceed saying Lift up your hearts Answer We lift them up unto the Lord. Priest Let us give thanks unto our Lord God Answer It is meet and right so to do ¶ Then shall the Priest turn to the Lords Table and say IT is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord * These words Holy Father must be omitted on Trinity Sunday Holy Father Almighty everlasting God ¶ Here shall follow the proper Preface according to the time if there be any specially appointed or else immediately shall follow THerefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High Amen ¶ Proper Prefaces ¶ Upon Christmas-day and seven days after BEcause thou didst give Jesus Christ thine only Son to be born as at this time for us who by the operation of the holy Ghost was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother and that without spot of sin to make us clean from all sin Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon Easter-day and seven days after BUt chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord for he is the very Paschal Lamb which was offered for us and hath taken away the sin of the world who by his death hath destroyed death and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life Therefore c. ¶ Upon Ascension-day and seven days after THrough thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who after his most glorious resurrection manifestly appeared to all his Apostles and in their sight ascended up into heaven to prepare a place for us that where he is thither we might also ascend and reign with him in glory Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon Whitsunday and six
these holy Mysteries with the spiritual food of the most precious body and bloud of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ and dost assure us thereby of thy favour and goodness towards us and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son which is the blessed company of all faithful people and are also heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom by the merits of the most precious death and passion of thy dear Son And we most humbly beseech thee O heavenly Father so to assist us with thy grace that we may continue in that holy fellowship and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be said or sung GLory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men We praise thee we bless thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord God heavenly King God the Father Almighty O Lord the only begotten Son Jesu Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our prayer Thou that fittest at the right hand of God the Father have mercy upon us For thou only art holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Christ with the holy Ghost art most high in the glory of God the Father Amen ¶ Then the Priest or Bishop if he be present shall let them depart with this Blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord And the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen ¶ Collects to be said after the Offertory when there is no Communion every such day one or more and the same may be said also as often as occasion shall serve after the Collects either of Morning or Evening Prayer Communion or Litany by the discretion of the Minister ASsist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants towards the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty Lord and everlasting God vouchsafe we beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws and in the works of thy commandments that through thy most mighty protection both here and ever we may be preserved in body and soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears may through thy grace be so grafted inwardly in our hearts that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living to the honour and praise of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God the fountain of all wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not and for our blindness we cannot ask vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ UPon the Sundays and other Holidays if there be no Communion shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion until the end of the general Prayer For the good estate of the Catholick Church of Christ together with one or mo of these Collects last before rehearsed concluding with the Blessing ¶ And there shall be no Celebration of the Lords Supper except there be a convenient number to communicate with the Priest according to his discretion ¶ And if there be not above twenty Persons in the Parish of discretion to Receive the Communion yet there shall be no Communion except four or three at the least Communicate with the Priest ¶ And in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Colledges where there are many Priests and Deacons they shall all Receive the Communion with the Priest every Sunday at the least except they have a reasonable cause to the contrary ¶ And to take away all occasion of dissension and superstition which any Person hath or might have concerning the Bread and Wine it shall suffice that the Bread be such as is usual to be eaten but the best and purest Wheat Bread that conveniently may be gotten ¶ And if any of the Bread and Wine remain unconsecrated the Curate shall have it to his own use but if any remain of that which was Consecrated it shall not be carried out of the Church but the Priest and such other of the Communicants as he shall then call unto him shall immediately after the Blessing reverently eat and drink the same ¶ The Bread and Wine for the Communion shall be provided by the Curate and the Church-wardens at the Charges of the Parish ¶ And Note That every Parishioner shall Communicate at the least three times in the Year of which Easter to be one And yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson Vicar or Curate or his or their Deputy or Deputies and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due then and at that time to be paid ¶ After the Divine Service ended the Money given at the Offertory shall be disposed of to such pious and charitable uses as the Minister and Church-wardens shall think fit Wherein if they disagree it shall be disposed of as the Ordinary shall appoint WHereas it is ordained in this Office for the Administration of the Lords Supper that the Communicants should receive the same Kneeling which Order is well meant for a signification of our humble and grateful acknowledgment of the benefits of Christ therein given to all worthy Receivers and for the avoiding of such profanation and disorder in the holy Communion as might otherwise ensue
he vouchsafe to bring us all for his infinite mercy Amen ¶ Then shall they all kneel upon their knees and the Priest and Clerks kneeling in the place where they are accustomed to say the Litany shall say this Psalm Miserere mei Deus Miserere mei Deus Psal li. HAve mercy upon O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin For I acknowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me But lo thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly Thou shalt purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from bloud-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servants Answer That put their trust in thee Minister Send unto them help from above Answer And evermore mightily defend them Minister Help us O God our Saviour Answer And for the glory of thy Name deliver us be merciful to us sinners for thy Names sake Minister O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister Let us pray O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the People say this that followeth after the Minister TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord Be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Minister alone shall say The Lord bless us and keep us the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace now and for evermore Amen THE Psalter or Psalms OF DAVID After the Translation of the GREAT BIBLE Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in CHURCHES Morning Prayer Beatus vir qui non abiit Psal 1. BLessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly nor stood in the way of sinners and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful Day i. 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 leaf also shall not wither and look whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper 5 As for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaff which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgment 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 Quare fremuerunt gentes Psal 2. WHy do 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 counsel 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 shall he 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 utmost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron and break them in pieces like a potters vessel 10 Be wise now therefore O ye kings be learned
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 evil yea it is even he that shall keep thy soul 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for ever more Laetatus sum Psal 122. I Was glad when they said unto me We will go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Jerusalem 3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in it self 4 For thither the tribes go up even the tribes of the Lord to testifie unto Israel to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. 5 For there is the seat of judgment even the seat of the house of David 6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and plenteousness within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will wish thee prosperity 9 Yea because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good At te levavi oculos meos Psal 123. UNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are utterly despised 4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy and with the despitefulness of the proud Nisi quia Dominus Psal 124. IF the Lord himself had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us 2 They had swallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at us 3 Yea the waters had drowned us and the stream had gone over our soul 4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soul 5 But praised be the Lord who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth 6 Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heaven and earth Qui confidunt Psal 125. THey that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion which may not be removed but standeth fast for ever 2 The hills stand about Jerusalem even so standeth the Lord round about his people from this time forth for evermore 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness 4 Do well O Lord unto those that are good and true of heart 5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers but peace shall be upon Israel Evening Prayer In convertendo Psal 126. WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion then were we like unto them that 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 hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce 5 Turn 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 doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him Nisi Dominus Psal 127. 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 carefulness for so he giveth his beloved sleep 4 Lo children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh 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 Beati omnes Psal 128. 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 fruitful vine upon the walls 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 bless thee that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long 7 Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel Saepe expugnaverunt Psal 129. MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israel now say 2 Yea many a time have they vexed me 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 hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward as many as have evil will at Sion 6 Let them be even as the grass 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 bosom 8 So that they who go by say not so much as The Lord prosper you we wish you good luck in the Name of the Lord. De profundis Psal 130. OUt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voice 2 O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss 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 DAY xxviii 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 Domine non est Psal 131. LOrd I am not high-minded I have no proud looks 2 I do not exercise my self in great matters which are too high for me 3 But I refrain my soul and keep it low like as a child that is weaned from his mother yea my soul is even as a weaned child 4 O Israel trust in the Lord from this time forth for evermore Morning Prayer Memento Domine Psal 132. LOrd
the depth of misery and out of the jaws of this death which is ready now to swallow us up Save Lord or else we perish The living the living shall praise thee O send thy word of command to rebuke the raging winds and the roring sea that we being delivered from this distress may live to serve thee and to glorifie thy Name all the days of our life Hear Lord and save us for the infinite merits of our blessed Saviour thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ Amen The prayer to be said before a fight at Sea against any Enemy O Most powerful and glorious Lord God the Lord of hosts that rulest and commandest all things Thou sittest in the Throne judging right and therefore we make our Address to thy divine Majesty in this our necessity that thou wouldst take the cause into thine own hand and judge between us and our enemies Stir up thy strength O Lord and come and help us for thou givest not alway the battel to the strong but canst save by many or by few O let not our sins now cry against us for vengeance but hear us thy poor servants begging mercy and imploring thy help and that thou wouldst be a defence unto us against the face of the enemy Make it appear that thou art our Savior and mighty Deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Short Prayers for single Persons that cannot meet to joyn in Prayer with others by reason of the Fight or Storm General Prayers LOrd be merciful to us sinners and save us for thy mercies sake Thou art the great God that hast made and rulest all things O deliver us for thy Names sake Thou art the great God to be feared above all O save us that we may praise thee Special Prayers with respect to the Enemy THou O Lord art just and powerful O defend our cause against the face of the Enemy O God thou art a strong tower of defence to all that flee unto thee O save us from the violence of the Enemy O Lord of hosts fight for us that we may glorifie thee O suffer us not to sink under the weight of our sins or the violence of the enemy O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake Short Prayers in respect of a Storm THou O Lord that stillest the raging of the sea hear hear us and save us that we perish not O blessed Saviour that didst save thy disciples ready to perish in a Storm hear us and save us we beseech thee Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us O Lord hear us O Christ hear us God the Father God the Son God the holy Ghost have mercy upon us save us now and evermore OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom the power and the glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ When there shall be imminent danger as many as can be spared from necessary service in the Ship shall be called together and make an humble Confession of their sins to God In which every one ought seriously to reflect upon those particular sins of which his conscience shall accuse him Saying as followeth The confession ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness Which we from time to time most grievously have committed By thought word and deed Against thy divine Majesty Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us We do earnestly repent And be heartily sorry for these our misdoings The remembrance of them is grievous unto us The burden of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ sake Forgive us all that is past And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life To the honour and glory of thy Name Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest if there be any in the Ship Pronounce this Absolution ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thanksgiving after a Storm Jubilate Deo Psal 66. O Be joyful in God all ye lands sing praises unto the honour of his Name make his praise to be glorious Say unto God O how wonderful art thou in thy works through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee For all the world shall worship thee sing of thee and praise thy Name O come hither and behold the works of God how wonderful he is in his doing towards the children of men He turned the sea into dry land so that they went through the water on foot there did we rejoyce thereof He ruleth with his power for ever his eyes behold the people and such as will not believe shall not be able to exalt themselves O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard Who holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip For thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us like as silver is tried Thou broughtest us into the snare and laidst trouble upon our loyns Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place 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 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rams I will offer bullocks and goats O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue If I incline unto wickedness with my heart the Lord will not hear me But God hath heard me and considered the voice of my prayer Praised be God who hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Confitemini Domino Psal 107. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy And gathered them out of the lands from the east and
be admitted Deacons ¶ The Bishop TAke heed that the persons whom ye present unto us be apt and meet for their learning and godly conversation to exercise their Ministry duly to the honour of God and the edifying of his Church ¶ The Arch-Deacon shall answer I Have enquired of them and also examined them and think them so to be ¶ Then the Bishop shall say unto the People BRethren if there be any of you who knoweth any Impediment or notable Crime in any of these persons presented to be Ordered Deacons for the which he ought not to be admitted to that Office let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what the Crime or Impediment is ¶ And if any great Crime or Impediment be objected the Bishop shall surcease from Ordering that Person until such time as the Party accused shall be found clear of that Crime ¶ Then the Bishop commending such as shall be found meet to be Ordered to the Prayers of the Congregation shall with the Clergy and People present sing or say the Litany with the Prayers as followeth ¶ The Litany and Suffrages O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our fore-fathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good-Lord From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil fron thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servant WILLIAM our most gracious King and Governour That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve CATHERINE the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless these thy servants now to be admitted to the Order of Deacons or Priests and to pour thy grace upon them that they may duly execute their Office to the edifying of thy Church and the glory of thy holy Name We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us
good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then shall the Priest and the People with him say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities Priest Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful Mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine Honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall be sung or said the Service for the Communion with the Collect Epistle and Gospel as followeth The Collect. ALmighty God who by thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders of Ministers in thy Church and didst inspire thine Apostles to choose into the Order of Deacons the first Martyr Saint Stephen with others Mercifully behold these thy servants now called to the like Office and Administration Replenish them so with the truth of thy Doctrine and adorn them with innocency of life that both by word and good example they may faithfully serve thee in this Office to the glory of thy Name and the edification of thy Church through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen The Epistle 1 Tim. 3.8 LIkewise must the Deacons be grave not double-tongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience And let these also first be proved then let them use the Office of a Deacon being found blameless Even so must their wives be grave not slanderers sober faithful in all things Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife ruling their children and their own houses well For they that have used the Office of a Deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus ¶ Or else this out of the Sixth of the Acts of the Apostles Acts 6.2 THen the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables Wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom whom we may appoint over this business But we will give our selves continually to prayer and to the ministery of the word And the saying pleased the whole multitude And they chose Stephen a man full of of faith and of the Holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch Whom they set before the Apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them And the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of the Priests were obedient to the faith ¶ And before the Gospel the Bishop sitting in his Chair shall cause the Oath of the Kings Supremacy and against the Power and Authority of all foreign Potentates to be ministred unto every of them that are to be Ordered The Oath of the Kings Sovereignty I A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience That the Kings Highness is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesses Dominions and Countreys as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or Causes as Temporal And that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise That from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness His Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness His Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and the Contents of this Book ¶ Then shall the Bishop examine every one of them that are to be Ordered in the presence of the People after this manner following DO you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you this Office and
slew a man Gen. 49.6 Even the man of thy right hand the Son of man whom thou hadst made so strong for thine own self Psal 80.17 In the sight of the unwise he seemed to die and his departure was taken for misery Wisdom 3.2 They fools counted his life madness and his end to be without honour But he is in peace Wisd 5.4.3.3 For though he was punished in the sight of men yet was his hopefull of immortality Wisd 3.4 How is he numbred with the children of God and his lot is among the saints Wisd 5.5 But O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth be favourable and gracious unto Sion Psal 94.1 Psal 51.18 Be merciful O Lord unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent bloud to charge Deut. 21.8 O shut not up our souls with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty Ps 26.9 Deliver us from bloud-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of our salvation and our tongues shall sing of thy righteousness Psal 51.14 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee Psal 5.4 Thou wilt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord abhors both the bloud-thirsty and deceitful man verse 6. O how suddenly do they consume perish and come to a fearful end Ps 73.18 Yea even like as a dream when one awaketh so didst thou make their image to vanish out of the city verse 19. Great and marvellous are thy works O Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways O King of saints Apoc. 15.3 Righteous art thou O Lord and just are thy judgments Psal 119.137 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Proper Psalms IX X XI ¶ Proper Lessons The First 2 Sam. I. The Second S. Matth. XXVII ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two which next followeth be used O Most mighty God terrible in thy judgments and wonderful in thy doings toward the children of men who in thy heavy displeasure didst suffer the life of our late gracious Sovereign King Charles the First to be as this day taken away by the hands of cruel and bloudy men We thy sinful creatures here assembled before thee do in the behalf of all the people of this land humbly confess that they were the crying fins if this Nation which brought down this heavy judgment upon us But O gracious God when thou makest inquisition for bloud lay not the guilt of this innocent bloud the shedding whereof nothing but the bloud of thy Son can expiate lay it not to the charge of the people of this land nor let it ever be required of us or our posterity Be merciful O Lord be merciful unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and be not angry with us for ever But pardon us for thy mercies sake through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen BLessed Lord in whose fight the death of thy saints is precious We magnifie thy Name for thine abundant grace bestowed on our late martyr'd Sovereign by which he was enabled so cheerfully to follow the steps of his blessed Master and Saviour in a constant meek suffering of all barbarous indignities and at last resisting unto bloud and even then according to the same pattern praying for his murderers Let his memory O Lord be ever blessed among us that we may follow the example of his courage and constancy his meekness and patience and great charity And grant that this our land may be freed from the vengeance of his righteous bloud and thy mercy glorified in the forgiveness of our sins and all for Jesus Christ his sake our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany which shall always on this day be used immediately after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c. the three Collects next following are to be read O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord Be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of Compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service after the Prayer for the King Almighty God whose kingdom is everlasting c. instead of the Collect for the day shall these two be used O most mighty God c. Blessed Lord in whose sight c. As in the Morning Prayer The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 2.13 SUbmit your felyes to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men As free and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the King Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For what is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffer for us leaving us
instead of the Apostles Creed his Confession of our Christian Faith commonly called the Creed of Saint Athanasius by the Minister and People standing Quicunque vult WHosoever will be saved before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly And the Catholick Faith is this That ve worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance For there is one person of the Father another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghost But the Godhead of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all one the Glory equal the Majesty co-eternal Such as the Father is such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost The Father uncreate the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost uncreate The Father incomprehensible the Son incomprehensible and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible The Father eternal the Son eternal and the Holy Ghost eternal And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal As also there are not three incomprehensibles nor three uncreated but one uncreated and one incomprehensible So likewise the Father is Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty And yet they are not three Almighties but one Almighty So the Father is God the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God And yet they are not three Gods but one God So likewise the Father is Lord the Son Lord and the Holy Ghost Lord And yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be God and Lord So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion to say There be three Gods or three Lords The Father is made of none neither created nor begotten The Son is of the Father alone not made nor created but begotten The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son neither made nor created nor begotten but proceeding So there is one Father not three Fathers one Son not three Sons one Holy Ghost not three Holy Ghosts And in this Trinity none is afore or after other none is greater or less then another But the whole three persons are co-eternal together and co-equal So that in all things as is aforesaid the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God is God and Man God of the substance of the Father begotten before the Worlds and Man of the substance of his Mother born in the World Perfect God and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and humane flesh subsisting Equal to the Father as touching his Godhead and inferiour to the Father as touching his Manhood Who although he be God and Man yet he is not two but one Christ One not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the Manhood into God One altogether not by confusion of substance but by unity of person For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so God and Man is one Christ Who suffered for our salvation descended into hell rose again the third day from the dead He ascended into heaven he sitteth on the right hand of the Father God Almighty from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire This is the Catholick Faith which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany or General Supplication to be sung or said after Morning Prayer upon Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays and at other times when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our fore-fathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy Servant WILLIAM our most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever
Mediatour and Advocate Amen THANKSGIVINGS ¶ A General Thanksgiving ALmighty God Father of all mercies we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men * This to be said when any that have been prayed for desire to return praise Particularly to those who desire now to offer up their praises and thanksgivings for thy late mercies vouchsafed unto them We bless thee for our creation preservation and all the blessings of this life but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of grace and for the hope of glory And we beseech thee give us that due sense of all thy mercies that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful and that we may shew forth thy praise not only with our lips but in our lives by giving up our selves to thy service and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen ¶ For Rain O God our heavenly Father who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man We give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our great necessity to send us at the last a joyful rain upon thine inheritance and to refresh it when it was dry to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants and to the glory of thy holy Name through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For fair Weather O Lord God who hast justly humbled us by thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather We praise and glorifie thy holy Name for this thy mercy and will always declare thy loving kindness from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Plenty O Most merciful Father who of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty We give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness unto us that our land may yield us her fruits of increase to thy glory and our comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Peace and Deliverance from our Enemies O Almighty God who art a strong towre of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Restoring Publick Peace at home O Eternal God our heavenly Father who alone makest men to be of one mind in a house and stillest the outrage of a violent and unruly people We bless thy holy Name that it hath pleased thee to appease the seditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us most humbly beseeching thee to grant to all of us grace that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments and leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty may continually offer unto thee our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for these thy mercies towards us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Deliverance from the Plague or other common Sickness O Lord God who hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavy and dreadful Visitation and now in the midst of judgment remembring mercy hast redeemed our souls from the jaws of death We offer unto thy Fatherly goodness our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee always praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of thy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Or this WE humbly acknowledge before thee O most merciful Father that all the punishments which are threatned in thy law might justly have fallen upon us by reason of our manifold transgressions and hardness of heart Yet seeing it hath pleased thee of thy tender mercy upon our weak and unworthy humiliation to asswage the contagious sickness wherewith we lately have been sore afflicted and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings we offer unto thy divine Majesty the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for such thy preservation and providence over us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Collects Epistles and Gospels To be used throughout the Year ¶ Note that the Collect appointed for every Sunday or for any Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve shall be said at the Evening Service next before The first Sunday in Advent The Collect. ALmighty God give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness and put upon us the armour of light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead we may rise to the life immortal through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and ever Amen ¶ This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent until Christmas-Eve The Epistle Rom. 13.8 OWe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law For this Thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness Thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the law And that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer then when we believed The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof The Gospel S. Matth. 21.1 WHen they drew nigh unto Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage unto the mount of Olives then sent Jesus two disciples saying unto them Go into the village over against you and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her loose
added unto the Lord. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul And when he had found him he brought him unto Antioch And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch And there stood up one of them named Agabus and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar Then the disciples every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea Which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul The Gospel S. John 15.12 THis is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his friends Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you Henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my Name he may give it you Saint John Baptist The collect ALmighty God by whose providence thy servant John Baptist was wonderfully born and sent to prepare the way of thy Son our Saviour by preaching of repentance make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life that we may truly repent according to his preaching and after his example constantly speak the truth boldly rebuke vice and patiently suffer for the truths sake through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Isai 40.1 COmfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received of the Lords hand double for all her sins The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a high way for our God Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it The voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field The grass withereth the flower fadeth because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it surely the people is grass The grass withereth the flower fadeth but the word of our God shall stand for ever O Zion that bringest good tidings get thee up into the high mountain O Jerusalem that bringest good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah Behold your God Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand and his arm shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and his work before him He shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in this bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young The Gospel S. Luke 1.57 ELizabeths full time came that she should be delivered and she brought forth a son And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her and they rejoyced with her And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child and they called him Zacharias after the name of his father And his mother answered and said Not so but he shall be called John And they said unto her There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name And they made signs to his father how he would have him called And he asked for a writing-table and wrote saying His name is John And they marvelled all And his mouth was opened immediately and his tongue loosed and he spake and praised God And fear came on all that dwelt round about them and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill-countrey of Judea And all they that had heard them laid them up in their hearts saying What manner of child shall this be And the hand of the Lord was with him And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost and prophesied saying Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for the hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant the oath which he sware to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life And thou child shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace And the Child grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel Saint Peters day The collect O Almighty God who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to the Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts and commandedst him earnestly to feed thy flock Make we beseech thee all Bishops and Pastours diligently to preach thy holy Word and the people obediently to follow the same that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Acts 12.1 ABout that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church And he killed James the brother of John with the sword And because he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded further to take Peter also Then were the days of unleavened bread And when he had apprehended him he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of souldiers to keep him intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him And when Herod would have brought him forth the same night Peter was sleeping
the Holy Ghost to give him the Kingdom of heaven and everlasting life Ye have heard also that our Lord Jesus Christ hath promised in his Gospel to grant all these things that ye have prayed for which promise he for his part will most surely keep and perform Wherefore after this promise made by Christ this Infant must also faithfully for his part promise by you that are his Sureties until he come of age to take it upon himself that he will renounce the devil and all his works and constantly believe Gods holy word and obediently keep his commandments I demand therefore DOst thou in the name of this child renounce the devil and all his works the vain pomp and glory of the world with all covetous desires of the same and the carnal desires of the flesh so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them Answ I renounce them all Minister DOst thou believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord And that he was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary that he suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried that he went down into hell and also did rise again the third day that he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quick and the dead And dost thou believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the remission of sins the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life after death Answ All this I stedfastly believe Minister WIlt thou be baptized in this Faith Answ That is my desire Minister WIlt thou then obediently keep Gods holy will and commandments and walk in the same all the days of thy life Answ I will ¶ Then shall the Priest say O Merciful God grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried that the new man may be raised up in him Amen Grant that all carnal affections may die in him and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in him Amen Grant that he may have power and strength to have victory and to triumph against the devil the world and the flesh Amen Grant that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our Office and Ministry may also be endued with heavenly virtues and everlastingly rewarded through thy mercy O blessed Lord God who dost live and govern all things world without end Amen ALmighty everliving God whose most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins did shed out of his most precious side both water and bloud and gave commandment to his disciples that they should go teach all Nations and baptize them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Regard we beseech thee the supplications of thy Congregation sanctifie this Water to the mystical wasting away of sin and grant that this Child now to be baptized therein may receive the fulness of thy grace and ever remain in the number of thy faithful and elect children through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall take the Child into his hands and shall say to the Godfathers and Godmothers Name this Child And then naming it after them if they shall certifie him that the Child may well endure it he shall dip it in the Water discreetly and warily saying N. I baptize thee In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ But if they certifie that the Child is weak it shall suffice to pour Water upon it saying the foresaid words N. I baptize thee In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall say WE receive this Child into the congregation of Christs flock * Here the Priest shall make a cross upon the childs forehead and do sign him with the sign of the cross in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his banner against sin the world and the devil and to continue Christs faithful souldier and servant unto his lives end Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say SEeing now dearly beloved brethren that this Child is regenerate and grafted into the body of Christs Church let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits and with one accord make our prayers unto him that this Child may lead the rest of his life according to this beginning ¶ Then shall be said all kneeling OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say WE yield thee hearty thanks most merciful Father that it hath pleased thee to regenerate this Infant with thy holy Spirit to receive him for thine own Child by adoption and to incorporate him into thy holy Church And humbly we beseech thee to grant that he being dead unto sin and living unto righteousness and being buried with Christ in his death may crucifie the old man and utterly abolish the whole body of sin and that as he is made partaker of the death of thy Son he may also be partaker of his resurrection so that finally with the residue of thy holy Church he may be an inheritour of thine everlasting Kingdom through Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then all standing up the Priest shall say to the Godfathers and Godmothers this Exhortation following Forasmuch as this Child hath promised by you his Sureties to renounce the devil and all his works to believe in God and to serve him ye must remember that it is your parts and duties to see that this Infant be taught so soon as he shall be able to learn what a solemn vow promise and profession he hath here made by you And that he may know these things the better ye shall call upon him to hear Sermons and chiefly ye shall provide that he may learn the Creed the Lords Prayer and the ten Commandments in the vulgar tongue and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his souls health and that this Child may be virtuously brought up to lead a godly and a Christian life remembring always that Baptism doth represent unto us our profession which is to follow the example of our Saviour Christ and to be made like unto him that as he died and rose again for us so should we who are baptized die from sin and rise again unto righteousness continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living ¶ Then shall he add and say YE are to
in this Faith Answer That is my desire Question WIlt thou then obediently keep Gods holy will and commandments and walk in the same all the days of thy life Answer I will endeavour so to do God being my helper ¶ Then shall the Priest say O Merciful God grant that the old Adam in these Persons may be so buried that the new man be raised up in them Amen Grant that all carnal affections may die in them and that all things belonging to the Spirit may live and grow in them Amen Grant that they may have power and strength to have victory and to triumph against the devil the world and the flesh Amen Grant that they being here dedicated to thee by our Office and Ministry may also be endued with heavenly virtues and everlastingly rewarded through thy mercy O blessed Lord God who dost live and govern all things world without end Amen ALmighty everliving God whose most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins did shed out of his most precious side both water and bloud and give commandment to his disciples that they should go teach all Nations and baptize them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Regard we beseech thee the supplications of this Congregation sanctifie this Water to the mystical washing away of sin and grant that the persons now to be baptized therein may receive the fulness of thy grace and ever remain in the number of thy faithful and elect children through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest take each person to be Baptized by the right hand and placing him conveniently by the Font according to his discretion shall ask the Godfathers and Godmothers the Name and then shall dip him in the water or pour water upon him saying N. I Baptize thee In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say WE receive this person into the congregation of Christs flock and * Here the Priest shall make a cross upon the persons forehead do sign him with the sign of the cross in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his banner against sin the world and the devil and to continue Christs faithful souldier and servant unto his lives end Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say SEeing now dearly beloved brethren that these persons are regenerate and grafted into the body of Christs Church let us give thanks unto Almighty God for these benefits and with one accord make our prayers unto him that they may lead the rest of their life according to this beginning ¶ Then shall be said the Lords Prayer all kneeling OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen WE yield thee humble thanks O heavenly Father that thou hast vouchsafed to call us to the knowledge of thy grace and faith in thee Increase this knowledge and confirm this faith in us evermore Give thy holy Spirit to these persons that being now born again and made heirs of everlasting salvation though our Lord Jesus Christ they may continue thy servants and attain thy promises through the same Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same holy Spirit everlastingly Amen ¶ Then all standing up the Priest shall use this Exhortation following speaking to the Godfathers and Godmothers first FOrasmuch as these persons have promised in your presence to renounce the devil and all his works to believe in God and to serve him ye must remember that it is your part and duty to put them in mind what a solemn vow promise and profession they have now made before this Congregation and especially before you their chosen Witnesses And ye are also to call upon them to use all diligence to be rightly instructed in Gods holy Word that so they may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and live godly righteously and soberly in this present world ¶ And then speaking to the new Baptized Persons he shall proceed and say ANd as for you who have now by Baptism put on Christ it is your part and duty also being made the Children of God and of the light by faith in Jesus Christ to walk answerably to your Christian calling and as becometh the children of light remembring always that Baptism representeth unto us our profession which is to follow the example of our Saviour Christ and to be made like unto him that as he died and rose again for us so should we who are baptized die from sin and rise again unto righteousness continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living ¶ It is expedient that every Person thus Baptized should be confirmed by the Bishop so soon after his Baptism as conveniently may be that so he may be admitted to the holy Communion ¶ If any Persons not Baptized in their infancy shall be brought to be Baptized before they come to years of discretion to answer for themselves it may suffice to use the Office for Publick Baptism of Infants or in case of extream danger the Office for Private Baptism only changing the word Infant for Child or Person as occasion requireth A CATECHISM that is to say An Instruction to be learned of every Person before he be brought to be Confirmed by the Bishop Question WHat is your Name Answer N. or M. Question Who gave you this Name Answer My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ the child of God and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven Question What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for you Answer They did promise and vow three things in my Name First that I should renounce the devil and all his works the pomps and vanity of this wicked world and all the sinful lusts of the flesh Secondly that I should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly that I should keep Gods holy will and commandments and walk in the same all the days of my life Question Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe and to do as they have promised for thee Answer Yes verily and by Gods help so I will And I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of salvation through Jesus Christ our Saviour And I pray unto God to give me his grace that I may continue in the same unto my lives end Catechist Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief Answer I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in
as the Lord the Church For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the Church Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself Ephes 5.25 Likewise the same Saint Paul writing to the Colossians speaketh thus to all men that are married Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them Col. 3.19 Hear also what Saint Peter the Apostle of Christ who was himself a married a man saith unto them that are married Ye husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred 1 S. Pet. 3.7 Hitherto ye have heard the duty of the husband toward the wife Now likewise ye wives hear and learn your duties toward your husbands even as it is plainly set forth in holy Scripture Saint Paul in the aforenamed Epistle to the Ephesians teacheth you thus Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church and he is the Saviour of the body Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing And again he saith Let the wife see that she reverence her husband Ephes 5.22 And in his Epistle to the Colossians Saint Paul giveth you this short lesson Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as is it fit the Lord. Col. 3.18 Saint Peter also doth instruct you very well thus saying Ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price For after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well and are not afraid with any amazement 1 S. Pet. 3.1 ¶ It is convenient that the new married Persons should receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage or at the first opportunity after their Marriage The ORDER for the VISITATION of the SICK ¶ When any Person is sick notice shall be given thereof to the Minister of the Parish who coming into the sick Persons House shall say PEace be to this house and to all that dwell in it ¶ When he cometh into the sick mans presence he shall say kneeling down REmember not Lord our iniquities nor the iniquities of our forefathers Spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Answer Spare us good Lord. ¶ Then the Minister shall say Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be they Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servant Answer Which putteth his trust in thee Minister Send him help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend him Minister Let the enemy have no advantage of him Answer Nor the wicked approch to hurt him Minister Be unto him O Lord a strong tower Answer From the face of his enemy Minister O Lord hear our prayers Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister O Lord look down from heaven behold visit and relieve this thy servant Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy give him comfort and sure confidence in thee defend him from the danger of the enemy and keep him in perpetual peace and safety through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen HEar us Almighty and most merciful God and Saviour extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant who is grieved with sickness Sanctifie we beseech thee this thy Fatherly correction to him that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith and seriousness to his repentance That if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore him to his former health he may lead the residue of his life in thy fear and to thy glory or else give him grace so to take thy visitation that after this painful life ended he may dwell with thee in life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister exhort the sick Person after this form or other like DEarly beloved know this that Almighty God is the Lord of life and death and of all things to them pertaining as youth strength health age weakness and sickness Wherefore whatsoever your sickness is know you certainly that it is Gods visitation And for what cause soever this sickness is sent unto you whether it be to try your patience for the example of others and that your faith may be found in the day of the Lord laudable glorious and honourable to the increase of glory and endless felicity or else it be sent unto you to correct and amend in you whatsoever doth offend the eyes of your heavenly Father know you certainly that if you truly repent you of your sins and bear your sickness patiently trusting in Gods mercy for his dear Son Jesus Christs sake and render unto him humble thanks for his Fatherly visitation submitting your self wholly unto his will it shall turn to your profit and help you forward in the right way that leadeth unto everlasting life ¶ If the Person visited be very sick then the Curate may end his Exhortation in this place or else proceed TAke therefore in good part the chastisement of the Lord For as Saint Paul saith in the twelfth Chapter to the Hebrews whom the Lord loveth he chastneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth If ye endure chastning God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the Father chastneth not But if ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits and live For
they verily for a few days chastned us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness These words good brother are written in holy Scripture for our comfort and instruction that we should patiently and with thanksgiving bear our heavenly Fathers correction whensoever by any manner of adversity it shall please his gracious goodness to visit us And there should be no greater comfort to Christian persons then to be made like unto Christ by suffering patiently adversities troubles and sicknesses For he himself went not up to joy but first he suffered pain he entred not into his glory before he was crucified So truly our way to eternal joy is to suffer here with Christ and our door to enter into eternal life is gladly to die with Christ that we may rise again from death and dwell with him in everlasting life Now therefore taking your sickness which is thus profitable for you patiently I exhort you in the Name of God to remember the profession which you made unto God in your Baptism And for as much as after this life there is an account to be given unto the righteous Judge by whom all must be judged without respect of persons I require you to examine your self and your estate both toward God and man so that accusing and condemning your self for your own fault you may find mercy at our heavenly Fathers hand for Christs sake and not be accused and condemned in that fearful judgment Therefore I shall rehearse to you the Articles of our Faith that you may know whether you do believe as a Christian man should or no. ¶ Here the Minister shall rehearse the Articles of the Faith saying thus DOst thou believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord And that he was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary that he suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried that he went down into hell and also did rise again the third day that he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quick and the dead And dost thou believe in the Holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the remission of sins the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life after death ¶ The sick Person shall answer All this I stedfastly believe ¶ Then shall the Minister examine whether he repent him truly of his sins and be in charity with all the world exhorting him to forgive from the bottom of his heart all Persons that have offended him and if he hath offended any other to ask them forgiveness and where he hath done injury or wrong to any man that he make amends to the uttermost of his power And if he hath not before disposed of his Goods let him then be admonished to make his Will and to declare his Debts what he oweth and what is owing unto him for the better discharging of his conscience and the quietness of his Executors But men should often be put in remembrance to take order for the settling of their temporal Estates whilst they are in health ¶ These words before rehearsed may be said before the Minister begin his Prayer as he shall see cause ¶ The Minister should not omit earnestly to move such sick Persons as are of ability to be liberal to the Poor ¶ Here shall the sick Person be moved to make a special confession of his sins if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter After which confession the Priest shall absolve him if he humbly and heartily desire it after this sort OUr Lord Jesus Christ who hath left power to his Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences And by his Authority committed to me I absolve thee from all thy sins In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ And then the Priest shall say the Collect following Let us pray O Most merciful God who according to the multitude of thy mercies dost so put away the sins of those who truly repent that thou remembrest them no more Open thine eye of mercy upon this thy servant who most earnestly desireth pardon and forgiveness Renew in him most loving Father whatsoever hath been decayed by the fraud and malice of the devil or by his own carnal will and frailness preserve and continue this sick member in the unity of the Church consider his contrition accept his tears asswage his pain as shall seem to thee most expedient for him And forasmuch as he putteth his full trust only in thy mercy impute not unto him his former sins but strengthen him with thy blessed Spirit and when thou art pleased to take him hence take him unto thy favour through the merits of thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister say this Psalm In te Domine speravi Psal 71. IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness incline thine ear unto me and save me Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to help me for thou art my house of defence and my castle Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb my praise shall alway be of thee I am become as it were a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long Cast me not away in the time of age forsake me not when my strength faileth me For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him Go not far from me O God my God hast thee to help me Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to do me evil As for me I will patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation for I know no end thereof I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righteousness only Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up until now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works Forsake me not O God in mine old age when
ye that are judges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in fear and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kiss the Son lest he be angry and so ye perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him Domine quid multiplicati Psal 3. 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 my 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 the 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 cheek-bone thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people Cum innocarem Psal 4. HEar me when I call O God of my righteousness thou hash set me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2. O ye sons 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 hear me 4 Stand in awe and sin not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousness 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 gladness in my heart since the time that their corn and wine and oyl increased 9 I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety Verba mea auribus Psal 5. POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voice 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 wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy fight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhor both the bloud-thirsty and deceitful man 7 But as for me I will come into thine 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 righteousness because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulness his mouth their inward parts are very wickedness 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 ungodliness 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 joyful in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield Evening Prayer Domine ne Psal 6. O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul also is sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groning every night wash my bed and water my couch with my tears 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble and worn away because of all mine enemies 8 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly Domine Deus meus Psal 7. O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he devour my soul like a lion and tear it in pieces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickedness in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soul and take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy self because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy self again 8 The Lord shall judge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousness and according to the innocency that is in me 9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to end but guide thou the just 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help cometh of God who preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous judge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutours 15 Behold he travaileth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodliness 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousness and I will praise the Name of the Lord most High Domine Dominus noster Psal 8. O Lord our Governour how excellent is thy Name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For
9 The ungodly walk on every side when they are exalted the children of men are put to rebuke Usque quo Domine Psal 13. HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me 2 How long shall I seek counsel in my soul and be so vexed in my heart how long shall mine enemies triumph over me 3 Consider and hear me O Lord my God lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death 4 Lest mine enemy say I have prevailed against him for if I be cast down they that trouble me will rejoyce at it 5 But my trust is in thy mercy and my heart is joyful in thy salvation 6 I will sing of the Lord because he hath dealt so lovingly with me yea I will praise the Name of the Lord most Highest Dixit insipiens Psal 14. THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God 2 They are corrupt and become abominable in their doings there is none that doeth good no not one 3 The Lord 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 none that doeth good no not one 5 Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues have they deceived the poison of asps is under their lips 6 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are swift to shed bloud 7 Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways and the way of peace have they not known there is no fear of God before their eyes 8 Have they no knowledge that they are all such workers of mischief eating up my people as it were bread and call not upon the Lord DAY iii. 9 There were they brought in great fear even where no fear was for God is in the generation of the righteous 10 As for you ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor because putteth his trust in the Lord. 11 Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Sion When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Morning Prayer Domine quis babitabit Psal 15. LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life and doeth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evil to his neighbour and hath not slandered his neighbour 4 He that setteth not by himself but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that fear the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hindrance 6 He that hath hot given his money upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent 7 Whoso doeth these things shall never fall Conserva me Domine Psal 16. PReserve me O God for in thee have I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my God my goods are nothing unto thee 3 All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth and upon such as excel in virtue 4 But they that run after another god shall have great trouble 5 Their drink-offerings of bloud will I not offer neither make mention of their names within my lips 6 The Lord himself is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou shalt maintain my lot 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fain ground yea I have a goodly heritage 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning my reins also chasten me in the night-season 9 I have set God always before me for he is on my right hand therefore I shall not fall 10 Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory rejoyced my flesh also shall rest in hope 11 For why thou shalt not leave my soul in hell neither shalt thou suffer thy holy One to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulness of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore Exaudi Domine Psal 17. HEar the right O Lord consider my complaint and hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night-season thou hast tried me and shalt find no wickedness in me for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend 4 Because of mens works that are done against the words of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt hear me incline thine ear to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindness thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee from such as resist thy right hand 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the ungodly that trouble me mine enemies compass me round about to take away my soul 10 They are inclosed in their own fat and their mouth speaketh proud things 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side turning their eyes down to the ground 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a lions whelp lurking in secret places 13 Up Lord disappoint him and cast him down deliver my soul from the ungodly which is a sword of thine 14 From the men of thy hand O Lord from the men I say and from the evil world which have their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure 15 They have children at their desire and leave the rest of their substance for their babes 16 But as for me I will behold thy presence in righteousness and when I awake up after thy likeness I shall be satisfied with it Evening Prayer Diligam te Domine Psal 18. I Will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my salvation and my refuge 2 I will call upon the Lord which is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine enemies 3 The sorrows of death compassed me and the over-flowings of ungodliness made me afraid 4 The pains of hell came about me the snares of death overtook me 5 In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and complain unto my God 6 So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple and my complaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his ears 7 The earth trembled and quaked the very foundations also of the hills shook and were removed because he was
and mighty even the Lord mighty in battel 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory Ad te Domine levavi Psal 25. UNto thee O Lord will lift up my soul my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy ways 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 kindnesses which have been ever of old 6 O remember not the sins and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that are meek shall he guide in judgment and such as are 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 merciful unto my sin 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 sorrows of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon my adversity and misery and forgive me all my sin 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 perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles Judica me Domine Psal 26. 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 kindness 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 deceitful 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 go to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voice 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 wickedness and their right hand is full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O deliver me and be merciful unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations Evening Prayer Dominus illuminatio Psal 27. 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 eat 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 against 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 days of my life to behold the fair 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 gladness I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voice 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 believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisure be strong and he shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Ad te Domine Psal 28. UNto thee will I cry O Lord my strength think no scorn of me lest if thou make as though thou hearest not I become like them that go down into the pit 2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up my hands towards the mercy-seat of thy holy temple 3 O pluck me not away neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their neighbours but imagine mischief in their hearts 4 Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their own inventions 5 Recompense them after the work of their hands pay them that they have deserved 6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore shall he break them down and not build them up 7 Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions 8 The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for joy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholsom defence of his Anointed 10 O save thy people and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance feed them and set them up for ever Afferte Domino Psal 29. BRing unto the Lord O ye mighty bring
young rams unto the Lord ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name worship the Lord with holy worship 3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder 4 It is the Lord that ruleth the sea the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedar-trees yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus 6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf Libanus also and Sirion like a young unicorn 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness yea the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades DAY vi 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring forth young and discovereth the thick bushes in his temple doth every man speak of his honour 9 The Lord sitteth above the water-floud and the Lord remaineth a King for ever 10 The Lord shall give strength unto his people the Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace Morning Prayer Exaltabo te Domine Psal 30. I Will Magnifie Thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me 2 O Lord My God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me 3 Thou Lord hast brought my soul out of hell thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit 4 Sing praises unto the Lord O ye saints of his and give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his holiness 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in his pleasure is life heaviness may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning 6 And in my prosperity I said I shall never be removed thou Lord of thy goodness hadst made my hill so strong 7 Thou didst turn thy face from me and I was troubled 8 Then cried I unto thee O Lord and gat me to my Lord right humbly 9 What profit is there in my bloud when I go down to the pit 10 Shall the dust give thanks unto thee or shall it declare thy truth 11 Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 12 Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever In te Domine speravi Psal 31. IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness 2 Bowe down thine ear to me make haste to deliver me 3 And be thou my strong rock and house of defence that thou mayest save me 4 For thou art my strong rock and my castle be thou also my guide and lead me for thy Names sake 5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soul in adversities 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy but hast set my feet in a large room 10 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness yea my soul and my body 11 For my life is waxen old with heaviness and my years with mourning 12 My strength faileth me because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies but especially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me and they that did see me without conveyed themselves from me 14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am become like a broken vessel 15 For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude and fear is on every side while they conspire together against me and take their counsel to take away my life 16 But my hope hath been in thee O Lord I have said Thou art my God 17 My time is in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercies sake 19 Let me not be confounded O Lord for I have called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confusion and be put to silence in the grave 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous 21 O how plentiful is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sons of men 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues 23 Thanks be to the Lord for he hath shewed me marvellous great kindness in a strong city 24 And when I made hast I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes 25 Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my prayer when I cryed unto thee 26 O love the Lord all ye his saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer 27 Be strong and he shall establish your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. Evening Prayer Beati quorum Psal 32. BLessed is he whose unrighteousness is forgiven and whose sin is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For while I held my tongue my bones consumed away through my daily complaining 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in summer 5 I will acknowledge my sin unto thee and mine unrighteousness have I not hid 6 I said I will confess my sins unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found but in the great water-flouds they shall not come nigh him 8 Thou art a place to hide me in thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance 9 I will inform thee and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go and I will guide thee with mine eye 10 Be ye not like to horse and mule which have no understanding whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle lest they fall upon thee 11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side 12 Be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce
heavy displeasure 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore 3 There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sin 4 For my wickednesses are gone over my head and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to bear 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt through my foolishness 6 I am brought into so great trouble and misery that I go mourning all the day long 7 For my loyns are filled with a sore disease and there is no whole part in my body 8 I am feeble and sore smitten I have rored for the very disquietness of my heart 9 Lord thou knowest all my desire and my groning is not hid from thee 10 My heart panteth my strength hath failed me and the sight of mine eyes is gone from me 11 My lovers and my neighbours did stand looking upon my trouble and my kinsmen stood afar off 12 They also that sought after my life laid snares for me and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness and imagined deceit all the day long 13 As for me I was like a deaf man and heard not and as one that is dumb who doth not open his mouth 14 I became even as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs 15 For in thee O Lord have I put my trust thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God 16 I have required that they even mine enemies should not triumph over me for when my foot slipt they rejoyced greatly against me 17 And I truly am set in the plague and my heaviness is ever in my sight 18 For I will confess my wickedness and be sorry for my sin 19 But mine enemies live and are mighty and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number 20 They also that reward evil for good are against me because I follow the thing that good is 21 Forsake me not O Lord my God be not thou far from me 22 Haste thee to help me O Lord God of my salvation Dixi Custodiam Psal 39. I Said I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight 3 I held my tongue and spake nothing I kept silence yea even from good words but it was paid and grief to me 4 My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue 5 Lord let me know my end and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live 6 Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them 8 And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee 9 Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish 10 I became dumb and opened not my mouth for is was thy doing 11 Take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity 13 Hear my prayer O Lord and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears 14 For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were 15 O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Expectans expectavi Psal 40. I Waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my calling 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit out of the mire and clay and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth even a thanksgiving unto our God 4 Many shall see it and fear and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud and to such as go about with lies 6 O Lord my God great are the wondrous works which thou hast done like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee 7 If I should declare them and speak of them they should be mo then I am able to express 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not but mine ears hast thou opened 9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required then said I Lo I come 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me that I should fulfil thy will O my God I am content to do it yea thy law is within my heart 11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation lo I will not refrain my lips O Lord and that thou knowest 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart my talk hath been of thy truth and of thy salvation 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth from the great congregation 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me O Lord let thy loving kindness and thy truth alway preserve me 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up yea they are mo in number then the hairs of my head and my heart hath failed me 16 O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make haste O Lord to help me 17 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evil 18 Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame that say unto me Fie upon thee fie upon thee 19 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 20 As for me I am poor and needy but the Lord careth for me 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer make no long tarrying O my God Evening Prayer Beatus qui intelligit Psal 41. BLessed is he that considereth the poor and needy the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble 2 The Lord preserve him and keep him alive that he may be blessed upon earth and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies 3 The Lord comfort him when he lieth sick upon his bed make thou all his bed in his sickness 4 I said Lord be merciful unto me heal my soul for I have sinned against thee 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me When shall he die and his name perish 6 And if he come to see me he speaketh vanity and
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 to visit all the heathen and be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness 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 goodness plenteously and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies 11 Slay than 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 that ruleth in Jacob and unto the ends of the world 14 And in the evening they will return grin like a dog and will go 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 merciful God Deus repulisti nos Psal 60. O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad thou hast also been displeased O turn thee unto us again 2 Thou hast moved the land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh 3 Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee that they may triumph because of the truth 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered help me with thy right hand and hear me 6 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 7 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head Juda is my law-giver 8 Moab is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shoe Philistia be thou glad of me 9 Who will lead me into the strong city who will bring me into Edom 10 Hast not thou cast us out O God Wilt not thou O God go out with our hosts 11 O be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man 12 Through God will we do great acts for it is he that shall tread down our enemies Exaudi Deus Psal 61. HEar my crying O God give ear unto my prayer 2 From the ends of the earth will I call upon thee when my heart is in heaviness 3 O set me up upon the rock that is higher then I for thou hast been my hope and a strong towre for me against the enemy 4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings 5 For thou O Lord hast heard my desires and hast given an heritage unto those that fear thy Name 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his years may endure throughout all generations 7 He shall dwell before God for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness that they may preserve him 8 So will I always sing praise unto thy Name that I may daily perform my vows Morning Prayer Nonne Deo Psal 62. MY soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him cometh my salvation DAY xii 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against every man ye shall be slain all the sort of you yea as a tottering wall shall ye be and like a broken hedge 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies they give good words with their mouth but curse with their heart 5 Nevertheless my soul wait thou still upon God for my hope is in him 6 He truly is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall 7 In God is my health and my glory the rock of my might and in God is my trust 8 O put your trust in him alway ye people pour out your hearts before him for God is our hope 9 As for the children of men they are but vanity the children of men are deceitful upon the weights they are altogether lighter then vanity it self 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery give not your selves unto vanity if riches increase set not your heart upon them 11 God spake once and twice I have also heard the same That power belongeth unto God 12 And that thou Lord art merciful for thou rewardest every man according to his work Deus Deus meus Psal 63. O God thou art my God early will I seek thee 2 My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is 3 Thus have I looked for thee in holiness that I might behold thy power and glory 4 For thy loving kindness is better then the life it self my lips shall praise thee 5 As long as I live will I magnifie thee on this manner and lift up my hands in thy Name 6 My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow and fatness when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips 7 Have I not remembred thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking 8 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce 9 My soul hangeth upon thee thy right hand hath upholden me 10 These also that seek the hurt of my soul they shall go under the earth 11 Let them fall upon the edge of the sword that they may be a portion for foxes 12 But the King shall rejoyce in God all they also that swear by him shall be commended for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped Exaudi Deus Psal 64. HEar my voice O God in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy 2 Hide me from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of wicked doers 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword and shoot out their arrows even bitter words 4 That they may privily shoot at him
that is perfect suddenly do they hit him and fear not 5 They encourage themselves in mischief and commune among themselves how they may lay snares and say that no man shall see them 6 They imagine wickedness and practise it that they keep secret among themselves every man in the deep of his heart 7 But God shall suddenly shoot at them with a swift arrow that they shall be wounded 8 Yea their own tongues shall make them fall insomuch that whoso seeth them shall laugh them to scorn 9 And all men that see it shall say This hath God done for they shall perceive that it is his work 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in the Lord and put his trust in him and all they that are true of heart shall be glad Evening Prayer Te decet hymnus Psal 65. THou O God art praised in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem 2 Thou that hearest the prayer unto thee shall all flesh come 3 My misdeeds prevail against me O be thou merciful unto our sins 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee he shall dwell in thy court and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house even of thy holy temple 5 Thou shalt shew us wonderful things in thy righteousness O God of our salvation thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them that remain in the broad sea 6 Who in his strength setteth fast the mountains and is girded about with power 7 Who stilleth the raging of the sea and the noise of his waves and the madness of the people 8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens thou that makest the out-goings of the morning and evening to praise thee 9 Thou visitest the earth and blessest it thou makest it very plenteous 10 The river of God is full of water thou preparest their corn for so thou providest for the earth 11 Thou waterest her furrows thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof thou makest it soft with the drops of rain and blessest the encrease of it 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness and thy clouds drop fatness 13 They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness and the little hills shall rejoyce on every side 14 The folds shall be full of sheep the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn that they shall laugh and sing Jubilate Deo Psal 66. O Be joyful in God all ye lands sing praises unto the honour of his Name make his praise to be glorious 2 Say unto God O how wonderful art thou in thy works through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee 3 For all the world shall worship thee sing of thee and praise thy Name 4 O come hither and behold the works of God how wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of men 5 He turned the sea into dry land so that they went through the water on foot there did we rejoyce thereof 6 He ruleth with his power for ever his eyes behold the people and such as will not believe shall not be able to exalt themselves 7 O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard 8 Who holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip 9 For thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us like as silver is tried DAY xiii 10 Thou broughest us into the snare and laidst 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 thine house with burnt-offerings and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips and â—pake 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 incline unto wickedness with mine heart the Lord will not hear me 17 But God hath heard me and considered the voice of my prayer 18 Praised be God who hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful 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 bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Morning Prayer Exurgat Deus Psal 68. LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax 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 joyful 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 fatherless 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 mind in an house and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity but letteth the runagates continue in scarceness 7 O God when thou wentest forth before the people when thou wentest through the wilderness 8 The earth shook and the heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God who 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 goodness 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 hills 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 might dwell among them 19 Praised be the Lord daily even the God who helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us 20 He is our God even the God of whom cometh 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 wickedness 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 be dipped in the bloud of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogs 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 sanctuary 25 The singers go before the minstrels follow after in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels 26 Give thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart 27 There is little Benjamin their ruler and the princes of Juda their counsel the princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nephthali 28 Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us 29 For thy temples sake at Jerusalem so shall kings bring presents unto thee 30 When the company of the spear-men and multitude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the beasts of the people so that they humbly bring pieces of silver and when he hath scattered the people that delight in war 31 Then shall the princes come out of Egypt the Morians land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God 32 Sing unto God O ye kingdoms of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord 33 Who sitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning lo he doth send out his voice yea and that a mighty voice 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel his worship and strength is in the clouds 35 O God wonderful art thou in thy holy places even the God of Israel he will give strength and power unto his people blessed be God Evening Prayer Salvum me fac Psal 69. SAve me O God for the waters are come in even unto my soul 2 I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is I am come into deep waters so that the flouds run over me 3 I am weary of crying my throat is dry my sight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God 4 They that hate me without a cause are more then the hairs of my head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltless are mighty 5 I paid them the things that I never took God thou knowest my simpleness and my faults are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that trust thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my cause let not those that seek thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel 7 And why for thy sake have I suffered reproof shame hath covered my face 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren even an alien unto my mothers children 9 For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me 10 I wept and chastened my self with fasting and that was turned to my reproof 11 I put on sackcloth also and they jested upon me 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and the drunkards make songs upon me 13 But Lord I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time 14 Hear me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation 15 Take me out of the mire that I sink not O let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters 16 Let not the water-floud drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 17 Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindness is comfortable turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies 18 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble O haste thee and hear me 19 Draw nigh unto my soul and save it O deliver me because of mine enemies 20 Thou hast known my reproof my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all in thy sight 21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart I am full of heaviness I looked for some to have pity on me but there was no man neither found I any to comfort me 22 They gave me gall to eat and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink 23 Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling 24 Let their eyes be blinded that they see not and ever bowe thou down their backs 25 Pour out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them 26 Let their habitation be void and no man to dwell in their tents 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded 28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another and not come into thy righteousness 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living and not be written among the righteous 30 As for me when I am poor and in heaviness thy help O God shall lift me up 31 I will praise the name of God with a song and magnifie it with thanksgiving 32 This also shall please the Lord better then a bullock that hath horns and hoofs 33 The humble shall consider this and be glad seek ye after God and your soul shall live 34 For the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners 35 Let heaven and earth praise him the sea and all that moveth therein 36 For God will save Sion and build the cities of Juda that men may dwell there and have it in possession 37 The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein Deus in adjutorium Psal 70. HAste thee O God to deliver me make haste to help me O Lord. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish me evil 3 Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame that cry over me There there 4 But let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway The
accept the persons of the ungodly 3 Defend the poor and fatherless see that such as are in need and necessity have right 4 Deliver the out-cast and poor save them from the hand of the ungodly 5 They will not be learned nor understand but walk on still in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out of course 6 I have said Ye are gods and ye are all the children of the most Highest 7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes 8 Arise O God and judge thou the earth for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance Deus quis similis Psal 83. HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy self O God 2 For lo thine enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lift up their head 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people and taken counsel against thy secret ones 4 They have said Come and let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee 6 The tabernacles of the Edomites and the Ismaelites the Moabites and Hagarens 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalech the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre 8 Assur also is joyned with them and have holpen the children of Lot 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites unto Sisera and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison 10 Who perished at Endor and became as the dung of the earth 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb yea make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana 12 Who say Let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession 13 O my God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the wind 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood and as the flame that consumeth the mountains 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm 16 Make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy Name 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more let them be put to shame and perish 18 And they shall know that thou whose Name is Jehovah art only the most Highest over all the earth Quam dilecta Psal 84. O How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of hosts 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh rejoyce in the living God 3 Yea the sparrow hath found her an house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young even thy altars O Lord of hosts my King and my God 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praising thee 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy ways 6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well and the pools are filled with water 7 They will go from strength to strength and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion 8 O Lord God of hosts hear my prayer hearken O God of Jacob. 9 Behold O God our defender and look upon the face of thine anointed 10 For one day in thy courts is better then a thousand 11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of ungodliness 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence the Lord will give grace and worship and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee Benedixisti Domine Psal 85. LOrd thou art become gracious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and covered all their sins 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turned thy self from thy wrathful indignation DAY xvii 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine anger 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 his 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 righteousness and peace have kissed each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousness hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shall shew loving kindness and our land shall give her increase 13 Righteousness shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way Morning Prayer Inclina Domine Psal 86. BOW down thine ear O Lord and hear me for I am poor and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soul for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be merciful 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 voice 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 worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walk in thy 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 and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodness 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 token upon me for good that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Fundamenta ejus Psal 87. HEr foundations are upon the holy hills the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are
judgment thou hast prepared equity thou hast executed judgment and righteousness 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 priest 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 Jubilate Deo Psal 100. O Be joyful in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song DAY xx 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 go your way into his gates with thanksgiving and 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 Misericordiam judicium Psal 101. MY song shall be of mercy and judgment unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godliness 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 unfaithfulness there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Whoso 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 upon such as are faithful in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servent 10 There shal1 no deceitful 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. Morning Prayer Domine exaudi Psal 102. 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 incline thine ears unto me when I call O hear me and that right soon 3 For any days are consumed away like smoke and my bones are burnt up as it were a fire-brand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voice of my groning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wilderness and like an owl 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 grass 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy 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 pitieth 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 poor destitute 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 are 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 kingdoms also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey and shortned 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 fail 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight Benedic anima mea Psal 103. PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Who forgiveth all thy sin and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Who saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindness 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his ways unto Moses his works unto the children of Israel 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodness 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so far hath he set our sins from us 13 Yea like as a father pitieth his own children even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The days of man are but as grass for he flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For as soon as the wind goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousness upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandments to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdom ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angels of his ye that
melody in our heaviness Sing us one of the songs of Sion DAY xxix 4 How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 5 If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth yea if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth 7 Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day of Jerusalem how they said Down with it down with it even to the ground 8 O daughter of Babylon wasted with misery yea happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and throweth them against the stones Confitebor tibi Psal 138. I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy Name because of thy loving kindness and truth for thou hast magnified thy Name and thy word above all things 3 When I called upon thee thou heardest me and enduedst my soul with much strength 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord for they have heard the words of thy mouth 5 Yea they shall sing in the ways of the Lord that great is the glory of the Lord. 6 For though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly as for the proud he beholdeth them afar off 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thy hand upon the furiousness of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save me 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindness toward me yea thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever despise not then the works of thine own hands Morning Prayer Domine probasti Psal 139. O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before 2 Thou art about my path and about my bed and spiest out all my ways 3 For lo there is not a word in my tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether 4 Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me 5 Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it 6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence 7 If I climb up into heaven thou art there if I go down to hell thou art there also 8 If I take the wings of the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea 9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me 10 If I say Peradventure the darkness shall cover me then shall my night be turned today 11 Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike 12 For my reins are thine thou hast covered me in my mothers womb 13 I will give thanks unto thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well 14 My bones are not hid from thee though I be made secretly and fashioned beneath in the earth 15 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book were all my members written 16 Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them 17 How dear are thy counsels unto me O God O how great is the sum of them 18 If I tell them they are mo in number then the sand when I wake up I am present with thee 19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked O God depart from me ye bloud-thirsty men 20 For they speak unrighteously against thee and thine enemies take thy Name in vain 21 Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee 22 Yea I hate them right sore even as though they were mine enemies 23 Try me O God and seek the ground of my heart prove me and examine my thoughts 24 Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting Eripe me Domine Psal 140. DEliver me O Lord from the evil man and preserve me from the wicked man 2 Who imagine mischief in their hearts and stir up strife all the day long 3 They have sharpned their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips 4 Keep me O Lord from the hands of the ungodly preserve me from the wicked men who are purposed to overthrow my goings 5 The proud have laid a snare for me and spread a net abroad with cords yea and set traps in my way 6 I said unto the Lord Thou art my God hear the voice of my prayers O Lord. 7 O Lord God thou strength of my health thou hast covered my head in the day of battel 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous imagination prosper left they be too proud 9 Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about 10 Let hot burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire and into the pit that they never rise up again 11 A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth evil shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him 12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poor and maintain the cause of the helpless 13 The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy Name and the just shall continue in thy sight Domine clamavi Psal 141. LOrd I call upon thee haste thee unto me and consider my voice when I cry unto thee 2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening-sacrifice 3 Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep the door of my lips 4 O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness lest I eat of such things as please them 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly and reprove me 6 But let not their precious balms break my head yea I will pray yet against their wickedness 7 Let their judges be overthrown in stony places that they may hear my words for they are sweet 8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth 9 But mine eyes look unto thee O Lord God in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul 10 Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me and from the traps of the wicked doers 11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together and let me ever escape them Evening Prayer Voce mea ad Dominum Psal 142. I Cried unto the Lord with my voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my
and confirm for Lord thou know'st us frail That neither devil world nor flesh against us may prevail Put back our enemies far from us and help us to obtain Peace in our hearts with God and man the best the truest gain And grant that thou being O Lord our leader and our guide We may escape the snares of sin and never from thee slide Such measures of thy powerful grace grant Lord to us we pray That thou may'st be our Comforter at the last dreadful day Of strife and of dissension dissolve O Lord the bands And knit the knots of peace and love throughout all Christian Lands Grant us thy grace that we may know the Father of all might That we of his beloved Son may gain the blissful sight And that we may with perfect faith ever acknowledge thee The Spirit of Father and of Son One God in Persons three To God the Father laud and praise and to his blessed Son And to the holy Spirit of grace Co-equal three in one And pray we that our only Lord would please his Spirit to send On all that shall profess his Name from hence to the worlds end Amen ¶ That done the Bishop shall pray in this wise and say Let us pray ALmighty God and heavenly Father who of thine infinite love and goodness towards us hast given to us thy only and most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer and the Author of everlasting life who after he had made perfect our Redemption by his death and was ascended into heaven sent abroad into the world his Apostles Prophets Evangelists Doctors and Pastors by whose labour and ministry he gathered together a great flock in all the parts of the world to set forth the eternal praise of thy holy Name For these so great benefits of thy eternal goodness and for that thou hast vouchsafed to call these thy servants here present to the same Office and Ministry appointed for the salvation of mankind we render unto thee most hearty thanks we praise and worship thee and we humbly beseech thee by the same thy blessed Son to grant unto all which either here or elsewhere call upon thy holy Name that we may continue to shew our selves thankful unto thee for these and all other thy benefits and that we may daily increase and go forwards in the knowledge and faith of thee and thy Son by the holy Spirit So that as well by these thy Ministers as by them over whom they shall be appointed thy Ministers thy holy Name may befor ever glorified and thy blessed Kingdom enlarged through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same holy Spirit world without end Amen ¶ When this prayer is done the Bishop with the Priests present shall lay their hands severally upon the head of every one that receiveth the Order of Priesthood the Receivers humbly kneeling upon their knees and the Bishop saying REceive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our Hands Whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven and whose sins thou dost retain they are retained And be thou a faithful Dispenser of the Word of God and of his holy Sacraments In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ Then the Bishop shall deliver to every one of them kneeling the Bible into his hand saying TAke thou Authority to Preach the Word of God and to Minister the holy Sacraments in the Congregation where thou shalt be lawfully appointed thereunto ¶ When this is done the Nicene Creed shall be sung or said and the Bishop shall after that go on in the Service of the Communion which all they that receive Orders shall take together and remain in the same place where hands were laid upon them until such time as they have received the Communion ¶ The Communion being done after the last Collect and immediately before the Benediction shall be said these Collects MOst merciful Father we beseech thee to send upon these thy servants thy heavenly blessing that they may be clothed with righteousness and that thy Word spoken by their mouths may have such success that it may never be spoken in vain Grant also that we may have grace to hear and receive what they shall deliver out of thy most holy Word or agreeable to the same as the means of our salvation that in all our words and deeds we may seek thy glory and the increase of thy Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. And the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen ¶ ANd if on the same day the Order of Deacons be given to some and the Order of Priesthood to others The Deacons shall be first Presented and then the Priests and it shall suffice that the Litany be once said for both The Collects shall both be used first that for Deacons then that for Priests The Epistle shall be Ephes iv 7. to 14. as before in this Office Immediately after which they that are to be made Deacons shall take the Oath of Supremacy be Examined and Ordained as is above prescribed Then one of them having read the Gospel which shall be either out of S. Matth. ix 36. as before in this Office or else S. Luke xii 35 to 39 as before in the Form for the Ordering of Deacons they that are to be made Priests shall likewise take the Oath of Supremacy be Examined and Ordained as is in this Office before appointed The Form of Ordaining or Consecrating of an ARCHBISHOP or BISHOP Which is always to be performed upon some Sunday or Holy-day ¶ When all things are duly prepared in the Church and set in Order after Morning Prayer is ended the Archbishop or some other Bishop appointed shall begin the Communion-Service in which this shall be The Collect. ALmighty God who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to thy holy Apostles many excellent gifts and didst charge them to feed thy flock Give grace we beseech thee to all Bishops the Pastors of thy Church that they may diligently Preach thy Word and duly Administer the godly Discipline thereof and grant to the people that they may obediently follow the same that all may receive the crown of everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ And another Bishop shall read The Epistle 1 Tim. 3.1 THis is a
sight And that we may with perfect faith ever acknowledge thee The Spirit of Father and of Son One God in Persons three To God the Father laud and praise and to his blessed Son And to the holy Spirit of grace Co-equal three in one And pray we that our only Lord would please his Spirit to send On all that shall profess his Name from hence to the worlds end Amen ¶ That ended the Archbishop shall say Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Archbishop Let us pray ALmighty God and most merciful Father who of thine infinite goodness hast given thy only and dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer and the author of everlasting life who after that he had made perfect our Redemption by his death and was ascended into heaven poured down abundantly his gifts upon men making some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Doctors to the edifying and making perfect his Church Grant we beseech thee to this thy Servant such grace that he may evermore be ready to spread abroad thy Gospel the glad tidings of reconciliation with thee and use the Authority given him not to destruction but to salvation not to hurt but to help so that as a wise and faithful servant giving to thy Family their portion in due season he may at last be received into everlasting joy through Jesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth one God world without end Amen ¶ Then the Archbishop and Bishops present shall lay their Hands upon the Head of the Elected Bishop kneeling before them upon his Knees the Archbishop saying REceive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Bishop in the Church of God now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our Hands In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen And remember that thou stir up the grace of God which is given thee by this Imposition of our Hands For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and love and soberness ¶ Then the Archbishop shall deliver him the Bible saying GIve heed unto reading Exhortation and Doctrine Think upon the things contained in this Book Be diligent in them that the increase coming thereby may be manifest unto all men Take heed unto thy self and to Doctrine and be diligent in doing them for by so doing thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee Be to the flock of Christ a shepherd not a wolf feed them devour them not Hold up the weak heal the sick bind up the broken bring again the outcasts seek the lost Be so merciful that you be not too remiss so minister Discipline that you forget not mercy that when the chief Shepherd shall appear you may receive the never-fading crown of glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Archbishop shall proceed in the Communion-Service with whom the new Consecrated Bishop with others shall also Communicate ¶ And for the last Collect immediately before the Benediction shall be said these Prayers MOst merciful Father we beseech thee to send down upon this thy Servant thy heavenly blessing and so endue him with thy holy Spirit that he Preaching thy Word may not only be earnest to reprove beseech and rebuke with all patience and doctrine but also may be to such as believe a wholsom example in word in conversation in love in faith in chastity and in purity that faithfully fulfilling his course at the latter day he may receive the crown of righteousness laid up by the Lord the righteous Judge who liveth and reigneth one God with the Father and the Holy Ghost world without end Amen PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. And the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen Marie R. OUR Will and Pleasure is That these Three Forms of Prayer and Service made for the Fifth of November the Thirtieth of January and the Twenty ninth of May be forthwith Printed and Published and for the future annexed to the Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the Church of England to be used yearly on the said days in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls within both Our Universities and of Our Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within Our Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Sixth day of October 1692. in the Fourth year of Our Reign By Her Majesties Command Nottingham A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving To be used yearly upon the Fifth day of November for the happy deliverance of King JAMES I. and the Three Estates of the Realm from the most Traiterous and Bloudy intended Massacre by Gunpowder And also for the happy Arrival of His present Majesty on this Day for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation ¶ The Service shall be the same with the usual Office for holydays in all things Except where it is hereafter otherwise appointed ¶ If this Day shall happen to be on Sunday only the Collect proper for that Sunday shall be added to this Office in its place ¶ Morning Prayer shall begin with these Sentences THE Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodness Psal 103.8 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever Verse 9. He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses Verse 10. ¶ Instead of Venite exultremus shall this hymn following be used one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and People O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever Psal 107.1 Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy verse 2. Many a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israel now say Psal 129.1 Yea many a time have they vexed me from my youth up but they have not prevailed against me verse 2. They have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul Psal 35.7 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 Psal 57 7. Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisdom is infinite
unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil Joel 2.13 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Dan. 9.9 10. O Lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing Jer. 10.24 Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand S. Matth. 3.2 I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son S. Luke 15.18 19. Enter not into judgment with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 S. John 1.8 9. DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ A general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution or Remission of sins to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Jesus Christ our Lord ¶ The People shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer with an audible voice the People also kneeling and repeating it with him both here and wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom And the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords Name be praised ¶ Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following Except on Easter-day upon which another Anthem is appointed and on the Nineteenth day of every month it is not be read here but in the ordinary course of the Psalms Venite exultemus Domino Psal 95. O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with Psalms For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his also The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness When your Fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do err in their hearts for they have not known my ways Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to holy the Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world with out end Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Psalms in order as they are appointed And at the end of every Psalm throughout the year and likewise at the end of Benedicite Benedictus Magnificat and Nunc dimittis shall be repeated Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be read distinctly with an audible voice the first Lesson taken out of the Old Testament as is appointed in the Kalendar except there be proper Lesons assigned for
kindness and repenteth him of the evil Joel 2.13 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Dan. 9.9 10. O Lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing Jer. 10.24 Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand S. Matth. 3.2 I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son S. Luke 15.18 19. Enter not into judgment with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 S. John 1.8 9. DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ A general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution or Remission of sins to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer the People also kneeling and repeating it with him OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom And the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answ The Lords Name be praised ¶ Then shall be said or sung the Psalms in order as they are appointed Then a Lesson of the Old Testament as is appointed And after that Magnificat or the Song of the blessed Virgin Mary in English as followeth Magnificat S. Luke 1.46 MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the lowliness of his hand-maiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his seed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or else this Psalm except it be on the Nineteenth day of the Month when it is read in the ordinary course of the Psalms Cantate Domino Psal 98. O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory The Lord declared his salvation his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 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 Shew your selves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving With trumpets also and shawms O shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord for he cometh to judge the earth With righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to
¶ For Rain O God heavenly Father who by thy Son Jesus Christ hath promised to all them that seek thy Kingdom and the righteousness thereof all things necessary to their bodily sustenance Send us we beseech thee in this our necessity such moderate rain and showres that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to thy honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For fair Weather O Almighty Lord God who for the sin of man didst once drown all the world except eight persons and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again We humbly beseech thee that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather as that we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the time of Dearth and Famine O God heavenly Father whose gift it is that the rain doth fall the earth is fruitful beasts increase and fishes do multiply Behold we beseech thee the afflictions of thy people and grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen ¶ Or this O God merciful Father who in the time of Elisha the prophet didst suddenly in Samaria turn great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness Have mercy upon us that we who are now for our sins punished with like adversity may likewise find a seasonable relief Increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction and grant that we receiving thy bountiful liberality may use the same to thy glory the relief of those that are needy and our own comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen ¶ In the time of War and Tumults O Almighty God King of all kings and Governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore form all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the time of any common Plague or Sickness O Almighty God who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people in the wilderness for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron and also in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst save the rest Have pity upon us miserable sinners who now are visited with great sickness and mortality that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement and didst command the destroying angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Ember weeks to be said every day for those that are to be admitted into holy Orders ALmighty God our heavenly Father who hast purchased to thy self an universal Church by the precious bloud of thy dear Son Mercifully look upon the same and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Pastours of thy flock that they may lay hands suddenly on no man but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons to serve in the sacred ministry of thy Church And to those which shall be Ordained to any holy Function give thy grace and heavenly benediction that both by their life and doctrine they may set forth thy glory and set forward the salvation of all men through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Or this ALmighty God the giver of all good gifts who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers orders in thy Church Give thy grace we humbly beseech thee to all those who are to be called to any office and administration in the same and so replenish them with the truth of thy Doctrine and endue them with innocency of life that they may faithfully serve before thee to the glory of thy great Name and the benefit of thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament to be read during their Session MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most religious and gracious King at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the advancement of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Sovereign and his Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be established among us for all generations These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and mediation of Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A Collect or Prayer for all Conditions of Men to be used at such times when the Litany is not appointed to be read O God the creator and preserver of all mankind we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them thy saving health unto all Nations More especially we pray for the good estate of the Catholick Church that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be lead into the way of truth and hold the faith in unity of spirit in the bond of peace and in righteousness of life Finally we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in mind body or estate * This to be said when any desire the Prayers of the Congregation especially those for whom our Prayers are desired that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities giving them patience under their sufferings and a happy issue out of all their afflictions And this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen ¶ A Prayer that may be said after any of the former O God whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive Receive our humble petitions and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us for the honour of Jesus Christ our
an honest and good heart having heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit with patience The Sunday called Quinquagesima or the next Sunday before Lent The collect O Lord who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth Send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity the very bond of peace and of all virtues without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christs sake Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 13.1 THough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have no charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not charity vaunteth not it self is not puffed up doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the truth beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Charity never faileth but whether there be prophecies they shall fail whether there be tongues they shall cease whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away For we know in part and we prophesie in part But when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known And now abideth faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is charity The Gospel S. Luke 18.31 THen Jesus took unto him the twelve and said unto them Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles and shall be mocked and spitefully entreated and spitted on And they shall scourge him and put him to death and the third day he shall rise again And they understood none of these things and this saying was hid from them neither knew they the things which were spoken And it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho a certain blind man sat by the way-side begging and hearing the multitude pass by he asked what it meant And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by And he cried saying Jesus thou Son of David have mercy on me And they which went before rebuked him that he should hold his peace but he cried so much the more Thou Son of David have mercy on me And Jesus stood and commanded him to be brought unto him and when he was come near he asked him saying What wilt thou that I should do unto thee And he said Lord that I may receive my fight And Jesus said unto him Receive thy fight thy faith hath saved thee And immediately he received his sight and followed him glorifying God and all the people when they saw it gave praise unto God The first day of Lent commonly called Ashwednesday The collect ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ This Collect is to be read every day in Lent after the Collect appointed for the Day For the Epistle Joel 2.12 TUrn ye even to me saith the Lord with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning And rent your heart and not you garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the Lord your God Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a fast call a solemn assembly gather the people sanctifie the congregation assemble the elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet let the priests the ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproch that the heathen should rule over them Wherefore should they say among the people Where is their God The Gospel S. Matth. 6.16 WHen ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast Verily I say unto you they have their reward But thou when thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face that thou appear not unto men to fast but unto thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal But lay up for your selves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal For where your treasure is there will your heart be also The first Sunday in Lent The collect O Lord who for our sake didst fast fourty days and fourty nights Give us grace to use such abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness to thy honour and glory who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen The Epistle 2 Cor. 6.1 WE then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain For he saith I have heard thee in a time accepted and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not blamed but in all things approving our selves as the ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in watchings in fastings by pureness by knowledge by long-suffering by kindness by the Holy Ghost by love unfeigned by the word of truth by the power of God by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left by honour and dishonour by evil report and
days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with ground and thy children within thee and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation And he went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought saying unto them It is written My house is the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves And he taught daily in the temple The eleventh Sunday after trinity The collect O God who declarest thy Almighty power most chiefly in shewing mercy and pity Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace that we running the way of thy commandments may obtain thy gracious promises and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 15.1 BRethren I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you which also you have received and wherein ye stand By which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for Our sins according to the Scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and that he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some are fallen asleep After that he was seen of James then of all the Apostles and last of all he was seen of me also as of one born out of due time For I am the least of the Apostles that am not meet to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the Church of God But by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain but I laboured more abundantly then they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me Therefore whether it were I or they so we preach and so ye believed The Gospel S. Luke 18.9 JEsus spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others Two men went up into the temple to pray the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this Publican I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess And the Publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven but smote upon his breast saying God be merciful to me a sinner I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather then the other for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted The twelfth Sunday after Trinity The collect ALmighty and everlasting God who art always more ready to hear then we to pray and art wont to give more then either we desire or deserve Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen The Epistle 2 Cor. 3.4 Such trust have we through Christ to God-ward Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God Who also hath made us able ministers of the new Testament not of the letter but of the Spirit for the letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which glory was to be done away How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious For if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory The Gospel S. Mark 7.31 JEsus departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon came unto the sea of Galilee through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis And they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand upon him And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue and looking up to heaven he sighed and saith unto him Ephphatha that is Be opened And straightway his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spake plain And he charged them that they should tell no man but the more he charged them so much the more a great deal they published it and were beyond measure astonished saying He hath done all things well he maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak The thirteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect ALmighty and merciful God of whose only gift it cometh that thy faithful people do unto thee true and laudable service Grant we beseech thee that we may so faithfully serve thee in this life that we fail not finally to attain thy heavenly promises through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistile Gal. 3.16 TO Abraham and his seed were the promises made He saith not And to seeds as of many but as of one And to thy seed which is Christ And this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disanul that it should make the promise of none effect For if the inheritance be of the law it is no more of promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise Wherefore then serveth the law It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediatour Now a mediatour is not a mediatour of one but God is one Is the law then against the promises of God God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe The Gospel S. Luke 10.23 BLessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them And behold a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him saying Master what shall I do to inherit eternal life He said unto him What is written in the law How readest thou And he answering said Thou shalt love
word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God But if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them For we preach not our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ The Gospel S. Matth. 9.9 ANd as Jesus passed forth from thence he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receit of Custom and he saith unto him Follow me And he arose and followed him And it came to pass as Jesus sat at meat in the house behold many Publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples And when the Pharisees saw it they said unto his disciples Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners But when Jesus heard that he said unto them They that be whole need not a Physician but they that are sick But go ye and learn what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not came to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Saint Michael and all Angels The collect O Everlasting God who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order Mercifully grant that as thy holy Angels alway do thee service in heaven so by thy appointment they may succour and defend us on earth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Rev. 12.7 THere was war in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death Therefore rejoyce ye heavens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time The Gospel S. Matth. 18.1 AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven And Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them and said Verily I say unto you Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven And whoso shall receive one such little child in my Name receiveth me But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Wo unto the world because of offences for it must needs be that offences come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee cut them off and cast them from thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather then having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire And if thine eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye rather then having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven Saint Luke the Evangelist The collect ALmighty God who calledst Luke the Physician whose praise is in the Gospel to be an Evangelist and Physician of the soul May it please thee that by the wholsom medicines of the doctrine delivered by him all the diseases of our souls may be healed through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 2 Tim. 4.5 WAtch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an Evangelist make full proof of thy ministry For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me For Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica Crescens to Galatia Titus unto Dalmatia Only Luke is with me Take Mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministry And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee and the books but especially the parchments Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works Of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly withstood our words The Gospel S. Luke 10.1 THe Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself would come Therefore said he unto them The harvest truly is great but the labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest Go your ways behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves Carry neither purse nor scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way And into whatsoever house ye enter first say Peace be to this house And if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it if not it shall turn to you again And in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give for the labourer is worthy of his hire Saint Simon and Saint Jude Apostles The collect O Almighty God who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the head corner-stone Grant us so to be joyned together in unity of spirit by their doctrine that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle S. Jude 1. JUde the servant of
days after THrough Jesus Christ our Lord according to whose most true promise the holy Ghost came down as at this time from heaven with a sudden great sound as it had been a mighty wind in the likeness of fiery tongues lighting upon the Apostles to teach them and to lead them to all truth giving them both the gift of divers languages and also boldness with fervent zeal constantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations whereby we have been brought out of darkness and errour into the clear light and true knowledge of thee and of thy Son Jesus Christ Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon the Feast of Trinity only WHo art one God one Lord not one only person but three persons in one substance For that which we believe of the glory of the Father the same we believe of the Son and of the Holy Ghost without any difference or inequality Therefore c. ¶ After each of which Prefaces shall immediately be sung or said THerefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest kneeling down at the Lords Table say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion this Prayer following WE do not presume to come to this thy Table O merciful Lord trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table But thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy Grant us therefore gracious Lord so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ and to drink his bloud that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body and our souls washed through his most precious bloud and that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us Amen ¶ When the Priest standing before the Table hath so ordered the Bread and Wine that he may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread before the People and take the Cup into his hands he shall say the Prayer of Consecration as followeth ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world and did institute and in his holy Gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again Hear us O merciful Father we most humbly beseech thee and grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christs holy institution in remembrance of his death and passion may be partakers of his most blessed body and bloud who in the same night that he was betrayed (a) Here the Priest is to take the Paten into his hands took bread and when he had given thanks (b) And here to break the bread he brake it and gave it to his disciples saying Take eat (c) And here to lay his hand upon all the bread this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me Likewise after Supper (d) Here he is to take the cup into his hand he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying Drink ye all of this for this (e) And here to lay his hand upon every vessel be it Chalice or Flagon in which there is any wine to be consecrated is my bloud of the New Testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kinds himself and then proceed to deliver the same to the Bishops Priests and Deacons in like manner if any be present and after that to the People also in order into their Hands all meekly kneeling And when he delivereth the bread to any one he shall say THe body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving ¶ And the Minister that delivereth the Cup to any one shall say THe bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life Drink this in remembrance that Christs bloud was shed for thee and be thankful ¶ If the Consecrated Bread or Wine be all spent before all have communicated the Priest is to consecrate more according to the Form before prescribed Beginning at Our Saviour Christ in the same night c. for the blessing of the Bread and at Likewise after Supper c. for the blessing of the Cup. ¶ When all have communicated the Minister shall return to the Lords Table and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated Elements covering the same with a fair Linen Cloth ¶ Then shall the Priest say the Lords Prayer the People repeating after him every Petition OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom The Power and the Glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ After shall be said as followeth O Lord and heavenly Father we thy humble servants entirely desire thy Fatherly goodness mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ and through faith in his bloud we and all thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins and all other benefits of his passion And here we offer and present unto thee O Lord our selves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and lively sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that all we who are partakers of this holy Communion may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction And although we be unworthy through our manifold sins to offer unto thee any sacrifice yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service not weighing our merits but pardoning our offences through Jesus Christ our Lord by whom and with whom in the unity of the Holy Ghost all honour and glory be unto thee O Father Almighty world without end Amen ¶ Or this ALmighty and everliving God we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost vouchsafe to feed us who have duly received
apply our hearts unto wisdom Turn thee again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity Shew thy servants thy work and their children thy glory And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the work of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy-work Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Lesson taken out of the fifteenth Chapter of the former Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 15.20 NOw is Christ risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive But every man in his own order Christ the first-fruits afterward they that are Christs at his coming Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death For he hath put all things under his feet But when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead And why stand we in jeopardy every hour I protest by your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord I die daily If after the manner of men I have fought with beast at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die Be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners Awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame But some man will say how are the dead raised up And with what body do they come Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory It is sown in weakness it is raised in power It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body And so it is written The first man Adam was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickning Spirit Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord from heaven As is the earthy such are they that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly And as we have born the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Now this I say brethren that flesh and bloud cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Behold I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. ¶ When they come to the Grave while the Corps is made ready to be laid into the Earth the Priest shall say or the Priest and Clerks shall sing MAn that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay In the midst of life were are in death of whom may we seek for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sins art justly displeased Yet O Lord God most holy O Lord most mighty O holy and most merciful Saviour deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers but spare us Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and merciful Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternal suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee ¶ Then while the earth shall be cast upon the Body by some standing by the Priest shall say FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed we therefore commit his body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be like unto his glorious body according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself ¶ Then shall be said or sung I Heard a voice from heaven saying unto me Write From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord even so saith the Spirit for
they rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 ¶ Then the Priest shall say Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest ALmighty God with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord and with whom the souls of the faithful after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh are in joy and felicity We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world beseeching thee that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect and to hasten thy Kingdom that we with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name may have our perfect consummation and bliss both in body and soul in thy eternal and everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Collect. O Merciful God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and the life in whom whosoever believeth shall live though he die and whosoever liveth and believeth in him shall not die eternally who also hath taught us by his holy Apostle Saint Paul not to be sorry as men without hope for them that sleep in him We meekly beseech thee O Father to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness that when we shall depart this life we may rest in him as our hope is this our brother doth and that at the general resurrection in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee saying Come ye blessed children of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world Grant this we beseech thee O merciful Father through Jesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the followship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen The Thanksgiving of Women after CHILD-BIRTH Commonly called The Churching of Women ¶ The Woman at the usual time after her Delivery shall come into the Church decently apparelled and there shall kneel down in some convenient place as hath been accustomed or as the Ordinary shall direct And then the Priest shall say unto her FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance and hath preserved you in the great danger of Child-birth you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God and say ¶ Then shall the Priest say this Psalm Delexi quoniam Psal 116. I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer That he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me I found trouble and heaviness and I called upon the Name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me Turn again then unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living I believed and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my hast All men are liars What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise the Lord. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or this Psalm Nisi Dominus Psal 127. EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulness for so he giveth his beloved sleep Lo children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord. Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 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 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall say Let us Pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom And the power and the glory For ever and ever Amen Minister O Lord save this woman thy servant Answer Who putteth her trust in thee Minister Be thou to her a strong tower Answer From the face of her enemy Minister Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister Let us pray O Almighty God we give thee humble thanks for that thou hast vouch safed to deliver this woman thy servant from the great pain and peril of Child-birth Grant we beseech thee most merciful Father that she through thy help may both faithfully live and walk according to thy will in this life present and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The Woman that cometh to give her Thanks must offer accustomed Offerings and if there be a Communion it is convenient that she receive the holy Communion A COMMINATION or Denouncing of Gods Anger and Judgments against Sinners with certain Prayers to be used on the First day of Lent and at other times as the Ordinary shall appoint ¶ After Morning Prayer the Litany ended according to the accustomed manner the Priest shall in the Reading Pew or Pulpit say BRethren in the Primitive Church there was a godly Discipline that at the beginning of Lent such Persons as stood convicted of
most mighty God hath spoken and called the world from the rising up of the sun unto the going down thereof 2 Out of Sion hath God appeared in perfect beauty 3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silence there shall go 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 righteousness 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 me 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house nor he-goat out of thy folds 10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine and so are the cattel upon a thousand hills 11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains and the wild 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 bulls flesh and drink the bloud of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows 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 behind thee 18 When thou sawest a thief thou consentedst unto him and hast been partaker with the adulterers 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness 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 Miserere mei Deus Psal 51. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin 3 For I knowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me 4 Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged 5 Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me 6 But lo thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce 9 Turn thy face from my sins and put out all 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-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness 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 contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar Quid gloriaris Psal 52. WHy boastest thou thy self thou tyrant that thou canst do mischief 2 Whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickedness and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp rasour 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousness more then goodness and to talk of lies more then righteousness 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt O thou false tongue 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever he 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 wickedness 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 always give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done and I will hope in thy Name for thy saints like it well Evening Prayer Dixit insipiens Psal 53. THE foolish body hath said in his heart There is no God 2 Corrupt are they and become abominable in their wickedness there is none that doeth 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 doeth good no not one 5 Are not they without understanding that work wickedness 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 Deus in nomine Psal 54. 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 evil unto mine enemies destroy thou them in thy truth 6 An offering of a free heart will I give thee and praise thy
displeasure with their images 60 When God heard this he was wroth and took sore displeasure at Israel 61 So that he forsook the tabernacle in Silo even the tent that he had pitched among men 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 DAY xvi 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 perpetual 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 built 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 sheep-folds 72 As he was following the ews 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 faithful and true heart and ruled them prudently with all his power Morning Prayer Deus venerunt Psal 79. 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 air and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land 3 Their bloud have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem and there was no man to bury them 4 we 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 kingdoms 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 sins but have mercy upon us and that soon 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 merciful unto our sins 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 he openly shewed upon the heathen in our fight 12 O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven-fold into their bosom 14 So we that are thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation Qui regis Israel Psal 80. HEar O thou shepherd of Israel thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that fittest upon the Cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses stir 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 tears and givest them plenteousness 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 hills where 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 go by pluck off her grapes 13 The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up and the wild beasts of the field devour 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 son 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 Exultate Deo Psal 81. SIng we merrily unto God Our strength make a chearful 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 solemn 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 who 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 voice and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lusts and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkened unto me for if Israel had walked in my ways 15 I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liars but their time should have endured for ever 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flower and with hony out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee Evening Prayer Deus stetit Psal 82. GOd standeth in the congregation of princes he is a judge among gods 2 How long will ye give wrong judgment and
eat up all the grass in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 35 He smote all the first-born in their land even the chief of all their strength 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold there was not one feeble person among their tribes 37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night-season 39 At their desire he brought quails and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rock of stone and the waters flowed out so that rivers ran in the dry places 41 For why he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they took the labours of the people in possession 44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws Evening Prayer Confitemini Domino Psal 106. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgment and do righteousness 4 Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen and rejoyce in the gladness of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 We have sinned with our fathers we have done amiss and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Nevertheless he helped them for his Names sake that he might make his power to be known 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the deep as through a wilderness 10 And he saved them from the adversaries hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy 11 As for those that troubled them the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left 12 Then believed they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsel 14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gave them their desire and sent leanness withal into their soul 16 They angred Moses also in the tents and Aaron the saint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the congregation of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindled in their company the flame burnt up the ungodly 19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay 21 And they forgat God their Saviour who had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearful things by the Red sea 23 So he said he would have destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathful indignation left he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no credence unto his word 25 But murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness 27 To cast out their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 They joyned themselves unto Baal-peor and ate the offerings of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions and the plague was great among them 30 Then stood up Phinees and prayed and so the plague ceased 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness among all posterities for evermore 32 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that he punished Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them 35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols which turned to their own decay yea they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils 37 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sons and of their daughters whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with bloud 38 Thus were they stained with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them were lords over them 41 Their enemies oppressed them and had them in subjection 42 Many a time did he deliver them but they rebelled against him with their own inventions and were brought down in their wickedness DAY xxii 43 Nevertheless when he saw their adversity he heard their complaint 44 He thought upon his covenant and pitied them according unto the multitude of his mercies yea he made all those that led them away captive to pity them 45 Deliver us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen that we may give thanks unto thy holy Name and make our boast of thy praise 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end and let all the people say Amen Morning Prayer Confitemini Domino Psal 107. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west from the north and from the south 4 They went astray in the wilderness out of the way and found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress 7 He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsel of the most Highest 12 He also brought down their heart through heaviness they fell down and there was none to help them 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress 14 For he brought them out of darkness and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder
from the west from the north and from the south They went astray in the wilderness out of the way and found no city to dwell in Hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men For he satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness Such as fit in darkness and in the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsel of most Highest He also brought down their heart through heaviness they fell down and there was none to help them up So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress For he brought them out of darkness and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men For he hath broken the gates of brass and smitten the bars of iron in sunder Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickedness Their soul abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard at deaths door So when they cryed unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell out his works with gladness They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep For at his word the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof They are carried up to the heaven and down again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he delivereth them out of their distress For he maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are still Then are they glad because they are at rest and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders Who turneth the flouds into a wilderness and drieth up the water-springs A fruitful land maketh he barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein Again he maketh the wilderness a standing water and water-springs of a dry ground And there he setteth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in That they may sow their land and plant vineyards to yield them fruits of increase He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattel to decrease And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble Though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep The righteous will consider this and rejoyce and the mouth of all wickedness shall be â—…pped Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Collects of Thanksgiving O Most blessed and glorious Lord God who art of infinite goodness and mercy We thy poor creatures whom thou hast made and preserved holding our souls in life and now rescuing us out of the jaws of death humbly present our selves again before thy Divine Majesty to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for that thou heardest us when we called in our trouble and didst not cast out our prayer which we made before thee in our great distress even when we gave all for lost our Ship our Goods our Lives then didst thou mercifully look upon us and wonderfully command a deliverance for which we now being in safety do give all praise and glory to thy holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this O Most mighty and gracious good God thy mercy is over all thy works but in special manner hath been extended toward us whom thou hast so powerfully and wonderfully defended Thou hast shewed us terrible things and wonders in the deep that we might see how powerful and gracious a God thou art how able and ready to help them that trust in thee Thou hast shewed us how both Winds and Seas obey thy command that we may learn even from them hereafter to obey thy voice and to do thy will We therefore bless and glorifie thy Name for this thy mercy in saving us when we were ready to perish And we beseech thee make us as truly sensible now of thy mercy as we were then of the danger And give us hearts always ready to express our thankfulness not only by words but also by our lives in being more obedient to thy holy commandments Continue we beseech thee this thy goodness to us that we whom thou hast saved may serve thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after a dangerous Tempest O Come let us give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath delivered from the merciless rage of the sea The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy He hath not dealt with us according to our sins neither rewarded us according to our iniquities But as the heaven is high above the earth so great hath been his mercy towards us We found trouble and heaviness we were even at deaths door The waters of the sea had well nigh covered us the proud waters had well nigh gone over our soul The sea rored and the stormy wind lifted up the waves thereof We were carried up as it were to heaven and then down again into the deep our soul melted within us because of trouble Then cried we unto thee O Lord and thou didst deliver us out of our distress Blessed be thy Name who didst not dispise the
Ps 147.5 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground verse 6. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the son of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self Psal 80.17 And so will not me go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name ver 18. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Proper Psalms Lxiv Cxxiv Cxxv. ¶ Proper Lessons The First 2 Sam. XXII Te Denm The second Acts XXIII Jubilate ¶ In the Suffrages after the Creed these shall be inserted and used for the King Priest O Lord save the King People Who putteth his trust in thee Priest Send him help from thy holy place People And evermore mightily defend him Priest Let his enemies have no advantage against him People Let not the wicked approach to hurt him ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used ALmighty God who hast in all ages shewed thy Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy holy and eternal truth from the wicked Conspiracies and malicious Practices of all the enemies thereof We yield thee our unfeigned thanks and praise for the wonderful and mighty deliverance of our late gracious Sovereign King James the First the Queen the Prince and all the Royal Branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm then assembled in Parliament by Popish Treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter in a most barbarous and savage manner beyond the examples of former ages From this unnatural Conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence delivered us And therefore not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory in all Churches of the saints from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ACcept also most gracious God of our unfeigned thanks for filling our hearts again with joy and gladness after the time that thou hast afflicted us and putting a new song into our mouths by bringing his Majesty who now reigns over us upon this Day for the deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popish Tyranny and Arbitrary power We adore the wisdom and justice of thy providence which so timely interposed in our extream danger and disappointed all the designs of our enemies We beseech thee give us such a lively and lasting sense of what thou didst then and hast since that time done for us that we may not grow secure and careless in our obedience by presuming upon thy great and undeserved goddness but that it may lead us to repentance and move us to be the more diligent and zealous in all the duties of our Religion which thou hast in a marvellous manner preserved to us Let truth and justice brotherly kindness and charity devotion and piety concord and unity with all other virtues so flourish among us that they may be the Stability of our Times and make this Church a Praise in the Earth All which we humbly beg for the sake of our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany which shall alway this Day he used after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c shall this be said which followeth ALmighty God and heavenly Father who of thy gracious providence and tender mercy towards us didst prevent the malice and imaginations of our enemies by discovering and confounding their horrible and wicked enterprise plotted and intended this Day to be executed against the King and the whole State of this Realm for the Subversion of the Government and Religion established among us and didst likewise upon this Day wonderfully conduct thy servant our present King and bring him safely into this Kingdom to preserve us from the late Attempts of our Enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws We most humbly praise and magnifie thy most glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodness towards us expressed in both these Acts of thy mercy We confess it has been of thy mercy alone that we are not consumed for our sins have cried to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for vengeance upon us But thou hast not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us after our iniquities nor given us over as we deserved to be a prey to our Enemies but hast in mercy delivered us from their malice and preserved us from death and destruction Let the consideration of this thy repeated goodness O Lord work in us true repentance that iniquity may not be our ruine And increase in us more and more a lively faith and love fruitful in all holy obedience that thou mayest still continue thy favour with the light of thy Gospel to us and our posterity for evermore and that for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ Instead of the Prayer In time of War and Tumults shall be used this Prayer following O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protectour and scatter our Enemies that delight in blond Infatuate and defeat their Counsels abate their Pride asswage their Malice and confound their Devices Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign King WILLIAM and all that are put in Authority under him with Judgment and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may never prevail against us or triumph in the ruine of thy Church among us But that our gracious Sovereign and his Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodness protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thee thanks in thy holy Congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service instead of the Collect for the day shall this which followeth be used ETernal God and our most mighty Protectour we thy unworthy servants do humbly present our selves before thy Majesty acknowledging thy Power Wisdom and Goodness in Preserving the King and the Three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament from the Destruction this Day intended against them Make us we beseech thee truly thankful for this and for all other thy great Mercies towards us particularly for making this Day again memorable by a fresh Instance of thy Loving-kindness towards us We bless thee for giving his Majesty that now is a safe Arrival here and for making all Opposition fall before him till he became our King and Governour Continue we beseech thee to Protect and Defend him and all the Royal Family from all Treasons and Conspiracies Preserve them in thy Faith Fear and Love Prosper his Reign
with long Happiness here on Earth and Crown him with everlasting Glory hereafter through Jesus Christ our Saviour and Redeemer Amen The Epistle Rom. 13.1 LEt every soul be subject unto the higher powers For there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation For rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evil Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the minister of God to thee for good But if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake For for this cause pay you tribute also for they are Gods ministers attending continually upon this very thing Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour The Gospel S. Luke 9.51 ANd it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem and sent messengers before his face and they went and entred into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him And they did not receive him because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem And when his disciples James and John saw this they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them even as Elias did But he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them And they went to another village ¶ After the Creed if there be no Sermon shall be read one of the six Homilies against Rebellion ¶ This Sentence is to be read at the Offertory WHatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets S. Matth. 7.12 ¶ After the Prayer for the Church Militant this following Prayer is to be used O God whose Name is excellent in all the Earth and thy Glory above the Heavens who on this day didst miraculously preserve our Church and State from the secret contrivance and hellish malice of Popish Conspirators and on this day also didst begin to give us a mighty Deliverance from the open Tyranny and Oppression of the same Cruel and Bloud-thirsty Enemies we bless and adore thy glorious Majesty as for the former so for this thy late marvellous Loving kindness to our Church and Nation in the Preservation of our Religion and Liberties And we humbly pray that the devout Sense of this thy repeated Mercy may renew and increase in us a Spirit of Love and Thankfulness to thee its only Author a Spirit of peaceable Submission and Obedience to our gracious Sovereign whom thou madest the blessed Instrument of it and a Spirit of fervent zeal for our holy Religion which now again thou hast so wonderfully Rescued and Established a Blessing to us and our Posterity And this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Form of Prayer with Fasting to be us'd Yearly upon the Thirtieth of January being the Day of the Martyrdom of the Blessed King CHARLES the First To Implore the Mercy of God That neither the Guilt of that Sacred and Innocent Blood nor those other Sins by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable Men may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our Posterity ¶ If this day shall happen to be Sunday this Form of Prayer shall be used and the Fast kept the next Day following And upon the Lords Day next before the Day to be kept at Morning Prayer immediately after the Nicene Creed Notice shall be given for the due observation of the said Day ¶ The Service on the Day shall be the same with the usual Office for Holy days in all things Except where it is in this Office otherwise appointed The Order for Morning Prayer ¶ He that Ministreth shall begin with one or more of these Sentences TO the Lord our God belong Mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Dan. 9.9 10. Correct us O Lord but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing Jer. 10.24 Enter not into judgment with thy servants O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus the Hymn following shall be said or sung one Verse by the Priest another by the Clerk and People RIghteous art thou O Lord and just are they judgments Psal 119.137 Thou art just O Lord in all that is brought upon us for thou hust done right but we have done wickedly Neh. 9.33 Nevertheless my feet were almost gone my treadings had well nigh slipt Ps 73.2 For why I was grieved at the wicked I did also see the ungodly in such prosperity ver 3. The people stood up and the rulers took counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed Psal 2.2 They cast their heads together with one consent and were confederate against him Ps 83.5 He heard the blasphemy of the multitude and fear was on every side while they conspir'd together against him to take away his life Psal 31.15 They spoke against him with false tongues and compast him about with words of hatred and fought against him without a cause Psal 109.2 Yea his own familiar friends whom he trusted they that eat of his bread laid great wait for him Psal 41.9 They rewarded him evil for good to the great discomfort of his soul Psal 35.12 They took their counsel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him Psal 71.9 The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall be safe Lam. 4.20 The adversary and the enemy enter'd into the gates of Jerusalem saying When shall the die and his name perish verse 12. Psal 41.5 Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against him and now that he lieth let him rise up no more verse 8. False witnesses also did rise up against him they laid to his charge things that he knew not Psal 35.11 For the sins of the people and the iniquities of the priests they shed the bloud of the just in the midst of Jerusalem Lam. 4.13 O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they
an example that ye should follow his steps who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth The Gospel S. Matth. 21.33 THere was a certain housholder which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and digged a wine-press in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far countrey And when the time of the fruit drew near he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits of it And the husbandmen took his servants and beat one and killed another and stoned another Again he sent other servants mo then the first and they did unto them likewise But last of all he sent unto them his son saying They will reverence my son But when the husbandmen saw the son they said among themselves This is the heir come let us kill him and let us seize on his inheritance And they caught him and cast him out of the vineyard and slew him When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh what will he do unto those husbandmen They say unto him He will miserably destroy those wicked men and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen which shall render him the fruits in their seasons ¶ After the Nicene Creed shall be read instead of the Sermon for that day The first and Second parts of the Homily against Disobedience and wilful Rebellion set forth by Authority Or the Minister who Officiates shall preach a Sermon of his own composing upon the same Argument ¶ In the Offertory shall this Sentence be read Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you even so do unto them for this is the law and the prophets S. Matth. 7.12 ¶ After the Prayer For the whole state of Christs Church c. these two Collects following shall be used O Lord our heavenly Father who didst not punish us as our sins have deserved but hast in the midst of judgment remembred mercy We acknowledge it thine especial favour that though for our many and great provocations thou didst suffer thine anointed blessed King Charles the First as this day to fall into the hands of violent and bloud-thirsty men and barbarously to be murdered by them yet thou didst not leave us for ever as sheep without a shepherd but by thy gracious providence didst miraculously preserve the undoubted heir of his Crowns our then gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second from his bloudy enemies hiding him under the shadow of thy wings until their tyranny was overpast and didst bring him back in thy good appointed time to fit upon the throne of his Father and together with the Royal Family didst restore to us our ancient Government in Church and State For these thy great and unspeakable mercies we render to thee our most humble thanks from the bottom of our hearts beseeching thee still to continue thy gracious protection over the whole Royal Family and to grant to our gracious Sovereign King William a long and a happy Reign over us So we that are thy people will give thee thanks ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen ANd grant O Lord we beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Order for Evening Prayer ¶ The Hymn appointed to be used at Morning Prayer instead of Venite exultemus shall here also be used before the proper Psalms ¶ Proper Psalms LXXXIX XCIV LXXXV ¶ Proper Lessons The First Jer. 12. or Dan. 9. to v. 22. The second Heb. 11.32 and 12. to v. 7. ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Evening Prayer shall these two which next follow be used O Blessed Lord God who by thy wisdom not only guidest and orderest all things most suitably to thine own justice but also performest thy pleasure in such a manner that we cannot but acknowledge thee to be righteous in all thy ways and holy in all thy works We thy sinful people do here fall down before thee confessing that thy judgments were right in permitting cruel men sons of Belial as this day to imbrue their hands in the bloud of thine Anointed we having drawn down the same upon our selves by the great and long provocations of our sins against thee For which we do therefore here humble our selves before thee imploring thy mercy for the pardon of them all and that thou wouldst deliver this Nation from bloud-guiltiness that of this day especially and turn from us and our posterity all those judgments which we by our sins have deserved Grant this for the all-sufficient merits of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen BLessed God just and powerful who didst permit thy dear Servant our late dread Sovereign King Charles the First to be as upon this day given up to the violent outrages of wicked men to be despitefully used and at last murdered by them Though we cannot reflect upon so foul an act but with horrour and astonishment yet do we most gratefully commemorate the glories of thy grace which then shined forth in thine Anointed whom thou wert pleas'd even at the hour of death to endue with an eminent measure of exemplary patience meekness and charity before the face of his cruel enemies And albeit thou didst suffer them to proceed to such an height of violence as to kill him and to take possession of his Throne yet didst thou in great mercy preserve his Son whose right it was and at length by a wonderful providence bring him back and set him thereon to restore thy true Religion and to settle peace amongst us For which we glorifie thy Name through Jesus Christ our blessed Saviour Amen ¶ Immediately after the Collect Lighten our darkness c. shall these three next following be used O Lord we beseech thee c. O most mighty God and merciful Father c. Turn thou us O good Lord and so c. As before at Morning Prayer ¶ Immediately before the Prayer of St. Chrysostom shall this Collect which next follweth be used ALmighty and everlasting God whose righteousness is like the strong mountains and thy judgments like the great deep and who by that barbarous murder as upon this day committed upon the Sacred Person of thine Anointed hast taught us that neither the greatest of Kings nor the best of men are more secure from violence then from natural death Teach us also hereby so to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom And grant that neither the splendour of any thing that is great nor the conceit of any thing that is good in us may any ways withdraw our eyes from looking upon our selves as sinful dust and ashes but that according to the example of this thy blessed Martyr we may press forward toward the prize of the high calling that is before us in faith and patience