of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée 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 our gracious Quéen Catherine Mary the Queen Mother James Duke of York 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 Iustice 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 Vnity 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 thée 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 thée to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée 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 thée 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 beséech thée 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 Our Father which art in heaven c. 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 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 thée in thy holy Church through Iesus 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 thée Let us pray WE humbly beséech thée 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 thée in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Most gracious and glorious Lord God who by thy great power hast made and by thine infinite wisdom dost dispose and order all things the Protectour of those that trust in thée and their Deliverer in time of their distress Our Enemies compassed us about on every side but thou hast delivered us by thy mercy They were many and did rage horribly but thou O Lord who dwellest on high art mightier They intended that mischief which through thy goodness to us they were not able to perform And when they had marked us out for ruine thou didst then bring upon them swift destruction Out of the déep of the Sea we cried unto thée O Lord and thou didst hear us We acknowledge and confess O our God that it is not our own strength that hath helped us not the number of our Ships nor the courage of our Souldiers nor yet the
to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice 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 ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thée Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ In stead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used O Almighty God the soveraign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand We bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for this happy victory the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee who art the only giver of victory And we beseech thée give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory the advancement of thy Gospel the honour of our Soveraign and as much as in us lieth to the good of all mankind And we beséech thée give us such a sense of this great mercy as may engage us to a true thankfulness such as may appear in our lives by an humble Ioy and obedient walking before thée all our days through Iesus Christ our Lord. To whom with thée and the holy Spirit as for all thy mercies so in particular for this victory and deliverance be all glory and honour world without end Amen O Almighty God who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thée praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers where with we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beséeching thée still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The second Collect for Peace O God who art the authour of peace and lover of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect fréedom defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our Enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The third Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany 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 Sun Redéemer 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 thrée 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 forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redéemed 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 Qativity 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 Iudgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thée 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 thée to kéep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thée in righteousness and holiness
The Lords name be praised ¶ Then shall be sung or said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto Ps 115. thy Name be the praise Unto thee O God do we give thanks yea unto Ps 75. 1 thee do we give thanks For great things are they that thou hast done Ps 71. 17. O God who is like unto thée Thou art the God that doeth wonders Who is Ps 77. 14. 13 so great a God as our God The Lord hath done great things for us yea the Ps 126. 3 Lord hath done great things for us for which we rejoyce Thou art our King O God the Help that is done Ps 44 5. Ps 74. 13 upon earth thou do'st it thy self Through thee have we overthrown our enemies Ps 44. 6. and in thy Name have we trod them under that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow it is not my sword 7. that shall help me But it is thou that savest us from our enemies 8. and puttest them to confusion that hate us We gat not the Victory through our own sword 3. neither was it our own arm that helped us But thy right hand and thy arm and the light 4. of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto us If the Lord had not been on our side now may Ps 124. 1. we say if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us They had swallowed us up quick when they 2. were so wrathfully displeased at us Yea the waters had drowned us the deep waters 3 4. of the proud had gone even over our souls But praised be the Lord who hath not given 5. us over as a prey unto their téeth Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord who 7. hath made heaven and earth God hath shewed us his goodness plenteously Ps 59 10. and God hath let us sée our desire upon our enemies Therefore will we offer in his dwelling an oblation Ps 27. 7. with great gladness we will sing praises unto the Lord. Let Heaven and Earth praise him the Sea Ps 69. 35. and All that moveth therein Sing unto God O ye Kingdoms of the earth O Ps 68. 32. sing praises unto the Lord. Ascribe unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people Ps 96. 7. ascribe unto the Lord worship and power Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his ◠Name bring presents and come into his courts O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord Ps 31. 26. preserveth them that are faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer Blessed be the Lord our God from everlasting Ps 106. 46. and world without end and let all the people say Amen 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 bei world without end Amen Jubilate Deo Psal LXVI 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 toward 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 loins 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 thine 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 mine 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 Bonum est confiteri Psal xcii IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy Name O most Highest To tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning and of thy truth in the night-season Vpon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute upon a loud instrument and upon the harp For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands O Lord how glorious are thy works thy thoughts are very deep An unwise man doth not well consider this and a fool doth not understand it When the ungodly are green as the grass and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish then shall they be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art the most Highest for evermore For lo thine enemies O Lord lo thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of wickedness shall be destroyed But mine horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn for I am anointed with fresh oyl Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall spread abroad like a Cedar in Libanus Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousness in him Laudate Dominum Psal cxlvii O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyful and a pleasant thing it is to be thankful The Lord doth build up Ierusalem and gather together the out-casts of Israel He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heal their sickness He telleth the number of the stars and calleth them all by their names Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisdom
A FORM OF COMMON PRAYER VVITH THANKSGIVING FOR THE Late Victory By His Majesties Naval Forces Appointed to be used in and about London On Tuesday the 14th of August And Through all ENGLAND On Thursday the 23d of August Set forth by His Majesties Authority LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1666. The Order for Morning Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth I Exhort that first of all supplications 1 Tim. 2. 1. prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men For Kings and for all that are 2. in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of 3. God our Saviour 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 cloak 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 renderthanks 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 ¶ The 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 shéep 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 Iesu 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 to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus 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 beséech 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and begin the Lords Prayer the people also 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 Answ 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 ¶ In stead of Venite exultemus shall be sung or said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto Ps 115. 1. thy Name be the praise Unto thee O God do we give thanks yea unto Ps 75. 1 thee do we give thanks For great things are they that thou hast done Ps 71. 17. O God who is like unto thée Thou art the God that doeth wonders Who is Ps 77. 14 13. so great a God as our God The Lord hath done great things for us yea the Ps 126. 3 4 Lord hath done great things for us for which we rejoyce Thou art our King O God the Help that is done Ps 44. 5. Ps 74. 13. upon earth thou do'st it thy self Through thee have we overthrown our enemies Ps 44. 6. and in thy Name have we trod them under that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow it is not my sword 7. that shall help me But it is thou that savest us from our enemies 8. and puttest them to confusion that hate us We gat not the Victory through our own sword 3. neither was it our own arm that helped us But thy right hand and thy arm and the light 4. of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto us If the Lord had not been on our side now may Ps 124. 1◠we say if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us They had swallowed us up quick when they 2. were so wrathfully displeased at us Yea the waters had drowned us the deep waters 3 4. of the proud had gone even over our souls But praised be the Lord who hath not given 5. us over as a prey unto their téeth Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord who 7. hath made heaven and earth God hath shewed us his goodness plenteously Ps 59 10. and God hath let us sée our desire upon our enemies Therefore will we offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness we will sing praises unto Ps 27. 7. the Lord. Let Heaven and Earth praise him the Sea Ps 69. 35. and All that moveth therein Sing unto God O ye Kingdoms of the earth O Ps 68. 32. sing praises unto the Lord. Ascribe unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people
before thee with humble yet inflamed hearts desirous to offer up unto thée our Sacrifice of praise and thanks calling Heaven and Earth to witness with us that as it was the Miracle of thy meer Mercy which raised us out of the depth of those miserable Confusions in which we lay So it is thy Power alone O our God by which we stand thy good Providence by which we prosper More particularly with the highest expressions of our devoutest hearts we magnifie thy great and glorious Name O Lord our God for that remarkable Victory wherewith thou hast lately blest the Naval Forces of our gracious Soveraign O continue forth thy loving kindness towards him Let thy tender Mercies prevent and follow him all the days of his life Let his Reign be prosperous and his Arms victorious and let the blessings of safety and happy success attend all those that fight his Battels Subdue more and more unto him the People that is under him and the nations under his feet Preserve him from the gathering together of the froward and from the Insurrection of the evil doers Let no weapon that is form'd against Him prosper but make Him and His always to return with Honour and Victory and Ioy and Triumph O let all the Blessings of Heaven and Earth be poured out upon the sacred Head of thine Anointed and from thence flow down even to the skirts of the meanest of His people in Peace and Plenty and Prosperity That so both Prince and people may with one mind and with one mouth glorifie thee O God most gracious for this thy unspeakable goodness not onely presenting thée as this day the fruit of the lips giving thanks unto thy Name but also through the entire course of a holy life ever offering up unto thée souls and bodies which thou hast created redéemed and preserved to be a living and holy Sacrifice acceptable unto thée through Iesus Christ To whom with thée O Father Almighty in the unity of the holy Ghost be glory in the Church throughout all ages world without end Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beséech thée mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thée 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Priest 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 Iesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth I Exhort that first of all supplications 2 Tim. 2. 1. prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men For Kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a 2. quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of 3. God our Saviour 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 cloak 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 ¶ The 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 shéep 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 Sspare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu 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 to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus 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 beséech 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and begin the Lords Prayer the people also 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 Answ 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